THIS IS THE BOOK THAT INITIATED HARMONIC CONVERGENCE IN AUGUST 1987 The Mayan Factor opened up a new audience for the understanding of cyclical time, as opposed to linear time. This is a perspective that we desperately need today. This book serves as a point of entry into a new cosmic consciousness." -- Frank Waters The Mayan Factor teaches us how to connect directly, sensuously and electromagnetically with the Galactic Synchronization Beam, a time wave that is now triggering a new phase of galactic evolution. Since 1987, we have been exploring the galaxy with our minds, and The Mayan Factor is an essential guide." -- Barbara Hand Clow, author of The Pleiadian Agenda An academic shaman, Arguelles peers into the sacred calendar of the ancient Maya and finds it is a bio-mathematical blueprint for life itself. There is a deep mythos at work here ...Students of higher consciousness will find in it a positive force at work on global enlightenment." -- High Times Jose Arguelles, the high priest of the New Age movement... is the man who was responsible for the gathering of hundreds of thousands of people in 1987 to celebrate the Har monic Convergence." -- National Examiner Arguelles's book -- brilliantly conceived, meticulously researched, and eloquently reported -- is a watershed explication of the myth, science, and mathematical prophecy of the enigmatic Maya of Central America, the "Diviners of Harmony." Arguelles is a major visionary with his feet planted firmly on the ground and for this radical and pioneering interpretation of Mayan tradition, he deserves a wide readership." -- East West Natural Health Artist, poet, and historian, Jose Arguelles initiated the Harmonic Convergence of August 1987. He is the author of Surfers of the Zuvuya and Earth Ascending. He is currently touring the world promoting a 28-day, 13-month calendar based on Mayan mathematics.