| | Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization | Preparatory Reflections for Part 1 The purpose of the World Summit on Peace and Time is unprecedented. It is nothing less than to formulate and propose with distinct and concrete steps a reform of the current world standard of daily time keeping, the twelve-month Gregorian calendar, replacing it instead with a perpetual calendar of thirteen months of 28 days each. This step is taken with the utmost seriousness of intention and a recognition of the profound and wide-ranging implications which such a reform promises. To replace the current calendar with an entirely different standard of measure is to undertake a fundamental change that reaches to the foundations of everything we now call civilization. It is precisely because of the profound changes it augurs that this calendar reform is also undertaken as an act of bringing about universal peace on Earth. Hence, the World Summit on Peace and Time. Calendar Reform is the final act of history, and the first step toward Earth Regeneration in the cradle of galactic culture. To change the calendar now is to change the course of history and to revolutionize altogether the future of civilization on Earth. In making these sweeping but accurate statements we would be remiss if we did not present a brief history of modern calendar reform so that we may be able to better grasp the subtleties and far-reaching implications of such reform. We must also understand that the timing of this calendar reform is of a vital nature and presents an evolutionary opportunity for humanity which it cannot afford to lose. The topic of calendars and calendar reform is not a popular one for the simple reason that the calendar in use functions as a dogma and, therefore, there appears little reason to question it. Most people do not have any idea where the current calendar came from. People who live in mostly non-Western societies function with what is called a lunar calendar, as well as the more recent Gregorian Calendar. The lunar calendars also dogmatize the sense of time. Though we speak of the Arab, Hebrew, or Chinese lunar calendars, for example, it should be kept in mind that there is only one moon and hence all lunar calendars are actually the same measure. The lunar calendars in use measure the synodic cycle of the moon, from new moon to new moon. This is a cycle of some 29 and one half days. Twelve of these synodic lunations take 354 days, 11 days short of the solar orbit of the Earth. The sidereal cycle of the moon, the measure of the moon from the same place it appears in the sky, is only 27 and one half days. Between the synodic and the sidereal measures, is the mean lunar cycle of 28 days. While the lunar calendars in use by different world cultures are in no way solar calendars, or a measure of the Earth’s solar orbit, the Gregorian calendar in use today is an approximation of a solar calendar. We say approximation because on the one hand, while the Gregorian calendar accounts for the 365-day solar cycle, inclusive of an extra day every four years, its standard of measure is irregular and corresponds to no natural cycle whatsoever. It must be unequivocally understood that an irregular standard of measure has a profound effect on the mind, especially an irregular standard of measure of time. This is because time is a mentally perceived phenomenon unlike space which is perceived through the senses. A standard of measure which is irregular and uneven is inherently problematic. Our sense of time is a fundamental perception. If the standard of measure of time that we use is irregular, then we must contemplate deeply and understand what this does to our mind over centuries of prolonged use. 31 28 (+1 every four years) 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 = 365 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 (+1) = 365 We must understand that world-wide use of the anomalous Gregorian calendar is also an accident of history. The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar which was first proposed in 1572 by Pope Gregory XIII and enacted by Papal Bull in October, 1582, some 416 (13 x 32) years ago. While it is often stated that the purpose of the reform was to let the calendar catch up with the timing of the solstices and equinoxes which were now "off" by ten days, the timing of the Gregorian Calendar Reform is much more to the point. The year 1582 marked the 130th anniversary of the Papal Bull of Nicholas V which, in 1452, enunciated the Doctrine of Discovery. Between the Doctrine of Discovery and the Gregorian Calendar Reform, under the aegis of the Church, the Europeans conquered and colonized virtually the entire New World–North and South America–and for the first time had circumnavigated the globe, affirming that the world is round–and colonizable. While Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594) divided the globe into latitudes and longitudes marking the European conquest of space, Gregory XIII "reformed" the calendar and imposed it upon the world at the precise moment when by cannon or by persuasion, the rest of the world would be most likely to accept it. It could even be said that the acceptance of the Gregorian calendar was the first major step in what is today called globalization. While most Western nations still on the Julian calendar took up the Gregorian over a period of 200 years, a non-western nation like Japan adopted the calendar in 1873, and China more recently, in 1912. The point, however, is this: because European sea and technological power had proven invincible, so it was easy to impose the European sense and measure of time upon the rest of the world. It is tragic and unfortunate that when the world was ready to be unified in time that the calendar it received was an anomalous and irregular standard of measure. Nowadays, there is virtually no nation or group of people that does not use the Gregorian calendar at least in its official governmental and financial affairs. And that is very much to the point. The convention of the measure of twelve had its origin in ancient Mesopotamia. It is important to understand that the division of a circle in space is not a measure of time, and that to base a measure of time on the divisions of a circle in space is to commit a grave error in perception. It is also of note that as early as BC 3000 the Sumerians had already divided the day into two twelve hour cycles, or 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds. Please also note that virtually every map of the world or globe presents each of the 24 longitudinal divisions marked by a clock showing the 24 hours of the day. Based on a division of a geometrical form–a two-dimensional plane in space–the Gregorian calendar is intimately allied to the mechanical clock. Hence, the belief system enshrined by the Gregorian calendar is that of mechanization, while the time marked by this calendar is the era of the machine. The final perfection of the clock as a mechanical timepiece occurred almost precisely at the moment of the Gregorian Calendar Reform. We can see that a process that was conceived at the beginning of history–the division of a circle in space as the measure of time–received its complete fulfillment in the joint manifestation of the mechanical clock and the Gregorian Calendar some 4500 years later in 1582. It is from this point that we can date the age of the machine. This dual manifestation is also the origin of the unconscious mental timing frequency which has been identified as the 12:60–irregular and artificial twelve-month calendar and mechanistic 60-minute hour. For the historic reasons cited above, the 12:60 timing frequency is the foundation of today’s globalization. When we speak of the 12:60 timing frequency we are referring to an unconsciously incorporated timing frequency and time sense which is totally artificial and mechanistic, and therefore, at odds with the innate prevailing timing frequency governing the natural order of the human environment, the biosphere. With this analysis it is easy to understand that the belief system of the machine, the Gregorian calendar, the mechanical clock, and globalization are all part of the same process. To reform or replace the Gregorian calendar, therefore, is to discredit or replace the entire belief system of the era of the machine.
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Being
neither a natural nor harmonic standard of measure, in addition
to reinforcing a psychological tendency toward irregularity and
artificiality, the Gregorian calendar also reinforces a sense of
time as being linear and entropic. December 31 is followed by January
1, year in and year out with no larger harmonic or transcendental
meaning. This is because the Gregorian Calendar belongs to no larger
system of time science but is merely an anomaly. An uneven standard
of measure is not only inherently problematic, but it is ultimately
incapable of supporting any solutions in time. It is for this reason
that the pace of life we have bound by this measure of time exponentially
accelerates in speed, while the problems become ever more difficult,
diverse and beyond resolution. Inevitably, with these considerations,
Calendar reform presents itself.
A
calendar actually embodies an entire belief system. The Gregorian
calendar is no exception. While the lunar calendars of the non-Western
World divide the lunar year into twelve lunations corresponding
to the synodic cycle of the moon, the Gregorian calendar also uses
the measure of twelve but to divide the solar year. The measure
of twelve used by the Gregorian calendar is not based on the twelve
lunations but on the measure of a circle in space–360 degrees–into
twelve even parts of 30 degrees each. 360 degrees does not equal
365 days! 365 divided by 12 = the Gregorian calendar!