José Arguelles, aka Valum Votan, Mexican-American author, artist, scholar, educator and visionary passed away yesterday after a short illnes. He dead at 6.10 a.m., the exact same time that he was born in 1939...)
After experimenting with LSD in the 1960s, he produced a series of psychedelic art named The Doors of Perception (after Aldous Huxley's 1954 book with the same title) and in 1972 he co-authored Mandala, a book that introduced that kind of Indian/Tibetan spiritual art to the counterculture.
In those years he became a disciple of Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan tantric lama who was also Allen Ginsberg's guru.
During the 1980s he deepened the study of Maya culture, that culminated in 1987 with the Harmonic Convergence event and the publication of his book The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, where Arguelles devises a complicated numerological system by combining elements taken from the pre-Columbian Maya calendar with the I Ching and other esoteric influences, interspersed with concepts drawn from modern science such as "genetic codes" and "galactic convergences" (from wiki).
Sometimes accused by his detractors to be just an eccentric 'new age guru', Arguelles - probably the first one to talk about 2012 - gave input to the birth of a vast movement of people, interested in consciousness and Mayan calendar, who considered him an enlightened 'cosmic' guide. He was the founder of the Foundation for the Law of Time.
Arguelles, who often said "Time is Art", gave his final message:
"EVERYTHING'S PERFECT!!! Love everyone. Hate no one. God bless everyone."
R.i.P. Valum Votan...
To read more about Arguelles: here
To get a copy of his biography, 2012: Biography of a Time Traveler (foreword by Daniel Pinchbeck): here
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