The Galactic Synchronization Beam

Extraterrestrial Mushrooms, Galactic Maya, and the End of Time

One of Jose Arguelles’ diagrams from Earth Ascending shows how the 5,125 year “Great Cycle” of history can be divided into 13 “baktuns” of 394 years. “2012” was the end of the 13th baktun, which Arguelles called “the Transformation of the Matter.” We are now in the 1st baktun of the new cycle.

In my last post, I started to explore the ideas of Jose Arguelles, the controversial, largely ignored visionary thinker who influenced my book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Arguelles was a peer of Terence McKenna’s; they followed a very similar trajectory in some surprising ways. Both of them underwent intense psychedelic journeys in the late 1960s/early 70s that inspired an enduring fascination with the Mayan Calendar and the I Ching.

Entirely independent of each other, each of them constructed an intricate, original system that meshed together the mathematics of the I Ching and the Mayan Calendar into a prophetic instrument. They both forecast the end of the 5,125 year long count on December 21, 2012, as a transformative threshold in human history. Following indigenous predictions, they envisioned it as the end of one kind of time, one world, and the entry into a new world or dimension of reality.

As he recounted in True Hallucinations, McKenna believed he spent a week in telepathic communion with the sentient intelligence of psilocybin while in the Colombian Amazon. The mushroom explained that it was an extraterrestrial scout, part of a super-conscious collective organism that traveled between solar systems as spores on meteorites. When the meteors happened to crash on a planet with organic life, the mushroom would sprout, find its ecological niche, and stick around. It would seek symbiotic partnership with animals capable of developing language, culture, and self-reflection — and, eventually, spaceships and galaxy-spanning civilizations. McKenna realized the mushroom had contacted him to propose a telepathic partnership between its species and ours. To be honest, I still consider this a  relatively reasonable hypothesis, and one that deserves more field-testing.

McKenna’s “Time Wave Zero” software program claimed to reveal the “ingression of novelty into history,” culminating in a “Singularity” near the end of 2012.

Based on his visions, McKenna developed Time Wave Zero, a software program using the I Ching to reveal “the ingression of novelty into history,” which would culminate in the Singularity or Eschaton at the end of 2012. Arguelles wrote an amazing, under-appreciated book, Earth Ascending, where he discovered a mind-blowing mathematical relationship between the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and the Tzolkin, the 13 x 20 matrix or 260 day count of the sacred Mayan Calendar.

The relationship between the 64 I-Ching hexagrams and the 13x20 matrix of the Tzolkin (260 sacred day count), illustrated in Arguelles’ Earth Ascending.

One clue to this relationship was divulged by Benjamin Franklin, American founding father and leading Free Mason. As a hobby, Franklin created mathematical puzzles or “magic squares.” He constructed a magic square of eight numbers where each vertical and horizontal line adds up to 260:

In The Mayan Factor and other works, Arguelles proposed that the Wizard-Kings of the classic Maya civilization in the Yucatan were actually avatars of a “galactic Mayan” civilization from another part of the galaxy. The cosmic Maya, he believed, had attained a high level of realization. The goal and purpose of their civilization was no longer material acquisition or technological development, but “galactic synchronization.” Like the I Ching, the Mayan Calendar was too perfect to have been a human creation; it revealed, he believed, the imprint of a more encompassing galactic intelligence.