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