About 2012

The Mayan People actively used 17 different calendars. Many of them supported the functioning of their society: auspicious dates for political functions or campaigns, planting and harvesting schedules, and the timing of significant passages through life. The Tzolkin is the Maya’s spiritual calendar, used daily to attune to the arc of evolution driven by the Sacred World Tree. Carl Johan Calleman articulates nine cycles of creation within these calendars which likewise describe large patterns or arcs through earth, natural, and human history which are scheduled to come to completion–all at the same time. According to his codex (mapping of the Mayan calendars onto our Gregorian calendar) this will occur in October of 2011, not the Winter Solstice of 2012 as many in popular texts have described.

Some people describe the event of the end of the Mayan People’s calendars as the end of time. Some people choose to perceive this as an apocalyptic end of all times. I don’t perceive this, nor do I believe it. Time as we have perceived it in the twentieth century, and for many thus far in the twenty-first century, has been a linear experience, a passage, a history. In this regard, the ending of the Mayan calendars may be an end to “time” as we have known it and thus, the end of linear time like a clock that ticks away minutes.

Some scholars have postulated that time is actually a dimension, just like space, and that we will begin to perceive time as flexible and malleable after these 9 patterns come to a close. Just like we can look at our past and experience it in our present with our memory and our emotions . . . just like we can imagine our future and have an emotional experience of that vision of the future in our present, many believe that all time is simultaneous and that we simply experience a slice of it at any one given moment, according to our choice. I believe that it is possible that at the completion of the Mayan Long Count when these nine calendars or creation cycles come to completion that human beings may be able to have greater creative control over their experience and use of time. I also believe that it’s possible that human beings will be able to perceive the future consequences of any action in time before they act and will therefore gain greater mastery over their impact on their environment and their relations with others.

The important factor about these nine creation cycles is that they have been drivers of change on our planet, drivers of evolution. When these come to completion I believe what it will mean is that our planet will have all the seeds it needs to flower and that we will be free to create from any reference point.

The other significant impact of the completion of the Mayan Long Count is astrophysical in nature. There are phenomenal photon beams of light emanating from the center of our universe. Out here on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy we have been in the dark–outside this beam of light–for several thousand years. Upon completion of the final creation cycle of the Mayan Long Count, Earth will finally and fully enter this beam of light again–and remain in it for 2,000 years. This will offer us tremendous amounts of new information, new possibilities, new ideas, and new ways of apprehending our capacity as human beings. Some people say it will bring a new golden age to the planet.

While this time on our planet may be frought with conflicts and challenges it also offers tremendous opportunities for positive change and expansive spiritual growth. Now more than ever our consciousness creates our reality. Choose love. Create wisely.

~ For more information on these ideas, please reference books on the subject by Carl Johan Calleman and Barbara Hand Clow. Carl Calleman’s article on this subject: http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/nov8_sixth_night.htm