Intro | Calleman Matrix | Alternative Dates

Intro

Maybe you've seen the Calleman Matrix elsewhere? Here is a quick introduction to the ideas that Carl Johan Calleman developed from the Mayan calendar. See Calleman's website for bulletins and commentary, or read his books (or those by Barbara Hand Clow) for more in-depth details if you need them.

This is what Calleman claims, as I understand it:

• Creation and evolution of life here on this planet has been organized as a number of phases called underworlds.
• The duration of each underworld is twenty times shorter than the one that comes before it.
• The durations range from 16.4 billion years to just 234 days.
• All the underworlds have the same end-point: 28-Oct-2011.
• Within each underworld, creation is organized in into seven days and six nights, i.e. 13 "heavens".
• Each heaven has a particular quality associated with it -- or putting it another way, it is ruled by a particular energy.
• Days are for creation and expansion. Nights are for integration, contemplation and cleansing.
• Things are developed and evolved through the 13 heavens into more and more advanced forms.
• Day 4 (the midpoint) is a peak of each underworld. Things developed before day 4 are necessary for the evolution achieved in day 4, but are normally dropped after that point (i.e. die out or fall into disuse).
• Everything evolved from day 4 onwards becomes a permanent feature in the world.
• Each underworld favours different parts of the planet and different sides of the brain, causing global shifts in influence and thinking as one underworld changes to the next.

The evolution through the underworlds proceeds as follows (as a rough illustration). Each involves the creation of an environment, and the exploration of the possibilities of that environment:

Note that all of these underworlds overlap. We are in the final heaven of most of these underworlds, so there are still people living in tribal societies, still people working through regional or national issues, at the same time that other individuals and groups are exploring the possibilities of cyberspace. All the previous underworlds continue right up to the end-date.

It is not clear yet what might be developed during the final underworld. What kind of evolution might build upon and go beyond the instant global communications and the world of cyberspace that we've been adjusting to for the last 12 years? Just like we couldn't imagine the details and implications of what the internet might have brought 12 years ago (e.g. twitter/myspace, or global financial markets), so it seems to be impossible for us to imagine the details of what the final underworld might bring. We could speculate that it might mean psychic functioning, but equally well it could be something much more unexpected. In any case, we don't have long to wait!

On a personal level, the importance of the Calleman Matrix is 'catching the wave' as it happens. If you catch the wave, you get the benefit of the evolution provided by that wave. On the other hand, maybe you are quite happy to be a tribal member, or a horse, or an amoeba. If so, no problem. But still, the wave provided by the underworld is there if you want to ride it, and very many of us are living right in the middle of it, feeling all of its effects.

Calleman Matrix

Here is the full Calleman Matrix. I've put the shortest underworlds first, because those are the most interesting to us right now, as we're living through them. Note that this uses 18-day heavens for the Universal, which differs from other charts you might have seen (see note below):

Notes:

• BYA is Billion Years Ago, MYA is Million Years Ago, TYA is Thousand Years Ago, YA is Years Ago, BCE is Before Common Era (i.e. BC) and CE is Common Era (i.e. AD).
• The mid-point of each heaven is also included above, because this is also a useful reference point, equivalent to midday or midnight. The start/end dates are equivalent to sunrise or sunset.
• Some of the dates are 1 day out compared to Calleman's calculations, but this seems to be just rounding errors (e.g. Day 7 of the Universal Underworld runs from 9 to 28 Oct on Calleman's chart, which is 19 days). It may be that Calleman is recording the first complete day of the heaven rather than the day in which the change takes place.
• This chart assumes that each heaven of the Universal Underworld will be 18 days long, which follows the "divide-by-20" rule. This differs from the chart published in Calleman's book, but agrees with his more recent analysis (see this article on his website). The alternative based on 20-day heavens is shown below.

Alternative Dates (NOW DEPRECATED)

Calleman's published chart works on the basis that each heaven of the Universal underworld is 20 days long (following a Tzolkin count). But this breaks the divide-by-twenty rule, because the Galactic has 360 days for each heaven, which would make each Universal heaven 18 days long. Calleman touched on this point in his book, deciding provisionally on 20 days there, but changed his mind in more recent analysis. It seems that the 20-day cycle is still relevant, but much less important than the 18-day heaven cycle. For completeness, the cycle based on 20-day heavens is shown below:

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