Terence McKenna Predicted This Moment | The Truth Is Stranger S01E05

In the 1970s, philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna proposed that time itself is accelerating — that the rate at which genuinely new things enter the world keeps increasing toward a point of maximum novelty he called the Eschaton.
His mathematical framework, the Timewave, had serious problems that critics identified. But the underlying observation — that complexity is genuinely accelerating — was independently reached by technologist Ray Kurzweil through exponential growth curves, and described thousands of years earlier by Hindu, Hopi, and Biblical traditions.
This episode examines McKenna's ideas honestly — what holds up, what doesn't, and why the question underneath the Timewave is harder to dismiss than ever in 2026.

Episode 5 of The Truth Is Stranger.
Episode 1: The Observer Effect — What Genesis and the Bhagavatam Knew Before Physics
Episode 2: No More Secrets — Why Everything Hidden Is Coming Into the Light
Episode 3: Earth Is Building a Brain — And We Are Its Neurons
Episode 4: The Man Who Predicted AI in 1978 — And Left a Warning
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