2012 is the end of the Mayan Calendar's Great Cycle. Many think this time marks a period of rapid shifts in planetary alignment and consciousness change. According to the 5,000-year-old Mayan calendar, this alignment will be with our solar system, our sun, and our planet with the center of the galaxy-a rare event that will not take place for another 26,000 years. Scientists and Mayan scholars both agree that this alignment will definitely take place but the next question is what does it mean? What many leading thinkers in this area suggest is that the period marking 2012 offers an unprecedented opportunity to raise our level of consciousness and move humanity forward on its evolutionary path. How this might come about is the purpose of this article. The best-selling author Gregg Braden writes in the Divine Matrix that “the minimum number of people required to ‘jump-start’ a change in consciousness is the square root of 1% of a population. For example assuming the current population of Connecticut is 3.5 million, the square root of 1% of this number is approximately 187. This implies that it would take a minimum of 187 individuals in the state of Connecticut to start bringing about a change in consciousness that would affect the whole state.