After taking the time for a silent prayer for all those involved in those disasters, have no doubt that all is well with the world. Please focus on your own life and how you can make a difference by being all that you are. Open your heart and shine your beautiful light!

thank you, namaste

Another possible theory is that what is happening to us as individuals - the whole awakening process does not come without some kind of discomfort and disturbance. What is happening on the planet now as consciousness shifts is a reflection of what is happening to us as individuals. I don't think 2012 is going to be the end of the world but rather it will be the end of the world as we know it. Humanity has to wake up to the bigger picture and realize the interconnectedness of everything and everyone. I have a feeling things may just get worse before they get better, but there is always hope and the more we can focus on that and all the goodness that is still out there, the greater the benefit for the Whole. The calm always comes after the storm.

I've been looking into this a lot over the past couple of years and, time and time again, I am attracting information that suggests that these events are man-made.

If you are genuinely open-minded, I suggest you continue/begin your research by looking into HAARP and see where that subject leads you.

EDIT

In case anyone's struggling with understanding the science behind HAARP, here is a relatively easy-to-understand explanation based around a Japanese Earthquake in 2007.

Benjamin Fulford on HAARP

This is presented in the spirit of open-mindedness - it does no harm to look into ideas that you may never have considered before...at least you can then dismiss them (if you want to) from a position of knowledge rather than ignorance :)

A couple of you guys have made some really good points. Our world, our lives are so interconnected these days that we tend to hear about each and every major event that happens, and with that, it seems like a lot more is going on these days than before. What the Mayans predicted wasn't the end of the world, but like someone else said, "the end of the world as we know it". A lot of predictions hint more rather at a social change in the world, which could be a likely thing in the idea that people may be more willing to work together in light of recent events. Though, to say that the future can be predicted would mean events are predetermined, so I'd venture to say if anything, we're more-so working into a self-fulling prophecy! :P Haha, in short, I've always lived by the idea of just doing what I can to help our world despite all of our differences, and to simply realize that no matter how many differences we have to separate ourselves, we all share one commonality that is more unifying than our differences - just the fact that we all exist. Or, as it's so elegantly put in Latin, sumus (which stands for "We are"). So hell, no matter what happens, just live your life together with everyone else and we'll deal with things as they come - hopefully working together rather than against each other ;)

As one travels through the western and southwestern United States, they can easily see much evidence of many earthquakes, floods, and massive volcanoes that happened in the past. When I visited Greece, there was much of it there too, and additionally tidal waves that wiped out entire cities. All throughout the world is such evidence. It may seem so, but there is nothing new under the sun.

I was thinking about sharing this website with everyone here at Inward Quest a few weeks ago:

http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/

I find it quite fascinating how he manages to spot all these synchronicities not only in what is going on in the world politically, but also in the world of movies, sport and other entertainment.

He has not updated it yet regarding todays earthquake in Japan but if you check regularly, you will see how he will connect it to other going ons in the world. He may even have predicited it.

Here are some scientists that can help you to see for yourself. There are four videos for the first link and 12 for the second. It is well worth the time. Amazing stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWzEd2fI_Y&playnext=1&list=PLF4ECE54D0235E766

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bruce+lipton+as+above+so+below&aq=1

Whomever took this ride before lived long enough to record it. The Ancient Maya being one. Based on social cycles and astronomical signs they predicted an end and a renewal in 2012. I don't think it is going to be the doom and gloom that you see on the television, but a social implosion on a grand scale due to the Governments around the world trying to control the masses. I agree, we need to stay focused on our own individual progress to weather out the storm. The earth has a history of absolute destruction. Krakatoa, blew up some where close to New Zealand could be seen from England. People thought the world was coming to an end. It caused a mini Ice Age, and some say triggered the black plague. One active volcano puts out more hydrocarbons and toxic waste than the human race since the beginning. All we can do is go for the ride. When the earth gets ready to do what it does, there is nothing we can do about it but be prepared mentally and spiritually.

Nature in its self is both creative, and destructive! And it is totally out of our hands how nature will strike and take its course. So, regardless of our scientific knowledge, understanding, belief, and preparation, these catastrophes disasters are nature ways of bring about change in our planet for very specific reasons that are partly unknown to us, of course, until disaster hits home!

The earthquake/tsunami event took place at the 29th degree, 57th minute of Uranus in Pisces:
Uranus (rules earthquakes) Pisces (is a water sign)...

The solar system, is one vast organized whole vibratory Being...

Ether fills all interplanetary space; this metaphysical substance is the elemental basis of all life and matter; matter in motion represents kinetic energy; ether under strain represents potential energy...

All of the activities of the material universe consist of alterations from one of these forms of energy to the other.

Revelations: "And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the Throne, which are the seven spirits of God".... These lamps, burning before the Throne, are the seven planets of our solar system.

The event also corresponds with the Mayan's 9th Wave. http://www.mayanmajix.com/9_wave_chart.html

Further Clarification....Referenced by:Carl Johan Calleman

In the discussions about the meaning of 2012, there have commonly been suggestions that we would be approaching a time filled with so called Earth Changes and natural disasters of different kinds to the point where it has sometimes been presented as if this would be all that the Mayan calendar is all about. Especially in the light of the terrible disaster that has struck Japan only a few days after the beginning of the Ninth Wave, it then becomes natural to ask if this was predictable based on the Mayan calendar and if there would be more such to expect for instance in the Pacific Rim of Fire.

Earthquakes have their origin in the continental drift, which is caused by convection streams of heated magma rising from the hot interior of the Earth. As these convection streams cause tectonic plates to move, these will--on the surface of the Earth experience--create tensions between these plates. When these are released, enormous energies will create disasters--especially so when densely populated areas are hit.

As I have presented both in Solving the Greatest Mystery of Time: The Mayan Calendar (2001) and The Purposeful Universe (2009), the continental drift in general has its origin in the alautun shifts of the Mayan calendar that was behind this drift in the Mammalian Underworld. In this very general sense you might say that all earthquakes (and volcanic eruptions) have an origin in the kinds of shifts that the Mayan calendar describes.

Given that an alautun is 63.1 million years long, this has hardly allowed us to give any basis for any detailed predictions as to when and where an earthquake may strike given how large the geological structures are that are affected by the continental drift. To my knowledge, no one has been able to provide a convincing pattern relating Earthquakes to the Mayan calendar even though serious attempts have been made (see for instance William C. Treurniet's website).

There are many complicating factors involved and so, for instance, while some sources claim that there has been an increase in earthquakes over the past decades for quakes 3.0 and above on the Richter scale, the US Geological Survey maintains that the number of quakes of 7.0 (which are potentially of a disastrous nature) has remained constant over several decades. I see no reason to question their general assessment even though today with the high population density all over the world there is always a very serious risk that large numbers of human lives will be lost.

Nonetheless, I tend to believe that the terrible 9.0 quake that hit Japan was directly related to the beginning of the Ninth Wave. There are some reasons that I believe this to be the case.
The first is that already on March 9, 2011, a very unusual pattern was observed by Frank Zweers regarding the printouts of global seismographs. This observation was thus made before and lasted until, the actual quake in Japan, and showed that something was in the works already, as the energy of the Ninth Wave started to come in.

The other reason to believe that the quake and tsunami in Japan was actually related to the beginning of the Ninth Wave is the astonishing parallel with the great Lisbon Earthquake in 1755. Both of these quakes, and the tsunamis that followed, happened as a new wave in the Mayan calendar began, the one in Lisbon at the beginning of the Planetary Underworld and the one in Sendai at the beginning of the Universal. The one in Lisbon hit several months (on All Saints Day) after the day on which the new wave was activated, but given that this had a much lower frequency this is what you would expect if you saw it as an immediate effect of this. The strength of both has been estimated to 9.0, and there were also many aftershocks in both cases. They occurred at exactly the same latitude and not far from opposite longitudes on the planet and this is again exactly what you would expect if they were related to the shift in the Mayan calendar.

The logic here is that as a new wave is activated changes need to take place in the interior of the Earth in order to create a new form of resonance to the human beings. While the Seventh Wave favored the back side of the planet (where Lisbon is located) the Ninth Wave is expected to favor the front side of the planet (where Japan is located). If this reasoning is true we would look upon these two quakes as reflections of adjustments in the interior of the Earth that are necessary to mediate the information from the Cosmic Tree of Life to the human beings.

The Lisbon quake in 1755 had enormous repercussions of a philosophical nature and so, for instance, Voltaire argued that the creator overseeing this world could not be benevolent as he allowed this disaster to destroy a whole capital of Europe taking more than 100,000 lives in several different countries. In a similar way I know some people are now asking if the Ninth Wave that seemed to be designed to bring unity consciousness will bring many natural catastrophes such as earthquakes.

Is there a benevolent plan behind this? Before we place judgment on the intelligence that created this cosmic plan I feel we should be aware that it is not necessarily an easy thing to do to manifest such a plan with all that it entails. I do not see any evidence that it would be a punishment either, but something that came out of a necessity to create the resonance with a new wave. Yet, I believe this is a time when we need to show our solidarity with the Japanese people and offer help in the ways that it is in our power to do.

My own view is that we should continue to focus on the transformation to unity consciousness and praying for and sharing the experience of the Japanese people is exactly an expression of this. I do not believe that there will necessarily be an increased frequency of strong quakes in the time to come (there was for instance not such an increase after the Lisbon quake) and while we always have a choice as to how to look upon reality, I believe that what will lead us forward is the light. Maybe the Earth is now adjusted to mediate unity consciousness to the human beings, which remains our highest purpose and presumably that of the cosmic plan.

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Mayacal Carl Johan Calleman 6th day of the 9th wave

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Interesting answers....As all of you know, I went through Katrina in 2005. It was beyond belief, and stretched my endurance to the breaking point. I still have PTSD from it, and the pictures from Japan nearly flipped me out, because I know what those poor people are going through. Katrina came in with a 29-foot storm surge- a sort of tsunami that lasted for a day...But all of us had warning about Katrina, and the Japanese had no warning at all. Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work following Katrina. He said that Global Warming was to blame for Katrina, and that more was surely to come. The recent earthquake in Arkansas may have happened because of mining of natural gas and coal. Everyone who has mentioned man's part in this may be right...I have wondered again and again about the sheer weight of all the buildings on top of the fault line in Japan. That cannot help things.

But natural disasters are part of living on Earth. Witness Pompeii- those people had no warning, either. Krakatoa changed the axis of the Earth. If we had a comet like the dinosaurs did, we'd be wiped out, too. Think about it. I do not think that what is going on signals the end of time- BUT- those things we CAN fix, we should.

Blessings, Jai