The Mayans Push Back About ‘the Myth’ of 2012
Sep 13th, 2011 | 8 responses
A quixotic and magnetic new film has been made by Dawn Gifford Engle in which Nobel peace Prize awardees such as Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum and other notables speak about the actual Mayan meaning of the end of the year 2012.
There is a good long film clips here...
A few years back, there arose a media-inflated rumor about 2012, rivaling, in my mind, a “barricade the family in the cellar” doomsday scenario conflated by some in radio and print on paper media about Y2K.
When I recently introduced Rigoberta at a PeaceJam gathering, she told us that 2012 on the Mayan calendar is not ‘an end time,’ but a change time…. something akin to entering for a period, “no time” rather than ‘end of time.’ The former meaning a pause, a suspension for a period, during which an actual self-knowing and contemplation would/ could occur. Something like a fire tower in the forest gradually coming into view… to climb and see where one is at in life, and changing, adapting, correcting then regarding the forward goals and plans, spiritually, mentally, healthwise, familywise, personally and culturally, as well as for and in the greater world etc.
Dawn Gifford Engle is a six time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and she is an activist and film-maker and co founder of Peace Jam which often brings kids together with the great minds of our Universe in congregation and contemplation … and then… actions to the good.
The film is slightly tongue in cheek, although gently so, not bitter or sarcastic, just poking a bit of fun at the culture’s rush to judge a ‘balancing time’ on earth, making it instead into a scary need for a run on iodine…..
From the trailer….
What do the Maya really say about 2012? Is the world going to end on December 21, 2012? Learn more from the most famous Maya in the world, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum of Guatemala, and her Mayan elders. Filmed over a period of five years, this 50 minute documentary film takes you deep into the Guatemalan highlands, where a small group of elders have preserved the traditions of the ancient Mayas, passing this deep knowledge down from generation to generation in an unbroken lineage of over 2,000 years.
CODA: For about two dollars, once the long trailer is complete, you can watch the rest right on your computer. I like it, six thumbs up. Me and my spirit dog.
8 Responses to “The Mayans Push Back About ‘the Myth’ of 2012”
As an IT weenie, let me just point out that Y2K was an actual, known, man-made phenomenon, and billions of dollars and millions of man-hours was spent in the latter half of the 90′s to correct those real issues. True, the media overplayed the risks to generate fear (as they are want to do), but there was at least a real issue there that was avoided because people took action.
Lumping Y2K in with this 2012 crap is not really apples-to-apples.
thank you for signaling this beautiful video. I really enjoyed listening the mayan voice about 2012!
Very interesting.
We certainly need “a pause, a suspension for a period, during which an actual self-knowing and contemplation would/ could occur,” a period “to climb and see where one is at in life, and changing, adapting, correcting then regarding the forward goals and plans, spiritually, mentally, healthwise, familywise, personally and culturally, as well as for and in the greater world etc.”
Although 2012, an election year, may not offer the most favorable conditions for such a much-needed reflection and introspection to occur, I hope something good comes out of this Mayan prediction.
Ar least, I will spend $1.99 to watch the video–a bargain these days.
Thanks for the post, Dr. E
The world ending December 21, 2012.?
Maybe if aliens land or Bachmann gets elected. For some reason the clip wouldn’t play, but for my money, the world ends for all of us eventually anyway. Not much difference.
thanks Barky, I meant some MSM inflated the issue so it appeared doomsday instead of something to tend to. I’ll see about adding a word in that para to clarify.
Dear Allen
I checked the link, and give it a try again, Ok? The film takes a few seconds to load and then begins to play automatically without further user clicks. I just tested it again re your comment and it is working. So go see again if you would like to.
Thanks
Thanks Dr E for the find. I look forward to checking it out when I get a little down time.
Ok, I saw it. Are-gwayus…sounds like a name you give your sail boat.
You see, I’ve already worked it out.
If we are part of an intergalactic seed program, then we could be food. In fact, considering that every species on this planet is busy consuming other species, or their byproduct, we are food. Why should this not be true throughout the universe?
Not to fret though, even consumed, you are still part of it all…or…part of you is anyways. It’s all in the meaning of is…isn’t it?
I prefer to think that this reality we supposedly live in is not real. That it is an illusion. That we will wake up one day within a different reality and that our behaviors in this reality past, will be subject to scrutiny…and there will be gnashing of teeth. Like I said…food.