| Why do some prayers seem to be answered while | | | | choose a different future.Braden pulls |
| others not? | | | | together hard science, theories, and earth |
| | | | events, to support his viewpoint for the need |
| "The secret of prayer lies beyond the words | | | | for mass consciousness and prayer, and I feel |
| of praise, the incantations, and the rhythmic | | | | that this book is singularly headed in one |
| chants to the `powers that be."We are only | | | | direction, that is the call for action to |
| using a small part of the "equation" of | | | | change the predetermined path that we are |
| prayer and those elements that we are missing | | | | presently on.It is thought that the |
| are emotion, thought, and feeling; it is | | | | imbalances imposed upon the earth are |
| these elements that when properly aligned are | | | | mirrored as conditions within our bodies like |
| the formula for creation.In the 4th century, | | | | diseases such as cancer, and similarly the |
| the Nicean Council excluded twenty-two | | | | earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are |
| ancient writings from the Biblical canon | | | | mirrors of a great change in the human |
| because they either felt that they were | | | | consciousness.Braden discusses the mirror |
| redundant, or that the writings should be | | | | theory of quantum physics and suggests that |
| preserved for scholars or the mystery | | | | if alternate realities exist simultaneously, |
| schools, thus the science of prayer has been | | | | prayer is the secret key allowing us to |
| lost to the Western world for 2500 years.The | | | | choose the reality that we want to |
| first part of the book discusses the various | | | | experience. It is our thought and feeling, |
| prophecies foretold by the North American | | | | every moment, which determines the reality |
| Hopi, the Maya, Nostradamus, and Isaiah, as | | | | that we experience, sometimes consciously and |
| well as prophets like Edgar Cayce, who | | | | sometimes unconsciously.This book reminds me |
| forecast devastation and upheaval of the | | | | of James Redfield's, The Celestine Prophecy, |
| earth in the days of the prophecies, which is | | | | where much the same concept of mass |
| Now. Braden sites several cases of miracles | | | | consciousness and prayer was introduced in a |
| over the years that changed the course of | | | | fictional adventure.To compliment Gregg |
| events and may be the result of group prayer | | | | Braden's research I would recommend reading |
| or mass consciousness. If the prophecies are | | | | "You'll See It When You Believe It", Dr. |
| fulfilled, we are on an inevitable path to | | | | Wayne Dyer.Cindy DeJager is a freelance |
| destruction, and Braden feels we may be able | | | | writer living in Calgary, AB Canada. She |
| to reverse this path if we use the science of | | | | writes book reviews on a casual basis. |
| prayer as a collective consciousness, to | | | | |