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While following some links to vaccine articles that arrived in my email, I noticed that Mercola is hopping on the the bandwagon promoted by Gregg Braden and co.
Re:
The Science of Miracles and the Power of Prayer
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
[quote author=_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/15/The-Science-of-Miracles-and-the-Power-of-Prayer.aspx]
Everything that exists is connected by a subtle web of energy. It responds to human emotion.
Are miracles possible?
Watch this interview with Gregg Braden to find out.[/quote]
I had no idea who Braden is, and a forum search didn't reveal a whole lot, so I thought I'd post what I found and what Braden & co. is up to at the moment.
Gregg Braden references on the forum:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5565.msg37628#msg37628
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=4441.msg30000#msg30000
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=3517.msg22331#msg22331
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5037.msg38037#msg38037
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=10724.msg76501#msg76501
In the post, A belated first post there are references to Braden's published works. There is also the Feb., 2006 comment: "What people like Melissa (and Greg Braden) don't realize is that not facing reality and taking your suffering mixed in with the good, is like living on borrowed money. Eventually the account has to be settled."
So, right now, he's "out there" grabbing attention with pleas like: "The World Is In Crisis, You Can Help!"
Braden & co. appear to be ramping up for some 'global initiatives', like:
[quote author=_http://www.greggbraden.com/home/the-world-is-changing-you-can-help/]
A Call To Conscious Evolution: In September of 2008, a group of Evolutionary Leaders (including in alphabetical order, Michael Beckwith, Joan Borysenko, Gregg Braden, Deepak Chopra, Gordon Dveirin, Duane Elgin, Debbie Ford, Ashok Gangadean, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Lynne McTaggart, Marianne Williamson and many others!) Completed a collective Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice. It is now being circulated throughout the world, giving a voice to our role in the changing world, and an invitation to declare your support for key initiatives!
The Global Coherence Initiative is the first-of-its-kind science-based initiative uniting millions of people in heart-focused care and intention, to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace! This project is designed to help individuals and groups work together, synchronistically and strategically to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change.Together we will
* Increase personal coherence for the benefit of ourselves and the planet
* Help shift the planetary consciousness baseline from self-centeredness to wholeness care
* Increase connection and social harmony
* Empower our ability to navigate through global changes with less stress and more ease
* Empower environmental responsibility and stewardship of the planet
Next Two Events:
20 November:
I Can Do It Tampa
November 20-22, 2009
4 December:
ConferenceWorks! presents:
Gregg Braden in Cincinnati, OH
December 4-5, 2009
[/quote]
Another description:
[quote author=_http://www.squidoo.com/GreggBraden]
The Global Coherence Project
Basically, its about guiding people by offering important and timely suggestions on what and where to focus intentions.
Then, the Project will track and monitor changes in the earth's geomagnetic field and the potential effects of heart-coherent intentions on this field. Or, more specifically: include earth monitoring, using advance sensing technology that will allow us to observe changes in the earth's magnetic field and test the hypothesis that the earth's field is affected by mass human emotion, whether it is positive or negative.[/quote]
And all of this hoopla based on Quantum Scientific studies that demonstrate a relationship between observer and the observed, re-translated into a vague new agey generality that "we are affecting our world" as a basis for all the activity?
And there is this "Visionary Film":
[quote author=_http://www.thetimeisnow.tv/]
Film produced by Lynne Joy McFarland, CEO and President of:
LINC: Leaders In the New Civilization
Expanding on the phenomenal success of The Secret, our visionary film "The Time Is Now" takes us further by providing the practical everyday tools for how to effectively apply the laws of attraction, while developing the leader within each and every one of us. It’s a call-to-action.
The Time Is Now is part of a new wave for highly successful documentaries such as Al Gore’s Academy Award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Our film also follows the legacy of the great philanthropic events and music videos such as Stand Up For Cancer, We Are The World, Live Aid, and the Katrina and 9/11 benefit concerts.
Film Leaders:
Bill Gates
Jack Canfield
Tony Robbins
Peggy Dulany Rockefeller
Lee Iacocca
Jack Welch
Cathy Black
Dr. Ivan Misner
Kathy Coover
Bob Proctor
Lynne Twist
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Gregg Braden
Dr. John Demartini
Rebecca W. Rimel
Chris Griscom
Marie Diamond
Raymond Aaron
Marci Shimoff
Lisa Nichols
Kenneth Chenault
Lynne Joy McFarland
Tom Tierney
Bobbi DePorter
Reuben Mark
Robert B. Reich
Kathryn S. Fuller
Ellen V. Futter
Ross Perot
Dr. Chavanna King
James Ray
Chris Griscom
John Gray
Hale Dwoskin
Freddie Ravel
Joan and Stewart Emery
Chunyi Lin
Dr. Richard Moss
Dr. Shinzen Young
Stephen Covey
Jim White
Katie and Gay Hendricks
Roxanne Emmerich
Rickie Byars Beckwith
David Woods
Paul Scheele
Janet Attwood
Joseph McClenden III
Lucia De Garcia
Chet Holmes
[/quote]
I guess this description is little more than self promotion:
[quote author=_http://www.greggbraden.com/about/]
New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970s energy crisis, he became a Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Defense Systems during the last year of the Cold War. In 1991 he was appointed the first Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems where he led the development of the global support team that assures the reliability of today’s Internet. For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix and his 2008 release, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits. Gregg’s work is now published in 17 languages and 27 countries...[/quote]
New York Times best selling author??
On the website: A Rough Guide to New Age Teachers, Andrew P writes:
[quote author=_http://www.energygrid.com/spirit/guide/gregg-braden.html]
I first heard of Gregg Braden when he published his book, Awakening to Zero Point back in 1995. To myself and to many others interested in New Age spirituality and science, this book was a revelation — one of the most exciting contemporary books on spirituality and our collective destiny to have been published. What is more, Braden presented himself as a scientist and geologist, with access to the very latest research findings and "inside" scientific opinion from around the world, so the information he presented seemed to be corroborated by the leading-edge scientific community.
Braden's next book, Walking Between The Worlds, explored the science of compassion, emotion and prayer, relating to 2000 years old Essene texts. I found the book hugely inspiring and it certainly established Braden as a modern day prophet and spiritual teacher.
A few years later Braden brought out a third book called The Isaiah Effect which is based around one of the documents among the Dead Sea Scrolls called the Isaiah Scroll. What was remarkable about this scroll is that it was the only one among the 25,000 fragments of papyrus, parchment and hammered copper, collectively known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, that was completely intact. Braden's suggestion is that Isaiah, the first Old Testament prophet, left precise instructions to the people of the future, us, on how to effectively pray. Once again, this book was a huge hit in the New Age community, and by this time, Braden had become one of the leading lights on the New Age lecture circuit, with his work regarded as an important bridge between the scientific and spiritual worlds.
Then, he made a mistake: in January 2004, he published a new book, The God Code, in which he claimed to have found a secret message in our DNA from the Creator Herself: "God Eternal within the body." My introduction to this book was actually a lecture that he gave in London a few months after publication. The mistake he made was to present evidence for his theory that was so obviously contrived that it broke the spell for many of us that had previously regarded him as a modern day prophet. I wrote of my experience at that lecture in an article that I published here on Energygrid.[/quote]
The article Andrew refers to is:
[quote author=_http://www.energygrid.com/science/2004/03ap-godcode.html]
In "A critique of... The God Code", Andrew P writes:
The crux of The God Code is that our DNA sequence, when read by assigning Hebrew characters to the base sequence, spells out the words of our Creator. His mystical justification for this comes from the Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) which is one of the central texts in the Kabala tradition. Braden gives us a quote from this mystical text which says, "Within the letter is a great, concealed mystical exalted secret… from which everything was created."
{...}
The holes in his theory are very easy to spot and as wide as the Grand Canyon. Braden links the elements hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon to the Hebrew Alphabet with "atomic mass". But the respective atomic masses of these elements, which he gives as 1, 5, 6 and 3, are actually 1, 14, 16 and 12. To make the evidence fit, he has resorted to a numerological trick: 14 becomes 1 + 4 = 5; 16 becomes… well 6 (it does have 6 valence electrons though!); and 12 becomes 1 + 2 = 3. Also, the 1st letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is actually alep. Yod, the Y in his YH VG translation, is Hebrew letter number 10. But Braden justifies calling 10 a 1 because 10 = 1 + 0 = 1.
{...}
So his revelation is is just a clever numerological trick that is faintly entertaining. 4 letters? Big deal! But to base a whole scientific theory on such contrivance is pure fantasy.
{...}
But how does he cover up the lack of scientific or logical justification for his assertion of DNA being a transcript of the Hebrew alphabet? It was simple: he continually played the "I don't have the time to go into all the science" card whilst rushing through a padded out explanation of his theory in 30 minutes.[/quote]
I've been no stranger to idea systems based on unifield field theories since I picked up my first book on Theosophy and laid down Wallace Ward's 'fixed ether field of existence and consciousness Thinkon units', but what does any of this have to do with identifying and neutralizing psychopathy and ponerization? Nothing, as far as I can see. Which is probably why no help will be forthcoming from that quarter.
I just thought I would post this for the benefit of anyone who may find it useful.
Re:
The Science of Miracles and the Power of Prayer
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
[quote author=_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/15/The-Science-of-Miracles-and-the-Power-of-Prayer.aspx]
Everything that exists is connected by a subtle web of energy. It responds to human emotion.
Are miracles possible?
Watch this interview with Gregg Braden to find out.[/quote]
I had no idea who Braden is, and a forum search didn't reveal a whole lot, so I thought I'd post what I found and what Braden & co. is up to at the moment.
Gregg Braden references on the forum:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5565.msg37628#msg37628
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=4441.msg30000#msg30000
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=3517.msg22331#msg22331
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5037.msg38037#msg38037
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=10724.msg76501#msg76501
In the post, A belated first post there are references to Braden's published works. There is also the Feb., 2006 comment: "What people like Melissa (and Greg Braden) don't realize is that not facing reality and taking your suffering mixed in with the good, is like living on borrowed money. Eventually the account has to be settled."
So, right now, he's "out there" grabbing attention with pleas like: "The World Is In Crisis, You Can Help!"
Braden & co. appear to be ramping up for some 'global initiatives', like:
[quote author=_http://www.greggbraden.com/home/the-world-is-changing-you-can-help/]
A Call To Conscious Evolution: In September of 2008, a group of Evolutionary Leaders (including in alphabetical order, Michael Beckwith, Joan Borysenko, Gregg Braden, Deepak Chopra, Gordon Dveirin, Duane Elgin, Debbie Ford, Ashok Gangadean, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Lynne McTaggart, Marianne Williamson and many others!) Completed a collective Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice. It is now being circulated throughout the world, giving a voice to our role in the changing world, and an invitation to declare your support for key initiatives!
The Global Coherence Initiative is the first-of-its-kind science-based initiative uniting millions of people in heart-focused care and intention, to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace! This project is designed to help individuals and groups work together, synchronistically and strategically to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change.Together we will
* Increase personal coherence for the benefit of ourselves and the planet
* Help shift the planetary consciousness baseline from self-centeredness to wholeness care
* Increase connection and social harmony
* Empower our ability to navigate through global changes with less stress and more ease
* Empower environmental responsibility and stewardship of the planet
Next Two Events:
20 November:
I Can Do It Tampa
November 20-22, 2009
4 December:
ConferenceWorks! presents:
Gregg Braden in Cincinnati, OH
December 4-5, 2009
[/quote]
Another description:
[quote author=_http://www.squidoo.com/GreggBraden]
The Global Coherence Project
Basically, its about guiding people by offering important and timely suggestions on what and where to focus intentions.
Then, the Project will track and monitor changes in the earth's geomagnetic field and the potential effects of heart-coherent intentions on this field. Or, more specifically: include earth monitoring, using advance sensing technology that will allow us to observe changes in the earth's magnetic field and test the hypothesis that the earth's field is affected by mass human emotion, whether it is positive or negative.[/quote]
And all of this hoopla based on Quantum Scientific studies that demonstrate a relationship between observer and the observed, re-translated into a vague new agey generality that "we are affecting our world" as a basis for all the activity?
And there is this "Visionary Film":
[quote author=_http://www.thetimeisnow.tv/]
Film produced by Lynne Joy McFarland, CEO and President of:
LINC: Leaders In the New Civilization
Expanding on the phenomenal success of The Secret, our visionary film "The Time Is Now" takes us further by providing the practical everyday tools for how to effectively apply the laws of attraction, while developing the leader within each and every one of us. It’s a call-to-action.
The Time Is Now is part of a new wave for highly successful documentaries such as Al Gore’s Academy Award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Our film also follows the legacy of the great philanthropic events and music videos such as Stand Up For Cancer, We Are The World, Live Aid, and the Katrina and 9/11 benefit concerts.
Film Leaders:
Bill Gates
Jack Canfield
Tony Robbins
Peggy Dulany Rockefeller
Lee Iacocca
Jack Welch
Cathy Black
Dr. Ivan Misner
Kathy Coover
Bob Proctor
Lynne Twist
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Gregg Braden
Dr. John Demartini
Rebecca W. Rimel
Chris Griscom
Marie Diamond
Raymond Aaron
Marci Shimoff
Lisa Nichols
Kenneth Chenault
Lynne Joy McFarland
Tom Tierney
Bobbi DePorter
Reuben Mark
Robert B. Reich
Kathryn S. Fuller
Ellen V. Futter
Ross Perot
Dr. Chavanna King
James Ray
Chris Griscom
John Gray
Hale Dwoskin
Freddie Ravel
Joan and Stewart Emery
Chunyi Lin
Dr. Richard Moss
Dr. Shinzen Young
Stephen Covey
Jim White
Katie and Gay Hendricks
Roxanne Emmerich
Rickie Byars Beckwith
David Woods
Paul Scheele
Janet Attwood
Joseph McClenden III
Lucia De Garcia
Chet Holmes
[/quote]
I guess this description is little more than self promotion:
[quote author=_http://www.greggbraden.com/about/]
New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970s energy crisis, he became a Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Defense Systems during the last year of the Cold War. In 1991 he was appointed the first Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems where he led the development of the global support team that assures the reliability of today’s Internet. For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix and his 2008 release, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits. Gregg’s work is now published in 17 languages and 27 countries...[/quote]
New York Times best selling author??
On the website: A Rough Guide to New Age Teachers, Andrew P writes:
[quote author=_http://www.energygrid.com/spirit/guide/gregg-braden.html]
I first heard of Gregg Braden when he published his book, Awakening to Zero Point back in 1995. To myself and to many others interested in New Age spirituality and science, this book was a revelation — one of the most exciting contemporary books on spirituality and our collective destiny to have been published. What is more, Braden presented himself as a scientist and geologist, with access to the very latest research findings and "inside" scientific opinion from around the world, so the information he presented seemed to be corroborated by the leading-edge scientific community.
Braden's next book, Walking Between The Worlds, explored the science of compassion, emotion and prayer, relating to 2000 years old Essene texts. I found the book hugely inspiring and it certainly established Braden as a modern day prophet and spiritual teacher.
A few years later Braden brought out a third book called The Isaiah Effect which is based around one of the documents among the Dead Sea Scrolls called the Isaiah Scroll. What was remarkable about this scroll is that it was the only one among the 25,000 fragments of papyrus, parchment and hammered copper, collectively known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, that was completely intact. Braden's suggestion is that Isaiah, the first Old Testament prophet, left precise instructions to the people of the future, us, on how to effectively pray. Once again, this book was a huge hit in the New Age community, and by this time, Braden had become one of the leading lights on the New Age lecture circuit, with his work regarded as an important bridge between the scientific and spiritual worlds.
Then, he made a mistake: in January 2004, he published a new book, The God Code, in which he claimed to have found a secret message in our DNA from the Creator Herself: "God Eternal within the body." My introduction to this book was actually a lecture that he gave in London a few months after publication. The mistake he made was to present evidence for his theory that was so obviously contrived that it broke the spell for many of us that had previously regarded him as a modern day prophet. I wrote of my experience at that lecture in an article that I published here on Energygrid.[/quote]
The article Andrew refers to is:
[quote author=_http://www.energygrid.com/science/2004/03ap-godcode.html]
In "A critique of... The God Code", Andrew P writes:
The crux of The God Code is that our DNA sequence, when read by assigning Hebrew characters to the base sequence, spells out the words of our Creator. His mystical justification for this comes from the Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) which is one of the central texts in the Kabala tradition. Braden gives us a quote from this mystical text which says, "Within the letter is a great, concealed mystical exalted secret… from which everything was created."
{...}
The holes in his theory are very easy to spot and as wide as the Grand Canyon. Braden links the elements hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon to the Hebrew Alphabet with "atomic mass". But the respective atomic masses of these elements, which he gives as 1, 5, 6 and 3, are actually 1, 14, 16 and 12. To make the evidence fit, he has resorted to a numerological trick: 14 becomes 1 + 4 = 5; 16 becomes… well 6 (it does have 6 valence electrons though!); and 12 becomes 1 + 2 = 3. Also, the 1st letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is actually alep. Yod, the Y in his YH VG translation, is Hebrew letter number 10. But Braden justifies calling 10 a 1 because 10 = 1 + 0 = 1.
{...}
So his revelation is is just a clever numerological trick that is faintly entertaining. 4 letters? Big deal! But to base a whole scientific theory on such contrivance is pure fantasy.
{...}
But how does he cover up the lack of scientific or logical justification for his assertion of DNA being a transcript of the Hebrew alphabet? It was simple: he continually played the "I don't have the time to go into all the science" card whilst rushing through a padded out explanation of his theory in 30 minutes.[/quote]
I've been no stranger to idea systems based on unifield field theories since I picked up my first book on Theosophy and laid down Wallace Ward's 'fixed ether field of existence and consciousness Thinkon units', but what does any of this have to do with identifying and neutralizing psychopathy and ponerization? Nothing, as far as I can see. Which is probably why no help will be forthcoming from that quarter.
I just thought I would post this for the benefit of anyone who may find it useful.
But she still remember this guy. Blah.
