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Posted March 29th, 2008 by shiva777

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The Newsletter of Gregg Braden and Sacred Spaces/Ancient Wisdom
2008 Volume 10 Issue 1
The Strangest Science of All!
Copyright © 2008 Gregg Braden (Excerpt from The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering The Paradigm Of False Limits- Hay House 2008)
Fact: The Universe is made of a shared matrix of energy that underlies our physical world!

Fact: Belief is a language that "speaks" to this matrix!

Scientific evidence now reveals that belief affects everything from the healing of our bodies to the atoms of Reality itself! What could be more important than understanding how to use such an awesome power to reverse disease, create peace and abundance and even change Reality itself? In a world where the greatest crises of recorded human history now threaten our survival, the stakes couldn't be higher.

For a scientist, what could be any stranger than discovering that by simply watching our world in one place we've somehow changed what happens somewhere else? Yet this is precisely what the revelations of the new physics are showing us. As far back as 1935, Noble Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein acknowledged just how unsettling such quantum effects can be, calling them "spooky action at a distance." In a paper that he co-authored with noted physicists Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, he stated, "No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this [action at a distance]."

Today, it's precisely these bizarre anomalies that have ignited a powerful revolution in the way we think of ourselves, as well as the universe. For the better part of the 20th century, scientists struggled to understand what quantum strangeness is telling us about the way reality works. It's a documented fact, for example, that human consciousness influences quantum energy-the stuff everything is made of-under certain conditions. And that fact has opened the door to a possibility that pushes the limits of what we've been led to believe about our world in the past. A growing body of evidence now suggests that these unexpected effects are more than just isolated exceptions. The question is how much more?

Are the effects of observers, influencing their experiments, actually a powerful window into the kind of reality we live in? And, if so, then we must ask, "Are those effects also telling us who we are within that reality?" The answer to both questions is "yes." These are precisely the conclusions that the new discoveries suggest.

There Are No Watchers

Scientists have shown that while we may think we're only watching and observing our world, in fact, it's impossible for us to simply "watch" anything. Whether our attention is focused on a quantum particle during a laboratory experiment or anything else, from the healing of our body to the success of our careers and relationships, we have expectations and beliefs about what we're watching. Sometimes we're consciously aware of our expectations and beliefs. But oftentimes we're not. It's these inner experiences that become part of what we're focused on. By "watching" we become part of what we're watching.

In the words of physicist John Wheeler, that makes us all "participators." The reason? When we focus our attention on a given place in a moment of time, we involve our consciousness. And in the vast field of consciousness it appears that there's no clear boundary that tells us where we stop and the rest of the world begins. When we think of the world this way, it becomes clear why the ancients believed that everything is connected. As energy, it is.

As scientists continue to explore just what it means to be participators, new evidence points to an inescapable conclusion: That we live in an interactive reality where we change the world around us by changing what happens inside of us while we're watching-our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

Belief Code 1: Experiments show that the focus of our attention changes reality itself and suggest that we live in an interactive universe.

The Implication: From the healing of disease and the length of our lives, to the success of our careers and relationships, everything that we experience as "life" is directly linked to what we believe.

The Bottom Line: To change our lives and relationships, heal our bodies and bring peace to our families and nations requires a simple yet precise shift in the way we use belief.

For those who accept what science has led us to believe for the last 300 years, even to consider that our inner experience can affect reality, is nothing short of heresy.

The very idea blurs the safety zone that has traditionally separated science and spirituality-and us from our world. Rather than thinking of ourselves as passive victims in a place where, for example, things just "happen" for no apparent reason, such a consideration now places us squarely in the driver's seat of life.

In this position we find ourselves faced with undeniable evidence confirming that we are the architects of our reality. With this confirmation, we also find that we have the power to make disease obsolete and relegate war to a memory of our past. Suddenly, the key to catapult our greatest dreams into reality is within our reach. It all comes back to us. Where do we fit in the universe? What is it that we're supposed to be doing in life?

The False Assumptions of Science.

The transformation that the reality revolution brings to our lives has erupted with a force unmatched by anything in the past because the same discoveries that have sparked the questions have also led to the conclusion that the "facts" we've trusted for 300 years to explain the universe and our role in it are flawed. They're based upon two assumptions that have been proven to be false.

False Assumption 1: The space between "things" is empty. New discoveries now tell us that this is simply not true.

False Assumption 2: Our inner experiences of feeling and belief have no effect upon the world beyond our bodies. This has been proven absolutely false, as well.

Paradigm-shattering experiments, published in leading- edge, peer-reviewed journals reveal that we're bathed in a field of intelligent energy that fills what used to be thought of as empty space. Beyond any reasonable doubt, additional discoveries show that this field responds to us-it literally rearranges itself-in the presence of our heart-based feelings and beliefs to become the healing of our bodies and the peace of our world! And this is the revolution that changes everything.

With these and similar discoveries in mind, we must ask ourselves the question that is perhaps the most revealing of all: Are we born with the natural ability to create and modify our bodies and the world? If so, then we must be willing to ask an even more difficult question: What responsibility do we have to use our birth-given power in the presence of what are arguably the greatest threats to the future of our lives, our world, and even our species? Ω

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Can We Handle The Truth
We've Asked Ourselves To Discover?
Excerpt from The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, Hay House Publishers, 2008

Now Is the Time

With the new discoveries in mind, we must ask ourselves the question that is perhaps the most revealing of all: Are we born with the natural ability to create and modify our bodies and the world? If so, then we must be willing to ask an even more difficult question: What responsibility do we have to use our birth-given power in the presence of what are arguably the greatest threats to the future of our lives, our world, and even our species?

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Clearly we don't know all that there is to know about how the universe works and our role in it. While new studies will undoubtedly reveal greater insights, we could wait for another 100 years and still not know all of the answers. A growing consensus of scientists suggest that we may not have that long.

Powerful voices in the scientific community, like Sir Martin Rees, professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, suggest that we have only "a 50/50 chance of surviving the 21st century without a major setback." 9 While we've always had natural disasters to contend with, a new class of threats that Rees calls "human induced" now have to be taken into account, as well.

Emerging studies, such as those reported in Scientific American's special issue entitled "Crossroads for Planet Earth" (September 2005), echo Rees' warning, telling us, "The next 50 years will be decisive in determining whether the human race-now entering a unique period in its history-can ensure the best possible future for itself." 10 (Author's italics.)

In a series of essays written by experts in fields that range from global health and energy consumption to sustainable lifestyles, the consensus is that we simply can't continue with the way we use energy, the direction of technology, and an ever-expanding population if we expect to survive another 100 years. Complicating all of these problems is the growing threat of a world war that is driven, at least in part, by the competition for the same disappearing resources that defined the essays. Perhaps the uniqueness of our time is best described by Harvard University biologist E. O. Wilson. He states that we are about to enter what he calls the "bottleneck" in time, when both our resources and our ability to solve the problems of our day will be pushed to their limits.

The good news echoed by the experts, however, is that "if decision makers can get the framework right, the future of humanity will be secured by thousands of mundane decisions.

It is usually in mundane matters that the most profound advances are made." Without a doubt, there are countless decisions that each of us will be asked to make in the near future. I can't help thinking, however, that one of the most profound, and perhaps the simplest, will be the decision to embrace what the new science has shown us about who we are and our role in the universe.

If we can accept the powerful evidence that consciousness itself and our role in that consciousness are the missing links in the theories of how reality works, then everything changes. In that change we begin anew. This makes us part of, rather than separate from all that we see and experience. And that's why the current revolution in the way we think of ourselves is so powerful!

Frail or Powerful: Which Is It?
In his classic book The Prophet, Gibran reminds us of what it means to have a great gift, and to know that the power of that gift is already within us. "No man can reveal to you," he states, "that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge." 12 In words that are as beautiful today as they were when they were written in 1923, Gibran reminds us that we can't be taught the things that we already know. And we came into the world already knowing how to use our beliefs.

On the one hand, we're told that we are frail and powerless beings, who live in a world where things just "happen" for no apparent reason. On the other hand, our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions tell us that there is a force that lives within every one of us, a power that nothing in the world can touch. With that force comes the promise of surviving the darkest moments of life, and that difficult times are only a part of a journey that leads to a place where bad things can't happen any longer. It's no wonder that we feel confused, helpless, and sometimes even angry as we witness the suffering of our loved ones and share the agony of what sometimes seems like hell in the world around us.

So which is it? Are we hopelessly fragile victims of events that are beyond our control or are we powerful creators harboring dormant abilities that we are only beginning to understand? The answer may reveal the truth of one of the greatest mysteries of our past.

It is also the focus for some of the greatest controversy in scientific discussions today. The reason? Both questions have the same answer: Yes!

Yes, we are sometimes fragile victims of circumstance. And yes, we are sometimes the powerful creators of those same circumstances. Which of these roles we experience is determined by choices that we make in our lives, choices based upon our beliefs. Through the god-like power of human belief, we are given the equally god-like power to bring our beliefs to life in the matrix of energy that bathes and surrounds us.

Perhaps the greatest challenge of our time in history is simply this: Can we handle the truth that we have asked ourselves to discover? Do we have the courage to accept who we are in the universe and the role that our existence implies?" If the answer to this question is "yes," then we must also accept the responsibility that comes with knowing we can change the world by changing ourselves. We've already seen that the widely-held beliefs of hate, separation, and fear can destroy our bodies and our world faster than we could have ever imagined. Maybe all we need is a little shift in the way we think of ourselves to recognize the great truth that we are, in fact, the architects of our experience. We are cosmic artists expressing our deepest beliefs on the quantum canvas of the universe. What are the chances that by changing the destructive beliefs of our past into life-affirming beliefs of healing and peace we can change the world of today and the future, as well?

Because You Asked:
My answer to a frequently-asked question.

Q: What is The Global Coherence Project?

A: The Institute of HeartMathTM in partnership with internationally renowned astrophysicist and nuclear scientist Elizabeth Rauscher are developing a global monitoring system to measure the "brain waves and heart rhythm" of Earth in a real-time format. It will explore the question of whether or not Earth's magnetic field is influenced by collective human emotion from heart-based intention, or in response to major events, and whether or not collective emotion in response to major events is measurable in this field.

Research has shown that 0.1 Hz is the frequency at which spirit, heart, mind, emotions and body are in resonant alignment with the planet. The term for this alignment is coherence. The greater our coherence, the greater our energetic connection with people, nature and ourselves. I am a member of the advisory board for the Global Coherence Project and will speak about it extensively throughout our 2008 seminars. I hope this helps! For more information please see: www.heartmath.org/gcms/index.html or the link on our home page.

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