Beyond the Mayan Prophecy: A Collective Opinion from Today's Most Notable Psychics and Metaphysicians

Introduction

When John and I first offered this book’s proposal to a less visionary publisher over two years ago, it met with little interest. But a lot has happened since. Technology, the planets above, and our own collective consciousness seem to have accelerated time. Everything is speeding up and changing; you have to ride the wave or face being left behind. Two years ago, an e-book was practically an ancillary distribution; now it is viewed by many as the primary way to experience the printed word. No one can deny the tactile pleasure experienced when reading an old hardcover. But convenience and portability rule. The possibilities are infinite when technology allows us to connect in an interactive way and readers can react to the same material at the same time. A real-time book club, tweeting, journaling, or Googling on the margins of the e-book as you are reading it has the ability to bring us to a completely different plane of existence.

As a television producer for over thirty years, I’ve been asked to tell a strange assortment of stories. I have also taken some very bizarre trips. However, the last twelve years have steered me down the strangest road anyone could have predicted, and that includes some of the psychics I have subsequently met and worked with in the past. And then there were the ones who might have foreseen it, but they were too kind to let me in on the inside joke. Psychics are supersensitive and their humor is extremely keen, at least the ones I have been fortunate enough to know. In fact, directing two or more psychics can turn into quite the comedic event, with the laughter starting before the jokes are even said. And then once the giggles begin, it seems hard to stop as they pick up on each other’s next thought, usually sending the crew, myself included, into hysterics.

A deep nod of gratitude is given to my good friend, John Edward, for manifesting this project from start to finish. His unselfish determination to have me captain this ship churned up the waters immediately, but we rode out the shifting sands. His trust shines brightly enough to help me find my way. Stimulated by many thought-provoking conversations we have had over the years, he insisted a crew of higher thinkers was the only way to encircle the Mayan-inspired topics we wanted to cover. Even though it might be an easy sell under his name, he knew that one individual’s vision was not enough to engage the robust and deep belief of Higher Self that the Mayan scribes etched in stone and appeared to follow quite seriously, even to the death.

Even with this great meeting of the minds, the surface has only been scratched. Basketball coach John Wooden once said, It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. My hope is that this book will bring the desire to learn closer to home and you will choose to dig deeper inside yourself. Because if there is just one certainty—one truth—it lies within us. The Mayan anthropological sites being unearthed in the Central American jungles will not decode anything if we can’t decipher the internal messages in our current life.

For me the Mayan connection to the temperature and energy of the planet can be simply symbolized in that they traveled barefoot. They physically were in sync with every vibe, all the time. They spent time in nature both in contemplation and in their work.

When was the last time you walked any distance barefoot? Probably it was on a beach on that rare occasion for relaxation. How did that feel? Not to your feet, but to your soul? When was the last time you took a nap stretched out in the grass, made a snow angel with your kids, or set up camp on the beach under the stars? Just letting your body have full-on contact with the ground, Mother Earth. Technology, with its captivating comfort and convenience, allows us to separate ourselves from nature. But for all the advances and advantages technology and science have brought us, they do come at a pretty high cost. All of our own natural senses, especially our intuition, grow weaker in response. What does that mean for our brains and spirits? Are we moving more and more off center if we are no longer paying attention to our inner compass? We come into the world barefoot; many on the planet choose not to leave that way. Why? Why die with your boots on? Dying with my feet still attached to the world is all that I ask for.

Astonishingly, Guatemalan digs have produced new cogs of Mayan calendars illustrating our path for at least another sixteen hundred years. The article detailing the archaeological discovery published on May 10, 2012 in the Christian Science Monitor spread like fire through the mainstream media.¹

This recent finding in work led by Boston University archaeologist William Saturno² certainly seems to contradict the End of Days prophecy. Was there even an end-of-the-world prophecy to begin with? Present-day Mayan elders suggest that all this end-of-the-world talk is the creation of Western cultures, and not something their forefathers were even trying to predict. The fact that these artifacts are being discovered in May of 2012 only confirms the prophecy for me somehow. One calendar ends, but not before the next edition is discovered and celebrated. You can’t tell me there isn’t a plan, and the Mayans knew it. Even if the plan sucks.

Their sense of ending as the precursor of a beginning is what most logical thinkers will go with. But endings and beginnings are highly individual. Beautiful loving insemination and horrific rape can both seed birth, and a wonderful child. Natural causes and ritual sacrifice can both end our bodily existence. Extremes are easy to identify. But everything else in the middle of stop-and-go is a matter of speed and perspective. My perspective on the subject when John and I proposed the original project, compared with my perspective now, has shifted one hundred and eighty degrees. Then, it was all about the new rebirth and white light; now it is about the precursor and darkness of demise.

We all have opinions. Sometimes mine go unexpressed and I tend to internalize things. I know that tempering my opinion might skew other opinions. My expressed opinion works in the opposite way. The communication of the opinion, and the way it is received, will stimulate other expressed opinions or not. The judgment of the opinion will also change the original opinion. So it is a good thing I’m not giving you my opinion of what is happening beyond the Mayan prophecy. What I am doing here is giving you my perspective. My perspective here doesn’t really change; however, it certainly has evolved. As this book developed I became more aware of the similarities rather than the differences in the information gleaned from the interviews. The overlap in thought between the various metaphysical intuitives interviewed cannot be coincidental.

What I’m going on about is simply belief. What I hope to accomplish with this book is to offer a wider scope in order for you to find a deeper meaning in individual positioning, an examination of the cosmos that will help you on your life journey. I’ve come up with more questions than answers, but hopefully these are questions you would ask if you had the opportunity to engage in dialogue with these higher plane thinkers. Collectively, the people who have come together to explore this issue bring their energy to a laser-like point and I am honored to convey their messages to you, the reader, to add to your own growing perspective.

So the Mayan 2012 prophecy was never about a cataclysmic end to the planet? What a surprise—the end-of-the-world scenarios work well for the movies and fearmongers, but thankfully the rest of us are wise enough not to believe the hype. New Mayan glyphs have already overruled that calculation anyway. Yet we all are keenly aware of the December 21, 2012 winter’s solstice. Why? Simply, it made great grist for the media mill. Or is there actually more to this story, perhaps a warning of a different type?

I believe the planet is waiting to see what we do with this potential benchmark moment. If not the end, then a beginning is being born, and that is one of the common themes contained in the following pages. There is arguable proof that the shift is on, and that the Mayans knew over thirteen hundred years ago that we would be scrambling.

The following conversations even allow those of us who max out on astrology terms, transits, and star charts to once again turn to the ancient science of astrology with new respect. The powerful astrological cycles are beautifully explained by Maggie Kerr, Alan Oken, and Rick Levine.

On a personal level, I have a new focus for my birth chart. In this changing world, the one constant you can count on is yourself. As the planets orbit around the sun, people and events orbit around each of us. We are each the hub of our own cog. As above, so below. That hub is drawn in the sky and we can use this star chart to map our individual relationship to the universe. If we take the time to understand the astroglyphics by interpreting our birth charts we will find ways to work with the universal energy, and not struggle so much against it. I applied my 2012 lens to the squiggles, triangles, and squares, all enclosed in a circle, that make up my natal chart. This meditation and then the inevitable reading with a master astrologer this summer confirmed one thing—for me, all the public relations exploiting the end of the world are proven to be right. Maybe not the exact time and date of the solstice but pretty damn close.

I have a few rituals of my own up my sleeve that I plan on using for this book. I am kicking off each chapter with one of Mary Jo McCabe’s Psychic Symbol Cards³ as a salutation to give your right brain something to chew on while your left brain is busy with the text. I have been using these psychic cards for years now and find them uncannily accurate and helpful. Mary Jo was kind enough to give the book a reading, so to speak, which is included as an addendum. I asked a question for the first chapter, drew a card, and then Mary Jo answered by interpreting the card and applying it to my question. She explains that her readings are done with the assistance of her Guides, and I’ve been around long enough in this business to know that’s how the real magic works. We did this process twelve more times so we would have a card for the beginning of each chapter. The cards were thrown before the interviews, but as you can see for yourself, linear order is not necessarily a top priority in this book. Some of you might want to skip to the back of the book and check out the entire reading before you go any further, others may want to refer to it at the start of each chapter, or you can wait until you finish the book. Begin to meditate on each card and see where your story goes. In fact, you can make it a real interactive experience and click on your own cards as you read along (http://www.maryjomccabe.com/ask-the-cards.html).

The closing ritual for each chapter is also a routine I have been doing for many years, and at this point in my life it is a reassuring perk of my job. I check in with John just like I have done most days for the past twelve years. Even when he is on tour we talk frequently, partly out of necessity for work, but also just to bounce ideas off each other. At this point my internal lens usually has him slightly out of focus in the back of my mind, knowing he is sort of waiting to give his sage advice when I am ready to hear it. So it feels natural to ask a question or two as I worked on the book to add his perspective to the mix.

I am sharing parallel pieces throughout this book entitled Marking Time—simply my lone wolf perspective getting a rare chance to express itself in words. These mini-chapters are my personal exploration of this critical time period leading up to the Winter Solstice of 2012. I also encourage you to journal your own individual perspective. Using this e-book as a spiritual workbook can hopefully motivate you in the way it did me. Everything you are going through now is your own Beyond the Mayan Prophecy story. Your personal history is nothing less than a microcosm of the planet’s story, the universe’s story. Write about whatever you want, but try to use your heart and intuition, not just your rational mind, when expressing your thoughts. It could be a response to the dialogue or a reaction to the Marking Time narrative. Or it might be a topic that you think is totally unrelated. But I assure you, it is not. What you generate will be profound and connected to something larger than you. The intent is to have as many diffuse thoughts initiated as possible. As we go through the book together, the connectivity of personal storytelling and contribution is collective consciousness in its own form.

I am just asking you to jot something down, for clarity—there’s no need to draw blood for the success of the crops or sacrifice yourself for rain. While writing the Marking Time installments, I identified obvious messages I was receiving from the universe. They came so fast and often, that I almost always let them go by without acknowledgment. Until now. The pinpointing exercise of writing down my most soulful thoughts has brought tangible existence to some of my most elusive feelings. With the collection of these writings, my story unfolds. It can be the same for you.

I discovered in my research that the wall drawings and glyphs discovered in Central America signify mostly ceremonial behavior and not everyday Mayan life. Almost all their treasured books were destroyed if not before then during the Spanish conquest, so archaeologists primarily have only artifacts to sift through and cave walls to read. So recorded Mayan belief has to be a little off, don’t you think? Imagine three thousand years from now, we are judged by our photos displaying our New Year’s Eve rituals, weddings, and birthday parties. Every year the same people wearing funny hats, drinking, making faces, kissing, getting drunk, and blowing out cakes on fire. One could reasonably draw from these photos or videos that earthlings in our lifetime loved crowds, danced for hours, consumed lots of intoxicating beverages, made promises they would never keep, and maybe even got sick after a little too much indulgence. Not my average night, or for most of my friends, but it makes for a great anthropological theory. Our future observers might be a little confused if these party photos were the only evidence they found of our existence. What messages would survive and what would they say about modern man?

How it would be etched in stone is a nonissue. The frivolity will be there for the ages to gawk at via some transcoded archaic digital video files that were shared on something once known as social media. What would be the chances that they survive in a few thousand years? The Mayans faced the fear of drought and dwindling resources. Not surprisingly, we face some of the same issues with at least one frightening, game-changing difference. We also have nuclear proliferation in the hands of madmen to fear, in case there isn’t enough to worry about already. It appears we need a consciousness shift in a big way. And soon.

So in a letter to the future (if there is one):

Dear whoever finds this e-book in the planet’s distant future,

Good luck figuring us out.

Part I: Then

Chapter One

Mayan Calendar, No Más

Working with the world’s greatest psychics, living sages, and master metaphysicians on such a personal level over the past twelve years has provided me with some remarkable discoveries, to say the least. My camera has always given me a chance to catch life’s joys and mysteries, shining light on subjects I want others to see and experience. If I had to describe myself as one thing, it would be a storyteller—a storyteller who is drawn to tribal mysticism. In fact, perhaps the best way to introduce my approach to my work would be through my own modern-day cave drawing: a YouTube Video¹ shot during my trip to South Africa with John and our crew back in 2010.

I knew that this amazing array of experts offered a vast opportunity and in order to reach a consensus from these clever talents I needed to get organized. So I broke the book into a grid and decided that each of the thirteen chapters would include at least three of the contributors, giving them each time to explore different topics. Having worked with many of these metaphysicians before, I knew staying on topic was not the point, and that in fact, sometimes circling around it would be more productive. The goal would be to benchmark the progression and cross-reference as best I could.

This first chapter includes interviews with two of the most enlightened astrologers of our times, Maggie Kerr from Down Under and Rick Levine from the Pacific Northwest. And after spending time talking about the mathematics of our galaxy and the number of years of the various Mayan calendars, it seemed like a wise idea to have a heart-to-heart with numerologist extraordinaire Glynis McCants to add to my growing pile of glyphs.

Mayan images are keys to a matrix of mathematical formulas and astronomical observations. These conversations were extremely exciting and deeply humbling, demonstrating that anyone who thinks we are unlocking a linear pathway will have to think again. The calendar is a 3D Matrix containing cogs that point to other cogs, and life is far more complex than anything we or the ancient Mayan priests could have ever imagined.

Maggie Kerr² is a well-known professional Australian astrologer, counselor, and teacher, on the front line of her field for over twenty-eight years.

Her well-rounded training in metaphysics, philosophy, astrology, psychology, and psychotherapy offers a unique in-depth understanding of our life purposes and challenges by using a combination of solution-focused tools and techniques. I was fortunate enough to meet Maggie a few years ago in Melbourne, Australia. Maggie, John, and I shared a spectacular sunset memory on Phillip Island, watching the phenomenal penguin parade³ and marveling at the wonder of nature. A rainbow appeared for our photo opportunities to add to the magic of the moment.

I recently had the pleasure of directing Maggie’s 12 System Seminars⁴ and found her presentation of a complex subject both educational and entertaining. Her seminar videos and corresponding book, The Twelve System, answer questions and offer solutions by integrating philosophy, science, and psychology in a stream-lined package. You will learn three powerful and simple models to support your growth and prosperity. Her classes and books are packed with insightful and intelligent information, making for great resources for the eager student. She generously shares her wealth of knowledge in free articles and videos on her website, and also teaches and lectures extensively. Check out Maggie’s website⁵ for current details of her personal and corporate services.

Paul: Maggie, the first thing I want to talk about is the Mayan calendar. I guess I should say calendars. I recently read that there are actually at least thirteen different ones. And then I heard a current Mayan elder say there are twenty! How do we know which ones to follow?

Maggie: There are two main Mayan calendar experts who I want to mention right away. One was a chap who unfortunately passed away just last year, José Argüelles.⁶ His work is really the foundation of the whole current Mayan calendar movement, when his book, The Mayan Factor: Pathway beyond Technology, was published back in 1987. I became fascinated with the subject after reading that book. He’s the guy that gave us the whole concept of the harmonious convergence and the various gateway dates. The other chap who’s very prominent in this field is Carl Calleman.⁷ He is the author of The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness as well as several other books. Honestly, anyone who is interested in learning more about the significance of the Mayan calendars will have plenty to read with those two scholars.

Paul: Okay, more books to read and websites to visit. Go on.

Maggie: You are right, there are a number of Mayan calendars and each one is basically a timing system. The Maya considered themselves time keepers and the big calendar, the 16.4 billion year one, as a nine-step period. José Argüelles developed the idea that we could basically trace the origins of life to that 16.4 billion end point. And then we go through a series of what he calls cycles. These are the various phases of the billions of years of the development of mammalian time, and all the different levels and features that have gradually led to the formation of the human civilization. We had to go through these various levels, these cyclical levels of development in order to get to the point where we are now ready to step into the next level of consciousness. It’s hardwired in our DNA sequence but it has been unavailable to us up until now.

It seems like there had to be something striking that occurred to jump civilization from farming and cave pictures to engineers and mathematicians. Have you seen those pyramids? It’s not hard to presuppose that there was some kind of event that happened at that point, which created the start for this incredible quantum leap in our thinking and our skills, that began the culture that we are now culminating at the end of this calendar.

The point is that we are now reaching the end of the 16.4 billion year calendar. Contained within the great big cog is a minor cog, a five thousand one hundred and twenty year calendar, and this is known as a tun, T-U-N.

There’s another fascinating man who is prominent among those studying these evolutionary theories, Zecharia Sitchin. His book, The Twelfth Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles, explores this remarkable period and according to Argüelles, he named this 5,120 year period a galactic synchronization beam. This is very interesting, because he was able from studying this calendar to begin to find a relationship back to the Western planetary cycles. He also connects it to Vedic astrology, the Eastern version of astrology, because they all kind of coincide rather spectacularly. The 5,120 year cycle, which is one that everybody’s been in a tizzy about really, most people don’t even know about the 16.4 billion cycle, the one that everyone’s all upset about is the one that began in 3113 B.C. and completes on the 21st day of the 12th month of this year. What’s interesting is you can track the history of Western civilization’s calendar because about three thousand years ago, with the early Mesopotamians and the creation of civilized cultures emerging around that time, we had the beginning of the rise of civilization as we know it in the Western context. Where this stuff gets very interesting is when you realize that we went from the late Stone Age through to what would become early collective societies through to highly advanced cultures with astronomy and agriculture and writing, all within about a five hundred year period.

We go through the Mesopotamian period and the knowledge is then passed through the Egyptian schools and then on to the Greeks, who inherit these mystery teachings, which is the knowledge of how to decode the true nature of the human potential.

It’s the Greeks that give rise to the original concept of the individual and this is what I explore in my book, The Twelve System. Basically we’ve been on this uncoding journey ever since, going through the process of the individual and the journey toward the conscious potential of the individual.

The two calendars both culminate on the 21st day of the 12th month of 2012, but the Mayan elders themselves do not ascribe to this being the end of the world. What I think is happening is that we get a juxtaposition of the Western cultural mindset and the unconscious collective field, and it gets projected onto this other cultural cosmic information.

I believe that part of the problem is that the Western unconscious DNA programming has a couple of thousand years’ worth of the Christian cultural encoded system, which contains the belief in the death and resurrection, the end of times. This means that we are projecting onto this date an outcome which isn’t actually necessarily contained in what the Maya believed at all.

Paul: But this one cog signifies that period?

Maggie: Well, there are two cogs connecting on the 21st day of the 12th month of 2012—it’s the end of the 16.4 billion calendar, plus the end of the 5,120 year calendar too.

Now as to what that date actually is, it is the exact date when our sun lines up with the galactic plane, i.e. the line out from the center of our galaxy. This particular moment, the 21st day of the 12th month, is actually the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice, where the sun is at the exact 21 zero degrees of Capricorn. What this means is at that point we are transitioning toward a perfect alignment with the center of our galaxy. Why is this important? Because this only happens approximately every twenty-six thousand years.

Paul: Wow. This all happens on the same day?

Maggie: No, it’s not that dramatic. What you need to understand is that the process of the sun lining up with the center of the galaxy actually takes seventy-two years to happen. It takes seventy-two years for the sun to pass through the grid of longitude. This whole idea of what’s going on, the shift as it’s popularly known, actually began thirty-six years ago and will be complete in another thirty-six years. So really this December 21, 2012 date is the midpoint of the shift from one age to the next.

This whole thing about how suddenly something major going to happen exactly on the 2012 winter solstice is completely erroneous to any real kind of astronomy. The astronomical occurrence is more like three hundred years off. However, the important point here, and this is where things get interesting, is that once we are in this alignment we will be receiving the full energetic magnetisms from the center of our galaxy as a direct stream. And keep in mind the center of our galaxy is actually a great big black hole.

Paul: Seriously, a great big black hole?

Maggie: Yes, a great big black hole that sucks the energy of passing stars and things that are losing their power into its gravitational pull by the Van Allen Belts. But at the same time it’s also emanating energy and so this is where the more esoteric or more spiritual ideas kick in. We have this fascinating concept of the center of the galaxy being the actual source of energy and power for the whole galaxy. So we call this the Logos, the source. And our sun is just one of billions of suns in the galaxy. What happens is, as we are moving through this alignment, our sun is receiving direct magnetism which is altering the actual magnetic field of the whole solar system. And therefore, each of the planets in the solar system is transformed in some way, including Earth.

This even affects our brains because our brains are also magnetic. Each of the planets in our solar system is receiving enhanced energetic frequencies which are altering their radio magnetic frequencies. And so on because the solar system is actually an atomic structure, i.e., the sun is the nucleus and the planets are all the electrons. All of those magnetisms feed down into our chakras, into our seven chakras which connect us to the hormonal systems of our bodies. What’s going on is that our brains and hearts are being altered magnetically and that’s what this shift of consciousness is all about.

Paul: Wow.

Maggie: It’s the most exciting time to be alive! If you go back twenty-six thousand years and then over that couple of thousand years, we went through the end of the phase when Neanderthal man was the dominant species, to the beginning of Homo sapiens being the dominant species. No one knows how that happened, except that there was some change in modern humans that gave us the capacity to develop the intelligence of the brain and the other features that arose, language and so on. How and why that happened is the great mystery, of course. What’s interesting about this time is that we are coming to have a kind of collective process here on planet Earth—we are all one. And you can see this pattern because of the last five thousand years you start to get the idea of the cogs.

Paul: Are there patterns in the cycles which correlate with the calendars which help us to determine what is next?

Maggie: Because of the last five thousand year cog, and the synchronization of the big cog with the smaller cog, I think we are actually due for an evolutionary leap. Now this leap could happen very quickly, whereas last time it took a couple of thousand years. This one could happen almost immediately and this is what all of us that are into this stuff is so excited about. Because God knows we need a quick evolutionary leap; otherwise the planet’s screwed.

Paul: Well, we live in a much more technologically capable time to make something happen instantaneously; we can get messages across the planet in a nanosecond.

Maggie: Exactly. In fact, we’re living it right now, and that’s because we had a solar eclipse on the 20th of May, at zero degrees of Gemini, a lunar eclipse on the 4th of June, at 14 degrees of Gemini, and then there was the Venus eclipse, at 15 degrees of Gemini, on the 6th of June. And then on the 12th of June, Jupiter went into Gemini, so we’ve got this massive pattern happening. It’s like the boys upstairs are going, okay dudes, you guys really need to get this started so we’re going to give you big doses of all of the synchronization of the Western ecological