Spirituality

I´m happy to say that i´m in a very peaceful place here in Quetzaltenango (a.k.a Xela) After a rough couple years, I feel stronger than ever and i´m just going with the flow. One of the students at the school, Wendy, has agreed to help translate workshops with me. Before every conference, I research the topic and review potential vocab. And if I don´t understand something I just think to myself "There are worst things in life than not understanding Spanish." I´m also learning alot about Mayan religion/spirituality from Willy. According to my birthday, my Mayan spirit or "nahual" is the owl carring a lot of wisdom from my ancestors. Mayans believe that humans live a total of 13 lives throughout history and that I am already on my 10th life. Willy is only on his 7th life so I told him he has to listen to me because i´m his elder (Ha! Ha!) I felt a little sad at the thought that I only have 3 lives left and at the same time thought my many lives could explain why I feel connected to so many people on this earth. When I was born I also inherited all the pain and characteristics of my four grandparents. "That´s a lot of baggage!" I told him "What am i suppose to do with all that?" "I don´t know, I´m just telling you how it is." Willy explained some Mayan mathamatical calculation on how every26 years there is a change in a person´s life and that every 52 years a person is born just like you. That this happens within families and is connected to DNA. I didn´t really understand this concept but thought to myself, who was 52 when I was born? The first person that came to mind was my grandmother that passed last November. She was born in 1928, I was born in 1980, which means she would have been exactly 52 years old when I was born. Willy said "Yes, you are your grandmother." I was completely amazed. For one, it was too much of a coinsidence. Willy had no idea about my grandmother´s age or that I was very close to her. And two, because when she passed many people compared me to her. I am able to love, because she loved me dearly. She will always be one of my favorite people. Willy also talked about how Mayan´s believe that the human societal cycle is every 5,200 years and the year 2012 will be year five thousand two hundred. Now that doesn´t mean the world is going to end it means that a new cycle will begin and that our universe will actually shift, move and occuply a different space in the universe. The last 13 years of this cycle (representing the 13 lives of a person) will become more and more intense as we approach 2012. Which we have already seen in terms of natural disaters, wars, crisis etc.