Mayan calendar and humanity’s path towards Enlightenment (short version)

By Carl Johan Calleman

By Carl Johan Calleman

The prophetic Mayan calendar is unique among the calendars of the world in being a non-astronomically based calendar. Rather than being based on the physical movements of the earth, sun and planets it charts the changing spiritual energies of cosmic evolution. Unlike the world’s many astrological systems the Mayan calendar is not based on the Earth’s precession or positions of stars. It is however the only calendar that is proven to be prophetic and the predictions made from it are repeatedly verified. From this perspective it is then natural to ask what this calendar has to say about the mission of Kalki as well as Enlightenment in general.

A good starting point for such a discussion is then the ideas put forth by Kalki himself (Kalki and the Golden Age Foundation)and those around him. Since I have not heard this developed first-hand I can only recapitulate what I have been told, basically that the time for humanity to become enlightened is now and that this now will only last until the year 2012. There are two remarkable things about these views. The first is that by presenting such a perspective Kalki makes a break with the traditional Eastern view. According to the traditional perspective, Enlightenment – which by itself is a kind of entry to a timeless reality, an ever-present now – is something that happens independently of human history.

It has been regarded as a state that may be attained at any point in time as a result of the application of various methods of individual spiritual purification and enhancement. Hardly any traditional Eastern text mentions an exact point in time at which Enlightenment is to be attained. Moreover, in most of them Enlightenment is seen as something that is the goal of the individual as if he or she was separate from cosmic evolution.

The second noteworthy thing is that the year set for the accomplishment of this mission, 2012, coincides with what to the rest of the world has become known as the ending year of the Mayan calendar; 2012. (Actually the true date for the completion of the cosmic plan is October 28, 2011, but it would lead too far to go into why). Although this concordance of the dates was not originally known to Kalki, it does provide for a unification of the world views of the East and the West on a new and higher level. In fact, that Kalki, and the prophet who originally pronounced this prophecy to him, did not originally know about the existence of the Mayan calendar, makes this confluence of dates all the more telling and remarkable.

It points to the reality of the Mayan calendar that in certain aspects can be intuitively accessed by any inhabitant of this planet, and truly independently verifies the existence of a cosmic time plan that the majority of humanity is still oblivious to.

Briefly, the Mayan calendar is associated with nine creation cycles, which represent nine levels of consciousness or Underworlds as symbolized by the Mayan pyramids. This pyramidal structure of consciousness development can explain things as disparate as the common origin of world religions and the modern complaint that time seems to be moving faster. Time, in fact is speeding up as we transition from the materialist Planetary Underworld that still govern us to a new and higher frequency of consciousness – the Galactic Underworld – in preparation for the final Universal level of conscious Enlightenment. The Mayan calendar is thus a spiritual device that enables a greater understanding of the nature of conscious evolution throughout human history and the concrete steps we can take to align ourselves with this cosmic evolution toward Enlightenment. Interestingly then, the Mayan calendar places Kalki’s mission in a context, the divine plan as charted by the Mayan calendar.

To the majority of humanity however, events – not only the attainment of a state of Enlightenment, but also changes in religious thinking or technological innovations – happen more or less at random and are unrelated to its evolution at large. This denial or ignorance of a cosmic time plan for the evolution of humanity blinds it to its higher purpose. We should then not be surprised that the world looks the way it does as most people to not recognize that they are here to fulfil a purpose and to do this in a limited amount of time. A view of history as being random fosters not only a lack of hope, but in many also an irresponsible attitude towards life. Hence, the overriding importance of working to disseminate information about the Mayan calendar in today’s world and Kalki has encouraged adepts to study it.

The current unification of the modern expressions of some of the most advanced ancient traditions of the West and the East, the Mayan and the Vedic, in fact creates an opening for an understanding that human life has an inherent purpose. Even if the modern East and West in recent times have been engaged in many conflicts it thus seems possible that, if we are willing to explore their ancient origins, it is possible to find some common ground, in fact an entirely new world view that is whole and where nothing is separate from the All is now gradually emerging.

In this unification it seems that it is the West, the Maya and some other Native American peoples, that is providing the calendrical knowledge about the cosmic plan, while it is the East, the Vedic and Buddhist traditions that is carrying the time-less wisdom of the Self. The practical unification of these thought systems and traditions is then brought about by all those that are taking a path towards Enlightenment and according to the Mayan calendar the time for this is now. In so doing we are collectively speaking creating the Universal Underworld.