I Ching and the End of Time

The year 2012 is approaching. If you have not heard anything about this year, read about it. Personally I have seen the date 12-21-2012 gradually grow throughout the American culture within the last few years. "What does this have to do with East Asia?" The I Ching is one of the oldest Chinese classic texts. It is a symbol system designed to identify order in what seem like chance events. The I Ching has predicted major world events for the past 4000 years. Some of the events being world wars, and climate shifts. It is almost like a world calender of events. This can be related to the calender of the Maya, other prophetic sources such as Nostradamus, Merlin, and many others. Half a world away from China, in South America, we have seen something so similar to the I Ching, the Mayan Calender, it makes one wonder. There are many similarities to the I Ching and the Mayan Calender. Both measure "global energy" within a time frame. Both record the modern emergence of civilization around the same time, and both predict the so called "end" (12-21-2012) at the same time. There is almost a cyclical nature of events that can be seen throughout history that are recognized through these ancient texts on a global base. If both of these ancient texts are not fabled and have not emerged in the hind sight of the world events they have "predicted" then they are worth studying. The overall belief that emerges from the I Ching lays a path toward a more global, communistic thought. Here is a set of beliefs and a way of thinking that is not biased toward one race or religion or gender, it brings everyone to the same level. With globalization occurring so rapidly, it would not be far fetched to see something like these prophetic texts, that have a communist nature, dominate the world seen in the near future.