Estudios de los Mayas/La Nueva Edad "La lectura de este libro es una experiencia impactante y electrizante; cada pagina nos permite comprender perspicazmente los misterios mas profundos de la historia humana y de la evolucion de la consciencia mundial." --Michael E. Salla, Ph.D., Centro para la Paz Mundial El calendario profetico Maya no esta ajustado al movimiento de los cuerpos planetarios, mas bien funciona como un mapa metafisico de la evolucion de la consciencia y registra como fluye el tiempo espiritual, brindando una nueva ciencia del tiempo. El calendario esta asociado a nueve ciclos de creacion, cada uno de los cuales representa uno de los nueve niveles de consciencia o Submundo presentes en la piramide cosmica de los mayas. Al utilizar investigaciones empiricas, Carl Johan Calleman muestra como esta estructura piramidal del desarrollo de la consciencia puede explicar temas tan dispares como el origen comun de las religiones del mundo y el reclamo de nuestros dias de que parece que el tiempo se mueve mas rapido. Los lectores aprenderan que en realidad el tiempo se esta acelerando a medida que hacemos una transicion entre el materialista Submundo Planetario que nos rige hoy, hacia una frecuencia nueva y mas elevada de la consciencia --el Submundo Galactico---- lo cual nos prepara para el ultimo nivel universal de esclarecimiento de la consciencia. El Calendario Maya y la Transformacion de la Consciencia da a conocer el calendario Maya como un recurso espiritual que permite una comprension mayor de la naturaleza de la evolucion de la consciencia a traves de toda la historia humana, y como este brinda los pasos concretos que podemos tomar para alinearnos con este desarrollo haciael esclarecimiento. CARL JOHAN CALLEMAN posee un doctorado en biologia fisica y ha servido como experto en cancer a la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud (World Health Organization). En 1979 comenzo sus estudios sobre el calendario Maya y ahora imparte conferencias por todo el mundo; tambien es autor de Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan Calendar. Calleman vive en Suecia.

The development of increasingly precise measurements is an essential part of what Samuel L. Macey identifies as the West's wide-ranging effort to rationalize human activity--to simplify and standardize the way we work and communicate with one another. In "The Dynamics of Progress," Macey examines the history of such rationalizations as they have manifested themselves. He identifies a symbiotic relationship among these different types of rationalization, demonstrating that without the rationalizing of time, weights and measures, numbers, and language, the scientific, technological, and industrial advances of the past three hundred years would have been inconceivable.
In addition to discussing rationalization in its various forms, Macey also addresses reactions against it, and closes with some observations on the future. Increasing demands for material goods have the potential for spreading wealth, but such demands strain the earth's limited resources. How we address the challenge posed by this depletion of resources, Macey suggests, will be the ultimate test of our rationalizing powers.

Exploring the personications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, "Patriarchs of Time" traces the lineage of time's gods from the deities of ancient Mesopotamia and Persia through the pantheons of Greece and Rome, the Christian Father Time, and the brief reign of the Newtonian Watchmaker God to the consumerist Santa Claus who holds sway over the year's end celebrations of our own day. Each of these patriarchs, Samuel L. Macey shows, has embodied dualisms that re ect the dilemma in the Western mind between the joys and woes of our brief time on earth and the promise of eternal life or eternal punishment in the hereafter.
Santa Claus is today, effectively, the sole inheritor of Saturn's old midwinter festival, but Macey suggests that it remains to be seen whether he will fully manifest the dualism that has always characterized the West's patriarchs of time, and whether our present consumerist saturnalia will regain the spiritual message of hope and eternal life that has always been a part of time's dominion.