The Mayan Calendar and the New Cycle

Bashar addresses the Mayan calendar, the significance of the 2012 date, and what the end of one Great Cycle and the beginning of another actually means for human consciousness and Earth's trajectory.

The Mayan calendar has been widely misunderstood, even by many of its admirers. The so-called 'end date' of 2012 was not a prediction of apocalypse or catastrophe. The ancient Maya were sophisticated astronomers and consciousness scientists, and what they were tracking was something much more subtle and ultimately much more significant: the end of one great cycle of consciousness and the beginning of another.

Your solar system completes a 26,000-year cycle through the galaxy — a cycle that brings it, at its completion, into alignment with the galactic center in a way that allows a particular quality of cosmic energy to flood the solar system and your planet. This alignment is associated with a threshold — a window during which the upgrade of your species' collective consciousness becomes possible in ways that are not possible at other points in the cycle. The Mayan calendar was tracking this galactic clock with extraordinary precision.

What 2012 marked was the opening of this window — the beginning of an accelerated phase of transformation. Not an instant shift, but the beginning of a period of rapid change that, by your measurements, extends over several decades. You are in this period right now. Everything you are seeing in your world — the acceleration, the instability, the surfacing of old shadow material, the simultaneous emergence of extraordinary new possibilities — is the expression of this threshold being crossed.

Think of it as a metamorphosis. When a caterpillar enters the chrysalis and begins the transformation into a butterfly, the interior of the chrysalis goes through a period of apparent chaos — the old structure dissolves, the new structure has not yet formed, and for a time there is what appears to be undifferentiated material. That is the most disorienting phase of the transformation, but it is not a sign of failure. It is a sign of deep change. What your world is going through now is the equivalent of that interior-chrysalis phase — intense, disorienting, but absolutely purposeful, and absolutely aimed at the emergence of something beautiful.