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GREGG BRADEN: Hello,
my name's Gregg Braden.

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

of "The Divine Matrix"--

Bridging time and space,
miracles and belief.

In the last episode,
we discovered

that almost universally,
ancient texts and traditions,

they've told us that
everything and everyone is

connected to this mysterious
web or net of energy.

In this episode,
we'll explore what

the largest and most
complex machine ever built

has discovered about the
fractions of a second

immediately after the Big Bang.

I think the experiments
are fascinating,

but what's even more fascinating
is the scientific thinking

that had to change to reflect
what the experiments have

shown.

Here's what I mean.

There was a tremendous
spiritual revolution

that was sweeping the
Earth in the late 1800s,

and it included the
scientific community.

Very well-known
scientists were influenced

by this revolution
and the thinking

that there is a field of energy
that underlies our existence.

At that time it was
called the ether.

It influenced scientists like
Nikola Tesla, Rudolf Steiner,

Royal Rife, Walter
Russell, even John Keeley.

So the idea that
this field exists

was the foundation
of the philosophy

of these brilliant
men, and it's also

the idea that allowed their
revolutionary inventions

to work in the
way that they did.

It's what made
everything possible.

For example, Tesla had the idea
of developing a form of power

that could be shared but not
confined to wires and cables.

It was called broadcast power.

So it works much the way a
television station broadcasts

information.

It is created in a studio, or in
a laboratory, in Tesla's case.

The information would
be sent into the field,

and it would be received
by receivers that knew how

to tune into that information.

Well, that technology
is only possible

if the information is
moving through stuff,

through something, and that's
what this ether, this field,

was all about.

The healing technologies of
Royal Rife and Wilhelm Reich

work using energy that was
directed toward the body,

didn't physically
touch the body.

And for that healing
to be successful,

it, as well, had to move through
some medium, some conduit, that

allowed the information to
get from the healing device

into the body.

John Keely's perpetual energy
machine is the same thing.

It's true.

But the idea of the ether,
it's been around even long

before the 1800s.

In the 1600s, the father
of science, Isaac Newton,

he described a field of energy
that he called the ether

and he used that word to
describe the substance that he

believed filled the
universe and was

even responsible for
gravity and the sensations

in the human body.

The 19th century scientist,
James Clerk Maxwell,

the father of
electromagnetic theory,

he believed that this
ether field exists

and I want to share--
in his exact words,

I want to share a quote.

He said that "a
material substance

of a more subtle kind,
supposed to exist

in those parts of space
which are apparently empty,"

end of quote.

In 1902, the Nobel Prize
winner Hendrik Lorentz

developed the equations
that gave Einstein

the tools to develop his
theory of relativity.

Lorentz's equations believed
that the ether field exists

and he said, this
is a quote as well.

"I cannot but regard the
ether, which can be the seat

of an electromagnetic field with
its energy and its vibrations,

however different it may be
from all ordinary matter,"

end of quote.

Einstein?

He believed in this
field, as well.

But he's described it in a
very, very different way.

He said simply space without
ether is unthinkable.

So the point that I'm
making with all of this

is the sense in the
scientific community

that there's something
out there that fills what

we think of as empty space.

It has been accepted for a very,
very long time until recently.

It's unacceptable today,
and I'll tell you,

if you want to clear a
roomful of scientists

at a scientific conference,
begin your presentation

by saying, today I'm going to
talk about the ether field.

And you'll see them get
up and leave the room.

The term is not even used
today, although the field itself

is now being validated.

Well, in 1887, physicist Albert
Michelson and chemist Edward

Morley, they attempted for the
first time to describe once

and for all if this mysterious
field actually exists.

This is the very famous
Michelson Morley experiment

that I mentioned in
the last episode.

It was performed in the
basement of Case Western Reserve

University in Ohio
in the United States,

in a very nondescript building
where they built a device that

is called an interferometer.

Now, the image that you're
seeing on your screen

is the interferometer, and I'd
like to take just a few moments

and explain to you what
it is that they were doing

and what it is that this
experiment revealed.

So on the left hand
side of the screen,

you're seeing a source of light.

The light is being
emitted, it's moving

to the right toward a
mirror on the right hand

side of your screen.

However, to go to that mirror,
before it can get there it

must pass through
another partial mirror.

It is called a half
silvered mirror,

that allows some of the light to
continue to the right and some

of it to be reflected
to another mirror

at the top of the screen.

So the one beam is
being split into two.

Now here's the thinking.

Michelson and Morley
proposed that there

is a field of energy
that surrounds us,

it permeates the universe.

It is everywhere all the
time, and they believed

that the field is in motion.

They believed it's moving.

And so their thinking was that
when they shoot a beam of light

through this field,
if the beam parallels

the movement of the field,
it's going to move quicker

and it will be unimpeded.

If the beam is
perpendicular and it

has to move through
this field, it's

going to be slowed
down just a little bit.

And when that beam is reunited
with the original beam,

it will create an
interference pattern.

So let's go back to the image
so I can share with you what

I mean by this.

So we're seeing the beam.

It's coming from the left,
going through the splitter.

One of the beams is going
straight, one of the beams

is going to the top.

Both are being reflected
back to the central mirror,

and that reunited beam is
now going to a detector.

In the detector,
the scientists are

looking for signs of
the interference pattern

that I just mentioned.

In the experiments, they
found no interference pattern.

Now, in a very, very
simple way of thinking

about this experiment,
if you and I

were to go outside from whatever
building we're in right now,

and we have a piece
of tissue paper.

And we held that tissue paper
in our hand, and in the moment

we held the tissue, there
was no movement in the paper.

And if we assume because
the paper is not moving,

that means there is no wind,
and if we assume because there

is no wind that no air exists.

Of course, we know
that that's not true.

The air exists whether
the wind is moving or not.

But this is the equivalent of
what Michelson and Morley, what

they believed this
experiment was showing them.

Because they saw no
interference pattern,

they said, we detect no
movement in the field.

Therefore, the field
must not exist.

So in 1887, the
scientific papers

that were published in
peer reviewed journals

and the information was
accepted by scientists

from all over the world stated
that there is no field that

underlies our physical reality.

That ether field does not exist.

And from this time in
1887, all of our science

has been based upon that
belief of separation,

that everything is separate
from everything else.

What happens in Point A
has no influence on what's

happening in Point B.

Now our science has done
OK without this deeper

understanding of
our connectivity.

It's obviously allowed
us to send space probes

to other planets, and allowed
us to send people to the moon.

It's allowed us to
take our science only

to a certain place.

But now, science has
reached the plateau

and in order to move
further, in order

to unify the theories of quantum
physics and classical physics,

for example, in order to explain
the phenomena that are being

seen on the quantum
level, in order

to explain the
phenomenon that we're

seeing on the other
side of the universe

relative to where
we are now, science

must accept a deeper connection.

And it's for that reason, 1986.

1986, the Michelson-Morley
experiment was repeated.

It was repeated under the
auspices of the United States

Air Force.

Same experiment, they have
much better equipment.

And you'll never
guess what they found?

The field exists.

The 1986 experiment
demonstrated that the field

that can no longer be
called the ether, it exists.

And it exists precisely
within the parameters

that Michelson and Morley had
predicted 99 years earlier.

But this experiment,
in my opinion,

should have made the
headlines in major newspapers

and scientific journals
throughout the world.

Instead, it was relegated to a
relatively small article, again

in a very prestigious
journal, Nature.

It was performed by a
man named Silvertooth

under a very, very
benign title, simply

called Special Relativity.

It was published in the
journal "Nature," Volume 322

in August of 1986.

So if you'd like to check
this out for yourself,

you can go and see
what the article says.

What happened was when
Silvertooth replicated

the Michelson-Morley experiment,
he found that interference

pattern.

And what you're seeing
on your screen right now

is an image showing the light
without the interference

pattern on the left, and
with the interference

pattern on the right.

So you can actually see what
this interference pattern

is all about.

So version two of
Michelson and Morley

provided the first scientific
evidence for this field.

But it's also raised
a lot of questions.

New questions.

Now that we know this
field is out there,

scientists can stop asking
themselves, is it there

and begin answering
the deeper questions.

What does it made of?

How does it work?

How do we relate to this field?

What does it mean in
our everyday lives?

Well, the attempt to
answer these questions

has led to the largest
research project ever conceived

in 5,000 years of human history.

It has led to the greatest
level of scientific cooperation,

global cooperation,
using the largest

and the single most complex and
sophisticated device ever built

by humankind.

Of course, I'm talking
about the CERN,

superconducting super collider.

CERN is the European
Organization

for Nuclear Research.

And I know there's
a lot of information

out there in different
circles about CERN, what

it is, what it does, what
it means, who's using it.

I'd just like to address
briefly some of those things

and share with you how
these CERN experiments work

and what they have
recently discovered

with regard to the field
that we're now talking about.

So let's begin
with what is CERN.

It is the world's largest
superconducting super collider.

It is the largest
co-operative science project

the world has ever known.

It uses the largest and most
complex devices ever built.

It began in 1953,
and it's currently

maintained today by 22 nations
maintain the CERN laboratory

itself.

It hosts research from
over 12,000 scientists

from 600 universities that
represent over 70 countries.

And I want to be really
clear about this.

The research is for
university-backed projects

only.

So I'm saying that
because I've had

people ask me can any scientist
working from his basement

go over to CERN and
do an experiment

that has dangerous
implications for the world?

And the answer is no.

These are
university-backed projects.

So the point that
I'm making here

is CERN itself does
not do experiments.

CERN maintains the
laboratories that

are then made available to
universities and research

institutions under the
auspices of the universities

so that those
experiments can be done.

So what is the fundamental
purpose of CERN?

The purpose is to solve
the fundamental mysteries

of the universe,
and in doing so,

answer the deep questions
such as what is it

that fills the empty space?

CERN is trying to
determine what happened

in the first fractions of
fractions of seconds right

after the Big Bang, after
the instant of creation,

to determine what is
matter actually made of?

What is the field that
we're talking about made of?

I had the opportunity to
visit CERN myself in 2017.

And I want to share with you
a little bit of my experience

and what I discovered.

It is an amazing place.

And I think that we are not
really hearing about some

of the very, very
powerful discoveries that

are being made there and
what they really mean to us.

So let me just describe
the laboratory itself.

The laboratory is actually
made of multiple laboratories.

It is made of six particle
accelerators, one particle

decelerator.

So six laboratories where
they are accelerating quantum

particles at very
high rates of speed,

and one where they slow it down.

All right?

It's actually so
big, the laboratory

is so big that it overlaps
two to different countries.

It overlaps France
and Switzerland.

So when I was
visiting, we actually

had to cross an international
border to get from a laboratory

to the cafeteria, for example,
or from the library to where

some of the experiments are.

The device itself,
the devices, they

are located about 150 meters
under the surface of the Earth.

And what you're
seeing on your screen

is a schematic diagram of
how these laboratories work.

What you're seeing
are the circles,

these are the accelerators where
particles are accelerated just

under the speed
of light and then

allowed to collide in
very specific locations

so those collisions
can be monitored.

But before the particles
can reach those speeds,

they go through other
particle accelerators.

So you're seeing in
the bottom your screen,

there's a red oval, and
there's a smaller red oval.

And there are blue
lines, then, that

represent where these
particles are being directed

from the smaller ovals,
where the particles are being

prepared for the
experiment and accelerated

to certain rates of speed.

And they follow
the blue lines up

into the larger and the larger,
the larger accelerators where

you see those larger circles.

So bottom line of
what's happening here

is that inside of the
particle accelerators,

there are two tubes.

And in one tube, quantum
particles, generally protons,

are accelerated in one
direction until they reach just

under the speed of light.

And in the second tube,
another set of particles

are being accelerated in
the opposite direction

until they reach just
under the speed of light.

And there is a very
specific point, then,

where these particles
are allowed,

they're directed to come
together and collide

with one another.

This is the particle collision
that we're talking about.

And when that happens,
the quantum particles

are destroyed in
and of themselves

and broken into fragments
of their constituents.

And these fragments,
these smaller particles

create very specific traces,
very specific patterns that

can be mapped.

And they have characteristic
qualities that scientists know.

So what you're seeing
on the screen right now

is a typical map from
the resulting collision

of quantum particles.

And each of those
paths that you see

is tracing a path,
and the quality

and the characteristic of
an even smaller constituent

of the particles.

So in this way,
these scientists are

beginning to understand the
elementary particles, the stuff

that goes into making up
the matter as we know it

in the world today.

I've spent a lot of
my adult life studying

ancient and
indigenous traditions.

And although, as I've said,
they're not always science,

a lot of those traditions
give us tremendous insight

into what science is
revealing in our world today.

In the Hindu traditions, for
example, the creation deity--

actually, three deities,
Brahma, the creator, Vishnu,

the maintainer, and Shiva.

And Shiva is typically
described as the destroyer,

although if you go into the
Hindu traditions themselves,

Shiva is not so much
about the destroyer.

Shiva is the transformer
or the regenerator,

so the particle
must be destroyed

before it can be transformed or
regenerated into something new.

So it's not the
destruction in the sense

that everything is just gone.

What was once
present is destroyed

to reveal something deeper.

I'm sharing this with you
because at the CERN facility,

the country of India donated
the image you're seeing

on your screen right now.

This is the image of Shiva, the
transformer, the regenerator,

to symbolize what it is
that's happening at the CERN

superconducting super
colliding laboratories.

And I think this is
fascinating that we see this.

So the question,
what is it that's

actually being transformed,
as Shiva is saying,

or regenerated?

Well, I'm going to
talk about the field.

Before I do that,
we're going to talk

just a little bit about
some really basic physics

and where we are in
the world right now.

When I was in school back in
the 1950s, 1960s, early '70s,

I was taught that the atom
looks like what you're

seeing on the screen right now.

And it was things
moving around the thing,

particles called electrons that
are moving around the nucleus.

And this is the model that
has gotten science so far.

However, it is
also the model that

is breaking down because we
now know that the atom doesn't

look like this.

The atom is not things
moving around things.

And this model of the electron,
the proton, and the neutron,

as well as it served
us, technically

we know it is no longer true.

The atom is made of fields
of energy, pulsing, vibrating

fields of energy that are
concentrated in some places

more than others.

But this new model, this
vibratory model of the atom,

has given way to the
particles and the subparticles

now that are so complex and
so numerous they're actually

called the particle zoo.

Remember, when you and I
were in school, probably

we thought that
physics was complex

when we talked about the atom
being electrons, protons,

neutrons, and all the
things that go with that.

Well, the particle zoo now
has gone far beyond electrons,

protons, and neutrons.

They're telling us now
the new standard model,

that all matter is made
of leptons, bosons,

and what are called hadrons.

Under the category
of leptons, this

is where we find our
familiar electron as well

as other particles.

Under the category of bosons
is where we now find photons.

And under the
category of hadrons

is where we now find things like
the protons and the neutrons,

as well as quarks and
a lot of other things.

This is a very, very
different physics

that has unfolded as a result
of what has been discovered

at CERN and other
laboratories as we

look into these
fundamental particles.

Now all this is going
somewhere because everything

that we're learning
about this physics

must be occurring within
the conduit of stuff.

There's something out
there that is allowing

all these interactions
to happen,

and this is where we're
going with this whole thing

right now.

So when we look at what is
now called the standard model

of physics--you're seeing
it on your screen--

what you see is that there are
some particles that are related

to matter, some particles
are related to force,

and some are theoretical,
such as the Higgs particle.

And you're seeing
it in a gray box.

It's got a circle around it.

The Higgs particle-- if the
standard model is accurate,

if it works the way we
think it really works--

then we should be able to
find, under certain conditions,

this Higgs particle.

And if that particle
is there, it's

going to open the door
to even deeper questions,

but it's going to give us a lot
of answers at the same time.

The question that the
physicists are asking,

is there an ultimate particle?

And we've gone from the atom,
as we used to think of it, now

to this particle zoo.

Is there an ultimate particle?

Is there what is
called a god particle?

This is the term some physicists
are actually using now.

Is there a god particle that
is the fundamental particle

for all things?

Well, I'm going to
come back to CERN now.

CERN is recreating the Big
Bang to answer this question.

It's not so much
about the Big Bang

itself, that primal
release of energy.

It's what happened just
fractions of fractions

of fractions of a second
after that release happened.

As the universe began to expand,
something began to change.

And certain particles that were
created in that release did

things that cannot be
accounted for right now.

Some of the particles
slowed down.

Some of them continued
moving at the same speed.

And scientists are saying why?

Why would some particles
slow and some particles

continue at the same speed?

Why would some
particles begin to have

mass and other
particles not have mass?

Well the current theory
is this, that there

is an unrecognized
field of energy that was

responsible for those changes.

And that field has been known
as the Higgs field in honor

of the creator of the theory is
a physicist named Peter Higgs,

who's still with us today.

On July 4 of the year
2012, scientists at CERN

made an announcement
that absolutely rocked

the scientific community.

They announced that through
one of the CERN experiments,

they had discovered
a new particle,

and it was in the mass
region precisely where

that Higgs particle
was predicted

to be by the standard model.

They'd never seen it before.

So they said if the
standard model is working,

and we collide these
particles, and they

break down into their
elementary constituent particles

in the area of a certain energy
level, we should see something.

That energy level is
126 giga electron volts.

They'd never looked
there before.

And when they made this
discovery, lo and behold,

there was a particle with
precisely those characteristics

precisely where they
predicted it was.

It is now called the Higgs
Boson, the Higgs particle.

So the properties
of this Higgs Boson

are precisely
consistent from where

Peter Higgs had predicted.

Well, this is
important, and this

is where it gets really,
really interesting

because for the
Higgs Boson to exist,

there must be a Higgs field
that it is emerging from.

The Higgs field is
the elusive field

that we're going to be talking
about throughout this program.

The Higgs field has
now been validated.

The Higgs field is believed to
be the field that scientists

have been searching
for three centuries

now, since the time of
Isaac Newton, the ether that

fills the empty space.

It's now accepted that this
Higgs field is the field that

exists everywhere all the time.

It's what gives
particles their mass.

So at the time of the Big Bang,
just after that primal release

of energy when those
particles were created

and they began to
expand, it is moving

because they're moving
through the Higgs field,

that some of the particles
interacted with the field

in a way that slowed them
down and gave them mass

while others continued
to move at the speed

that they were originally.

In the scientific world, this
is a blockbuster discovery.

This is a landmark discovery
because this field that

has been questioned,
the speculation has

been does it exist, is it
there, we now know that it is.

And it's given many names.

Some people simply call
this the Higgs field.

Some people call it the field.

Some are calling it the source.

Some are calling it the
matrix, as Max Planck.

Some are calling this
the divine matrix.

And for the rest
of this program,

just to make it easy
for our conversation,

I'm going to use either
the term the matrix

or the divine matrix to
describe the field that we're

talking about now.

So the question is, now we
know that the field is there,

this matrix is there,
what does it do?

How does it work?

Well, this field fulfills
three fundamental principles

that make your life
possible, my life possible,

and the world as we
know it possible.

Number one, the field is the
container for all things.

All things that we
know, all things that

exist in the universe
are happening

within the confines of this
field of the Divine Matrix.

Number two, it is the
bridge between our inner

and our outer world.

It is the bridge that explains
how our thoughts, feelings,

emotions, our prayers can
be created from within us

but find the people
and the places

that are the object
of our prayers,

whether in another room or
halfway around the world.

That's the bridge.

And number three, this
field is the mirror.

It's a quantum
mirror in our world

for what we truly believe in
our mind and in our heart,

and what we create
in our imagination.

So when we ask the
question now, who are we,

our answer must incorporate
our relationship to this field,

to the divine matrix.

I've spent much of my
adult life exploring

many of the ancient indigenous
traditions of our past.

And my exploration
has taken me into some

of the most magnificent
and beautiful

and remote and
isolated and pristine

places remaining in the world
today, such as the monasteries

of Tibet that were very
available to me in the 1990s

as I was taking groups
into these places.

And it was in one
of these monasteries

that I had the
opportunity to meet

with the elder, the
abbot of the monastery.

And it was while I was writing
the book titled "The Divine

Matrix".

And I asked this abbot, from
his perspective as a Buddhist

scientist, as a Buddhist
scholar, I asked him,

what is the stuff that fills
the field of everything?

What is the stuff that holds
this universe together?

What is the force
that allows everything

to be as it is in
the world today?

Well, my Tibetan is terrible,
so I was speaking to him

through a translator.

And he and the translator
launched into a conversation

without me, back
and forth, bantering

because of the
uncertainty that he

had in terms of
my knowledge level

and how they answered
the question.

And suddenly the
translator looked at me

and answered my question
with a single word,

and the word was compassion.

So the answer to
my question, what

is the stuff that fills
the universe, what

is the stuff that holds
everything together,

the abbot had just answered
me with the word compassion.

And I looked back at him and
I said, is compassion a force

that fills the universe?

Is it the stuff that
holds everything together?

Or is compassion an experience
that we have within our bodies?

And once again, the
translator and the abbot

had their conversation
back and forth.

And then they looked at me with
a single word for the answer.

And the answer was simply
yes, that compassion

is both a force that
fills the universe

and holds this world together,
and it is an experience

that we create
within our bodies.

Now I'm sharing this with you
because on the cold, damp floor

of a monastery at almost
16,000 feet above sea

level on the Tibetan Plateau,
this beautiful, powerful,

brilliant Buddhist man had
just shared with me one

of the deepest secrets of the
human experience, that we have

within us the ability to
interact with the force that

fills the empty space
of the universe.

And that interaction
and that force

is the focus of their
lifetime of study.

So when I asked him about
the role of compassion

in our lives, what
he was saying to me

is that because this field
is a mirror for everything

that we create within us, we
create compassion in the world

by becoming compassion
in our lives.

The field is reflecting
what it is that we become.

In other words, we must
become in our lives

the things that we
choose to experience

in the world around us.

So the rules that
govern Planck's field

are the rules that govern the
Higgs field, the rules that

govern this field that the
abbot is describing for me.

Those rules tell us why the
abbot was absolutely correct

when he said to me that we
must become in our lives

the things that we choose
to experience in the world.

Both the discovery
of the Higgs field

and the wisdom of the
Tibetan abbot tell us

that not only are we connected
through a field of energy,

but we are the field.

We are the matrix.

And it's because
we're the matrix

that the discoveries
that describe it

are describing us as
well, our possibilities,

our capabilities, our potential.

Well, in the next
episode, we'll discover

the rules that define
the matrix that

underlies our everyday reality.

So I want to thank you
for joining me today.

Be sure to tune in for our next
all new episode of "The Divine

Matrix" Bridging tme,
space, miracles, and belief.

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