![]() ![]() In my youth I studied Hermetic Occultism using the Tarot and the sacred numerology of the Kabbalah. ![]() Like numerology, astrology or even the I Ching, they are best taken in measured doses. This stuff can drive you crazy if you get obsessed with it. Human intelligence is based on pattern recognition and look where that’s gotten the species. I’ve had enough heartbreaks, memorable loves, radical course changes, big wins and near misses, and really stupid decisions in my life, that I could find hexagrams, 666 and the profile of Mother Mary by changing the magnification of scrutiny. Then again it’s a matter of how much detail one considers significant. I tried out the Time Code calculator using events of my own life, as suggested, and certainly found some wild patterns. Some reference to David Boehm’s theory of “Implicate Order” would have helped bring this to a more revealing light. The most interesting part of the book is the all too brief history and explanation of this, Mandelbrot’s Fractal Geometry, and the Fibonacci Sequence and how they illustrate an underlying universal pattern in creation. ![]() The algorithm Braden comes up with he calls The Time Code and, despite not too subtle hints of it’s divine pedigree, it’s quite clever, almost elegant (elegance being an attribute greatly prized in scientific mathematics).Ĭentral to each calculation is the ratio known as phi, a truly elegant and ancient formula generally attributed to the Greeks and popularly known as The Golden Mean. Mixing in some selected quotes, we see time as a pattern of cycles dotted with what he calls “Choice Points,” critical moments when change occurs, good or bad according to choices we make as individuals or society collectively.īraden’s background as a computer system designer in the corporate/military world applies here as he proposes a kind of cybernetics of spiritual development possibly affecting the entire planet. Much of the book is a collection of mathematical curiosities and scientific facts tinted with a blush of New Age Christianity, daubs of indigenous wisdom and references to the author’s extensive trekking to spiritual power spots around the globe. ![]() From this perspective, the great birth that 2012 is facilitating is a spiritual one: humankind’s evolutionary leap. The Maya “viewed the conditions of the galaxy as converging in a perfect way to serve as a cosmic midwife. However, American Indian cosmology, especially of the Maya, teaches that it is more important to realize the date as the beginning of another World Age at the completion of a 5,125 year cycle, and view it as an opportunity to radically shift in consciousness, rather than preparing for the “end.” The 2012 end date has been collecting these theories like a dark suit in a cat hospital. Referred to as catastrophism in modern parlance, theories as to why this pathology persists range from the curses of biblical Revelation to suppressed racial memory of past planetary or societal disaster. The concept of “ the end times” has been pervasive in western thought through the centuries. “It’s only recently that the meaning of a world age has made sense to modern scientists.” A Leap Ahead & The End Times Concept This upcoming event serves as both the hinge point of his calculations and good marketing for the dust jacket. He has written an ambitious book in a genre rife with ambition and speculation the meaning of the enigmatic Mayan calendar end date, December 21, 2012. Is time really the best tool to measure the vast potential that may be at our door step not all too soon? God and Scienceįractal Time, Greg Braden’s sixth book on the theme of putting god and science back in bed together, endeavors to reveal the mathematics of the cyclical nature of events.īraden posits that time based patterns can be discerned and plotted using his Time Code whether they are grand scale effects emanating from the Big Bang or a more personal scale charting repetitive patterns of setbacks, opportunities and triumphs in one’s own life. Rather than focusing on end time theories, Braden explores the idea of Time Codes and Choice Points by using mathematics for his calculations and how they may relate to life and planetary cycles. Here is a review of Gregg Braden’s latest book, Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, recently published by Hay House, Inc. As each day passes greater attention is being placed on the up and coming date of 2012 and the various predictions surrounding the westerners interpretation of this period as “the end times”. ![]()
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