The Mayan Calendar is comprised of three concepts of time, which occur simultaneously:

• Sacred Calendar (tzolkin or bucxok, 260 days long)
• Civil Calendar (haab, 365 days) and
• The Long Count

The Mayan calendar is cyclical, repeating itself every 52 Mayan years. In the Long Count calendar, the counting of time begins on the day 0.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau, or 8 Cumku (Mayan notation), which is equivalent to 13 August 3114 a. C. in the Gregorian calendar and ends on December 21, 2012.

The high Mayan priest, called ah kin, who possessed a great deal of knowledgeable about mathematics and astronomy, would utilize his understanding of the cosmos in accordance with Maya religion to make predictions about the future and man’s destiny.

According to some scholars, the Mayan calendar had already appeared in ancient cultures that preceeded the Maya, such as the Olmec. For other, howevers, the calendar is unique to the Mayan civilizaiton. like the Olmec, for others, however, this schedule is typical of the Mayan civilization. The Mayan calendar’s similarities with the Aztec calendar provides evidence that the same calendar system was used in all of Mesoamerica.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Based on real world events.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Vivos underground shelter complex for up to 4,000 people in 20 nationwide locations. One year of autonomous survival and life assurance in a hardened, fully stocked, blast proof shelter for the next Earth devastating catastrophe (December 21, 2012), terrorist strike, nuclear attack or social anarchy.

You and your loved ones are invited to survive the next earth devastating catastrophe, terrorist or nuclear attack.  Vivos is the life assurance solution for your family, to survive for up to one year in an autonomous, hardened and nuclear blast proof, underground shelter. We invite you to join us and a community of 200 people, as a co-owner of the Vivos survival shelter complex closest to your home area from our planned network of 20 shelters.  Where else would you go with just a few days’ notice?

You cannot predict, but you can prepare for the immediate future and beyond.

NBC News Report on Vivos Underground Shelter

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

December 21, 2012, said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar, is creating all sorts of buzz in an array of communities, including astronomers, scientists and priests.

Whether December 21, 2012 signifies the end of the world as we know it, or simply the beginning of a new era, it’s best to be prepared no matter what.

Follow these simple steps, and you can rest assured that in the event of an emergency on December 21, 2012, you’ll be prepared!

How to Prepare for December 21, 2012

Get A Kit

It’s possible that you will need to survive on your own after an emergency. Therefore, you must have your own food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity to last for at least three days. Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. You could get help in hours, or it might take days. In addition, basic services, such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment, and telephones, may be cut off for days, or even a week or longer.

Recommended Items to Include in a Basic Emergency Supply Kit:

• Water, one gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation
• Food, at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food
• Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both
• Flashlight and extra batteries
• First aid kit
• Whistle to signal for help
• Dust mask, to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place
• Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
• Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
• Can opener for food (if kit contains canned food)
• Local maps
• Cell phone with chargers, inverter or solar charger

Additional Items to Consider Adding to an Emergency Supply Kit:

• Prescription medications and glasses
• Infant formula and diapers
• Pet food and extra water for your pet
• Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records in a waterproof, portable container
• Cash or traveler’s checks and change
• Emergency reference material such as a first aid book or information from www.ready.gov
• Sleeping bag or warm blanket for each person. Consider additional bedding if you live in a cold-weather climate.
• Complete change of clothing including a long sleeved shirt, long pants and sturdy shoes. Consider additional clothing if you live in a cold-weather climate.
• Household chlorine bleach and medicine dropper – When diluted nine parts water to one part bleach, bleach can be used as a disinfectant. Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water by using 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water. Do not use scented, color safe or bleaches with added cleaners.
• Fire Extinguisher
• Matches in a waterproof container
• Feminine supplies and personal hygiene items
• Mess kits, paper cups, plates and plastic utensils, paper towels
• Paper and pencil
• Books, games, puzzles or other activities for children

Make a Plan

Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to plan in advance: how you will contact one another; how you will get back together; and what you will do in different situations.

• Identify an out-of town contact. It may be easier to make a long-distance phone call than to call across town, so an out-of-town contact may be in a better position to communicate among separated family members.
• Be sure every member of your family knows the phone number and has a cell phone, coins, or a prepaid phone card to call the emergency contact. If you have a cell phone, program that person(s) as “ICE” (In Case of Emergency) in your phone. If you are in an accident, emergency personnel will often check your ICE listings in order to get a hold of someone you know. Make sure to tell your family and friends that you’ve listed them as emergency contacts.
• Teach family members how to use text messaging (also knows as SMS or Short Message Service). Text messages can often get around network disruptions when a phone call might not be able to get through.
• Subscribe to alert services. Many communities now have systems that will send instant text alerts or e-mails to let you know about bad weather, road closings, local emergencies, etc. Sign up by visiting your local Office of Emergency Management web site.

Planning to Stay or Go

Depending on your circumstances and the nature of the emergency, the first important decision is whether you stay where you are or evacuate. You should understand and plan for both possibilities. Use common sense and available information, including what you are learning here, to determine if there is an immediate danger. In any emergency, local authorities may or may not immediately be able to provide information on what is happening and what you should do. However, you should watch TV, listen to the radio or check the Internet often for information or official instruction as it becomes available.

Emergency Information

Find out what kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made, are most likely to occur in your area and how you will be notified. Methods of getting your attention vary from community to community. One common method is to broadcast via emergency radio and TV broadcasts. You might hear a special siren, or get a telephone call, or emergency workers may go door-to-door.

Emergency Plans

You will want to inquire about emergency plans at places where your family spends time: work, daycare and school. If no plans exist, consider volunteering to help create one. Talk to your neighbors about how you can work together in the event of an emergency. You will be better prepared to safely reunite your family and loved ones during an emergency if you think ahead and communicate with others in advance.

Be Informed

Some of the things you can do to prepare for the unexpected, such as making an emergency supply kit and developing a family communications plan, are the same for both a natural or man-made emergency.

However, there are important differences among potential emergencies that will impact the decisions you make and the actions you take. Learn more about the potential emergencies that could happen where you live and the appropriate way to respond to them.

In addition, learn about the emergency plans that have been established in your area by your state and local government.

Emergency preparedness is no longer the sole concern of earthquake prone Californians and those who live in the part of the country known as “Tornado Alley.” For Americans, preparedness must now account for man-made disasters as well as natural ones. Knowing what to do during an emergency is an important part of being prepared and may make all the difference when seconds count.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

It’s not the end of the world as we know it, says a local professor about the Mayan doomsday prophecy.

Mayan Doomsday Prophecy

The Mayan doomsday prophecy is a prediction by the ancient Mayans that the world will end in 2012.  However, Kristine Larsen, an astronomy professor at Central Connecticut State University, is debunking that theory, according to the Bristol Press.

Larsen is giving talks and writing articles about how prophecies make sense only to people wholly ignorant of science and the Mayan calendar.

Mayan Calendar

“The Mayan calendar ran in cycles. One of their cycles is “Bak-tun,” called the ‘long year’ or ‘great year,’ which is 144,000 days long,” Larsen tells the Press. “Think of it like a decade or century ending for us. It’s much bigger than the end of the year.”

According to Larsen, the current Long Year ends in 2012, but the end of one year predicts nothing more than the beginning of a new one. The equivalent, she says, to looking at our calendar ending on Dec. 31 and believing the world will end too.

Jose Arguelles & the Harmonic Convergence

The Mayan doomsday idea is all over the place and Larsen has a theory on where it began. She believes it started with a man named Jose Arguelles, a believer in the Harmonic Convergence, which was supposed to end the world in August 1987 after other planets in our solar system lined up in a certain way, the Press reports.

She also has a there an idea of the kind of reaction doomsday believers will have when they wake up on either New Year’s Day 2013 or Dec. 22, 2012, the day after the winter solstice.

“Some people will take credit for it, like they always do — ‘it was because I prayed, it was because I made a sacrifice,’ In 1910, Halley’s Comet came astronomically close to earth. People committed suicide. One man in California somehow managed to nail himself to a wooden cross — don’t ask me how — and offered himself as a sacrifice for the planet. Fortunately, someone found him in time, and took him to get medical care,” Larsen tells the Press.

“My biggest fear is someone will be hurt, either by their own hand or someone’s else’s,” Larsen said.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Brad Carrigan, author of the book 2012 Enlightened, claims that the year 2012 (not to mention the prophecies surrounding that year) aren’t just the plotline of the recent Hollywood blockbuster 2012.

Brad Carrigan, who will speak at an upcoming seminar exploring 2012 phenomena, says the portentous year will indeed bring significant change to humanity.

“I look at it as a regeneration period,” he said, referring to a “great revealing” that will allow civilization to learn “the deeper knowledge of who we are.”

“We haven’t been told the truth about our history. We’ve allowed ourselves to become the sheep.”

Carrigan, who has been researching theories surrounding 2012 for the last 25 years, claims that government and religious organizations are hiding pertinent information from the general populace, such as alien contact, and that 2012 will be “the age of Aquarius” when such deceit becomes transparent.

December 21, 2012

While he believes that some sort of natural disaster may occur Dec. 21, 2012, the day the Mayan calendar ends its 5,125-year cycle, he doesn’t want the spiritual relevance of the event to get lost.

“2012 covers a wide spectrum … there’s a lot of elements to it,” he said, adding the “doom and gloom” aspect is only “a part of it, to a degree.”

“I think it’s a beautiful time of transformation,” Carrigan said. “There’s a deep spiritual desire of society to really come together. We want truth. We want love.”

While he wouldn’t hazard a guess as to the number of human casualty to be expected during 2012, he said the recent devastating earthquakes in Chile and Haiti are evidence that something is coming.

“Something’s causing that change,” he said.

In the meantime, he said, no fear is necessary.

“It’s nothing to be afraid of,” he said. “It’s a reawakening. We all die anyway…we can rebuild and make the world a better place.”

Carrigan’s seminar takes place next Thursday at The Cultch.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Indigenous Mayans of Guatemala participated in religious and cultural ceremonies Monday to mark the beginning of the year 5126 according to the ancient Mayan calendar.

5126 Marks Kej, Year of the Stag or Deer

Culture Minister Emilio Ajquejay said that 5126, according to the Mayan calendar, marks Kej, or the year of the stag or deer.

The four-legged creature symbolizes four cosmic points of strength and power. Ajquejay said that this is likely to be a year in which “world powers will be strengthened.”

Director of Indigenous Affairs Maria Quezada said that the stag reflects the life’s four energies: physical, mental, spiritual and emotional, as well as mankind’s dominion over other beings on earth.

Wayeb

In the Mayan faith, the new year is ushered in after the end of Wayeb, a five-day period of reflection, meditation, planning and goal-setting. To celebrate the event, ethnic Mayan leaders held vigil services across Guatemala overnight Sunday into Monday.

Roberto Cajas, director of a confederation of indigenous groups, said the new year celebration offers Guatemalans the chance to express their “profound gratitude to Nature” for having provided humans all the essentials needed for life.

Besides holding ceremonies to offer thanks to Earth, “the new year affords each person the opportunity to asked the Mayan gods to bolster their areas of weaknesses,” Cajas said.

Guatemala, in Central America, is one of Latin America’s few majority-indigenous countries.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

By John Van Auken

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

By John Van Auken

At present, the year 2012 is only of interest to those of us who believe in the wisdom of ancient cultures. But soon, very soon, everyone is going to be looking for more information about this Mayan prophesied year of destiny, which many believe to be the end of the Mayan calendar and thus the end of time, as we have known it. Let’s look at this calendar and this specific date more closely.

The Long Count Calendar

Actually, it all began with a discovery that has been known for decades about the culture that invented what is known as the Long Count Calendar. On the Pacific coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico, a few miles from the Guatemala border, the astrological observatory of the Izapa civilization was located. Some believe that the Izapa were the transitional culture between the older Olmec civilization and the emerging Maya; others believe the Izapa were the Olmecs.

For almost a thousand years the Izapa recorded the Long Count Calendar on monuments and ceramic vessels. Most of the dates refer to local, mundane events, like the crowning of a specific king. However, some of the Long Count monuments refer to mythological events that occurred at the beginning of the current “World Age” that we are living in and which is soon coming to an end. The Maya adopted the Izapa calendar, creation myths, and time cycles counting method.

Edgar Cayce’s View

When asked what the New Age means to humanity, Edgar Cayce replied: “the full consciousness of the ability to communicate with the Creative Forces and be aware of the relationships to the Creative Forces and the uses of same in material environs. This awareness during the era or age in the Age of Atlantis and Lemuria or Mu brought what? Destruction to man, and his beginning of the needs of the journey up through that of selfishness.” (1602-3)

Cayce is informing us that in a previous time cycle, humanity had a level of consciousness and relationship with the Creative Forces that allowed us to live at higher levels of material, mental, and spiritual activity in the Earth and beyond. Unfortunately, we misused this consciousness and the power that came with the close relationship to the Forces. This misuse brought on the destruction of our great cultures and a long, karmic soul journey through the pain and confusion that resulted from our selfishness and self-centered focus on our will without regard for the will of the Creator and others. Now, as the cycles come around again, we are nearing a time when the level of consciousness and relationship with the Creative Forces will allow us once again to regain these powers.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck, a book exploring the Mayan Calendars’ predictions of 2012, has sold tens of thousands of copies, making it one of the best selling books about the “impending apocalypse.”

***PURCHASE 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl NOW***

Synopsis of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

A literary and metaphysical epic that binds together the cosmological phenomena of our time to support the contention of the Mayan calendar that the year 2012 portends an unprecedented global shift.

Cross Aldous Huxley, H. P. Lovecraft, and Carlos Castaneda—each imbued with a twenty-first century aptitude for quantum theory and existential psychology—and you get the voice of Daniel Pinchbeck. And yet, nothing quite prepares us for the lucidity, rationale, and informed audacity of this seeker, skeptic, and cartographer of hidden realms.

Throughout the 1990s, Pinchbeck had been a member of New York’s literary select. He wrote for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Harper’s Bazaar. His first book, Breaking Open the Head, was heralded as the most significant on psychedelic experimentation since the work of Terence McKenna.

But slowly something happened: Rather than writing from a journalistic remove, Pinchbeck—his literary powers at their peak—began to participate in the shamanic and metaphysical belief systems he was encountering. As his psyche and body opened to new experiences, disparate threads and occurrences made sense like they had never before. Humanity, every sign pointed, is precariously balanced between greater self-potential and environmental disaster. The Mayan calendar’s “end date” of 2012 seems to define our present age: It heralds the end of one way of existence and the return of another, in which the serpent god Quetzalcoatl reigns anew, bringing with him an unimaginably ancient—yet, to us, wholly new—way of living.

A result not just of study but also of participation, 2012 tells the tale of a single man in whose trials we ultimately recognize our own hopes and anxieties about modern life.

Praise for 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Daniel Pinchbeck…is rapidly becoming our generation’s foremost proponent of controlled psychedelic experimentation. — The Nation

Pinchbeck presents the most fascinating publishing oddity of the season. In almost 400 pages of handsome prose, the author riffs on Einstein, Nietzsche, Stonehenge, Hopi mythology, and alternate states of consciousness. — Time Out New York

Pinchbeck’s exotic epic is a paradigm-buster capable of forcing the most cynical reader outside her comfort zone. — Publishers Weekly

In 2012, his part memoir, part anthropological journey through many things spiritual, metaphysical, and just plain eerie, Pinchbeck illuminates not the world’s end but the many ways in which our social structures are disintegrating.…Into 2012 Pinchbeck fits Jung, crop circles, Martin Heidegger’s critique of technology, the ecological theories of Rudolf Steiner, the parables of Christ, Jared Diamond’s Collapse, and even the confessions of Whitley Strieber…a box of treasures. — LA Weekly

A ride worth taking, partly for the wild entertainment value but also because the book is a document with genuine sociopolitical relevance.…Pinchbeck delivers his eco-political message in the form of a syncretic mad masterpiece. — Reason Magazine

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.