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Daniel Pinchbeck
The timewave also implied an imminent rupture, an end to our linear time that would be a movement into a new temporal structure. “Because we suggest a model of time whose mathematics dictate a built-in spiral structure, events keep gathering themselves into tighter and tighter spirals that lead inevitably to a final time. Like the center of a black hole, the final time is a necessary singularity, a domain or an event in which the ordinary laws of physics do not function.” Such an event would mean “passing out of one set of laws that are conditioning existence and into another radically different set of laws. The universe is seen as a series of compartmental ized eras or epochs whose laws are quite different from one another, with transitions from one epoch to another occurring with unexpected sud denness.” Back in California, after La Chorrera, McKenna found himself “in the grip of a creative mania more extreme than any I had thought possible.” Prodded by his ally and his own intuitions, McKenna first anchored his timewave in a presumed “novelty spike” that occurred with the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, locking in the “end of time” on November 17, 2012. Later, he conjectured that the concrescence of the “final time” could happen during a rare astronomical conjunction: the eclipse of the galactic center by the solstice sun, an event that occurred ap proximately once every twenty-six thousand years. Utilizing software, he discovered that this would next take place on December 21, 2012. Accord ing to McKenna, he arrived at this date without knowledge of the Mayan calendar, “and it was only after we noticed that the historical data seemed to fit best with the wave if this end date was chosen that we were informed that the end date that we had deduced was in fact the end of the Mayan Calendar.” He theorized that the Eschaton, strange attractor, or merkhaba like object awaiting us at that final time has in a sense already appeared, and what we experience as history are the shockwaves sent backward from this culmination. “What is it that gives both a twentieth-century individual and an an cient Mesoamerican civilization the same date upon which to peg the transformation of the world?” he asked. “Is it that both used psychedelic mushrooms? Could the answer be so simple? I don’t think so. Rather, I sus pect that when we inspect the structure of our deep unconscious we will