If you want my opinion Carol I think its all POPPYCOCK!!
The idea is that you've got all these Souls...some already dead, some still alive. The dead ones (Souls that is) are advised that they better Hang Out (until 2012) before they go down the tunnel of Light as the Dark Ones are trying to trap them so that they don't get the benefit of the Super Galactic Cosmic Wash whereas the ones that are still alive get bumped off exactly at the time when the Superwave hits Earth. So all these Souls (who are hanging out) are extraordinarly lucky as Lo and Behold a window opens in the Cosmic fabric of time and Everyone gets to step through the Exit (except those who have decided to choose Hell on Earth for another lifetime) into a transcendent consciousness of Being and Oneness. All of these Souls are advised they better do it now or they will have to wait another 26,000 years.
I have never heard such a load of "Crock" in my Life!!
Can you imagine the Creator proposing this scenario for Mankind?
I'd say Carol don't worry...everything will turn out the way it is meant to be...and as for your chance of a Lifetime albeit 26,000 years...Poppycock!!
The only thing that is important is that you have left Love in the Hearts of those who remember you.

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The End is the Beginning...and the Beginning is Now....
Yours Truly