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2012: The Emergence of An Enigma

The document discusses the emergence and development of the idea of 2012 as a significant date. It describes how Terrence and Dennis McKenna discovered the "Timewave Zero" theory through taking hallucinogenic plants in the Amazon in 1971. Their theory predicted increasing novelty and change culminating in a peak on December 21, 2012, matching the end of the Mayan calendar. The theory was later refined with "Timewave One" after being analyzed by mathematicians who found errors in the original model.

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2012: The Emergence of An Enigma

The document discusses the emergence and development of the idea of 2012 as a significant date. It describes how Terrence and Dennis McKenna discovered the "Timewave Zero" theory through taking hallucinogenic plants in the Amazon in 1971. Their theory predicted increasing novelty and change culminating in a peak on December 21, 2012, matching the end of the Mayan calendar. The theory was later refined with "Timewave One" after being analyzed by mathematicians who found errors in the original model.

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2012: THE EMERGENCE OF AN ENIGMA

Geoff Stray, http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/

I first became fascinated with 2012 in 1981, when I heard about a book by Terrence and
Dennis McKenna, called The Invisible Landscape. It took me 10 months to get hold of
the book, and I had to read it twice before I began to understand it, after becoming more
acquainted with advanced neurochemistry.

For those of you who may not know the story: In 1971, the McKenna brothers went
down to a remote part of the Amazon jungle to investigate rumours that the shamans
performed magic using a “violet psychofluid” – a kind of ectoplasm which pours from
all orifices and the skin, following ingestion of a hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca
(only visible to others who’ve taken the brew). They ended up taking a different
combination of sacred plants, but which contained the same active ingredients as
ayahuasca – dimethyltryptamine, and harmine (a beta-carboline) – both of which are
closely related to the natural secretions of the pineal gland (especially in advanced
meditators).

After a shared hallucinatory episode, the brothers returned to the USA to develop the
insights they had in the Amazon. They were convinced that the ancient Chinese oracle –
the I Ching, or Book of Changes – worked because it was a mathematically coded form
of

Terrence McKenna

the time wave system that underlies change in the universe. The I Ching is a group of 64
six-line structures called hexagrams, which show all combinations of Yin and Yang
(like + and – ). Another researcher – Martin Schonberger, in 1973, found an exact
correspondence between the 64 hexagrams and the 64 codons in our DNA, at the same
time as the brothers worked on advanced neurochemical theories to explain how the
chemistry system worked, by which they had accessed knowledge stored in their
nuclear DNA.

Eventually, they found a complex fractal wave, where each level is 64 times greater
than the one below, consisting of 26 levels, which describes all change in the universe,
from sub-atomic event durations, up to a universe-length time-span. When they
analysed the peaks and troughs of history, and lined up the Timewave over the wave of
history, they found that the end of the wave, when all the sub-waves peak together, will
be in the year 2012 !!

At the time they discovered this, THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE MAYAN
CALENDAR, or that the Long Count ends in 2012. The Invisible Landscape was
published in 1975, and knowledge of the Mayan calendar did not become widespread
until 1987, when Jose Arguelles published The Mayan Factor. Having heard about this
later, the McKennas published a new version of the Invisible Landscape in 1993, in
which the Timewave was refined to end on the winter solstice, along with the Long
Count.

The Timewave (“Timewave Zero”) was criticized by a mathematician called Watkins,


and then checked and corrected by a nuclear physicist called John Sheliak, so that the
new “Timewave One” fitted history even better (see Hyperborea for more details).

More recently, it has been discovered that the Mayan shamans actually used the same
mushroom which the McKennas took, leading to knowledge of 2012 in both cases.

The end of the wave shows “ingression of novelty into spacetime” or change,
accelerating to incredible levels. To paraphrase Robert Anton Wilson’s summary; the
last 384-day cycle contains more transformations than in all previous cycles – below
that is a 6-day cycle, when things accelerate even faster, and in the last 135 minutes, 18
barriers comparable with the appearance of life, or the invention of language, will be
crossed – 13 of these will occur in the last second.

(snip – See Stray’s website for rest of article)

And the Hyperborea article referred to above.

Novelty Theory Bombshell!

Sheliak ‘s Analysis Clarifies Timewave

Watkin’s Objection Brings Searching Review

“Novelty Theory on firm mathematical ground at last .” excited McKenna declares

http://www.levity.com/eschaton/bombshell.html

Simultaneous announcements made November 1, 1997 from Albuquerque and


Honaunau and documents posted on the WWW have confirmed what Novelty Theory
insiders have speculated for months. Novelty Theory has been given a mathematical
new look by mathematician and nuclear fusion expert John Sheliak. Sheliak, when he
first encountered Terence McKenna and the Novelty Theory of which he is the inventor,
was challenged by McKenna to “check the premises of the theory” using vector
analysis, Sheliak’s specialty. Some years passed and when Sheliak returned to the
problem he found McKenna and Novelty Theory reeling from the mathematical
deconstruction of McKenna’s work put forth by Matthew Watkins, a British
mathematician. Watkins showed conclusively that a procedural error in McKenna’s
method had produced a result which was inconsistent with McKennas’s intent. This
discovery lead Watkins to dismiss the entire edifice of Novelty Theory. However
Watkins did not examine the impact of McKenna’s error on the values generated by the
Timewave algorithm.

Sheliak, in carrying out his analysis of the Timewave has confirmed Watkins’ findings
of a procedural error and has corrected that error. His work reveals that the difference
between the two versions of the Timewave differ only slightly in many cases.

Reached at his home in Hawaii for comment McKenna had this to say: “I owe a real
debt of gratitude to both Watkins and John Sheliak, but especially John. His work now
makes explicit every stage in the construction of the timewave, any interested
mathematician can now satisfy him or herself as to the precise details of the
construction of the timewave. What is exciting to me and what makes me very confident
of the new formulation is the fact that we are now getting a better fit of the Novelty
graphs to historical data in a number of key areas where before, with the old version, we
had some problems.

Just to mention two examples. The new wave, which we are calling Timewave 1, to
distinguish it from Timewave 0, the new wave gives a much better picture of the ebb
and flow of Novelty during the Second World War and during the century of the birth
of Islam, than did the old wave. These are exciting times for Novelty Theory. I am
happy to admit my error in the construction of the wave. Novelty Theory can now
mature into a genuine intellectual discipline in which we can hope to see the
contributions made by many people exploring the field. Many exciting discoveries now
lie ahead.”

Analysts concurred that the immediate challenge for Novelty Theory enthusiasts would
be the smooth and rapid dissemination of the new version of the Timewave and the
replacement of key files in the widely distributed Timewave Zero software so that it
will generate the new corrected values. Owners of Timewave Zero software should
contact BlueWater Publishing to obtain info on software upgrades

Online here: the full text of John Sheliak’s paper. This is the only public source of this
paper as of Nov. 1, 1997.

For further information visit The Novelty Report

For Timewave Software & McKenna Books & Tapes

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