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   calendrical conversion program, Timewave Zero (illustrating   
   Terence McKenna's theory of time and history) and some data   
   encryption software. The last incorporates an encryption   
   method which I developed during 1990-92.  Q5. What are   
   'Psychedelic Monographs and Essays' and the 'Yearbook of   
   Ethnomedicine and Consciousness Research'? Who puts them   
   out? What is their audience? Their content?  A5.   
   'Psychedelic Monographs and Essays' (published by Thomas   
   Lyttle, first issued in 1985) evolved from the 'Psychozoic   
   Press' (published by Elvin D. Smith, first issued in 1982).   
   Both were/are collections of essays and informative material   
   dealing with all aspects of psychedelics and psychoactive   
   plants and fungi, with occasional articles about psychedelic   
   researchers and their work. The latest volume of Psychedelic   
   Monographs and Essays is #6, and has articles classified   
   under the headings of Spirituality, Psychotherapy,   
   Literature, Parapsychology and Pharmacology. It is available   
   from PM&E Publishing, P.O. Box 4465, Boynton Beach, FL   
   33424, for $20.00 postpaid within the U.S., $27.00 outside   
   the U.S.  The 'Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and Consciousness   
   Research' is similar. It is edited by the German   
   anthropologist Dr. Christian Raetsch and contains some   
   articles in English and some in German. The first volume was   
   published in late 1992. It is available from the publisher,   
   Amand Aglaster, VWB, Postfach 11 03 68, 1000 Berlin 61,   
   Germany.  Q6. How did you get into psychedelic research? DMT   
   research?  A6. My initial awareness of the existence of   
   psychedelics came from reading Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of   
   Perception' in 1966. I knew immediately that this was a   
   field of research I wished to explore. My opportunity came a   
   few months later when an artist friend in Melbourne informed   
   me that some LSD had shown up. It was probably synthesized   
   locally, and was quite impure, but blew me away. Life has   
   never been the same since.  I know of nothing more   
   interesting and worthy of study than the multitude of   
   conscious states available through the use of psychedelics.   
   Had psychedelic research not been made illegal (this is   
   itself a crime against humanity) I would presumably have   
   pursued my biochemical/- psychological/philosophical studies   
   under the auspices of academia. Instead I abandoned the   
   academic world for the study of Tibetan Buddhism in India   
   and later got into software development in the U.S. and in   
   Europe. But I have never ceased to do psychedelics   
   occasionally, and sometimes frequently, garnering such   
   information and understanding as I can under the   
   circumstances.  A couple of years after I began doing acid I   
   discovered the delights of marijuana and hashish, which   
   subject I researched enthusiastically in Asia beginning in   
   1971 (when the hash shops in Kathmandu were still open and   
   legal, before they were closed down at the insistence of the   
   U.S. Government). Morning glory seeds in 1974. In 1978 I   
   discovered psilocybin mushrooms at Palenque in Mexico. In   
   1983 MDMA in Berkeley. In 1987 DMT in Hawaii. In 1988   
   Ketamine in Switzerland. In 1990 5-MeO-DMT in Berkeley.  My   
   interest in DMT arose from hearing Terence McKenna speak of   
   it in some of his taped talks (especially his Tryptamine   
   Hallucinogens and Consciousness). My first experience with   
   it was pretty strange; on my second I thought I was dying.   
   My initial encounter on DMT with the alien entities did not   
   come until two years later. As Terence has said, and which I   
   can confirm, the DMT experience is the weirdest thing you   
   can experience this side of the grave. The rational mind   
   retreats in utter disbelief when confronted with it. Thus I   
   resolved to research the topic, which I did during 1990-91   
   in Berkeley, where I had access to the Biosciences Library   
   at U.C. Berkeley. I gathered reports from those few people I   
   knew who had smoked it, and the article which resulted   
   appeared simultaneously in each of the journals mentioned   
   above.  The blurb for Timewave Zero: This software   
   illustrates Terence McKenna's theory of time, history and   
   the end of history as first described in the book 'The   
   Invisible Landscape' by him and his brother Dennis, and more   
   recently in his 'The Archaic Revival' (HarperSanFrancisco,   
   1992) The theory of Timewave Zero was revealed to Terence by   
   an alien intelligence following a bizarre, quasi-psychedelic   
   experiment conducted in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in   
   1971. Inspired by this influence Terence was instructed in   
   certain transformations of numbers derived from the King Wen   
   sequence of I Ching hexagrams. This led eventually to a   
   rigorous mathematical description of what Terence calls the   
   timewave, which correlates time and history with the ebb and   
   flow of novelty, which is intrinsic to the structure of time   
   and hence of the temporal universe. A peculiarity of this   
   correlation is that at a certain point a singularity is   
   reached which is the end of history - or at least is a   
   transition to a supra-historical order in which our ordinary   
   conceptions of our world will be radically transformed. The   
   best current estimate for the date of this point is December   
   21, 2012 CE, the winter solstice of that year and also the   
   end of the current era in the Maya calendar.  The primary   
   function of the software is to display any portion of the   
   timewave (up to seven billion years) as a graph of the   
   timewave related to the Western calendar (either Gregorian   
   or Julian). You can display the wave for the entire   
   4.5-billion-year history of the Earth, note the   
   peculiarities of the wave at such points as the time of the   
   extinction of the dinosaurs (65 million years ago) and   
   inspect parts of the wave as small as 92 minutes. The   
   software provides several ways of manipulating the wave   
   display, including the ability to zoom in on a target date   
   or to step back to get the larger picture.  A remarkable   
   quality of the timewave is that it is a fractal. Once a part   
   of the wave is displayed the software allows you to expand   
   any smaller part (down to 92 minutes). This usually reveals   
   a complexity of structure which persists however much the   
   wave is magnified, a property typical of fractals. The idea   
   that time has a fractal structure (in contrast to the   
   Newtonian conception of time as pure, unstructured duration)   
   is a major departure from the common view of the nature of   
   time and physical reality. That time is a fractal may be the   
   reason why fractals occur in Nature.  The documentation   
   describes the origin, construction and philosophical   
   significance of the timewave, the use of the software, the   
   mathematical definition of the timewave (with proofs of some   
   related mathematical theorems) and certain curious numerical   
   properties.  An interesting part of the theory is the   
   assertion of historical periods 'in resonance' with each   
   other. Resonantly we have (in 1993) emerged from the fall of   
   the Roman empire and are well into the transitional period   
   known historically as the Dark Ages. The software permits   
   graphical display of different regions of the timewave that   
   are in resonance with each other. This allows the period   
   1945 - 2012 to be interpreted as a resonance of the period   
   2293 BC - 2012 CE. New in this version is the ability to   
   graph trigrammatic resonances in addition to the major   
   resonances, and to construct a sequential set of eleven   
   trigrammatic resonances. There is a new appendix concerning   
   some recent mathematical results.  The Timewave Zero   
      
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