First of
all, I would like to thank all of the participants in this Round
Table discussion, including you, the reader/participant. Mitch
Battros (ECTV) has created an excellent opportunity for each of
us to come together in a form that I believe is the evolutionary
democracy of our future. It is precisely this kind of dialogue
and interactive feedback that allows for, embraces and cultivates
active participation.
Why is this
active participation so important? Because it relates, I believe,
precisely to the historical phenomenon each of our participants
is describing in her/his own way from the perspective of their
own discipline.
Mitch writes
in his article NASA Involved In Search For Ancient Civilizations
about how NASA may be more interested in ancient texts than many
of us thought. Their interest in the ancient sites around the
world parallels our own: we sense that something important is
happening right now, and we all have an opportunity to participate.
The Aztecs refer to this quantum leap as the birth of the Sixth
Sun, or the Sun of Flowers. Mitch aptly describes this coming
together as a "seamless connection to the universe."
This connection isn't something new. It's the very life thread
of our planetary being. Traditional indigenous societies have
preserved what they could of the ancient science of maintaining
this universal web of being.
The presence
of prehistoric roadway systems, monolithic structures that defy
our present level of engineering capability, etc., all point to
the profound connection this ancient science understood and utilized.
The masters of this ancient science are able to utilize this web
of connection in much the same way that an acupuncturist utilizes
the meridians in a living body. The qualities of this web of being
are non-linear and seem to contradict the trend of post-Inquisition
European thought that has been mass-produced and marketed all
over the world since that time and continue to this day.
Ancient sites
all over Mexico, Africa and Asia indicate that we've been fed
a version of history that serves a select group of people. Who
that group of people is, what they've been doing and why probably
aren't important issues for us to discuss here. What is important
is that we are now beginning to piece together enough information
to re-empower ourselves and unwind the Big Lie of history. As
we do our part in healing ourselves of this great split, the still-living
masters of the ancient sciences are beginning to come out from
their sanctuaries of seclusion all over the world. The future
and the ancient aren't merely abstractions: each of us can personally
participate in this journey if we choose to.
The qualities
of time itself hold a very important role in our awakening of
this understanding. What we have called the ancient calendars
are much more than calendars- they are descriptions of a dynamic,
interactive and evolving reality. Ian Xel Lungold describes in
his Maya Mystique how "this calendar system does it all."
The ancient calendar of the Americas- to call it Mayan isn't really
correct, because it was used and improved upon by each succeeding
civilization of Central America, all of whom by their own admission
received it from an entirely different civilization, which according
to the Aztecs was the Atlantean - is the most well-preserved example
of this ancient science that we have in popular circles. The significance
of this calendar is that it can train us how re-connect on a personal
level with the universal life grid.
Ian calls
us out on our "all too human tendency to focus on impending
catastrophes." This is the savior/victim illness that we
as a modern culture, by design, suffer from. This illness has
been generated from the philosophy of passivity that modern religions
have programmed into us for generations as being "spiritual."
One of the central cogs of that machine is the belief in the superior
validity of mass consciousness over that of the individual. I
would directly challenge that belief right now, and put forth
that it is precisely the opposite that is true. It is the individual
who has the power to change and evolve. We learn from chaos theory
that it is the qualities of the infinitely small individual particles
that determines the behavior of a system at large. Systems follow
our behavior, not the other way around. It is in the moment that
we lay claim-and responsibility- to all that we are that the system
changes. It is to this moment that the ancient sciences and nature
itself point.
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