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balance that exists between opposites—the yin and yang of Chinese cosmology. The "I Ching" is believed to have originated around 5,000 years ago. It is made up of a series of predictions represented by a set of 64 line arrangements called hexagrams. Today, it is widely used in the western world as a tool of divination: three coins are thrown six times to produce one of the 64 hexagrams, which is then interpreted according to the "I Ching". Many scholars, including the famous Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, have been fascinated by the contents of the "| Ching". The "I Ching" played a significant role in the development of Jung's theory of synchronicity, which explains the meaningful coincidences that occur in life: thinking of someone and suddenly receiving a phone call from them, having financial problems but somehow finding the money to pay for the basics, or humming a song and then turning on the radio to discover that it's being broadcast. balance that exists between opposites—the yin and yang _ and they take rates of energy release and rates of data of Chinese cosmology. storage, this sort of thing, and draw all their curves out, The "I Ching" is believed to have originated around _ and they can see that some time between 2008 and 2020 5,000 years ago. It is made up of a series of predictions —_ everything will produce infinite amounts of energy...we represented by a set of 64 line arrangements called pack infinite amounts of data into infinitely small spaces; hexagrams. Today, it is widely used in the western world __ in other words, the same sort of things where, because of as a tool of divination: three coins are thrown six times __ the acceleration built into the unfolding of this novelty to produce one of the 64 hexagrams, which is then __ process, we're gonna cross more territory between here interpreted according to the "I Ching". and 2012 than we have crossed between the Big Bang and Many scholars, including the famous Swiss _ getting to here. psychologist Carl Jung, have been fascinated by the It kind of explains what is happening, that it isn't the contents of the "| Ching". The "I Ching" played a __ old-style religion, that it isn't the sterile steady-state of significant role in the development of Jung's theory of _ science, it's that the universe is actually evolving some synchronicity, which explains the meaningful — kind of process of self-metamorphosis, and human coincidences that occur in life: thinking of someone and __ beings indicate that we have crossed some boundary into suddenly receiving a phone call from them, having some new era, a new epoch of ever greater acceleration financial problems but somehow finding the money to __ into this process of self-revelation. This is what religions pay for the basics, or humming a song and then turning _are raving about, this is what every prophet on the street on the radio to discover that it's being broadcast. comer is trying to articulate, and | think it's real. | think we're getting a lot of static because people can only deal Timewave Zero? with it through images that they know...you know, The Chinese "Book of Marshall McLuhan said we drive Changes" also featured into the future using only our prominently in the work of rear view mirror, and that's sort writer and philosopher Terence McKenna noticed a of what it is. But I call this thing McKenna, who put forth the ‘the transcendental object at the notion that the "I Ching" correlation between the end of time’, and I think, in a originally may have been Q OnyLo sense, religion, Christian devised as a calendar. McKenna numerical sequences within revelation, it will all be fulfilled noticed a correlation between the “I Ching” and various in a way none of us ever the numerical sequences within . suspected, because nature has the "I Ching" and various astronomical cycles. this appetite for novelty and astronomical cycles. For acceleration into novelty. example, the number 6 (the AB: So then again | ask, at this number of lines in each moment that we speak of, 2012, hexagram) multiplied by 64 (the total number of — what do you actually think will occur? hexagrams) equals 384, the number of days in 13 lunar TM: Well, I've thought about this a good deal, and months. there are hard and soft scenarios, but I've noticed that Through his interpretations of the "I Ching", Terence what the time wave seems most coherently able to track McKenna created what is known as novelty theory _ is technology. Somehow technology is very important; ("novelty” in this context referring to something novel or __ it's the transformation of the human relationship to the new). McKenna devised a time wave to calculate the ebb ~— world through tools. And so what I'm thinking would and flow of novelty in the history of the universe and __ fulfill this entire scenario without requiring God Almighty predicted that a period of maximum novelty, or — to put in an appearance is time travel. I think that we are "newness", would be realised in the year 2012. moving toward...you know if you look at biology over In May 1997, Terence McKenna was interviewed on Art huge scales of time...hundreds of millions of years...it is Bell's American talkback radio show "Coast to Coast AM". a kind of conquest of dimensionality..." Here is an excerpt from the transcript of that interview: In mid-1999, Terence McKenna was diagnosed with an "Art Bell (AB): When you project toward 2012, what is aggressive form of brain cancer and passed away in April he magnitude of the spike or the difference there? If you 2000. In the late 1990s, software was developed to can give us an idea of the magnitudes along the way... explore and evaluate McKenna's Timewave Zero theory. Terence McKenna (TM): There is only one point in In October 2008, a dramatic drop of the time wave he entire cycle where the level of habit drops to zero; coincided with the freefall of the world's stock exchanges effectively then novelty becomes infinite. And that point and the beginning of what would become the global occurs on this solstice date in 2012. Now it's very _ financial crisis (GFC). If the time wave is accurate, interesting...there are some people on the net called 5 singularists, and they're hard-headed engineering types, Continued on page 82 numerical sequences within the “I Ching” and various astronomical cycles. 52 * NEXUS McKenna noticed a correlation between the Continued on page 82 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com