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 […]

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 […]