Perhaps best known for his role in initiating the world famous Harmonic Convergence global peace meditation of August 16-17, 1987, Jose was also one of the originators of the Earth Day concept and is recognized as the “father of the Whole Earth Festival,” now in its 33rd year at Davis, California. Holding a Ph.D. in art history and aesthetics from the University of Chicago (1969), José’s career as an educator has included professorships at Princeton University, University of California Davis, the Evergreen State College, Olympia Washington, the Naropa Institute, San Francisco State University, the University of Colorado and the Union Graduate School. An artist as well as an author, his numerous books include the international best seller, The Mayan factor, Earth Ascending, Surfers of the Zuvuya, the Arcturus Probe and the recently published Time and the Technosphere, The law of Time in Human Affairs. A spiritual seeker, Jose studied Tibetan Buddhism for many years with noted meditation master, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, yet feels it is important to break out of the shell of all organized religion and establish what he calls a “return to UR -the Universal religion.” But it is his pioneering work on the Mayan Calendar that has absorbed his energies most passionately. Ever since he had a visionary experience at the age of fourteen atop the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico in 1953, he has pursued a lifelong investigation of the mathematics and prophecies associated with …