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Bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow shows how the Mayan Calendar is a bridge to galactic wisdom that fosters personal growth and human evolution
• Unearths the meaning behind the calendar, its message for modern civilization, and what will happen when the calendar ends
• Reveals how time acceleration is a manifestation of the acceleration of consciousness
• By the author of The Pleiadian Agenda
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The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind
Tags: barbara hand clow, civilization, consciousness, human evolution, manifestation, mayan calendar, personal growth, pleiadian agenda, time acceleration, wisdom
#1 by Kathy W on June 26, 2010 - 10:29 am
This book, by Barbara Hand Clow, is well written and appears to be based on facts involving the ancient Mayan calendar. She speaks to the acceleration of time and the process of human evolution from ancient times through the end of the calendar 2011/2012 (guesstimates vary through 12/21/2012). I know that some of you believe that we are currently in transformative times and are seeking to make sense of it all. Right now, according to the Mayans, we are walking the path “Xi Balba bih” (The Road of Awe) and for those seeking a better understanding of what lies ahead, this book could be useful. This book is NOT a doom and gloom portrayal of the future, but is, as I believe, the hope of a better future, a future of peace and love for many as we move forward into an anticipated leap of human consciousness. Barbara talks about the meaning of the calendar and the message it holds for modern civilization. Barbara gives in-depth explanations of how the Mayan calendar works, the details of which are a little too technical for me, but that’s OK. I don’t really need to understand the details of the calendar itself, just her rationale for her analysis. Much of this book resonates very well with me. She talks about the acceleration of time and consciousness. She references the time-acceleration theory work of Carl Johan Calleman and other researchers for a better understanding of the calendar, particularly during its last 5 years (2006/7 through 2011/12–like now Dude/Dudette!) She indicates how the calendar’s cycles of time match up with important past and current time periods of the Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy.
I’ve been reading some 2012 stuff, I guess trying to find something that resonates with my own feelings and guidance in this area. I had studied the Spanish/Mexican language and culture for 5 years in school. In 2004, I visited the Mayan ruins in Chitzenitza, in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. I was fascinated by what I saw and have great respect for this very ancient culture (in its early days, before it was altered by a European gentleman). Our guide was also a Mayan descendent and who spoke about the Mayan calendar in some detail. As you may already know, Mayans were obsessed with time and were extremely accurate in their projections of it. So, maybe they have something to tell us about the future. Granted, no one knows what is going to happen, but, assuming the authors currently “out there” are being honest, and they are getting guidance from somewhere–well, let’s just say that there’s lots of different guidance going around right now, that’s for sure, and lots of confusion. Like I said, this book makes sense to me. If 2012 and projections of a “new world” interest you, consider this book. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
Just a side note, though, there are a lot of detailed explanations about the calendar so it gets a little hard to read because of the wealth of details. With that said, though, there’s still a lot of info. So, it’s like saying, “I’ll tell you how to make a watch. If all you need is the time, then take the time and run with it. Disregard what you don’t need in extra info.”
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Cat Woman on June 26, 2010 - 12:37 pm
This is a topic that’s held my interest for many, many years. I bought this book because of the subtitle “Time Acceleration and Awakening The World Mind”, hoping for more insight into the current “Time of No Time” that we’re all experiencing, as foretold by the Hopi. I figured Barbara Hand Clow would shed some insight. She did nothing by muddy the waters and confound me with this book.
In the same Amazon shipment, I purchased “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Conciousness” by Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D.
I read the Hand Clow book first, FORCING myself to plow through it, despite the poor structure, unclear writing style and her inability to make points that I surmised that she might be aluding to. I kept searching for something. What I found was repeated references to Calleman’s book, quotes from his text, and even diagrams from his book. By the time I finished “The Mayan Code”, I resolved to never buy anything by this author again. If she hadn’t gotten permission from Calleman to cite and reproduce his work, I’d have considered this the highest example of plagarism I’d ever encountered.
When one author cites materials from the work of another, it’s usually expected that they build upon their concepts or bring out further insights. In Hand Clow’s book, all she managed to do was confuse me about Calleman’s message because she doesn’t seem to comprehend a Code of her own. I thank my lucky stars that I bought both books. Once I started reading Calleman’s, I couldn’t put it down. He answers all of the questions I’ve poked at for years, including the shortening of Time.
This is my very first Amazon Review in many years of reading them. I will review Calleman’s book shortly, rating it 5 stars. Do yourself a HUGE FAVOR, and buy Calleman’s book instead. His “Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Conciousness” is pure genius. It is clear, concise and articulate beyond belief. Not only does he explain the acceleration of time, based on his personal understanding of Mayan time cycles and 30 years of research into the Mayan calendar, he truly delivers an historical understanding of how those cycles will actually transform human consciousness. His book has the answers, this book only begs questions — and Calleman’s forgiveness.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Claudia P. Chittenden on June 26, 2010 - 1:41 pm
Expanding on Carl Johann Calleman’s seminal work of time acceleration during the end phases of the Mayan Calendar, Hand-Clow’s perspicacious Mayan Code ups the amperage in an area of thought too lately mired in uncommonly pedestrian analyses and trifling infighting.
Deftly dispatching the too often apocalyptic end-date-of-the-calendar myopia, Hand-Clow takes the reader on an astonishing journey of new analyses, reinterpreting who we’ve been, who we are and who we’re becoming. Incorporating invigorating new thought from areas as diverse as soul involution, new-paradigm astrophysics and archaeology, exo-politics and indigenous anthropology–plus a scintillating dash of her own intuitive analysis–Hand-Clow with gracious aplomb probes the genesis of the burgeoning new potential on planet Earth.
With The Mayan Code, Hand-Clow has crafted an energetic cross-discipline exploration of human development through time that concludes with our present high-velocity transformation of consciousness at the close of the Mayan Calendar. If the Mayan Calendar is a blueprint of humanity’s maturation and ascendance, then The Mayan Code provides the lattice for humanity’s psycho-spiritual transcendence into its birth right as a fully-conscious multi-dimensional species.
Find a comfortable chair and enjoy the ride as Barbara in her characteristic no-holds-barred style rips through time from the Big Bang to the Paleozoic to humanity’s self transformation at the end of our current era, all the while taking you on an inner journey of self-discovery consonant with our coming of age as a species. A remarkably refreshing and innovative read, The Mayan Code will embrace your mind, soul and spirit, and caress you with an orgasm of transcendent spiritual synergy.
Want to know where we’re headed as a species, and how and when we’ll get there? Get The Mayan Code! Read it. Live it. Embrace the time acceleration and embody Gaia’s ascendance and humanity’s transformation during the almost-too-rapidly emerging multi-dimensional era of Light.
I was still weeping with joy two days after reading The Mayan Code.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Kristopher Wyman on June 26, 2010 - 1:59 pm
Ms. Hand Clow delivers in The Mayan Code quite possibly the worst book I’ve read. The vast majority of the book is her gushing exaltation about Carl Calleman’s interpretation of the Mayan calendar. (Calleman’s work is inaccurate and not actually based on the calendar. In his own words “a distinction has been introduced here between the Great Cycle of seven DAYS and six NIGHTS and the Long Count, the chronology that is actually used by the Maya”) To be fair, Hand Clow does mention the work of John Major Jenkins in places but doesn’t get into any detail of his rigorous studies. The writing itself reads as one part rambling account of her belief systems and one part advertisement for some of her other books which are mentioned ridiculously often. It would seem that the author has a nose for the new age topic of the day and scrambles to write an op ed piece in the form of a book to capitalize on an easy audience.
One will find very little of value in this book. If you’re actually interested in Mayan calendrical studies I refer you to the works of John Major Jenkins, Dennis and Barbara Tedlock, Tony Aveni, Linda Schele and David Frediel. Once armed with knowledge based in fact one can tackle the more, shall we say, interpretive works of Calleman, Arguelles, et al.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Bookworks Ltd on June 26, 2010 - 4:55 pm
We have all been experiencing the effects of what Barbara Clow calls the time acceleration timetable encoded in the Mayan Calendar. This translates into the speed at which thoughts become reality, or as we’ve been saying in the New Age: instant karma. Well, it’s here and we don’t have a choice, our negativity or creativity will manifest in our lives with increasing frequency as we approach the 2011/2012 end of the calendar. (This allows us to clear up our emotional patterns and become enlightened beings.) But, what I found most fascinating about Calleman’s theories and Clow’s interpretation were the nine cycles of history or underworlds, going back to the Big Bang, each twenty-times faster (more condensed) than the preceding cycle, each broken down into further divisions of time–days and nights–so that we can compare themes. That is Day Four of the Galactic Underworld (1/5/99-10/28/11) December 4, 2004 to November 28, 2005–the Southeast Asian Tsunami, Ahmadinejad elected president of Iran, Hurricane Katrina, the great controversy over The Da Vinci Code leading to its own “enlightenment,” compares to Day Four (749-355 BC) of National Underworld (3115 BC to 2011)–Isaiah warning the Israelites to change their errant ways, the days of the spiritual leaders: Lao-tse, Buddha, Confucius, Plato; to Day Four (AD 1873-1893) of the Planetary Underworld (AD 1755 to 2011)–Blavatsky founding of the Theosophical Society, Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science, or the height of the spiritualist movement in America. Understanding how the Mayan shamans were able to see these patterns and encode them into their calendar takes the genius of a modern-day shaman, Barbara Hand Clow, to take new research and insights and show us the broader picture. It’s heady and intuitive in equal measure. I can’t recommend this enough for those struggling to understand and adapt to acceleration we’re all experiencing.
Rating: 5 / 5