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Living the Days of Prophecy -

Gregg Braden at The Prophets Conference

 Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:25:46 -1000
 From: prophets@maui.net
 To: axiom@greatmystery.org

 Because of the very substantial number of people registering to attend,
 plus the unprecedented visiting faculty and the extraordinary location, The
 Prophets Conference ~ Port Townsend, Washington, taking place August 27-29,
 is becoming widely regarded as a major event for this closing year of the
 century and millennium.  Linking  the physical and the metaphysical, this
 special gathering calls together the community of  compassionate bearers of
 change - new planetary humans busy filling the space left empty from our
 old order's decline.

 Together, we create a history-making event.

 One of the exceptional conference presenters, whose work has touched me
 personally, is author, lecturer and guide to sacred sites throughout the
 world, Gregg Braden.  Following his engaging books, "Awakening to Zero
 Point: The Collective Initiation" and "Walking Between the Worlds: The
 Science of Compassion," he has become a popular voice regarding ancient
 wisdom, personal and planetary change.  Professional careers as an Earth
 Scientist and Computer Systems Designer have provided Gregg with the tools
 to communicate with clarity and relevance. Through sacred journeys into the
 mountains of Peru, Tibet, Egypt and the American Desert Southwest, he has
 developed the intimate language through which he shares his life-changing
 message of hope and possibility.

 You are invited to join Gregg Braden at The Prophets Conference Port
 Townsend as he takes us on a very special journey into earth mysteries,
 ancient traditions and human relationships.  He will give an insightful
 individual presentation, "Living the Days of Prophecy," and will be joining
 Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Joan Ocean, James Twyman, and Ilona Selke on the panel
 "Evoking the Numinous: A Path of Revelation, Evolution, Awakening."

 Other exceptional teachers/authors presenting their work at the conference
 are Robert Anton Wilson, Joe Firmage, Dr. Steven Greer, Marcia Schafer, Dr.
 John Mack, and the legendary John A. Keel.

 You may find out much more about Gregg Braden and this powerful Prophets
 Conference by visiting http://www.greatmystery.org/prophets.html. If you
 would like to receive more information, you may call toll-free:
 1-888-777-5981 and receive a conference brochure.

 The following interview with Gregg Braden gives us a genuine appreciation
 for his work.

 Thank you and aloha,
 Cody
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 Interview with Gregg Braden:
 "In Search of Original Wisdom and Moving Towards Compassion"
 By Dawn Baumann Brunke, Alaska Wellness

 On Earth Changes and The Shift:
 The context within which we are viewing the events of our lives and
 witnessing outrageous phenomenon (for our own scientists are documenting
 unprecedented natural phenomenon in terms of earth and space alike) looks
 frightening to many Westerners.  As I have traveled through many of the
 indigenous cultures of the world, Egypt, Bolivia, Peru, Nepal and
 elsewhere, it is interesting that almost universally these cultures not
 only allow for the changes which are happening but they expect them and
 they expect them now.

 Quite literally, there is a new species of human that is being birthed
 within this generation, at the close of this grand cycle of experience that
 the ancients called the Shift of the Ages.  This new species has been
 predicated, prophesied, and expected through ancient and indigenous
 cultures.  It is only in the West that we've been surprised and mystified
 because it is in the West that we've lost the texts.

 On What Happened:
 Seventeen hundred years ago, key elements of our most sacred heritage were
 taken from the texts that define our history.  In 325 AD, the Emperor
 Constantine put together the Council of Nicea.  Essentially, he gathered
 together the historical and religious texts of his time and told the
 council that because so many of the texts were redundant, many confusing
 and some so mystical they weren't understood they were to come up with a
 condensed version.  Twenty-five biblical texts were thus taken out of our
 references during that time an additional 20 supporting documents, such as
 the book of the Secrets of Enoch, were also removed.  The books that were
 left were rearranged and condensed, and that's what we're working with today.

 I am constantly in awe of how well we have done in our societies, family
 relationships, and science and technology without really knowing who we
 are, where we came from, why we're here and what we can expect to happen.
 The indications of this are that, at best, we were working with an
 incomplete understanding of the forces of our world and our relationship to
 those forces.  The pieces that were taken out were the ancient sciences of
 compassion, the highly-sophisticated technology that we call prayer, and
 the role of emotion and feeling in our bodies.  Those were the texts that
 were removed and those are the pieces that will now complete the wisdom
 that we're developing in the West today.

 On The Missing Texts:
 Through mystery schools, scared orders and elite priesthoods, this
 information has always been retained and we've always had hints that there
 was this body of information that might help fill in the gaps of our
 understanding of the world.  The texts point to the fact that now, at the
 closing of the millennium, something precious, rare and unique is happening
 to the earth and the people on the earth.  It has never happened before.
 The underlying current has been that something big is going to happen.  In
 the West, it has been feared because the texts describing this have been
 taken away, whereas in the East and indigenous cultures it has always been
 a part of their belief system.

 On the Essene Mirrors:
 From the perspective of the ancient Essenes, every human on the earth is an
 initiate in the Mystery School that we call Life.  Whether they are
 conscious of it or not, every human will experience in the presence of
 others mirrors of themselves in that moment. If we have the wisdom to
 recognize those mirrors, we may accelerate the evolution of emotion and
 understanding.

 What the Essenes said was that for us to know and master ourselves in this
 world, we will see one or some combination of mirrored patterns in others.
 The seven mirrors are progressively more and more subtle.  Back in the
 '70s, we heard about the first mirror, of who you are in the moment.  The
 notion was that if you find yourself around individuals who are angry or
 dishonest, they are showing you your dishonesty or anger.  Sometimes the
 mirrors would apply, but sometimes they wouldn't.  We had discovered the
 first mirror, but had yet to see the other mirrors, such as the second
 mirror, which reflects what we judge in the moment.

 This is tremendously powerful but very subtle.  The ancient Essenes had a
 very sophisticated understanding of interpersonal human relationships and
 the role of emotion in those relationships.  It's the role of emotion that
 we have carefully sifted out of our Western
 experience up until very recently.  Now, as we go back into these texts, we
 see that it is emotion that proves the power and, when coupled with logic,
 true magic and miracles occur.

 On Emotions as the "Forgotten Switch":
 One of the great mysteries of life sciences is the question of why
 two-thirds of our genetic code is turned off.  Up until discoveries in
 1953, science has always believed the genetic code was fixed.  Now, within
 the last three years, Western researchers have found that it appears the
 human genetic code is a variable code rather than a fixed code, and that it
 is our responses of feeling and emotions as we go through the challenges of
 life that determine which one of those codes are switched on and switched off.

 In the ancient traditions, there is a quality of emotion and feeling and
 thought that appears to optimize those genetic codes and "turn them on"
 thus giving us longevity, vitality and tremendously-enhanced immune
 systems  That quality is what we today call compassion.  That is the
 common thread of emphasis through these ancient traditions, this science of
 compassion.

 On Light and Dark:
 It's like a drop of water.  In our Western technologically-oriented world,
 we try to compartmentalize water into hydrogen and oxygen.  The reality is
 that water can only be water in the presence of both hydrogen and oxygen.
 If you look at either alone, you don't have water.  It's the union of both
 that allows the miracle that we call water to exist in our world today.
 It's the same with light and dark.

 It is impossible to have the duality of experience that we have in our
 world today in the presence of only light and dark.  This is the irony, the
 great dichotomy, for the moment an individual draws the line between dark
 and light, the moment you identify something as light or dark, you have
 fallen in the ancient trap of judgment.  The key to this time in history is
 transcending that judgement of light or dark and recognizing both as
 components of the whole, of the single experience.

 On Light, Dark and the One:
 One of the ancient tenets that may hold the greatest potential for healing
 of our bodies and bringing peace to our world is the tenet that reminds us
 that of the 6.5 billion or so people in this world, there is only one of us
 here. There is a single consciousness experiencing through many bodies, and
 the breadth of our consciousness and experience from the lightest of the
 light to the darkest of the dark are all part of that One.

 Seventeen hundred years ago, we began to look at light and dark as
 opposites; we began to judge one as being better than the other when in
 reality we live the experience of both, and both are only possible in the
 presence of one another.  Darkness is only possible in the presence of
 light and light is only possible in the presence of the dark.

 On Moving Towards Compassion
 If we believe there is a single source of all that is, then we have opened
 the door to healing the illusion of separation.  We have opened the door to
 healing the judgment of light and dark.  In the presence of that healing,
 our body responds.  I believe this holds our greatest possibility for the
 healing of our bodies and the healing of nations.  By simply embracing the
 possibility that there is one source of all that we will ever know in this
 world, and that all we witness and experience is of that source, we are
 invited to transcend our judgements.  As we do so, the polarities fall away.

 The key to this time in history is to transcend judgement and allow for the
 possibility that light and dark are one and the same, and, as the Egyptian
 Master Thoth said, different only in seeming and part of an even greater
 force.  As we embrace that, we open the door to the possibility of compassion.
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