Ian Xel Lungold: Memorable Quotes

 

The late Ian Xel Lungold (January 26, 1949 - November 16, 2005 12-Sun Ahau) left us some inspiring quotes through his online video presentations like 'The Mayan Calendar Comes North'. The most memorable one to me still is: "..and this is all leading to our full ability to consciously co-create our experiences". This is because I could relate those eye-opening words 'co-create' and 'experiences' directly to the evolution of the economy as described in The Experience Economy (1999, Pine & Gilmore). I always wondered WHY evolution takes place. What is the driving force?

Ian Xel Lungold presents his amazing theory of the evolution of consciousness. Sometimes even I have to pinch myself, as once in a while I find it still hard to believe. Some might call him a crazy one, but you know what can be said about the crazy ones.

"You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them... but the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward."

So let's quote him. Ian Xel Lungold in 'The Mayan Calendar Comes North':

• “Consciousness is the awareness of being aware.”
• “Whenever you notice yourself noticing something, you are experiencing your own consciousness.”
• “A calendar is the absolute center of civilization.”
• “A calendar is the absolute center of consciousness”
• “'Time and place' is the orientation of your consciousness”
• “Your viewpoint is the point from which you view the universe.”
• “What you pay attention to is what you become conscious of.”
• “Free will is your choice of what you are going to pay attention to.”
• “Our whole concept of time and the very center of our consciousness is about these repetitive cycles of action.”
• “Time equals motion (of physical things).”
• “The Gregorian calendar is about the physical measurement of our orbit.”
• “The Gregorian calendar has pinned our civilizations consciousness to physical evidence only, on the measurement of physical objects moving through space.”
• “Dogma means unquestioned belief. The biggest dogma on earth is what day it is.”
• “Consciousness. Light. Thought. Action.”
• “Each level of creation has 7 days and 6 nights.”
• “Each day is a period of enlightenment or increase in consciousness.”
• “Each night is a period of applying that consciousness.”
• “The difference between a family and a herd is the recognition of the individual.” (about the consciousness evolution from ‘Stimulus Response’ to ‘Stimulus – Individual Response’)
• “The basis of culture is shared reasons.”
• “Either we’ve got a 16.4 billion long strain of coincidence, or we’re on a schedule.”
• “We are on a schedule.”
• “Consciousness is not just us. Consciousness is this pen, the air you are breathing, the tree outside. Consciousness is all of creation. Consciousness is everything and everything is oriented on ethics.”
• “Conscious co-creation.”
• “Now it is pretty evident that we are already co-creating our experience.”
• “..and where this is all leading is to our full ability to consciously co-create our experience.”
  "The Mayan Calendar comes to an end on October 28, 2011."
• “Time is not speeding up. Creation is. There is more and more event in less and less time.”
• “The mind is a tool that consciousness uses to distinguish similarities and differences between things.”
• “The mind works on a series of pictures. The flicker frequency is 24 frames per second. That’s how fast your mind works. Your mind has a speed limit. Your mind can only think 24 thoughts in one second.”
• “You are not your mind.”
• “Your consciousness is not limited to how fast your mind works.”
• “The mind is a tool, supposed to do a job which is seeing similarities and differences concerning your survival.”
• “Consciousness is as fast as you can realise.”
• “Consciousness has just sped away from your mind.”
• “The mind would rather be right than you to be alive.”
• “It is pretty evident that we are all going to be completely out of our minds.”
• “What is outside of your own mind is your intuition.”
• “The Mayan Calendar was never about time. It was always about measuring and keeping track of the flow of creation and the intent of creation and the aspect of creation every single day. Remember there is one law in the universe: What you pay attention to you become conscious of. What if every day you were paying attention to the energy of this flow of creation? What would you become conscious of? So wouldn’t it be easier to have your consciousness attuned to your intuition?”
• “Beings exchange admiration (rather than money or thoughts or communication) between one and another.”
• “We admire intuition. That’s why we pay for it.”
• "The more you admire something, the more it is worth to you and the more you will pay for it. That is really the basis of all exchange. How much it is admired.”

Pine II and Gilmore explain in 'The Experience Economy' (1999) that..
..if you charge for the feeling customers have because of engaging you, you are in the experience business.
..if you charge for the benefit customers (or "guests") receive as a result of spending time with you, you are in the transformation business.

Would you pay for the result of time spend with a company (e.g. university), if this time spend was not admirable at all? Would you be willing to pay more if it was more admirable?

Comments

[Galba Bright of Tune up your EQ]

Hi Tom:

An interesting article and series of insights. I found it to be an interesting reminder on Pine and Gilmore's work.

[Tom]

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