José Argüelles (January 24, 1939 - Washington, March 23, 2011) as a world renowned artist and educator, was the author of more than 20 books translated into several languages. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Art History and Aesthetics in 1969, and taught at numerous universities including Princeton University, University of California, Davis, and Naropa Institute. As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, Argüelles founded the First Whole Earth Festival, Davis, California, 1970, now in its 40th consecutive year. In 1974, he was honored by the State of California for his contribution to the art and culture of that state. As a noted painter and visual artist, he provided illustrations for numerous books, as well as mural paintings at different universities. He was the co-founder of the Planet Art Network (1983), promoting art as the foundation for global peace, while reviving the Nicholas Roerich Peace Pact and Banner of Peace (1935).

In 2009, he was nominated to receive the Roerich Peace Medal by the International Banner of Peace Society. In 1987 Argüelles organized the world’s largest global peace meditation, the Harmonic Convergence, August 16-17, 1987. Through his lifelong investigation of the mathematics underlying the Mayan calendar, he made the ground-breaking discovery of the Law of Time (1989). Since 1992, Argüelles has promoted the Day Out of Time Peace Through Culture Festivals every July 25, which is celebrated around the world. In 1994, he co-founded the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement and developed various tools for exploring time-science, mind and consciousness. In 2002, he was honored by a council of nine indigenous elders at Teotihuacan, Mexico for being the renewer of the ancient system of knowledge.

In promoting the 13Moon calendar, Argüelles convened numerous congresses, seminars and workshops around the world to promote universal planetary peace and a sustainable future, including the World Summit on Peace and Time (Costa Rica, 1999);the First and Second Planetary Congress of Biospheric Rights (Brasilia, Brazil, 1996 and 2006). In 2000, he established the Foundation for the Law of Time, a non-profit educational organization to promote the understanding of the Law of Time in relation to the biospherenoosphere transition. He was the director of the Noosphere II project of the Foundation’s Galactic Research Institute, inclusive of the First Noosphere World Forum. With his research associate, he worked on the seven volume series, Cosmic History Chronicles.

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