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& REVIEWS FRACTAL TIME: The Secret of That's a relief! A new age of our own 2012 and a New World Age making is upon us, he insists. by Gregg Braden Hay House, UK, 2009 LSD: DOORWAY TO THE ISBN 978-1-84850-075-4 (252pp tpb) | NUMINOUS Available: www.hayhouse.co.uk by Stanislav Grof, MD Park Street Press, Rochester, VT, 2009 (originally pub. in 1975 by Viking Press) ISBN 978-1-59477-282-5 (27 |pp tpb) Available: www.ParkStreetPress.com t's been 35 years since Dr Stanislav Grof stopped his official research into psychedelics and the non- ordinary states of consciousness they induce. Before he arrived in the USA in 1967, he had done years of pioneering research into LSD and conducted hundreds of psycho- therapy sessions in Czechoslovakia. Over the last 50 years, he's cientist and visionary Gregg conducted over 4,000 sessions and Braden, author of Awakening to Zero thus has a keen perspective on Point and The Divine Matrix (see 14/05), psychopharmacology's enormous continues his adventures beyond the __ potential, both positive and negative. boundaries of science and spirituality In the preface to this second US in Fractal Time. He says that modern- edition of his book (first published in day physicists are rediscovering what 1975 as Realms of the Human he ancients knew: that great waves Unconscious), Dr Grof reflects on the of energy pulse through the universe, past and looks into the future of inking past and future, thus space psychedelics research. He had to and time merge to become space- develop new theoretical concepts and ime; also that time's waves and the _ practical clinical strategies in LSD history carried within them repeat as herapy, but also he was aware that cycles within cycles, something he raditional frameworks of psychiatry calls "fractal time" that becomes the and psychology were being radically events of the universe and life. revised by what was becoming a new As for the ancients, Braden focuses scientific paradigm. on the Maya and their cosmic Great minds like David Bohm, Karl viewpoint on time cycles with their Pribram, Ilya Prigogine, Rupert endings and beginnings. The Maya Sheldrake, Ervin Laszlo, Ken Wilber understood the 5,125-year cyclic path and others have added to the of Earth through the galaxy, and paradigm shift with findings that are Braden says we're already in the compatible with those from "zone of shift" that will culminate on — psychedelics research and the solstice of 20 December 2012 transpersonal psychology. when our solar system crosses the Dr Grof has helped to give us new Milky Way's equator. In order to ways of seeing the world through prepare, we need to think differently personal psychodynamic experience, about space-time, and Braden revelations on birth, prenatal and proposes a series of time codes; past-life memories, encounters with number 17 says that "there is nothing archetypal beings, religious and in the geological record to suggest mystical experiences, enhanced that Earth's magnetic fields will sexuality, telepathy and artistic reverse before or immediately perception. He has opened a link following the 2012 cycle end date". between the psyche and the spirit. FRACTAL TIME: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age by Gregg Braden Hay House, UK, 2009 ISBN 978-I-84850-075-4 (252pp tpb) Available: www.hayhouse.co.uk cientist and visionary Gregg Braden, author of Awakening to Zero Point and The Divine Matrix (see 14/05), continues his adventures beyond the boundaries of science and spirituality in Fractal Time. He says that modern- day physicists are rediscovering what he ancients knew: that great waves of energy pulse through the universe, inking past and future, thus space and time merge to become space- ime; also that time's waves and the history carried within them repeat as cycles within cycles, something he calls "fractal time" that becomes the events of the universe and life. As for the ancients, Braden focuses on the Maya and their cosmic viewpoint on time cycles with their endings and beginnings. The Maya understood the 5,125-year cyclic path of Earth through the galaxy, and Braden says we're already in the "zone of shift" that will culminate on the solstice of 20 December 2012 when our solar system crosses the Milky Way's equator. In order to prepare, we need to think differently about space-time, and Braden proposes a series of time codes; number 17 says that "there is nothing in the geological record to suggest that Earth's magnetic fields will reverse before or immediately following the 2012 cycle end date". NEXUS ¢ 73 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com