Terence McKenna - December 21st, 2012 - Timewave Zero

--------------------------------Fractal Time software a.k.a. Timewave Zero ( by Peter Meyer, from Hermetic Syste
ms: http://www.hermetic.ch/frt/frt.htm )
This software illustrates a theory of time, history and the end of history as fi
rst described in the book The Invisible Landscape by Terence and Dennis McKenna.
As related by Terence McKenna in his book True Hallucinations, the theory of Ti
mewave Zero was revealed to him in the wake of an unusual psychedelic experiment
conducted deep in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in 1971, which led to his being
instructed in certain transformations of numbers, derived from the King Wen Seq
uence of I Ching hexagrams, relating to the occurrence of temporal phenomena. Th
is led eventually to a mathematical description of "the timewave", which alleged
ly correlates time and history with the ebb and flow of something called Novelty
, claimed to be a quality intrinsic to the temporal structure of the universe.
A peculiarity of this correlation is that at a certain point a singularity is re
ached which is the end of history
or at least a transition to a supra-historical
order in which our ordinary conceptions of reality will be radically transforme
d. The date of this point was chosen by McKenna to be December 21, 2012, the dat
e of the winter solstice of that year and also the end of the current era of 13
baktuns in the Maya Calendar (according to the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correla
tion 584,283).
A remarkable quality of the timewave is that it is a fractal (although this was
not fully revealed until the late 1980s). Once a part of the wave is displayed t
he software allows you to expand any smaller part. This usually reveals a comple
xity of structure which persists however much the wave is magnified, a property
typical of fractals. The idea that time has a fractal structure (in contrast to
the Newtonian conception of time as pure, unstructured, duration) was first prop
osed by Terence McKenna. It is certainly an intriguing idea worthy of further co
nsideration by physicists.
An interesting part of the theory of Timewave Zero is the notion of historical p
eriods "in resonance" with each other, in which the events of the earlier period
are in some sense repeated in the later. The software permits graphical display
of different regions of the timewave that are in resonance with each other, and
includes the ability to graph the so-called trigrammatic resonances in addition
to the major resonances. This Fractal Time software thus permits a proper exami
nation of Terence McKenna's claim to have discovered a property of time in terms
of which historical phenomena can be explained and even predicted.
( You can order your own copy of Fractal Time software (Version 7.10) from: http
://www.hermetic.ch/frt/frt.htm )
--------------------------------Timewave Zero ( text from http://fusionanomaly.net/ )
Terence McKenna's software plotting the fractals of "novelty" over many thousand
s of years of earth's history, up to 2012 C.E., at which point novelty will reac
h the state of infinite fulmination. He defines novelty, of course, as "the dens
ity of connectedness" or the "degree of complexity." The I Ching says that Time
is a series of identifiable elements in flux. There are 64 of these "elements."

He also believes that what we today call the I Ching is but a tiny fragment of a
once immense device, now forever lost.
Looking at the I Ching from a quantum physics perspective, Terence and his broth
er Dennis discovered a wave pattern in the ordering of the Tarot's trigrams and
hexagrams that suggested time could be mapped. One of the oldest "structured abs
tractions" known, the I Ching has been found scratched on the 6,000 year-old sho
ulder bone of a sheep. Since the I Ching is particularly concerned with the dyna
mic relationships and transformations that archetypes undergo, McKenna intuited
that the I Ching must also be deeply involved with the nature of time as the nec
essary condition for the manifestation of archetypes as categories of experience
.
Centering his attention on examining the King Wen sequence of sixty four hexagra
ms, McKenna's search for the ordering principles that lay behind it managed to t
ranslate what was essentially a mystical diagram into a rationally apprehensible
, mathematical model. Working with Peter Meyer, McKenna developed a personal com
puter software package that takes his discoveries concerning the I Ching and cre
ates time maps based upon them. These time maps, or novelty maps, show the ebb
an flow of connectedness, or novelty, in any span of time from a few days to ten
s of millennia.
In McKenna's novelty map, when the graph line moves downward, novelty is assumed
to be increasing. When there is movement away from the base line, novelty is as
sumed to be decreasing in favor of habitual forms of activity. According to th
is graph, one trend toward greater novelty reached its culmination around 2700 B
.C., precisely at the height of the Old Kingdom pyramid-building phase. Perhap
s most remarkable of all McKenna's discoveries was the fact that the only point
in the entire wave that has a quantified value of zero is December 21, 2012 A.D
. -- the same date that has been interpreted as the Mayan Calendar's end of time
.
The Timewave zero model shows the past 1,500 years to have been highly novel tim
es that have oscillated at levels of novelty very close to the horizontal axis,
the maximized "zero state." When the zero point is reached, the wave passes o
ut of the past and into the future. We are approaching a point, says McKenna, "w
hen the rational and acausal tendencies inherent in time may again reverse thei
r positions of dominance."
McKenna views history, with it's hunger for completion, as "an anomaly... a comp
lete fluke," in which "all ideas of salvation, enlightenment, or utopia may be
taken to be expressions in consciousness of the drive of energy to free itself
from the limitations of three-dimensional space." As history races toward it's d
enouement, evolution is carried out of strictly biological confines and into th
e mental realm where language and other abstractions begin to pull us together t
oward "a complex attractor that exists ahead of us in time." This"concrescence,"
says McKenna is now so close that it can be felt in the sense of accelerating
time and complexity.
McKenna discusses the repercussions of our collective approach to Timewave Zero
and how psychedelics can be used to condition ourselves for our upcoming move in
to of the body of eternity and out of three-dimensional time and space.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, who was it? Oscar Wilde, or somebody said, "Consistency is the hobgoblin o
f small minds." Reality is inherently paradoxical.
And the beginning of intellectual maturity is to be able to simultaneously hold
two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time. People ask me if I believ

e in the 2012 prediction. I don't believe in anything. My anti-ideological stanc

e makes it very important to believe nothing. I regard Timewave Zero as a fascin
ating model of a previously unmodelled system - which is human history. The fact
that it seems to deliver interesting data... for instance, I predicted a very d
eep plunge into novelty this past summer. Just as it was at its deepest, the Mar
tian meteorite chock full of fossils arrived - along with a lot of email demandi
ng to know where was the miracle I had predicted. [laughter] I like the word mod
els. What we're trying to do is build models. By saying the word 'models', we ma
ke it very clear that this is not 'Truth', and that there will be a better model
, and we'll swap the old for the new. So at the moment Timewave Zero is simply a
better model of history than the idea that there is no model at all, which is w
hat's taught in the Academy. The definition of history, if you study history in
the Academy, is: it's a trendlessly fluctuating process. If true, it's the only
trendlessly fluctuating process ever to be observed in this universe. So obvious
ly it's not true, it's just that we lack a model. So people say... like, Toynbee
's model was that 'God is waiting', somebody else had a 'Great Man' model, Marx
believed it was all driven by class struggle, and Freud that it was all libido.
Well, these are just opinions. Those aren't theories, those are opinions. A theo
ry has an ability to make predictions, and refine itself, so that's what I offer
with Timewave Zero.
- Terence McKenna
--------------------------------This torrent contains:
Terence and Dennis McKenna - The Invisible Landscape - Mind, Hallucinogens & the
I Ching.pdf
Terence McKenna & Friends - The Invisible Landscape (peer review) < 6 mp3 files;
includes Francis Huxley, Barbara Smith, Jose Arguelles, Ralph Abraham and Kat H
arrison )
Terence McKenna - December 21st, 2012 - Timewave Zero.avi ( DVD-Rip <640x480 Xvi
D, 128kbps mp3, 458mb> from classic 24min Sound Photosynthesis video from 1995 )
Terence McKenna - Eros & The Eschaton.mp3 ( poignant and articulate lecture from
Seattle, 1994- one of Terence's best, detailing novelty theory )
Terence McKenna - True Hallucinations.pdf ( an ebook about Terence McKenna's exc
iting journey of discovery in 1971 in the Amazon, which resulted in an epiphany
that led to his formulation of novelty theory and Timewave Zero )
Timewave Zero software v7.10 ( the latest incarnation of Terence McKenna's fract
al time software, by Peter Meyer! )
--------------------------------Special related multimedia links:
Terence McKenna - True Hallucinations ( classic Sound Photosynthesis talking boo
k), archived here:
- http://www.geocities.com/ariainvictus/
& here
- http://rapidshare.com/files/82141296/Terence_McKenna_-_True_Hallucinations__au
dio_book_and_ebook_.rar.html
Terence McKenna on Future-Hi Media:
- http://www.futurehi.net/media.html

Terence McKenna audio archive:

- http://www.lancerules.com/terence/
Dennis McKenna, co-author of The Invisible Landscape (multimedia collection torr
ent): - http://conspiracycentral.net:6969/stats.html?info_hash=e8b2406c1e0388f4
1aef01990707bc5b442c01e4
Terence McKenna on Sightings TV program about 2012:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-prt5d6m6s
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