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continued... Prophecy, Prayer & Choice
According to a new interpretation of the prophecies of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls, it’s actually up to you and me. THE ISAIAH EFFECT In 1957 a physicist at Princeton, Hugh Everett, III, suggested that for every moment of our lives there are many, many moments, possibilities and outcomes playing out simultaneously and present for every choice in our lives. They are all happening at the same time, though we are not necessarily aware of them. He called these parallel possibilities. Science fiction immediately adopted these ideas, and like so many others, it has not been proven to be a science fact. In Braden’s interpretation of the Isaiah Scroll, when we focus on one of those possibilities out of the many, this becomes our reality. What this implies is that for every moment of catastrophe the prophets see in our future, while they may well be possible consequences of the choices we are making in our lives right now, there are other outcomes just as possible. Isaiah is very clear when he says it is just as possible that we are about to enter a time of unprecedented co-operation between nations, and war will not even be in our vocabulary. The mystery among the scholars has been how could these prophet’s speaking thousands of years ago, see such different possibilities for the same moment in history? "What I believe, and am calling the Isaiah Effect, is that the ancient prophets were actually adept masters at slipping between those parallel realities. And, they were giving insight to us in this generation as to what they saw as the possibilities in the only words that they had 2500 years ago. They took it one step further and gave us the science of how to determine which of those possibilities played out in our lives. Every time we make the choices that allow us to move into those new possibilities, we experience the Isaiah Effect." DO WE CREATE OR CHOOSE OUR REALITY? "This is where the boundaries between spiritual traditions, religions, quantum physics and philosophy become very fuzzy. One of the things we’ve been told by proponents of ‘new thought’ is we create our reality. What quantum science now says, and what I believe the ancients were saying is, that is close, but not completely accurate. Rather, for every moment in our lives we live a great many simultaneous possibilities that are all playing out in time. They are essentially dormant in our cosmos, sleeping until we awaken them through choices we make. All our individual choices then become our collective response to a given time in history." Thus although we may now be witnessing the precursors to some of the most frightening prophecies, other outcomes are available and just as likely. How do we move from one possibility to the other? The clues are in the Isaiah Scroll. FROM THE DEAD SEA TO TIBET We lost sight of the relationship between mankind, thought, feeling and emotion and the cosmos when the sacred texts we had relied upon for our understanding were made inaccessible in the 4th century. As a result, we became a very logic-based society, but the indigenous traditions had preserved those understandings. When the Essenes left the Qumran area to escape persecution, they carried with them copies of entire libraries. Some went to Bolivia and Peru, and there are today active Essene monasteries in southern Peru. The Hopi and Navajo traditions also confirm these texts, and others went to the monasteries in the highlands of Tibet for safekeeping for later generations. In 1998 Braden took a pilgrimage to 12 of these Tibetan monasteries and two nunneries and was shown one of these libraries, and began to understand the Tibetans not only house the libraries containing Christian and pre-Christian traditions, but are also living these traditions today. They have incorporated these inner technologies into their daily routines. "Among the many pieces of wisdom lost to the West and preserved for us by the Tibetans is a mode of prayer that is very different from the traditional prayers of the West. It is this mode of prayer that they showed us in their texts that I believe Isaiah was referring to in his scroll. This mode of prayer ties us back into the quantum principles and allows us to participate in choosing the outcome for our moment in history."
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