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Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind
The Mayan Code is really interesting and amazing because its statements are based on facts. For instance, it mentions the VEDA. We the Mayas know this people as the BEDZA. They used and followed the ancient calendar of 360 days, just as the Mayas did with the Haab calendar that has 360 days too. I recommend you to read this book.--Hunbatz Men, Maya Itza TraditionBarbara Hand Clow has written the definitive book about 2012. This book, quite simply, is the best resource that now exists. A very wise human being has poured her heart, her soul, and her mind into these words. The Mayan Code is a great gift to us all.--Whitley Strieber, author of Communion and The KeyThe Mayan Code is a deep exploration of how, as we approach the end of the Mayan Calendar, time and consciousness are accelerating, giving us a new understanding of the universe. Using Carl Johan Calleman's research, as well as the ideas of other Mayan Calendar scholars, Barbara Hand Clow examines 16.4 billion years of evolution to decode the creative patterns of Earth--the World Mind. These great patterns culminate in 2011, and then during 2012 major astrological influences will inspire us to attain oneness and enlightenment.The Mayan Code shows how the time cycles of the Calendar match important periods in the evolutionary data banks of Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy. These stages of evolution are converging during the final stage of the Calendar, the period between 1999 and 2011. War and territoriality, resource management and separation from nature, are all part of daily events we must process during these few short years: evidence of the tightening spiral of time that we experience as time speeding up. Barbara Hand Clow counsels that our own personal healing is the most important factor as we prepare to make this critical leap in human evolution--now referred to as the awakening of the World Mind.BARBARA HAND CLOW is an International Mayan Elder (Comunidad Indigena Maya), Cherokee Record Keeper, and internationally acclaimed ceremonial teacher and author. She has written ten other books, including The Pleiadian Agenda, The Mind Chronicles, Chiron, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, and Catastrophobia, and she maintains an astrological website, www.handclow2012.com.
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First published March 29, 2007
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58 books136 followersBarbara Hand Clow is an astrological counselor, an editor of books on New Consciousness, and a ceremonial teacher at sacred sites. She lives in rural new England.
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December 27, 2016
This woman (who by her own admission has almost gone insane often since 1998) says that this book is an intuitive rather than a logical book. I think that removes it from any criticism that logic might bring against it. She regularly visits the black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as the crystal pyramid in the center of the earth to gather information about our evolutionary history. She 'knows' these things to be true because she sits among Mayan ruins and downloads the messages of the stones into her brain. She 'channels messages from Pleiadians', and one of her sons, after looking into her messages, killed himself. Her response to that is to 'honor his right to end his own life'. As she passes the message of global overpopulation on to the rest of us, and the necessity of many of our children dying so that each planned child can be brought into the world loved and cared for, (with China as a guide), she says that if that bothers us, we should realize we are stronger than we think, and she knows because two of her children are dead. Luckily for me, when she wrote this in 2006, her prophecies fell short and clued me in to her falseness. "...I predict that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will be resolved by extraterrestrial influence in August of 2008." That happened, right? Oh, and according to her, I do not live in reality.
January 15, 2023
Interesting read now 2023, especially with current events that are unfolding and the similarities from 2006 when she wrote this. She was very optimistic and it took courage to put this work out and make predictions about what our world would look like by 2012. Sadly humanity still has a long way to go before we reach the predictions and hopes she put forth.
July 2, 2009
This book is both informative and incredibly frustrating. I decided to read it because a friend recommended it as a way to understand all the hubbub about the Mayan calendar and the supposed apocalypse the end of the calendar signals. In the first few chapters, Barbara Hand Clow does an adequate job of explaining the calendar and organizing her argument of what the calendar means. A large part of her argument relies on the work and research of others, but if you are looking for a basic understanding of how the calendar works and some possibilities for what its end in 2011/2012 means for humankind, the beginning of the book is a solid place to start.
To be honest, that should have been enough and was really all I was looking for. Unfortunately, that information would not have filled a typical book, so the author proceeds to look back through history (both fossil and recorded) and attempt to correlate dates in the calendar with things that have happened in the past. She covers history we have very little knowledge of, throwing in an entire chapter on Atlantis, and moves all the way up to and past 9/11. What frustrated me about this part was that her evidence was all over the place.
In general, that "all over the place" feel to the book is my biggest complaint and frustration. As a former editor, I felt like I wanted to take the original manuscript and X out entire pages of information that felt extraneous. Hand Clow brings up so, so many various topics that I found myself putting the book down and going to wikipedia for significant lengths of time just looking up the information she referenced. I consider myself more liberal and well versed in new age topics than the general public, but I had no previous knowledge of the Vela supernova, the Keepers and Enochians, the Ica Stones, or countless other topics that are thrown at the reader at a fast and furious pace. Hand Clow would write about plate tectonics in one sentence, sacred geometry in the next, and human enlightenment in the next. I found it difficult at times to keep up with her, and I often wondered how what I was reading had anything at all to do with the Mayan calendar. By the time I got to the appendices at the end of the book, I was forcing myself to sit and finish the reading. Sure, the section on finding your Mayan day sign is fun, but I am still not sure why it is included here. The same goes for the detailed appendices on the tilt of Earth's axis and the detailed astrology guides. Imagine reading a horoscope that covers every person on the planet for the next three years, and you can get an idea of how convoluted that appendix, and much of the book as a whole, is.
I also disliked the tone of the book. Despite the lengthy endnotes, do not be fooled into thinking this is a scholarly book. Hand Clow has no qualms about asserting her opinions and pointing the finger here. By the end of the book, I felt like I had read a treatise filled with conspiracy theories. Even when I agreed with Hand Clow, her brash opinions struck me as unprofessional accusations, and I believe some of her points could have been made without resorting to sarcasm, exclamation points, and not-so-veiled references to the comeuppances she believes some people are about to receive for their actions as the end of the calendar nears.
Overall, I started off reading this book with a great deal of enthusiasm and was excited about the information Hand Clow presents about the calendar. My excitement waned, however, as her arguments became more scattered and the organization of the book became unclear. I do believe there is some important information contained here, but I wish it had been more tightly compiled and more scholarly in tone. Thinking back on the content of this book, I am torn between giving it 2 or 3 stars. I went ahead and gave it 3 because I did enjoy reading it, but there were aspects of this book that I found extremely frustrating.
To be honest, that should have been enough and was really all I was looking for. Unfortunately, that information would not have filled a typical book, so the author proceeds to look back through history (both fossil and recorded) and attempt to correlate dates in the calendar with things that have happened in the past. She covers history we have very little knowledge of, throwing in an entire chapter on Atlantis, and moves all the way up to and past 9/11. What frustrated me about this part was that her evidence was all over the place.
In general, that "all over the place" feel to the book is my biggest complaint and frustration. As a former editor, I felt like I wanted to take the original manuscript and X out entire pages of information that felt extraneous. Hand Clow brings up so, so many various topics that I found myself putting the book down and going to wikipedia for significant lengths of time just looking up the information she referenced. I consider myself more liberal and well versed in new age topics than the general public, but I had no previous knowledge of the Vela supernova, the Keepers and Enochians, the Ica Stones, or countless other topics that are thrown at the reader at a fast and furious pace. Hand Clow would write about plate tectonics in one sentence, sacred geometry in the next, and human enlightenment in the next. I found it difficult at times to keep up with her, and I often wondered how what I was reading had anything at all to do with the Mayan calendar. By the time I got to the appendices at the end of the book, I was forcing myself to sit and finish the reading. Sure, the section on finding your Mayan day sign is fun, but I am still not sure why it is included here. The same goes for the detailed appendices on the tilt of Earth's axis and the detailed astrology guides. Imagine reading a horoscope that covers every person on the planet for the next three years, and you can get an idea of how convoluted that appendix, and much of the book as a whole, is.
I also disliked the tone of the book. Despite the lengthy endnotes, do not be fooled into thinking this is a scholarly book. Hand Clow has no qualms about asserting her opinions and pointing the finger here. By the end of the book, I felt like I had read a treatise filled with conspiracy theories. Even when I agreed with Hand Clow, her brash opinions struck me as unprofessional accusations, and I believe some of her points could have been made without resorting to sarcasm, exclamation points, and not-so-veiled references to the comeuppances she believes some people are about to receive for their actions as the end of the calendar nears.
Overall, I started off reading this book with a great deal of enthusiasm and was excited about the information Hand Clow presents about the calendar. My excitement waned, however, as her arguments became more scattered and the organization of the book became unclear. I do believe there is some important information contained here, but I wish it had been more tightly compiled and more scholarly in tone. Thinking back on the content of this book, I am torn between giving it 2 or 3 stars. I went ahead and gave it 3 because I did enjoy reading it, but there were aspects of this book that I found extremely frustrating.
February 2, 2016
I WILL GIVE HER 5***** BECAUSE SHE DID HELP ME! THAT SURELY DOES LOOK LIKE THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN TO ME! (SHE DID SNITCH THE COVER ART THOUGH!)
October 9, 2009
I haven't finished reading this magnificent book, but so far I've gained a lot explanation about all the recent phenomenons that I've been witnesessed.
Finally,..I found the most reasonable book that could explain the 2012 apocalypse. Barbara Hand Clow speaks to the acceleration of time and the process of human evolution from ancient times through the end of the calendar 2011/2012 (guesstimates vary through 12/21/2012).First I thought this is gonna be a doom and gloom portrayal of the future, but on the contrary this book, as I believe, will bring the hope of a better future, a future of peace and love for many as we move forward into an anticipated leap of human consciousness. Barbara talks about the meaning of the calendar and the message it holds for modern civilization and also gives in-depth explanations of how the Mayan calendar works, eventhough they seem so technical for me, but that's OK. She indicates how the calendar's cycles of time match up with important past and current time periods of the Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy.
Eventhough it hasn't finished yet, this book makes sense to m & I guess it will satisfy your curiousity too.Especially if 2012 and projections of a "new world" interest you.
Just a side note, though, there are a lot of detailed explanations about the calendar so it gets a little hard to read because of the wealth of details. So you should try to conclude the "big idea" of the book,..
Finally,..I found the most reasonable book that could explain the 2012 apocalypse. Barbara Hand Clow speaks to the acceleration of time and the process of human evolution from ancient times through the end of the calendar 2011/2012 (guesstimates vary through 12/21/2012).First I thought this is gonna be a doom and gloom portrayal of the future, but on the contrary this book, as I believe, will bring the hope of a better future, a future of peace and love for many as we move forward into an anticipated leap of human consciousness. Barbara talks about the meaning of the calendar and the message it holds for modern civilization and also gives in-depth explanations of how the Mayan calendar works, eventhough they seem so technical for me, but that's OK. She indicates how the calendar's cycles of time match up with important past and current time periods of the Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy.
Eventhough it hasn't finished yet, this book makes sense to m & I guess it will satisfy your curiousity too.Especially if 2012 and projections of a "new world" interest you.
Just a side note, though, there are a lot of detailed explanations about the calendar so it gets a little hard to read because of the wealth of details. So you should try to conclude the "big idea" of the book,..
January 24, 2008
Here is a book by and outstanding author, that takes you through the maze of the Mayan code of time. This book will fill you with awe as it reveals the Mayan understanding of time and evolution. Ages ago, the Mayan - a civilization that most people today think of as primitive - had the mathematics of evolution down to the exact figures which we have just figured out with all our computers and so called advanced technology. Primitive - I think not! It is a book that will astonish you with the precision of timing that the Mayans had and used to determine their own demise as a civilization.
Barbara Hand Clow, a fellow astrologer and a brilliant shaman, opens the door to examine and understand what the Mayan's meant by the end of time.
I look forward to discussing this with others who have read or are reading the book. It is fascinating and in a short few years we shall all realize its true meaning.
Barbara Hand Clow, a fellow astrologer and a brilliant shaman, opens the door to examine and understand what the Mayan's meant by the end of time.
I look forward to discussing this with others who have read or are reading the book. It is fascinating and in a short few years we shall all realize its true meaning.
March 11, 2011
""The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind" by Barbara Hand Clow offers powerful and insightful information about the Mayan Calendar where she decodes the stages of evolution using a time-acceleration theory during the last 5 years of the 5,125 year tracking. Barbara critically focuses on the value of the cycles of the current time and the evolutionary stages that can occur during this transformational period that can exponentially shift the script of humanity. This information ultimately reinforcing how each individuals personal healing can act as the catalyst to a cumulative critical leap in consciousness that can "awaken the the World Mind" in 2012, as the Calendar comes to an end, offering hope for a revolutionary transformation in the human species." ~Dulcinea Contreras, 2008
June 16, 2016
The Mayan Code is a decent book about the Mayan Calendar and how it tells the story of the world's past, present, and future. Barbara Hand Clows provides the details how the Mayan Calendar works down to its mathematical calculations. I like how she grabs pieces of the world's most important historical events and how they fit into the Mayan Calendar. Coincidence? No way!
Reading this book leads me to learn more about the Mayan Calendar. Sucks the Maya civilization doesn't exist anymore (gee, thanks Spanish Conquistadors). If they still thrived, I wonder if they would've made a whole new calendar beyond 2012 explaining what would happen in our future. I suppose the current calendar exist so we can learn our past in order to predict our future.
Reading this book leads me to learn more about the Mayan Calendar. Sucks the Maya civilization doesn't exist anymore (gee, thanks Spanish Conquistadors). If they still thrived, I wonder if they would've made a whole new calendar beyond 2012 explaining what would happen in our future. I suppose the current calendar exist so we can learn our past in order to predict our future.
May 25, 2009
Curious about the 2012 hype? Barbara Hand Clow illuminates the Mayan calendar with astronomy to predict what will happen. Read Calleman's book first tho - he lays down his theory which Hand Clow expounds on. Do I believe? On a gut level, it does help to explain the change/shift in consciousness that is happening, also the time acceleration perception (how things are changing so fast compared to decades ago). It is uncanny and fascinating. Looking forward to the start of night 6 in November to see what it will bring.
August 27, 2008
The is a real good book for anyone that is interested in the Mayan's, the professies of 2012, or hisories of ancient cultures. This a good look at looking into those items, and challenge your preconseptions of history and reality. Yet, I would say that on occasion, Clow is a bit weak on the providing evidence to her conclusions or enough evidense to support it. Also, the writing has a tendancy to jump around a bit.
Despite those two critisism, I say that it is a good read.
Despite those two critisism, I say that it is a good read.
November 18, 2008
There's been a lot of talk about the Mayan calendar ending sometime in 2012 so I thought I would read a book about it. I was amazed at how complex the Mayan calendar is. For example, it goes back millions of years and ends sometime in 2011/2012. The author, though not always easy to read, does a great job of summarizing these complexities and explaining how the calendar fits in with the history and future of our planet. Here's a link to her website: http://www.handclow2012.com/
June 17, 2009
The author is an astrologer and an historian. I have read many of her other books, so I wanted to try this one, too. People might think of it as sci-fi. I like to explore the unknown. She has a lot of data to back up her theories. I think the book is very interesting, She will definitely push you out of the box.
March 4, 2008
I really enjoyed this book. The interpretation of the Mayan calendar is fascinating and can't help but make you stop and think how was a civilization that is thousands of years old have this type of knowledge. Looking forward to 2011 and the new awakening :)
August 24, 2008
it's sad to admit this, but this is the first book i have read entirely in a very long time. it's one of many she has channeled, to share information of the history of the mayans, the speculations of what the end of the long count means for cultures worldwide!
April 14, 2009
Awesome book, just read it and have an open mind. If it rings true for you or not, you have to admit that she certainly did her homework on the whole thing. Makes more sense to me than any other theory offered about our existence here on earth. Two thumbs way up
January 2, 2013
I think that the research and the information is amzing the way you can look yourself up for th MAYA Day Sign (I'm a Rabbit) and your cosmiv tone is really cool and she has some really nice websites and bib to go through.
January 23, 2008
Brilliant! Discusses everything from advanced ancient civilizations, the catastrophy from 11,000 years ago that tilted the axis, to the Mayan calendar. Scholarly, clear, intriguing.
July 7, 2008
Enlightening book; author lost me when she accused out government for bombing the Twin Towers in NYC. Conspiracy theories like that turn me off.
August 5, 2017
Very interesting stuff.
August 12, 2018
Im enjoying the book...in stages :-)
September 12, 2019
Barbara Hand Clow is perhaps best known as an astrologer who pioneered interpretive use of the minor planet Chiron, discovered in 1977. And writers deserve to be remembered for their best work. So hopefully The Mayan Code (2007), which must have been rushed to press with minimal consultation, won’t deter serious students of astrology from reading Hand Clow’s seminal text Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner & Outer Planets (1987) or the radical midlife primer that followed it, Liquid Light of Sex (1991).
Informed by her Cherokee heritage, Hand Clow has also written four books recording a series of trance-induced visionary journeys she undertook. Not until her collaboration with Carl Johan Calleman, an amateur Mayanist, did she appear to lose her way. The premise of The Mayan Code, in a nutshell, is that when the Mayan calendar ends in 2011 (researchers never did reach consensus), humanity will become enlightened. Hand Clow’s creative use of astrology to support this wishful thinking is a good example of why it seems doomed to remain fringe. I wonder how she accounted for the wrongness of this prediction and others, e.g.:
This might make more sense in the light of Hand Clow’s loss of two of her sons, one to an accident in 1998 and the other (to whom The Mayan Code is dedicated) to suicide in 2004. Did wildly utopian dreams console her? As she writes in the intro:
Some readers may find that last point debatable. While Hand Clow’s analysis of what ails our planet is more than valid, her starry-eyed fantasies suggest a blind spot re human nature. That the latest vehicle for her theories is fiction seems apt.
Informed by her Cherokee heritage, Hand Clow has also written four books recording a series of trance-induced visionary journeys she undertook. Not until her collaboration with Carl Johan Calleman, an amateur Mayanist, did she appear to lose her way. The premise of The Mayan Code, in a nutshell, is that when the Mayan calendar ends in 2011 (researchers never did reach consensus), humanity will become enlightened. Hand Clow’s creative use of astrology to support this wishful thinking is a good example of why it seems doomed to remain fringe. I wonder how she accounted for the wrongness of this prediction and others, e.g.:
NOVEMBER 13, 2008–NOVEMBER 7, 2009 […] the armament industry will collapse […] Natural medicine will be used for almost all health needs […] There will be many less people on the planet because of the wars, pandemics and Earth changes […] greedy people will finally realize that we can’t keep on burning oil in the atmosphere […] the Palestinian–Israeli conflict will be resolved by extraterrestrial influence in August of 2008 […] Earth’s Sun will erupt to stop the militarization of space (pp. 178–183).
This might make more sense in the light of Hand Clow’s loss of two of her sons, one to an accident in 1998 and the other (to whom The Mayan Code is dedicated) to suicide in 2004. Did wildly utopian dreams console her? As she writes in the intro:
You wouldn’t be reading this book unless you are a person who is willing to consider definitions of reality wider than those espoused by the paradigms of scientific materialism, dogmatic history, and fundamentalist religion. What I have experienced in my life has changed me into a deeper person. As a teacher, I know how much each one of you has been challenged in your own way since 1998. I believe each of you has suffered as much pain as I have. Each one of us is going to die, just as Tom and Matthew have already, but that doesn’t change the fact that you and I are alive during an amazing moment in time, the completion of the Mayan Calendar during 2011. We are all living in a time that requires great courage and insight.
Since 1998, I have often felt as if I was about to go insane, but each time I’ve managed to find my way back to sanity.
Some readers may find that last point debatable. While Hand Clow’s analysis of what ails our planet is more than valid, her starry-eyed fantasies suggest a blind spot re human nature. That the latest vehicle for her theories is fiction seems apt.
January 19, 2018
Truyện dài , tình tiết quá nhanh , đưa ra quá nhiều thông tin như thể để phô trương kiến thức . Xây dựng nhân vật kém , tâm lý , tính cách mâu thuẫn , mờ nhạt . Đọc cuốn này thật sự rất nản . Thất vọng .
July 10, 2017
A bit vague, unconvincing. Occasionally fascinating.
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November 18, 2008Since I was a kid, the Mayan Calendar has been a mystery to me. So, I'm going to read this book and find out if Ms Hand Clow is for real nor not about it's purpose. But, I want to read about the symbols and their relationship to each other.
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September 5, 2011Maybe there is some truth to what Barbara Clow speaks, but I couldn't get into this. I think her style and word choice is just a bit too far fetched to me.
December 19, 2012
total pseudo-science. As a former biology major i just couldn't take the crazy assumptions.
October 17, 2007
Read this book immediately.
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