Calendars the Maya and Consensus Reality

[shiftmonkey]

I was recently introduced to the work of Ian Xel Lungold and Carl Johan Calleman on the Mayan Calendar. I found their ideas about how the Mayan Tzolkin calendar actually works with a person's consciousness to be very interesting.

One of Ian Lungold's central themes is to show how a calendar is the deciding factor that creates an orientation for the world view and/or cosmology of any civilization. In other words civilizations focus energy on an agreed upon shared reality within the coordinates of time and space based on the calendar they use. Lungold shows quite clearly how the Gregorian calendar locks our current civilization into a mechanistic and materialistic reality. The Gregorian calendar is so central to our reality that few people ever question it or even think about it's effect on our consciousness.

The Maya actually had a system of 3 calendars. To paraphrase, one calendar was for personal daily life, another was for agriculture and book keeping and yet another was for keeping track of the galactic progression of time and the transitioning of the ages. The Mayan personal calendar called the Tzolkin was actually not based on the mechanical movement of the earth around the sun but rather on a 260 day cycle related to universal energies or human soul intentions as understood by the Maya. I personally feel that this 260 day period may actually coincide with the human gestation period on both the physical and soul level.

The Maya didn't pull their ideas about time-keeping arbitrarily out of a hat. It is said that the information and concepts were given to them by an advanced being who came from the heavens. The Tzolkin was so important to each individual that the Maya people took their first name from the day that they were born. This day told them exactly what the "soul purpose" was for a soul who decided to enter physical reality on a particular coordinate of time and space... ones birthday. The Tzolkin was the system that guided a person through the process. In this way the person would be paying attention to why their soul entered physical reality in the first place... they would be focused on what they actually came here to learn with purpose and intention each and every moment of their lives. This is a much different and far richer perspective than what our current civilization adheres to.

What I found most interesting is that by following the Mayan calendar... by focusing on and gradually learning about the symbols of the Tzolkin, people claim to actually access a larger sphere of consciousness and align more readily with their soul's purpose. One aspect that is very attractive is that it's a very simple and easy process to learn and follow. It seems to work consistently for those individuals who incorporate the Tzolkin into their lives. It appears as a simple way to focus your own individual intention within your own personal piece of the hologram... a way to shift your personal viewpoint away from the status quo and thereby holographically effect the whole of the organism of human civilization.

Here is a link to a shorter version of a lecture by Ian Xel Lungold that is normally several hours long:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...lungold&hl=en#