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The Mayan Calendar is divided between day themes and night themes each lasting for protracted periods of time. According to this now famous prophetic Calendar, November 13, 2008 is the date a year of night ends and a year of day begins. Each day and night has a theme leading up to late 2011 when the calendar comes to the end of its cycle. The theme for the night just ending has been "The end of manufactured lack." At first that may sound a bit strange but if you think about the words it begins to make some sense. Certainly our economy is based on manufactured lack. Most products are not necessary but advertising creates the sense of lack or of need and we end up buying products that we could certainly do without. Not only that, but we live in a throw away society so that no one expects a cell phone, answering machine, or mp3 player to last more than a couple of years. In this brief article we will look at a number of areas covered by the notion of "Manufactured Lack" to see what we are now moving beyond. Certainly this will not happen overnight but the seeds have been sown, the process is started, and the paradigm is now shifting. As the paradigm shifts, the lies and manipulation keeping the older paradigm in place are being exposed right and left.

Manufactured lack is deeply entwined with the Puritan work ethic, the idea that hard work leading to financial success will lead to salvation and a place in heaven. Although everyone is promised financial success showing that God is smiling on them, the reality is that the system creates a labor force who will uncomplainingly slave away so that only a few fortunate ones will be saved. Even though someone works very hard, poverty or a lack of success shows that they just somehow are not smiled upon by God and therefore must be doing something wrong.

This concept underlies American capitalism and has been adopted as a foundation of the Republican party philosophy and policy but certainly has not been limited to that party alone. Unfortunately it has rewarded ruthless ambition, justified greed, and a winner take all philosophy that has led to an unsustainable approach to living on this planet.

Here is manufactured lack in a nutshell:

* Work hard but you won't necessarily end up on top. You will more likely help someone else on their way to phenomenal wealth. You will be rewarded with a basic income allowing you to purchase distractions like television, electronic goodies, and junk food.
* Externals are what count. You will be judged by your external success.
* Others will decide what you are worth.
* Marketing ploys will be based on limited supplies. Hurry or you will miss out on something you didn't need in the first place.
* No one can ever be rich enough, thin enough, and beautiful enough to meet the ideal.
* Standards will be raised to impossible heights so you will be kept hungry.
* Speculative investing will be based heavily on a perception of future lack of supplies.
* This allows unfair manipulation of the market place so that the speculators can win big.
* Competition rather than cooperation is rewarded heavily.
* Psychology runs the stock market because psychology can be manipulated.
* Many good companies fail because their profits are not as high as corporations with terrible ecological records.

Well that is probably enough on manufactured lack although it is a huge topic and there are endless points to be made. The bottom line is that the notion of manufactured lack is based on a total distrust of spirit; it is a paradigm based on the machinations of the false personality, separation, conflict, and suffering. If you doubt this then let us look for a moment at how manufactured lack perfectly suits the seven dragons, the patterns of fear. All dragons take advantage of manufactured lack:

1. Greed: I perceive a shortage. I must stampede and elbow everyone else out of the way to ensure there will be enough for me. Not only that but I must stockpile just in case there is not enough for tomorrow.
2. Self-destruction: Life has no meaning because everything is hard to get and when I finally get it, it has no power to satisfy. *@^*! it.
3. Self-Deprecation: I have very limited love and approval for myself. I don't feel smart enough, clever enough, beautiful enough, rich enough, talented enough. Lack, lack, lack, lack.
4. Arrogance: I don't feel OK. I can't ever be perfect enough for you so I have to criticize you and rave about myself. There are impossible standards to meet and I have to pretend I have achieved them even though I know I haven't. Secretly I despise me.
5. Martyrdom: Somebody always ends up on the bottom and it is me. I didn't get any of the goodies. You got all the good stuff and I secretly hate you for it.
6. Impatience: There is a shortage of time and stuff. Better hurry or I'll miss out.
7. Stubbornness: I have a lack of freedom. I have to hold on to what is mine because I fear you will take it away anytime.

Notice that all of these ways of seeing are based on perceived lack. This lack is manufactured by the false personality and therefore false personality is the author of the economic and social system that has been our paradigm for so long. Now its roots have been cut and it will slowly die. It is quite difficult to think outside of this box yet that is what we must do. Too often when people try, they can only see past ideas. Anything new sounds like socialism, communism, fascism, or what have you. So they cling to what they have had that does not work anymore. These old terms need to be consigned to the trash can if we are to really look at options without prejudice. When the first cars came out they had some characteristics that made them look like horse drawn carriages but they were not. Now we can see how true that is. A Porsche or a Prius is no horse drawn carriage. The future will not be the past if we are smart about it.

The United States, in selecting a new president, has signaled its intention to change the paradigm to meet a new world. The timing of the election could not be more obvious: Elections-November 5, 2008. Change of cycle according to the Mayan Calendar, November 13, 2008.

Let us look very briefly at the new cycle: Consciousness surpasses technology. Our technology has externally copied our inner abilities. Shamans can communicate with each other over long distances telepathically. Telephones, texting, faxes, and e-mail allows for people to communicate over long distances. Shamans also travel with regularity to distant planets. A good example is the Dogan tribe in West Africa whose central spiritual beliefs involve Sirius, a star they know everything about. We now send space probes out to explore other planets and moons. Tibetan Buddhists are capable of generating so much heat in their bodies they are invulnerable to ice, snow, and extreme cold. We create microfibers and light new fabrics to protect us from the cold. Sorcerers can attack people mentally and do great harm. Now we attack with bombs and lasers and do great harm. These are just a few among a great many examples. The point is that we look to technology to produce that which with the proper training we are all capable of doing already internally. Technology is very hard on the environment, very expensive, and not available to everyone. While technology is not going to disappear, it is time for us to understand the inner abilities that it tries to mimic and begin to develop them again.

While technology has improved our lives it has also made us dependent in ways we never were before. The expanding and deepening of our consciousness at this time will help us to grow less dependent and more powerful within. We are going to recognize that while technology can be fun it has not solved all our problems nor has it provided joy and bliss. Only consciousness can provide these.

Finally technology without consciousness is too often used for distraction, manipulation, and control. Technology under the guidance of deepening consciousness will lead us to developments we never imagined before. An example of this is the use of hemisphere balancing sounds that greatly speed up and enhance meditators' ability to experience high states. Another example is the development of computer programs that diagnose imbalanced states in the body and can actually treat dysfunctional conditions. Others are the use of light machines that support deep healing and help raise the consciousness of the body, and styluses that carry the signatures of plants and other elements into the body for comprehensive healing. More of these applications are appearing every day, some truly magical in their helpfulness and far reaching implications.

What we must come to realize is that technology has no value in and of itself. Like our bodies it is just an envelope for consciousness to express itself. Technology, like the body, can be a vehicle for fear, separation, and harm or it can be a vehicle for heightened states of awareness and Spiritual transformation. This new cycle addresses what technology is all about and how we will perceive it in the world that is coming.

This is to say that we are poised on the edge of one of the most dramatic, powerful, and transformational times that this planet has ever seen. We are so fortunate to have chosen to live during such a time of opportunity. There is indeed no lack, only perceived lack derived from fear of change. We would do well to focus not on lack but the cornucopia of possibilities that are now availing themselves through our powerful and infinitely creative imaginations.

Happy trails. Jose Stevens