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heading toward a singularity in history in which yesterday looks nothing like today and

today looks nothing like tomorrow.

Almost universally ancient texts and traditions say that we are preparing for 1,000 years

of a peaceful coexistence in this world and that sometimes our greatest strengths become

apparent when we face the greatest challenges together.

In the small town of Elberton, Georgia stands a mysterious monument built in 1980 by an

anonymous gentleman named R. C. Christian.

The Georgia Guidestones contain a message for the people of the future, describing a

new way to live.

For some, it is a message of hope.

For others, a message of fear.

Every year, millions of people pass by the murals at the Denver Airport.

These murals seem to be telling us a story about the choices we must face as we look

towards the future.

In the small town of Elberton, Georgia stands a mysterious monument built in 1980 by an

anonymous gentleman named R. C. Christian.

In the small town of Henday in the south of France, there is an ancient monument describing

the events that will occur at the end of our age.

In Izapa, Guatemala, the early Mayan people left behind their long count calendar which

told of a day when the fifth sun will end and the sixth sun will begin.

According to this calendar, this shift of the ages will occur on December 21, 2012.

The Karo people of Peru believe that we are the third child of the Brazilians, straight

of the Earth.

that we are now going through a time of purification. They have a prophecy called

Pachacuti, which speaks of a time when the Inca will return and a new human

will be born. The prophecies say that this will happen in 2012.

It arises for no reason in absolutely likely of all singularities.

The Big Bang is the notion that the universe for no reason sprang from

nothing in a single instant. Notice that this is the limit test for credulity.

That it is not possible to conceive of something more unlikely or less likely

to be believed. That the universe would spring from nothing in a single instant

for no reason, it makes no sense. It is in fact no different than saying and God

said let there be peace.

Let there be light. What the philosophers of science are saying is give us one free

miracle. We will roll from that point forward, from the birth of time to the crack of doom.

Doesn't it seem more likely if we have to have a singularity that it occurs in a domain

with a rich history, with many causal streams.

It is not possible to conceive of something more likely or less likely to be believed.

Isn't it the creation that nurtures the complexity?

In other words, I will talk about a divination that nurtures the complexity.

In other words, to put it simply, if you have to have a singularity, doesn't it make

more sense to put it at the end of a cosmogonic process than at the beginning?

My inquiry into the end date of the Mayan long count calendar took me to Peru.

Because of the protection of the high altitude of the Andes mountains, the Cairo, or Inca

people, are one of the last indigenous peoples of the Americas, and it is there that I found

my salvation.

whose ancient traditions are not only still intact, but alive and breathing.

The Cairo escaped the Spanish conquest by moving into the High Andes,

where they have lived for over 500 years.

They speak little or no Spanish, and still retain the beliefs and customs

that have been passed down for many generations.

The Cairo have an ancient prophecy concerning the return of Pachacuti,

their great leader from before the conquest.

Pachacuti, which means the turning over of the earth, also left behind a prophecy.

In this prophecy, he said that this age of conquest and domination would come to an end,

a new human would be born, and the earth would be restored to its former beauty and grace.

The Cairo say that the return of Pachacuti is scheduled for 2012.

On my way through some of the years,

the highest mountains in the Western Hemisphere,

I met and came to know the descendants of the once mighty Inca Empire who still live here.

Extremely poor by our standards,

the people of Peru have an inner fire and a deeply profound spiritual tradition

which has nourished them and kept them alive through many historical calamities.

The sacred valley has been carved out by the Urubamba River,

which begins with the melted glaciers that lie,

at the top of majestic mountains, which rise over 20,000 feet above sea level.

Eventually, the Urubamba pours its contents into the vast Amazon Delta,

and finally into the Atlantic Ocean.

Dotting the mountains throughout the sacred valley and beyond,

are many ancient Inca ruins.

These ruins are magnificent, and one has to wonder how the ancient Inca

were able to construct these temples using such huge stones and fit them together,

so perfectly.

Once more, I met up with Doña Bernadina and Don Humberto,

shaman healers of the Quero.

I wanted to know more about the prophecy of Pachacuti.

I was assisted by Dr. Alberto Violdo,

who translated their words into English for me.

These are the last of the Inca.

They are the elders of the Quero nation and their children.

The Quero fled to high mountain tops at the time of the conquest,

and took with them the body of prophecies and prophecies

for awakening the luminous body.

Evolutionary quantum leaps have always occurred during times of crisis.

Today we are facing such a crisis, with global warming,

with depleting oil reserves, with an oil-based economy.

Gracias, compadre.

These men and women have lived in high mountains for 500 years,

and they predict

that during the next six years, between now and the year 2012,

we will be facing global crises of a dimension that we have not dreamt of before.

And not a single crisis, but multiple crises occurring simultaneously,

cascading crises.

And whereas we may be prepared to meet the challenges of a great hurricane,

or a storm, or an earthquake,

several of these occurring simultaneously would be devastating

to our economy, to our society, to the fabric of our lives.

These seers left a body of prophecy 500 years ago

that spoke about the return of Pachacuti,

the return of the luminous ones.

Doña Bernadina and Don Humberto decided to create a despacho.

The despacho is an ancient healing ceremony

where all of our negative feelings and thoughts

are purified and burned away.

The construction of a despacho

is similar to that of a Tibetan sand mandala.

It is formed with symbolic objects of beauty,

endearment and humor to the caro.

During the ceremony,

all of our negative thoughts, feelings and emotions

are placed inside the objects of the mandala.

Not only do we release our negativity,

but we also blow our prayers

to the sacred coca leaves

and place them in the despacho.

At the end of the ceremony,

the despacho will be gathered up in paper

and placed in a fire,

thereby dispatching the negative thoughts and feelings

and burning them up in the flames.

The despacho made me think

of all that is going wrong with this world.

I thought of the wars,

the collapse of the environment,

the lies and deceptions.

I wondered if we could take

these negative situations

and place them into the despacho.

It seems to me

that the only way that we can solve

the dilemma of this world

is by honestly facing these problems

and in that moment of insight

burn away the negativity

and reshape the world.

Maybe that is what the prophecy of Pachacuti

is really all about.

Here at the end of the age,

we finally have the opportunity

to understand not only what we have done,

but who we really are.

Climate change is proceeding

at a very rapid rate.

We're about 10 or 15 years

into a period of sudden climate change

for the last 40 to 50 years.

Right now,

there has just been a big report

published by the UN

that was created by a committee

that said that this was all very serious

but omitted the most serious parts

because they were too

quote-unquote controversial.

The truth is this.

The Greenland ice cover

is becoming unstable fast.

In fact,

Greenland's entire ice cover

could collapse,

especially in the southern half of the country,

at any time,

causing an immediate sea level rise

of between one and a half

and two feet worldwide,

causing trillions of dollars of damage

that cannot be repaired.

And will not be repaired.

The destruction of New Orleans

is justifiably blamed

on the most incompetent political administration

in the history of the United States.

Yes.

But it is also,

it happened

because,

for another reason,

the stratosphere is getting much colder

because global warming gases

are holding heat

closer to the surface in the troposphere.

So heat's not radiating.

Therefore, the difference

between the lower atmosphere

and the upper atmosphere

is getting much larger.

This means that when storms bulge up

into the upper atmosphere,

the energy exchange

is much more intense.

So when a hurricane gets large enough to do that,

then suddenly,

it grows into a monster

unlike things we've seen before.

This can happen at any time

with any type of storm

anywhere on this planet now.

And it does happen

all the time.

That is out of this

sufficiency of chaos,

of cataclysm,

of breakdown,

the worst of which,

of course,

is the climate,

the ecological breakdown.

People feel instinctively

the impetus from the Earth herself

to wake up

and to make a difference.

We have come to the state

where we do not trust politicians,

where we do not trust medicine,

where we do not trust the media

because we know

that what we're getting

is not news,

but opinion pieces.

So we live in the age

of the great lie.

We are in climate trouble.

And people who say,

oh, well, look at the cold weather.

So much for those

global warming jerks.

It's because of global warming

that the weather has become so extreme.

The United States government

has made such an effort

to prevent science

from answering questions like that.

We can't know the answer to that.

But if it's happening,

then starting this coming summer

and for summers to come,

we're going to see

extraordinary temperature spikes

on this planet,

killing temperature spikes,

followed by violent winter

and autumn storms.

You would think

that there's a conspiracy,

except that they're not smart enough

to come together to have a conspiracy.

It's a conspiracy of mediocrity.

Right now,

there are between 5 and 6 billion

human beings on Earth.

In 200 years,

there's going to be 1 billion,

or maybe less,

on Earth.

And during this dieback,

the human species is going to suffer

unimaginable torment

of a kind that is completely unlike

anything we have known

in recorded history.

All these things seem to be pointing

towards a possible extinction event.

But I think what is probably

more likely going on

is that we are in the grip

of a gigantic change.

And in that change,

something is dying.

The old ways are dying.

There will, however,

also be continuing.

The human spirit,

purified by this event.

And I assure you,

it's not our fault.

It's nobody's fault.

It is simply the way nature is.

When nature unfolds

in the life of a conscious species,

at this stage,

it can be very, very hard.

All of our gods,

all of our beliefs,

all of our prayers,

all of that,

by the end of this event,

will have been left behind.

The media has gone mythic

without telling a deeper story.

So what you get on the media

is blips.

Not the hero's journey.

Not the great tales of death

and resurrection,

of renewal,

or otherwise big years.

Except sometimes there's blips.

This country,

the United States,

will not be a federal republic

in a hundred years,

I don't think.

I think that the pressures

that are building on it now

are incredible.

There is a sort of Damocles

hanging over our heads

as a species.

The cord that holds it

is about to snap.

There's obviously

huge amounts of negative

indicators, you know,

that we're at this crucial tipping point.

We really might not,

you know,

survive in larger societies

or even as a species

if we keep continuing down

the path that we're on.

So, you know,

we're looking at 25% of species

potentially extinct in 30 years.

No more coral reefs,

no more honeybees,

no more butterflies,

no more amphibians.

And at that point,

like the whole mesh

of the web of life

that supports

large mammalian life

may not be there anymore.

So, you know,

we definitely are at

a critical juncture

where we have this window

of opportunity

to make a really radical

and fast transition

to a different social paradigm

and a different

sustainable infrastructure.

We have lost the hearth

where the grandparents

told the stories

of the wise ones.

And we've replaced the hearth

with a television set.

And the problem is

no hearth, no heart.

No sense of continuity.

No sense of the great

chain of being,

the great connectivity

between the generations

without which civilization perishes.

I mean, I think

we have this tendency

to think, you know,

to yearn for something

to come from outside

and save us.

You know, it's like

we've gotten ourselves

into a heap of shit

and we want daddy or mommy

to come along,

the benevolent, you know,

super being,

and save us

from ourselves, you know.

And so I think

I'm not sure

that's healthy

because it prevents people,

I mean, that's a natural tendency,

but it prevents people

from saying, no, you know,

we got ourselves

into this mess

and nobody is going

to get us out

unless we do it.

And the earth herself

and her need

and the world society,

the world civilization

is rising up from the depths

and waking us up,

sometimes with nightmares,

sometimes with a vision

of possibilities.

Yeah, I think

it's important

to like enjoy

all the contradictions

and paradoxes

and, you know,

not try to like

smooth them down,

but actually really like

almost celebrate

the absolute absurdity

of the situation we're in.

I mean, the situation

looks pretty grim

and right now

we have no,

no escape hatch

that's apparent, you know.

We don't have the capability

to leave the planet.

We don't have, you know,

even if that were desirable,

and maybe it is,

maybe it isn't,

we don't, you know,

there is nowhere to run to.

We're kind of stuck

where we are

and so we've got to try

to make that work.

Don Humberto

and Doña Bernadina

continued to construct

the despacho.

One by one,

I placed the negative energies

of our times

into the symbolic objects

of the despacho.

I blew my prayers

into the coca leaves

to dispel the war

and suffering

that is the story

of this age just ending.

I thought about

what I had learned

concerning the year 2012,

about the other prophecies

that also speak

of the end of this age

and the beginning

of a new world.

So as scholars

had reconstructed

the Mayan long count calendar

and they had been able

to correlate the Maya calendar

with our own

in order to come up

with the correlation

that the end

of this 13 Bak'tun cycle

did indeed fall on the year

that we would call 2012.

But scholars were predisposed

to think that it was

the beginning of this great cycle

that had the most importance.

Well, that's just not the way

that the Mayan understanding

of time works.

The Maya look to the end

of a cycle or process.

For the meaningful event.

I'm convinced that there is

something going on here

and that the Maya

probably through their

visionary capabilities

using sacred plants

and other shamanic techniques

were able to look

into the future

and that's what governed

the timing of their end point

in their calendar.

There is a prophecy

that's involved

in this 2012 end date

but it's actually anchored

to this empirical

physical astronomical process

that's happening

and it is the galactic alignment.

The December solstice sun

is lining up with the Milky Way

and the galactic equator

is really the target

of this galactic alignment.

From the astrological point of view

or the astronomic point of view

it's a very significant date.

There are certainly

all these alignments

and the center of the galaxy

and the conjunction in Sagittarius

and all these different things.

There's no dispute about that.

That's written into the way

the clockwork works.

Does it mean anything?

I don't think we can say.

The galactic equator

is that midline of the Milky Way

in the sky.

It's kind of like the finish line

in this process.

And the analogy that we can make

is to the Earth's equator.

And the Earth's equator

as we know

divides the northern hemisphere

from the southern hemisphere.

And there are distinct field effects

in these two different hemispheres.

We know that hurricanes

and tornadoes

spin counterclockwise

in the northern hemisphere

and they spin clockwise

in the southern hemisphere.

So there is a field effect

involved in these two different

hemispheres of the Earth.

Well, any spinning body

will also exhibit

these kinds of field effects.

And our galaxy is a spinning body.

And the galactic equator,

the Milky Way,

basically is the dividing line

between the northern

galactic hemisphere

and the southern

galactic hemisphere.

Now our Sun has been pointed,

you know, the Earth-Sun

relationship has been pointed

into the southern hemisphere

of the galaxy

for some 13,000 years.

Now this alignment

on the galactic equator

is sort of like the null zone.

It's as if we had a bathtub

on the Earth's equator

and we were trying to look

to see which way the water

was going to spin down.

And we just, you know,

it's the null zone

in the process.

So at some point

we're going to begin

to enter into the effects

and our experience

on this planet

of being oriented

to the northern

galactic hemisphere.

When this happens,

it's hard to say.

I would say there's probably

a 36-year zone of alignment

in which we approach

perfect alignment

and then it begins to wane,

but then we're oriented

towards the opposite side.

There's an argument

some people put forward

that because the central point

of this time window,

this galactic alignment

time window

between 1980 and 2016

is either 1998 or 1999,

depending on which

astronomy you speak to,

but that means that

these people say

that the Maya were out

by 13 or 14 years.

But they do say

that it's still quite

an incredible achievement

to see that far in the future

with that kind of technology

that they had.

But even so,

due to the information

that I've discovered,

that this information

about not just about the process

but about the year 2012

in particular

has been bubbling up

from all kinds

of different sources.

And many of these sources

are people that have had

altered states of consciousness

of various types

like near-death experiences,

out-of-body experiences,

there's remote viewing,

abduction,

that is alien abduction,

people taking sex

with plants.

So I started my 2012 quest

with John Major Jenkins' book

Maya Cosmogenesis 2012.

And of all the things

that John said in that book,

one of the most interesting things

is he describes this,

the Maya conception

that at 2012

you have an opening

of the center

of the Milky Way galaxy.

And a ladder emerges

from the center.

And out of this ladder

emerges a serpent rope.

And riding upon

this serpent rope

like he's surfing

this serpent rope

is an enlightened being

who may possibly

be Quetzalcoatl.

Well, what John said

which I found so interesting

is he said that you can take out,

he thought he could take out

the archaic Maya term

serpent rope

and insert the modern word

wormhole

and you have what

the Mayans are describing

is going to happen in 2012.

A stargate or a wormhole

is going to open

from the galactic center

and out of this

is going to emerge

an enlightened being

or a group

of enlightened beings.

And so if you follow

the serpent rope

stargate connection

and you go back into

various sacred traditions

whether it be Egypt

or Samaria

or elsewhere,

Tibet,

you find enlightened beings

that ride upon

serpent ropes.

And you see these same beings

entering Earth

through gateways.

So I think we've got

a real solid connection here

that this serpent rope

is in fact a stargate

or a wormhole.

And what I marvel at

is the way that

modern science

and the ancient Maya concepts

are starting to match.

Researchers talk about

the stargate or wormhole

as the apex of our science

and that if we can get a hold

of this stargate science

it will literally lead

to our salvation.

They use religious terms

in that sense.

And if we don't get

this stargate connection

then we have to start all over.

And they talk about

this is the most dangerous moment.

This is the moment

where we either get it

or we don't.

And so this is why

this Maya conception

is so important to me.

Alchemists in Asia

and ancient Europe

had a 13 sign zodiac.

This 13 sign zodiac

was based on the lunar cycle

28 day, months, 13 months a year

as opposed to our 12 month

calendar that we have now.

So I guess this begs the question

if we have 12 months

and we have 12 signs

in the zodiac

what was the name

of this 13th month

or this 13th sign?

This is where the answer

gets really fascinating.

Because the 13th sign of the zodiac

was called Ophiuchus.

It's a constellation in the sky.

And it lies between

the constellations

of Sagittarius and Scorpio.

What is really fascinating

about this is that

is exactly where the center

of the galaxy lies.

So Ophiuchus

or the serpent holder

is the center of the galaxy.

It is the secret sign

of the zodiac.

It's the sign that governs

all the other signs.

As Jesus governed

the 12 apostles,

just as King Arthur governed

the 12 knights of the round table,

so too does Ophiuchus

or the serpent holder

govern the other 12 signs

of the zodiac.

The archetype of Quetzalcoatl

is integration.

So it's not about rejecting

science and technology

for intuition and the psychic.

It's about really bringing

those things together.

And so I think to get through

this transition

we're going to have to

take the technical capacities

of the Western mindset

that have been kind of

almost overdeveloped

but reorient them to dealing

with the planetary situation.

So the intelligence that goes

into making an iPod

or a cell phone

or a high-definition

digital video camera,

take that kind of

technical brilliance

but use it to preserve species.

How do you actually create

a wilderness corridor

that's going to protect

the handful of monarch butterflies

that are still fluttering around?

How do you restore wetlands

and coral reefs

and forest areas?

So it's really,

there has to be a,

now that we've created

the knowledge technology

and the information age stuff,

we now need to go to another level

and use a kind of depth perspective

to where do we actually fit

our technical capacities

into the planetary biospheres

that we hopefully

not only just sustain ourselves

but ultimately thrive and flourish

as aspects

of the planetary ecology.

Well I believe that we are

in the most interesting time

in human history.

I mean other times

thought they were it,

they were wrong,

this is it.

You know,

what we do in the next

5, 10, 20, 30, 40 years

will make the difference

between whether we grow

as a planetary civilization

or whether we just

are at the end of it.

I think we're seeing

examples of this

as the systems of nature

break down around us.

I mean,

unprecedented changes

in weather patterns,

hurricanes, earthquakes,

fires,

and entire cities

are decimated

and we have to draw

upon the strengths

of one another.

It's teaching us

about cooperation

and it's about a cooperation

that transcends

heritage and bloodlines

and borders,

income levels,

religion,

the color of our skin.

The despacho ceremony

provides us with the power

to change the future

by releasing the past.

As the objects in the despacho

are gathered together

and placed in the mandala,

they are blessed by Don Umberto.

To the caro,

time seems to stand still.

They have no cars,

no televisions.

Their lives are simple and quiet.

It has been this way

for thousands of years.

They are also comfortable

living within each moment

and this allows them

to be able to see the future

and understand the past.

Once,

all cultures on earth

had this capacity.

Even our own western culture

has its prophets and prophecies.

In the books of Ezekiel

and Revelations,

the prophets speak of an angel

with four faces.

The face of a lion,

an eagle,

a bull

and a man.

These four symbols

correspond

to the four fixed signs

of the zodiac.

Leo,

Scorpio,

Taurus,

Saturn,

Jupiter,

Saturn,

and Aquarius.

On an esoteric level,

it is very possible

that the prophets of the Bible

were telling us

that the great year

of the zodiac,

which is almost 26,000 years long,

could be broken up

into four seasons

of nearly 6,500 years each.

History shows us

that each time we enter

one of these four fixed signs

or seasons,

great changes occur

on our planet.

Astrologers tell us

that we are now entering

the sign of Aquarius.

The Hindu cycle

of the yugas

and Hindu cosmology

is a very,

very important reflection

of the same insights

that the Maya

had tuned into.

The Maya have

an idea

of world ages

and they believe

there was a succession

of five world ages

and each one

of these

was 13 Bhaktuns,

which is a period

of some 30,000 years

ago.

The Maya

believe

there was

a succession

of five world ages

and each one

of these

is a period

of some 5,125 years.

So there's

five world ages

and if you multiply

these together

you get a great cycle

of 26,000 years,

which is procession.

In the Maya concept

of the yugas

they believe

that there was

a golden age

many thousands

of years ago.

That is when

human beings

were experiencing

the greatest connection

with the source.

But then there was

a process

of diminishment

and darkness

entered into

human consciousness.

So we moved

from the golden age

to the silver age

in which there was

greater spiritual darkness

and then into

the bronze age

in which there was

even greater spiritual darkness.

Finally,

to the iron age

in which darkness

had completely occluded

the spiritual light.

And so

in the Hindu

yuga doctrine

that is where

we are right now.

The long count calendar

was lost

before the Spanish arrived.

The long count calendar

was out of use.

So many of the

indigenous people

are sort of

affronted

that western people

are actually

talking about

their knowledge.

But the fact is

that without

those Mayanists

who were

non-indigenous people

that non-indigenous

knowledge

would have remained

buried

and nobody would know

about it.

This is really

just an insight

into the cyclic nature

of all processes

that all cycles

in nature undergo.

We see it

in the moon cycle.

We see it

in the year cycle.

We see it

in the day cycle.

And the thing is

that there is

a point of maximum

darkness

but then we turn

the corner

and we begin

the ascent

in which

we reverse

the process

and there is

a progressive

veiling

of the veils

that have

occluded

human consciousness

from having

a direct connection

with the source,

the infinite light.

When I first began

looking into

the Cross of Hende

many years ago

I realized

that Fulcinelli

was right

when he was telling us

that the Cross of Hende

is describing

the events

that will lead up

to the end of time,

to the end of this age.

Not the end

of the world

but the end

of this age

or the end of time

as we know it.

I realized

from the pedestal

and from the symbols

on the Cross of Hende

pretty much

the exact nature

of what was about

to happen

at the end of time.

But one of the things

that baffled me

throughout this entire thing

was the Latin inscription

on the Cross.

Fulcinelli tells us

in his chapter

on the Cross of Hende

from his book

Mystery of the Cathedrals

that this inscription

is describing

a place

where man

can find refuge

from the catastrophe

that's going to occur

at the end of time.

He says

that a country

is being named.

From my perspective

spending time

in the ancient

indigenous cultures

and from the traditions

that I've studied

in the texts

and on the temple walls,

every day of life

is the opportunity

for us to deal

with whatever it is

that life naturally

brings our way.

The 2012 alignment

is when we have reached

the maximum

point of darkness.

It's like galactic midnight.

And I also think

that this is

the deep insight

encoded into the Yuga doctrine.

Basically when I deciphered

the Latin inscription

on the Cross of Hende

I discovered two messages.

Two messages

that are very similar

to each other.

The first message was

Inca Cave, Cusco, Peru.

The second message was

Hail to the Cross of Urcos.

When I looked up

the word Urcos

in a world atlas

I discovered

that there was a town

called Urcos

20 miles south

of Cusco, Peru.

This seemed beyond coincidence

and so my interest in Peru

greatly increased

and I began reading

everything I could

about the country of Peru.

It's very clear

that the Yugas

are directly related

to procession.

So we can divide procession

into two halves.

The descending half

and the ascending half.

And with this information

and with the Mayan insights

into this world age cycle

it does appear that 2012

would be the end of

the descending Yuga cycle

in the Hindu chronology.

I talked to the Peruvian

anthropologist Juan del Prado

who told me that there was

a mysterious cross

in the town of Urcos.

And so when I visited Urcos

I discovered this cross

on the edge of the lake there,

Lake Urcos.

And unfortunately

I discovered also

that the ancient cross

had been removed

and a new cross

had been fixed

to the old cross's base.

So if there was a message

on the cross of Urcos

it has disappeared

into the well of time.

We can reconcile our fears

and our judgments

and our bias,

our jealousy and our anger

as well as all the love

and accept

the forgiveness

and the tolerance

and the compassion

that comes our way every day.

If we can do that

by virtue of doing that

day in and day out

we have already prepared

for whatever eventuality

can happen on any day

on any calendar

in any year.

Remember this moment in time

was created by a people

millennia ago.

And so it's not about

any one date.

It's about this process

that we find ourselves in

and the foresight

that they had to understand

that we would continue

to disconnect

to detach our beings

from the natural world

until it was too late to recover.

Western science has now shown

without a shadow of a doubt

that for every emotion

that we create in our bodies

and for all the feeling

that we create in our bodies

there's a chemistry

that matches that feeling.

So some of that chemistry

is what we would call

life affirming chemistry

and some of it

is life denying.

Every day of our lives

we have the opportunity

to nurture the life affirming

or the life denying chemistry

in our bodies.

And ultimately

I believe every day

is preparing us

if we really stop

and think about it

for whatever it is

that 2012

or 11-11

or 10-10

or 12-12

or whatever date

might happen

to cross our paths.

Now having said that

what we know is that

cosmologically

there are cycles

within cycles

and cycles of time

where magnetics change

where frequencies change

where planetary alignments

make it easier

to access the changes

that we have the opportunity

to experience.

And 2012

appears to be

a grand alignment

where many cycles

within cycles

converge in the moment

in time

and that's when we wake up

one morning

and imagine

what it feels like Sharon.

Can you imagine

to wake up one morning

in an earth

that has no magnetic field.

We really don't know

what we feel like.

The despacho ceremony continued.

With each object

placed in the mandala

our negative feelings

were released.

With each leaf

our prayers

were being sent out

into the world.

What had first

led me to Peru

where the message

is left on the cross

of Henday.

I wanted to know

what was so special

about the caves

at Cusco

and why was Peru

the place of refuge.

I learned

that there is

an ancient tradition

among the Karo

that teaches

that it is possible

to turn a human being

into a body of light.

The Pakos

or holy shamans

of the Karo

teach that one day

all humans

will have this ability.

They say

that this is the promise

of the prophecy

of Pachacuti.

I wondered

if there was a connection

between the light body

tradition

of the Karo

and alchemy.

Sacsayhuaman

is the main

ancient ritual complex

located in the mountains

above Cusco.

Cusco is shaped

like a gigantic puma

or South American

mountain lion

with its entire body

pointing towards

Sacsayhuaman.

Nearby

is the Temple

of the Moon.

It contains

a series

of ritual caves

some natural

some carved

by humans.

It is said

that the local

Karo

still use

these caves

as a place

of worship.

These caves

were ritual

and ceremony.

Traditional tales

of the ancient Inca

tell us

that the shamans

used the caves

to ignite

their bodies

and luminous

energy fields

essentially

turning them

into beings

of light.

The alchemists

Egyptians

Tibetans

Hindus

Kabbalists

Sufis

and Christians

also speak

of the transmutation

of the human being

into a body

of light

as the ultimate

goal

of life.

Maybe the place

of refuge

is not just

an Inca cave

in Cusco, Peru

or in Tibet

or anywhere else.

Maybe the true

place of refuge

is in our hearts.

My adventure

in Peru

took me

to the small

town of Urcos.

Urcos is most

famous

for being

the last

stronghold

of the Inca

in their struggle

against the Spanish

conquistadors.

There I discovered

the cross

of Urcos

and saw

it replaced

with a new cross.

Its message

if any

forever lost.

But I also

discovered

a second cross

at Urcos.

This strange

medieval looking

cross

heralded the approach

to the town

cathedral.

I learned

of a legend

in which the four

Pacos

or holy shamans

of the ancient

Incan empire

would one day

meet at the cathedral

in Urcos

and then go off

in the four directions

to bring

to the rest

of Pachacuti,

the end of time

and the secret

of the luminous body.

So according

to the prophecy

the end

of this age

and the start

of the next

would begin here

at the cross

of Urcos.

Might this be

what hail

to the cross

of Urcos

means

on the Hende

monument?

Maybe the unknown

builder

of the cross

of Hende

knew

that the ancient

knowledge

of the body

of light

was the earnest

student

to come here.

Every day

in every way

we are making

the future.

As Don Umberto

and Doña Bernardina

continued

to construct

the despacho

I began

to realize

that modern

people

are trapped

by time.

We are prisoners

of time.

Einstein once

said

that the reason

we invented time

was to prevent

everything

from happening

at once.

In our modern

society

we want

instant food

instant love

instant entertainment

instant sex

instant spirituality.

The ancients

believed

that the process

of achieving

one's goals

was more important

than the actual

attainment.

That which is

important

must be worked

towards.

Nothing of significance

comes easy.

It's almost

as if time

itself

has played

a monstrous

trick on us.

We are born

we grow up

we age

and we find

this very

important.

The clock

goes on

ticking

as we go

on wanting

and needing

and taking

always longing

for

but somehow

never accomplishing

our real goal.

How many humans

have drawn

their last breath

never realizing

that it is

the present

moment

that is important

not the projection

of a fantasy

that may

between our perceptions and larger rhythms.

Doesn't matter what the calendar is,

they're all based upon a way of the human mind

trying to understand, trying to integrate,

trying to make sense out of these larger rhythms.

In the West, we know of only one kind of time,

which is linear time, which is time that flies like an arrow

in which the future is always before us

and passes behind us.

This kind of time is founded on the notion of causality,

of cause and effect.

Indigenous societies, shamanic societies,

spiritual traditions know of a different kind of time

that turns like a wheel.

It doesn't fly like an arrow,

in which the main operating principle is not causality,

but synchronicity,

in which you can influence events that occurred in the past

and in which you can

influence and change things and change lives.

So this is the eternal key at the root of a way of life,

is to forge destiny.

We have an actually in effect a population of time and wage slaves

who are creating this and feeding this giant mammon,

which is called the technosphere.

It's to the complete detriment of the living organism

of the earth itself, the biosphere.

So we're at this total climax of this process.

herself, her soul, as well as to the nature of time and reality, and we've created a world

which is basically an artificial goldfish bowl where the water has gotten quite dirty.

The problem with linear time, which is the time that we know, is that it tends to produce

psychologists and psychotherapists, which are wonderful people, but psychology is founded

on the notion that who you are today is the result of what happened to you when you were

six or when you were twelve or when you were in the womb or maybe in a former lifetime.

So we're always the result of an earlier cause.

When we are able to engage in a different kind of time, we're not only the result of

an earlier cause, we can be the result of something that hasn't happened yet.

You're not only the result of your genes and your genetics.

Inheritance that might predispose you to heart conditions and breast conditions.

You're not only the result of your childhood, but you might be the result of something that

happens to you ten years from now, or ten thousand years from now, so that the future

can reach back like a giant hand and bring you forward into who you are becoming.

So we can be informed by who we are becoming, and not only by the genetic baggage and the

karmic baggage.

The psychological baggage that we've inherited.

So this is the time in which we can truly begin to pattern where we are.

Where we're going.

What can be.

Now one of the things that's lacking in the world today is a sense of the vision

of the possible.

The vision of the possible society.

The vision of the possible human.

The vision of a planetary civilization, where I personally think we're moving towards, with

high individualism.

A situation of cultures.

So that the genius of culture can come forward.

No longer can we make the soul of culture as a satellite, to be a satellite of economics.

Rather economics has to be a satellite of the soul of culture.

When that occurs, then we'll realize that we're actually traveling through time and

not through space.

It's no longer spaceship earth, but time ship earth, and time ship earth, 2013 will

be the inauguration.

Or the initiation of that phase.

We will have returned to universal synchronization.

We will be, but we will be stabilized where we are all conscious of the fact that we are

in synchronicity.

At best we know of only one kind of time, which is this linear time.

And we have only one calendar.

But for example, there's societies like the Maya, the Mayans or the Inca, that have many

different calendars.

The Mayans have 24 different calendars.

We have only one.

Now the origin of this is very interesting because our myth of creation, our story of

creation is founded on the division of space.

On the first day God separated the waters above from the waters below.

The dry land from the waters on the second day.

So our mythology is founded on the division of space.

And the first five books of the Bible have to do with the right that you have to own

private property.

To own the land.

Whereas the indigenous mythologies are founded not on the division of space, but on the division

of time.

So that the notion of owning the land is very foreign to the shamanic societies.

But the notion of owning time is a very familiar one.

So indigenous cultures are possessed by the land.

You're born in a village.

You never leave that village.

You're owned by the land, but you have time.

In the West we're possessed by time, but we own the land.

We have no time.

We have time that's not available to us.

So I think people have to, you know, first they have to become firmly grounded in this

alternative paradigm and really get it, you know, that actually there's something here

which is more substantial and even, you know, corresponds better to their lived experience

of reality than the secular materialist paradigm.

Right.

And so once they're firmly grounded in this alternative paradigm, then there's this shift

that has to take place as a Burning Man sign said, from ego to wego.

How do you then use your, you know, your intelligence, your strategic capabilities, your skill set,

your resources, your karmic factors to assist the transition?

And for everybody that's going to be different.

For some people it might be gardening or making a sustainable living.

sustainable communities somewhere for other people and might be creating new internet social network

applications for somebody else that might be using their law degree to like work for indigenous

people or something a lot of people will have to be willing to take a hit on their idea of comfort

and affluence in order to like serve a transformational process we've run out of time

we're running out of time and this is exactly what we're talking about the end of time

is that this paradigm of being caught in the grip of time and being possessed by it is devastating

us and it's coming to an end and it's going to come to an end either gracefully by each one of

us individually learning how to step beyond time or it's going to be chaotic and and dramatic and

and devastating what we've been trained to and conditioned to believe

in in the

in the

system of reality that that work we're currently involved in which dominates the world is that third

dimension is reality that what you see is what you get that can't be physically defined or proven

then it doesn't exist this is this is the attitude of modern science for instance the the fact is that

we live in a multi-dimensional reality the third dimensional reality is just what we call the plane

of testing

so our mythology of origin says that we procreate cristianity included the idea that we can venture from back above and we arejet scientists and that can be shown that we are not essense

so our mythology of origin says that we are not essense we can travel across space we can travel from here to uh...lich Permia

africa

i'll go to europe

go to south america

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whereas they they are able to travel across time and that seems very foreign to us

they're able to journey along their timeline

or the timeline of their village to visit or influence an event that will occur in the future

that's why seers of long ago were able to foretell the events surrounding 2012.

we need to walk away from the illusion of linear time that has enslaved us if we don't walk away

from this then the whole cycle after this disaster occurs and it's going to take place it's too late

now after this disaster occurs the whole cycle will repeat itself again over the next 10 000 years

we must find a new way to deal with time and that is facing the reality that there is only

one moment of time there has never been anything except now there is an ancient sufi saying don't

mistake the map for the territory sometimes i think we look at time this way we are always

trying to save the world we are always trying to save the world we are always trying to save the world

time instead maybe we should be saving ourselves we were nearing the end of the despacho healing

ceremony as i watched don umberto and dona bernadina work together to place the last objects

into the mandala i could see that the next world the next age would be built around the idea of

partnership and cooperation it would be a revival of the archaic the return to a world of mystery

balance and shamanic intent

once more nature would be restored and men and women would live together in peace

we see really the struggle for our future today and it's not between east and west or north and

south or capitalism and socialism or religious and secular it's between partnership and domination

the anthropologist rianne eisler contends that thousands of years

ago men and women lived in a partnership with each other that humans and nature lived in a

partnership with each other and something happened which separated us from each other and from the

earth this could probably be traced back to the beginning of desertification in the middle east

a sense of desperation among the people that lived there and the solar masculine principle

rising forth probably

with all good intentions of trying to feed their women and their children

but what this created was a new world which she calls the dominator world so the dominator

trans goes way way beyond mass media way way beyond the issue of drugs it goes to a way of relating

starting very early on that continues

worldwide unfortunately in cultures and subcultures all over the world

before in olden days the inca had a lot more power than they do today they could even change

stones they could cut stones only with their wishes they could even call awakened

life of stones and the stones would hurl themselves or move themselves on their own they had much

more power than they do today in the time of my grandmother and my great grandmother

they had great power they had great power to heal they had great power to see the future

they had great power to help the dead and to help the living today that power has diminished

because of the encroachment because of the of the colonizers that came and imposed the new way of

life upon us but during my grandmother's time and my great grandmother's time we had a great power

available to us and this is the power that with our prayers we call back to us we call back to us

because a new story is beginning for us today it's beginning for us during these times of great

change i do believe powerfully in the potential of uh of who we are of humankind of our species

of our truest nature

i believe is a peaceful and benevolent nature and i also believe that when that we are a species

of survivors and when pushed to the limits and the extremes of what we experience in our lives

that we betray our truest nature this is what i see all over the world is this rather

rapid evolution or if you will acceleration of need of yearning of desire to make a difference

and to grow

to become an adequate steward of this incredible singularity this evolutionary process in history

everything tries to prevent us from filling this destiny in the culture that we live in now

the primary superstition is the religious superstition the primary ideology is the ideology

of science which says that there is nothing at all beyond the body i don't know whether or not

we live on after we dive no i don't know whether or not we live on after we die no i don't know

But I do know that there is this extraordinary, extremely sensitive and complex, numinous process that is going on right now for me centered around my body.

We have to undertake the disciplines of shamanism so that we can travel in these dimensions, or we have to become a yogin, or we have to strive for enlightenment.

So it's a motivator to undertake these types of disciplines. It's not for everybody, but some are motivated to do that.

And then they become...

You know, people that do that tend to become, in the culture, they become the people of knowledge.

My grandmother was a pampamisa. She was a midwife. She could read the stories in the stones. She could read the coca leaves.

She could heal.

She could read the heavens. She could read the cycles of the moon. She knew the ways of the earth.

The women were very powerful in our day.

It's like every shadow that ever existed has risen to be faced so that we can make the next step.

And I look at the end of the cosmos, and I look at our little planet, which is on a medium-sized star at an outer edge of the galaxy.

We're not in the center, you know, where all the action is. We're on the outer edge.

Of the spiral arm of the galaxy.

And I wonder, why are we here?

And I wonder whether we're not an experimental lab out here, with the sufficiency of talent, of complexity, of crisis, of challenge,

to grow us into Godseeds, or rather to make the Godseeds that we already are begin to emerge into those profound and potent beings

who then are sent forth.

Both into outer as well as to inner space.

To help orchestrate, evolve processes all over the universe.

Vicero used the coca leaves for divination and telling the future.

I asked Don Umberto to once again read the coca leaves and tell us what they say.

In the United States there will be problems.

There will be problems in many cities in the United States as they are unable to adapt to this change

that is coming.

The United States has a great power, has great brilliance, great resources.

It is up to the United States to take leadership in the world, to bring peace, to bring balance back to the planet.

Without the leadership of the United States there is no hope for the world.

For us who are following the path of the Earth, of the Earth people, we will not have problems.

But those who do not follow the ways of the Earth people, the path of the Earth people,

will have many, many difficulties.

Many will be expelled from the Earth.

There will be problems in many, many countries.

In many countries there will be many people that suffer as they do not find their way

or are unable to find their way back to the Earth, back to the ways of the Earth.

But for us there will be no problems.

We must make our prayers to the feminine.

We must make our prayers to the mother.

We must come back to the ways of the feminine.

Of stewardship, of protection.

Without that, without our making our prayers to the Earth and to the ways of the feminine,

there is no hope for anyone, for any of us.

The problem is bigger than we want to acknowledge.

It is so much bigger than any one of us can perceive.

The solution that the mother tells us is by coming back to her.

We are her children and she will look after us.

But we must come back to her.

Thank you, Father.

Thank you.

Thank you, Father.

The United States has a great head.

It has great brilliance, great talent.

It must come back down to the heart.

It must come back down to the mother.

Back to the Earth.

Without the gifts of the heart,

we are not going to be able to think our way out of the problems that we have created.

Thank you, Father.

Thank you.

Francis Bacon was a British philosopher and a Freemason

who lived around the same time as the discovery and colonization of America.

He believed that the New World was going to be the location of something that he called the New Atlantis.

When the Founding Fathers created America,

they built monuments and cities exemplifying this ancient ideal.

But this was not just a European experiment.

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were extremely interested in the indigenous Americans,

their politics, and their spirituality.

It is said that they even designed much of the U.S. Constitution

on the guidelines that ruled the Iroquois Confederacy.

There is even a suggestion that Benjamin Franklin knew about the ways of the Mayan people.

Ben Franklin, following up on the earlier research of Leonard Euler,

he noticed that you can arrange squares,

like say an 8x8 square, for example.

Then you have a grid of 64,

and you can arrange the numbers from 1 to 64

in such a way that all the rows and all the columns

add up to the same number.

And for the 8x8 magic square, that number is 260.

That's kind of interesting,

because it points up this relationship between the number 64,

8x8, 64,

the number of blocks in this magic square,

and how you can arrange the numbers from 1 to 64

such that 260 is the constant somehow.

We know that 64 is the magic number of DNA,

but also it's the number of squares on a chessboard,

and it's the number of hexagrams in the I Ching.

So we can see that what Benjamin Franklin is doing here

is he's laying out a pattern of 64,

and then he's arranging numbers

so that no matter how you add up the numbers,

either way through the magic square of 64,

every single number comes out to be 260.

The sacred sciences of ancient Egypt, for example,

relate to 64,

because it's the power of 2 thing,

the square root 2 thing.

And then 260 refers to the golden proportion,

which is a square root 5 thing.

So there's this entire, like, sacred science cosmology

built into these systems.

260 I knew was the magic number of the mind,

and so here was a magic square of 64,

and what they call a magic square of 8

with an array of 64.

Every row adds up to 64.

That's the magic number of 260 that I saw.

That was what I was looking for,

because I also knew that the 64

was the magic number of the DNA code,

and so therefore what that showed me

was that this mathematical magic square,

as it was called,

actually showed that the relationship

between the DNA and the natural timing frequency,

which is a number which is 260.

260 is the sacred zone

in the sacred Zolkin calendar of 260 days.

The Maya daykeepers, they say that it's based upon

the human gestation period.

It's roughly 9 months.

So that makes sense just on a philosophical level,

because 64 DNA is like the code

that unfolds in the 260-day cycle

to generate one individual human being.

260 is a harmonic,

not only of the 26,000-year-long procession,

of the equinoxes,

which we know they were mapping with their calendar,

but also it's a harmonic

of the number of days that an average human lives.

If a human being lives around 72 years,

they live approximately 26,000 days.

We know that they chose,

or at least they tell us that they chose,

this 260 number

because it's the number of days

that a human spends in gestation.

It's the number of days that a baby spends

in the womb.

It's the number of days

that a baby spends in the womb

of its mother before it's born.

And I thought about how Ben Franklin

had been studying the electromagnetism

of the Earth and the poles and so on.

So I said, well, I had a kind of aha.

I said, oh, actually, this is actually a mapping

of the, what I call the side bank,

the underlying structure of the noosphere

around the Earth.

So we can see that time

is governed by this 260-day harmonic.

And we can see that 64

is the magic number of DNA,

which is matter,

which is living matter.

And so Ben Franklin

is trying to marry up

the aspects of living matter

with the aspects of time.

He's trying to marry up

matter with spirit.

And this is the secret of alchemy.

All of these ideas start to come together,

and one of the key pieces of it

that the ancients discussed

that we have left out

in our modern Stargate conceptions

is they recognize that the serpent rope

could equate to Kundalini.

It equates to that spiritual energy

that we must all lift within ourselves.

And what we need to begin to plug into this

is that, yeah, maybe we will be able

to build a giant particle accelerator,

a space-based particle accelerator

that could open these holes in space.

But more than likely,

it's going to be the heart-mind connection

that is going to enable us to do this.

We're enchanted in the West with DNA.

It's a brand-new discovery, Watson and Crick.

It's very sexy today.

But DNA basically manufactures proteins.

That's all it does.

DNA is the hardware

that is informed by the software,

which is the luminous energy field

that informs the hardware.

So if we can download

version 7.1 of the software,

we can instruct our DNA

to grow new bodies that age differently,

that heal differently, that die differently.

And that's one of the key points of our time right now

is reclaiming or putting together

those old sacred secrets

about how we activate our light bodies.

One of the main secrets of alchemy

is that there is an invisible luminous energy body

that exists around every living thing,

whether it be plant, animal, human.

And the alchemists even believe

that stars and planets and minerals

have this invisible luminous energy field around it.

This invisible luminous energy field

is really what we call 4D space.

One of the things that I see is that

we seem to be coming up to a moment,

a moment in time,

where these secrets are going to be revealed.

In that time, we don't know how long

these secrets and this information,

this consciousness is going to be available.

My sense is it could be a very short period of time.

So this is all going to come up,

people are going to lock onto it,

and then it's going to fade away.

Do you know that DNA pulsates

at the rate of 100 cycles per second, 100 hertz?

DNA basically functions with light.

So it emits light

at the rate of 100 pulses per second.

Well, what it is, is that it's emitting information,

because all light contains information.

So when we bring in the light,

the light of who we are becoming,

and that's why all the spiritual traditions speak about

enlightenment, about awakening to the light.

They're awakening to the light of

not only the Christ and the Buddha,

but who we are becoming as a species.

We're re-informing our DNA,

instructing it to express itself

in ways that have never been explored before.

And so what people have to become aware of

is that there are high energy phenomena

that our light bodies are interacting with,

and it's awareness of those that will assist us

in this transformation.

So this hypersphere exists around the Earth.

It exists like a doughnut.

It's called a torus in physics.

And it has a...

It comes down through the top,

swirls down into the north pole of your sphere,

or your human,

comes out through the bottom,

goes around like a doughnut,

comes around, and comes back down through.

Once you get a hold of this,

you're bumped up the evolutionary ladder, so to speak.

And it opens up...

This is the basis, then, for the Stargate science,

for opening wormholes.

I mean, literally, at CERN,

they're talking about creating baby black holes.

And so with this,

we are literally transforming ourselves

into God-like beings.

Do you know that 90% of our DNA

is considered to be junk DNA?

Redundant? Only 10%, less than 10%.

It's actually the cohesive, practical DNA

that creates our bodies.

Well, there's nothing redundant or junk in nature.

This 90% is the pool of possibilities,

the pool of possibilities that we can draw from

to express a new human here on Earth.

But it has to come from the information field

that surrounds the physical body,

from the luminous energy field.

Shamans have known this for millennia.

And once you inform

the luminous energy field,

that informs the body, and we evolve.

Each human has a hypersphere,

and it enters through the top of the brain

and comes down through the bottom of the spine.

Alchemists know that this is

what they're trying to achieve

when they say they're trying to turn lead into gold.

What they're really saying is

they're trying to turn the body

into this luminous energy field

to unite it

with the luminous energy field

in a more cohesive fashion.

The luminous energy field already comes

laden with a tremendous amount of information,

not all of it positive.

So that the predisposition

that may run in your family

towards heart disease

is encoded not only in your genes,

but in your luminous energy field,

which contains information.

It's an information field.

The karma from a family

to a former existence,

the trauma that occurred to you

when you were six or you were eight,

is encoded in the luminous energy field.

We cannot download new information

until we clear the luminous energy field.

The mayas seem to be describing

this magical moment

where we have this rare galactic alignment,

and from out of this alignment

is where this serpent rope emerges.

And if we equate the serpent rope

with the wormhole,

then it appears we're at this magic moment

where we're going to create

this incredible new level of technology

that's going to align each of us

with the source of where

many shamanic traditions tell us we came from.

Is it that the Freemasons

had this knowledge passed down

from some long-ago civilization?

I think that that's extremely possible

because the Cross of Hende,

as Foltinelli tells us,

was also built by a 33rd-degree mason,

and the Cross of Hende

reveals extremely profound information.

So it's my belief that the Freemasons,

at least the Freemasons from a long time ago,

had some kind of incredibly profound knowledge

that had been passed down to them

and which they were trying to preserve.

For the Inca, the new luminous body

is represented by a figure

that in geometry is known as a taurus.

It is a donut-shaped figure

that represents the human luminous energy.

The axis of that field is the central hole

that runs up our spine.

The sides of the taurus represent

our luminous energy field

that flows out the top of our head,

around us the width of our outstretched arms,

into the earth for about a foot,

and then right up the center of our bodies.

This taurus is not only a representation

of the luminous energy field,

but it is also a representation of a gateway,

of a gateway between the worlds,

of a gateway to infinity,

of a gateway back to spirit,

back to our source,

back to where we came from

and back to where we're going.

Don Umberto and Doña Bernadina

had already wrapped the objects of the despacho with paper.

Now they placed the bundle into the flames,

where they would burn and be purified.

I could almost see the negative energies

being dissipated in the fire.

Near the end of my trip to Peru,

I met Don Martín, a Quero shaman.

The condor he wears is his totem animal.

He told us of the prophecies of Pachacuti

and what to expect as we approached 2012.

Pachacuti was the great Inca,

but he was also a great prophet.

He left us with a body of prophecy

that spoke about a time of great change

right now, of hunger, of famine, of war,

of conflict between neighbors,

of conflict between tribes,

conflicts between nations,

of scarcity,

when there was once a time of great abundance,

of there being hunger now.

We are in the middle, in the very middle

of the cycle of the prophecies.

We're in the very middle of war.

And there's increasing war in the coming years.

Countries that are not even involved

in any conflict today will be drawn into conflict.

The shamans are coming together with their prayers

that this does not happen.

They're bringing their prayers to bear,

to call forth on the spiritual world,

which is the world that will come after the Pachacuti.

Pachacuti said to us before he left,

he said, they will kill you.

They will slay your bodies,

but they can never slay your spirit.

Your spirit will always live.

My spirit is your spirit.

Your spirit will always live,

will always rule.

And this is the spirit that we're calling forth today,

that I call forth in my altar,

that we can call forth in each one of our altars,

is that spirit that rules with benevolence

and with grace,

and that needs to come down today

from the Hanak Pacha, from the upper world.

This is the work that all of us are dedicated to.

This is how we do our prayers.

We take kintu, we take three leaves,

we call on the heavens,

we call on the mountains,

we call on the earth,

and we blow our prayers,

and we surrender it to the wind.

Whatever may come is what comes.

All the prophecies are coming true.

Bring your prayers to the Apus,

to the mountains,

to the Mother Earth,

to all of nature,

so that all of nature can come back with her life,

to bring back life to us,

so that all of the prophecies can come true.

Bring your prayers to all.

There is a simple sense of connection

that I witness among these people,

a feeling of warmth, compassion and community

that is disappearing among the people of my own country.

We don't seem to care for each other

in the same way

that we do in the world.

We have forgotten how to live together.

We have forgotten how to love each other.

The ancients say that the body of light

can only be achieved through love,

that compassion and forgiveness

are the path towards true liberation.

Maybe 2012 is not only a purging

but also an embrace of all that is really important to us

and all that we hold dear to our hearts.

As I sat among these ancient ruins

and thought about the millions of people who have lived

and the billions more who are alive today,

I wondered,

what does the future hold in store for us?

Who are we becoming?

Will we remember what we've had

and what we've lost?

Accelerated time has left the gentle ebb and flow

of gene transfer and adaptation

that characterizes biological evolution

and instead historical time is generated.

No one of us, I think, can imagine

that history could go on for another thousand years.

I mean, what would it look like?

At the current rate of population growth,

spread of epidemic disease,

rate of invention,

connectivity, depletion of resources,

the atmosphere,

is it possible to conceive

of another thousand years of human history?

We have burned our bridges.

We are preparing for a kind of cultural forward escape.

The simple example of metamorphosis,

that of caterpillar to the butterfly,

we all know that there is this intermediate resting stage

where the caterpillar is, for all practical purposes,

enzymatically dissolved

and then reconstituted

as an entirely different kind of organism

with different physical structures,

different eyes, different legs,

a different way of breathing,

with wings where no wings were before,

with a different kind of feeding apparatus,

this is what's happening to us.

History is a process of metamorphosis.

It's like what a butterfly is doing in a cocoon

or what is happening to a child in the womb.

It's a gestation process

where one form of life is being changed into another.

It begins with naked monkeys

and it ends with a human machine

planet girdling interface

capable of releasing the energies that light the stars.

And it lasts about 15 or 20 thousand years

and during that period

the entire process hangs in the balance.

This would all happen naturally

and with a great deal of anxiety, I imagine,

as history builds to its ever more climactic

and horrifying crescendo

and we would all be in the same place.

We would all be ignorant or very baffled

about what's going on

were it not for the institution of shamanism.

The shaman actually rises into a domain

where past and future are different areas

on the same topological manifold.

It's what's really going on.

If you think about shamanism,

it is about predicting weather,

predicting game movement,

and curing disease.

It's as though the members of culture

are imprisoned in linear time

and the shaman is not.

Culture is simply clothing

upon the human experience.

But the human organism

outside the confines of culture

in a direct relationship to nature

transcends time and space.

This was a fact, I believe,

that was known in prehistory

and in fact was the source of paleolithic values

which were not material,

not linear,

not surplus-oriented,

not class-oriented,

not power-oriented,

but rather oriented toward

a kind of egalitarian partnership

in an environment

of great material simplicity.

And human beings lived like that

for probably a half a million years

with poetry, with dance,

with mathematics, with magic,

with story, with humor,

but not with the paralyzing

and toxic artifacts

of the late-evolving machine-workshipping

linear fanatic alphabet

tight-ass straight culture

that we are a part of.

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