Mayan Elder Insists 2012 Isn't End of the World

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Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan Mayan Elder, says the doomsday theories surrounding 2012 spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.   He's tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" and claims that it's not the end of the world.  He and other Mayans report that such ideas have little to no traction in their community, where there are currently more pressing concerns--such as the amount of rainfall in the region.

According to a recent AP article, the frustration of contemporary Mayans is shared by many archaeologists and astronomers "who say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes 'predictions' from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: 'Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?'"

While the idea of a destructive apocalypse is derided, the article goes on to point out the many links between archeological evidence and astronomical predictions that supports the idea that something major is due to happen on or around the date of December 21, 2012.  The article also refers to the author John Major Jenkins who has researched the 2012 prophecy for over two decades and argues that we should honor the date designated by the Mayans, not because it will be the end of the world, but because it will usher in a time of "transformation and renewal."

 

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The Age of Transformation and Renewal

http://www.straight.com/article-260279/your-horoscope-october-1-8-2009

I like to think of it as a Golden Dark Age. I believe we should--- Listen to the Elders.

 

As well, there should be music to usher this era in. 

We should celebrate with the Muse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse

http://www.ilovemetric.com/ 

http://www.iamlights.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_the_Whale

http://yousaypartywesaydie.ca/

http://www.blackmountainarmy.com/ 

http://www.myspace.com/poplevi 

http://plantsandanimals.ca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY&fmt=18

 http://www.alexgrey.com/interviews/entheon.html

 

http://www.cbc.ca/entertainment/

 

the satellite mind 

 

psychedelic imagineer/pioneer artist Alex Grey could visualize the art expression for all of us to ponder. 

 

/http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2009/10/typepad-platform-and-typepad-motion.html 

 

What would be really cool is if all the above bands each created an example of their artistic interpretation of a matrifocal healing vibrational song then burned it to a dvd/ cd/digital itunes format, involve all the social networks then, up to the satellite mind, to saturate the Global Mind, and just in time for the Holiday season, a new take on an old theme, and it would be great if everyone could afford a copy.  

 

 

Seems to be alot of talented people everywhere making contributions on a local level with universally postive results.

mayan calendar

here's a decent site for anyone interested.. http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm

The Sacred Tree

Great site. The sacred Tree. I remember reading about the Goddess Asherah in my studies.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah 

Not to worry

I'm sure there plenty of other doomsday theories just waiting their turn.

 

http://www.beyond-karma.com

We all need to insist this as well.

There's still too much fear surrounding this time and all of us on this site are responsible for insisting 2012 is the time of something great in order to create something great.


All bridges can be rebuilt.

perhaps it's time to reconsider

While I think it's truly wonderful that folks are looking forward to some kind of massive transformation of consciousness, maybe it's time to consider that 2012 is likely to be another Harmonic Convergence in terms of explicit effect on human existence. While the sheer absence of critical thinking around these issues is vexing, perhaps there is a net gain in terms of getting folks to ponder their own personal development in a way they might not of before.

None of us really knows what's going to happen, but due to the lack of any historical precedent, I'm not expecting much more than another apocalyptic prediction gone bust.

John Major Jenkins has been

John Major Jenkins has been saying the same thing about how 2012 is transformation but not the end of time -- and Daniel Pinchbeck picked this up as well. Jenkins has a new book coming out about all the misrepresentations of 2012 -- should be excellent.

Go for a Walk, what do you SEE?

Why do we need any predictions to tell us that what is happening? We know society is Polarizing. No middle path. The rich, and the poor. Forget every prediction about the END. We don't need predictions to see each and everyone of us has a responsibility to end the polarization in society. The Haves and the Have nots. At some point these two ends of the spectrum will meet. How will we treat each other? I went walking to my favourite place over the last three days. What I saw broke my heart. Flocks of Mercedes, BMW's, Audi's, Land Rover's, Lexus, etc. etc. There was enough money in one parking lot to feed the entire population of the city's mentally ill homeless addicted unemployed ever growing population. I walked all the way to Jericho Beach to find the one place I felt at ease. A football field full of crows, and not one of them flew away or looking at me like I didn't belong. We don't need the stars to tell us that we need to start to Love each other, Love heals and Hate kills. It is so easy to resent and live in anger, I know I am as guilty as the next person but I feel paralyzed and powerless. I believe instead of reading the stars looking for the end, we all need to listen to our Hearts which is telling us something is missing. Instead of worrying about things we have no control over: astrological dates etc., we need to begin to deal with things we can solve, like providing the basic needs to all the members of the Human family.

thanks highryder

i so much agree. And it might sound as a bit of a ridiculous idea but I have it also when I see als these all yoghurts and desserts in the supermarkets. Years ago one could buy a liter or half a liter. Now all you can buy (I live in France) is packages of 4 individual portions... and these 4 or more portions again are attached with again another packaging around then.

My worsed concern is ofcourse the tremendes pollution, spoiled energy and materials  BUT what to think of all those jobs...

If you would calculate how many peoples have their jobs around all this unneededness.

The designers of the packaging of plastic and paper, the people working at the machines of the plastic packaging, the people working to print the packaging paper, the people working on the machine of the tin foil. Ect, ect, ect.

 For the most it all has to do with being more 'beautiful' and attractive than the neighbour yoghurt. Duality and rivalry is everywhere.

Our economy is insane.

 

2012 is belief, 2011 is fact

The same article that quotes a Mayan elder on the need to stay calm fails to mention the actual calendar date supported by the Mayan elders. The 2012 date popularized by John Major Jenkins and Jose Arguelles is wrong, plain and simple. Anyone who does more than a superficial investigation of the astronomical predictions of 2012 will find the same (I won't list the flaws here, check out any good skeptic's analysis).

The correct end date of the Mayan calendar is October 28, 2011. This is based on the actual inscriptions at Palenque concerning the evolution of the World Tree--NOT on astronomical observations that Westerners have projected on to the calendar. The interpretation of the Mayan calendar by Carl Johan Calleman and Ian Xel Lungold desperately need to start reaching public consciousness. 2012 is bunk if not disinformation.

I urge readers to check out Calleman's site, for example the article "The Risks of Believing That The Mayan Calendar Ends December 21, 2012". Also check out this interview with Mayan elder Don Alejandro. Both are linked to below. The elegance of this model, which is about the evolution of Time and Consciousness rather than doomsday, should resonate with everyone who hasn't invested too much of their ego in 2012.

http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/risk_of_2012.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_MKHqVsAlQ

2012---Don't be Afraid, Let the Morning come, Let the Dawn come.

The most authentic explanation of the Mayan belief regarding the calendar I have ever listened to. Thanks for the incredible link. The elder refers to something missing? What is it that the Vatican has taken from the culture that needs to be returned?

Calleman has already written

Calleman has already written a great article for Reality Sandwich:

http://www.realitysandwich.com/rebirth_celebration_may_911_2009

Also check out this wonderful message to the world from the same Guatemalan elder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHR9tZvb4l4&feature=relate

 

the world of duality

Did we as a western 'civilization' ever understand other cultures their rituals, believes and behaviors..??! The european catholics robbed the gold of the Mayans to use as money to finance the crusades and to dress up their churches. They didn't have a notion about the meaning of gold the way it had to the Mayans. They couldn't because they were not able to level with them. They only way they could see the world was out of their cultural conditioned, godfearing background.

A hole culture was destroyed.  Even if maybe today we would have been able to grasp a little something of their outstanding profound astrological knowledge, it is a quit difficult to research for all so much of the knowledge is burned and destroyed.


We the western people of today are so not aware that life goes in cycles and we're not familiar with the fenomen that cycles end ( as inherent to a cycle aswell a restarting..).
As we're not used to think in cycles so does end equal death.

 

The only celestial cycle western european people are aware of is the cycle of the sun, our -year-. But if you would ask people in the street what fase of the moon we are today than 90% will have no clue at all. The moon doesn't excist in our day to day life.

The western european are totally out of knowing to see life as cycles-in-cycles(in-cycles..).The only thing we measure time by and so live by is the Gregorian calendar and the clock.


That we live in a time where all kinds of life dangered events are around the corner is obvious to a lot of us. It's in the air so to say. We could express that as 5 to 12.

 

That the humanspecies or a big part of them might face death in near future wouldn't be a very big surprise to a lot of us. Fearfull maybe but not unimaginable.

The 'funny' thing about it is that we are so arrogant that the idea of us as a species becoming extinct is in our perception equivalent to the end of the life on this planet.. I guess the ancient Mayan lived very according the way of the Tao. As the Tao states All changes nothing stays the same all is movement.

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For so long I question why do intelligent people argue so much over if it is 2011 or 2012 that this 26.000 sun year cycle ends and restarts..? Just for the sake of continuing the world of duality untill 'the end'..??!

The world IS duality

"Just for the sake of continuing the world of duality"

To posit that the nondual exists as some kind of opposite of duality is a huge error in thinking, one that only leads to occlusion (read: a blocking) of our own nondual awareness as it shines in us right now.

The world will always be dual, the nondual is always right here, right now. This will not change. The world will go on, and the nondual will ever be. To expect some kind of transition from dual to nondual will only lead to a continuation of ignorance about the nondual, and perhaps a grand disappointment when the fantasy of 2012 comes crashing down on the alloted date.

2012 planetary alignments and transitions

When having read Toward 2012 Perspectives on the Next Age, there was a very interesting supposition about planetary transits. According to previous planetary transits of Uranus and Pluto they happen to coincide with revolution and liberation. These planets were aligned or in transit during the 1960s most notably during 1964 through 1968, during which there was incredible change throughout the collective consciousness. This alignment is set to happen again from 2008 through 2020. What this means is anyones guess. The question I mean to propose is one of how society will emerge from this transformative era. It seems that the patriarchal society is falling apart due to faulty foundations, i.e. unsustainable fuel sources, drilling for oil, mass commercial food production, economic theory based on exploitation and pillaging the earth, and political systems that are hierarchal and male dominated.It would seem that the new era would not just be a embrace of the feminine energy, but an embrace of the unity of energies that are yin and yang. The dualities will be unified and usher in a new era of logic and intuition, of nurturing nature, and functional nature. The new era will be not dominated by anyone one energy or gender but rather a confluence of the two, causing a birthing of a new age.

2012

I definitely think something interesting is going to happen between the dates of October 28, 2011 as the beginning, with December 21, 2012 as some sort of mid-point, and March 28, 2013 (another key date that I have read about) when it will become more clear what to expect. I hope this is a period of transformation and renewal.

However, I think that a lot of people who walk around unaware and in a daze will become the playthings of the Universe and those of us who are aware something is going to happen around this time may have a better chance of surviving what may come, for good or bad.

There is an old saying, "Bad news is good news to the prepared."

consciousness,,telepathy?there is nothing to transcend

?anyone have experience with the iching and the lunar calender and terence mckennas rap about it,, very liberating i think, considering alot of us jump back and forth from the imperical and intuitive without the sensibility of the androgyny of truth..? feeling=thoughts~thoughts=feeling,,i am equality,, i dont think there is anything missing, you know,, sounds more like a metaphor,, there is nothing to be put in the clouds,, it is all here and now,,, this is a very wonderful and powerful and special time,, also horrific and sorrowful times,, the kingdom of shambala is within and betweem all of us,,"the space between whats wrong and right, is where youll find me hiding waiting for you"

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Thank you John from the Temple for posting the Calleman article and Alejandro video. The article was great. I just finished watching the Drunvalo 14 pt seris on youtube that Pinchbeck recommended. Drunvalo says many times that Don Alejandro agrees with the 2012 date, but Calleman does not. It seems that the more information I try to gather about any of this the more confusion it brings. I guess my question is why would Don Alejandro tell different people different things?

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why would Don Alejandro tell different people different things?

I was not aware of this. Will check out Drunvalo's video, with a healthy dose of skepsis though cuz I don't have the greatest impression of him.

Thanks

That'd be great. It's called the Maya of Eternal Time.

Straight from the Horse's Mouth

Just watched Drunvalo's video. I find it very hard to believe that he speaks for the Mayans. He is talking about a doomsday, while the video I linked to shows Don Alejandro, Mayan elder, telling people to stay calm and unafraid because it will be just like passing into a new year after our calendar ends. Who do you believe is speaking for the Mayans?

Personally I have known about '2012' for almost seven years. Eventually I lost interest as I discovered that it was all based on wrong interpretation of Maya inscriptions and mythology, bad astronomy,  and wishful thinking. Until I ran into C.J. Calleman's work, which turned me around completely. The idea that the Mayan calendar is based on the shifting energies or quantum states of Time/Consciousness makes much more sense than trying to pin it on fanciful alignments.

Finally, Calleman's model actually allowed him to make predictions based on the calendar. Predictions that have unequivocally come true.

 

star dances

They came from an exploding star called 'Hope'...They came to Earth in 1054..

They were the first kachinas..spirit beings who taught star dances...

The Hopi from Hope have danced these star dances for Earth..and the Hopi say 'the end of {time} is coming'....

 

 

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Maya perspectives on 2012

Thank You! Voice of Reason, which is absent from 2012 theories

It seems that a lot of people have forgotten their history. The 2012 theories were, always have been, and will remain BUNK for some time.

How many times was the end of the world prophesied by Christians, only for it to not come true? It was going to happen in 2000, and computers were also supposed to crash - didn't happen. And it looks like Apophis won't be hitting anytime soon either. Astrophysicists - NB: physics (that means science!) and not astrology - have pointed out, repeatedly, that the kind of star that we orbit will cease fusing hydrogen when the hydrogen content of our sun will be depleted and begin fusing helium, which will cause it to burn at a different temperature but also expand to point of engulfing the Earth, along with Mercury, Venus, and likely Mars. (If it doesn't, it will hardly matter - nothing will live there anyway.) This will occur in about a billion years, give or take. And if that doesn't do the trick - the Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with our own. And if that STILL doesn't take the trick, there is that whole universal heat death thing to contend with. It turns out that we have some very fine people in universities (institutions of higher learning) that have been going over this stuff for a really long time - and have a pretty good track record with it. There's the end of the world for ya.