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GREGG BRADEN: In 1944, the architect

of quantum theory, Max Planck, he

made a statement that reverberated

throughout the scientific community like a shockwave

of a huge earthquake.

While he was speaking at a conference in Florence,

Italy, Planck stated, there is no matter as such.

All matter, he said, originates and exists only

by virtue of a force.

We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious

and an intelligent mind.

This mind, he said, is the matrix of all matter.

Well, now we know Planck was right.

There is a field of energy.

It's universal.

It's everywhere all of the time.

And it influences everything that

happens in the world around us, as well as the world within us.

But the new evidence now goes beyond simply telling us

that this matrix exists.

The experiments are revealing the rules

that govern Planck's matrix, also now known

as The Divine Matrix and how we can

apply those rules in our lives.

And that is what this series is all about.

My name is Gregg Braden, and I'd like

to welcome you to The Divine Matrix, bridging time, space,

miracles, and belief.

I am your host for this entire series.

And I am absolutely thrilled to bring you

the discoveries, as well as the controversy surrounding

these discoveries.

So let's begin with the beginning.

Just what is The Divine Matrix?

Sometimes the best way to describe the discovery and what

it means is through a real life example from the real world.

Between 1978 and 1995, a small group

of scientists working in a makeshift lab

tucked away on a US military base,

they accomplished something that was believed

to be impossible at the time.

From their small, leaky laboratory

at Fort Meade, Maryland, using simple techniques,

the researchers were exploring a sophisticated

and a mysterious new frontier.

But their frontier wasn't located

at the edges of the galaxy or hidden deep

inside the quantum atom.

The realm they were exploring was an inner frontier,

an advanced state of consciousness that had a "Star

Trek"-like potential for gathering information during

the Cold War years.

If someone had casually walked into the room

while one of the experiments was happening,

they could have easily mistaken what

they saw for a lunchtime relaxation class.

But in truth, nothing could've been further from the truth.

The researchers, who were sitting quietly, their eyes

closed, were learning to access and sustain

a mysterious state of consciousness

that you and I typically pass through every night

as we drift into a deep sleep.

The bottom line is that they were

trying to achieve three things.

The first thing they were trying to do

was, on demand, access a state of consciousness

without slipping into a deeper sleep.

Number two, once they were in this state,

they wanted to stay there.

They wanted to stay suspended, conscious

and actively awake and able to function from this place.

And number three, they wanted to discover

how the state of consciousness can actually

be a conduit to other locations in the physical world,

remote locations that they could actually see and hear and smell

and even touch without ever leaving a laboratory.

Well, the technique they were exploring

is called remote viewing.

And the name given to the project

at the time, that tells the whole story.

It was called Project Stargate.

And it was a military attempt to explore the deepest

realms of human potential for military applications

during the Cold War years.

The idea was simply this, that valuable and potentially

life-saving information could be gathered

from the field around us without risking the lives of men

and women with boots physically on the ground going

to these remote locations.

The key here is that the projects

at Fort Meade, and remote viewing sessions,

in general, these things can only be possible

because the matrix exists.

It provides something for the consciousness of the viewer

to travel through.

Well, Project Stargate officially ended in 1995,

and it's recently been declassified.

So we now have access to the results

that were produced during those early sessions at Fort Meade.

And I'd like to use some of those results,

as well as others to give you just an example of how

real this matrix is and how deeply it underlies

our physical reality.

In a typical remote viewing session,

there are two people that are involved.

One is the viewer.

And this is the one whose consciousness

is actually traveling.

And the second is called the monitor.

And the role of the monitor is simple.

The role of the monitor is to guide the viewer

into a specific state of consciousness,

and then to help the viewer stay in that state using

predetermined protocols, and to communicate from that state

without dropping into a deeper sleep.

The monitor guides the viewer, step

by step, to help them focus on things like a precise location

or an object that can be either in another room,

could be another city, or it can be

on a battlefield on the other side of the planet.

Here's an example of what I mean.

The viewers are typically given a target of some kind.

It can be a building.

It can be a location.

It can be a geographic area.

It can be a person.

They are given physical coordinates.

It can be a street address.

It can be a latitude and a longitude.

And the viewers receive subtle sensations

while they're in this altered state.

And one of the things that the researchers found

during these early experiments is that the sensations are not

the most present, the most visible,

the brightest, the most profound,

but often the very, very subtle sensations.

And they have to be trained to recognize and be able to detect

these very subtle sensations.

And they begin to sketch on a piece of paper what

it is that they see, as well as other sensations of smell

or if they feel touch or they hear specific sounds.

The image that you're seeing on the screen

is an example from one of these early sessions.

The viewer was given coordinates,

latitude and longitude, of a place somewhere on the earth.

They had no idea where this place was.

And from the altered state, the viewer

began to sketch what you're seeing.

And what you're seeing in the upper right-hand corner

is a body of water.

The viewer felt that this was an ocean, and that was noted.

You're seeing the longitudinal runway or highway

that was drawn-- it's very obvious-- in the center

of the image.

And then just to the left and to the upper-left,

they saw what they perceived as some kind of buildings

that were there.

So the viewer is sketching only what he or she perceives

in this subtle state without imposing

their ideas and their viewpoints,

their filters of what should or should not be.

And this is what takes the training.

Well, the next image that you're seeing on the screen

is an actual photograph of the location

that the viewer picked up in the remote sensing session.

This is a military target.

And what you see in the photograph

is there is an ocean in the upper part of the image.

There is actually a runway.

And so the viewer was right on, right on this target.

There's a runway that is running through the center of the image

and to the left.

We begin seeing the structures and the buildings.

So what happens in these sessions is sometimes

a remote viewer can pick up things that may not

be visible in the photographs.

And sometimes the photographs have

things that may not be visible to the remote viewer.

When we put these together, they give us the opportunity

to gather information without ever having a person physically

go to gather that information.

Let me give you another example.

And I find this one really fascinating

because of the specificity here.

The remote viewer was given a location.

And in that location, the viewer began to detect,

very, very clearly, a structure.

And you're seeing that structure on the screen.

He didn't know what the structure was,

but the wheels were very obvious.

And the form of the structure was very obvious.

And the viewer was trained to record without projecting his

or her impressions-- in this case, it was a male--

what it is that they saw.

Well, the next image that you're seeing on the screen

is what was actually there.

This is an industrial crane.

And you can see-- look at the similarities.

There are two wheels at each corner,

and the viewer got that right on.

Look at the structure and the way

that this is moving along a track.

The photographs now show us that this was an industrial crane

from a military industrial complex, a very specific crane

used only to move very specific kinds of material.

So this gives the military analyst insight

into what's happening at this location in ways

that they could only have if someone were physically

there watching this.

So I'm sharing these two images for a purpose.

The images begin as general descriptions.

And the specifics can then be identified and honed into.

So for example, on the crane, the researchers

could have asked for the viewer to spend more time and more

detail and go deeper into what that crane was all about

and how it was being used.

So at its peak, the original remote viewing project,

it employed 22 people, cost about $20 million.

And it was used on more than 450 missions.

The project was so successful.

It located American hostages in Iran.

It successfully pinpointed scud missiles during the Gulf War

without ever sending men and women into the desert,

risking their lives physically to find those missiles.

It even located the plutonium in North Korea in 1994

when there was a question as to where North Korea was

in their nuclear program.

The success of the remote viewing experiments

poses a key question.

And the question is this, what is

the stuff the viewer's consciousness is traveling

through that allows the viewer to see countries

in secret locations on the other side of the planet?

In a nutshell, the question is this.

It all boils down to what is in what

we call the empty space of the universe.

What is in the space of the nothing?

Well, to answer this question, we've

opened the door to one of the greatest

mysteries of our existence, a mystery

that our ancestors describe in the language of their time,

and that modern science is just beginning

to understand in ours.

Almost universally, ancient texts and Indigenous traditions

describe a field of energy that connects all things.

I want to give you some examples for how those descriptions have

been created in the past so that you

can see the parallels to what we now know exist today.

Chief Seattle, a 19th century elder of the Suquamish people,

he described this mystery, and I'm

going to read this specifically.

He said, "All things are connected.

Man did not weave the web of life.

He's merely a strand in it.

And whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

In the processes of the ancient Hopi,

there are descriptions of a web, or a net as well.

And this comes from the Hopi prophecy

of what happened after the first world of the Hopi

was threatened.

Spider Grandmother emerged after the destruction

of the first world.

She emerged into the Second World.

And the first thing that she did was

she wove the web of creation, upon which

her children and her grandchildren

and all things in the universe could exist.

Now I want to share with you the exact words from the Hopi

prophecy describing how this happened.

This is a quote, "When the universe was still

so dark that not even shadows could be seen in the night,

Spider Grandmother began to sing her weaving song while she

danced across the sky.

As she spun her thread, the Sky World

filled with light and life as the stars, suns,

and the planets prepared to give birth to their children."

Well, you can see from this description,

it certainly is not scientific.

But it is telling us that this universal essence,

this substance, what the Hopi saw as a "web"

was what began the beginning of the universe

as we know it today.

Well, the Hopi aren't alone.

In a similar way, the ancient Buddhist traditions

describe how the great god Indra created the web of creation.

"Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra,"

the texts say, "there is a wonderful net

that stretches out infinitely in all directions.

And at the intersection of each point on the net

is a glittering jewel of light.

And that light is a universe unto itself."

Well, the scientific community is

beginning to describe a structure that

sounds very similar to the Hopi web and to India's net.

It's a structure that underlies our everyday reality.

And even Einstein sensed that this structure was there,

although as a scientist, interestingly he shared it

from a very poetic description.

What Einstein said to us, he said,

"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion."

He says, "I do not doubt that the lion belongs to the tail,

even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his

enormous size."

So what Einstein was saying, from his perspective,

is there's something out there.

It's so big, but we cannot see it from our vantage point where

we are in space and time.

And this underlying thinking played a powerful role

as he developed his theories of relativity and some

of the other theories and mathematics concepts

that led to those theories.

So there's a common theme that weaves its way

through each of these descriptions,

through the web of Spider Grandmother,

through the net of the god Indra,

and through Einstein's perspective, this idea

that there is something out there that connects all things.

Well, in the beginning of this program,

I shared Max Planck's statement, his perspective of this essence

as well.

And Planck's statement of this matrix

that underlies our physical reality

is a perfect example of what this thinking is all about.

So the question is, what is this made of?

What is the web or the net or the matrix made of?

And what are the rules that govern this fundamental field

of energy?

And what does it mean to us in our lives?

Well, in Season 1 of "Missing Links," the Fifth Episode,

I described an experiment performed in Switzerland

at the University of Geneva in 1997.

I want to summarize the experiment for you now.

And I'm going to do it from a little bit

different perspective, with a little bit

different emphasis from what I did in that first season.

The experiment itself, it was no secret.

It was reported over 3,400 journalists, educators,

scientists, and engineers, in more than 40

different countries.

And the experiment simply goes like this.

Scientists took a photon, a particle of light.

This is the stuff the atoms are made of.

They took a single photon.

They wanted to create two identical photons.

So they took the one and broke it into two separate photons

so that each one would have identical properties.

And those two photons, they isolated into a chamber.

And from this chamber, they used fiber optic cables,

moving in opposite directions.

And one cable went seven miles to a town seven miles away.

The other cable went seven miles to another town

seven miles away from the place where these photons began.

Each of the photons was shot seven miles

in opposite directions.

So when they reached their targets

they were 14 miles apart.

And this is where the experiments actually

began, because what the scientists found

was whatever they did to one of the photons in one location,

in one moment in time, the other photon acted

like it was having exactly the same experience at exactly

the same moment in time.

They used atomic clocks to tell them how long it took,

how much time did it take for the information to move

from one photon to the other.

And this is where the problems begin, because the atomic clock

said the time was zero.

There was no lag time.

It was instantaneous.

This breaks the rules of Einstein's theory

of relativity.

Relativity says that nothing can travel faster

than the speed of light.

For the two photons to have exactly the same experience

at exactly the same time with no lag time

means that somehow the information

had to move from point A to point B instantaneously,

faster than the speed of light.

This is where the problems began.

So the behavior of the photons is a problem

for conventional physics.

Those photons are defying the laws of conventional physics.

However, they conform to the laws of relativity.

And this is where the experiment becomes

very relevant to everything that we're

talking about when we talk about this matrix of energy.

What the experiment tells us is that particles that are once

joined physically remain linked energetically

even though they are physically separated from one another.

Two photons were once a single photon.

Even though they were split into two separate photons,

energetically, they were connected.

The term is called entanglement--

quantum entanglement.

And what it means is that whatever is happening

to one of those photons in one place,

whether it's 14 miles from the other one on the other side

of the planet or in the other side of the universe

is irrelevant, they're entangled.

And they will always reflect the exact same parameters in one

that are happening to the other.

Let me tell you why this is so powerful, why

this is so important.

If we think about the model of creation,

if we think about our universe, scientists

tell us that the universe began with a tremendous release,

a primal release of energy that we call the Big Bang.

In the Big Bang, energy was released,

and it began to expand.

And physical matter began to expand and move away

from the point of the release of the energy.

If we could reverse the Big Bang,

if we could take that physical matter

and bring it all back to the point where it all began,

what scientists tell us is, at that moment just

after the release of energy, all the matter in the universe,

as big as the universe appears, all that matter

would fit into the space about the size of a single green pea,

that all the physical matter from all of the bodies, all

of the planets, all the stars, all of that physical matter

which is believed to take up only about 4%

of the whole universe-- scientists

tell us 96% of the matter is missing.

96% of our universe, they believe, is empty.

So that 4% would be compacted into a single sphere

about the size of a green pea, a really hot single sphere.

They tell us about 18 billion, million, million,

million degrees.

And when I talked to the scientists about that,

I said, now how do you really know that?

And they say, well, we don't.

[CHUCKLES] They say, but we know that it was really hot.

So when all of that matter was compressed into that single

green pea-- here's the key--

everything was connected.

Everything was connected.

And even though the force of that primal release

has allowed the universe to expand,

and it's expanding today, and the physical matter

is no longer physically connected,

the experiment that we saw with the twin photons

suggests that all physical matter is still connected,

that we are still connected to one another.

We're connected to our planet.

We're connected to other stars and other planets.

This is the power of understanding

what the matrix is all about.

The key is that the matrix is not a byproduct that

happened after the Big Bang.

Let me say this again.

The matrix that we're talking about,

it's not something that happened after the primal release.

The matrix is the release.

the Big Bang is the matrix.

It's emerging as itself, into itself.

Now the implications of what I'm saying to you

and what these experiments are showing are mind-boggling.

We're going to explore them throughout this series.

But I really want to emphasize that the field that

connects all things, the web, the net, Planck's matrix,

The Divine Matrix, this field, it

is the release of energy itself.

Where did the field come from?

It depends on who you talk to.

The ancient Vedas, for example, over 7,000 years

before present, they offer us a clue.

It's not in science.

But they describe a time before the beginning

when what they call as Brahman, "The unborn in whom

all existing things abide.

The one manifesting as the many, the formless putting on forms."

This is the way the Rigveda describes this primal energy

that is happening as this release of energy

that we call the Big Bang.

So what we're finding is that the field that

fills the empty space, this 96% of the universe that

is believed to be missing, it's not missing at all.

It is a form of energy that's been with us

from the very beginning.

And this is why I think this is so important.

And cosmologists

at the University of California in Santa Cruz, agrees.

What he says is that "The Big Bang did not occur

'somewhere in space.'

But it occupied the whole of space.

The Big Bang was space itself, bursting

into a new kind of energy."

And that's the end of the quote from him.

So with these ideas in mind, let's go back

to that twin photon experiment.

What really happened?

Two photons, 14 miles apart, having

exactly the same experience at exactly the same period

of time.

How did the information get from one to the other?

Well, that's a trick question, because now we know it didn't.

It didn't have to get from one to the other,

because the information was already there.

And this is the point.

This is the controversy.

This is the mystery.

It didn't need to travel at all.

It was already present.

The experiment is telling us that we are still

connected to people and places, no matter

where on the universe, where on the planet they may be.

This is why intuition works the way

it works between a mother and her son,

for example, in a battlefield halfway around the world.

We'll see this in future episodes.

This is why remote viewing works, that we just

saw in this episode.

This is why experiments in teleportation are working.

Russell Targ, the co-founder of the cognitive sciences

program at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo

Park, California, he describes this connection

in a really beautiful way.

Listen to what he says.

Russell Targ says, "We live in a non-local world,

where things physically separated from one

another can nonetheless be in instantaneous communication."

That's the end of the quote.

Well, the Big Bang and the twin photon experiment

tells us why Targ's statement is so powerful, why it's so true.

In 2004, physicists from Germany and China and Austria

reported the first successful experiment

with teleportation of quantum information.

Results are out there for everyone to see.

They're reported in the very prestigious journal "Nature,"

Volume 430, in the year 2004.

And what they did was they teleported the blueprint

for quantum particles from one place to another.

And they did it successfully.

This was the first step.

Huge implications now in data encryption

and in data security and information transfer, then

ultimately, the quantum transfer of stuff, like you and me.

So all the things that I'm talking to you about right now,

all of these things, they're only possible because something

exists in the nothing, because something fills

the space of the universe.

So as excited as the scientists are about the twin photon

experiment, about the teleportation experiment,

in the excitement of reporting the strangeness

of the outcomes, I sense that they

may be missing the most significant part

of those experiments, what those experiments are telling us.

They may be missing the most shattering implications,

because for all of these experiments to work,

it means that they must be happening within something.

We're coming back to the same question--

what is the stuff that makes these experiments possible?

We know it's a field, but what is it really?

What is it made of?

How does it work?

Well, in a makeshift laboratory hidden

in the basement of a Case Western Reserve University

building in Cleveland, Ohio, 100 years ago,

two scientists performed the first experiment

that was supposed to answer this question, once and for all.

In the next episode, we'll see the results

of this landmark experiment and the first scientific study

designed to detect the matrix and the secrets that it holds.

I want to thank you for joining me today.

Be sure to tune in for our next all-new episode of "The Divine

Matrix"--

bridging time and space, miracles and belief."

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