Prophecy, Prayer & Choice
An Excerpt from an Interview with Gregg Braden 
By Miriam Knight

Apocalypse now? 
Not necessarily.

According to a new interpretation of the prophecies of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls, it’s actually up to you and me.

Here is a thematic arrangement of Gregg Braden’s words and thoughts from our recent talk

On Earth Changes & The Shift

The context within which we are viewing the events of our lives and witnessing outrageous phenomenon (for our own scientists are documenting unprecedented natural phenomenon in terms of Earth and space alike) looks frightening to many Westerners. As I have traveled through many of the indigenous cultures of the world, Egypt, Bolivia, Peru, Nepal and elsewhere, it is interesting that almost universally these cultures not only allow for the changes which are happening but they expect them and they expect them now.

Quite literally, there is a new species of human that is being birthed within this generation, at the close of this grand cycle of experience that the ancients called the Shift of the Ages. This new species has been predicated, prophesied, and expected through ancient and indigenous cultures. It is only in the West we’ve been surprised and mystified because it is in the West we’ve lost the texts.

On What Happened

Seventeen hundred years ago, key elements of our most sacred heritage were taken from the texts that define our history. In 325 AD, the Emperor Constantine put together the Council of Nicea. Essentially, he gathered together the historical and religious texts of his time and told the council that because so many of the texts were redundant, many confusing and some so mystical they weren’t understood they were to come up with a condensed version. Twenty-five biblical texts were thus taken out of our references during that time an additional 20 supporting documents, such as the book of the Secrets of Enoch, were also removed. The books that were left were rearranged and condensed, and that’s what we’re working with today.

I am constantly in awe of how well we have done in our societies, family relationships, and science and technology without really knowing who we are, where we came from, why we’re here and what we can expect to happen. The indications of this are that, at best, we were working with an incomplete understanding of the forces of our world and our relationship to those forces. The pieces that were taken out were the ancient sciences of compassion, the highly sophisticated technology that we call prayer, and the role of emotion and feeling in our bodies. Those were the texts that were removed and those are the pieces that will now complete the wisdom that we’re developing in the West today.

On The Missing Texts

Through mystery schools, sacred orders and elite priesthoods, this information has always been retained and we’ve always had hints that there was this body of information that might help fill in the gaps of our understanding of the world. The texts point to the fact that now, at the closing of the millennium, something precious, rare and unique is happening to the earth and the people on the earth. It has never happened before. The underlying current has been that something big is going to happen. In the West, it has been feared because the texts describing this have been taken away, whereas in the East and indigenous cultures it has always been a part of their belief system.

On the Essene Mirrors From the perspective of the ancient Essenes, every human on the earth is an initiate in the Mystery School that we call Life. Whether they are conscious of it or not, every human will experience in the presence of others mirrors of themselves in that moment. If we have the wisdom to recognize those mirrors, we may accelerate the evolution of emotion and understanding.

What the Essenes said was that for us to know and master ourselves in this world, we will see one or some combination of mirrored patterns in others. The seven mirrors are progressively more and more subtle. Back in the ’70s, we heard about the first mirror, of who you are in the moment. The notion was that if you find yourself around individuals who are angry or dishonest, they are showing you your dishonesty or anger. Sometimes the mirrors would apply, but sometimes they wouldn’t. We had discovered the first mirror, but had yet to see the other mirrors, such as the second mirror, which reflects what we judge in the moment.

This is tremendously powerful but very subtle. The ancient Essenes had a very sophisticated understanding of interpersonal human relationships and the role of emotion in those relationships. It’s the role of emotion that we have carefully sifted out of our Western experience up until very recently. Now, as we go back into these texts, we see that it is emotion that proves the power and, when coupled with logic, true magic and miracles occur.