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Countdown Into Complexity – Part 4

Psychedelic Salon
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Jonathan
May 3, 2026March 1996
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Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 This podcast features Terence McKenna in a March 1996 workshop where he goes into great detail about his Timewave idea. Although I haven’t been including his Timewave talks in recent podcasts, since this series hasn’t been posted elsewhere…

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This transcript centers on Terence McKenna’s Timewave theory, which interprets the I Ching as a fractal map of history and predicts a climax of novelty around 2012. The host alternates between presenting McKenna’s arguments and critiquing their assumptions, especially the unexamined authority of the I Ching and the theory’s failure as a scientific model.

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