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Mayan Calendar: Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future

This is the foreword by Jos� Arg�elles to Carl Johan Calleman's latest book: Enlightenment: The Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future

��This also makes Dr. Carl J. Calleman's new book, Enlightenment, the Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future, a land mark piece of literature. Besides presenting scientific evidence of a "Divine Plan" and factually establishing where we are in that plan, this book creates the unification of 100's of thousands of Mayan calendar students and practioners all over the world. �

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Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future

By Jos� Arg�elles

The foreword to Carl Johan Calleman's latest book: Enlightenment: The Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future

��this also makes Dr. Carl J. Calleman's new book, Enlightenment, the Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future, a land mark piece of literature. Besides presenting scientific evidence of a "Divine Plan" and factually establishing where we are in that plan, this book creates the unification of 100's of thousands of Mayan calendar students and practioners all over the world. �

Ian Xel Lungold

By Carl Johan Calleman
Foreword by Jos� Arg�elles

Since the Harmonic Convergence of August 16-17, 1987, and the Concurrent publication of my book, the Mayan Factor, Path Beyond Technology, interest in Mayan civilization and, in particular, the Mayan Calendar, has become widespread around the planet. Not only have there since appeared numerous books on the Mayan prophecies and civilization in general, but there has also been a revival of the traditional Mayan time knowledge as well, most notably through the efforts of Alejandro Oxlaj (Cerillo) of the Quiche Maya in Guatemala, and, in Mexico, of Hunbatz Men of the Yucatec Maya.

A deeper reason for this interest is that the end of the Mayan Great Cycle of thirteen baktuns will soon draw to a close on the Winter Solstice (Northern hemisphere) 2012. It is awareness of this conclusive date which, acting like a signal in the human DNA, prompts so much interest and enthusiasm in the Mayan Calendar, as is demonstrated, for instance, by John Major Jenkins Maya Cosmogenesis 2012.

Carl Johan Calleman's Enlightenment: The Mayan Calendar as Our Guide to the Future follows in the tradition of the Mayan Factor in being an in depth philosophical investigation and interpretation of the Mayan calendar showing its absolute relevance as a tool and guide for this final stage of the thirteen baktun Great Cycle. As Calleman well demonstrates, the Mayan calendar is a multi-valued system encompassing a deep philosophy of nature and natural rhythms, which in turn afford applications for historical analysis. In this analysis Calleman is acutely aware of the religious and theological ramifications of his interpretations. Not the least of the ramifications stems from that of the infamous Christian book burning of the Mayan texts in 1562. As Calleman writes, "The higher perspective generated by the Mayan calendar is, however, not something that can be turned into a new dogma ...Rather, the Mayan calendar provides a possible framework for the common exploration by individuals that share a respect for the contributions and views of others.

The Mayan calendar, properly understood, is thus in its essence alien to all fundamentalism, to everyone believing that there is but one true religion that holds to the whole truth. For this reason in a sad way we may understand why the Catholic Priests would burn all the books of the Maya; these would threaten the monopoly of the truth that the Catholic Priests at the time strove to establish. Today, however, more and more people turn away from organized religions out of a desire to seek the truth for themselves. This fosters a revival of the Mayan calendar on a worldwide scale among all those aspiring to the unity of humanity." (pp.93-94).

This point of view is broadly ecumenical and universal and speaks of the most spiritual nature of the Mayan calendar. It also speaks of Calleman's fascinating effort to create a grand synthesis of humanity's spiritual history - a history of the human mind - and an analysis of the present and near future that is based on a strict adherence to the Long or True Count, including the value of the 360-day tun cycles. Equally fascinating is Calleman's analysis and interpretation of the thirteen baktuns as alternating day and night cycles, and as related to the cosmology of the thirteen heavens. In this regard he sees that we are passing through a Galactic Underworld and that after the 2012 date we enter into a Universal Underworld.

But for Calleman, as we approach the 2012 date, what is most important is that he sees a great spiritual awakening and unification occurring. "Based on our knowledge," he writes, "of the Mayan calendar there is then little doubt that as we approach the completion of the Cosmic Plan the number of Enlightened people will increase vastly. The proof from the Mayan calendar that the mind has a history then offers great hope to mankind..."(p.236)

What I find interesting about Calleman's work is that it substantiates the premise of the Mayan Factor, that the Mayan civilization and the Calendar in particular are the overlooked factor in any consideration of the course and history of human civilization. Calleman has been able to explore and investigate from his perspective the depths of the Mayan calendar demonstrating its fundamental spiritual and mental nature which speak to a level of synthesis which the world sorely needs today. Even more importantly, Calleman sees the Mayan calendar in relation to the divine or cosmic plan. "Thus the Mayan calendar remains our most important tool for studying the cosmic plan, and this is clearly an analytical tool generated by the Western hemisphere."(p.239)

It is also interesting that the Mayan calendar inspires in Calleman a genuinely holistic and global understanding of ourselves. For though the work I have pursued in my investigation of the Mayan calendar differs in certain points from that of Calleman's - and it is wise to be open and fearlessly study all points of view - we share in common methods of applying fractal units of the calendar as tools of analysis. For both of us it is clear that the Mayan calendar is well disposed to fractal holographic applications based on the key numbers -nine, thirteen and seven. The reader will find Calleman's fractal-based interpretations utilizing many graphics to be thought provoking and stimulating.

Finally, I would like to emphasize Calleman's perception of the two critical Venus passages that will soon be occurring. The first will occur on the date June 8, 2004; and the second on June 6, 2012. These dates, marking the passage of Venus in front of the Sun, are for Calleman an augur of the "...final transformation of the human mind into a mind of light." Venus passages always occur in pairs. The last two pairs occurred in 1874/1882, and before that 1761/69. Of course the dates of 2004 and 2012 are most significant. The 2004 date must be seen as the herald of the Great Calendar Change, July 25-26, 2004, while the second passage in 2012 initiates the Closing of the Cycle. For the 2004 date, Calleman is calling for a world wide meditation. This meditation would be a great opportunity to set the stage for the spiritual triumph of the Great Calendar Change. While on the True count the June 8, 2004 is 6 ehecatl (wind) a sign of Quetzalcoatl, on the Dreamspell count that day is 3 Monkey, one of the Thirteen Clear Signs on the tomb of Pacal Votan. And it will occur but one week before the 52nd anniversary of the opening of Pacal Votan's tomb.

Pondering the meanings of Calleman's book, let us all search in our hearts and minds and seek the higher unification of the spirit which is afforded by the study and practice of the Mayan calendar in all of its forms. Let us prepare to use the Mayan calendar as a tool to study the course of events generated by the Cosmic Plan, for are we not in the end all fashioned of one soul ? Calleman's text on the Mayan Calendar can only bring whoever reads it to a new threshold of understanding. Let us all move forward as one to the One! (My emphasis)

Jos� Arg�elles-Valum Votan
Closer of the Cycle
author of Mayan Factor, and Time and Technosphere

Overtone Moon 28, Kin 186, Yellow Rhythmic Star
True Count: Uaxac Etznab Gregorian: December 12, 2002

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