Myan Cosmovision in the 21st Century with Daniel Matul

This lecture, with Daniel Matul, was unlike anything that I have ever attended. Matul is the founder of Mayan International League and the former Minister of Culture of Quetzaltenango.
At the beginning of the lecture the Highland Support Project, a group at VCU, talked a bit about Mayan culture and the importance of the arts for the growth and preservation of Mayan culture. Matul talked briefly about the need for children to take part in creativity, to keep their culture alive.
He then went on to talk about the Mayan Calendar and the year 2012. He said that the Mayan Calendars, created thousands of years ago were as accurate as any computer today. He then went on to say that there was too much improper information about the Mayan calendar and 2012 prophecies. He said that it had been blown out of proportion. He did say that in the year 2012 there was going to e a change, and that these changes had already started taking place.
According to Daniel Matul, the world is not going to end. Instead there will be a shift, a rebirth. The poles will switch, and this will cause a different kind of energy pull on the earth and its citizens.
Matul said that it was a necessity for people to cultivate and pay more attention to their more artistic and feminine sides of their personality. HE said that it was very important to do this. To be creative, to make art, to writ poetry, and to express oneself in order to survive.
Although this is just a concept, and a drastic on at that, it was refreshing to hear someone say that art was a necessary part of life. The idea that we need more art and beauty in the world in order to survive seems to make sense. We need more in out lives than money, jobs, and material things. Life isn't worth much if you can't enjoy nay sort of beauty and creativity.