There have been many pole shifts over the course of time. From the beginning, perhaps from the Big Bang, the pole shifts may have been so numerous, but we will never know. In our lifetime, the pole shift is expected to rear its ugly head in the year 2012.

Many have predicted that the earth will end in the year 2012. The Mayans, the Egyptians, and others have told of this apparently inevitable event. Some believe that the end has been coming for decades. Others believe no such thing is at all possible, and that the earth will go on spinning reliably for the rest of time.

In our lifetime many tragedies are expected. For example, the big one, as they say, will occur. That is the earthquake that will send much of California into the sea as rubble. Although experts have been saying this for years, and they know it is just a matter of when, not if, many who live there and others who do not think that this is all nonsense, and that California will always be there. It probably would not matter if they believed otherwise, anyway, as there would be nothing they could do to protect themselves if this horror was to happen in our lifetime.

There was a story of a Red Planet that supposedly had a history of traveling and arriving in our solar system every 3,600 years or so. This story became popular in or around the year 2000. Some associated this with the shift in the poles, as the story was being told about just that happening about 3,600 years ago. But the tale of this Red Planet did not have a chance to get popular. Whether it was crushed so as not to panic the world, one will never know.

What can we expect if a shift actually does occur in our lifetime? Will we feel it? Will we know what to do? Some think it will be in the form of extreme weather changes. Well, that is happening now. Some feel that many earthquakes in a row will occur. One can say this may be occurring right now. Slowly maybe, but not in geological terms. Tsunamis, torrential rains and heavy snows where they have not been before, the weather world turned upside-down. Could it already be happening?

And what about the ancient mammoth that was found in recent history? It was discovered, after careful investigation of the huge beast, that it had not digested a tropical plant that it had apparently been eating when it was suddenly frozen solid. What could have possibly triggered such a violent change in the weather? What could have caused this ice age other than a shift in the earth?

What would happen if this occurred again? Where will you be?

Whatever we choose to believe, the change will probably happen. Whether it will be violent or uneventful is a story yet to be told about the pole shift.