Why the 5000-year Mayan calendar ends in 2012?
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html

and here's the Novelty theory in a nutshell:
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/bombshell.html


Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the
content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative
advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each
novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is
the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other
than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the
togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the
disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among
the many entities which it synthesises. The many become one, and are increased
by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of
passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness'
is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate
notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are
inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the
components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components
abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition. (Process and
Reality, p. 26)