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Hello.

My name's Gregg Braden.

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

of The Divine Matrix, bridging time, space,

miracles in belief.

In the last episode, we saw the evidence

for a universal field of energy, the matrix, that

provides the container for everything in our lives.

It also provides the bridge between our inner

and our outer worlds and the mirror

for our deepest and truest beliefs in the world around us.

Well, in this episode we'll turn our attention

to how the matrix works, the rules, that

determine what's possible in the world, as well as our body.

It was a Sunday evening in 2003 when

Hei Young had a feeling about her son Ron, a premonition.

At the very instant that she was having the feeling,

he was on a military mission just outside of Baghdad

in Iraq.

He was piloting an Apache helicopter

that would been shot down.

I wanted to share with you, in her own words, precisely what

it is that Hei felt as she shared in an interview that

happened later.

She said, "I just had a mother's feeling.

I felt like Ron was there with me.

I felt like he was there.

And he put his arms around me."

Well, not long after she had the feeling,

her fears were confirmed.

There was a knock at the door, and that visit

from a military entourage told her

what she didn't want to hear--

that Ron's helicopter had been shot down.

And he and another pilot had gone missing.

And their whereabouts were unknown.

He was missing in action at that time.

It was only on a news broadcast that

happened later that evening from a Middle Eastern station

that she saw the film footage of her son and the other pilot.

They were being held captive.

The good news is that they were alive.

When Kay saw that news footage, she screamed out, "I knew it.

I knew it.

I knew it."

Three times because her intuition was right on.

She knew that her son was in trouble before anyone had ever

told her.

The question is, how did she know?

What is it that conveys the information from our loved ones

happening in one place in the world,

halfway across the nation, or halfway across the planet?

And what is it within us that receives

that information in a way that is meaningful,

that we can interpret as a message the way that we do?

Well, the good news is that Ron's story

has a really happy ending.

In one of the most daring military missions

during the war, Ron, as well as five other POWs,

were rescued in April of the same year.

And all of them were reunited with their families.

When we hear about stories like Kay and her son Ron

and we have these familiar experiences in our lives,

what is it that's really happening and would

become so accustomed to the experience itself?

Do we ever really consider how that experience is unfolding?

What is it that allows us to be in such a deep connection

with a loved one so far away?

Well, you already know the answer to this

because the science has determined--

as we saw in the last episode, in Episode 1 of this series--

when two things are once physically connected,

even though they become separate energetically,

they are still connected.

The connection is the entanglement.

Ron and his mother were entangled,

as well as you and your mother, me and my mother,

and our loved ones.

And this entanglement allows us to have connections

and interactions on this very, very subtle level

that sometimes we discount.

But sometimes, they play a very, very powerful role

in our lives.

Well, this first rule of The Divine Matrix, this

is the rule that tells us precisely

why this connection happens.

And I'm just going to reiterate--

when something is once joined, even

though that something becomes separate,

physically, energetically, it remains connected.

This is the first rule of The Divine Matrix.

But in addition to the entanglement,

there is another principle, a second principle,

in a divine matrix that allows these kinds of experiences

to happen as well.

And I'd like to share this rule of the matrix

from a poetic perspective from William Blake.

"To see a world in a grain of sand,

and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity

in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."

What is William Blake telling us?

He's describing from a poetic perspective

the second very, very powerful rule of The Divine Matrix.

The Divine Matrix is holographic.

And William Blake is talking to us about the hologram.

Now, I know that the term "hologram," it's a common word,

and we hear it used frequently.

But I also know that different people use it in different ways

to describe different things.

So I'd like to be really clear about precisely

what a hologram is.

So the definition of a true hologram

is that for every piece of something, in that piece,

the rest of the something is reflected.

I'm going to share this with you in three different ways

just to give you three different perspectives of what

this means.

In previous episodes of "Missing Links,"

I shared with you one example of a bookmark.

So back in the 1980s, holographic bookmarks

were becoming very, very popular with the new thought movement.

We saw these amazing holographic bookmarks

of dolphins jumping over pyramids, or of Mother Mary,

or of a rose in full bloom.

And these were holographic bookmarks.

When you held them in the light, they

looked as if they were hovering above your hand

while you were holding them.

Well, in a true hologram, I'm going

to give you an example with a bookmark,

and then, I'm going to apply it to our bodies.

And then, I'm going to apply it to our brain.

And then, I'm going to apply it to the universe around us.

So from different perspectives, we all learn differently.

And this is why it's good to have

so many different perspectives.

In a true hologram, here's what happens.

You can take one of those beautiful, shiny, and

holographic bookmarks, and you can cut it

into a million different pieces.

And with each of those million different pieces,

you put them under a microscope.

If it is a true hologram, under the microscope,

you will see the entire image reproduced in that fraction

because the fraction always holds the whole.

This is what William Blake was saying

to us in the grain of sand.

So when we see these holographic images,

these holographic bookmarks, what they're telling us,

they're reminding us of a principle that actually allows

us to function in this matrix in the way that Kay and her son

did, as I just described earlier,

through their intuition.

Well, it wasn't until the 1990s, when this holographic principle

went beyond just the bookmarks, that scientists

began to understand that it applies to our bodies as well.

The holographic principle gives us

a clue as to why a change in your DNA

can be reflected throughout your body as quickly as it is.

And I want you to think about this.

The average human body has about 50 trillion cells

in the body-- so 50 trillion cells

that have the DNA within them for the average person.

If you made a change in one cell,

and that change had to be reflected cell by cell by cell

for the whole body to mirror the change,

think about how long that would take.

50 trillion cells-- if it even took one second

for every one of those 50 trillion cells

to reflect the change, I can tell you,

you don't have to do the math.

I've done it for you.

It would take 1,585,600 years for one change

in your DNA to be reflected throughout your body.

But you know that it doesn't happen that way.

When we receive a vaccination, for example,

it happens very, very quickly that our body

begins to reflect what's happening in that vaccine--

or if our cells are modified in any way.

And it's because of the holographic principle--

our DNA is holographic within our bodies.

But let me give you an even deeper example when

it comes to the brain.

There was a time when I was studying biology--

again, back in the 1960s, 1970s--

when I was taught that the brain has

very specific parts of the brain that

do very specific functions.

And if we lose that part of the brain,

that we lose that function.

Well, it was through the work of pioneering neuroscientist Karl

Pribram and physicist David Bohm that we discovered that this

simply is not the case.

It doesn't work quite the way we had been led to believe.

During their experiments, they showed that our brain

is holographic as well.

What happened was that there was research

that was being done when laboratory

animals, for example, would lose a certain part of their brain

that had been believed to perform

only a certain function.

So maybe there is a part of the brain that was used for speech,

or part of the brain that was used for motor function.

The old thinking says, if that part of the brain

no longer exists, that that function is lost.

It's not what was happening in the experiments.

When a specific part of the brain

was damaged, or in some cases even removed,

other parts of the brain began to reflect the characteristics

that were present in the part of the brain that

was no longer there.

This led the scientists to hypothesize-- maybe the brain

is not as linear as we think.

Maybe it is holographic.

So they began to do experiments.

And I'll tell you exactly how this works.

Karl Pribram postulated.

He hypothesized that since the brain releases

electromagnetic fields of energy,

that we should be able to take those fields

and analyze them as we do other fields through what's called

a Fast Fourier Transform.

And in doing that, what they found is the information

the brain is actually distributed.

And I want to share with you, in his own words, Karl Pribram's

words, what this distribution is all about.

He said that quote, "the holograms

within the visual system are what

are called 'patch' holograms."

End of quote.

A patch hologram-- what does that mean?

If you've ever seen the eye of an insect,

like a fly for example, there's a single eye.

But the eye has multiple lenses.

Each lens is interpreting the reality.

But it's feeding into the brain as a single image

of the insect, of the fly for example.

It appears our brains work in a very similar way.

It's not through our eyes, but through our perceptions.

Patch holograms within the brain,

they are feeding into the common perception.

So I'm sharing this with you because it

is this potential of the hologram in our bodies,

in our DNA, and the principle that I'm describing that I just

described in the bookmark.

These principles are all playing out in the matrix,

in the field that surrounds us, the field that

permeates our bodies.

We are living in a holographic reality.

Now, I know you've heard that before.

And the words, as I said, mean different things

to different people.

And I'm hoping to bring a new understanding

to the potential of what this can

mean in your life and my life.

The holographic principle gives us

a clue as to some of the very potent possibilities

in our lives.

And let me just use one other example to help

understand what this means.

And we'll begin applying this in our lives.

In 1972, there was a study that was done with 24 United States

cities.

Each city had populations of over 10,000 people.

The study was done by the TM people, the Transcendental

Meditation Research Lab.

And the purpose of the study was to determine

if people trained in TM and who are actually

using TM techniques within a specific window of time,

if they had the ability to influence

what was happening in the world beyond their bodies.

So they were using TM to create peace and balance

within themselves.

The experiment was designed to see if that peace and balance

somehow went beyond their physical bodies

into the world around them.

Well, the results of this study were astounding.

And what they showed was that during the window of time--

when the facilitators who were trained in the practice of TM--

when they went into their meditative states,

statistically significant changes happened in the world

around them.

Emergency hospital room visits declined.

Traffic accidents declined.

Crimes against people declined.

And here's the key.

When they stopped what they were doing,

all those statistics reversed.

Well, this understanding, and this

is a holographic principle that is in place functioning

in the world-- this principle was

taken to an even larger experiment that

was done in the Middle East during the war between Lebanon

and Israel in the 1980s.

And it was called the International Peace

Project in the Middle East.

The same thing, a same protocol, was used.

People who were specifically-- these were experts in TM--

and they were trained within a specific window of time

to create peace within their physical bodies

to create peace through the TM process.

And while they were doing this in the world around them,

statistically significant results occurred.

Terrorist activities dropped to zero while they

were in their meditative state.

Once again, violent crimes, crimes

against people, emergency hospital room visits,

traffic accidents-- all declined.

And when they stopped what they were doing,

all of the statistics changed.

So a couple of things that I want to point out here

about this study.

First of all, it illustrates a very powerful,

a very powerful principle, in that

the piece that was being created is less about something

that we do in a moment in time.

It's more about something that we become in our lives.

The matrix, the field is reflecting

what it is that we have become in our bodies.

If we are that peace only for a window of time, when we stop,

of course, it's going to stop being reflected

in the world around us.

So rather than something that we do,

the invitation is for peace to become something

that we become to the best of our ability.

That's number 1.

Number 2, mathematically, what the researchers found

was a formula for how many people

it would take in a given geographic area

to facilitate the peace.

So the formula they came up with originally

was the square root of 1% of a given population.

That number is actually a pretty small number--

the square root of 1% of a given population.

Well, the reason that I'm hesitating a little bit

as I share this with you is because new studies have now

gone beyond this linear thinking of a square root

of 1% of a given population.

It's less about the numbers of people

and more about the quality of the peace that's being

created within their bodies.

And the reason is because of the holographic principle

that you and I are exploring right now.

In the hologram, a relatively small number of people

can create a powerful change in the quantum hologram

as a result of the clarity of whatever it

is that they have created within their bodies-- the peace

or the healing that they create within their bodies.

And this brings us to the second rule of The Divine Matrix.

The first one is that the matrix is entangled.

The second rule is that the matrix is holographic.

And what that means is that on the quantum level, when

a change is made in one place in the hologram,

it is reflected throughout the hologram.

So I want to take this back to the experiment

that we did earlier in this series, The Twin Photon

experiment.

And I asked you a trick question in the past.

When the two photons were separated by 14 miles--

they were in laboratories in cities

that were 14 miles apart--

one photon had an experience.

The other one in exactly the same time

had precisely the same experience.

Here's what I mean by that.

If one of the photons was given a specific charge,

the other one had exactly the same charge.

If one photon was forced to take a path in one direction

when two paths were available, the other one

would take precisely the same path,

even though another path was available.

And the question was, how did the information get from point

A to point B. In the last episode,

I shared with you that it didn't.

It was already there because it's entangled.

The second piece of this answer is

because of the holographic nature of the field that

contains these photons.

When something is happening in one place on the quantum

level--

and these are quantum particles--

that change is reflected another place in the quantum field.

So when it comes to our relationship

with the world around us and with what we now

know is this matrix, this field of energy,

there've been two very, very different perspectives

that scientists have held in considering

our relationship to the field.

One of those perspectives was held by Albert Einstein.

He believed that we are separate from the world around us

and that we have very, very little influence

on the world around us.

And I want to share with you, in Einstein's own words, what

that perspective was.

Albert Einstein said, and this is a quote,

"we live in a world which exists independently of us

human beings, which stands before us like

a great eternal riddle, at least partially

accessible to our inspection and our thinking."

End of quote.

And Einstein took us even further

because when quantum physics began to suggest that somehow,

we have within us the ability to influence the world beyond us,

Einstein coined a very, very specific word that has caught

on in the scientific lingo.

He called this spooky action at a distance--

spooky action at a distance.

And Einstein struggled with this relationship between us

and the quantum world in the world around us.

He never could embrace the possibility

that we somehow have something to do with what's happening

in our physical world.

Well, at exactly the same time that Einstein

held this perspective, a friend of his, a peer, a colleague,

they worked with exactly the same data.

They had the same equations, the same information

in the same period of time.

But this colleague had a very, very different perspective.

His name is Professor John Wheeler.

He was working at Princeton University, as well as

Albert Einstein.

Wheeler sensed that something very, very different

was happening in this relationship between us

and the matrix.

And also, I want to share with you Wheeler's own words.

They're so powerful.

And while what he said may seem commonplace in our world

today-- if you can think back to the 1940s and 1950s, when

these scientists were making these discoveries-- for John

Wheeler to have the strength, and the fortitude,

and the courage to say in the scientific community what it is

that you're about to hear in the presence of a world that didn't

support his theories, it gives us insight

into what a very powerful man he was

and how powerful his insights continue to be in our lives

today.

Listen to what John Wheeler said.

Wheeler said, and this is a quote.

He said, "we could not even imagine a universe that did not

contain us as the observers."

He said, "because the very building blocks of the universe

are the acts of us looking and observing the universe."

Wheeler said, and this is a quote,

"we are part of a universe that is a work in progress.

We are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself

and building itself."

We live in what he called "a participatory universe."

I love this.

We live in a participatory universe.

Think about what John Wheeler has just said.

He said that the universe exists because we are creating it

as we go along.

It's a very, very different idea from conventional physics that

says the universe was here first,

and we've come along later as an afterthought,

and that we have very little influence

in the world around us.

Wheeler is saying that we are actually

building this universe.

It's not finished yet.

We are still building in a participatory universe.

And I want to take just a moment, just a moment,

and really dive in to the implications of what

Wheeler has just said here.

What he's saying is that we will probably

never find the smallest particle in the universe.

The particle that they're looking for at CERN,

he said, we'll probably never find that.

He also is implying that we will probably

never find the edge of the universe and what's beyond.

We're building machines, telescopes

that keep looking further, and further,

and further to the edge of the universe.

Wheeler is saying, we'll never find it.

And here's why.

Here's what he's saying.

He's saying, the act--

it is the act of you and I looking, peering

into the universe with the expectation

that something exists for us to see that is

an act of creation unto itself.

So the act of peering into the smallest, smallest

particles of matter with the expectation

that something is there is always

going to put another particle there for us to see.

That's exactly what's happening.

We build bigger and bigger machines

with more and more energy to collide

these quantum particles that are breaking into a bazillion

pieces.

And every time, scientists say, aha,

we've got the ultimate smallest particle.

They look a little closer, and there's something else there.

It wasn't long ago scientist using

radio telescopes believed they had

found the edge of the universe.

They said, we've reached a boundary,

the edge of our universe, that we've

got to build another telescope to see

what's beyond the boundary.

And they built another, more powerful telescope.

And now, they said, oops, it wasn't really

the edge because there is something beyond that.

What Wheeler is saying to us, what he's telling

us is that our role in The Divine Matrix

is a living, vibrant role, where we are creating as we go.

So as we know the rules of the Matrix,

it empowers us in terms of how we interpret

what's happening in our lives and what's

happening in our world.

So with these ideas in mind, what John Wheeler is telling us

that we are living in a participatory universe,

with the rules that we know so far of the quantum matrix,

of the divine matrix-- number 1, it's entangled.

Number two, it's holographic.

Now, we come back to what the abbot in Tibet said to us.

And it makes perfect sense.

We must become in our lives what we

choose to experience in the world, as well as our body.

So in addition to telling us how this Matrix,

this field is receiving information from us,

the new discoveries are also telling us

how we receive information from the field.

And every moment of every day, you and I

are part of a conversation that is unfolding.

It's a two-way conversation.

We are feeding information into The Divine Matrix,

and it is giving information back

about what it is that we've said--

what we've said through our thoughts, feelings, emotions,

and beliefs.

In the next episode, we'll discover the elegant, yet

simple language that the Matrix uses

to communicate with you and me when

it comes to our beliefs, our relationships, and even

the healing of our body.

Thank you for joining me today.

And be sure to tune in for our next

all new episode of "The Divine Matrix," bridging time, space,

miracles, and belief.

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