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The
Shift Is Happening Now
An
interview with Gregg Bra
den
by Wynn Free
There are many quantifiable scientific indicators
proving that the Earth and the Solar System are going through changes that have
never previously occurred in recorded human history. Many psychics and
channelers say that we have entered the beginning of a dimensional shift that is
already deeply affecting all of our lives. And some predict that within the next
decade we will enter into an Ascension process fulfilling the prophecies of
Jesus.
Gregg Braden is probably the
most recognized person who is evaluating and revealing the scientific phenomena
pointing to this shift. He became intrigued with all this when he was working
for Phillips Petroleum in the late 1970s and noticed that the magnetics of the
earth were at their lowest point in 2000 years and decreasing at a rapid rate.
Eventually,
Braden wrote a book Awakening to Zero
Point that documented this and other indicators of our rapidly changing
planet.
Wynn: Is it true that the magnetic
poles of the earth are in the process of shifting right now?
Gregg: In May-June-July of 2002, it
was very well acknowledged and
esteemed scientific journals actually were saying for the first time
that we are in the process of a polar reversal.Back in the 1960s, geologists were certain that the earth
periodically went through a reversal. They could tell from core samples, ice
samples, and fossils, as well as magnetized particles that were locked into
certain positions in the rock of the earth. Geologists were so certain about
this phenomenon that they actually mapped out the last four-and-a-half-million
years, and the resulting records suggested that the earth has gone through
fourteen of these polar reversals.At
that time, back in 1961 and 1962, scientists felt that the last pole reversal
occurred at about the time of the last Ice Age, ten to twelve thousand years
ago. And they were certain it would happen again, but not for thousands of
years, so it was nothing to worry about.But
through the 1990s, geologists continued to refine this kind of information. They
had been saying it took thousands of years for this to happen. Then they began
to say, "Well, it can happen in hundreds of years." But now, recent
evidence from some of the ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica say that it
could happen in as little as a decade.But
now, we know that the poles are actually moving. We're living it right now. We
don't know exactly what that means, because even though it's happened fourteen
times in the last four and a half million years, it's never happened with six
billion people on the earth.
Wynn: Are you saying that it's common
knowledge?
Gregg: It's common knowledge to
people that need to know these things.For
example, FAA regulations say that when the poles move beyond five or eight
degrees, the runways at the airports have to be renumbered to correlate with the
magnetic headings that the pilots are seeing. The first airport in the United
States to comply with this mandate was Minneapolis/St. Paul, where they spent
something on the order of eighty-five thousand dollars to go through and
renumber the runway headings.But
what happened in the May-June-July time frame of 2002 is that journals such as
Nature, Science, Scientific American, and New Scientist released reports saying
that we are definitely in the process of a magnetic reversal, and the AP wires
picked it up.Scientists have no idea what the impact is going to be to
electronic and electromagnetic power grids. But even more, they don't know what
it means to human immune systems. Alternative healing modalities have shown a
connection between magnetics and the immune system, which also would imply that
our immune systems could very well be keyed into the magnetic fields of the
earth.We know that birds and
animals migrate along the lines of these magnetic fields. So there is
speculation that the changes taking place in the magnetic field are responsible
for the changing migratory patterns in birds that have been recorded in Asia and
North America.The change in the
fields also may explain why whales are beaching themselves. The lines of
navigation that the whales have always followed have shifted and now lead them
onto a beach. When we take them back out into the water and set them free, they
continue to align themselves with the same magnetic lines, and in following
them, they end up on the beach again.So,
yes, it's common knowledge now. The most respected scientific journals say that
we're in this shift. And even though we don't know precisely what that means,
it's significant that it is being acknowledged in peer-review kinds of
literature, and not just in speculative or pseudo-scientific magazines.
Wynn: When was this magnetic shift
first acknowledged?
Gregg: It would have been in the
June/July time frame of 2002. People were sending me emails that they had seen
it, and giving me references. I also found references in the magazines myself.
Wynn: Would we survive a complete
pole shift?
Gregg: Any answer to that question
must of necessity lie within the realm of speculation, because in traditional
recorded human history it's never happened. On the other hand, there are Native
traditions and ancient Hebrew biblical traditions suggesting that a magnetic
shift may have happened even more recently than the last Ice Age. That was
10,000 to 12,000 years ago, but these traditions suggest that the last shift may
have happened as recently as 3,600 years ago. Native legends speak of a
day 3,600 years ago when the sun rose from the west as it had always done,
hovered in the sky for more than a full day, and set in the east but the next
day, it rose in the east and set in the west, as it does today. Hebrew
traditions speak of this event, also, saying that it happened during a battle.
The ancient Hebrews took it as a sign that one side was receiving celestial
assistance, because it stayed light long enough for the battle to complete in
their favor.We can't verify this
in the rock or fossil records, because 3,600 years is too short a period of time
for such an event to be reflected there. All we have to go by are traditions,
legends, and myths preserved in oral and written documents.What the tradition tells us, however, is that if something like this were
to happen, the people of the earth would live through it. It would have to be a
really strange day to live through, but if the ancient legends are true, it
happened and the people apparently survived. However, we don't know how it
affected their lives.
Wynn: Do you have any idea how this
magnetic shift might change consciousness?
Gregg: The speculation is that there
is a correlation between consciousness and magnetics. In order to understand how
this connection might work, it is useful to compare it to a computer’s memory.
The magnetic fields in the memory are held in place through an electrical charge
a trickle charge within the computer itself. When the batteries in
the computer die, the charge is gone, and the memory is lost. We have to reload
the operating system.
Similarly, researchers and descendents of indigenous peoples believe that when
the earth goes through what science sees as a magnetic reversal, it also will be
a great shift and cleansing of the earth's consciousness. There will be nothing
holding all the magnetic patterns that have been put in place. So when we awaken
from this shift, what becomes consciousness will be our truest nature, our
truest essence. And the memory of all of the evil or all the bad things or all
of the grudges or the ego and we've held against one another as individuals and
nations will not be part of that new consciousness, that new grid.From that perspective, many traditions predict, sense, or speculate that
we are nearing a time of what they call the Great Cleansing, and that this
cleansing is happening at a level of core memory of consciousness.
Wynn: So is it possible to assume
that in some way, our memory is
connected to this magnetic field?
Gregg: I think so. I think that
because of the strange accounts of the astronauts who left earth and went into
space during the Apollo Program. In leaving the earth's atmosphere and circling
the planet many miles above the surface, the affects of earth's magnetics were
negligible. And the astronauts began to have experiences that they were not
prepared or trained for, which were totally unanticipated. When they were
in space and looked back to earth, they began having insights and feelings,
awakenings and awareness’s that they had never had when they were on the
earth. It meant something different to each one of them.In much the same way, friends of mine who went to Viet Nam were all
changed when they came home. It changed everyone. For some, the change was so
painful that they could never speak about it, and for others, the change was a
catalyst in their lives and they spoke of it incessantly.And I believe there was actually a PBS special that documented this same
phenomenon with the astronauts, that they were never the same afterward. When
they came back, there were some who didn't know what to do with their outer
space experience. Some turned to drugs and alcohol. Others channeled the change
that occurred within them in very positive, life-affirming projects.One of this latter group was Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who founded the Noetic
Sciences Organization in an effort to validate the phenomenon of human
consciousness. Another astronaut undertook the search for Noah's Ark, and
actually found it embedded in the ice on Mt. Ararat, right where the Bible said
it would be.[1]
Wynn: So the implication here is that
these astronauts, because they
left the magnetic field of the earth, had some kind of spiritual
awakening?
Gregg: They certainly went through a
catharsis when they were no
longer in the influence of the earth's magnetic field. We also see
something similar happening when we look at the magnetic fields of the earth.
They are not constant over the surface of the earth, and contour maps, available
through United States Geologic Survey, show the varying intensities of magnetic
fields over the surface of the earth where magnetic fields have a very high
intensity and where the intensity if very low. Those fields have shifted
over time, and may actually account for why populations of humans have migrated
to the places they've migrated to. They might have been following these
magnetic contours. What happens is that in the places where the magnetics
are very low, where their effects are negligible, tremendous change and
innovation appear to occur. Where the magnetics are traditionally high, those
are the places of stagnation where changes, although they do happen, take a long
time and change is very slow in coming. If I were coming here from another
world and didn't know anything about the people of the earth, and if I were
looking for a place where the opportunity of change was the greatest, I would
look for the zero contour lines. And if you look at a map of the magnetics on
earth today, what you find is that there is a zero contour line that runs along
the West Coast of North America along the California coast and on up off the
coast of Alaska. In other words, the magnetics along the West Coast are almost
nil!
When we think of the West Coast, we think about wacky California. Well,
the truth is California is a seed; one of several, and it's traditionally been
very innovative in technology, science, fashion, finance, and the arts, because
there is an opportunity for tremendous change there.Within North America, the flip side of that would be an area of highest
magnetics, where the magnetic fields are the most dense. And you find this down
through some of the Southeastern states the very states that are
traditionally viewed as being conservative. This doesn't mean that change can't
happen there. What it says, however, is that change takes a long time there, and
people have to see a really good reason before they are going to budge from what
they've always
done.
Wynn: So where the magnetic field is
less dense, people are more open to the moment?
Gregg: They're open to change,
period. It doesn't mean that the change is good, bad, right, or wrong. It's
important to be clear about this. The consciousness of the people will determine
how that change comes about.I'll
give an ironic example. There is a zero contour line that runs right through the
Middle East. It actually runs almost directly underneath the area we call the
Suez Canal, right up into Israel, right along the coast of the Red Sea. Yes,
right in that area is a zero contour line. This means that area is ripe for
change. But again, how that change comes about whether it's peaceful and
constructive or angry and destructive is determined by the consciousness of
the people who live there.
Wynn: So it's not good or bad either
way?
Gregg: Precisely. It simply is an
opportunity for change. At the same time, the highest magnetic contour lines
noted anywhere on the planet earth have traditionally been in portions of the
former Soviet Union, Russia, and Siberia. We know that in that part of the
world, there was a system that was in place, and while change came about, it was
slow and painful, a long time coming, with a lot of suffering. But when that
change happened, there was a cascade effect, and it happened almost overnight.So the correlations are very interesting between human consciousness, the
opportunities for innovation, change, doing things in a new way, and the
magnetics of our world.The Earth
has many areas of high and low change.
Wynn: Our readers are going to want
to know how they can best face the changes that are coming in our world as a
whole.
Gregg: I'll be as concise as I can. I
think that the answer to that is perhaps encapsulated best in the words of those
who have come before us, the ancient Essenes, in a text that's more than 2,500
years old. It reminds us of our relationship to the world around us, and
says simply that the world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a
mirror of what we have become from within.So when we see a world that appears angry, cruel, and thoughtless, that
produces suffering for our brothers and sisters all over the world from this
perspective, that world is a mirror of what we have become as individuals,
families, societies, and nations. It's not right, wrong, good or bad. It's
simply a reflection of who we are. The condition of the planet is a feedback
mechanism.So if we want to see
change in our world, we must become that change in our every day lives. If we
want to see peace, tolerant
understanding, compassion, and forgiveness at the global level, we must become
that at the dinner table and with our families. We must become that with our
schools.We must demand that we be
entertained through peace, compassion, and understanding. It doesn't have to be
dull and boring. It can still be very exciting, but it does not have to be
ruthless, thoughtless, cruel, or heartless.So in our daily lives, every moment of every day, we make a choice that
either affirms or denies life in our bodies. Because we are linked through this
grid, our individual choices all pool into the collective answer to our future.If we'd like to see a collective change, we must individually become that
change.
Wynn: We have this date of 2012 that
many people are saying is this time of global shift or Ascension. What do you
think is going to
happen?
Gregg: The date 2012 is interesting
because it comes up in Mayan traditions, Egyptian traditions, some of the
Christian traditions, and even in the Bible Code which is very controversial
unto itself. My sense is this date could be any date. If we focus on a
date and live our lives preparing for a change on that date, we miss life. From
my perspective, if we simply live each day of our lives to its fullest, we
reconcile the experiences that cross our paths each day;
we reconcile the opportunity to honor life, to honor our relationships with one
another.If we are honest,
truthful, considerate, caring and compassionate, if we live this each day, we
have already prepared for whatever could possibly come on 2012 or any other day,
any other year, any time in our future.I
know people who are living their lives hoarding boxcars full of food and
ammunition, preparing for the day when our world changes. I understand, and I
think it's good to be self-sufficient. I understand what they are saying. But
also what I've seen is that so much of their life is dedicated to preparing for
that day that they've missed the beauty and the mystery of life that unfolds in
every day. And it's in perceiving this beauty and mystery that we prepare for
the greatest challenges!
Wynn: So basically, if one wants to
approach this change with the maximum positive outcome for them, the key is to
live each day with the maximum output of love, compassion, and caring?
Gregg: Yes, and to do this, we have
to live each day consciously. Be aware of the opportunities. Recognize the
opportunities that cross our paths. Every day, we're given the opportunity to be
tolerant of another belief system, to forgive someone who has hurt or angered
us, to reconcile our own judgments about what should or should not be in our
world.If we can reconcile these
things as they cross our paths and consciously deal with them in the moment,
then we know we're changing the chemistry of our bodies by changing the way we
feel, and are thus preparing ourselves for whatever transitions the earth is
going to go through.If that makes
sense.
Wynn: Yes, it does to me. Is there
anything really important to close with for our readers that I might have
missed?
Gregg: For the first time in our
history, the fate of our species, our entire species, rests upon the choices of
a single generation. And what we've just done is talked about what some of those
choices are all about.
