I’m on my way to a book launch at the Ben McNally Bookstore in Toronto. The book is Movement of Stillness: as Revealed in the New Mayan Calendar – Post 2012 by Jacqui Derbecker. Jacqui contends that the perception of mass destruction most people see as the promise the Mayan calendar is not the correct interpretation. The Barrie-based author’s view was channeled through the automatic writing process from Edgar Cayce, a well-known mystic philosopher, seer, channelor and author who lived from 1877- 1945. Jacqui says his interpretation has changed the negative perception to that of positive, high vibrational prophecies. She says that the prophecies in her book touch on the emotional, physical and community aspects of our lives. It should be an interesting event. I’ll report more tomorrow (Saturday).
If you want to hear the tale first hand, Jacqui will be at Ben McNally’s from 6:30 to 8:30 this evening. That’s at 366 Bay St., near Richmond.
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Does the History of the Mayan Civilization support their ability to forecast the future? Check this out:
The Maya Civilization reached its zenith around 1000 AD. Historians have debated what led to their slow decline over the next 500 years but there is no debate that it was the invasion by the Spanish that was the beginning of the true end. From 1521 � 1523 the Maya were decimated by disease brought to their country by the Spanish.
Estimates run as high as 1/3 their population being wiped out (For me that is hard to believe since they were dispersed booth geographically and governmentally across a vast area). Nonetheless this weakened them considerably and led to their first major defeat at Battle of El Pinal and the subsequent capture of the major city of Utatl�n by conquistadores under the command of Pedro de Alvarado in 1524.
The Spaniards continued invading and spreading throughout Central America until they took over the final Mayan City of Tah Itz� in 1697.
Now here is where it gets really, really interesting.
The Mayan believed that time was cyclical with historical events and political events repeating in cycles, cycles measured by their complex calendar system which featured 20 years (7200 days) as one Katun and 13 Katuns as 256 years. And it is that cycle � 13 Katuns, 256 years that repeats and makes the future [predictable.
And so it was that when the Spaniards came to conquer Tah Itza that it fell without much of a fight. Because most of the Mayans had fled. They knew this final attack was coming. This invasion came 136 days from the start of Katun 8 (the 8th Katun in the 256 year cycle) and this reflects the Mayan prophecy that this was going to be a cosmologically mandated period of change and upheaval for the Maya.
So the Mayans own Calendar system predicted a cosmologically mandated period of upheaval for them, and that is exactly what happened. Their final major city fell to the Spaniards. They were vanquished as a civilization.
So if the Mayans cyclical calendar predicted the time of upheaval around the Spaniards assault on Tah Itza, then who is to say that the Maya Calendar end on December 21 2012 is not predicting the end of the world, the 2012 apocalypse?
Thanks for that bit of history. A lot of people don’t know about the way the Mayan calendar works. As to an apocalypse, I guess we’ll discover the reality soon enough.
Regarding Jacqui Derbecker’s contention, I haven’t finished her book as yet but her launch and readings were enlightening. I also like the possibility that December will herald not a life-destroying disaster but a new millenium in which we will see huge changes (upheaval, conflict, many years of disquiet) that will ultimately bring about a better world. She offers 96 “truths” that include the reworking of Abraham Maslaw’s Hierarchy of Needs.