In The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, Jose Arguelles announces that human history has been shaped during the time framed by the Mayan Calendar Great Cycle - 3113 B.C. to A.D. 2012 - by a galactic beam through which the Earth and Sun have been passing. We are informed that the cycles of Earth cultures follow "galactic seasons" which have been described mathematically and symbolically by the Mayans.
And we learn that each person is empowered to connect directly - sensuously and electromagnetically - with the energy-information of this beam emanating from "the galactic core." Since astrophysicists are currently describing density waves or beams that sweep through the galaxy and influence galactic evolution, Arguelles synchronistic discovery of the Mayan Calendar beam is prophetic.
This deep and adventurous book will have to be carefully read and pondered to understand the cycles here on Earth revealed in the Calendar. This is a profound shift in consciousness which involves viewing time and evolution from an multidimensional perspective. The Mayan story is unfolding as a spectacular galactic tale whose punch-line is looming into view, and August 16 to 17, 1987 is the shift point into the last 25 years of the galactic beam. The Mayan Factor not only presents a new perspective on ourselves and our planetary existence, it is also one of the major keys to a new science, The Path Beyond Technology.
"Like Teilhard, Arguelles sees a coming moment of profound discontinuity. History has been an ordering principle, encoding information into the psi bank. We are now at the end of history. The psi bank itself - our accumulated knowledge - is about to become consciously articulated."
Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy
"At last someone with the right blend of vision and scholarship has had the courage to tackle the mystery of the Maya head-on. Jose Arguelles has asked the right questions and has come up with answers that astound. His research is impressive, his findings are hard to refute, his conclusion persuasive; furthermore, they are timely. As the reader will discover, the mystery and message of the Maya have been unriddled in the nick of time."
Peter Rogers, author of A Painter's Quest: Art as a Way of Revelation
Artist, poet, and visionary historian, Jose Arguelles, Ph.D, is co-author of Mandala and The Feminine, Spacious as the Sky; and author of The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression; and Earth Ascending: An Illustrated Treatise on the Law Governing Whole Systems. He is currently a core faculty member and program coordinator of creative arts for the Union Graduate School. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
