Why Time Is Speeding Up — and what an ancient Chinese oracle knew about it

Have you noticed that the world is getting weirder, faster? The old structures — governments, jobs, institutions, the stories we were told about how life goes — are buckling. People come to me every week describing the same thing: a previous version of their life has broken down, and they don’t know how to move […]
The Omega Point of Novelty: how to thrive in a hyperdimensional world

Our future depends on our ability to expand consciousness and cultivate stillness in the midst of chaos. We’re in unprecedented times. We are living in what Terence McKenna called the Omega Point of Novelty, a time when technology, culture, consciousness, and information are accelerating towards a peak of complexity that challenges everything we thought we […]
Terence McKenna predicted where we are now

“Things are going to get weirder and weirder until we hit constantly weird, when you won’t believe anything anymore, and we’re moving to a point where everything will be totally different.” That was Terence McKenna, icon of psychedelic culture, in a 1995 lecture called The End of Time. I was listening to a recording of […]