The Two Kinds of TIME

Until January 2009 I had been like most of us living according to the Gregorian calendar with its endless repetition of years punctuated by Christmas, New Year, Eastern and other specific national holidays, as well as birthdays of myself and people close to me. Now that I come to think of it, that repetitive pattern felt to me more like a hamster running forever on its wheel in a vicious circle with no way out but to repeat the tradition like everyone else around me. I may have had specific goals in-between but they were my own specific goals unrelated to a wider frame; what was pretty obvious with each passing year was the not so exciting aging process that was affecting my body.

Things shifted in my consciousness when I discovered - and I mean by that giving some time and consideration to go deeper into its true meaning - the Mayan Calendar, thanks to the work of a Swedish scientist of the name of Dr Calleman.

I left the hamster wheel of the Gregorian calendar that had governed so far my life and of which our modern society is based to penetrate with awe and reverence into the Sacred Time of a Divine Plan as astoundingly revealed through the Mayan Calendar. Things started to shift with every experience having then a different taste and meaning. My whole life and that of the human race as a whole was put into a larger perspective and things began to make more sense.

Essentially, in contrast to the Gregorian calendar which was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 as the new and official calendar for the Catholic world, there is another calendar or Count of Days, if you will, that is based not on astronomical observations but according to divine energies as discovered and recognized by the ancient Maya that used to live in what is now referred to as ancient Mesoamerica and is more or less located in and around the land of modern Mexico and Guatemala on the continent of South America, a part of the world which belongs to the Western Hemisphere of our planet.

Please note that the Gregorian calendar was instituted as the new official calendar for the Catholic church of the time; furthermore, the presumed year of birth of Jesus Christ is a major element of this calendar. We speak of the time before Christ and after Christ. Now regardless of the personality and message that was brought about by Jesus and that this calendar was set by a religious organization that used part of his teaching as its foundational creed, in the greater scheme of a divine plan of creation, what matters for a calendar is the study of the cycles of time, whether they be physically based astronomical or subtle energy based spiritual cycles.

What difference does it make to use one calendar over the other and mostly why should we take into account a calendar that was used ages ago by a people who lived in an entirely different age and with a completely different worldview as we modern people do? Well that is a very good question.

So why? One of the major reasons why we should be interested in the Mayan Calendar is that it is based on a series of cycles that were discovered by the most sophisticated astronomers and mathematicians of their times around the beginning of the first millennium, the ancient Maya.

What the Maya had found and developed was a calendar based on spiritual cycles, and not physical astronomical cycles. Their count was based on spiritual energies which they designated as gods and goddesses, energies that were not material and therefore belonged to another dimension or reality. Even though divinities play a role in their Sacred Calendar, it should be understood that these non-physical personal deities are the symbols of impersonal cycles that influence the physical world rather than they being the starting-point of these cycles. Just like modern physicists are discovering the reality beyond matter, so the ancient Maya already based their calendar on that which is beyond physical reality. As most people nowadays would agree, physical reality is but the consequence of another invisible reality. That is becoming very interesting and is going to lead us to fascinating discoveries!

Would you not give more credit to something which is based on cycles based on a reality which, even if it cannot be apprehended with our physical senses, is the source itself of our physical reality?

I invite the reader to explore this possibility and discover with me how this could also change the way they perceive their reality of every day life and therefore how it may affect their way of feeling and being in the current world.