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Peaceniking at Day Out of Time

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com

September 3, 2004

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    Others are less artful but more persistent in sending their message for peace.

    The Day Out of Time festival, celebrated each July 25 for the past decade, exists "to show the rest of the planet the alternative to a world at war."

    Day Out of Time, this year was brought to you courtesy of The Great Calendar Change of 2004.

    according to an Internet description, Day Out of Time "will be the manifestation of the will of the people to change the calendar. For the first time in history, it is the people who are making the change."

    From South africa to Lake Baikal, from Mt. Fuji to Sao Paolo, Brazil there were major synchronized events, including Planetary Peace and Culture Festivals pushing calendar change.

    a movement afoot to trash the Gregorian calendar originated in 1923 with the League of Nations and was picked up and laid aside by the all pervasive United Nations. Make that the "irregular corrupt" Gregorian calendar, which is destined to be replaced by the "perfect harmonic standard of Thirteen Moons/28 days" one.

    Touted as a "logical alternative", the 13 month, 28 day calendar is preferred for its "perfection" and "regularity".

    The calendar that currently marks the world’s time was set up to date from what was considered to be the birth of Jesus Christ. It will forever be irksome to some that every time an individual writes out a cheque or signs a document, he or she is acknowledging the amount of time that has passed since the birth of the Christian saviour.

    as far as calendar reform movement members are concerned, "It is not too late to change the world."

    To them, the New World begins after Dec. 21, 2012, the timeline for their 2012 prophecy marking the closing of a cycle when "the human race will be back in synch with nature."

    "Over the next eight years the world will change as dramatically as it ever has. and there will be peace at last, a new heaven and a new Earth–and it all begins with a Day Out of Time."

    Dr. Jos argelles, aKa Valum Votan, is the founding father of calendar reform. a self-described prophet and visionary, argelles told a new age magazine that it was "not until after he experimented with LSD" that he realized he was a visionary.

    "If everybody took a Day Out of Time and all business as usual–war is now business as usual–were stopped, it would be the day the earth stood still. What a day that would be! all machines silenced, all guns and bombs put aside. Only on such a day could you take account of what is natural, what is real, what is true."

    "The only thing better than a Day Out of Time," says argelles-Votan "is another one the day after."

    The Tick-Tock Prophet is also the founder of the Portland, Oregon-based Foundation for the Law of Time, which promoted this year’s events as a Festival of the Future, encouraging all major three-day Day Out of Time events (July 23-25) to include displays and forums of alternative energy and lifestyles to create a Festival of the Future Global Village effect."

    Theme song for this year’s festivities was Tommy James and the Shondells laid-back Crystal Blue Persuasion.

    Festival participants were asked to give copies of the song to their radio stations "to broadcast the new vibrations for this day."

    The program of events for Day Out of Time celebrations should begin with the Rainbow Bridge Meditation (visualizing a circumpolar rainbow around the Earth) and include a ceremony of universal forgiveness of all beings and a prayer for the cancellation of all debts so that all beings can have the opportunity of beginning the new time unburdened.

    The movement’s mandate "to bring the entire human species into the universal frequency of natural time by 2012 makes the implementation of the Law of Time a matter of spiritual urgency."

    In more corporal terms, it doesn’t come cheap either. "Whatever you can give, know that your generosity is in support of the creation of a New Earth–the regeneration of human society, the restoration of the biosphere and the advent of the noosphere."

    Why is the date Dec. 21, 2012 significant to calendar reform activists?

    "This date, long known to spiritual practitioners of all walks of life is the date marking the end of what is known as the Mayan Great Cycle of History, a cycle of over 5,100 years.

    Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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