I'm in Seattle and enjoying myself at the humble and lovely Watertown Hotel, talking to a wonderful bunch of people at various bookstores. It's heartening—isn't that a great word?—that so many people are stirring and asking questions, suspecting that a profound change is coming, or even that we're in the midst of it. I see repeatedly how people have a handful of puzzle pieces and I am able to provide many more, so that the picture starts to come into focus and an excitement about possibilities replaces the anxiety of wondering what's happening. We need so badly to shift from worrying that what's happening is going to ruin us, into a deep relaxation that comes from having some techniques to navigate the rough waters and get to the beautiful calm lake. Forgive the water metaphors! I flew in over Puget Sound on a crystal clear morning yesterday, and what an amazing paradise with the snow-capped mountains in the distance!
It's all too easy to picture a negative future, especially since we're in the part of the transformation process where we're tired of resisting the profound changes, and are giving up the fight, surrendering to just being with things as they are (without getting hopeless), and the old institutions and security-providing ways of thinking aren't working. In fact, they're crumbling to dust, and hanging onto them is becoming almost laughable. But it means we're surrounded by a sea of consciousness that's steeped in ideas of "failure," "uselessness," and "obsolescence." And that means it's challenging to see through that drama—that's always been so seductive—to not feed it with our attention, to not fight the old reality, but to simply collapse the reality we don't want into the heartfield of the present moment, to let ourselves saturate with that "home frequency" presence, then recreate the world to the best of our imaginations.
I was listening to Bruce Coburn, to "The Last Night of the World," and he sings: I learned as a child not to trust in my body; I've carried that burden through my life; but there's a day when we all have to be pried loose." This is that time. And it's so exciting! The new world, the new reality, the new energy-based life we are entering is going to be so amazing and joy-based. I enjoyed Karen Bishop's last "Wings"—she always echoes what I'm getting intuitively about what's going on under the surface. She says, ". . .it can feel very uncomfortable being in the lower vibrating energies of the old world. The old world is now very much an illusion, and thus, many still residing there can appear zombielike, going through motions without passion or caring, like puppets or manikins living in energies that no longer exist."
In future blog posts, I intend to begin describing the new frequency-reality, so you can jumpstart your new consciousness.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Can We Actually Lose Energy?
Several friends have recently been commenting about feeling drained, of losing energy from going out to social events, or from certain foods, or from the negativity in the news. Here is something I wrote to one friend . . .
See if you can get past the idea that you lose energy or don't have it. When your mind stops paying attention to the energy that's in you, you feel "absence." When the mind pays attention to the energy within, you feel "presence." Ask yourself why your mind is in the habit of talking about what you don't have. To reverse it, you don't have to use will power; just sink in, drop in, relax into what's already there waiting for you. You don't have to GET more energy. Just experience what's there. The cells vibrating, the nerves, the aliveness of your whole self.
Also, we have habits of stopping our own flow at certain points. This is where you say I can't, I don't, etc. and jump away from feeling what IS. Why do you stop your own flow at: "I don't have energy"? Or, whatever the various statements are, like: "I don't have enough money," or "I don't feel good." If you said instead, "I have plenty of energy," where would it want to flow next? Perhaps into something you don't want to face, but which would free you to be more of yourself? Might it want to direct you into a level of self expression that might be greater than you're used to? Let the energy that's there have somewhere to go next. Let it tell YOU where it wants to go, without you telling yourself "I'm too tired to do this."
I think we are in a bad habit of "co-miserating" with each other, of finding bonds and commonality through our suffering and pain. This leads us to talk about what isn't, what we don't feel, what we don't have, what we can't do, what we aren't. This sort of self-talk only stops the flow of soul-force and intuition. So, we might practice a new habit: of noticing the energy that's already in our body, the energy that's always pouring out of the tiny white holes of our core particles. There's always enough to do whatever we can think of to do. We wouldn't be able to think of it if it weren't somehow possible to create as a reality. In fact, in the new energy reality that's emerging, we will be SO aware of the universality of the sea of energy we live in that feeling drained will be some sort of ancient joke: "Hey! Remember when people used to feel like they had no energy?!!! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Artwork: Return to Source, by Janaia (http://www.janaia.com)
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
A Quiet Revolution
This came via a forwarded email from a friend. Its author is anonymous and it's titled "We Are Here." Though I recoil a bit from feeling that there are any special "lightworker" people, I do know that some souls—and I am one—feel a calling to help our planet make a conscious shift upward in frequency. This is a nice reminder that just as "there are angels among us," there are noble and good works being done by people we may never notice, right under our noses.
On the surface of the world right now there is
war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,
something else is happening underground.
An inner revolution is taking place
and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent revolution
from the inside out, from the ground up.
This is a global operation.
There are sleeper cells in every nation on the planet.
You won't see us on TV or hear about us on the radio.
You won't read about us in the newspaper.
We don't seek glory,
we don't wear any uniform,
we come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles.
Most of us work anonymously,
quietly behind the scenes,
in every country and culture of the world,
in cities big and small, mountains and valleys,
in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.
You could pass one of us on the street and never notice.
We go undercover,
we remain behind the scenes.
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
but simply that the work gets done.
Occasionally we spot each other in the street,
give a quiet nod, and continue on our way.
During the day many of us pretend to have normal jobs
but behind the false storefront, at night,
is where the real work takes a place.
Some call us the Conscious Army.
We are slowly creating a new world
with the power of our minds and hearts.
Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence.
We are dropping soft, secret love bombs when no one is looking:
Poems, Hugs, Music, Photography, Movies, Kind Words,
Smiles, Meditation, Prayer, Dance, Social Activism,
Websites, Blogs, Random Acts of Kindness.
We express ourselves each in our own unique way.
"Be the change you want to see in the world"—
that is the motto that fills our hearts.
We know it is the only way real transformation takes place.
Love is the new "religion" of the 21st century.
You don't have to have exceptional knowledge to understand it.
It comes from the intelligence of the heart,
embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings.
Perhaps you will join us
or already have.
The door is open.
On the surface of the world right now there is
war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,
something else is happening underground.
An inner revolution is taking place
and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent revolution
from the inside out, from the ground up.
This is a global operation.
There are sleeper cells in every nation on the planet.
You won't see us on TV or hear about us on the radio.
You won't read about us in the newspaper.
We don't seek glory,
we don't wear any uniform,
we come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles.
Most of us work anonymously,
quietly behind the scenes,
in every country and culture of the world,
in cities big and small, mountains and valleys,
in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.
You could pass one of us on the street and never notice.
We go undercover,
we remain behind the scenes.
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
but simply that the work gets done.
Occasionally we spot each other in the street,
give a quiet nod, and continue on our way.
During the day many of us pretend to have normal jobs
but behind the false storefront, at night,
is where the real work takes a place.
Some call us the Conscious Army.
We are slowly creating a new world
with the power of our minds and hearts.
Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence.
We are dropping soft, secret love bombs when no one is looking:
Poems, Hugs, Music, Photography, Movies, Kind Words,
Smiles, Meditation, Prayer, Dance, Social Activism,
Websites, Blogs, Random Acts of Kindness.
We express ourselves each in our own unique way.
"Be the change you want to see in the world"—
that is the motto that fills our hearts.
We know it is the only way real transformation takes place.
Love is the new "religion" of the 21st century.
You don't have to have exceptional knowledge to understand it.
It comes from the intelligence of the heart,
embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings.
Perhaps you will join us
or already have.
The door is open.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Moving Beyond the Electronic Vibration
I was talking with a friend the other night over dinner, about how we both were feeling shallow and somewhat blocked from too much electronic stimulation, how we were tending to medicate ourselves from overstimulation by the computer, with an overstimulation by television and DVD. She said that the electronic vibration is connected to DOING, and she was feeling a great need for BEING. Me, too. I've been craving digging up the dirt in my garden, getting it ready for spring planting. I've wanted to smell earthy smells.
She sent me an excerpt from Stephen Levine's book, Acknowledging the Beloved. In BEING, we find an experience of the Beloved. Levine says, "Kabir, the great God-drunken poet, whispers that the Beloved is 'the breath inside the breath.' That your heart, like the sun, is always shining. But like the sun, or the heart, any passing shadow can obscure its warmth. All it takes is a slow cloud or an uninvited thought to block its reception. Just as the sun effortlessly shines, so we need do nothing to create the Beloved. The Beloved simply is. IN fact, in its exploration—at the center of that indescribable feeling of simply being, is isness—the Beloved is discovered spontaneously, self-effulgent, the presence within the presence. To meet the Beloved we need gently to let go of that which is unloved, judged, concocted from old impressions and old mind clingings. To let it all be healed into the innate vastness which lies just beyond our acquired conditioning."
She sent me an excerpt from Stephen Levine's book, Acknowledging the Beloved. In BEING, we find an experience of the Beloved. Levine says, "Kabir, the great God-drunken poet, whispers that the Beloved is 'the breath inside the breath.' That your heart, like the sun, is always shining. But like the sun, or the heart, any passing shadow can obscure its warmth. All it takes is a slow cloud or an uninvited thought to block its reception. Just as the sun effortlessly shines, so we need do nothing to create the Beloved. The Beloved simply is. IN fact, in its exploration—at the center of that indescribable feeling of simply being, is isness—the Beloved is discovered spontaneously, self-effulgent, the presence within the presence. To meet the Beloved we need gently to let go of that which is unloved, judged, concocted from old impressions and old mind clingings. To let it all be healed into the innate vastness which lies just beyond our acquired conditioning."
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The World Will Not End in 2012: Part 2
PART 2
by Carlos Barrios
Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration. This process has already begun, Mr. Barrios suggested.
"Change is accelerating now, and it will continue to accelerate. " If the people of the earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape, without having destroyed too much of the Earth, Mr. Barrios said, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way.
A Picture of the Road Ahead: From his understanding of the Mayan tradition and the calendars, Mr. Barrios offered a picture of where we are at and what may lie on the road ahead: The date specified in the calendar Winter Solstice in the year 2012 does not mark the end of the world. Many outside people writing about the Mayan calendar sensationalize this date, but they do not know. The ones who know are the indigenous elders who are entrusted with keeping the tradition.
"Humanity will continue," he contends, "but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. "We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions, are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action. Many powerful souls have reincarnated in this era, with a lot of power. This is true on both sides, the light and the dark. High magic is at work on both sides. Things will change, but it is up to the people how difficult or easy it is for the changes to come about.
The economy now is a fiction. The first five-year stretch of transition from August 1987 to August 1992 was the beginning of the destruction of the material world. We have progressed ten years deeper into the transition phase by now, and many of the so-called sources of financial stability are in fact hollow. The banks are weak. This is a delicate moment for them. They could crash globally if we don't pay attention. If the banks crash ... then we will be forced to rely on the land and our skills. The monetary systems will be in chaos, and we must then rely on our direct relationship with the Earth for our food and shelter. The North and South Poles are both breaking up. The level of the water in the oceans is going to rise. But at the same time land in the ocean, especially near Cuba, is also going to rise.
A Call for Fusion: As he met with audiences in Santa Fe, Mr. Barrios told a story about the most recent Mayan New Year ceremonies in Guatemala. He said that one respected elder, who lives all year in a solitary mountain cave, journeyed to Chichicastenango to speak with the people at the ceremony. He elder delivered a simple, direct message. He called for human beings to come together in support of life and light. Right now each person and group is going his or her own way. The elder of the mountains said there is hope if the people of the light can come together and unite in some way.
Reflecting on this, Mr. Barrios explained: "We live in a world of polarity: day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance. Just now the dark side is very strong, and very clear about what they want. They have their vision and their priorities clearly held, and also their hierarchy. They are working in many ways so that we will be unable to connect with the spiral Fifth World in 2012.
"On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus. As Mr. Barrios sees it, the dark side works to block fusion through denial and materialism. It also works to destroy those who are working with the light to get the Earth to a higher level.They like the energy of the old, declining Fourth World, the materialism. They do not want it to change. They do not want fusion. They want to stay at this level, and are afraid of the next level. The dark power of the declining Fourth World cannot be destroyed or overpowered. It's too strong and clear for that, and that is the wrong strategy. The dark can only be transformed when confronted with simplicity and open-heartedness. This is what leads to fusion, a key concept for the World of the Fifth Sun."
Mr. Barrios said the emerging era of the Fifth Sun will call attention to a much-overlooked element. Whereas the four traditional elements of earth, air, fire and water have dominated various epochs in the past, there will be a fifth element to reckon with in the time of the Fifth Sun: ether. The dictionary defines ether as the rarefied element of the Heavens. Ether is a medium. It permeates all space and transmits waves of energy in a wide range of frequencies, from cell phones to human auras.
What is "ethereal" is related to the regions beyond earth: the heavens. Ether the element of the Fifth Sun is celestial and lacking in material substance, but is no less real than wood, stone or flesh. "Within the context of ether there can be a fusion of the polarities," Mr. Barrios said. "No more darkness or light in the people, but an uplifted fusion.
But right now the realm of darkness is not interested in this. They are organized to block it. They seek to unbalance the Earth and its environment so we will be unready for the alignment in 2012. We need to work together for peace, and balance with the other side. We need to take care of the Earth that feeds and shelters us. We need to put our entire mind and heart into pursuing unity and fusion now, to confront the other side and preserve life, to be Ready for this Moment in History.
Mr. Barrios told his audiences in Santa Fe that we are at a critical moment of world history. "We are disturbed," he said. "We can't play anymore. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone is needed. You are not here for no reason. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard, but a special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history."
Mr. Barrios offered a number of suggestions to help people walk in balance through the years ahead. "The prophesied changes are going to happen," he said "but our attitude and actions determine how harsh or mild they are. We need to act, to make changes, and to elect people to represent us who understand and who will take political action to respect the earth. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about whom you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity. Eat wisely. A lot of food is corrupt in either subtle or gross ways. Pay attention to what you are taking into your body. Learn to preserve food, and to conserve energy.
Learn some good breathing techniques, so you have the mastery of your breath. Be clear. Follow a tradition with great roots. It is not important what tradition, your heart will tell you, but it must have great roots. We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything: people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether—the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.
According to Mr. Barrios this is a crucially important moment for humanity, and for earth. Each person is important. If you have incarnated into this era, you have spiritual work to do balancing the planet. He said the elders have opened the doors so that other races can come to the Mayan world to receive the tradition. The Maya have long appreciated and respected that there are other colors, other races, and other spiritual systems.
"They know," he said, "that the destiny of the Mayan world is related to the destiny of the whole world. "The greatest wisdom is in simplicity," Mr. Barrios advised before leaving Santa Fe. "Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.
by Carlos Barrios
Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration. This process has already begun, Mr. Barrios suggested.
"Change is accelerating now, and it will continue to accelerate. " If the people of the earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape, without having destroyed too much of the Earth, Mr. Barrios said, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way.
A Picture of the Road Ahead: From his understanding of the Mayan tradition and the calendars, Mr. Barrios offered a picture of where we are at and what may lie on the road ahead: The date specified in the calendar Winter Solstice in the year 2012 does not mark the end of the world. Many outside people writing about the Mayan calendar sensationalize this date, but they do not know. The ones who know are the indigenous elders who are entrusted with keeping the tradition.
"Humanity will continue," he contends, "but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. "We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions, are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action. Many powerful souls have reincarnated in this era, with a lot of power. This is true on both sides, the light and the dark. High magic is at work on both sides. Things will change, but it is up to the people how difficult or easy it is for the changes to come about.
The economy now is a fiction. The first five-year stretch of transition from August 1987 to August 1992 was the beginning of the destruction of the material world. We have progressed ten years deeper into the transition phase by now, and many of the so-called sources of financial stability are in fact hollow. The banks are weak. This is a delicate moment for them. They could crash globally if we don't pay attention. If the banks crash ... then we will be forced to rely on the land and our skills. The monetary systems will be in chaos, and we must then rely on our direct relationship with the Earth for our food and shelter. The North and South Poles are both breaking up. The level of the water in the oceans is going to rise. But at the same time land in the ocean, especially near Cuba, is also going to rise.
A Call for Fusion: As he met with audiences in Santa Fe, Mr. Barrios told a story about the most recent Mayan New Year ceremonies in Guatemala. He said that one respected elder, who lives all year in a solitary mountain cave, journeyed to Chichicastenango to speak with the people at the ceremony. He elder delivered a simple, direct message. He called for human beings to come together in support of life and light. Right now each person and group is going his or her own way. The elder of the mountains said there is hope if the people of the light can come together and unite in some way.
Reflecting on this, Mr. Barrios explained: "We live in a world of polarity: day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance. Just now the dark side is very strong, and very clear about what they want. They have their vision and their priorities clearly held, and also their hierarchy. They are working in many ways so that we will be unable to connect with the spiral Fifth World in 2012.
"On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus. As Mr. Barrios sees it, the dark side works to block fusion through denial and materialism. It also works to destroy those who are working with the light to get the Earth to a higher level.They like the energy of the old, declining Fourth World, the materialism. They do not want it to change. They do not want fusion. They want to stay at this level, and are afraid of the next level. The dark power of the declining Fourth World cannot be destroyed or overpowered. It's too strong and clear for that, and that is the wrong strategy. The dark can only be transformed when confronted with simplicity and open-heartedness. This is what leads to fusion, a key concept for the World of the Fifth Sun."
Mr. Barrios said the emerging era of the Fifth Sun will call attention to a much-overlooked element. Whereas the four traditional elements of earth, air, fire and water have dominated various epochs in the past, there will be a fifth element to reckon with in the time of the Fifth Sun: ether. The dictionary defines ether as the rarefied element of the Heavens. Ether is a medium. It permeates all space and transmits waves of energy in a wide range of frequencies, from cell phones to human auras.
What is "ethereal" is related to the regions beyond earth: the heavens. Ether the element of the Fifth Sun is celestial and lacking in material substance, but is no less real than wood, stone or flesh. "Within the context of ether there can be a fusion of the polarities," Mr. Barrios said. "No more darkness or light in the people, but an uplifted fusion.
But right now the realm of darkness is not interested in this. They are organized to block it. They seek to unbalance the Earth and its environment so we will be unready for the alignment in 2012. We need to work together for peace, and balance with the other side. We need to take care of the Earth that feeds and shelters us. We need to put our entire mind and heart into pursuing unity and fusion now, to confront the other side and preserve life, to be Ready for this Moment in History.
Mr. Barrios told his audiences in Santa Fe that we are at a critical moment of world history. "We are disturbed," he said. "We can't play anymore. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone is needed. You are not here for no reason. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard, but a special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history."
Mr. Barrios offered a number of suggestions to help people walk in balance through the years ahead. "The prophesied changes are going to happen," he said "but our attitude and actions determine how harsh or mild they are. We need to act, to make changes, and to elect people to represent us who understand and who will take political action to respect the earth. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about whom you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity. Eat wisely. A lot of food is corrupt in either subtle or gross ways. Pay attention to what you are taking into your body. Learn to preserve food, and to conserve energy.
Learn some good breathing techniques, so you have the mastery of your breath. Be clear. Follow a tradition with great roots. It is not important what tradition, your heart will tell you, but it must have great roots. We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything: people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether—the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.
According to Mr. Barrios this is a crucially important moment for humanity, and for earth. Each person is important. If you have incarnated into this era, you have spiritual work to do balancing the planet. He said the elders have opened the doors so that other races can come to the Mayan world to receive the tradition. The Maya have long appreciated and respected that there are other colors, other races, and other spiritual systems.
"They know," he said, "that the destiny of the Mayan world is related to the destiny of the whole world. "The greatest wisdom is in simplicity," Mr. Barrios advised before leaving Santa Fe. "Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The World Will Not End in 2012: Part 1
I'm passing along this article by Carlos Barrios, broken into 2 parts, for those of you who are curious about the enigmatic date of 2012.
Part 1
Carlos Barrios was born into a Spanish family on El Altiplano, the highlands of Guatemala. His home was in Huehuetenango, also the dwelling place of the Maya Mam tribe. With other Maya and other indigenous tradition keepers, the Mam carry part of the old ways on Turtle Island (North America). They are keepers of time, authorities on remarkable calendars that are ancient, elegant and relevant. Mr. Barrios is a historian, an anthropologist and investigator. After studying with traditional elders for 25 years since the age of 19, he has also became a Mayan Ajq'ij, a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide, Eagle Clan. Years ago, along with his brother, Gerardo, Carlos initiated an investigation into the different Mayan calendars. He studied with many teachers. He says his brother Gerardo interviewed nearly 600 traditional Mayan elders to widen their scope of knowledge.
"Anthropologists visit the temple sites," Mr. Barrios says, "and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. The indigenous have the calendars, and know how to accurately interpret it, not others.
The Mayan Calendars comprehension of time, seasons, and cycles has proven itself to be vast and sophisticated. The Maya understand 17 different calendars, some of them charting time accurately over a span of more than ten million years. The calendar that has steadily drawn global attention since 1987 is called the Tzolk'in or Cholq'ij.
Devised ages ago and based on the cycle of the Pleiades, it is still held as sacred. With the indigenous calendars, native people have kept track of important turning points in history. For example, the day keepers who study the calendars identified an important day in the year One Reed, Ce Acatal, as it was called by the Mexicans. That was the day when an important ancestor was prophesied to return, "coming like a butterfly. " In the western calendar, the One Reed date correlates to Easter Sunday, April 21, 1519 the day that Hernando Cortez and his fleet of 11 Spanish galleons arrived from the East at what is today called Vera Cruz, Mexico.
When the Spanish ships came toward shore, native people were waiting and watching to see how it would go. The billowing sails of the ships did indeed remind the scouts of butterflies skimming the ocean surface. In this manner was a new era initiated, an era they had anticipated through their calendars. The Maya termed the new era the Nine Bolomtikus, or nine Hells of 52 years each.
As the nine cycles unfolded, land and freedom were taken from the native people. Disease and disrespect dominated.
What began with the arrival of Cortez, lasted until August 16, 1987 - a date many people recall as The Harmonic Convergence. Millions of people took advantage of that date to make ceremony in sacred sites, praying for a smooth transition to a new era, the World of the Fifth Sun. From that date until now, Mr. Barrios says, we have been in a time when the right arm of the materialistic world is disappearing, slowly but inexorably. We are at the cusp of the era when peace begins, and people live in harmony with Mother Earth. We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition.
As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth changes. All this, Mr .Barrios says, was foreseen via the simple, spiral mathematics of the Mayan calendars. "It will change," Mr. Barrios observes. "Everything will change." He said Mayan Day keepers view the Dec 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator, and the earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy. At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all the world's spiritual traditions.
Art: Bird Kachina by Tom Perkinson
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