It should
be pointed out however that he did not arrive at this framework
through directly studying the Mayan calendar. He arrived at it
essentially through the visions of the time ahead that participants
in his enlightenment processes shared and only later did he find out
about the concordance of these with the Mayan calendar. Yet, the
whole notion that humanity¹s path towards enlightenment is part of a
historic process, a consequence of our own particular era may by
some be considered as heretic. Traditionally, enlightenment has very
much been considered a result of individual efforts of spiritual
purification, or even a sporadic accidental event, unrelated to the
particular era the adept was living in.
Stating that the process of enlightenment may be a favored result
of a particular historic era by necessity raises certain questions.
³What is the nature of the historic process if indeed a given time
period is more conducive to enlightenment than others?² ³Why would
we be approaching a process of collective enlightenment as we
approach the end of the Mayan calendar by the year 2012?²
Unfortunately, modern education tends to present the facts of
history from an essentially materialist perspective that negates the
existence of a divine time plan and so to find answers to the
questions above we need to move out of its box. The best way of
approaching the questions above is in my view to take a look at them
from the perspective of the Mayan calendar. For those unfamiliar
with the basic structure of this I will thus briefly recapitulate
it.
The Mayan calendar describes nine different levels of evolution
of consciousness, where each of the levels is developed by an era
called an Underworld. The creation of the universe proceeds in a
pyramidal fashion where the Nine Underworlds are built one upon the
other. We may thus liken the evolution of consciousness to the climb
of a cosmic pyramid that took its beginning already at the Big Bang
16 billion years ago. This climb is designed to take us to the ninth
and highest level where a non-dualist perception of the world will
be brought to us. All of these levels of consciousness are propelled
by thirteen energies alternating in intensity to create a wave
movement in which the time periods when these energies dominate
consciousness are very exactly defined. The energies ultimately
emanate from the Cosmic World Tree, what the Maya called Hunab-Ku,
the Vikings called Yggdrasil and the Vedas Mo Lam, the central
creative principle of the universe that by itself is non-physical in
nature. By October 28, 2011 all of these Underworlds will be coming
to their completion and so there is every reason to believe that the
year 2012 will be a year when a new reality settles, a reality where
the experience of linear time has come to an end and the
consciousness altering cycles that are still today driving the
evolution of human history will come to an end. In my view it is
thus fruitless to wait around to see what is going to happen in the
year 2012. The Mayan calendar is above all something that should be
lived at the present moment as it aligns us with a process that we
all need to participate in for the divine plan to successfully
manifest.
The Mayan contribution to the currently emerging understanding of
enlightenment is essentially the provision of an exact time plan for
the ³climb² of the cosmic pyramid. This time plan has been
extensively verified by empirical evidence and I feel its basis in
reality may now be considered beyond dispute. Its multifaceted
manifestations is quite a science of its own and is largely outside
the scope of the discussion here with the exception of the various
Yin/Yang polarities that have been ruling the Nine Underworlds and
how these influence the process of enlightenment on a collective
scale. The Nine Underworlds are each dominated by a certain Yin/Yang
polarity, which is pivotal for its influence on human consciousness.
From these polarities we may understand some of what Sri Kalki is
bringing into the world, and also the contributions of some of the
authors of this book.
In this climb we will start at the sixth level, at the National
Underworld that began to dominate human consciousness 3115 BC. This
is the era covered by the so-called Mayan Long Count, whose
beginning essentially coincides with that of the Indian era of Kali
Yuga in 3102 BC. During this era the light was polarized between the
two brain hemispheres of in such a way that the left brain was
favored. Because of this imbalance human beings then came to
experience themselves as half and incomplete. This lack of balance
in their perception of the world and themselves then almost
completely blocked any process towards wholeness and enlightenment,
which has been an exceptionally rare, or maybe even non-existent,
state during these past 5000 year. Human beings came to perceive
themselves as lesser than the divine. (While the concept of original
sin is now usually blamed on the Christian Church, or religion in
general, this is really not fair. The Church only put words to what
people were experiencing because of the consciousness polarity
ruling the cosmos at the time).
In AD 1755, the seventh level, the Planetary Underworld, began to
be developed on top of the National Underworld. Through this, human
beings came to be dominated by an endarkened consciousness that even
further blinded them to the spiritual reality of the universe and in
this era the entire focus of mankind shifted to the production and
consumption of ³things². Of course, light and dark here do not mean
good and bad. Human beings go through the different polarities of
consciousness in the different Underworlds, because we are
subordinated to a divine plan creating these. As part of this plan,
the goal of reaching the top of the cosmic pyramid can only be
arrived at as a result of a stepwise climb, where we, collectively
speaking, level by level prepare ourselves for the blissful view we
will have from the top.
Although it has been prepared for as a weaker influence ever
since 1947, the Galactic Underworld, the eighth level, then began in
1999. Its frame of consciousness is characterized by a polarity that
favors the right brain half and whose effects are mediated by a
series of seven pulses of light, reminiscent of the progression
through seven phases that is a central theme in the Book of
Revelation. At the time of writing (2005) we are now in the fourth
of these pulses (the Fourth DAY). These pulses are leading up to the
ninth and highest Underworld, the Universal Underworld, which during
a period of 260 days in the year 2011 will be dominating us with a
polarity where the light falls on the front of the head and the
darkness on the back side. If you add the polarities of these four
different Underworlds up they will complement each other to form a
sphere of light. What is described here is however the different
polarities that are level by level coming into play in the evolution
of the collective consciousness of humanity. Then every single
individual reflects a unique combination of influences from the
different polarities of consciousness in the different Underworlds,
but in the individual these never manifest in a pure and clear cut
form. Thus, although the polarities of the different Underworlds
determine the overall collective consciousness at any given time
they allow for quite some individual variation through complex
combinations of these influences.
The reason we may expect mass enlightenment to become a
possibility in 2011-2012, as the cycles come to an end, is thus that
there will be a shift in Yin/Yang polarity favoring the front side
of the human brain as the Universal Underworld becomes the
dominating influence. This pertains to a brilliant discussion of
Christian Opitz, where, on the level of brain physiology and brain
chemistry, he makes observations relevant to the process of
enlightenment. Opitz points out that, consistently with Sri Kalki, a
crucial prerequisite for the enlightenment of an individual is that
the activity of the parietal lobes are disconnected and that a shift
of this takes place to the frontal lobes. This is a description of
how in the collective process the path towards enlightenment means
shifting from the light favoring the back side of the brain (the
parietal lobes) in the Planetary Underworld (that all of the readers
of this book was born into and shaped by) to favoring the front side
(the frontal lobes) in the Universal Underworld. What Sri Kalkis
dikshas are designed to do is to bring about such a shift and what
the Mayan calendar tells us is that the cosmic polarity that
dominates the human mind will be increasingly conducive to such a
shift. Already today certain individuals have had experiences of a
shift of this kind of a permanent nature and have attained what
would be called an enlightened state.
Kiara Windrider has discussed the limitations of the dikshas as
applied to most of us living today. ³Love brings up anything unlike
itself², and so many that have received dikshas come to experience
backlashes where the initial state of bliss, sometimes mimicking an
experience of enlightenment, may turn into disappointment as the
initial experience wears off. Also these phenomena become more
easily understandable from the overall perspective of the Mayan
calendar and we should be aware that the shift from the polarity of
the Planetary Underworld to the Universal for most of us will
require exposure to many transfers of light as well as the necessary
ensuing integration processes. Collectively speaking in the
overall Divine Plan the shift from one polarity of consciousness
to another proceeds in steps, which are propelled by distinct pulses
of energy emanating from the Mo Lam, the Cosmic World Tree, at the
current time especially as part of the Galactic Underworld. This
pulsewise emanation of light creates a wave movement that we are all
part of, and which invariably includes troughs meant for
integration. As the divine process of creation according to the
Mayan calendar is a wave movement the same will be true for our
individual processes. Thus, there is no path along which we can
gradually and linearly become enlightened. It seems more realistic
to expect our enlightenment processes to proceed like wave movements
where different dark corners of our consciousness are lit up by
dikshas. Kiaras advice to just expect us to go through such an up
and down process and accept it seems wise and highlights the
necessity to process aspects of ourselves that are not translucent.
How much of such processing that is necessary will depend on where
we started and our willingness to honestly see ourselves.
Hence, we should be aware that all people that are now at an
adult age were born into a cosmic Yin/Yang polarity that did not
favor enlightenment. Those of us that are choosing a path towards
the enlightened field of the Universal Underworld should then
realistically be ready for a roller coaster ride where we will not
necessarily be amused by every turn. (Exempt from this may however
certain children be that are born in recent times, who may enter the
Universal Underworld more or less directly as their consciousness
has not been under the influence of the Planetary Underworld). At
the same time it should be pointed out that with every new pulse of
light in the current Galactic Underworld a rebalanced consciousness
favoring enlightenment will be strengthened. This is incidentally
why it is important to celebrate the most significant shift points
of this Underworld, such as the Oneness Celebration, Midlight
Meditation, etc, with globally synchronized dikshas. Hence, it is in
my view necessary to be aware both of the cosmic energy shifts that
the Mayan calendar describes and to go through an individual process
in phase with those same energies. The individual path could in
addition to dikshas include a whole range of processes for emotional
and mental cleansing that would fall under the heading of samskara
shuddi, such as The Journey and The Work, to mention two that are
currently popular.
Dikshas then, what are they and why do they serve the process of
enlightenment? Sri Kalki describes them as Golden Balls that he
spent decades perfecting. Initially they were transferred by
physical contact mediated by the dasas, but other means of
transferring this divine intelligence have later emerged. It seems
that recently these etheric golden balls have even been caught on
film among participants in a 21 day process in the Golden City to
whom the knowledge how to give dikshas was passed on. By itself this
would indicate that as we have come to the midpoint of the Galactic
Underworld these balls have become more tangible and lucid and we
may be more ready to have them enter our ordinary existence. These
balls of light may then serve to activate and lit up whatever dark
corners there might be in the mind of an individual. Because of what
we know from the Mayan calendar and its different polarities of
consciousness we also have every reason to believe that most of us
are energetically unbalanced with significant inner walls of duality
that need to become translucent, and exposure to the golden balls of
the diksha may serve exactly this purpose.
In my view what these dikshas are doing is to help bring a new
frame of consciousness to the individual one where all the
polarities have been evened out. A sphere of light is how the
collective consciousness that the divine plan is bringing us was
described above. It should be pointed out that our individual frames
of consciousness have unique imbalances, but that Sri Kalki has
brought into existence a tool that potentially has the ability to
bring balance and wholeness to whomever it is given to. Regardless
of individual difference between people enlightenment will
invariably require the balancing of light in ourselves. The golden
balls will balance whatever is out of balance in a particular
individual and bring his or her consciousness into harmony with the
state where the polarities of the different Underworlds are
complemented by each other in other words to the enlightened state
of the future. The closer we come to the Universal Underworld the
more consistent will the individual consciousness be with the
enlightening field of this Underworld. This is probably why Sri
Kalki professes to bring anyone that so chooses to the state of
enlightenment.
The above article is Copyright by Carl
Johan Calleman.
All Rights Reserved. Presented with permission of the author.
Carl Johan Calleman is a world leading expert on the
Mayan calendar and is the author of The Mayan Calendar (Garev
2001) and The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of
Consciousness (Bear and Co, 2004).
His web page is www.calleman.com
