The Spontaneous Healing of Belief Quotes

“Let yourself be silently drawn by
the stronger pull of what you really love.
— Rumi (C. 1207 C.E.-1273 C.E.), Sufi poet”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“...one of the most powerful examples of group feeling and belief affecting a broad geographic area was documented as a daring experiment during the war between Lebanon and Israel that began in 1982. It was during that time that researchers trained a group of people to "feel" peace in their bodies while believing that it was already present within them, rather than simply thinking about it in their minds or praying "for" it to occur. For this particular experiment, those involved used a form of meditation known as TM (Transcendental Meditation) to achieve that feeling.

At appointed times on specific days of the month, these people were positioned throughout the war-torn areas of the Middle East. During the window of time when they were feeling peace, terrorist activities ceased, the rate of crimes against people went down, the number of emergency-room visits declined, and the incidence of traffic accidents dropped. When the participants' feelings changed, the statistics were reversed. This study confirmed the earlier findings: When a small percentage of the population achieved peace within themselves, it was reflected in the world around them.

The experiments took into account the days of the week, holidays, and even lunar cycles; and the data was so consistent that the researchers were able to identify how many people are needed to share the experience of peace before it's mirrored in their world. The number is the square root of one percent of the population. This formula produces figures that are smaller than we might expect. For example, in a city of one million people, the number is about 100. In a world of 6 billion, it's just under 8,000. This calculation represents only the minimum needed to begin the process. The more people involved in feeling peace, the faster the effect is created. The study became known as the International Peace Project in the Middle East...”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“While it's true that I have run the 26.2-mile-long races in the past, and I have completed them successfully, what is also true is that I've never run one at such a high altitude. So now I don't have the evidence that I can finish this marathon successfully. Although I have no reason to believe that I can't, I've simply never done it before, so I have to speculate about my success. My speculation is based in faith, because I have no direct evidence to support my success.
While this may seem like a silly example, it illustrates the difference between faith and belief. Belief is based on evidence. While our faith in something may have evidence as well, the key here is that it doesn't have to. To a person of faith, it's unnecessary.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits by Gregg Braden

“We must believe in belief itself for it to have power in our lives.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“A Fractal Key to the Universe

A fractal view of the universe implies that everything from a single atom to the entire cosmos is made of just a few natural patterns. While they may combine, repeat, and build themselves on larger scales, even in their complexity they can still be reduced to a few simple forms.

The idea is certainly attractive; in fact, it's beautiful.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“Nature doesn't use perfect lines and curves to build trees, mountains, and clouds. Instead, it uses fragments that, when taken as a whole, become the mountains, clouds, and trees. In a fractal, each piece, no matter how tiny, resembles the larger pattern that it's a part of. When Mandelbrot programmed his simple formula into a computer, the output was stunning. By seeing everything in the natural world as small fragments that look a lot like other small fragments and combining them into larger patterns, the images that were produced did more than approximate nature.

They looked exactly like nature. And that is precisely what Mandelbrot's new geometry was showing us about our world. Nature builds itself in patterns that are similar yet not identical. The term to describe this kind of similarity is self-similarity.

Seemingly overnight, it became possible to use fractals to replicate everything from the coastline of a continent to an exploding supernova. The key was to find the right formula—the right program. And this is the idea that brings us back to thinking of the universe as the output of an ancient and ongoing quantum program.

If the universe is the output of an unimaginably long-running computer program, then the computer must be producing the fractal patterns that we see as nature. For the first time, this new mathematics removes the stumbling block of how such a program may be possible. Instead of the electronic output of bits creating what we see on-screen, the consciousness computer of the universe uses atoms to produce rocks, trees, birds, plants, and even us.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“In the 1970s a professor at Yale University, Benoit Mandelbrot, developed a way for us to see the underlying structure that makes the world as it is. That structure is made of patterns—and more specifically, patterns within patterns within patterns ... and so on. He called his new way of seeing things fractal geometry, or simply fractals.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“It's all about the patterns.

So to pose the question of how the universe may work as a big computer, what we're really asking ourselves is how its energy creates patterns.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“From the dust of distant stars to you and me, ultimately everything that "is" emerges from the vast soup of quantum energy (what "could be"). And without fail, when it does, it manifests as predictable patterns that follow the rules of nature.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“Question: What Is the Universe Computing?
Answer: Itself”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“In 1983, Pioneer 10 became the first artificial object from Earth to pass Pluto and leave our solar system. It was last heard from on January 22, 2003, when the sensors of the Deep Space Network picked up the final faint signal as the tiny craft hurtled deep into interstellar space. Although its power source has weakened over the last 35 years, scientists believe that Pioneer 10 is still intact and on course, heading toward the star Aldebaran, where it should arrive in about two million years. When it does, it will be carrying a calling card from Earth in the universal language of binary numbers.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“And "binary digits" simply means that all information is coded as patterns of 1's and 0's, "ons" and "offs," the shorthand for the polarities that make the universe what it is. Because there are only two choices in polarity, the code of bits is called a binary language. In the most basic way of thinking of matter and energy, this represents everything: matter and non-matter, positive and negative, yes and no, male and female. In the case of the bits themselves, it's 1's and 0's, where 1 represents "on" and 0 represents "off." Binary code is just as simple as that.

But don't think that bits don't hold much power just because they're based on a simple idea. On the contrary: Binary language may be the most powerful in the universe.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“In 2006 Seth Lloyd, the designer of the first feasible quantum computer, took the idea of a digital universe one step further, elevating it from a question of 'What if?' to the statement of 'It is'. [...] From Lloyd's perspective, everything that exists is the output of the universe's computer. "As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds," he explains.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“...Zuse described how he made the connection between the machines that he was building and the machinery of the universe. "It happened that in contemplating causality [the relationship between things that happen and what causes those things to happen]," he said, "I suddenly thought to interpret the cosmos as a gigantic calculating machine."

The bottom line of this way of seeing the universe is that whether we're talking about rocks and trees, the ocean, or you and me, everything is information.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“Because if you honestly believe that you're more than an accident of time, space, and energy, then do you really think that you would find yourself in a world of so many quantum possibilities without a way to choose from among those possibilities?

To acknowledge that we play a central role in how our everyday reality turns out is to acknowledge that we're somehow interacting with the essence of the universe. For such a thing to be possible, it means that we must also recognize the following:

When we choose to embark upon a different career path or a new relationship or to heal a life-threatening disease, we're really rewriting the code of reality. If we think about all the implications of all the decisions we make in each moment of every day, it becomes clear how our seemingly little choices can have effects that reach far beyond our personal lives. In a universe where each experience is built upon the outcome of previous ones, it's obvious that all are necessary. There are no "wasted" choices, because every event and decision is required. Each must be precisely where it is before the others can follow.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“Because if you honestly believe that you're more than an accident of time, space, and energy, then do you really think that you would find yourself in a world of so many quantum possibilities without a way to choose from among those possibilities?
To acknowledge that we play a central role in how our everyday reality turns out is to acknowledge that we're somehow interacting with the essence of the universe. For such a thing to be possible, it means that we must also recognize the following:
When we choose to embark upon a different career path or a new relationship or to heal a life-threatening disease, we're really
rewriting the code of reality. If we think about all the implications of all the decisions we make in each moment of every day, it becomes
clear how our seemingly little choices can have effects that reach far beyond our personal lives. In a universe where each experience is built upon the outcome of previous ones, it's obvious that all are necessary. There are no "wasted" choices, because every event and decision is required. Each must be precisely where it is before the others can follow.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“Wheeler's studies have led him to believe that we may live in a universe where consciousness is not only important, but also actually creative—in other words, a "participatory universe."

Clarifying his belief, Wheeler says, "We could not even imagine a universe that did not somewhere and for some stretch of time contain observers because the very building materials of the universe are these acts of observer-participancy."'

What a shift! In a completely revolutionary interpretation of our relationship to the world, Wheeler is stating that it's impossible for us simply to watch the world happen around us. We can never be observers, because when we observe, we create and modify what is created. Sometimes the effect of our observation is nearly undetectable; and [...] sometimes it's not. Either way, the discoveries of the last century suggest that our act of observing the world is an act of creation unto itself. And it's consciousness that's doing the creating!”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“• Quantum energy can exist in two very different forms: as visible particles or invisible waves. The energy is still there either way, just making itself known in different forms.

• A quantum particle can be in one place only, two places at once, or even many places simultaneously. The interesting thing, however, is that no matter how far apart these locations appear to be physically, the particle acts as if it's still connected.

• Quantum particles can communicate with themselves at different points in time. They're not limited by the concepts of past, present, and future. To a quantum particle, then is now and there is here.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits by Gregg Braden

“On the one hand, we're told that we are frail and powerless beings who live in a world where things just "happen" for no apparent reason. On the other hand, our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions tell us that there's a force that lives within every one of us, a power that nothing in the world can touch. With it comes the promise of surviving the darkest moments of life and the reassurance that difficult times are only a part of a journey that leads to a place where bad things can't happen any longer. It's no wonder that we feel confused, helpless, and sometimes even angry as we witness the suffering of our loved ones and share the agony of what sometimes seems like hell in the world around us.

So which is it? Are we hopelessly fragile victims of events that are beyond our control, or are we powerful creators harboring dormant abilities that we are only beginning to understand? The answer may reveal the truth of one of the deepest mysteries of our past. It is also the focus of some of the greatest controversy in scientific discussions today. The reason? Both questions have the same answer: Yes!

Yes, we are occasionally victims of circumstance. And yes, we are sometimes the powerful creators of those same circumstances. Which of these roles we experience is determined by choices that we make in our lives, choices based upon our beliefs. Through the godlike power of human belief, we are given the equally divine ability to bring what we believe to life in the matrix of energy that bathes and surrounds us.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits by Gregg Braden

“• Fact 3: Human DNA directly influences what happens in the Divine Matrix in a way that appears to defy the laws of time and space.'
• Fact 4: Human belief (and the feelings and emotions surrounding it) directly changes the DNA that affects what occurs in the Divine Matrix.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“In the field of the Divine Matrix, "things" that have been connected physically and then separated act as if they are still linked, through a phenomenon known as entanglement.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

“...this field responds to us—it rearranges itself—in the presence of our heart-based feelings and beliefs. And this is the revolution that changes everything.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits by Gregg Braden

“To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it’s less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both.”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits

“we believe in our hearts and minds?”
― Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits