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BETWEEN 2 WORLDS - Mayan Calendar Documentary Film by Jose Jaramillio Now available on DVD - click here Documentary presents Mayan alternative to Gregorian Calendar By Pablo Jaime Sáinz What day of the week is it today? What date of the year? Do you know what time it is? Maybe your life is inundated with calendars, agendas, clocks, watches. Time, time, time. In today’s world, it seems we’re always in a hurry. Hours go by, then days, weeks, years… The calendar we measure our time with is called the Gregorian Calendar, which was implemented by Pope Gregory XIII, and it uses the 12 month, seven day per week system. A new documentary film offers an alternative world-view to the result-oriented, almost robotic view of the Gregorian Calendar. “Between 2 Worlds,” a documentary film directed and written by Chula Vista resident José Jaramillo, is a critique of the Gregorian Calendar while introducing to the more nature-friendly, human-developmental-focused Mayan calendar. “It is a film about the revealing purpose of the Gregorian calendar and the European notion concerning Manifest Destiny,” Jaramillo said. “It is all about the unexamined assumptions and criteria upon the world has based the daily life of mankind. It is by far the greatest and most profoundly unquestioned instrument of control ever perpetrated upon the people of Earth.” The film, which is in English, was premiered on Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Ultra Star Cinemas at Hazard Center, in San Diego. In his film, Jaramillo proposes this: In order for humans to live a better life and to prepare for the changes that, according to Mayan prophecy, will take place in 2012, humans need to change their state of mind to the Mayan calendar, which focuses “a new world” of harmony with nature and the universe. “The Mayans developed a unique system to track time, but the Mayan perceived time as a pure synchronization and harmony with nature and with the universe,” Jaramillo said. According to the Maya prophecies, humanity has always stood “Between 2 Worlds”: the old world of power, technology, and money, and the new world of peace, love, unity, and harmony. And our task according to this prophecy is our need to balance these two worlds, before the end of the Mayan cycle in 2012. The Gregorian calendar, Jaramillo said, represents an old world that’s outdated, inhumane, and useless. “Because we are living in a world that is rushing all the time, people are getting stress, because they don’t have time for their own families, and that is what I think is wrong about the Gregorian calendar,” Jaramillo said. “The Gregorian calendar was codified after the Doctrine of Discovery, and assumes that the power of the Christian Church around the planet had the power to take any land owned by non-Christian peoples. It allowed for a method to people for economic and political measure of time.” The documentary includes original footage from Jar-amillo’s travels in the Maya world, including the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mex-ico. The film, which was financed by Jaramillo, cost about $10,000 to produce. In “Between 2 Worlds,” Maya calendar scholars give their opinions in favor of the Mayan calendar and encourage people to start implementing the philosophies of the Maya to their daily lives. “We don’t think about it, but we’re using a calendar, the Gregorian Calendar, that constantly tells us that life is not going anywhere,” said author and Mayan scholar Dr. Carl Calleman. “We’re just on this year after year. It’s a worldview that tells us that life has no purpose, and creation has no purpose, and evolution has no purpose. It’s just this endless, repeated cycle of the Earth around the Sun. For Ramon Mendoza, an artist and philosopher, “the Mayan calendar is a textbook, it is a map, it is a way to know who we are.” Jaramillo, who’s originally from Guadalajara but has roots in Mayan Yucatan Peninsula, said that “reintroducing the Maya calendar is an emergency plan for people of Earth.” In addition to the film, Jaramillo has a weekly radio show every Saturday at 11 a.m. on La Tremenda 1030 AM called “Ancient Mexico” where he talks about the themes presented in the documentary. He also offers conferences and public talks at the Chula Vista Civic Center Library. He also encourages people to create their own Mayan Calendar study groups. To learn more about “Between 2 Worlds,” and to watch a trailer, visit www.inbetween2worlds.com

Shift of the Ages - Documentary Film
by Steve Copeland

March 2008 Welcome to a P-Qubd Films Update   It's been a while since our last update and many of you have written to ask when our film will be released. There is one major step before release and that is completion. So here's where we stand...   Steve's Report Hello Shift of the Ages family. I'm happy to share this SOTA project update with you as well as Executive Producer Kleo Michele Leed's take on the journey this far. SOTA cinematographer and editor Kiff Kilpatrick and I traveled to Guatemala in January to film missing key story points in the SOTA plot and to document the story's resolution according Don Alejandro, Elizabeth Araujo, and Rosa Maria Cabrera. We raised the production bar again with cinematic shoots, solid interviews, and crisp audio. Most of you are also aware that the plot of the film center's around an epic journey to recover Don Alejandro's staff from Don Valentin of the Aymara Nation. The theme of the film is how this recovery mission relates to prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor, and ultimately, the Shift of the Ages. RETURN OF THE STAFF Valentin Mejillones is the elder who led the inauguration ceremony of Bolivia's President, Evo Morales, on Jan. 22, 2005 using Don Alejandro's ancestral Staff. He was not willing to return the artifact to the Nation of Maya. While still in his possession, I was able to interview Valentin regarding his position and the significance of the staff during the Earth Works for Humanity gathering in Chiquita Peru, at the time of the 07' spring Equinox. We captured the inner turmoil of Valentin's surrender and of the power that built up behind his return of the Staff. We were finally able to document the exchange after two years of recovery attempts in Tiawanaku Bolivia, on June 21st 2007. At first light the Aymara Nation gifted back Don Alejandro's Staff in their Winter Solstice Ceremony. This turned out to be an amazing cinematic event, and the climax of our story. DON ALEJANDRO LEADS GUATAMALA'S NEW PRESIDENT'S INAGURATION During our recent stay in Guatemala, Don Alejandro led the inauguration of Guatemala's new President, Alvaro Colom. It took Elizabeth Araujo, his translator, about a week to have Alejandro's speech translated so we could all read it in English. I'm attaching a copy of the roughly 30-minute address that was broadcast live on National Television. Not only is President Colom the first ordained Mayan Priest elected into office, he is also one of Don Alejandro's disciples. At the end of this speech you will read a powerful section during which Don Alejandro has President Colom hold the Staff and swear to the creator to honor indigenous people and mother earth during his term in office.  After the inauguration ceremony, when it came time for the prestigious champagne toast with the politicians, Colom chose to toast with the people, using the ceremonial Mayan drink, and then walked un-protected with Guatemala's people in celebration! These events are unprecedented.  Don Alejandro attributes them to the power of getting the Staff back!  So the Staff has been used in the inauguration of a South American President, and more recently a Central American President. THE SEARCH FOR DOLLARS Over the past two years, our search for money has occupied the vast majority of my time. This process has been humbling, frustrating, and challenging. The Mayan need to retrieve the Staff along with the pressure to secure funds created some heavy stress in the post-production process, which ultimately stifled creativity and led to the temporary loss of momentum. Prior to actually seeing and hearing Alejandro talk about having the Staff back, we had a broken story line. I chose to use the last of my personal credit to continue the film's production and floated 50K. At the time of this writing, the project is need of funds for a post-production facility and other essential completion projects. Our immediate need is to raise 250K to bring our accounts payable current and complete the film as budgeted. We are offering roughly 20% equity in the project for this amount. To date, we have received 150K of the project's 400K budget. We have budgeted a 5% "finder's fee" for anyone connecting us with an investor. The 250K we require, is an extremely modest figure for the film quality we have achieved. I am very proud of what we have accomplished to date. We will have both English and Spanish versions available for release upon completion. At first release, this will open the film to the large and growing Latin demographic. We may consider opening the film in Latin America first to build momentum for the US release. OUR TEAM As I've said, I'm extremely proud of what the crew and I have accomplished with the limited amount of funds we've received to date. I know we will accomplish a lot more once we're fully funded and our team's creative abilities can once again be fully engaged. We've been cutting the film in a fun and exciting way, yet staying true to the heart of Don Alejandro's passionate message. Our mission is to offer audiences a shamanic experience; one that pulls them through the full range of emotions. I'm asking for your help now to complete what we started together.  I feel a deep responsibility to Don Alejandro and the Guatemalan Council of Mayan Elders who have placed their trust in us to deliver a high quality film for the education and seeding of sacred messages to the world. I am also committed to helping the people who have sacrificed and given of themselves to bring SOTA to its present state of completion. The talented people associated with SOTA are the best I've ever had the honor of working with. If this letter has touched you and you feel compelled to participate directly or indirectly in the needed completion funds, we would be most grateful. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please have them contact me via my email below. I'm available to discuss details and questions regarding the project. We respectfully invite you to forward the site and invitation to your networks and others you feel can help so that we can complete our film.. Enjoy the new site - www.shiftingages.com - We are still making updates, so check in periodically I'm excited and committed as ever to unleashing the full potential of Shift of the Ages. If you are interested in a copy of Don Alejandro's Inaguration Sppech, e-mail your request to pqubdfilms@gmail.com. In gratitude and service to life, Steve Copeland A Most Auspicious Moment by Kleomichele Leeds     I issue this statement as documentation of our progress and our travails on the journey to complete "The Shift of the Ages."  You, our friends and family, have supported us from the outset.  We are most grateful. In my role as Executive Producer, I wish to briefly share with you my own experience, the extraordinary story of the film itself and finally, the miraculous account of the film's production.        The indigenous elders teach us that cycles illustrate the nature of life, as well as the life of nature.  Cherokee Elder, Rolling Thunder, states that: "all life is a circle. We need to practice seeing the cycles that the Great Spirit gave us because this will help us in our understanding of how things operate."  Rolling Thunder's wisdom certainly applies to our film. The project commenced two years ago, ostensibly a documentary about Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, head of the Mayan Council of Elders in Guatemala.  To our amazement, we witnessed the film itself becoming an initiatory structure, a living shamanic symbol, carrying us into realms of suffering and purification.     Cultural historian, William Irwin Thompson, describes any process of initiation in three stages: (1) the illumination of one's darkness; (2) the discovery of the edge of one's sanity; and (3) the defeat or mortification of the ego.     I recall the day in March 2006 when I first read the film treatment as it appeared on Mayanmajix.com.  I became electrified with enthusiasm for the film.  I joyfully realized that Mayan cosmology, which I had been studying for years, would now reach the world.  In retrospect, I understand that extreme passion led me to the threshold of my own initiation, which became the most excruciating and challenging period of my life.  I endured agony on every level: physical (spinal surgery); emotional (the death of my parents); mental and spiritual (constant dread and doubt); and financial (a lawsuit brought against me by my brother).   I confronted my shadow repeatedly until, at the very edge of sanity, I surrendered all control. Against all odds I survived with my wits intact. As the philosopher said: that which does not kill you makes you stronger.  I submit that my initiation parallels that of not only the crew but also the film itself.     Planet earth and all of her denizens play a part in "The Shift of the Ages," a story both true and truly fantastic about an ancient and powerful tribal staff, recovered with great difficulty from Bolivia and returned to Guatemala.  The staff symbolizes the realization of an ancient prophecy, a legend of reconciliation between Eagle and Condor.  These great avian symbols represent myriad levels of consciousness, myth, geography and philosophy.  Shamanic figures bridge the abyss between realms of consciousness and various dimensions, giving rise to mythic tales of heroic achievement.  For Don Alejandro, the hero of our story, the return of the staff to Guatemala augurs a renewed beneficent relationship between North and South America, mediated by Central America.  The mystical totem also serves as a resonant hologram implicating a chronicle of cosmic magnitude - the shift of the ages on planet earth.      Relative to the evolution of our species, William Irwin Thompson posits that: "The path of initiation is a miniaturization and recapitulation of the entire evolutionary saga of the soul's movement through space-time before we can go on to the next level of evolution, we must go over in full consciousness the places we have traveled in unconsciousness."      The journey of the sacred staff, as well as the flight of the Eagle with the Condor are mythic symbols carried by our film into the modern industrial world to engender evolution.  In so doing, "The Shift of the Ages" engages the soul in its ascent to full consciousness - to usher in a new Age of the Gods.  A process well documented by philosophers (Plato/ Vico/ Hegel), the progression of civilizations through cyclical stages of development (Ages of Gods, Heroes, Man, Chaos) applies as well to Western civilization.  We are in the midst of an Age of Chaos, well on our way to another Age of the Gods.  Whether they realize it or not, all those involved with "The Shift of the Ages," as well as the spectators who watch the film initiate evolutionary changes in the deep structure of their souls.      Footage of Don Alejandro's astounding wisdom and prophecy; the high drama of the mystical staff; and sacred indigenous rituals throughout the Americas render "The Shift of the Ages" more than just a documentary film.  The film lives as an organism whose heart beats to the shaman's drum. Eminent mythologist Joseph Campbell reminds us that both shaman and hero undertake cyclical journeys, requiring a tremendously difficult and dangerous descent into the underworld of the unconscious.      Upon returning from the first ecstatic trip to South and Central America in April 2006, the film's crew crossed a threshold into initiation and plunged headlong into the abyss.  Many people left the project during this time, unable to negotiate the extraordinary challenge.  One hundred and fifty hours of digitized footage and two months of work were lost.  Both money and housing were either in short supply or non-existent.  Steve Copeland, the film's director, gave up his home and put his credit in jeopardy.  For weeks he lived out of his car, focused on fund raising.      The descent lasted nearly two years: years of the soul's dark night, discovering the edge of sanity, and defeating the ego's compulsive control - exactly that which the underworld requires.  We often felt that we, and the project, might perish.     Suddenly, out of the blue, the most auspicious moment occurred! Like the shaman's drum or a cycle of nature, "The Shift of the Ages" came full circle.  On January 14, 2008, Guatemala's newly elected president, Alvaro Colom, himself a non-indigenous Mayan shaman, stood beside Don Alejandro, his teacher and mentor.  Don Alejandro spoke to the assembly about Guatemala's tragic past and hopeful future, charging his student to fulfill his presidential responsibilities with honor.  Moreover, while Bolivia's Evo Morales became the first indigenous Elder to occupy his government's highest office, Alvaro Colom now follows suit.  After centuries of poverty, exploitation, disenfranchisement and oppression, the miracle of strong political representation for indigenous peoples of the Americas signifies renewed recognition for their ancient wisdom and ways of the soul.     Call it what you will: Golden Age; New Age of the Gods; New Jerusalem; the Fifth Sun - most philosophical, religious and wisdom traditions cherish a vision of imminent peace on earth.  The earth herself becomes mystae, initiate in the mysteries of the cosmic over-soul.  Her Light Body awakens. We, her children, watch and listen as wise elders take center stage.  Becoming Virgil to our modern Dante, they guide us in our ascension from the circles of hell and purgatory, into paradise, our native state, where myths never happen but always are true.  Thus the ages shift.     This amazing story calls urgently for release and distribution, yet we continue to o operate with insufficient funding.   Please contact Steve for information about what tools we require to bring the project to completion.  Thank you very, very much. KML Steve Copeland, Producer/Director P-Qubd Films BE A HERO For the past year, we have received a $35 monthly donation to support this newsletter and our data base at Constant Contact. We need your help to replace this donor and if you can take over the monthly payment, you will be a SOTA Hero and we will feature your business logo or photo in upcoming issues. Please contact steve at steve@shiftingages.co

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