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Timewave Zero

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Terence McKenna‘s software plotting the fractals of “novelty” over many thousands of years of earth’s history, up to 2012 C.E., at which point novelty will reach the state of infinite fulmination. He defines novelty, of course, as “the density 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 brother Dennis discovered a wave pattern in the ordering of the Tarot’s trigrams and hexagrams that suggestedÂ time could be mapped. One of the oldest “structured abstractions” known, the I Ching has been found scratched on the 6,000 year-old shoulder bone of a sheep. Since the I Ching is particularly concerned with the dynamicÂ relationships and transformations that archetypes undergo, McKenna intuited that the I Ching must also be deeply involved with the nature of time as the necessary condition for the manifestation of archetypes as categories of experience.

Centering his attention on examining the King Wen sequence of sixty four hexagrams, McKenna’s search for theÂ ordering principles that lay behind it managed to translate what was essentially a mystical diagram into a rationallyÂ apprehensible, mathematical model. Working with Peter Meyer, McKenna developed a personal computer software package that takes his discoveries concerning the I Ching and creates time maps based upon them.Â 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 tens 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 assumed to be decreasing in favor of habitual forms of activity. According to this graph, one trend toward greater novelty reached its culmination around 2700 B.C.,Â precisely at the height of the Old Kingdom pyramid-building phase. Perhaps 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 times that have oscillated atÂ levels of novelty very close to the horizontal axis, the maximized “zero state.” When the zero point is reached, the wave passes out of the past and into the future. We are approaching a point, says McKenna, “when the rational and acausal tendencies inherent in time may again reverse their positions of dominance.”

McKenna views history, with it’s hunger for completion, as “an anomaly… a complete 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 denouement, evolution is carried out of strictly biological confines and into the mental realm where language and other abstractions begin to pull us together toward “a complex attractor that exists ahead of us in time.” This”concrescence,” saysÂ 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 into 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 of 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 believe in the 2012 prediction. I don’t believe in anything. My anti-ideological stance makes it very important to believe nothing. I regard Timewave Zero as a fascinating 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 deep plunge into novelty this past summer. Just as it was at its deepest, the Martian meteorite chock full of fossils arrived – along with a lot of email demanding to know where was the miracle I had predicted. [laughter] I like the word models. What we’re trying to do is build models. By saying the word ‘models’, we make 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 what’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 obviously 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 theory has an ability to make predictions, and refine itself, so that’s what I offer with Timewave Zero.

- Terence McKenna

Source: http://fusionanomaly.net/timewavezero.html

Here is a quantified interpretation of history’s vicissitudes, the
mutability of life or, if you prefer, a graphic representation of the
universe’s rhythm here on our tiny planet.

McKenna purportedly bases this fractal wave graph approach to
documenting the rhythm of life on concepts gleaned from the
I Ching .

The following are a selection of graphs found on the web sites
listed below, apparently generated by McKenna’s TWZ software
portraying this rhythm on chronologically decreasing scales. The
TWZ software is available for purchase by the public.

All lines appear to closely approach the horizontal axis sometime in
the first several decades of the 21st century. You’ll notice there’s a
distinct lack of apparent effort to extend the graph much beyond
that point. Apparently holistically inspired fractals don’t reach negative
values. Or maybe you just buy the software to see what happens next.

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