2012!

Ancients, our ancestors the world over—from Vedic Sages of India to the Maya Shamans of the New World and countless others enraptured with meaningful star-stories and cosmic-tethers to our observable (and sometimes non-observable) universe—have prophesized coming cosmic change.

In particular, the coming of 2012 has been told to be a time of transition into our new beginning, transformation and/or rebirth—a time for conscious growth and connection to our ancestors, children, nature, cosmos and all that ever was and will be. 

The Maya calendar (perhaps the most precise and sophisticated calendar in human history—more accurate than our own modern day calendar) counts down the 12 b’aktun ending on December 21, 2012. Contrary to popular belief, this is not the end of the Maya calendar (or the time it keeps!), but the beginning of the next b’aktun—the 13^th.

The Maya calendar is comprised of Long Count (longer solar components which fix the date in time similar to centuries and millennia) and Calendar Round (day-to-day and month-to-month) components, the Long Count counts vegisimally (in increments of 20) and therefore provides the quantities of b’aktun (400 years), k’atun (20 years), tun (360 days), winal (months), and k’in (days) which represent time elapsed since the Maya creation date of August 13, 3114 B.C.  Basically, a Maya calendar date lists these increments in order # b’aktun, # k’atun, # tun, # winal, # k’in followed by the associated Calendar Round. For example, today, December 31, 2011 is Long Count: 12.19.19.0.4 followed by Calendar Round: 12 k’an 12 k’ank’in. Another example, December 21, 2012 is 13.0.0.0.0 followed by 4 ajaw 3 k’ank’in. Notice the b’aktun transition from the 12^th to the 13^th on this day.

Point is, with an end is a new beginning. To illustrate, I will quote the sentiment of several Maya Shamans, spiritual guides, and revered elders (who better to ask about the Maya calendar?) with whom I have been working for over a decade in the rainforests of Belize, Central America. When asked what December 21, 2012 will bring they say: “a new age.” When asked what the new age will be, they reply “whatever we make it to be.” In that light, I would suggest that you all stray away from the apocalyptic doomsday scenarios running rampant out there in popular media and recognize that the future is a manifestation of our intentions.

We intend health, happiness and growth of life mindfully in the present moment—all in oneness and divine consciousness.

Happy and Healthful New Year!

Dr. Todd

 

Comments

[Todd Pesek, MD]

Hi Linda!

Many thanks to you for sharing your wisdom and epiphany of present moment living. They will continue to radiate from here! It is true, the present moment is life. Far too many are translocated in time. Unfortunately it is often the case that people are translocated to past and depressed or translocated to future and anxious. As you so eloquently illustrate, we must ground ourselves in the present moment, our life! And enjoy!

Happy New Year and be very well,
Dr. Todd

[Linda Haibara (Lighthand)]

Thankyou for your insights. Yes this is true --- the future is a manifestation of our intentions and the calendar is a way of charting the past, present, and future.... May 2012 bring the greatest hopes and dreams that you have ever enlivened in your consciousness Alive! It is a very, very hopeful and at the same time changing time. We cannot stand on the fence and must "get it right" by making a clear decision that it is indeed "good to be good!". I have had the blessing of swimming in a clear pool and feeling the water lifting up and caressing my body. In the water medium I am intensely aware and in the moment. I am aware that I am experiencing a blessing of water and that no other beings in the far reaches of the known universe are able to enjoy that feeling, that richness of being buoyed up in a gentle embrace. May 2012 be full of this kind of epiphany for all the earth...for you that study health and share of your insights. Give freely and it will be given unto you. Blessings, Linda Haibara