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Timewave Zero & Mutations of the I-Ching

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Anyone know who Terence McKenna was? He was a public speaker who talked about psychedelics and philosophy (usually influenced by psychedelics). I always found him fascinating because he's a great orator and rhetorician but it was more for his imagination. One of his zanier theories was Timewave Zero, and he claimed to have discovered it using the I-Ching whilst he was (of course) loaded on shrooms in the Amazon. As one does.

It was in fact the first time I had heard of the I-Ching. I think I saw it on one of those semi-scientific documentaries on the History channel when I was 13yo back in 2004 or so. (When History was devolving into the Ancient Aliens phase.) Timewave Zero was this theory that novelty in the universe would reach a peak in 2012, meaning that no new things could possibly happen, so there would be an evolution in consciousness. It was one of his nuttier theories (I actually think 2012 heralded a dark age of technology myself, not quite an optimistic shift) But it got me thinking about how people see patterns in the I-Ching that may not necessarily be there. He used King Wen's version of the Yi. Here's a Wikipedia link since I'm too lazy to find a proper article.

There are other examples of people, I can't find it but one guy apparently went 10 days without sleep tripping on ayahuasca trying to divine some mega-theory from the I-Ching; he died.

The Nuclear Hexagram talk got me thinking about ways that people see patterns in the Yi, when it is and isn't meaningful. I'm not certain that the Nuclear Hexagram concept originated from the first days of the Yi, perhaps like the change pattern concept (Of Karcher?) they were discovered later and integrated into the canon. I personally thought I discovered something and realized later it was called the fan yao and that everyone was already doing it :lol:.

For example here's something else I discovered and lay claim to:

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If you move the bottom line to the top you have a new hexagram, so here Hexagram 36 becomes Hexagram 4. I guess you could do it the other way too it becomes the nuclear hexagram 40. I call it the Uberhex🎉. Granted this probably already exists too, though I couldn't find anything about it. But joking aside, I wonder what this could mean or how one could deduce it's role in the reading. Or more importantly when one is just 'making shit up' and not seeing anything meaningful in the patterns, something I think McKenna was prone to.

Wonder if anyone's seen patterns in the Yi that they've formulated into a new technique? I'm thinking akin to a Nuclear hex or an opposite hex etc but the more outlandish extrapolations like McKenna's thing are interesting too.
 

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Here's another way to visualize it. By moving the bottom line of a hexagram to the top and continuing that you can get a sequence of 6 hexagrams that loop back to the original.

Here's a gif to illustrate, it's more obvious as you see the "Li" trigram migrate up and down the 6 hexagrams.

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Here's the gif sequenced out. The red line shows how the progression works. No clue what this could mean but I thought it was an interesting visual.

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This is made in similar ways can use it in practice even without 六爻:

Palaces in 六爻 also are made in similar way, but that has been looked at in some detail in the past.


And I liked some of the material from Terence McKenna.
The idea that, "Rome falls many times an hour", is used in practice in the divination styles in Asia all over the place, as that is the idea of cycles in cycles etc. and that is how everything there works, anyway.
 

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The idea that, "Rome falls many times an hour", is used in practice in the divination styles in Asia all over the place, as that is the idea of cycles in cycles etc. and that is how everything there works, anyway.
This is an interesting concept, takes a moment to get your head around.

I like the special hexagram chart, another way to conceptualize relationships between hexagrams.
 

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