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== Fame ==
== Fame ==


He gained notoriety as the originator of the [[Harmonic Convergence], the world´s largest global peace meditation, August 16-17, 1987. This event coincided with the publication of his international best-seller ''The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology'', which established a new perception time as well as creating an unprecented focus of interest on the Maya, Mayan civilization and 2012. In "The Mayan Factor", with the understanding of the 13 x 20 Mayan calendar matrix as the timing regulator of Earth’s psi bank regulator, Arguelles was able to crack the Mayan calendar code and determine that the Great Cycle of history, 13 baktuns or 260 katuns in duration, the basis of the Mayan Long Count, from 3113 BC to 2012 AD, was also mathematically indistinguishable from the tzolkin matrix. This book also first popularized the [[Hunab Ku]] symbol.
He gained notoriety as the originator of the [[Harmonic Convergence], the world´s largest global peace meditation, August 16-17, 1987. This event coincided with the publication of his international best-seller ''The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology'', which established a new perception time as well as creating an unprecented focus of interest on the Maya, Mayan civilization and 2012. In "The Mayan Factor", illustrates that the Great Cycle of history, 13 baktuns or 260 katuns in duration, the basis of the Mayan Long Count, from 3113 BC to 2012 AD, was also mathematically indistinguishable from the 260-unit tzolkin matrix. This book also first popularized the [[Hunab Ku]] symbol.


== The Law of Time ==
== The Law of Time ==

Revision as of 04:52, 23 May 2009

José Argüelles
OccupationAuthor, Artist, Visionary, Educator
GenreNew Consciousness

José Argüelles (born January 24, 1939) is a Mexican-American author, artist, visionary, educator and whole systems thinker. He is the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago, and has taught at numerous colleges, including Princeton University and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the identical twin brother of poet Ivan Argüelles. As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, Argüelles founded the First Whole Earth Festival, Davis, California, 1970, now in its 40th consecutive year.

Artist

As a noted painter and visual artist, he has provided illustrations for numerous books, as well as mural paintings at different universities. He is also noted for his psychedelic paintings, the Doors of Perception, so-named by Dr. Humphrey Osmond, who originally coined the word, ¨psychedelic.¨ He is co-founder of the Planet Art Network (1983), promoting art as the foundation for global peace, while reviving the Nicholas Roerich Peace Pact and Banner of Peace (1935).


Fame

He gained notoriety as the originator of the [[Harmonic Convergence], the world´s largest global peace meditation, August 16-17, 1987. This event coincided with the publication of his international best-seller The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, which established a new perception time as well as creating an unprecented focus of interest on the Maya, Mayan civilization and 2012. In "The Mayan Factor", illustrates that the Great Cycle of history, 13 baktuns or 260 katuns in duration, the basis of the Mayan Long Count, from 3113 BC to 2012 AD, was also mathematically indistinguishable from the 260-unit tzolkin matrix. This book also first popularized the Hunab Ku symbol.

The Law of Time

Through his lifelong investigation of the mathematics underlying the Mayan calendar, he made the discovery of the Law of Time (1989). The Law of Time makes the distinction between two timing frequencies: artificial time and natural time. Artificial time, Argüelles discovered is based on the mechanical clock and the irregular 12-month Gregorian calendar (12:60 frequency). Natural time is based on a 13:20 mathematical frequency, which also underlies the Mayan calendar system.

= 13-Moon Calendar

Argüelles promotes a 13-moons, 28 day calendar. This calendar begins on July 26 coinciding with the heliacal rising of the star Sirius.

Since 1992, Argüelles has promoted the Day Out of Time Peace Through Culture Festivals every July 25, which is celebrated around the world. In 1994, he co-founded the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement with his former partner, Lloydine and also developed various tools for exploring time-science, mind and consciousness, including the Dreamspell, Telektonon and 7:7::7:7.


"Day out of Time".[1]

Criticism

Although Argüelles states that his tools and calendar are clearly not a Mayan calendar, much criticism of it focuses on the fact that his works remain completely unsupported by any professional Mayanist scholar. Amongst many criticisms leveled at it, it is pointed out that the interpretation merely co-opts an ancient tradition by recasting it in New Age terms, unknown, unused and undocumented among the Maya. Many of Dreamspell's influences come from non-Mayan sources, such as the I Ching and pop psychology.[citation needed] What's more, Argüelles' calendar is based on a different day-count than the traditional Mayan calendar. As mathematician Michael Finley notes:

"Since the 365 day Maya haab makes no provision for leap years, its starting date in the Gregorian Calendar advances by one day every four years. The beginning of Arguelles' year is fixed to July 26. Thus his count of days departs from the haab as it was known to Maya scribes before the Spanish conquest. Arguelles claims that the Thirteen Moon Calendar is synchronized with the calendar round. Clearly, it is not."[2]

His calendar is also not correctly synchronized with that observed by the Maya. For example, in the traditional count January 1, 2005 is 5 Muluk, while in the Dreamspell it is 2 Etznab.

Argüelles countered this criticism by stating that his calendar is "correct and biologically accurate...for the whole planet", and that he is the "heir of the legacy of Pacal Votan and the instrument of his prophecy, Telektonon". [1] Argüelles is now one of several individuals who have contributed to the spread of Mayanism, a collection of beliefs based on metaphysical speculation about the ancient Maya.


First Noosphere World Forum

He is currently director of the Noosphere II project of the Foundation´s Galactic Research Institute, inclusive of the First Noosphere World Forum, a project that involves creating a dialogue that unifies a network of organizations working to promote a positive shift of consciousness by 2012 with the vision of the whole earth as a work of art.

url=http://www.noosphereforum.org


Bibliography

  • Argüelles, José (1975). The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression. Shambhala Publications.
  • Argüelles, José (1987). The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. ISBN 0939680386.
  • Argüelles, José (1988). Earth Ascending: An Illustrated Treatise on Law Governing Whole Systems. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. ISBN 0939680459.
  • Argüelles, José (1995). Mandala. Shambhala. ISBN 1570621209. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Argüelles, José (1996). The Call of Pacal Votan: Time is the Fourth Dimension. Altea Publishing. ISBN 0952455560.
  • Argüelles, Jose (2002). Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. ISBN 1879181991.

Notes

  1. ^ Mutch, Stella. "A Day Out of Time". Going Coastal Magazine. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  2. ^ Quotation is from Finley (2002)

References

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Anastas, Benjamin (2007-07-01). "The Final Days" (reproduced online). The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-05-18. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Barkun, Michael (2003). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23805-2. OCLC 51305869. {{cite book}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Finley, Michael (2002). "Jose Arguelles' Calendrical Dreams". The Real Maya Prophecies: Astronomy in the Inscriptions and Codices. Maya Astronomy. Retrieved 2007-09-24. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Lamy, Philip (2001). "Ufology". In Brenda E. Brasher (ed.). Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. New York: Routledge. pp. pp.410–413. ISBN 0-415-92244-5. OCLC 46792684. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |pages= has extra text (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Sitler, Robert K. (2006). "The 2012 Phenomenon New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Mayan Calendar". Novo Religio. 9 (3). Berkeley: University of California Press: pp.24–38. doi:10.1525/nr.2006.9.3.024. OCLC 86912726. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Upton, Charles (2001). The System of Antichrist: Truth & Falsehood in Postmodernism & the New Age. Ghent, NY: Sophia Perennis. ISBN 0-900588-30-6. OCLC 45799654. {{cite book}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
York, Michael (1995). The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-Pagan Movements. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-8000-2. OCLC 31604796. {{cite book}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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