The Oneness Celebration of June 6-8, 2004 meant that large groups of people around the world gathered for an event charted by the Mayan calendar. It occurred at a “half-tun shift”, the midpoint of the third NIGHT of the Galactic Underworld. (A tun is a period of 360 days, which according to Biblical, Mayan, Vedic and many other sources is considered a prophetic period of time). It would however be to misunderstand the significance of the Oneness Celebration to look at it just as an isolated event. It had a larger context in the cosmic plan, and may in fact be regarded as the beginning of a process of alignment with the divine time plan that will continue throughout the Galactic Underworld. I feel that to larger and larger groups of people the Cosmic Time Plan will now become conscious and as its energies become more and more strongly felt we will increasingly seek to align our lives with the process of evolution that this Underworld propels.

At the current time the energy shifts of the divine plan that is influencing us the most strongly are those of the Galactic Underworld. This is a level of consciousness that evolves according to a sequence of 13 different energies, each influencing us for a tun (360 days). Never before in cosmic history have the driving energies of evolution been changing at such a high rate, and this speed-up of time contributes towards the Conscious Plan becoming aware. The Oneness Celebration of last year marked the mid-point of one of these energies (Third NIGHT) and brought experiences that gave us a taste of the changes that are now brought by the Fourth DAY of the Galactic Underworld. Since this Fourth DAY began on December 4, 2004 it seems that people almost universally have had an enhanced experience of the workings of a cosmic plan mediated through the Earth and it seems clear that the tsunami catastrophe in Asia has played a part in this. As the experience of a cosmic plan is intensified it will also become increasingly clear to people that it does not only matter what we do, but when we do it. If we are to surf on the waves of creation we need to be in resonance with them. To be powerful, ceremonies and meditations need to be aligned with the energies of time as those are described by the Mayan calendar.

So, in this way of looking at it, the Venus Transit of June 8, 2004 (6 Ik, 6 Wind) was meant only to focus and intensify the transmission of energies onto the Earth at this particular time. The planet Venus did not by itself create these energies. The energies that were focused by it in reality reflected an energy shift of cosmic proportions of the kind charted by the Mayan calendar. This is important to know, because also in the tuns ahead very significant energy shifts will take place at times when no planet will serve as a messenger.

And so, at the next upcoming significant energy shift, the midpoint of the Fourth DAY on June 1-2, 2005, there will be no celestial object that coincides with it. In the Fourth DAY of the Galactic Underworld we will have to experience the cosmic energies without any astronomical cue to relate to. The Midlight Meditation will then require of us to take a very significant step, the step away from the mechanical view of time that we were all born into. This is not a moment too early and I hope people everywhere will work towards making the Mayan calendar conscious to serve as guidance for everyone. The teaching of the Mayan calendar is not about imposing a calendar invented by humans on reality, but about making the divine time plan conscious. The mechanical concept of time is based on the physical movements either of celestial bodies (Newtonian mechanics) or of mechanical parts in our watches (which are directly subordinated to the former). In contrast, the spiritual flow of time, which creates our experience of time, is based on alternating fields of consciousness, emanating from the core of the universe. It seems obvious that those that want to align themselves with the flow of the divine plan will need to align themselves with the latter.

This movement away from mechanical time is reflected in the fact that
the Midlight Meditation does not fall a solar year after the Oneness Celebration. This is a very significant difference, since if we are to repeat a celebrations on the same day every year in the Gregorian calendar we would actually subordinate ourselves to a mechanical notion of time, and block our alignment with the divine plan. In reality the energies that drive evolution are not only galactic, but cosmic, all-encompassing, in nature and so do not fit into our own geocentric world in our own particular solar system and its cycles. In Mayan parlance the energies that drive evolution are emitted by Hunab-Ku, the Cosmic World Tree. This core of the universe does not adjust its pulses to the periods of revolution of every particular consciousness-evolving planet. Instead, these pulses synchronistically affect all of the cosmos. It works according to the principle As above – So below. At some point we will all need to make the choice as to whether we want to synchronize our lives with the mechanical movement of our own particular planet or with the divine plan.

It is important to realize that any calendar with a New Year fixed in the Gregorian calendar is subordinated to mechanical time and tend to lead us away from the divine plan. This is true regardless of if this New Year’s date is December 21, January 1, March 21 or July 26. The so-called Thirteen Moon/Dreamspell calendar invented by Jose Arguelles in 1990 is also a calendar of mechanical time. Among the ancient Maya, and still among the Quiché-Maya, the beginning date of the 365-day so called Haab calendar moved around the solar year and at the time of the Christian conquest happened to take its beginning at the Gregorian date July 26 (in the year 2005 it falls on April 4). Because of the forced conversion of the Maya to Christianity at the time, and its need to subordinate the Maya to the religious year of the Catholic Church with its festivals of saints etc the Mayan haab calendar was frozen at this point at July 26.This date is first reported by Bishop Landa who instigated the burning of all the ancient Maya calendars, but is not known from pre-Christian Mayan sources. This shift turned the calendar used in the Yucatan into a mechanical calendar. It is ironic that some people today celebrate a “Mayan” New Year on a date, which actually marks the end of the original Mayan calendar system. It is thus not an idea that has become popular among the living Maya.

The wave movement of the alternating energies of the Galactic Underworld is shown in the figure below, which also pinpoints the Oneness Celebration. What I feel is very important today is that people from their own experience learn to identify the energy changes as part of a divine plan. In my view the best way of doing so is to follow the age old traditional Sacred Calendar that was originally discovered by the Maya some 2500 years ago and have been followed by them ever since. What they discovered was the divine time plan and this by itself is a very significant message. Today I think people desperately need to know that their lives are part of a plan with a higher purpose. This will be even more true if this plan will see catastrophes or economic disasters along with its unfolding. This may sound very paradoxical, but could be logically reasoned. We need to understand that these are not the result of an ill intended God, but rather a spin-off effect of a large scale plan for the enlightenment of humanity. To be fulfilled this plan works through pulsewise transformations of the planetary, including the human, consciousness.

In the figure you may see that we are about to approach the midpoint of the Galactic Underworld. Since the Galactic Underworld is composed of Seven Lights, Seven DAYS, the Fourth DAY is the Midlight and from this comes the name of the Midlight Meditation. The days June 1-2 marks the very midpoint of this Fourth DAY, a tun after the Oneness Celebration in 2004. And, as is obvious from the figure, at this time we are not in a trough with respect to the incoming energies, but at a peak. In my mind we should make maximal use of this, since this peak will have a very special transformative power. Whatever we believe belongs to the future we should try to manifest at this particular time and whatever techniques or experiences we feel serves the spiritual development of ourselves and others will have exceptional power during these particular days. This is not the last such peak in the Galactic Underworld, but it can equally truthfully be said that at no earlier point in its evolution have the incoming energies been as intense and supportive of the future state of Enlightenment.

To substantiate this, we may then spend some time to look at a few examples from Lower Underworlds to get a sense of what may emerge around this Midlight energy. One such Underworld was followed by the ancient Maya in the so called Long Count that began August 11, 3114 BC. I have chosen to call this the National Underworld as it brought about the first nations in Egypt and Sumer some 5000 years ago. The particular consciousness that it carried already at its initiation brought a number of things such as a patriarchal mentality, metals and writing. Another such Underworld, that I have called the Planetary Underworld (we do not know from ancient Mayan sources the names of any of these) began in 1755 and brought the first republics, industrialism and atheism. Each Underworld brings a distinct set of phenomena as a result of the transformation of human consciousness that it carries.

Parallels between different Underworlds may serve as guidance to us, and in fact the only reason the Mayan calendar system is truly prophetic is that the same sequence of energies will recur in the thirteen steps of any Underworld, even if the duration of any such energy will vary between them. Hence, the National Underworld evolves through thirteen baktuns (periods of 400 tun, about 394 years), the Planetary Underworld through thirteen katuns (periods of twenty tun, 19.7 years) and the Galactic Underworld in a sequence of thirteen tuns (360 days). This increased frequency of the energy shifts in divine creation, which I mentioned earlier, is why we now in the Galactic Underworld experience a speed-up of time.

What then happened at the midpoints of these lower Underworlds? We may see several examples of this at the midpoint of the Long Count around 550 BC. In terms of religious developments, the midpoint of the Thirteen Baktun cycle (or National Underworld) was extremely innovative. In the Western Hemisphere, the very Sacred Calendar dates back to this time. The oldest example of tzolkin symbols are from this time in Monte Alban in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. In the Jewish tradition, the Book of Isaiah, dating from this time is the first holy scripture presenting a view of God as Universal God and not limited to a special people or tribe. In fact, from all over the world examples abound of important religious innovative thought from the very Midpoint of the Thirteen Baktun cycle: Buddha, Lao-Tse, Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Confucius and Bagavad-Gita. A change of consciousness took place at this point as a new and more encompassing view of the divine came into existence.

This is also the time of the emergence of the human individual, especially maybe in Greece. If we go back to points in human history prior to this it is always difficult to know if a person is mythic or real. Was Imhotep, the architect of the Egyptian pyramids, a real person or a myth? Was Moses a real person or a myth? Before the midpoint of the National Underworld this is always difficult to tell. Yet, everyone would however agree that Socrates, Aristoteles and Plato, who lived shortly after the midpoint are real individuals. The nature of the human being changed at this point. An individualized human consciousness emerged because of an energy change in the cosmic plan. It is such energy changes that the Mayan calendar describes. The point to realize is that there is no such thing as a fixed “human nature” and that the energies of the Cosmic Plan are continuously transforming human beings according to its higher purpose. Without the emergence of an individualized consciousness of the human beings, and the synchronistic emergence of God as Universal, the rest of human history would be unthinkable.

It is very easy to find examples also from other Underworlds of the decisive effect that the midpoint has on what it means to be a human being and its relationship to the environment. Take for instance the thirteen katuns (a katun is a period of 20 tun = 7200 days) of the Planetary Underworld that began in AD 1755, where a blindfolded, materialist consciousness developed industrialism. The midpoint of this Underworld fell in the years 1883-1884. These are the years when household electricity first became available (1882-83 in London) and the car was invented (1884). It is obvious that without these innovations the rest of industrial development would be unthinkable.

Each Underworld has a different character and the Galactic Underworld is no exception. Thus, its character is not about developing a patriarchal or a materialist mentality that threatens the survival of the planets and ourselves. The Galactic Underworld is instead about developing balance. It is about strengthening the female, the Eastern Hemisphere, the dispossessed and Mother Earth. It facilitates the crumbling of hierarchies and dominance. It is about the Sermon of the Mount coming true.

Cynics will say that this could not happen and that they know what human nature is like. Yet, if there is anything that the Mayan calendar teaches us it is that there is no fixed human nature. Human beings are continuously being transformed by the pulses of the energies in the different Underworlds. Of course, to most people today, the whole idea of a divine plan governing human history may be too much to swallow, since it goes totally against what they have been taught in their education and continue to be taught by the media. For those that have had a chance to look at the evidence from the Mayan calendar the existence of a divine plan however only seems natural.

Now, if we are at the midpoint of an Underworld whose purpose it is to bring balance how are we to do that? How are we to make the maximal use of this significant energy peak in cosmic evolution? What I would like to suggest and call to are two different things and maybe the two different days, June 1 and June 2 should have the focus on each of this components. On June 1, 13 Ahau, we may seek to attain resonance with Hunab-Ku, Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life or whatever we choose to call the universal creative principle at the center of the Cosmsos. Of course, we may seek resonance with Hunab-Ku in a meditative state every day for our guidance. It is only that at this particular day it is transmitting the very energy of Enlightenment that we may want to experience as it has never before had such a strength.  13 Ahau according to many Mayan sources is the energy of Enlightenment towards which the Earth is going in the current process of evolution.

On the second day, June 2, 1 Imix, I recommend that we all visualize the End to Dominance. If we want to make the Sermon of the Mount come true in this critical phase in the evolution of our species, the End to Dominance is really a logical focus. While this may sound like a lesser goal than peace it is more tangible and accessible for working with in ourselves. Besides, if we are talking about peace based on dominance, then we may be sure that it will not last. To my own ears at least, setting the goal of peace sounds more like wishful thinking in a world that is so much affected by the rule of hierarchies and unequal relationships. Obviously, we will spontaneously try to say the end to dominance by so and so, but this will miss the true purpose of creation. The end to dominance is about transforming an aspect of our consciousness that allows some to dominate others. This is also about the end to dominance that we carry within ourselves between different parts of ourselves and subpersonalities, like male and female. Can we deal with this dominance that we carry within ourselves? But if we cannot can we deal with it in the external world in our relationships to each other and to the Earth? I do not have the answers. Let us see if we can explore them jointly at the Midlight Meditation, June 1-2, 2005.

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