In this fascinating book, Gregg Braden merges the modern discoveries of nature’s patterns (fractals) with the ancient view of a cyclic universe. The result is a powerful model of time—fractal time—and a realistic window into what we can expect for the mysterious year 2012 . . . and beyond.
Applying fractal time to the history of the world and life, he proposes that everything from the war and peace between nations to the patterns of human relationships mirror the returning cycles of our past. As each cycle repeats, it carries a more powerful, amplified version of itself.
The key: If you know where to look in the past, you know what to expect when the same conditions return in the present and future. For the first time in print, the Time Code Calculator gives us the tool to do just that! Through easy-to-understand science and step-by-step instructions, discover for yourself:
· How the conditions for 2012 have occurred in the past, and what we can expect when they repeat!
· The “hot dates” that hold the greatest threats of war, and the greatest opportunities for peace!
· How Earth’s location in space triggers cycles of spiritual growth for humans!
· Your personal time codes for the key events of business, relationships, and change in your life!
· How each cycle carries a window of opportunity—a choice point—that allows us to select a new outcome for the returning pattern!
· What the 1999 ice cores from Antarctica reveal about past cycles of climate, global warming, Earth’s protective magnetic fields, and what these things mean for us today!
In a powerful yet comprehensible style, Gregg gives us a way to make sense of the rapid, and often dramatic, change of today’s world. It is these understandings that guide us away from the destructive choices we’ve made in the past. They also show the way to the greatest possibilities of our lives. Gregg suggests that if we can see time from this perspective, the past reveals the great secret of our moment in history and what we can expect as we approach December 21, 2012!
About the Author
New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970s energy crisis, he worked as a Senior Computer Systems Designer with Martin Mariettaduring the last years of the Cold War. In 1991 he became The First Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, where he led the development of the global support team assuring the reliability of the internet in its early days.
For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix, and his most recent, Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age.
Gregg’s work has been published in 27 languages and 30 countries and shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that the key to our future lies in the wisdom of our past.
This is the best of the 9 books on 2012 I have read. It draws from a number of sources, and leaves you in absolute awe, realizing there can be no doubt that the world as we know it will soon be very different. Gregg cites from a wide variety of countries and cultures that have pinpointed this time: India, China, Tibet, as well as the Aztecs, Mayans, Hopis, and even the Bible Code.
Gregg takes on the conventional idea of global warming being a function of air pollution, showing that the warming and melting of the ice caps is simply a part of the cycle. He discusses the Hindu tradition of "the day of Brahman" and the "night of Brahman" and shows how these cycles are actually backed by science.
I had heard before different ideas about time being "the fourth dimension" and "motion in space" but Gregg's layman explanation bumped up my understanding of the time/space continuum considerably. I now feel I have a deeper understanding of time and how it moves in spiral cycles which create a tendency or energy potential for certain events. As an amateur astrologer who has been able to predict critical events for friends, I always warned them that the energy is coming their way and what they do with it is up to them. Gregg shares that view in this book, showing us that the cycles are not destiny--but rather opportunities.
The best part of the book is chapter 5 in which the code is given to predict your own future and understand your past, based on cycles. I was in such a hurry to learn this that I tried to do it before finishing the chapter and got confused about the process. I was wondering, why isn't this working? I could not see any significant patterns at all. Then after reading the chapter and getting more clear on the instructions, I did it again. I was amazed to find that it worked with near 100% accuracy in various issues of my life, such as an eating disorder with its various stages of healing, my spiritual life, and my parents' divorce followed by loss and betrayal in relationships.
But there is also a code for deciphering world events, and Gregg gives several examples as well as the method for calculation. (By the way he has calculators on his web site if you don't care to learn the process of these cycles.)
If you really want to prepare for 2012, this is a must-read. Unlike many of the books out there, this is a book of hope with a vision of possibilities. According to Gregg, this is a once-in-26,000 year opportunity! We have the power within our hearts to make it heaven on earth. He cites science for all this; it is not merely some new age theory!
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Greg's two approaches in all his work in metaphysics are 1) Talk fluffy, just use words and baffle them with your phraseology having said nothing OR 2) Talk technical and flub it up by not knowing the facts or ascribing as facts things that are not. You see this over and over in all of his spoken and written materials. During interviews he also commonly uses the phrase 'we talk about this in the book' and 'the research we have been doing' (meaning the entire world) in order to attempt to give what he is saying an aire of import and authority. It doesn't work if you are paying attention. It's like he is trying to hypnotize you with suggestions as to what he is saying is true. Arguably you could say he is using a form of NLP (neuro-linguist programming) in his spoken and written word.
Writers such as Joe (aka Jose) Arguelles pointed out that time was fractal back in 1987 in 'The Mayan Factor'. Frank Waters in Mexico 'Mystique: Coming 6Th World Of Consciousness' wrote about Mayan time cycles in 1975. The Maya, by Michael Coe appeared in first edition in 1966. Terrence McKenna pointed out time is fractal with his TimeWave theory. Tony Shearer was also an early source.
Fact: The Olmec or Mayan or whoever invented the long count calendar are the ONLY ones who really understand what it is talking about. Non-Mayan speakers on a Mayan subject most often walk on thin ice or speak nonsense as often occurs in archeological circles. Regarding calendars there are also other cyclical calenderic systems from many cultures including the Chinese and their famous animal-oriented zodiac.
My main concern with this book (and really the Braden fractal) is that the author jumps on the coat tails of others and presents their information as his own in a very loose and often flawed way.
Example: "In addition to the 2012 winter solstice marking the end of the Mayan Great Cycle, December 21 also signals the completion of an even larger cycle: the great or precessional year that began approximately 260000 years ago."
The existence, length, and timing of the precessional year is a subject of great debate. Greg is trying to say that December 21 2012 also represents the end of the cycle and the dawning of the age of Aquarius. However, no one knows in what year such a theoretical transition occurs let alone the day. According to Max Hiedel this transition to Aquarius occurred back in 498 AD. Based on other correlations it will not happen until 600 years from now. And Greg does not tell you that he stole, I mean got, the idea of 2012 corresponding to age precession from John Major Jenkins which doesn't make it fact either. In fact Greg lifted much of JMJs work in Galactic Alignment for this book. (Anthony F. Aveni is a great authority to balance all of the 2012 hype.)
Additionally, although our Gregorian year starts in January, the Zodiacal year begins with Aries in April. How can Greg select the ending of the Piscean cycle with the ending of the great year of precession?. Indeed Vera W. Reid in 'Towards Aquarius' (1968) makes is clear that a cycle is a CYCLE, it has no beginning or ending, it just is. Greg introduces the *concept* of the ending of a year of precession (and *when*) with absolutely nothing to back it up.
Greg's statement about Dec 21 2012 'ending' a cycle of the great calendar of precession, and many other parts of this book, is straight from John Major Jenkins in Galactic Alignment.
Greg also gets himself into a corner when he attempts to borrow JMJs ideas and use the Vedic time periods of Yugas and correlate then to *fit* the Mayan calendar. There is an extremely wide set of interpretations of how long each Yuga is. Even the Kali Yuga alone has many different interpretations to it's duration from approximately 5000 years long to 432,000 years long. Greg attempts to pass himself off as an authority in many areas where he has used others materials and he himself is not able to speak adequately on the subject.
We are talking about metaphysics here and the more concrete you try to be with your statements the more error prone you will be. The domain does not fit tight conceptual models. It is clear that Greg is forcefully folding and fitting in different concepts that do not belong together. He attempts to do this through a combination of fluffy language and just plain wrong conveyance of facts.
There are many cultures that have peered into these and had the benefit of thousands of years of observation and probably other aids we do not have such as consciousness expanding hallucinogens (i.e. Izapa). It's difficult to believe people will just take in musings as fact with little or no verification and checking and proclaim the jester a master wizard. If you accept the 'word according to Greg' then you are believing it because he said so.
Greg's stuff is pretty close to what I would call New Age pablum. It heavily rides the coat tales of others without due reference. If you like it fluffy and to be told they way things are instead of digging yourself for the facts and realizations then please enjoy it. This is the antithesis of what intellectual and spiritual development is supposed to be. Someone aspiring to spiritual development would be better served by not schlocking around with concepts that are not based on solid foundations. Otherwise you are spending your time with a kind of entertainment for dummies that's built on nonsense. But of course, one of the challenges on the path of development is to be able to distinguish the shadow of something from the real thing itself. If you like shadow then be amused as long as you want. If however, you want some solid information on Fractal Time you should stick to McKenna, Shearer, and Joe Arguelles (with strong filters at Dreamspell). We have a book where the author has lifted and borrowed concepts from others repackaging them as his own and either flubs up important information or parrots concepts which do not have sufficient merit.
If you want better, much more accurate information, around 2012 and the Maya then go to the original works that Greg is copying. Your first and top pick should be John Major Jenkins (Galactic Alignment). Carl Calleman also has an interesting book (The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness). But beware, Callemans' book is a wide mix of concepts and he loosely passes off as Mayan things that are not clearly so. Calleman also believes that Sri Kalki Bhagavan is the Kalki Avatar and that Europe, specifically his beloved Sweden, is the center of earth's energetic pulses that guide evolution.
P.S. Greg is worse in live spoken word. Go listen to the C2C interview w.Greg on Mar 17 2009, host George Noory had to keep bringing Greg back to the subject as Greg kept pontificating fluff. Greg kept referring back to John Major Jenkins repeatedly licking his boots a clear indicator who he copied for these concepts.
Greg also claimed that scientists have found that the center of the Milky Way is a source of tremendous energy and that scientists by studying ice cores can prove when we are close to or far away from this source at the center of the Milky Way (or 'Cyclic-tilting' as he alternately called it). It seems like he is distorting the findings of Paul LaViolette in this statement. He also referred to a study in the Journal Nature which had nothing to do with his claims (I think he was confusing a study of disc-accretion with the point he was trying to make.)
He also claimed that the star purportedly next to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (the only galaxy by the way that has a black hole and a massive star next to it) is 'the' brightest one in the galaxy. Current thinking gives that title to the Peony nebula star. There are the remains of a massive star cluster near the massive black hole but there is no single companion massive star next to it. In fact the most massive stars known just now are in star cluster NGC 3603 in the Milky Way.
Regarding the Dendera Zodiac he claims there is an 'inordinate' amount of space between Pisces and Aquarius ('precisely where we are now'). Go look at an image of it. Mazzoroth has a large one you can read. There is no unusual gap between the two signs. He also said there is 'a mysterious document encoded on that stone called The Program of Destiny' which links to a Sumerian text. Someone needs to update google to find any matches of 'The Program of Destiny' to Dendera. Actually Greg is referring to a statement made by John Lash ('the programmes of destiny') documented by Colin Wilson in Atlantis Blueprint. I think Greg means the Sumerian 'Tablet of Destiny'. You get a clearer picture of what Greg has mumbled by going back to John Lashs writing at metahistory.org.
I could go on for hours with these examples. But I hope you get my point.
I really enjoy this author's works. In this case, he takes a subject around which there is so much trepidation and not a little 'fear' and he invites you to explore, sharing his knowledge, experiences and research with the reader, alternate possibilities that makes one want to stick around to see how the future will unfold. As an added benefit, he empowers one to take control of one's own life, by offering the idea that s/he can actually change the outcomes of 'repeating uncomfortable situations' in one's life, into more fulfilling and positive ones. Expand that thought process, apply globally and just imagine! the possibilities! I highly recommend this work.
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This is the best of the 9 books on 2012 I have read. It draws from a number of sources, and leaves you in absolute awe, realizing there can be no doubt that the world as we know it will soon be very different. Gregg cites from a wide variety of countries and cultures that have pinpointed this time: India, China, Tibet, as well as the Aztecs, Mayans, Hopis, and even the Bible Code.
Gregg takes on the conventional idea of global warming being a function of air pollution, showing that the warming and melting of the ice caps is simply a part of the cycle. He discusses the Hindu tradition of “the day of Brahman” and the “night of Brahman” and shows how these cycles are actually backed by science.
I had heard before different ideas about time being “the fourth dimension” and “motion in space” but Gregg’s layman explanation bumped up my understanding of the time/space continuum considerably. I now feel I have a deeper understanding of time and how it moves in spiral cycles which create a tendency or energy potential for certain events. As an amateur astrologer who has been able to predict critical events for friends, I always warned them that the energy is coming their way and what they do with it is up to them. Gregg shares that view in this book, showing us that the cycles are not destiny–but rather opportunities.
The best part of the book is chapter 5 in which the code is given to predict your own future and understand your past, based on cycles. I was in such a hurry to learn this that I tried to do it before finishing the chapter and got confused about the process. I was wondering, why isn’t this working? I could not see any significant patterns at all. Then after reading the chapter and getting more clear on the instructions, I did it again. I was amazed to find that it worked with near 100% accuracy in various issues of my life, such as an eating disorder with its various stages of healing, my spiritual life, and my parents’ divorce followed by loss and betrayal in relationships.
But there is also a code for deciphering world events, and Gregg gives several examples as well as the method for calculation. (By the way he has calculators on his web site if you don’t care to learn the process of these cycles.)
If you really want to prepare for 2012, this is a must-read. Unlike many of the books out there, this is a book of hope with a vision of possibilities. According to Gregg, this is a once-in-26,000 year opportunity! We have the power within our hearts to make it heaven on earth. He cites science for all this; it is not merely some new age theory!
4.0 out of 5 stars Great concept, flawed writing and editing
I couldn’t resist the book ’cause of the name even though I’m kind of “iffy” on Braden’s writing overall.
Greg’s two approaches in all his work in metaphysics are 1) Talk fluffy, just use words and baffle them with your phraseology having said nothing OR 2) Talk technical and flub it up by not knowing the facts or ascribing as facts things that are not. You see this over and over in all of his spoken and written materials. During interviews he also commonly uses the phrase ‘we talk about this in the book’ and ‘the research we have been doing’ (meaning the entire world) in order to attempt to give what he is saying an aire of import and authority. It doesn’t work if you are paying attention. It’s like he is trying to hypnotize you with suggestions as to what he is saying is true. Arguably you could say he is using a form of NLP (neuro-linguist programming) in his spoken and written word.
Writers such as Joe (aka Jose) Arguelles pointed out that time was fractal back in 1987 in ‘The Mayan Factor’. Frank Waters in Mexico ‘Mystique: Coming 6Th World Of Consciousness’ wrote about Mayan time cycles in 1975. The Maya, by Michael Coe appeared in first edition in 1966. Terrence McKenna pointed out time is fractal with his TimeWave theory. Tony Shearer was also an early source.
Fact: The Olmec or Mayan or whoever invented the long count calendar are the ONLY ones who really understand what it is talking about. Non-Mayan speakers on a Mayan subject most often walk on thin ice or speak nonsense as often occurs in archeological circles. Regarding calendars there are also other cyclical calenderic systems from many cultures including the Chinese and their famous animal-oriented zodiac.
My main concern with this book (and really the Braden fractal) is that the author jumps on the coat tails of others and presents their information as his own in a very loose and often flawed way.
Example: “In addition to the 2012 winter solstice marking the end of the Mayan Great Cycle, December 21 also signals the completion of an even larger cycle: the great or precessional year that began approximately 260000 years ago.”
The existence, length, and timing of the precessional year is a subject of great debate. Greg is trying to say that December 21 2012 also represents the end of the cycle and the dawning of the age of Aquarius. However, no one knows in what year such a theoretical transition occurs let alone the day. According to Max Hiedel this transition to Aquarius occurred back in 498 AD. Based on other correlations it will not happen until 600 years from now. And Greg does not tell you that he stole, I mean got, the idea of 2012 corresponding to age precession from John Major Jenkins which doesn’t make it fact either. In fact Greg lifted much of JMJs work in Galactic Alignment for this book. (Anthony F. Aveni is a great authority to balance all of the 2012 hype.)
Additionally, although our Gregorian year starts in January, the Zodiacal year begins with Aries in April. How can Greg select the ending of the Piscean cycle with the ending of the great year of precession?. Indeed Vera W. Reid in ‘Towards Aquarius’ (1968) makes is clear that a cycle is a CYCLE, it has no beginning or ending, it just is. Greg introduces the *concept* of the ending of a year of precession (and *when*) with absolutely nothing to back it up.
Greg’s statement about Dec 21 2012 ‘ending’ a cycle of the great calendar of precession, and many other parts of this book, is straight from John Major Jenkins in Galactic Alignment.
Greg also gets himself into a corner when he attempts to borrow JMJs ideas and use the Vedic time periods of Yugas and correlate then to *fit* the Mayan calendar. There is an extremely wide set of interpretations of how long each Yuga is. Even the Kali Yuga alone has many different interpretations to it’s duration from approximately 5000 years long to 432,000 years long. Greg attempts to pass himself off as an authority in many areas where he has used others materials and he himself is not able to speak adequately on the subject.
We are talking about metaphysics here and the more concrete you try to be with your statements the more error prone you will be. The domain does not fit tight conceptual models. It is clear that Greg is forcefully folding and fitting in different concepts that do not belong together. He attempts to do this through a combination of fluffy language and just plain wrong conveyance of facts.
There are many cultures that have peered into these and had the benefit of thousands of years of observation and probably other aids we do not have such as consciousness expanding hallucinogens (i.e. Izapa). It’s difficult to believe people will just take in musings as fact with little or no verification and checking and proclaim the jester a master wizard. If you accept the ‘word according to Greg’ then you are believing it because he said so.
Greg’s stuff is pretty close to what I would call New Age pablum. It heavily rides the coat tales of others without due reference. If you like it fluffy and to be told they way things are instead of digging yourself for the facts and realizations then please enjoy it. This is the antithesis of what intellectual and spiritual development is supposed to be. Someone aspiring to spiritual development would be better served by not schlocking around with concepts that are not based on solid foundations. Otherwise you are spending your time with a kind of entertainment for dummies that’s built on nonsense. But of course, one of the challenges on the path of development is to be able to distinguish the shadow of something from the real thing itself. If you like shadow then be amused as long as you want. If however, you want some solid information on Fractal Time you should stick to McKenna, Shearer, and Joe Arguelles (with strong filters at Dreamspell). We have a book where the author has lifted and borrowed concepts from others repackaging them as his own and either flubs up important information or parrots concepts which do not have sufficient merit.
If you want better, much more accurate information, around 2012 and the Maya then go to the original works that Greg is copying. Your first and top pick should be John Major Jenkins (Galactic Alignment). Carl Calleman also has an interesting book (The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness). But beware, Callemans’ book is a wide mix of concepts and he loosely passes off as Mayan things that are not clearly so. Calleman also believes that Sri Kalki Bhagavan is the Kalki Avatar and that Europe, specifically his beloved Sweden, is the center of earth’s energetic pulses that guide evolution.
P.S. Greg is worse in live spoken word. Go listen to the C2C interview w.Greg on Mar 17 2009, host George Noory had to keep bringing Greg back to the subject as Greg kept pontificating fluff. Greg kept referring back to John Major Jenkins repeatedly licking his boots a clear indicator who he copied for these concepts.
Greg also claimed that scientists have found that the center of the Milky Way is a source of tremendous energy and that scientists by studying ice cores can prove when we are close to or far away from this source at the center of the Milky Way (or ‘Cyclic-tilting’ as he alternately called it). It seems like he is distorting the findings of Paul LaViolette in this statement. He also referred to a study in the Journal Nature which had nothing to do with his claims (I think he was confusing a study of disc-accretion with the point he was trying to make.)
He also claimed that the star purportedly next to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (the only galaxy by the way that has a black hole and a massive star next to it) is ‘the’ brightest one in the galaxy. Current thinking gives that title to the Peony nebula star. There are the remains of a massive star cluster near the massive black hole but there is no single companion massive star next to it. In fact the most massive stars known just now are in star cluster NGC 3603 in the Milky Way.
Regarding the Dendera Zodiac he claims there is an ‘inordinate’ amount of space between Pisces and Aquarius (‘precisely where we are now’). Go look at an image of it. Mazzoroth has a large one you can read. There is no unusual gap between the two signs. He also said there is ‘a mysterious document encoded on that stone called The Program of Destiny’ which links to a Sumerian text. Someone needs to update google to find any matches of ‘The Program of Destiny’ to Dendera. Actually Greg is referring to a statement made by John Lash (‘the programmes of destiny’) documented by Colin Wilson in Atlantis Blueprint. I think Greg means the Sumerian ‘Tablet of Destiny’. You get a clearer picture of what Greg has mumbled by going back to John Lashs writing at metahistory.org.
I could go on for hours with these examples. But I hope you get my point.
I really enjoy this author’s works. In this case, he takes a subject around which there is so much trepidation and not a little ‘fear’ and he invites you to explore, sharing his knowledge, experiences and research with the reader, alternate possibilities that makes one want to stick around to see how the future will unfold. As an added benefit, he empowers one to take control of one’s own life, by offering the idea that s/he can actually change the outcomes of ‘repeating uncomfortable situations’ in one’s life, into more fulfilling and positive ones. Expand that thought process, apply globally and just imagine! the possibilities! I highly recommend this work.
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This is the best of the 9 books on 2012 I have read. It draws from a number of sources, and leaves you in absolute awe, realizing there can be no doubt that the world as we know it will soon be very different. Gregg cites from a wide variety of countries and cultures that have pinpointed this time: India, China, Tibet, as well as the Aztecs, Mayans, Hopis, and even the Bible Code.
Gregg takes on the conventional idea of global warming being a function of air pollution, showing that the warming and melting of the ice caps is simply a part of the cycle. He discusses the Hindu tradition of “the day of Brahman” and the “night of Brahman” and shows how these cycles are actually backed by science.
I had heard before different ideas about time being “the fourth dimension” and “motion in space” but Gregg’s layman explanation bumped up my understanding of the time/space continuum considerably. I now feel I have a deeper understanding of time and how it moves in spiral cycles which create a tendency or energy potential for certain events. As an amateur astrologer who has been able to predict critical events for friends, I always warned them that the energy is coming their way and what they do with it is up to them. Gregg shares that view in this book, showing us that the cycles are not destiny–but rather opportunities.
The best part of the book is chapter 5 in which the code is given to predict your own future and understand your past, based on cycles. I was in such a hurry to learn this that I tried to do it before finishing the chapter and got confused about the process. I was wondering, why isn’t this working? I could not see any significant patterns at all. Then after reading the chapter and getting more clear on the instructions, I did it again. I was amazed to find that it worked with near 100% accuracy in various issues of my life, such as an eating disorder with its various stages of healing, my spiritual life, and my parents’ divorce followed by loss and betrayal in relationships.
But there is also a code for deciphering world events, and Gregg gives several examples as well as the method for calculation. (By the way he has calculators on his web site if you don’t care to learn the process of these cycles.)
If you really want to prepare for 2012, this is a must-read. Unlike many of the books out there, this is a book of hope with a vision of possibilities. According to Gregg, this is a once-in-26,000 year opportunity! We have the power within our hearts to make it heaven on earth. He cites science for all this; it is not merely some new age theory!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great concept, flawed writing and editing
I couldn’t resist the book ’cause of the name even though I’m kind of “iffy” on Braden’s writing overall.
Greg’s two approaches in all his work in metaphysics are 1) Talk fluffy, just use words and baffle them with your phraseology having said nothing OR 2) Talk technical and flub it up by not knowing the facts or ascribing as facts things that are not. You see this over and over in all of his spoken and written materials. During interviews he also commonly uses the phrase ‘we talk about this in the book’ and ‘the research we have been doing’ (meaning the entire world) in order to attempt to give what he is saying an aire of import and authority. It doesn’t work if you are paying attention. It’s like he is trying to hypnotize you with suggestions as to what he is saying is true. Arguably you could say he is using a form of NLP (neuro-linguist programming) in his spoken and written word.
Writers such as Joe (aka Jose) Arguelles pointed out that time was fractal back in 1987 in ‘The Mayan Factor’. Frank Waters in Mexico ‘Mystique: Coming 6Th World Of Consciousness’ wrote about Mayan time cycles in 1975. The Maya, by Michael Coe appeared in first edition in 1966. Terrence McKenna pointed out time is fractal with his TimeWave theory. Tony Shearer was also an early source.
Fact: The Olmec or Mayan or whoever invented the long count calendar are the ONLY ones who really understand what it is talking about. Non-Mayan speakers on a Mayan subject most often walk on thin ice or speak nonsense as often occurs in archeological circles. Regarding calendars there are also other cyclical calenderic systems from many cultures including the Chinese and their famous animal-oriented zodiac.
My main concern with this book (and really the Braden fractal) is that the author jumps on the coat tails of others and presents their information as his own in a very loose and often flawed way.
Example: “In addition to the 2012 winter solstice marking the end of the Mayan Great Cycle, December 21 also signals the completion of an even larger cycle: the great or precessional year that began approximately 260000 years ago.”
The existence, length, and timing of the precessional year is a subject of great debate. Greg is trying to say that December 21 2012 also represents the end of the cycle and the dawning of the age of Aquarius. However, no one knows in what year such a theoretical transition occurs let alone the day. According to Max Hiedel this transition to Aquarius occurred back in 498 AD. Based on other correlations it will not happen until 600 years from now. And Greg does not tell you that he stole, I mean got, the idea of 2012 corresponding to age precession from John Major Jenkins which doesn’t make it fact either. In fact Greg lifted much of JMJs work in Galactic Alignment for this book. (Anthony F. Aveni is a great authority to balance all of the 2012 hype.)
Additionally, although our Gregorian year starts in January, the Zodiacal year begins with Aries in April. How can Greg select the ending of the Piscean cycle with the ending of the great year of precession?. Indeed Vera W. Reid in ‘Towards Aquarius’ (1968) makes is clear that a cycle is a CYCLE, it has no beginning or ending, it just is. Greg introduces the *concept* of the ending of a year of precession (and *when*) with absolutely nothing to back it up.
Greg’s statement about Dec 21 2012 ‘ending’ a cycle of the great calendar of precession, and many other parts of this book, is straight from John Major Jenkins in Galactic Alignment.
Greg also gets himself into a corner when he attempts to borrow JMJs ideas and use the Vedic time periods of Yugas and correlate then to *fit* the Mayan calendar. There is an extremely wide set of interpretations of how long each Yuga is. Even the Kali Yuga alone has many different interpretations to it’s duration from approximately 5000 years long to 432,000 years long. Greg attempts to pass himself off as an authority in many areas where he has used others materials and he himself is not able to speak adequately on the subject.
We are talking about metaphysics here and the more concrete you try to be with your statements the more error prone you will be. The domain does not fit tight conceptual models. It is clear that Greg is forcefully folding and fitting in different concepts that do not belong together. He attempts to do this through a combination of fluffy language and just plain wrong conveyance of facts.
There are many cultures that have peered into these and had the benefit of thousands of years of observation and probably other aids we do not have such as consciousness expanding hallucinogens (i.e. Izapa). It’s difficult to believe people will just take in musings as fact with little or no verification and checking and proclaim the jester a master wizard. If you accept the ‘word according to Greg’ then you are believing it because he said so.
Greg’s stuff is pretty close to what I would call New Age pablum. It heavily rides the coat tales of others without due reference. If you like it fluffy and to be told they way things are instead of digging yourself for the facts and realizations then please enjoy it. This is the antithesis of what intellectual and spiritual development is supposed to be. Someone aspiring to spiritual development would be better served by not schlocking around with concepts that are not based on solid foundations. Otherwise you are spending your time with a kind of entertainment for dummies that’s built on nonsense. But of course, one of the challenges on the path of development is to be able to distinguish the shadow of something from the real thing itself. If you like shadow then be amused as long as you want. If however, you want some solid information on Fractal Time you should stick to McKenna, Shearer, and Joe Arguelles (with strong filters at Dreamspell). We have a book where the author has lifted and borrowed concepts from others repackaging them as his own and either flubs up important information or parrots concepts which do not have sufficient merit.
If you want better, much more accurate information, around 2012 and the Maya then go to the original works that Greg is copying. Your first and top pick should be John Major Jenkins (Galactic Alignment). Carl Calleman also has an interesting book (The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness). But beware, Callemans’ book is a wide mix of concepts and he loosely passes off as Mayan things that are not clearly so. Calleman also believes that Sri Kalki Bhagavan is the Kalki Avatar and that Europe, specifically his beloved Sweden, is the center of earth’s energetic pulses that guide evolution.
P.S. Greg is worse in live spoken word. Go listen to the C2C interview w.Greg on Mar 17 2009, host George Noory had to keep bringing Greg back to the subject as Greg kept pontificating fluff. Greg kept referring back to John Major Jenkins repeatedly licking his boots a clear indicator who he copied for these concepts.
Greg also claimed that scientists have found that the center of the Milky Way is a source of tremendous energy and that scientists by studying ice cores can prove when we are close to or far away from this source at the center of the Milky Way (or ‘Cyclic-tilting’ as he alternately called it). It seems like he is distorting the findings of Paul LaViolette in this statement. He also referred to a study in the Journal Nature which had nothing to do with his claims (I think he was confusing a study of disc-accretion with the point he was trying to make.)
He also claimed that the star purportedly next to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (the only galaxy by the way that has a black hole and a massive star next to it) is ‘the’ brightest one in the galaxy. Current thinking gives that title to the Peony nebula star. There are the remains of a massive star cluster near the massive black hole but there is no single companion massive star next to it. In fact the most massive stars known just now are in star cluster NGC 3603 in the Milky Way.
Regarding the Dendera Zodiac he claims there is an ‘inordinate’ amount of space between Pisces and Aquarius (‘precisely where we are now’). Go look at an image of it. Mazzoroth has a large one you can read. There is no unusual gap between the two signs. He also said there is ‘a mysterious document encoded on that stone called The Program of Destiny’ which links to a Sumerian text. Someone needs to update google to find any matches of ‘The Program of Destiny’ to Dendera. Actually Greg is referring to a statement made by John Lash (‘the programmes of destiny’) documented by Colin Wilson in Atlantis Blueprint. I think Greg means the Sumerian ‘Tablet of Destiny’. You get a clearer picture of what Greg has mumbled by going back to John Lashs writing at metahistory.org.
I could go on for hours with these examples. But I hope you get my point.
I really enjoy this author’s works. In this case, he takes a subject around which there is so much trepidation and not a little ‘fear’ and he invites you to explore, sharing his knowledge, experiences and research with the reader, alternate possibilities that makes one want to stick around to see how the future will unfold. As an added benefit, he empowers one to take control of one’s own life, by offering the idea that s/he can actually change the outcomes of ‘repeating uncomfortable situations’ in one’s life, into more fulfilling and positive ones. Expand that thought process, apply globally and just imagine! the possibilities! I highly recommend this work.
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