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Guy Spiro: Greg, we haven’t talked in quite some time. You’ve written several books and covered a lot of ground since then.
Gregg Braden: Books on specific topics that appear to be different but all speak to a common theme. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our planet, our civilization and our lives right now.
GS: It’s quite a time.
GB: It really is and the best minds are very clear, science is very clear, this is a time of crisis. We don’t have to look very far to see how these crises are playing out, whether we’re talking about climate change, or financial collapse, or the thirty new diseases that have been discovered in the last 25 years with no medical cures, the food
shortage happening in parts of the world or the growing threat of localized conflicts becoming regional wars. The best minds of our time are identifying all of these things as crises that must be solved quickly in the next few years. What they’re telling us is that never in recorded history have so many people been faced with so many different crises, each of a magnitude that they must be solved within a brief window of time. If we feel that something is different about our world today, there’s this low level tension, an underlying sense that something’s up, something’s happening, that we’ve entered into a period of time that is yet to complete, but the impact of it is dramatically affecting all of our lives. I’ve come to respect the word crisis. What a crisis says is that something’s up,
something is asking for our attention and we still have time to address that something before we experience negative or dire consequences.
GS: There is that crisis and opportunity thing.
GB: Absolutely. I look at so many crises converging in such a narrow window of time and my first question is why, why are all of these things happening now? Why they are converging into this window of time comes back to our understanding of the cycles of time. What our indigenous ancestors have said for thousands of years is that we do, in fact, live cyclic lives, in a cyclic world, in a cyclic universe. Modern western science tends to see life and time and the events of history in a
