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	2012 A.D.-The Year of Cosmogenesis A Startling New Book Links the Knowledge of the Ancient Maya with the Most Modern Astromical Discoveries by Kathie Garcia
Index of Issue 17

Maya Cosmogenesis, John Major Jenkins voluminous new work, excavates a Meso American cosmogony shrouded in mystery and entombed in fantastic symbols. This is the amazing story of the evolution of cosmology in the Americas as a people, sometimes referred to as "the skywatchers," who searched for the ultimate cosmic center and the hour of ultimate cosmic opportunity. Jenkins frames a story, intriguing in its implications, of ancient astronomer priests who persistently marked the movements of the heavens to assure that we, the people of the late 20th century, would receive the urgent message of a world in transition on time. The Mayan tale revolves around Baktun 13.0.0.0.0, "Zero Point" in the Mayan Galactic Calendar. The date as we know it is December 21, 2012. In the words of Maya Calendar expert Jose Arguelles, "We are fast approaching the moment of complete planetary synchronization. 13.0.0.0.0. on the beam, will arrive-the closing not only of the Great Cycle, but of the evolutionary interim called Homo sapiens."

The Maya were obsessed with observing and recording the cycles of Time. Their astronomical observations were incredibly precise. For example, they calculated the solar year to an accuracy of a thousandth of a decimal point over 2000 years ago! They had lunation and solar eclipse calendars. They recorded fastidiously the synodical revolutions and synchronizations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn cycles. Beyond facts and figures, the Maya skywatchers' comprehension of Cosmos was far more advanced than our own. They understood concepts about the nature of the universe that we are just beginning to grasp with the breakthroughs of modern physics in this century. According to Jose Arguelles, Moira Timms, and John Major Jenkins, the Maya mission was that of calibrating galactic timetables for the planet.

In The Mayan Factor, Jose Arguelles speaks of galactic Masters who visit the Maya and leave their legacy within the Tzolkin Calendar. Zecharia Sitchin speculates that the Maya inherited their astronomical knowledge from highly evolved beings from another system called the Nephilim. Jenkins suggests that living in the tropics, and perhaps being possessed of a more acute vision, the calendar emerged as the result of centuries of observation. According to Jenkins, by using powerful psychoactive drugs, mushrooms and toads, the priests were able to travel to the Galactic Core, become enlightened and return with revelation for their people.

Esoteric tradition teaches that the Great Central Sun is the metaphysical center of Cosmos and that great beings of superior light and intelligence ensoul the Cosmos, directing rays of Cosmic Light substance through concentrated focuses of the sacred fire such as stars and suns. Because of the density of their current state of consciousness, caused by their karma, humankind is unable to absorb directly raw energies from the Great Hub. The Maya also understood that Cosmos is within us, even as all the properties of the ocean are found within the drop.

Jenkins builds his arguments around the Mayan belief that the center of the Galaxy lies within the Milky Way. They were astronomically right on target. But, he tells us, in the mythic consciousness of the ancient skywatchers, astronomical precision was less important than the mythological and calendric meaning ascribed to this area.

The Maya had three calendars. All three were based on the vigesimal mathematical system (times twenty). The calendars were designed to harmonize actual time, the solar year and the revolutions of the various heavenly bodies. The Maya intermeshed a solar exoteric calendar "Haag" with a sacred esoteric calendar, Tzolkin. (See Atlantis Rising issues 8 and 9 for a background on the Mayan and an introduction to the Mayan Calendar.) Jenkins explores the nature of the 260-day Sacred Calendar in Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies. Arguelles suggests that the calendar is more than a calendar, which explains why so much time was devoted to it. He asks a thought-provoking question: "Is the number system, so exquisitely proportioned, also a means for recording harmonic calibration that relate not just to space-time positions, but to resonant qualities of being and experience whose nature our materialistic predisposition blinds us to?"

In Maya Cosmogenesis, Jenkins is most concerned with the calendar called The Long Count. This calendar was used for looking back in time and for recording events. An event was reckoned by the number of days that had passed at the time of its occurrence since Aug. 13, 3113 B.C. What event was so vital that the Maya would place such importance on this date, a date seemingly as important to them as the birth of Jesus Christ to those who formulated the Christian Calendar we use today? And why does the Mayan Calendar end on December 21, 2012? Answering this latter question took the form of an intense personal quest for John Major Jenkins. Seven books and ten years later, his latest work, Maya Cosmogenesis, presents us with his conclusion.

Studying ancient civilizations is fascinating in and of itself, but Jenkins' motivation, I believe, is to recover a Cosmoconception we need if we are to make it intact through the wormhole of a date with destiny looming fast upon us. Jenkins belongs to a relatively new school of explorers, called archaeoastronomers. Maya Cosmogenesis came to light by decoding the astronomical symbols hidden in Mayan mythology, implied in their language, revealed by their hieroglyphics, encoded into the prophecy of their Calendrical intercalibrations, and represented in the orientation and structure of their pyramids and stelae. Jenkins found the key to "this Mystery of the Ages," and the answer to his question in precession.

Jenkins argues that the Long Count was invented about 2,100 years ago at a PreMaya mystery school in Izapa, Chiapas. The beginning date, 3,114, was a back calculation. The Maya astronomers calculated that between 3,114 and AD 2,012, a total of 13 baktuns would elapse. One baktun lasts 394 years. Interestingly, a baktun equals 144,000 days, a sacred number in metaphysics in the tradition of Theology since, according to the Book of Revelations, it refers to the number of the 'elect'. Jenkins realized that the last baktun ended on Winter Solstice. At that time, the world would "end." Jenkins' interprets this to mean that the Maya understood that around the year AD 2012 a large cycle in human history will have run its course.

The Maya knew that all ends give birth to new beginnings. Jenkins interprets this as a completely new paradigm: "All the values and assumptions of the previous world Age will expire." So, AD 2012 is more than an end date. It is a beginning date. This is the Age of Aquarius, the Golden Age foreseen by many cultures around the world, a time when, as astrologer Dane Rudhyar put it, " man is destined to be transformed into more than man." In describing the 5, 125.40 year Maya Great Cycle, Moira Timms refers to "the graduation of the lifewave.": "The duration of our 5,125 year Age," she writes, "is the time it takes for Homo Christos to emerge (like the transcendent human heads emerging out of serpent's jaws) from Homo sapiens."

The Maya and Aztecs were not alone in believing that humanity has passed through a series of Great Ages, part of a natural rhythmic astronomical cycle of birth and destruction. Heraclitus and Aristarchus both concurred, as did Hesiod, who recounted the destruction of previous worlds. This apocalyptic dance of Shiva is found in Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism and among Persian Zoroastrians. Metaphysical traditions such as theology speak of World Ages and the Root Races associated with them. Maya documents relate that the previous worlds had all been destroyed by some form of cataclysm. The first was destroyed by jaguars, representing earth, the second by air, the third by fire, the fourth by a great flood. The fifth, our current age, would be destroyed by earthquakes. The fifth age was a synthesis and a culmination of all previous cycles.

Jenkins was astonished when he realized that five Great Cycles equal one precessional cycle of 25,800 years! He reformulated his guiding question: "What event in the cycle of precession does 2012 represent?" At this point in his quest, Jenkins came across Hamlet's Mill, a breakthrough book by anthropologist Hertha Von Dechend and Giorgio de Santillana, in that it showed the connection between mythology and astronomy. The authors showed that different ancient cultures embraced the notion that precession had a major influence on the destiny of mankind. Furthermore, they noted that periodically during the precessional cycle, the equinox and the solstice line up with the Milky Way. Around 4,400 BC the fall equinox coincided with the Milky Way and this was the fabled Golden Age found in many myths. Eventually, precession caused this alignment to end. The authors suggest that this "untuning of the sky" resulted in a downward historical trend spiraling into conflict and wars. The memory, however faded, survived of an ancient paradise in which cosmic harmony prevailed. Ancient myths across the globe speak of a time when this cosmic harmony would be restored.

Jenkins calculated that in AD 2012, the December solstice sun will be conjoining the bright band of the Milky Way. Precession brings one of the seasonal quarters into alignment with the Milky Way once every 6,450 years. However, the alignment of 2,012 occurs once every 25,800 years! Moreover, the winter solstice was the New Year day for the Maya. There is a saying in esoteric astrology: all beginnings begin in Capricorn. Jenkins had found his answer. The rest of Maya Cosmogenesis relates to his confirmation of this conclusion. But from his answer arose logically another question: Why was this alignment of such significance for the Maya? Did they know something about the Milky Way that has escaped modern science?

The ecliptic is the apparent path traveled by the sun, moon, and planets through the sky and the band upon which the 12 constellations lie. The ecliptic crosses over the Milky Way near the constellation Sagittarius. As such it forms a cross with the Milky Way, and this cosmic cross was called The Sacred Tree by the ancient Maya, also referred to as "the crossroad". Amazingly, the center of this cosmic cross, right where the ecliptic crosses over the Milky Way, is exactly where the December Solstice sun will be in AD 2012. This alignment occurs once every 25,800 years. The part of the Milky way that the December sun conjoins is the galactic Center. Esoterically, it is the Great Central Sun, the great womb from which new stars are born and from which everything in our Galaxy , including us, came. The Maya knew that this rare meeting with the cosmic source and center would trigger a time of unprecedented spiritual acceleration, the transition from one World Age to another.

See back issues #14 and #15 in Atlantis Rising for systems scientist Paul La Violette's work on the Galactic Center plus my exposition of astrologer Dane Rudhyar's work on how the outer planets shake us up and wake us up and transform us into galactic "I AM Stars." When many people from their respective camps bring us the same message it's time to listen!

Space is Buddha, Time is Mother. The Maya located the place of origin and return, the great womb of creation, the Galactic Center and they specified the date of opportunity, AD 2012 as the time when galactic planes would open within the consciousness of humankind. A fascinating account in Maya Cosmogenesis is Jenkins' interpretation of Hero Twin myth, the original Maya Creation Myth recounted in the Popul Vuh. The Hero Twin tale originated at Izapa, a one time tropical mystery school where, Jenkins contends, thousands of ancient calendar-priests were initiated into Galactic Cosmology. Translating myth into astronomy, Jenkins weaves a tale of how the old Olmec belief of the Pole Star being the center of creation was discovered to be false. The Hero Twin Myth was created to encode precessional astronomy. The story provided a means of representing the dethroning of the old paradigm and the creation of the new.

That the Maya traveled interdemensionally I do not doubt. That they used drugs to help them accomplish this purpose is also a given. Jenkins notes the blood sacrifice related to obtaining such illumination. He fails to state that human sacrifice reached a horrific crescendo among the Maya. Jenkins suggests that perhaps we too should use cosmovision tools to reach the heart of heaven. I beg to differ. Eastern traditions teach how to purify the aura and open the siddhis, the spiritual centers. Contemporary spiritual leaders teach that in the intoning of the OM, consciousness can be projected to the Great Central Sun. Most metaphysical traditions and all major religions teach the use of sound as a means to bridge the gap between outer and inner reality. The Maya conjured the gods, the fundamental principles especially at the time of the changing of cycles. Christian tradition teaches the obtaining of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and warns not to take heaven by force. I believe there is a missing chapter in the Maya tale. I believe Maya culture degenerated from its original source and that drugs and human sacrifice played a critical role in the destruction of Mayan civilization. That so many drugs today pour out of Latin America and threaten to destroy our youth is perhaps a reminder. Is abortion a form of legalized human sacrifice? Are the doctors the priests? Did this bloodletting originate with the Nephilim, extraterrestrial who came to the earth seeking to steal the life stuff of humankind? Do we need to answer this question to successfully meet 2012?

Whether you live in an urban center or in the country, my advice is to take a midnight stroll before beginning Maya Cosmogenesis. Become a skywatcher. Make the connection between the light of far off worlds and the consciousness you experience on earth. If you dare to take this flight to distant stars, you will sense a mental resistance. As you read on, walls of the mind tumble, each door leading to another. I couldn't help but muse that this opening of the 20th century mind, so covered as to be almost comatose, likens us to the archaeologists of the last century who found fantastic ancient cities, covered with jungle growth and long forgotten. This is the time for unearthing lost secrets for a new journey which we have already begun. The Maya understood that we all must return to the womb of the Cosmic Mother. In Guy Ballard's Unveiled Mysteries, the Master teaches that all disease is the result of being separated from the Cosmic Mother. And did not Guadalupe, tell Juan Diego, Let not your heart be troubled. I am your Mother. Here within my breast is all that you need. Om.