Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness

( 2 )
Pick Up In Store

Pick Up in Store

Reserve and pick up in 60 minutes at your local store

Paperback
$11.75
BN.com price
$18.00 List Price (Save 35%)
Marketplace (New and Used)
from
$1.99
$18.00 List Price (Save 89%)
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
All (40)  
Used (23)  
New (17)  
Close
Sort by
Page 1 of 4
Showing 1 – 10 of 40 (4 pages)
$1.99
(Save 89%)
Goodwill Indust. of San Diego
Seller since 2009

Feedback rating:

(248)

Condition:

New — never opened or used in original packaging.

Like New — packaging may have been opened. A "Like New" item is suitable to give as a gift.

Very Good — may have minor signs of wear on packaging but item works perfectly and has no damage.

Good — item is in good condition but packaging may have signs of shelf wear/aging or torn packaging. All specific defects should be noted in the Comments section associated with each item.

Acceptable — item is in working order but may show signs of wear such as scratches or torn packaging. All specific defects should be noted in the Comments section associated with each item.

Used — An item that has been opened and may show signs of wear. All specific defects should be noted in the Comments section associated with each item.

Refurbished — A used item that has been renewed or updated and verified to be in proper working condition. Not necessarily completed by the original manufacturer.

Acceptable
2004 Paperback Fair

Ships from: San DIego, CA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$2.00
(Save 89%)
Alibris NV
Seller since 2005

Feedback rating:

(20386)

Condition: Very Good
2004-03-25 Trade Paperback Very Good Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations.

Ships from: Sparks, NV

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$2.00
(Save 89%)
Yankee Clipper Books
Seller since 2009

Feedback rating:

(3924)

Condition: Like New
Nearly new condition book. Sail the Seas of Value

Ships from: Windsor, CT

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$2.71
(Save 85%)
OwlsBooks-TRM
Seller since 2009

Feedback rating:

(22568)

Condition: Good
Giving great service since 2004: Buy from the Best! 4,000,000 items shipped to delighted customers. We have 1,000,000 unique items ready to ship! Find your Great Buy today!

Ships from: Lakewood, WA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$3.27
(Save 82%)
New Chapter Recycling
Seller since 2010

Feedback rating:

(3293)

Condition: Good

Ships from: Lakewood, WA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$4.95
(Save 73%)
ANGELFIRE BOOKS
Seller since 2007

Feedback rating:

(336)

Condition: Very Good
1591430283 NEW BOOK, SLIGHTLY DAMAGED IN SHIPPING.

Ships from: BALDWIN, NY

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
$5.50
(Save 69%)
Extremely_Reliable
Seller since 2007

Feedback rating:

(3210)

Condition: Good
Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.

Ships from: Richmond, TX

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
$6.79
(Save 62%)
The Book Case PA
Seller since 2005

Feedback rating:

(102)

Condition: Very Good
2004 Trade paperback Very good. VG+ Just the slightest little bit of wear to edges. Very tight binding, no marks in text. Near new condition.

Ships from: Connellsville, PA

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$7.95
(Save 56%)
four corners used books
Seller since 2010

Feedback rating:

(18)

Condition: Acceptable
2004 Trade paperback Fair. No dust jacket as issued. used with normal wearing and dog eared pages. Text is free of markings and binding tight. FAST shipping Trade paperback ... (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Read more Show Less

Ships from: ignacio, CO

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
$8.98
(Save 50%)
PLANET BOOKS
Seller since 2010

Feedback rating:

(284)

Condition: New
1591430283 BRAND NEW. GIFT QUALITY!

Ships from: WELLINGTON, FL

Usually ships in 1-2 business days

  • •Canadian
  • •International
  • •Standard, 48 States
  • •Standard (AK, HI)
  • •Express, 48 States
  • •Express (AK, HI)
Page 1 of 4
Showing 1 – 10 of 40 (4 pages)
Close
Sort by
NOOK Book (eBook)
$9.90
BN.com price
$18.00 List Price (Save 45%)

Available on NOOK devices and apps

  • Nook Devices
  • NOOK
  • NOOK Color
  • NOOK Tablet
  • Tablet/Phone
  • NOOK for iPad
  • NOOK for iPhone
  • NOOK for Android
  • NOOK for Android (Tablet)
  • NOOK Kids for iPad
  • PC/Mac
  • NOOK Study
  • NOOK for PC
  • NOOK for Mac

Want a NOOK? Explore Now

More About This Book

Overview

MAYAN STUDIES / NEW AGE

“Reading this book is a powerful and electrifying experience. Each page offers penetrating insights that unravel the deepest mysteries of human history and the evolution of global consciousness.”
--Michael E. Salla, Ph.D., Center for Global Peace

The prophetic Mayan calendar is not keyed to the movement of planetary bodies. Instead, it functions as a metaphysical map of the evolution of consciousness and records how spiritual time flows, providing a new science of time.

The calendar is associated with nine creation cycles, each of which represents one of nine levels of consciousness or Underworlds on the Mayan cosmic pyramid. Using empirical research, Carl Johan Calleman shows how this pyramidal structure of the development of consciousness can explain matters as disparate as the common origin of world religions and the modern complaint that time seems to be moving faster. Readers will learn that time is, in fact, speeding up as we transition from the materialistic Planetary Underworld that governs us today to a new and higher frequency of consciousness--the Galactic Underworld--in preparation for the final Universal level of conscious enlightenment. The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness reveals the Mayan calendar as a spiritual device that enables a greater understanding of the nature of conscious evolution throughout human history--and how it provides the concrete steps we can take to align ourselves with this growth toward enlightenment.

CARL JOHAN CALLEMAN holds a Ph.D. in physical biology and has served as an expert on cancer for the World Health Organization. He began his studies on the Mayan calendar in 1979 and now lectures throughout the world. He is also author of Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan Calendar. He lives in Sweden.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781591430285
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
  • Publication date: 5/10/2004
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 256,054
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

Carl Johan Calleman holds a Ph.D. in Physical Biology and has served as an expert on cancer for the World Health Organization. He began his studies on the Mayan calendar in 1979 and now lectures throughout the world. He is also author of The Purposeful Universe, Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan Calendar and The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. He lives in Seattle.

Read an Excerpt


Chapter 1 -- The Legacy of the Maya

The Return of the Sacred Calendar

Almost everyone who has studied the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica agrees that the road to understanding their cosmology--the way these peoples looked upon the world--runs through their calendar. Clearly, the Maya were the people who had developed the most advanced calendrical system. Until the crushing of the Mexicas, the entire region, reaching into the current United States, shared the core of this calendar system, the 260-day Sacred Calendar. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the whole region was spiritually synchronized through the use of this same calendar.

It may seem odd that a calendar could be this important. Most would think the choice of a calendar is rather arbitrary and has little influence on the worldview of a civilization. But perhaps it is exactly because the choice of calendar appears so unimportant, like a mere convention, that it has become a blind spot in our consciousness. The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory in 1582 and now in use worldwide, is taken as a given, and there seems little reason to replace or complement it.

But what if this calendar exerts an insidious indoctrination that most people are unaware of and strengthens a worldview that is false? This book is written partly to highlight this indoctrination and hold up the true Sacred Calendar as an alternative. It is as an alternative to the worldview imposed on us by the Gregorian calendar that the traditional Mayan calendar is now reemerging from the ashes. This Sacred Calendar is a codification of the Mayan Universe of Holy Time.

To make things worse, the Mayan calendar has been largely misrepresented by regular tourist guides and textbooks. Typically, standard books emphasize how advanced the Mayan sciences of mathematics and astronomy were in ancient days. While this may be true, it is almost entirely beside the point and by itself would not be a good cause for the revival of the Mayan calendar. After all, the astronomical measurements of today’s scientists are much more accurate than those of the ancient Maya, and if astronomy was all there was to it there would be no good reason for us to invest a deeper interest. What is important to today’s world are not the astronomical aspects of the Mayan calendar but the spiritual. Through the spiritually based nonastronomical calendars, the tun (360-day period) and the tzolkin (260-day period), the true, and unparalleled, contribution of the Maya to modern humanity is to be found.

The tzolkin, meaning “count of days” in Yucatec Maya, is also known as the Sacred Calendar. In Guatemala, the Quiché-Maya people have kept this calendar intact for a period of 2,500 years through the diligent observance of the calendar by so-called day-keepers, men and women endowed with the special responsibility of keeping track of the days. Through comparisons with dates on old stelae, archaeologists have been able to verify that not a single day has been lost in 2,500 years.

The Mayan calendar is still being used. In the past two decades, interest in the Mayan calendar has increased worldwide, and the work to reconstruct it and develop a true spiritual calendar charting the future of humanity has begun. This revival is occurring partly among researchers, who take as a point of departure that the worldview of the Maya was, and is, closer to the truth than the modern. It is also happening among the living Maya themselves, many of whom are educating their young in the old ways. At the core of the teaching is the Sacred Calendar.

The Count of Days: The Tzolkin

In the Sacred Calendar the days are counted differently from calendars developed in other parts of the world. In this calendar the days are counted in two ways. The numbers one through thirteen constitute a thirteen-day count or “thirtnight” (English has no word for it, but Spanish does: trecena). In parallel with this, each day is assigned one of twenty different signs that are always counted in a specific order, resulting in a twenty-day cycle called by the Maya a uinal. The two counts, the trecena and the uinal, run together so that each day is characterized by both a number and a sign. A common way of illustrating this is by two cogwheels, one with the thirteen numbers and the other with the twenty day signs, each of which moves one step every day to produce a new combination.

As every day is characterized by both a number and a sign, 13 x 20 = 260 different combinations of numbers and signs are generated in order. The first day is 1 Imix, the second 2 Ik, then 3 Akbal, 4 Kan, 5 Chicchan, 6 Cimi, 7 Manik, 8 Lamat, 9 Muluc, 10 Oc, 11 Chuen, 12 Eb, 13 Ben, and then not 14, but 1 Imix, because the thirteen numbers then start on a new round. Each such combination of a number and a glyph recurs every 260 days. The chart of these 260 combinations of the thirteen-day count and the twenty day signs, which is shown in figures 1.9-1.10, was referred to as the tonalpouhalli by the Mexicas and the tzolkin among the Yucatec Maya. It is still regarded as the Sacred Calendar among the living Maya, reflecting a process of divine creation that proceeds without interruption.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 The legacy of the Maya 1
2 The thirteen heavens 17
3 The cosmology of the world tree 34
4 God and the historical religions 63
5 The nine underworlds 88
6 The Tzolkin 120
7 The galactic underworld 137
8 The history of the human mind 163
9 The completion of the cosmic plan 193
App. A The cycles of economy 221
App. B Practical uses of the Mayan calendar 234
App. C How to calculate your Tuniversary and Tzolkin day 252
App. D The war of the west against Iraq 255
Glossary 263
Bibliography 280
Internet resources 282
Index 283

Customer Reviews

Average Rating 5
( 2 )

Rating Distribution

5 Star

(2)

4 Star

(0)

3 Star

(0)

2 Star

(0)

1 Star

(0)

Your Rating:

Review Guidelines
Add Recommendations
Your Name: Create a Pen Name or Leave Anonymously

Barnes & Noble.com Review Rules

Our reader reviews allow you to share your comments on titles you liked, or didn't, with others. By submitting an online review, you are representing to Barnes & Noble.com that all information contained in your review is original and accurate in all respects, and that the submission of such content by you and the posting of such content by Barnes & Noble.com does not and will not violate the rights of any third party. Please follow the rules below to help ensure that your review can be posted.

Reviews by Our Customers Under the Age of 13

We highly value and respect everyone's opinion concerning the titles we offer. However, we cannot allow persons under the age of 13 to have accounts at BN.com or to post customer reviews. Please see our Terms of Use for more details.

What to exclude from your review:

Please do not write about reviews, commentary, or information posted on the product page. If you see any errors in the information on the product page, please send us an email.

Reviews should not contain any of the following:

  • - HTML tags, profanity, obscenities, vulgarities, or comments that defame anyone
  • - Time-sensitive information such as tour dates, signings, lectures, etc.
  • - Single-word reviews. Other people will read your review to discover why you liked or didn't like the title. Be descriptive.
  • - Comments focusing on the author or that may ruin the ending for others
  • - Phone numbers, addresses, URLs
  • - Pricing and availability information or alternative ordering information
  • - Advertisements or commercial solicitation

Reminder:

  • - By submitting a review, you grant to Barnes & Noble.com and its sublicensees the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to use the review in accordance with the Barnes & Noble.com Terms of Use.
  • - Barnes & Noble.com reserves the right not to post any review -- particularly those that do not follow the terms and conditions of these Rules. Barnes & Noble.com also reserves the right to remove any review at any time without notice.
  • - See Terms of Use for other conditions and disclaimers.
Search for Products You'd Like to Recommend

Recommend other products that relate to your review. Just search for them below and share!

Create a Pen Name

Your Pen Name is your unique identiy on BN.com. It will appear on the reviews you write and other website activities. Your Pen Name cannot be edited, changed or deleted once submitted.

Your Pen Name can be any combination of alphanumeric characters (plus - and _), and must be at least two characters long.

Continue Anonymously

We're sorry, but penname is already taken.

Please select one of the following:
Your Pen Name can be any combination of alphanumeric characters (plus - and _), and must be at least two characters long.

Continue Anonymously

penname is available!

By visiting the BN.com website or marking a purchase on BN.com, a User is deemed to have accepted the Terms of Use.

Continue Anonymously

Welcome, penname

You have successfully created your Pen Name. Start enjoying the benefits of the BN.com Community today.

Sort by: Showing all of 2 Customer Reviews

  • Posted August 10, 2009

    "Will we ever learn that the world and the cosmos are ONE?"

    I have been obsessed with the Mayans since I was young enough to read, 40 years or so. Having knowledge helped in reading this wonderful book, other wise confusion could set in easily. Once I read it then all the pieces of the puzzle came together. Carl Calleman did a superb job in every way on this book noting that its not December of 2012 we should be focusing on but October 28, 2011 as well as June 6, 2012. 2011 is when we will finally realize that there is no such thing as duality. Enlightenment will occur when we see all around us as ONE, one with Jesus and with God. A time will come when war and violence will be of the past. There is hope for all of us. I cant speak highly enough of this book and author. What a treat it has been. Don't pass this book up!!!

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

    Was this review helpful? Yes  NoThank you for your feedback.   Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.

  • Posted March 9, 2009

    What the Mayan Calendar is really about

    If you are curious about the true meaning of the Mayan Calendar, this is a great, well written and well researched book by a leading authority in this field. Can be a great nerve calmer as well, since the Mayan Calender does NOT predict that the world will end in 2012.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

    Was this review helpful? Yes  NoThank you for your feedback.   Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Sort by: Showing all of 2 Customer Reviews
If you find inappropriate content, please report it to Barnes & Noble
Why is this product inappropriate?
Comments (optional)
500 character limit