It was Terrence McKenna's work in Novelty Theory and his "Timewave Zero" that brought this whole "WE GUNNA DIE IN 2012" to what it is now. McKenna died in 2000 to a brain tumor. Anyways, it was McKenna who suggested that history can be plotted with the iChing that would present a logarithmic chart of the amount of novelty in the world, or in other words, human progress and innovation. When the "Timewave" dropped down, it meant that the world was experiencing an age of novelty. McKenna demonstrated that his iChing/History analysis had a correlation between events such as the plague, the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and many other events. It was on the date of Dec 21 2012 that McKenna's Timewave dipped below the X axis. McKenna never made any concrete suggestions with his pseudoscience bullshit (though really entertaining bullshit, I respect the man for his Blake scholarship) as to what would happen. All McKenna said was that the day was a day of great novelty and once suggested that it's possible time travel is first used that day allowing time to run in a nonlinear fashion.
It's all bullshit. I don't understand the fascination with apocalyptic situations or zombies. It will be a day like any other, humans experience the universe, the universe does not experience human machinations of time or human value. What I'm trying to say is that today very well could have been October 28 3009. Dates are contingent, anyone can recognize this.
Here's more reading on McKenna if you were interested in further reading. He's my favorite crackpot along with Richard Stallman as both are right about 95% of the time, it's the 5% that's batshit.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/terence-mckenna/
http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm
Oh yeah, some ripoff of McKenna is out there now, talking about Quazqetol or whatever that Aztec God was... don't bother with his work.
This post was edited by Chardonnay on Oct 28 2009 12:21am