The Mayan Calendar: Mystic Key to a New World

In early Autumn 2002, Carlos Barrios journeyed North from his home in Guatemala to the Eastern edge of the Four Corners.

In Santa Fe, NM, at the tail of the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Barrios spoke in a knowledgeable manner about the Mayan tradition and the fabled Mayan calendars.

The Mayan calendar is an object of intense interest for many thousands of people right now, because they focus upon the watershed date of Dec. 21, 2012.

Everything changes by then, it is said.

With a cultural heritage including thousands of pyramids and temples, and a calendar that has proven itself to be astronomically accurate over millions of years, the Maya tradition is widely considered to be a mystic key to the soul of Turtle Island (North America).

In public talks and in a private interview, Mr. Barrios laid out his account of the history and future of the Americas, and the larger world, based on his understanding of the Mayan tradition as both an anthropologist and an initiate.

He spoke also about the path he sees ahead from now until the Winter Solstice of 2012. The range of teachings and insights offered by Mr. Barrios must be considered in the context of the realpolitik of his American homeland.

The Maya of Guatemala, their pyramids, and their calendar have endured - not in a new-age Shambhala of love and light - but in a milieu of treachery, beatings, torture, rape, and mass murder.**