Yaxhá five level pyramid, North-East Petén, Guatemala. Photo by JJM (2015).
*For background on the Mayan Fifth World and the Fifth Element, please see: The Mayan World Tree.
Post 2012 and The Fifth World
Prior to December 2012, scores of Mayan calendar enthusiasts, authors and scholars had put forward a plethora of predictions, forecasts and interpretations about what would or could happen around certain dates in 2012. The dates, when they finally arrived, were accentuated by the fact that nothing of note happened. There were no signs that the long awaited and highly anticipated new golden age was about to commence, as had been fervently predicted. Neither did major earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes or floods occur worldwide (all at once!)
Transition stages between 5200 year world ages are meant to take approximately 120 years [1]. Changes happening during such long transition periods are therefore very unlikely to become apparent “on day one”. However, such were the expectations in December 2012 that something was going to happen, that there were people who took the day or week off from work, while others headed to the countryside “just in case” [2]. The majority of people, however, took a sober view and brushed it all off as superstition.
In retrospect, a lot of people may be wondering why so many people responded so “irrationally” in 2012. From a depth-psychology point of view, the 2012 “mass psychological event” was much more than just mere superstition. It was a reflection of the power of the “archetype of the end”. This archetype was identified by well known Swiss psychoanalyst, C.G. Jung back in the 1950’s. [3]
There must have been something that had made a major impression upon the human psyche (repetitively) for this archetype to be so deeply embedded in the collective subconscious (aka collective unconscious) and to make such a strong mass appearance every now and again. From a Jungian perspective all archetypes have purpose and in this case, the archetype was a message from the collective subconscious of humanity that major change was upon us (within a decade or two). Continue Reading…
Full article with references is published at GypsyCafe.org
By Jean-Jacques M.
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February 25th, 2017 at 4:09 am
I’ve read some of the Mayan prophecies and have stayed afloat of what’s happening in the world today. Very interesting times we live in… jc
February 25th, 2017 at 1:08 pm
Very interesting times indeed, JC. I can recommend Kenneth Johnson’s book on the subject: http://jaguarwisdom.org/book.html
Thanks for stopping by.
J.J.
February 25th, 2017 at 10:33 pm
Thanks, I’ll check it out. JC
February 25th, 2017 at 4:11 pm
2012 seems to have floated right over my head.
February 25th, 2017 at 4:26 pm
You’re lucky 🙂
February 25th, 2017 at 11:08 pm
enjoy your reflection of the ancient’s
well conceived world view & insights!
prophesies are bound to
come to fruition
when conditions
are just right 🙂
February 26th, 2017 at 3:14 pm
Well said David – perhaps,when the conditions within the majority of us are just right (we probably have a bit of work to do as a collective..). 🙂 Hopefully we don’t run out of time!