Hi, I am new here. I am curious if anyone sees any legitimacy to the Mayan Calendar? Do you think that Psychedelics played a role in Ancient people's cosmic star systems and cycles?
Well since 2012 has passed the "change" has to be subtle. People thought the world would end and personally I was very into the Time Wave Zero theory. But in many ways it looks like society is what it has always been. So it was either a misunderstanding of the Mayan's meaning or a misunderstanding of the dates. The Myan's homeland would have had Psilocybin mushrooms. I am sure the people knew of their power and used them. This would have contributed to their opinions on the world around them. But I think a lot of their knowladge of the stars was passed down from even older societies. It's not so much they got high and figured it out but that someone told them.
The Mayan mythology never once said the world was going to end in 2012 lol. That's just crazy white man nonsense. There's a whole other calender past 2012, but it's no fun if the world doesn't end so you don't often here about it.
Wouldn't you be able to look at today's society post-2012 and argue that a real shift has occurred? Look at how crazy things have gotten in 5 years alone... What if it was actually about a Cycle shift rather than the end of the world per se?
Considering that it's only 5 years in, perhaps it will inevitably get to a much better place, but needs to go through this darkness first. Imagine for five seconds that a massive change is in fact occurring. Naturally, on an Evolutionary level, this would stir up Chaos initially.
First of all, there are many longer cycles that did not reset in 2012, some of which will not reset for many centuries to come. Then there is the problem that the pop cultural motif around this story implies that the reset means everything becomes zero. But being a cycle, it really just means that the count restarts from the beginning. For example, after December 31st, we start over at January 1st, and we do this every year. But the Mayans did develop a very advanced understanding of astronomy as did many other ancient civilizations that did not have televisions (sadly, they were unable to watch Saturday Night Live every weekend, and they were obviously politically inferior by not being able to keep abreast of politics through the likes of such shows as The Daily Show, Full Frontal, and Last Week Tonight.) For example, it has been demonstrated that the people living in Chaco Canyon had an understanding of a 17 1/2 year cycle (or something like that) in the lattitude of the moon, something Western Man did not know until well into the 1800's. (I was only half joking about the televisions.)
Yes, it restarts from the beginning. What if as time goes on, this becomes more and more clear? Things are already almost incomprehensible. Like Donald Trump being President. That could perhaps be a symbol that we are going more and more into an unprecedented way from where we were. It's the beginning of the Caricature of our previous Consciousness maybe?
There certainly is, what the ancient Greeks called a 'metamorphosis of the Gods' or simply put, change is in the air. Long before Trump, on this very site, I stated that we are in the Age of Nihilism. The Nihilism has greatly increased since then, and Trump is a prime example of that. We have reached the logical end-conclusion of Western thought, and it is time to rediscover meaning, value, truth, and authenticity. Or decadence will set in and carry man to his demise. Though such a change is not something that happens overnight, or an a specific date. It is part of our evolutionary process, and this step could take even a century or so to achieve a level of stability and momentum as was the case of the Modern Age following Kant. But the same was the case with the Mayans and other people that took part in developing or used this calendar-----the Toltec stories of Questzalcoatl provide examples of this.
There is. We created the 2012 hoax tablet to fool humans. It worked. You can look up your Mayan star glyph online. I have posted it a hundred times and no one said anything, so I won't say where it is, but it is relatively difficult to find.
