Some views concerning the "Shift" are empowering, others are disempowering. I think the most disempowering view of all is one that says there is a definite time, December 2012, during which mankind undergoes collective ascension to a new reality. If that were true, then no personal effort other than waiting would be required, and many people would be changed/shifted against their will.
I know from personal experience that fourth density exists and is populated by beings not limited by the constraints of linear time or three dimensional space. How did they get there? If they can do it, so can we.
From what I understand, reality accommodates the experiential needs of all. The timelime splits when the elected experiences of one sector of the population conflicts too much with that of another. Based on the polarization trend where people are rapidly becoming more of who they truly are, breaking away from those who are not compatible, and being attracted to others of similar resonance, then extrapolating this into the future tells me that some type of reality split is likely.
Today there appears to be a convergence of cycles, a simultaneous culmination of various plans at various levels...things seem to be building up towards some type of nexus. Putting everything together, I have reason to believe that the Shift is real, except it's not necessarily the way certain New Age sources make it out to be.
It could be nothing more than a gradual availability of fourth density reality to those here who need to experience it. Of course, that has huge consequences if you take into account the possibility of global totalitarianism, alien agenda, and earth changes. What if world events continue along their scripted paths towards increased control and manipulation, but those who work for truth and freedom learn to operate beyond the limits of third density? Then things get interesting.
I do not believe that if we can simply make it to 2012 we'll suddenly wake up in some utopian teletubbyland. Rather, I think the process will be somewhat gradual and place us into direct contact with fourth density forces of either polarity. There will be people who have finished their third density experiences but are entirely clueless to what this "new" reality is all about, and they will be most easily suckered by the STS controllers. Balance would demand others rise to the call and present an alternative, teachers and freedomfighters to continue in fourth what they started and prepared for in third. In other words, perhaps what we are doing now is preparation and training for the big show. The Shift is when the curtains rise, when the veil is pulled away and we are put to the test
-- I find that viewpoint to be anything but disempowering because it demands that we grow sharper, more skilled, more fearless and unlimited as time goes on.
Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.