THE SHIFT OF THE AGES AND GREG BRADEN

Greg: In the last five years i´ve had the oportunity through my work... been in every continent of the world, with the exception of the antartica.  And... well I have not been in every country, i´ve spoken with people of the tribes, the cultures and the traditions, and what i can say, is that almost universaly there is a sense that we have entered into a time very unique, unlike any other time that anyone remembers in the writtings or in the history and its characterized a number of diferent ways.  More often, people say they feel like something began and its yet to complete or they are waiting for the other foot to fall or theire shoe to drop, thats the way they feel.  And its bigger than 9/11, its bigger than the war in Irak.  Those may perhaps be simptoms of something, but they sense a low level axiety, attention, if you will... that something big is about to happen and that we may not know it consciously, that we are, in some ways, preparing for whatever that is. 

Regina: And how are you percieving what that thing is at this time?

Greg: Well from my perspective, ive spent the book of my adult life studying and researching ancient texts, traditions, cultures and wisdom of those who have come before us.  And they do in fact, the texts, some of the calendars, going back 18000 years, thats before the last ice age... all point to this time in history and they say that we are living a very unique time.  In the words that they left for us, they describe the time as a time of great change, and we have all heard about the prophecies that all converge in this moment in history.  And that doesent mean a lot for someone in the west, because we tend to discout those.  The scientists, what i can say to you, as a form of earth scientist, is that we are seeing measurable parameters that are changing and that appear to be converging.  For example, the magnetic fields of the earth are in rapid decline right now.  They reached a peak about 2000 years ago.  They have declined consistently, never looked back since then and we are now in the lowest global magnetics that we have been in the last 2000 years.

Regina: What exactly does that mean for us as a species?

Greg: What it means... in the geologic record, we can see that this has happened, at least, 14 times in the last 4.5 millon years.  It generaly, in the past, has been a precursor to what scientists call a reversal, or a fllip in the magnetic fields of the earth.  Not the earth physically, rather the energetic sense, the field itself.  And its got to be a really weird day the day that this happens.  People have obviously lived trhrough this before, the hopi have talked about this in their traditions, biblical traditions have talked about this and egyptian traditions.  What we know is that the magnetic fields and our bodies are very closely related, that a change in the magnetic fields of the earth affects our dream states.  People are talking about having very intense, very vivid dreams, sleep patterns, time and space, people feel time is speeding up, and theres a very good scientific reason why we percieve that speeding up of time, so there are very...

Regina: Could you explain that?

Greg: There are very real measurable parameters that coincide with what ancient texts and traditions say.  So in addition to the magnetics droping, theres a second parameter, the ancients called the hertbeat of the earth.  Scientists first measured this directly in 1899, its a fundamental pulse of about 7.8 cycles or hertz per second.  So its just a constant pulse.  And we believed that it was so constant that it would never change, and we built comunication systems, we built military weaponry based on this pulse, all up trhrough the nineteen fourties, fifties, sixties...  so nineteen eighties, nineteen nineties, that pulse began to increase and what we know is that our bodies, our cells are tuned to this fundamental pulse of our mother earth, as the ancients said, and that our metabolism, our bodies, our rithms, our cycles, will try to match the pulse of the earth.  So as that pulse increases, to us it seems as though time is speeding up, because we are trying to keep in pace with that fundamental hertbeat.  So we have this two parameters, this pulse thats increasing and the magnetics that are decreasing, and, from the geologic record it appears that when those two parameters converge, that that is the time the ancients called the great shift of the ages, or, the shift between the worlds.  The native traditions say that we are in the fourth of four previous worlds, and that when this world ends, we begin the fifth world.  Mayan calendars go back over 18000 years... they stop in year 2012.  They say, beyond 2012, it will make no sense to track time the way you have tracked time in the past, because time will mean something very different to you.  Egyptian calendars, going back over 40000 years, say the earth is going tthrough a great change right now, so to answer your question, there are reasons in the cultural history that point to this period in time.  Scientists, now, can measure parameters that are changing, and they know thats happening, the question is what does it mean.  So westen science is saying, we are seeing this things happening  but we dont know what it means.  The ancients are saying, this is what this means and this is the oportunity for us to become better people, because aas we go through this change, it will push us to the very edge of who we believe we are, it will  push the limits of our sensibility, it will test us as a civilization and as a family as we have never been tested before, and we will learn that we need one another, and that is why they are pleeding with us, the indigenous cultures, to remember our relationship to the earth, to care for the arth, to care for one another, so that we can care for ourselves.  If i understand the wisdom and the traditions correctly, its the very act of living our lives in the presence of one another, of loving fully, intentionally, completely, of being present, being focused, being the best that we can be, by living life, day in and day out, if we do that, by virtue of doing that, we have prepared the only way that we really can for this time in history.