Terence McKenna's Time Wave Zero Terence McKenna's Time Wave Zero There is another odd pointer to the 2012 date, American psychedelic shaman Terrance McKenna's Time Wave theory. In that theory, the year 2012 is called "Time Wave Zero." McKenna took the I Ching, did some kind of mathematical fractal operation with it, and produced a computer program which supposedly produces a "time wave" which maps out something called "novelty" across the scale of time, from the Big Bang to the Eschaton, the ending of time. I found out about the time wave zero because I had been interested in McKenna's work for quite some time. I will confess straightaway I don't understand his time wave scheme or its mathematics at all. Here is a time wave graph showing the fluctuations in "novelty" over a vastest scale, starting with the Big Bang and ending on Dec. 21, 2012. Exactly what this shows, I am still not sure. Apparently the fractal function depends especially on the sequence (order) in which the hexagrams are taken. [snip] It's there.
Waiting for the End of the World An increasing number of Americans -- even intellectual Americans -- now believe the world will end in 2012: not metaphorically, not politically, but literally. They believe that the way we live, the way we spend our time, and above all the way we think will change radically as the world undergoes a cosmic meltdown foretold by ancient seers. According to some interpretations, a calendar created 1,500 years ago by Mayan Indians predicts that a global cataclysm will rock our world in 2012. Speculation on this alleged apocalypse has spawned hundreds of blogs and YouTube videos. Recently I interviewed Daniel Pinchbeck, a Manhattan intellectual and 2012 believer whose parents were abstract painter Peter Pinchbeck and Beat Generation memoirist (and Jack Kerouac's ex) Joyce Johnston. "I think the defining issues of these 'edge times' are the unsustainability of our civilization, the precarious state of our environment , and the current level of human consciousness," Pichbeck told me.