Mayan Calendar: Evolving Towards Enlightenment - IV

By Carl Johan Calleman

In the series, Evolving Towards Enlightenment I-V, Carl Johan Calleman explains the links between the Mayan Calendar Enlightenment and the significance of the year 2012.

The Mayan Heavens and Underworlds shape - The Human Vision of the Divine
To take an example of this: The major religions of mankind were generated by the frame of consciousness and mentalities generated by the National Cycle, or the Sixth Underworld, and their patriarchal nature was a direct consequence of the field of consciousness that ruled this (see Fig 26a). It would then seem that a strict adherence to organized ritualized expressions of such religions also means being stuck in a lower Underworld, something which in fact will remain a block towards attaining the Enlightened state corresponding to the Ninth, or Universal, level of consciousness. This is not to imply that if you are a Catholic, Muslim, Jew or whatever else you cannot be Enlightened. It only means that if this religious affiliation keeps you stuck at a limiting Great Cycle level of consciousness where members of other religions are not also recognized as aspects of the divine in becoming, and children of the same God, then you are in fact not Enlightened.

Such arguments do not only apply to thoughts and actions linked to different religions, but for the attainment of an enlightened state it will serve us always to keep a keen eye in what Underworld our life habits originate and consider transforming everything that has an origin at lower, frames of consciousness of higher density. Transforming is however not eradicating. Higher levels of consciousness are built on the foundations of the lower levels of the cosmic pyramid and not by destroying them. Thus for instance the currently evolving Galactic frame of consciousness is not meant to sweep the notion of nationhood away just because this originates at a lower level. It only means that the meaning of national belonging will need to be transformed and relegated to a subordinated rule in pace with the emergence of the new and higher frame of consciousness. Incidentally, climbing the cosmic pyramid is not only about transcending the type of consciousness that has generated the many religious wars, that is to say the National produced by the Great Cycle. At the present time it is also about transcending many of the supposedly spiritual expressions that were generated by the Planetary Cycle. While maybe entertaining, much of the UFO’s, Babylonian astrology, esoteric history unrelated to the real world, channeled information, Lemurians, etc of the New Age movement, have been generated by the sensationalism of the Planetary level of consciousness, and is simply not true. It seems that in the Planetary Underworld spirituality had to be presented in a sensational way to have an appeal in the general materialism that then ruled and in order to distinguish itself from the historical religions. It almost seems as if with the glasses we were endowed with by the Planetary Underworld made us see ordinary reality as not spiritual and so all kinds of outrageous things were needed for people to ”believe”.

With the glasses of the Galactic Underworld on the other hand we may now be beginning to see that all of reality is spiritual. Even those things, such as machines and technical inventions, that have seemed the most alien to a sacred apprehension of reality may in fact now be seen to have been created through the workings of a cosmic plan that has gradually allowed human beings to develop such means. What would happen if we would begin to look upon technology also as sacred, rather than as at the present time an enemy of the nature we regard as sacred? Maybe this would be necessary for the two to finally find a harmonious co-existence. There is a tendency among some to regard the human being, and all she has created, as ”what went wrong in this creation”, but then, with such an attitude, how could we ever see ourselves as images of God in becoming, which is necessary for us to approach the enlightened state. Maybe in fact there is nothing wrong with the human being or what she has created. She is always in a way commensurate with the level of consciousness the cosmos has endowed her with.

Seeking the Truth and Practicing Kindness
Another step on the path towards Enlightenment is to transcend the fragmented state of the science originating from the Planetary Underworld, which, while factually generally correct, has failed to provide a worldview that is whole. This is mainly because of its refusal to recognize the existence of an invisible, Intelligent Power behind the manifest reality.

Truth is thus an important aspect of Enlightenment. Dissemination of the Mayan calendar facilitates the Enlightenment of the world since it in fact is a tool to prove the existence of God, a higher purpose of human life and the unity of all mankind. Truth is not based on feelings or fantasies, but one empirical fact. It is either universal or does not exist at all. The importance of the Mayan Calendar thus probably is not primarily in its individual use but in its potential for creating the intellectual understanding that all things are one, that we are all aspects of divine creation. And so Truth serves the Enlightenment of humanity.

So life seems to be about evolving as aspects of God in becoming, of attaining an Enlightened state in His/Her image. But it must then also be about working towards creating the conditions for this at our current stage of evolution and serving the harmonious evolution of humanity at large. To help humanity at large to attain a Universal frame of consciousness is why we, may have an individual path of action that we are committed to or have chosen. To indefinitely meditate on a mountaintop in the Himalayas, in contrast, would not seem to be to practice the In Lak’ech-philosophy since it is of no service to the rest of the world. (I can not tell, but maybe it is not enlightened either, since it seems more like a detachment than a unity with All That Is). Rightly understood I feel there is a certain dialectic to the process of attaining Enlightenment, where the evolution of the individual towards a higher state of awareness and a higher perspective on the human existence fosters a path of action in service, and vice versa. Rightly understood one serves the other.

Many people wonder what their purpose, in the sense of their path of action, is. And certainly there have been individuals in the history of mankind whose lives have revolved around accomplishing certain things, Buddha or Pasteur or any other who came here to do something, to accomplish a certain task of a lifetime. But at the present state of human evolution it is really questionable how many have these types of pre-determined paths of action. A fundamental reason is that we are entering a frame of consciousness where the role of free will is playing a greater role and so we may now be obliged to actually choose our paths of actions. We may then really have to craft our paths of action all by ourselves, and such a path of action in service of the Enlightenment of humanity may have little to do with what are considered as great deeds; curing diseases or the like. It may simply have to do with being kind. Being kind to another person is also taking a step on the Enlightened path and means practicing the In Lak’ech-philosophy. While this may not sound spectacular it is certainly something that takes a lot of spiritual discipline to practice on a consistent basis. Asking the question: ”How would I like to be treated?” may be a simple question to ask. ”What would God do if She/He were me?” is another.

But, as mentioned earlier, the Mayan calendar, and especially the tzolkin may be a useful temporal framework for pursuing projects and a path of action in the dialectic between free will and the cosmic plan of creation. If the attainment of an Enlightened state is the very purpose of human life it and the Mayan Calendar charts the path there then it would only seem natural that the paths that we develop in that directions are developed in phase with the Mayan calendar. This seems logical. But there is even more to the relevance of the tzolkin for an Enlightened path! As we have seen the evolutionary creation cycles are wave movements, where polarity alternates with unity in a process that is basic to all of creation and the cosmic processes leading to higher states of awareness. It then follows that the DAYS are favorable to a path of action and expressing creativity in the external world whereas the NIGHTS may be more favorable to contemplation and inner spiritual evolution. Our brains, in resonance with the cosmic creation cycles, will simply be functioning in different ways in different periods. As we approach the Universal Cycle the energy shifts described by the Mayan calendar will become increasingly more marked and an awareness of this wave movement will become increasingly more important. The Mayan Calendar charts the path for humanity, both individually and collectively, towards Enlightenment!

Everything that serves an experience of unity with All That Is, whether it is speaking the Truth, liberating yourself from lower levels of existence, committing to your purpose of life in a path of action or practicing kindness will serve the path towards Enlightenment. Global meditations may on a collective scale also serve the unity of mankind. And in this Mayan Calendrics points to a certain event heralding the return of a higher frame of consciousness.