"It's About Time!" says Gregg Braden
by Linda M. Potter

    When Gregg Braden says, “History repeats itself,” he knows what he’s talking about. Braden, the New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking new book, Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, insists that there is a “growing body of evidence” that suggests that “time’s waves, and the history within them, repeat as cycles within cycles. As each new cycle begins, it carries the same conditions as the past, but with greater intensity.”
    To identify when these cycles will reoccur and history will once again have an opportunity to repeat itself, Braden has created what he calls the “Time Code Calculator.” How does it work? It uses a powerful new model of time — fractal time — that “merges the modern discoveries of nature’s patterns (fractals) with the ancient view of a cyclic universe.” 
    The calculator relies on “seed events” to forecast the future. “A seed event,” explains Braden, “is an event that sets in motion a pattern of energy that will continue on a rhythmic basis, again and again, until the pattern is changed. By entering [into the calculator] an event from the past that became the seed event for a particular cycle, you can find when that cycle will repeat, again and again,” he explains. The calculator (available at www.greggbraden.com/calculator) works with cultural, global and personal cycles.
    How accurate are these computations? The Time Code Calculator predicted both 9/11 and the current economic collapse. What does it identify as hot spots and flash points in our future?
    Braden says that by examining the seed dates for some of the events that were the most pivotal in defining our time, we see things like:
1914 – the first time we had global war
1929 – the crash of global economy
1941 – the first time America was surprise-attacked on American soil
1945 – the first time a nuclear weapon was used on a civilian population in war
    “When we look at when the cycles for these events are due to reoccur, we find that the majority of them repeat in 2010, and the global war cycle repeats in 2011. It appears that 2010 could be a pivotal year,” he says.
     “What that means,” he explains, “is that 2010 may be a rare, precious opportunity to redefine some of the most frightening patterns of our past so we never have to experience those things again. I believe this generation is on the threshold of making the choice to be the generation that walks away from the use of war, for example, to solve our differences.
    “I also believe we are about to redefine the global economy of disparity. I think 2010 is the powerful year when we all have the opportunity to participate in how those choices are made and redefine that cycle before it begins. And in that way, the global war cycle of 2011 can be obsolete. We never have to have that again.
    “Now is the time to do whatever we’re going to do; it’s what I call a time of ‘graceful urgency.’”
    A former geologist and aerospace computer systems designer, Braden has devoted 22 years to researching ancient wisdom traditions, studying the ice cores in Antarctica and working for Global Coherence.
    Gregg Braden will be appearing in St. Louis on March 4 at 560 Music Hall. For more information, contact BellaSpark Productions, (970) 443-0732, www.bellaspark.com.