Sustain-Ability and Connecting Up The Spirit of Your Organisation

by Lorna McDowell and Bernard Chanliau (download white paper) 

As we enter the 9th and last wave of the Mayan calendar, how will the evolutionary  development challenge unfold in the corporate world and what does this mean for leadership of these times?

Bernard Chanliau and Lorna McDowell, co-directors of Xenergie, have been following the Mayan calendar through their own business journeys, since travelling to South America in the last 20 years. In the first of a series of articles on "Sustain-Ability and Connecting up the Spirit of your Organisation" they explore its meaning for corporate leadership.

On the 9th of March 2011, announced by the terrible Japanese tsunami, we entered the last 9th wave also known as the 'Universal' wave of the Mayan calendar (tzolki count). According to ancient Mayan's , the Cosmos was made up by 'Nine Underworlds', most inherently expressed very powerfully through their biggest pyramids, which you may have seen if you have had the chance to travel to Central America.

Each 'Underworld' cycle carried and developed a special frame of consciousness for the life that it creates and therefore represents a major 'wave' in the unfolding of Consciousness through Creation as per the diagram. This last wave is designed to lead the universe and the human beings to their highest state of awareness development. For the purpose of this article we will not dwell too much on this cosmic pyramid however it is worth to note that this last framework's initiation is about transformation. This ninth cycle of the universe is designed to generate "unity consciousness" by the end of calendar year, as oppose to "duality consciousness" which has been so far dominant in our civilisation. Unity consciousness is a mental model that perceives how everything is connected and acts from that place of connection, not separation. According to what we now know from studying ancient scripts and humanity's gradual developmental growth of understanding over the years about our own history, it was the Yin/Yang-polarity favouring the left brain half that created human civilization beginning 5,100 years ago.

Dr. Carl J. Calleman, began studying the Mayan calendar with empirical scientific techniques 10+ years ago, and what he discovered was a schedule of the evolution of consciousness over the last 16.4 billion years. The Mayan calendar can now be shown to be, not an instrument for tracking the procession of time as we consider it, but as a meter and the measure of the evolution of consciousness. In other words, it is a set of principles about living in our world, which required us to evolve in order to understand and live them. Many of these principles and ideas about "the wave of energetic change" that is now presented to us are replicated in other philosophies and traditions around the world and as we re-read ancient scripts, including the Bible, new understandings emerge about the meaning of what was originally intended in this wisdom. The journey to understanding these principles is both personal and collective and organisations have a major role to play in generating understanding as people live out their beliefs in our daily work. In the Mayan calendar, each 'Underworld' cycle is characterised by a distinct frequency of Creation which is twenty times higher than that of its predecessor. As much change is happening now every eighteen days as it happened in (almost) a year and was happening, before 1999, almost every twenty years (previous Galactic and Planetary waves). Time is not actually getting faster, evolution or the 'Flow of Creation' is, meaning a frequency increase. Just like sound, the higher the frequency, the higher the pitch and our left brain, linear thinking, will have no chance of keeping up as the higher pitch the more discomfort to our ears.

Ever wondered why things seem to go faster and faster and you feel overwhelmed? The pace of change today is accelerating each year and with it brings a degree of complexity never imagined before as the rate of evolution is increasing by a factor of twenty every time we shifted to a new 'wave' in the Mayan calendar. For example, more than half the companies that were industry leaders in 1955 were still industry leaders in 1990, but more than two-thirds of 1990 industry leaders no longer existed by 2004. In the latest CEO survey from IBM "Capitalising on Complexity" seventy-three percent of UK and Ireland CEOs expect the level of complexity to grow significantly over the next five years, but only 50 percent believe they know how to deal with it successfully: "This means CEOs must shake up their portfolios, business models, old ways of working and long held assumptions". Have a look at the video on You Tube, to understand the pace, entitled: The Evolution of Technology and the Human Race (Did You Know).

How sustainable is this shift? Where are we going?

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