22-12-2012

"Spiritual progress changes your mind as to what is good and bad for your life." Vernon Howard

John Nash was the subject of the Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography of the same name, focuses on Nash's mathematical genius and struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. He saw and heard people that weren’t there. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize.

Mass Hypnosis? 2012? Delusion?

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See Through Fear and Vernon Howard's Classic "Walk Yourself Awake" Spiritual Exercise

ONE: A look at mass hypnosis and how fear gets generated over future events, for example, the 2012 Mayan Calendar "end of the world" drama or Y2K.

What is a Miracle?

A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love's awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings.

A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received as one. And thus it illustrates the law of truth the world does not obey, because it fails entirely to understand its ways. A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. Now is perception open to the truth. Now is forgiveness seen as justified.

Forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. And each is laid before the Word of God, upon the universal altar to Creator and creation in the light of perfect purity and endless joy.

The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind has been made ready to conceive of what it cannot see and does not understand. Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really there. And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and show it rested on a world more real than what you saw before; a world redeemed from what you thought was there.

Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. Now they have water. Now the world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality. ACIM

 "Let the higher part call the lower part back from its wandering
in the wilderness." VH

Regarding the 2012 Doomsday Phenomenon

There is no evidence that the ancient Maya thought the world would end in 2012, nor are modern Maya people making such dire claims.

The Science of 2012: http://calendarinthesky.org/Articles/2012Science/2012ScicenceArticleView/tabid/144/ArticleId/2/language/en-US/The-Science-of-2012.aspx

2012 Talking Points: Presented here are some essential points regarding the 2012 Doomsday Phenomenon. Within these main points are links to sources of evidence for a particular topic. :

http://calendarinthesky.org/Articles/2012Science/2012ScicenceArticleView/tabid/144/ArticleId/39/language/en-US/2012-Talking-Points.aspx

The Great Galactic Alignment of 2012: Let’s examine the facts to see if this claim of an alignment is true.:

http://calendarinthesky.org/Articles/2012Science/2012ScicenceArticleView/tabid/144/ArticleId/9/language/en-US/The-Great-Galactic-Alignment-of-2012.aspx

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

It looks like the 2012 hype is much ado about nothing.

Remember that events have no inherent meaning.

It is the meaning we give the event that governs our actions and feelings and hence are lives, not the actual event itself.
It also appears be strictly a North American event.

2012

Dear God,

I am feeling anxious about 2012 because there are many people that are planning for disaster and/or devastation even though in my heart of hearts I know that it’s only the end of 395 year cycle. I surrender this to YOU and ask that YOU heal my mind of all fear, worry and doubt. While there are many fearful opinions, I will stand in the safety and certainty of YOUR love. I am secure because there is nothing outside of YOUR Divine plan for my happiness. In the awareness of YOUR love, there is nothing to fear. In the light of YOUR protection, I am safe from harm of any kind. It is not required that I be free of fear. My part is to turn my fearful thoughts over to YOU as they occur and let YOU restore my mind to peace. Please help me to see through YOUR eyes, to think with YOUR thoughts and accept only what YOU have given. I am safe and at peace in YOUR Divine love and protection, NOW and FOREVER. Thy will be done. Amen

Veil of Maya

Maya or Māyā, in Indian religions, has multiple meanings, usually quoted as "illusion", centered on the fact that we do not experience the environment itself but rather a projection of it, created by us. Māyā is the principal deity that manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics, this manifestation is real. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity, is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this—more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body (refer bodymind), is the result of an unenlightened perspective.
The word origin of māyā is derived from the Sanskrit roots ma ("not") and ya, generally translated as an indicative article meaning "that". The mystic teachings in Vedanta are centered on a fundamental truth of the universe that cannot be reduced to a concept or word for the ordinary mind to manipulate due to the impossibility to create a complete, perfect and accurate semantic web. Rather, the human experience and mind are themselves a tiny fragment of this truth. In this tradition, no mind-object can be identified as absolute truth, such that one may say, "That's it." So, to keep the mind from attaching to incomplete fragments of reality, a speaker could use this term to indicate that truth is "Not that."
In Hinduism, māyā is to be seen through, like an epiphany, in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of samsara). Ahamkāra (ego-consciousness) and karma are seen as part of the binding forces of māyā. Māyā may be understood as the phenomenal Universe of perceived duality, a lesser reality-lens superimposed on the unity of Brahman. It is said to be created by the divine by the application of the Lilā (creative energy/material cycle, manifested as a veil—the basis of dualism). The sanskaras of perceived duality perpetuate samsara.
Everything you see is illusion, the Veil of Maya. Where Eastern philosophy goes wrong is in assuming that the Veil of Maya is hiding something big and important. What lies behind the illusion of a brick is the actual brick. The vast majority of the time, you can forget the Veil of Maya is even there.

Has New Age confused Māyā with the Maya of Mexico and Central America?

2012 and the Mayan Long Count calendar.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base-20) and base-18 calendar used by several Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is sometimes known as the Maya (or Mayan) Long Count calendar.

In the Mayan calendar, a baktun is a period of 144,000 days. The only reason for the 2012 paranoia is that it's the end of one Buktun (395 years).

1224, 1618 came and went without incident. 2012 will come and go. 2407 is too far in the future.

So return those ill-informed books, ask for a refund and move forward. Publishers will glady refund your purchase. If the Mayan calendar and 2012 amounts to nothing then what about this supposed planetary alignment?

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar

Maya calendar => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar

2012: The doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas

José Argüelles (1939- ) is a Mexican-American author, artist, and educator.
José Argüelles was involved in the Harmonic Convergence event of 1987 and wrote “ The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology”, published the same year. In The Mayan Factor Argüelles devises a complicated numerological system by combining elements taken from the pre-Columbian Maya calendar with the I Ching and other esoteric influences, interspersed with concepts drawn from modern sciences such as "genetic codes" and "galactic convergences".
The issue?As mathematician Michael Finley notes:
"Since the 365 day Maya haab makes no provision for leap years, its starting date in the Gregorian Calendar advances by one day every four years. The beginning of Argüelles' year is fixed to July 26. Thus his count of days departs from the haab as it was known to Maya scribes before the Spanish conquest. Argüelles claims that the Thirteen Moon Calendar is synchronized with the calendar round. Clearly, it is not."Predictions and prophecies are an interesting phenomenon over the last 30 years.
Nostradamus seems to have predicted an awful lot. But that’s always pointed out after something has already occurs. Cayce made similar unsubstantiated predictions.

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas.
Most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya Indians say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials — such as one on the History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Maya and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"
There are other inscriptions at Maya sites for dates far beyond 2012 — including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

144000 is a natural number. It has significance in several religious movements. In the Mayan calendar, a baktun is a period of 144,000 days. The only reason for the 2012 paranoia is that it's the end of one Buktun (395 years). This would be the first Baktun that's ticked over since we figured out the Mayan calendar that's all. There have been 12 previous Baktuns without incident.

Jose Huchim, Yucatan Maya archaeologist said “If I was Mayan and people asked what will happen in 2012, nobody would have any idea,” That the world is going to end? They would not believe me. They have more real concerns, like rains. ”

Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.
In other words 1618 was a turning point in their calendar. 2012 is. 2407 is.
And the Mayan calendar is good until 4772.
Now you just know there's going to be a lot of back peddling over this.



"The Open Book of Revelation," by Miriam Comer Johnson, of Divine Science. The results of a 3 part/22 class session on Revelation. { Interesting that 22/7 is PI, PI and the Bible. A curious enterprise indeed}
The book is esoteric in nature. The number 144,000 comes from 12 x 12,000 and 12,000 is the number of times we must "think a thought" before it becomes a habit! All of our "human beliefs" are going to eventually be "uprooted" (when we make the next step in our evolution from "human material" to spiritual substance - and this will happen when we live according to the law (= we are ONE with God). The 12 are the 12 tribes of Israel, each of which represents a faculty or power, e.g., Judah = faculty of praise; Reuben = faith; Gad = personal power; Asher = our happiness and blessedness; Nephtalim = our ability to mentally surrender the material for the spiritual; Manassas = our forgetfulness of the material; etc.
These faculties/powers/beliefs are not "sealed in the forehead" until they are joined with the power of LOVE and FELT. (Just as the Golden Key to manifestation/demonstration is FEELING the desire as it would be manifested - and then IT IS MANIFESTED. Ask, believing you have already received.) So, when the 12 powers are FELT and THOUGHT 12,000 times each, they become SEALED in the consciousness - and become the foundation of spiritual consciousness - and then we live from that spiritual consciousness, because our humanness falls away. The undoing of the ego in other words.

I remember reading the "Flower of Life" books talking about 2012, the "Bible Code" and Hebrews from the future going back to ancient Lemuria to change the course of history and make the world a better place. And wondering who decided that. And realizing that it was written at a time, long before the internet when it was hard to substantiate the information. People have their beliefs. Some people believe in Pleadians, others in Hathors.

New Thought

"New Thought: A Practical American Spirtuality" and "Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes" by Anderson and Whitehouse are a couple of light-hearted gems if you want to understand New Thought. They had an issue with ACIM calling it New Age though. Maybe because it's non-denominational. But ACIM is more congruent with some of the New Thought writings than the New Age writings.