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The timewave graph is supposed to depict the ebb and flow of novelty and habit in the universe. When the timeline climbs up, habit (routine, convention, ruts to get stuck in) increases. When the line dips down, novelty (creativity, connectedness, weird shit) increases. A built-in feature of the wave is that at a certain point it hits the bottom of the graph — it goes off the scale. Novelty is maximized, as far as the variables of this system (the universe) go. With this graph in his hands, mckenna tried mapping it onto the historical record, looking at key points where things seemed to have really taken off, and matching them to the big dips in the line. Specifically, he opted for the bombing of Hiroshima as an unarguably novel event. The structure of his timewave dictated that extremely novel events unfolded in cycles of 6 x 64 x 64 = 24576 days (67.29 years). [64 being critical to the I-Ching.] Adding this sum to the date of Hiroshima gave him an end-date in November 2012 AD. It was well after settling on this date that he found out someone else had come to a very similar conclusion. The calendar of the time-obsessed Mayan culture appears to come to the end of a 5125-year cycle on 21st December (the winter solstice) of the same year, and mckenna adjusted the end-date to conform with this venerable tradition. As it stands, the timewaves predictions for the run-up to 2012 AD are staggering. Comparing our own age… we can see that the start of the 90s resonates with the …