Story #5
Harmonic Convergence
An estimated 3,000 people assembled at Serpent Mound to take part in a world-wide meditation event on August 15-16, 1987. It was intended to promote living in closer harmony with each other and to put an end to end world hunger, wars and suffering. Close to 350 so called 'sacred sites' around the world were also chosen to take part, including two other locations in Ohio: a golf course in Yellow Springs and at the Moundbuilders State Memorial in Newark.
Jose Arguellas, proposed the planets in our universe would come together in a rare alignment on August 15-16 signaling the beginning of a New Age. He claimed in his book, The Mayan Factor, that the 5,125 year-old Mayan calendar predicted a celestial change would be taking place on those dates. Arguellas was an artist, founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time, an activist for peace and the planetary transformation of consciousness. He was also a major force in the development of The Whole Earth Festival which evolved in to Earth Day that was adopted by the United Nations in 1970.
Months before the event, organizers had met with county and village officials to explain that convergence attendees would be involved in a variety of activities. For example, private and group meditation, chanting, singing, dancing and crafting would be taking place at various times and locations at the Mound for two days in cosmic harmony, thus the name “The Harmonic Convergence”.
Brief ceremonies would be held at dawn, early afternoon and at sunset. Mass “oms” and rhythmic clapping would begin spontaneously.
A representative of People Magazine attending the meeting overheard a conversation full of fear and suspicions with rumors of drugs, pagan rituals, perversions, animal mutilations and virgin sacrifices. The magazine article quoted a law official who said there was no worry about the last one: “There ain’t no virgins in Adams County.”
