The Mayan Calendar: What You Need to Know: "Don Alejandro Cirillo Perez Oxlaj, Hunbatz Men, and Carlos Barrios. Rather than focusing on a specific date, their main focus seems to be on the message that the calendar does not predict the end of the world, and on the bringing together of indigenous people for ceremony and sharing of knowledge.
In my next post, I will discuss the work of Jose Argüelles and the Dreamspell Calendar. The following two will be about the contributions of John Major Jenkins and Carl Johan Calleman.
In summary, I want to emphasize that there are several versions of the Mayan Calendar, all focused on a consciousness shift. And secondly, that what’s more important than waiting for a specific date for the shift to happen is to understand that we are in a zone of time right now in which the shift is happening. And lastly, that by working with concepts from the calendar, we can understand the unfolding of cycles such as our current economic situation, increase our attunement to nature and the universe, and be more prepared for the consciousness shift now occurring."
Jose Arguelles | The Awakening Shift: "One of Jose’s biggest focuses is to encourage people to embrace a 13 month calendar. Since our Gregorian calendar has only 12 months, he feels it is a mechanical, contrived calendar that is out of sync with the natural cycles of the earth. He bases this on the fact that the moon makes 13 journeys around the Earth each year in the same amount of time that the Earth makes one journey around the sun. He says our calendar disconnects us from the Earth’s natural cycles causing a disconnect in our consciousness whereby we do not value the Earth’s resources and honor her sacredness. This concept makes sense, since it is the indigenous people, who have stayed connected to the Earth who honor and respect the Earth."
Jose communicates his ideas through his Law of Time website. Here is an excellent interview with Jose by Sounds True publisher Tami Simon. This has quite a lot of information on his views of the Mayan calendar and 2012.
