FRACTAL TIME
TIME CODES

by Gregg Braden

This is an excerpt from Gregg Braden's Book: Fractal Time ~~ The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age. It is published by Hay House. In the book, Gregg explores the cyclical nature of time and has shared some of his conclusions. For a deeper understanding of what he is saying, you may find it useful to listen to the audio-video interviews with Gregg about this topic. They are posted on the Audio-Video Board which is located near the bottom of the group front page. I also highly recommend the book.

Gregg believes time and the cycles of time are coded and that if we understand the codes, we can use them effectively. He has labeled his 22 conclusions Time Codes. They are as follows:

Time Code 1: We're living the completion of a 5,125 year-long cycle of time--a world age--that the ancient Maya calculated would end with the winter solstice on December 21, 2012.

Time Code 2: Our ancestors recorded their experiences of the last "end of time," showing beyond a reasonable doubt that the close of one world age is the beginning of the next, and not the end of the world.

Time Code 3: New discoveries show that we can think of time as an essence that follows the same rhythms and cycles that govern everything from particles to galaxies.

Time Code 4: We can think of the things that happen in time as places within cycles--points that can be measured, calculated, and predicted.

Time Code 5: If we know where we are in a cycle, then we know what to expect when it repeats.

Time Code 6: The *Time Code Calculator shows us when we can expect the conditions of the past to repeat, not the events themselves.

Time Code 7: Ancient traditions divide Earth's 25,625-year orbit through the 12 constellations of the zodiac--the precession of the equinoxes--into five world ages lasting 5,125 years each.

Time Code 8: The position of the earth within our galaxy creates powerful changes that signal the end of one world age and the beginning of the next. The knowledge of these cyclic changes is known as the doctrine of World Ages.

Time Code 9: The Vedic traditions describe an extended time of devotion, expressed in action (Bhakti), that began around 1898 and lasts well beyond the 2012 Mayan end date.

Time Code 10: The present world age began on August 11, 3114 B.C. Its end is signaled by the rare alignment of our solar system with the core of the Milky Way galaxy on December 21, 2012--an event that last occurred approximately 26,000 years ago.

Time Code 11: Nature uses a few simple, self-similar, and repeating patterns--fractals--to build energy and atoms into the familiar forms of everything from roots, rivers, and trees to rocks, mountains, and us.

Time Code 12: Everything we need to understand the universe lives in the simplicity of each piece of it.

Time Code 13: Our knowledge of repeating cycles allow us to pinpoint times in the future when we can expect to see the repeating conditions of the past.

Time Code 14: The Time Code Calculator can pinpoint personal cycles of love and hurt, as well as global cycles of war and peace.

Time Code 15: Patterns identified for an earlier time in history tend to repeat themselves with greater intensity at later dates.

Time Code 16: Using a template of human events, Earth events, and celestial events gives us a consistent way to view the past as a realistic window to 2012.

Time Code 17: There is nothing in the geologic record to suggest that Earth's magnetic fields will reverse before or immediately following the 2012 cycle end date.

Time Code 18: The Time Code template shows that the human, Earth, and celestial conditions of today are in the same range as the key reference dates of the past. In other words, the changes happening right now are just what we'd expect fot the end of a world age.

Time Code 19: There is a consensus among the best minds of our time that the current depletion of natural resources, exponentially growing population, global poverty, and competition for the necessities of life are converging toward a "bottleneck" in time.

Time Code 20: The results are conclusive: Heart-based focus and heart-based living will have a direct effect upon the way we experience 2012 and our time of change.

Time Code 21: Faced with the greatest number and magnitude of potentially world-ending challenges in 5,125 years of human history, we now discover that the key to our transition lies in our collective feelings about the change.

Time Code 22: December 21, 2012, is a rare and powerful window of opportunity for our collective emergence into our greatest potential.

Such a moment is so rare that we have been preparing for it since the end of the last world age, and it will be another 26,000 years before the same opportunity cycles around again for our descendants.

The possibilities of such an emergence bring to mind the ancient accounts of the Garden of Eden, a place that once held all the possibilities of our greatest joys and heartfelt desires. If we're to believe the calendars, myths, and prophesies, it is just such a potential that awaits us following 2012. We could create a second Eden that picks up where the first one left off.

Biblical correlations do suggest, in fact, that the last time an Eden appeared upon the earth was almost 5,000 years ago, at the end of the last great cycle. During that time, the planet's inhabitants had everything they needed to live in balance with the earth, enjoying vital, healthy lives. As the choices of our post-Eden ancestors planted the seed events for everything that would unflod as the cycle that followed, they set in motion the patterns that define our world today.

From cycles of weather to the balance of carbon dioxide between the oceans and the atmosphere, nature shows us that a pattern will repeat until something new replaces it. The change that accompanies the 2012 convergence of cycles is a rare opportunity to wipe away the patterns that we've outgrown from the past. At the same time, it is also a precious choice point to set healthy, new patterns in place for our future and the future that belongs to our children . . . and to theirs.
-Pages 198-203

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* The Time Code Calculator is a user-friendly tool that gives us easy access to the patterns that unfold as nature's cycles--the same patterns that govern much of the universe and life. The Time Code Calculator cannot take into account the effect of consciousness and choice. It can only show us when the conditions of the past will reappear again. The choices we make along the timeline of the cycle can create a new path and a new timeline with a new outcome. If we can use the science of cycles to find the times that are ripe for change, and if we can use the spiritual traditions of our past to trigger peaceful and life-affirming outcomes, then we suddenly have a powerful new way to think of ourselves and our world.

[W]e can identify a seen event in our personal or collective past and calculate when the conditions created by it will repeat in our future. It can be anything--good or bad--from the great joys of love, romance, success, and peace to the great tragedies of loss, suffering, and war.

What's important here is that the seed event begins the cycle. As cycles repeat in intervals that follow the rhythms of the mysterious ratio phi (.618), we can apply this number to the events of the past to discover when we can expect to see the same conditions again. Whether the cycle lasts a moment or for thousands of years, because it is a cycle the conditions that it carries will repeat within the larger one that spawned it--our present world age of 5,125 years.
-Pages 205-207

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