Nexus - 1405 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

© REVIEWS THE DIVINE MATRIX practical reality, steeped in "the divine". by Gregg Braden Using data from social research studies as Hay House, USA, 2007 well as the well-known "Maharishi effect", ISBN 978-1-4019-0573-6 (240pp tpb) Braden has worked out that the minimum Available: http://(www.hayhouse.com; number of people required to "jump-start" a www.hayhouse.com.au; hayhouse.co.uk change in consciousness is the square root Combining the implicate order idea pro- of 1 % ofa population. For a city of one posed by quantum physics pioneer million, all it takes is 100 people to be at David Bohm, with its "creative operation of — Oe in their personal peace. The "rules" of underlying...levels of reality", and the holo- the matrix that Braden describes are work- graphic mind notion posited by conscious- able keys for us to learn total connectedness. ness researcher Karl Pribram, former aero- space computer systems designer Gregg HOW WE WERE MADE: A Book of Braden reasserts and demystifies the model __ Revelations of an interconnected matrix that is basic to by William Neil many ancient wisdom traditions. Braden Oracle Books, Reading, UK, 2007 2nd ed. has been doing his bit to shatter unworkable ISBN 978-0-9545957-1-5 (245pp tpb) paradigms for 20 years, and his first book, Available: Oracle Books, email oracle- Awakening to Zero Point, was a landmark in _ books@onetel.com reconciling the worlds of science and spirit. n the preface to his new edition of How First of all in The Divine Matrix, Braden We Were Made, London-based author describes the so-called "space between" and William Neil declares that engineers, with explores the sense that we're all united bya __ their inventiveness, have improved living standards through the ages. Himself an engineer, Neil has turned his curious mind to the question of how life itself works—and he discovered the answer is mathematical. His thesis centres around base 6, or 60 as used by the ancient Sumerians (and 20, one- third of 60, by the Mayans), and it suggests that we as well as our planet and solar sys- tem have been constructed or placed accord- ing to this "engineering specification" of base six. The number six was fundamental to the earliest Egyptian calendar—made up of a 360-day year of 36 decans of 10-day weeks. Neil speculates that this number GREGG BRADEN system was put in place not by God but by . . "them" whom we may call gods—engineers field of energy that connects everything. He — working within the Galactic Ordering and uses several famous experiments which sug- Delivery System (GODS)! To him, it's no gest that not only does our DNA have a accident that the same "bizarre numbers" direct effect on the material world, but that eep cropping up all over the place. human emotion, or feeling, has a direct Neil demonstrates a host of dazzling effect on the DNA which in turn affects the numerical correspondences, mostly extrapo- world. Furthermore, this relationship tran- ated from the famous number 666: multi- scends space and time: these experiments plied out (6 x 6 x 6), it gives a key number show effects regardless of, say, distance 216, which produces other fundamental con- between a Petri dish DNA sample and the stants when it is divided or multiplied. person from whom the DNA was taken. Interestingly, the sum of all the numbers Braden aims to show how we can use this between | and 36 is 666! matrix in our lives, and this means under- standing how everything is linked holo- graphically, so that ordinary concepts such as "here" and "there" are meaningless because "here is already there". If we can courageously take on board these concepts of "nonlocality", we can understand how a prayer we direct to a loved one far away is received instantaneously. We can then in the "building and placing" of the Moon, apply this "nonlocal" awareness to the col- which he calculates is hollow apart from a lective consciousness by visualising positive — 399_mile thick crust realities with feeling and intent. Braden shows how we can make this unified field a Neil applies his findings to show how 666 and related numbers can be found in the juman form (apparently there are 216 bones in the human body!), in our DNA, in monu- ments like the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, in the Earth's position in the solar system, and in ancient and modern measurement systems. It can even be seen If you're fascinated by numbers and sacred geometry, this book will be a treat. THE DIVINE MATRIX by Gregg Braden Hay House, USA, 2007 ISBN 978-1-4019-0573-6 (240pp tpb) Available: http://www.hayhouse.com; www.hayhouse.com.au; hayhouse.co.uk Combine the implicate order idea pro- posed by quantum physics pioneer David Bohm, with its "creative operation of underlying...levels of reality", and the holo- graphic mind notion posited by conscious- ness researcher Karl Pribram, former aero- space computer systems designer Gregg Braden reasserts and demystifies the model of an interconnected matrix that is basic to many ancient wisdom traditions. Braden has been doing his bit to shatter unworkable paradigms for 20 years, and his first book, Awakening to Zero Point, was a landmark in reconciling the worlds of science and spirit. First of all in The Divine Matrix, Braden describes the so-called "space between" and explores the sense that we're all united by a GREGG BRADEN field of energy that connects everything. He uses several famous experiments which sug- gest that not only does our DNA have a direct effect on the material world, but that human emotion, or feeling, has a direct effect on the DNA which in turn affects the world. Furthermore, this relationship tran- scends space and time: these experiments show effects regardless of, say, distance between a Petri dish DNA sample and the person from whom the DNA was taken. Braden aims to show how we can use this matrix in our lives, and this means under- standing how everything is linked holo- graphically, so that ordinary concepts such as "here" and "there" are meaningless because "here is already there". If we can courageously take on board these concepts of "nonlocality", we can understand how a prayer we direct to a loved one far away is received instantaneously. We can then apply this "nonlocal" awareness to the col- lective consciousness by visualising positive realities with feeling and intent. Braden shows how we can make this unified field a NEXUS +73 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com