Little did I know at the time that the Hindus teach that we do, indeed, live within a nearly infinitely large being named Brahma, the Creator of the Universe. He lives and dies, just as we do, for one hundred brahmic years. [Right: Image of Brahma] One day in Brahma's life is called a Maha Yuga (Great Age), consisting of four Ages (Yugas) named Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali. A Maha Yuga is 4,320,000 of our years. At the end of this time, everything in this cycle becomes destroyed by a cosmic fire. After the day of Brahma, there will be a brahmic night of equal length. After that night is over, Another Brahmic day dawns, called Satya Yuga. The Satya Yuga will be an undreamed of paradise for the new mankind emerging from the previous brahmic night. A Kali yuga lasts for 432,000 of our years. The ratios between the Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali years are 4:3:2:1. In other words, the Satya Yuga, which consists of full righteousness, decreases by one-fourth to Treta, one-half in Treta Yuga, and last of all, three-fourths in Kali Yuga. Life for humanity will descend in quality until the Kali yuga arrives. After that comes the brahmic night and the beginning of another Chatur (Four) Yuga (Ages) the following dawn. By the way, Brahma is now 50 brahmic years old. Not even he can live forever! Those of us who have studied the Chatur Yuga carefully, previously thought that we ended the Kali Yuga a few years ago, in approximately 2000 AD. We thought we'd just phase out slowly. But not being as knowledgeable of astronomy as the Meso-American Maya wisemen and their forefathers, the Maya in India, we did not calculate correctly . Our Meso-American Mayans say that the end of the Kali Age will occur in 2012 AD. We also thought our bodies would survive the Cosmic Fire. But now, we who were off-track are getting worried. Will this "Cosmic Fire" really burn us to ashes, or will it just be a painless radioactive "purifier?" Now, for a question that most of us humans want answered. WILL WE SURVIVE? Yes, we will. A human is not and has never been his body. He is his mind, with all its virtues, lusts, evils and defects as I described in my article about Quetzalcoatl. WHO WILL SAVE US? The Hindu Triad or Holy Trinity is Brahma, Shiva (The Destroyer), and Vishnu (The Preserver). Shiva and Vishnu are also part of the Unbegotten Brahma. In reality, Shiva and Vishnu are also the same Deity, for Vish is just a reversal of "Shiv." Shiva will protect us again, as he has always done in past Maha Yugas. He will swallow the poison of our evils, turning his throat blue. From then on, throughout all the other successive Kali Yugas, Brahm, through his Shiva and Vishnu aspect, will send out sons in the flesh who will die on their crosses to reassure us that we will always be redeemable.   Above: Shiva and Vishnu and his wife, Parvati. Notice Shiva's blue throat, symbolizing that he has swallowed all the sins of mankind, guaranteeing him eternal life. Notice the Mayan depiction of their god Chak. Chak was the long-nosed Mayan God of thunder, lightning, rain, and crops-plus other natural phenomena. His equivalents in other parts of the world were Zeus, Dyaus, Jupite ,Shiva, Ca, Jah, Ju, Jahve, Jehova, Jeho, Sakh, Sagg, Sa-ga-ga, Sakko, Zagg, Zax. Like Zeus, he is often depicted holding a serpentine thunderbolt and a grail, or someone is handing it to him. The Mayan Chak is equally depicted. Why is he colored blue? The answer is simple: He has absorbed your poison and mine! The Toltec Quetzalcoatl and the Mayan Kukulkan did for the Toltecs and Mayans, just what Jesus Christ did for us -- according to the myths about crucified saviors. Could there be any truth to the Maha Yuga, crucified saviors, and the like. Or is all this just junk science?   The Mayan God Chac (Chak). WHO DISCOVERED THE MAHA YUGA? As I stated in my Viewzone article about the Mayans, the four principal groups in India"s antiquity were the Asuras (Assyrians or Indus Valley people), Panis (Phoenicians), Yakhus or Yakshas (subjects of Kubera, god of gold and treasure a.ka. Nagas) and Mayas. We know them today as the Dravidians (Tamils, Malayalam, etc.) [Above: Kukulkan hanging on his cross, symbolizing the ultimate redemption of mankind. Notice the rattlesnakes coiled around him. notice also that he has an eagle's head. Kukulkan's relationship with the eagle and serpents proves his identify with the symbol on the Mexican flag, as seen in the picture at the right. Read my article about Quetzalcoatl in order to see the Hindu version of the Eagle with a Naga held in its beak.] The non Indus Valley people in ancient days were exceedingly superstitious and fearful of the Mayans. The latter were excellent international shippers and traders, builders and astronomers. Their superstitious enemies thought their accomplishments had to be magic and beyond human ability. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. Later, they went to the Americas, having been taken there by Kubera and his Yakshas. Read my article about the Mayans. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. The Mayans were ultimately driven to ceylon, etc., etc. Before the ancient Meso-American Mayans' civilization fell into decline, they prophesied the cataclysm that is supposed to happen in 2012 -- the end of this Kali Yuga. It surprises and shocks the people of India to find out that the Meso-American Mayans predicted that this Kali-Yuga will end in 2012 AD. Today's Hindus insist that mankind has been in the Kali-Yuga for only 4,000 to 7,000 years. However, they must realize that the Mayans, the ones who really knew the secrets of the universe, were driven out of India and forced to live in Ceylon. There, they inhabited the province of Maya which was named after them. Afterwards, Kubera and his Yaksha subjects took them to Meso-America. Since the Mayans were driven out of India, non-Mayan Hindus, not knowing the astronomical secrets of the Mayans, have interpreted the theory of the Maha-Yuga. So who really knows when this Kali-Yuga will end? Today's Hindus in India? Or the people who have always claimed to be "Masters of Time"-the Mayans of Meso-America? When I first started writing this article about the Mayans and their prophecy based on scientific astronomical principles, I was going to make it as lengthy and explanatory as possible. However, I decided that if the Mayans are correct, it's too late for words and explanation. Nothing I can write can change things. Let's face it! 2012 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! Shiva, the Holy Spirit & the Return to Selfhood ♦ Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple - Mikhail Naimy (The Book of Mirdad) Do you deny me the entrance to heaven, I who have at last learned the mystery of myself - (Egyptian Mystery School Phrase) Though most Christians will be loathe to accept it, it is in accordance with true Gnostic precepts to identify this so-called “Holy Spirit” (the third spiritual essence and principle within the sacred Trinity) as our own Selfhood. The triskellion at Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland. The trinity was common in ancient Ireland, Egypt, and India. It was ancient when Christianity was born   The Holy Spirit idea, which may be traced back to the feminine “Sophia” was referred to as "Wisdom" and was equated with knowledge and the love of knowledge. This knowledge may extend to the Son of God and then to God himself but must first begin with Self Knowledge.  This is literally what Sophia of the Trinity is - Knowledge of the Self. The conspiring forces that sought to make this Self Knowledge taboo and who distorted and complicated our understanding and veneration of the true Holy Spirit were attempting to blot out the Self from the Holy Trinity and from the spiritual canon. To imagine the Holy Spirit to be some vague presence or to imagine it to be some indefinable aspect of the Virgin Mary, a white ethereal dove, an abstract metaphysical principle, or an inexplicable mystery, suited the desires of the Christian priesthood, but it denied their flock their most valuable key to the gates of salvation. What we were not told is that without the key to Knowledge of the Self, the others keys, should they even come into our possession, are worthless. It is this journey of self discovery that true mystics embark upon and that sincere philosophers aspire to. But this safari, this trek into the jungles of the Self, was regarded as a reprehensible and even lethal enterprise to those plotting the charts of official religion. And so it was decided that the first and highest priority lay in instilling the wholly false notion that man receives enlightened from without, after penance and after the performance of certain fixed rites overseen by the priests that he must unquestionably revere, serve, and sustain. The "Holy Ghost," of the ensconced priesthoods, is something that "descends" upon a man from outside. It is not something that awakens from within his own being. It is something sent by another from outside. This implication was enough to send man out of his own being and into the hands of deceivers seeking to rape him of his own inner wealth. In truth, there is no enlightenment outside oneself. There is nothing worth attaining that does not originate within one's own being. If there is such a thing as enlightenment it cannot be found in the company of gurus, priests, or experts. Only its antithesis can be found in such company. As the inscription at Delphi implied, it is only after a man has ended his own inner division and come to rational clarity over the mystery of himself that he can inherit true wisdom. Only then will that which is worth having make itself known. This idea can still be found expressed within the tomes of official religions. Such entries were probably either remnants of the heavily plagiarized Gnostic canon or clues left by higher minded clerics silently traveling upon their own personal "Siddhartha Roads." Without father, without mother, without human descent; His life has neither beginning nor end; but, as the Son of God, abides as a Holy Priest continually - (Hebrews 7:3) Many stand outside at the door, but it is only the solitaries who will enter into the bridal chamber - (Jesus Christ's words as recorded in the Gospel of Thomas) As said, the knowledge of god, or even of the son of god, is worthless to the man who does not know the ways of his own being The chaos and debauch in our world today is the result of this lack of Self-Knowledge. The casualties from drugs and from false spiritual paths and teachers also stand as testimony to our assertion and thesis.  ...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings - Arno Gruen (The Betrayal of the Self: The Fear of Autonomy in Men and Women) The most strongly enforced of all known taboos, is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego - Alan Watts (The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are) The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself - Fredrick Nietzsche Alas, I can see that you do not know what it means to be alone. Wherever there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, or public opinions - in short, wherever there was any kind of tyranny, it has hated the lonely philosopher; for philosophy opens up a refu.ge for man where no tyranny can reach: the cave of inwardness, the labyrinth of the breast; and that annoys all tyrants - Fredrick Nietzsche (Schopenhauer as Teacher) Yes, to jump over the bridge of Selfhood hoping to land on the ship leaving for paradise, is to fall and drown for sure in the cold, swirling, demon-infested depths of perplexity and insanity. “Self-Realization is necessary before God-Realization” was the motto of the Vedanta masters and sages. “Know Thyself,” were the words at the Delphic Oracle in Greece. http://www.viewzone.com/chatur... http://www.taroscopes.com/high... http://www.multidimensionalawa...