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Great Transformations?

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Penelope Green, an editor at the Home section of the New York Times, is very interested in what changes people are making in their lives and especially in their homes to get ready for the "great transformation" and the completion of the Mayan long count at the end of this year. She writes:

"I’m curious what preparations folks might be undertaking in their homes and homelife in anticipation of 12/21/12. Are they shedding possessions? Moving? Amassing certain objects? Is it possible to poll your community, in a posting or by asking about? Do let me know! I feel there’s a story here....thanks much, penelope"

Anyone with answers to this question can email her: greenpe@nytimes.com

 

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It seems...

It seems so much of peoples response will be based on whether they believe this will be a continuous or discontinuous event. This occurs to me after having gone through several phases of shedding many possessions as a result of my shifting belief in whether or not this will be a discontinuous event. But to begin it would seem incomplete without first observing our attitudes toward property and possessions and how those derive from the way we work as a foundation for our lives in the first place. And how the inner work we have done in relation to our expectancy of a detectable major oncoming shift in consciousness has changed those attitudes towards possessions. And I guess in some cases that inner work creates the most valuable commodity of all: the energy to bring your way of being into reality. And in some cases I can see that manifesting in ones home. Right where everyone can see it. So it does interest me slightly to see what turns up in such a story. But it could not be separated from the inner work which brought about such a desire to change the home environment. And the distinctions between inner work yielding profound shifts in perspectiverather than simply being a result of panic, self-sacrifice, or fear.

-JoshWaycaster

As for me...

As for me... I unleashed a free roaming tiger in my abode to really add a new flare to my previously bland arrangements. He loves to surprise my guests.

-JoshWaycaster

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The completion of the Mayan long count

For me it's not about a single day event. For some the wheel has already turned last November. The transformation is like a tangent on a super wide circle. It takes place on a "fuzzy" era, at this scale probably years. And I have been preparing for it for a while, a long while I should say. Yes giving away things I have accumulated during my life seems appropriate, but perhaps as much because of my own personal death in sight and of my loss of appetite for 'things.' In any case my focus for my home today is that it can be used for social events, community events, meditation groups, process-art painting workshops, feeding the kids from the post-school mission across the street, hosting underprivileged youth, etc. So it's important that it offers a space that feels safe, warm, convivial, comforting, hospitable and aesthetically appealing. I also inherited French furniture from my mother, and I like the idea of honoring her memory by sharing it with others rather than disposing of it. So it's ... complicated, but an interesting question. Thank you for raising it, and make me reflect upon it.

Miss Representation

Um... No disrespect intended, but there is an Aztec calendar stone on this page. The Long Calendar is a Maya calendar. Hundreds of years apart, totally different people/culture. This would be akin to putting a Greek flag on a web page about Italian cuisine. Just sayin. My family and I are not so much preparing for 2012's winter solstice so much as just preparing for the unseen and the potential consequences of a bloated empire and increasing precariousness in the face of hyper-social-stratification. We are on a super-low budget, but trying to make our home as energy efficient as possible and storing away things like food, water, and general purpose goods. Hopefully we won't need them, but I'd rather have it and not need it... Peace, D