Note: The original report is no longer readable from its original URL address. However, you can view it using the Wayback Machine (click the link below). Disregard the dates shown (as it was based on the idea that the Mayan Calendar "ended" in 2012), and mentally assume that each of the Mayan Days and Nights in this excerpt refers to the current year, compressed over a shorter time period.
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The Next Nine Years
A thought-provoking analysis of the Mayan Calendar according to Ian Lungold

ARTICLE WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 2003

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The Fifth Night (Nov. 19, 2007 – Nov. 12, 2008) or period of dark that follows is also the darkest period of each cycle. In a plant's life this is the growth of the bud. In your history, this was puberty. In all of human history this has been a time of great physical hardship or major conflicts, i.e., the Ilionian Ice Age, the Neanderthals going extinct, Rome falling, and WWII are glaring examples.

The Sixth Day (Nov. 13, 2008 - Nov. 7, 2009) we return to a period of "Enlightenment." This is the time of flowers for the plant. For you personally, it was adolescence. In human history this was the creation of the first tools, the first attempts at agriculture and constructed shelter, the Renaissance and, most recently, the Flower Children Movement of the 60's.

The Sixth Night (Nov. 8, 2009 - Nov. 2, 2010), one last period of Dark in the cycle follows. In the plant's life the flowers wilt and die setting the stage for fruit development or of seedpods that will dry. This is what happened to the Maya civilization right on queue. Throughout human history there have been conflicts and revolts during this period, the most recent of these having been the Viet Nam War.

The Seventh Day (Nov. 3, 2010 - Oct. 28, 2011) is once again a period of Light, a time of readiness for something new and different, a time of ascension or going from one level to the next higher level. The plant spreads the seeds or drops the fruit to begin again a thousand times over. In human history it was during these repeating sections that Consciousness developed Homo Sapiens, agriculture and domesticated herds, signed treaties to establish the sovereignty of nations and their people, and put up the Internet thereby creating a planetary consciousness in 1992.

From 2006-2011 there will be a time of healing. It is a time of manifestation, of completion. During the Seventh Day, we won't necessarily be on the planet. We will be able to travel anywhere. We will have entered the Universal cycle. The last 260 days of this 360 day period we are supposed to get up to speed to experience all of infinity with our consciousness. This concept doesn't fit into our brain yet.