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and the Transformation of Consciousness Ancient peoples used the calendar as spiritual cycles. The Egyptians, Mayans, Indians, Peruvians, Chinese, Scandinavians and others, shared a 360 day calendar plus 5 days when the gods rested or were reborn. (The Chinese religious calendar was 360 days which the civil calendar was 365 days). During the 5 days the gods could not be counted on. Ceremonies and sacrifice was a way of preparing for their return. A picture emerges where the physical earth cycles were seen as 365 days while the spiritual cycle was 360 days. In the recent past there has been a resurgence of interest in the Mayan calendar. Like the Egyptians, the Mayans; from Central America (Mexico, Guatemala and Belize); saw time as a time of cosmic creation brought about by the gods. The Mayan calendar is used as a prophetic tool or guide. It has been preserved in the many pyramids and stelae scattered throughout Central America. The period referred to as the Mayan civilisation, which incorporates the Aztecs and other peoples, reached a pinnacle during the classical period between 250 bce and 290 ce. However, the last Mayan peoples were crushed by the Spaniards as late as 1697. After Cortes arrived in 1519 the Christians set out to destroy the culture by burning all books and banning native cultural activities. Only four books remain. They were taken to Europe and later surfaced in libraries there. Why is the Mayan calendar seen as important to us today? The Mayans based their calendar on a mathematical system. The Mayan prophesy is based on spiritual time with no intermediary 5 day periods. The calendar, which dates back to 3114 cbe, is divided into 13 levels, 13 heavens or eras. Each era, called a baktun, is made up of 360 days x 400 (394.3 solar years). These levels are believed to represent 13 levels of consciousness. According to this prophesy we are now in the Mayan Great Cycle, 13th baktun, which ends in December 2012. The premise is that as we approach 2012 there will be a spiritual awakening and unification, a completion of a cosmic plan creating a level of synthesis. The message of the Mayan calendar is that we are all one. Life has a purpose. God is love. Thinking is not something that takes place ‘inside’ the head of a person in isolation from the rest of the cosmos. Our thinking, and by consequences, our actions as well, develop largely through resonance with an evolving cosmic consciousness mediated by the earth, whose various energy shifts drive evolution. We are co-creators in that process. The Mayan calendar indicates wave patterns, winds of history, the emergence of religions, developments of written communication, ups and downs of worlds economics, demonstrating a living conscious universe whose built in intelligence follows an exact schedule for evolution The purpose of studying the calendar is to align ourselves with cosmic rhythms, its evolution of consciousness. There is a golden age at the end of Mayan time count.
Pauleen McDermott
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