Supreme sincerity evokes resonance. - Taoist Proverb
So I've been on the road for a long time and although I've mentioned it in passing, I've never really taken the time to delve into the Mayan Calendar, it's significance to my project, and my journey.
I'm going to borrow from Daniel Pinchbeck's book 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl. I've read quite a bit on the subject and from my perspective this is the best source on the subject. Pinchbeck borrows thoughts of Arguelles, Calleman, Jenkins, etc.
As I am nearing the locations mentioned in the the content below, beginning to explore this civilization, it's conceptions of time, and my own response to it all. The interviews I've captured throughout the continent thus far seem to resonate with much of the content below regarding imminent global shifts on every level, which in turn would undoubtedly have an affect on human consciousness.
I personally feel that much of my road has been working towards abandoning the calendar altogether, either Gregorian or Mayan. I think to rework ourselves into the Mayan calendar misses the point, since it puts the responsibility to feel and sense time onto an external source, when in reality, if we just close our eyes, we can exist in the ebb and flow of nature... naturally.
In any case, it's worth reading about and paying attention to, since, regardless of what you believe is coming down the road, there is far to much evidence telling us we should probably pay attention.
paz, amor y luz,
d
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"A deep irony is implicit in the sudden disappearance of the Classic Maya - for never in the history of the world was there a civilization as obsessed with time, and vast cycles, as the Maya. "The Mayan civilization was based on a 'chronovision,' a total absorption of the individual and collective life in the rhythms of nature, mapped into a mathematical system that had several cyclic counts running simultaneously," writes J. T. Fraser in Time: The Familiar Stranger.
The classic Mayan accomplishments in math, astronomy, and calendrical accuracy are considered among the most impressive. The Maya employed three main calendrical systems: the Tzolkin, a scared calendar of 260 days, where each day combines a number and a day sign; the Haab, a civil calendar of 365 days, consisting of eighteen months of twenty days each, plus five extra days, considered to be unfavorable; and the Long Count, a cycle of approximately 5,125 years in total, based on 360-day cycles call the tun. Every fifty-two years, the number and day-sign of the Tzolkin match up with the same date on the civil calendar of the Haab, inaugurating a new cycle. The Aztecs, who inherited their calendar from the Maya, threw a "New Fire" ceremony on these occasions, putting out all the fires throughout the land for one night, rekindling them the next day, and forgiving debts.
The complex structure of the Mayan Calendar is at least 2,500 years old, based on earliest evidence for use of the Long Count. "The Sacred Calendar is the main entry to the thinking of the advanced civilizations that existed in the Western world before the arrival of the Europeans," writes Carl Johan Calleman in The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. Throughout the Yucatan, indigenous Maya continue to use the system today. When the revolutionary Zapatista movement, based in Chiapas, organizes protests, they choose significant days in the sacred calendar, representing particular forms of energy and intention.
While we use a base-ten system of counting, the Maya use a base-twenty, or vegesimal (as opposed to decimal), system that includes zero, (0-19), which was modified slightly, but significantly, for computing calendrical dates. A day is a "kin"; twenty kins make a "uinal"; for mathematical calculations, twenty uinals make a "tun", equaling four hundred, but for calculating dates, eighteen uinals equal a tun, making an approximate "solar year" of 360 days. After this, the pattern of dating becomes regular once again; twenty tuns make a "katun" and twenty katuns create a "baktun." There are 144,000 days in a baktun - close to 394 years. According to the latest calculations and corrections, the Mayan Long Count of thirteen baktuns began on August 11, 3114 BC (in The Mayan Factor, independent Mayan scholar Jose Arguelles presents this date as August 13, 3113 BC, which is aesthetically satisfying, but misses the fact that there was no year zero in the Gregorian calendar, which flipped from 1 BC to AD 1, thus putting the origin date back one year). The Great Cycle, or the Mesoamerican Fifth World, ends on December 21, AD 2012. We are currently in the final phase of the thirteenth baktun, which began in AD 1618. After the baktun in factors of twenty, there is the piktun, calabtun, and kinchiltun, and the alautun. The alautun represents a span of time that is slightly over 63 million years. Beyond that is, apparently, the hablatun, equivalent to 1.26 billion.
"One is amazed at the mastery over tremendous numbers implied in the various terms for higher units which have survived," wrote J. Eric S. Thompson, author of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. "Surely no other people on a comparable level of material culture have had such a concept of vast numbers and a vocabulary for handling them." On their stone stelae and friezes, the Maya recorded dates as distant as 400 million years in the past. "These very long periods seem to have been used to weld mythical and historical events into a continuity of cycles," suggests Fraser. A basic feature of Mesoamerican religious thought was "the idea of cyclical creations and destructions," wrote Yale anthropologist Michael Coe in The Maya, offering the standard interpretation, extrapolated from sculptures and inscriptions.
The Aztecs, for instance, thought that the universe had passed through four such ages, and that we were now in the fifth, to be destroyed by earthquakes. The Maya thought along the same lines, in terms of eras of great length, like the Hindu kalpas. There is a suggestion that each of these measured 13 baktuns, or something less than 5,200 years, and that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth; the Great Cycle would then begin again.
The Classic Maya calculated the Long Count - what Arguelles named the "Great Cycle" - and obsessively memorialized and encoded this 5,125.36-year period, ending in the 2012 alignment, in their friezes and sculptures, correlating this date with the end of one World Age, or Sun, and the beginning of the next. Precisely what this future state represented to them, however, is unclear - perhaps unknown, or perhaps unfinished. In fact, it is even a matter of dispute whether the Maya believed there would be another Great Cycle beyond this one, or if the conclusion of the current epoch represented the end of cycles, and the shift into a different cosmological and temporal framework altogether." pg 190-192
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"According to Arguelles, the 5,125 years (5,200 tun) of the "Long Count," from 3113 BC to AD 2012, measures the entire span of what we call history, from its beginning to its end - from the building of Stonehenge and the Pyramids, the creation of the solar clock and written language (all around 3000 BC) to the "end of history" in our planetary birth into higher consciousness. The Long Count codified this fractal cycle as a necessary phase, transitioning from the original organic balance of the biosphere, progressing through increasingly artificial , destructive, and destablizing layers of mechanized civilization that he dubbed the "technosphere," and finally, after the imminent collapse of our technological support systems, attaining "pristine conditions" of the noosphere - a state in which humanity, as telepathic collective, would be directly attuned to the crystalline precision of the Gaian Mind." pg 197
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"When we speak of 'time' we are also speaking of 'soul,'" writes Gebser. The emergent awareness of the soul elicited an awareness of time, not in the modern sense of linear progression, but as a cyclical process of change, becoming and return, similar to the rhythms of dream and awakening. Egyptians of old knew only of annals or chronicles, not of historicity." Mythic man studied the stars swirling overhead, innately aware that their vast and intricate whirlings were precisely aligned to the patterns of human development on the Earth - an understanding summed up in the Heremetic dictum, "As Above, so below."
Egyptian cosmology focused on the Precession of the Equinoxes," a slow backward movement of the stars in relation to the Sun's rising on the equinox, which appears in a different constellation every twenty-two hundred years or so, requiring roughly twenty-six thousand years to complete and entire round. Precession is due to a backward wobble in the Earth's spin, caused by the gravitational pressure exerted on the Earth by the Sun and the Moon. As Robert Bauval discovered in The Orion Mystery, vertical tubes in the Egyptian pyramids were designed to align with particular stars at certain times, revealing the movement of precession. According to the Precession of the Equinoxes, we are currently at the end of the Age of Pisces, transitioning into the Age of Aquarius. Hindu and Vedic cosmology conceived of the yugas, four periods, each shorter than the last, representing accelerating decline from the Satya, the Golden Age, when humanity was self-governed by knowledge of devine law. This is the Kali Yuga, the final epoch, which corresponds, in Greek myth, to the last of four ages - Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron. As discussed, Mesoamerican myth conceives of cycles within cycles, like wheels, continuing over vast periods. According to the Classic Maya, we are approaching the end of the "thirteeth baktun," completing a long count of 5,125 years. pg 209-210
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On the winter solstice of December 21, 2012, the Sun will rise within the dark rift at the center of the Milky way galaxy, an event that occurs every 25,800 years. As John Major Jenkins describes in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, this alignment represents a "union" of the Cosmic Mother (the Milky Way) with the First Father (the December solstice sun)." Mayan hieroglyphs describe the center of this dark rift as the "Hole in the Sky," cosmic womb, or "black hole," through which their wizard-kings entered other dimensions, accessed sacred knowledge, or toured across the vast reaches of the cosmos. In September 2002, astronomers verified the existence of a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, naming it "Sagittarius B." Jenkins writes:
Something very profound and mysterious is going on here. Is it just a coincidence that lurking deep within the dark-rift "black hole" is the very real Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy? If not a coincidence, the dark-rift itself might indeed be the surface signifier of deep cosmic mysteries, ones that the Maya were well aware of.
This black hole is "the cosmic womb from which new stars are born, and from which everything in our Galaxy including humans, came." The dark rift through which the Sun will pass at the end of the Long Count is called in the Quiche language, xibalba be, literally "underworld road".
...
Jenkins theorizes that this astronomical event, in which the solstice meridian crosses over the Galactic equator, might induce a "field-effect reversal," just as magnetic forces operate in reverse form above and below the equator, causing tornadoes as well as toilets to swirl in the opposite direction. "As with a spinning magnetic top, the field effects on one posite direction. "As with a spinning magnetic top, the field effects on one side are different from those on the other, and Maya insights offer us the notion that a field-effect reversal occurs when the solstice meridian crosses over this line." At the moment of alignment, we cross the Galactic Equator, "the precise edge of our spiraling Galaxy," ushering in a new World Age, whose effect will be realized as a transformation of consciousness. The meeting with the "Cosmic Mother" could be seen as a strange attractor, impelling the rapid development of technology and human populations and changes of consciousness that have accelerated in the last centuries as we have approach it. pg 239-240
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"The Maya understood that whereas the 260-day sacred cycle is our period of individual gestation, the 26,000 year cycle is our collective gestation- our collective unfolding as a species," Jenkins wrote in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. "Precession represents a 26,000-year cycle of biological unfolding- a type of spiritual gestation and birth - that Earth and it's consciousness endowed life forms undergo." The fractal moddel of time that Terrence McKenna discovered - or downloaded- "quite unexpectedly," in the Colombian Amazon, linking the I Ching to the evolution of human consciousness in a quickening spiral, appears to be substantiated by a set of pristine relationships between the May Tzolkin, the I Ching, astronomical observations, and the genetics code, elaborated by Arguelles, Jenkins, and others. pg 232
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In The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness, the Swedish biologist Carl Johan Calleman, a cancer specialist and former adviser for the World Health Organization, raised the discourse on the ancient time-science of the Maya to a new plateau. According to Calleman's Thesis, the nine levels of the most important Mayan Pyramids - the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, the Pyramid of the Jaguar in Tikal, and the Pyramid of Kukulcan (Quetzalcoatl) in Chichen Itza - represent a model of time, from the origin of the universe to the upcoming phase-shift, in which each step, or "Underworld," is twenty times more accelerated in linear time than the one preceding it.
"The nine-story Mayan pyramids are thus telling us that consciousness is created in a hierarchical way and that each Underworld stands on the foundation of another,"writes Calleman. The initial level, starting thirteen hablatuns or 16.4 billion years ago, proceeds from the inception of matter in the "Big Bang," through the development of cellular life on Earth. During the second step, beginning thirteen alautuns, or 820 million years, ago, animal life evolved out of cells. The third underworld, starting thirteen kinchiltuns 0r 41 million years ago, saw the evolution of primates and the first, rudimentary use of tools by human ancestors. During the fourth underworld, beginning thirteen kalabtuns or 2 million years ago, tribal organization began among the ancestors of Homo sapiens. During the next underworld, starting thirteen piktuns or 102,000 years ago, Homo sapiens emerged developing spoken language. The next sixth underworld comprises the Great Cycle of thirteen baktuns, beginning 5,125 years before the approaching birth date, when we created patriarchal civilization, law, and written language- Calleman calls this the National Underworld. The seventh step, dubbed Planetary Underworld, thirteen katuns or 256 years, beginning in AD 1755, introduced industrialization, electricity, technology, modern democracy, gene splicing, and the atom bomb. Our knowledge became Faustian power over the physical world. The eighth level - the Galactic Underworld - thirteen tuns or 12.8 years, began in 1999, with the development of the internet into a global communications infrastructure. The final step, thirteen uinals or 260 days, will lead, Calleman believes, to the attainment of "nondual cosmic consciousness" across the Earth. By the end of this Universal Underworld, humanity will have crossed the threshold of the abyss, confronting the shadow projections of the Apocalypse, to become conscious cocreators of reality." Pg241
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Calleman proposes that this period could see a global financial and ecological collapse, accompanied by nightmarish misuses of power on the part of the ruling elite. "In Night Five, ruled by Tezacatlipoca, the lord of darkness... we will see the last desperate and at the same time most forceful, attempt to secure control by the forces seeking to maintain dominance." Such an interregnum could also provide the opportunity to circulate a new vision of what this world could be, and disseminate the tools and principles to implement it. pg 243
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Clearly, the shift to a higher form of consciousness could not happen passively. The transformation of consciousness requires not only personal work, but direct and surgically precise engagement with ecological, political, psychological, commercial, technological, and spiritual aspects of reality - as Nietzsche noted, the deed creates the doer. "as an afterthought." It is inconceivable that a movement to a state of higher consciousness could take place in a subconscious murk. Such a shift could take place in only one way: in the full light of consciousness. To accomplish this would require the complete engagement of our will and our higher cognitive faculties. We would have to decondition ourselves from negative programming, overcoming distractions and self-justifications and egocentric goals - to "abandon abandonment" and "escape escapism," as I was once told in a dream- in order to act for the greater good. At the moment, it is unclear how much sacrifice will be necessary. As futurist thinker Barbara Marx Hubbard writes in her book, Conscious Evolution:
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can repattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, or social collapse.... If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.
If our current civilization were to disintegrate - a possibility that should not seem outlandish, considering the New Orleans flood, peak oil theories, and numerous ecological factors - we might face an apocalyptic passage, forcing us to evolve at high speed. Breakdown and breakthrough may happen simultaneously." Pg 244
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Arguelles: "Right now, we use an arbitrary system of twelve months of unequal days, cut off from natural cycles, and this conditions us to accept disorder and irrationality in all of our institutions, The Gregorian is programmed for chaos and Apocalypse. This calendar would replace it with an instrument designed for perpetual order and harmony."
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The Calendar is the macro organizing principle of a culture, even if people don't realize it... pg 222 - 223
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If the shadows appear to growing darker, it is because the light that casts them is getting brighter. pg 243
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It is the self within ourselves that we have to sacrifice. It is our own heart that has to be torn out of the false being and offered to the light. - Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex
(All content cited here from the source material: 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl, by Daniel Pinchbeck)
So I've been on the road for a long time and although I've mentioned it in passing, I've never really taken the time to delve into the Mayan Calendar, it's significance to my project, and my journey.
I'm going to borrow from Daniel Pinchbeck's book 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl. I've read quite a bit on the subject and from my perspective this is the best source on the subject. Pinchbeck borrows thoughts of Arguelles, Calleman, Jenkins, etc.
As I am nearing the locations mentioned in the the content below, beginning to explore this civilization, it's conceptions of time, and my own response to it all. The interviews I've captured throughout the continent thus far seem to resonate with much of the content below regarding imminent global shifts on every level, which in turn would undoubtedly have an affect on human consciousness.
I personally feel that much of my road has been working towards abandoning the calendar altogether, either Gregorian or Mayan. I think to rework ourselves into the Mayan calendar misses the point, since it puts the responsibility to feel and sense time onto an external source, when in reality, if we just close our eyes, we can exist in the ebb and flow of nature... naturally.
In any case, it's worth reading about and paying attention to, since, regardless of what you believe is coming down the road, there is far to much evidence telling us we should probably pay attention.
paz, amor y luz,
d
______
"A deep irony is implicit in the sudden disappearance of the Classic Maya - for never in the history of the world was there a civilization as obsessed with time, and vast cycles, as the Maya. "The Mayan civilization was based on a 'chronovision,' a total absorption of the individual and collective life in the rhythms of nature, mapped into a mathematical system that had several cyclic counts running simultaneously," writes J. T. Fraser in Time: The Familiar Stranger.
The classic Mayan accomplishments in math, astronomy, and calendrical accuracy are considered among the most impressive. The Maya employed three main calendrical systems: the Tzolkin, a scared calendar of 260 days, where each day combines a number and a day sign; the Haab, a civil calendar of 365 days, consisting of eighteen months of twenty days each, plus five extra days, considered to be unfavorable; and the Long Count, a cycle of approximately 5,125 years in total, based on 360-day cycles call the tun. Every fifty-two years, the number and day-sign of the Tzolkin match up with the same date on the civil calendar of the Haab, inaugurating a new cycle. The Aztecs, who inherited their calendar from the Maya, threw a "New Fire" ceremony on these occasions, putting out all the fires throughout the land for one night, rekindling them the next day, and forgiving debts.
The complex structure of the Mayan Calendar is at least 2,500 years old, based on earliest evidence for use of the Long Count. "The Sacred Calendar is the main entry to the thinking of the advanced civilizations that existed in the Western world before the arrival of the Europeans," writes Carl Johan Calleman in The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. Throughout the Yucatan, indigenous Maya continue to use the system today. When the revolutionary Zapatista movement, based in Chiapas, organizes protests, they choose significant days in the sacred calendar, representing particular forms of energy and intention.
While we use a base-ten system of counting, the Maya use a base-twenty, or vegesimal (as opposed to decimal), system that includes zero, (0-19), which was modified slightly, but significantly, for computing calendrical dates. A day is a "kin"; twenty kins make a "uinal"; for mathematical calculations, twenty uinals make a "tun", equaling four hundred, but for calculating dates, eighteen uinals equal a tun, making an approximate "solar year" of 360 days. After this, the pattern of dating becomes regular once again; twenty tuns make a "katun" and twenty katuns create a "baktun." There are 144,000 days in a baktun - close to 394 years. According to the latest calculations and corrections, the Mayan Long Count of thirteen baktuns began on August 11, 3114 BC (in The Mayan Factor, independent Mayan scholar Jose Arguelles presents this date as August 13, 3113 BC, which is aesthetically satisfying, but misses the fact that there was no year zero in the Gregorian calendar, which flipped from 1 BC to AD 1, thus putting the origin date back one year). The Great Cycle, or the Mesoamerican Fifth World, ends on December 21, AD 2012. We are currently in the final phase of the thirteenth baktun, which began in AD 1618. After the baktun in factors of twenty, there is the piktun, calabtun, and kinchiltun, and the alautun. The alautun represents a span of time that is slightly over 63 million years. Beyond that is, apparently, the hablatun, equivalent to 1.26 billion.
"One is amazed at the mastery over tremendous numbers implied in the various terms for higher units which have survived," wrote J. Eric S. Thompson, author of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. "Surely no other people on a comparable level of material culture have had such a concept of vast numbers and a vocabulary for handling them." On their stone stelae and friezes, the Maya recorded dates as distant as 400 million years in the past. "These very long periods seem to have been used to weld mythical and historical events into a continuity of cycles," suggests Fraser. A basic feature of Mesoamerican religious thought was "the idea of cyclical creations and destructions," wrote Yale anthropologist Michael Coe in The Maya, offering the standard interpretation, extrapolated from sculptures and inscriptions.
The Aztecs, for instance, thought that the universe had passed through four such ages, and that we were now in the fifth, to be destroyed by earthquakes. The Maya thought along the same lines, in terms of eras of great length, like the Hindu kalpas. There is a suggestion that each of these measured 13 baktuns, or something less than 5,200 years, and that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth; the Great Cycle would then begin again.
The Classic Maya calculated the Long Count - what Arguelles named the "Great Cycle" - and obsessively memorialized and encoded this 5,125.36-year period, ending in the 2012 alignment, in their friezes and sculptures, correlating this date with the end of one World Age, or Sun, and the beginning of the next. Precisely what this future state represented to them, however, is unclear - perhaps unknown, or perhaps unfinished. In fact, it is even a matter of dispute whether the Maya believed there would be another Great Cycle beyond this one, or if the conclusion of the current epoch represented the end of cycles, and the shift into a different cosmological and temporal framework altogether." pg 190-192
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"According to Arguelles, the 5,125 years (5,200 tun) of the "Long Count," from 3113 BC to AD 2012, measures the entire span of what we call history, from its beginning to its end - from the building of Stonehenge and the Pyramids, the creation of the solar clock and written language (all around 3000 BC) to the "end of history" in our planetary birth into higher consciousness. The Long Count codified this fractal cycle as a necessary phase, transitioning from the original organic balance of the biosphere, progressing through increasingly artificial , destructive, and destablizing layers of mechanized civilization that he dubbed the "technosphere," and finally, after the imminent collapse of our technological support systems, attaining "pristine conditions" of the noosphere - a state in which humanity, as telepathic collective, would be directly attuned to the crystalline precision of the Gaian Mind." pg 197
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"When we speak of 'time' we are also speaking of 'soul,'" writes Gebser. The emergent awareness of the soul elicited an awareness of time, not in the modern sense of linear progression, but as a cyclical process of change, becoming and return, similar to the rhythms of dream and awakening. Egyptians of old knew only of annals or chronicles, not of historicity." Mythic man studied the stars swirling overhead, innately aware that their vast and intricate whirlings were precisely aligned to the patterns of human development on the Earth - an understanding summed up in the Heremetic dictum, "As Above, so below."
Egyptian cosmology focused on the Precession of the Equinoxes," a slow backward movement of the stars in relation to the Sun's rising on the equinox, which appears in a different constellation every twenty-two hundred years or so, requiring roughly twenty-six thousand years to complete and entire round. Precession is due to a backward wobble in the Earth's spin, caused by the gravitational pressure exerted on the Earth by the Sun and the Moon. As Robert Bauval discovered in The Orion Mystery, vertical tubes in the Egyptian pyramids were designed to align with particular stars at certain times, revealing the movement of precession. According to the Precession of the Equinoxes, we are currently at the end of the Age of Pisces, transitioning into the Age of Aquarius. Hindu and Vedic cosmology conceived of the yugas, four periods, each shorter than the last, representing accelerating decline from the Satya, the Golden Age, when humanity was self-governed by knowledge of devine law. This is the Kali Yuga, the final epoch, which corresponds, in Greek myth, to the last of four ages - Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron. As discussed, Mesoamerican myth conceives of cycles within cycles, like wheels, continuing over vast periods. According to the Classic Maya, we are approaching the end of the "thirteeth baktun," completing a long count of 5,125 years. pg 209-210
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On the winter solstice of December 21, 2012, the Sun will rise within the dark rift at the center of the Milky way galaxy, an event that occurs every 25,800 years. As John Major Jenkins describes in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, this alignment represents a "union" of the Cosmic Mother (the Milky Way) with the First Father (the December solstice sun)." Mayan hieroglyphs describe the center of this dark rift as the "Hole in the Sky," cosmic womb, or "black hole," through which their wizard-kings entered other dimensions, accessed sacred knowledge, or toured across the vast reaches of the cosmos. In September 2002, astronomers verified the existence of a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, naming it "Sagittarius B." Jenkins writes:
Something very profound and mysterious is going on here. Is it just a coincidence that lurking deep within the dark-rift "black hole" is the very real Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy? If not a coincidence, the dark-rift itself might indeed be the surface signifier of deep cosmic mysteries, ones that the Maya were well aware of.
This black hole is "the cosmic womb from which new stars are born, and from which everything in our Galaxy including humans, came." The dark rift through which the Sun will pass at the end of the Long Count is called in the Quiche language, xibalba be, literally "underworld road".
...
Jenkins theorizes that this astronomical event, in which the solstice meridian crosses over the Galactic equator, might induce a "field-effect reversal," just as magnetic forces operate in reverse form above and below the equator, causing tornadoes as well as toilets to swirl in the opposite direction. "As with a spinning magnetic top, the field effects on one posite direction. "As with a spinning magnetic top, the field effects on one side are different from those on the other, and Maya insights offer us the notion that a field-effect reversal occurs when the solstice meridian crosses over this line." At the moment of alignment, we cross the Galactic Equator, "the precise edge of our spiraling Galaxy," ushering in a new World Age, whose effect will be realized as a transformation of consciousness. The meeting with the "Cosmic Mother" could be seen as a strange attractor, impelling the rapid development of technology and human populations and changes of consciousness that have accelerated in the last centuries as we have approach it. pg 239-240
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"The Maya understood that whereas the 260-day sacred cycle is our period of individual gestation, the 26,000 year cycle is our collective gestation- our collective unfolding as a species," Jenkins wrote in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. "Precession represents a 26,000-year cycle of biological unfolding- a type of spiritual gestation and birth - that Earth and it's consciousness endowed life forms undergo." The fractal moddel of time that Terrence McKenna discovered - or downloaded- "quite unexpectedly," in the Colombian Amazon, linking the I Ching to the evolution of human consciousness in a quickening spiral, appears to be substantiated by a set of pristine relationships between the May Tzolkin, the I Ching, astronomical observations, and the genetics code, elaborated by Arguelles, Jenkins, and others. pg 232
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In The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness, the Swedish biologist Carl Johan Calleman, a cancer specialist and former adviser for the World Health Organization, raised the discourse on the ancient time-science of the Maya to a new plateau. According to Calleman's Thesis, the nine levels of the most important Mayan Pyramids - the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, the Pyramid of the Jaguar in Tikal, and the Pyramid of Kukulcan (Quetzalcoatl) in Chichen Itza - represent a model of time, from the origin of the universe to the upcoming phase-shift, in which each step, or "Underworld," is twenty times more accelerated in linear time than the one preceding it.
"The nine-story Mayan pyramids are thus telling us that consciousness is created in a hierarchical way and that each Underworld stands on the foundation of another,"writes Calleman. The initial level, starting thirteen hablatuns or 16.4 billion years ago, proceeds from the inception of matter in the "Big Bang," through the development of cellular life on Earth. During the second step, beginning thirteen alautuns, or 820 million years, ago, animal life evolved out of cells. The third underworld, starting thirteen kinchiltuns 0r 41 million years ago, saw the evolution of primates and the first, rudimentary use of tools by human ancestors. During the fourth underworld, beginning thirteen kalabtuns or 2 million years ago, tribal organization began among the ancestors of Homo sapiens. During the next underworld, starting thirteen piktuns or 102,000 years ago, Homo sapiens emerged developing spoken language. The next sixth underworld comprises the Great Cycle of thirteen baktuns, beginning 5,125 years before the approaching birth date, when we created patriarchal civilization, law, and written language- Calleman calls this the National Underworld. The seventh step, dubbed Planetary Underworld, thirteen katuns or 256 years, beginning in AD 1755, introduced industrialization, electricity, technology, modern democracy, gene splicing, and the atom bomb. Our knowledge became Faustian power over the physical world. The eighth level - the Galactic Underworld - thirteen tuns or 12.8 years, began in 1999, with the development of the internet into a global communications infrastructure. The final step, thirteen uinals or 260 days, will lead, Calleman believes, to the attainment of "nondual cosmic consciousness" across the Earth. By the end of this Universal Underworld, humanity will have crossed the threshold of the abyss, confronting the shadow projections of the Apocalypse, to become conscious cocreators of reality." Pg241
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Calleman proposes that this period could see a global financial and ecological collapse, accompanied by nightmarish misuses of power on the part of the ruling elite. "In Night Five, ruled by Tezacatlipoca, the lord of darkness... we will see the last desperate and at the same time most forceful, attempt to secure control by the forces seeking to maintain dominance." Such an interregnum could also provide the opportunity to circulate a new vision of what this world could be, and disseminate the tools and principles to implement it. pg 243
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Clearly, the shift to a higher form of consciousness could not happen passively. The transformation of consciousness requires not only personal work, but direct and surgically precise engagement with ecological, political, psychological, commercial, technological, and spiritual aspects of reality - as Nietzsche noted, the deed creates the doer. "as an afterthought." It is inconceivable that a movement to a state of higher consciousness could take place in a subconscious murk. Such a shift could take place in only one way: in the full light of consciousness. To accomplish this would require the complete engagement of our will and our higher cognitive faculties. We would have to decondition ourselves from negative programming, overcoming distractions and self-justifications and egocentric goals - to "abandon abandonment" and "escape escapism," as I was once told in a dream- in order to act for the greater good. At the moment, it is unclear how much sacrifice will be necessary. As futurist thinker Barbara Marx Hubbard writes in her book, Conscious Evolution:
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can repattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, or social collapse.... If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.
If our current civilization were to disintegrate - a possibility that should not seem outlandish, considering the New Orleans flood, peak oil theories, and numerous ecological factors - we might face an apocalyptic passage, forcing us to evolve at high speed. Breakdown and breakthrough may happen simultaneously." Pg 244
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Arguelles: "Right now, we use an arbitrary system of twelve months of unequal days, cut off from natural cycles, and this conditions us to accept disorder and irrationality in all of our institutions, The Gregorian is programmed for chaos and Apocalypse. This calendar would replace it with an instrument designed for perpetual order and harmony."
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The Calendar is the macro organizing principle of a culture, even if people don't realize it... pg 222 - 223
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If the shadows appear to growing darker, it is because the light that casts them is getting brighter. pg 243
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It is the self within ourselves that we have to sacrifice. It is our own heart that has to be torn out of the false being and offered to the light. - Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex
(All content cited here from the source material: 2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl, by Daniel Pinchbeck)
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