Gregg Braden - The Key to True Harmony

Gregg Braden - The Key to True Harmony - YouTube 11:10

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By Katharine Hone en Reiné Gadellaa

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There was a time I used to have an aversion to the word crisis, and I think a lot of us do, we hear the word crisis and we think, oh god!, you know?! I actually have come to appreciate the word tremendously now, for this reason, because if a crisis is present, if it's still present, it means we still have time to fix whatever it is that the crisis is calling our attention too.

If the crisis is over, that means it's done, however it's going to be resolved, it's already happening and there's really nothing we can do so the fact that we are in multiple concurrent simultaneous crises right now, for me it's actually a good thing because it means those crises are calling our attention to something that needs that attention. Now the choice is: will we recognize that, will we embrace the fact that we're moving in into a very different world?

I think probably the greatest crisis is the unspoken crisis, bigger than climate change bigger than the potential war in the Middle East, I believe it doesn't have to happen and for very good reasons I think it won't, bigger than all those, I think, Jennifer, it's a crisis in thinking,

because until the people of the world have embraced the fact that the world of the past no longer exists, and are willing to embrace the solutions and the ideas that support the new world it's going to be very very difficult to move into that world. This is the thing, the media has so trumped-up the things that are broken and really hasn’t recognized alot of very good things happening in the world, but the media has never come out and said in a big way (BBC or CNN) you know a ‘special’ that the world of the past no longer exists - if we can do that to a broad general audience, then people can mourn the passing (of a way of life) and let it go and without that, I see these people everyday of my life people there's a belief that the world was kinda chugging along everything was going well until something happened for some people it was 9/11 for some people it was the the economic crash in 08-09, but for those people there's a sense that all we need to do is get through the difficult time until the world goes back to normal.

And they're waiting for normal, they put their lives on hold, there are people that are waiting to have children and are not creating their families because we're waiting for the world to get back to normal, people that are putting their career choices in their lives on hold, waiting for us to come down the other side of the speedbump and return to a world that no longer exists.
And those are the people that are suffering, the're suffering right now because they're clinging to an idea of a world that served us and I’m not going to judge this right, wrong, good or bad I have to say it works so well, we’re here, it got us here. And now we know things now we didn't know in that world.
I think it serves us not to judge the past as a mistake or as good thing, but to say ‘ít was our path’ it was a huge learning curve and now we know more than we did in the past and with what we know we can make new choices and move forward.
And I think this is really the root of so much of the struggle people are having, because the world is changing, the way we live our lives is changing, the way we thought about money in the past is changing and nobody's told us, the way we’ve thought about jobs and careers and security. We no longer live in isolated nations, isolated economies, we don't have isolated resources and it's very difficult for a single nation to make choices and decisions solely regarding their nation because we are so interconnected.
For many people they haven't really embraced this fact: we pushed globalism, the modern world pushed globalism on the world and the world market and now that the world bought it, we're in this together. That's why the thinking regarding how we go about creating solutions embracing the new ideas, until that thinking is in place, I sense that this is a great crisis that we’re looking at right now.
You're talking about macro events but you're also addressing the micro and the micro with each individual on this call is about those folks embracing the crisis in their life and come with some new thinking, is that it?
This is part of it, yes! And a big part is that we can no longer separate the micro from the macro. Where do you draw the line between the choices you make in your life, in my life and what's happening in the big world out there.

I was in the yucatán peninsular for about three weeks right before the end of the the year and I've been there in the past, spent alot of time with indigenous people in that part of the world and they reflected in their beliefs some of the principles that we find almost universally throughout the indigenous peoples. One of those things is fascinating me, is that they never separated what we would call science from spirituality from everyday life from the cycles of time. I think about how different our world would be if we did not separate science and spirituality and art for example, and our everyday lives.
It means that when we see something, we look at something of beauty and we feel that feeling within us that feeling is actually changing the chemistry in our bodies, that's a science. To us in the modern world we’ve made a distincition, we say, ‘oh, that’s just art’. When really, our presence with this piece of art.
I’m looking at a plant behind you right now and as i'm saying the beauty of those flowers it's creating a feeling in me that's changing my body chemistry. 1300 biochemical reactions happening in my brain and my body in response to an emotional that I'm having. And we’ve seperated those things. They never separated the world from their lives.

And I think we’re at a time where it's really difficult. We’re challenged to draw a line between where our lives end and the rest of the world begins. The moment we draw that line, if we choose to draw it we’ll fall into the ancient trap that keeps us separated from the world and locks us into struggle, because we have failed to recognize that our problems are the world's problems and vice versa. And it's not about solving a few people's problems here, we're all in this together and so we're learning now, I think, to to see the world in ourselves in a different way.
So what can I personally do to change my life and to change the macro from the micro.
Well, the world we're living in right now is largely based upon scientific assumptions made the last 150 years. And science is good. I was trained as a scientist, science is useful but science doesn't have all the answers. I think the key. New discoveries that show us where the thinking in the past (scientific thinking) is either inaccurate and in some places is flat out wrong. Those new discoveries the reason they're important is because we all, every one of us individually will solve the problems in our personal lives by looking at our relationship to the world through a lens of beliefs. That lens is largely defined by science, either consciously or subconsciously, in the modern world. So the beliefs, were does life come from? Where do we come from? What is our relationship to our bodies? Are we powerless over our bodies or do we have the ability to communicate and to heal with our bodies? What’s our relationship to the world around us, what’s our relationship to other people, what’s our relationship to the past, how do we solve our problems?

These are big big questions, every individual, consciously or often subconsciously, ask themselves, every nation, every civilization. Our answers that haved been based upon scientific principles that we now know are largely incorrect; that have led us to believe that life is random ,human life is random that we’re separate from our bodies, we’re separate from our world, that civilization is a one-time deal, that we're here at the pinnacle of this sophistication that’s never happened before. And that conflict and competition is the way to solve our problems. That lens. I'm not saying we get up every morning and look in the mirror and that we have that conversation with ourselves and talk about it over breakfast, but its so deeply ingrained within us. Most of our listeners have probably been raising a family or live in a community where they've heard the term ‘we live in the dog-eat-dog world.

So if you believe that’, that's the lens through which you will answer the question you asked me. What do I do about the job that’s disappeared, what do I do about my marriage that’s collapsing or my children that no longer know me, and what do I do about my finances? And all these things we're solving, the greatest crises that face the world and faces us as individuals, through the lens of a way of thinking that we now know is obsolete.


New discoveries tell us that life isn't random, human life isn’t random, that we're deeply connected to our bodies, we’re deeply enmeshed within the systems of the earth itself, that civilization is cyclic. We've been here and we've achieved great things in the past. If we have the wisdom to recognize that (and this is the big one) is that nature is based upon a model of cooperation and what is called mutual aid. Competition does happen in nature under specific circumstances but it's not the rule with nature and that changes everything so with that in mind I answer your question: what do our listeners do, what can they do when they wake up in the morning?

We all ask ourselves the question, again subconsciously or sometimes it's very conscious. We look at the world and we say ‘what can I get from the world that exists?’ that's how we go about solving our problems, based upon the false assumptions of science. The new discoveries now give us a reason to change that question. The new question rather than asking what can I get from the world that exists is what can I share with the world's emerging. What can I contribute to the world that is emerging within my community within my family, within myself.

The answer to that question, it's subtle, and please listeners don't be deceived by the simplicity of that question, because the way we answer that question opens the door to powerful powerful possibilities, new ways of sharing our passions and our interests in the world. Not just what we went to school to learn to do or just what our trade has trained us to do, but things that the world needs, that we intuitively have picked up and learned on our own. As we share those in the world (and the world is now calling them forth), the flip side of that is that we are rewarded abundently.