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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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