As we usher in a New Year and celebrate the passage of one more orbit around the sun, we take inventory in what has transpired in the last year, and look to the future for new possibilities.  The countdown to a new year is but a mere fraction of time in galactic terms, but it is a symbol of creation day, 12-21-2012, Hanub Ku, which we are quickly approaching.   

Happy New Year, Everyone! Out with the old and in with the new!  

Although we use the dilapidated and dis-harmonious Gregorian calendar, which sets us at odds with the biosphere surrounding us, the ingenious calendric systems of the Maya concisely and accurately map vast astronomical cycles.  This calendar is a depiction of the processes of mankind’s evolution, and it describes how the Omega Point is shaping us out of creation.  As we journey through these cycles of time, some of us speculate on how quickly our lives pass relative to the slow moving progression of the stars above us. However, it is these immovable stars and their astronomical cycles that the Maya codified so eloquently into their calendars, and they then implemented these astronomical chronologies as a signpost and guide for our difficult passage through the chaotic corridors of history.  

Modern man is unaware of what is before him, and only finds existential meaning in life by reflecting on his past experiences and groping his way toward a hopefully better tomorrow. Nevertheless, with the calendric system of the Maya, contemporary man can have a better idea of what lies ahead. The organic nature of the Mayan calendar properly mirrors the cycles of the universe around us and gives a reliable expectation of what is to come. It is organic in that the Holy 260 day Tzolkin calendar reflects the 260 day gestation period of a human being, and the 13-baktun Long Count reflects the 26,000 year precession of the Equinoxes, which causes us to progress through one astrological sign every 2000 years. The long count calendar that commenced on August 12, 3113 B.C. is said to be the “birth of Venus,” and it culminates on a Venus transit, or a time when Venus passes directly in front of the sun, which happens around every 120 years; one could say that since we both align with galactic center and have a Venus transit in 2012, the end of the 13-baktun long count is, metaphorically speaking, Venus giving birth to the Holy Child, a new paradigm of being. Actually, according to the Maya, when the galactic alignment occurs with our sun and the dark rift of the galaxy, the masculine sun impregnates the feminine dark rift and brings forth Divinty on Creation Day, Hunab Ku.    

Carl Johan Calleman posited the intriguing supposition that the calendar of the Maya was a map and guide for all creation: from the Big Bang, to mammalian evolution, human civilization, the industrial revolution, the information age and finally the awakening of the noosphere. Calleman proposes that the Mayan calendar and the nine tiered platform of the Mayan pyramids are delineating the same process. According to his ideology, we are in the final underworld and only have the apex of the pyramid to attain.  Perhaps, as Carl Johan Calleman speculates, the time period from 2004 through 2012 will bring forth the global brain, or noosphere, and awaken Gaia.

Many people are stating that the Mayan calendar prophesizes “THE END” is coming.  Notwithstanding, they are only exhibiting the anxiety propagated by our fear-ridden culture, and they are helping none in their desperate cries of doom.   It must always be remembered that the Mayan calendar is cyclical in nature, and even though there is a linear beginning, middle, and end, “THE END” is just a “NEW DAY” of the next cycle of the spiral. So fear not and ignore all the warnings put forth by all the doomsayers, for they lack the keen observation and steadfast research that stipulates that a cosmic embryogenesis is taking place.   

Hunab Ku, 12-21-2012, is a CREATION DAY, the Birth of the divine man from the dark rift of the galactic bulge. This is the Cosmic Christ, the “spiritual gold” of the alchemist, the awakening of spiritual man. The start of this New Year is but a reflection of the start of the “Great Year,” a processional cycle of 26,000 years, and we should meet both with the hope and optimism necessary to crystallize the future we desire. It is incumbent on us to attain this as a collective, cooperative force.

Jonathan McGregor Bethel and David Colin Healy are both writers and researchers.  They are the founders of Omega Point Institute, an online magazine and think tank dedicated to the research and dissemination of information pertaining to esoteric modes of thought and how those modes are solidifying  our collective future.  Whether it is the Technological Singularity, 2012 End Times, or the all encompassing omega point, these two individuals have much to say to clarify our view of the future.  www.omegapoint.org www.JonathanBethel.com