As winter approaches, the energy continues to ramp up, everyone I know and love is being effected in one way or another. I have been witnessing and experiencing a higher calling of consciousness of companies, individuals, unmarried couples, married couples and their children. All of humanity is being tested to a higher calling. What will be the tipping point in your life? What will you do with that realization? Once you have it, there really is no turning back. You are being called upon to go inside, seek your truth and live your life to it's fullest potential.

The interesting thing for me is how you "think" you don't see it coming, right? But then, really... when you open your heart to your truth, those pesky little voices have been calling upon you for a while. It could show up as an illness of family member or yourself, betrayal of heart, lost job and lack of money. Whatever that mallet is that hits you over the head, pay attention and look within and surrender...

Your not alone. I am guilty of projecting my love and light out to sources other than "The Source"... and what happens is a thinning of my energy and creativity. It took a huge change in my life to realize that when that gift arrives, I must move my energy to a higher power and soon enough the experience evolved into that of Love, Surrender and Peace.

What is the greatest desire of your soul? When stillness comes and the flow of energy comes from Source, it is amazing what phenomenon can arrive. It is about trust. Trust Source to take care of you, trust Source to guide you, trust that Source is surrounding all that you love and care for in it's knowing and unconditional love.

Peace be within you, in the enlightening days ahead...

Connie M. Johnson

Enlightenment Network correspondent Carla Kaiser gets into 2012 and interviews Mayan calendar expert John Major Jenkins:

While I have always been attracted to astrology and other metaphysical areas of study, I must admit that I never really felt that attracted to the whole 2012 thing. However, slowly but surely I started to notice that many of my favorite cultural heroes are acting like they take this 2012 thing seriously, so I figured, “Why not? What’s it going to hurt to look into it a little bit?”

Mainly I was just curious, more than anything else. I started to ask my friends if they had read anything about it and what books they’d like to recommend. 99.9% of the people I asked in my very unofficial survey recommended John Major Jenkins as a reliable source of information.

I began my search with Sounds True’s collection of essays entitled The Mystery of 2012. This book contains viewpoints from almost all of the heavy hitters in the 2012 arena, including John Major Jenkins.

After reading it, I had a lot of questions. Luckily, I had the opportunity to seek answers from John Major Jenkins:

EN: I watched a movie called The Fountain last week and wanted to ask for your thoughts. A Google search yielded the following quote from you:

JMJ: “Now, if you want to see a film that conveys an essentially Maya view of time and the meaning of sacrifice --- see Aronofsky's new movie release The Fountain. Although it too indulges in scenes of Maya savages, and places the Dark Rift in the wrong part of the sky, it actually conveys the Maya teaching about sacrifice in a compellingly on-target way. And it's use of three levels of time (past-present-future) is an ambitious attempt to transcend time and show non-causal connections between multiple events.”

EN: Have you noticed anything else in pop culture that runs parallel to your findings about the Mayan message?

JMJ: The pop culture is not a particularly fertile field to find affirmations of the Maya idea of transformation and renewal in 2012. There are stirrings in the realm of renewable energy and community building, but for the most part what you find in the pop culture is the shadow. By this I mean the collective denial of renewal manifests in an obsession with doomsday. Thus, the prevalent and by now tiresome specter of doomsday in films and novels about 2012 is the perfect confirmation, but flipped upside down by a culture that is unable to see beyond its own nihilistic fears.


EN: Speaking of sacrifice, I noticed an interesting statement in your essay which was published in The Mystery of 2012:

JMJ: “The monumental message of Izapa points the way with three methods: tantra, shamanic healing with sacred plants, and breathing meditation. The key to the efficacy of all three is sacrifice (or surrender). And the key to sacrifice is humility and compassion.”

EN: When most people hear the word tantra they think of sex. Can you elaborate on how this concept applies to the Mayan message?

JMJ: Tantra, the union of male and female energies, is somewhat surprisingly a completely appropriate way to think about 2012. First of all, it represents the galactic alignment that my work has shown is the thing the ancient Maya were wanting to target, or point to, with their 13-Baktun cycke ending date (December 21, 2012). This is the alignment of ther solstice sun with the dark rift in the Milky Way - which was mythologized as the union of the Cosmic Father and Cosmic Mother. This can be seen as a parallel expression of the Hindu Shiva-Shakti union. To engage in Tantric yoga and practice is thus to open a direct inner experience and understanding of this union, and thus what 2012 is really about. It is not, strictly speaking, about sex.

EN: There are a lot of unfamiliar terms and concepts for those of us who are new to 2012 studies: The Tree of Life, Singularity Point, Omega Point, Noosphere, Crop Circles, Sacred Geometry... If you were designing a 2012 curriculum for kids (7th graders), which would be the top vocabulary words and concepts you'd want them to understand?

JMJ: Most of these terms are misleadingly applied to 2012, and would need a fair amount of space to explain. If I was explaining 2012 to kids, I would use the mythic imagery of the Popol Vuh (the Hero Twin story). This is the Maya's own answer to your question - using the power of story to convey profound truths.

EN: Could you give us sneak peek into anything you are currently working on? Is there a mailing list or a link we can share with our audience members who would like to stay informed of your new projects?

JMJ: I have just completed a lengthy treatment of 2012, which will be released in October as a Tarcher Books hardback. It is called The 2012 Story and is about as comprehesnive as one can hope for. I also nurture many other creative projects and outlets, including playing guitar and song writing. I am launching an interactive informational online portal called Update2012.com, and am inaugurating this summer The Center for 2012 Studies. My work will be featured in two prime time television documentaries, one produced by NBC and one by National Geographic.

EN: What are you doing to personally prepare for the coming changes?

JMJ: I don't really think in these terms. I try to live my life with consciousness and engagement in the moment. I think the idea of a change in the future sort of puts us into a future projection mode, and we miss being present. I've always said that change happens in the present moment, and I've always dissuaded people from thinking that something fated and dramatic was scheduled to occur on December 21, 2012. This doesn't mean that the date is therefore meaningless or some kind of hoax. Readers can find out more about the key ideas in this work - the reconstruction of the Maya spiritual teachings at the site of Izapa, the galactic alignment astronomy and how it was embedded by the Maya into their ballgame, Creation Myth, and other traditions, and several other things, at my website: http://alignment2012.com

Thank you for the good questions and this opportunity to talk.

Click here to watch 2012: The Online Movie featuring John Jajor Jenkins, Gregg Braden, and Sonia Choquette.

Enlightenment Network is showcasing a new video named, Where Buddhism Meets Science. It is the most artful and convincing piece of spiritual video work that I have seen to date. But what stuck in my mind besides the video's obvious profound message was that it was created by a young man named Gerald Penilla who happens to be 26 years old.

In this age of rampant transformation, wrinkles don't always equate to wisdom. In fact, it seems the young are awakening faster than any other age group. Jesus knew what he was talking about when he said the children shall lead. And lead they shall. Their energies are not being wasted prepping themselves for a corporate America that may not exist a few years from now. Many are facing the rising cost of college and asking themselves, “Do I really need to be learning obsolete mental constructions while the most profound change in mankind is taking place?”

Many of Gerald's age group are seeing beyond all the old belief systems. Their sense of place and time has been influenced by an environment of unprecedented access to information and breakneck change. Most social revolutions were fueled with the energy of college aged youth. Now the most profound revolution in human history is being catalyzed by those in Gerald's generation.

Those of Gerald's age group have less invested in our current “System.” These young hearts are willing to go much further, transcending the darkness into the innate knowing of their higher purpose, conveying no doubts that the way of the unrestrained ego is over. From their efforts, a new system will arise that will be far more evolved than before.

Youth like Gerald are motivated by a mission that arises from the heart. The Heart Math Institute tells us that the heart produces a magnetic field that is 5000 times as powerful as the field created by the brain. Just think, most of western civilization has been a result of human brains motivated by fear. Can you imagine the powerful change that will result from a fearless generation fueling a revolution from their heart? This is the generation that will solve problems that currently seem insolvable. This is the generation that will be instrumental in not only saving our species but helping us evolve into something greater than we can even fathom.

Thankfully, the internet has linked this generation to each other with a solid connection that has never been experienced before... This is where Gerald Penilla released his gift to the world straight from his heart... and here we are the older generation thanking him from the bottom of ours...

Check it out!

Watch "Where Science Meets Buddhism"

I have to admit that I was feeling pretty gloomy about the way current events were progressing. I was locked into the fear-focused news our mainstream media is feeding us. My partner, Connie and I even began reading survival manuals and searching for land in Costa Rica all in the attempt to escape mankind's eminent destruction. That is until we watched the video lecture by the late Ian Lungold, “The Mayan Calendar Comes North.” Ian was a student of Dr. Carl Calleman, author of “The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness.” No other video featured on Enlightenment Network comes close to offering a cogent explanation about the seeming chaos our world is currently experiencing.

I was stunned by the elegant math that gave the Mayan Calendar it's harmonic progression from the moment of the Big Bang to today's collapse of the banking system. I was completely convinced by the wisdom of the Maya when I realized how accurately all of Earth's history, including mankind's, fit into every step of the calendar's timeline. But, moreover, I was inoculated with a strong dose of hope when it was explained that the evolution of consciousness is behind all of it. Every event no matter how seemingly cruel or destructive had the ultimate purpose of advancing the ultimate awakening of the planet.

We are living in the most profound, exciting time in all of history. We carry within us the the hope of 16.4 billion years of of evolution. It was relieving to realize that all of the craziness around us is the shrugging off of a heavy skin that can no longer accommodate the powerful, co-creating beings we are becoming. It took Connie and I two screenings and a little patience to get the real impact of Ian”s prophetic words. Since that time we have truly noticed that as time moves on our intentions are strangely manifesting with greater and greater speed. We have put down the survival manuals and are leaving Costa Rica to the more rugged. We've come to believe that our efforts are better focused exploring the real estate within. Please watch the video and let us know if you think we made the right choice.

Watch "The Mayan Calendar Comes North"

Jude Johnson

Since we initially launched Enlightenment Network 3 years ago, technology has lept forward, allowing us to take the site farther than we ever imagined at its inception. Our new site makes it easier than ever to collect consciousness-raising content into one central resource so that you no longer have to sift through the massive quantity of negative media that is currently so pervasive.

We will continue to offer our own quality content, including interviews with some of the leading spiritual leaders of our time.

Sign up for a free user account using the 'Sign Up' link in the top right corner of the site and you will be able to rate the videos that you watch.

Check back often for new videos as we fill out the site in the weeks ahead.