Post by Mech on Dec 14, 2003 8:33:34 GMT -5
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An Interview with GREGG BRADEN
by Stephen Marshall, Guerrilla News Network
The Prophets Conference New York City - Techniques of Discovery - May 2001
Stephen Marshall: Let's start off by having you introduce yourself and give us a little background primer on what it is you have been focusing your energy and intellect toward for the past few years.
Gregg Braden: Hello, this is Gregg Braden and it's an honor to be here on the Guerrilla News Network. I think the kind of information that GNN is bringing is especially key at this time in our lives because there is a shift in belief systems, in paradigm, that's unfolding both at the grassroots level, as well as in some of the scientific and accredited academic institutions. We're finding evidence of a relationship, today, that apparently was very well known in ancient traditions and that Western science forgot about seventeen hundred years ago. And we're just now finding evidence of that relationship again.
Steve: Can you elaborate on what you mean by this 'relationship' and how it directly applies to what you refer to as a paradigm shift? And, also, what do you say to people who have trouble believing in something that they cannot readily, physically see?
Gregg B.: Well, that relationship says to us that there is a power that lives within each individual, that walks this Earth, and that it has the power to bring a lasting healing to our bodies, a lasting peace to our world and, perhaps, avert even the greatest tragedies ever to face humankind. People say to me all the time, "If this power exists, where is it? Why don't we hear about it today and why aren't we using it in our world today?" And the answer to that question will lead us on a little journey - my personal journey - of how this information has come about.
My background is in the hard sciences - I'm an Earth scientist, a geologist. I have also worked in aerospace and computer science and what I can say is, in my formal and academic training absolutely nothing prepared me for the kinds of information that we are going to talk about in these next few moments: the relationships between what happens in the unseen worlds of our emotions and our feelings and the physical world around us. When I was in the industry, I had the opportunity to see direct evidence of tremendous shifts on our world - changes in the Earth's magnetic fields, for example. And my first thought was, 'well if this is happening to the Earth, what does that mean to us? What does it mean to our bodies?' And I would ask my colleagues, geophysicists and highly esteemed seismologists, and I'd say, "Well what does this mean to us?" And they would say pretty much, "I'm a geologist don't ask me, ask a life scientist." And I would ask my life science friends and they would say almost apologetically, "You know, my training is with the biology of the human body. We were never really told about how our bodies interface with the world around us."
And of course we know that's changing now and that there is a direct measurable connection between what happens inside our bodies and the world around us. And it's a two-way connection.
So people say, "If this is true, why don't we know about it?" And what I can say briefly in response to that is that we know of at least two times in human history, in recorded human history, when the chain of knowledge that links the modern day world to the ancient traditions has been broken. There is a chain of wisdom that has been handed down from generation to generation, and we know that, at least twice, this chain has been broken to some degree.
The first of these was with the great library of Alexandria in Egypt - 48 BC. Now many people have heard about this library and very few people really, I've discovered, really understand what was in this library and the implications of losing a tremendous library like this. The Roman historians said that over 532,000 documents recording the history of human kind and our relationship to the Earth were in this library and they were already old in 48 BC. Almost all universally ancient texts and traditions - they say to us that there was a time in the history of our world and the people of our world when the wisdom of the heavens was given intact to the people of this Earth - the secrets of our origins, our relationships to one another, how we love one another, how we heal our bodies, our relationship to the cosmos. That information, apparently, has been with us for a very long time. It has been fragmented and lost as it has been passed down through history. And the loss of this Alexandrian library was certainly an important part of that.
The second break in this chain of knowledge that we know of, was at the time that Biblical scholars openly now acknowledge the tremendous edits that occurred in the 4th century AD - 325 AD to be specific - of the texts that would later become our Western King James version of the Bible. What we know now is that during the 4th century, there was no nice neat biblical text the way we see it today. It was a loose assemblage of manuscripts, scrolls, and documents. Some of them were redundant, some of them were mystical, some of them were poorly written. And the Emperor Constantine pulled together a council in the 4th century and said, "Council, make me some recommendations. How can this information be more meaningful to the people of our time?" And in that time, the 4th century, it was a largely uneducated audience that they were speaking to. The council came back and recommended that 25 complete books of the Biblical texts be removed entirely and another 20 supporting documents be taken from the masses and reserved for scholars and elite priesthoods. So we know of at least 45 texts that disappeared and that the remaining texts were edited and reworded and reordered to make them more meaningful. So the text that remains, it's a very good text - and I think we all agree the text is meaningful in our lives, however we also agree pretty much that it seems fragmented in places. Where are the women in the Bible, for example? The missing years of Jesus - they are missing because they were edited.
So we find evidence of these kinds of information in some of the archaeological discoveries of the 20th century - the Dead Sea scrolls being one of the keys. The Dead Sea scrolls - the library of ancient texts that were hidden in the first century after the crucifixion of Christ - they were recorded by a sect called the ancient Essenes - wisdom holders of this kind of information - and they recorded and hid their libraries before the edits of the 4th century. They were being persecuted - they fled the Middle East, and when they did so, they expected they would return some day. But, obviously, they never did. In 1946, we began discovering these scrolls and lo and behold, scholars were finding in 2,500 year old texts, Biblical documents that we had never seen before. And they said, 'My God, how come we've never seen these kinds of information before?'
And that is the source of the controversy.
An Interview with GREGG BRADEN
by Stephen Marshall, Guerrilla News Network
The Prophets Conference New York City - Techniques of Discovery - May 2001
Stephen Marshall: Let's start off by having you introduce yourself and give us a little background primer on what it is you have been focusing your energy and intellect toward for the past few years.
Gregg Braden: Hello, this is Gregg Braden and it's an honor to be here on the Guerrilla News Network. I think the kind of information that GNN is bringing is especially key at this time in our lives because there is a shift in belief systems, in paradigm, that's unfolding both at the grassroots level, as well as in some of the scientific and accredited academic institutions. We're finding evidence of a relationship, today, that apparently was very well known in ancient traditions and that Western science forgot about seventeen hundred years ago. And we're just now finding evidence of that relationship again.
Steve: Can you elaborate on what you mean by this 'relationship' and how it directly applies to what you refer to as a paradigm shift? And, also, what do you say to people who have trouble believing in something that they cannot readily, physically see?
Gregg B.: Well, that relationship says to us that there is a power that lives within each individual, that walks this Earth, and that it has the power to bring a lasting healing to our bodies, a lasting peace to our world and, perhaps, avert even the greatest tragedies ever to face humankind. People say to me all the time, "If this power exists, where is it? Why don't we hear about it today and why aren't we using it in our world today?" And the answer to that question will lead us on a little journey - my personal journey - of how this information has come about.
My background is in the hard sciences - I'm an Earth scientist, a geologist. I have also worked in aerospace and computer science and what I can say is, in my formal and academic training absolutely nothing prepared me for the kinds of information that we are going to talk about in these next few moments: the relationships between what happens in the unseen worlds of our emotions and our feelings and the physical world around us. When I was in the industry, I had the opportunity to see direct evidence of tremendous shifts on our world - changes in the Earth's magnetic fields, for example. And my first thought was, 'well if this is happening to the Earth, what does that mean to us? What does it mean to our bodies?' And I would ask my colleagues, geophysicists and highly esteemed seismologists, and I'd say, "Well what does this mean to us?" And they would say pretty much, "I'm a geologist don't ask me, ask a life scientist." And I would ask my life science friends and they would say almost apologetically, "You know, my training is with the biology of the human body. We were never really told about how our bodies interface with the world around us."
And of course we know that's changing now and that there is a direct measurable connection between what happens inside our bodies and the world around us. And it's a two-way connection.
So people say, "If this is true, why don't we know about it?" And what I can say briefly in response to that is that we know of at least two times in human history, in recorded human history, when the chain of knowledge that links the modern day world to the ancient traditions has been broken. There is a chain of wisdom that has been handed down from generation to generation, and we know that, at least twice, this chain has been broken to some degree.
The first of these was with the great library of Alexandria in Egypt - 48 BC. Now many people have heard about this library and very few people really, I've discovered, really understand what was in this library and the implications of losing a tremendous library like this. The Roman historians said that over 532,000 documents recording the history of human kind and our relationship to the Earth were in this library and they were already old in 48 BC. Almost all universally ancient texts and traditions - they say to us that there was a time in the history of our world and the people of our world when the wisdom of the heavens was given intact to the people of this Earth - the secrets of our origins, our relationships to one another, how we love one another, how we heal our bodies, our relationship to the cosmos. That information, apparently, has been with us for a very long time. It has been fragmented and lost as it has been passed down through history. And the loss of this Alexandrian library was certainly an important part of that.
The second break in this chain of knowledge that we know of, was at the time that Biblical scholars openly now acknowledge the tremendous edits that occurred in the 4th century AD - 325 AD to be specific - of the texts that would later become our Western King James version of the Bible. What we know now is that during the 4th century, there was no nice neat biblical text the way we see it today. It was a loose assemblage of manuscripts, scrolls, and documents. Some of them were redundant, some of them were mystical, some of them were poorly written. And the Emperor Constantine pulled together a council in the 4th century and said, "Council, make me some recommendations. How can this information be more meaningful to the people of our time?" And in that time, the 4th century, it was a largely uneducated audience that they were speaking to. The council came back and recommended that 25 complete books of the Biblical texts be removed entirely and another 20 supporting documents be taken from the masses and reserved for scholars and elite priesthoods. So we know of at least 45 texts that disappeared and that the remaining texts were edited and reworded and reordered to make them more meaningful. So the text that remains, it's a very good text - and I think we all agree the text is meaningful in our lives, however we also agree pretty much that it seems fragmented in places. Where are the women in the Bible, for example? The missing years of Jesus - they are missing because they were edited.
So we find evidence of these kinds of information in some of the archaeological discoveries of the 20th century - the Dead Sea scrolls being one of the keys. The Dead Sea scrolls - the library of ancient texts that were hidden in the first century after the crucifixion of Christ - they were recorded by a sect called the ancient Essenes - wisdom holders of this kind of information - and they recorded and hid their libraries before the edits of the 4th century. They were being persecuted - they fled the Middle East, and when they did so, they expected they would return some day. But, obviously, they never did. In 1946, we began discovering these scrolls and lo and behold, scholars were finding in 2,500 year old texts, Biblical documents that we had never seen before. And they said, 'My God, how come we've never seen these kinds of information before?'
And that is the source of the controversy.