Categories
Archives
Recent Comments
- 2012 and the Spirit of the Age | on Toltec I Ching
- The Sphere of Universal Communion – insights from William’s journey into light | Spirituality Matters on Near Death Experience: Journey of Two Souls
- Delicia Kenealy on 2012: Prophesy or Symbol?
- Taoism | on The Tao of Enlightenment
- William on The Ithaca Oracle
Category Archives: 2012
2012 and the Spirit of the Age
Whether the ancient Mayans intended it or not, the end of their calendar coincides with a profound turning point in human civilization. This comprises what Carl Jung called a synchronicity. A term that get bandied about too loosely sometimes, a … Continue reading
The 2012 Metamorphosis Meme Oracle
What kind of Ending will produce the best Beginning for the Coming 2012 Age? This is the question addressed in a group divination at a three-day workshop on The Toltec I Ching in Southern Oregon, November, 2011. While six people … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, divination, end of the world, ethical strategy, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, Inspired Action, Mayan calendar, metamorphosis, new world, oracle, Restoring Wholeness, social transformation, spirit warrior, Toltec, Yi Jing
Leave a comment
The Ithaca Oracle
The emerging world culture calls to all: Take Your Stand In The Inevitable! It is an unvoiced mantra that calls people together in pockets of spiritual activism dedicated to embodying spiritual principles in enlightened acts of social evolution. One of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Inner Activism, The Toltec I Ching
6 Comments
2012: The Beginning Times
Across the imaginary distance of culture and borders, I honor your contribution to the Beginning Times. ~ A dying oak tree, its trunk split and branches breaking, does not in any way resemble an acorn. The new beginning—despite growing directly … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, divination, end of the world, ethical strategy, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, Mayan calendar, metamorphosis, new world, oracle, shamanism, social transformation, spirit warrior, Toltec, training, trigram, world view
6 Comments
A 2012 Training Manual
The Beginning Times There are two overarching lessons of the I Ching. The first is this: Every Ending Begets A New Beginning. Change is not conceived as an endless string of cause-and-effect events but, rather, as a cycle of repeating … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, animism, anti-authoritarianism, authoritarianism, Beginning Times, benefit, discipline, ethics, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, heart-mind, herd mentality, hexagram, higher self, I Ching, Intention, metamorphosis, new world, path of good fortune, social transformation, spirit, spirit warrior, symbolic behavior, the ecstatic life, Toltec, training, world view
Leave a comment
2012: The Storm Before The Calm
The Autumnal Equinox arrives, accompanied by fog and mist and rain and clouds of every shade of gray. The world’s qi shifts from boundless movement toward boundless stillness. We leave behind the excessive yang of summer and move into the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, authoritarianism, benefit, divination, end of the world, ethical strategy, ethics, freedom, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, Mayan calendar, New Dynasty, new world, oppression, oracle, peace and prospering for all, social transformation, Toltec, world view
2 Comments
The 2012 Meme of Restoring Wholeness
The great Chinese sage Chuang Tzu calls our attention to a strange tree beside the road. Its bark is so tough that no ax can penetrate it, its wood is so twisted that it cannot be split or used for … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, benefit, cultural meme, divination, end of the world, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, herd mentality, hexagram, I Ching, Mayan calendar, meme, oracle, regeneration, shamanism, social transformation, spirit warrior, symbolic behavior, Toltec
Leave a comment
2012: End of the World View
The ancient Mayans, along with the other peoples of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, held a view of time as cyclical and spiritually potent. Cyclical in the sense that history is divided into a series of Ages (sometimes called Suns), each of which … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Inner Activism
Tagged 2012, animism, Aztec Calendar Stone, Creative Forces, cyclical time, divination, end of the world, gods, Golden Age of Humanity, heart-mind, I Ching, Intent, living worldview, livingness of space, map of Inner Change, Mayan calendar, Mayan Long Count, Nahuatl, patterns of perception and behavior, rule of action and backlash, shamanism, spatialization of time, spirit, timing, Toltec, world view
1 Comment
2012: Prophesy or Symbol?
Maybe it’s a sign of how dramatically movies drive popular culture but a number of folks deeply steeped in the meaning of the Mayan Calendar and the Mayan writing system—as well as numerous scientists—are coming forward to reassure us that … Continue reading
The Oracle and the Smoking Mirror
Tezcatlipoca, the god of the Smoking Mirror of ancient Mexico, wore an obsidian mirror on his chest that reflected the true nature of anyone looking into it. Those who could not gaze at their reflection without averting their eyes lost … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, animism, divination, ethics, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, Intention, metamorphosis, Nahuatl, new world, oracle, shamanism, social transformation, Toltec
Leave a comment