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My name's Gregg Braden and I'd like to welcome you

to "Missing Links: The Deep Truth of Our Origin, History,

Destiny, and Fate."

In this episode, we'll explore one

of the paradigm-shattering discoveries

that you just aren't seeing in mainstream science

and mainstream media.

In our last episode, we identified

the three natural cycles that are colliding in our world

right now and wreaking havoc on our lives.

They're the cycles of climate change, cycles of economy,

and cycles of human conflict.

Well, each of these cycles alone would

be enough to disrupt our lives and challenge

our ways of living, and the fact that all of them

are converging right now, it leaves very little question

as to why we're living this time of extremes.

Question now.

So what can we do about it?

If we can't change the cycles themselves,

then what can we change to make our lives better and create

better families and stronger communities as we

go through this change?

Well, the answer to this question

is what I want to talk to you about today.

It lies in the way we ask ourselves

a timeless question and our willingness

to answer that question.

As I mentioned before, there's a lot of good news

that comes with our time of extremes and part

of that news is that we already have

the solutions to the big problems in our world.

We have the technological solutions.

Here's what I mean by that.

We already have all the food we need

to feed every mouth of every child, every woman, every man,

on the face of the Earth today.

The lack of food is not the reason

that our global family goes to bed hungry when and in the way

that they do.

The United Nations recently told us

that we have food security for at least another 50 years

barring some calamity like an asteroid hitting

the Earth or a solar flare wiping out the planet.

We have the food.

So it's not the lack of food.

It is the lack of the priority that has yet

to be made for that food to be placed

where it's needed right now.

We already have all of the technology

that we need to create electricity

and to bring it into the home of every family

on the planet that wants to have electricity.

I found recently that not all families want electricity,

but those that do, we have the way to create that power.

We can do it affordably.

We can do it with zero greenhouse gases.

And we can do it in a way that's sustainable.

We've already discovered how to build

economies that are based in cooperation and sharing,

rather than competition and scarcity.

And we already know how to build clean, sustainable, and

self-sufficient communities like the one you're seeing

on your screen right now.

This community is designed to house over 5,000 people.

They grow all of their own food.

They produce all their own energy and they

have 100% employment rate because everyone

that wants to work is working to grow the food

and produce the power to sustain the community.

This one is based in northern Arizona in the United States.

We already have everything we need.

The knowledge to reverse disease, to reverse aging,

and to trigger the healing mechanism

within our human body.

Every organ in the human body is now documented

under laboratory conditions with the ability to heal itself.

Even the organs we were told could not do so,

brain tissue, spinal cord tissue, heart tissue,

pancreatic tissue, all of them now

are documented with the ability to reverse disease and heal

themselves.

The key is they must be given the right conditions.

So when you hear that all of these solutions already exist,

when you hear that they're already available,

there's probably a question that immediately comes to your mind,

and it's probably the same question that came to my mind

when I discovered this technology

and that the solutions have already been created.

The question is where are they?

Why don't we see them in the world right now?

Why aren't we seeing them in every nation?

Why aren't we seeing this technology

to create the clean energy?

Why aren't we seeing the food being distributed the way

it needs to be distributed?

Well, the answer to that question

opens the door to what I believe is an even greater crisis.

It's a silent crisis very few people are talking about.

It's a crisis in thinking.

We've got to change the way we think

before all of these solutions can make sense in our lives

and unless the thinking allows for the possibilities,

the solutions simply are not being implemented.

Let me give you an example of what I mean when I say this.

In the 1960s, we saw something amazing

happening on this planet.

1961, then President John F. Kennedy

gave a speech to the United States Congress.

What he said in that speech, he said, by the end of the decade,

by the end of the 1960s, he said,

we vow to place a man on the moon

and to bring him back safely.

I believe that this nation should commit itself

to achieving the goal, before this decade is out,

of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely

to the Earth.

No single space project in this period

will be more impressive to mankind.

And he met that goal with the help of the science,

the engineering, the ingenuity, the courage,

and the will of all the people that made that happen.

He met that goal in less than the 10 years

that he had committed to.

People ask me all the time, Greg,

how did that happen so quickly?

How were we able to develop the technology

and create the blueprints and develop the engineering

skills to build the spacecraft to send

those people and the communication to the moon

and bring them back?

How did we do that so quickly?

Well, the answer to that question

is the same answer to the crisis in thinking

that I'm talking to you about right now,

and here is the answer.

The answer is that all of the solutions

to send a human to the moon and bring that human back,

they already existed in 1961.

As difficult as that might sound,

we already had all of that technology available.

However, until John Kennedy made it

a priority through his leadership,

we never had the mandate to focus that priority

to achieve a specific goal.

And I'm using that as an example because that is precisely

the opportunity that we have right now.

With leadership-- and I'm not saying

it has to come from any specific country

or any specific organization-- I'm

simply saying that if we have the focus

to bring what we already have achieved together

and to apply it in a meaningful way to our global family,

we have the opportunity to end much of the suffering

and the roots of the wars that we're seeing today.

But to do that, we've got to think differently.

It all comes down to the way we answer a single question.

As individuals, each of us answers a single question

in our lifetime.

Sometimes it's a conscious answer.

Sometimes it's subconscious.

Every human who's ever walked the face of the Earth

and looked into the cosmos in the dead of night

has asked themselves this question silently, out loud,

consciously, or subconsciously.

The question, it's the basis for every choice

that we've ever made in our lives.

The way we answer this question, the reason

for every decision that we have ever made in our lives

is linked to the way we answer this question.

The heart of every challenge we will ever have in our lives

is directly linked to the way we answer this question.

So what is the question?

Please do not be deceived by the simplicity of this question.

It is deceptively simple.

The question is simply this, who are we?

Who are we?

Or as individuals, we ask the question, who am I?

The way we answer this question, it's important for this reason.

The way you answer the question--

I want to make this personal-- the way

you answer the question, who am I for yourself, it

forms the lens, the perceptual lens,

through which you will see yourself,

through which you will see other people,

through which you will see the world,

through which you will see every relationship, every job,

every career, every health care choice,

every financial decision.

They all filter through this perception of the way

we answer the question, who am I?

All of a sudden, I can't think of a more important question

for us to answer because it is the foundation of our lives.

It's the foundation of everything

that we do in our lives.

Well, I've spent the bulk of my adult life searching the world

to answer this question for myself.

I wanted to know for myself who am I as an individual?

Who are we as humans?

What are we doing here and what is

our relationship to the world?

Let me just share with you a little bit about my thinking.

As an engineer, as a scientist, as a geologist,

my thinking has been that if I can find the places least

disturbed in the modern world that the information

our ancestors left for us, that they knew in their time,

that maybe we're only now discovering in ours,

or the information that they knew in their time

that we have yet to discover, if I could find those places that

were least disturbed, the information

would be more intact.

Very few people would have seen it.

It wouldn't have been disturbed the way

that so many of the easy to get to places have already been.

Well, I want to tell you, my journey

has taken me on some of the most amazing journeys

and to some of the most amazingly magnificent,

remote, isolated, pristine, beautiful place

remaining in this planet today.

I've been to some of the most amazing temples.

I've been to some of the most awesome, awesome monasteries

on the face of the Earth today.

And I've been to very humble monasteries.

It was on this particular monastery,

on the Tibetan Plateau, 16,000 feet above sea level,

it took six days out of the capitol of Tibet, out of Lhasa,

to get to this place, to acclimate to the elevations.

And the only way to get up to this place

was through the local animals, the yak,

that were available to us because there just

was no way to get a vehicle up to where

this particular monastery is.

But it was worth it because when we got to this place,

I had the opportunity to interact with the people,

with the monks and the nuns and the abbots that were here.

And I asked them a question that I asked everywhere that I went.

And the question was simply this, in this place,

do you have a repository of the knowledge that

has been accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years?

Do you have a library that we can see that records

what you have come to understand about this world

and how you answer the question, who am I?

Well, people in this monastery didn't have much company

and they were really happy to see us

and they opened the door to one of their monasteries

and gave us access into a library.

And to get to that library was an experience unto itself.

We had to walk down the corridors

of 30-foot tall Buddhas of compassion,

past the magnificent prayer wheels that we rotate,

and as they rotate, the prayers inside

are released into the world.

This is their custom.

And it is this custom that allows

us to move into their world and to understand

what it is that they have come to understand.

Well, the library that they took us to,

this is a Tibetan library.

It's three stories tall.

It's only about 12 feet wide.

It's a very tall room but very, very narrow.

It's 1,500 years old.

For 1,500 years, the wisdom, the cumulative wisdom

of this tradition has been accumulated in this library.

This is what their books look like.

They're loose papers that are sandwiched between the covers.

But the thing is, the wisdom that's in the books

is older than the paper that they're written on.

The wisdom originated before paper was ever even invented.

And we find this wisdom on the cuneiform text of our past,

on the Sanskrit and the Tibetan stone texts.

And it's this wisdom that is at the core of the major religions

of the world.

The Hebraic traditions, the Tibetan Buddhist traditions,

the traditional Buddhist traditions.

We find it at the basis of the Hindu traditions,

at the basis of the pre-Christian

and the Christian traditions, the Old and the New Testament.

And it's in places like this, that are isolated and remote,

that I've had the opportunity to be with the people that

live the traditions that are in the libraries

with the monks, the nuns, the abbots of these places,

and in other parts of the world with the shaman in Bolivia

and in southern Peru, and in the Yucatan.

And I've had the opportunity to be

with the women, the women in southern Peru, for example,

in the Andes Mountains who were anchoring

this powerful feminine wisdom that is resurging in the world

right now.

And the point of all this, the point

of me sharing all this with you, is

that for 5,000 years, our indigenous ancestors,

they've asked themselves the question, who am I?

And they answered the question for themselves

in a way that made sense to them?

It wasn't science but it made sense to the time

and to the people in their world.

It explained what they saw in the heavens.

It explained what happened within their bodies

and between people.

And what's really fascinating to me right now

is that, in many instances, the new discoveries

of modern science actually parallel

the wisdom of our most ancient and cherished

spiritual traditions.

So for 5,000 years, our ancestors have done just that.

They've asked, who am I and they answered it for themselves.

We live in the modern world of science and science

is a relatively young way of thinking about the world.

You know, science is only about 300 years old.

We say that science began in the 1700s

when Isaac Newton formulated the laws of physics

and he formalized them in his textbooks.

So for 300 years, science has been

trying to answer the same questions

that our indigenous ancestors have tried to answer.

For 300 years, science has asked the question, who are we?

And the way that science answers this question, they say,

we can't answer it directly.

First we must ask six sub-questions.

These are called the perennial questions of science.

When we ask the question, who are we,

science says to answer that question

we must first answer the six perennial questions

and I'm going to share them with you in this chart

that you're seeing right now.

This is an inverted pyramid.

And at the bottom of the pyramid,

the point at the bottom of the pyramid

is where the first of our perennial questions is listed.

It is the most fundamental question.

It's one that we're going to explore throughout this series.

The question is, what is the origin of life?

Where does life come from?

And I can see why that would be a foundational scientific

question.

And the second question is fascinating to me.

It is the question of where does human life come from?

And it is asked the way that it is

because what if human life does not come from where

all other life comes from?

It's a fascinating question and it's one

that we will explore throughout this series, as well.

The third question is about relationships.

What is our relationship to our bodies?

Are we separate from our bodies and powerless to do anything

when we see things happening, illness and disease,

within our bodies, or are we somehow empowered

to participate and influence what happens in our bodies?

And I'm using those words very consciously

because it's not about control and manipulation.

It's about influence.

Do we have the power to influence

what happens at the cellular level

or even deeper at the genetic level or even deeper

at the energetic level?

The next question, the next of our perennial questions,

is what is our relationship to the world beyond our bodies?

And the question is very similar.

Are we connected or are we separate?

Are we empowered to participate and influence

what happens in the workplace, with our families,

with our jobs, with our careers, and even between nations?

Or are we powerless to do anything and we just sit

and watch things happen for no apparent reason

feeling helpless and powerless to do anything about it?

The next question is what is our relationship to the past?

Is the past linear as we have been led to believe

and been taught in schools for the last 300 years?

Is the past linear?

Did civilization begin 5,000 years ago

and progress in a linear fashion to the pinnacle

of sophistication that we see today?

Are we the only ones that have developed the technology

that we have today or have there been others?

Is civilization cyclic?

That's the question that science is asking.

The next question, and perhaps the most fundamental

beyond the origin of life, is what is the rule of nature?

We are all part of nature.

Nature is the foundation of our lives.

What is the fundamental rule of nature?

Is it a rule based in struggle and conflict,

as Charles Darwin asked us to believe,

or is there something else happening?

Is nature actually based in cooperation?

These are the six perennial questions.

If you were raised in the West and if you were educated

in the West in the last 150 years,

you, as I, have been imbued with a story.

And it is a scientific story that says the following.

It says that the origin of life is completely random.

The origin of human life is completely random.

Our relationship to our bodies, we're

told that we are separate from our bodies

and pretty much powerless to do anything

when it comes to the condition of healing in our bodies

and that's why we need a third party.

That's why we need the intervention

of a medical professional to help us

because we have that experience, because we have that belief.

The relationship to the world around us?

Pretty much the same answer.

We've been led to believe that we're separate from our world

and pretty much powerless when it comes to influencing

the peace and cooperation, whether it's

in our families or our communities or between nations.

Our relationship to our past-- we

have been taught that civilization happened once.

It began 5,000 years ago and we are the pinnacle

of that sophistication.

And we have been taught number six,

that nature, the fundamental rule of nature

is actually based upon competition, conflict,

and struggle.

These are the principles of the world that we see today.

New discoveries have now overturned every single one

of these beliefs.

Every single one of the beliefs that you

see on the left-hand side of your screen

is now proven in peer-reviewed science

to be scientifically false.

So this isn't my opinion.

It's not my theory.

It's not my hypothesis.

This is based in peer-reviewed science.

What we now know is that these false assumptions of science

are at the root, the foundation of many of the extremes

that we're seeing in our lives and in our world today.

New discoveries now are telling us

where we need to shift our thinking.

Now, I've had people say to me in the past, Greg,

maybe science didn't get all these things right,

but science, it's been pretty good.

I mean, it did get us to the moon

and it has brought us penicillin and vaccines.

Where do we go with this?

Why is it important in our lives?

And I want to just take a minute and share this

with you because when we really understand this,

it's so powerful.

Many of the scientific discoveries,

the false assumptions, were made in the late 1800s

and the early 1900s, precisely the time

when our society was being developed.

So the fundamental essence of our society,

our economic system, our corporate system, the way

we deal with natural resources, the way we share resources,

like food and water, energy and medicine, all of these things,

they are based in the ideas that were

embraced as scientific in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

And even though we now know that many of them are false,

we're still living in the system where

those principles are in place.

They are unsustainable because they're

based in false assumptions.

So what do the new discoveries now tell us?

The best science of the 20th, now the 21st century,

it's telling us, number one, the origin of life,

it's not random.

Physical evidence is telling us this.

The origin of human life is definitely not random.

The DNA evidence is telling us this.

We're going to explore this in future episodes

in this program, this series.

Our relationship to our body?

Science is telling us that we are deeply, deeply connected.

Our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs

trigger the chemistry in our brain

and in our heart that releases the healing

hormones, the anti-aging hormones, the powerful immune

response into our bodies.

And the beauty of that is that we

get to choose the thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs

that do the triggering.

So we are deeply, deeply ingrained in this system.

Our relationship to the world?

What we now know is that civilization is cyclic.

The 5,000 years that we've been studying

as the history of the world, that's

only the history of the most recent cycle.

There was a 5,000-year cycle before that and one before

that.

We're not sure how far back that goes.

The fundamental rule of nature?

We now know that nature is based upon a principle

of cooperation, not conflict, in what biologists

call mutual aid not struggle.

Now, this isn't denying that struggle and conflict happen.

We all see it.

But here's the deal, the more struggle and conflict we see,

that tells us how far we have strayed

as individuals or as nations from the truest nature,

the most fundamental principle of the natural world.

So now, 150 years of this scientific thinking

is changing because these new discoveries tell us

they must change.

So we're moving to a new story.

We're moving from a story of separation

to a story of connection.

We're moving from a story of competition and conflict,

based in Darwin's ideas from 150 years ago,

to a new story that's based upon cooperation and mutual aid

Darwin took us forward to a hilltop,

from where we could look back and see the way from which we

came.

But for this insight and for this knowledge,

we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.

We must not abandon fate.

Fate is the most important thing.

Then why did God plague us with the power to think?

Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man

that raises him above the other creatures of the Earth?

This is important for us right now because of our time

of extremes.

The world is changing, and we're trying

to solve the problems of our past in the same ways

that we always have in the past and it's not working.

It's not working because we are now a globalized society

and that globalization has pushed our beliefs

and what we think is true about ourselves and one another,

it's pushed it to the very edge of what we now

understand is true.

And the only things that are breaking down around us

are the unsustainable ways of thinking,

the unsustainable solutions of separation,

competition, and conflict.

So what does this mean for you in your life?

You know, to get wherever you are in your life right now,

you've had to create your own ideas and your own beliefs.

And what I'm going to invite you to do is this.

Take everything that you've ever held true

and been taught and conditioned to believe about yourself

and your world and put that into a file folder called existing

beliefs in your mind, OK?

Because it's worked for you and it's

gotten you to where you are right now.

I'm going to invite you now to create a second file folder,

and if you'll just label it possibilities.

And into that file folder of possibilities,

I'm going to invite you to place all

of these new discoveries, the fact,

the scientific fact, that the origin of life,

it's not random.

Human life is not random.

That we're deeply connected to our bodies.

We're deeply connected to the world.

That civilization is cyclic and we've

had advanced technological civilizations here

multiple times in the past.

And the fact that nature, the fundamental rule of nature

is based upon cooperation and mutual aid

not survival of the strongest.

And those are Darwin's actual words from his book,

survival of the strongest, later translated

into survival of the fittest.

Nature is not based upon survival of the strongest.

So when you find yourself challenged in your world

or when you find yourself asked to support

other people in positions of power, who are being asked

to make decisions on your behalf,

then you can ask yourself the question,

are they using the file folder of the old ideas or

are they using the file folder of the new possibilities?

And when those old ideas no longer work

and they begin to break down, rather than struggle

in your personal life, let that folder go.

Open up that new file folder of possibilities

and you will be amazed at how solutions flow into your life,

and how situations change very, very quickly when we solve them

by applying natural principles based in the harmony of what

is real and true in our world.

In our next segment, we're going to zero

in on specific discoveries that will

overturn that century and a half of scientific thinking.

And we'll also see how these discoveries parallel

some of our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions

and what they mean for us today.

So I want to thank you for joining me for this program

and be sure and tune in for our next

all new episode of "Missing Links:

The Deep Truth of Our Origin, History, Destiny and Fate."

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