CONNECTING OUR CONSCIOUSNESS TO THAT OF THE UNIVERSE
When I went to the Equinox celebrations this year, I was not sure why I was going or what I hoped to learn from this trip to the land of the Maya with Hunbatz Men. I guess, in retrospect, I really went with no expectations. I only went with the confidence that I would learn from Hunbatz Men and the pyramidal sites something I needed for my higher education. I would like to convey to you today the essence of what I learned from teachings Hunbatz Men shared with us this Equinox Celebration in the sacred land of the Maya.
It was amazing to me to be in the Yucatan, at the same place and time, with Hunbatz for the third year in a row but finally grasping what it is he was trying to teach and share with us. I trust that Spirit will speak through me so that I convey to you what I finally learned this Equinox.
The breakthrough for me came when I asked Hunbatz to explain the sacred symbolism of the T. John Majors Jenkins just finished his lecture on his research connecting T, the great cosmic cross, and the "crossing" of the sun's ecliptic and the axis of the Milky Way Galaxy in which the sun will be at the exact center on the winter solstice in 2012. Hunbatz pointed to my hand and drew a cross on a piece of paper. He said, "You have a T or cross on your hand that the lines on your hand form. Sweat comes out at the center of that cross, but not from anywhere else on the lines that make the cross." Instantly, his saying that connected me with the universe. I understood what was happening in the universe was also happening within me.
The Maya, with their incredible intelligence and their incredible understanding of how the universe works and how we evolve as individuals, were able to draw themselves and others into this incredible oneness with all life through the use of their calendar systems.
I know this sounds simple, or incredible, depending on your perspective. What could calendars have to do with oneness with all life or oneness with the universe? But, if you can try to put yourself into a space of feeling what these words are trying to convey, you may grasp what and where Hunbatz helped us go on this trip.
The Maya were intimately connected to cosmic consciousness and the heart of the Universe through their deep love for and observation of the heavenly bodies above and the Milky Way Galaxy. Through plotting and tracking the greater celestial star systems and galaxy movements and connecting them with Earth's movement and seasons, they were able to create calendars that conveyed this energy and information. These calendars drew them into the greater whole and were used as stepping stones to reconnect and pull them back into the stars.
As we become familiar with and use the calendar systems of the Maya, they reconnect us to the galaxy and the cosmos. (I am not talking only about connecting intellectually.) As we understand and work with the calendars we open ourselves to deeper levels of consciousness. We return to this deeper awareness and understanding of our own innate and true dimension of consciousness, back to our true home among the stars.
This happens at a cellular level. We become once again a piece of the greater reality. We become a cell in the body of God. Contained within that cell is all of God and all of the universe. We become no longer separate and no longer alone, but one with the greater whole.
For these reasons, Hunbatz Men keeps trying to help us understand and work with the Maya Calendars. He is trying to help us return to wholeness and oneness with the universe.
The Maya were multidimensional beings. They used their calendars as tools to convey and anchor this cosmic consciousness into third-dimensional reality. As we learn to use the Mayan Calendars, we reconnect ourselves with the universe and the timeless Maya. We become one with this greater consciousness, and we realize we are not separate from it.
These teachings from the Maya that Hunbatz Men shares with us are not just symbolism and mythology from the past. They are real tools and concepts that can pull us into a greater reality.
When Hunbatz tells us the sacred symbol T is also a symbol for the tree and the Maya saw the tree as a brother and knew how to communicate with and ask help from the tree, he is not speaking symbolically. He is talking about a real, living relationship between real, living beings: the trees and the Maya.
After meeting Hunbatz for the first time a couple of years ago, I wrote to him a thank you letter telling him about how I appreciated what I learned from him and about what I was working on within myself and in my life. My letter must have conveyed some of the desperation I was feeling after that first trip to the Yucatan. That trip definitely altered my consciousness, and I was trying to come to a point of balance within myself. He answered my letter in third-dimensional reality, but he also sent to me, on another level, a blast of golden light that came from a group of trees in my backyard. I saw and felt this in a dream, even before I received his letter. When the letter arrived, his message linked with the dream, which allowed the energy to break through my emotional block. The flood of tears I experienced in my backyard with Father Sun and the trees released the rest of what I was carrying.
I did not understand the depth of what occurred with the trees until after returning from my latest trip to the Yucatan and rereading Hunbatz Men's book, Mayan Science/Religion . When I reread the section that discusses the sacred T, I began to understand things I had not previously understood. The following passage stood out: "When our Mayan ancestors defined this link between the human and the tree, it was not based on simple speculation, but from a root of the truth. For, if animals are vibrant with energy, so, too, are plants. If animals subsist on vegetal elements and if plants serve to cure our physical and psychic maladies, they are certainly our protectors. In fact, they are veritable companions and valiant protectors! Because through the sacred Hunab K'u, the Only Giver of Movement and Measure, plants help the human being defend its life, its very existence. Moreover, in moments of anxiety or desperation, the human can turn to the tree for help and, being a relative, it will provide help." (If you were here with me right now I could show you the group of trees in my backyard. They are frequently filled with fire flies, which look like fairy lights in the warm summer months.)
Clearly the trees had helped me, a relative in a time of emotional desperation.
I was humbled and grateful for the healing that came to me that day. However, I feel I only now grasp the depth of what occurred when the trees actually sent golden healing energy out of caring for another being such as themselves.
I trust that you can feel and understand what Hunbatz Men has shared with us from the Sacred Land of the Maya. I trust that you will learn from him how to work with and relate to the sacred calendars of the Maya. Through this work you will bring yourself back into your greater awareness as a multidimensional being.
Patricia Morris Cardona, MS, RN, CS, and Daniel Cardona, MD, are the founders of the Cosmic Mysteries School , 6116 East Cabin Creek Drive, Cold Spring, Kentucky, 40176. Patricia is an intuitive and vibrational healer and works with people around the country. Daniel is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and has a 3rd. degree black belt in To Shin Do (a descendent of Ninjutsu). Tel. 859-448-0379 or Fax 859-987-7920. Contact Us.
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