Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age

Gregg Braden’s “Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age” is one of his several outings on his insights about New Age thinking. The central premise of the book is to shed light on the hype about the purported date of 21 December 2012 being the end of the world. Published in 2009, the book seeks to explain, in fact, assuage the reader that 2012 is not the end of the world but rather the end of time and the birth of a new world age.According to the Mayan calendar, our present world age which started in 3114 B.C. (1800 years before the Bible’s Exodus), will end in the winter solstice of 2012, that is on 21st December. Braden explains how this date was arrived at based on the Mayan cycle of 5,125 years per cycle. 2012 is not only the end of this cycle but also the period when the solar system will have passed the imaginary line at the core of our galaxy (similar to the equator of the Earth), which only happens every 26,000 years. Studies were cited that the proximity of the Earth to the galaxy’s core aligns us to its mysterious force and energy, and that we can expect a time of “greater consciousness and enlightenment.”With a galactic event in the offing, Braden offers that the 2012 world-age transition is already bringing about changes in the social, environmental, and political landscape of the world. The book’s view is that planetary changes affect the global climate, patterns of war and peace, as well as our spiritual relationship with God. In support of John Major Jenkins’ ideas in “Maya Cosmogenesis 2012”, he clarified though that this transition is a process, rather than an event. According to the calculations of Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus, it started as early as 1980 and will end sometimein 2016. The end of a world age is not abrupt and necessarily overlaps with the next one.Organised according to 21 Time Codes, Braden itemized his findings of more than 20 years of research starting from a detailed explanation of the Mayan calendar as well as ancient practices and traditions of time cycles, calendar calculations, and astronomy by the Hopi , Aztec , and Vedic tribes. It went on to present an alternative view of time – a repetitive cycle (or fractal ), as places happening within cycles, and being inseparable with space (hence, spacetime).The concept of time is scrutinised as repeating patterns within bigger patterns – from personal, global, to galactic cycles. Events will repeat themselves predictably even if the patterns are not recognized, and with greater intensity at later dates. The past mirrors the future. Braden posits that the inevitability of the repetition allows us to predict when the next one will occur and so become more effective in responding to it. This is called the “choice point,” a phrase coined by Hugh Everett III in 1957 to refer to an individual or group’s decision to choose a course of action among several alternatives, hence determining the outcome of the event.Braden clarifies that it is not the event themselves that repeat, but the conditions that bring about the event, the fractal patterns. Since time is a recurring cycle then the same conditions can be known, measured, and predicted. He likewise asserts, based on John Wheeler’s research, that since time is a code, then it can be decoded and cracked. Each time code is explained in detail, complete with historical background, research studies, and potential implications. Towards the middle of the book, Braden introduced the Time Code Calculator, which is a model to estimate when the conditions of a past event will recur using the golden ratio in the formula.The book concludes with a hopeful narrative about how human beings can create several “choice points” and reverse the cataclysmic effects of past mistakes and decisions. The way to ease the 2012 world-age transition is to change the way we feel about the world and to do it together. One way is called the Global Coherence Initiative or GCI of the HeartMath Institute . The studies of the institute were also presented with regards to the relationship of the Earth’s magnetism with the vibrations of the human heart. Collective human emotions and beliefs, both positive and negative,affect the behavior of nature and the environment.Braden was quick to put caveats about the ideas in the book. First, he stated that it is not science, though the reader will note the obvious references to scientific research. The book is replete with lessons on quantum physics. He also claimed that it is a well-researched and documented piece of literature but missing peer reviews to establish its credibility. He mentioned that the thoughts in the book crosses the “traditional boundaries of science and spirituality.” A saving point for the truly skeptical. Consequently, one will either continue reading or dismiss Braden as a fraud.The organisation of the book according to the 21 Time Codes was hardly a structure at all. Repetitive ideas are distributed across the time codes, specifically on the discussion of time cycles, cosmic calendars, and patterns. The repetition can be quite effective in driving this concept home. It may seem annoying at first but one will understand the logic of the author behind it. He seems to be repeating the concepts either to test recall or demonstrate cycles in the thought process of the reader (a much shorter cycle compared to the 5,125 years of each world age!). The reader can only glean the subliminal nature of this as an afterthought.The Time Code Calculator when tested with both global and personal events produces uncanny results that cannot be easily dismissed as coincidence. Braden used the golden ratio in the formula which he called, “nature’s most beautiful number.” It is worth testing with one’s own personal circumstances and events.Overall, the ideas in the book are astounding: repeating time cycles based on calculations of ancient tribes, the solar system’s cosmic alignment with the galaxy’s core, and the connection between the vibrations of the human heart and the Earth’s magnetic poles. The first reaction of the uninitiated reader in the realms of New Age thinking will be one of incredulity and cynicism.Braden makes no apologies, however, and assumes that the reader is first curious, then interested, and hopefully believes before the book ends. A casual reader will reject ideas that do not conform with their existing belief systems. The book begs that one suspend this disbelief and proceed with an open mind.The hopeful tone of the book can be summed up in the quotes at the beginning of Chapter 6:“The future has already happened, it just isn’t well distributed.”~William Gibson“Will you change it?”~Coded message regarding prophecies of destruction, discovered in the ancient Torah.

Gregg has offered us a way to revision our sense of space-time-mind as we slip and slide into the end-time scenarios; often times kicking and screaming: "The Sky is Falling!"Yet, perhaps the sky, aka "space," is not falling rather compressing its spring-loaded, double-helix coiled energy spiral back through the center of our galaxy, solar system, and earth as well as our own DNA?Maybe the genie in our genes is about to pop-out of the Klein-Kaluza Fifth-Dimensional bottleneck of the "black-white hole" in time-space?In other words, perhaps we are merely experiencing the "archetypes of apocalypse" that fueled the "false" Battle of Armaggedon scenarios? But that cycle of cleansing our anger, fear, and judgments are really the organic catalysts unveiling a new heaven and a new earth, and not WWIII?Is this then why we see an increase in paranormal activity (ET/UFO, etc.) at the same time we see a relatively calm early phase now in Solar Cycle 24? We are being given the opportunity for peace and transformation at this precise choice-point in the close of the end-time spiral cycle of consciousness (r)evolution?Recall that the periods of solar magnetic calm are linked to increased incidents of psychic-telepathic-telekenetic phenomenon. Thus "magnetic-genetic mutations" -- so-called transposon bursts -- are taking place as I say not only before but behind our eyes; specifically our third eye?In essence, the universe and our DNA winds itself tight around space-time events we call our history but that is not our destiny. It is only the end-of-time and space as we know it.In summary, magnetism is the glue that holds atomic matter together and as we witness the ungluing of space-time we will see that chaos mirrors crises in our self and society, as in no pain, no gain -- or new growth. We will no doubt see the tectonic plates shift as the core of the earth is linked resonantly with our brain's 12 cranial nerves and pineal gland. There will be an increase in psychic and paranormal phenomenon in concert with undersea and surface volcanism, earthquakes, and tsunamis on the Ring of Fire; it is inevitable for that cycle of chaos will put the "natural" back into magnetic-reversal new world order "disasters" in era-2012. That is, what we will learn as our third eye opens is that this axiom is true: As Above, So Below, As Within, So Without: The Archetypal Space-Time-Mind Fractal is winding tight around itself not as a sign of breakdown, rather breakthough, to The Other Side: The Fifth Dimension!Dr. John Jay Harper has a new DVD on these topics titled  Science of Soul: The End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012 A.D.  aas well as the newly-released book  Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century - Second Edition Revised and Updated for 2012 .

This is the third copy of this book that I've bought. I lend them to my friends, but I always keep one exclusively for myself. The information in this book goes a long way in calming whatever fears we have of the future. Life goes on, world without end!

Es gibt eine Menge englisch-sprachige Rezensionen zu diesem Buch, aber keine in Deutsch, die von Lesern mit nennenswerten Englisch-Kenntnissen verfasst wurden, da wären wir also:Zu allererst muss ich sagen, dass dies das erste Buch von Gregg Braden ist, das ich gelesen habe. Er ist mir jedoch ein Begriff von seinen diversen Vortragsreihen, die alle auf Youtube zu finden sind, und die ich dort auch in ihrer Gesamtheit gesehen habe. Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass einem Leser dieser Rezension Gregg Braden bereits ebenso ein Begriff ist, sowie das Thema ‚2012‘, insofern werde ich darauf nicht näher eingehen. Hier nur meine Pros und Cons zu dem Buch:Pros:+) Es liest sich sehr leichtgängig(Englisch-Kenntnisse vorausgesetzt;-)) und hat den bekannten rhetorisch klangvollen Stil, wie man ihn von Gregg Braden, der ein begnadeter Vorträger ist, kennt.+) Selbst wenn man sich noch nicht näher mit dem Thema ‚2012‘ auseinandergesetzt hat, bekommt man hier alles wesentliche gut verständlich mitgeteilt. Weder fantasiert Braden von Weltuntergangszenarien, noch verspricht er das Heil, das uns außerirdische Besucher angeblich bringen werden. Stattdessen zeigt er, dass wir unser Schicksal selbst in die Hand nehmen können, jetzt mehr als je zu vor.+) Es ist angenehm neutral geschrieben, sprich an keiner Stelle hat man das Gefühl, der Autor predigt einem seine Weltanschauung; etwas, das in solchen Büchern nicht selbstverständlich ist.Cons:-) Gregg Braden neigt etwas sehr zu Wiederholungen. Würde man alle redundanten Formulierungen streichen, das Buch wäre ein gutes Stück kürzer. Gerade aufmerksame Leser wird das womöglich leicht nerven. Wie auch in seinen Vorträgen hat Gregg Braden seine ‚Lieblingsformulierungen‘, die man OFT zu hören bzw. lesen bekommt.-) Manche Dinge klingen etwas weithergeholt, wie sein ‚Time Mode Calculator‘, der anhand der fraktalen Struktur, die man überall im Universum findet, auch zeitliche Geschehnisse ‚vorauszusagen‘ vermag bzw. sagen kann, wann ‚passende Bedingungen‘ für derartige Wiederholungen herrschen werden. Grundsätzlich leitet es sich von der Fibonacci-Skala ab, die er auf zeitliche Daten anwendet. Seine ‚Beweisführung‘ ist, gelinde gesagt, löchrig. Nichtsdestotrotz ist er in die Idee sichtlich ‚verliebt‘.Mein Fazit lautet letztendlich dennoch lesenswert, alleine schon weil das Wissen relativ unaufdringlich und nüchtern vermittelt wird. Wichtiger als Konzepte wie den ‚Time Mode Calculator‘ finde ich aber die generelle ‚Botschaft‘ von Braden, dass wir uns nämlich weder von Untergangsprophezeiungen verunsichern, noch von Heilsversprechungen euphorisieren lassen sollen. Stattdessen liegt die Entscheidung an uns, was 2012 und- noch wichtiger!- die Zeit danach bringen wird.

Written so you can easily understand the complex information. Very useful for our daily living, present and future, to avoid past mistakes.

Ich habe die englische Ausgabe gelesen, es ist ein sehr interessantes Buch, jedoch teilweise schwer verständlich. Moses Code Frequency Flute PrayerDer heilende Klang der Göttlichen MatrixMoses Code Frequency Flute PrayerDer heilende Klang der Göttlichen Matrix

Amazing!