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2012 - A New Beginning

Little do the humans realize how close they are to the moment when the genetic game board of their reality becomes the illumined design of galactic destiny. (Mayan Factor, p.154)

We are fast coming on that moment. The program is set. The future is already beginning. Its ripples are creating the first waves, washing up on the shores of the old consciousness.  What is behind December 21, 2012 that it would create such an effect?

According to the time science of the ancient Maya history is shaped by a galactic beam that Earth has been transiting for over 5,100 years. A great moment of transformation awaits us at 2012, beams end. The Mayan time science, popularly known as the Mayan calendar, is a mathematical code based on a science of holonomic resonance rather than atomic physics. The primary intention of the Mayan calendar system was not to measure time but to record the harmonic calibrations of the 5,125 year-5200 tun (360 day cycles) synchronization beam.

Accordingly, December 21, 2012 marks the conclusion of the passage of our solar system through this galactic synchronization beam. For humanity this beam constitutes the wave harmonic of history.  Why?  The beam, 5,125 years in diameter, commenced 13 August B.C. 3113 (3114 Julian), a date marked by the Mayan calendar long count as 13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ahau. This precise date 13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ahau will occur again on December 21, 2012.  Exactly 1,872,000 days will have passed, a cycle of 13 baktuns of 144,000 days each.

This interval, B.C. 3113- A.D. 2012, comprises the totality of history as we know it – from the First Dynasty of Egypt to the Twin Towers, hence wave harmonic of history. During this cycle, humanity has gone from a tribal creature just learning how to live in cities, to being a full-blown planetary organism.

The conclusion of the cycle in A.D. 2012 – kin 1,872,000, 13.0.0.0.0 – bodes nothing less than a major evolutionary upgrading of the planetary life process. At this point, a resonant frequency phase shift will occur presaging the brilliance of the post-2012 era of our galactic-solar-planetary realization.

“Leaving the galactic synchronization beam in A.D. 2012, the cycle complete will be the cycle begun, and it will be we as if we have seen ourselves for the first time and at the same time we shall recognize ourselves as human no more.” (Mayan Factor, p.129) That is, we shall understand that we have passed not only into a post-historic but post-human, or super human phase of our evolution.

If we speak of a “galactic synchronization beam,” what is this beam and what is it synchronizing?

We are dealing with an intelligently focused, high frequency time beam that is calibrated by thirteen sub-cycles called baktuns. Each sub-cycle is approximately 394.5 solar years or 144,000 days in duration.  Each baktun is further divided into 20 smaller cycles called katuns, 260 in all. Each baktun was holographically charged with a program for activating and synchronizing the collective human DNA and its mental capacity into slow but steady increments of expansion and acceleration – a process characterized by the three “c’s”, conquest, colonization and consumption.

During the twelfth baktun, A.D. 1224-1618, all of the major civilizations reached an apex of expansion and pre-industrial complexification, spilling over from the Old world to the New with the European Conquest of the Americas and circumnavigation of the Earth. This set the stage for the thirteenth and final baktun, A.D.1618-2012.

During this concluding baktun, the cumulative effects of the first twelve cycles attained an exponential momentum, known as the “climax of matter.” Not only does the year 1618 inaugurate what is usually referred to as the “scientific revolution,” but it also marks the beginning of the mechanization of time and consciousness. This fact more than any other sets the final baktun apart from all of the previous ones. For the mechanization of time, through the perfection of the mechanical clock, creates an alienation from nature, and a highly advanced capacity for social complexification and technological acceleration unlike anything hitherto known.

The process of the mechanization of time also created a totally unconscious mental-perceptual field, in which the human systematically separated itself from nature for the purpose of creating a vast industrialized order eventually to be known as the technosphere - a sphere or bubble of artificial time cast over the biosphere. Henceforth the human species was to be living on its own artificial time, apart from the rest of the biosphere that continues to operate in the natural cycles.

Artificial time was to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand immersion in artificial time allowed the human species to construct a fantastically elaborate and complicated global civilization. On the other hand, in separating itself from the natural cycles of universal order, a profoundly materialistic belief system was created that has crippled the biosphere in its pursuit of resources and profits, while fomenting a psychology of alienation that has resulted in the mega crisis of history.

In the 13-baktun analysis, the human race is viewed as a single planetary organism. In entering the artificial time of the 13th baktun the human DNA became an excited and agitated field, extruding technology much like a spider extrudes its web. The purpose of technology and the pursuit of materialism is to allow the previously dispersed human community to come together, however chaotically, to finally realize itself as a single life form capable of existing anywhere in the biosphere. This end-result is the cumulative effect of the synchronization beam.

The process of arriving at this globalized condition has occurred so rapidly that the human mind with its various provincial values shaped by antagonistic tribal, religious and nationalistic beliefs, has hardly had a chance to rise up from the conflict it has engendered to see that we are in actuality a single planetary organism.

Other factors to consider in reviewing the significance and meaning of 2012 include:

First, the intensity of interest in the 2012 date is itself a manifestation of the process of acceleration and synchronization engendered by the galactic beam. Until the Mayan Factor was published in 1987, when the 2012 date was first dropped into the mass consciousness, next to no one knew about it. The purpose of the Mayan Factor was to alert people to the conclusion of the cycle of history in 2012, and the tremendous shift in consciousness this date augured. In the ensuing years, curiosity about the date developed but gradually

However, since 2007, interest in 2012 has become a feature of the mass consciousness, inclusive of books, web sites, documentaries and feature length Hollywood films. To many people it is the end of time, the end of the Mayan calendar, even the apocalypse.

These are popular misperceptions that unfortunately get raised to the status of supernatural reality by the entertainment industry. But the mass interest whether fearful or hopeful is already a shift in consciousness. Something is going to happen. But what that is actually is up to us.

Second, there is the advent of the noosphere. The galactic synchronization foreseen as the conclusion of the cycle in 2012 is the moment of an evolutionary shift, or mutation. In fact the entire 5,125- year cycle - but an instant of geological time - could be seen as a mutative phase. The mutative phase complete, a new evolutionary stage begins. This is known as the noosphere. In fact, what we refer to as the crisis are but the sundry effects of the biosphere-noosphere transition, the chaotic and dissipative shift into the new order of planetary reality. As a planetary organism we are now being inevitably pushed into a new condition of planetary consciousness, the noosphere (see Manifesto for the Noosphere: the Next Stage in Human Consciousness).

This process, already underway, is an aspect of our evolutionary mutation. As a critical mass develops, it will snowball into a consciousness shift, the most primary prerequisite for entering the noosphere and creating the peaceable world envisioned by 2013.

A third point in consideration of the meaning of 2012 is the perception of time. According to the Mayan view time is the universal factor of synchronization. Hence, the universe is an ever-evolving harmony giving rise to the value time is art. As the frequency shift occurs, the old calendar will be replaced by a new one based on the harmonic standard of thirteen moons/28 days. Instead of time is money the new value will be time is art. This fundamental shift will give rise to a new collective human priority: Instead of ransacking the Earth for resources, we shall seek to transform the Earth into a work of art. This perception will be of inestimable value in shifting our post-2012 priorities.

Finally in consideration that Earth is a member of the heliosphere, 2012 augurs a new solar age, the coming sixth sun of consciousness. Exploring the relation between solar frequencies and our own brain waves, which the Maya term tinkinantah, the more adventurous members of our race will evolve a science of bio-solar telepathy, establishing a sure means for our continuing evolution. By creating a planetary telepathic network the notion that the noosphere is the mental sheathe of the planet will be fully realized.