Oh dear. We’re going to have to reschedule all those apocalypse parties we’ve been planning for December 2012! (No, this is not a Halloween prank folks, but, we do wish you a fantastic Halloween!)

The Kukulkan pyramid stands at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula

 

By Stephanie Pappas, livescience.com/Senior Writer

It’s a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan “Long Count” calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn’t end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will – or if it has already.

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook “Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World” (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)…

For the complete story, click here.

When thinking about how reincarnation may work, it can help to consider the idea of nonduality, how, perhaps, all consciousness is related, and therefore all consciousness is One.

Is consciousness itself a fundamental quality of the cosmos?…

“Physics shows that when we look at matter it is mostly empty space. We therefore observe this nothingness and it is our mind that gives it the appearance of solidity…Maybe it is not a nonduality of matter but a nonduality of consciousness we should explore.

The new hard question is not how brain gives rise to consciousness but how do our minds take on all the different forms that we experience as reality?

The nondual perspective to this question is that all is one, there is no difference between form and emptiness, mind and matter.

Could this nondual prospective heal the split between science and spirituality?”

Please enjoy this talk by Peter Russell, a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. To find more about him please visit his website The Spirit of Now.

From Robert Moss’ blog: Dream Gates -Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination…

Dreaming like an Egyptian

by Robert Moss

The ancient Egyptians understood that in dreams, our eyes are opened. Their word for dream, rswt, is etymologically connected to the root meaning “to be awake”. It was written with a symbol representing an open eye.

The Egyptians believed that the gods speak to us in dreams. As the Bible story of Joseph and Pharaoh reminds us, they paid close attention to dream messages about the possible future. They practiced dream incubation for guidance and healing at temples and sacred sites. They understood that by recalling and working with dreams, we develop the art of memory, tapping into knowledge that belonged to us before we entered this life journey, and awakening to our connection with other life experiences.

The Egyptians also developed an advanced practice of conscious dream travel. Trained dreamers operated as seers, remote viewers and telepaths, advising on affairs of state and military strategy and providing a mental communications network between far-flung temples and administrative centers. They practiced shapeshifting, crossing time and space in the dreambodies of birds and animals.

Through conscious dream travel, ancient Egypt’s “frequent flyers” explored the roads of the afterlife and the multidimensional universe. It was understood that true initiation and transformation takes place in a deeper reality accessible through the dream journey beyond the body. A rightful king must be able to travel between the worlds…

 

For the complete article click here.