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| == '''[[2012 doomsday prophecy]]''' ==
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| '''2012''' doomsday predictions were irrational fears fueled by certain booksellers, fearmongers, moviemakers and other hucksters to encourage public panic for the purpose of making money. The hoax used dubious claims about [[astronomy]] and ancient Mayan calendars to promote nonsensical predictions regarding apocalyptic events supposed to occur on December 21st or 23rd of 2012. Doomsayers suggested there will be destruction caused by global floods, solar flares, exploding sun, reversals of the magnetic field, or planetary collisions.<ref name=twsMar14g>{{cite news
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| |author= Maria Puente
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| |title= Oh, Maya! Is 2012 the end? Film boosts doomsday frenzy
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| |publisher= USA Today
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| |date= 2009-11-12
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| |url= http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2009-11-12-2012_CV_N.htm
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| |accessdate= 2010-03-14
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| }}</ref><ref name=twsMar14k>{{cite news
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| |title= Scared Of Planet Nibiru? NASA Would Like To Help
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| |publisher= NPR
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| |date= November 15, 2009
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| |url= http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120436493
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| |accessdate= 2010-03-14
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| }}</ref> Many people are scared.<ref name=twsMar14f>{{cite news
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| |author= Brian Handwerk
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| |title= 2012 Prophecies Sparking Real Fears, Suicide Warnings
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| |publisher= Huffington Post, National Geographic News
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| |date= 2009-11-10
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| |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/2012-prophecies-sparking_n_352296.html
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| |accessdate= 2010-03-14
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| }}</ref><ref name=twsMar14m>{{cite news
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| |author= CHRISTINE BROUWER
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| |title= Will the World End in 2012?
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| |publisher= ABC News
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| |date= July 3, 2008
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| |url= http://a.abcnews.com/international/story?id=5301284&page=1
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| |accessdate= 2010-03-14
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| Scientists agree 2012 doomsday forecasts are "bunk".<ref name=twsMar14b>{{cite news
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| |author= Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
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| |title= Scientists debunk 2012 as doomsday date
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| |publisher= San Francisco Chronicle
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| |date= October 11, 2009
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| |url= http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-10-11/news/17183490_1_meteor-tablet-stone
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| |accessdate= 2010-03-14
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| |author= DENNIS OVERBYE
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| |title= Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012
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| |publisher= The New York Times
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| |date= November 16, 2009
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| |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17essay.html
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| The 2012 doomsday pop culture phenomenon was similar in many respects to the "Y2K" phenomenon which marked New Year's Eve in 1999, when the new millennium happened. The hysteria has also been compared to the panic created by Orson Welles radio program ''War of the Worlds''. But the "2012 apocalypse business is booming", according to the ''Huffington Post''. The 2012 doomsday prediction was one more example of a patten repeated over the centuries; for example, Baptist preacher William Miller convinced perhaps a hundred thousand Americans that the second coming of [[Jesus Christ]] would happen in 1843; it didn't. Doomsday predictions tend to be within the span of about ten years from the present, according to University of Wisconsin historian Paul Boyer, since the sense of "imminence" and that it will "happen soon" is necessary for these hysterias to catch the public imagination.<ref name=twsMar14f/>
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| [[Image:Planet.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Planet.|Planet "Nibiru" doesn't exist except in the minds of believers of disaster scenarios such as 2012.]]
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Paramhansa Yogananda circa 1920.
Paramhansa Yogananda (5 Jan 1893–7 Mar 1952) was one of the first Indian teachers from the Hindu spiritual tradition to reside permanently in the West, and in particular, he was the first to teach yoga to Americans. He emphasized the universality of the great religions, and ceaselessly taught that all religions, especially Hinduism and Christianity, were essentially the same in their essence. The primary message of Yogananda was to practice the scientific technique of kriya yoga to be released from all human suffering.
He emigrated from India to the United States in 1920 and eventually founded the Self-Realization Fellowship there in Los Angeles, California. He published his own life story in a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946. In the book, Yogananda provided some details of his personal life, an introduction to yoga, meditation, and philosophy, and accounts of his world travels and encounters with a wide variety of saints and colorful personalities, including Therese Neumann, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Luther Burbank, and Jagadis C. Bose.
Paramhamsa, also spelled Paramahamsa, is a Sanskrit title used for Hindu spiritual teachers who have become enlightened. The title of Paramhansa originates from the legend of the swan. The swan (hansa) is said to have a mythical ability to sip only the milk from a water-and-milk mixture, separating out the more watery part. The spiritual master is likewise said to be able to live in a world like a supreme (param) swan, and only see the divine, instead of all the evil mixed in there too, which the worldly person sees.
Yogananda is considered by his followers and many religious scholars to be a modern avatar.
In 1946, Yogananda published his Autobiography of a Yogi. It has since been translated into 45 languages, and in 1999 was designated one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a panel of spiritual authors convened by Philip Zaleski and HarperCollins publishers.
Awake: The Life of Yogananda is a 2014 documentary about Paramhansa Yogananda, in English with subtitles in seventeen languages. The documentary includes commentary by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, among others.[1][2]
