By Carlos Cedillo
What does the word “spirit” mean to you? Even a devout atheist must at some point understand that a “spirit of the times” affects large swaths of the human population all at once when we collectively experience trauma or triumphs. It can manifest as a general moodiness or as a feeling of genuine liberation.
The majority of cultures in the world identify with a faith in some incorporeal being — an entity without a body, made of energy — that created the Earth and stars and all the humans and animals.
That many billions of people cannot all be insane or deluded so whatever the experience is that leads them to be ‘believers’ is worth examining.
Many people claim to have direct experience with a Divine presence of spiritual beings — angels, ancestors who have passed on, God, animal totems, even extra-terrestrial beings that communicate in dreams and visions. All of these can be experienced internally in a person’s mind, including during near-death experiences, during plant medicine rituals, or through simple fantasies.
Sometimes beliefs are created as attempts to explain away what we do not understand. Sometimes we do not want to put the effort into discovering realities we would rather not confront.
There is a new wave of spirituality across the globe right now. We are all One Love as the tzolkin day 1 Dog is intended to express — and the Maya tzolkin date for today, Wednesday June 4, is 1 Dog.
Welcome to a new trecena (13 days) of global love awareness leading us to a portal of cosmic inspiration.