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INTERZINE

Issue #2 : Peter Meyer Origininally published https://jacobsm.com/deoxy/deoxy.org/t_peterm.htm

Peter Meyer is best known as the developer of the MS-DOS
software Timewave Zero, which demonstrates Terence McKenna's
fractal model of time and history. In the 'About the
Authors' section of the software documentation, we learn:



Peter Meyer received the first double honors Bachelor of
Arts degree awarded by Monash University, Melbourne,
majoring both in Philosophy and in Pure Mathematics. His
mathematical research has been published in Discrete
Mathematics. He has travelled extensively, and spent several
years studying Tibetan Buddhism in India and Nepal. Peter is
an experienced software developer and has worked
internationally as a computer consultant. His interests
include history, travel, cryptology, geopolitics,
anthropology, religion and psychedelic research. In addition
to Timewave Zero he has written and published three C
function libraries, a Maya calendar program and a data
encryption software package. His DMT research has been
published in Psychedelic Monographs and Essays and in the
Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and Consciousness research. His
exploration of little-known areas of consciousness has
confirmed for him both the reality of other dimensions of
existence and of the Eckhartian/Buddhist undifferentiated
unity underlying all phenomena. He hopes to be present at
the end of history in 2012, 5125 years after its beginning.

Some questions and answers: Q1. When you got your double
honors degree in Philosophy and Pure Mathematics at Monash
University, what did you foresee yourself doing in life?
A1. When I finished my five-year course of studies at Monash
University I was still somewhat naive and idealistic. During
those years I seemed to have access to some intuitive source
of metaphysical knowledge which apparently I have now lost -
or perhaps it is more accurate to say that I am now less
inclined to accept what I imagine to be the case as actually
being the case (without confirming evidence). As a
university student I felt (probably like many university
students, at least in the 60s) that there were realms of
knowledge waiting to be explored, and deep truths waiting to
be discovered. This was why I studied Philosophy and
Mathematics (having switched over from earlier undergraduate
studies in natural science), searching for deep truths.
When I graduated I had no clear idea of what I was going to
do in life, beyond the general aim of continuing this search
for deep truths. I gave little thought to a career, or to
the question of earning a living. I had seriously considered
doing graduate work in AI with John McCarthy at Stanford
University, but my interest in psychology (especially that
of Jung and of Piaget) won out. I had inherited some
property following my mother's death in 1970, and upon
graduating I sold this and left Australia to travel to
Europe via Asia, which I did. Q2. What was the nature of
the research you have had published in 'Discrete
Mathematics'? This was a paper entitled 'On the Structure
of Orthomodular Posets', in the 1974 volume. It was my
final-year undergraduate thesis in mathematics, which I
wrote in 1970. It is exceedingly abstract. In it I prove a
number of theorems about the construction of orthomodular
posets of various kinds from sets of sets satisfying certain
mathematical conditions. As far as I know no mathematician
ever extended this line of research any further. It was a
path I went down that none cared to follow. Q3. What
motivated you to study Tibetan Buddhism? Where in India and
Nepal did you go to, and who did you study with? A3. As a
first-year university student at the age of 18 I inclined to
atheism and agnosticism, but I then read Christmas
Humphreys' book 'Buddhism', and immediately felt that this
was a philosophy/religion that made sense to me. However, I
still cannot quite accept what to some is the first
principle of Buddhism, that this life is an unmitigated
realm of suffering. I prefer to see all sentient life as an
expression of a divine creativity, a viewpoint somewhat more
akin to the Hindu view of the world as divine play (illusion
though it ultimately may be). I was, like many people,
first attracted to Tibetan Buddhism when I discovered
Tibetan art, especially the thanka paintings of the tantric
deities. This was around the time, in 1967, when I began
doing acid, which really opened me up to metaphysical and
religious dimensions. In the late 1960s I (with many others)
read the works of Lama Anagarika Govinda and of John
Blofeld, and I came to believe that the deepest truths were
surely to be found in Tibetan Buddhism. I had some
first-hand contact with the Tibetan tradition during my
first visit to India in 1971. I continued on to Europe to
study Jungian psychology, then returned to Australia in 1972
to do some graduate work in Kantian philosophy. I returned
to Europe in 1974, where I met H. H. Sakya Trizin, the head
of the Sakyapa Order of Tibetan Buddhism. I expressed to him
my wish to study Tibetan Buddhism more deeply, and he
suggested I return to North India (Dehra Dun) to study with
him, which I did. I spent most of 1975-1979 studying with,
and in the service of, this lama (who spoke good English). I
also received teachings from another lama, H. H. Chogye
Trichen Rimpoche, head of the Tsharpa branch of the Sakyapa
tradition, and abbot of the Tibetan monastery at Lumbini in
Nepal. Q4. As a software developer and computer consultant,
have you always been freelance, or did you ever work for
large corporations? I am also curious about the nature of
the 'three C function libraries' and the data encryption
software package. A4. I learned to program in FORTRAN IV in
1965, while working for a year with the Post Office in
Melbourne. I did no programming during the 70s. In the early
80s I was a freelance software developer in California, and
developed software for the Apple // which was published.
Since then I have sometimes been employed at small or
medium-sized corporations and sometimes have been a
freelance consultant or developer. In the mid-80s I got into
MS-DOS software development and during the last five years I
have programmed mainly in C. In late 1989 I found myself in
California, having just returned from 18 months in Europe,
and was broke. The idea of getting a job and being a
wage-slave for the rest of my life did not appeal to me.
Instead I resolved to develop and publish software for a
living. I managed to eke out a a bare existence while
developing software on others' PCs, and during 1989-92 I
created four C function libraries (these are tools useful to
C programmers) and three application programs: a Maya
calendrical conversion program, Timewave Zero (illustrating
Terence McKenna's theory of time and history) and some data
encryption software. The last incorporates an encryption
method which I developed during 1990-92. Q5. What are
'Psychedelic Monographs and Essays' and the 'Yearbook of
Ethnomedicine and Consciousness Research'? Who puts them
out? What is their audience? Their content? A5.
'Psychedelic Monographs and Essays' (published by Thomas
Lyttle, first issued in 1985) evolved from the 'Psychozoic
Press' (published by Elvin D. Smith, first issued in 1982).
Both were/are collections of essays and informative material
dealing with all aspects of psychedelics and psychoactive
plants and fungi, with occasional articles about psychedelic
researchers and their work. The latest volume of Psychedelic
Monographs and Essays is #6, and has articles classified
under the headings of Spirituality, Psychotherapy,
Literature, Parapsychology and Pharmacology. It is available
from PM&E Publishing, P.O. Box 4465, Boynton Beach, FL
33424, for $20.00 postpaid within the U.S., $27.00 outside
the U.S. The 'Yearbook of Ethnomedicine and Consciousness
Research' is similar. It is edited by the German
anthropologist Dr. Christian Raetsch and contains some
articles in English and some in German. The first volume was
published in late 1992. It is available from the publisher,
Amand Aglaster, VWB, Postfach 11 03 68, 1000 Berlin 61,
Germany. Q6. How did you get into psychedelic research? DMT
research? A6. My initial awareness of the existence of
psychedelics came from reading Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of
Perception' in 1966. I knew immediately that this was a
field of research I wished to explore. My opportunity came a
few months later when an artist friend in Melbourne informed
me that some LSD had shown up. It was probably synthesized
locally, and was quite impure, but blew me away. Life has
never been the same since. I know of nothing more
interesting and worthy of study than the multitude of
conscious states available through the use of psychedelics.
Had psychedelic research not been made illegal (this is
itself a crime against humanity) I would presumably have
pursued my biochemical/- psychological/philosophical studies
under the auspices of academia. Instead I abandoned the
academic world for the study of Tibetan Buddhism in India
and later got into software development in the U.S. and in
Europe. But I have never ceased to do psychedelics
occasionally, and sometimes frequently, garnering such
information and understanding as I can under the
circumstances. A couple of years after I began doing acid I
discovered the delights of marijuana and hashish, which
subject I researched enthusiastically in Asia beginning in
1971 (when the hash shops in Kathmandu were still open and
legal, before they were closed down at the insistence of the
U.S. Government). Morning glory seeds in 1974. In 1978 I
discovered psilocybin mushrooms at Palenque in Mexico. In
1983 MDMA in Berkeley. In 1987 DMT in Hawaii. In 1988
Ketamine in Switzerland. In 1990 5-MeO-DMT in Berkeley. My
interest in DMT arose from hearing Terence McKenna speak of
it in some of his taped talks (especially his Tryptamine
Hallucinogens and Consciousness). My first experience with
it was pretty strange; on my second I thought I was dying.
My initial encounter on DMT with the alien entities did not
come until two years later. As Terence has said, and which I
can confirm, the DMT experience is the weirdest thing you
can experience this side of the grave. The rational mind
retreats in utter disbelief when confronted with it. Thus I
resolved to research the topic, which I did during 1990-91
in Berkeley, where I had access to the Biosciences Library
at U.C. Berkeley. I gathered reports from those few people I
knew who had smoked it, and the article which resulted
appeared simultaneously in each of the journals mentioned
above. The blurb for Timewave Zero: This software
illustrates Terence McKenna's theory of time, history and
the end of history as first described in the book 'The
Invisible Landscape' by him and his brother Dennis, and more
recently in his 'The Archaic Revival' (HarperSanFrancisco,
1992) The theory of Timewave Zero was revealed to Terence by
an alien intelligence following a bizarre, quasi-psychedelic
experiment conducted in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in
1971. Inspired by this influence Terence was instructed in
certain transformations of numbers derived from the King Wen
sequence of I Ching hexagrams. This led eventually to a
rigorous mathematical description of what Terence calls the
timewave, which correlates time and history with the ebb and
flow of novelty, which is intrinsic to the structure of time
and hence of the temporal universe. A peculiarity of this
correlation is that at a certain point a singularity is
reached which is the end of history - or at least is a
transition to a supra-historical order in which our ordinary
conceptions of our world will be radically transformed. The
best current estimate for the date of this point is December
21, 2012 CE, the winter solstice of that year and also the
end of the current era in the Maya calendar. The primary
function of the software is to display any portion of the
timewave (up to seven billion years) as a graph of the
timewave related to the Western calendar (either Gregorian
or Julian). You can display the wave for the entire
4.5-billion-year history of the Earth, note the
peculiarities of the wave at such points as the time of the
extinction of the dinosaurs (65 million years ago) and
inspect parts of the wave as small as 92 minutes. The
software provides several ways of manipulating the wave
display, including the ability to zoom in on a target date
or to step back to get the larger picture. A remarkable
quality of the timewave is that it is a fractal. Once a part
of the wave is displayed the software allows you to expand
any smaller part (down to 92 minutes). This usually reveals
a complexity of structure which persists however much the
wave is magnified, a property typical of fractals. The idea
that time has a fractal structure (in contrast to the
Newtonian conception of time as pure, unstructured duration)
is a major departure from the common view of the nature of
time and physical reality. That time is a fractal may be the
reason why fractals occur in Nature. The documentation
describes the origin, construction and philosophical
significance of the timewave, the use of the software, the
mathematical definition of the timewave (with proofs of some
related mathematical theorems) and certain curious numerical
properties. An interesting part of the theory is the
assertion of historical periods 'in resonance' with each
other. Resonantly we have (in 1993) emerged from the fall of
the Roman empire and are well into the transitional period
known historically as the Dark Ages. The software permits
graphical display of different regions of the timewave that
are in resonance with each other. This allows the period
1945 - 2012 to be interpreted as a resonance of the period
2293 BC - 2012 CE. New in this version is the ability to
graph trigrammatic resonances in addition to the major
resonances, and to construct a sequential set of eleven
trigrammatic resonances. There is a new appendix concerning
some recent mathematical results. The Timewave Zero
software at last permits a scientific examination of
Terence's long-standing claim to have discovered the root
cause of the ups and downs of historical vicissitude. If his
theory is confirmed then we can look forward to a rough, but
very interesting, ride in the twenty years leading up to the
climactic end-point of history in 2012. During this time the
events of the period from 745 CE are expected to recur
(albeit in modern form).




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