Well, We Made It!

But what little educated consensus there seemed to be about the date points to the conclusion that the Mayans defined human civilization in terms of great shifts and that Dec. 21, 2012, supposedly reflected the beginning of another great shift. Nowhere does any Mayan calendar predict the end of the world. If anything, it was supposed to be a new beginning — but not one that the world had to be obliterated in order to happen. More of a cosmic thing than a physical one.