Concrescence, many waves become one.
  04/23/2001 12:01:19 AM MDT Albuquerque, Nm
  By Dustin D. Brand; Owner AMO

"It's a Network Easy World, plug in with AMO." - DDB '96   I came up with that clever "It's a Network Easy World..." slogan many years back, thinking of NEW World. Today it's undisputable, people are plugging in, and faster than ever.

  Concresence is a word that describes this.

Concrescence \Con*cres"cence\, n. [L. concrescentia.] Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. [R.] --Sir W. Raleigh.

  Something unexpected happens... Beginning the 21st Century, we're facing this situation now, in compelling and intersting ways. From nanotechnology, to our ability to command the physical world more, and to be able to communicate our thoughts world-wide simultaneously, concrescence is evident.

  Artificial Intelligence is being born. Human consciousness is being shared in ways before we have only imagined. The Internet, has well changed the world, but that's not all. The world itself is changing, new waves are joining synchronictically to form one new wave. It's not hard to imagine for me 10 years ago, or even 20, that this would happen.

  Has it really been so hard to understand Aliens, life on other planets, or artificial intelligence are truths? Not anymore. Kids alive now, and babies being born will grow up with all of this new found knowledge. Kids are already speaking in a new tounge, a global, and somewhat universal tongue.

  2 people that are very well known have been talking about these "earth changes". One is Art Bell, and the other was Terence McKenna. Art Bell is a late night talk show host, whom talks about the paranormal, the unexplained, aliens, ufos, crop circles, "earth changes", government denials, and the like. Terence McKenna was the outspoken supporter of Psychedelics following in the footsteps of Timothy Leary.

  McKenna passed away a year ago from a Brain Tumor. No, not induced by his various and daily drug use, and doctors agree that wasn't the cause of his Tumor.

  Naturally, McKenna asked his doctors about this. "So what about it?" he asked his doctors. "You wanna hammer on me about that?" They assured him there was no causal link. "So what about 35 years of daily dope smoking?" he asked. They pointed to studies suggesting that cannabis may actually shrink tumors. "Listen," McKenna told them, "if cannabis shrinks tumors, we would not be having this conversation."

  Before all this, when McKenna became really famous, he was tempted with movie deals, got featured in magazines, and toured all over. He associated with Silicon Valley hotshots like interface gurus Brenda Laurel and Jaron Lanier and performed at raves with techno groups like the Shamen. Timothy Leary called him "the Timothy Leary of the 1990s."

  But, it was what McKenna said that made him so famous. It was how he conveyed things, in a way, that people of all kinds could understand. McKenna saw the internet as an enormous tool that bridged gaps in our world, and linked human consciousness together. . "Psychedelics were always about information," McKenna observes. "Their very existence was forbidden knowledge at one point. You had to be Aldous Huxley to even know about them."

  There is that one famous US Army tape of their experiments with LSD on soldiers, have you seen that? I did.

  In discussion during his treatment, and only months before his death, McKenna spoke on his illness and the Internet. "The Internet is an oracle for anyone in trouble,"..."Within 10 minutes I can be poring through reams of control studies, medical data, and personal reports. If anything, my cancer has made me even more enthusiastic about the idea that through information, people can take control of and guide their own lives."

  I don't think enough people realize just how much the internet has changed the world, many do not even think that way. They think, ok, I'll go read my email, and check a web site for rumors about this or that, and that is it. The internet stands for much more.

  Never Offline™ represents my vision of this concrescence, this new wave emerging from many previous, and I saw it coming, but most others didn't. In many ways, Terence McKenna agrees with me, though I didn't get the chance to speak with him.

  On Psychedelics, McKenna says, "I don't think human beings can keep up with what they've set loose unless they augment themselves, chemically, mechanically, or otherwise,"..."You can think of psychedelics as enzymes or catalysts for the production of mental structure - without them you can't understand what you are putting in place. Who would want to do machine architecture or write software without taking psychedelics at some point in the design process?"

  Now, I havn't done any Psychedelics like DMT, LSD, Mushrooms or the like, but I can name some very important people who have. I can say however, Am I missing something here? Remember the 60's? The internet was born in this era. Steve Jobs CEO of Apple called his first LSD experience "Wonderful". Mitch Kapor credits "recreational chemicals" with inspiring crucial programming insights. "Psychedelics have infiltrated the computer industry," says McKenna, "because psychedelic use is a response to the environment that's been found to actually work." The next version of Windows is named Windows XP or EXPERIENCE. This is highly connected to Jimi Hendrix who was an avid LSD user and advocate.

  Psychedelics have also had their effect on Graphics and Animation. "Wow that's trippy" is a common place slogan when referring to digital imagery and animations in movies, tv, games, and computers.

  McKenna was a guest on Art Bell several times and they were great friends. In fact, when Art and the rest of the world learned of McKenna's illness, Art had a mass experiment. Art encouraged his 20 Million plus late night/worldwide listeners to simultaneously act in a massive prayer for Terence. I was there, and I prayed for Terence McKenna many times. It helped I think, but it didn't cure him.

  A subject in which they both agree, and which many of Art Bell's guests also bring forth is the date of December 21, 2012. The Mayans also point to this date with their ancient calanders.

  McKenna points to the Timewave. The Timewave is something McKenna derived out of the Ching, the Chinese book of divination, back in the La Chorera days. The wave spikes in times of change, coinciding with the Black Death, the Enlightenment, and the birth of Mohammed. A computer program McKenna helped develop predicts the future as well, at least up until December 21, 2012, when novelty spikes to infinity and the Timewave stops.

  Many of Arts Guests point to the Mayans calander giving a same point in time where it stops, some point to an apocalypse, and others explain by saying that must be when Time Travel arrives. Einstein first proved Time Travel more than 50 years ago.

  All of this information however is not only here, on the internet, it's being shared continuously. I have a love for knowledge, so does Art Bell, and so did Terence McKenna. I hope you share the same love. In the end there is only truth, can love be the 1 form of TRUTH? Have you ever known anything more true to yourself than that of Love?

  It is for human kind that we must learn...Learn from our Mistakes, excel at our achievements, and love one another. We have only just started this century, but can you imagine the next? Can you forsee the next 10 years, 20, 50? I can, and so many other people do also. It is this concrescence, this synchronicity, and this destiny human kind is infinitly heading towards. We have learned a lot, but we still have a lot to learn. Just remember, seek and ye shall find.

  1 thing is for certain, there are many people seeking and many people finding, and what we're learning is remarkable. In 1 word, we're heading towards some massive TRUTH.