The
apocalyptic movie "2012" wasn't good
enough for the Oscars to take seriously. But a
small cast of celebrities are taking the hit film's
premise seriously: that 2012 could be the end
of the world as we know it.
Stars who have ruminated publicly about 2012
being The End include Woody Harrelson, Lil' Wayne,
Joe Rogan, Montel Williams and the grande dame
of New Age spirituality, Shirley MacLaine.
You can add Dan Aykroyd to that list.
Aykroyd and I were catching up the other day
because he's in Vegas to autograph bottles of
his Crystal Head Vodka at an Albertsons (4 p.m.
Tuesday, 10250 W. Charleston Blvd.).
And he's giving Wednesday's keynote address at
the Nightclub & Bar Convention at the Las
Vegas Convention Center.
Because Aykroyd is a pop-renaissance man, I started
by asking him about his many interests: The House
of Blues (he and his partners sold it in 2006,
but he's still spokesman-consultant); Crystal
Head Vodka, which he co-created (no chemical additives);
and "Ghostbusters III" (the script's
closer to being done).
Then I asked Aykroyd, 57, about his interests
in UFOs, which led to this:
He thinks "the UFO phenomenon is going to
figure greatly" in a 2012 "revelation,"
when "the end of the world will come."
"It won't be the end of the world physically
as we know it, as depicted in the movie. But it
will be the end of consciousness and the end of
perception as we know it."
Aykroyd is a "great admirer of George Knapp,"
who has chronicled UFO phenomena for decades in
Nevada.
And Aykroyd, a lifetime benefactor of MUFON.com,
has visited the town of Rachel on Extraterrestrial
Highway and marveled at "real photographs"
there of sightings.
"These aren't hoaxes or fakes," he
said. "Dozens of Army officers, police, sheriffs,
emergency workers -- people who are outside all
day, all night, all the time -- are consistently
coming forward to report events."
UFO phenomena could be elements in a 2012 realignment,
perhaps as mass revelations or mass sightings,
he said.
"Mass telepathic content has already occurred
throughout North America on many occasions, the
last notable one being in 1994 in (Quebec), where
there was an incident that involved about 2,000
people being called to their back porches to look
up into the sky and witness an event with a craft
at the same time. That was a telepathic event
where they were all contacted."
Clearly, some kind of end is near, he said.
"As Shirley MacLaine puts it: The light
is going to go out in the next few years, 2012,
and a new perception will come on.
"Whether that has to do with the dominance
of dark matter in the universe -- or some triumph/domination
of good and evil -- the light we know now, whether
that's a good light or a bad light, is going to
change.
"There's going to be a phase-wave shift
in everything, and that's very exciting. I don't
think it's destructive. I think it's going to
be very constructive."
I asked him how we should prepare.
"I think we should open our minds and start
being better human beings to each other, and accept
that this may be the way of life. We've got to
be more compassionate, more loving, more positive
thinking."
A worst-case scenario is that "the good
light" will go out and we will experience
"the bad light." If that happens, people
who practice on behalf of the good light will
be even more pressed to "fight" against
"whatever darkness is coming," he said.
I asked him, "Fight how?"
"Fight like hell!" he said. "Fight
like hell on the side of the road."
I asked him how Nevada will fit into all this.
He answered by unfurling an incredibly deep knowledge
of Vegas and Nevada. He reflected on the UFO culture
of Rachel; the state's military; Nevada's "beautiful
topography"; Mayor Oscar Goodman's adeptness
at handling issues; the strength of "first
families" and entrepreneurs in Nevada, such
as the Maloofs; the positive ways Vegas embraces
performance artists; our liberal attitudes toward
leisure; UNLV's educational culture; and the big
brains of math doctorates who work for multidynamic
hotels.
Many of those strengths mean Vegas could take
in refugees in 2012, he said.
"There's no city on Earth that handles more
people more efficiently," he said.
"If you had to create an exodus of 100,000
people, where they had to flee from their native
land, they could be put up in Las Vegas with no
problem," he said.
He added, "We don't want to wish that"
kind of refugee-causing catastrophe.
Floored by all this information, I thanked Aykroyd
for sharing his thoughts, and I asked whether
there's anything else he wants me to tell you.
"We're doing a signing at Albertsons next
Tuesday," he said.
Dan
Aykroyd and the end of the world
The
apocalyptic movie "2012" wasn't good
enough for the Oscars to take seriously. But a
small cast of celebrities are taking the hit film's
premise seriously: that 2012 could be the end
of the world as we know it.