[Myplanet2]

My present understanding (which changes all the time.) is that the shift which many are talking about has been underway for some time, and will continue well beyond 2012.

Those who've done their "homework" (personal spiritual growth work) will ease into a higher plain of existence while those who left the "homework" until the last minute and have run out of time, will simple continue their 3D existence with little to draw their attention to the fact that something they can't quite put a finger on has changed.

The energetics are providing a window of opportunity which peaks at the end of 2012, but most will see it open and close over many years with some passing through and others choosing to take more time to "clean" their auric fields while awaiting the next opportunity to graduate dimensionally.

The key, if there is such a thing which is universal, is to adopt a "heart centered" outlook towards life, and using love to begin to shuck off the old self/ego centric modus operandi we've been experiencing.

Some have applied themselves and learned what they needed about that game in order to be able to move on, and others are still drawing from it enough useful experience to not want to let go just now.

It's simply a choice. And primarily a choice about what pace one will maintain in working out the karmic imbalances which keep the ego/duality/service to self/hierarchical paradigm classroom "in session" for oneself.

Don't be expecting anything like the "rapture". That's a 100% guaranteed non starter.

If you are sitting there at 11:11 on dec 2012 looking up into the sky, and then 11:12 rolls around and you say "ha...I knew nothing was going to happen", it'll simply mean you still have work to do personally and chose to let that particular bus leave the station without you on it.