Mayn Calendar Count of Days

Introducing the Mayan Calendar

Another Way to View Time

The calendar is the "dead center" of any civilization, according to Ian Lungold. The center of ours has been the Gregorian calendar, established in 1582 by kings and the Catholic Church. The Gregorian calendar is a physical calendar based on the physical phenomena of our planet going around our star, the sun for 365 days. (The Mayans did have a solar calendar, the Haab, but it was only used for bookkeeping and tax collecting.)

We all have calendars. We plan our lives by what we schedule on the calendar. Many of you feel there just aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done that needs to get done. Time management was suppose to help us accomplish more but the more we have on our calendars to do, the more tied we are to a on time reality based on performance and external evaluations.

The Maya had a very different idea about time. Time was sacred and holy because it was timing something that was sacred and holy, Creation. The profound wisdom of this ancient civilization can shed a whole new light in our lives and offer us a calendar, a personal, sacred calendar that can help us align our consciousness to the divine flow of Creation.

The Mayan had two calendars that they celebrated every day the Tun, their prophetic calendar, and the Tzolkin, their personal calendar.

A Universal Law according to Ian Lungold is, "What we pay attention to is what we become conscious of." It's more than assimilating more information into our minds. It is a deeper, inner knowing that we each carry within our hearts.

This inner knowing is so personal and so sacred that denying its existence cuts us off from our absolute Divine Being. We were all raised in a society whose belief systems value tangible, objective, physical evidence more than inner knowing. Each of us has to decide what we value and only then can we create a future whose reality is based on an authority that stands above all other authorities, ourselves.

Fear stands in our way. It stands in the way of our experiencing our own personal knowing and power. Our belief systems are deeply embedded with this fear. We need only realize our longing for answers to come from outside, from somewhere else, from someone else is what makes it so difficult to acknowledge that we were all created in the image of God and destined to be co-creators with him?

We have the ability to create what we want for our lives because of our intimate connection with the source of all there is. Our choice is what "we choose to pay attention to."