I was just forwarded an article by my friend Barry Martin, relating to a strange incident a week ago where an entire region of Siberia went dark for 3 hours in the middle of a summer day. Not relegated to a single area, the entire territories of Yakutia and Verkhoyansky, roughly about the size of Italy, were cast into pitch-black darkness. It wasn’t smoke from wildfires, it wasn’t dust clouds, it wasn’t smog or pollution, it wasn’t a solar eclipse. What was it then?

Conjectures ranged from top-secret military experiments to UFO’s to meteorites to various sorts of doomsday prophecies. As Barry and I spoke on the phone, stupefied by this bizarre occurrence, we wondered if this may have something with the ‘three days of darkness’ found in prophecies all over the world, relating to a time of profound collective transformation on the Earth.

I have felt for many years that the prophecies of the ‘three days of darkness’ found in Christian, Maya, and many indigenous mythologies around the world have to do with magnetic anomalies, and possibly with a reversal of the earth’s magnetic polarity.

As Barry and I talked we were reminded of Ben Davidson’s assertion (Suspicious Observers channel) that the magnetic field of the earth has been rapidly collapsing at an exponential rate over the past few decades and years, and that the north and south magnetic poles have been travelling at an accelerated rate away from their original axis. The north pole is in fact moving towards a new position somewhere in Siberia. Could this be related somehow?

Scientists tell us that when the earth’s magnetic field diminishes down to a certain level it usually leads to a sudden reversal of magnetic polarity. It seems to be a predictable cycle, and has happened many times in earth’s history. Many researchers associate these magnetic reversals with extinction events as well as with evolutionary leaps.

Barry shared some of his own calculations, following the curve of the exponentially collapsing fields, where a magnetic reversal could well take place by the year 2025. Could this anomaly in Siberia be a precursor to a worldwide phenomenon, culminating in the ‘three days of darkness’?

During a visit to Guatemala over a decade ago, I had spoken with Mayan elder Don Alejandro Cirillo about these ‘three days of darkness’. This was the central prophecy in the Mayan tradition, he explained, and emphasized that when these things begin to happen, we need not go into fear, but rather celebrate this moment of rebirth where we would move out from an age of darkness into an age of light.

Many prophecies around the world speak of pachakuti, pralaya, purification or apocalypse, basically a moment when an entire layer of collective insanity can be eradicated from human experience. As I place my attention beyond personal identity to the evolutionary journey of Gaia, I see this as a time where an entirely new species of humanity, as well as innumerable other species, can emerge from the ashes of the old.

In 1944, towards the end of his life, Bulgarian mystic Peter Deunov received a vision of a great superwave of light that would purify the earth in the very near future, bringing about tremendous geological transformation, and ushering in a new race of humanity, which he referred to as the ‘sixth race’.

Everybody will soon be subjugated to a divine Fire, a ‘cosmic electricity’, he states, which will transform the world as we know it. This immense wave comes from cosmic space, and will inundate the entire earth. Each of us will experience this wave, and respond to it according to our own evolutionary potential. There would also be floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and gigantic fires everywhere, and terrible explosions resounding in various places on earth.

This ‘cosmic electricity’ is very similar to what astrophysicist Paul LaViolette refers to as a ‘galactic superwave’, a giant expulsion of cosmic ray electrons moving out from the galactic core every 12 to 15 thousand years, and sweeping through the entire Milky Way galaxy. The next wave of cosmic rays could move through our solar system any day now, he warns, leading to a chain of predictable and cataclysmic events, culminating in the reversal of earth’s magnetic polarity.

All these things seem to be related somehow. Barry and I had both been experiencing a sense of how close we were to some kind of global ‘event’, and how synchronized all these phenomena were with each other in creating an opportunity for a collective evolutionary leap.

There has been some medical research asserting that in the moment of physical death, when the heart stops, that the magnetic field generated by the heart also collapses. This collapse generates a spike of DMT within the pineal gland, which allows the soul to travel effortlessly out from the physical body into subtler worlds of existence.

Could it be that the same possibility exists on a collective level, that as the magnetic field of the earth collapses and reverses, it generates a spike of DMT in all mammals, and specifically all humans, on this planet, enabling us to emerge from our current matrix of illusion into the ‘sixth race’, as Peter Deunov expresses it?

“This immense wave comes from cosmic space and will inundate the entire earth, says Deunov, writing in 1944. “A few decades from now beings who are bad and lead others astray will not be able to support the intensity of this Fire. All those that attempt to oppose it will be carried off and transferred elsewhere.

“Although the inhabitants of this planet do not all find themselves at the same degree of evolution, the new wave will be felt by each one of us. And this transformation will not only touch the Earth, but the ensemble of the entire Cosmos.”

This reminds me of Gary Sultan’s book, Reality Revealed, where he asserts that the times of magnetic reversal on Earth is when most advanced souls wish to be on Earth, for this is an opportunity for unprecedented evolution to take place.

Is this why there are more than 7 billion humans on this planet right now? I have a sense that Gaia has her own plans and purpose for evolution. The human race, of course, is a part of this, or else we would not be here. But what is our role? Do we perhaps represent the nervous system of the earth, carrying the potential to anchor this “divine fire” through our bodies and into the body of the Earth, enabling Her to make a giant evolutionary leap as well?

And is this Siberian darkness a sign of accelerated times ahead?

Barry Martin Snyder, along with his partner Karen Andrerson, is the author of ‘The Luminous Self’ trilogy. Kiara Windrider is author of ‘Gaia Luminous’ and ‘Homo Luminous’.