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What Was The Harmonic Convergence

by Steve Beckow,

Although many people joined to make the Harmonic Convergence possible, it�s generally associated

with the work of Jose Arguelles.

About the Harmonic Convergence

There comes a point when things have to change.

A vibration signal was sent out.

Where the signal was coming from�whether it was coming from our genetic coding, whether

it was coming from the Earth, whether it was coming from outer space, or whether it was

coming from all of those�this signal went out and people responded to a signal.

It is very much like when a species gets a signal to change the direction of its migration

pattern.

The signal was, �go back to the Earth � if you want peace on this planet, go back to

the Earth.

� Jos� Arguelles on the Harmonic Convergence In 1987 Jos� Arguelles launched a word-of-mouth

Harmonic Convergence campaign calling for 144,000 �Sun dancers� to gather near sacred

sites at dawn on August 16 and 17 to �open the doors to the final 26 years of the 5,125-year

Mayan Great Cycle,� an era of unprecedented change and preparation for a new evolutionary

cycle on Earth.

The Harmonic Convergence was celebrated worldwide by tens of thousands if not millions of people

and marked the first time human beings simultaneously coordinated their prayers, meditations, and

ceremonies at sacred sites around the planet.

This was the first manifestation of a networked thrust toward a unified moment of collective

synchronization.

Everyone from Shirley MacLaine to Timothy Leary to John Denver celebrated the event.

Even talk show host Johnny Carson got his studio audience to OM on behalf of the event.

Many people reported significant shifts in consciousness and a reorientation in their

life patterns.

Celebrants raise their hands as the sun rises over the northwestern New Mexico landscape

near Chaco Canyon, N.M., Aug. 16, 1987.

About a thousand people participated in various activities, part of the �harmonic convergence�

including chanting, prayer and meditation.

(AP Photo/David Breslauer)

Above: Celebrants raise their hands as the sun rises over the northwestern New Mexico

landscape near Chaco Canyon, N.M., Aug. 16, 1987.

About a thousand people participated in various activities, part of the �harmonic convergence�

including chanting, prayer and meditation.

(AP Photo/David Breslauer)

The dates of the Harmonic Convergence were based on prophetic events beginning with Good

Friday 1519 when Cortez led the invasion of the Spaniards into Mexico.

This day on the Mexican sacred calendar marked the precise end of a 52-year cycle.

Since then, nine 52-year cycles had elapsed, coming to a close on August 16, 1987.

This also marked the last day of the nine hell cycles as prophesied by Mexican prophet

Quetzalcoatl.

It was a signal indicating that only twenty-five years remained before the end of the Mayan

Great Cycle of History, which occurs on December 21, 2012.

Arguelles believed that the Harmonic Convergence was an event with meaning extending into other

dimensions.

What was occurring was a prophetic enactment on the third dimension was something that

had been previsioned and foretold at a higher level, in another dimension and in another

time, by seers whose sole purpose it is to monitor the karmic unfolding of this planet.

For more see 2012 Biography of a Time Traveler: the Journey of Jos� Arg�elles.

In the August 11th, 1987 edition of The New York Times, in the article: �New Era Dawns�or

Just a New Day?� Jos� Arguelles was quoted:

��The vibratory infrastructure holding the Earth together is in a condition of intense

fever called resonant dissonance.

Influences such as the arms race and insults to the environment could cause the breakup

of the Earth into smaller bodies not unlike the Asteroid Belt�This can be averted, by

harmonic convergence achieved in a synchronized collective of human beings, through which

the possibility of a New Heaven and a New Earth is fully present.�

The following is an interview with Arguelles on July 12, 1987.

Harmonic Convergence Interview

Excerpt from radio conference with Jos� Arg�elles regarding Harmonic Convergence

(July 12, 1987)

Dave Peyton: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our conference with Dr. Jos� Arg�elles

of Boulder, Col., who has a controversial message for the world.

Dr. Arguelles has captured the attention of many people with his claim that a New Age

will begin on Earth in approximately one month.

Dr. Arguelles was born in 1939 and spent his early childhood in Mexico.

After receiving his PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, Dr. Arguelles taught

at Princeton University, the University of California at Davis and at the Naropa Institute.

In 1970 he organized the first Whole Earth Festival in Davis which some say launched

the ecology movement.

He has studied the Mayan culture for three decades and has written three books including

Mandala, Earth Ascending and his latest entitled The Mayan Factor which has become an underground

bestseller.

Dr. Arguelles is currently a core faculty member and program coordinator of Creative

Arts for Union Graduate School and director of the Planetary Art Network, a global association

of artists and creative individuals working for �dynamic transformation of the planet.�

DP: Welcome, Dr. Arguelles, to our conference.

I�d like to begin the questioning, while others are getting in line for questions,

by asking to describe briefly where you obtained your belief that a new age is dawning next

month.

JA: This belief comes from a study of the Mayan Calendar which I discovered actually

describes the passage of earth and our solar system through a beam 5,125 years in diameter.

We entered this beam in 3113 BC and leave the beam in 2012 AD. August 16/17 1987 marks

the point in the beam when there is a break in the wave harmonic that this beam represents.

The date also corresponds to prophecies concerning the return of the god/hero Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan

as well as various other inter-tribal prophecies calling for 144,000 awakened sun dancers to

dance the new age into being.

�

Audience Question #6, Mike Jones: Good Evening.

Dr., you mention that 144,000 people will be �chosen� to start this new age.

Will all of these people know that they have been chosen, and if so, by what means?

JA: The 144,000 people are self-selected.

No one is keeping tabs.

The point is to create a planetary field of trust.

These 144,000 will form a planetary human-to-human power grid that will ground the new frequencies

coming in at that time.

They will catalyze these frequencies by remaining in their integrity.

Their power will be equal to the square of their number 20,736,000,000!

Through them and those attuned to them, there will be an awakening kind of experience that

will catalyze a positive vision of our common destiny into being.

The World will be different as a result.

And everybody will know it.

MJ: I certainly hope you are right.

Thank you.

DP: Dr., it sounds like a new religion.

Is it?

JA: Yes, in a way it is a new religion: the religion of the Earth, a religion that encompasses

all religions and beliefs by shadowing our oneness with the Earth and all of life.

A religion galactically-attuned to the new frequencies so that the timeless values of

service and compassion for the higher good will be re-established in

the hearts of humankind once again.

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Indonesia was supposed to be embracing freedom. What happened? | BREAKING NEWS - Duration: 12:23.

Indonesia was supposed to be embracing freedom. What happened?

Indonesia was supposed to be embracing freedom. What happened? The toppling of dictator Suharto ushered in an era of enlightenment that put the country on the road to democracy.

Two decades later, rights groups fear it is regressing to its dark past  .

It's been nearly two decades since Indonesian dictator Suharto was toppled in a people-led revolution that was supposed to put the country on the road to full-fledged democracy.

Laws guaranteeing a free press and the protection of rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly were passed in the immediate aftermath of Suharto's downfall in 1998 – a so-called reformasi (reformation) that was meant to draw a line under the decades of repression that had seen critics of the regime routinely jailed.

And for a while, those hopes looked justified, as the country saw a boom in the number of publications and the public embraced its right to protest.

Yet today, amid rising racial and religious tensions, many Indonesians fear the country is regressing towards its dark past, censoring debate about its former troubles, suppressing leftist political discourse and persisting with hardline defamation and blasphemy laws widely seen as blotting its human rights record.

The latest incident to concern rights groups was a move by security forces to disband a public event held by the International People Tribunal this month to discuss the 1965-1966 mass killings that brought Suharto to power.

Rights groups say there have been at least 39 cases since 2015 in which authorities moved to disband events aimed at raising awareness about the massacre. In other cases, vigilante groups have threatened such discussions with seeming impunity from the police.

Why did all 7-Elevens in Jakarta suddenly disappear? "These actions are a clear violation of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly," Amnesty International said.

"President Joko Widodo must immediately end all forms of restrictions against public discussions in relation to the events of 1965 and ensure that the government starts listening to victims and others, instead of suppressing their voices." The mass killings that brought Suharto to power have long been a taboo topic in Indonesia.

In 1965, in a bid to oust then-President Sukarno, the Suharto-led military orchestrated an attack against members of Indonesia's Communist Party and its sympathisers.

It resulted in the unlawful killings of between 500,000 and one million people – largely ethnic Chinese, trade unionists, activists, artists and teachers. Hundreds of thousands of people were also detained without trial for up to 14 years.

With Communism still illegal, the stigma attached to former sympathisers lives on. Past members of the party and their families are forbidden to work as civil servants and prohibited from returning to the professions they held before 1965.

Many have long since fled the country; others changed their names to find work.

It looked like President Joko Widodo had made a breakthrough in addressing the country's past when last year he became the first Indonesian leader to bring together survivors, rights activists, artists and former members of the Indonesian military for a symposium.

It recommended the government to, among other things, end all forms of restriction on public discussion relating to the events of 1965. But since then, Widodo seems to have backtracked.

Authorities continue to purge events and there has still been no criminal investigation into the massacre, even half a century later. Martin Aleida, a former journalist with a magazine affiliated with the communist party, was among those arrested in 1965.

The writer, now 73, was detained for nearly a year and forced to change his name from Nurlan Daulay so that he could continue to work.

Would moving Indonesia's capital work? "If this country is really democratic, they have to allow all kinds of ideologies here, with the exception of those that force an ideology and religion with violence," Aleida told This Week in Asia.

He said the suppression of left-leaning debate in recent years resembled Suharto's own efforts in silencing the victims of the 1965 killings. But it is not only official attitudes that have rights activists worried about the country's direction.

In May, Jakarta's then governor, Basuki Tjahaha Purnama, a Christian of Chinese descent, was jailed for two years after being found guilty of blasphemy against Islam for a speech that referenced a verse in the Koran.

The case was seen as having political undercurrents. Last month, Indonesia said it would probably reject 75 recommendations by UN member countries to improve its human rights record – including demands to scrap its blasphemy law.

Indonesia will respond at the next UN Human Rights Council meeting in September. Meanwhile, Indonesia's defamation law is widely seen as hindering internet users from expressing their opinions online.

At least two hundred people have been hit by lawsuits based on bogus claims of libel since 2008, according to the Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet), a regional information watchdog.

  Most plaintiffs were taking advantage of the country's controversial information and electronic transactions law, the group said. Artists also refrained from criticising corrupt politicians in any medium in fear of retaliation.

"Satire here is different from the West," Muhammad Misrad, a prominent caricaturist who goes by the name of Mice, said during a recent panel discussion at the Asean Literature Festival.

"In Indonesia, I need to be really careful, this country is very sensitive.

Nowadays I'm more afraid of [internet users] than the government." There were at least 90 blasphemy cases between January and August this year, suggesting religious groups had been encouraged by the trial against Jakarta's former governor, SAFEnet said.

"There has been a window of opportunity since the Ahok case," said Damar Juniarto, regional coordinator at SAFEnet, using a popular nickname for the former governor.

"People have been taking the chance to sue critics of [radical] religious groups or leaders, although their interpretation of blasphemy is different to the one defined by the law." What's driving anti-Ahok Muslims to Jakarta's polls? Rights groups also say freedom of information is severely curtailed in the country's far eastern provinces, Papua and West Papua.

Access to the region remains limited for foreign journalists despite Widodo promising in May 2015 to lift restrictions. Foreign reporters who are permitted to enter West Papua face surveillance and harassment from authorities.

Research by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers this year found officials discriminated against Papuan journalists, who were often seen as supporters of the pro-independence Free West Papua movement.

The Alliance of Independent Journalists recorded 63 cases of violence against reporters in West Papua from 2012 to 2016, none leading to legal consequences for the police.

Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders ranked Indonesia 124th out of 180 countries in its 2017 Press Freedom Index.

"Indonesia can now be confirmed as a failed state when it comes to freedom of expression," said Monica Miller, chairman of the regional media watchdog Pacific Freedom Forum.

"The government of Indonesia obviously feels safer dealing with a failing press in Jakarta than the risk of fully exposing security forces' endless brutality in West Papua." Why Islamists, anti-Chinese sentiments don't worry Joko Widodo Some critics suggest that authorities are obstructing citizens' rights to information and freedom of expression in the fear they could prove catalysts for a popular uprising.

"I think there will be a third revolution," Wimar Witoelar, a political analyst and adviser to former President Abdurrahman Wahid, said during a panel discussion at the Asean Literature Festival, in a reference to the revolutions that overthrew Sukarno in the 1960s and Suharto more than three decades later.

"The third wave [of upheaval] is awaiting an enlightenment," he said. "I think that can only happen with the support of literature and a generation of intellectuals that learnt the lessons of the 1965 and 1998 insurgencies." ■.