2012: The coming end of our era?
Perhaps you have heard of an event that is believed to occur in or near Mexico City six years from now, marking the end of time or the end of the world.
The event, scheduled to occur in 2012 (some say 2011), is when the ancient Mayan calendar ends.
In 2012 the Mayan Calendar simply stops. Finalized. Made. On.
Do we really only have six more years? Is this Mayan event equivalent to the promised Biblical Armageddon? Do we have to be afraid? Highly strung? amazed? Anxious? Mild or intense curiosity? Do we need to review our investment portfolios? Are we damned or saved? What is this 2012 event?
Let’s take a brief look at the Mayan calendar.
The Mayans, who live on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, are an ancient culture dating back to the time of the early Roman Empire in Europe. Their culture and civilization gave rise to several subsequent cultures: the Olmecs; the Toltecs and the Aztecs. They built pyramids with the same precision as the Egyptians, although not as large. They had a very sophisticated understanding of astronomy and mathematics, all of which is reflected in the complexity of their calendar. Then mysteriously they seemed to disappear.
There are nine Underworlds in the Mayan universe. They are called the Underworlds, not because of a Mayan concept of Hell, but because of the activated crystalline structures in the inner core of the earth. These crystalline structures were not “scientifically” known to the Maya, but were “intuited” or “intuited” by spiritual priests and tribal leaders, whose chief was Kukulcán, better known as Quetzalcóatl in Aztec culture.
Each Underworld consists of seven days and has a duration, a period of time, equivalent to twenty times the duration of the subsequent underworld. These periods of time are called “cycles” in the Mayan calendar. The last day of each cycle contains all subsequent cycles, so all cycles will end at the same time. Each cycle is divined to achieve a “higher” sense of awareness: building on the previous cycle and simultaneously preparing preparations for the next cycle.
Here is a simplified summary (for more information on this topic, I would recommend The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness, by Carl Johan Calleman, PhD, Bear & Company Publishers, Rochester, Vermont).
During the initial cycle, universal consciousness passed from the Big Bang and the creation of matter to the emergence of cellular structures. During the second cycle, consciousness shifted from cellular structures to mammalian organisms. Consciousness passed from animals to primates during the third cycle and from primates to humans in the fourth cycle. During the fifth cycle, humans raised their consciousness with the development of a spoken language and community organization. The sixth cycle began with the development of a written language and a sense of national consciousness, an awareness of being a “people” among other organized “peoples.” During the seventh cycle, beginning at the time of the Industrial Age, the idea that we were a global people germinated. The eighth cycle, which we are currently in, will see that embryonic sense of a global community come to fruition. The last cycle, or age, of the Maya calendar records will begin in early 2011 and end later that year. It marks the end of our dualistic civilization as we know it today: east/west, rich/poor, one/either, we/them, me/you, and the beginning of a new order of life: global citizenship; intuitive knowledge; share resources; Cooperation instead of competitiveness; Driven by spirit instead of driven by materialism.
As mentioned above, each “cycle”, according to the Maya, is twenty times shorter than the previous one. This rather simple fact about the Mayan calendar explains very clearly what we all suspect and often hear about: events don’t just seem to speed up, events speed up.
The first cycle began 16.4 billion years ago, around the time astronomers now peg the Big Bang event and the beginning of the creation of matter. The second cycle began 850 million years ago, close to the time frame that anthropology and geology use as the beginning of the first animals.
The third cycle began 40 million years ago, around the time scientists now believe the first primates emerged. The fourth cycle began 2 million years ago, around the time anthropology places the rise of the first humans.
The fifth cycle began 102,000 years ago with the probability of the first spoken language, according to anthropologists. The sixth cycle began 5,125 years ago (around 3100 BC) with the appearance of the first written language: the Sumerians. This sixth cycle, known as the National Underworld, is also the beginning of the Mayan “Long Count” calendar.
The seventh cycle (known as the Planetary Underworld) began 256 years ago (around the mid-18th century), roughly at the time historians place the beginning of the Industrial Age. It was near the end of this cycle that the 1st Harmonic Convergence occurred in August 1987, marking the beginning of a countdown to the end of the Mayan Long Count. The eighth cycle began on January 5, 1999 and will last 12.8 years (4680 days). It is the cycle in which we currently find ourselves and is called by the Mayans the Galactic Underworld.
The Galactic Cycle will be marked by the realization of the true impact of information technology on the global economy, expressed by the use of the Internet. The marked increase in the importance and role of intuition and the spiritual unity of the global community will also be quite evident. The movement will quickly shift from an either/or (or us/them) mentality to one of true global cooperation and exchange. This phenomenon is often referred to as one of higher vibrations or the beginning of non-dual cosmic consciousness. By the way, the 2nd Harmonic Convergence will occur near the end of this cycle in May 2010.
The ninth cycle, known as the Universal Underworld, will begin on February 11, 2011 and end on October 28, 2011, lasting only 260 days. At the end of this final 260-day cycle, the Mayan Calendar simply stops. [The date October 28, 2011, the end of the Mayan Calendar, is based on a more recent understanding of the actual beginning of the Mayan “long count” calendar, according to Calleman. The original calculated date marking the beginning of the calendar defined the end of the “long count” as December 21, 2012, the date we hear most about.] Some believe that the end of this ninth cycle is also known as the birth of the sixth Sun and the fifth Earth, the beginning of a new cycle of 5125 years.
At the end of the calendar, according to the Maya, humanity will have direct contact, understanding, and divine consciousness. This will not happen suddenly, just as the Industrial Age, which historians usually mark with Fulton’s invention of the steam engine, did not happen overnight. However, as industrialism grew, those companies and industries that refused to adapt simply did not survive.
Think of this analogy: Two blacksmiths are standing in front of their shops, facing each other, when the first car comes rolling down Main Street. A blacksmith says to himself, “Harumph! Those ‘iron horses’ will never make it! I repair wagon wheel rims and hand plows, and iron horses. That’s what I’ll keep doing.” Unfortunately, he probably went broke. The other blacksmith says to himself, “I don’t know if the cars will last or not, but I do know that it’s made of a lot of iron, and I fix iron things. If it breaks, I think I can make the parts to fix it, along with cart wheels and shoeing horses. That blacksmith probably got it right. Perhaps he was Mr. Goodwrench’s grandfather.
It’s an attitude. It’s all in how we perceive the change. If we change perception with fear, we will resist it, like the first blacksmith. Let’s remember the axiom: What resists will persist. If we welcome change as part of a divine plan (however you choose to define it), then we will adapt, grow, evolve, and even prosper.
The end of the Mayan calendar does not predict a physical end of the world, just as the physical end of the world is not described in the Book of Revelations in the Bible. But, according to the Maya, this last Cycle, the Universal Underworld, marks the end of the world as we know it, as we have come to understand how things work. This is similar to the Book of Revelations describing the end of the world as perceived by the writer in the early second century. John of Patmos wrote Revelation in a visionary “code”, since being caught with recognized Christian literature was a punishable offense in his time. In a sequence of dream visions, he perceives the defeat of the empires of evil and the establishment of a kingdom of peace, ruled by God, where we are free from pain and suffering.
As these shifts in consciousness or shifts in perceived reality occur, there will be people – those in power, those dedicated to keeping things the way they have been, those steeped in religious systems that assuage fears of the people – who will “fight” to avoid exchange. Then there will be conflict, as there always is with change. Could the conflict become so severe that nuclear weapons would be unleashed and the earth rendered uninhabitable? It certainly is possible. It is probable? I do not think.
We are moving from a level of collective consciousness: 1) Where others are seen as competitors, 2) Where we see ourselves as survivors struggling to get our share of what we perceive to be limited resources (or lack thereof), and 3) Where we perceive ourselves working, struggling and fighting within all the elements of a dualistic worldview where we see everything in terms of right/wrong, good/bad, abundance/scarcity, judging/comparing (from our us/them point of view). sight of course) and have created a world filled with fear, guilt, shame and resentment.
We are heading into an Era of Peace and Harmony, summed up in the ancient Mayan greeting In Lak’ech or “I am another you.” Other spiritual movements have similar traditions. Egyptian and Vedic traditions describe the transformation of consciousness. The Incas, the Hopi, and the Keys of Enoch discussed the return of the Children of Light and the rise of spirituality and the decline of religion.
For the last fifty years, Share International has been predicting the rise of Maitrayea, the new age world teacher, and the rest of a hierarchy of spiritual teachers, including the Christ, the fifth Buddha, the Imam Mahdi and the Messiah. There have been recent writings, such as Lee Carroll’s Indigo Children, that describe a higher form of consciousness emerging today, an emergence that is visible as an indigo-colored aura surrounding these gifted children, many of whom are misguided. understood today. Astrologers have been predicting our movement from the Age of Pisces, marked by 5,000 years of idealism and patriarchy, to the several centuries of life of the Age of Aquarius. This new era will be marked by the resurgence of the power of the “total group” in consciousness raising. The Age of Aquarius will also bring back the Divine Feminine to create a balance in “oneness” consciousness, a healing of the energies between the masculine and feminine.
Just think about what is about to happen: Peace; harmony; Exchange; Cooperation; Caring for Mother Earth; A Truly Global Sense of Community; The spirituality of love (or an honest spirituality) replacing fear-based religiosity. Wow!
Get ready for it. Welcome.
Rejoice in the end of this world, as we have known it.
Rejoice in the beginning of the world we have longed for.
Hallelujah!