Terence McKenna’s Timewave Theory
I was out doing my usual random Google sweep and discovered a slew of pages devoted to Terence McKenna, a bizarre counter-culture guru who passed away several years ago. Working under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms, McKenna developed an end-times theory based on the I Ching (a divination tool which I’ve held interest in for a long time).
Basically, the idea is that humanity will eventually run out of new things to create and explore, and once that moment is reached, the world as we know it will end. In essence, it’s sort of an inverse version of Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point hypothesis. Rather than a gradual expansion of mutual consciousness, humanity will wildly implode.
Are we already beginning to see this slowly play out, as we reach the outer limits of technology? Read McKenna’s own (very wordy) explanation of the theory for yourself.
