Quotes by Gregg Braden

The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered.  Now we have the opportunity to bring this wisdom into our lives as prayers of gratitude for what already exists, rather than asking for our prayers to be answered.

Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives.  Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.  A two-thousand year old scroll written by the prophet Isaiah describes precisely such possibilities in a language that we are just beginning to understand.  In addition to sharing his visions of our time, Isaiah described the science of how we choose which future we experience.  Each time we do so, we experience the Isaiah Effect.

The Essences invite us to view ourselves as one with the earth, rather than separate from it. Viewing physical labor as a healing communion with the Earth, they were agriculturists, living close to the land that gave them life. The Essenes viewed prayer as the language through which to honor nature and the creative intelligence of the cosmos; they made no distinction between the two. Regarded as the root of all technology, prayer, which is the union of thought, feeling, and emotion, represents our opportunity to speak the language of change in our world as well as in our bodies. The object of prayer is to evoke a feeling...that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered...Our prayer becomes a prayer of thanks for the opportunity to choose which creation we experience. Through our thanks, we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into this world.

In the late 1980s, the effect of mass prayer and meditation was documented through studies in major cities where the occurrence of violent crime decreased measurably in the presence of continuous peace vigils held by those trained for the purpose. The studies eliminated the possibility of coincidence stemming from natural cycles, changes in social policy, or law enforcement. While a state of calm and peace was created within the study groups, the effects of their efforts were felt beyond the boundaries of the walls and buildings that they occupied. Through an invisible network that appeared to penetrate the belief systems, organizations, and social strata of the inner cities, the choice of peace within a few individuals touched the lives of many. Clearly there was a direct, observable, and measurable effect of human behavior correlating with groups focused through prayer and meditation... The call of thousands of hearts and minds to honor the sacredness of life became a single, unified choice echoing a simple message: peace in all worlds, in all nations, for all life. The power of human consciousness as it rearranged the building blocks of events that were already in motion. Rather than scattered pleas from individuals asking for divine intervention in a situation that appeared to be inevitable, the synchronized choice of many people, coordinated through the miracle of the Internet, slipped between the veils of quantum possibilities into an outcome affirming life through peace.

Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out as illness and disease.

The holistic perspective of the Essenes sees all facets of our bodies as elements of one sacred and divine force moving through creation. Each is an expression of God. In a world where all that we may know and experience originates from such a unified source, bacteria, germs, and the by-products of our bodies work together to imbue our bodies with strength and life. This view invites us to redefine the tears, perspiration, blood, and products of digestion that we have known as waste as sacred elements of the earth that have served us, rather than abhorrent by-products that must be eliminated, discarded, and destroyed.