Gregg Braden - Awakening The Power of A Modern God
Gregg Braden - Awakening The Power of A Modern God
Gregg Braden - Awakening The Power of A Modern God
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things that we miss in life and the things that we hold so dear, ultimately we will discover our
true relationship with something much greater. It is through these reflections that we discover
our relationship with the intelligence that scientists now suggest is the very core of our uni-
verse, the intelligence that many traditions simply call God.
ic qualities of human emotion. This field is so new that as of yet scientists have not come to a
consensus in terms of what this field should be called. Some are calling it very technical names
such as the “Quantum Hologram,” while others such as the former Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar
Mitchell called the field “Nature’s Mind.” In some of his more recent works, Stephen Hawking is
actually calling this field “the Mind of God.”
Well, the field is now recognized as a conduit. It’s this field that carries what we create with-
in our bodies: our thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, the anger, the hate, the rage, the joy, the
love, the compassion, our prayers, all the things that we become from within. It is this field that
carries it into the world beyond our bodies.
One of the keys to understanding why this field of intelligence, the Mind of God, is so
important is because it is now being described as a holographic field. A brief definition of a
hologram simply suggests that it is a pattern in nature where every piece of the pattern holds all
of the information to reproduce the whole once again. We work this way in consciousness.
Consciousness appears to be holographic in nature. It means that all of us are portions, little
pieces, of a greater whole.
And what this says to us is that the seemingly insignificant moments in our personal lives
become the collective answer to our time in history. They are a part of the language that is
speaking to the field around us. Little changes in our beliefs are mirrored throughout the larger
whole.
The second discovery that I’d like to share is the discovery of an intelligent message that has
been found encoded as the cells of all life as we know it. It’s a message that includes the ancient
name of God.
This discovery actually is part of a research project that I began when I was employed in the
defense industry during the last years of the Cold War in the late 1980’s. And it was during that
time, working behind the scenes, that I had the opportunity to see just how frightening that
period in our world’s history really was and how close the super powers came to doing the
unthinkable, unleashing the forces of nature and weapons projects upon civilian populations in
ways that we could just never imagine in the minds of rational, loving people.
My thinking was that if we could find a principle of unity that transcended the differences
that have separated us in the past, if we could find a single principle of unity that included
every human on the face of the earth, excluded no one, regardless of their beliefs or their
lifestyle, their borders, their bloodlines or their heritage, if we could find that kind of principle,
then perhaps we would find a reason to become greater than the differences that led to the
great wars of the 20th century, including the Cold War that I was experiencing at the time.
The bottom line to this project is that by simply following ancient clues from the three
major religious traditions that today link over one half of the world’s population, the Jewish, the
Christian and the Islamic traditions, by following the clues left in their writings, a mathematic
link has been discovered between ancient alphabets and the DNA of all life.
What this link says to us is that when we see what we believe is the chemical code of life
through the language of science, those chemical codes may be replaced with very specific let-
ters, very precise letters of ancient alphabets through the code that was left through us in the
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texts. And when we do this, low and behold, the chemical codes of life begin to spell words, and
the words begin to spell sentences and the sentences reveal an ancient message in our bodies
including the ancient name of God, just as we see it in 2,500-year-old texts.
The implications of this kind of discovery are vast.
So the hidden key is this discovery that allows us to read our biology as a language. We
must be willing to cross the traditional boundaries that have separated science and spirituality
in the past. It’s all about the language.
Ancient traditions describe creation in their own way through the words and numbers of
another time to give meaning to what they experience in their world. What’s interesting is we do
precisely the same thing today. We use words and numbers to describe the language of creation
through the science that we call the elements and the chemistry as we know them today. Well,
the key to translating these two languages is to find a common denominator that links the two
different ways of knowing.
When we look at life today, life typically is described through the images of the DNA mole-
cule, the long twisted double helix that has become so familiar. One of the things that’s so inter-
esting about the DNA molecule is that as complex as all life appears to be is that within the
strands of those DNA molecules there are a series of letters that represent the information that
make us who we are today. And as complex as those letters appear to be, the four letters that
are called the DNA basis — the T, the C, the G, and the A that we see in our science and text-
books — what we find is that those letters are actually symbols for something much greater, a
much greater depth of information.
The T, for example, stands for the elements hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon — cer-
tain numbers of those atoms in the elements of life. The C and the A and the G stand for the
same thing. So although it appears very complex, it’s actually very simple. What the DNA mole-
cule shows us is that on the deepest levels that all life is simply made of the four elements:
hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon. And this is the way that western science today
describes life. Modern science describes life and our universe through word and number as we
arrange those elements upon a chart that we call the periodic table of elements.
Every element on our periodic table is described through numbers that describe its atomic
mass and atomic weight. So, in this way, modern science describes creation as word and num-
ber. Ancient traditions appear to have done the same thing, if we have the wisdom to recognize
how they went about it in the past.
Gematria
One of the surprises that came to me as I was researching this is that every language, all
ancient languages, have what are called hidden or secret number equivalents assigned to every
letter of the alphabet. So every letter has a unique, a precise, a specific number that gives even
deeper meaning to what those letters mean when we use them in words and sentences. The
numbers are precise; they’re specific; they’re very mysterious. Many of them have been around
for 5,000 years and they never changed.
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The ancient science of applying those number values to find deeper meaning in the letters is
called gematria. The rules of gematria allow us to take the science of assigning numbers to let-
ters very seriously.
Even though this is an ancient science, to many people the idea that all alphabets are linked
to numbers is a new concept. Whether we’re speaking about Kuni form or Sanskrit or Chinese
or Arabic, Greek, Coptic, Latin, even English, all of these languages have these very specific let-
ters linked to them. Perhaps the best known of these languages is ancient Hebrew because so
many people are studying Kabbalah. From the ancient perspective, what we’re finding is those
who’ve come before us describe their world through word and number using the numbers of
the ancient alphabets and the letters to describe creation. Western science describes creation as
word and number using the elements of the periodic table and the numbers linked with them.
And now we are talking apples and apples. The question is can we find the common denomina-
tor that links our modern way of describing our lives? Is there a way that we can link the ele-
ments of life — carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen — to the ancient way of knowing, to the
ancient alphabets?
And the answer is that although the words have changed over time, the numbers that
describe creation have not. So when we find the numbers that describe the elements of life,
when we find the numbers linked to hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and we can find their
equivalents in the ancient alphabets, that is what allows us to replace one for the other. The bot-
tom line to this entire discussion is now that when we substitute in the cells of our bodies, in
the DNA of life, the ancient letters for the elements that give us life today, the chemical code of
life becomes words and the words become sentences and the sentences carry a message. And
that message reveals that literally the ancient name of God exists in every cell of life.
2) It says that we’re part of one another in all life that share the same message that share
the ancient name of God in the cells.
3) Because this message exists even in the most primitive forms of life, it suggests that the
intelligence that put the message there existed prior and that we are by virtue of that
part of something perhaps even much greater than we’ve imagined in our lives.
As insignificant and unrelated as some of these things might be, what the field says to us is
that they in fact may all be related. Could the events that we’ve just described be the field speak-
ing to you? Is it possible that the Mind of God is actually calling to you, patiently awaiting the
day that you recognize the language of the messages that are being sent so you can create a life
in a world where the pain and the hate and the suffering are a thing of the past?
2. What could these patterns be telling you? Can you see the “holographic” image in the
outer world?
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implemented during the Israeli/Lebanese conflict. People who were trained to feel peace in their
bodies were strategically placed throughout the areas of conflict in the Israeli/Lebanese area for
a period of time. It was called the window of the experiment, and during that window what was
recorded was that terrorist activities dropped to zero, crimes against people declined, emer-
gency hospital room visits declined. And when the people stopped feeling peace in their bodies,
all of those statistics reversed. The number required to bring this result about, the number of
people was actually a very small number, is the square root of 1% of the given population.
So if you’d like to apply this in your own life, if you take a given population of a room or a
community or a nation or a world, and take the square root of that number, what you’ll find is a
very small number of people that are required to jump start these effects that begin within our
hearts and in our prayers and meditations. In a city of 1 million people, for example, the num-
ber’s only about 100. In a world of 6 billion people, the number’s only about 8,000. So we know
that this relationship exists between what is happening inside of our bodies and how it effects
the world around us.
So among these, for example, some of the most polluted water from one of the major dams
in Japan was taken. The droplet was taken from behind the dam. And in the presence of words
such as the word “demon,” the water appeared very amorphous. It was dark, it was dirty, and
there was no way to find crystal structure. It didn’t really look like any crystal that you would
expect to see.
The same droplet of water, and this is key, when exposed to the word “soul,” which has a
more powerful life-affirming connotation, the water began to change and the crystal and struc-
ture changed. It went from being amorphous and brown and dirty looking to the beginnings of
a crystalline structure and the clarity became greater. The geometry was more pronounced. The
same thing happens when a droplet of water is exposed to a word with a negative connotation,
like the word “devil.” Very amorphous. Non-crystalline, dark, gloomy looking droplet of water.
The same droplet of water exposed to the word “angel” begins to grow small, well defined crys-
tals, the color begins to change, the clarity begins to change, the structure of the water crystals
change in the presence of the subtle energy of the word and the way that the word is being
expressed.
Now obviously this kind of research is very, very controversial. If in fact we have 50 trillion
cells in every human body and every one of those cells is a droplet of water, what are the impli-
cations in terms of the way we feel in our lives and the way the water droplets of our body are
responding to what we feel?
Scientific experiments are showing precisely the same thing; they use diff e rent language.
What they’re saying is that heart-based feeling and emotion changes the chemistry of our bod-
ies producing quantum effects that extend our bodies that change our physical world. And by
v i rtue of that, the world is mirroring to us the changes that we have felt from within. If we
understand this we have the beginnings of a very empowering internal technology. It’s us,
speaking to the Mind of God and life is the feedback mechanism that mirrors the silent lan-
guage of God back to us once again.
This feedback mechanism works because of a very powerful principle called resonance.
We are in resonance with our world. We ’ re tuned to the world around us in ways that we are
p e rhaps only beginning to understand.
Think of it like this: just as a radio or a television station may broadcast signals thro u g h o u t
the airwaves and have them reflected by satellite dishes miles away, we do the same thing. We
b roadcast our thoughts, feelings, emotions, our beliefs, our bias, our judgments in every
moment of life. The field is the antenna that reflects these patterns back to us as relationships
in our lives. The diff e rence is, however, that instead of having only one satellite dish receiving
and broadcasting the signal back to the sender, the entire field, our universe, is the receiver.
And it’s broadcasting to us all the time, every w h e re, reflecting us back to ourselves as the situa-
tions and the circumstances and the relationships that we bring into our lives. It’s a very
empowering and very diff e rent way to think about our world. But the mirrors, the mirrors of
this field, run much deeper than simply human-to-human relationships. We are tuned to every-
thing in our world, not just one another. We’re tuned to our homes, we’re tuned to our automo-
biles, to our pets, to our bodies.
These are huge concepts. The implications are vast. It’s also empowering. If we can re c o g-
nize the language of the world around us and see life as a language communicating to us, mir-
roring to us the things spoken or unspoken we’ve become in our world, then we’ve opened the
door to vast new possibilities of empowering ourselves, becoming better people and creating a
better world.
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The Essenes
Twenty-five hundred years ago a mysterious group of scholars, mystics, and holy people set
themselves apart form the world around them and they built communities outside of Jerusalem
along the shores of the Dead Sea so that they could live the principles of an ancient teaching the
way that they chose to live them. These people were known during their time by the Egyptians
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as the theraputae, or the healers, and chose to live a life that strictly honored the most ancient
wisdom traditions that they knew of their time. Today we know this sect at the ancient Essenes.
Much of what we know about the Essenes today comes from two primary sources: the
Roman Historian Josephus and from the discovery of what is now called the greatest archeolog-
ical find of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls. In their text, the Essenes left us keys to
understanding our relationship with the field that is everywhere all the time and they included
very precise instructions describing how we use this field in our lives.
The keys were later incorporated into the Gnostic traditions of the first centuries such as
those that were found in Egypt’s Nag Hammadi Library. Through the eyes of the Essenes, we
will identify five mirrors, describing in broad, general categories the kinds of relationships that
we experience personally, professionally, and collectively — reflections from the world around
us of what are perhaps our truest or what are called the core beliefs within us.
The value of having the ability to recognize these mirrors in our businesses and our careers
and our families, our romance and our health is that by doing so we allow the events of our
own lives to become our own spiritual guides. Our own lives lead us to understand our beliefs
regarding ourselves and others without having to ask someone else or reference someone else or
have someone else interpret them for us.
When you ask that from within, before you even have the question asked, an answer will
come back to you and you’ll know a yes or a no. And if the answer to that question honestly is
no, if those people aren’t showing you your self in the moment, then it’s possible they may be
showing you another, more subtle mirror. This is the second Essene mirror of judgment.
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What is this mirror showing Marissa? How can she honor Pete and release judgment about
his actions?
Now look at the people that you have masterfully and skillfully drawn into your life, some
that you may hold dear — friendships, supervisors, co-workers, boyfriends, girlfriends, hus-
bands, wives. Now, look to the ones that irritate you the most. Look to the ones that irritate you
to no end and ask yourself, “Are these people showing me myself in this moment? Are the
things that they do showing me who I am in the moments that I’m with them?” If you can
answer this question truthfully and honestly with the word no, then there’s a very good possibil-
ity that laying at the core of your irritation with them, all the buttons that are being pushed,
you’ll find a powerful clue about yourself. Because the source of your irritation may be the mir-
ror of those qualities of character that you’ve judged in others, that you have a charge on, as
judging it within yourself. The second Essene mirror of relationship is the mirror of the things
that we judge.
So identify the things that these people do in their lives and do your best to find the broad,
general themes that the specifics represent. Now, ask yourself if you have a charge on these
themes. Don’t be surprised if you feel a surge of emotion that wells up inside of you as you ask
the question because these are the very qualities of life that your life is asking you to recognize
right now without judging in others. Once we have the wisdom to recognize the mirror of the
things that we judge in others, we now have a direct window into the very things we judge with-
in ourselves.
It’s not uncommon to find that simply recognizing how the mirror works and doing nothing
else, seeing first hand how it’s playing out in our lives, is enough in and of itself for the mirror
to dissipate. Often the mirror of the things that we judge are all around us, the varying degrees
and each moment of each day, and it’s only when they are pointed out to us and we recognize
them, and the first time that we find those mirrors and we find that they are healed in our
acknowledgement of their existence. So it’s the recognition of the mirror itself and our willing-
ness to follow the mirrors to even deeper levels that leads us into the more subtle mirrors.
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On a personal level, these three universal fears — separation and abandonment, self-worth
and trust — play out in our personal lives as individuals. They also all pool together as our col-
lective lives into the whole and there’s a very good possibility then if the principles of resonance
and the mirrors work the way we believe that they work, that globally events are showing us
these mirrors as well — the struggle between communities and the lack of peace between
nations.
Have you ever found yourself at a time in your life where everything is going well, you’re
happy, you’re going through life and all of the sudden it happens. You find yourself mysterious-
ly, magnetically drawn to another person in a way that makes absolutely no sense for no appar-
ent reason? You could be perfectly happy going about your day in an airport or a bus station or
a mall or a classroom when it happens. Your eyes meet as you pass on the street, and for a
moment, for a heartbeat, there is a feeling, possibly a familiarity when you look into the eyes of
this other person, a familiarity that says “I know you.”Jjust for a fraction of a second there’s this
glimmer of recognition.
Then what happens is usually one of the two people will create some kind of distraction,
almost anything to break the energy of what has happened in that moment. They’ll glance at
leaves blowing across the street, they’ll look at a piece of gum on the sidewalk, they’ll toss their
hair, or adjust their glasses just to break the energy of that moment. And then the moment’s
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gone, just like that. When those moments occur, what just happened? What was that glimmer of
recognition or that sense of familiarity?
The next time you encounter someone and that feeling of familiarity comes over you,
immerse yourself in the experience. It happens to all of us to some degree at some time. When
this happens to you something very powerful is happening for you both and it’s happening in
that very moment. It’s not something that you can analyze after the fact. It’s something that you
can analyze in the instant that it happens because you have just encountered someone who
embodies something that you have been searching for, for a long time. And that’s what that feel-
ing, that magnetic attraction, and that feeling of familiarity is all about.
If you feel it’s appropriate, engage them in conversation. Anything. Ask them the time, ask
them for directions to a place that you’re heading. And while you are in conversation with them
and maintaining the eye contact, to yourself ask this question in your mind. Ask the question,
“What do I see in this person that I’ve lost, that I’ve given away or had taken away from me in
my life?” And immediately when you ask that question, the response will come as a sensation,
as a voice, as an image, everyone works a little differently. Don’t be surprised if the answer
appears before you even have the question complete.
It can be as simple as their beauty, their innocence, the grace with which they move through
life. Or it may be something more subtle, such as their confidence in themselves, something
that you long for in yourself. Often just acknowledging what you’ve lost is all that it takes for
the charge to go away and you’ll find that you’re not drawn to that person any longer.
When it does, it can disappear as mysteriously as it appeared. Sometimes this can happen
in minutes; sometimes it can happen to couples who have shared their lives for 40 years. When
the charge goes away that draws us together, many people believe they’ve fallen in or out of
love. When in fact, in reality, what has happened is that they have mirrored within one another
so completely the qualities that make them complete unto themselves that they have become
better people and completed themselves. They no longer find themselves magnetically drawn to
one another and the choice to stay in the relationship rather than being compelled by a mysteri-
ous force is simply the honoring of the history that they share together.
This mirror exists to different degrees for different people — to the degree that you’ve com-
promised yourself to get where you are today, in your jobs, in your careers, socially, politically,
in your families and with your friendships. For every piece of you that you’ve lost, there
remains an emptiness to be filled. Every time you give something away you create a void within
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you. You can think of that void as a charge in a good way. This is a good kind of charge. That
void is looking to be filled. When we have that mysterious feeling or the attraction when we
meet someone else, that is us as we encounter someone that compliments the very portions of
us that had been lost, taken away or given away. We found in another person what we lost in
ourselves.
It feels good when we find those things. What we say is that we are complete. We hear peo-
ple say this often couples in relationships. One completes the other, one is the other half. And
you also hear in long-term relationships, people who’ve been married 40, 50, 60 years, when a
spouse passes away, the one who survives says, “I feel as if a part of me has been lost,” or “I feel
as if something has been ripped away.” And in very accurate terms they are describing through
their voice what they’re feeling on a physical and a physiological and an emotional level.
Consciously or subconsciously we’re always searching for that feeling. Each of us in our
own ways has skillfully given away portions of ourselves to a greater or a lesser degree. Portions
that we believed were necessary for our survival just to get to where we are today.
Well, after giving ourselves away for so long, what happens is we find ourselves in a time
where we choose to love, we choose to share, we choose to give of ourselves to someone else.
And what we find is that when we go to love, there’s nothing left. Calling back the pieces of our-
selves that we’ve lost may be one of our most compelling experiences in mastery.
To allow this force to be expressed is a life affirming experience. And to stifle this power and
deny its expression can be life denying.
Now, for each one of these, close your eyes and really imagine that the worst has happened
and you’ve lost this thing or person. What does it feel like? Allow yourself to feel the fear, pain,
anguish, heartbreak — whatever emotions come up. Don’t judge it or push it away. Really “go
there” in your mind.
After you’ve really explored the grief and pain, mentally reach deep within yourself to find
the strength to carry on. What would you do? How would you access that deep well of power
that lies within you?
You could do it. Even if you experienced the dark night of the soul, you would make it
through. In fact, you probably already have experienced this. Chances are, you’ve already had at
least one dark night of the soul, and you lived to tell about it. So, in this exercise, dig deep and
find that reservoir of strength that carried you through before.
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Now, when you open your eyes, realize that this was just an exercise. You haven’t really lost
that person or thing. But, you can move forward knowing confidently that if you did lose it, you
would have the strength to carry on. It’s there inside you, right now.
Doesn’t that make you feel safer? You don’t need to cling to the thing you love to prevent it
from leaving. Instead, be grateful and cherish the blessings you have right now.
Your answer to this exercise is the signpost that points the way your next dark night of the
soul may come from. It’s also your personal guide to how you may honor the things that you
cherish and appreciate them with gratitude rather than clinging to them for the fear of losing
them. And then doing so you’ve also honored the wisdom of this mirror without ever having to
experience this mirror.
While there are 32 rules of gematria, we’ll talk about three very key rules and then apply
them and see how this science works and see what it might be saying to us about our alliance.
The first partial rule of gematria simply says to us that numbers and letters are inter-
changeable. When we see the letter of an ancient alphabet and we see the charts where that let-
ter is linked to a specific number, we can replace one for the other and we’re talking about the
same thing. Numbers and letters are interchangeable.
The second partial rule says that numbers may be reduced until they exist as a single
digit. For example, if we had the number 100 we could add the one plus a zero and a zero, and
the number one from this perspective and the number 100 are interchangeable. Or if we had the
number 12 we could add one plus two and it would become a three. And the three and the 12 at
the very, very deepest levels are related and have a similar meaning.
The third partial rule simply says that numbers that are equal in value are equal in
meaning. For example, if you have two words that represent two very different things in our
world and we assign the specific numbers to every letter of those words and we reduce those
numbers and we find that both words, even though they are different in meaning, have the
same numeric value then what we can say is those words and their deepest level are related in
meaning.
What we see is from the perspective of gematria, the word “soul” and the word “the heaven”
are one in the same.
When we say the word heaven, people typically move their hands away from them in a ges-
ture toward the skies above them suggesting that the heaven is something beyond our bodies,
while the soul is something within our bodies. What this examination through gematria is say-
ing to us is that at the deepest levels, we may actually be experiencing heaven within us as well
as the world around us and that the soul that we believe is confined to our bodies is part of
something greater, is part of the heavens. From this perspective, heaven and soul are equal.
digit. Twenty-six. Two plus six equals eight. And now what we see is that the ancient name of
God has the value of eight, precisely the same value as soul, precisely the same value as
heaven.
So from the perspective of this ancient science of looking deeper into the meaning of the
world and the mysteries around us, God, soul, and heaven are equal in value. The heaven that
surrounds us is within us. The soul within us is part of all that we see, and God, the creative
force or the intelligence that is responsible for all is within us as well as around us. The mes-
sage in our cells reminds us that God’s ancient name lives within each of us in the most inti-
mate way imaginable, at the very core of life itself.
Clearly these number codes don’t imply that we are God. What they say is that we share in
the power and the intelligence that is responsible and underlies existence of our world. The
texts so eloquently state that we share in these qualities of God. We are, however, left to
choose how we apply our God-like attributes to fulfill our greatest potential in life in this world,
and the choice is up to us.
One of those is the ancient Hebrew book of the Haggadah. In the Haggadah there is a sec-
tion that is entitled The Soul of Man. And it’s in this section where the book begins to give
details describing what sets humankind soul apart from the souls of other forms of life. In all
other forms of life the texts say that through the word of God those souls were formed.
However, and this is a direct quote from the Haggadah, “when it comes to fashioning Adam’s
soul and the first soul of humankind it said that God fashioned Adam’s soul with particular
care.” God fashioned Adam’s soul with particular care.
I mentioned earlier that if there were any questions about the gender of who God is that we
would address that momentarily. And this is the place where that happens, because the next
portion of this statement suggests something very, very different from what we’ve been led to
believe in the past.
“God fashioned Adam’s soul with particular care, she is the image of God.” This is suggest-
ing that while Adam’s body was certainly male, this soul is feminine and that his feminine soul
mirrors the image of God.
The text goes on to say that “As God fills this world, so the soul fills the human body.” This
is a fascinating, fascinating statement because we’re led to believe that God is everywhere and
all things and the world around us. And in a similar fashion, our soul is everywhere all the time
within our bodies.
The book of Haggadah goes on to say that the soul of man was created on the first day of
creation for the soul is the spirit of God and there we have it. The soul is the spirit of God mov-
ing upon the face of the waters. Thus, instead of being the last act of creation, humankind is
really the first work of creation because the very first work was the spirit of God moving upon
the face of the earth.
Certainly these texts are open to interpretation and they’re very controversial. However, they
give insights that we do not often see in other traditions, suggesting, number one, that our souls
and our bodies were formed separately from one another. They are also suggesting that, number
two, our body had to be changed a number of times. And the texts are never really clear on pre-
cisely how many times that happened. Number three, the soul that lives within us in this
refined recipe that holds that soul is actually the spirit of God, that within us the spirit of God
expresses in our world.
So these texts are suggesting our bodies are the union of the heaven and the earth and they
appear to be the precise recipe required for us to contain the qualities that set us apart from all
other life. We mentioned in the first segment now that a message has been found within our
bodies that actually echoes precisely these understandings going so far as to actually have the
ancient name of God within every cell. So, our bodies are the union of heaven and earth. Now
science is beginning to tell us precisely how that union has come together.
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In July of 2003, fossilized remains of what are for all intents and purposes fully-modern,
fully-developed humans have now been found in the rock strata between 154,000 and 160,000
years old. We found fossils of ourselves 160,000 years old. This is important because if, as we
have suspected in the past, this evolution is ongoing, the question is why didn’t we change over
those last 160,000 years? It appears that what may have happened is that we have changed very
little from the time that we first appeared in our world.
So scientists now are looking at two possibilities. The first possibility simply suggests that
we all come from a common DNA, we have a common ancestor, and that somewhere along the
evolutionary ladder other primates separated from us or we separated from them, so the goril-
las and the chimps went on their way and we began to climb this long evolutionary ladder that
led to humankind as we know it today. And if this is true, then along that ladder we should be
able to find fossilized remains of the different stages that we went through. Now this is the
search for the missing link.
Possibility number two suggests that we came from a common genetic ancestor and almost
immediately something happened. Some mysterious process happened and we became as we
are a long time ago and really haven’t changed much between now and then. That the other pri-
mates became as they are, we became as we are and we really haven’t changed much between
now and then.
We don’t know the answer to these two questions. We don’t know precisely where we came
from or who we are. But this is what the evidence is showing us: while we may have evolved
separately from other forms of life, we do share a genetic history with them. So the question is,
what happened to us? What happened in our ancient past to produce the changes in the code of
life that make us who we are today?
Science can only tell us the what. They cannot tell us the why. What science says is that the
physical evidence that we now have in our hands states that humankind underwent a mysteri-
ous process in our past and that our bodies have in fact changed very little in the last 160,000
years. If you were to walk this earth 100,000 years ago you would see people that look almost
like you and me, certainly dressed differently, but their bodies would be very, very similar to
what we see today.
The why in terms of what caused this to happen, science cannot say. We gain insight from
the ancient texts and the traditions. And what those texts and traditions say almost universally,
whether we’re talking about the indigenous people of the Andes, of Peru or Bolivia or South
America, or Australia or in the traditions of the Chinese and Tibetans and Native American tra-
ditions of North America, they all say something very similar. The insight from the ancient text
and traditions says that we were created by a greater intelligence specifically for the purpose of
holding what is called the spark or the light or the spirit or the essence of God’s soul in this
world. We appear to be precisely that, the genetic recipe, what the ancients called the vessels or
the temples, required for our soul to live in our bodies. And it shows we use the power of God
within our bodies that separates us from other forms of life.
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works in the book of Numbers. It works in the book of Deuteronomy. It does not work in
Leviticus, there’s another story happening with Leviticus.
And the way that scientists now and statisticians are researching the Torah is by building
the computer programs that can skip many different kinds of letters from 10 letters to maybe
100 letters and everything in between, revealing the separate and the secret words in the
sequences.
If you’re interested in finding more about this, here is where to look:
Equal Distant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis, Witztum, Rips, Rosenberg, published
in Statistical Science 1994, Volume 9, Number 3, Pages 429 to 438.
It is from these skip codes now that scientists have begun to reveal the hidden message and
the hidden language within the Torah itself. All these codes work only in the Torah. In the Bible
Code there’s information about who we are, about our relationship to a greater power and
about the DNA code within our bodies that lends even greater credence to the suggestion that
we are built to house the power of God in this world and that we have the ability within us to
participate.
So I’d like to share with you two of the sequences that were found in the Bible Code regard-
ing DNA and who we are in this world.
In the first sequence from the book entitled The Bible Code II, by Michael Drosnin, this is on
page 132, there is a sequence that literally says in Adam is the template or the model for our
bodies. Perpendicular to that, the Bible Code literally says “DNA code.” Those are the words
that are in the code. Statistically, the chances of these two statements being so close together
suggests that they are placed there intentionally, that the DNA code of life is within Adam, the
template or the model.
The second example is perhaps even more compelling because when the researchers entered
into the software the query, “the creation of man,” it came up in a vertical sequence. Crossing,
actually intersecting that sequence are the following words, “I gave it to you as an inheritance. I
am God. I gave it to you as an inheritance. I am God.”
Taken within the context of all the other things we’ve spoken of, it is yet another suggestion,
another indication that something within us sets us apart from all other life. It is that difference
that gives us the power, that gives us the ability to make a difference in our world, both person-
ally individually, collectively, through our families, our communities, and between nations.
A spirit vastly superior to that of man. It’s the way we use the power of our spirit, supported
by the knowledge that God’s name is literally written in the message of our cells, it sets us apart
from all other forms of life. Well, it seems that we are actually coded for this divinity, if you will,
on the one hand. At the same time, on the other hand, we are each given a choice as to whether
or not and to what degree we exercise our powers of creation. So it’s in the uniqueness of these
two qualities, one, the power of God and bodies of earth and number two, our ability to choose
how we use our power. These are the things that seem to set us apart from all other life.
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Health 1 2 3 4 5
Body Image 1 2 3 4 5
Education 1 2 3 4 5
Career 1 2 3 4 5
Status/Fame 1 2 3 4 5
Relationships 1 2 3 4 5
Success 1 2 3 4 5
Wealth 1 2 3 4 5
Spiritual 1 2 3 4 5
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How many times have you been in a crowd of people and you heard the comments of those
around you toward others who are passing by, comments that were supposed to be made under
the breath, on the one hand. On the other hand you know the other people heard them.
Comments such as, “Hey, look at that. He should be ashamed of himself.” Or, “Why doesn’t she
do something about her weight? Doesn’t she care?”
In our own way, we each have to come to terms with the same question. Do we love enough
to allow for absolute perfection in what we often see as the imperfections of life. What if all the
little things that we think are wrong are actually perfect in and of themselves until we compare
them to some external reference?
This final mirror is the one that shows us acceptance of ourselves.
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How Would You Feel If You Accepted That You Are Perfect?
In the gospel of Thomas, once again from the Nag Hammadi Library, this mirror is summa-
rized with a single, powerful statement. It’s a statement once again from the master teacher to
his disciples. And they’re asking him about the perfection of the stones that are being created to
build this home and which stones are good and which stones are bad and the teacher is using
the metaphor, the analogy of the stones to describe the perfection in our lives. Listen to the elo-
quence of this statement. He simply says, “Show to me the stone which the builders have reject-
ed, that one is the cornerstone.” Show to me the stone which the builders have rejected, that
one is the cornerstone.
The cornerstone is the first stone laid in the project of a building, whether large or small.
And it’s the stone upon which all other stones will hinge. And what the master is saying is what
we see as the imperfection that the builders have rejected is in fact the perfect stone and is suit-
able to become the cornerstone of this building. This statement, powerful statement, leads us
into understanding the fifth mirror of relationship, the mirror self-acceptance.
If you’re motivated because you know within your heart that you simply have not applied
yourself or done your very best to maintain your body for example, or your living habits or your
creations, your music, your art, your career, if you know these things then your changes are
driven by a healthy choice to do your very best. If, however, your changes are motivated by
something else, by images of what others say that your body should look like or the way that
your business should be performing, or what your music or your art or your creations or your
relationships should be like, if your changes are motivated by comparing yourself with the
Joneses all around you, then you may in fact be in a self-defeating spiral that leads you into
greater and greater degrees of unhappiness simply because it’s driven by something around you
rather than something within you.
Ask yourself, in these areas of my life, have I done the best that I could possibly do? Your
answer to this question determines your next step in the workshop of life and it leads us into
our next segment describing how we may actually listen when we hear the silent language of
God around us.
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The first mode that researchers recognize is what is called colloquial prayer, or an informal
prayer. For example, this is someone who, on a Friday evening coming home from night shift
who says, “Dear God, if this one night you will let me get to the next Texaco station before my
gas tank runs to empty I promise I’ll never let my tank get this low again.” This is an example of
an informal colloquial prayer. It’s something that we all do in our lives.
The second form of prayer is what is called petitionary prayer, where we petition the forces
of creation, the powers of God to bring good into our lives. For example, one might say, “Mighty
God, perfect healing now and in all past, present and future manifestations.” This is an example
of that petitionary prayer.
Ritualistic prayer is the third modality of prayer. It’s interesting how many people in our
society believe that we don’t do ritualistic prayer. When we use the same words at the same
period of time on a specific day or a specific time of year, time and time again, that by defini-
tion is, is a ritual. “God is great, God is good,” is a ritualistic prayer. “Now I lay me down to
sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep…” is another example of the ritualistic prayers.
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The fourth modality of prayer some researchers argue as to whether or not it is even a mode
of prayer at all. It’s what we call meditation. Meditation often has no words at all. It’s simply an
awareness, a deep, sacred awareness of our relationship with the space around us and our rela-
tionship to ourselves from within.
All of these prayers more or less are prayers that are called prayers of supplication (with the
exception of the meditative prayer). Supplication is where we feel powerless in a situation and
in our powerless state of awareness we invite the intervention of a higher power or greater
force.
In addition to the four modalities of prayer recognized by prayer researchers today, there’s
always been a fifth mode. It is used in many ancient texts in the indigenous traditions alive
today. It is a mode of prayer where rather than feeling powerless in a situation, we recognize
ourselves as part of the world around us and in that recognition we are given the power to par-
ticipate in the events of our lives as they unfold. This is the fifth mode of prayer, the prayer that
may best be described as “feeling-based prayer.” We’re invited to feel the feeling in this mode of
prayer as if our prayers have already been answered rather than feeling powerless in a given sit-
uation, asking for the intervention from a greater force. It’s in this way that we participate in
the processes of creation.
which you may interface with the hardware of your machine. Well, in our consciousness com-
puter, the way that we access our physical world through consciousness is through thought,
feeling, and emotion. And when we combine these together in very specific ways, we create
what we call today prayer.
While every prayer has its place and every prayer works for everyone and prayers are very
deep and personal experiences, seldom in our western experience have we ever been offered the
insight in terms of how to prepare our minds to receive the benefit of the prayer. How do we
receive, how do we prepare our hearts to find a place where we’re no longer in the judgment or
the anger or the hate or the rage of what life is showing us? How do we prepare our bodies to
receive the gift and the benefit that prayer can bring into our lives?
The instructions left by the ancients are very precise. They remind us before our prayers
ever begin: we must find a way to clear the anger from our bodies and our minds, to clear our
judgments and our bias and our hate before we may effectively enter into the dialogue with
prayer with the field around us.
Through words that are both eloquent and simple, the Sufi poet Rumi alludes to this condi-
tion of peace and non-judgment of our bodies through his work and we invite you to listen to
the single statement, feel the power of the statement in your body as Rumi simply observes the
place from which we may most effectively begin our prayer. In his own words he begins, “Out
beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there’s a field. I will meet you there.”
What is Rumi referencing when he speaks about this field beyond right-doing and wrongdo-
ing? Well, in the traditions of the Sufi, he’s talking about a place that is beyond judgment, a
place where we may go in our minds and our hearts where the rightness and the wrongness of
whatever the world has shown us simply take on much less significance. While they still exist,
we don’t give them the same meaning. Place beyond judgment. So the question is, how do we
get there? How do we get to that place beyond judgment when the world has seemingly shown
us reasons to hate and judge and often very good reasons?
This is where our computer analogy becomes so powerful. Because just as the memory of a
computer must be cleared before a new program can be started, in a very similar fashion our
programs in the consciousness computer must be cleared of the charge, of the anger, the rage,
and the hate before we may effectively begin our prayers. And the key to doing this in the tradi-
tions of those who have come before us is called the ancient gift of the blessing.
When we bless the things that hurt us in life, in our blessing we are simply acknowledging
their existence.
By doing so, we are allowing them to move through our bodies. We are not condoning the
events. We’re not agreeing with them or encouraging them ever to happen again.
Blessing may be thought of as an emotional lubricant; a lubricant that frees us from the
emotions of the actions that we have witnessed of the things that have hurt us in the past. To be
effective, the gift of the blessing must address all parties involved. Not only those who suffer,
but those who inflict the suffering, and perhaps most importantly, those who witness the suffer-
ing. Because we are the ones left behind when we see the events of the world unfolding before
our eyes.
Before accepting the gift of the blessing in your life you’ve got to ask yourself a simple ques-
tion, you’ve got to be very honest about the way you answer this question. You must ask your-
self, “Am I ready to move beyond my gut response of an old belief that says that when something is
wrong there must be retribution for an injustice, or that someone must pay or that somehow we
must get even to right a wrong?” You must ask yourself this question.
As you are ready to move beyond these old responses, it is the idea of retribution, it’s the
idea that someone must pay or someone must get even that locks us into the vicious cycle of the
suffering and the hurt within our bodies to begin with. If we can find a way to move to a neu-
tral place, a place beyond these emotions that have held us in the past, it is from that place of
clarity and strength then that we make the choices in terms of where we move in our lives.
Acknowledging the experience that causes the hurt or the suffering by blessing is a key that
frees that emotion, it frees the charge, it frees the chemistry in our bodies to move through our
bodies, to clear from our bodies rather than remain stuck in our bodies. This is the life denying
experience of frustration or anger or hate or rage.
Well, for the ancient gift of the blessing, once again we’ll return to the Nag Hammadi
Library and the lost gospel of Thomas. In verse 22, very, very powerful, powerful statement
where the teacher when addressing the students once again offers precise instructions in terms
of how we find that place in our lives. So I’ll invite you to listen to these instructions carefully,
bear in mind that these are 2,000 year old instructions and I am in awe of how well the instruc-
tions will place them and how much sense they still make to us today, because although they’re
obviously ancient, they are by no means obsolete.
“When you make the two things into one, and when you make the
inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like
the below and when you make the male and the female one in the same,
it is then that you will enter the kingdom of my father.”
What has just been said? When we can stop seeing the differences, when we stop seeing the
inside and the outside and the male and the female and the right and the wrong, it’s from that
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place where we can observe and recognize the existence from a neutral position to acknowledge
their existence without buying in to the charge of the goodness or the badness or the rightness
or the wrongness. That, he says, is when you’ll enter the kingdom of his father, the kingdom of
his father, the heaven. As we mentioned earlier in this program, is equal to the soul, is equal to
the ancient name of God. The soul within us is the kingdom of heaven, as much as the heavens
around us, and the name of God that lives in the cells of our bodies reminds us that we are part
of both in all that we see.
When we can move beyond the right the wrong and the good and the bad of what the world
has shown to us, it’s in that moment that we are empowered to break the cycle that has led to
the suffering in the first place. It is then that we’re empowered to make our choices in place of
strength and clarity rather than the weakness that comes from our anger and our rage and our
hurt.
The reason the blessing works is this: it is impossible to judge a person or an event or an
experience in the presence of the blessing. You cannot do both at the same time. It simply will
not work.
Now, begin blessing the experience. When we experience something in our life that hurts us,
in that experience there are always three components that must be addressed for the gift of the
blessing to be effective.
The first component is those who suffer. Sometimes it’s others, sometimes it might be you.
Those who suffer are the first element that must be blessed in the gift of the blessing. And this
is relatively easy, it’s easy to bless ourselves or bless others when we see them having a hard
time.
The second element is the one that often challenges us to the core of our deepest beliefs
about ourselves and our world and one another. Because for the blessing to be effective we must
also bless those who inflict the suffering. This is the greatest challenge of this exercise.
The third and the final component to get to the blessing, and this is one that we often for-
get, is that we are invited to bless those who witness the suffering.
Write your blessing here, and make sure to include all three components. Don’t just write
the words, but really feel the blessing!
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What you’ll find is that in the instant that you are blessing, you cannot judge and bless
simultaneously. Read your blessing aloud again and again and again until you feel a warmth in
your body. Sometimes from the pit of your stomach it radiates up through your chest and out
through your body. And that warmth is you transcending the limitation of the judgment in your
body. That is your body chemistry changing what that experience has meant to you. Don’t be
surprised if that warmth wells up into your face and your eyes begin to tear and you begin to
have memories of all the times that these kinds of things have happened to you before. That’s
part of the healing
The Egyptian master Thoth says to us, “When unto thee there comes a feeling drawing thee
nearer to the dark gate, a feeling of anger, hate and rage, examine thine heart to know if the
feeling has come from within.” So he’s saying when we feel that feeling well up in our bodies,
look at ourselves and try to understand if it’s our feeling or if it’s someone else’s feeling that we
are mirroring or that we’re interpreting. If it is our feeling he begins the instructions and listen,
if you will, to how eloquent these instructions are. These are the exact words, the translation
from Thoth’s message. He says, “Sin through the body a wave of vibration irregular at first and
then regular at second, repeating time after time until free. Start the wave force in thy brain
center, direct in waves from thine head to thy foot.”
Sin through the body a wave of vibration that begins in our brain. He’s inviting us to have a
thought, and from that thought to marry it into our feeling world and allow the waves of the
feeling to permeate our bodies from thine head to thy foot. What is this wave that he’s talking
about? It is the wave of the blessing that allows us to move beyond a judgment, to move beyond
the judgments that have hurt us in the past.
Perhaps the gift of the blessing may be a way to empower you so that you can look at the
events of the world, you can see what’s unfolding head on. Looking away doesn’t make them go
away. We truly choose to change our world. We must be a part of that solution and acknowledg-
ing what’s happened and changing the way we feel about it within our bodies, as we mentioned
earlier, is literally the language that speaks to the intelligent field that surrounds us giving way
to the possibility that we are outgrowing the time of the war and the suffering and that we no
longer have to experience those things. We must find that belief and that feeling inside of our
bodies before it’s mirrored in the world around us.
When you bless again and again and again, and you give names and specifics to the people
and the places and the experiences that have hurt you, you will feel that emotion well up from
inside of you. And when the experience is complete you will feel different about what it is that
has hurt you in the past and what it is that you’ve seen; that difference is the first step in your
healing. That difference is the beginning of you allowing yourself to experience and view your
world from a new and empowering way. Next morning you may wake up and have the hurt
once again. Only it will hurt a little differently. And this is your opportunity to apply the gift of
the blessing yet another time.
Through our magazine articles and news media, it’s not uncommon to see the faces of peo-
ple who have been affected by war in many countries throughout the world. The faces of
women and children who are simply trying to live their lives and suddenly have no homes, no
families, no place to go, and may not even have a country to live in any longer. When you look
into their eyes, is it easy for you to offer the gift of the blessing to them? Most people find that
it is. It’s easy to bless those who appear to be helpless and in need. First, practice blessing the
victims of the current event you chose:
Now at the same time we are inundated with images of angry people, the foreign capitals
throughout the world, holding banners and signs of those that we believe dislike our country
and our way of life. They dislike us personally and have vowed to take everything that we love
and hold dear. When you see those angry faces in the streets of those capitals come into your
living room and your television screen, is it easy for you to bless them as well? This is where
your power begins. Because for the gift of the blessing to be effective, we must bless all who are
involved in the experience, those who suffer and those who inflict the suffering. Practice bless-
ing those that inflicted the pain in the current event you chose:
Finally, bless yourself and the others who witnessed the suffering:
In summary, our ancient gift of the blessing doesn’t condone or make excuses for any act of
atrocity or suffering that we see in our lives. What the blessing does is act as an emotional
lubricant for the actions that we’ve witnessed in our lives. It must address all involved — those
who inflict the suffering and those who witness as well as those who suffer. Blessing is simply a
way to clear the memory from our bodies, our minds and our hearts of the anger, the rage, the
hate, the judgment, the charge that holds us captive in our own anger, in our own rage, and pre-
vents us from having our most effective forms of prayer. Following the gift of the blessing, we
are now prepared to receive the benefit of the ancient gift of prayer.
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prayer has already come to pass. So these are the words of our prayer that create the feeling
within us that invoke the feeling as if the prayer’s already come to pass. Then there are the com-
pletion words. These words say to the field, “I’m done.”
So often in western traditions when we read the words of a prayer in a text, we believe that
the words are the prayer. Instead, it’s that the words are designed to invoke a feeling in the read-
er. And it is the feeling that is the prayer. The words are what create the feeling in our bodies.
In a prayer, then, we open the field, that’s the start. We feel the feeling as if the prayer has
already been answered. That’s the work of the program. And then we have a completion of clo-
sure where we give appreciation and gratitude and thanks for the prayer that has already been
answered. Start, work, complete. Open the field, feel the feeling and closure, thanks and grati-
tude.
An Example
Let’s apply these ideas in what is perhaps one of the best known prayers in the west today,
the original version of the New Testament text, The Lord’s Prayer.
In the book of Matthew, the great teacher, Jesus, is describing to his students when asked,
“How do we address God?” What he said is, “After this manner therefore, pray ye. After this
manner, therefore, pray ye. He did not say pray the words that I’m about to share with you. He
didn’t say pray these exact words. He said, “after this manner.” In this way, he’s showing us how
as an example these three components of prayer begin to work. He’s showing us the blueprint
for prayer.
This is the traditional King James version, and we’re going to reference this version initially.
Then we’re going to look at some other versions. Let’s read the statements as they were left to us
in the New Testament for this ancient program of prayer.
2) The next statement is a shift in intent. It begins a command. “Give us this day our daily
bread, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but
deliver us from evil.” You see how this is a different form, different intent in the words of
the prayer. These are the statements that are inviting us to feel as if these things have
already happened — to feel as if we already have the things that we need, the sustenance
in our lives. It leads us to feel as if we are balanced in our relationships and to find the
way to see the light even in the darkest situations. These are the function statements, feel-
ing the feeling of the prayer itself. This is the body of the prayer.
3) In the last part, we move from the function statements to the closure or the completion.
Listen closely. “For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.” This is
the completion or the closure of thanks and gratitude.
This template holds up in nearly every prayer tradition anywhere in the world past or pres-
ent — from Native American prayers, some of them are over 2,000 years old, to Aboriginal
prayers, to the prayers of the monks and the nuns and in Nepal and India and Tibet, to the
Islamic prayers throughout the Middle East. The template remains the same.
Then it begins the work where we’re invited to feel the feeling. “If the enemy inclined
toward peace, do thou also incline toward peace. and trust God. For the Lord is the one that
hearth and knoweth all things.” Can you feel the feeling of how that changes?
And in the closure, “And the servants of God, most gracious are those who walk on the
earth in humility. And when we address them, we say peace unto thee.”
In this way, The Muslim Prayer of Peace illustrates the three portions of our blueprint, the
start, the work and the completion, just as The Lord’s Prayer and many, many other prayers do
as well.
When we look at The Lord’s Prayer in the King James version, within The Lord’s Prayer in its
entirety there is another prayer that is also called The Great Prayer. And it is simply the first sen-
tence of The Lord’s Prayer. It simply says, “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy
name.”
Apparently this is a kind of prayer when people would find themselves in great peril and
they didn’t have time to formulate an entire prayer. They felt that if they could say this part of
the prayer that it would be effective in whatever their situation was.
When we look at the first sentence of The Great Prayer in the New Jerusalem version,
although it reads similarly, it’s a little different. The New Jerusalem version reads: “Our Father
in heaven, may your name be held holy.” It’s a very subtle difference but an important one.
When the King James version says, “Our Father who art in heaven,” it identifies that the Father
is in heaven. In this second version, with the absence of the “who art,” we’re identifying that our
Father is in heaven, but we’re not saying that is the only place our father exists. This simply
says, “Our Father in heaven.” It doesn’t prevent our Father from being everywhere else.
Even with that revised version, though it may be closer to the original intent, there’s a prob-
lem with both of these. The problem is that when we look at the original Aramaic translation,
these words translate very, very differently. The original Aramaic translation, the first sentence
of The Lord’s Prayer, The Great Prayer, “Ah-bwoon d’bwash-maya, Neeta-kadasha shmach.” This
is the phonetic pronunciation in Aramaic for this first sentence.
In the first sentence of this text, the word “Ah-bwoon” does not equal “Our Father.” As a
matter of fact, the word “Ah-bwoon” has no gender at all. It’s not about a father or a mother or
anything that any way relates to father and mother. A more accurate translation literally is the
genderless word “birther.” So when we look at a close translation of the original Aramaic, the
translation could just as easily read, “Oh birther of the cosmos, may your name be held holy.”
The English language does not translate well. It wasn’t written to convey many of the concepts
that we find in other traditions today, in the same way Aramaic does not translate precisely into
English.
When we look at our Lord’s Prayer, when we’re looking at the declarations, the opening and
then the work or the feeling and then the closure, something very interesting happens when we
look at the last statements of the King James version. The last statements in some texts simply
say, “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” Apparently these
words were not part of the original prayer. Someone put them in after.
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When we look in the Aramaic, what we find is that simply the prayer ended with the words,
the Aramaic words “La-alahm, all-meen, ah-men.” Now, listen to the English translation of what
these words mean, the intent. It is so powerful and it is so beautiful. “La-alahm, all-meen, ah-
men” means “We seal this prayer in faith and in trust and in truth. Amen.” That is very different
than the words, “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” You feel
how different the intent is. You’ll feel it in your heart when you read those words.
2)
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The important thing here is to have fun with your prayers. You are the prayer architect.
Enjoy your ability to communicate with this field, the field of intelligence that underlies all of
existence. You can have a personal conversation with that intelligence, with the field.
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Of the six criteria that were evaluated by the scientific teams, the test results are all consis-
tent with the historical information described in the Roman courts. This information described
the condition of his body before, during, and after his crucifixion. So whether this is in fact an
image of the man we know as the historical Jesus or not, on the one hand while it is important
to many of us from our spiritual and religious beliefs, on the other hand it may be less impor-
tant from the perspective of our program today.
Whether the man in the shroud was Jesus or not, he was a human, and something hap-
pened to that man. Something happened to one of us, one of our species in the past that is so
mysterious that on the one hand we cannot explain it today with the traditional science and the
explanations that had been used to explain things in the past. While on the other hand if it hap-
pened to one person, it means that there’s a power that lives within each of us and that may in
fact, as we’ll see, be the message in the shroud.
man both from the front of his body and the back of his body being emblazoned upon the
shroud.
Well, in modern times, the mystery of the shroud first surfaced in 1898 with the invention
of some of the first cameras. Because the shroud, when you look at it with the naked eye, while
you can see the image of the man both front and back on the shroud, he is portrayed as lying
with his hands crossed in front of his lower abdomen, his feet together, his face is upright, and
he is facing forward. And when the cameras first took this picture in 1898 the shroud itself
appears to be a negative. It looks like the reverse of an image.
Well, to the surprise of the photographers in 1898, when they photographed the shroud for
the very first time and they developed the image, the image that resulted was a positive image
as if the shroud were in fact a negative on film, just the way we would use it today. And with
this positive image, all the values were reversed. What had been dark became light, what had
been light became dark. And all of the sudden tremendous detail could be discerned from the
image and the man in the shroud and this began the studies that are leading to the controver-
sies today.
allowed upon this shroud. The first of those studies was in 1978. It was called the Shroud of
Turin Research Project.
Forty scientists from around the world representing 11 different fields of biology, nine fields
of chemistry, eight fields of physics, convened in Turin, Italy for this study. They were given
unprecedented access to the shroud. The church had never granted this kind of access before,
five non-stop days, and 24 hours over a day, over five days to gather the data amounted to over
122 continuous hours of the study.
If you take an X-ray for example, it is a flat two-dimensional image in black and white. But,
if you take an X-ray of something found in nature and put it in the VP8 analyzer, it becomes
very three-dimensional. It looks alive, as if it’s going to jump out from the screen.
In the same way for the Shroud of Turin — if it is simply an artist’s rendering and it’s placed
in the VP8 analyzer, the shroud will look very distorted on the one hand. On the other hand, if it
is actually encoded with living information, if the shroud is of nature and not an artist’s render-
ing, then it will become three-dimensional, it will show depth. And this is precisely what the
researchers were able to do.
They took the image of the Shroud of Turin and they ran it through the VP8 analyzer and lo
and behold, the image carries so much information and it is so lifelike, it is almost more than
three-dimensional. Everything on the cloth, the creases in the cloth become three-dimensional.
The man’s face, his body, all become three-dimensional. It is such an accurate representation of
who the man in the shroud was that from this 3D image scientists have been able to actually
estimate the height and the weight of the man in the shroud. His height was about 5' 11" tall
and he weighed approximately 178 pounds.
The scientists from the Shroud of Turin Research team in their findings say of this 3D
analysis, they say, and this is a quote, “Immediately we recognize that the image must have
been generated by some principle whereby body structure became encoded into the varying
shades of intensity on the cloth.” (Advances in Chemistry Journal, 1984, Volume 205, page 447)
What are they saying here? They’re saying that whoever the man in the shroud was, there
was a man, he produced that image, and the shroud image is produced as a holographic image.
How was it that the image was not distorted?
Experts have said that to create the image with no distortion as we see on the shroud, one
of two things would have had to have happened. Either the body would have had to pass
through the cloth itself to avoid distortion of the image, or the cloth passed through the body.
And they leave it at that. They say they’re not going to go any further because to do so is specu-
lation. They’re simply stating on a physical basis that is what happened in the shroud.
So we’ve got to ask ourselves, what could create such a process? Well, a growing body of
evidence suggests that the man within the Shroud of Turin had both knowledge and access to
the wisdom of our relationship to the forces of creation.
What does the image on the shroud say to us today? We know what it is. It was produced by
a man, there is blood, there is human blood, it’s AB positive. We know how tall the man was, we
know what he weighed. We know perhaps what he died from. We still don’t know who he is.
However, his message may become clear to us now. The evidence suggests that the image in the
shroud, the formation, was deliberate and intentional. The evidence suggests that that image
illustrates a deeper relationship between the forces of nature, physical matter, and
human experience.
If one of us can tap the forces of nature and create the phenomenon that we see in the
shroud, what it says is that we all have access to the forces of nature perhaps in a way we’re
only beginning to understand.
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The shroud demonstrates the magnitude of that power within each of us. If one of us can
do it, we all can do it. If one of us has the ability to access the forces of nature in that way, then
we certainly can become greater than the suffering that we see in our world today.
Perhaps the message of the shroud is that to understand its mystery, however, we must look
beyond the cloth itself. Western science today identifies all the events in our universe as being
the result of only four forces of nature. And they say that these four forces of nature interact
with one another in such a way as to create all the creation in the universe as we know it.
What’s important about these four forces is that as different as they appear from one another in
our world today, they all are directly linked to human emotion. And what this says to us is that
very specific qualities of human emotion that we may embody within ourselves, through those
qualities we actually have direct access to the fundamental forces of the universe. And it is all
done through our ability to feel. Feeling is the prayer.
So the shroud may be the best evidence to date of that ability, of our ability, to touch those
forces of nature just as the man in the shroud did in empowering and life affirming ways. So we
must consider the possibility that the shroud may serve as a bridge between science and spiritu-
ality and a key to the great mystery of our lives.
Whoever that man in the shroud was, we know that he was human, we know that he was
one of us. The power that he demonstrated within his burial cloth came from within his body.
It’s been preserved through the ages. Perhaps the message of the shroud is that the power with-
in that man and the shroud that covered him nearly two millennia ago is a power that lives
within each of us today as well. It’s only by our acceptance of our personal relationship with
creation that we can access the true meaning of our lives and the depth of our personal conver-
sation with God. Well, in the study of the shroud, only time will tell.
2) Is there anything in your life today that is a symbol of your personal relationship with
creation? Do you have a personal “Shroud of Turin”?
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What is the reality that we’ve created in the unseen world? What is the code of conduct by
which we have lived our lives in that unseen world that invites such experiences into our lives?
The following sentence comes from the Essenes and is approximately 2,300 years old. The
sentence simply comes from the master who is speaking to those around him who are asking
him the question of why things happen in our world for no apparent reason, the mysteries of
why things unfold the way they unfold, and what the relationship is between our world and the
unseen world of the heavens.
The master answers his students with this following statement, “My children, know you not
that the earth and all that dwells therein is but a reflection of the kingdom of the heavenly Father.”
Without the understandings of the field of intelligence and quantum physics and the mirror-
ing of relationships, this statement may have much less significance than it is offering to us
right now. In this moment it is a validation, it’s a verification of everything that we’ve just men-
tioned coming from the 2,300-year-old text. The word reflection is actually in the sentence, sug-
gesting that what we see as the world that we call reality is in fact simply a mirror, as the
Buddha was being mirrored in the water of something that we can not see yet exists and per-
haps is even more real than the world that we’re experiencing right now. What a beautiful,
beautiful metaphor.
Now what’s important for us to remember about this relationship between our visible and
our unseen worlds is that our world apparently mirrors back the general themes of what we
have become rather than the specifics of the unseen world. In other words, it reflects in the
events of our lives, our careers, our health and our relationships the general themes of the way
that we conduct our lives in our world.
our young people on the unseen levels. We shouldn’t be surprised to see those patterns reflected
back to us in our world. School shootings may be one way that it comes about, teenage rape is
another example that comes from the violence and the aggression that we see against children
before and after school.
Why are these things happening? Why does it seem these kinds of experiences are on the
rise?
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi stated a single sentence regarding violence in our societies, “All
occurrences of violence, negativity, conflict, crisis, or problems in any society are the expression
of stress, of tension in the collective consciousness.” The collective consciousness is the result of
our individual experiences pooled into a collective statement into the field in the world around
us.
In our families, the unseen world, the tension that is expressed so often in seemingly
insignificant and innocent ways may in fact be the blueprint that comes back in the ways that
that are frightening us and causing the suffering in our society.
From this perspective, localized tension in one area of life translates to global tension. The
wars, the oppression, the tension that we see in other parts of the world are reflections of our
collective consciousness. If we are to break the cycles that we’re choosing to change now, one of
the keys is that we must understand there is no them and us.
An “EGGstraordinary” Discovery
In the mid-1990’s researchers at Princeton University discovered that consciousness is such
a real field, that it is so tangible, so palpable that certain kinds of electronics will actually
respond to shifts in the consciousness. Based on these understandings, they designed a series of
devices, 40 small devices that were called eggs (E.G.Gs). They placed these 40 devices at loca-
tions throughout the world to monitor human consciousness in those areas. All 40 report back,
they feed into a single computer, on server, at Princeton University.
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In any moment of time the consciousness of our world may be monitored to some degree
telling us where we are in terms of global consciousness. When an event such as 9/11 or the
death of Princess Diana or even good things such as the Super Bowl here in North America,
when those things are happening there are big blips in the monitors of the consciousness
because we have shifted our focus from going about our daily activities and we are now focused
on a single activity.
I had the opportunity with a number of other authors and speakers to interface with this
project as we conducted global prayers during certain windows of time, coordinated by the
worldwide web. Prayers of peace for example. And during the time that our prayers of peace
were being shared on a global level, people at Princeton University picked up the blips on their
computer screens. They actually called the organization that was conducting the prayers and
they said, “Hey, what are you doing? We’re picking up a blip on our screen.” And the organizer
simply said, “We are having a mass prayer, a global prayer. “
There is a direct effect between the quality of consciousness in the emotion that we hold as
individuals and pooled together collectively, and this field that surrounds our world. Because we
are all part of that field, we have an opportunity to share our perspective and our viewpoint, to
share the peace, the honoring, the love, compassion, and the understanding that we’d like to see
mirrored back to us in our world.
These and additional studies add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the mirrors
are in fact real and that the mirrors appear to work because of this field or because some aspect
of this field is at play. The key is to look beyond the immediate experiences themselves, look
beyond what someone has done to you or how someone has dishonored you. Look to the gener-
al themes underlying the experience to understand what they may be saying to you.
They invite us to examine our own lives to see how we may be unknowingly contributing to
precisely the kinds of conditions that we choose to avoid, on a local as well as a global basis.
What can you do differently? What can you do today? What can you do right now to begin
that change? You may be pleasantly surprised at just how quickly the little changes in your life
translate into change on a much broader scale, bigger change in your workplace, your class-
room, even at the family dinner table.
In the very first sentence of this program, we asked the question, “What would it mean if we
discovered that each moment of our lives is part of a conversation, an ongoing dialogue with
the world around us?” Now that the program is complete, the question becomes, “What does it
mean?” Now that we have discovered that each moment of our lives is in fact a part of that con-
versation, on more of a personal level, what does it mean to you to know that in each moment
of your life you’re speaking with a force that is literally the stuff that our universe is made of?
Do you know what you’re saying to the world around you? Do you know what your world is
saying right back to you?
How long has your life been offering clues to you in ways that perhaps you’re only begin-
ning to understand? Clues that tell you of your deepest beliefs, your greatest fears, a conversa-
tion that reminds you of your deepest longing for your most forgotten love. Through our mir-
rors of relationship we understand that they are powerful tools, however, they work only if we
apply them in our lives.
Though the circumstances of the 20th century are certainly very different than those of
2,500 years ago, the principles that underlie our greatest joy and our deepest hurts as humans
may not have really changed all that much. We still search for ways to bring greater meaning to
our existence, to become better people, to be better for our families and friends and to create
the abundance that helps others in our lives to create a better world for themselves as well.
When you find yourself searching for meaning in a situation that seems to make very little
sense in terms of what you’ve believed in the past, consider the mirrors that we’ve shared
together in this program. Every relationship of career, of romance, friendship and adversary is
telling you something about yourself.
What we have shared here today is admittedly a very different way of thinking about our
world and our lives in general. Sometimes different is good. Albert Einstein once said that the
significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
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when we created them. Through this statement, Albert Einstein invites us to think beyond the
boundaries, out of the box that created the great challenges of our lives today.
The goal in this program is certainly not to convince or persuade you of anything. Marrying
the wisdom of ancient and time-honored traditions with what our science is discovering today,
will, hopefully, reveal greater, richer, life-affirming possibilities and be an empowering tool to
add to your toolbox of life. The quality that sets us apart from all other life is our ability to rec-
ognize our role in this universe, our mirrors, to accept what life is showing to us and then make
the changes in our personal code of conduct that reflects those changes, what we’d like to expe-
rience in our world.
Ultimately what we’ll probably discover is that as individuals and collectively, that while we
may attempt to hammer our world into submission through pure force and might, ultimate last-
ing change will come only from within. We must become the very change that we choose to
experience in our world. And this is the power of learning to listen to the mirrors, to the silent
knowledge of God.
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