TIME IS SPEEDING UP - Terence McKenna

which lasts longer a million years in which nothing happens or ten seconds with 50,000 events crammed into it in other words really time is only experienced by the events which occur within it and I maintain that the early universe had very little going on and consequently time moved very very slowly the character of time as we approach the present is that there are more and more what physical domains and energetic domains in which change can occur for example the early universe was a pure plasma a pure swarm of unassociated electrons you didn't even have atomic systems let alone chemistry molecular chemistry life complex speciated life and dynamically balanced planetary ecosystems each one of those more complex phenomena crystallized out or emerged if you will from the previous systems that had come into existence so when I say time is speeding up what I mean really is that more and more is happening more and more is happening more connectivity occurs now in a calendar year than occurred in a million years a billion years ago so sometimes somehow as we approach the present we find ourselves in an ever denser realm of activity interrelationship connectivity and the result of this is more of the same producing a shrinking globe ever more immersive technologies dissolution of political social gender and class boundaries of all sorts so that's what I mean when I say the universe is speeding up you know before the advent of of man of human beings the fastest changes on this planet of any consequence were genetic changes changes in the genomes of plants and animals well biologists know that for a fruit fly to add a spur to its leg for a bird to change its plumage you need hundreds of thousands sometimes millions of years of evolutionary time with the advent of human beings using spoken language a new kind of possibility was born it's called epigenetic change in other words change which is not about genes but which is about languages customs behaviors of human beings epigenetic change reaches its dramatic culmination in speech writing and communication of all sorts and so the carriers of epigenetic changed the human beings are automatically than the carriers of accelerated novelty and so when you look at let's say evolution on a coral reef and you compare it let's say to the evolution of political ideas in modern Europe obviously modern Europe's rate of change in this domain is thousands of times faster so by moving from the genetic to the epigenetic realm we have vastly accelerated all kinds of processes now we appear to be about to move from the strictly human domain to the human-machine symbiosis domain and of course machines process information make connections and do their work at a rate thousands of times faster than any human being can work so we see again a progressive acceleration of the process of creating and maintaining varieties of connectivity if the universe is complexify and faster epoch a time will come when this rate of complexification is occurring so rapidly that it will become itself the overwhelming phenomena in the world of three-dimensional space and time and I call this the Omega Point or the transcendental object at the end of history and I believe it is not that far off that with the emergence of global internet a human population of several billions an electronic newest fear that we are now within the shadow of this transcendental object at the end of time our religion sense it that's what gives them their apocalyptic intuitions and I think the ordinary man and woman in the street sense a kind of built-in acceleration to time itself well rather than dismissing that or treating it as a psychological perception or something unique to our society I took it as a basic perception about physics and have built elaborate mathematically defined theories around this idea and then have found to my astonishment incredible congruences with other work I'm thinking of the Mayan calendar and it's curious countdown like quality toward an extremely unique event that the Maya felt would occur in the same timeframe that my own equations predicted even though at the time I was unaware of the Maya so what we have here is a new model of time based on a very real intuition that I think most people share which is the time is speeding up that human beings are part of that process and that the culmination of that process is now within the the van of historical time in other words I believe it will happen in 2012 in December coincident with the same events that the Maya placed at the end of their calendar even if I'm wrong even if it's a hundred years or five hundred years later these are still spans of time that when compared to the life of the planet are fractions of a percentage so whether you believe as I do that we can know the precise moment of this transformation of the world of time or whether you believe it is simply coming soon man fast really doesn't make that much difference we are all gathered here at the end game of developmental processes on this planet we are about to become unrecognizable to ourselves as a species our technologies our religions our science has pushed us toward this for thousands of years without us awakening to what the day no ma would be now we stand close enough to it I think all but the most lump and among us must feel the tug of the transcendental and the transformative you

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Keywords: terence mckenna, psychedelic explorer, time is speeding up, time travel, artificial intelligence, time acceleration, evolution, consciousness, in shadow modern odyssey, epigenetics, big bang, early universe, first life, matrix, Maya calendar, end of the world, maya prediction, novelty theory

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Length: 8min 56sec (536 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 08 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/SlowCrates]

Interesting. I experience a different phenomenon when I cram a lot of events into a relative time period. For me, time slows down. Take two 10 year periods of your life. In one 10 year period you're doing very little. Kind of the same routine every day for a whole decade. When you look back on that 10 year period of your life all those days blend together into one. Your brain has no reason to remember them separately. So an entire decade feels like a day. (This is obviously oversimplifying it, but follow me anyway).

Now take the 10 year period in which you moved a lot, worked several different jobs, made different friends, tried lots of things, and traveled. Hardly any days or weeks looked or felt like any other in that 10 year period. Well now your brain has to dedicate a lot of space and energy into remembering the events of that decade. Your perception of that decade will be much different. You lived a lifetime. You have a lifetime of memories. That decade feels much bigger. It feels like it lasted much longer.

Oddly, while we're in the moment it feels the opposite. When we're bored, time crawls. When we're busy, it flies by. But in retrospect, the exact opposite happens. We look back on inactivity and it barely registers a memory. It's almost like it never happened at all. We look back on our time bristling with activity and there's a lot to unpack. Those are the memories that stay with us. Those are the memories that give our lives meaning.

[u/lavenk7]

Not a fan of the title. Idk if Time itself is speeding up. More so I believe it’s the compounding of our collective knowledge.

[u/WarLordM123]

This is straight up 2012 apocalypse shit

[u/immersive-matthew]

I have had similar thoughts (less the Mayan calendar nonsense), but I do not believe this is about time, or even time speeding up. Where we are going (perhaps the Omega as he called it) is a place where time does not matter. I am a virtual reality developer and I am currently making a Disney SpaceShip Earth like dark ride for the Oculus Quest and other virtual reality headsets called “Into the Metaverse”. It is about the past, present and future of immersive technology from telling stories around the fire, to today’s emerging Metaverse technology naming VR and AR, and into the future as to where it is all going. The video above touched on immersive technology, but I think he failed to expand on this as this is a much bigger deal than just another medium. It is the final medium as it is all the previous mediums, plus all the possible and even impossible mediums especially as computer brain interfaces become more sophisticated. For a lack of a better example the Metaverse is the Matrix or the Oasis and with AI behind it all, it will be more than the Universe as it is a another multiverse in of its self. We as a species are going into the Metaverse and time has no meaning there. It will be fast if you want or slow if you desire and everything in between including no time. That is my 10 cents. If you are curious about my ride I will be published a free demo of the first 6 scenes on SideQuest in the best month or so and lawyer next year it will be available across various VR app stores.

[u/DeceptiveFallacy]

Once again an encounter with a bastardization of the concept epigenetics: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/19/epigenetics-dna--darwin-adam-rutherford

[u/ICreepvideos]

When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be a meme about Pucci.. lol

[u/euclideanplane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjyqg97lj3w