End of it or begining of it?

Today was supposed to be the 'end of the world', or at least, the end of the Mayan long count calendar, which some folks have read to signify the end of the world.

Well, I'm still here and so is my reality.

I'm much more intrigued by the philosophy behind all this Mayan ancient wisdom stuff...If I put myself in that long ago time, living a life that was based on nature and related processes and procedures, like growing food, etc. and in my spare time I was keeping time, making calendars, marking days to make sense of what I was doing during my time, having rituals that tied me and my family and my offspring to the time-keeping and rhythms of our lives, then I can feel how important this point is time was to them. Think how staggering it must have been to think and plan out all those natural time points to the w-a-y furthest out point that you could imagine! I can totally see how it would look like and even feel like the end-of-days.

When Dad was talking about this day coming, he never really specifically said that the world would end. He always mentioned somewhat vague sentences about how people would ascend, or there would be some sort of dumbstruck enlightenment that would happen to the aware ones among us. That we would be transformed.

The site where this photo is from says similar stuff; that this is the 'time in-between' (When I read many of these similar sites, I can't help but think that this in-between time is like the Buddhist idea of the bardo).

My point in writing this post today is to acknowledge that time is the key element here and how the passing of time can and does effect our consciousness, besides the time of nature, and the external sense of time that is not a part of us. Either as an external force or an internal force, time is change, and if looked at and thought about in a positive way, that can be transforming.

Here's a wish to all humankind to use their time, our time, this time, to be transformed in a positive manner.