2012 Awakening Consciousness: Terrence McKenna's Timewave Zero and 2012

Terence McKenna (who died April 2000) was a professional mushroom researcher, among other things, and in the course of his long first-hand study he experienced a visionary inspiration for a fascinating piece of software called Timewave Zero. I first read of it in his book The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFO's, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Godess, and the End Of History.... Anyway, the official introduction to the original program from Dolphin Software (by Peter Meyer) describes it best:

This software illustrates Terence McKenna's theory of time, history and the end of history as first described in the book The Invisible Landscape by him and his brother Dennis, and more recently in his The Archaic Revival (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992). The theory of Timewave Zero was revealed to Terence by an alien intelligence following a bizarre, quasi-psychedelic experiment conducted in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in 1971. Inspired by this influence Terence was instructed in certain transformation of numbers derived from the King Wen sequence of I Ching hexagrams. This led eventually to a rigorous mathematical description of what Terence calls the timewave, which correlates time and history with the ebb and flow of novelty, which is intrinsic to the structure of time and hence of the temporal universe. A peculiarity of this correlation is that at a certain point a singularity is reached which is the end of history - or at least is a transition to a suprahistorical order in which our ordinary conceptions of our world will be radically transformed. The best current estimate for the date of this point is December 21, 2012 CE [common era], the winter solstice of that year and also the end of the current era in the Mayan calendar.

This audio was recorded on April 14, 1985 and is an excerpt from 'The invisible Landscape' Peer Review. Here, Terence McKenna speaks about the fractal time software he created known as Timewave Zero. Also present in the discussion were Francis Huxley, Barbara Smith, Jose Arguelles, Ralph Abraham, and Kat Harrison. Many of the visual aids used in this presentation are based on the original graphs included in 'The Invisible Landscape.'

Part 1