In the Gregorian Calendar, this Friday, July 26th will be Yellow Galactic Seed in the Dreamspell. It will also be the last day.
When the Dreamspell was first conceptualized by Jose and Lloydine Arguelles back in 1987 around the time of the Harmonic Convergence, this day seemed fantastically distant. Far on the other side of the 'singularity horizon' of December 21st, 2012 that marked the end of a 5,125 year cycle in Mayan calendrics called the 13 Baktun Count, Yellow Galactic Seed was the prophetic end point of this 26-year 'transition program' to realign the human mind to natural time. At its birth, Dreamspell was presented as a much-needed remedial program for an emerging global civilization that was still embedded with the linear and unharmonic frequencies of the medieval Gregorian Calendar, or ‘artificial time construct’. Dreamspell was the cure for all our temporal ills.
As Johnathan Zap has pointed out in describing Dreamspell's 'singularity mythology', you could pretty much say anything would happen on July 26th 2013, because it was so far off that it seemed credible, yet not unattainably so, so that most people could visualize themselves still be around to experience it.
Arguelles’s prophecy was that (if we were to faithfully follow the Dreamspell program) on Yellow Galactic Seed, we would see a telepathic unity that fundamentally changed how we viewed human consciousness and the launching of “Timeship Earth’, a noospheric construct of a collectively unified human mind in which the fundamental unity of our shared identity would be beautifully and obviously realized. A delightful and inspiring vision for sure, but is it going to happen?
It’s worth noting that Jose Arguelles also made a series of predictions that most assuredly didn’t happen: the changing of the world’s calendar from the Gregorian Calendar to a natural time Thirteen Moon Calendar by 2004, being an excellent example.
When questioned about this by Daniel Pinchbeck in his book ‘2012; the return of Quetzalcoatl‘, Arguelles explained that, as a visionary, it was his job to put out into the world the highest possible vision to inspire others. This is entirely reasonable on one level and highly problematic on another. Certainly, it is the job of our visionaries, prophets and leaders to set the goals to which we should aspire, but on the other hand, if what they say doesn’t happen, especially when it is tied to a specific date, that seems to somewhat undermine their credibility and authority.
It’s the bargain that prophets make in the tricky business of reading the tealeaves of tomorrow. The future is always one part prediction to one part co-authorship, in our post quantum psychologies. It was a bargain that Arguelles was willing to make, in his eyes, almost certainly for the upliftment of humanity’s vision, but in the eyes of his critics, he was just wrong.
Friday may or may not see a noticeable development in our progress towards actualizing the noosphere. (And, remember, Arguelles was very much a radical in his interpretation of the timescale of humanity’s global telepathic awakening. Teilhard de Chardin, his principal inspiration in this matter, thought that it might take a thousand years, or longer.) One thing is certain, post-2012, psychedelically inspired eschatologies (and apocalypses, both positive and negative) are at an all-time low in popularity. For better or worse, we have all had our fill with the ‘end of the world’ and the Mayan Calendar is currently less fashionable, or on zeitgeist, as dubstep.
Around the world, this Thursday, the ‘Day Out Of Time’, in the Thirteen Moon Calendar’s cosmology, the faithful rump of galactivators and synchrononauts will be celebrating by participating in the Rainbow Bridge meditation, or gathering for free events and ceremonies at sacred sites and power spots. I will be joining them. It’s likely that there won’t be that many of us though, and for those who do gather, only a small percentage will even realize that their cosmology has run its course and is, in fact, over in the morning.
Towards the end of his life, Jose Arguelles did speak about the Dreamspell program being extended to the next significant marker in Mayan cosmology, the end of the twenty baktun cycle in October of 4772.
Given the fact, however, that many of the ‘biotelepathic’ meditation programs that were based upon the Dreamspell, such as the Telektonon, 7:7:7:7 and many others have either finished, or finish on Yellow Galactic Seed, this latter adjustment seems to me a little disingenuous and more like a convenient soft shoe shuffle.
The inconvenient truth is that the 26-year galactic transition program has reached its due date and we are still living in a pre-disclosure world run on fossil fuel and the Pope’s weird calendar.
This is generally a problem with eschatological belief systems, they run out of time and the world awkwardly keeps on doing its thing. This isn’t to say that the Thirteen Moon Calendar and Dreamspell don’t have value, or indeed that the insights they contain don’t have a significant contribution to make the great intellectual debate about the nature of time in our world. It just means they are (kind of) over. There are still Thirteen Moon Calendars and diaries being published for next year, but the grand project of global telepathic awakening seems to have been abandoned for the niche pursuit of a better calendar — or ‘synchronometer’ — for those so inclined.
That was never the root of the Arguelles vision and abandoning that galactic masterplan — unless a rainbow bridge does appear in the sky — will be a bitter pill for the faithful. After all, when is the next credible deadline for global ascension and telepathic awakening? And, don’t we need that more now, than ever?
The truth of the matter is that the results aren’t even in from the great experiment of December 21st, 2012 where an unprecedented number of people participated in some sort of recognition of that date's significance. Certainly, there were profound experiences and problematic ones, the entitlement of new age tourism collided in a messy way with the spiritual uprising of indigenous peoples reclaiming their traditions and much, much more besides. Did any of it make a difference? Certainly. How much? Despite the best efforts of organizations like unify.org, it’s almost impossible to say and the story hasn’t yet really been told.
The launching of ‘Timeship Earth’ on July 26th 2013, may seem like a minor niche event, still in the penumbral shadow of our global ‘2012′ moment, but it nonetheless marks a culminating moment in a cosmology that was largely responsible (somewhat controversially with some of the Maya people and other critics) for popularizing the whole notion of 2012 as a consciousness shift in the first place.
The Thirteen Moon calendars and ‘decodings’ will continue, but bereft of the main part of their ideological urgency, they may drift onwards as a declining and unfashionable pursuit. This concerns me. I accept that — formally — the Dreamspell program is over, but from where else will a coherent contender for a galactic cosmology arise?
So much of Arguelles’s vision deeply resonates for me in a world seemingly bereft of grand and nobel ideas. His view of the interconnected and entangled relationship between telepathy and synchronicity seems to me to be deeply insightful and important. Many of his books, including his first The Transformative Vision, are the bold and original works of a disciplined, powerful, and original mind.
Somewhere along the way, Arguelles made the devil’s bargain that all predictors of the future must make and jumped the barrier between visionary and prophet. I hope that those incorrect predictions (at least in the third-dimensional time continuum that I apparently inhabit) don’t ultimately hurt his intellectual legacy and that more people investigate the ideas of this extraordinary man.
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