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How does the Ancient Mayan Calendar Cycle reflect the larger picture of this planetary transformation process we are in right now?

As the Ancient Mayan Time Map reveals, the start of the Great 5,125 year Cycle in 3114 BC coincides with the beginning of recorded History. Since then, as a human community, we have been in an ongoing acceleration process known as Civilization.

As Dr. Jose Arguelles writes in Time and The Technosphere: "August 13, 3114 BC is as precise and accurate as one can get for a beginning of history: the first Egyptian dynasty is dated to ca 3100 BC; the first 'city,' Uruk, in Mesopotamia, also ca 3100 BC; the Hindu Kali Yuga, 3102 BC; and most interestingly, the division of time into 24 hours of 60 minutes each and each minute into 60 seconds [and the division of the circle into 360 degrees], also around 3100 BC, in Sumeria. If the beginning of history was so accurately placed, then must not the end of history, December 21, 2012 also be as accurate?"

The Ancient Maya were extremely precise in their time measurements, and their calendars reflect the fractal intelligence of Nature. The 5,125 year cycle is made up of 13 smaller cycles, known as the "13 Baktun Count." Each baktun cycle is 394 years long, or 144,000 days.

Each baktun is understood as its own historical epoch or Age within the Great Creation Cycle, carrying a specific destiny for the evolution of those who incarnated in each baktun. For example, almost all of the Mayan inscriptions were seeded precisely during Baktun 9 (435-830 AD). This era is known as the time of the Classic Maya. After this point, around 830 A.D., the great Mayan centers were abandoned and their thriving culture mysteriously disappeared. To this day, no one can verify or prove why they left or where they went.

The Classic Maya of Baktun 9 were of a specific destiny, distinct from Maya of other times. As Dr. Jose Arguelles writes, "In 830 A.D. the engineering team departed back to space, back to the other dimensions from which the Maya keep their watch on things. Slowly the terrestrial Maya melted back into the jungles. The time of darkness was setting in. Sure enough the conquerors came. By 830 A.D. Warrior tribes who took the ancient name of Toltec, which means Master Builder, entered the Yucatan. War and human sacrifice were introduced."

The Classic Maya of Baktun 9 were of a specific destiny, distinct from Maya of other times. As Dr. Jose Arguelles writes, "In 830 A.D. the engineering team departed back to space, back to the other dimensions from which the Maya keep their watch on things. Slowly the terrestrial Maya melted back into the jungles. The time of darkness was setting in. Sure enough the conquerors came. By 830 A.D. Warrior tribes who took the ancient name of Toltec, which means Master Builder, entered the Yucatan. War and human sacrifice were introduced."

Earth and her inhabitants are currently travelling through the 13th baktun cycle - the final period of 1618-2012 AD. This cycle is known both as "the triumph of materialism" and "the transformation of matter." It seems the ancients accurately predicted that this final baktun would be a time of great forgetting in which we would drift very far from our sense of oneness with nature and experience a kind of collective amnesia. Like a memory virus in which we begin to believe the limited reality of appearances and grow dense to the spiritual essence which animates this world, so humanity's egoic domination has grown during this cycle.

Dr. Jose Arguelles makes the point that this 13th Baktun has essentially been "captured by mechanical time." For example, it is extremely relevant that we entered this 13th baktun right after establishing the world wide coordination of Pope Gregory XIII's 12-month calendar system (1582) as well as the perfection of 12-hour 60-minute mechanical clock (1600), which had been evolving for centuries. These are no small matters - in fact the planet and the human mind have never been the same since their introduction into our culture. According to Dr. Arguelles, these 2 instruments are what manifested humanity's "error in time" which is the following of artificial instruments of time that served to separate humankind apart from the rest of nature, operating by our own false timing frequency, to the detriment of the natural world.

THE 12-MONTH CALENDAR:

The 12-month Gregorian calendar is not based on logic, science, or nature. It denies and covers up the true annual human biological cycle conserved in the body of woman.

As Broughton Richmond wrote in Time Measurement and Calendar Construction: "If the Julian/Gregorian calendar was to be offered as a new device for measuring time, we, with our present knowledge and state of living, would reject is as something utterly impractical, lacking in harmony and order, unbalanced and irregular, too clumsy a calendar to make calculations by..." It is time to ask: Why do we use an instrument of imperfect measure to coordinate the affairs of the world?

The Gregorian calendar is the current world standard because of the forceful issuance of this system upon conquered (indigenous) peoples who lost their land as well as their religious freedoms to the Roman Vatican's Catholic Church. As Dr. Arguelles shares: "Between the Doctrine of Discovery and the Gregorian Calendar Reform, under the aegis of the Church, the Europeans conquered and colonized virtually the entire New World - North and South America...The historical context in which this calendar became the fixed standard is of the greatest significance."

The Gregorian calendar is a product of its predecessors - Julius Caesar's calendar and the earlier Roman Empire calendar, being practically identical to them, with the exception of its name and leap-day rule.

Essentially we have been using this flawed and limited 12-month model of time for over 2000 years, not questioning its impact on our minds and our global society.

Meanwhile, we need to realize that a calendar is the central organizing instrument of our global society. The way we frame and relate to time impacts our minds, every day.

THE MECHANICAL CLOCK:

The clock was the first automatic machine -
going on to become the heart of all machine technology to come.

As George Woodcock wrote in 1944: "The clock, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, represents the key machine of the machine age, both for its influence on technology and its influence on the habits of men. Technically, the clock was the first really automatic machine that attained any importance in the life of men. Previous to its invention, the common machines were of such a nature that their operation depended on some external and unreliable force, such as human or animal muscles, water or wind.

"It is true that the Greeks had invented a number of primitive automatic machines, but these where used, like Hero's steam engine, for obtaining 'supernatural' effects in the temples or for amusing the tyrants of Levantine cities. But the clock was the first automatic machine that attained a public importance and a social function. Clock-making became the industry from which men learnt the elements of machine making and gained the technical skill that was to produce the complicated machinery of the industrial revolution."

The presence of the clock gave birth to the notion that time lies outside our bodies - that it can be tracked by a machine, and that we can sit and watch it "fly" by tick-tock as though it is something linear, containable, and separate from the organic, flowing process of life. The adherence to the clock for our sense of time and timing is noted as the greatest obstacle to allowing the full telepathic abilities of the human to flower.

"The clock turns time from a process of nature into a commodity that can be measured and bought and sold like soap or sultanas. And because, without some means of exact time keeping, industrial capitalism could never have developed and could not continue to exploit the workers, the clock represents an element of mechanical tyranny in the lives of modern men more potent than any individual exploiter or any other machine... Now the movement of the clock sets the tempo men's lives - they become the servant of the concept of time which they themselves have made, and are held in fear, like Frankenstein by his own monster." -George Woodcock

As a 6-year old girl once said: "The clock wants to turn everybody into a machine."

THE CARTESTIAN GRID:

Next came the Cartesian Coordinate Rectilinear Grid System (1637) which went on to establish the foundational platform of all modern math and science. Thanks to Rene Descartes (the man infamous for his quote "I think therefore I am,") the ceiling of perception validated only the reality of the 3 dimensions of physical space. The coordinates of X,Y, and Z rendered the fourth dimension obsolete from our worldview. Beyond the 3 dimensions of what we can physically sense, the fourth dimension is the invisible dimension of mind and spirit in which all is unified. When we are disconnected from the fourth dimension, because we perceive that everything is separate from everything else, our values and focus as a society become heavily materialistic.

Another very important event that occurred at that moment of adopting the Cartesian model of reality, was that time became symbolized by the little letter t, meaning it was reduced from its qualitative essence to that of a quantity. The mind who adopted the lens of the linear grid also adopted the limited perception of time as a 3rd dimensional linear progression of pure duration.

Our societal paradigms have continued to operate with these limitations in place. Thus if something can not be seen, touched, or proven with measurements, it does not, in effect, exist.

Through the Cartesian lens, Nature itself has become reduced to pure quantifiable resources - no longer a living qualitative aspect of ourselves, but now something outside of ourselves which we observe, analyze and ultimately come to exploit, manipulate, dominate, toxify, and even destroy or extinguish. As Rene Descartes stated plainly,"I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life...and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature."

The Cartesian model that has been passed down for centuries is like a mental spell that has kept us collectively trapped in the 3rd-dimension. We can see its prevalence even in the ways our modern cities are laid out in grids, reflecting and re-inforcing linearization as normal. As the psyche of modern humanity has erroneously perceived the Universe as a giant, soul-less, linear machine, we have lost touch with the simple yet vast omnipresent magical intelligence and benevolence of Nature.

We must humble ourselves and recognize the Cartesian scientific model is not only outdated, but it is the foundation of our collective mental illness that has motivated our ongoing self-destructive actions. We must admit that as a species, we are now obsessed with the physical dimension to the point of dangerous materialsm and epidemic depression resulting from being disconnected from the spiritual, invisible dimensions of Life.

This Living Prophecy is inviting us to awaken from our cosmic amnesia and embrace the unifying Essence that underlies and animates all of Life in the Cosmos. Let us stop separating Spirit and Matter, and let us instead learn how to unify the physical with the invisible domains of the mind, heart and spirit. In this way, we can create technologies and social and scientific models that are in harmony with Nature, while also honoring and nurturing the inner, deepest nature of our own humanity.

In alignment with the Spirit of the Maya, this Prophecy is asking us to Return to Living in Harmony with Natural Time; to Return to being synchronized with the universal flow. We are being called to evolve beyond our man-made artificial versions of time - the mechanical clock and 12-month irregular calendar that numb us to the sacred intelligence of time and its cycles. We are being invited to utilize a calendar that will assist us in having a new mindset as we close this cycle of History and prepare for the possibilities of Post-History. The 13-Moon/28-day calendar is now in use in over 90 countries around the world by people who are choosing to break the spell of artificial time and participate in the fulfillment of prophecy!