The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind (Paperback)

by Barbara Hand Clow (Author), Carl Johan Calleman Ph.D. (Foreword)

Editorial Reviews

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“The Mayan Code is really interesting and amazing because its statements are based on facts. For instance, it mentions the VEDA. We the Mayas know this people as the BEDZA. They used and followed the ancient calendar of 360 days, just as the Mayas did with the Haab calendar that has 360 days too. I recommend you to read this book.”
(Hunbatz Men, Maya Itza Tradition )

“Barbara Hand Clow has written the definitive book about 2012. This book, quite simply, is the best resource that now exists. A very wise human being has poured her heart, her soul, and her mind into these words. The Mayan Code is a great gift to us all.”
(Whitley Strieber, author of Communion and The Key )

“Barbara Hand Clow’s inspired and well-researched articulation of the Mayan Calendar provides a significant aid to understanding the mechanics of the acceleration of time and the process of human evolution. She offers a refreshingly radical and hopeful outcome for our future beyond the Calendar’s end in 2011–2012.”
(Nicki Scully, author of Alchemical Healing and coauthor of Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt )

“From now through 2012 we are walking what the Mayas call Xi Balba bih, ‘The Road of Awe.’ Tools that assist us in looking at the vast acceleration and wave of evolution that we are experiencing, through the largest possible soul lens, will be of great assistance during these transformative times. This book is highly recommended for that process.”
(Ariel Spilsbury, coauthor of The Mayan Oracle: Return Path to the Stars )

"Protean, synthesizing, and vastly evocative, [Hand Clow] explores how our own personal healing is the most important factor as we prepare to make this critical jump in human evolution . . ."
(The Inference Reader, May 2007 )

"This exciting book grabs your attention and doesn't let go until the very end, and then some."
(Arco Carib, Aug 2007 )

"I highly recommend the book to alchemists, spiritual adepts and seekers of mystery. The Mayan Code is indeed the handbook of spiritual alchemy as Barbara Hand-Clow provides us with copious illustrations, maps, diagrams, and dozens of references and cross-references, allowing this complicated material to be disseminated easily." (
Lesley Crossingham, New Dawn )

" . . . full of information that is not commonly found among the rows of shelves found in the bookstore philosophy section and it's rational and easy to read approach to our evolution, and our possible future, are laid out with precision and full of relevant knowledge." (
Women's Radio )

"Barbara Hand Clow, author of more than a dozen books and DVDs, has taken the revelations espoused by Carl Johann Calleman in his book, The Mayan Calendar, to another extraordinary level." (
Curtis McCosco, CirclesofLight.com, Feb 09 )

Product Description
Bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow shows how the Mayan Calendar is a bridge to galactic wisdom that fosters personal growth and human evolution

• Unearths the meaning behind the calendar, its message for modern civilization, and what will happen when the calendar ends

• Reveals how time acceleration is a manifestation of the acceleration of consciousness

• By the author of The Pleiadian Agenda

Many researchers have investigated the science of time cycles by using the Mayan Calendar, which tracks the 5,125-year Long Count ending in the year 2012. History shows that civilizations suddenly appeared around 3115 B.C. in Egypt, India, and Sumer that used calendars based on systems similar to the Mayan Calendar, reflecting what was once a universal and sacred understanding of time. In The Mayan Code, Barbara Hand Clow draws on the work of biologist Carl Johan Calleman and many other New Paradigm researchers to unearth the deeper meaning behind the calendar and its message for modern civilization, especially during its final five years.

As we approach the end of the Mayan Calendar, time and consciousness are accelerating. Working with Calleman’s time-acceleration theory, Barbara Hand Clow shows how the cycles of time marked by the calendar match important periods in the evolutionary data banks of Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy and that the calendar describes the evolutionary stage to come. She explores how our own personal healing is the most important factor as we prepare to make this critical leap in human evolution--now referred to as the awakening of the World Mind.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company (April 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591430704
• ISBN-13: 978-1591430704
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,751 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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85 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A 2012 book that makes sense to me!, August 9, 2007

By	Kathy W (Baltimore) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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."

57 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First class ticket to humanity's ascendance., June 13, 2007

By	Claudia P. Chittenden - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

66 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Softheaded musings based on a spurious interpretation of the Mayan calendar, January 5, 2008

By	Kristopher Wyman (Western, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.