A lot of what he said resonates with me. The time wave zero theory intrigued me to the point where i wanted to look into its accuracy.
It took me some time but i managed to find his software. It's early 90's DOS based software and it took a lot of technical tweaking to get it to work under XP.
I have yet to try it under Linux, once i do ill post it here too.
My findings?
After several weeks of exploring different time lines i found it inconsistent but still managed to line up here and there with major events.
but even a broken clock is right twice a day eh
In any event it's interesting to experiment with.
good luck!
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Originally Posted by Terence McKenna
Well, who was it? Oscar Wilde, or somebody said, “Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.” Reality is inherently paradoxical.
And the beginning of intellectual maturity is to be able to simultaneously hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time. People ask me if I believe in the 2012 prediction. I don’t believe in anything. My anti-ideological stance makes it very important to believe nothing. I regard Timewave Zero as a fascinating model of a previously unmodelled system – which is human history. The fact that it seems to deliver interesting data… for instance, I predicted a very deep plunge into novelty this past summer. Just as it was at its deepest, the Martian meteorite chock full of fossils arrived – along with a lot of email demanding to know where was the miracle I had predicted. [laughter] I like the word models. What we’re trying to do is build models. By saying the word ‘models’, we make it very clear that this is not ‘Truth’, and that there will be a better model, and we’ll swap the old for the new. So at the moment Timewave Zero is simply a better model of history than the idea that there is no model at all, which is what’s taught in the Academy. The definition of history, if you study history in the Academy, is: it’s a trendlessly fluctuating process. If true, it’s the only trendlessly fluctuating process ever to be observed in this universe. So obviously it’s not true, it’s just that we lack a model. So people say… like, Toynbee’s model was that ‘God is waiting’, somebody else had a ‘Great Man’ model, Marx believed it was all driven by class struggle, and Freud that it was all libido. Well, these are just opinions. Those aren’t theories, those are opinions. A theory has an ability to make predictions, and refine itself, so that’s what I offer with Timewave Zero.
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