2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

"I have nothing against "inner telescopes." I just prefer to use instruments than anyone can look through and that permit them to see more-or-less the same things."

I'd say these "inner telescopes" are available to anyone really and hold the key to understanding reality through experience rather than through analytical thought. It's just a matter of intention. I agree with what Daniel is saying about "the scholarly approach in relation to understanding the "worlding" of the Mayan world". Academic scholarly thought has its place and it obviously can help us to understand the ancient worlds to a degree, however there is also a "danger", be it in the academic field of archaeology, anthropology or any other mainstream sciences which seem to be "regulated" by very left brain logical thinking. There is danger of tunnel vision, the allegiance to "politically correct" knowledge and research. Laura Knight Jadzyck, author of the book "The Secret History of the World" called it the Thought Police, where egos of one PhD battle against other phd's. People with titles don't mean that they are correct. It just means they played the game right in the world of "getting a degree". Who really regulates the knowledge distributed and taught at universities and colleges....down to high schools?. My point is here that we at times believe to easily what some self-acclaimed authority with some letters before his/her name claims to be true or not true.
I have a friend who is professor at Cal Tech in the Nanotechnology department. He told me that his research is highly controlled and funds are giving out only to specific fields.......sometimes as not to question or put in danger rigid beliefs held in that particular field.
He also told me about immense ego battles between researchers and professors who put the "I" way before "for the better good of all"
Now I cannot say if that applies to the academic field of archaeology or anthropology, but just as a thought.
Even Calleman, Jenkins or Arguelles have big egos with big heads and no one wants to compromise their own research which they have invested their whole life into. No one wants to admit "I'm wrong"...or..."I don't know"...and so the whole research about the Mayan Calendar is also an ego battle of "experts" with or without degrees.........of course such "battles" can help to push the envelope and find out new things, however mostly it is not very constructive.
In any academic field, at one point it also seems to become more like intellectual mastrubation, rather than constructive research........people just have so much of their egos invested....it's rather funny to watch it all.

So....and here it is where these "inner telescopes" can help us. For one thing, psychotropic plants are still to this day highly misunderstood and misused. People judge them without ever having had a full blown psychedelic experience....or they are afraid of them... which is more like being afraid of themselves... because they have the tendency to destroy the ego and cleanse our perception of false and conditioned beliefs....and interesting "side effect".
I don't know...I can only talk from my own experiences (mainly DMT and Psilocybin mushrooms) and I have learned through these experiences about the nature of reality and consciousness more than through any book or any time spent in any school.
And if we want to understand something like the Mayan Calendar, a calendar/map which seems to point to the evolution of consciousness and since these psychotropic plants have been used by indigenous people who left behind these mysteries, then maybe they DO hold a key to what we're looking for ...whatever it is.
I'd love to see Jenkins, Arguelles and Calleman sit together around a fire and eat some mushrooms (how about 5g each?) with intention of getting a deeper insight into the mystery of the Mayan Calendar.................and then let it all fall apart and reconstruct it again together with no "I" but "we"..........but some egos are stronger than others.

If we want to understand reality and consciousness better (which is what the Mayan Calendar seems to revolve around) then I think it would be helpful to use these tools given to us by nature (hello!!) in order to explore altered states of consciousness.
I'd love to see the how the work of these hard headed PhD's of the Academic scholarly world would evolve if they'd open themselves up to these gifts of nature..........some things we cannot understand from this level of consciousness we're on where we only use 5% of our brain.......and I think the Mayan calendar is one of these things.


"If you have to inoculate yourself against the various memes of closure that are around, psychedelics do that. That's why they are so politically controversial and potent because -- more than any other single act that you may voluntarily undertake -- they pull the plug on the myth of cultural meaning.
We call these substances consciousness-expanding agents. Well, now, if consciousness does not play a major part in the future history of our species, then what kind of a future history are we talking about?
You know, are we going to become stupider, duller, more animal-like? I don't think so. Consciousness is our defining quality, and it must be nourished, encouraged, catalyzed. Never more so than now, because we have a planet in peril."

-Terence McKenna

> One archaeologist who made serious attempt at this was Dennis Puleson, who was tragically killed by a bolt of lightning on top of the main pyramid at Chichén Itzá in 1978 (no kidding).

Yikes! Talk about receiving a direct transmission from the gods... how sad that the courageous explorer never lived to tell his tale...