2012 is the end of a 26,000 year world cycle, what Jung called "a Platonic Age".
Jung wrote prophetically that “My conscience as a psychiatrist bids me fulfill my duty and prepare those few who will hear me for coming events which are in accord with the end of an era… As we know from ancient Egyptian history, they are symptoms of psychic changes that always appear at the end of one Platonic month and at the beginning of another. They are, it seems, changes in the constellation of the psychic dominants, of the archetypes or ‘Gods’ as they used to be called, which bring about… long-lasting transformations of the collective psyche. This transform*ation started… in the transition of the Age of Taurus to that of Aries, and then from Aries to Pisces, whose beginning coincides with the rise of Christianity. We are now nearing that great change… when the spring-point enters Aquarius…”
2012 is the beginning of the end of the world, but not the "physical" world. It's the end of the current zeitgeist or "spirit of the age", and the birth of a new zeitgeist. It's a time of major change & upheaval, since the status quo, in all of it's manifestations, doesn't go out without a fight. The next 20 or so years are going to be VERY interesting (in a "Chinese Curse" kind of way).
Oh yeah, and we'll be seeing and hearing about more & more so-called "paranormal" events, which are actually very normal. Jung called them Psychoid Archetypes, other folks call them tulpas, thought forms, schemas, etc. If you get a chance, pick up Dr. Gregory L. Little's books on the subject.
Unfortunately, belief systems with an "End Times" bent, are taking this literally (which is interesting, considering that their own sacred texts tell them exactly what Jung says. Of course it's in archaic initiate code that none of their current leaders know, were taught, or have directly experienced. But I digress). Case in point, Christian Dispensationalists attempting to co-opt 2012 into their rapture ideology, itself the result of really bad extrapolations of their mistranslated texts in the 19th century.
Something special will happen for those who know the great work and are doing it throughout the world. For everybody else, it's just going to be another day (special, and amazing that they are. Life is a wonderful thing).
The "world' isn't going to end. It's just going to get a lot harder to live in (currency collapse, civil unrest, world war III, solar flare, pick your poison
). Peace.