My Experience In The Santiago Earthquake: Crazy Parties, Bad Drivers and The Coming End Of The World

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My Experience In The Santiago Earthquake

It was approximately 3:30 in the morning on Saturday and I was with some friends at a popular night club in Santiago.

I was enjoying my time like most nights, but looking back there was definitely a strange energy that felt very different than most other nights.

For one, I was having a strange disagreement with a female friend I had been recently been spending time with and the energy between us seemed stressed.

I was more or less ready to leave when the earth quake struck. I was standing directly outside of the nightclub with a friend contemplating a taxi when I felt the ground start to vibrate.

There seemed to be a sense of confusion in the collective consciousness of the people and my first thought was that a very large truck was coming down the road.

(By the way, the footage was actually from about 20 minutes before but what you see in the video, is more or less what the club looked and sounded like at around the time of the earth quake.)

However, after the first few seconds the ground began to slide from side to side and it became apparent that we were indeed experiencing an earth quake. A massive earth quake.

The trees were shaking, the sign posts and stop lights were shaking and cars came to a stop in the middle of road. Car alarms and sounds of people panicking began filling the early morning air.

This was my first time in an earth quake, so for me it was a very surreal experience. There was a lingering dizziness and sense of confusion that seemed to last for about 30 minutes. From what I understand, apparently it’s because an earthquake is actually vibrational frequency caused  by the movement of tectonic plates many miles underground as opposed to the ground simply vibrating. This wave of energy pulsating more or less scrambles ones senses for a short period.

In the case of the the Santiago earthquake the sliding of the plates occurred approximately 36 miles beneath the earths surface which is why, although a strong earthquake in regards to the Richter scale, it did not cause a lot of of damage considering the circumstances. (However, according to the Chileans, the reason there is very little damage is because the city is built so well

Additionally, since the earthquake, there has been many after shocks over the past the past few days, in fact, I awoke yesterday to a very strong one while laying in bed. Believe it or not, during the earthquake I was actually dreaming that I was at the top of a building that was swaying back and forth.

In fact, I kid you not, as I’m writing this very sentence I am feeling another tremor.

The Inevitable Continuation of Natural Disasters and The End Of The World As We Know It.

Unfortunately, I believe that we have not seen the last of natural disasters that are seemingly plaguing the world right now. In fact, I believe they are going to increase in frequency and size in the coming months and years.

In the last month alone there have been four natural disasters just to my knowledge. From the massive quake that hit Haiti several weeks ago, to a land slide and a few earth quakes in Peru, to another massive land slide in Italy just last week.

Many people are pointing to the inevitable coming of year 2012 and role that this mysterious date is playing in the unfolding of these disasters. In fact, many people believe that the end of the world is upon us.

However, there is a very good explanation as to all of these things are happening in a book called “Fractal Time” written by Best Selling author Greg Braden, that basically clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this date.

I had the opportunity to meet Greg in Phoenix a few months ago where he was doing a talk on this exact subject.

Below is an article that Greg wrote that gives a basic overview as to the basis of what is really going on and thus the topic of his new book…Furthermore, Greg can sometimes write in a rather “New Agey” style, so I have added some additional thoughts or clarifications (in red Italics) where I think it’s necessary, especially if your unfamiliar with these ideas.

Here is Gregs article:

We’re living the end of time. Not the end of the world…but the end of a world age – a 5,125-year cycle of time – and the way we’ve known the world throughout that time. The present world age began in 3114 b.c. and will end in a.d. 2012.

For the sake of clarity, I want to establish this base before proceeding because it’s important to understand Gregs fundamental theory based on many many years of research…Understand, that we are living at the end of a time and NOT the end of the world despite popular believes surrounding this concept.

Because the end of anything also marks the beginning of what comes next, we’re also living the start of what follows the end of time: the next world age, which ancient traditions called the great cycle.

From the epic poems of India’s Mahabharata to the oral traditions of indigenous Americans and the biblical story of Revelation, those who have come before us knew that the end of time was coming. They knew, because it always does. Every 5,125 years, the earth and our solar system reach a place in their journey through the galaxy that marks the end of precisely such a cycle. With that end, a new world age begins. Apparently it’s always been this way.

Briefly, what Greg is saying, is that almost all religions talk about an end of time that is coming…And they knew this based on what had happened before them and the information that was passed down through the Milena.

Furthermore, what Greg is referring to in regards to our earth and our solar system reaching the end of a cycle, is that we (our planet and our solar system) are currently orbiting at the edge of the furthest point in our home Galaxy “The Milky Way” I will clarify the effects of this in a few minutes.

But first, it’s important to grasp the following idea:

Similar to how the earth revolves around the sun every 365 days and the moon revolves around the earth approximately every 28 days… Our planet and our solar system revolve around the Galaxy (The Milky Way) every 5,125 years. This orbit marks the end of what the ancient traditions called “a cycle”.  And this current orbit cycle ends December 21st, 2012.

Throughout the ages, it’s the end of this cycle that marks the the beginning of a new world and a period of major shifts that occur in the evolution of the planet and it’s inhabitants, especially in terms of consciousness.

It’s not hard to see that there is happening right now. If your even a semi-conscious human being you don’t have to look far to see the collective transformation in the belief systems of our race in terms of religion and spirituality.

More and more as I travel, even in seemingly heavy catholic populations, I am finding a surprising amount of people who are excepting the idea that everything is energy and that the idea of God being a human figure who bases his decisions for your life on “primitive emotions” such as jealousy and greed. People are finding that these ideals are no longer serving them. Times are indeed changing.

For at least four such cycles (or five, according to the Mesoamerican traditions of the Aztec and the Maya peoples), our ancestors endured the changes in global magnetic fields, climate, diminishing resources, and rising sea levels that come with the end of time. They did so without satellites and the Internet or computer models to help them prepare for such a radical shift.

The fact that they lived to tell the story stands as a powerful testament to an undeniable truth: it tells us beyond any reasonable doubt that the inhabitants of our planet have survived the end of world ages in the past. Beyond simply surviving, our ancestors learned from the difficulties that can accompany the change. In the words of their day, they did their best to tell us what it means to live such a rare moment in history. It’s a good thing they did, because such events are few and far between. Only five generations in the last 26,000 years have experienced the shift of world ages. We will be the sixth.

The present world age isn’t something that will simply fade away into the sunset of a time that seems to perpetually linger somewhere “out there” in our future. Just the opposite: our world age has an expiration date. It ends at a specific time, with a specific event, on a day that was marked on a calendar more than 2,000 years ago. There is no secret about that date. The Maya who calculated it also inscribed it as a permanent record for future generations. The date is etched into stone monuments that were built to last until the end of time.

When the date is translated to our familiar system of time, the message becomes clear. It tells us that our present world cycle will conclude with the winter solstice that takes place on December 21 in the year 2012. It’s on this date that the mysterious Maya identified the astonishing astronomical events that will mark the end of our age . . . and they did so more than two millennia ago.

The reason: (As I explained briefly earlier)
Physically, our solar system is moving through shortest part of an orbit that looks like a flattened circle, an ellipsis whose far end carries us to the most distant point from the core of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

The physical effect:
Both ancient traditions and modern science tell us that our location in this cyclic orbit determines how we experience the powerful sources of energy, such as the “massive magnetic fields,” which radiate from our galaxy’s core. Recent studies suggest that it is precisely such cycles that may explain the mysterious patterns of biodiversity – the rise and fall of life on Earth, such as the mass extinctions that happened 250 and 450 million years ago.

Additionally, modern discoveries confirm that Earth’s position throughout the journey (orbit, tilt, and wobble) create the ever-changing cycles that influence everything from temperature and climate to polar ice and the magnetic fields of the earth.

To recap briefly, modern science has confirmed that the reasons for major climate changes, and thus the natural disasters we experience on earth, is directly influenced by the earths position as we orbit through the galaxy, In extreme cases throughout the earths history, they have been thought to cause the mass extinctions such as the dinosaurs.

The emotional/spiritual effect:
As we travel farther from our galaxy’s core, our distance from the energy located there was described by ancient traditions as the loss of a connection that we sense both spiritually and emotionally. Scientific links between the quality of Earth’s magnetic fields, how they’re affected by cosmic conditions, and our feeling of well-being seem to precisely support such ancient beliefs.

In the same way that Earth’s rotation makes the darkest part of the night appear just before the dawn, our position in the heavens is such that the darkest part of our world age appears right before our heavenly orbit begins the return that brings us closer to our galaxy’s core. With that return, we experience relief from the cataclysmic forces of the cycle’s darkness. And just as the night must pass in order to get to the new day, the only way to arrive at the light of the next cycle is to finish the darkness of this one.

I think in addition to a new world consciousness, it’s also safe to say that there is a large amount of people who are very confused in this world right now. With the recent collapse of the economy and the advent of new technologies, people are in a state of adjusting to a new way of life. A way of life that is completely foreign to them.

With that said, I believe the coming years will offer much in the way of opportunity for those who can truly embrace change, let go of old ideas that no longer work and recreate themselves to survive in this new exciting world that is fast coming upon us.

I would love to hear your comments, disagreements, rants, raves. I know this may be a lot for some people to swallow, but I believe it to be the truth.

Another very, very good resource that I have found tremendously eye opening is the Interview series between Eckart Tolle and Oprah regarding the coming of the new consciousness. Oprah loved it so much she did a nine part series which can be found on her Podcast…Just search Itunes for Oprah’s Spirit Channel.

I hope you enjoy!

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About The Author of This Blog

Hi, I’m Nate Bunger and the writer and entrepreneur behind this blog.

Over the past several years I've created, managed and sold several different businesses despite never finishing high school, making myself more or less financially free by the age of 25.

I used the realization that we can do anything in life if we are simply willing to set goals, find the answers we seek and never stop until we achieve what we set out for.

I currently teach people how to get clear on their purpose, create habits for massive change and bring their deepest desires into reality.

I operate my business from a Mac laptop while traveling around the world…My dream :)

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