Terence McKenna and his idea of extropy is explained through the window of opportunity we can call novelty.
One of Terence McKenna's most widely promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It pr...
Terence McKenna and his idea of extropy is explained through the window of opportunity we can call novelty.
One of Terence McKenna's most widely promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid 1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.
The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases.
Considered by some to represent a model of history's most important events, the universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012. In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. According to leading expert Ray Kurzweil), another concept called cultural singularity (essentially cultural dissolution, or language dissolution), parallels this as well. Terence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory, also known as "Time Wave Zero", was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness; José Argüelles's The Mayan Factor.
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A lot of complicated info to process. This is truly fascinating, and I liked the analogy downloading software on computers, which made it easier to understand.
what's with the annoying ringing? are you trying to give someone an anurism? ALL GOOD INFO. thank you. i needed some inspiration. im so sad those military people were shot. but, it's better to think it was all an act. showbiz. everything on tv is showbiz. get what u get out of it. try to be the change uU wish to see in the world.~
what u said is extremely far from the truth. i know u might believe that all this man is just a guy with bats in the belfry, rabbling on and on about stuff unrelated to your life, but thats not true. once you actually experience what he talks about (psychadelic experiences - shrooms, dmt, etc), only then will you understand. i know exactly what he is talking about in pretty much this whole video -> wiping my cultural state clean and replacing it. do urself a favor and try some psychadelics.
I say The Left Brain World is The Matrix, because it is what is created by The super Left Brain Dominant Banking Elite, which I think of as the machines that control the matrix
I have seen that, but there have been other people that have said what she had said before her; it's just that they are not in the mainstream
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do urself a favor and try some psychadelics.
I have seen that, but there have been other people that have said what she had said before her; it's just that they are not in the mainstream