The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief

Introduction

• Presenter: Greg Braden
• Focus: Understanding an empowered form of prayer as mirrored in sophisticated computer systems.
• Main Concepts: Prayer code, divine matrix, feeling-based prayer.

The Story of Prayer for Rain

• Context:
  • Early 1990s, Northern New Mexico
  • Severe drought impacting cattle, crops, and livelihoods
• Experience:
  • Greg's friend "David" invites him to a sacred, ancient place for a prayer of rain.
  • David performs a prayer ritual by feeling the presence of rain with all senses.

Key Insights from David's Prayer

• Concepts:
  • Acknowledge the Field: Recognize the presence of a field communicating with us.
  • Feeling as Language: The field recognizes feelings rather than just words.
  • Collapse Potential: Reaching into the field to make a choice real in our world.
• The Lost Mode of Prayer:
  • Feeling-based prayer where one feels as if the prayer is already answered.

Application of Feeling-based Prayer

• Personal Experience:
  • Greg shares his own healing story by applying the prayer technique to a medical issue.
  • Belief and feeling as essential in affecting physical changes.
• David's Rain Prayer Outcome:
  • Following the prayer, unexpected heavy rain ensued despite the drought.
  • Illustrates the potential power and uncertainty of influencing the natural world through prayer.

Understanding the Prayer Code

• Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretation:
  • Reference to lost biblical texts (Nag Hammadi Library, Dead Sea Scrolls).
  • Gospel of Thomas: Instructions on communicating with the field.
• Original Translation Insights:
  • Difference between King James Version and original Aramaic translation.
  • "Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer" suggests feeling as if the prayer is already answered.

Building Your Prayer

• Template for Prayer:
  • Declaration statement: State what the prayer is about.
  • Body of the code: Express thanks for the outcome as if it's already real.
  • Closure: Use "Amen" to seal the prayer in trust, faith, and truth.

Conclusion

• The Technology of Prayer:
  • Prayer as a sophisticated, ancient technology to interact with the divine matrix.
  • Purpose: Communicate directly with universal possibilities and affect personal and global realities.
• Next Episode Preview:
  • Discussing how the relationship with the matrix can address societal crises.