I Was Supposed To Be in Hawaii for the End of the World
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I really screwed this up. One of my best friends, Steve March, and I swore to join one of our favorite freaks, no matter what it took, on the Big Island for the arrival of the end of the world. Terence McKenna had many charms, not the least of which was his weird voice zooming in and out about alien beings and the collective unconscious. He created a mathematical model of the progression of novelty through the course of human history called Timewave Zero and decided that there was a singularity at 2012. When he discovered that this corresponded with the end of the Mayan calendar, he happily declared it the end of the world as we know it… whatever that might mean.
Sadly, he died back in April, 2000. Our plans of dancing beside him amidst some kind of bizarre beach party near his place in Hawaii were wrinkled and twisted and now, here we are, with Terence sliding around through the ether somewhere and Steve and I separated by a continent.
Happy New Years Steve and Terence. I’ll find a way to make this up to you guys.
Watch Terence do his thing: (skip video forward to 2:45 where he appears)
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