There has of course been much ado made about December 12th 2012, when some believe that the planet will undergo some cataclysmic event that could eradicate the human race, or cause some other rather inconvenient occurrence.

And today, the Daily Mirror cites Corrie veteran Bill Roache – who of course plays Ken Barlow – as having revealed that he believes that on that fateful date, we will be “moving into a higher vibration” as the world will “change dramatically.”

The Mirror states, “Asked if he thought the world would end on that date, which the ancient Maya believed marked the end of the world on the calendar, Bill, said no – but added: ‘This will be the Golden Age, when a majority will know they are love and they are spiritual beings’.”

He continued, “The earth will continue to cleanse itself while material and negative things will collapse and cease to be.”

Bill made his remarks while speaking to Silent Voices, a spiritual, paranormal and metaphysical magazine…

He also revealed he regularly attends a spiritual group and believes that some psychics can predict the future.

Bill added, “The energy and light of the Creator is love. Love is the life force, it is everything, it is the law of attraction.

“I have always known that there are beings around me, loving and guiding, and never more so than now.”

However, Bill rejects claims that he sounds “like a hippy”, saying, “No one religion or philosophy has the sole rights on spiritual beliefs.

“I am not now, nor have I ever been a spiritualist. Understand we are all pure love, made in love, living in love.

“It is urgent to get this over. Time is running out.”

Bill, who is dating weathergirl Emma Jesson, also reckoned that his daughter Edwina, who died aged 18 months in 1984, is now a nurse in the afterlife.

He said, “She is helping other children who have passed over to understand what has happened.”

Bill went on to predict that people will soon be able to communicate by telepathy, and he says that he himself has had a visit from a homeopathic doctor who communicated with him as he slept.

He said, “He was able to appear on the astral plane, come into a dream and actually speak to me that way.”

The paper’s article concludes, “The Mayan Long Count calendar runs on a 5,125-year cycle, which ends this year on either December 12, 21 or possibly 24, depending on which calculation method you use…

“Mayan scholars, meanwhile, say there is actually nothing in ancient prophecy to suggest any such thing and that the Maya would have merely celebrated the end of one cycle and the start of another.”

What do think of what Bill had to say?