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Originally Posted by MargaretR
This may be just coincidence, but -
Terence McKenna's Timewave zero (based on I Ching) happens to 'end' then too 
Terence McKenna's Time Wave Zero
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Didn't he tweak it a bit to make it end then? According to Wikipedia:
McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as "timewave zero" or the "timewave". "Timewave zero" is a
numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the
universe's interconnectedness, or
organized complexity. Based on McKenna's interpretation of the
King Wen sequence of the
I Ching, the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's
biological and
sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are
recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of 16 November 2012. When he later discovered that the end of the 13th baktun in the Maya Calendar had been correlated by Western Maya scholars with December 21, not far from his own hypothesized end date, he decided that the Maya were more likely to be right on this subject and he adopted their end date.
I have been trying to plough through his
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution but found it hard going -still only a third of the way through.