The purpose of our existence on this Earth is to create a master work of art, crafted from the medium of spacetime itself.

José Argüelles was an American author, artist, and visionary whose work sought to awaken humanity to a new relationship with time, consciousness, and the Earth itself. Trained as an art historian and philosopher of aesthetics, Argüelles fused scholarship with mysticism, proposing that time is not a mechanical sequence but a living, harmonic wave. He rose to prominence in 1987 as the organizer of the “Harmonic Convergence,” a worldwide meditation event inspired by the Mayan calendar that called millions to synchronize in planetary peace—a moment he described as Earth’s first collective act of conscious evolution.

Argüelles’s lifelong fascination with Mayan cosmology culminated in The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, a synthesis of science, myth, and prophecy that reimagined human history as unfolding within galactic cycles. Rejecting the industrial “12:60” time paradigm of clocks and commerce, he championed a return to the natural “13:20” rhythm encoded in the Mayan calendar, a frequency he believed could restore harmony between humanity and the biosphere. Through his Dreamspell system and “Law of Time” theory, Argüelles envisioned art, nature, and consciousness as dimensions of one creative continuum. Though often dismissed by academia, his work left an indelible mark on New Age thought and planetary culture—inviting the world to remember that time itself might be the universe’s most profound work of art.

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