within
the McKenna theory, all of the 64 time-scales peak together.
That is, they assert:
a 4,300-year cycle from urbanization to the dawn
of modern science;
a 384-year cycle in which science has caused more
upsurge of novelty than in that 4,300-year cycle;
a 67-year cycle (from the technological breakthroughs
of the 1940s, including nuclear energy and
DNA, to the peak in 2012) in which there will be more
acceleration than there was between Galileo and Hiroshima;
a 384-day cycle in 2011-2012 when there will be
more transformations than in all the previous cycles;
a 6-day cycle at the end of that in which things will
move even faster; and so on, down to a grand climax in
which, as they say,
in the last 135 minutes, 18 such barriers (i.e., barriers
comparable to the appearance of life, the invention
of language or the achievement of immortality—
R.A.W.) will be crossed, 13 of them in the last 75 x
104 seconds.91
That is, in the last two hours before Peak, we will
achieve 18 extensions of consciousness and power, each one
comparable to the passing from sea to land or from Earth to
Space.
And in the last .0075 seconds of the Great Cycle we will
pass through 13 such transformations.



"The voice of the teacher spoke in my mind. "You've found it. This is it. It's all over now. There is no more. Within a few hours, the superstructure of earthbound, human civilization is going to collapse and your species will depart. First you will go to Jupiter and then to Alpha in Sagittarius. A day of high adventure dawns at last for the human beings"-terence mckenna