Maya Ajq’ij Carlos Barrios shares some crucial thoughts on the way we have been missing our potential and the opportunity to bring the ancient knowledge and wisdom into working harmony with modern technology.  Carlos also discussed the opportunity he sees for Saq’ Be’ to contribute to this effort, through the rescue of the tradition with documentation and other projects.  Please watch the video below.

For the Maya, there are nine levels that comprise the Underworld and thirteen levels that make up the Upper World.  We are talking about very high, subtle cosmic levels and the very subtle levels of the underworld, which are attached to what the ancestors call the Heart of Mother Earth, that igneous heart, that powerful strength that exists in the center of the Earth which the elders call K’ak’ Alom, what means the feminine spirit of the fire, of the inner fire, the fire that is connected to us human beings, that fire that is deposited in our coccyx and which ascends through our spine and activates us, gives us the energy and the spark to become a communal spirit.  The problem we westerners have, we have failed to understand that humanity has a collective purpose and that we have to evolve together to realize more subtle levels, but we got lost in selfishness, we got lost in ambition, we got lost in fear, we got lost in hatred, in jealousy, we got lost in a number of internal conflicts that do not allow us to see the greatness we posses as human beings, that do not allow us to see the extraordinary potentiality and capacity we posses and which we can develop. That is our calling, to reconnect to that ancient wisdom which is not a fake wisdom, but a tradition that has survived for many thousands of years and which is now more open to human beings to be able to evolve. That is what we are doing at this moment, together with the organization Saq’ Be’, with the brothers and sisters that are working with us, with Denise, with Douglas, with Mariano, with Grandfather Tata Pedro; we are trying to merge those two ontologies, the developed technological science of the Western world with the magical and spiritual science that is managed in the creation; these two creations can achieve what the western world has lost and that the technology that the western world has developed can be combined to develop a fully integrated and true human being, as Grandfather Mariano said, those fully integrated and complete beings who live in nature, who live in the mountains, who barely eat and who, with their creative power and their power of thought keep a balance between materialism and spirituality. So for us it is important to recover this, to document all that knowledge; this is our purpose at this moment, it is what’s most transcendent, and we really want to recover all this consciousness and knowledge, to be able to recover it, document it and transmit it.

Elder Mariano Xutumil talks about the new beings, those who have achieved perfection. He also describes that there is not only a Calendar of Life (Cholq’ij), but also a Calendar of Death and how the degeneration of the seeds and the use of GMO’s is driving our nations to live under the influence of the Calendar of Death.

…In oral tradition it is said that the Alej and the Ayew are people who achieve perfection, it is what Hinduism calls nirvana. Obviously to reach the state of Alej and Ayew several things are required, for example the loneliness needed for the person to accomplish self-understanding and which allows that person to understand the Geo-Cosmos. It has its rules; to be able to reach the Ayew and the Alej there is the need to deprive oneself from all the harmful temptations or molecules that come into contact with a person, for example consumerism, the desire for things, materialism…

…Ral Ch’och’ means son or daughter of the earth; it is sort of the first stage. That son or daughter of the earth will live from the earth, from his or her spiritual growth and after the stage of being a son or daughter of the earth the person will become a Ch’ol Winq (Alej or Ayew) who is the new being, the perfect being in this physical and tangible scenario.

…The Maya Calendar or Sacred Calendar is the tracking of time in relation to the conception and development of a human being until the time of birth, which is of nine months. It is obviously telling us that from the time of conception of the fetus up until the birth there was a process of twenty cycles, we already know that there are 20 names (nawales) and 13 numbers, so that child, at the moment of birth will be born with his Ch’umilal which means his star, it is what in Nahuatl is called the Nahual, or star… In this calendar of life, because if we say Sacred Calendar the term will not necessarily be understood, it is not understood academically, I think we have to be a bit more practical in the teachings, because that cycle is actually a tracking of time, but in relation to the life of a human being, of the nine months, therefore, I call it the Calendar of Life…

…The Calendar of Death is a calendar where there is much violence, vices, alterations in the persons order and what I understood is that when a person is born under the Calendar of Life and that person breaks the rules and principals of collective living of a nation, that person automatically stops living under the influence of the Calendar of Life and becomes influenced by the Calendar of Death…

…The genetically modified foods are the work of a minority of wicked people who are degenerating the seeds. The improvement of the seeds is necessary, because it forms part of the evolutionary process of the plants, for example in Rabinal we know about several trees that have mutated, progressed or collapsed, but the ones who have to decide the improvement of genetic quality are the owners of that Maize, in this case the Mayab’ (Mayans), who are working on this; but we need transcendent people from the Ch’ol Winq or who have reached the Nirvana to be able to do this…

…The nations and peoples of Guatemala are being victims of something that doesn’t belong to us, we are being victims of the degeneration of the seeds and we evidently know who the victimizers are. In this case, when we already have genetically modified foods practically the nations are living in a Calendar of Death…