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The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind

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This book, by Barbara Hand Clow, is well written and appears to be based on facts involving the ancient Mayan calendar. She speaks to the acceleration of time and the process of human evolution from ancient times through the end of the calendar 2011/2012 (guesstimates vary through 12/21/2012). I know that some of you believe that we are currently in transformative times and are seeking to make sense of it all. Right now, according to the Mayans, we are walking the path "Xi Balba bih" (The Road of Awe) and for those seeking a better understanding of what lies ahead, this book could be useful. This book is NOT a doom and gloom portrayal of the future, but is, as I believe, the hope of a better future, a future of peace and love for many as we move forward into an anticipated leap of human consciousness. Barbara talks about the meaning of the calendar and the message it holds for modern civilization. Barbara gives in-depth explanations of how the Mayan calendar works, the details of which are a little too technical for me, but that's OK. I don't really need to understand the details of the calendar itself, just her rationale for her analysis. Much of this book resonates very well with me. She talks about the acceleration of time and consciousness. She references the time-acceleration theory work of Carl Johan Calleman and other researchers for a better understanding of the calendar, particularly during its last 5 years (2006/7 through 2011/12--like now Dude/Dudette!) She indicates how the calendar's cycles of time match up with important past and current time periods of the Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy.

I've been reading some 2012 stuff, I guess trying to find something that resonates with my own feelings and guidance in this area. I had studied the Spanish/Mexican language and culture for 5 years in school. In 2004, I visited the Mayan ruins in Chitzenitza, in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. I was fascinated by what I saw and have great respect for this very ancient culture (in its early days, before it was altered by a European gentleman). Our guide was also a Mayan descendent and who spoke about the Mayan calendar in some detail. As you may already know, Mayans were obsessed with time and were extremely accurate in their projections of it. So, maybe they have something to tell us about the future. Granted, no one knows what is going to happen, but, assuming the authors currently "out there" are being honest, and they are getting guidance from somewhere--well, let's just say that there's lots of different guidance going around right now, that's for sure, and lots of confusion. Like I said, this book makes sense to me. If 2012 and projections of a "new world" interest you, consider this book. I don't think you will be disappointed.

Just a side note, though, there are a lot of detailed explanations about the calendar so it gets a little hard to read because of the wealth of details. With that said, though, there's still a lot of info. So, it's like saying, "I'll tell you how to make a watch. If all you need is the time, then take the time and run with it. Disregard what you don't need in extra info."

This is a topic that's held my interest for many, many years. I bought this book because of the subtitle "Time Acceleration and Awakening The World Mind", hoping for more insight into the current "Time of No Time" that we're all experiencing, as foretold by the Hopi. I figured Barbara Hand Clow would shed some insight. She did nothing by muddy the waters and confound me with this book.

In the same Amazon shipment, I purchased "The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Conciousness" by Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D.

I read the Hand Clow book first, FORCING myself to plow through it, despite the poor structure, unclear writing style and her inability to make points that I surmised that she might be aluding to. I kept searching for something. What I found was repeated references to Calleman's book, quotes from his text, and even diagrams from his book. By the time I finished "The Mayan Code", I resolved to never buy anything by this author again. If she hadn't gotten permission from Calleman to cite and reproduce his work, I'd have considered this the highest example of plagarism I'd ever encountered.

When one author cites materials from the work of another, it's usually expected that they build upon their concepts or bring out further insights. In Hand Clow's book, all she managed to do was confuse me about Calleman's message because she doesn't seem to comprehend a Code of her own. I thank my lucky stars that I bought both books. Once I started reading Calleman's, I couldn't put it down. He answers all of the questions I've poked at for years, including the shortening of Time.

This is my very first Amazon Review in many years of reading them. I will review Calleman's book shortly, rating it 5 stars. Do yourself a HUGE FAVOR, and buy Calleman's book instead. His "Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Conciousness" is pure genius. It is clear, concise and articulate beyond belief. Not only does he explain the acceleration of time, based on his personal understanding of Mayan time cycles and 30 years of research into the Mayan calendar, he truly delivers an historical understanding of how those cycles will actually transform human consciousness. His book has the answers, this book only begs questions -- and Calleman's forgiveness.

Expanding on Carl Johann Calleman's seminal work of time acceleration during the end phases of the Mayan Calendar, Hand-Clow's perspicacious Mayan Code ups the amperage in an area of thought too lately mired in uncommonly pedestrian analyses and trifling infighting.
Deftly dispatching the too often apocalyptic end-date-of-the-calendar myopia, Hand-Clow takes the reader on an astonishing journey of new analyses, reinterpreting who we've been, who we are and who we're becoming. Incorporating invigorating new thought from areas as diverse as soul involution, new-paradigm astrophysics and archaeology, exo-politics and indigenous anthropology--plus a scintillating dash of her own intuitive analysis--Hand-Clow with gracious aplomb probes the genesis of the burgeoning new potential on planet Earth.
With The Mayan Code, Hand-Clow has crafted an energetic cross-discipline exploration of human development through time that concludes with our present high-velocity transformation of consciousness at the close of the Mayan Calendar. If the Mayan Calendar is a blueprint of humanity's maturation and ascendance, then The Mayan Code provides the lattice for humanity's psycho-spiritual transcendence into its birth right as a fully-conscious multi-dimensional species.
Find a comfortable chair and enjoy the ride as Barbara in her characteristic no-holds-barred style rips through time from the Big Bang to the Paleozoic to humanity's self transformation at the end of our current era, all the while taking you on an inner journey of self-discovery consonant with our coming of age as a species. A remarkably refreshing and innovative read, The Mayan Code will embrace your mind, soul and spirit, and caress you with an orgasm of transcendent spiritual synergy.
Want to know where we're headed as a species, and how and when we'll get there? Get The Mayan Code! Read it. Live it. Embrace the time acceleration and embody Gaia's ascendance and humanity's transformation during the almost-too-rapidly emerging multi-dimensional era of Light.
I was still weeping with joy two days after reading The Mayan Code.

Ms. Hand Clow delivers in The Mayan Code quite possibly the worst book I've read. The vast majority of the book is her gushing exaltation about Carl Calleman's interpretation of the Mayan calendar. (Calleman's work is inaccurate and not actually based on the calendar. In his own words "a distinction has been introduced here between the Great Cycle of seven DAYS and six NIGHTS and the Long Count, the chronology that is actually used by the Maya") To be fair, Hand Clow does mention the work of John Major Jenkins in places but doesn't get into any detail of his rigorous studies. The writing itself reads as one part rambling account of her belief systems and one part advertisement for some of her other books which are mentioned ridiculously often. It would seem that the author has a nose for the new age topic of the day and scrambles to write an op ed piece in the form of a book to capitalize on an easy audience.

One will find very little of value in this book. If you're actually interested in Mayan calendrical studies I refer you to the works of John Major Jenkins, Dennis and Barbara Tedlock, Tony Aveni, Linda Schele and David Frediel. Once armed with knowledge based in fact one can tackle the more, shall we say, interpretive works of Calleman, Arguelles, et al.

We have all been experiencing the effects of what Barbara Clow calls the time acceleration timetable encoded in the Mayan Calendar. This translates into the speed at which thoughts become reality, or as we've been saying in the New Age: instant karma. Well, it's here and we don't have a choice, our negativity or creativity will manifest in our lives with increasing frequency as we approach the 2011/2012 end of the calendar. (This allows us to clear up our emotional patterns and become enlightened beings.) But, what I found most fascinating about Calleman's theories and Clow's interpretation were the nine cycles of history or underworlds, going back to the Big Bang, each twenty-times faster (more condensed) than the preceding cycle, each broken down into further divisions of time--days and nights--so that we can compare themes. That is Day Four of the Galactic Underworld (1/5/99-10/28/11) December 4, 2004 to November 28, 2005--the Southeast Asian Tsunami, Ahmadinejad elected president of Iran, Hurricane Katrina, the great controversy over The Da Vinci Code leading to its own "enlightenment," compares to Day Four (749-355 BC) of National Underworld (3115 BC to 2011)--Isaiah warning the Israelites to change their errant ways, the days of the spiritual leaders: Lao-tse, Buddha, Confucius, Plato; to Day Four (AD 1873-1893) of the Planetary Underworld (AD 1755 to 2011)--Blavatsky founding of the Theosophical Society, Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, or the height of the spiritualist movement in America. Understanding how the Mayan shamans were able to see these patterns and encode them into their calendar takes the genius of a modern-day shaman, Barbara Hand Clow, to take new research and insights and show us the broader picture. It's heady and intuitive in equal measure. I can't recommend this enough for those struggling to understand and adapt to acceleration we're all experiencing.

The Mayan Code is truly a gift! Barbara Clow brings a feeling of clear fresh air into what sometimes feels like a fog-filled realm of speculation and doom regarding the Mayan Calendar and this critical time in our evolution. Her ability to bring complex and sometimes confusing information to readers in a relaxed, digestible form is remarkable. She comfortably integrates the enormous contributions of Carl Calleman's discoveries with the relevant work of other Mayan scholars and her own brilliant understanding of what is really taking place now and in the coming years. Ultimately, The Mayan Code leaves you uplifted and inspired. What is unveiled is the realization that rather than coming to the end of life on planet Earth in 2012, we are, in fact, gifted with a the rarest of opportunities. We are present for the what may surely become the time of the greatest transformation in human comsciousness ever! Ever!

Clow has mastered an area of study and a system so complex for Westerners to understand and apply, that I was quite impressed with the veracity of her dissemination process. I have read Dr. Calleman's work and found it to be quite academic in style, compelling, and at times profoundly difficult to stay with. Not so with The Mayan Code. Important empowering information will challenge the status quo, the social mind agreements,and the apocalyptic mindset. Clow has produced a work of art that culminates into a provocative and hopeful outcome, you cannot help but feel the tender chord of hope.

Barbara Hand Clow has once again provided us with a timely message for all humanity. Continuing with themes she has explored with her previous books, especially The Pleiadian Agenda, Catastrophobia and Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Clow presents an interpretation and exploration of the Mayan Calendar that helps to crystallize the events of the last five thousand years.

Clow postulates, with strong adherence on the work of Carl Johan Calleman, that Mayan visionaries constructed the calendar in recently modern times as a tool to see into, not only the very distant past, but into the future as well. Utilizing hard science as well as profound metaphysical understanding, Clow once again demonstrates a unique ability to teach from both sides of the brain, providing the reader with empirical scientific evidence and her own experiential knowingness achieved from many different teachers and traditions.

Barbara Hand Clow is a visionary thinker and teacher, oftentimes many years ahead of the rest of us, and gifts us with another tool to prepare for the coming awakening of consciousness that is humanity's destiny--I highly recommend this book!

Well, it is tough to say what hasn't already been said! I have to admit that I was shocked to read some of the 4 and 5-star ratings. It is like they read (and/or interpreted) just those areas that they wanted to "believe in". Such as a rater who stated, "This book is NOT a doom and gloom portrayal of the future, but is, as I believe, the hope of a better future, a future of peace and love for many as we move forward into an anticipated leap of human consciousness.... " Sorry but it most assuredly is "Doom and Gloom" book in the sense that there are predictions of massive cataclysmic events that will leave a population MUCH REDUCED from what it is now, likely just a small fraction (of which of course will be super enlightened and advanced consciousness souls who will be the "new evolution" of mankind). Hmmm... I wonder just what it is that will happen t all those other BILLIONS of people? Of course that is followed by "Barbara gives in-depth explanations of how the Mayan calendar works, the details of which are a little too technical for me, but that's OK. I don't really need to understand the details of the calendar itself, just her rationale for her analysis....Much of this book resonates very well with me...." Uh, as in brainwashed into a set of beliefs that have to rationale backing at all?

Also information presented as facts are often flawed - if not downright incorrect (scientific findings have their legitimate conclusions re-interpreted by the author at will when necessary to fit in with her "Code" - which was not any actual form of "code" that I could discern. Likewise she has a completely off-base reckoning of Man's evolution and history, also tweaking it and re-interpreting it as necessary to fit within her "explanations".

I find it interesting that if you go to her website ([...]) that you will find this statement: "After thirteen years of teaching the nine dimensions, Barbara and I came to the same conclusion: we had to stop for a while. The fun thing about our "stopping for a while" is that you, our students and readers, are encouraged to teach the material yourselves."

I wonder if the decision to stop teaching is in anyway related to repeated questions about what happened to short range predictions that she made in this book -- and that fell flat on their face. Like the continued power structure of the "Dark Side" elites, the Bushites and the NeoCons - who would greatly contribute to the natural "cataclysmic events" by their pushing the United States into economical failures and war after war after war. Obviously as this book was published in early 2007 and therefore written in the 2005 - 2006 time period and the NeoCons WERE doing exactly this, she rolled the dice that these people would continue in office, that the NeoCons would retain control of Congress and that GWB would be replaced by another NeoCon. But what ACTUALLY happened? The more liberal and enlightened consciously Democrats took control of the Congress in January of 2007 and a more liberal and enlightened consciously Democrat, Obama, took office as President in 2009 (and began winding down Iraq while continuing to fight the correct and "just and moral" war in Afghanistan (that the Bushites initially won - and then lost in their hurry to invade and occupy Iraq and gain tremendous deals with Oil Production / Distribution "special deals").

And then of course the biggie, with her prediction ("channeled prophesy") of peace finally coming to the land of Judea and Palestine with the Jews and Palestinians mutually coming together in an eternal enlightenment of peace -- specifically between August and November of 2008! Ding! Ding! Ding! Not only wrong, but "Super Wrong"...

No wonder the determination of "After thirteen years of teaching the nine dimensions, Barbara and I came to the same conclusion: we had to stop for a while... " I think that I would have not only done that, but also quietly taken down my website!

This book is a key in understanding not only of our history as humans, but also earth and our galaxy. The Mayan Code is here put together with an astrologers view and reading of the planetary energies surrounding us.
The upcoming events need millions of readers with comprehensive understanding and why 2011 is so important for our "junk DNA" to lighten up again.
Highly recommended for the open mind reader!