The Mayan Calendar and the End of Time

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We are living at a time of great change in every sphere of human activity; unprecedented leaps in cultural, social and individual accomplishment and changes in our earth and environment.  Science and technology are expanding more quickly than we can keep up with. What is propelling us forward so quickly?

The classic Maya left a road map.  The long count calendar provides an exact time scale for the unfolding of human evolution.  It outlines a cosmic plan of creation for Earth that began with the Big Bang 16.4 billion years ago and ends in 2012.   It also explains the acceleration of change and why we experience time as speeding up. 

The Mayans described evolution on Earth as taking place in nine major cycles with each cycle building on and 20 times shorter than the previous one.  This is demonstrated in their pyramids built with nine levels.  Each cycle has a particular effect on the human mind and history.  The dates of these cycles are now verified by scientific facts and historical research. 

We are nearing the end of the eighth major cycle of evolution.  During this cycle humans have created a complex and sophisticated planet, transforming our physical world and way of living on it.  At the end of this cycle we are awakening to the precarious balance of Earth’s ecology; of our interdependence.   The ninth and final cycle begins in 2011 and will last a period of 260 days.  The calendar glyphs for the last cycle translate as Rainbow or ‘Return of Light’. 

The Mayan prophecies describe the time we are living in as the end of all cycles. This phase heralds in a great awakening of human consciousness, what the sages have described as ‘enlightenment’, or the lifting of all veils of illusion.  As we approach this end of time as we know it, everyone will know what before was realized by only a few.  As quantum physicists tell us, every thing is alive with light and consciousness, and we are each creating our shared reality.  

Scientists are aware of major unexplained shifts in our evolutionary path.  The Mayans describe these shifts as resulting from alternating cosmic energies; a progression of dark and light cycles.  The forces underlying human evolution carried by pulses of light emanating from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy through our local star, the Sun.  Everything is our cosmos is connected.  And all life on earth, our very cellular structure, is responding to the increasing frequencies of light propelling our evolution forward.

Earth and all of us on her, are experiencing the acceleration of light as increasing vibration.  What does not match the new incoming frequencies from the galactic center is being shook loose.  We can see and sense the effects of this agitation around the planet in shifts in the tectonic plates, climate, economic, political and social structures, and in our beliefs and bodies.  These changes are inevitable and actually orchestrated by our higher collective consciousness, though we may only now be fully awakening to this truth.

The existence of a cosmic plan means we can choose to align our lives with the movement of light and our own purpose in the divine plan.  We can begin to live more consciously in each moment; becoming ever more aware and present to what we are creating, in thought and deed.  Is it what we truly desire; it is contributing to a world we want to leave to our children?  What is not feeding our Souls and can we let go?  What aspects of our lives need to come into balance?   The Mayan legacy can prepare and guide us through the time of intense quickening ahead.