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as We Know It "The Fifth Sun," Magana elaborates, "is a sun of light, of awake, of tonal, therefore it is external. In an external orientation, where is God? Outside. Where is medicine? Outside. Where is satisfaction? Outside. When you change to the Sun of Darkness (Sixth) (as we are now doing), it's like sleeping or closing your eyes." This, he says, is why meditation is done with closed eyes, so that you can go to the dreaming, to your unconscious. With the advent of the Sixth Sun, all the information we have been seeking externally is now found internally and we can recover our power. Transforming the World through Dreams The Toltecs, the Mexica and the Mayans were experts at discovering the synchronicity among the subtle spiritual energy, astronomical phenomena and human consciousness, but the Mexica were the most highly specialized in the study of lunar cycles, dreams and dreaming-while-awake (ensueño) states, and how they influence our physical reality. Carlos Castaneda, author of The Teachings of Don Juan, wrote about these concepts, but whereas he used peyote, all shape-shifting in Magaña's tradition is done with the breath. The most sacred exercise of the breath is to use it to enter the dreaming state, and to use the breath to "cleanse" our shadow, our "cave." In every moment, the physical world is created out of the subtle world; we create our tonal from our nahual through quetzalcoatl, the holistic balance of tonal and nahual that allows us to achieve knowledge. So we can go into a dreaming state to alter reality. We can also gaze into an obsidian mirror of a very specific size (so as not to open too many energetic doors), using a meditative exercise to change our reflection. Through specific actions we can learn how to modify reality by means of our consciousness. Quetzalcoatl means "the enlightened one," and also the rising of the serpent, as in kundalini. When the energy rises, we can access the power of creation. The Fateful Date On December 21, the day we shift fully into the Sixth Sun, we will have eight precious seconds of no time. Eight seconds in which the Sun, the Pleiades, the Milky Way and the center of the galaxy will be in perfect alignment, and time—this construct we have created to manage our physical existence—will be suspended. This alignment of the forces that give construct to time, says Magana, is a great opportunity for humanity to "align our personal intention with the cosmic intelligence." It begins precisely at 3:31am PST on December 21, so be ready. December 21 is an ending, but it's also a beginning, and also part of the infinite continuation. It is an opportunity for us to create the future that is literally of our dreams. As Magana says, "We are synchronized with all life, and guided by the rhythm of the universe. We're not separate from the cosmos." n *We call the supreme being to come into our lives with strength and abundance. 12-21-12.indd 27 December 2012/January 2013 27 11/28/12 3:28 PM