The
Mayan Calendar and the Process of Enlightenment
by Carl Johan
Calleman
The Mayan calendar and the process of enlightenment have for long been
regarded as two entirely separate approaches to life, especially as
the origins of the two are to be found in two different hemispheres
of our planet. The Mayan calendar is an understanding of the universe
that obviously has its origin in the West, in the Native American traditions,
whereas enlightenment is a state whose attainment has been the focus
almost exclusively of Eastern traditions. Yet, as we are now living
in a time when the West and the East are coming together this merging
of traditions may include some that previously were considered as completely
separate. In the emerging paradigm the Mayan calendar actually seems
to furnish the time plan that charts humanity¹s path towards enlightenment.
Such a unification of traditions is manifesting not the least in the
work of Sri Kalki, operating out of India with its rich traditions of
yogis and enlightenment, and yet looking upon his mission of bringing
enlightenment to humanity within a temporal frame work that coincides
with that of the Mayan calendar. It should be pointed out however that
he did not arrive at this framework through directly studying the Mayan
calendar. He arrived at it essentially through the visions of the time
ahead that participants in his enlightenment processes shared and only
later did he find out about the concordance of these with the Mayan
calendar. Yet, the whole notion that humanity¹s path towards enlightenment
is part of a historic process, a consequence of our own particular era
may by some be considered as heretic. Traditionally, enlightenment has
very much been considered a result of individual efforts of spiritual
purification, or even a sporadic accidental event, unrelated to the
particular era the adept was living in.
Stating that the process of enlightenment may be a favored result of
a particular historic era by necessity raises certain questions. ³What
is the nature of the historic process if indeed a given time period
is more conducive to enlightenment than others?² ³Why would we be approaching
a process of collective enlightenment as we approach the end of the
Mayan calendar by the year 2012?² Unfortunately, modern education tends
to present the facts of history from an essentially materialist perspective
that negates the existence of a divine time plan and so to find answers
to the questions above we need to move out of its box. The best way
of approaching the questions above is in my view to take a look at them
from the perspective of the Mayan calendar. For those unfamiliar with
the basic structure of this I will thus briefly recapitulate it.
The Mayan calendar describes nine different levels of evolution of consciousness,
where each of the levels is developed by an era called an Underworld.
The creation of the universe proceeds in a pyramidal fashion where the
Nine Underworlds are built one upon the other. We may thus liken the
evolution of consciousness to the climb of a cosmic pyramid that took
its beginning already at the Big Bang 16 billion years ago. This climb
is designed to take us to the ninth and highest level where a non-dualist
perception of the world will be brought to us. All of these levels of
consciousness are propelled by thirteen energies alternating in intensity
to create a wave movement in which the time periods when these energies
dominate consciousness are very exactly defined. The energies ultimately
emanate from the Cosmic World Tree, what the Maya called Hunab-Ku, the
Vikings called Yggdrasil and the Vedas Mo Lam, the central creative
principle of the universe that by itself is non-physical in nature.
By October 28, 2011 all of these Underworlds will be coming to their
completion and so there is every reason to believe that the year 2012
will be a year when a new reality settles, a reality where the experience
of linear time has come to an end and the consciousness altering cycles
that are still today driving the evolution of human history will come
to an end. In my view it is thus fruitless to wait around to see what
is going to happen in the year 2012. The Mayan calendar is above all
something that should be lived at the present moment as it aligns us
with a process that we all need to participate in for the divine plan
to successfully manifest.
The Mayan contribution to the currently emerging understanding of enlightenment
is essentially the provision of an exact time plan for the ³climb² of
the cosmic pyramid. This time plan has been extensively verified by
empirical evidence and I feel its basis in reality may now be considered
beyond dispute. Its multifaceted manifestations is quite a science of
its own and is largely outside the scope of the discussion here with
the exception of the various Yin/Yang polarities that have been ruling
the Nine Underworlds and how these influence the process of enlightenment
on a collective scale. The Nine Underworlds are each dominated by a
certain Yin/Yang polarity, which is pivotal for its influence on human
consciousness. From these polarities we may understand some of what
Sri Kalki is bringing into the world, and also the contributions of
some of the authors of this book.
In this climb we will start at the sixth level, at the National Underworld
that began to dominate human consciousness 3115 BC. This is the era
covered by the so-called Mayan Long Count, whose beginning essentially
coincides with that of the Indian era of Kali Yuga in 3102 BC. During
this era the light was polarized between the two brain hemispheres of
in such a way that the left brain was favored. Because of this imbalance
human beings then came to experience themselves as half and incomplete.
This lack of balance in their perception of the world and themselves
then almost completely blocked any process towards wholeness and enlightenment,
which has been an exceptionally rare, or maybe even non-existent, state
during these past 5000 year. Human beings came to perceive themselves
as lesser than the divine. (While the concept of original sin is now
usually blamed on the Christian Church, or religion in general, this
is really not fair. The Church only put words to what people were experiencing
because of the consciousness polarity ruling the cosmos at the time).
In AD 1755, the seventh level, the Planetary Underworld, began to be
developed on top of the National Underworld. Through this, human beings
came to be dominated by an endarkened consciousness that even further
blinded them to the spiritual reality of the universe and in this era
the entire focus of mankind shifted to the production and consumption
of ³things². Of course, light and dark here do not mean good and bad.
Human beings go through the different polarities of consciousness in
the different Underworlds, because we are subordinated to a divine
plan creating these. As part of this plan, the goal of reaching the
top of the cosmic pyramid can only be arrived at as a result of a stepwise
climb, where we, collectively speaking, level by level prepare ourselves
for the blissful view we will have from the top.
Although it has been prepared for as a weaker influence ever since 1947,
the Galactic Underworld, the eighth level, then began in 1999. Its frame
of consciousness is characterized by a polarity that favors the right
brain half and whose effects are mediated by a series of seven pulses
of light, reminiscent of the progression through seven phases that is
a central theme in the Book of Revelation. At the time of writing (2005)
we are now in the fourth of these pulses (the Fourth DAY). These pulses
are leading up to the ninth and highest Underworld, the Universal Underworld,
which during a period of 260 days in the year 2011 will be dominating
us with a polarity where the light falls on the front of the head and
the darkness on the back side. If you add the polarities of these four
different Underworlds up they will complement each other to form a sphere
of light. What is described here is however the different polarities
that are level by level coming into play in the evolution of the collective
consciousness of humanity. Then every single individual reflects
a unique combination of influences from the different polarities of
consciousness in the different Underworlds, but in the individual these
never manifest in a pure and clear cut form. Thus, although the polarities
of the different Underworlds determine the overall collective consciousness
at any given time they allow for quite some individual variation through
complex combinations of these influences.
The reason we may expect mass enlightenment to become a possibility
in 2011-2012, as the cycles come to an end, is thus that there will
be a shift in Yin/Yang polarity favoring the front side of the human
brain as the Universal Underworld becomes the dominating influence.
This pertains to a brilliant discussion of Christian Opitz, where, on
the level of brain physiology and brain chemistry, he makes observations
relevant to the process of enlightenment. Opitz points out that, consistently
with Sri Kalki, a crucial prerequisite for the enlightenment of an individual
is that the activity of the parietal lobes are disconnected and that
a shift of this takes place to the frontal lobes. This is a description
of how in the collective process the path towards enlightenment means
shifting from the light favoring the back side of the brain (the parietal
lobes) in the Planetary Underworld (that all of the readers of this
book was born into and shaped by) to favoring the front side (the frontal
lobes) in the Universal Underworld. What Sri Kalkis dikshas are designed
to do is to bring about such a shift and what the Mayan calendar tells
us is that the cosmic polarity that dominates the human mind will be
increasingly conducive to such a shift. Already today certain individuals
have had experiences of a shift of this kind of a permanent nature and
have attained what would be called an enlightened state.
Kiara Windrider has discussed the limitations of the dikshas as applied
to most of us living today. ³Love brings up anything unlike itself²,
and so many that have received dikshas come to experience backlashes
where the initial state of bliss, sometimes mimicking an experience
of enlightenment, may turn into disappointment as the initial experience
wears off. Also these phenomena become more easily understandable from
the overall perspective of the Mayan calendar and we should be aware
that the shift from the polarity of the Planetary Underworld to the
Universal for most of us will require exposure to many transfers of
light as well as the necessary ensuing integration processes. Collectively
speaking in the overall Divine Plan the shift from one polarity
of consciousness to another proceeds in steps, which are propelled by
distinct pulses of energy emanating from the Mo Lam, the Cosmic World
Tree, at the current time especially as part of the Galactic Underworld.
This pulsewise emanation of light creates a wave movement that we are
all part of, and which invariably includes troughs meant for integration.
As the divine process of creation according to the Mayan calendar is
a wave movement the same will be true for our individual processes.
Thus, there is no path along which we can gradually and linearly become
enlightened. It seems more realistic to expect our enlightenment processes
to proceed like wave movements where different dark corners of our consciousness
are lit up by dikshas. Kiaras advice to just expect us to go through
such an up and down process and accept it seems wise and highlights
the necessity to process aspects of ourselves that are not translucent.
How much of such processing that is necessary will depend on where we
started and our willingness to honestly see ourselves.
Hence, we should be aware that all people that are now at an adult age
were born into a cosmic Yin/Yang polarity that did not favor enlightenment.
Those of us that are choosing a path towards the enlightened field of
the Universal Underworld should then realistically be ready for a roller
coaster ride where we will not necessarily be amused by every turn.
(Exempt from this may however certain children be that are born in recent
times, who may enter the Universal Underworld more or less directly
as their consciousness has not been under the influence of the Planetary
Underworld). At the same time it should be pointed out that with every
new pulse of light in the current Galactic Underworld a rebalanced consciousness
favoring enlightenment will be strengthened. This is incidentally why
it is important to celebrate the most significant shift points of this
Underworld, such as the Oneness Celebration, Midlight Meditation, etc,
with globally synchronized dikshas. Hence, it is in my view necessary
to be aware both of the cosmic energy shifts that the Mayan calendar
describes and to go through an individual process in phase with
those same energies. The individual path could in addition to dikshas
include a whole range of processes for emotional and mental cleansing
that would fall under the heading of samskara shuddi, such as The Journey
and The Work, to mention two that are currently popular.
Dikshas then, what are they and why do they serve the process of enlightenment?
Sri Kalki describes them as Golden Balls that he spent decades perfecting.
Initially they were transferred by physical contact mediated by the
dasas, but other means of transferring this divine intelligence have
later emerged. It seems that recently these etheric golden balls have
even been caught on film among participants in a 21 day process in the
Golden City to whom the knowledge how to give dikshas was passed on.
By itself this would indicate that as we have come to the midpoint of
the Galactic Underworld these balls have become more tangible and lucid
and we may be more ready to have them enter our ordinary existence.
These balls of light may then serve to activate and lit up whatever
dark corners there might be in the mind of an individual. Because of
what we know from the Mayan calendar and its different polarities of
consciousness we also have every reason to believe that most of us are
energetically unbalanced with significant inner walls of duality that
need to become translucent, and exposure to the golden balls of the
diksha may serve exactly this purpose.
In my view what these dikshas are doing is to help bring a new frame
of consciousness to the individual one where all the polarities
have been evened out. A sphere of light is how the collective consciousness
that the divine plan is bringing us was described above. It should be
pointed out that our individual frames of consciousness have unique
imbalances, but that Sri Kalki has brought into existence a tool that
potentially has the ability to bring balance and wholeness to whomever
it is given to. Regardless of individual difference between people enlightenment
will invariably require the balancing of light in ourselves. The golden
balls will balance whatever is out of balance in a particular individual
and bring his or her consciousness into harmony with the state where
the polarities of the different Underworlds are complemented by each
other in other words to the enlightened state of the future. The
closer we come to the Universal Underworld the more consistent will
the individual consciousness be with the enlightening field of this
Underworld. This is probably why Sri Kalki professes to bring anyone
that so chooses to the state of enlightenment.
Carl Johan Calleman is a world leading expert on the Mayan calendar
and
is the author of The Mayan Calendar (Garev 2001) and The Mayan Calendar
and the Transformation of Consciousness
(Bear and Co, 2004). His web page is www.calleman.com
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