It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Gregg Braden feels fine.  Maybe it’s not quite that simple, but according to Braden, who has spent the last 22 years studying nature’s cycles and the scary predictions behind the year 2012, it’s not as cataclysmic as we’ve been led to believe.  “I’m not a doom and gloom person,” said Braden in a recent phone interview from his home just outside of Taos, N.M.  “We’re facing some of the greatest challenges of 5,000 years of recorded history and seeing that when we work together we empower ourselves to leave the worst behind and head into the best,” Braden said. “2012 isn’t the end of the world; it’s the end of a great world age. The end of one cycle is the beginning of another.”

The New York Times best- selling author will give a lecture Friday at the Lincoln Center on what Dec. 21, 2012 – the end of the Mayan calendar – really means for the Earth’s future.

Known as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality, the former geologist and aerospace computer systems designer has spent the last 22 years studying nature’s cycles as they unfold into historical, environmental and sociological patterns and what these patterns can tell us about our potential future.

This generation is facing the greatest number of challenges and greatest magnitude of threats to its existence ever in recorded human history, he said, citing examples such as climate changes, the addition of new, incurable diseases, the global economic collapse and the threat of regional and, potentially global, war.

Braden, who attended Colorado State University, tracks these cycles of time, which he calls “time codes.”   “Somehow our ancestors knew about these cycles before GPS and satellites,” Braden said. “They knew that the Earth would undergo changes based on cyclic changes; they had just experienced it in their time.”

Using mathematics to calculate the rhythm of the cycles, Braden was able to look for “big picture” events in the past to see what our future may hold. “May” because, Braden said, this window to the possible future is society’s key to determining its true future.

Many people are looking at 2012 with fear and anxiety because of the misinterpretations of Armageddon that they’ve seen played out in the movies, he said. But 2012 marks the first year of a new cycle and the potential emergence of a new way of being.

Time codes indicate that the planet is already well on its way through the most frightening changes, so rather than waiting for the future to happen, we’re already dealing with it, Braden said.

“It looks frightening until we realize that this is an opportunity to forever change some of the most frightening aspects in our time – our choices have greater potency,” he said.

“It’s not about a date but about a time in our civilization,” Braden added. “It’s a global reality check; we can look at the events leading up to it and decide which choices worked and which didn’t.

“This is the opportunity that we have right now,” he said. “For me, the end date 2012 marks not only the end of a great cycle; it also marks the beginning of another. Right now, we’re making the choices personally and collectively to say what the (next) world age will look like. The stage is set, the choice is ours and the time is now.”

New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. Following a successful career as a Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970s energy crisis, he became a Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Defense Systems during the last year of the Cold War. In 1991 he was appointed the first Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems where he led the development of the global support team that assures the reliability of today’s Internet. For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix and The Spontaneous Healing of Belief:  Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits.

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