The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization

Carl Johan Calleman holds a Ph.D. in physical biology from the University of Stockholm. A leading expert on the Mayan Calendar, he is the author of The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness and The Purposeful Universe. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 The Dawn of the Human Mind

Where Does the Human Mind Come From?

The Great Pyramid

Worldwide Pyramid Building as Related to the Mayan Long Count

The Dramatic Event Activating the Global Mind

The Worldview Maps of the Maya and the Aztecs

The Significance of Straight and Perpendicular Lines

Reflections of the Eight-Partitioning in the Near Orient

Reflections of the Eight-Partitioning in the Far East

Mathematical and Physical Constants Embedded in the Great Pyramid

Aligning Society with the Powers of the Heavens

How the New Organization of the Mind

Created Civilization

The Tower of Babel and the Flood

The Later Fate of the Heavenly Eight-Partitioning

Mind over Matter

2 The Mayan Calendar System: The Blueprint for the Continued Evolution of the Global Mind Field

Physical versus Metaphysical Calendars

The Original Function of the Ancient

Mayan Calendar System

Solving the Mayan Calendar

The Continuing Rise and Fall of Civilizations

The Unity of World History

As Above, So Below

The Hierarchical Organization of the Universe

The Alternating Polarities of the Global Mind

The Central Grid Line of the Eight-Partitioned Globe

The Power of the Four Directions and the Rise of Europe

Mathematical Proof

3 The Plumed Serpent: The Creator of the Calendar

The Mesoamerican Context

Who Was the Plumed Serpent, Really?

The Symbolism of the Pyramid at Chichén Itzá

The Nine Winds

Matrices of Creation

The One and Only Sovereign Plumed Serpent

The Mystery of Quetzalcoatl Explained

4 Caging In the Caveman

Transitioning from Animal to Man

The Fifth Wave of Evolution

The Discovery of Cave Painting

Who Were the “I’s” That Painted in the Caves?

Pre-Eight-Partitioning Art

Why Did the Large Mammals Go Extinct?

The Creation of the Agricultural Revolution by the Pre-Sixth Wave Mind

The Erection of Megalithic Monuments

The Unknown Powers of the Ancients

Coming Full Circle

The Plumed Serpent Flies East

When Civilization Does Not Take Hold

5 Connection of the Global Mind to Earth

Consciousness and the Mind

The Pineal Gland

The Seat of the Soul

The Resonance of the Human Brain with Earth’s Atmospheric-Geophysical System

The Shells of Earth and the Nature of Mental States

The Hemispheric Polarity of Earth’s Inner Core

Crystalline versus Smooth Thinking

The Central Longitudes of the Western and the Eastern Hemispheres

What Happens When Our Resonance with Earth Is Disturbed?

The Brain as a Receiver for the Global Mind

6 Some Consequences of the Geometry of the Mind Sphere

The Nature and Definition of the Human Mind

History of Painted Art: Motifs and Realism

History of Painted Art: The Three Dimensions of Space

History of Calendars and Chronologies: The Linear Dimension of Time

The Historical Role of the Written Language

Writing as a Combined Effect of the Linear Dimensions of Space and Time

History of Measurements: The Finite Radius of the Mind Sphere

Money: History of Mental Comparisons

Some Alienating Aspects of the Mind

7 Concluding Perspectives

A Paradigm Shift at the End of the Thirteenth Baktun of the Long Count

The Independent Origins of the Mind and the Brain

The Sacred Geometry of the Global Mind

An Alternative to the Conventional View of the Rise of Civilization

Why Early Civilizations Did Not Emerge Earlier

The Message of the Egyptian Pyramids

The Universal Inspiration from the Global Mind

Our Connection to Earth

Normal “Paranormal” Phenomena

The Quest for Immortality

The Quantum Field of the Mind

A Paradigm for the Transformation of Ourselves and Our World

Summary of Conclusions

Appendix 1

The 2011 Mayan Calendar Shift of the Ages

Appendix 2

Short Summary of Biological Evolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author