Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind [Paperback]

The problem with most of Clow's book is that she tries to present ideas she has barely understood, and hadn't yet fully thought through, and she lacks that most important ability of a good writer, the ability to put herself in the place of the reader. Because her books are often self published by her own company, there is no editorial input which all her books are in dire need of. I buy all her books because there is always one or two good piece of suggestion or insight that takes my thinking in a new direction, but each book taken as a whole always leaves one wondering how much does Clow really know, how can the information be verified, and one often is left with the impression that she claims far more than she is certain of. A more enlightened and informed being would have claimed far less and presented a more cogent and lucid view of things, and feel far more responsibility towards the reader thus or wait until they have a clear picture before loading the reader with diatribe. I'm on the one hand grateful for her books but on the other hand, sceptical of much of the information because while she talks about channeling, the information appear to come very much from the left brain, and not enough efforts are made to go out of the her own narrow circle to test her theories.

Since time began ( or the way we track it) there have been those who found ways to record what "might" be happening but we're a mixed bunch; and intelligence is a matter of degrees.
Unless we speak the language (whether in words or symbols) we're stuck in problems of translation, and mind-set.
Never mind the cycles of natural destruction and the rise and fall of civilisations over "time",the sacking and destruction of ancient libraries and the taking hostage of what remained by religious bigots made things even more difficult.
I cherish the persistance of those who think things through, struggle their way through inconsistencies and who go seeking those who held to their own histories so that what remains may be sifted for points of contact.
What come closest to Truth is what remains from so much (oftentimes)denial, rumour,lying, spin and all of us need to be awakening our own individual minds so that we can engage in what really happened "then" and what might be happening "now." Time for the joined up writing/thinking?

For some reason Barbara Clow does not want you to know the possibility that, most likely, a great catastrophe awaits us in our near future (on or about 2012) similar to the one that took place 11,500 years ago (9500 BC). On pages 64 and 65 of the 2007 `Mayan Code' book, Clow writes of this 11,500 year old disaster the following:

"The scientific evidence for the great cataclysm is covered extensively in my 2001 book `Catastrophobia', and in D.S. Allan and J.B Delair's 1997 book `Cataclysm! Compelling Evidence of a cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.' ... As for the cause of the cataclysm, they've found evidence that fragments from the Vela supernova came into the solar system and struck the Earth's magnetosphere. It is difficult to know for sure what CELESTIAL BODY caused the event, yet it happened."

However, 6 years earlier, on pages 194 and 195 of `Catastrophobia', Clow states a different cause of the same great catastrophe that occurred 11,500 years ago:

"Meanwhile, as the solar system goes around the galaxy, it moves above, through, and below the galactic plane approximately every 30 million years like a dolphin swimming through stars, molecular clouds, and other bodies. When the solar system moves through the GALACTIC PLANE, the chance of a cataclysmic encounters are much greater than usual. There WERE mass extinctions of species 94.5 million, 65 million, 29 million, and 11,500 years ago."

So which cause is it? A celestial body or the passage through galactic plane? To sum this up again, in the 2007 book `Mayan Code', Clow states it was a CELESTIAL BODY, but in 2001 in `Catastrophobia' she states it was the solar system going through the GALACTIC PLANE? Well we know from my amazon book review on the book `Catatrophobia' the cause of the 11,500 catastrophe can't be the passage through GALACTIC PLANE because we are going through the galactic plane right now, which implies another catastrophe in our near term future. This book review on "Catastrophobia' is as follows:

"Excellent Information despite flawed conclusion, January 3, 2004

I had a tough time rating this book as it has a flawed conclusion that changes the entire message of the book. The author of the Foreword is the main reason for this flawed conclusion of the great cataclysm occurring 11,500 years ago which is when he suggests we went through the galactic equator plane. This is patently FALSE as proved by the book "Galactic Alignment" by Jenkins, as we are going through the Galactic Equator Plane in the 2000-2012 time period NOW. I rated it three stars and considered giving it 4 stars cuz of the good information that can be gleaned from this book. It does establish that a catastrophe does happen every 30 million years like clockwork due to the earth going through the galactic equator plane 8 times in a galactic year of 240 million years. Yes this book is a keeper, even with the flawed conclusion that we have already had the great catastrophe 11,500 years ago when we are about to experience it in 2012."

Clow on page 65 of "Mayan Code" says of this 11,500 year old catastrophe the following:

"Comprehending the magnitude of this event is crucially important because it implies that the most violent Earth changes are in the past, and that Earth is now settling down into a more harmonic pattern. Realizing that the worst is over and that Earth is rebalancing, blunts the fear that the end of the Mayan Calendar means the destruction of our planet. ... Because we struggle so hard to avoid processing our own pain, we tend to project an event that already happened into the near future, such as people do when they say the world is coming to an end in 2012."

There is absolutely no logic in these statements whatsoever and to a lot of what she says in this book. These statements don't change the fact that our solar system is going through the galactic plane NOW, and going through the galactic plane implies a catastrophe is coming very soon, which is an empirical scientific fact proved by the Horizon Project.

Clow comes to the conclusion that everyone who thinks there will be a great catastrophe on or about 2012 are Judeo-Christian neocon Fundamentalists, "who are afflicted with potent and serious mental addiction to God, have reduced intelligence, often very aggressive, hostile, in denial, and who have profoundly retarded the progress of human evolution." She goes on to say on page 35 of the `Mayan Code' that the "Jehovah's Witnesses might try to corner the market on the Mayan Calendar end-date by setting up 2011 or 2012 as their next end-of-the-world date." I think it is important to point out Ms Clows obvious agenda of pro-governmental non-disclosure don't panic the public, of what will probably be in our near future on or about 2012. People who disagree with her on this point are numerous and do not fit her aforementioned description, like Patrick Geryl, Lawrence Joseph, Edward Arnold, Brent Miller, and the scientists at the Horizon Project [...] to name just a few. For the record, there is good information in this book such as the discussion of Calleman's hypothesis linking biological evolution with the Mayan Calendar is excellent, but it is overshadowed by this one aforementioned point. For more information on my non-fundamentalist viewpoint of 2012 see my listmania's and "So you'd like to" guides here on amazon. Please read as much as you can about this subject so you can come to your own conclusions.

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