The Mayan Calendar - 2012 and beyond

Not all of this will suit everybody. Parts will seem obvious to some, other parts may seem… far reaching. 
Living in timeless Tonga we have a lot of time for reading and reflection so…. what have we found on the Mayan calendar ? Changing times….
 
Can you feel it ? (If not, read no further). A time of rapid changes, uncertainty and monumental possibilities. There is an undeniable Shift going on. Shifting dynamics. A huge shift of awareness on this planet. A lot of people are waking up. Many are being shaken awake.
The astrologically intricate and precise Mayan calendar starts about 16 Billion years ago and shows that there are eras of evolution, cycles of ever quickening growth. This calendar is not an instrument to measure time but a “prophecy”, a map, which describes Evolution. The evolution of consciousness.
In “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness” Dr. Calleman states : the previous era started in 1755, the age of power. Rising out of that, and replacing it, is the new era, from 1999-2011, the age of ethics and integrity. In 2011 we will move into the era of conscious co-creation.
 
A Mayan calendar researcher explains : “We are on a schedule. Time is not quickening, but the amount of happening is. So it is normal these days to feel overwhelmed by events, like we can't keep up. Better get used to it. You may feel like you are losing your mind…don’t worry, you are!  Your mind can only handle 24 frames a second but consciousness is speeding up. Your mind is like a donkey being pulled behind a racecar.”
 
Everyone seems to agree there : Consciousness is speeding up.... but what is consciousness ?  It is Life, it's the one life force that sustains all life, it's our life energy…. it is us.  
 
So if you don't feel confused, split, disorientated... you're not in tune with what's going on ! It's not that the Shift itself is disorientated. It’s right on course. But it may overwhelm our emotional/mental being because we are not prepared. It goes against what we are used to. It’s like the carpet being pulled from under our feet. Like the rules of the game are being changed on us. We have to relearn how to be, especially how to BE.
 
 “The Evolution Continues” (Mayan Majix) explains : There is more happening, which leads to more possibilities. But if the mind experiences too much it reacts with stress, followed by fight or flight mode, followed by unconsciousness (blockage).
We will need to use our intuition because events will be happening too fast to think it out. Have you noticed that your intuition (your first answer, hunch) is always more right than your mind ? Our intuition comes from our center. Without integrity, following your heart, the mind steps in and puts you off balance.
These days, in the age of ethics, we see corporations, relations, religions and economies breaking apart from lack of integrity.
 
 “What the Bleep, down the rabbit hole” describes : “We are the generation of transition. We are opening up to a new paradigm. And it's uncomfortable for us because we have been brought up in the old one. We are disconnecting from old patterns. Changing on a neurological level is like experiencing a nervous breakdown, borderline sanity, because nothing we knew is left to connect to. We need to develop the sensitivity to see things in new ways and change our patterns. We are giving birth to a new self.”
 
Growing means, shedding the old layers of beliefs which limit us. Shedding the illusion really. Opening up. Our picture of reality is changing worldwide. Our old attitudes are being shaken off us. Our old identity is being dissolved. We are rediscovering who we really are.
 
 In A New Earth (Awakening to your Life’s Purpose) Eckhart Tolle shows that what we pursue out of individual ego will lead us to continued dysfunction, to more and more struggle. What we do for our collective ego, for the whole, will align with the flow.
In Cosmos, Laszlo and Currivan confirm :
 “The ego is not bad or evil but simply is seen to be needed for biological and emotional survival and evolution. In these changing times the primitive ego becomes outdated. It just needs correction and transcendence, as the need for ego survival changes to the need of collective survival.” From I to us.
“The individual ego obviously leads to fighting and extinction”.
 
So the paradox is that the individual ego which urges us to compete to survive is now actually pushing the human race to global suicide. The age of survival is over.
It’s always good to know which way the wind is blowing. It will be easier to ride the new wave if we know something about it.
 
What is our individual ego ? How would it feel to let go of it ? How would it feel to lose our mind ?
Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist. In My Stroke of Insight she describes a stroke which shuts down the left side of her brain :
“The left brain organizes, describes and analyses. Through constant brain chatter it manifests my identity, I become an individual entity separate from the whole. It is a busy bee and measures its value by how many things it crosses off my daily to-do-list.  My left mind thinks of me as a fragile individual capable of losing my life”.
 
Without the left brain… “No longer capable of perceiving temperature, vibration, pain or body position, your awareness of your physical boundaries shift. The essence of your energy expands as it blends with the energy around you…(“I couldn’t tell where my person ended and the next thing began.”) Those little voices inside your head reminding you of who you are and where you live, become silent. You lose memory connection to your old emotional self and the richness of this moment, right here, right now, captivates your perception.”
 
 “The right brain realizes that the essence of my being has eternal life, is part of the cosmic flow. My right hemisphere is about right here, right now. It knows we are laced together, life is good and we are all beautiful just the way we are. It is my intuition and higher consciousness. The character at the core of my right brain is completely committed to the expression of peace, love, joy and compassion.”
 
So…when we venture beyond our insecure, separatist left brain, the reward is the discovery of our blissful being as part of the whole.
“Without the time keeper of my left brain, my life s-l-o-w-e-d to snail pace. As my perception of time shifted I fell out of sync with the beehive that bustled around me.”  That is what meditation is all about. And surfing.
“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists. Extremely unintelligent and destructive action arises out of such a fragmented view of reality.” Eckhart Tolle

“A human being is a part of a whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest…a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us…” Albert Einstein

Quantum physics confirms this oneness in What the bleep, down the rabbit hole : “Science says we are separate : a random lonely mistake on a random lonely planet. This idea of separation has created all the problems. But at sub-atomic level you and I are literally one. We are all together, one, at the very base of our being. We are all alive, and connected, through one energy. In empty space is unbelievable energy. We are all interconnected : consciousness is the ground of all being.”
 
Now, consciousness is speeding up. And we… are going with it.
This translates in information statistics….
In 2006, 3000 books were printed every day. There were 1 Billion Google searches every day. The internet now stores more new information every year than we have collectively known in the last 5000 years…  And by the time a student has completed 3 years of Information Technology studies, the 1st year training is already obsolete.
 
On one level this speed of information growth is a physical reflection of the expansion of consciousness, the contagious spreading of awareness encircling the planet, and a conscious uniting.
 
The mind cannot grasp it or keep up. Nor does it have to, we are all one.
Our education has over emphasized the importance of the left brain and we are therefore used to hanging on to what we know (or think we know) as part of our identity.  The left brain ~ the logical, separatist, egoistic, fearful side ~ is what is behind most human development since a very long time.  One picture I have for what is going on is that as a natural survival measure humanity’s consciousness is now shifting to the right... This would occur naturally, to give rise to our long suppressed right hemisphere, the intuitive part in all of us.
(It’s as though Earth’s overdriven and exhausted left brain is undergoing a massive stroke, a breakdown… now doesn’t that sound about right ?)
 
Transformed by her stroke, our brain scientist continues : “Western civilization is a pretty challenging environment for my loving and peaceful right brain hemisphere character to live in. Step to the right to evolve this planet.
 Freed from all perception of boundaries it proclaims : I am part of all. We are brothers and sisters on this planet. We are here to make this world a more peaceful and kinder place.”
 
The age of survival is over guys. We do not need to continue this senseless scramble for more and more. Instead of uplifting us with higher knowledge our education and media feed us with limited and specific information. They prey too on our survival instincts, ensnaring us in feelings of lack and competition which keep us working and consuming. And make us believe that our worth, what we are, depends on what we have.
“Greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified. The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.” (Zeitgeist Addendum)
Yet the day comes when the risk to remain tight in a bud becomes greater than the risk it takes to open…

 Now “People are actually waking up by the millions. All the big and petty lies, the conceits and deceits, the brutality and banality are being seen for what they really are: the attempt to remake free people into robots and slaves. But no amount of complicity could extinguish the flame of human curiosity and decency forever. Instead of ensuing a new age of barbarism, the collapse of the system has begun to unite us in our essential humanity spirituality.”  (Uncensored)
Enter the new age.
 
The age of power is over and the individual ego is struggling with the shifting sands. Outer and personal difficulties may force us to co-operate. This is the age of integrity, of finding wholeness; a time to redefine our values.
The time for honesty and commitment. Being true to our feelings and straight in our relationships.
This is the age of Ethics, of relinquishing power games. Realizing that we are all one. We can’t afford anymore to steal energy from each other, either emotionally or financially. Taking advantage over another means we are cheating a part of ourselves, whereas by uplifting another we shall benefit too. If we look at capitalism from the eyes of spirituality it is dysfunctional : for one to win, another has to lose…

This reminds me of Deepak Chopra: Consider yourselves as body cells, part of a Whole. The well-being of your body depends on the complete co-operation of your body cells.
So obviously, for the cells of your body:
Selfishness is not an option ! Aggression is not an option.
Competition is not an option. Hoarding is not an option.
Nor is superiority. Exclusion. Withdrawal. Over-activity.
Or generation gap.
 
 When threatened with extinction a species needs to evolve in order to survive. Hence a new generation emerged in the ‘80s… the “new children” are spiritually advanced. We may not recognize this because we cling to old values. Many have a less competitive character and a more holistic understanding of the world. They have greater openness, innate intelligence and awareness, increased sensitivity and indeed, ethics. I don’t think we have to worry about our kids, they are naturally more in tune than we are to face the changing times.
Some have “extraordinary” skills that are in fact a natural expression of a developing consciousness, like telepathy and clairvoyance. Some display amazing psychic abilities (like… opening flower buds with the power of thought...). You may doubt it, but they are taking these kids very seriously in China , Russia , Mexico …
 
“Now that this world is starting to be less physical, other children like me are going to come. Human beings are different now. They are going to be more open. Humanity is changing. The connection with the spiritual world becomes more open. I am here to calm the people who are frightened by the changing energy of Earth.” Flavio, age 7, Argentina (Vengo del Sol) . Wisdom from the mouth of babes.
 
The veil is lifting between the worlds. The cosmic laws and interconnectedness are becoming more apparent. The laws of the planet are not so much changing but surfacing as we become more aware of them. As though in response.
 
This brings me to another picture.
Manifestation is not really magic.  That we create our own reality ~constantly ~ by our thoughts, our feelings, our choices and our actions....is simply the law of cause and effect, and the law of attraction. Beyond that, our thoughts and feelings are "vibrations, sound, energy waves" and everything is interconnected, linked through the unified energy field.
 
If the world is becoming “less physical” that means we will be able to manifest more easily (because our thoughts will not be so impeded by the laws which now govern physical matter). This could lead to wild results ! We will need our ethics here ! 
We had better be clear and focused by 2011, when we move into the era of conscious co-creation, or we will be bombarded with the results of our multitude of chaotic thoughts and wishes !
 
You've heard how our thoughts can influence RNG (random number generators). E. Lazlo writes in Cosmos that an emotionally bonded couple, thinking together, can influence 6 times stronger than either of them individually.  That's where the power of group intention comes in. In a controlled experiment, a group of professional meditators were able to lower the crime rate in Washington DC over a period of time by 25%. Simply because none of us are separate from the energy-field of thought from which everything is made. The 100th monkey syndrome confirms how knowledge spreads to disconnected populations just through the fabric of this one energy field.
“The fundamental traits of my right hemisphere personality are deep inner peace and loving compassion. I believe the more time we spend running our inner peace/compassion circuitry, then the more peace/compassion we will project into the world, and ultimately the more peace we will have on the planet.” (Stroke of Insight)
 
 Another picture is : the world is waking up. We are waking up. Out of unconscious sleep. Now we may live like in a dream : tossed around by unconscious forces, hardly holding the steering wheel of our life, and not knowing why we are being often pushed off course. But the veil is becoming thinner. We have the increasing possibility to become lucid in this dream. To bring our awareness into the dream and realize “Hey, this is me, dreaming; now I can consciously create my own dream.”
 
To become fully lucid in this dream reality we call life is to become enlightened. It happened to Eckhart Tolle out of intense suffering, but he says : we may continue to learn through suffering, but we do not need to anymore.
 In A New Earth he describes in detail how we continuously identify with the “pain body” and how to free ourselves from this addictive pattern.
In The Power of Now, he says the transition may occur with Earth changes because we still need drastic measures and suffering to “wake up”. But the present of the times is that the future is in our own hands. It is up to us to transcend our need of pain as a learning tool.
 
“Eventually we become less enamoured with struggle and pain, and choose to work smarter, not harder.”  Thanks to increasing understanding and awareness we are now learning through many sources how to change our minds. We do not have to follow our typical reaction patterns (acting out of memory) but may realize that we can (with practice) become free to choose whether we follow our old circuitry or not (acting out of the moment).
“What the Bleep” shows us how we can change the wiring in our brain that links images and sets off a chain reaction of thoughts and emotions.
“There has been nothing more empowering than the realization that I do not need to think thoughts that bring me pain. I choose to observe my environment through the non judgmental eyes of my right mind, allowing me to retain my inner joy and remain detached from emotionally charged circuitry.
I alone decide if something will have a positive or negative influence on my psyche.”
 “You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. Beam bright !” Stroke of Insight.
 
The human race is being pushed out of the nest, to start to fly. To learn to transcend suffering, to choose another view and therefore another direction. To understand that we are fully responsible for ourselves and the world around us.  Your childhood may not have been perfect but… it’s over ! Realize that we can not blame our parents for our patterns, or our partners for our relationships. Nor can we trust our governments to do the best for us or our system to take care of us.
 
So we are still taking our baby steps, and we have to speed up. These powerful times bring us a lot of challenges and the call of the hour seems to be to grow fast beyond our own petty issues. It is not only about everything else changing. It is about us changing.
“We all have the power to make a difference. A new Earth begins with a new you”.
“Once you see the ego for what it is, it becomes easier to remain non-reactive toward it. You don’t take it personally anymore. You don’t fuel the drama anymore that is part of all egoic relationships. What is its fuel? Reactivity. The ego thrives on it.” (Eckhart Tolle)
We need to review our patterns, question our motivations and revise our actions. Then, by focusing our positive energies and intentions together we can transform not only our own lives, but the world.
 This works because we are all linked. So by becoming more awake, more aware and more positive, we help the whole human mind to move out of unconsciousness. Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
 
The challenges and the beacon of 2011/2012 inspire us to take our power ~ NOW.  "Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift, that is why it's called "the present”. (subway wall…)
“There is nothing we can imagine to be, do or have that we have not got the power to be, do or have. All the theories in the world are useless unless there is action, positive change, and healing.” Louise Hay
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Your playing small does not serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in every one of us.” Nelson Mandela

Is there hope ? Yes !  But to be part of the hopeful happening we have to join it. Then we can be part of it because we are co-creating it.   
 “We are entering a frame of consciousness where the free will is playing a greater role ~ so we may now be obliged to actually choose our paths of actions. We may then really have to craft our paths of action all by ourselves.”   The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness, Dr. Calleman. You don’t wait for something to happen. You make it happen.

" This is a time of awakening and quickening. Of urgent transition. We need to let go of the mundane and put ourselves to the service of creating unity and peaceful civilization. By spreading consciousness, knowledge and new energy technologies. We can't procrastinate any longer. We have to express that we are willing to serve this Change in whatever way we can. People need to step forwards in service together. The transformation towards a peaceful civilization without poverty and warfare can happen but it needs us as children of the Earth and fearless spirit warriors. We are the generation of transformation.” Steven Greer
 
 “ We are heroes and heroines for coming to Earth at this time... “
“Now we can imagine ourselves either striving to survive in an age of unpredictability, or we can imagine ourselves thriving in an era of triumph.”  Dannion Brinkley
 
In “The Tenth Insight” James Redfield concludes :
 “We can either fear that human culture is falling apart, or we can hold the Vision that we are awakening.
Either way, our expectation is a prayer that goes out as a force that tends to bring about the end we envision. Each of us must consciously choose between these two futures.
 
What the end-times seers were receiving was an intuition that in our time, two distinctive futures would be opening before us. We could either choose to languish in the Fear, believing that the world is moving into a Big Brother style of automation and social decay and destruction...or we could follow the other path and consider ourselves the believers who can overcome this nihilism and open to the higher vibrations of love, where we are spared the apocalypse and can enter a new dimension in which we invite the spirit, through us, to create just the utopia the scriptural prophets envisioned.
 
As you begin to work thru the fear that is holding you back, you will usually discover a fuller understanding of who you are, what your current life is about . Most important is to look deep enough to remember what you want to do with your life.”
 
“ The year was 1975. Back in those days I was one cocky, 25 year old guy who could anticipate a punch, fieldstrip a rifle, and fix a '57 Chevy. Beyond that, quite frankly, I didn't give a damn ! I’d never heard of a near death experience, and I would not have believed in it even if I had. I never gave any thought to that kind of crap… until the day…”   Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning. Twice. He had “one death and 2 near-death experiences. Once I was clinically dead for 28 minutes… that’s dead, nothing near about it. (How many times do you think they would have to kill you before you caught on?) Needless to say, after 3 times on the other side, I finally saw the light ! A lot of things took time to penetrate my thick skull…”
He offers his insights from the beyond in The Secrets of the Light :
“We were chosen to come here to more fully reflect and express the divine principles of love, compassion, kindness and good cheer, innate in our nature. These qualities are paramount to the continuation of life on Earth.
What you may think of as your greatest weaknesses may in fact be your truest strength. Judge not, even yourself, for you cannot know the ultimate plan for your life. Nor do you need to. What is necessary is that you live in the consciousness of love. From there you will be led to perfect situations and relationships.

I believe it is imperative that you do not forget this. The secret of the Light is tantamount to your genuine success as a light bearer as you adventure through the twilight of this era on Earth. To ensure that the world survives in grace, you were chosen to come here. Because there is no one exactly like you, no one can take your place or fulfill the demands of your destiny.
And destiny demands your conscious commitment to a life of excellence. When Love acts as your compass, your life is always right on course.”

“We are all considered heroes and heroines for coming here at this time in history.  But the future is not necessarily carved in stone… The beings of light believe in us… perhaps it is time we more fully believe in us too.”
 
Low self esteem is perhaps the greatest shackle of the human race. It is a tendency that has been magnified in us in order to keep us lowly. We have not been brought up to believe in our own power, to know that we are all beautiful, unique, and eternal spirits. How different would we be if we had been encouraged to bloom, instead of molded to fit into a mechanical working structure ? However now is not time to lament but to reclaim our true identity. Each one of us is a unique personality, rich in experience, able to share warmth and understanding. Each one of us is a starchild able to express the love and light we experience from the divine. We are not here to compete but to inspire each other. Mostly we are here to learn to love ourselves, and therefore each other. Because when we do, life flows.
 
“In viewing love from the other side, I know it to be a power. I beheld love as the most powerful force in the Universe. A force that moves effortlessly through us when we allow ourselves to be open channels for it’s expression.  Love is our state of being.” Dannion.
 
I too have experienced that we are part of a fluid, borderless and eternal whole. What I was shown is that the Earth is undergoing internal struggle because everyone is blocking the flow of Energy (emotions, instincts, love, knowledge, power, money.... are all forms of energy). Out of feelings of lack and inadequacy we collect and hold onto our energy, accumulating it, hiding it away, hoarding it.
 Because everyone is hanging onto Life energy instead of letting it flow it may need some (Earth) shaking to release it.
So what can I do ?  For everyone the best you can do is to be as open as you can, so energy flows through you. Don’t hold back. Pass everything on, receive and release, keep it flowing. Obviously we know that fluids need to circulate. Be as water or be a block.
 
Cancer is caused by bottling and holding emotions like resentment, guilt, anger. This blocks the natural energy flow. Acting purely selfishly (which stems from insecurity) we are like a cancerous cell in the body. But like any cell in the body, as we heal ourselves we help the whole body to heal.
Peter Russell illustrates this well in The Global Brain video.
 
If it goes on like this, everyone worried about their own survival, we won’t have to worry much longer. The planet is about to spit the dummy ! If she wants to kick us squabbling bunch of kids off, she can. Perhaps we can still change her mind… if we can all change ours.  (After all, we’re all one Mind.)   
A one sided education has drummed into us that ~ due to shortage ~ we have to care for ourselves by outsmarting and competing with others to survive. The ones hardest hit here, given the most pressure, are the guys. But if we don’t stop clubbing each other on the head and look at the bigger picture, we won’t have a bigger picture to look at !
The responsibility of the cells is to keep the body alive and healthy. It’s time we care enough to serve a higher purpose ~ for our own good ! We need a big shift of perspective here. And I reckon that is what we are going to get.
 
Like us, Earth is actually the picture of abundance. We must become aware of this aspect of life. To control the planet and us, its energy (resources) is being tapped, used and bartered, for the benefit of a few. Out of fear of losing this control the free-energy technologies which could release us all are being withheld. It’s the perfect picture. Energy would flow freely and the planet would recover.
 
With the feeling of “not enough to go around” ingrained in us from early on, we too participate in these energy games. (On the emotional level we may use control-drama habits to draw energy towards us, described in The Celestine Prophecy). And to be honest we can’t even blame our society for conditioning us in that mind-frame because it really reflects our own inner feelings of insufficiency. If we didn’t have that in our core beliefs we couldn’t get caught by it. We need to forgive ourselves for not being perfect. And love ourselves anyway !
In fact our childhood and whole life are perfectly set up to expose our inner character’s tendencies. Outer circumstances do not so much form our feelings as reflect them. We always attract events towards us which confirm our beliefs. Life is our reflection.“Our lives are shaped not as much by our experience as by our expectations.” If hurt, rejection or lack are your inner beliefs you will experience life through those eyes. And attract those happenings because they fit easiest into your belief system.
Understanding this (law of attraction) is essential to freeing ourselves from repetitive occurrences, hurt patterns, etc. The only way to change them is to change us.
 
And the only way to change our society’s corrupt ways is to change us. To free our own cell from its stuck-ups. The top dogs symbolize the collective unconscious. They personalize the lower side of human nature which we all possess to some degree. Only by us becoming aware of this lack of integrity within ourselves and rising above it can we tip the scales.  “We have to become the change we want to see in the world.” (Dalai Lama)
They also rule us through the power we give them by believing in them and their values. And by us supporting that vibration on the planet through our own clinging behaviors born of insecurity.   By fearing them we give them strength. But they are only humans too, going against the cosmic flow… in which do we put our faith ?
 
The Mayan calendar is like a road map, “a calendar of the Ages which condition the human consciousness, and thus the frames for our thoughts
and actions within a given age.”  “That’s why everything flowing at this time has to do with the global awakening taking place.”
That’s why power structures are crumbling : the whole economic system, monetary set-up, over-productivity, working chain and abuse of natural resources are unethical.
If we look on the bright side we can see that the breakdown of old relationships, air-castle economies and excessive commerce may help many to evolve towards more real values, greater self-reliance and maturity.
Calleman states : “All the conflicts of humanity belonging to lower levels of consciousness will by 2011 have been resolved, because then there is no support for anything but the unity of all mankind, a unity with All That Is. The old order will no longer be real.”
 
The biggest challenge these days is to stay informed and to stay positive. We need to keep things in perspective and keep our view on the bigger picture. (Have you noticed on medicines how “death” is listed under “possible side effects” !?)  Knowledge is circulating more freely now thanks to the internet, which is a reflection of more free flowing times. Never before has there been so much new, available, shared information, and such a network of connected energy. Science and physics are starting to confirm ancient spiritual knowledge. The world is uniting. The new age has already begun.
 
We have a moral (morale) obligation towards ourselves to become part of the positive light which will help tip the scales.
“Choosing to remain cheerful, positive and optimistic in the new millennium is more than a tad challenging. Yet, it is in our best interest to strive in that direction despite the bombardment of negativity we must muddle through each day. We must stand strong in our conviction that life is a joyous opportunity to experience the awesome wonderment of divine spirit”.
Because, as particles of life-energy, we co-create our reality.
 
“Shared laughter is almost as powerful as love. With love and good cheer flooding our spirits and infusing our hearts, the likes of confusion, doubt, worry and fear do not and cannot exist.” (Dannion) This is why love and laughter are such effective healing forces : because they do away with dis-ease.
 
  Instead of beating ourselves up for what we are not, it is time to love ourselves for what we are. We are all eager ingenious individuals seeking to do our best in this seemingly confusing world with what we are given. If we feel and act small it is from fear of lack. It is therefore trust in life that uplifts us and enables us to uplift others. There is a mass of spiritual support available these days if we open to receive it.
 
Calleman suggests : “a path of action in service of the Enlightenment of humanity may have little to do with what we have considered as great deeds : curing diseases or the like. It may simply have to do with being kind. Being kind to another person is also taking a step on the enlightened path and means practicing the Lak'ech philosophy : I am another you”.
 
“Belief in kindness is a powerful energy. By having true faith in one another, soul to soul and heart to heart, our mutual energies create an immuable frequency of hope to shield and saveguard our future.”   Dannion Brinkley, Secrets of the Light.
 
On the solstice of Dec. 21st 2012 there is a tremendous cosmic happening. Physically, Earth is aligning with the sun and the center of the galaxy, and also with the Pleidian sun and Arcturus. Spiritually, some in those circles say Earth is moving to a higher frequency. We are recommended to move with it ! Be in the flow of change and wonder instead of the flow of fear.
 
By now it is common knowledge that the incredible Mayan calendar ends on Dec 21st, 2012. What does it mean ?
 
I suggest it was carved on a stone disc to symbolize the stone age, ending in 2012, and the continuation of the calendar is carved on a gold disc to symbolize the golden age ! (The gold disc is probably in the vaults of the Vatican.)
 
2012 is linked to all doomsday prophecies. Everyone is talking about doom and gloom: black holes, white holes, earthquakes, pole shifts, floods, planetary collisions, you name it…  Bad news sells and scare is a much used tool. As usual we are being misinformed, we are told of the shit but not the Shift. Fear weakens the spirit of the alternative population. (And religious ones, due to Revelations.) Don’t go there. Remember your morale obligation. And with the scale of the earth changes predicted I wouldn’t worry about having to prepare anything !  Real estate may go up in Greenland . And being more self sufficient and off the grid is anyway good for our own grounding, independence, feel for nature and balance. And if we can face that the worst that can happen is we die....well, that we will do in any case. We did come here on a return ticket.

Whenever whatever happens ~ or not, we all like to be a bit prepared for it… And what is the only thing that is certain to happen sometime in life?  Death. Or rather “passing on”.  
So to look into that is, at any time, the best preparation. It is not a morbid consideration but simply realistic and responsible. Fear resides in the gap between us and someone/thing else; so to familiarize with it reduces the fear.
The fear of death (and perhaps hell) has been used to control us. Is it not that at any time we ought to be ready to go in peace ? We are, here and there, our own judge. There is too much separation made between the states of being alive here and being alive on the other side. It’s just less solid. It’s the same field of consciousness, which IS life, and we are part of that, conscious beings. We are alive, we stay alive, that’s all. (“Hey, I’m still me!”)
Now self discovery ~ what am I? ~ may not be your cup of tea, but I enjoy playing with it. You are, after all, the only person you are always going to be with. And at any given time it makes life easier to be as far as we can be in our personal development.
 
Peace comes when we start to see that from behind the scenes life is, surprisingly, fair. We have designed our lives with obstacles as opportunities for expansion. It’s the ultimate perfect set up : we all have different realities depending on our attitudes and our perspectives ~ we get the world we believe in, and free will to change it.
Karma is not punishment and reward but simply the results of our actions. Hell is the mental/emotional space of hate, resentment, guilt, depression… The only hell we have to worry about is the one we create for ourselves and our co-cells. Only when we have reached enough understanding, compassion and forgiveness we will also not judge ourselves harshly, either during our life or during our life review.
 
“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.”
“In a singular burst of euphoria, my mind, my heart and my soul opened simultaneously to complete cosmic awareness. And it shall be the same for you, no matter how spiritually evolved you may be or not. Our humanness simply cannot conceptualize the breathtaking sense of wholeness that reunites with your spirit in what we refer to as death.”  The Secrets of the Light.
 
Whenever we leave the park we’ll see that Earthyland, like Disneyland , is much less real than it appears to be when we are engrossed in the rides. See you in the parking lot !
“ I wondered how I could have spent so many years in my body and never understood that I was just visiting here. This cellular mass of my body had provided me with a marvelous temporary home. It was clear to me that my body functioned like a portal through which the energy of who I am could be beamed into a 3 dimensional space.” (My Stroke of Insight)
 
So fear of 2012 may make us contemplate leaving our body, which is always good to consider. It helps to put things in perspective. It inspires us to live NOW. Though it may first paralyze us, facing and going thru fear actually releases the energy we need to live fully. “In the end it doesn't matter so much how we die, but how we live.”
So sometimes it’s good to have a deadline to give us a kick in the butt ! “Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid it may never begin”.
Helps us to jump over our own shadow. All our resistance, procrastination, hoarding and holding back come from either expectation or fear of the future. Living for now, we would be more flowing and in tune. A healthier planet…
Often the diagnosis of “terminal illness” helps people to release all the pent up feelings, the blockages, the stuck-up energy, which created the illness. In that way life energy starts free-flowing again and they heal… “miraculously”.
 
And that is exactly what the planet needs.
E. Tolle writes, that when faced with the trauma of execution some very normal people have become instantly enlightened. Another picture of the Shift is that of Earth becoming enlightened.
Perhaps the unused 90% of our brains is opening up, along with the 90% of our world which is not matter…
 
Changing times… We are the caterpillar undergoing metamorphosis. We are the carriers of the change. We are giving birth to a new world. It's both scary and very exciting. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” (Richard Bach, “Illusions”)
Transformation, like childbirth, pushes us beyond ourselves, beyond the fear of our own ego death : this is the power of creating new life.

These are special times we chose to participate in. The sensation of life speeding up will increase. Together with our opening and personal discoveries. We may feel shifting sands. Turning tides.
“Listen to the tide that is turning, washing our heartaches away
 we are part of the fire that is burning, with the ashes we can build another day…” Moody Blues,”the voice”
Go with the Flow ! Understand the spirit of the times and move with it. Then it is not a struggle against the current but a tremendous chance for expansion. We are supported on our way by the most powerful energy of this transition.
 
   If we can attune to the evolving vibration (bring our free will in line with that) the laws work with us. Hopefully this makes it easier to learn to meditate ! We may like to ground ourselves through quiet centering. The feeling of speeding up may finally force us to slow down. And slowing right down, coming back to the present moment, increases awareness of the sense of sacredness.
 It is surely a good time to “regain awareness of the essence of life rather than the form. Regain a sense of energy, spirit, rather than only physicality and matter.”  
 
 By the way, some prominent researchers (such as Calleman) have calculated the date to 28th October 2011, rather than December 2012. A minor detail…  Anyway that may not matter, coz matter may not be anyway. I believe the planet could become less physical, less dense, and therefore more vibrant, more bright. Spiritualists suggest that our planet is evolving to a higher frequency. And we should do our best to tune into it. Choose high frequency activities which keep your spirit high and your light bright. Love is the highest frequency. Be aware of your multiple choices. We need to choose happiness. To help raise the vibe. Make new friends. Spread love and positive energy. Unite. Share good vibes. Play music, sing, dance and celebrate !
 
 Align with the divine God knows what. Remember we are human beings, not human doings. Simplify. Lighten the load. And lighten up. Redefine the essential. Rediscover appreciation, true values and gratitude.
Your guideline is your heart, your intuition and your integrity. Make peace with yourself and with others in your life. Keep your ears, minds, hearts and arms open. Stay free and flexible. Look out for “co-incidences”. Be guided through love, not fear. We stopped working, except on personal expansion. Avail yourself to the incredible support of these times in areas of self-help, alternative knowledge and spiritual wisdom now surfacing. Intend to thrive, not just survive.
 
We will need to reprogram because non-ethical ego will become more and more unsuccessful. Those stuck on that track will create their own hell. This is not so different from now (karma being a result of our actions, not a punishment) but will be more immediate and greatly amplified.
This is a time of coming together, caring and serving the whole. Unhappiness comes always from resisting that what is. (Tolle)
In fact, all we need to do, is get out of our own way.
 
  We are used to building up an identity, attitudes and personality, and sticking with it. It reinforces our sense of ego, identity. The gift of these days is that old beliefs drop easily off us. We may feel fragile because our personality is a shell which covers the vulnerable openness of Being… It may be that we have to keep letting go. Don’t cling and don’t get stuck anywhere, coz everything you know and are is just a stepping stone to what you can or will be…  Surpass yourself.
If we are not too linear in our imaginations we can go to so far unimagined heights. Perhaps the purpose of speeding up is to help blow our linear minds ? To feel everything is possible. Be realistic, prepare for a miracle.
 
 To be able to take the future we need to first let go of the past.
 Get over any past resentment by realizing we attract the people and situations we need to learn with. How did that relationship or experience help me to grow to who I am now ? Get over any past blame by forgiving yourself…  for not being quite perfect ! We didn’t come here with a clear instruction manual.
 
However, all of our lives are predetermined…by us (our higher self)…but with many possible alternatives depending on our choices. So we don’t need to know what to do. We just need to notice (and to follow) the road signs.
 
 Remember : where you put your attention, (your focus and your energy) is the reality you will create for yourself.
The Neanderthals couldn’t imagine a future, so they didn’t have one !  So be open minded !
 My driving teacher used to frequently remind me “Where you look, you go. You will always steer towards the direction you look at.” We hold the steering wheel.
 
 It seems the darkest before the dawn... but the sun has actually risen 8 minutes before we see it. It takes that long for the light to reach here.  And if we open our eyes we can already see a new light… a global awakening. I meet beautiful people, and see wonderful things happening all around the globe. I trust in Life. My life has always got better, and that’s a natural course. I can’t imagine things going any other way but up. This planet is amazing and something awesome is taking place now, in our lifetimes. Let’s enjoy it.
 
Whether we know it or not we are living on a multi-dimensional planet.  And there are many different possible futures. Our future depends on who we are : on our attitudes, our thoughts and our actions. “If you want to know who you are, look at who you were. If you want to know who you will be, look at what you do.” Dalai Lama.
 
 There are things happening to, and on, this planet, forces at play and destinies unfolding, which are beyond any of our realization.  So in which Reality we end up (where we fit in) will depend on what we choose to focus on and thereby on which vibration we are living.  
 
Trust that there is purpose and oneness behind all the chaos and apparent opposites. To be honest the world needs big changes and we should welcome them. Whatever happens, do we really want to be part of this planetary abuse and soul destroying system, and continue amassing material wealth, social status and fat cells ?  
 
How can we feel trust ? By becoming aware of the wondrous, mysterious nature of the world we live in. Think about it. This is an incredible multi-faceted, multi-layered planet/universe of which we are only aware of a very small, simple part.
 Our 50 Trillion cells each perform Trillions of interconnected actions every second. Quantum physics is starting to lift a small corner of one veil which confirms age-old spiritual wisdom and cosmic laws. We, our life energy, our essence, is part of the one energy which is Consciousness, which is Life. So, with all that, and so much more, how can we not feel that everything is set up perfectly ?  That our destiny is not in the hands of a few deluded beings, but in the flow of Being ~ of which everything and everyone (however wealthy and deluded) is just a miniature part.
 
 If we do not see the Light, then where are we looking ? If we do not trust in the Whole, then where are we putting our trust ? In the belief of the power of a handful of misguided people who try to control our lives, against the increasing awareness on the planet ? Perhaps the growing consciousness of the planet ? 
 
Let us remember that we chose to come to this planet at this time… Well, our higher self (player part) chose to play, as the body (token part) we may feel we just got picked and stuck on the board !  It helps to remember it’s just a game…  and if we look around we can see we are still connected to our player. It plays through us.
 So however small and confused we may sometimes feel, we are up to whatever is going on.
 
 
Dannion describes what he was shown :
 
“A main goal in our lives must be to increase our ability and capacity to love. We have designed our lives with challenges…. It is imperative we do not fear the challenges we have attracted to ourselves in order to promote growth. Armed with gratitude and good cheer there is no mountain we cannot climb in order to reach the pinnacle of our spiritual power, as a Force of One.
 
The spiritual and physical events happening on a global basis between 2012 and 2014 will render not only a new state of consciousness but also a completely new state of being.
 
In this new state of being, we will embrace an awareness of the parallel realms or companion spheres of life around us. And within that awareness, we will possess the knowledge of our simultaneous existence within these multiple dimensional realities. I swear this is not as weird or fantastic as it sounds.”
 
"Apokalypto" just means "to reveal".
 
Mind shifts are fun. They can also be mind blowing.
I recommend to be grounded in our bodies, quiet in our minds, centered in our hearts and high in our spirits. We can also play around with some mind-expanding techniques to get a feel for different spaces. Whatever turns you on. It’s good to move towards it rather than to be taken fully by surprise.
 
“However, before humanity as a whole is elevated consciously to such a comprehensive multi-dimensional awareness, it is imperative that certain things be understood. There is no doubt in my mind that collectively we have the power to change the world. We simply have to collectively agree upon the changes we want to see. “We must become the change we wish to see in the world.””
 
Let’s face it : how can we expect the world to change if we don’t ? That’s too easy. And do not rely on others or on a savior to do it for us. The big challenge here is for us humans to develop our discernment, our intent and our free will. That’s why sometimes a significant part of our life is spent experiencing what we don’t like : in order to reinforce our vision and our intent for what we do want. With this combined energy and focus we can become conscious co-creators of our own reality.
 
We may either cling to what is slipping away (the unconscious) or we may become willing participants in a monumental shift of perspective. Each of us, through the work we do on ourselves, is helping to dissolve our old collective behaviors. For generations we have been living on auto-pilot, following and governed by insecurity and deeply embedded reaction patterns. As a consequence, and reflection, we have allowed ourselves to be literally ruled by such controlling systems. But “no amount of drugs, fluoride, and fairy tale education could permanently suppress the longing of the human spirit for peace and love, for light, wonder, awe, and yes, worship.”
 
 So now we are empowering ourselves, by discovering the realm of free choice, of free will. And as we change our attitudes and our core beliefs, we are changing our minds and our bodies on a cellular level. By taking on the change, living it, being it, we are making it happen. We are moving from the Age of Pisces, the age of suffering, to the Age of Aquarius : the age of Universal Brotherhood. We are our own Savior. It’s a potential we are manifesting through the combined powers of our belief, our love and our free will.
Perhaps the human race is a bridge to bring new awareness into the physical (body) : incorporating it. Downloading higher consciousness into matter. (That’s why we need to be down to earth, not too high flying; not out-of-this-world but rooted in it; caring for our smaller self too because that is the part which needs to be prepared to receive it…) The ocean falls into the dewdrop.
 
If you think this is far out… I think we can hardly go far enough ! Our limited minds are not able to conceive of the myriad of amazing possible futures… which is a good reason to lose your (left) mind : to go beyond the limitations of time/space reality it imposes on us.
“Our collective destiny may be precisely this freedom from the illusion of materiality, from the illusion that we exist in space and time.”  Peter Russell, 2012 Mindshift.
“We are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human consciousness but they won’t be talking about it on the news tonight. On our planet…consciousness is awakening from the dream of form.” Tolle, A New Earth.

So the Calendar ‘ends’, because that is the end of our linear time perception. We’ll get a change of perspective.
“We are all standing on the edge of a cliff. A cliff we are all going over. The choice is not about that. It’s about whether we want to go kicking and screaming or whether we want to open our minds and our hearts to what happens when we start to fall.”
True security comes not from clinging to the predictable and known but from trusting in the process of Life, welcoming change and growth at all times.
 As always, the more we open, the more we allow to be, the more possibilities we allow ourselves.   
Dannion reports :
 "Although we are all unique in who we are and how we manifest our life force, we remain an inseparable component of the ONE CONSCIOUSNESS.
  Even more astonishing for me was the fact that, as multi-dimensional beings, there are aspects of us (in the totality of our beingness) that are doing this powerful work in several places at the same time. I don't know about you, but I found those were some pretty wild and cosmic perspectives to grip!
 
I always thought one life held quite enough spiritual intrigue for me to handle. Then to discover that we co-exist with ourselves in multiple lives on multi-levels of consciousness was a huge leap for me. Nevertheless, I knew it was true. And you know, it sure helped me to understand why we need so much sleep at night. Think about it. With all the work we're doing on so many levels, no wonder we feel tired all the time !"  The Secrets of the Light 

“Always more for us life hogs to learn. To learn, to practice, to give back to other life hogs to remind them that we are not alone” Richard Bach

“Lak’ech”  ( I am another you.)

Wishing you peace and love, light and insight,
Heather