I believe 2012 didn't mark the point of concrescence, but marked the beginning of the process. Its marking the point when we started speeding faster than natural entropy and reaching the point of no return. For example, In 2012, IBM started rolling out their AI- Watson to different branches of society. What if 2012 marked not the end of time, but the beginning of the technological/machine dominance of consciousness over humans? The propelling of machines taking us to the eschaton. The moment we started beating entropy in a race by creating/organizing/complexifying faster than nature can deteriorate. Thats what happened in 2012. The beginning of a new era. We are now speeding towards the concrescence/eschaton of the universe faster than ever and it will become fully conscious and aware of itself by connecting all points within it, together.
The Eschaton is the very final thing in a universe/end of the world/the singularity. No one knows what the Eschaton will look like but as we use machines as the newest carriers of natures consciousness, they will propel us towards it quicker than we ever have. Thats why Terence says that the second law of thermodynamics is wrong. We are now complexifying faster than entropy can deteriorate the system. What used to take hundreds of years now takes much less and so on and so forth until it hits the eschaton. The Eschaton is signifying that we will reach a point of such extreme, quick complexification, that there will be a time where no more novelty can be expressed because all points/ideas/possibilities have come together and unifies everything. Basically the universe is using consciousness to meet and understand itself. At first, it was just in trees/fungus then transferred to small mammals then us and now machines until it becomes aware of itself and it inadvertently becomes the transcendental object at the end of time.
Terences Novelty Theory is very interesting and I think he understood/discovered something big but I personally think he misinterpreted when this will happen. He thought 2012 was going to be the “eschaton”. I believe it marks the beginning of the end, so to speak. Could be wrong but I'd argue it's one of his most important lectures. It also sums up his whole career because this is the final theory he was considering following a life of psychedelic exploration.
I leave you with an excerpt from his most important lecture:
It's only going to get weirder. The level of contradiction is going to rise excruciatingly, even beyond the excruciating present levels of contradiction. So, I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder, and weirder, and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. And at that point novelty theory can come out of the woods, because eventually people are going to say, “What the hell is going on?” It's just too nuts, it's not enough to say it's nuts, you have to explain why it's so nuts.
So, between now and 2012, the next 14 years, I look for: the invention of artificial life, the cloning of human beings, possible contact with extraterrestrials, possible human immortality, and at the same time, appalling acts of brutality, genocide, race baiting, homophobia, famine, starvation; because the systems which are in place to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed. The collapse of the socialist world, the rise of the internet. These are changes so immense nobody could imagine them ever happening, and now that they have happened nobody even bothers to mention what a big deal it is.
Ah, the fact that there is no such thing as the Soviet Union, people never talk about it anymore—but when I was a kid the notion that that would ever change was beyond conceiving. Ah, so the good news is, that as primates we are incredibly adaptable to change. Put us in the desert, we survive, put us the jungle, we survive, under Hitler we survive, under Nixon we survive.
We can put up with about anything and it's a good thing because we are going to be tested to the limits. The breakdown of anything—and this is why the rightwing is so alarmed—because what they see going on is the breakdown of all tradition, all order, all sanctioned norms of behaviour. And they're quite right that it's happening, but they're quite wrong to conclude that it should be resisted or is somehow evil.
The mushroom said to me once, it said: “This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.” You don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions; it's a fire in a madhouse, and that's what we have, the fire in the madhouse at the end of time. This is what it's like when a species prepares to move on to the next dimension. The entire destiny of all life on the planet is tied up in this; we are not acting for ourselves, or from ourselves; we happen to be the point species on a transformation that will affect every living organism on this planet at its conclusion."
Cheers.
by mexinator