Something important, some people think, is going to happen on
August 16 or 17 or 22, 1987.
A Cherokee woman, a "medicine woman", and also a Tibetan
Buddhist, has stated that at the end of the Mayan calendar, August
22nd or so 1988, the current Dark Age will be coming to an end.
what happens AFTER August 22, 1988?
After August 22nd, armored white men suddenly appear on our shores and take
over in the name of the King of Spain!
Actually, that date is August 16 17, 1987! and it is referred to as the
Harmonic Convergence, 25 years before the end of the long cycle chronicled
by the Mayan calendar. The Harmonic Convergence is to usher in a 25-year
priod of increasing harmony and cooperation among people and between people
and the rest of planetary life. the fact that the Mayan calendar period
ends in 2012 does not mean Apocalpse, as I understand it, but rather the
end of a long evolutionary cycle that we've been in for a very long time.
To really get into the nitty-gritty of this, check out Jose Arguelles'
The Mayan Factor, just published by Bear & Co., Santa Fe. Available in
bookstores.
According to a lost unknown book that was published in either Santa Barbara or
Santa Cruz, the Zapotec version of the events of precisely August 16, 1987 are
somewhat different: August 15 is the last day of the nine cycles of "hell"
(counting from that day in April that Cortez set foot on Veracruz). August 16
is "one-reed, one-reed," the first day of the first of thirteen cycles called
"heavens of decreasing choice." On that day, August 16, 1987, *everything* is
possible. (the following is speculation by my Mayan guru, based on meditation
on the question of why they are called "heavens of decreasing choice.") On
August 17, 1987, there will be a few little things that our choices on the
16th have precluded. My Mayan guru has lost all trace of this book, even the
memory of its name. He would like to end this posting as a lost and found ad.
He would like to find out how to get a copy, if possible (of course, on August
16, everything will be possible -- he is hoping
for something sooner). The guy who wrote the book "seemed to be a Zapotec
theologian poet." At least the lines of text were sort of in the middle of the
page and ragged on the right.
Everything will be possible. Already, the little vegetation-spirits with the
missing genetic material have fanned out from the great tree of Tule, between
Oaxaca and Mitla. We will have "ears of corn the size of a man, cotton growing
in the fields in all the colors of the serape, and peyote that tastes like
honey."
Friday, June 5th at Shared Visions in Berkeley there will be a meeting with Alli
Antero, author of All Rites Reversed. We'll examine the significance of
"what is coming to be called Harmonic Convergence." The Shared Vision
announcement goes on saying:
"The Mayan Calendar indicates that this August 16/17 begins a period of
re-construction and blossoming before the last days of a 5,125 year era
culminating in 2012 AD. During this period it is said within the traditions
of Native Peoples, world-wide that the Living Earth's consciousness will
reassert itself to guide humanity. Antero suggests that ceremony, among
which is what he calls Earth Surrender Rites, will support and clarify
our conscious synchronization to this next stage of evolution.
Another news for Mayan Millenium fans: Jose Arguelles author of the
Mayan Factor will discuss his Harmonic Convergence (August 16/17) ideas
at another of Shared Vision's Earth Mysteries series, June 18 Thursday, 8 pm
I hear he wants 144,000 people to go to power spots and om. Not
a bad idea. Mt. Tam is one obvious node.
"The Mayan Great Cycle is actually the description of a galactic beam measuring
5200 tun, or 5125 earth years in diameter. The earth entered such a beam,
August 13,3113 BC, and will leave it in the year 2012 AD. The purpose of the
electromagnetically charged Beam is to acccelerate the evolved DNA into a
technology-extruding organism that creates in effect a planetary exo-nervous
system. When the exo-nervous system is in place acceleration becomes
exponential and phases into synchronizaton.
"Acceleration is measured by the collapse in the time it takes one human to
communicate to another from halfway around the globe, accompanied by a
concurrent increase in population. Once maximum acceleration is achieved, when
communication is electronic and virtually instantaneous, then it becomes
synchronization: the equally exponential rate of linking up every single human
organism with each other through utilization of the planetary exo-nervous
system, theus creating a sensitive aggregate operating as a unified, planetary
consciousness. Once maximum synchronization is attained, the exo-nervous
system will fall away, being replaced by the more efficient medium of
telepathic synchronicity. The planet will then be initiated into the Galactic
Federation." (Jose Arguelles in " Ritual Technology for
Self-Initiation, by Alli Antero, with Preface by Robert Anton Wilson)
However, Arguelles vision is based on the assumption that the acceleration
of communication, particularly by electronic means, leads to a fuller and
more intimate communication. This is, apparently, based on the assumption
that an increase in knowledge results from the faster exchange of words and
thought. I question this. I think the case could be made that the more bits
of information that a person has to assimilate more quickly, the dumber they
get; at least their stress level rises, their memory begins to develop holes,
and non-thought-related input, such as intuition or body-sense, may be more
likely ignored.
What if we don't subject Arguelles vision to an analysis of scientific vigor,
and accept it as it intended to be, i believe, poetic truth. Thern the question
is whether it makes sense to believe that blanket communications can give space
to synchronization and over time it can lead telepathic synchronicity.
As for as the Galactic Federation, I dunno, but it's very plausible to me
to imagine that when synchronization happens there will be a leap in
planetary consciousness that well can open gateways to unknown dimensions
of galactic existence.
and where do I find a power spot in Wisconsin? or do I just know somehow when
I get there? huh?
I didn't think I was subjecting Arguelles' vision to an analysis of scientific
vigor; since it was based on my own experience of the last three years with
computers/teleconferencing and such, it was more based on an analysis of
gut-level vigor. Be that as it may, Arguelles vision may be poetic truth
(maybe) but as I recall from reading EARTH ASCENDANT (or whatever it was
called where he first spelled this Mayan stuff out) he certainly arrived at
it through methodical analytical (almost mathematical) means. As poetry it
certainly is striking and beautiful stuff. I guess I've always been a little
wary of jumping to cosmic conclusions based on someone's nifty poem...
Just another perspective on the Mayan stuff...
Having just returned from the Yucatan, I have some rather
non-factual stuff to offer. (I almost said share.. whew!)
Last Saturday morning, I was overlooking the Mayan community of
Uxmal from atop the Sorcerer's Pyramid. The smell of the 1,200
or so year old buildings still graces my nostrils. And as with
my visit to Stonehenge fifteen years ago, my life is somehow
changed having experienced touching stones carved and hauled by
our predecessors.
There was no literature or poetry to read; the Spanish bishops
seem to have destroyed all or most of it. And I haven't really
absorbed the mayan mathematical concepts enough to comment on
them. It's impressive to me that they and other Mesoamericans
were able to measure and predict lunar, solar and venutian cycles
and eclipses. The mystery that surrounds their appearance and
demise is deep and in some ways painful.
I found myself imagining that I was witness to the power the
magicians and rulers held. At times, I felt that time had melted
away and I "there. With my 20th century cynicism of
charlatans and false gods, I felt unsure of what actually had
happened/was happening. I just knew it was a powerful
experience.
I like to look at Harmonic Convergence
both as a series of future events
that will announce the era of end of denial (1992-2000),
and as *the* thing that's happening through us, right now.
That's what it sounds like the convergence is all about -- linking
our intentionalities in as many ways as possible.
One important part of this whole time for me is the emergence of ritual in
our Western culture. The Christian rituals I learned as a child never "taught"
me anything real -- as have some of the Native American rituals I've been
part of recently, or Alli's grounding and centering ritual he briefly led us
through last week at Shared Visions.
One point in that ritual and in all this is allowing the Earth (the entity that
chose to be incarnated this time as the Planet Earth) to speak to you and to
allow yourself to resonate with the core energy that comes from the Earth's
core. It gives me chills of excitement.
Try it -- sit outside on the ground, and allow yourself to feel your spinal
cord connecting to the Earth, allow the bottom of it to open as if it were a
camera lens, and allow the energy and life force of the Earth to enter you.
Breathe the Earth energy into you on your inhale. On the exhale, breathe the
Earth's energy deeply into all parts of your body and being -- until you feel
DENSE with the Earth's energy.
I'm going to be at Shared Visions Thursday (June 18) at 8 p.m., probably along
with some of the 144,000 other beings of light! to hear Arguellos talk about
all this.....
