The corporeal shift of an event is eventually rendered insignificant in comparison to its catalytic potential for the cultivation of new beliefs. We understand that a significant part of belief is built on a foundation of doubt, exemplifying how an individual’s belief system is subject to rational thought processes without which their faith is without substance. By convincing ourselves that what is to come is actually buried in the past, we may no longer be the powerless victims of our beliefs, but will instead be able to exert our power over them by choosing which beliefs to believe in. The construction of our idiosyncratic fictions ultimately constitutes the framework of our reality.

In 1996 a Canadian explorer located a 150-foot megalithic monument on Robinson Crusoe Island (formerly known as Más a Tierra), over 600km off the coast of Chile. This monument is believed to have been carved by the Ancient Mayan civilization and research has concluded that this designates the only vantage point in the Western hemisphere where one can witness both the transit of Venus across the Sun, and a total solar eclipse 160 days later on November 13th 2012, signalling the end of the Great Mayan Calendar which has popularly been interpreted as the end of the world as we know it.