McKenna predicted that something significant and transformative for humanity would happen on 2012. As you know on 2012 the world didn't end and humans didn't ascend to higher plane of existence. But as far as I know he didn't actually specify what the event could be. So do you think he was right and something did happen and we just don't know it yet?
by Gyirin
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The Mandela Effect seemed to coincide with 2012.
I think he sensed the tumultuous times ahead and interpreted it in the way he wanted. 2012 was a significant in that’s when social media started to become ubiquitous. The old world really did end.
“Was he right?”
Entire world is still alive.
Not sure how something could happen in 2012 but the big question is when will we see it. Sounds like it would have happened back in like idk, 2012
he said some interesting things about the nature of time. but the 2012 stuff was pulled entirely out of his ass
We could say that there was a major shift from analog to digital reality around this time but that’s likely pareidolia or historical determinism.
Everyone with an agenda and knows what’s going on.. knows there time is short.
Never seen that prediction. Do you have a source?
I’ve always seen the man as an excellent teacher but always drawn the line at prophet lol
I view the specific date as ultimately somewhat inconsequential. He said he was clear he didn’t know what actually happened. I think something did happen and we can see it’s rapid progression since around 2012. The popularization of the iPhone and the way that took off combined with social media forever changed how people live and interact with one another on a tremendous scale. Complexity and the level of engagement we see on the internet exploded. There was an explosion of novelty in that space as well. So even if timewave had issues and we didn’t see some kind of clear mind altering event in 2012, I think the trends McKenna most often talked about absolutely have come to pass, and that we are still in a struggle for the species where we may very well lose and indeed seem to be losing.Â
Just because it didn’t happen on CNN doesn’t mean it didn’t happen 🙂
Maybe that date was some sort of tipping point.
I believe that there won’t be a single cataclysmic event that causes this. We are undergoing all of this shift on a global level in every seemingly insignificant way there is. We will experience several cataclysms and I believe it all started in 2012, which he sensed or intuited. Its been ramping up ever since.
The entire Timewave theory was a long shot. He knew it was kinda crazy but he was trying to trigger creative ideas and not to find a new hard science. I feel like the 2012 prediction was “the friends we made along the way” not to be read literally. The prediction that “the future” (not exactly 2012 but 2012 understood as the near, not-so-near future) was going to be weird with a lot of inequalities, with people looking for alternative ways of living was accurate.
Agree that 2012 was the major transition into a different era based on ubiquitous corporate control of information and attentionÂ
Have you read your own comment …?
“This guy said that in 2012 something incredible and world changing would happen. Nothing happened. Did something world changing happened that …. No one noticed ? Was he right?”
Do you realize how dumb this sound …?
No. Just no. His brother isn’t a charlatan, however. He’s far more interesting.
There was a shift. I think he was right. We’ve been accelerating into more and more novelty ever since.
Where is the source for this claim?
On a personal level, we sort of did leave this reality around 2012. Think about how much the average person’s daily experience is spent online. Their attention is disconnected from their physical environment more often than not, and shifted to a new one with different rules.
Time works differently online – past and present merge into a constant now moment. Distance is obliterated too. Thoughts are more easily manipulated by others, and we can curate our personal realities via an almost infinite variety of digital experiences.
Now we have AI that can bend the laws of this new reality at their will. It’ll create entire scientific papers with dozens of supporting studies that don’t even exist. It’ll display images and videos that are almost impossible to distinguish from what’s real. Whether it’s sentient or not, it’s starting to behave enough like an alien intelligence that the distinction loses all meaning. People are already blurring the lines between human and AI consciousness, even forming romantic attachments to it.
A high school student in 2026 has lived in some form of this alternate reality since before they lost their baby teeth.
2012 is roughly when shit started getting weird, and I don’t think we’ve even begun to grasp what just happened to us.
You can tell the Polarity channel on YouTube is growing with how much this snippet is being discussed now.
The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012.
If in your own text you say that he didn’t specify anything, then he didn’t get anything right.
Maybe the end was in fact just a shift in time, in perspectives, that started the downfall of society. Leading to where we are today.
The modern AI boom began in 2012 when AlexNet – a deep CNN designed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton – broke all records at the ImageNet competition. I believe that this, the birth of AI as we know it in 2012, was what Mckenna was predicting.
Higgs Boson cause a rift in the realities
For me it wasn’t 2012 but instead 2016. That’s when machine learning algorithm began on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, etc. Where they start recommending content bases on your interests. What this did was turn most people into left/right extremist.
Think back before the algorithm. Social media was just people sharing, family trips, food, funny Vine clips and memes. There were no News clips popping up in our timelines. Now people use it to attack others who think differently and promote garbage products.