May the prodigious and sapient ones come forth today and expound upon the group their astronomical and profound sagacity.

To summarize their conclusions, Terence and Dennis postulated that "all phenomena are at root

constellated by a waveform that is the hierarchical summation of its constituent parts, morphogenetic patterns related to those in DNA."

Basically, that time is an objective apparatus acting as a wave (instead of the linear line framework we get from historiography) and that all events and

thought forms are the development of that wave's motion.

The back and forth motion, or crest and trough, of this wave is represented by critical moments in

history they call novelty: the discovery of fire, the birth of agriculture, the creation of the Mona Lisa, the invention of the steam engine, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and so on.

"Time is a topological manifold over which events must flow subject to the constraints of the manifold […] by examining time from this point of view we can see when in history great outbreaks of novelty occurred."

(7) Within this waveform the brothers found a pattern of novelty, a cycle in which the time spans

become shorter and shorter. When this pattern ends it becomes a singularity, a zero point. Using a computer program they wrote, the McKenna brothers traced zero point to an approximate location on our calendar and found it correlating with the end of the Mayan Calendar on December 22, 2012.