Meditating on the Maya Calendar for 2012 -by Marcelo Ballvé
José Argüelles, author of the 1987 New Age classic, “The Mayan Factor,” lives in Jan Juc, a tiny coastal town in southern Australia. At dawn, the 70-year-old art historian says he has been up for three hours already, meditating and reading. "I find that if I can get up and have two or three hours before the rest of the world wakes up, that's the best time to tune into the cosmic frequencies," Argüelles says, "tune into God, the higher forces that govern the universal order of reality." Argüelles has lived in Australia since early 2008, lately in a small rented house on the Great Ocean Road. It's 100 kilometers south of Melbourne, a 10-minute walk to the sea and not far from a well-known surfer paradise, Bells Beach.
It's in large part thanks to Argüelles's writings, beginning with “The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology,” that the year 2012 has emerged as shorthand for apocalypse in global pop culture, resulting in a slew of Internet sites, books, documentaries, as well as a Hollywood movie due out this fall. According to the biography, Argüelles believes 2012 will bring, not destruction, but "the transformation of the present material-industrial order of the planet into a full renewal of the human mind, where telepathy is universal."
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There is far more involved in the issues surrounding 2012 than the end of the Maya Calendar. Argüelles is not alone but he is misrepresenting all factors but those that will attract the fanatical and lunatic fringe. There cannot be new birth without birth pains.Much more study is needed past Jose's little publications. Beginning with the Bible.
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