What is everyone's gut feeling on 2012?

[rva_jeremy]

I finally realized that I was becoming like the born-again Christians, worrying about who was 'saved' and who was not...and waiting for the rapture.

Precisely. David understands the distorted nature of this reaction to his work. But he also plays into it a bit because he emphasizes the ascension phenomenon so intensely - not, I believe, out of anything other than a strong sense of urgency within him.

As for David Wilcock, I'm not sure what anyone means by 'authentic.'

Well, those weren't my exact words. I meant that I think he's the real deal as far as being a psychic and a channel. For whatever that's worth. He did a reading for me that was absolutely foundational, so I'm inclined by personal prejudice to judge his abilities as genuine.

I think it's likely that he's the recipient of a contact. It begins to exceed my comfort zone to speculate on the exact identity of the contact. I think the contact, at best, has to deal with a lot of his firm ideas about 2012, ascension, etc. At worst, it has negative elements that are planting these ideas. I don't see much difference, honestly - it's always, always, always on the listener to use discernment. And using discernment one can get a lot out of David's readings, especially his earlier ones that deal more with metaphor.

I've told David before that I don't care if he's Edgar Cayce or not. That seemed a great relief to him at the time. Later on, when he started advertising his past life more openly, it was a source of discomfort between us - not because I believed or disbelieved him so much as I had always found it an act of immense integrity that he didn't make it a big deal to people. I'm not sure how useful it is for anybody to dwell on a past life too much (it becomes a transient detail far too often).

I think L/L Research has to (and probably has) come to grips with the fact that David will be a gateway for people to the Law of One material. I'm still influenced by David's ideas on the application of the Law of One to physical reality (his work on the relationship between the densities and alternative physics filled in a lot of blanks in Ra's explanations). That doesn't mean that we should use any less (or, for that matter, more) discernment when approaching David's work than Ra's.