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The Law of Acceleration

from Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson, 1977


In the 1890s, Henry Adams became convinced that technology was following a geometric or exponential
law. That is, basic advances do not follow a linear sequence such as: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 etc., but
rather an exponential sequence like: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 etc.
Adams calculated that, projecting forward the acceleration from Galileo's time to his own, we would have
infinite energy at our disposal in the 1920s. Obviously, he was somewhat inaccurate in his calculations.
But he was not entirely wrong. Korzybski, Buckminster Fuller, Alvin Toffler and others have shown, with
countless examples, that many things in technology are advancing exponentially, and the one general
tendency is clearly that there will be more basic breakthroughs (both in scientific theory and in
technological applications) in each generation than in any previous generation.
As Toffler in particular emphasizes, there are more scientists alive in the 1970s than in all previous
history added together. Thus, this generation should witness more breakthroughs than all previous history
added together. In this context, Leary's SMI2LE scenario (Space Migration + Intelligence2 + Life
Extension) is only the overture to a planetary (and extra-planetary) Awakening that we can only dimly begin to discern.
This, indeed, is the thesis of a remarkable book offering the final set of : models and metaphors which we
shall be discussing The Invisible Landscape, by Terrence L. McKenna and Dennis J. McKenna.
The McKenna brothers, who between them have a background that includes anthropology, biology,
chemistry and botany, conducted a metaprogramming experiment in the Upper Amazon Basin, using the
local "magic mushroom," which contains psychedelics in the psilocybin family. For 37 days they
experienced a high level of ESP, the usual intensification of coincidence-synchronicity, and the presence
of an "alien" insectoid entity which seemed to be an anthropologist from the future. Twentieth century
history appeared as a frantic (although unconscious) effort to build a craft to escape Earth and return to
Galactic Center. This occurred in March of 1971. (Leary and Benner received the Starseed transmissions,
urging return to Galactic Center, in July-August 1973. Since the McKennas did not publish an account of
their experience until 1976, it could not have influenced Leary and Benner.)
In the six years since the Amazon Basin experience the McKennas have been developing a model to
account for the action of psychedelics in general and their own experience in particular. This model is
detailed and specific in more ways than I can summarize here and suggests numerous experiments in
neuro-psychology, chemistry and quantum physics, which might prove of crucial importance to science as
a whole.
Briefly, the McKennas regard our universe as a hologram, created by the interaction of two hyperuniverses, just as an ordinary hologram is created by the interaction of two lasers. One consequence of
this model is that, if our universe is a hologram, every part contains the information of the whole, as in
normal holography. As we have seen, the Sarfatti interpretation of Bell's Theorem and the Leary theory of
eighth circuit consciousness also lead to this conclusion, which, in effect, means that every atom contains
the "brain" of the whole universe.
This is also the basic axiom of magick and was originally stated in the Table of Hermes in the famous
sentence, "That which is above is in that which is below." Alchemists and occultists have usually referred
to it as the principle that "the macrocosm is within the microcosm."

But the McKenna theory goes far beyond this. There are 64 time-scales in the hologram of our universe,
they say, and each one is related to one of the 64 (8 x 8) hexagrams of the / Ching. What we call "mind"
or "consciousness" is a standing wave form in these 64 time-systems. As the two hyper-universes making
up the hologram of our known universe interact in time, "mind" manifests further in our continuum. This
means, in concrete physical terms, that the quantum bonds of the DNA are evolving faster and faster. We
are riding not one but 64 evolutionary waves all mounting toward a cosmic Awakening something like the
Omega Point suggested by palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin.
The action of psychedelics, in the model, opens the quantum information system within the DNA to
inspection by the higher neural centers. When Dr. John Lilly says he has traveled in time with LSD, and
then adds that this is "only" a metaphor, he is perhaps too modest. If the McKennas are right in their basic
theory, every psychedelic trip is literally a voyage through the quantum information system at faster-thanlight velocity, i.e., outside "time" in the local (Einstein-ian) universe.
This sounds much like a more scientific formulation of the incoherent ideas about time that many UFO
Contactees have tried to communicate.
The natural question, of course, is just when are the McKennas' 64 time-scales reaching their peak in our
linear time?
The McKennas have programmed a computer with their 64 I Ching time systems and the answer is that
everything goes jackpot around A.D. 2012
The McKenna scenario is somewhat more dramatic than the exponential accelerations suggested by
Henry Adams, Korzybski, Fuller, Toffler and even Leary, because, 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 10-4 seconds.
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.
On a recent lecture tour, I have spoken to literally hundreds of scientists about the SMI2LE scenario, and
the majority of them agree that we can indeed have Space Migration, Intelligence 2 and Life Extension by

the 1990s. Some agree with Leary's optimistic claim that we can have them by the 1980s, if we try hard
enough.
By the turn of the next century, then, we will be a completely new species in many dimensions: living in
space, not on a planet; able to program our nervous systems for any degree of any function we wish;
possessing a lifespan in centuries, and well on our way to Immortality. Between 2000 and 2012, if the
McKenna scenario can be trusted, the real Cosmic Action will begin. As the McKennas say, it is hard to
avoid hyperbole in trying to contemplate what this means.

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