What’s going to happen to the world in 2012? This question is circling around the world more rapidly as the year gets closer.

Many believe that this is the date of the true apocalypse that many religions, the bible, and the Mayan calendar speak of; and that the year 2012 is the end of the world and human existence.

Personally I think that’s a very negative and limited view for such a significant, ancient, and vastly recorded event. However, I do feel that many great and marvelous changes will occur for human existence and Earth in general.

Systems run in cycles, the Earth and the Universe included. There are many cycles of the Earth that we are now aware of scientifically along with archeological evidence of human experience and cycles we’ve undergone over thousands of years. With all my studies and research into ancient history, religions, spirituality, archeology, metallurgical science, quantum physics, and so on; I have come to some conclusions myself which provide an outlook much more encouraging than an apocalyptic view.

The first and maybe the most important element of this shift that I see happening is a shift from a dominator society to a partnership society (termed by Riane Eisler in her book The Chalice and The Blade). We currently live in, more specifically, a male-dominator society, masculine energy, the left brain, etc. 2012 presents the possibility of the world shifting into the partnership system with an emphasis on the return of the feminine energy, by creating a united, balanced, and harmonious global community.

Partnership societies have existed in our ancient past, where for thousands of years, humans lived amongst each other WITHOUT war. For most of us, it’s almost impossible to conceive of a warless society ever being possible, but the evidence is there, and the evidence shows that within these harmonious societies, the feminine energy has been the directing force; however, not a dominating force of these communities.

Archeological evidence of equal partnership societies has been found on the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean. In conjunction with the evidence of a warless community, Goddess was the focus of their religion or spirituality as the vast female artifacts have shown. The evidence shows that these societies lived as a matrilineal system (inheriting or determining decent through the female line) where the mother was the “head of the clan” whereas, after marriage, the new husband would go to live with the wife’s family rather than the husband’s family.

Interestingly enough, we are already experiencing an increase in feminine energy within the male population. The feminine energy is not the same as effeminate, but rather an increase in the qualities of caring, nurturing, showing emotions & feelings, intuition, and affection, just to name a few.

Our closest primate, the Bonobo (Chimpanzees are no longer our closest primate) provides compelling credence of the feminine energy providing peace within a civilization. Bonobo primates have a social order representative of a matrilineal/matriarchal system as opposed to the typical male order within the Chimpanzee communities (visit www.bonobo.org for more information).

Young Bonobo

And, it’s fascinating to learn that the Bonobo communities live entirely peaceful and non-aggressively amongst each other, while Chimpanzees have very dominating and aggressive behaviors along with the other human primates. Bonobos are also the only primate for which no infanticide exists within their society.

To correlate the return of feminine energy to the year 2012 and a more positive outlook, I’ll discuss in Part II, certain geological and other scientific cycles determined by scientists showing reasonable speculation for a beautiful and harmonious shift to come in 2012.