| I Ching or Zhouyi, also known as the Book of Changes | | | | the complex plane, the boundary of which forms a |
| is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. | | | | fractal) fractal in which each level is 64 times greater |
| The text became basic and essential to Chinese | | | | than the one below it. By matching the levels of the |
| culture when it was re-interpreted as a system of | | | | pattern with key periods in history, they determined |
| cosmology and philosophy. I Ching is centered on the | | | | that the end of the time scale is December 22, 2012. |
| concept of active balance of the opposites through | | | | This is the only point in which the level of things or |
| the process of evolution of events and the recognition | | | | experience reaches its maximum, and everything that |
| of the inevitability of change. | | | | happens after is new. |
| The book gives light on the many secrets hidden in the | | | | Their presentation of how they concluded that |
| manner of thought of the mysterious sage Lao Tzu as | | | | December 22, 2012 will experience something that is |
| well as on the many ideas in the Confucian tradition. | | | | beyond what we have experienced is presented as: |
| Lao Tzu is said to nourish a person's nature while | | | | 2012 minus 67 years = 1945, a year of great change |
| Confucius fully develops it. | | | | 2012 minus 4,300 years (67x64) = 2300 BC, the |
| According to Terence Mckenna who wrote The | | | | beginning of historical time |
| Invisible Landscape, the universe will experience great | | | | 2012 minus 275,000 years (4300 x 64) = the |
| periods of new things that corresponds to humanity's | | | | emergence of Homosapiens |
| major shifts in biological and cultural evolution. He also | | | | 2012 minus 18 million years (275,000 x 64) = the height |
| believed that the events are related to the events of | | | | of the age of mammals |
| other times. The interconnectedness will eventually | | | | 2012 minus 1.3 billion years = the beginning of life on our |
| reach a unique infinite difficulty and that anything | | | | planet |
| imaginable can occur instantaneously. | | | | To quote Terence Mckenna, he said: |
| The McKenna brothers described in their book that | | | | "Achievement of the zero state can be imagined to |
| they used fractals to determine the level of | | | | arrive in one of two forms. One is the dissolution of the |
| connectedness and originality in any span of time, | | | | cosmos in an actual cessation and unravelling of the |
| whether it covers a day, millennia or even since the | | | | natural laws, a literal apocalypse. The other possibility... |
| beginning of time. Fractals are a geometric pattern that | | | | the culmination of a human process, a process of tool |
| is repeated at every scale and so cannot be | | | | making, which comes to completion in the perfect |
| represented by classical geometry. Starting from a | | | | artifact: the monadic self, exteriorized, condensed, and |
| table of differences between one hexagram and the | | | | visible in three dimensions; in alchemical terms, the |
| next, they developed a Mandelbrot (a set of points in | | | | dream of a union of spirit and matter. |