A week or so ago after lunch, I walk towards the kitchen to get my umpteenth glass of water of the day and notice Matthew in our game room at work. I lean in and say hello. No answer. I say it a little louder. Still no answer. Finally I flail my arms around to get his attention. He was so deep into his book that he didn't notice me. Matthew was reading The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology by Jose Arguelles. (Here Matthew asks me if I had ever thought about a post-technology world - because it is coming...)
It's his second time reading it. Matthew is rather excited, like his cup of knowledge and passion for the subject runneth over. I have him backtrack a bit and find out that he's really interested in astrology and stars. He really got into the study of the Mayan calendar about 7 years ago.
Jose Arguelles, author of the book, studies the Mayan calendar and from it he created his own calendar, using similar symbols and seals, called the "dream spell". The calendar's equation is "energy factored by time = art". Matthew explains that everything we do, all our actions, being in the NOW...all this creates art. That conversation we had...ART.
He brought it back to Jazz. See, Matthew is a trained musician (aside from being a social media buff) and studied Jazz and musical theater. "It's all about being in the moment especially with Jazz. You create music in that moment. You're in the now! You're creating as you go along! Nothing is structured." Hence his connection to the "dream spell" calendar and the Mayan calendar. There's harmony everywhere! The main idea of the "dream spell" is creating your destiny.
And then there's numbers and ratios and beats just like in music. Matthew points out how the different numbers in the Mayan calendar are so perfect, how everything is a variable of each other, and so on. Perfect fits. And same with our calendars and our measurement of time. 12 months. 24 hours. 60 minutes in an hour. 365 days. 360 days in the Mayan, I believe. 360 degrees. Menstrual cycles. Everything!
Then Matthew goes on to say how calendars are so important in life but how they trap us in consumption. Time should be a creative force, not a trap. We worry about bills and bills create waste and worry. All can be tied to, oh yes, Eckhart Tolle with the "living in the now" concept.
Matthew is also currently reading Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs by Jose Arguelles.
And yes, Matthew really does know how to sing. He totally "Beyonce'd" me in the car on our way back from lunch the other day.
Oh, and apparently MY cosmic birthday is in 20 days. Or is it on the 27th? One of those. I also checked out my "seals and symbols" and they look dirty! I loved how Matthew was showing them to me today and asking me what I thought they looked like.
"Um...that one looks like a basketball court. And that one looks...well...I'm not going to say it because I'm a lady but it looks inappropriate."
What have you "created" today?
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