How does reality relate to time as the 4th dimension...

...and why is the 13 moon calendar so important.

Let me start to say that it is of vital importance to be critical. Critical to your self, critical to what I or anyone tells you. Further more it is important/essential to be able to still your mind by means of meditation and yoga.

What we are doing to do is question our reality and existence.
What we will find is that we are in the middle of an immense evolutionary step forward.
Want to tell you first about how matter is formed, what we are made of, and how this planet came into being. This is the field of Astro-biology.
Then I briefly take you to the present day earth and give some examples of how the humans have a fundamental conflict with nature.
Then, to get to the core of this conflict, we get to theology, eschatology and the misconception of time in our present day reality. That will turn out to be the battle of Ego.
And via the link between 4th dimensional time and Astro-biology we will get to the core of our purpose here on earth. Which is to remember who we truly are.
You will then see that there is a lot of pieces to the puzzle of life that suddenly fit together.
Then, as we will see that all is based on unity and harmony, we will understand and appreciate the meaning and use of the mayan 13 moon calendar system to help us attain our goal.

'Veritas est Adequatio Rei et Intellectus' - Truth is the correspondence of matter and understanding.

So, yet another cosmology. Possibly a bit redundant, but it serves a purpose...

1. Who are we and what are we doing here? What is reality and existence.
I trust we all feel that the winds are changing. We are living in a more and more repressive society. Becoming more and more dominated by The Machine.
Everything is automated, polluted, bound to man made laws. And we all have the feeling that it's just not right. There's something missing in our world view.

I notice that I feel more and more connected with the natural elements around me. I feel less emotionless when I squash a mosquito, I understand my cat better. All in all I feel more and more connected with the world that surrounds me. While at the same time I often have the feeling that I live in a world where the people care less and less for each other and their surrounding, because they are preoccupied. Part of the world I live in seems morally bankrupt.

And out of my long search for the how and why behind all this, I found enough elements that I would like to share with you. Because I feel it can be helpful in the understanding of our selves, our surrounding, our perception and even our reason for being.
What I found that it comes down to is evolution. We are on a evolutionary fast track, about to experience something that has not been performed in the whole universe before. (Of course that is a relative statement, but it will suffice for now).

But in order to get to a better understanding of that, and of the instruments at our disposal to actively be part of that evolutionary track, I would like to take you to the very beginning of our 3rd dimension, the material world.

How can we define life? Where does it start?
Life starts with involution: spirit/energy into matter. For if you want to know how a cat works and you take the cat apart, your first conclusion is that you have a non-functional cat. While all matter that makes up the physical cat are right in front of you. Even if you reassemble the cat it will just not 'purr' again. Something's missing. Something's gone. Spirit's gone.

So, for life you need spirit. For spirit to evolve it needs matter.
The cycle of life starts with the transformation of spirit into matter, the cycle of becoming. The cycle is complete with the transformation of spirit out of matter, the cycle of return (EXCALIBUR - sword out of the stone).
How can modern science ever hope to find the essence of life if all it investigates is the physical apparatus and not examining mind? OK, let's stick to matter for the moment.

So let's look at how matter is formed, what it that we are made of, and how this planet came into being. This is the field of Astro-biology.
Where does matter come from? And how is it then sparked into life?
In a star two hydrogen atoms collide, they form Helium and al lot of energy; Nuclear fission. It's very unlikely it happens, yet it happens. Not once, but enough times simultaneously to get a whole sun burning. Not for half an hour but for (in the case of our sun) for about 10 billion years. At a certain moment it gets so hot, and the pressure gets so high that these physical parameters no longer 'matter'.
In exploding stars this is something called a triple alpha reaction. This is where matter is formed.

The star implodes and explodes, sends out two gamma/death-ray's at its poles and emits a lot of start dust. Mostly carbon, but the whole periodical system of elements is forged in to existence. Since there are a lot of stars in the centre of the milky-way there are a lot of these 'death-ray's' and it is nice to be out of their way a bit on the out side of this star system.

The dust settles and by its gravitational pull forms a disk not unlike the rings of Saturn, but then on a Solar system scale.

Planets form. Some solid, some gaseous, ours soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside, with a crystal iron-nickel core.

Earth also got itself a moon which stabilizes it's spin. This influence of the moon, which makes 13 orbits around the earth every time the earth makes one orbit around the sun is a very, very influential big ball. Realize that all of life on earth has developed under the steady and as we will see harmonious influence of the moon.

The crust flows around on the soft magma, it creates plate tectonics which manifest as earthquakes and volcanic activity.
There are a lot of cycles doing their thing that steadily prepares the planet for the ability to harbor life. The forming of lime stone to take carbon out of the cycle. And later on, when life is well established it takes carbon compounds out of the cycles in the biosphere by immobilizing in the soil, we find it in the form of so called 'natural reserves', gas, coal, oil...

Another cycle is the oxygen cycle, he production of oxygen at first by phyto-plankton and later by land based plant life by using the miraculous principle of Photo synthesis. Photo synthesis is on of the most basic examples of literally the transformation of cosmic energy into matter. You can describe the biosphere as the sphere where cosmic energy gets transformed.

Oxygen paves the way for the evolution of higher life forms with a central nerve-system, vertebrates, with a spine...
All this takes a while, we are talking about 3,5 billion years of evolutionary history.

Let's now get to the present day earth and give some examples of how the humans have a fundamental conflict with nature.
In the blink of an eternal eye we put back a lot of the stored carbon (gas, coal, oil) in the biosphere, thus asking for trouble. Kicking the system out of it's dynamic balance or equilibrium...

There is much more going on than just too much CO2 in the atmosphere. We humans like to keep things simple and assign a value to something so it can be expressed in dollars. Even so with the negative results of our (industrial) activities. There are at least 6 identified greenhouse gasses of which CO2 is the relatively harmless one. You and I exhale CO2, but we don't exhale NitrogenOxides, or Methane, or SulphurOxides. Our exhaust pipes exhale them. And they are harmful to the ecosystem.

Weather is getting more extreme, climate patterns are rapidly changing, the rate at which species get extinct is not by far a natural one, methane is being released from the permanently frozen tundra in Siberia, adding to the acceleration of climate change.

There is in short a lot of Habitat destruction, Exhaustion, Pollution, Population diminishing, species migration and hypocrisy regarding it. There is a fundamental conflict of the human species with her support and surrounding.

How to get to the core of this conflict? Lets look at theology, more specific eschatology and the misconception of time in our present day reality.
Why do we alway's want bigger, better, faster? Ego.
Our ego thinks that our existence here on earth lasts only about 70 years and that understanding gives it the right to make it to itself as comfortable as possible. At the expense of what it is made of an dependent on.

For the ego has a fear of death. The ego is a temporary condition. And the domination of the ego is costing us the biosphere. We learned, over time, how things work and work together and at the same time we became more and more entangled in our own achievements so that we seem to be unable to find our way back to harmony with nature.

We live in a world of duality. That started with Adam and Eve and the original sin.

Here's a little bit of text that sums up creation:

According to the Qur'an, humankind, sentient, self-reflective, and intelligent, was the last to be created. Before the creation of Adam, the prototype human, there were already all of the creatures and forms of nature as well as ranks of spiritual angelic orders and the creatures of 'fire', the jinn, the spirit energies. The creation story is repeated at least six times throughout the Qur'an, each time emphasizing a slightly different aspect. The essence of this story contains the entire plot line of human spiritual challenge and evolution.??Allah creates Adam and his partner out of 'sounding clay' with the capacity of knowing and reciting all of the names of the angels. Allah then announces to the orders of angels and jinn that He has made a marvelous creation and commands the angels and jinn to bow before this creation. All bow down except for one, Iblis, a powerful jinn who refuses to bow down to anything made of such 'base' element as 'sounding clay.' ??Allah therefore commands Iblis to depart from the realm of Adam, and that for his insolence his abode shall be Hell. Before departing, Iblis implores Allah for a respite. Out of His Mercy, Allah grants Iblis his respite --until Judgement Day. Iblis replies then that between the creation of Adam and Judgement Day that he shall do his utmost to lure humankind away from the divine plan in order to fill Hell with all but a chosen few. These chosen few are of the lineage of the messengers who appear in every culture and every era of history.

Iblis can be regarded a synonym for the mind!
We will see that the core of the conflict is a misperception and misunderstanding of time and that in turn will bring us right back to Ego.
I think it is safe to say that there is more to life then just the physical plane/ 3rd dimension/ or space.
If you talk about there being more than meets the eye, you enter the field of metaphysics.

Eschatology is the study about the end times. According to the Hindi we are now living in the Kali-juga, or Iron age. The Aztecs call this day and age the transition from the fifth into the sixth sun. Hopi Indians refer to it as the fourth/fifth world. Maya's know it as the closing of the cycle. The Koran describes it as the last judgment. The book of revelations, the last part of the Bible refers to it as the end times and the second creation. New age know the next era as the age of Aquarius.

A lot of religions and cultures make use of a moon calendar to harmonize with nature. The Maya counting system is by far the most exact. Nasa benchmarked some of the 26 calendars and concluded that the Dreamspell is off by only 17 seconds per year. That is not much compared to the leap day every four years in the Gregorian calendar. And taken into account the variations in the speed of the spin of the earth due to plate tectonics, it is astonishing that they were able to so accurately work with the elements in the heavens.

The Maya Long-count, a series of 13 times 144.000 days, or 5200 years, and ends on december 20th 2012. That means it started at 3113 before Christ.

And that brings us to the Babylonians, the Sumirians and Egyptians. It is the time when you could say agriculture stared. Human beings changed from hunter/gatherers to farming. When you work with an agricultural system, you create surplus by definition. You can trade with this surplus and use the surplus to organize governing and armed forces. The Babylonians were the first to apply this. In the region between the Tigris and Eufraat rivers in present day Irak, this region is regarded the original Eden.

It is also known that Babylonian priests were the first to divide the circle in 12 pieces and applying this to the year. This they thought convenient for the calculations on their agricultural activities. In this way time was made a function of space. At the moment the circle was divided in 12, historical materialism or modern human history began. The Romans used and refined the system. Our very word Calendar coms from the Latin word Calendum and refers to accounting or bookkeeping, quite literally 'Time is money'. Constantijn Huygens made the mechanical clock, thus creating the first machine. Time as a function of space.

And by deviating from the natural, harmonic order of 13 moons, there were now 12 months and the economical principle of growth, production and consumption. And since the world is a pretty big place, economical growth can go a long way. And with our present day global economy we are pushing the limits of what the ecosystem can bear. You will understand there can not be an infinite growth within a finite ecosystem.
And it was prophesied that it would happen like this.

So, now let's link between 4th dimensional time and Astro-biology. To get to the core of our purpose here on earth. Which is to remember who we truly are.
To be caught in time as a function of space, the gregorian calendar, keeps you from finding your true or higher Self.

Jose Arguelles put it like this:
A calendar is an instrument for the harmonization of the human mind with nature.
"When time becomes mechanized, our biological senses become mechanized and we create an artificial civilization...
If a calendar does not increase synchronization, it is not performing its highest function. This is the fundamental critique of the Gregorian calendar.
It must be unequivocally understood that an irregular standard of measure has a profound effect on the mind, especially an irregular standard of measure of time.
This is because time is a mentally perceived phenomenon unlike space which is perceived through the senses. Our sense of time is a fundamental perception.
If the standard of measure that we use is irregular, then we must contemplate deeply what this does to our mind over centuries of prolonged use."

When time becomes mechanized, your senses become mechanized. We are being dominated by our ego. Your ego has a fear of death and will swallow us whole into oblivion. Because we tend to make our lives as comfortable as possible, at the expense of what we are made of, part of, and dependent on.

We were created and have always been guided by the influence of the moon, the stars (our own in particular) and the void in between. These End of Times, Closing of the Cycle, Last Judgement, Second Creation, Fifth sun, et-cetera, refers to the transition from Biosphere into Noosphere. The biosphere is the sphere of the earth where living organisms dwell, to say again it is the place of transformation of cosmic energy (for instance photo-synthesis).

The Noosphere is the electro-magnetic field of the earth. Noo or Noos is Greek for Mind. So it is the mental envelope of the earth. We are coordinated and guided by the planet itself from here, always were and ever will be..?
Now a lot of pieces to the puzzle of life suddenly fit together.
There is duality. There is spirit and matter, day and night, reality and fantasy, past and future. Truth exists somewhere in between any of these poles.
The moment is defined in between past and future. Without it there is no past or future, nor is there within it.

It's all mind games. And why not, the whole universe fits in your body...

So we have to deeply consider the influence of the earth's spin and the lunar orbit on our existence. Really ask ourselves if the reality of historical materialism is the only or most important reality. We have to closely look at our past and see there is no possible future in it.

And then look at our selves from a distance and see the world as a whole system. See the solar system as a whole system. See the galaxy as a whole system. See the universe as a whole system.

Then, as we realize that the stardust that we are materially made of, just a small aspect of the planet, is able to understand how the planet works, we realize that that is quite a freaky experience for the planet!

As you understand this, you will see what the purpose of life is. That we are evolving and in a way are becoming the planet. And that we have all we need to make this one giant leap.

We slowly get used to the idea that there is in the end only one people, one planet, one source. So we have to realize that we are all one. That we need to get back to a unity and harmony with nature.

To do that we have to break out of our present materialistic believe system. That can be tricky, because the ego keeps creating lies to maintain it's dominance. And we still have a free will...

Albert Einstein was the person that came closest to the key of the universe with this relativity theory. Which comes down to mater being formed out of energy. If you look close enough you see the same thing constantly happening: A thought is pure energy, which can be communicated, and if the thought is strong enough it can be materialized.

But where does thought and will come from?
Albert himself put it like this:

In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others'. This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralysing, and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it conduces to a view of life in which humour, above all, has its due place.

Then, as we will see that all is based on unity and harmony, we will understand and appreciate the meaning and use of the mayan 13 moon calendar system to help us attain our goal.
There is no future in the present course of humanity. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to feel or understand that. We are all just tending the machine. And the machine is not stupid, the machine DOES NOT THINK, that is of a different order.

So in order to evolve it is about 'time' to find our way back to the natural harmony with MOTHER nature. There is a mathematical, fractal and harmonic beauty in the way nature is constructed, we have access to this knowledge.

The Mayan count of days is not only in harmony with these elements, it IS these elements. It is not only made up of the Mayan elements but also incorporates I-Ching, Runen, Chakra's and other elements from a diversity of cultures. This year is prophesied as the year in which the tree of knowledge flowers. The result will be UR, Universal Recollection of Universal Religion.
That means the end of domination of Ego, of five thousand years of patriarchal dictatorship, of the domination of man.

Stay close and true to yourself. You are very brave to choose to live this in these challenging times. Be the change you want to see in the world.

"Those who have the cult of knowledge seem often, if not to despise, yet to look downward from their dizzy eminence on the path of the devotee as if it were a thing inferior, ignorant, good only for souls that are not yet ready for the heights of the Truth. It is true that devotion without knowledge is often a thing raw, crude, blind and dangerous, as the errors, crimes, follies of the religious have too often shown. But this is because devotion in them has not found its own path, its own real principle, has not therefore really entered on the path, but is fumbling and feeling after it, is on one of the bypaths that lead to it; and knowledge too at this stage is as imperfect as devotion, dogmatic, schismatic, intolerant, bound up in the narrowness of some single and exclusive principle, even that being usually very imperfectly seized. When the devotee has grasped the power that shall raise him, has really laid hold on love, that in the end purifies and enlarges him as effectively as knowledge can; they are equal powers, though their methods of arriving at the same goal are different. The pride of the philosopher looking down on the passion of the devotee arises, as does all pride, from a certain deficiency of his nature; for the intellect too exclusively developed misses what the heart has to offer. The intellect is not in every way superior to the heart; if it opens more readily doors at which the heart is apt to fumble in vain, it is, itself, apt to miss truths which to the heart are very near and easy to hold. And if when the way of thought deepens into spiritual experience, it arrives readily at the ethereal heights, pinnacles, skyey widenesses, it cannot without the aid of the heart fathom the intense and rich abysses and oceanic depths of the divine being and the divine Ananda."

Cheers!