Many folks have heard that the Mayan calendar "runs out" in 2011 or 2012. I've discovered an interesting website that explains a lot more about the calendar-actually, calendars-that they are actually describing the development and expansion of consciousness.
http://www.mayanmajix.com/Go to Articles and read about the calendar. Here's an excerpt from one of them:
... Again, when this happens it will be a first time ever in the history of humanity, the birth of a new kind of human being, Homo cocreativus. In my view, I feel we should now embark on such a transformation not only because it may be part of our destiny, but also because, at least in my own view,
the Fifth DAY beginning in November of 2006, increases the probability of a global currency crisis, lead by the downfall of the US dollar. The end to Western dominance is now evident all over the world, not only in the economic strengthening of China, India and Russia, but also in the political changes in Latin America and the Middle East. Whether it will be the Iranian Oil Bourse or something else that triggers the downfall of the US dollar, it seems likely that this shift away from Western dominance will be permanented through its downfall around the time that the Fifth DAY begins. Whatever this change implies it should create an opening for us to take charge of our destinies and actively co-create the world in the direction where the Galactic Underworld is meant to take us: To a balanncing of our relations and an end to dominance.From The Breakthrough Celebration Is Not A Singular Event
http://www.mayanmajix.com/art2302.html