José Argüelles, born Joseph Anthony Arguelles, was a Mexican-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. 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... crossing it (leaving the cosmic and planetary dream spell in the past) one arrives at the era of the Timecracy.