I mention this story to illustrate the possibility of finding literal clues in ancient sacred religious texts. And all that Heinrich Schliemann did was follow the literal clues. And for the first time, the world knew that Troy really existed- there was a Trojan horse, there wasa Trojan war. On the ninth level he excavated the gates of the ancient city of Troy. To make a long story short, he traveled to Greece and began excavating through nine different levels of nine different cities that had never been revealed before. Schliemann woke up one morning and thought, What if this isn’t a metaphor? What if it’s a literal account of something that actually happened? If I literally followed the clues, where would they lead me?Īnd that’s what he did. Back then, The Iliad was believed to be a fictional account of a great battle between the forces of Light and Dark, a metaphor for the conflict between good and evil. It calls to mind the story of Heinrich Schliemann, the nineteenth-century amateur German archaeologist who was fascinated by Homer’s The Iliad. Now, that’s a broad, sweeping statement that people view as simply a metaphor-“look within”-meaning look within the deeper experience of your life or your perceptions. The text over Apollo’s temple at Delphi in Greece, for example, reads Know thyself. It was a journey that led me from the pristine highlands of central China and Tibet to the rugged tombs and deserts in Egypt, to the aborigines in Australia, and to the remotest parts of Nepal and India. So it made perfect sense to me that whoever or whatever was responsible for our being here would have left us a clue-a clue that would show us that we are part of one another, that we are greater than the differences that have led to so much conflict and mutual destruction.Īgainst this backdrop, and as a trained scientist, I began looking for that common denominator that would tell us that we are indeed an intentional species. I had always felt strongly, both from a scientific and philosophical point of view, that we are an intentional species, that we are more than a fluke of biology that somehow managed to evolve over a long period of time. It was during this time that I had an important insight about our existence as a species. We knew how close the superpowers had come to doing the unthinkable, of unleashing the forces of nature on civilian populations through weapons of mass destruction. It was a very frightening time for those of us who were working behind the scenes. His books include The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, The Divine Matrix, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer, The God Code, and The Isaiah Effect.ĭuring the last years of the Cold War, I was working as a computer systems designer in the aerospace industry. After serving as a senior computer systems designer for Martin Marietta Aerospace, a computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum, and the technical operations manager for Cisco Systems, Braden’s work is now devoted to inspiring humanity to build a better world. I’ll start it with a brief introduction.īraden, a best-selling author and internationally renowned speaker, is a pioneer in bridging the wisdom of our past with the science, healing, and peace of our future. I’m privileged to present it here for the first time. Gregg was gracious enough to regale me with a second story as well. It deepened my understanding of universal laws and transformed the way I prayed. Gregg Braden was kind enough to contribute a wonderful story about the mechanics of prayer to my book, Sixty Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything.
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