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GREGG BRADEN: My name is Gregg Braden.

And I'd like to welcome you to this very special presentation

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

Destiny, and Fate.

In our last episode, we discovered

the scientific evidence for intelligent life

and advanced civilizations that extended

far back in the geologic history of the Earth.

They did it in a way that simply does not

fit the traditional timeline for our past.

Though the evidence presents a challenge for mainstream

science to accept, I think we owe it to ourselves

to solve those mysteries, the mysteries that that evidence

presents, and to embrace whatever it

is that it means in our lives.

In this episode, we'll do just that.

We'll explore the science that's now

confirmed as the core premise that

has been at the very foundation of such ancient civilizations.

And it continues today among the indigenous peoples

remaining on the Earth.

The question that scientists have asked for 300 years

appears to be a simple one.

The question is, simply, are we connected?

Are we connected to one another on our Earth?

Or are we separate from everything that we know?

And while contemporary physicists like Professor John

Wheeler of Princeton University have no problem accepting

our intimate connection with the universe itself,

his friend and colleague Albert Einstein did.

Before his death, Albert Einstein

expressed his frustration, his deep frustration with the idea

that we maybe live in a world where

we're so connected that we can actually influence matter

in one place while we're somewhere else.

Einstein called this phenomenon "Spooky Action at a Distance."

And he did not like the idea of "Spooky Action at a Distance."

But for us to have such a relationship, if it does exist,

there must be something that our thoughts and feelings

and emotions and beliefs move through

to connect us to another.

Well, there is.

And that's what this episode is all about-- the idea

that everything is connected by some kind of energy,

by a field of energy.

It was actually a very popular idea in the late 1800s.

In the late 1800s, there was this tremendous spiritual

revolution that was sweeping the scientific world.

And the scientists were forcing themselves

to come to terms-- they had to know,

is there a field that connects all things

and makes these connections meaningful in our lives?

Or are we, in fact, separate from everything else?

They said we need to know once and for all.

In the late 1800s, the name that scientists gave the field

that they suspected actually existed

was called the ether field.

But if you're watching this today and you're a scientist,

I just want to give you a heads up,

this is a term that you do not want to use at any conference

that you go to if you still want the audience to be

in the room for the conference because the term the ether

field was deemed invalid in the scientific community.

And any reference to it today is not taken credibly.

I want to talk to you about how scientists

came to that conclusion and what they believe this ether

field is really all about.

Let's go back to 1887.

In 1887, two very famous scientists

Michelson and Morley designed an experiment

to finally settle the argument, to tell us once and for all,

is there a field that connects all things

or is everything really separate?

Let me tell you a little bit about how

the experiment worked.

And then I'd like for you to see the actual experiment itself.

If I invited you from wherever you are right now in a building

to go outside of that building and to moisten your index

finger and place it above your head, and in the moment

that you did so if you felt no wind against your finger

and from that you concluded that no air exists,

that would be the equivalent of this experiment.

Is it true, if you feel no wind, does that mean there's no air?

Well, of course not.

The air can be there.

It's just not moving.

Michelson and Morley and other scientists

as well, they believed that this field that connects all things,

that this ether field was a living, vibrating, pulsating

field of energy and that it should be in motion.

And if they could detect that motion, that it would determine

and answer the question as to whether or not the field

exists, truly, once and for all.

So they designed an experiment.

And I'm going to call your attention to the image

that you're seeing right now.

This is a very rare image of the actual device.

It was called an interferometer, the Michelson-Morley

interferometer.

This is what the device looked like.

And I'm going to give you a schematic of what

it was actually doing.

What the experiment was doing was shooting a beam of light

against one mirror that would split that beam to two

different mirrors in two different places,

reflect them back to a collecting mirror.

And the idea was this-- if the field's in motion,

those two beams of light would not

come back to the same place at the same time.

There would be what is called an interference pattern.

And that's what they were looking for was an interference

pattern in the light beams.

Well, they conducted this experiment in 1887, 1888.

And what they determined from that experiment--

in my opinion, I think it was a good experiment,

but I think it was poorly interpreted.

But they had no way of knowing in their time what we now

know today.

And they didn't have the quality of equipment in their time

that we have today.

So in my opinion, it was poorly interpreted

because they believed that there was no interference

pattern that they witnessed.

And from that, Michelson and Morley concluded,

and they published in scientific journals,

peer-reviewed scientific journals, in the late 1800s,

that there is no field.

And you say, OK, I understand the experiment.

What does it mean?

Why is it important?

From 1887 until only recently, this

means that all science, the best science of the modern world,

as good as it's been, has been based in a false assumption

that there is no field, that everything

is separate from everything else,

that there is no field of energy that connects what's

happening in one place to what's happening somewhere else.

This is the science.

Our ancestors, indigenous people,

always began with a belief that everything was connected.

Now, I find this really interesting,

fascinating because for 5,000 years,

ancient, indigenous, spiritual traditions,

they began with the assumption that everything is connected.

And they devoted their time, that 5,000 years,

to learning and understanding what that connection means

in our lives.

How do we apply it in our lives to become

better people, create better families, stronger communities?

Science for 300 years has struggled as to whether or not

this field actually exists.

And for 300 years, they've been arguing as to whether or not

it exists.

1887, from that point forward, all of our science

has been based in the belief of separation--

that is, until recently.

100 years later, in 1987, there was an experiment

that was conducted under the auspices of the United States

Air Force.

And they had better equipment, much better equipment.

But they used precisely the same principle

that Michelson and Morley had used 100 years earlier.

And guess what they found 100 years later?

The Air Force sanctioned the experiment,

found that there is, in fact, a field of energy

that connects all things.

And not only does the field exist,

it exists precisely within the parameters

that Michelson and Morley expected it to exist.

They just didn't have the equipment to prove it.

So we now know that this field actually exists.

The results of the Air Force experiment

were published in the very prestigious journal

"Nature" in August of 1986, almost 100 years later.

And the scientific community discovered

that they had been assuming falsely

the separation of all things.

So now we know, there is a field.

And it is accurate to talk about the field and the fact that it

exists.

So there is no longer a question in the scientific community

as to whether or not this field exists.

The question is, what does it mean in our lives?

They've given this field a new name.

And as I mentioned before, we can no longer

call it the ether field.

So now this field has many names.

Sometimes it is simply called The Field.

Lynne McTaggart did a book not long ago

that was simply called "The Field," where

she explored the implications and the possibility

of The Field.

Sometimes it's called the Quantum Field.

Sometimes people like to call this God or The Source

or The Matrix or the Divine Matrix.

All of these terms-- maybe you have one of your own--

are based in this idea that the field exists.

The movie "The Matrix" was actually based in the science

that said there is another world that exists in this field that

we simply cannot see from our perspective from where we are

right now.

But just because we can't see it,

doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

And that what happens in this field that we cannot see

actually influences, and in many cases drives,

the events that we see in our everyday lives.

So you can see why this is a quandary.

I'm going to reference back-- remember

the inverted pyramid, the false assumptions of science?

One of those assumptions is that everything is separate.

And much of our science has been based on that.

Now we know, it simply is not true.

So we now know that this field exists.

We now know that we're connected to the field.

The question is, what does the field do?

I'm going to invite you to think about this field

as fulfilling three fundamental capacities.

Number one, it is the container for all things.

From the perspective of the way science

is now viewing this field, everything that we know

exists within the field.

The universe exists within this field.

Nothing exists beyond this field.

So all things that are happening are happening

within this field, number one.

Number two, the field is a bridge between us

and the world around us, between our inner and outer worlds.

That's important because when we offer, for example, healing

energy to another person maybe halfway around the world, when

we offer a prayer, as our indigenous ancestors have

suggested and taught the traditions and the techniques

of how we do it, and we say, how does

that prayer in my living room influence somebody half

a world away?

The field is the answer to that.

It is the bridge between our inner and outer worlds.

And thirdly, the third function that this field serves,

it is a mirror.

The energy of this field is a mirror in the world around us

for what we claim to be true in the world within us.

Let me clarify this.

We all have beliefs and expectations about what's true

and what's possible in the world.

Sometimes they're conscious.

Sometimes they're not.

But whether they're conscious or not,

the world is always telling us what our true beliefs are.

The quality of our relationships,

the kind of job we have, the kind

of people that we draw into our lives, all our abundance,

our healing, our health, all of these

are examples of the field mirroring to us

what it is that we claim to be true in our deepest,

sometimes subconscious, beliefs.

All right, so we've just covered a lot of ground right there.

Let me just kind of summarize that.

The field is three things.

It is the container for all things.

It's the bridge between our inner and our outer worlds.

And it is the mirror in the world around us

for what we believe to be true consciously and subconsciously

from within.

So with that, let's take this one step further.

There now is no longer any controversy as to

whether or not the field exists and whether or not

we're connected.

The question is, how deeply are we connected?

What does this field really mean for us?

And this is where one of the most innovative experiments

in recent years did, in fact, make mainstream science,

mainstream journals-- and it happened relatively recently

in an experiment that was performed

for the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

A scientist named Nicholas Gisin did this experiment.

He reported it to over 3,400 journalists, educators,

scientists, engineers, and more than 40 countries on a Friday

afternoon, July 25, 1997.

The experiment is called the twin-photon experiment.

And it goes like this.

Photons are what atoms are made of.

Photons are light particles that the stuff of this world

is made of.

So it made tremendous sense that the researchers

would want to do their experiment

on the stuff our world is made of to see how that stuff is

influenced by the field.

So here's what they did.

They took a single photon.

Some really sophisticated technology

allowed them to isolate a single photon.

And they wanted to have two identical photons,

identical properties, so they took the one single photon

and they split it in two so that each would

have identical properties.

It used to be one photon.

Now we have two.

They placed these two photons into a device,

a specialized device that allowed

them to shoot the photons, particles of light--

if you can think of it in your mind

this way-- to shoot the particles of light

through fiber optic cables in opposite directions

from where they began.

So if you can think, here's the gadget.

Here's a little box.

Two photons-- one photon is going in this direction.

One photon is going in this direction.

Each of the fiber optic cables was seven miles long.

So when the twin photons reached their target,

their destination, on either edge of this experiment,

they were a total of 14 miles apart.

And this is where the real experiment began.

Because what the scientists began to do

was they began to influence-- the word they used was tickle.

They began to tickle one photon in one place.

And they were able to observe the other photon 14 miles away

to see what might be happening in that place.

And what they found made no sense to the science

as it had been embraced where the field does not exist.

What they found is that when they disturbed or tickled

one of the twin photons in one place, the other one

14 miles away, it acted like it had the exact same experience,

even though it was not directly being

touched by the scientists.

So how can that be?

When they would force one of the photons

to rotate in a particular direction,

the other one 14 miles away rotated

in exactly the same direction.

When they would electrically charge or remove

a charge from a photon in one place,

the same thing would happen without them doing it

in the other place.

They said, what does this mean?

What is this telling us right now?

This is what was reported to the journalists.

And it was reported in the mainstream publications.

The experiment was reported.

The implications are where the controversy begins.

Why?

Why was one photon 14 miles away being influenced by another one

when they were not physically connected?

So this is where the idea of this field comes in.

The fact of the connection, the term that

is now given-- a new term had to be

coined-- the term is called entanglement.

Entanglement.

And what entanglement means is summarized in the journal,

the scientific journal that reported on the experiment.

So I'm going to read it to you word for word

just so we have the exact language.

It suggests that once matter is joined physically-- once matter

is joined physically-- because those two photons used

to be one photon-- it remains linked energetically, even

after the photons are split.

Even when they are no longer physically touching,

they remain energetically linked,

regardless of their location.

Here's why this is important.

It implies that once matter is connected,

all matter is connected.

Now, what do I mean by that?

What am I saying here?

This experiment on a small level is telling us

something very, very powerful about us

and our universe on a much larger level.

It implies that once physical matter is connected,

even when it is separated, even when something tears it apart

and that matter ends up on other sides of a room,

other sides of a continent, other sides of a universe,

physically, it's still connected.

This is important because scientists tell us

that if we could go back in time a long, long time ago, far,

far away, to the very beginning of what scientists believe

is the Big Bang, the time when there was

a primal release of energy and the universe began to expand

in the way it continues to do today-- they tell us,

if we could go back to the instant

just before that happened, here's what we would see.

They say that if you take all the space out

from in between the atoms, all the atoms in the universe--

they say if you take all the atoms in the universe today

and you take out the empty space and you compress

all of the physical matter, it would

be compressed into a solid ball of matter

about the size of a single green pea.

And they say that is what happened just

after the instant of the Big Bang.

At the instant of the Big Bang, all the matter

was compressed into a single green pea.

And it was at a very, very high temperature.

And what the scientists have told me was, at that time,

that the temperature was about 18 billion,

million, million, million degrees Fahrenheit.

And I said, come on, you guys, how do you know that?

And they said, well, we just know it was really hot.

So we can say that it was really hot when all of the matter

was compressed into a space the size of a single green pea.

And then something began to happen.

We don't know exactly why or how.

But what scientists say to us is that that green pea began

to expand very, very quickly.

And that as is expanded, what was once physically connected

in that small space became the physical matter that

continues to expand in the universe today.

And this is the reason scientists believe that the Big

Bang actually occurred.

Because although the universe is expanding now,

if they reverse the trajectory, if they reverse

the mathematics, they can follow all

of that moving matter backwards in time to the point

where it was at a place that is called the singularity.

The singularity, the Big Bang singularity,

is the place where everything was once physically connected.

So I'm sharing this with you now and I've

gone into a little bit of detail for this reason.

The summary of the experiments-- once matter

is connected physically, it remains

connected energetically.

At the instant of the Big Bang, all matter was connected.

All the matter in your body, all the matter in my body,

all the matter in this planet and every star-- it

all came from that little green pea.

So if it was once connected and is now expanding and separate

as it is, are we still connected energetically?

That's why the twin-photon experiment is so powerful.

Because that experiment suggests the answer is yes.

The evidence suggests that we are deeply connected.

So the question now is less about does the connection

exist, it's more about what does it mean?

How deep does that connection really go?

Does it go beyond the level of photons

into our physical world?

Well, this is where scientists now

are struggling because what they're

telling us is that these relationships of entanglement,

although they happen on a quantum level,

that they don't apply to us on the larger physical level,

even though we are made of the stuff, the photons that

are having the experiences on the quantum level.

RICHARD FEYNMAN: The other part said, well, this kind, I

hope you'll come along with me.

And you'll have to accept it because it's

the way nature works.

If you want to know the way nature

works-- we looked at it carefully.

Look at it.

That's the way it looks.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else.

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To another universe where the rules are simpler.

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GREGG: The twin-photon experiment

helps us to understand two things-- number one, why

all matter was originally connected when the universe was

formed some 14 billion years ago to begin with,

and number two, why that connection still

exists in our world and in our lives today.

But I want you to know that the field does

more than just connect things through entanglement.

There's another quality of the field

that we haven't talked about yet.

It's one that empowers us to make big changes in the world

and in our lives quickly and easily,

but only if we understand how this principle works.

The quality that I am talking to you about right

now is that the field is not only entangled,

it is holographic.

And here's what I mean by that.

In the true hologram, each fragment of a something

is a mirror of that whole something.

A beautiful example of what this principle is

is the holographic bookmarks.

In the 1980s, these bookmarks were very popular.

They were thin foil strips, silver strips.

And they had beautiful images on them.

The three that I remember the most--

there was one that was an image of Mother Mary.

One was an image of a dolphin jumping over the great Pyramid

of Giza in Egypt.

One of them was a rosebud that looked like it was opening.

And the thing is, if you would hold these books

strips in your hand under a light,

the images would come alive.

They would look like they were hovering above your hand, not

a flat two-dimensional image.

Well, here is the thing about a hologram--

and as I mentioned, in a hologram,

every piece of the hologram mirrors the whole.

So taking that principle and applying it to our bookmarks.

If you were to take a pair of scissors

and cut your beautiful holographic bookmark

of the Great Pyramid or of the rose into a billion pieces

of any shape and size.

And if you took the smallest one of those fragments

and you put it under a microscope.

And you took a razor blade and you cut it yet again.

In that smallest fragment of that hologram when

you look at it under the microscope,

you would see the entire pattern again, and again, and again.

And this is the beauty.

This is the value.

And this is the power of the holographic principle.

Because what it says to us is when we make a change anywhere

in that hologram, in one place, that change

is mirrored throughout the rest of the hologram.

So if you were to think of the universe.

For example, think of the universe as a whole.

And if you cut the universe in half.

And then you cut that in half again.

And you did it again, and again, and again.

And you made a change in one place

in the universe on the level that the holograph recognizes,

that change would be mirrored throughout the rest

of the universe.

You would not have to go to every physical location

in the universe to replicate, to duplicate that change again

and again.

So I think you're beginning to see

why the principle of the hologram is so very powerful.

So with this holographic principle in mind

and what we have just discovered with our little bookmark,

let's go back to the twin-photon experiment.

And now we can answer the question

that we asked at the beginning of the experiment.

What happened in that experiment?

What was it that allowed one of the twin photons 14 miles away

to act as if it were having the same experience as its twin

in the same instant in time without being

physically disturbed?

Why did that happen?

Well, we said, number one, that the two are connected

because of the entanglement.

That's the connection.

But to actually mirror what it is

that's happening in one place or another,

scientists typically have thought in a linear fashion.

And here's what I mean by that.

Traditionally, if we disturb physical matter,

if we disturb that photon in one place,

and we're seeing another photon act as if it just

had the same experience, a scientist

thinking in a linear fashion would

say this-- the scientist would say,

how did the information of the disturbance get from point A

to point B?

How was it transmitted from point A to point B?

Thinking that it would have to go across time and space

to get to that place?

Or here is where the scientists ran into a big brick wall.

Because they used atomic clocks to measure the timing.

How much time lapsed between the time one of the twin photons

had its experience and the other 14 miles away mirrored

that experience?

And what they found was that there was no time difference,

no time lag.

It was simultaneous.

The instant, the nano-instant that one of these photons

is having an experience, the other one is as well.

So now, the holographic principle

tells us what it is that's happening.

And it's actually a trick question.

How did the information get from photon one to photon two?

Or did it?

And the answer is it didn't have to travel anywhere.

Because in the hologram, the information is already there.

It's already there.

In the hologram, here equals there.

And this is the very, very powerful principle.

If we can embrace this in our lives on the energetic level,

this is the principle that allows us as individuals

to create tremendous change in our bodies and in our lives.

Now, here's the way it works.

The old way of thinking told us that to create change

we must make that change happen one person at a time

or one thing at a time.

But now we know, that's not really the case.

We don't need to make the change itself happen,

we can accomplish positive change in our world

and in our lives through demonstrating

a personal shift in thinking, a shift that is reflected

holographically in the field, as people

like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi,

and John F Kennedy showed us.

They shifted their beliefs and their thinking.

And they shared it in an honest, truthful, factual way

in the world.

And the world embraced that change and mirrored it.

They did not have to go to one person at a time

and make one change after another, after another.

I'm describing here a mechanism.

It gives us the words to explain seemingly miraculous

experiences that we find in our lives,

so for example, when our prayers benefit our loved ones,

whether we're sitting together in the same room

or they're half a world away.

What we know is that on the deepest

connection of our truest essence, we are connected

and we are entangled.

And the holographic principle allows us to love one another

and to share that love in ways that we only dreamed possible

before we understood this principle.

And we're learning to now apply this scientifically.

So at the instant of the Big Bang, all matter was connected.

The question is, are we still connected?

Well, the evidence suggests that we are,

but the question is, how connected?

What is our relationship to the field?

What does that really mean?

In our next episode, we'll let science answer this question

with two paradigm shattering experiments.

Thank you for joining me for this program.

And you won't want to miss our next all new episode

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

Destiny, and Fate.

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