THE Day OUT OF TIME

Today we step outside of linear time. We pause to become creators instead of consumers. As we paint this mural, we weave our individual visions into a shared dream of peace, connection, and cosmic consciousness. May this art be our prayer and our promise.

DOOT Messaging:

Art is the Basis of Peace.

Time is Art.

We create the world we want to live in.

Release the old year. Dream the new one.

Dance as prayer. Paint as offering. Music as medicine.

Art as the Basis of Peace is not just a slogan.

It’s a call to:
Recognize art as a universal human birthright.
Use art to heal wounds and build bridges.
Transform time from a commodity into a canvas.
Make peace not as an agreement, but as a practice.

Invitations for the Day Out of Time:

We invite you to Release the Past Year

We invite you to Reflect on What You've Learned

We invite you to Forgive and Let Go

We invite you to Set Cosmic Intentions

We invite you to Celebrate Being Alive, Being Artful, Being Free

Art and Journaling Prompts:

“What beauty do you want to bring into the world?”

“What story will you help tell in the new year?”

“What does peace look like, sound like, feel like to you?”

Before the dance

• Gather participants in a circle.

• Acknowledge the year just past.

• Invite them to release something.

• Short meditation on being “out of time.”
  
  

During the dance

• Encourage movement as prayer or offering.

• Use projection art of Mayan glyphs, cosmic imagery.

• Glow paint as ritual body art.

• DJ sets that move from earth-bound to cosmic.
  
  

Closing

• Gratitude circle.

• Quiet integration moment.

• Invite sharing intentions for the “new year” (July 26 forward).

José Argüelles (1939–2011) was an artist, cultural historian, and spiritual thinker.

He believed that time as we know it (the industrial 12-month Gregorian calendar, the 60-minute hour, the workweek grind) is artificial and disharmonious. He saw it as a root cause of planetary conflict and ecological destruction.

His counterproposal was the 13 Moon / 28 Day Calendar, which he claimed resonated with natural cycles and cosmic harmony.

At the heart of this proposal was art.
He taught: “Time is art.”
The corollary: “Art is the basis of peace.”

For Argüelles:

When humans treat time as money, they exploit, compete, and destroy.
When humans treat time as art, they create beauty, cooperate, and live in harmony.

He saw the Day Out of Time as a practical demonstration of this shift:

• No business-as-usual

• No buying or selling

• Instead: art, music, dance, collective creativity
  
  

It was meant as a yearly planetary reset into peaceful consciousness.

Art is the language of peace because it transcends the limits of words, nationalities, ideologies.

Art is universal
Art expresses emotion and empathy
Art invites collaboration and listening
Art honors difference while finding common ground
Art opens the heart

The idea is that peace isn’t just the absence of war, but the presence of understanding, beauty, and connection. Art facilitates that presence.