A Groundbreaking Interpretation of Prayer, Quantum Science, and Prophecy.

Only one document was discovered completely intact among the 25,000 fragments of papyrus, parchment, and hammered copper known as the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Great Isaiah Scroll. Nearly one thousand years older than existing copies of the Old Testament's Book of Isaiah, the twenty-two-foot-long parchment was still rolled and sealed in its original earthen vase when it was discovered in 1946. The completeness of the Isaiah Scroll offers unprecedented insight into the power of an ancient mystery - a lost mode of prayer - that modern science is just beginning to understand. Displayed today in Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book Museum, the Great Isaiah Scroll is believed to be so precious by modern scholars that it's withdrawn into a vault beneath the building's floor in the event of a natural or man-made disaster.

In The Isaiah Effect, the dazzling new work from the author of Awakening to Zero Point and Walking Between the Worlds, scientist and visionary Gregg Braden offers a radical departure from traditional interpretations of Isaiah's text. Weaving state-of-the-art research with his extensive knowledge of the ancient Essenes (the creators of the scroll texts), Braden invites us on a journey where science and miracles are merged into a new wisdom - and lead to a startling conclusion. He suggests that Isaiah, the first Old Testament prophet, left precise instructions to the people of the future describing an unconventional mode of prayer.

Using principles recognized only recently in quantum physics, Braden demonstrates how Isaiah's nonreligious, nondenominational form of prayer transcends time and distance to bring healing to our bodies and peace to the nations of our modern world.

Beginnings

I listened carefully to what the voice on the radio was saying, to be certain I had heard correctly. On the dashboard of the new van, rented only days before, the lighted buttons felt awkward and unfamiliar. I fumbled with the volume control to drown out the roar of a relentless crosswind paving the way for a winter storm that had been visible just as the sun was setting. For as far as I could see along the interstate, there was only the hint of distant lights reflected from the low clouds above. As I reached up to adjust the rearview mirror, my eyes followed the asphalt that we had just traveled until it disappeared into the blackness surrounding us. Not even the glow of headlights announcing their arrival on the horizon was visible behind. We were alone, absolutely alone, on that county highway in northern Colorado. At the same time I wondered how many other people, in their cars or homes, were hearing what I was hearing from the man on the radio.

The moderator was interviewing a guest, inviting him to share his view of the close of the present millennium and the birth of the twenty-first century. The guest, a respected author and educator, was invited to share what he saw in store for humankind over the next two to three years. The radio crackled briefly as the man's words described a future that was immediately unsettling. Confidently, authoritatively, he spoke of his vision of an inevitable end-of-the-century collapse in global technologies, especially those based in computers. As he developed a worst-case scenario, a future emerged in which the essentials of life as we know it would become scarce, perhaps unavailable, for months or even years. He cited limited supplies of electricity, water, natural gas, food, and the loss of communications as the first signs of a breakdown in national and local governments. The guest continued, speculating about a time in our foreseeable future when national law would be suspended, and martial law imposed to maintain order. In addition to such frightening conditions, he cited the growing threat of uncontrollable diseases and the potential of a third world war with weapons of mass destruction, all leading to the loss of nearly two-thirds of the world's population, approximately 4 billion people, within a span of three years.

I had certainly heard such terrifying forecasts before. From the visions of biblical prophets to the prophecies of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, rising oceans, great inland seas, and catastrophic earthquakes have been a consistent theme in predictions for the close of the second millennium. Something was different about that night. Perhaps it was because I felt alone on the highway. Maybe it was because I knew that so many others were hearing rhe same message, an authoritative voice of an invisible guest carried into their homes, offices, and automobiles. I found myself immersed in a range: of experiences that ran from powerful feelings of hopelessness and tears of deep sadness to equally powerful surges of anger and rage.

"No!" I found myself screaming out loud. "No, it docs not have to be the way you have described! Our future has not happened yet. It is still forming and we are still choosing the outcome."

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© 2001 by Gregg Braden.

Tags: New Age, Psychology & Psychiatry

About the Author

Gregg Braden, a former earth science expert and computer systems designer, is an author and guide to sacred sites throughout the world. He and his wife divide their time between New Mexico and Florida. More