What the timewave is predicting for its end point at 6:00 a.m. on December 21, 2012, is quite extraordinary. Whereas Calleman and Argüellés are predicting major shifts in consciousness, McKenna's theory predicts events so strange they are literally unimaginable.

Significant Changes in a Short Span of Time

The timewave predicts that changes that have as great an impact as the invention of agriculture or the Industrial Revolution will happen no less than eighteen times in 2012 — and that's only on the last day. In fact, there will be as much change in the last part of that year as was contained in half the previous lifespan of the universe, from the big bang to the birth of the sun. This mindboggling acceleration will increase exponentially. Five of these revolutions will occur during the year, eighteen in the last day, and thirteen in the last second of the timewave.

Explaining the Theory

This incredible set of circumstances represents a concrescence, where multiple streams of being merge into one unified thing. This is the singularity that waits for us at the end of time. McKenna calls this the eschaton, a sort of strange attractor that is drawing the evolution of the universe toward itself. This represents a totally different form of time that has no past or future; it is comparable only to a state of revelation. This is the fractal at the end of time. It is a vortex of change lying in wait for us that will transform the human experience into something entirely different.

In his rationale for the extraordinary compression sequence that ends the timewave, McKenna observes that the laws of physics themselves seem to vary by their scale in space. Modern science is still working to reconcile the very different laws that seem to operate on the quantum scale and at the cosmological ones. He suggests these laws not only vary by the scale of space but also by the scale of time.

As we approach concrescence in 2012, the fractal scale of the time-wave diminishes the closer we get to the end point. As the scale diminishes, McKenna predicts that the physical laws that accompany them will change. Hence, the possibility of huge amounts of innovation and novelty as we get closer to this event, much like a big bang in reverse. What this experience would actually be like is beyond even McKenna's vivid imaginings. Nonetheless, this is what the timewave is predicting.