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.
Psychedelic Idea - Terence McKenna
Novelty theory attempts to calculate the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until his death in the year 2000. Ride the wave all the way to zero Terence has the map no need to panic...enjoy the ride.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Best of TMK
-
Approaching the Eschaton is based on selected remarks by Terence McKenna in a recently released interview conducted in 1998 in Hawaii by Joh...
-
The ego is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive funct...
-
Eschatology (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of", first used in English aro...
-
We glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is ...
-
logos had a semantic field extending beyond "word" to notions such as, on the one hand, language, talk, statement, speech, convers...