The Mayan Factor

Record summary

José Argüelles’s The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology presents a New Age cosmology built around Maya calendrical cycles, galactic synchronization, consciousness, and an impending transformation of civilization. It matters for comparison because it exemplifies the late twentieth-century appropriation and esoteric reinterpretation of Mesoamerican calendrical traditions. The book is a documented publication, but its synthesis is not a conventional Maya textual interpretation. Maya scholars and Indigenous commentators have criticized the book’s chronology, cultural assumptions, and prophetic framing.