THE DOC40 12.21.12 COLLECTION #1

While neither doubting nor believing that some cataclysmic event is going to occur on December 21st, 2012 – the increasing notorious 12.21.12 – I am wholly fascinated by the effect that such a belief might have on our already very shaky collective consciousness. We already have the Mayan calendar, Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero, and Einstein’s bee prediction pointing the way, and from here on in I’m instituting The Doc40 12.21.12. Collection. I have a totally open mind about all this. The artist in me treats it as an assemblage of bizarre found prose, the anarchist sees it as a experiment in creating mass panic among the gullible, and the paranoid psychotic sees it as valid prediction of the darkness bearing down on us. That’s my take. You can assume your own. But first a word of warning…

"What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." -Bertrand Russell

And now the first entry from someone called Peter A. Gersten – “At the very center of our galaxy, strange things are occurring. Besides the popular Black Hole - Neutron Star theory, astronomers have discovered a loop‑like structure some 20 light‑years across close to the center of the Milky Way. The loop may produce sub-atomic particles with a thousand times more energy than those in man-made accelerators. And the team that found it believes the vast, bizarre structure could be some form of cosmic particle accelerator. Further, eight new sources of very high energy gamma rays have recently been found in the center of our galaxy, including two dark sources that have never been seen before at other wavelengths. And lastly, astronomers have detected an unusual, powerful burst of intermittent radio waves emanating from the direction of the center of our galaxy. One can speculate that some type of trans-dimensional event will be triggered by an energy source emanating from the Galactic Center during the Galactic Alignment.”