44 Is There Science Behind 2012 Prophecies?

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Is There Science Behind 2012 Prophecies?

Curious about the gloom and doom 2012 prophecies? Scientist Gregg
Braden, the
best-selling author of "Fractal Time," puts it into real-time
perspective.

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 Earth changes 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 2012
prophecies and what they mean to us today.

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?

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.

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?"

Braden: 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.

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.

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
changes —
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
Milky Way
galaxy.

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 filiments" 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?

Braden: There is no scientific evidence to support that.

Q: I'm glad to hear that.

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?

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.

Braden: Absolutely!

Q: What can we do to prepare for Earth changes that are going to
happen in 2012?

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?

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.

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…?

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?

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 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?

Braden: The Global Coherence Initiative is all about our relationship
to the
Earth through heart-based living.

Q: What is heart-based living?

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.

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
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.

Interview by Laurie Nadel, Ph.D.
Host of The Dr. Laurie Show