This article provides a summary and bibliography of various views on the correlation between the Mayan and Gregorian Calendars and the significance of the so-called end date of the Mayan Calendar.
There have been significant changes in the world over the last five-hundred years, most especially in the previous twenty-five years, many of them anticipated by certain interpretations of the Mayan Calendar. The Mayan Calendar end date, most commonly thought to be December 21, 2012, is a crucial matter to understand since so much emphasis is being placed on this precise 24 hour period. Ultimately, common sense tells us that we will not know until December 22, 2012 what happens on the 21st.
I have read many of the scholarly books and contemporary researchers' works, I have spent years with Mayan Elders, studied other Native American prophecies, and none of them point to a specific 24 hour period on a particular date that the world will end. In fact, once a person gets to know the immense wisdom of our native elders and ancestors, and how they relate to "time," narrowing down anything to a specific day seems even more incongruent with their ways.
My personal view is that the Mayan Calendar describes the evolution of consciousness on planetary and, perhaps, even cosmic scales. If this is true, the fear around the Mayan Calendar end date does indeed play a vital role, as fear is always an obstacle to wholesome growth and personal or collective evolution. When fear is transcended by accepting the information it (fear) has to offer, we may finally deal with what is really there. In light of this, an appropriate question inspired by the "end date" controversy may not be "Who will Survive?" but "How can I transcend my fear and further my own personal evolution?" An evolutionary moment always occurs when we transcend fear.
I have written this article so that we may all settle into our normal but accelerating personal and collective evolutionary processes without any more fear than is necessary and healthy for moving through these challenging times. This does not mean that we can be lackadaisical or nonchalant about making changes in order to help usher in a new world. Indigenous prophecies, many of which seem quite accurate, tell us that it is time to clean up our personal and collective acts; otherwise a self-created calamity will befall us.
We are already suffering the consequences of our mal-alignment with nature and each other, and at the same time, this suffering is instigating a global awakening concurrent with massive positive changes in the world around us. Perhaps this is why the living Maya are eager to celebrate the new cycle, what they call a "Sun," which inevitably must follow the ending of a prior cycle, a prior Sun. You will not find the Maya burying themselves in underground shelters waiting for the new Sun. You will find them in ceremony around the sacred fire asking what they can do to align with the wisdom of the ancestors and tapping their own insight so as to align with the energies of the new Sun. All this is in the now, not in some imaginary future. Our Mayan Elders, alive with us today, are inviting us to do the same.
Thanks for the post, Berry. This is the most level-headed thing I've read so far about transformation and 2012. It does come down to how we choose to live and what we focus on each day -- something I'm trying hard to remember and realize. Much to the point are rovin's "Duck Diving" post and Tricia's response there.
Bob
Couldn't agree with Bob more!!!!!