FW: [Vortex101] The Passing of José Argüelles

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The

Passing of José Argüelles

José Argüelles passed away on March 23, 2011 (2 Imix) and I would like to

write a few words as a recognition of the very important contributions he

made to our understanding of the Mayan calendar especially through his

book The Mayan Factor: Path beyond technology. This work was

published by Barbara Hand Clow at Bear and Co as part of a preparation

for the Harmonic Convergence event, August 16-17, 1987. 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 Balin, Tony

Shearer, and 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 Mayan Factor was a seminal work

that at the time was way ahead of the thinking of everyone else. His

successful promotion of the Harmonic Convergence event that coincided

with a broad spiritual awakening, also led many to conclude that the

Mayan calendar had something to say about the spiritual destiny of

mankind.

Unfortunately, Argüelles' post-Harmonic Convergence work with the

Dreamspell calendar meant the reversal and abandonment of exactly those

advances that had been presented in The Mayan Factor. Even if the

Thirteen Moon calendar became popular in many parts of the world, it was

never recognized as a contribution by any serious student of the Mayan

calendar. Moreover, the way it was initially presented brought much

confusion. My own criticism and disappointment of this calendar was not

so much motivated by the fact that Argüelles broke with Mayan orthodoxy,

but more because the calendar he had invented was not transparent and

that its origin was kept hidden. This failure should however not cloud

the fact that Argüelles was a great pioneer; everyone who today works for

a better world through the Mayan calendar, and the guidance this may give

us, owes something to Argüelles. It is still possible for us to build on

the abovementioned advances from The Mayan Factor and come to

understand, in much more detail than was possible then, the underlying

patterns of evolution in an increasingly chaotic world. Although

Argüelles is known to have liked the idea that the Mayan calendar

developed through nine waves, he however never came to live by these. The

fact that he passed away on the First Day of the Ninth wave that recently

had such a dramatic start thus has significance to me and perhaps also to

others and as we go along I think this will clarify further.

Carl Johan Calleman,

Seattle, 3 Imix, the 16th

day of the first uaxaclahunkin of the Ninth wave.

Carl Johan Calleman is

the author of Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan

Calendar (Garev 2001), The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of

Consciousness (Bear and Co, 2004) and The Purposeful Universe (Bear and

Co, 2009).

His web site is www.calleman.com and information about the Ninth wave

can be found at www.treeoflifecelebration.com.