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THE SACRED MAYAN CALENDAR

Many have a deeply felt intuitive sense that the Mayan calendar reflects a higher truth

than the now dominating Gregorian calendar or any other calendar that is currently usedin the world.

The Maya used several different calendars, calendars that were used for differentpurposes and different contexts. It is more accurate to talk about the calendrical system

of the Maya [than a single calendar], a system where many choices are available when

characterizing a certain day.

Determining which [Mayan] calendars to study depends on the purpose for which they

are to be used. Some of the calendars used by the Maya may in fact have no advantagescompared to the calendars that are most commonly used today. Others, including some

that for a long time have not been used by the Maya themselves, may become

indispensable tools for the future and serve to bring about a total shift in the way we look

at the world.

On a global scale these may contribute to a shift from the currently reigning materialist

world view to a realization that the reality we live in is fundamentally spiritual in nature.On an individual level the use of a new calendar may make a person aware of her true

purpose in life through the wider perspective of the world that this fosters.

If we have been blinded to these matters it is partly because calendars condition our way

of thinking in a most insidious way. A calendar does not seem to be a philosophical

statement something that actively maintains a certain world view, and yet this is

exactly what it does. It is to a large extent because of calendars that we are deluded intomaterialist illusions The calendars that almost everyone uses today are founded on a

view of time as primarily a physical phenomenon we all seem to agree on how to

measure a period of time, which is by counting the number of identical cyclicalmovements that it corresponds to.

[Yet] despite the fact that today few people in the industrialized world need acalendar to tell them when to sow or harvest, we are still stuck with calendars based on

the physical year. In recent centuries, the original purpose and holy character of Anno

Domini (in the Year of the Lord) in the Gregorian calendar has also largely been lost.Rather, this calendar has turned into a convention by means of which the wheels of

industry may run smoothly by allowing people across the globe to coordinate theireconomic activities.

Maybe then something has been lost in the process of our accommodation to the physical

calendars. The number of different calendars used by the ancient Maya, however, attests

to a richness that is not limited to the physical, and it is in this that we may find acalendar for the future.

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We should notice that there exists a very direct link between todays materialist

philosophy and the linear/cyclical concept of time that underpins our own present

calendar. our concept of time cannot accommodate the phenomena of evolution orcreation. Inherent in our linear view of time is the notion that time is just an endless

repetition of cycles with no beginning and no end. With such a linear view of time

humanity does not seem to be going anywhere special, and life then does not seem tohave any purpose, with all the consequences such an attitude has had for the environment

of our planet.

I believe it is by the study and use of the tun-based calendrical system [of the Maya] that

we may develop an awareness of consciousness, a meta-consciousness, which will allow

us to understand the factors underlying the evolution of consciousness. It is in order to

find the path to the spiritual processes of evolution of the universe that we need to replacethe materialist linear/cyclical view of time with the Mayan tun-based periods of creation.

(Composite excerpt fromSolving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The MayanCalendar, by Carl Johan Calleman, pp. 21-23.)