Bugarach

It's not a word you hear every day. You may be hearing it more often, though, as it's the small village in France that many of the 2012 disaster/apocalypse believers feel will be the only place not destroyed when the Mayan calendar ends. That's where they're congregating.

Real estate prices there are (currently) booming.

Meanwhile people in Syria are fleeing to Turkey; Libyans are fleeing to Egypt; Yemenis are fleeing anywhere they can; Palestinians have no where to flee to; and Chinese people are fleeing the flooding Yangtze.

What do we make of this? Perhaps the desire for safety is the thing we could focus on? Perhaps we in the west have invented a physical crisis so that we can reach a spiritual turning point?

When the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 I do not believe the world will end - although I do think we can use that thought as a call to wake us all up and start to love the lives we could be living, in peace and harmony. It'd be a change from the lives of selfishness and meanness we currently seem to be choosing, at any rate.