Farewell José Argüelles
March 26, 2011
Sad news this week, with the passing of 2012 author José Argüelles age 72. He was best known for organising the Harmonic Convergence event in 1987, and writing The Mayan Factor, published at the same time. This was one of the key factors that lead to the 2012 meme becoming known far and wide.
Carl Johan Calleman says of the book:
It became a great source of inspiration for myself as well as for many others and for a few years I regarded it almost as a bible to Mayan cosmology. In this book Argüelles introduced a few very radical thoughts for the first time: 1/ The shifts in the Mayan calendar and especially the Long Count provides for an understanding of human history. 2/ What is important in the Mayan calendar are the non-astronomical cycles of 260 and 360 days and 3/ The energies of the Tzolkin provide a matrix for the evolution of the longer cycles. Although he had forerunners such as Peter Balin, Tony Shearer, and Frank Waters, Argüelles’ ideas were groundbreaking and created the necessary opening that allowed for us to realize that the Mayan calendar could be true and then also help us understand the contours of a cosmic plan.
The photo was taken in Cancun last year.
