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end of time. End of the world. The end of Mayan Long Count. The apocalypse. The end of Kali Yuga. The winter solstice 2012 is not just any solstice but the solstice of all solstices. It is the Great Solstice - a solstice of the precessional or Platonic year. It is the fountain of all solstices and all equinoxes from which the life flows and cascades from a season to season. It is the source from which the time to which we owe our existence gushes out. And it is also a payback time when such existence must be justified. Did the gift of life, which was bestowed the last time around, fulfill its purpose? What does the end date of Mayan Long count indicate? What will happen on 21.12.2012? Will it be what Tom, Harry or Sally thought and put forward in their theories or will it be what it must be? What does this date truly indicate? Is it negotiable? It indicates the end of the present order and it is NOT negotiable. 21.12.2012 is an appointment with destiny. It is an apocalypse and ascension. It is the end of the world, as we know it - nothing more and nothing less. It is a complete and comprehensive destruction of the age of Kali as a dominant force shaping all aspects of life, which is preceding the dawn of a new Golden age. Did not you know that every transformation and establishment of a new order is unfolded through the destruction of the old order? Did not you know that every action must have an equal and opposite reaction? Did not you know that everything that exists must be born and it must die? Did not you know that new life is created through death and death through life? Did you think that you would never die? Did you really think that time is infinite? Well, it doesn't really matter what anyone thought because truth is not affected by such idle theories at least. To think is not to know. The winter sun 2012 ushers into 72 days of upheavals in which the chaos following a destruction of the old order will reign before the new order is firmly set in place.

Is it going to be destruction similar to the one in Noah's time 5200 years ago or as the one in which Atlantis and many other parts of the world were obliterated 10400 years ago? No, because such destructions were only partial, allowing the seeds of the past to infiltrate the new age (see biblical book of Daniel). 21.12.2012 will be a complete; hence destruction on a much larger scale, because it is not only the birth of one out of five ages of the same precessional cycle but also the birth of a brand new precessional age. It is the birth of a larger creative cycle than the past four events and will trigger a correspondingly larger degree of destruction since the larger birth is also a more painful birth. The winter solstice 2012 will not be just a change of civilizations as in the past. It is a more essential change. It is the change of the race of man similar to the one 26000 years ago in which the Neanderthal race could not justify its existence. It stipulates the demise of the present race supporting its life through the brutalities of Kali and ushering into existence a future race thriving on justice of the Golden age (Ma'at). Is it the time of ascension? It is certain ascension only for the earth. The certain planetary ascension creates only a possibility for ascension of man and all the life in the earth's environment. It depends on the level of adaptation to such new environment whether man will follow the suit.

The eventual ascension depends on the degree of harmony between man and his environment. It depends on the amount of concord existing between the spirit of man and the spirit of his creator. It depends whether his heart and his mind converge or diverge. It depends whether man's life has a purpose or not. The ascension of man is conditional upon his willingness to accept the truth and the immutability of the upcoming change. The ascension of Earth is impersonal but ascension of man is a personal responsibility. A bend in the road will be the end of the road for the present race unless it is willing to make a righteous turn. Will one make a turn if one cannot even see the bend? How can one see what lays ahead if one is only willing to look back? Is there a future in the past? Remember that although all are invited, only few are chosen, because only few are willing to accept the invitation. Only few have the time and will to see the grand scheme of life. Only few are willing to sacrifice the personal illusion of the world and embrace the world's impersonal truth. Only few are willing to exchange their unjust beliefs for the just truth. One's life is one's personal responsibility. The ascension of life is a personal responsibility to act in time. It is not an ascent but a descent, which is a choice by default to act consciously. Kali must harvest what Kali planted in an age of Kali. Any different outcome requires a personal effort.

Life is a personal responsibility because the creator creates through his creations. It is a personal choice to open the eyes or to keep them shut. It is a personal choice to accept or to reject the gift of life. Who is the one who chooses one's own destiny if not you? One will drown under the weight of unjust personal beliefs unless one is unburdened by the personal acceptance of an impersonal and just truth. One can float in the river of life only if his burden is not heavier than the feather of Maat. One can either repent or persist in his beliefs and the injustice he dishes on the world around him. Survival is a matter of adaptation. How can one adapt to what one is not even conscious of? The adaptation to personal beliefs is not an adaptation but a dead end road. The sustainability of life corresponds to its adaptation to the impersonal truth. Life must be just to be justified by its environment and the justice must be impersonal to be equal for all. Can a father be just if he favors only one of his many sons? The belief is always only a half-truth, which is creating intolerance and injustice. The half-truth is a deceit. The half-truth is worst than a lie, because it lies about the truth as much as it lies about the lie. Only the truth is just and wholesome. A world built on the beliefs is an ignorant world of Kali who rules through the deceits of half-truths. You can choose to embrace the new and just age by acting now or you can choose by default of acting now to follow its demise with the winter sun of 2012. Creation of life is a conscious effort that requires a coherent action. Only the decay and death happen by default.

It is not a question of what will happen on the winter solstice 2012 but what will you do about it. One is a certainty over which you have no control but the other is a freedom of choice. Will you be physically and spiritually ready or will the unfolding events catch you like a proverbial thief in the night? It is a free world. No one can or will be coerced. It is a personal liability to accept the impersonal truth. It is a personal choice whether unfolding events will predetermine one's own destiny or whether one will determine it by manipulating the events. It depends on the degree of one's awareness and that depends on his willingness to adapt. Alternatively, it depends on one's willingness to abandon personal beliefs and embrace the impersonal truth. It depends on the resistance the spirit offers to the changing environment. It depends on the weight of the heart. One must overcome the personal inertia or be overcomed by it. One either lives or dies. 21.12.2012 is the Judgment Day because only the life that is just and balanced with its environment will overcome it. Only the spirit that is in tune with the Higher Will will be justified. The twisted personal notions of justice do not determine the meaning of justice. On the contrary! That which is balanced and coherent is just. It is impersonal. It has absolutely nothing in common with anything that we might think or feel to be just (or not). The just is what is adaptable to environment and in tune with the Higher Will. The just is what is in tune with its purpose. The purposeless and selfish existence is unjust. See the world around you and all your questions about its usefulness and the kind of justice it serves should be answered.

If you want to heal the world, give it justice. Not an illusion of justice according to the subjective personal beliefs what constitutes love and fear but the real impersonal justice! World doesn't need the impotent projection of the passive love but a potent doses of the active love. It doesn't need an immaterial and inconsequential love but a tangible material love. The world needs the active creation and not the passive destruction to be healed. The fear of dispensing the real love in a disguise of projecting some imaginary love is nothing but a total absence of love that will only accelerate the decay and death of this world. The world needs the just and impersonal love - not an unjust and selfish love, which is not the love at all and it has no creative potential but serves the same destructive purpose as the fear. Love that is incapable of stirring tangible action is an abdication of love in the face of fear and has no creative purpose because it doesn't urge an adaptation to the truth; hence it doesn't stimulate an increase in awareness or the proliferation of life. An unjust personal love is selective, selfish and intolerant and it is anything but love in its inactivity. The love appears as fear and the fear as love in a world dominated by the sheer brutality of an age of Kali, which is promulgating inactivity, decay and chaos.

Would it be the justice to retain something that is unjust by its nature? Is it of any use to keep something that is useless? One cannot be of use to oneself but only to that that is outside of oneself. The purpose of a rudder is to steer the boat - it has no value if detached and on its own. What is the use of an unjust and selfish world, because it has no creative power? What is the use of a purposeless existence? Does it have the power to sustain itself when faced with its purpose? Can one's existence be justified when faced with one's creator on the day of the Lord? Can one offer a purpose in exchange for a given life? Can one repent the injustice fostered by the partiality of beliefs and accept the justice of truth? Can one adapt and justify his continued existence? Or is one's heart too inflexible and too heavy with the injustice? Apocalyptic 42-day passage of earth though a black hole of time that will start with winter sun of 2012 requires the clarity and justice of all life on earth. Why? Because only the justice is coherent; hence only the justice has a creative power of life. The injustice is incoherent randomness that is devoid of any power because all its selfish and isolated parts act against each other. The justice is not optional. It is the very essence of life. Life feeds on it.

The following is my testimony to the world, given to you as it was given to me and presented to the best of my ability. You can accept or reject it, use it or ignore it wholly or partially, remembering that every action or lack of it is commensurate with an appropriate reaction. Keep in mind that consequence of an action (or lack of it) outweighs the action alone. The truth is not negotiable but its perception is; hence one's awareness should always be a step ahead of the perception alone. Be ready to face the truth when its perception dissolves on the winter solstice 2012. You've been told in no uncertain terms by the ancient people of Sumer, Egypt, Vedantic India, by the traditions of Native Americans, by Maya, through the Biblical and Taoist traditions, yet you still choose to negotiate what is non-negotiable. You still prefer to veil an impersonal and just truth with the personal and unjust beliefs. You've chosen to veil the justice in many layers of injustice by believing that injustice is the justice and that justice is the injustice. You've coated the truth with many layers of deceit thinking that a deceit is the truth and that a truth is the deceit. Your religions and your science will reveal to you the same truth of an impersonal justice if you will but see it in an honest and just interpretation and free of the subjective and misleading beliefs. The world out there in all its multihued manifestations is staring you in the face, yet you are too afraid to stare back at it, preferring a selfish and impotent isolation instead of a mutual interaction and creation. The world offers you life, yet you are paralyzed with the terror thinking that life is death and that death is life.

It is one of the final testaments given to the world that the truth is not what one believes or theorizes. It is exactly what it is. It needs no interpretation. It has a very precise meaning and an exact purpose and so do any of its forms and manifestations. The truth is in the absence of all beliefs and disbeliefs. It is impersonal and just. This is one of the final rebukes before a final trumpet call on the winter solstice 2012 when the Maya Long count ends - and so does this world of Kali built on the illusions and injustice. Remember, it is an impersonal message - it doesn't matter whether you accept or reject it. It does not matter whether you see it as the fear mongering or as the love and concern for preservation of the fellow man. All that matters is the effect. All that matters is the action. If the love will lull you into inaction but the fear will stir you into action, let it be the fear, but if the fear will paralyze you into inaction; let it be the love, since love and fear are two personal faces of an impersonal truth. The heaven knows better than what we believe to be the love or the fear. The heaven knows that the true love is a just love and that an unjust love has the same purpose as an unjust fear. The rest of the text on this page is a preparation for what is to follow and unless one mastered it in its impersonal form, there would be little benefit of proceeding to the other pages. The truth is quantized in hierarchical sequences - it evolves step by step and one can proceed to the next step only if he is firmly footed on the previous step. Confusion will replace the understanding unless this advice is followed. One will stumble trying to manage several steps at once. It will become an obstacle for the next step thus defeating its purpose unless the step before is mastered.

Every step can confuse as much as it can enlighten because the justice is impersonal. The impersonal justice can be accepted in two conflicting personal forms - both of them serving the same ultimate purpose of building a stepped pyramid to the heaven with an apex on 21.12.2012. The pyramid is smooth only on the surface or from afar. The smooth texture of an outer macrocosm is built on the foundation of many inner hierarchical microcosmic sequences and vice versa. The uninterrupted smoothness on one side and the hierarchy of separated sequences on another side are also two personal faces of one impersonal truth. The purpose of a dualistic perception is its underlying wholeness but also vice versa, just as the purpose of an impersonal justice is a personal injustice but also vice versa. One option follows another in the serial or parallel sequential order creating a perpetual embrace of spiraling yin/yang. The wisdom and understanding are the shadows of ignorance and confusion and vice versa because the perception is dual and one exist only in contrast of its opposite. One is purpose of another and they co-exist as two intertwined partial beliefs of only one truth. One learns only through its opposite, because it is its purpose. One succeeds through the failures and fails through the successes. One prevails by surrendering and surrenders by prevailing. One lives only if supported by death and dies only if supported by life. One cannot exist separately from its opposite. One cannot exist without a purpose; hence one cannot exist separately from an environment, which is supporting him. One cannot exist in a selfish isolation from the world and the higher consciousness, which is projecting it because one is the purpose and the future of the world and its higher consciousness but only if the world and attainment of the higher consciousness is also one's purpose and one's future. The justice must be served because it's the stuff the building blocks of life are made of. Only the decay and death will prevail in the absence of justice - the decay and death on which the life feeds because life coheres what is incoherent, unifies what is separated, orders what is random and justifies what is unjust.

One can write just a short sentence or an entire book, depending on how much one thirsts for the wisdom and understanding. It doesn't really matter how extensively the subject is dealt with as long as the thirst is quenched. Many have heard about the Mayan end date on the winter solstice 2012 but few know what it means indeed. Many conflicting theories have sprung, one author competing with another in a final race before it is all over. Many eloquent words were spoken, yet mystery remains as deep as ever. Many have sensed the truth beyond the genius of Maya but many more prefer to impose their personal views, uncomfortable with the facts staring them in the face. Many see a correlation between the knowledge of Maya and remains of the similar knowledge scattered all over the world. Others do not want to see it covering the fear of truth with the wishful thinking. What is a belief but an unsubdued fear? The truth dwells in every heart yet many prefer to reject it because in their fear the life appears as death and the death as life. In all honesty everyone should know the truth but many prefer deceitful beliefs to an honest truth in a dishonest world. It is the fear of truth, which is hiding behind the appearance of a justified belief. A world without the beliefs, suppositions and theories is an honest world that is free of fear. A world in which personal beliefs overshadow an honest truth is a brutal, loveless and unjust world of Kali. How can anyone dare to interpret the Mayan end date if they haven't got a clue what kind of knowledge they had? How can one interpret something that one has no understanding of? How can one figure out their calendars or the correlation between the astronomical cycles and the creative cycles of earth they imply, without knowing what they knew? If you do not understand the process than at least accept its honest results. Isn't the purpose to deceive one's heart when an end is interpreted as not really an end? Isn't the purpose to justify personal fears when the theories are put forward, in which the finality of the present order on 21.12.2012 is not really final? Is the suppression of truth beyond a layer of deceit not the purpose when a non-negotiable certainty is made to appear as a mere possibility?

The Mayan understanding of astronomical cycles and their correlation with the creative cycles of earth is beyond the grasp of modern science. How can one justly interpret such superior knowledge with such vastly inferior tools of modern science? Shouldn't one backtrack his misguided efforts and try to justify the modern age from a Mayan perspective rather than vice versa. How can the present savagery and spiritual barbarism do justice to the past refinement of thought? Is a cave man in a position to justify the refinements of French cuisine or the intricacies of game of chess? Why should it be presumed that a later age is somehow more advanced then the one before when the history clearly shows that an evolution is a two-way street and that reversals are just as often as are advances? Doesn't the law of relativity, which we should have digested by now, equalize both possibilities? Doesn't such an arrogant attitude disguises an underlying ignorance and projects the fear as a valid belief? Is it an honest interpretation serving justice to the wisdom of Maya or to the present age? An end that's not an end is a complete distortion of truth - it's a belief driven to a point of insanity. It is the suicidal use of a sword intended for the defensive purpose. Such insane interpretations do not clarify but obscure. They serve no justice. Mayan knowledge of cycles goes back to the times before man walked the earth or even before the present universe came into existence; hence they are not just the astronomical cycles of the present universe but also the cycles of time transcending its present incarnation and its presently visible size. The understanding Maya had goes beyond the horizons and boundaries imposed by the modern understanding, because they knew that all boundaries are relative and that a larger and more comprehensive reality lurks just beyond the horizons.

Relativity as formulated by A. Einstein and the subsequent quantum laws are only a rediscovery of the long lost wisdom known by the Maya and all over the ancient world. The Maya were just the last one to remember them. Those who understand that the fractality principle is the foundation of the Mayan time cycles will also know that the Sumerian division of a day into 24 hrs and an hour into 60 min, the Egyptian Sothic cycles or the Vedic Yugas are formulated on the same principles. They predict the same outcome, as does the Mayan Long count - the end on the winter solstice 2012. It is not this or that or maybe. The end means the end. They could not know such vast cycles of time that are transcending all the physical boundaries of the present universe just by the observations. How can one observe something that is beyond the means of physical observations? Physical observation was obviously only a secondary tool in the gathering of information. The primary tool was an abstract understanding that they gained through the spiritual maturity. Their knowledge of the cycles reveals an understanding not only of particular isolated astronomical cycles but also of the essential fractal pattern explaining how the different cycles recursively nest one within the other. They understood not only the cycles but also the cycle of all cycles. They understood with an utmost precision the underlying infinite polynomial structure reflected in every finite and particular cycle, form or manifestation. They knew the fractal causality of all cycles, which is the causal thread connecting all cycles as one. They knew the abstract pattern beyond all particular cycles.

They knew what everyone knew in the past lost long ago - that time of the world below reflects as space in the world above and vice versa. They understood space/time relativity. They knew that astronomical cycles are intrinsically connected with the cycles of creation on Earth because everything is connected with everything else into a coherent whole through an unbroken causal thread. It was no secret that everything reflects everything else, which is the truth revealed only recently by the contemporary physical theories such as the holographic principle, quantum tunneling, Everett's many worlds interpretation and the other principles of quantum physics. The ancient world understood that analogy and similarity reveals the larger truth. It is a common sense that the size of a cycle is proportional with its duration. The larger cycle must have a larger period of an uninterrupted evolution but it must also begin and end with a proportionally larger moment of creation and destruction. The cycles must end because all that has a beginning must also have an end. Everything has a beginning and an end because an infinite reality manifests only in the finite (quantized) forms. It is a dual world in which the finiteness of a form on one level is supported by its infinity on the next level. They can only co-exist in a symbiosis with each other. Everything must have the boundaries in space and in time, where boundaries of time (duration) are inversely proportional with the spatial boundaries (size). Where is the justice when ignorance in the age of Kali judges the lost wisdom of time? It is an abomination of justice. An honest truth is covered with many layers of deceit in the age of Kali ruled by the fearful materialistic and selfish beliefs. Just as the gold is found under many layers of dirt, even the truth will be found safely stored under many layers of deceit.

One can choose to ignore an honest truth and to surrender to the fear by accepting untested beliefs only at one's own peril. It is a free world. What will take the precedence - a personal belief or an everlasting impersonal truth? 21.12.2012 is the end not of one but of two recursive cycles. It means exactly that - the end, two times over! The end of an astronomical cycle of the universe is the end of a creative cycle on earth since the time below is a holographic shadow of the space above. There is no mystery here. It is the end of the world, as we know it. Earth will tremble, shake and rip open along all its latent and patent faults. It will be scorched from below and from above. The remaining ashes, which are not washed away by the churning seas, will be scattered in all directions by the four winds. Earth will turn inside out and upside down. The old lands will sink below and the new lands will rise above. It has been done many times before and it will be done yet again on 21.12.2012. It is an apocalypse. It doesn't matter what you believe or disbelieve - it will still happen at the appointed time. The modern technology is sustained by the knowledge and manipulation of the quantum laws. Do you believe your TV or a microwave oven to be real? Is there any doubt that a tree is a tree? Is the reality a set of incoherent and uncertain possibilities or a set of coherent certainties? Is it both? It is what it is. It attains different shades only in different personal interpretations, depending on the purpose of every certain appearance. If there is no doubt that your TV, a mobile phone or your PC function immaculately, why should you doubt that the winter solstice 2012 is anything else but the end of the world, as we know it? The end of the present order in 2012 and the functioning of your electronic gadgets are the effects of the same cause. They are the inevitable outcomes of the quantum law of succession. Moreover, the entire existence is liable to the universality of the quantum laws. The end on the winter solstice is an outcome of the quantum physics.

Quantum law stipulates and the modern technology based on its stipulations confirms it, that an orbiting dense body periodically changes the quantum states through an instant quantum leap. Two different and separate levels of reality are briefly bridged in an intense quantum leap. The product of a series of frequencies excited by such recursive changes is the spectral pattern of energy specific for particular form of matter (different elements). There is absolutely nothing to exclude large cosmic bodies from the universality of the quantum law. A body such as Earth is but a particle of the surrounding four-dimensional universe in the same manner that an electron is a particle of three-dimensional earthly matter. The fact that we have 10 planets (incl. asteroid belt) instead of a cloud of an evenly dispersed fine dust orbiting Sun testifies to the contrary. Every finite manifestation and form of this world testifies to the universality of the quantum laws. Everything that has a finite size or a finite duration acts as a confirmation of the validity of quantum laws. An abstract law cannot be limited by its particular appearances. If the quantum law works for the microcosm, and we know that it does, than it must be applicable across the board. It is not the law of an atom but the universal law, because an atom is made of the same space and time as the universe. The difference is only relative, which is the difference in scale - the brief moment of time in a small space will acts as a long period of time in a large space.

The self-same variations of Bode's 3/2 harmonization, responsible for the number and distances of orbiting planets are just as much responsible for the sequential structure of an atom or for the quantized nature of the astronomical time cycles. Kepler's law of motion or Newton's inverse square gravitational law are only its further derivatives and ultimately so are all the laws of the modern physics (Bode's periodicity, its fractal space/time derivatives and the spiraling gravitational cohesion they generate through the mutual interaction is discussed at length in the book Prophet's manual). Every true law is infinite. It cannot be limited by finite manifestations. Quantum law is the universal law applicable across the board. The relativity is also the universal law. They are two faces of only the one universal law of fractality known to the all the ancient world. It is implied in the description of the world, which is as above so below, or in the notion that one creates only in one's own image. The apocalyptic change of Earth's environment is the quantum leap between the recursive quantum states or an instant transition between the two cycles of creation in the fullness of time or the completion of a cycle. Biblical book of Daniel gives that time as time and a half time, which is 3/2 time testifying not only to the universality but also to the antiquity of the knowledge of Bode's 3/2-harmonization and its quantum effects. Bode's periodicity, rediscovered by the 18th century astronomers, is an extremely old knowledge whose origins are lost in the mist of time.

The stars, galaxies or the entire universes are progressively larger and denser cosmic bodies. It is fractal recursion of dense bodies. The surrounding environment of one dense body is a dense body on a larger scale. They are all liable to the universality of quantum law just as an atom or its nucleus is. The different dense bodies - from the particles of microcosm to the series of cosmic bodies, are recursive holographic projections of an abstract (immaterial) particle in a succession of different quantum states creating a pattern resembling the interacting waves created by a disturbance of the calm waters. It is only a relative difference in scales, which is a difference in time separating the large from the small space. The relativity is the universal law because it is an aspect of the quantum law or alternatively, the quantum law is universal because it is a particular aspect of the relativity. An infinitesimally small instant of time on a small scale requires an infinitely large period of time on a large scale. The world around us in all its shapes and sizes testifies that macrocosm follows the same quantum principle as the microcosm does. Even a sunflower, an anthill, the flight of flock of birds or a shape of a cloud testifies to its universality. All the world needs is an honest and just interpretation to reveal its deepest secrets instead of misguided and unjust beliefs. Actually, there are no secrets - they are an illusion created by the beliefs. Everything lays bare in front of our eyes if we would but open them.

Gravity and its inversely proportional subsequent derivatives of matter and energy (or the size and motion as per the particle/wave duality) are always quantized into the discrete units with strict boundaries and the exact points of a beginning and an end, regardless of their relative size, motion or density. To presume otherwise is to deny validity to another universal law - the Einstein's relativity. The size or motion is a relative or comparative quantity and in all its honesty it cannot affect universality of any other law. How can the universal and absolute law be somehow limited by the relative quantities such as size, motion or density, because such relative quantities depend directly on universality of such law? The quantum law and relativity (as well as any other law) are universal and valid across the board, regardless of the relative physicality of the particular form or manifestation, as the Maya and all the ancients knew only too well - even if they have different names for them commonly translated "as above so below" or "as in heaven so on earth". Who is a primitive savage then and who is a sophisticated savant? Who is the master and who is the servant here? Who is to judge whom? Are we going to judge the wisdom of the ancients or are they going to pass a judgment over us? Their so-called "prophecies", about which we have no idea where they come from and what do they mean, testify that it is ancients of long forgotten past who will pass judgment over us and not vice versa, however we would like to believe otherwise. Our knowledge and technology might have a broader applicability but at the cost of its materialistic shallowness. In contrast, the ancient knowledge was the more selective but it run much deeper. Although their technology was less widespread, it was based on a more potent energy than the present technology. It is ancients of long forgotten past that reached the stars, not us.

The knowledge of cosmic cycles and their creative purposes known to the Maya and all the ancients of the long forgotten past are the result of an understanding of the universality of the quantum laws and the relativity of its applications. Moreover, they understood that the underlying essence of the quantum and all the other laws is fractality. All the laws are only the different derivatives of fractality, regardless if they are physical or non-physical (spiritual laws). Although such knowledge is partially preserved in the sacred geometry and numerology, its true meaning was lost. The cosmic cycles replicate the quantum states of an orbiting electron on a grand scale. They are the stepped sequences of the serial time periods separating the parallel spatial densities. They begin and end with a quantum leap - an instant change of the spin and the density of the orbiting body. They also knew, as the modern physicists also know, that period between two subsequent quantum states (time cycles) is determined by its precessional motion, regardless of the size or density of a massive body. Everything that revolves also has the precessional motion because of inertia of the massive body. The weight must slow down the motion. Such gradual collapse of the motion is its precessional motion. An orbiting electron has a precession and so does every planet, star or a galaxy. Even the wheel of a car has the precession else it will spin ad infinitum. What is the precession but the gradual negation (reversal) of orbital or rotation? What is the precession but the duration of time, which is limitation of time? The precession is time of time or an accelerated time (gravity); hence a shadow below of 4D (solar) space above, because double time is space just as double negation is affirmation. The precession is the limitation that slices the linear flow of time into discrete units (quanta) with precisely determined points of beginning and end of each quantum state or each relative incarnation of orbiting particle. It is the quantum of the surrounding solar space (4D) doubling as the time period of the embedded Earth (3D). The quantum of solar space or alternatively the duration of the present time is � precession, because the smallest unit of 4D spacetime is � (just as the smallest unit of subsequent 5D and 6D cosmic densities is 1/5 and 1/6 thus determining yet larger cycles of time).

The modern physics knows all too well that a period between two subsequent quantum states is � orbital precession. It is as above, so below - all the time between two successive quantum states or between two successive incarnations of a massive body is � orbital precession, which is a period of exactly 5200 years of 360 days each in context of the orbiting earth. Since rotational regression (precession of equinoxes) is 5/4-fractal succession following on heels of orbital precession (perihelion advance), one 26000-year creative cycle of earth consists of 5 different rotational incarnations or 5 different worlds (or suns). The cycle is repeatable in 4x5=20-folds units, well known to the students of the Maya, thus creating yet larger so-called Milankovich astronomical cycle underlying yet larger 104000-year creative cycle of earth (the regression of precession or the precession of precession). The Maya along with the entire ancient world knew quantum laws long before Dirac, De Broglie or Bohr. There is never anything new under the sun. The present rotational incarnation of earth expires with winter sun 2012. It is also the end of the present orbital incarnation unlike the past four events, because it is the end of a precessional cycle, which is also � of a larger 104000-year cycle. Earth must change not only rotational frequency as in the past four events but also its orbital frequency in order to remain in coherent or justified state. The balance of forces must change in every cardinal point of the precessional wave (�). You can argue about it just as you can argue with your PC, your TV, your phone, walls of your house or anything else that exists. It is madness to presume it any other way.

End of the world 21.12.2012 is an effect of the same cause that drives all your technology. Moreover, it is the effect of the same cause that lends all forms of reality their existence - the past, the present and the future. It is the effect of the same cause that creates the density of matter out of the vibrations of energy! It is the underlying essence of the world holding it all together through the electromagnetic and gravitational bonds. To doubt that the winter sun 2012 will spell anything else but the death of the present order of things is commensurate with doubting one's own existence. You know what kinds of forces are unleashed during the sequential quantum changes of an orbiting electron. Multiply it by a factor of double light speed as per Einstein's E=mC� formulations and you will have a good idea of what 21.12.2012 is all about. However, the force as any other particular form of reality is impersonal and which personal shade will such an outburst of energy attain is a matter of choice. The apocalypse for the unjust one is the flower of life for the just one.

A drowning man will seek salvation in any floating straw. One sees only what one wants to see. 21.12.2012 is the moment of quantum resonance in which two different waves merge and amplify each other through resonance (eigenvalue in quantum physics). The resonance is possible only in the crests and troughs of a wave or every � curvature. It has been pointed out that the winter sun of 2012 will see resonance between ecliptic and galactic equator or resonance between the orbital and precessional gravitational waves, yet the attempts are made to discredit such 90� alignment. Every right angle is a quantum or the boundary between two subsequent quantum states, implying a quantum leap in such point when the wave changes (inverts) its direction. Every perfectly round motion is distorted by inertia of its particle and vice versa because any manifestation is a duality of particle and wave. As a consequence every motion is slightly eccentric or oblique as formulated by Kepler long ago. There is no perfect curvature - every curvature is eccentric by virtue of its participating dense body or a particle. The center of gravity never corresponds to the geometrical center; hence even such an alignment cannot be exact as pointed out. For the same reason the magnetic poles do not exactly overlie the geographical poles. Eccentricity is the essence that permits interaction between the different cycles or waves; hence it is also essential for the densities of matter that they create on the material plane. The reality will remain sterile and unchangeable without it. One must have the wisdom when to see the larger picture and when to seek truth in the small details. 21.12.2012 is the actual and not the geometrical alignment between two successive fractal waves, because the galaxy is slightly oblique just as earth or any other dense body or its motion is.

Moreover, the point of alignment due to precession of one in context of another (self-interference) changes in time, so even if the alignment is perfect in one point, all the subsequent alignments will gradually depart from that point just as the solstice/equinox points slowly rotate through the entire ecliptic in the course of a precessional cycle or as the points of sunset and sunrise change from day to day passing through the entire rotational plane in the course of one orbital cycle. Such minor discrepancy between two successive waves is a synodic/sidereal difference or a quantum, which is the essence of yet larger astronomical cycle above behaving as yet larger cycle of creation below. The next alignment on 21.12.2012 by virtue of its synodic/sideral (relative) discrepancy must be slightly advanced just as the perihelion advances in time since the Mayan Long count started with a perfect alignment 26000 years ago. One cannot be excused for failing to account for the relative difference between space and time, which is the synodic/sideral or particle/wave difference between two successive spatial densities or between two successive time cycles, in today's age when relativity is known as the physical principle for over a century. Even the setting sun doesn't set when it appears so, because light travels from sun to earth in 8 minutes, � of it reflecting in its synodic/sideral difference, then how about the galaxy that's much further away? Time on Earth below acts as space of the universe above. Relativity between two successive spatial densities, one in the embrace of another, is reflected in the amount of angular discrepancy or the amount of space/time curvature because two parallel densities curve each other in diametrically opposite directions, so even perfect alignment will appear displaced through the gravitational lens of the universe and the intermediate spacetime curvature.

Such an argument of the imperfect alignment can be made as consequential without a blink of an eye only in a shallow materialistic perspective lacking its foresight and its hindsight. Anyone who is even slightly aware of the underlying mechanism of precession (or the lunar nodal cycles for that matter) cannot fail to recognize the parallel in all astronomical cycles and all parallel densities they generate in time. It is as above so below. A stone dropped into the calm waters will stir many parallel waves nesting one within the other in infinite causal thread of the successive fractality. One inertial mass (earth) will create many harmonics in space and time (Bode's harmonization). Beyond every polynomial is infinite number of harmonics, each one a successive echo of the previous one through the infinite self-interference. Nothing exists in separation because every manifestation needs support of its reaction. Ultimately, all is connected with everything else in a perfectly balanced reality (holography). An appearance denied its cause or its effects is a shallow materialistic illusion denied its deeper meaning. Spatial discrepancy leading to the gradual shift of the cardinal points is the effect of the same underlying cause (fractality), regardless of its relative scale. It is the result of the perpetual gravitational tug of war between two successive dense bodies in their mutual yin/yang embrace, where one supports another through resistance (inertia) thus creating the spiraling flower of life. If anything, such slight asymmetry confirms rather then disproves the true alignment and its inevitable consequence - a quantum leap and an unavoidable gravitational change of the earth's environment.

The cosmically induced change of frequency (change of rotation, orbital and the spatial density) implies not only the physical change but also the change of its subsequent subtle (spiritual) harmonics; hence it ends the one and ushers into the successive creative cycle of earth. It changes the material form and its underlying consciousness. One cannot reasonably dispute and deny the same essence of life to earth and its larger cosmic environment unless one disputes the existence of all the present technology and all the manifestations of material and immaterial worlds. One will not argue with the inevitability of the quantum change on the winter solstice 2012 unless one denies the existence of the electromagnetic and gravitational bonds holding the micro and macro worlds together. One cannot fail to see clearly that such an alignment spells the end of the present order of things on 21.12.2012 established some 26000 years ago with the demise of Neanderthal; hence it spells the larger finality than any of the past four events - larger than the global inundation 5200 years ago or the collapse of Atlantean age 10400 years ago. The fiery purification at the end of precessional cycle is larger and more intense change than the past four watery purifications (see the parallel in the biblical book of Daniel). The Mayan end date of Long count ushers into two new creative cycles - it is not just a change of civilizations as the past four events but also the change of the races of man.

Man has forsaken the naked truth at the cost of his personal beliefs many times before and is doing it again. Selfishness and materialism have ruled the world before in one or another form, making man blind to the purpose of his existence and he has paid the price of his resistance to repent and accept the truth just as he is about to do it again. His personal beliefs through which he subsequently introduced deceit, brutality and violence into the world earned him expulsion from primeval Eden. The history plays itself over and over again. It is a matter of choice between discriminating personal beliefs and the indiscriminate impersonal truth. Who in his right mind can argue with truth? Truth is fractal; hence it is as above so below. The manifestations on a small scale herald the manifestations on a grand scale. The skies above foretell the course of events on earth below. Warnings are many and still it is not enough. How much is enough? How many tsunamis, who many eruptions, how many earthquakes, how many storms, how much of disintegrating climatic pattern or how much of disintegrating electromagnetic shield? How much violence, how much starvation, how many diseases and wars will be enough to wake the man from his slumber? Can anyone in his right mind think that the course of events can continue in the present spiral of decay without a drastic and fundamental change?

Events follow its course. Man at his present stage has no power to do anything about it. The warning has been given through the sacred texts of every major and minor - past or present religion of the world. God is not unfair. He doesn't discriminate according to beliefs as man does. Creator can act only justly. Warning has been given through the scientific, historical and geological evidence. You can pretend that they are not there but that will not change the truth or the course of events. End of the present creative cycle and the end of the world as we know it will still arrive on the winter solstice 2012. Believe what you want, but are you ready to face your beliefs or disbeliefs in the moment of truth? Perhaps, you believe there is no truth. Are you ready to bear the consequence? Are you ready to reap what you saw? Are you ready for the justice to be served according to your own standards? This is not yet another theory competing for dominance. It is the moment of truth. Act now or bear the consequence of your inaction. Soon the events will overtake the opportunity to make the amends. Soon a certainty will overshadow all the relative and temporary possibilities. Soon a freedom of choice will be replaced by inevitability of only one choice - to be or not to be. You life is your personal responsibility. It is not the responsibility of your government, the Pope in Rome, the Dalai Lama or your neighborhood shaman. It is not the responsibility of your parents, your spouse, your employer or your spiritual guide.

It is your responsibility to bring your mind into your heart and your heart into your mind. It is your responsibility to let the mind follow the impulse of your heart and the heart to follow the input of your mind in a creative spiraling yin/yang embrace. It is imperative that the mind knows what the heart feels and that the heart feels what the mind knows. Those, which are familiar with the ways of the East preserving the oldest wisdom of man, will know what it means. The mind incoherent with its heart creates a superstitious illusion (Maya) - an appearance without a purpose, which is not the whole truth but a deceitful half-truth. It is better to know nothing than to be guided by a half-truth because it is twice larger deceit than a straight lie, since it lies about the truth as much as it lies about the lie. The half-truth based on a superstitious belief and incomplete theories is a purposeless way of Kali Yuga, which has no place in upcoming Golden Age. The truth is whole (quantum). It either is or is not. The partial truth doesn't satisfy the creative criteria of the quantum law of succession and it must laps when its option expires. The partial truth and the partial effort create partially with the exact boundaries in space and time. It has a precise beginning and the end. It has a certain size and certain duration incapable to transcend its personal finity in the context of enveloping infinity. The partial truth is a selfish materialistically induced appearance. It is an isolation of many separate parts without the mutual cohesion or holographic bonds. It is an illusion of a fatherless son in which an effect appears without a cause and a cause appears without its effects. In the partial framework of existence the causal (karmic) bonds are interrupted by the personal selfishness generating a circular development. Such existence will end unless the causal bond between man and the environment supporting it are mended before its limited (relative or temporary) option expires 21.12.2012. It is not enough to be a potential. Potential must be realized. It is not enough to exist as a mere possibility of the new world order without reaching for the option to become its certainty.

The law is impersonal. It is a personal illusion (Maya) to interpret anything as fear or love, as life or death or as a duality of darkness and light. Wisdom on one step is but ignorance on the next step. The spirit on one level is the physical body on the successive level, because the one is a holographic shadow of another. They support each other through the mutual resistance in a perpetual spiraling embrace. The world must end because of the karmic (causal) law but also because of the law of darma (succession). The finality is neither good nor bad, because the creation is another face of destruction just as the destruction is another face of creation. One supports another through their mutual resistance. The one is the measure of another. The creation is the smallest amount of destruction just as the destruction is the smallest amount of creation - the one is quantum or an atom of which another one is made. Creation is the stuff of which the destruction is made and vice versa - one is the content filling the form of another. One without another is a purposeless appearance in which the causal thread is broken and such an illusion must end just as it has begun. Did not you know that the new world could rise only from the ashes of the old one? How can a new house be erected unless the old house is dispensed with? How can one adorn the new garment over the old one? Even the snake must periodically change its skin not to be suffocated by the overgrown one. You who believe in the ascendancy of spirit, forgetting that the spirit can perceive and express itself only through the bodily senses, are you prepared to face the weight of your beliefs? Isn't the fear induced by the thought of physical destruction a reaction of your own core disbelief? You who speak of love, is your love strong enough to overcome your underlying fear in the moment of truth? Your heavenly father doesn't care what you believe.

The only thing that matters is your actions. It is the action that speaks about who you are and your will to accept the justice in lieu of violence and crime induced by your misguided beliefs. It is the action that reveals degree of coherence between your heart and your mind. It is the actions and not the beliefs that confirm maturity of your spirit. 21.12.2012 requires action and not the words. Words alone have no purpose. Are your going to be ready to face your creator by a cheap talk and no action? Can you light the fire by talking about it? Can you reach the stars by looking at them? Can you have a child by thinking about it? Grow up. Wake up. Overcome the purposeless appearance to gain an eternal life. Fulfill the purpose of your creation. Creator creates through his creation. Be a creator and not a destroyer, because a creator is created and a destroyer is destroyed when the time is up. Coherent truth amplifies and creates life while incoherence of the selfish and separated beliefs leads to randomness and death. The only outcome of inactivity is decay. Creation and coherence of life is possible only by the conscious effort. One is responsible for the creation of one's own life through coherence with the higher will. One can be born only through a father. One can never give a birth to oneself; hence one cannot know the truth through a selfish thought and a personal belief but only through the impersonal thought of his creator. Intuition without a conscious knowledge, just as a consciousness without the intuitive truth is a deceitful half-truth. Such belief must be surmounted in the interest of preservation of life, which is the purpose of creation, and also the purpose of man. What is given has the use only if it is accepted too. The one lacking the support of its opposite must eventually collapse under its own weight. Man must conquer the illusion or the illusion will conquer man.

Imagine the world in which there are no roads and no directions, and every vehicle chooses its own personal direction. It is a chaotic world in which no one would reach his destination. Is it any different with your random beliefs and half-baked theories, where everyone is fostering one's own direction of thought irrespective of the fundamental pattern supporting all of them? Isn't a belief only an appearance, when denied its rightful purpose? What is the use of a spanner if one forgot what is it for? Can one exist separated from the environment supporting it? Can a tree grow without the roots firmly planted in the ground? Can the beliefs exist without the support of underlying truth? The one can walk anywhere he chooses, but can one walk denied the support of earth under his feet? The consequences of walking in the clouds are obvious. The end result of many incoherent beliefs is a complete confusion and absence of any underlying truth. But is that a true picture of the world? World is a causal duality in which every effect has a cause and every appearance has a purpose; hence even incoherence of shattered beliefs has a reaction of an underlying coherent truth supporting all of them. See beyond the appearance. See beyond the horizons of your personal beliefs - but before they lapse with the winter sun of 2012, because it is too late to act once a hungry lion pounces on top of you.

Incoherence paralyzes all separate actions into an overall inaction but coherence amplifies the effect of each action with every other action. The strength is in unity and cohesion; the weakness is in disunity and incoherence of all the little selfish parts. The difference between incoherence of separated beliefs lacking a causal thread binding them into a coherent whole, and coherence in which all the beliefs coalesce into the one underlying truth, is the difference between order and chaos. It is the difference between the conscious and unconscious or the difference between life and death. Incoherent beliefs devoid of the underlying truth are an evolutionary dead end road, because the truth ends with an appearance without ever exposing its true purpose. Did not Christ say that you could see the kingdom of my father only through me? Doesn't it mean that one needs to follow the explicit outer guidance rather than the unreliable inner belief? The road is always a narrow path cut through the vast field. Do you think he said you must worship him as a person or you must accept his message as the truth beyond and above all the personal beliefs? Is that statement and the message any different than a message contained in one or another form in all the past and present religions? It is a free world. A choice is to rely on the personal belief or to accept the truth. The choice is to believe in an appearance or to find its purpose. The choice is to live or die. You can believe whatever you fancy about the Mayan end date on 21.12.2012, but the truth is that it spells the physical end of the world as a precondition of the spiritual renewal.

It is a destruction and cataclysm beyond all your imagination and yet only such destruction will cleanse the world of its accumulated negative karma of the materialistic and selfish existence. The cataclysmic end of an astronomical cycle as seen in the quantum leap of an orbiting electron only on a grand scale is not a theory or a personal belief but an impersonal truth. Such destruction on a large scale is the very fountain of life on the small scale just as the similar destructions on the smaller scales are the very fountain of life on a large scale. You can think what you want but the truth will still remain what it is. The truth is the very negation of all your beliefs. The truth is what remains when all the beliefs and all the disbeliefs are taken out an appearance. You can either believe it or you can know it. You have a choice to desist from the interpretations and accept the facts in all their honesty or to twist them to fit your personal moulds. The consequence will be commensurate with your choice, because your future depends on your present actions. It doesn't truly matter if you accept facts by believing in their honesty or you choose to dig for deeper truth. It is a personal choice.

The following text is a web published account delving into the very essence beyond the apparent facts; hence drink from its well if your thirst is insatiable. A word of caution though - much of the material presented here is of a highly technical nature and not suitable for everyone. If the result is all that matters to you than understand that world ends with winter solstice 2012. There is no ifs or buts. It is not open to the interpretations and speculations unless one tries to deceive oneself and the rest of the world. One can interpret it honestly only if one knows what its creators knew. You will find what they knew in here but if it doesn't resonate with your pattern of thinking than you can find its complete meaning in biblical revelations as much as in the Vedantic, Sumerian, native Indian, Egyptian and many other descriptions of the end of the world, its causes and its implications. Whatever you do, understand that this is one of the last calls for action and that very soon the course of events will accelerate beyond your ability to make any corrections. Whatever is your present spiritual maturity; remember that inactivity breeds only chaos, decay and death. Life is a conscious effort. It doesn't just happen! Creator creates through his creation. Only a coherent effort is creative; hence act coherently in unison with the higher will. Incoherence of selfish parts and personal beliefs ends with the boundaries imposed by personal limitations. Incoherence will not filter beyond the winter solstice 2012. Spiritual awareness is mature only if it is coherent with the higher will. Spirituality without a purpose is just another materialistic deceit and an appearance without a purpose or life beyond its final cut-off date. Act responsibly! Act now while there is still time, because time ends on 21.12.2012. Beyond that date there is only an unadulterated cosmic space yet to be transformed by a quantum event on 21.12.2012 in the next creative cycle of time.

The following text is an impersonal message. It has no personal value for its messenger. Its purpose as far as permitted is not competitive but complementary with all the presented scientific theories and with all the religious beliefs (or the lack of them). We claim no ownership or rights and we accept no liability. Use it or ignore it at your own discretion. It doesn't matter if you react to its content with love or with fear, with acceptance or with rejection, because an impersonal truth can attain many personal hues. The intention is not in fortifying the appearances of dualistic divisions but the very essence on which such divisions rest, which is the underlying wholeness of truth. Only the whole can be divided. This testament is not final. The book is divided in 11 chapters. The 12th and the final chapter will be your own response to it! It is the sister site of Prophet's manual, where the earlier published information can be gathered. There are no copyrights on either of them and their content can be freely and unconditionally disseminated.

Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler (1916-2002) is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.

Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years, and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits, often involving parody of the doll and her lifestyle. In recent years, Barbie has faced increasing competition from the Bratz range of dolls.

History

Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara at play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most children's toy dolls were representations of infants. Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the idea, as were Mattel's directors.

During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across German toy doll called Bild Lilli. The adult-figured doll was exactly what Handler had in mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one to her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based on a popular character appearing in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaper Die Bild-Zeitung. Lilli was a working girl who knew what she wanted and was not above using men to get it. The Lilli doll was first sold in Germany in 1955, and although it was initially sold to babies, it became popular with adults who enjoyed dressing her up in outfits that were available separately.

Upon her return to the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll (with help from engineer Jack Ryan) and the doll was given a new name, Barbie, after Handler's daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. This date is also used as Barbie's official birthday.

Mattel acquired the rights to the Bild Lilli doll in 1964 and production of Lilli was stopped. The first Barbie doll wore a black and white zebra striped swimsuit and signature topknot ponytail, and was available as either a blonde or brunette. The doll was marketed as a "Teen-age Fashion Model," with her clothes created by Mattel fashion designer Charlotte Johnson. The first Barbie dolls were manufactured in Japan, with their clothes hand-stitched by Japanese homeworkers. Around 350,000 Barbie dolls were sold during the first year of production.

Ruth Handler believed that it was important for Barbie to have an adult appearance, and early market research showed that some parents were unhappy about the doll's chest, which had distinct breasts. Barbie's appearance has been changed many times, most notably in 1971 when the doll's eyes were adjusted to look forwards rather than having the demure sideways glance of the original model.

Barbie was one of the first toys to have a marketing strategy based extensively on television and advertising, which has been copied widely by other toys. It is estimated that over a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries, with Mattel claiming that two Barbie dolls are sold every second.

The standard range of Barbie dolls and related accessories are manufactured to approximately 1/6th scale, which is also known as playscale. Barbie products include not only the range of dolls with their clothes and accessories, but also a huge range of Barbie branded goods such as books, fashion items and video games. Barbie has appeared in a series of animated films and made a brief guest appearance in the 1999 film Toy Story 2.

Barbie has become a cultural icon and has been given honors that are rare in the toy world. In 1974 a section of Times Square in New York City was renamed Barbie Boulevard for a week, In 1985 the artist Andy Warhol created a painting of Barbie.

Biography

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. She is an actress who plays roles in some of her movies that are based on classical stories. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, her parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin.

In the Random House novels, Barbie attended Willows High School, while in in the Generation Girl books published by Golden Books in 1999 she attended the fictional Manhattan International High School in New York City (based on the real-life Stuyvesant High School). She has an on-off romantic relationship with her boyfriend Ken (Ken Carson), who first appeared in 1961. Like Barbie, Ken shares his name with one of Ruth Handler's children. A news release from Mattel in February 2004 announced that Barbie and Ken had decided to split up, but in February 2006 they were back together again.

Barbie has had over forty pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She has owned a wide range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers and jeeps. She also holds a pilot's license, and operates commercial airliners in addition to serving as a flight attendant. Barbie's careers are designed to show that women can take on a variety of roles in life, and the doll has been sold with a wide range of titles including Miss Astronaut Barbie (1965), Doctor Barbie (1988) and Nascar Barbie (1998).

Mattel has created a range of companions for Barbie, including Hispanic Teresa, Midge, African American Christie and Steven (Christie's boyfriend). Barbie's siblings and cousins were also created including Skipper, Tutti (Todd's twin sister), Todd (Tutti's and Stacie's twin brother), Stacie (Todd's twin sister), Kelly, Krissy, Francie, and Jazzie.

See List of Barbie's friends and family

Controversies

Barbie's popularity ensures that her effect on the play of children attracts a high degree of scrutiny. The criticisms leveled at her are often based on the assumption that children consider Barbie a role model and will attempt to emulate her.

• One of the most common criticisms of Barbie is that she promotes an unrealistic idea of body image for a young woman, leading to a risk that girls who attempt to emulate her will become anorexic. A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5 feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie's vital statistics have been estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and 33 inches (hips). According to research by the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, she would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate. In 1965 Slumber Party Barbie came with a book entitled How to Lose Weight which advised: "Don't eat." The doll also came with pink bathroom scales reading 110 lbs., which would be around 35 lbs. underweight for a woman 5 feet 9 inches tall. In 1997 Barbie's body mold was redesigned and given a wider waist, with Mattel saying that this would make the doll better suited to contemporary fashion designs.
• In July 1992 Mattel released Teen Talk Barbie, which spoke a number of phrases including "Will we ever have enough clothes?", "I love shopping!", and "Wanna have a pizza party?" Each doll was programmed to say four out of 270 possible phrases, so that no two dolls were likely to be the same. One of these 270 phrases was "Math class is tough!" (often misquoted as "Math is hard"). Although only about 1.5% of all the dolls sold said the phrase, it led to criticism from the American Association of University Women. In October 1992 Mattel announced that Teen Talk Barbie would no longer say the phrase, and offered a swap to anyone who owned a doll that did.

• "Colored Francie" made her debut in 1967, and she is sometimes described as the first African American Barbie doll. However, she was produced using the existing head molds for the white Francie doll and lacked African characteristics other than a dark skin. The first African American doll in the Barbie range is usually regarded as Christie, who made her debut in 1968. Black Barbie and Hispanic Barbie were launched in 1980.
• In 1997 Mattel joined forces with Nabisco to launch a cross-promotion of Barbie with Oreo cookies. Oreo Fun Barbie was marketed as someone with whom little girls could play after class and share "America's favorite cookie." As had become the custom, Mattel manufactured both a white and a black version. Critics argued that in the African American community Oreo is a derogatory term meaning that the person is "black on the outside and white on the inside," like the chocolate sandwich cookie itself. The doll was unsuccessful and Mattel recalled the unsold stock, making it sought after by collectors.
• In May 1997 Mattel introduced Share a Smile Becky, a doll in a pink wheelchair. Kjersti Johnson, a 17-year-old high school student in Tacoma, Washington with cerebral palsy, pointed out that the doll would not fit into the elevator of Barbie's $100 Dream House. Mattel announced that it would redesign the house in the future to accommodate the doll.
• In March 2000 stories appeared in the media claiming that the hard vinyl used in vintage Barbie dolls could leak toxic chemicals, causing danger to children playing with them. The claim was rejected as false by technical experts. A modern Barbie doll has a body made from ABS plastic, while the head is made from soft PVC.
• In September 2003 the Middle Eastern country of Saudi Arabia outlawed the sale of Barbie dolls, saying that she did not conform to the ideals of Islam. The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice stated "Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful." In Middle Eastern countries there is an alternative doll called Fulla which is similar to Barbie but is designed to be more acceptable to an Islamic market. Fulla is not made by the Mattel Corporation, and Barbie is still available in other Middle Eastern countries including Egypt. In Iran, Sara and Dara dolls are available as an alternative to Barbie.

• In April 2009, the launch of a "Totally Tattoos" Barbie with a range of tattoos that could be applied to the doll, including a so-called tramp stamp, led to controversy. Mattel's promotional material read "Customize the fashions and apply the fun temporary tattoos on you too", but Ed Mayo, chief executive of Consumer Focus, argued that children might want to get tattooed themselves.

• In December 2005 Dr. Agnes Nairn at the University of Bath in England published research suggesting that girls often go through a stage where they hate their Barbie dolls and subject them to a range of punishments, including decapitation and placing the doll in a microwave oven. Dr. Nairn said: "It's as though disavowing Barbie is a rite of passage and a rejection of their past."

Parodies and lawsuits

Barbie has often been referenced in popular culture and is frequently the target of parody. Some of these occasions include:

• In 1997, the Danish-Norwegian pop-dance group Aqua released a song called "Barbie Girl". It contained lyrics such as "You can brush my hair / Undress me everywhere" and the video for the song used graphics similar to the pink Barbie logo. Mattel argued that this constituted a trademark infringement and filed a defamation lawsuit against MCA Records on September 11, 1997. In July 2002, Judge Alex Kozinski ruled that the song was protected as a parody under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• A commercial by automobile company Nissan featuring dolls similar to Barbie and Ken was the subject of another lawsuit in 1997. In the commercial, a female doll is lured into a car by a doll resembling GI Joe to the dismay of a Ken-like doll, accompanied by Van Halen's version of You Really Got Me. According to the makers of the commercial, the dolls' names were Roxanne, Nick and Tad. Mattel claimed that the commercial had done "irreparable damage" to its products,but settled.
• Saturday Night Live aired a parody of Barbie commercials featuring the fictional "Gangsta Bitch Barbie" doll and a "Tupac Ken" doll.
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno displayed a fictional "Barbie Crystal Meth Lab" which mocked how Barbie usually has a career that is "in keeping with the times or in this case, in keeping with society's current problems."
• Malibu Stacy is a parody of Barbie in the cartoon series The Simpsons. The 1994 episode "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" parodied the Teen Talk Barbie controversy, as a talking Stacy doll is introduced, speaking phrases such as "let's buy make-up so the boys will like us". Lisa is disgusted by the "sexist drivel spouted by Malibu Stacy," leading her to market an alternative "Lisa Lionheart".
• In 1993 a group in the United States calling itself the "Barbie Liberation Organization" modified Barbie dolls by giving them the voice box of a talking G.I. Joe doll, and secretly returned the dolls to the shelves of toy stores. Parents and children were surprised when they purchased Barbie dolls that uttered phrases such as "Eat lead, Cobra!" and "Vengeance is mine."
• In 1999 Mattel sued the Utah artist Tom Forsythe over a series of photographs called Food Chain Barbie, which included a photograph of a Barbie doll in a blender. Mattel lost the lawsuit and was ordered to pay $1.8 million in costs to Mr. Forsythe.
• In November 2002 a New York judge refused an injunction against the British-based artist Susanne Pitt, who had produced a doll called Dungeon Barbie in bondage clothing. Judge Laura Taylor Swain stated: "To the court's knowledge, there is no Mattel line of S&M Barbie."
• In 2004, Mattel filed a lawsuit against Barbara Anderson-Walley of Calgary, Canada over her website www.barbiesshop.com, which sells fetish clothing. Ms Anderson-Walley said that she had been known by the name "Barbie" since childhood, and did not intend to infringe the trademark of the doll. The lawsuit was dismissed, since it was filed in a New York court, and the court ruled that it had no jurisdiction over matters in Canada.

Collecting

Mattel estimates that there are well over 100,000 avid Barbie collectors. Ninety percent are women, at an average age of 40, purchasing more than twenty Barbie dolls each year. Forty-five percent of them spend upwards of $1000 a year. Vintage Barbie dolls from the early years are the most valuable at auction, and while the original Barbie was sold for $3.00 in 1959, a mint boxed Barbie from 1959 sold for $3552.50 on eBay in October 2004. On September 26, 2006, a Barbie doll set a world record at auction of £9,000 sterling (US $17,000) at Christie's in London. The doll was a Barbie in Midnight Red from 1965 and was part of a private collection of 4,000 Barbie dolls being sold by two Dutch women, Ietje Raebel and her daughter Marina.

In recent years Mattel has sold a wide range of Barbie dolls aimed specifically at collectors, including porcelain versions, vintage reproductions, and depictions of Barbie as a range of characters from television series such as The Munsters and Star Trek. There are also collector's edition dolls depicting Barbie dolls with a range of different ethnic identities. In 2004 Mattel introduced the Color Tier system for its collector's edition Barbie dolls, ranging through pink, silver, gold and platinum depending on how many of the dolls are produced.

Barbie celebrates her 50th anniversary in 2009, and Mattel released a new reproduction of the original 1959 Barbie doll to mark the occasion.

Barbie versus Bratz

In June 2001, MGA Entertainment launched the Bratz range of dolls, a move that would give Barbie her first serious competition in the fashion doll market. In 2004 sales figures showed that Bratz dolls were outselling Barbie dolls in the United Kingdom, although Mattel maintained that in terms of the number of dolls, clothes and accessories sold, Barbie remained the leading brand. In 2005 figures showed that sales of Barbie dolls had fallen by 30% in the United States, and by 18% worldwide, with much of the drop being attributed to the popularity of Bratz dolls.

Mattel sued MGA Entertainment for $500 million alleging that Bratz creator Carter Bryant was working for Mattel when he developed the idea for Bratz. On July 17, 2008, a federal jury ruled that the Bratz line was created by Carter Bryant while he was working for Mattel. The jury also ruled that MGA and its Chief Executive Officer Isaac Larian were liable for converting Mattel property for their own use and intentionally interfering with the contractual duties owed by Bryant to Mattel. On August 26, the jury found that Mattel would have to be paid US $100 million in damages.

On December 3, 2008, U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson banned MGA from selling Bratz. He allowed the company to continue selling the dolls until the winter holiday season ended. The ruling will be in effect on February 11, 2009 at the earliest, and Mattel and MGA will meet in court on that date. According to the terms of the court order, after the end of the holiday season, MGA must remove, at its own cost, all the Bratz dolls from store shelves, including the reimbursement of the cost of the dolls and all shipping costs to its vendors and distributors. The court gave exceptions for some toys if they are packaged separately from infringing toys. MGA announced that it would be appealing against the court's ruling.

See also

• Barbie Mini Kingdom
• Barbie syndrome
• Playscale Miniaturism
• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
• Barbie film series

• Bratz
• Ball-jointed doll

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Further reading

• Lord, M.G., Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. Paperback ISBN 0-8027-7694-9.
• Gerber, Robin, "Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her". Hardback ISBN 978-0-06-134131-1
• Rogers, Mary F., "Barbie Culture". Paperback ISBN 0-7619-5888-6.
• Knaak, Silke, "German Fashion Dolls of the 50&60". Paperback www.barbies.de.
• Beckham, Victoria (Foreword), John, Elton (Foreword), The Art of Barbie. Paperback ISBN 0-9537479-2-1
• Essays, Guys'n'dolls: Art, Science, Fashion & Relationships. Paperback ISBN 0-948723-57-2

External links

• The Official Barbie Website — Owned By Mattel
• The Official Barbie Collector Website — Owned By Mattel
• Official UK Publisher of Barbie books - Barbie profile
• "Renaissance Woman: Artist, Inventor, Developer" -- interview with an ex-Barbie designer first published in Fashion Doll Quarterly
• New York Times: "The Barbie Way of Knowledge" by Dave Cullen
• Washington Times: "Religious police take after Barbie" by Paul Martin
• St. Petersburg Times Floridian: "The doll that has everything - almost", an article about the "Muslim Barbie" by Susan Taylor Martin
• BBC News: "Vintage Barbie struts her stuff", September 22 2006
• USA Today: Barbie at number 43 on the list of The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived
• BBC News: Barbie doll accessories removed from sale due to concerns over lead in paint, September 5 2007
• Chicago Sun-Times: Elvis and Priscilla enshrined as Barbie dolls August 13 2008
• The Telegraph: Doll power: Barbie celebrates 50th anniversary and toy world dominance
• BBC News: Barbie emporium opens in Shanghai
• Radio France Internationale: Barbie 50 years on
• NPR Audio Report: Pretty, Plastic Barbie: Forever What We Make Her
• Lawmaker Wants Barbie Banned in W.Va.; Local Residents Quickly React March 3, 2009
• Barbie given tattoos by makers to mimic high-profile celebrities like Amy Winehouse April 30, 2009

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