The Science Behind 2012
Interview with Gregg Braden, New York Times --
best-selling author of Fractal Time
If you are curious to know if there is any science behind
the prophecies of 2012, scientist and New York Times
best-selling author Gregg Braden has the information that
will put it into real-time perspective. Geological time,
that is after 22 years of scientific research, Braden’s
new book Fractal Time explains why 2012 marks the end of a
5,125-year cycle.
Did you know that the Earth is presently moving across the
equator of the Milky Way? When we talk about the changes
that are coming up in 2012, some of those visible changes
here on Earth are apparently in response to the astronomical
changes that are being created by the Earth’s crossing of
the Equator of the Milky Way.
In an interview with Dr. Laurie Nadel, Gregg Braden talks
about the Mayan prophecies of 2012 and what they mean to
you.
Q: You say that 2012 is not the end of the world but the
end of a world age—a 5,125-year cycle of time?
Gregg Braden: Some people speak about 2012 like any
other news story that you hear about every day. Others who
may not have heard anything about 2012 say, "What’s
the big deal about a date?"
Q: Maybe they think it’s like Y2K.
Gregg Braden: Precisely! I was an engineer, working
in the defense industry in the 1980s when I first began
hearing about the year 2012. Some people were saying,
literally, "It’s the end of the world." Others
said, "It’s the end of the world as we know it."
And some even said, "It’s the beginning of a thousand
years of peace."
Everyone I asked had a different opinion. What I discovered
as a scientist was that the only way that I would know what
2012 was all about was to understand the people who created
the calendars that tell us about 2012. And the only way to
understand them was to understand great cycles of time.
Q: What do you mean when you say, "cycles of
time?"
Gregg Braden: Our own science now is telling us
that we, on this planet, our lives, and our planet in
general, are under the influence of great cycles of time;
cycles within cycles, within cycles. Some of the cycles we
know about, like the 24-hour cycle of the day for day and
night, or the 28-days of a woman’s cycle. But the great
cycles cover such vast periods of time that we don’t
remember them from one civilization to the next. Our present
great cycle is a 5,125-year-long cycle linked to an
astronomical event that occurred in the year 3114 B.C.
Q: Now, that’s almost incomprehensible for
people—3114 B.C.
Gregg Braden: It ends on December 21, the Winter
Solstice, December 21, 2012 A.D.
Q: And in that moment or on that day, the sun, you say, is
going to move into an alignment with the equator of the
Milky Way.
Gregg Braden: What happens during this time—and we
have to be really careful when we talk about this—there is
an alignment that’s occurring because Earth does this
little tip and this little wobble over long periods of time.
As Earth tips and wobbles in its orbit, it changes the
scenery of the night sky. It changes our orientation in
space with respect to the center of our own galaxy –of our
Milky Way galaxy.
Now, our own scientists have discovered—and they are
publishing this openly—that the center of our Milky Way
galaxy is a very powerful source of magnetic energy. The
term they use is "magnetic filaments" that radiate
from the center of our Milky Way. Where we are, in relation
to that source of energy, has a huge effect on planet Earth.
Sometimes we’re further away, and we’re tilted away from
it, and the effect is less. Sometimes we’re closer or
we’re tilted toward it, and the effect is greater.
On December 21st in the year 2012, we have a straight
shot—a linear shot, unobstructed by any other planets or
any other bodies in the solar system--where we have direct
access to that field of energy.
Q: Now, does this mean that the magnetic poles are going to
shift, and we’re going to have three days of darkness?
Gregg Braden: There is no scientific evidence to
support that.
Q: I’m glad to hear that.
Gregg Braden: There has been a lot of speculation
about it. The magnetic poles have certainly reversed in the
past. I can tell you as a former geologist that we can see
that in the geologic record, 14 times in the last 4-1/2
million years.
Each time, before the magnetic fields reversed, they had to
weaken to a certain point before that reversal happened.
Even though we have seen a decrease in the magnetic field
strength of the Earth over the last 100 years or so, it is
still so much higher than the measurement that is needed for
it to reverse that the probability of this happening in the
next three years between 2009 and 2012 or even a year or two
after, it looks like it’s a slim probability. We’ve got
so many other things to worry about.
Q: Are there new discoveries that show that we can think
of time as an essence that follows the same rhythms and
cycles that govern everything from particles to galaxies?
Can we think of these things that happen in time as places
within cycles?
Gregg Braden: The bottom line is that time is
essentially a wave that is moving in one direction. Right
now it’s moving from the present to the future. So, the
seeds for things that are happening today and events like
2012 that are yet to happen have already occurred in the
past.
If we know where to look into the past, it gives us a good
idea of what we can expect in the present and the future.
Time’s waves follow natural rhythms, cycles, and natural
progressions. This means that we can measure, calculate, and
predict when the seeds – the conditions -- for an event
are going to happen again, and again, and again. This means
that we can take the year 2012 calculate backwards, using
natural rhythms to the times in our history when the seed
for 2012 was planted. Looking at the seed, we can determine
when the patterns and events that will happen in 2012 were
set into motion. We can go into the geologic record to see
what was happening then on the planet. Or we can go into the
archaeological record to see what was happening to people to
give us a really good idea of what we can expect over these
next few years.
Q You talk about how the conditions for the Mayan
end-date of 2012 have already happened in our past.
Gregg Braden: Absolutely!
Q: What can we do to prepare for what’s going to
happen next in 2012?
Gregg Braden: To prepare for whatever is happening, we
have to understand what it is that’s going to happen. This
is the value of knowing precisely where to look in the past
to understand what we’re about to experience or what
we’re already experiencing now.
Q: Now, you talked about Pearl Harbor and 2001 as being
years that were kind of hot dates when, in fact, the United
States was, both times, attacked. What are some of the other
hot dates that you refer to in the book?
Gregg Braden: For 2012, the records show that when
we’ve look into the history of the Earth, into the ice
cores in Antarctica, for example, it preserved a record of
Earth’s past. When we look into those ice cores at the
dates that are the fractals or the seed patterns for 2012,
they tell us that in those dates the magnetic fields of the
Earth became weaker. The energy from the sun was stronger so
that the ice on the poles began to melt. The oceans began to
rise, the climate began to shift, and the weather patterns
began to change.
Q: We are experiencing that now.
Gregg Braden: Precisely, and that is the whole point.
Has the Earth gone through a big change? Yes. Does it mean
that something is wrong or something is broken? No! It
always happens when we reach this point in a great cycle.
When we are this distance from the energy source at the
center of our Milky Way, when Earth is tilted and oriented
the way it is, apparently, this is what always happens.
Therefore, to a large extent, we are already experiencing
the great changes that so many have predicted. We are
already seeing cities wiped off the face of the Earth near
shallow coastlines. We are already seeing major magnitude
earthquakes and tsunamis. We are already seeing forest fires
ranging them across vast, open spaces. We are seeing
millions of people die from disease. The United States is
blessed in that we’re not experiencing as much here as in
other parts of the world. But such change can happen
anywhere and everywhere.
Q: The take-away message…?
Gregg Braden: It is good for us to prepare and to
help other people that are
having the problems of feeling the brunt of these changes.
But here is the core: The geologic records show that the
changes are intense; absolutely intense, but that they’re
brief. They don’t last for generation, after generation,
after generation. The archaeological records show that when
past civilizations reach the point in their cycle where we
are in right now, they made a mistake that we don’t want
to repeat today.
Q: What was that mistake?
Gregg Braden: When the world began to change,
civilizations of the past didn’t understand the change.
They began to fight one another for the resources. In that
violent competition for what was left when the world was
changing, everyone lost. Nobody won. The civilizations
collapsed. For example, Egypt’s 20th dynasty absolutely
collapsed during precisely this period of time and no one
even knew about them until thousands of years later.
We are at a point right now where we must choose to work together
for this brief period of time to bring ourselves through this time of
change. If we make the mistakes of the past and everyone
loses. This is why I feel that this book is so important
right now.
Q: A lot of people kind of feel helpless when they start
listening to stories about ancient civilizations collapsing.
They think about tsunamis and Katrina, and it’s very hard
for people not to feel overwhelmed by the great scope of
planetary movements and fractal time. For what can people
hope?
Gregg Braden: On my website, www.greggbraden. com you
will find a link to the Global Coherence Initiative. When
you click on that link, you can learn about the
science-based initiative that allows each of us to learn a
way of being that actually influences the fields of the
Earth. In other words, you can learn how to have a positive
impact on how we come through this time in history. This
project is all about our relationship to the Earth through
heart-based living.
Q: What is heart-based living?
Gregg Braden: In the past few years, our own science
has made a radical, revolutionary discovery that changes
everything about the way we think of ourselves and the
world. What they found is that when we create heart-based
feelings of gratitude, appreciation, care—literally, using
the muscle of the heart to create these feelings—what
we’re actually doing is generating a magnetic field inside
our bodies that is part of the magnetic field of the Earth
that undergoes the change.
The Earth’s magnetic field rises, falls, and regulates
everything from climate to ice caps and sea levels. This
magnetic field joins all life on Earth from a blade of
grass, to an ant, to a goldfish, to a hamster, to us. When
many of us come together and create a common feeling, that
experience is called "coherence".
"Coherence" can actually be measured. It is 0.10
Hertz. That is the measurement of the coherence created
between the heart and the brain.
Scientists first found out about this during 9/11 when our
satellites 22,000 miles in space began to register changes
in the magnetic field of the Earth, when humans were having
feelings about September 11th and the World Trade Center.
This is a surprise to science. They asked, "Why would
people experiencing 9/11, why would that possibly affect the
magnetic fields of the Earth? There’s no connection,
right?" Well, wrong. They found that there is a
connection and this has led to what is called the Global
Coherence Initiative Project.
Scientists are now building the sensors that can measure
these magnetic fields and put them up onto the website where
you can watch the fields change everyday in real time. In
addition to measuring this field, the Global Coherence
Project aims is to teach people how to create coherence in
their everyday lives. It’s not a hard thing to do, and you
don’t have to change your lives to do it. You don’t have
to change your meditations, your prayers, or any practice.
It’s a way of being in our hearts as we go throughout the
day that’s very easy to learn.
Q: So, it’s kind of an awareness or biofeedback- type
training.
Gregg Braden: That is part of it. When we create this
coherence inside our bodies, it triggers about 1,400
biochemical changes. Anti-aging processes begin. DHEA
level—the life-giving hormone—surges in our bodies. Our
immune systems become really strong. We think more clearly.
We become less aggressive. The magnetic fields of the heart
are now being documented. We are facing the greatest
challenges of 5,000 years of recorded human history. As we
face the great challenges of our time, we are asking,
"What can we do?" Here’s what we can do: We can
learn the language of the magnetic field that is creating
the changes and help bring that field from chaos into
order.
We can influence the very fields that are creating the
change. The Mayans cannot tell us how this cycle ends
because we are writing the ending to this cycle while
we’re living it right now. The fear about 2012 is
stressing a lot of people but we have the ability to
regulate the magnetic field by regulating the way that we
work together through our hearts.
The key is: we’ve got to work together to do it.
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Gregg Braden
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