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1/1928 Meditations on the Law of Time: Meditation 3, Thirteen Moons and the Culture of Peace

Thirteen Moons and the Culture of Peace - Law of Time in Everyday LifeMeditation 4 of The 28 Meditations on the Law of Time

Bolon Ik: Inhalation. Exhalation. Let your mind go into No-time. Just continue this process. Your eyes may be slightly opand just slightly down in front of you, so that when you meditate you are aware that you are here and now.

From the East, house of light,may wisdom dawn in us so that we may see all things in clarity.

From the North, house of night,

may wisdom ripen in us so that we may know all from within.

From the West, house of transformation,may wisdom be transformed into right action so that we may do what must be done.

From the South, house of the eternal Sun,may right action reap the harvest so that we may enjoy the fruits of planetary being.

From above, house of Heaven,where star people and ancestors gather, may their blessings come to us now.

From below, house of Earth,may the heartbeat of her crystal core bless us with harmonies to end all war.

From the center, galactic source, which is everywhere at once,may everything be known as the light of mutual love.

Good morning. What a glorious day! The sun has again blessed us with a clear day. I will again begin my teaching today wsome general discussion of the principle of our personal discipline. At the Earth Wizards Seminary the mind of No-Time malso be called beginners mind. But first I should say to all of you that we are so happy that you are all so eager to learn. Frohere I want to express that the Law of Time is based on knowledge, and this knowledge is a complete whole. It is absolutenot possible to learn all of it at once.

We designed this seminary very intentionally as a seven week program with seven levels of learning. This is why this week ware speaking of the Thirteen Moon Calendar and also of the thirteen tone wavespell. Maybe I could ask everyone, how ma

of you now know your birthday on the Thirteen Moon Calendar? Muy bien! Perfecto! Thank you. Very good students. Also, tother aspect that you should be ready with when we begin next weeks teachings, is that you understand the 13 tones. T13 tones are the form of the cosmology of movement, and this cosmology of movement is called the Wavespell. So I highrecommend that you go over these things in your discussion groups today, so that when we enter into the Dreamspell, neweek, you will have the base understanding of the wavespell.

Now I will read the kin for today:

Kin 90: WHITE CRYSTAL DOGI dedicate in order to love

Universalizing LoyaltyI seal the process of heart

With the crystal tone of cooperation

I am guided by the power of spirit

Another aspect of the day which connects with yesterday is to know that because we are in the twelfth tone of the wavespethis completes the third-dimensional pulsar, the dimension of mind. We could also say that it is the ninth chamber. Further, today we can talk about it being the Crystal Day, which expresses the cooperation of form. The Round Table meets for paaction to be formalized and for future action to be prepared. So in some ways my words today are about this again: howapply our personal discipline so that we can begin to exercise beginners mind. In beginners mind we come to the teachinwith an empty mind, ready to receive.

Finally, I wanted to quote from what you will be receiving in your bibliography and syllabus. This quote comes from a novby Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game; Magister Ludi. Behind the music being created in his presence he sensed tworld of mind. The joy giving harmony of law and freedom, of service and rule.


2/1970 28 Meditations on the Law of Time: Meditation 3, Thirteen Moons and the Culture of Peace

I would like to speak briefly about law and freedom. Here at the Earth Wizards Seminary we are entering into the Law ofTime, so where is the freedom within the Law? I would like to remind us all again that we are all coming from the 12:60 world,and so once again in our personal discipline we have to look inside to see what part of ourselves is very rebellious, becausewe have been living in the wrong time. Thats why we have the expressions about killing time, wasting time, we never haveenough time. All of these issues come up that cause us to feel like we dont have time. So again, if we are trying to learneverything at once, we are going to get a very busy mind; we are going to get very occupied; well have fits of panic.

So again we come back to the technique: come back to a straight spine, breathe. Come back to no-mind and then we canactually have the Law of Time informing us. And especially, can you imagine, because we are 100 people here, if we allrun ourselves on our rebellious mindI think we will have a lot of chaos. So when we speak of freedom we must talk of the

freedom of living in the Law of Time. The example will be that in the mornings before the teachings there will simply be thehalf hour between 7 and 7:30 a.m. for you to do whatever contemplative practice you would like to do, whether its yoga ormeditation. Then you will have plenty of time to go to breakfast, shower, to prepare yourself for the day of teaching. And thenin this way you will have come to your beginners mind when you enter into the day of teaching.

The other aspect of the quote that I read to you were the two words service and rule. It is not possible to rule until youhave learned how to serve. Because we are all here to discover the Law of Time, we can all discover how we can serve time,and in this way we will find ourselves being in a good rule from the harmony of nature. Also when we serve the Law of Timewe are also learning to relax our ego, because the ego would like to rule, and this is the funny part in our human beingness.Because if we are here as 100 egos, everyone wanting to be a master, we wont have any time. If we can simply learn toserve the Law of Time, and in our personal discipline, to serve what we know is the order we are creating here, we will havea very sweet and very open time. We did not intentionally create a heavy schedule for you to follow. We left many open timesso maybe you would like to all look again at how you would like to spend those open times.

The only final point I have is that today in your discussion groups I hope that you can again get very deeply into the subject ofthe Thirteen Moon Calendar - everything that has been taught this week, the 13 tones and how you might learn those beforenext week; and to bring up your questions in the discussion groups. Remember this is just day four of 28 teaching days, sowe still have 24 days to go and I think many questions will be answered while we are all here together. So now we are readyfor the theme of today, which is the Thirteen Moons and the Culture of Peace, the Law of Time in Everyday Life and ourRevivified Telepathy. Ah ... I had one final thing I forgot to do: to read from the Dynamics of Time, again according to the codenumber of the day, which is 10, for the dog, and 12 which is the tone for the day ... so 10.12.

Harmonic rearrangement of the synchronic order is prerequisite to the creation of the circumpolar r ings and the restorationof the interplanetary flux tube system. Restorative chromatic functions of time are social as well as telepathic or mentalfunctions. Conscious restoration of the biosphere creates a harmonic social order whose fourth dimensional patternsresemble the harmonically rearranged organic order.

Thank you.

Valum Votan: Many thanks to Bolon Ik for another teaching that reminds us about ourselves. Obviously all there is isourselves. So seeing that that is all there is, we always have to balance between our own sense of being and the greatercommunity and order around us. I would like to also express how happy we are that everybody is so eager to learn. But weall want to just take simple steps. We are here at many different levels and even those who are at what seem to be the mostadvanced levels need to understand everything in the context of comprehension. So we are going in small steps to make surethat when you leave here, you really know what you are saying. The world is filled with false prophets and false teachers sowe dont need to give it any more. Thank you again for your very enthusiastic willingness to learn and for all being so brightand present. I havent had a chance to say hello to every single one of you, to give every single one of you a hug, to talk aboutwhat you want to talk about; but we still have more than six weeks and we will have that time. We all need to know that we

have a personal relationship with ourselves, with Bolon Ik and myself. We are transmitters and teachers, but we are also InLakech, so we are all one.

I would like to continue with our teaching this week; on this fourth day, the stage of teaching is referred to as the evaluation-synthesis. This is the final stage. So we evaluate and synthesize what we have been presenting this week; and it alsocorresponds to the phrase power ripens fruit. So this week we have been discussing the 13 tones of creation as thebasis of the Thirteen Moon Calendar, and these 13 tones of creation make the 13-tone wavespell. As the Planetary ServiceWavespell, this represents the basis of the Culture of Peace. Why do we talk about a Culture of Peace? In the Book ofEcclesiastes, I believe, it says there is a time for everything. There is a time for war and there is a time for peace. We knowthat this 20th Century has been the century of war, and we ask: Why is this so? Because we are in a time of war. When wesay: Who is at war? It is the human beings who are at war.



When we look at the entire planet {showing an inflatable Earth globe}, this Earth ball is nice - but it shows political boundarieMaybe thats why we like to throw it around, use it instead of a soccer ball ... Nonetheless it is our Earth, and when we sthis Earth we have to realize that the human beings - we could not see one human being on this globe. If we fly in a satellat night, then we can see many signs of the humans because of all the electric light, whenever you get to a large city populated area, like for instance the Atlantic coast of North America or Western Europe at nighttime, it would not be dark bfull of electric light.

We say ... is the Earth at war with itself? No, it is the humans who are in a time of war. The time of war is brought abobecause of internal conflict that the humans have with themselves in not being able to arrive at some kind of condition harmony, both within themselves and with other humans. So we have arrived at this condition at the end of history, whe

there is war everyday. There is war in East Timor, in Yugoslavia, in the middle East someplace, in Iraq, someplace in Africa,Colombia. There is war someplace every day. In the United States there is war every day in the barrios, or ghettos, and in tschools. So what we have basically is a culture of war and a culture of violence. We know this is another one of those boritopics. But we know that if you turn on the television, if you look at childrens videogames, childrens cartoons or popumovies, there is nothing but signs of violence. Not only are we out in the streets shooting at each other, but we are reinforcithe violence through all the popular forms: the movies, the comic books and so on. This is again a sign of what we might cthe stupidity of the world that has been created by the 12:60 timing frequency.

We stand helpless wringing our hands over bodies whose life is spilling out with the blood, and wonder why this is happeniand why it wont stop. So it seems that we have totally lost our will, our will to stop the violence, our will to create peace. Wwere recently at the Hague Peace Appeal in the Netherlands, and also we were at another event called the State of the WoForum. In both of these events there were many people with good hearts and with good intentions, but there was very litconception of what peace really is. The United Nations has declared that the year 2000 and that the whole decade from 20

to 2010 is to be the year and the decade of a Culture of Peace. But when we went to the Hague Peace Appeal and to tState of the World Forum, when the people talked about the Culture of Peace they could not conceive of it as anything mothan how to combat violence. So there was no idea of culture. It shows that we have been in a culture of war for such a lotime that we do not even have any longer a sense of what culture is and that peace is actually based on culture. If we kelooking at a Culture of Peace as how to combat violence, we only create a more criminal state of mind, always looking fsomeone to put in jail rather than thinking of how can we elevate our mind. This is a very serious problem.

When we talk of a culture of peace, we have to understand what that actually means. Like the old song by Janis Joplin whshe sings, Ive been down so long, down looks like up to me. So that is the way we are with our culture of violence and wPeace looks like how to stop violence rather than having a real understanding that peace is a universal dynamic. Peaceliving in harmony. When we say peace is living in harmony, this is not different from simply living in the universal order. Torder of the universe is in a state of peace. Everything is evolving and unfolding according to the Law of Time in a statepeace. This state of peace is pure universal cosmic harmony and order.

When we began our work with the Thirteen Moon Calendar we realized that we had to create a Peace Plan. We saw thhumanity was so out of harmony that it had to have a Peace Plan to reeducate itself to what harmony is. This was the PeaPlan, the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Plan. We actually wrote the first part when we were in Colomband Venezuela in 1994, and we submitted this Peace Plan to UNESCO and to the United Nations. At that time the UNESCthought it was a great idea, sent us a letter of support and wanted us to continue with this work. We submitted this to thUnited Nations for the 50th anniversary. We pointed out to the United Nations that in the very first paragraph of its Chartesays that the United Nations is to support all possible approaches to universal peace. So we said this is one of those possibapproaches to universal peace. But the United Nations responded and said that they could not consider anything that wnot already part of the United Nations. This did not stop us.

The point of the Peace Plan is that you cannot change the calendar without stopping the world. I know some of you mig

have read the books of Carlos Casteneda, and the famous Don Juan has a technique that is called stopping the world. we said that this technique has to be applied to the whole planet to stop the world, literally: this is the essential point of thPeace Plan. Because when you stop the world, then you have an opportunity for the cessation of war and machines. So,this way we could have, at least, a pause in which we could re-orient ourselves as a species. How many people have rethis? {Showing a copy of the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Plan} I think while you are here everyone should rethis and everyone should make sure that they have this. As I said the other day, we are a Revolution. {Showing his T-shJohn Lennon in combat fatigues with the word Revolution}

We are the revolution of peace, but we are a revolution and we should not be afraid of that: we should be understandinwhat it says here in this Peace Plan. This revolution is based also on the Banner of Peace. The Banner of Peace was creatby Nicholas Roerich who declared, Where there is Peace there is Culture, where there is Culture there is Peace. Thisa fundamental point in the understanding of what is a Culture of Peace. I would like also to point out the synchronicity thNicolas Roerich and John Lennon have the same solar birthday.



The Banner of Peace was presented formally to the world in 1935 and was intended to fly over all cultural institutions in timesof war, signifying the protection of culture as the basis of human evolution. Within four years the Second World War occurredand no one respected the Roerich Peace Pact. The Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Plan resurrects the Banner ofPeace and says that, since the biosphere is the cradle of all culture, and since the biosphere is now threatened by war, whichis called globalization, therefore the biosphere has to be protected by the Banner of Peace. Therefore, the Banner of Peaceshould fly everywhere, but especially at nuclear plants, nuclear waste sites, and other places that have been damaged byindustrial contamination; over all the inner cities of the great cities of the world; over all schools, churches, mosques, andsynagogues. It should be everywhere.

This was also a key point of the Calendar Change Peace Plan. When we submitted this to the United Nations in 1995, we pointed

out that it was both the United Nations 50th anniversary and also the 60th anniversary of the Roerich Peace Pact, and that theRoerich Peace Pact should also be celebrated. We found out that the United Nations would have nothing to do with that part.

Well, we dont need to go further with this point, only to bring to your attention that this is called the World Thirteen MoonCalendar Change Peace Movement because we do have a Peace Plan and that this Peace Plan has been augmented atmany points: By the First Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights which we held in 1996; and by the action we took at theBoundary Dissolving Ceremony at Four Corners. We also marched with the Banner of Peace to Trinity Site, the birthplace ofthe atomic bomb, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test. Bolon Ik and I were carrying a very large Banner ofPeace into the test site and it was torn out of our hands by the U.S. Army - because we were told there could be no symbolsat the site of the first atomic bomb test ... It was a very interesting, intense time.

At the World Congress on the Law of Time and Judgement Day Tribunal, in Tokyo in 1997, this Peace Plan was furtheraugmented, as it was also this past summer in Costa Rica with the World Summit on Peace and Time. Again, everyone here

should have a copy of the Declaration of Calendar Reform and the Seven Resolutions - people, know that and read that. Fromthe World Summit on Peace and Time, we sent one team of peace ambassadors to the Vatican and we sent another team tothe United Nations to deliver the Declaration of Calendar Reform to the Pope and to the Secretary General.

Of course, we did not have much success in Rome, and we had a little more success with the United Nations. You shouldknow that even before we did this, early in 1998, Vandir Natal Casagrande and a few of ourselves personally went to theVatican and stayed there for 10 days, until we could finally get an audience with one of the Popes personal secretaries. Thesecretary assured us he would get all the information to the Pope. He told us that, of course, the Pope no longer has thepower he had in the 16th Century, and if you want to change the calendar you should actually involve the United Nations. Sowe have been good boys and girls and have involved the United Nations. But the Vatican has created a wall of silence to ourproposal. This is not because they do not know of it. There are many people within the Vatican that do know of it. We havehad two major fax campaigns - Antonio Giacchetti from Italy was helpful: we faxed to all the Cardinals and heads of State. Sothis is all part of the history of this movement.

There is also a document that should be read by all of you, which is called Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization,which gives a history of the calendar reform movement from the 19th Century up until the present time. It is very important toknow that the Thirteen Moon Calendar has been the calendar of choice for calendar reform, simply because it is so obviouslylogical. But as we have seen the deformities created by following a crooked and mechanized time have created a mentalcondition in which some people prefer three-legged pink poodles to a normal dog. This is the metaphor of the irrationalcondition of the state of mind of the modern world.

We say that the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change cannot happen without stopping the world. We have called world leadersand all spir itual leaders to support this, so that we can have ONE DAY without violence and then say ... try two, you might likeit. But to begin with, to change the calendar, is to have one day without violence - and this is the Day-Out-of-Time. We havecalled for this in 1993, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99. We have been sending letters to the Vatican since 1993. This is because

it is our responsibility to make sure that everyone that is supposed to be responsible knows about this, because once theyknow about it, then the decision is in their hands. If they are responsible and know about this and do nothing about it, thenwe have done our work and God will do His work. This is why we have taken this approach. If you are not aware, there is alsothis little booklet here, the Complete Guide to the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement - which is not really acomplete guide because it was written in 1996, but still gives the fundamental basis of what this Movement is.

Compared to the earlier calendar change, or calendar reform movements, this Movement that we are involved in is actuallya Peace Movement. The earlier Calendar Reform Movement of this Century was actually financed by very wealthy peopleincluding George Eastman, who founded Eastman Kodak Company, and was also supported by the International Chamber ofCommerce. At that time there was still some sense of logic even among businessmen and bankers - that maybe accountingwould be easier if there was a constant and perpetual calendar. This was taken up by the League of Nations and the Leagueof Nations supported this as well. The earlier calendar reform was defeated at the very last moment by a large propagandacampaign, mounted by the Vatican of course.



The reason for the objection that was put forth by the Vatican was that a Thirteen Moon Calendar had 52 perfect weekbut it had that extra 365th day: the Vatican said that extra day broke the succession of the week. In other words, Saturdathe 28th day of the thirteenth moon, is followed by a Day-Out-of-Time which is no day of the week at all, and then comeSunday. The Vatican said that this concept or principle would break the succession of the week, which they said God haset in motion in the beginning ... They said that if humanity was to have a calendar that had a day that was no day of thweek, then humanity would fall into war, barbarism, and chaos. That is precisely where we are today, because we did nobserve a Day-Out-of-Time.

You have to just stop and think. Imagine what it would be for the whole world to stop and have a day that was no day of tweek at all, and that this day was to be a day of no violence. All the machines would stop, not even go to the money machin

then see what that day would be like. And also on that day it is to be the day of universal pardon. Stop playing the terribgame of making the Third World be deeper in debt. Since all the money is just artificial fiction numbers, little buttons that ypush on your computer to move figures here and there, then there is no reason to burden other people with this debt. Imagithat on this day where there is no violence, where all the machines stopped for one day and all the debt of the so-called ThWorld was erased, and say, Tomorrow we start in a New Time. That sounds nice to us. Its interesting how much resistanit has in the world. This is why we have to also call this a Revolution.

We are the Revolution of Time and we still have a little window of time to do this again, which is why we are all here. We wato see that the next Day-Out-of-Time is so stunning and spectacular that the world stops and is ready and willing to entinto a New Time.

We have to understand that violence is a function of living in the unnatural order of artificial time. This is a very, very profoupoint. It is because we are living in this artificial time that we have created conflict between ourselves and nature, that w

have institutionalized the conflict between ourselves and nature, between ourselves and others, and within ourselves. The Moons is the return to the natural order which is peace. It is the artificial time that is war.

As we have said, if you look at the natural order, we see that it is not at war with itself: it is only ourselves that are at wWe know that in nature some fish eat other fish, some animals eat other animals, but this is not war: they have a naturcontract, that is the way the cycle of life is maintained. We know that this is also true in the aboriginal pre-historic sociewhen the people go hunting this is always done in a sacred manner. They pray to the animal spirit, make some kind dance or music, and it is placed within a large mythic structure. Then they only kill what is necessary. We have todathe ability to use mechanization to killit is not fair to the other species. I dont know where you live, but where we liunfortunately even on the roads that go on the back-country there are countless dead animals, wild animals as well domestic that are all killed because of the automobiles. This is just something you go by and you say, What was thatOh, that was a raccoon, or a deer.

We have become numb to this type of violence. We can go through the barrios of the cities, see dead dogs, and we doeven know what other things there are. Not to mention what we are doing to the children. This is the culture we live in. W

just accept this. Oh, there is nothing we can do about it. And, it is true, as long as we remain in the 12:60 timing frequenand dont break the spell of living in the wrong time, there is nothing we can do about it. This is why we say, Stop the worchange the calendar, take responsibility, you can do something about it. This is the meaning of the Thirteen Moon CalendChange Peace Plan. There is no reason why we have to be numb to the suffering of helpless creatures. We have to realithat if we started the war, it is only us that can stop the war. We are all part of this one species, and we can take it upoourselves to act on behalf of all beings to take this action of stopping the world.

The 13 Moons is the return to natural order. We said yesterday the 13 Moons is the next step in evolution. By bringing in tPeace Plan, we give even further meaning to why that is the next evolutionary step. It is only in this way that we will get topoint of harmony where we will actually finally take responsibility. It wasnt anyone else who did this - who created machine

created bombs, created guns. If we say we dont know how to control it, why dont we put them away? Why dont we put tguns away if we cant control them? Lets put the bombs away, put away many of the machines if we cant control them, if wlack the moral imagination and the moral strength to do this.

As Earth Wizards, we have to have the moral imagination and moral strength. We have to have this moral force and mostrength to change. If no one else will, we will. We have to understand that we are not helpless. We can be a million JohLennons and a million Nicholas Roerichs and a million Gandhis and do it, because if we dont, we wont have a world for ochildren. This is the fundamental meaning of the Thir teen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement and Peace Plan. We agoing to a Culture of Peace.

The natural order is in harmony with itself. When we go to the natural time, we are going to the natural harmony. Since tnatural order is harmony, natural time is art. When we live naturally, harmonically in the natural time, we become living aThis is a process, but it is one that once we are in the right time, can happen very quickly. We can create positively much mo



quickly than we can destroy negatively, because it is all a condition of mind. When we enter into the natural order of time,according to the Thirteen Moon Calendar - which is the practical application of the Law of Time - we will see that this calendarnormalizes art as everyday life. We wont have to have specialized art galleries, museums, or anything like that, becauseeveryday life will become art. We dont need to have big show-off artists, or vir tuosos, which of course are good: sometimesthey demonstrate a model to us; but this is not the model to aspire to. Like I said yesterday, everyone is an ar tist, everyoneis a mathematician, and there is no distinction between those, when we are living art as everyday life. When we have thenormalization of art as everyday life, we begin to establish the natural community in which the government is telepathy.

This is a super high vision, that the government is telepathy and art is everyday life. Pretty soon we wont need to writebooks, or even read them, because the knowledge that we seek from books, a telepathic mind will extract from nature. And

we will be able to communicate whatever we need to whomever we need directly mind-to-mind. This is how it is done in theuniverse, this is the universal order of life. We see that, because humanity is in such a state of disorder, a new higher levelof order must be established to accompany the implementation of the Thirteen Moon Calendar. We must think that from nowuntil winter solstice 2012, we are in a transition in which one whole phase of evolution is being completed, and the ground isbeing prepared for a whole new cycle of evolution.

The Earth Wizards are the first little shoots or sprouts that are sprouting up from the decay of the Old Order. You can thinkof the whole 12:60 world as a big pile of manure and we are sprouting up from this world of manure. In that manure thereare many chemical reactions, and we can utilize that to create the seedbed of the new. During this transition period, which iswhat we are here to define and to become, we are to establish a higher orderhigher order of mental and social form. For alack of better words, we refer to this order as the League for Spiritual Evolution. League is something that refers to bindingtogether. In this League we find ourselves together with a common belief, a common practice, and a common aspirationwhich we call the 13:20. That is the only form that we need, the knowledge that we are all in this common belief and practice

together. This is because we are in a process of needing to educate ourselves: we need to educate ourselves and we needto practice what we learn.

The education we refer to as the Planetary Academic Federation. The practice or application we refer to as the Planet ArtNetwork. These are not institutions, but merely reference points to give ourselves a form and to articulate a certain order forourselves. Evolution has to proceed through a process of education and learning anew. If we see that the Culture of Peace isbased in an educational process whose main form of application is art, then we have a good definition of a Culture of Peace.

You can still pay $35 to hear a good violinist, or $15 to go to a museum but that is not actually participating in a living culture.You need that sometimes, to gain an appreciation, but we are talking about becoming a living culture. It is very interestingthat between Nicolas Roerich and the present moment, which is a little more than 60 years since Roerich first put forward theidea of a Culture of Peace, we could have no idea of what culture is at this time This means that culture has to be reinvented.This is what we mean by the Galactic Culture.

This means we have come to a new phase on this planet where we must create a new Earth Culture, and this new culturewe refer to as Galactic Culture. In the Galactic Culture we are not taking pride in a little nationalistic idea, but we areunderstanding that this is the whole to which we belong {showing Geo-Earth globe}, and that this whole, as it circulatesaround the star, is inseparable from the evolution of its star. And the star itself is a member of a larger order called a galaxy.It is the galactic order that informs the star and we would not exist if this star did not exist. This is the level to which we areraising our mind to establish the new culture of peace which is a genuinely galactic Earth culture.

So we are here all to learn again how to live without dependence on government, money, war, and machine. In this way we willbecome a new race. During this transition period we will become the League for Spiritual Evolution. We will fly with two wings:one wing is the Planetary Academic Federation and the other wing is the Planet Art Network. The knowledge informs theart and the art reinforces the knowledge. We are in a profound educational process and the whole purpose of this is merely

to become free. To become what the evolutionary plan intended us to become, a collective species in which the individualretains its autonomy and yet understands it is inseparable from the collective. Then telepathy returns. And when this processis complete we will be ready for the next evolutionary cycle. As I have said elsewhere, we will become the dolphins of theatmosphere and a whole other adventure of evolution is waiting for us. So we can stop there and take a break.

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{Holding up a rubber model of the brain} Did anyone lose their brain? I think quite a few of us have seemed to have lost ourbrain ... This one doesnt have any name on it. So we will just say this is our brain. We want it actually to be... {massaging thelittle brain} That is what we are doing, we are trying to massage your brain ... give it some new neuro-electrical impulses soyou can jump-start your mind and become an Earth Wizard. It feels good ... Thank you for letting me massage your brain.Now lets get serious and pick up where we left off. I had mentioned the Planetary Academic Federation. This actually was adevelopment from the World Summit on Peace and Time. The Commission of Education of the World Summit of Peace andTime developed a core curriculum, which of course has seven main areas. This again corresponds to the Law of the Seven,which is informing the entire Earth Wizards Seminary. What you see in this form, {showing diagram of Core Curriculum}, yousee a familiar pattern, perhaps the six-pointed star and then a central point. If you join these different six points out here, ifyou join them like this, you also have the form of a hexagon or cube. This Core Curriculum also informs each week of theteaching and each week of the Earth Wizards Seminary.

This is week one where we are treating the Thirteen Moon Calendar, and this corresponds to the Core Curriculum of Art.Then, for example, the second week is opposite, down at the bottom of the graphic. Week two we will be dealing with theDreamspell, and in the Core Curriculum it is Sustainable Living and Life Skills. You should continue to study these diagramsas we go through the week, to make sure Ive been a good teacher. Then when we are done ... all of these things will beexplained: the symbols, the codons, and the other words or references to the symbols.

We are starting, as I said, very slowly. Each one of us is taking collective baby steps together. In this way we will slowlybe coming to a common level of understanding. So this Core Curriculum of the Planetary Academic Federation, as I said,participates in the power of the Law of Seven. We hope that we will make available this Curriculum, and it will be adopted byeverybody, and then taken back to your bioregion. In this way we can begin a process of education to teach our children andourselves without sending the children to school. We must take our education back into our own hands. There is no reasonto think any longer that the State can give us a good education. To take back the education into our own hands, we ourselves

have to be very well informed and know what we are doing.

This is where we can establish a good foundation for a Culture of Peace. We understand that the education process informsthe art process. Knowledge can be catalyzed through art. The new forms of art will develop as they are now developing fromthe understanding of the codes and patterns of the Law of Time. Some of these patterns include what we might think of asaboriginal forms. Some of these forms and patterns might also include Bach and Mozart. And we will also see emergingtotally new forms from this. We must always be coming to the place of saying, No. We are just going to be 13:20 in ourknowledge, in our art, in the way of our life. Even if we are living in the large cities like Sao Paulo or Santiago, within the citieswe can form communities. We can find places to make gardens and begin to see what it is like to feed ourselves. There ismuch that can be done, living in the natural order of time. We will see that all of these activities of what we call everyday lifewill take on forms that are ceremonial and that at the same time are useful.

There is really no such thing as an ugly garden. If you take care of your garden well, you will find that your garden is talking

to you, it will be giving you suggestions that are both useful and ar tistic. This is what we mean by establishing the Culture ofPeace, we are talking about very basic things. We are not talking about just staying in your head, creating beautiful theoriesin your head that have no use. What was the saying of Sun Bear about that... If your words dont grow corn, I dont want tohear them. This is why we are saying that we are developing a new knowledge base that at the same time must always bepractical and useful. We are always going through a greater and greater simplification. When we spoke about the process ofhistory that is in the 13 Baktuns, we saw that the 13th Baktun is the Baktun when life became totally complicated - anotherboring topic. Anyone knows this who nowadays wants to make, as many of us had to do, airplane reservations, fly, and gethere: it shows how much we are truly willing to suffer to go to something that seems important.

I hope that you will not have to do any more of these meetings in which we have to ask Mother Earth for forgiveness becauseit costs so much of the natural resources to get here. We can do this with energy that is clean if we need to go meet eachother. Is Oscar here? Oscar walked here from Costa Rica. Not that Im saying that we all need to walk back to Brazil or CostaRica or Mexico, but we can also take sailboats to get around. The machine creates a dependency and an addiction to speed.

Brain waiting to be massaged



We think that the only way to get around is to fly. We can still maybe use some of the old railroad trains, and actually enjoy otime. When we fly today we sit in a seat like this - if you are not first class. If you have to fly for 12 hours it is very bad on yoback ... Very often there is a television screen in front of you, showing you a Hollywood movie you never even dreamed wpossible ... Its so bad, and yet there it is, in front of you. I might be a little sarcastic but I think its true. Ive been flying vemuch because of my mission and it has gotten worse. Like I said, thats a boring topic - so enough of that topic.

The point is that we have to take responsibility for the life we are living, take responsibility for this planet, and create a Cultuof Peace. No one else will authorize us to do it, so there is no point in waiting for some magic moment to say, Shall we begnow? We have the authority and we are beginning now. The point of the establishment of the two wings of the PlanetaAcademic Federation and the Planet Art Network is to realize the League for Spiritual Evolution. This League for Spiritu

Evolution will be all of the 13:20 communities, which of course will be growing very rapidly in the next 13 years. More and mopeople will be waking up with 12:60 hangovers and saying, Hey, that looks like a nice garden. We have to be ready for thalso. This is the League for Spiritual Evolution because we are basing ourselves and the purpose of life in the evolution of omind and our spirit. When we focus on the evolution of our mind and our spirit as the purpose of life, much of the materialiswill just fall away. We will see it is a great advance to be as simple as possible with your physical/material needs.

The less time you have to care for your physical needs, the more time you have for the caring of your mind and your spiAs we will see over these seven weeks, just learning to use the different tools of the Law of Time and to practice what thetools are about, that already involves quite a bit of time. Of course you want to do it well and properly, so you have to mathe time in your life to do it. Everyone here knows this, because you have made the time in your life to be here. Again, its extremely important step. It is not too often these days that people take seven weeks off to go study and learn something one else has heard about. So we are a great group of crazies ...

Where are we going with the League of Spiritual Evolution? Where we are going is to a place called the Dominion of TimIn the diagram of the Law of Time, which we demonstrated the other day and is now on the wall {refer: Evolution of Time Consciousness graphic, following page}, you see that the circle above is divided into an upper and lower half. The lower his called the Domain of Potentiality and the upper half is called the Dominion of Time. The Dominion of Time is the realizatiof the conscious application of the Law of Time. The Dominion of Time defines the whole stage where evolution is puremental and spiritual, where we become those higher beings that we think are trying to contact us. In that process of evolutiwe will realize that we have innumerable levels of experience which we cannot now even begin to imagine, because we aall still trying to take the chains off our brain, just so we can see what it is like to be free.

We are looking at the transition period of these next 13 years: when we complete this transition period, if everything worright, we will then be liberated into the Dominion of Time. This Dominion of Time is the nationless, boundaryless union of people living in bio-cultural diversity. John Lennon said it better in his song Imagine. That is where we are going, the mendefinition of the Law of Time. We could get more scientific, and also describe the Dominion of Time as the next evolutionacycle, the entire evolutionary cycle of this planet - when all of these boundaries will be erased. We will be not only in a necycle of evolution of ourselves, but a new cycle of evolution of the Earthnot only a new cycle of evolution of the Earth, bunew cycle of evolution of our local star, Kinich Ahau.

This next evolutionary cycle will be called the Psychozoic Era. Psychozoic is the name of the next evolutionary era whiwas devised by the Russian scientist, Vladimir Vernadsky. Psycho refers to the mental or the spiritual. Zoic refers to tGreek word for life. In other words, in the whole next cycle of evolution, the Earth will become a living mental, spir itual boThe reason why the Earth will be transformed into a living mental spiritual body is because a few of us decided to follow tThirteen Moon Calendar. The consequences of this act of returning us to natural time will put us once again in-phase wevolution. Being in-phase with evolution, we will make that quantum leap of the mind. We will be totally inseparable from tlife of the Earth, just as the Earth is inseparable from the life of the star. These are far out things. As profoundly materialisas we have evolved at this point, we will become even more fantastically spiritual.

We have not even scratched the surface of the brain and of our minds and bodies. We have scarcely begun that level evolution. This is what all of the saints and great teachers were pointing to, to arrive at this place where everybody is like Francis, where everybody is like Buddha, where everybody is like Christ. Isnt this what they taught? When Christ says, follome he is saying I am a pattern of spiritual evolution; my behavior is a pattern, why cant you behave like that? This is tteaching of the spiritual masters. They also knew that they were just evolutionary signposts down the freeway of life. Nirvan166 kilometers; Heaven on Earth: only 72 kilometers more. Judgement Day: you missed your turnoff.

We are talking about becoming purely spiritual beings, Earth Wizards who live very simply with their gardens, that are evolvitheir mind and spirit to do exercises of time travel. Exercises of time travel that will make our current space technology lovery primitive. Yesterday, Enrique - hes a great guy ... hes done a lot to help us being here... Anyway, we had to do some-mails with his computer and he got up to leave the room with his computer and his cell phone. I was about to make som

joke about it, and Enrique looked at me, pointed at himself and said, Galactic Maya with primitive technology. That is a ve


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good point of view. It might help us as we have to go through this painful last phase of mechanization, that we are GalacMaya and we are just putting up with these machines. We are going into a profound spirituality. In this spirituality we haveslogan where we say:

Prayer is the Practice of Art.Meditation is the Study of Art.Cosmic Perceptions are the Fruit of Art.

Prayer is the practice of art. This is the ground. What do we mean by that? We think that the practice of art is how to drawstraight line, but here we are talking about the art of time, of placing ourselves in alignment with the Law of Time. To plac

ourselves in alignment with the Law of Time is to place ourselves in alignment with the natural order. The natural order is tDivine Order. God didnt say theres the natural law over there and then theres My law over here. Its a big confusion to thin this manner. The confusion of thinking in this manner is where the human beings came in and said: Now we will creaour own laws between natural law and divine law. Natural law is Divine Law and Divine Law is natural law. When we say thprayer is the practice of art, we are practicing putting ourselves into alignment with the Divine Natural Order.

When we pray, we pray to the One Creator. The true prayer, we can only pray to the One Creator. This is not to be confusewith supplication of local spirits. For instance, we also need to supplicate local spirits - like we did in the opening ceremohere, when we asked the spirits of the place for permission to be here, to do what we are doing here, and to be friendly wus while we are here. Thats good manners. We should always do that wherever we go. Thats why we do the Prayer to thSeven Directions. Its good manners to the space, the energies and the spirits that are in that place.

So when we pray, when we really pray, suddenly there you are, and it looks like your boat has sprung a hole and the wa

has come in very fast ... What do you do? God help me! Thats what you do - even atheists. Thats because its part the program. When we really pray, then we are praying to the One Divine Supreme Creator. When we do that and we acompletely humble and free - of course, we may be asking for something, and we always are - but if we are totally humble afree, just the very act of praying in itself puts us into alignment. Then we say, Oh, my prayer was answered. What does thmean? That means that the resonance of our being in the pure moment of prayer, that resonance has gone into the highdimensional order, maybe guided by a few angels, and it reaches a point where it has a feedback. When we recognize teffect of the feedback we think, Oh, my prayer was answered.

All of this is actually very simple and scientific to understand. So this is what we mean by prayer is the practice of art. Tmore you are accustomed to that understanding, the more you place yourself in alignment with the natural law, then tnatural law - which is Divine Law - continues to inform and shape you because you are the art. Each one of us is the woof art that we are trying to create. When we sing a song, or play the drum, we are just giving expression to the art that walready are. But if we are not a well-formed work of art, then maybe it doesnt come out so well when you try to express This is what we mean by prayer is the practice of art. That is the very essence.

Then we say meditation is the study of art. We find that out when we pray. We dont pray all the time, we pray sometimeWe have to live, we do what we do. We find that sometimes its all too much, so we must sit still. If we learn how to sit swell enough and long enough, much in the manner that Bolon Ik has been teaching us, then we ask, through beginning tmeditation experience, What is mind? Sometimes it feels like it is a wildly rushing river, full of stones and big pieces of tree thhave been ripped off and are crashing everywhere, and then we say, Oh. Thats my mind! Maybe Ill sit a little longer. Then afta little bit of time, the river becomes a lake and then we say, Oh, thats a nice lake! It reflects the clouds, its very still, and yosit there longer and longer; and if you dont fall asleep and sit even longer, maybe you see something else. And thatsomethielse which you see or that you experience, thatis the study of art. Thatbecomes then, a quality of your mind; and becomingquality of mind, it informs your being. Then you then become that work of art that has been informed by that quality of mind

Then we say that cosmic perceptions are the fruit of ar t. We very much need to beat the drum, play the flute, sing songs adance, make paintings, but you dont do that all the time. Even when you do that, sometimes something else comes to yoSo when you practice the meditation, when you do the prayer, when you cultivate yourself through whatever practical foreven gardening, there comes to be a quality of energy within yourself, in which you have become more and more harmonizwith the Divine Law. Then the Divine Law informs you according to the condition of harmony that you have attained.

As you attain a greater state of harmony, you are not at war with yourself, you are not at war with anyone else, no matthow bad that person insulted you or how hard he hit you. Then you say, No, he actually needs compassion. It wont help thperson if I get mad at him or stay mad at him. At that point we begin to see that this is how we become more harmoniouThis also all the great teachers taught. In the Quran it says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is natural, and is to expected; but if you can refrain from that thats a lot better. When you can refrain from those instincts because you havelife in which prayer and meditation are integrated into it, you elevate your condition of harmony with the Divine Order and ybegin to experience what are called Cosmic Perceptions.



Cosmic Perceptions are somewhat in the category of synchronicity. As long as you are in the 12:60, they seem odd orrare, and if you talk about them too much to other people they might think you are crazy. But what we find is that cosmicperception is the natural quality of perception in the fully evolved spiritual life. Spiritual life comes from living in harmonyand all real culture is defined by the degree of harmony it has with the natural order. Real culture is maintained by humanbeings. Its not just an abstract. So the degree of Galactic Culture that you awaken in yourself is defined by the harmonythat you have with the Divine Order.

At the higher level of harmony we become informed by what are called Cosmic Perceptions. We can be walking out in thefield or we can be on that mountain, and we can stop and experience where we are. Then we can begin to feel, Oh ... this isreal ... I feel the energy of all the qualities of plants and rock and sky and Earth. I feel within myself something that rises, that

connects me to something greater. And this connection to something greater doesnt depend on my going out and havingthis experience. So to do this we need to have a simple life. This is what we are talking about when we talk about spiritualevolution. Many people have talked about the same things that I am talking about now, so its nothing new.

We are saying once again that by living in the Thirteen Moon Calendar, cultivating the 13:20 perception of time, we are thengoing to be establishing a new community that will be a spiritual community. But we are not inventing another religion. Enoughreligions have been invented. We are just participating in the natural religion which does not really need any name, doesnteven need to be talked about. That is what we are evolving into when we begin to really live fully the 13:20 life. We will seethat actually, the Law of Time is a program that is followed every moon, and also followed every year for a wavespell, or evenfollowed every 13 days. This program, every moon, as I said yesterday, is based on the power of four sevens. We had theratio 4 is to 7 as 7 is to 13. We see that each moon has that 4 and 7 power, and that this power of 7 is referred to in the Lawof Time as the Heptagonon of Mind.

The Heptagonon of Mind is the power of seven, that interestingly enough takes the form of a cube. The seventh power of thecube is the central point that holds the six sides together. It is generated from a central point and returns to a center point.This Heptagonon of Mind as a cube is the original power of creation. In the Biblical and Quranic tradition it says that Godmade the whole creation in six days. What does that mean? That means that the creation is in six stages and that those sixstages create the primal structure of the cube. Then it also says on the seventh day ... In the Bible it says that on the seventhday God took a rest. But the Quran says God doesnt need to rest, that on the seventh day God went to the Throne, and theThrone is at the center of the cube.

So within the center of the cube is the Throne of God, and there is this primary cubic structure. The center of that primarystructure is the Throne, and the structure itself represents the primal creation. You remember the movie 2001, Space Odessy- the monolith: that was the cubic form which is the memory of the primal structure of creation. Of this Heptagonon of Mindand the power of seven, I would like to just give two examples of a spiritual form that corresponds to the seven. In the HolyQuran, which consists of 114 chapters called Suras, the first chapter, or the first Sura is considered to be The Mother of theBook, in Arabic, the Umm al-Kitab. It is considered to be the Mother of the Book because it condenses the whole teachinginto seven verses. This power of seven corresponds to what the Law of Time calls the Heptagonon of Mind. Next week wellput this prayer up on the wall, so you can see what this is.

Many people wonder: What is Islam? This opening verse is called the Al-Fatehah, which means The Key or TheOpening. In the Arabic it always begins with the words Bismillah Irahman Irahim, which means, In the name of God, MostGracious, Most Merciful. The seven verses read very simply: In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, first verse.Second verse: Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe. The third verse again just repeats the qualities: Most Gracious,Most Merciful. These are the chief qualities of God. The fourth verse, which is the central point, reads: Master of the Dayof Judgement. The first part is the part in which God is revealing himself. In the fourth verse is the expression of the Lawof Karma. Then the last three verses refer to our relationship with God. So the fifth verse says: You alone we worship. Youalone we ask for help. Guide us in the right path, is the sixth verse, and the seventh verse is: The path of those whom You

blessed; not of those who have deserved wrath nor of those who have gone astray.

Im giving this example of the number seven. Everything is contained in it. This is how the Muslims pray five times a day- its no mystery. The other example I would just like to refer to (which will be available in the library, so whoever wants tocopy it may copy it), is referred to as the Seven Moral Categories of Enlightened Behavior. These are the seven categoriesof behavior of being a Bodhisattva. I know Steely Dan had a song called Bodhisattva, but we are talking about somethingslightly different. Bodhisattva means: being with the aspiration to enlightenment. Actually the Bodhisattva is one who totallydedicates his or her life not to his or her own enlightenment, but to the enlightenment of others. This is an example of the mosthighly evolved form of going beyond the natural response of an eye for an eye. As I said in the Quran it says an eye for aneye is natural, instinctive, but not to do that, that is better. So this is an example of the highest level of how not to do that.

This is the basis of what is called Mahayana Buddhism. Each of these seven moral categories contain ten affirmationsor statements. You have different levels which include the Ten Stages of the Bodhisattva, Ten Dedications, Ten Levels of



Concentration, Ten Super-knowledges and the Ten Acceptances, such as: acceptance of the voice of teachings, acceptanof being like a mirage, acceptance of being like an echo, acceptance of being like a phantom - so that we begin to see hoto get away from the self-importance of the ego.

I bring these examples up from these two different spiritual traditions, Islam and Buddhism. These very essential teachinare based on the principle of seven, so that they can be integrated into the daily and weekly practice. If you wish to stuthem or understand them, these are important ways of cultivating yourself further, applying more discipline to your minThrough this way we can become more awakened beings, who actually know what true humility is. We know that we anothing really, that we have qualities of energy that pass through us, that we are responsible for. But if we want to use thoqualities of energy that pass through us in a genuinely creative way, we have to fully submit to a higher order. By doing th

we gain tremendous spiritual freedom, so that we can cultivate ourselves to be like a Bodhisattva.

The Earth is far more important than me. Humans think that their creation is greater and more important than the creatiof the universe, but that is only human arrogance. The Earth is more important than me. I can start with that point. Very weThat completes what I have to say for this first week; now Bolon Ik has a few more words.

Bolon Ik: I would just like us first to acknowledge the teachings and I think again we could take a five minute meditatiperiod, because we can rest our mind and slow ourselves down. So again, to remind you of the technique, you should sit wyour spine erect. Relax your hands just on your legs in front of you. Relax your shoulders a little, just to get your seat firso you are sitting well. Let your eyes be relaxed, but leave your eyes open , so you remember that you are here. And as yare sitting, you become aware of your breath and you become aware of when you exhale. Let yourself relax into the No-Timand the next breath will come naturally. As we do this over the five minutes, if you find your mind wandering, bring your focback to your breath, exhale, and relax.


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Calendar Reform and the Future of CivilizationPreparatory Reflections for

the World Summit on Peace and TimeUniversity for Peace, Costa Rica,

Crystal Moon 24-Cosmic Moon 1, Sixth Year of Prophecy(Gregorian June 22-27, 1999)

Part 1

The purpose of the World Summit on Peace and Time is unprecedented. It is nothing less than to formulate and propose with

distinct and concrete steps a reform of the current world standard of daily time keeping, the twelve-month Gregorian calendar,replacing it instead with a perpetual calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each. This step is taken with the utmost seriousnessof intention and a recognition of the profound and wide-ranging implications which such a reform promises. To replace the currentcalendar with an entirely different standard of measure is to undertake a fundamental change that reaches to the foundationsof everything we now call civilization. It is precisely because of the profound changes it augurs that this calendar reform is alsoundertaken as an act of bringing about universal peace on Earth. Hence, the World Summit on Peace and Time.

Calendar Reform is the final act of history, and the first step toward Earth Regeneration in the cradle of galactic culture.To change the calendar now is to change the course of history and to revolutionize altogether the future of civilization onEarth. In making these sweeping but accurate statements we would be remiss if we did not present a brief history of moderncalendar reform so that we may be able to better grasp the subtleties and far-reaching implications of such reform. Wemust also understand that the timing of this calendar reform is of a vital nature and presents an evolutionary opportunity forhumanity which it cannot afford to lose.

The topic of calendars and calendar reform is not a popular one for the simple reason that the calendar in use functions as adogma and, therefore, there appears little reason to question it. Most people do not have any idea where the current calendarcame from. People who live in mostly non-Western societies function with what is called a lunar calendar, as well as the morerecent Gregorian Calendar. The lunar calendars also dogmatize the sense of time. Though we speak of the Arab, Hebrew,or Chinese lunar calendars, for example, it should be kept in mind that there is only one moon and hence all lunar calendarsare actually the same measure. The lunar calendars in use measure the synodic cycle of the moon, from new moon to newmoon. This is a cycle of some 29 and one half days. Twelve of these synodic lunations take 354 days, 11 days short of thesolar orbit of the Earth. The sidereal cycle of the moon, the measure of the moon from the same place it appears in the sky,is only 27 and one half days. Between the synodic and the sidereal measures, is the mean lunar cycle of 28 days.

While the lunar calendars in use by different world cultures are in no way solar calendars, or a measure of the Earths solarorbit, the Gregorian calendar in use today is an approximation of a solar calendar. We say approximation because on the

one hand, while the Gregorian calendar accounts for the 365-day solar cycle, inclusive of an extra day every four years, itsstandard of measure is irregular and corresponds to no natural cycle whatsoever.

It must be unequivocally understood that an irregular standard of measure has a profound effect on the mind, especiallyan irregular standard of measure of time. This is because time is a mentally perceived phenomenon unlike space which isperceived through the senses. A standard of measure which is irregular and uneven is inherently problematic. Our senseof time is a fundamental perception. If the standard of measure of time that we use is irregular, then we must contemplatedeeply and understand what this does to our mind over centuries of prolonged use.

Part 2

If the clock represents the mechanization of time, the Gregorian calendar is the instrument which normalizes the mechanizationof time as a mental institution inseparable from the irrational irregularities of its monthly count. In this way modern human

civilization has acquired its quality of institutionalized machine efficiency inseparable from a host of irrational social problems,crime and war. Aside from the Vatican itself which preceded and sponsored the Gregorian Calendar Reform, virtually all ofthe inventions, nation states, and institutions of the modern world are incorporated in this calendar. Any attempt to reform thecurrent civil calendar must come to terms with everything that is incorporated in this calendar.

Some 200 years after the Gregorian Calendar Reform came the French Revolution, and the call for a new calendar. TheRepublican Calendar of 1793 replaced the Gregorian Calendar with a twelve-month schedule of 30 days each, plus a five-day period at the end of the year. The French Republican calendar was essentially the same as a Babylonian type which hadthe same way of dividing the year into twelve 30-day months with a five-day purification cycle at the end. Every four years,this five-day period of the French Republican calendar was extended to six days to account for the quarter day. The seven-dayweek was replaced by the decalogue or ten-day cycle. The French Republican Calendar lasted ten years, until 1803, when itwas replaced by the Gregorian calendar once again.


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The anti-ecclesiastical, pro-rationalist sentiment which animated the French Republican Calendar was also behind tproposed calendar reform of the nineteenth century French thinker, Auguste Comte (1798-1857). Best known as the foundof the modern discipline of sociology, philosopher and mathematician, Auguste Comte had the opportunity in the 1840s learning about a calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each. This information came from travelers who had been to Tahwhere this calendar was well known among the Polynesians. This universal indigenous calendar, timed to the menstrual cycof woman, so impressed Comte by its harmonic form and biological truthfulness that he devoted several years to studyingbefore he finalized its form as the Positivist Calendar presented at an 1849 session of the Positivist Society.

Apart from Comtes proposal for a thirteen month calendar, which of necessity, observes an extra day out of time, the call Calendar Reform continued in France and elsewhere in Europe, but with a focus on maintaining a twelve month cycle and t

seven day week. During the 1890s, there was considerable agitation for a new calendar to begin the 20th century. In 1900conference was organized in Eisenach, Germany, for the study of the Reform of the Gregorian Calendar. Throughout theefforts the Papal response was always very intense in the defense of the current calendar for liturgical reasons. But a furthdefense put forth by the Vatican was that any calendar reform had to respect the succession of the seven-day week. Thargument of the Vatican very much restricts or even deadlocks the debate on calendar reform and essentially functions ascatch 22 which says, Yes, you can reform the calendar, but only so long as there is no break in the succession of the seveday week and that there are twelve months. Anyone skilled at problem-solving will see that these guidelines very much limthe possibilities of calendar reform, and in fact, have been the cause of a lack of success of every effort at calendar reformthe past 150 years. Indeed, all that this argument really amounts to is an expression of the power of the Catholic Churchmaintain its calendar as the world standard.

This notwithstanding, it is of great interest that the thirteen moon Positivist calendar of Comte, originally derived from thindigenous Polynesians of Tahiti, figured again in the Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Santiago, Chile, Decemb

25, 1908 - January 5 1909. At this seminal event, a Peruvian by the name of Carlos A. Hesse, introduced a calendar refousing a thirteen month calendar identical to that of Auguste Comte. While we cannot say exactly where Hesse derivhis calendar, being from Peru, it is highly likely that he knew that the Andean civilization (conquered by the Europeanpossessed a thirteen moon calendar, as did the Tahitians. Still in use today, the Peruvian thirteen moon calendar is correlatto the 500-year Pachacuti Cycles, and is currently (Gregorian AD 1998-99) in its eleventh Pachacuti cycle, year 5506.

The logical nature of the thirteen month calendar attracted English Railroad magnate, Moses B. Cotsworth, who formed tLeague of the International Fixed Calendar. In 1921, the International Chamber of Commerce in London, England, decidedpromote the calendar world-wide, and the matter was taken to the League of Nations. During the 1920s, Cotsworth attractthe interest of George Eastman of Eastman Kodak, who organized a great campaign on behalf of the International PerpetuCalendar. At the League of Nations a committee to study the topic of calendar reform received numerous proposals, but by and away the most popular was the International Perpetual Calendar. In the United States alone, over one hundred industriof a great diversity of interests were ready to adopt the thirteen month perpetual calendar. The League of Nations determin

that January 1, 1933, would be the date to commence with the new calendar, since that year began on a Sunday, and tperpetual calendar always begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday.

While maintaining a close tie with the traditional names of the months of the Gregorian calendar, the thirteenth month beicalled Tricember, the opposition to the calendar was mounted against the null day between the last Saturday of one yeand the first Sunday of the next year. This is because 13 x 28 = 364 days, or 52 perfect weeks, (which is what attractthe accountants of industry) and the solar year counts 365 days. Despite the sheer self-existing perfection of form of tthirteen month calendar, resistance to it focused on a great campaign against the unique null day, the very point by whichmaintained its perpetual perfection. Here the inertia of institutionalized ignorance and disharmony were able to put a stopthis otherwise most successful effort at calendar reform.

In 1931, the 111 delegates representing the 42 member states of the League of Nations listened to the 28 pages of thReport of the Preparatory Commission. While many countries including the United States, Brazil, France, Switzerland a

Germany voted in favor of the thirteen month calendar, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands voiced opposition to the institutiof a perpetual calendar which implied the introduction of supplementary days (the null day).

Support for this antagonistic position grew with the objection of various astronomers, such as Federico Oom of thAstronomical Observatory of Lisbon and Pope Pius XI, who argued that the break in the succession of the seven-day wewould create chaos and calamity. The Pope further argued that the matter of fixing the date of Easter was exclusively undhis jurisdiction. This position was further supported by editorials in leading newspapers such as the London Times, Octob13, 1931, which argued in favor of the religious scruples, and the New York Times, December 16, 1934, which echoed treasoning concerning the damage to be done by breaking the weekly succession, a succession which, it was argued, hanot been broken since the most ancient Biblical times.

Perceived as an attack on religion and the succession of the week, despite the great amount of money spent on the campaito promote the thirteen month calendar, the project floundered and could not withstand the conservative sentiments of t



Church, certain scientists, and leading periodicals. Supported by a counter-insurgency of various organizations wishing tocreate an atmosphere favorable to the abolition of the Gregorian Calendar, a final effort was made in favor of a moderatedtwelve-month calendar to occur on Sunday, January 1, 1939. However, this calendar also contained the notorious null day,and, on September, 4, 1937, the Committee of Communications of the Society of Nations, Geneva, arrived at the conclusionthat the time had not yet come to reform the calendar. In 1950, Pope Pius XII issued a pronouncement that the Church wasnot opposed to calendar reform, but was opposed to those proposals that included universal days which are not days ofthe seven-day week. This sentiment is echoed in the 1962 declaration of Calendar Reform at the conclusion to the Vatican IIEcumenical Council. As of the middle of the 20th century, the Gregorian calendar prevailed world-wide.

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The debate on calendar reform as it had occurred up to the Second World War reflects a total immersion in the lens of theWestern (Gregorian) mind. The argument that calendar change is a threat to religion is posed only by the religion whosecalendar is the object of the calendar reform debate. That the accident of history placed the Vaticans calendar as the worldstandard only hardened the position of its defenders. That the principle objection to the calendar reform was the inclusionof a day outside of the weekly cycle (hence assuring four equal quarters of 91 days or thirteen seven-day weeks each) isastonishing in light of the harmonic regularity that would be obtained by such a reform.

The very notion of an unbroken succession of seven-day weeks since the beginning of creation is actually a profoundly linearconception of time. The argument that a break in this succession would cause worldwide chaos, barbarism and the decline ofreligion, pales when one contemplates the actual course of events since the Second World War or even during the entire 20thcentury: never has there been more war, more violent death, and the proliferation of more weapons of mass destruction than atany other time in history. Could this be because the human populace is in the grip of a calendar whose actual measure defies

harmony and whose proponents have safeguarded its reform by regulations which defy the possibility of any real reform?In 1956, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations adjourned debate on the matter of calendar reformindefinitely. The cumulative inertia of the dogma of the Gregorian Calendar held sway, and with it, the dominance of thecivilization which had grown up in its shadow. We must assert that the concept of an unbroken succession of the weekly cycleis a Western provincialism. The notion of the seven-day week is not shared by the calendars of many other civilizations andcultures. Are we to say that the only true way is that of the seven-day week in unbroken succession as maintained by theGregorian Calendar? No, for this would be to fall into a type of chauvinism and imperialism by which the Gregorian calendarcame into prominence in the first place.

While the debate on reform of the Gregorian Calendar, the worlds civil calendar, had fallen dormant, the problems of the ColdWar only increased, compounded by the unimpeded path of global industrialization. The result was not only the escalation ofnuclear terror, but the negative effect of unbridled industrialism on the global environment. In such a complexity of social andtechnological forces, calendar reform seemed remote and irrelevant.

In 1987, a book called the Mayan Factor was published. For the first time a comprehensive effort had been made tounderstand the system of thought produced by the ancient Maya of Central America which was focused on a calendricalmathematics and astronomy that was unique to the history of the Earth. By the process of history, this book could only havebeen produced when it was, for only by this time was enough known of the ancient and contemporary indigenous Maya.

The later Maya civilization was crushed by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. In 1562, a Catholic priest, Bishop deLanda, burned all the books he could find, and smashed as many sculptures and works of art as he could, while he had thegreat pyramid temples of the Mayan pilgrimage center of Izamal taken down stone by stone to be reused for the constructionof Christian churches and cathedrals. The auto-da-fe of Bishop de Landa caused him to be called back to Europe to reportto his superiors. In 1572 , the very year Gregory XIII came to power and called for the Calendar Reform ten years hence,Bishop de Landa published his book on the knowledge of the Maya whom he had either destroyed or converted. Apart from

Bishop de Landas book, knowledge of the ancient Maya was now left to time and the jungle, awaiting discovery centurieslater by teams of archeologists who would try to piece together the forgotten story.

While the Mayan Factor accounts for the persistence of modern Maya survivors known as day keepers, who continuework with the Tzolkin or sacred 260-day calendar, the author, Dr. Jos Argelles, plunged into mathematical and historicalanalyses based on the Tzolkin, which demonstrated it to be more than just a calendar. What the Mayan Factor really pointedto is the elaboration of a point of view about time and the existence of a calendar or actually, system of calendars, totallyapart from either the Gregorian calendar or the lunar calendars of the Old World. Indeed, according to a contemporary Mayanthinker and ceremonialist, Hunbatz Men, the Maya actually operated with at least seventeen calendars in the prime of theircivilization, thir teen hundred years ago. Ironically, at Kitt Peak Observatory, outside of Tucson, Arizona, where the Vaticanhas its astronomical observatory, there is a mosaic mural of the Maya civilization with a statement asserting that the Mayancalendar was more accurate and scientific even than the Gregorian calendar!


17/19Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization

Two years after the publication of the Mayan Factor, the author and his wife, who had long since begun an experiment liviaccording to the cycles of the Mayan calendar rather than the Gregorian, found themselves in the Museum of Time, GenevSwitzerland. Because of their immersion in another, outside view of time, the Argelles were able to make an astonishidiscovery which was to profoundly affect the course of calendar reform. This was the discovery of the 12:60 and 13:20 timifrequencies, the basis of what they later came to call the Law of Time.

What the Argelles saw in the Museum of Time was actually the history of the mechanization of time. Incorporated inthe Gregorian calendar, which had the same historical root in the metric division of space as the mechanical clock, thcombination of mechanical clock and irregular calendar had produced an artificial timing frequency whose unconscioacceptance by and grip of the human mind had caused the human species to deviate farther and farther from the cycles

nature. This timing frequency the Argelles identified as the 12:60, in contrast to what they now knew was the natural timifrequency, 13:20. This 13:20 frequency is derived from the Tzolkin, which they also referred to as the harmonic module,permutation matrix of 13 x 20 = 260 units. The singular nature of the use and proliferation of so many calendars by the ancieMaya they now understood to be the result of the Maya knowing the actual timing frequency of the universe, 13:20, somethiconsciously unknown to all other peoples of the Earth.

From their discovery, the Argelles immediately perceived that the cause of the human imbalance with the environment, treason for the proliferation of industry and new technologies, and the human population bomb, were all one and the samthe adoption to and acceptance of a timing frequency at deviance with the laws of nature.

Knowing nothing whatsoever about the earlier efforts at calendar reform, the Argelles first conclusion drawn from thdiscovery of the 12:60-13:20 timing frequencies was to change the calendar. Instinctively they knew that the thirteen mon28 day calendar was the appropriate solution, as well as the first step to be taken by the human race to conform again to th

natural cycles and thus, save itself and its biosphere from destruction. From their knowledge of the different Mayan calendathey also knew that the Maya possessed a thirteen moon calendar, the Tun Uc or Moon count. Following the Chilam Balaprophetic tradition of the Maya, and in accord with the heliacal rising of Sirius, the synchronization or New Years date of thnew calendar was set at July 26. July 25, therefore became the Day-Out-of-Time (same as null day), which the Argellealso referred to as galactic freedom day or Green Day, and which was for the purpose of forgiving debts and sins and wipinthe slate clean. The Argelles also perceived that while in the 12:60 system time is money, in the 13:20 system, time is ar

With the Thirteen Moon Calendar as the basis of their investigation of the Law of Time, the Argelles forged ahead creatina tool kit of the new time called Dreamspell, the Journey of Timeship Earth 2013 (1991). Already a whole systems thinkeArgelles had identified the unique Mayan vigesimal mathematical system with the mathematics of the fourth dimension, tcause of a radical revisioning of the modern physics of time. In his study of the relation of the human within its environmeArgelles came to study the works of the Russian biospheric scientist, Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945). It was in Vernadskyfinal work, Problems in Biogeochemistry II (1944) that Argelles found what he was looking for: a statement confirming Argellperception that modern (Gregorian) science had totally misperceived the nature of time by applying the metrics of space ameasurements of time, thereby obscuring altogether the actual nature of time. In other words, time is a dimension totally apafrom, or grater than space, and, according to Vernadsky, from the point of view of time space is an infinitely locatable point.

On this basis Argelles was able to write A Treatise on Time Viewed from its own Dimension (published as The Call of PacVotan, 1996). The conclusion to this text considers what Vernadsky calls the biosphere-noosphere transition from the perspectiof the analysis of the fourth-dimensional timing standards. According to this analysis, the contemporary human Earth civilizatiis already in the midst of this transition which augurs a radical shift in operations and evolutionary advance into what Vernadscalls the Psychozoic Era. Argelles was convinced that the Thirteen Moon calendar change was the most intelligent and onpeaceful way for humanity to change its frequency and participate positively in this climactic evolutionary change.

The Argelles also perceived that due to the unconscious mental effects of the Gregorian calendar, the contradictions inhere

in global society are greater than the capacity for their resolution, while the problems created for the environment are fgreater than natures capacity to restore and regenerate itself. Something dramatic had to happen. In his continuing efforts decoding the ancient Mayan hieroglyph, on July 26, 1993, something dramatic happened to Argelles. He began decoding tstone sarcophagus of the tomb of Pacal Votan (603-683) of Palenque, and was thunderstruck by the prophecy of the ThirteeMoons. This prophecy is known as the Telektonon and states succinctly: Telektonon is revealed to you, Gods plan for peaon Earth, the last and only hope for spiritual renewal and salvation: immediate acceptance and adoption of the 28-day, thirteemoon way, the calendar Telektonon. From this was born the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement.

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The Telektonon establishes the period between July 26, 1993, and July 25, 2000, as the seven years of prophecy. Durithe first five years of this time the Argelles traveled throughout Latin America, Europe, the Far East and North America spread the message of the Thirteen Moon Calendar and arouse a world peace movement. The essence of their missio



is summarized as the Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Plan (1995), the crux of which says that if there is to be acalendar change, then the world must come to a halt to observe the change. Stopping the world to observe the change isthe pretext to call for a universal cease fire and implement strategies to alleviate the problems now locked into the old civilcalendar. Through their efforts they convened First Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights, Brazil, 1996, and the WorldCongress on the Law of Time and Judgement Day Tribunal, Japan, 1997.

The essence of the Judgement Day Tribunal was to bring to light the role the Vatican and its calendar had played in the creationand maintenance of the present world order. For this reason, and still with but scant knowledge of prior calendar reform efforts,the Argelles mounted a diplomatic campaign to enlist the Vatican and the United Nations in their efforts to change thecalendar. Arriving in Rome on January 1, 1998, with a legal team from Brazil, the Argelles hoped to reach Pope John Paul II

with their proposal. A meeting with one of the Popes private secretaries convinced them that they also needed the support ofthe United Nations. Though they later received acknowledgement from the Director of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences aswell as Secretary-General Kofi Annan, further efforts at communication were only met with silence from the Vatican.

Perceiving that the 12:60 world is in a quantum exponential disorder punctuated by the Gregorian calendar date problemof the Y2K and the current escalating war in the Balkans, the Argelles have now called for the World Summit on Peaceand Time. While still targeting the cooperation of the Vatican and the United Nations in coordinating the calendar reform,the Argelles also know that time is of the essence and that to rely on any of the established procedures for instrumentingchange is to lose time. For this reason they have perceived that a thoroughly populist approach may be the only way to movefrom one calendar and one time to another calendar and another time. There is no question that the future of civilizationandindeed of the biospheremay completely depend on a strategically timed and well designed calendar reform which takes intoaccount all aspects of human existence, for there is nothing that is not affected by time.

Of note in these Preparatory Reflections for the World Summit on Peace and Time is the persistence of the thirteen mooncalendar: Comtes Positivist calendar was derived from Tahiti. The Andean thirteen moon calendar Pachacuti is still inuse. The Maya knew and used the thirteen Moon Calendar, calling it the Tun Uc. In ancient England and Europe this samecalendar is known as the Druid calendar. Archeology from Japan shows that this calendar was known to its ancestor peoples.The remembrance of the 28 day-cycle, which after all is the human female biological cycle is recalled in the traditions of the28 lunar mansions of the Chinese and the Hindus, while among the Lakota, 28 poles were always used f

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