Timewave Zero

can't even conceive of what this is it's stranger than we can suppose and so the

whole the cultural fury that characterizes the 20th century the

tremendous upheaval and obliterating of traditional culture the tremendous

movement of information electronically around the globe the revolutions in

physics and archaeology and linguistics all of these things are acting to

complexify our world to the point where it finally I think must be dawning on

everyone that we are moving into and completely different kind of ontos of

the relationship between the world and the world and the world and the world

between man and nature when one examines the I Ching the king wen

sequence what is immediately apparent after only a few minutes of inspection

is that it is not simply 64 hexagrams in some random Association but rather that

the hexagrams occur in pairs the second term of each pair is the inversion of

the pre-historic time hierarchy of the universe in the book there are no extra

numbers in the book but in fact there areau of a number of numbers in the book

previous hexagram. And there are eight cases where the natural structure of the hexagram

makes its inversion ineffective in changing any of the lines. In other words, there are

eight cases where inverting a hexagram affects no change. The pairs of hexagrams that are

then placed into opposing positions vis-a-vis each other add to 64. So what I believe is

happening here is we are uncovering the secrets of a pre-Han occult school of numerological

speculation. Now, an obvious question would be, why should the study of a 4,000-year-old

Chinese divinatory system be done?

Well, I think the question is, why should the study of a 4,000-year-old Chinese divinatory

system yield an insight into the structure of felt experience in the here and now? The

reason, I believe, is that this pre-Zhou Chinese psychology that was being practiced was, in

fact, immensely sophisticated even by modern standards, and that using techniques which

would anticipate the later development of the Chinese system, the fact that the Chinese

development of yoga in India, perhaps using psychotropic substances, these

early Chinese Taoist shamans were penetrating to the very organizational

foundation of matter itself. What this is is essentially an energy structure drawn

out of a mathematical analysis of of the King Wen sequence. Here is the fractal

pattern that is typical of the entire wave. It happens to show up at certain

levels, and the notion is that throughout the wave when it is moving downward,

novelty, density of connection is increasing. So the general conclusion

from these screens is that novelty is being increased and conserved as we move

through time.

Now for instance in this screen which is further closure with today, we see 562

million years, virtually the entire career of higher life forms on the

planet, eight thousand five hundred years on the screen, the great

proto-Egyptian civilization Sumer, Ur, Chaldea, are strung out like pearls along

this plunge.

Egypt culminates that

ancient hierarchical form of dominator society, Mycenaean pirates plunder Minoan Crete. At this

point, at this point, here we have the Periclean Age in Athens, here we have the Augustinian Age

in Rome, down here we have the Roman collapse, and then the oscillating around a mean in a high

novelty domain that has characterized time since the fall of the Roman Empire. The Dark Ages is

here, the 10th century Islam is here, the Black Death, the discovery of America, the European

Enlightenment, World War II. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, the atom bomb is dropped on

Hiroshima, the Soviet Union is overthrown, and the Soviet Union is overthrown. The Soviet Union

is overthrown. The Soviet Union is overthrown. The Soviet Union is overthrown. The Soviet Union

currently living through is right down in here this is a span of time from 1991 to 1997 so upon

the basis of this screen we can make a series of predictions of a sort about what will go on in

the 1990s. What it's showing us is that there is a punctuated slightly recidivist movement coming

across here through 92 in American election late in 92 then this span of time here in contrast

to the domains around it looks like a fairly conservative period which ends spectacularly

you

in may of 96 or so when something happens which propels the entire wave into a deeper level of

novelty than it has ever displayed before what i'm going to show you here is the final terminus

of the wave in 2012 now remember this is the same wave we've been looking at in all our discussion

before but finally the wave not only descends deep into novelty it descends into the maximum

possible depth of novelty which is uh signified by the horizontal scale of the graph in other words

and then it ceases the wave is damped if you think of the wave as an oscillation well then

this is its fixed point and presumably its other fixed point is the

birth of the universe. It's like a navigational device for a time machine that has yet to be

built. When time machines are built, they will have to have something like this set in the

dashboard to navigate through time because time has many scales and many densities. So I'm

confident that what we're doing here, creating models for new technologies that allow the human

mind, if not eventually the human body, to explore higher dimensional space, not as an

abstraction, but as the fabric of their own lives and the life of the culture and cultures in which

we're all embedded. Now, one thing we haven't talked about that's probably worth talking about

is somebody pointed out that the pattern recurs.

That lays the basis for a theory of resonance. So that, for instance, here I'll stop this so we can talk

about it. If you have a perfect memory, you may recall that many screens ago we looked at a pattern

like this and I said Chattal-Yuyuk was here. And Ur, Chaldeas, Sumer, and Egypt were arranged along

here. Well this is the lower resonance of that.

being then that historical periods are in fact shaped by the historical period that they are

in resonance with by this theory. So, for example, remember how I said the pyramids were built right

down here or the Great Pyramid at Giza? Well, if we look on this resonance, what we discover right

down there is the rise of Nazi Germany. Now, saying that Nazi Germany is a resonance of pharaonic

Egypt may at first seem counterintuitive until you start thinking about it, and then here's what you

come up against. Egypt invented the idea of the god-king leader. The word

pharaoh,

and the word furor, are thought by some people to have a common etymological root. The Egyptians also

were the first people to really commit themselves to state-supported massive projects in the domain

of tasteless architecture. This was something the Nazis were hugely into. Both used slave labor to

build their massive structures. This was something the Nazis were hugely into. Both used slave labor to build their massive structures.

This was something the Nazis were hugely into. Both used slave labor to build their massive structures.

and tasteless architectural constructions, and amazingly enough, both leaned heavily on the Jews for this labor.

And yet, separated by thousands of years, operating in different parts of the earth but curiously connected by this wave generated out of the I Ching.

I find this kind of thing very, very interesting. As an example, the day Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait,

I rushed to the computer to check the resonance.

Resonance? Birth of Mohammed.

Same, same. Couldn't differentiate.

So clearly, and so what happened in both cases

is that people in a certain part of the world

made an enormous surge forward into self-expression, if you want.

And the whole Gulf War crisis paralleled the life of Mohammed.

And when Mohammed died, the war was over.

It was born at the resonance of his birth,

and it was completed at the resonance of his death.

I find this kind of thing very suggestive and quite uncanny.

We are living through in a 67-year period

that stretches from 1945 to 2012,

a compressed version of a larger historical epoch 4,306 years long

that also ends in 2012.

So that we have reached, by this reckoning,

the late 700s right now.

This is what we are living through.

And ahead of us lies the Gothic era,

the Gothic Renaissance, the Renaissance,

the European Enlightenment,

the discovery of the Newtonian mechanics,

the discovery of the New World.

That all lies ahead of us.

It all has to be compressed into the next 22 years of time.

And that is what accounts for the crazy quality of modernity.

It's what accounts for fads and fashions.

You know?

The timelines are rising and falling

in a rhythm based on the rise and fall of empires millennia ago.

And these things are as causally linked

as the orbit of the Earth is linked to the Sun, you see.

Because we are being drawn toward the attractor

through shorter and shorter epochs.

And not only must the entire last 4,000 years of history

be compressed into this 67-year period from 1945 to 2012,

but there is a 384-day period preceding December 22, 2012,

when the last 67 years and the last 4,300 years

have to be compressed into that.

Then there's a final six-day period

when all of these things are compressed again.

And so, do you see what's happening?

The spiral is tightening as it goes faster and faster.

The resonances are impinging.

The thing is getting nuttier and nuttier and nuttier

as computers link all cultures together,

all informational barriers dissolve.

Everything is becoming connected to everything else.

Not only everything in the present moment,

but all past moments as well

are being drawn, compressed, squeezed

toward the production of the transcendental object

at the end of time,

which is nothing less than all time, all space,

shrunk down to an atomic dimension

and handed back to us.

Do you see?

The way Joyce constructed Ulysses

was he had a character

who was walking around Dublin in a fog

trying to buy some kidneys to fry for breakfast.

And Joyce made of his peregrination

from one seedy bar to butcher shop and back,

bordello,

he overlaid it over the geography of the Mediterranean

and the chronology of the Homeric Wars,

the Trojan Wars,

and produced a novel which was in resonance

with a much larger historical period.

I believe this is how reality really works.

I mean, I have a saying,

Rome falls nine times an hour.

And it's your job to be sensitive to this.

You can feel it when it falls.

You can feel the rise of Chaldea,

the spread of the Slavic peoples,

the burning of Catalhoyuk

while you're vacuuming your apartment.

Or having sex.

All that stuff that's cycling.

Those aren't your thoughts.

Those are the thoughts

of the Gaian Matrix

as these resonances mesh and reflect

and work their way against each other.

Nazi Germany down here.

World War II fought across the bottom of this trough.

After World War II,

everybody was sick to death of novelty.

They'd seen about all of it they could stand.

Death camps, radar, V2 rockets,

propaganda, radio,

massive displacement of populations,

eugenics, thousand-year genetic control myths,

master race theory.

Enough already.

And after Germany was kicked to pieces,

all people wanted to do was go home,

have some kids, mow the lawn,

put their feet up and watch the game.

And they did that.

And this is the post-war reconstruction era

where the stress is all about,

let's get back to normal.

That was even a motto after 1945,

return to normalcy and so forth.

But then there are these,

you know, little stumbles along the way

called Sputnik,

assassination of John F. Kennedy,

so forth and so on.

And then as you come across the top,

right here, the great turning point,

1967-68, you've got it all.

You've got LSD.

You've got a youth revolution.

You have technology reaching for the moon,

literally.

And the moon landing is right there,

right there.

So, and then it all,

and that holds the 60s,

obviously blew the lid off of things

and started a descent into novelty

in which we are still experiencing

and reeling from.

It's a direct resonance to Homeric Greece.

And the hippies did have a Grecian quality.

I mean, all those barefoot people in robes

practicing their vegetarianism

and playing their flutes

and gathering in green spots.

Now notice that I have not reconfigured the wave

from the first time when I set it

for six billion years.

We've come through planetary dynamics.

We've come through evolutionary dynamics.

We've come through the dynamics of ancient civilization.

We now only have five years

and seven months on the screen.

And what have we got?

Okay, I'll show you what we've got.

First of all, George Bush is elected right here,

which means that Ronald Reagan leaves office right here.

This is the absolute resonance

for the fall of the Roman Empire.

And Ronald Reagan clearly is the carrier of that energy.

You know, the imperial style,

well, the whole tone of the thing was Roman.

Now, we have to account for this.

What is this low point?

It's Tiananmen Square on the money.

And if you don't think that was a novel event,

try to picture it.

Two million people crowd into the capital city

of the largest governmental entity on the planet

and bring it to a screeching halt

until it finds a solution.

Mass murder,

the most traditional solution

to these kinds of problems,

and then the wave turns up.

There's nothing novel about murdering

large numbers of people.

That is the traditional response

to many situations.

Okay, Tiananmen Square is there.

The next thing we have to account for

is right there.

I believe that dangers await only those

who do not react to life.

A Berlin Wall comes down right there

on the money, on the day,

right there.

Okay.

That little saddle there,

the absolute resonance to the birth of Muhammad.

It's the day Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait.

This is the only original idea

that I have ever come up with.

The rest is just telling you

what Schultes and Hoffman and everybody knows

and what you could find out

by spending time in a good medical library.

This is original.

And my notion of what the psychedelic experience is for

is that we each must become like fishermen

and go out onto the dark ocean of mind

and let your nets down into that sea.

And what you're after is not some behemoth

that will tear through your nets,

foul them and drag you and your little boat

into the abyss.

Nor are what we're looking for

a bunch of sardines

that can slip through your net and disappear.

Ideas like, have you ever noticed

that your little finger exactly fits your nostril?

And stuff like that.

What we are looking for

are middle-sized ideas

that are not so small that they're trivial

and not so large that they're incomprehensible.

But middle-sized ideas

that we can wrestle into our boat

and take back to the folks on shore

and have fish dinner.

And every one of us

when we go into the psychedelic state

this is what we should be looking for.

It's not for your elucidation.

It's not part of your self-directed psychotherapy.

You are an explorer

and you represent our species.

And the greatest good you can do

is to bring back a new idea.

Because our world is endangered

by the absence of good ideas.

Our world is in crisis

because of the absence of consciousness.

And so to whatever degree

any one of us can bring back

a small piece of the picture

and contribute it to the building

of the new paradigm

then we participate

in the redemption of the human spirit.

And that after all

is what it's really all about.

That's it folks.

Thank you very much.