The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 - Dr. Synthia Andrews Nd [27]
Observing cycles allowed the Maya to predict aspects of life and plan for planting crops, performing rituals, and so on. It also allowed the Maya to observe psycho-spiritual correlations to time. We’ve already seen that every day was given a meaning, as was the month and year. Each configuration expressed a certain character so it could be used for divination. People went to diviners to have fortunes told the same way people today read their horoscopes.
The Least You Need to Know
◆ Using a simple counting technique, the Maya were able to accurately calculate huge sums and spans of time.
◆ The Maya gained astronomical information through long-term observation, simple tools, and trance states.
◆ Celestial information was coded in the buildings, cities, and calendars.
◆ Information was coded in pyramids for information and for energy transmission.
Part 2
Cosmic Treasure Hunt
Now that you can appreciate the Maya, you’re probably getting curious about the 2012 predictions. Where did the predictions come from? What are they based on? Are they accurate?
This part takes you into the calendars and changing ages of the Maya. The Maya measured cycles and qualities of time. Time periods were expressions of qualities and time itself determined the events that happened. The interactions and alignments of the celestial bodies reflected themselves in the events of earth. Through their timekeeping system the Maya were able to see events unfolding into the future.
In these chapters, you’ll get a chance to look at the calendars, the pyramids, the skies, and the Mayan world ages to see the evolution of consciousness in its many expressions.
Chapter 4
Pieces of the Puzzle
In This Chapter
◆ How the calendars work and interlock
◆ The Gregorian calendar versus the Mayan calendars
◆ Time forms events
◆ Interlocking cycles form alignments
The labyrinth toward 2012 begins with the Mayan timekeeping system. The system is based on more than one calendar. The calendars measure interlocking, multidimensional cycles. Before we can explore the individual calendars in Chapter 5, you need an overview of how the system works. In this chapter, we’ll show you how many calendars there are, why so many were needed, and how they interrelate. Most importantly, you can see what was so unique about the Mayan view of time.
You’ll also get a glimpse into how our modern calendar works and why the two systems are so different. This will give you a good framework for the upcoming chapters where we weave through the individual calendars, explore the solar system and galaxy, and then descend into the jungles to decode the pyramids.
The 20 Puzzle Pieces
Although we talk about the Mayan calendar, the truth is there’s more than one. In fact there are between 17 and 20. The calendars are unique. They’re extremely accurate. Their calculations of orbits, eclipses, and other astronomical events are as accurate as our measurements today. Why did the Maya need such exactness? Other pre-technology cultures survived just fine without this precision. The answer might lie in how they view time.
The Function of Time
In our calendar, we use time to measure distance or mark events. Most significantly, we use time to mark the occurrence of events, in phrases such as “it’s three days away.” Time to us is a measurement; it has no quality of its own. The events have qualities; time itself is just a canvass on which we write history and separate events.
The ancient Maya would not have understood us. For the Maya, time was holy. It had its own set of qualities that reflected in events. Time formed history, not the other way round. This is the basis of what today is called synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence. Synchronistic events are important because of their timing, not their content.
def•i•ni•tion
Synchronicity refers to a person’s experience of two or more events happening