the Institute of Unlearning, editorial 15

All over the world on Friday, July 25^th, those committed to a more peaceful world will be doing a very powerful thing…celebrating. While many of us who are locked into the daily nightmare of presidential and prime ministerial deceptions occurring on the world stage feel disgusted and disempowered, the dedicated bearers of a new time in human history will be dancing to an encouraging beat.

What I am describing here is the popularly increasing ritual called the Day Out of Time, a celebration of the transition from one year on the Mayan Calendar to the next. While similar to a New Year's type event, the Day Out of Time and the Mayan Calendar represent a much more significant understanding of human nature and its place in the universe.

For those not familiar with the Mayan Calendar, much can be learned by reading the works of Dr. Jose Arguelles or going to the Foundation for the Law of Time's website (www.tortuga.com). In essence, the principle of the idea is that humanity is out of sync with the rhythms of life.

According to Dr. Arguelles, we live in what is known as the technosphere. This is a world governed by the artificial 12:60 time construct of 12 months, 12 hours on the clock face, 60 minutes, 60 seconds, etc. The overall effects of living in such a vibration are easily witnessed in our daily lives. The earth is choked with massive population explosions aided by a technological drive for more and more production. The technology itself does little to enhance the quality of life on the planet. While destroying ecosystems worldwide, humans have also become slaves to their machines instead of vice versa.

The final result of such a system can only be its collapse upon itself, which Dr. Arguelles has dubbed the necrosphere, the dead planet. Clearly, humanity is firmly on the road to this reality. If one takes out all the possible doomsday scenarios associated with sacred scriptures, channeled alien communiqués, prophetic warnings et al, and looks merely at the accepted scientific evidence, it is becoming increasingly clear that human civilization will be all but extinguished within the next 20-60 years.

Chief among these scientific indicators is the peak oil crisis. The world has already produced as much oil as it ever will. We are now on the countdown of rapidly declining reserves while the demand for oil continues to increase. Measures to withdraw the world from its addiction to oil are too late in the making, but their efforts may barely help to slow the decline. It is easy to predict wars of escalating magnitude in the short term future once you understand how much oil means to developing and industrialized nations.

The technosphere has also ravaged the earth to the point where safe sources of drinking water and fertile soil for food production are nearly exhausted. What is left is being bought up by the multinational corporations, who will seek to protect their elite controllers first while also profiting from the high proceeds of selling basic resources to starving and desperate people worldwide.

With such a grim future just shortly up the road, how is it that Dr. Arguelles and the Foundation for the Law of Time encourage the world to celebrate on July 25^th? The answer lies in humanity's ability to choose another path. While the necrosphere seems unavoidable, the noosphere is still a very real probable future.

What is the noosphere? Dr. Arguelles describes this world as one where humanity once again aligns itself with galactic time. It would be a culture of worldwide harmony because humans would be in touch with earth's planetary consciousness and our greater dimensionality. By consciously aligning our lives to the rhythm of the sun, moon and stars, the planetary culture would develop abilities and knowledge that would enable us to steer clear of our dire technological future and head instead toward greater global stewardship.

The challenge for those dedicated to this 13 moon calendar movement is to get humanity to accept a change in our perceptions of time before it is too late. By Dr. Arguelles' estimate, that leaves humanity with one more year to make the switch. If the global consciousness has not been changed significantly to accept a 13:20 time scale by 2004, then its destruction will be all but assured by the infamous Mayan date of December 22, 2012.

The Institute of Unlearning applauds the efforts of Dr. Arguelles and the Foundation for the Law of Time. While the Institute does not necessarily agree with all of their conclusions, it does congratulate them on making the perception of time a central focus for the raising of human consciousness. Our concepts of past, present and future are simply outdated when weighed against the multi-dimensional nature of human consciousness. Nor do our concepts of time reflect the correct concept of vibrational densities.

The current Gregorian Calendar, and its predecessors in the Julian and Babylonian versions, have been the subtlest yet most insidious tools of human suppression for millennia. Not only has it tied us to an unending cycle of work for our societal overlords, but it has programmed us to see the world in a very limited way. That vision has benefited the few for far too long. The recognition of a perception of time, whether Mayan or otherwise, that empowers the many is an idea whose time has come…perhaps in the nick of time?