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Harmonic Convergence
The Harmonic Convergence was a loosely-organized new age spiritual event that occurred on August 16 and August 17, 1987, when groups of people gathered in various sacred sites and “mystical” places all over the world to usher in a new era, a date based primarily on the Maya calendar, but also on interpretations of European and Asian astrology.
The Harmonic Convergence was supposed to be a global awakening to love and unity through divine transformation. It was initiated in 1987 by Jose Arguelles. According to his interpretation of Maya cosmology (an interpretation held as completely unfounded by Mayanist scholarship), this date was the end of twenty-two cycles of 52 years each, or 1144 years. The twenty-two cycles were divided into thirteen “heaven” cycles, which began in 843 A.D. The thirteen heaven cycles ended in 1519, which began the first of nine “hell” cycles.
The Harmonic Convergence was (according to Arguelles) to be the end of the “hell” cycles and the beginning of a new age of universal peace, as supposedly foretold in Maya prophecies. To supporters of the concept, the signs indicated a “major energy shift” was about to occur, a turning-point in Earth’s collective karma and dharma. Believers said this energy was powerful enough to change the global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of co-operation. Actress and author Shirley MacLaine called it a “window of light,” allowing access to higher realms of awareness.
According to Arguelles and others, the Harmonic Convergence also began the final 26 year countdown to the end of the Maya Long Count in 2012, which would be the “end of history” and the beginning of a new 5,125 year cycle (not that there is any evidence at all to indicate that the ancient Maya believed the world would end at this point), the Maya knows that this is the turning point where all what exist today – war, materialism, violence, abuses, unjustice, govermental abusive power, etc – will end with the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on 21-12-2012.
Philosophical Implications
Supporters of these esoteric prophecies maintained that the Harmonic Convergence would usher in a five-year period of Earth’s “cleansing,” where many of the planet’s “false structures of separation” would collapse. As it turned out, the late 1980s and early 1990s did indeed see some events of significant geopolitical shift, such as the breakup of the Soviet Union, the reunification of West and East Germany, and the ending of apartheid in South Africa. Some believers in new age philosophy held these events and others as being indicative that a major cosmological shift had taken place <citation needed>.
However, a great number of wars, atrocities, famines and suppressions continued apace, such as the massacres in Rwanda, the ongoing disputes of the Middle East, civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, war in the Balkans and war in Iraq. In terms of significant events and world (in)stability, the years after the Harmonic Convergence are indistinguishable from other decades, before or since.
Thus, given the multiplicity of anticipated outcomes of the Harmonic Convergence, its effect on subsequent world history is questionable. Effects on individuals, of course, varies with their experiences.
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