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that Ancient Mayan shamanism is built around the foundational idea that this reality is a dream, a holographic fractal multi-verse; or that the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar was not predicting the end of the world at all? It actually was predicting the arrival of the Feathered Serpent god, Kukulcán, who the Aztecs called Quetzalcóatl, and the beginning of a new reality.
The Mayans were a shamanic culture and in Shamanism everything is considered to be imbued with spirit, life-force energy. A Feathered Serpent would then be a beautiful way of depicting a sine wave of creative energy, (feathers=motion) a data stream if you will, emanating from the galactic center.
The Mayans taught that there were 9 streams/waves of creation or energy spirits shaping the cosmic dream reality we live in. That was what their Long Count Calendar was used to measure, the time between and arrival of each creation wave. The 9th and final wave was predicted to arrive in December of 2012, and represented the completion of their cosmology, the arrival of the Feathered Serpent Creator god Kukulcán, a composite of the 9 spirit waves.
Sine Waves
It was taught that with each successive spirit/wave would come a macro-quantum level of cosmic evolutionary change, which would issue in a new era. The waves build one upon the other--each moving at different rates, carrying different evolutionary quantum data, but they also create interference patterns with each other, and they do not dissipate or stop. They are holographic fractal waves of creative life forming energy/data which shift in potential but never end.
I found his book deeply fascinating and full of scientific rigor. If you like to be pushed by work that challenges your thinking in new and interesting ways, let me encourage you toward this book. His writing will open your thoughts to a sophisticated understanding of fundamental ideas which could open a whole new experiential reality for you to explore.
Not to be a sh!t disturber, but these concepts are so fascinating; a holographic, self correcting, fractal multi-verse of realities. . . Could it be?
How Can All Perspectives Be True?
Spiritual teachers are telling us that this world is one of vibrational energies and that our conscious awareness influences our experiential reality.
Science tells us the same.
When no one is looking, a particle has near limitless potential: it can be nearly anywhere. But measure it, and the particle snaps to one position. - Double Slit ExperimentMEASURE FOR MEASURE: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND REALITY
an·i·mism: /ˈanəˌmizəm/ noun 1. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. 2. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
What is Animism?
As part of my personal healing and decolonialization journey, I have been exploring the concept of Animism, and the many indigenous cultures which have developed around the belief that all living beings, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena are imbued with spirit/formless yet intelligent energy, by an intelligent, organizing creative Source.
A world view centered in Animism underlies most indigenous belief systems, and has been found by scholarly and anthropological research to be the root origin of all organized religions. I am of the belief that humanity would not be threatened by a planetary burn-out if modern society were to adopt an animistic perspective. (Today's video may help me make that point.)
As things stand, the "big three," Abrahamic religions, reject Animism as blasphemy and idolatrous. However, such a view of Animism is based largely in ignorance and self serving bias. The cultural and spiritual practices of indigenous people, their languages and ways have been misunderstood and maligned by colonizing self interest. It is because of racial, religious and cultural bias, a lack of philosophical, language, and cultural understanding, as well as for the purpose of subjugation and eradication of indigenous peoples, that colonizing peoples around the world have adopted a closed and self serving perspective. It is simply a fact that colonizing influences, with their racial, cultural, and religious prejudices, have generated tainted early historical writings, research, and understandings of indigenous peoples' spiritual practices and culture, creating a bias against Animism which has been carried forward into today. This leaves our modern secular lives mostly bereft of conversation and shared understandings about animist perspective and practices, even when many cultural traditions and world religions find their origin in Animism.
For that reason I am going to start sharing content from modern day scholars, who have a stronger understanding of historical writings, anthropological data, and less biased agendas. Mostly I am doing this for my own edification, but I hope you will find it interesting and helpful as well.
First up is a YouTube video I found yesterday. Enjoy!