Comments for page "José Argüelles"

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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:05:24 +0000

Even a sufi's playground, is the mind.

See U on da utter side, brutter José Argüelles…

Chilam Balam… a.k.a. A.J.S.

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Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:18:33 +0000

From the Inner Traditions/ Bear Company website concerning his death.

All of us at Inner Traditions • Bear & Company feel a great loss in the passing of author, poet, and historian José Argüelles on March 23, 2011. José Argüelles initiated the Harmonic Convergence of August 1987 and is the one who first introduced the date December 21, 2012 into mass consciousness with The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology. Argüelles is also the founder of the annual Whole Earth Festival (1970) in California, and one of the originators of the Earth Day concept. He is the author of many Inner Traditions titles including Earth Ascending, Surfers of
the Zuvuya, and Time and the Technosphere.

http://www.innertraditions.com/

Re: please answer my questions!! i need good feedback cause im getting frightened

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:32:01 +0000

Hello Amber,

Regarding Argüelles' claim that the Maya came from another planet:

I've lived in a Maya region of Chiapas, Mexico for nine years. Every day, I work and converse with people who look like they just stepped out of an ancient Maya mural, then changed into blue jeans. I've donated blood for some of them. Even though I'm a White Devil Honky Slave Master Northern European, all of the recipients prospered.

Argüelles would probably explain this by saying that the Maya Star Lords genetically engineered themselves to be able to accept transfusions from low-born sons of swineherds like me. In that case, I'd like to know why they didn't make themselves immune to the smallpox and plague that killed 90% of them in colonial times. When he's explained that, I'll ask why they didn't ensure they wouldn't get heart disease and diabetes from consuming Coca Cola and junk food.

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sun, 09 May 2010 13:24:22 +0000

ok thank you

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sun, 09 May 2010 06:13:52 +0000

Hi Amber;

If the question is whether or not Coe still thinks that the Maya predicted some kind of apocalyptic event for 12/21/2012, the answer is that I don't think so, but I'm uncertain.

I am given to understand that Coe included the line in the first edition of his book, but that it was removed from later editions. I'll ask Dr. Hoopes about it next time I talk with him… I believe that Coe was Hoopes' PhD thesis advisor.

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:40:42 +0000

does he still beleive what he thinks their prophecy is

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sat, 08 May 2010 21:13:53 +0000

Yes. A scholar is anyone that studies.

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sat, 08 May 2010 21:10:52 +0000

oh thank you i understand now, and when you say scholar does that mean he studied the mayans?

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sat, 08 May 2010 20:16:43 +0000

Coe thought the Mayans might have believed the end of the world was in 2012. Other people studying the Mayans don't agree with this. It also doesn't mean that he believed the end of the world would be in 2012.

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sat, 08 May 2010 18:31:19 +0000

im a kid i didnt understnad half the things you just said please refrase

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sat, 08 May 2010 14:49:14 +0000

What Coe said was: "There is a suggestion … that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [baktun]. Thus … our present universe … [would] be annihilated on December 23, 2012, when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion."
He's saying what event he thought the Mayans might have predicted to coincide with the end of the 13th cycle of their Long Count calendar. This is a long way from believing it oneself. This interpretation is largely discredited by more recent scholars of the Maya.
http://www.2012hoax.org/mayan-prediction

Re: Armageddon Definition

Sat, 08 May 2010 12:56:28 +0000

so Coe beleives that we are going to die and that it will be the end of the wolrd?

Armageddon Definition

Fri, 07 May 2010 01:46:48 +0000

1.Bible. The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world.
2.A decisive or catastrophic conflict.
[Late Latin Armagedōn, from Greek, from Hebrew har məgiddô, the mountain region of Megiddo : har, mountain + məgiddô, Megiddo.]

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Thu, 06 May 2010 22:58:04 +0000

whats a Armageddon?

Re: please answer my questions!! i need good feedback cause im getting frightened

Tue, 04 May 2010 02:37:50 +0000

Hey, I'm glad you liked it.

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Mon, 03 May 2010 21:59:30 +0000

By the way, Coe (as a scholar), was merely reporting on what he thought that the Maya believed… that the 'end date' of 13.0.0.0.0 was linked to an 'Armageddon' by the Maya. I believe that since 1966 this viewpoint has been revised significantly.

Arguelles, on the other hand, is not the objective scholar. He believes that 2012 is some kind of transformative event.

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Mon, 03 May 2010 21:54:05 +0000

Arguelles states at http://www.13moon.com/time-is-art.htm that the "end of the world" is a metaphor for the end of the 'world of ego and materialism'. He also claims to be the first to publish about it in his book The Mayan Factor (1987), although this is not the case, as Michael D. Coe published about it in the first edition his textbook The Maya (1966).

Arguelles appears to be largely misinterpreted on this issue, as his position is that of a '2012 transformationalist'… my term for someone who believes that 2012 marks some kind of 'turning point' or 'consciousness raising' or some similar transformative event… not necessarily someone who predicts doom and destruction. Regardless, Arguelles' hedging on the topic has lead many people to accept the belief that 2012 marks a date to be feared.

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Mon, 03 May 2010 21:37:32 +0000

thanks but can you explain the prediction thing more clearer did he make a prediction in 1995 or was the prediction suppost to happen in 1995, and whats his book about?

Re: please answer my questions!! i need good feedback cause im getting frightened

Mon, 03 May 2010 14:51:31 +0000

Heh heh… "Wackazoid"

Re: hoax or hú~axis

Mon, 03 May 2010 02:42:51 +0000

Well… that was certainly confusing.

Give me a moment to take my brain out of my skull and give it a nice, long massage.