Gregg Braden - Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age

F RACTAL

TIME

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The Divine Matrix

The God Code

The Isaiah Effect*

Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

Pro3rams CD

An Ancient Magical Prayer (with Deepak Chopra)

Awakening the Power of a Modern God

The Divine Matrix (abridged audio book)

The Divine Name (with Jonathan Goldman)

Fractal Time (abridged audio book)

The Gregg Braden Audio Collection*

Speaking the Lost Language of God

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (abridged audio book)

Unleashing the Power of the God Code

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Ancient traditions viewed time as a never-ending dance of cycles great waves of energy that pulse across the universe, linking the past and the future in their journey. Modern science seems to agree. In the language of physics, time merges with the space it travels through to create space-time, ripples in the quantum ocean that makes the universe possible.

A growing body of evidence suggests that time's waves, and the history within them, repeat as cycles within cycles. As each new cycle begins, it carries the same conditions as the past, but with a greater intensity. It's this fractal time that becomes the events of the universe and life.

Using a code that we're only beginning to understand, the ancient Maya charted fractal time on a series of calendars unlike anything the world has seen since. Because they understood the cycles, they knew that the conditions of the future are also etched into the record of the past. This includes the mysterious end date of the present world-age cycle: December 21, 2012. The key to understanding 2012 and what it means for us today is to know how to read the map of time.

This book is dedicated to our discovery of time as the language of our past, the map to our future, and the world to come.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: 19

Chapter 2: ................. 35

Chapter 3: ......... 57

Chapter 4: 75

Chapter 5: ............. 113

Chapter 6: .................... 147

Chapter 7: ........... 177

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"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet

We're living the end of time.

Not the end of the world, but the end of a world age-a 5,125year cycle of time-and the way we've known the world throughout that time. The present world age began in 3114 B.c. and will end in A.D. 2012. Because the end of anything also marks the beginning of what comes next, we're also living the start of what follows the end of time: the next world age, which ancient traditions called the great cycle.

From the epic poems of India's Mahabharata to the oral traditions of indigenous Americans and the biblical story of Revelation, those who have come before us knew that the end of time was coming. They knew, because it always does. Every 5,125 years, the earth and our solar system reach a place in their journey through the heavens that marks the end of precisely such a cycle. With that end, a new world age begins. Apparently it's always been this way.

For at least four such cycles (or five, according to the Mesoamerican traditions of the Aztec and the Maya peoples), our ancestors endured the changes in global magnetic fields and climate, diminishing resources, and rising sea levels that come with the end of time. They did so without satellites and the Internet or computer models to help them prepare for such a radical shift.

The fact that they lived to tell the story stands as a powerful testament to an undeniable truth: it tells us beyond any reasonable doubt that the inhabitants of our planet have survived the end of world ages in the past. Beyond simply surviving, our ancestors learned from the difficulties that can accompany the change. In the words of their day, they did their best to tell us what it means to live such a rare moment in history. It's a good thing they did, because such events are few and far between. Only five generations in the last 26,000 years have experienced the shift of world ages. We will be the sixth.

The present world age isn't something that will simply fade away into the sunset of a time that seems to perpetually linger somewhere "out there" in our future. Just the opposite: our world age has an expiration date. It ends at a specific time, with a specific event, on a day that was marked on a calendar more than 2,000 years ago. There is no secret about that date. The Maya who calculated it also inscribed it as a permanent record for future generations. The date is etched into stone monuments that were built to last until the end of time.

Using the format of the ancient Long Count calendar-the system of timekeeping that the Maya developed to track extremely long periods-the last day of the present world age is written as a five-part code. Read from left to right, the parts have unique names that represent decreasing units of time. The leftmost is the baktun and represents 144,000 days. Moving right, the katun corresponds to 7,200 days; the tun, 360 days; the uinal, 20 days; and the kin, 1 day.' With this code in mind, the Mayan calendar places the end date of our age at 13.0.0.0.0 (13 baktun cycles, and 0 cycles for the rest of the units).