José Argüelles , born Joseph Anthony Argüelles ( / ɑːr ˈ ɡ w eɪ . ɪ s / ; January 24, 1939 – March 23, 2011), [1] [2] was an American New Age author and artist . He was the co-founder, along with Lloydine Argüelles, of the Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time . As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, at Davis, California . He is best known for his leading role in organizing the 1987 Harmonic Convergence , for inventing (with the assistance of his wife Lloydine) the perpetual Dreamspell calendar in 1990, [3] and for the central role that he played in the emergence of the 2012 phenomenon . Towards the end of his life, Argüelles focused on issue of consciousness , elaborating the concept of a noosphere (based on the work of Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky ) as a global work of art. Specifically, he envisioned a " rainbow bridge" encircling the Earth
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