The Nonsense Bazaar is a neon-colored weekly voyage into consciousness, cults, conspiracies, magic, mysticism, science, spirituality, and the great big joke at the heart of it all. Combining in-depth research, absurdity, and audio shenanigans, Willow and Sequoyah manage to stay (mostly) grounded while investigating all the nonsense the world has to offer and more.
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The Nonsense Bazaar is a neon-colored weekly voyage into consciousness, cults, conspiracies, magic, mysticism, science, spirituality, and the great big joke at the heart of it all. Combining in-depth research, absurdity, and audio shenanigans, Willow and Sequoyah manage to stay (mostly) grounded while investigating all the nonsense the world has to offer and more.
Who among us hasn't had apocalyptic visions with a head full of mushrooms? Terrence sure did. This week we're looking at one of the pillars of the legendary psychedelic evangelist's cosmology: Timewave Zero. After Terrence McKenna and his brother Dennis had their noggins rocked by psilocybe cubensis mushrooms in Colombia, Terrence returned from the jungle with "some funny ideas," ideas around a self-similar fractal waveform, calculated through doing fancy wizard math on the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese divination system. According to McKenna the resulting waveform could be overlayed on top of human history and showed a steady, relentless march towards a point of infinite novelty, infinite newness, the eschaton. And this eschaton, according to Mckanna, was set to arrive "on time and under budget" on...December 21, 2012. Spoiler alert: it didn't. But that doesn't make the ideas within Timewave Zero any less relevant, worth talking about, or poetically true. And hey, maybe the apocalypse did happen in 2012 and this is all just our hallucinatory death dream. You really never know. Increase the density of novelty in our lives by joining our Patreon. You'll get access to bonus episodes, our patron Discord server, and you'll keep The Nonsense Bazaar ad-free. All for just $5 a month!https://patreon.com/thenonsensebazaar
The Nonsense Bazaar
The Nonsense Bazaar is a neon-colored weekly voyage into consciousness, cults, conspiracies, magic, mysticism, science, spirituality, and the great big joke at the heart of it all. Combining in-depth research, absurdity, and audio shenanigans, Willow and Sequoyah manage to stay (mostly) grounded while investigating all the nonsense the world has to offer and more.
