The Great Shift

Things have changed, rather, shifted dramatically since the luminaria days of 2012. As it turns out we were all correct. The 2011 recalculation scholars and the New Age 2012ers. Where we were both wrong was that the world as we knew it wouldn't change in a day or even a year, but over the span of six years and probably longer than that. But the first noticeable effect of our Sun's 26,000 year cycle ending was the Chilean earthquake of February 2010. Sure, there had been many and even larger quakes in history, but this was the first one in recorded history that actually shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds and moved the Earth's figure axis by eight centimeters. This was the first birth pang of the shifting of the Earth's poles.

Thanks to the work of a graduate student at Georgia State who first cross-referenced the quake data along the equator with Aurora Borealis patterns at the poles, we captured evidence of past pole shifts in the 26,000 year cycle. When our sun dipped below the center of the galaxy, it had a direct and now measurable effect, on the magnetic stability of the north and south poles. The computer models produced made the Northern Lights look more choreographed than random. The iron ball core of the Earth was reacting to the gravity of the galaxy's center and, like a spherical magnet began rolling over. Slowly at first. Very slowly.

Additionally, using archaeological evidence and the Sumerian Tablets, we were able to isolate a 3,600 year pattern of gravity interference from outside our solar system. As if something thrice the size of Jupiter has an elliptical orbit with our sun causes its own set of mayhem here every 3,600 years. It was a double-feature of astronomical events and Earth was the damsel in both flicks.

It was this synthesis of evidence across disciplines the likes of which Miriam might have put together herself. But in our fast food, instant gratification world, without the specter of immediately noticeable cataclysm, the shift took years to notice.

For the record, the astronomical facts did prove that the end of the cycle occurred on October 11, 2011. A short lived and hollow exoneration.

"The Great Shift", as it was quickly coined by the blogosphere, was indeed about the shifting of human consciousness — but not in the way the 2012ers had hoped. It wasn't a shift forward toward cosmic enlightenment; it was a shift backward toward primitive survival instincts. A leap backward brought on by the upheaval of mountains, the crumbling of cathedral canyons, and the swelling of rivers and lakes to seas in the span of a few years. History and human potential dialed back to the Dark Ages with two key differences, billions more people and advanced weaponry.

Indonesia was engulfed by the Indian and Pacific Oceans and those refugees who did make it to Asia or Australia found themselves at war or interned. The Mediterranean, Arabian, Black and Red Seas flooded together and suddenly the Middle East was no longer an issue.

Here in the states, a series of massive quakes in the Midwest shook loose a deep and 600 mile diameter substratum of soft shale on the south end of Lake Michigan. This plunge reversed the otherwise northerly flow of the Great Lakes southward and swelled into the Mississippi Valley dividing the nation in two. Niagara Falls shut off like a spicket in the matter of a few weeks. In the West, California finally surrendered her Golden Coast to the Sierras which became one of the three safest mountain ranges to migrate to. The other are parts of the Appalachians in the East and right here in the Rockies where these relatively young and deeply rooted mountains withstood the plate tectonic shimmy and became the nation's safest migration point. 

Colorado is as dense with military installations as it is with granite and they were all activated; NORAD, Carson, Peterson, Buckley, even DIA. Because of the density of these mountains, the number of military personnel and the war on the Eastern Seaboard, Colorado became the primary destination for all American refugees. For the past few years many have come. Too many in fact to properly house or economize, but not too many to document and secure.

The Convoy Sentinels posted east of the Rockies have a whole different job description than the handful of us in the west. Most convoys that come through here are supply trucks and armored vehicles. We do get the occasional bus load of Citizen Transfers which I dread because they're always full of wailing children, pleading women, and broken men. But, aside from these convoys, it's easy to ignore the tragedy of The Great Shift when all there is to do out here is wave trucks on and notice early winters by the buoyancy of the road.

The Sierra compounds are relatively peaceful as well thanks to supply routes from Canada and Alaska. The people there and in the Rocky Mountain compounds have enough food and are even beginning to develop self-sustaining economies. But that's not the case east of the Mississippi Sea.

Most of the Eastern Seaboard population was spared by the Shift thanks to glacial crevassing and enough open land in the South save what used to be Florida. But the tremendous density of population that was spared meant tremendous conflict once the survivors suddenly had no food or security. The East is a war zone now with a well-organized Rebel Militia and have even overthrown U.S. Army installations. It would be easy for me to ignore that reality if Jack weren't there.

My son is now a Lieutenant in the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The last communique I received was from his Commanding Officer informing me that Jack was deployed just outside of Charleston, West Virginia where the Rebel Militia is entrenched. As of last Monday, Jack was reporting back to HQ with news of a successful capture of the militia's arsenals. It gives me little comfort to know he's a successful soldier. My precocious son who used to make plastic soldiers dive into kiva pools is now parachuting into Rebel territories.

For the past six months I've been sending pleas to every political and corporate connection I can exploit to have him transferred out here where it's safe. But the chain of command is so frayed that no one has the leverage, ability or the will to work around the Army's wartime policies. Strict adherence to the Citizen Soldier Act of 2017 is the only touchstone for these matters and in this organization, the only way to gain a post like this one along US6, according to Article: 023, paragraph 7, is to inherit it.