Mayan Apocalypse and the Galaxial Event of our Time

At this point, you already know that the world is not going to end later this week. The "end" of the Mayan calendar actually marks the beginning of something... is it a new era that marks the beginning of the end?

Here is a weird, yet compelling explanation of what the Mayans were really tracking with their calendar. This lecture explains how Earth is in a helical solar system and actually follows a central galactic sun. The Earth orbits around the sun, but our sun actually orbits around a larger, central sun.