The Great Cycle, which constitutes a part of the Mayan Calendar, goes for 5125yrs. Each time we go through a Great Cycle, it is called a Sun. Regardless of which specific end date you feel is most accurate, we are at the end of the 4th Sun and the dawning of the 5th Sun, signalling an evolutionary leap in awareness.
As with many crossover periods of long term cycles, the associated 'events' of the End-Times will occur over a period of years. Mayan Elder, Don Alejandro Oxlaj Perez, head of the Mayan Council of Elders, has said these events take a generation to manifest. The end date is but the central vertex of an approximately 40yr shift. Energy changes first occur on the finest most subtle levels, and take time, years, to become their full expression in Earthly physical manifestation. This means the energy that shifted to a particular completion yesterday may become apparent in the mainstream global culture tomorrow. Clearly, and beautifully, the world's human heart has really started to show signs of awakening and gaining momentum. October 2011's 'Occupy' movement shows the global human heart is walking and talking. "We are the 99%" demonstrates the energy that has already awakened, is really starting to manifest in physical form.
I would caution against expecting a 'thing' to occur on a particular day. This marks the end of a 5125yrs cycle, and the beginning of the next with 'events' of the changeover period occurring for years. Instead of applying intellectual energy to figuring out if the true end date is in 2011 or 2012, open your heart to perceive we are in the middle of a 40yrs window of endings and beginnings. What you don't know today, for sure, you might know in another time, but stalking that moment of true knowing via debate will not bring you to your awakening, or the knowing that humility & retrospect can access.
When people expect this prophecy to deliver a 'thing' on a set day and it doesn't happen, they don't see the forest for the trees of all the change that is occuring, and the beautiful pattern tool is misunderstood. It is only during the last 20-30 yrs that this expectation has been layed onto the Mayan Calendar, by other cultures & Hollywood. I love it that this process is actually part of the prophecy too. It is prophecised that people will pull apart pure ideas and turn them into their opposites - it is called enantiodromia - and by doing this, the mind reaches a death, whereby all that mental overlay onto pure energy is realised as untruth. From this death, the mind evolves and consciousness becomes more aware of the true nature of energy and time / timelessness... the era of realising this cannot be delivered on a 'day' or it abides by time.
Non-linear time jokes are working out for me, ironically, right on schedule with the 2011 pattern. A few weeks ago, what was one timezone became two. Im now living on the border of 2 different timezones. In the morning I leave home at the same time I wish to start at clinic, though it takes 45mins to get there. In the car I listen to the end half of a radio show until I have to retune to the same station halfway to my destination.. when I retune the show goes back in time and I get to hear the first half of it. Vice versa, I leap forwards in time when im going home. Unless I tell my phone to lock into a certain moment, my kitchen is the most futuristic part of my studio, it's a whole hour ahead of the bathroom. Some find it annoying, but the more arbitrary time becomes, the more I enjoy it. The truth is, that non-linear experiences have prospered in my awareness my whole life, and this well-timed joke of the community clock is not really what non-linear perception is. Of course, the immaculate tapestry of infinity tells me this joke, on time with the end of time. LOL the majestic creations of infinitely reflective consciousness.
Non-linear perception is when you are able to track your body consciousness which responds to things with physical signals before they occur. Listening to your body consciousness is a choice of heart, and deep honesty with self. It's available to you anytime and is the direct route to overcoming the mental domination of your inner dialogue, which interferes with your true perceptive abilities. The experience is personal and may consist of energy blows, feelings, seeings, and sudden knowings.
This information comes to you from the moment of your death. This is your life review, present in every moment, advising your body consciousness via energy blows & very rapid conduits to 'knowing" anchors at different points along timelines. At the moment of death, self is oneness, you contain infinity, all time-space is one moment, and all you need to realise, is that you can realise this at anytime during life.