Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age [Paperback]

I think, in this day and age, we have drifted alarmingly far away from the need for information and become comfortable with just the presentation of that information. I was given Gregg Braden's Fractal Time on loan from a friend - which, the more I think on it, might massively disappoint the author - just to give it a try and see what I thought of it. Honestly, Braden is another expert at puking out tons and tons of jargon without actually telling you anything. This marks two books now that I may never finish because of this very flaw; the other being Lynn Grabhorn's "Excuse Me You're Life Is Waiting" (yawn). Is the literature on the speculated events of the end of 2012 important? Probably to some. To further that argument though, to me, having the skills and weaknesses of my Skylanders listed on a shiny card is important. To each their own. However, when you - I will admit I am just at chapter two now - have gone through an introduction and first chapter and all the author has done was wax nostalgic for a paragraph before rephrasing for the nth time the same dialog about using his time code calculator to anticipate the conditions that were present at an arbitrary time in the past when something happened, you don't have a book, you have a thick brochure. Having built "Appendix A" to outline the Time Code Calculator for an easier read, I shot ahead to try and put my head around what he was trying to sell. In the end of the third paragraph on p. 205, Braden makes it all perfectly clear: "The choices that we make along the timeline of the cycle can create a new path and a new timeline with a new outcome." What more do you need to walk away knowing that Braden is little more than an articulate salesman? You've gone the length of that whole book to be told it's pretty much up to perspective, chance, and a pinch of "whatever you want to believe". It's like Cory Herter's mystical head shop posters and how he pretty much says, flatly, that they will fix your life if you believe they will. And have the hundreds of dollars to buy them.

For a lot of people, I gather tomes like this provide a great deal of comfort. It also appears that many people not only want to know what's going on but they don't want to have to work to gain the knowledge and they also want to be the only ones who know it. It's a touching thought. If you need answers - if you're constantly at your doctors heels for some new pill because you can't stand uncertainty - you aren't alone, and folks like Gregg Braden are here for YOU. If you are looking for useful information and a good read, however, it's best you look elsewhere.

Fractal Time deals with Time as cyclic rather than as linear. Braden takes the reader through the 9/11 event to demonstrate the use of the Time Code Calculator which he has developed as a means for choosing a "seed" date and look backwards to see where the conditions for such an event, e.g., 9/11 have occured before and to then move forward to see where the conditions will appear again in the future. He proposes 2010 as being highly significant as a choice point. He illustrates the discovery of scientists that the resonance of the core of the earth is the same resonance of the human heart. Hence the significance of making decisions to change the "conditions" for the good of humanity and of the earth.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the book is inconsequential and immaterial. However, perhaps one should read the book before profering an opinion.