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Gregg Braden says writings he gives to the Essenes put every person in three worlds at once: thought, feeling, and emotion. When the three merge, speech can move a mountain, and he says he stopped calling that a metaphor after time with Tibetan monks, Andean healers, Southwestern native practice, and drug free hospitals in Beijing. Feelings we label negative are signals. They harm only when buried for years. Judgment comes from the mind, not the heart. From his Cherokee family he cites a word for the heart’s single eye, seeing an event without calling it good or bad. Bless the person who hurt you, out loud, until the charge drops, then look for beauty as he says Mother Teresa did in Kolkata. Prayer here is not an appointment. It is a feeling one becomes, which is why a peace gathering during the Lebanese Israeli war faded afterward. A Tibetan abbot, asked what holds the universe together, answers with compassion. Braden sets that beside an energy net linked to Max Planck. Older traditions already assumed connection.
Key points
- Braden says Essene teaching put every person in the worlds of thought, feeling, and emotion at the same time.
- He treats their union as a literal power to alter matter, not only as a figure of speech.
- Painful feelings are signals to be blessed and understood, rather than judgments to be pushed away.
- A Cherokee term in his talk names a heart that sees events without sorting them into right and wrong.
- Prayer, on this account, is a way of living, which is why a short peace experiment did not hold.
- An abbot’s one word answer, compassion, is set beside a scientific picture of an energy field.
- Braden argues that science and spirituality are one inquiry and should not be forced apart.
Short quotes
I asked him the question through the translator I said what is the force that holds the universe together
Gregg Braden, Braden on thought feeling and emotion
The question to the abbot is what lets him introduce compassion as a cosmic force. Watch at 11:29
I always believed that science and spirituality are the same thing
Gregg Braden, Braden on thought feeling and emotion
He uses his own starting point to reject a split between the lab and the sacred. Watch at 16:45
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