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Written by Rebecca LaPole
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
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For NEXTnc
Gregg Braden, a former Colorado State University student, is now a best-selling author and an authority on self-healing. He is the first speaker in the Evenings with Extraordinary People series that starts at 7 p.m. today at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins.
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Imagine that you're a doctor, during a routine checkup, discovered a life-threatening cancerous tumor in your body.
What if focusing your emotions and feelings on that tumor is all you need to do to save your life?
Sound outrageous? Impossible?
But changing such beliefs is Gregg Braden’s work.
Braden is a best-selling author and former Colorado State University student who believes in self-healing. Braden’s latest book, “The Divine Matrix,” is on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble’s bestseller lists. Last week, Braden was the guest on Coast-to-Coast AM radio with George Noory and he described the concepts in the “Matrix.”
He is the first speaker in the Evenings with Extraordinary People series at the Lincoln Center that starts Thursday, Jan. 25.
“The Divine Matrix is a nonconventional form of energy,” he said. “This matrix or field is not something that is ‘out there’ but rather it’s the very stuff that is holding us together.”
Regardless of what you believe, Braden’s passion about what he writes is hard to resist, which explains the popularity of his books.
“We’re empowered individually and collectively by the fact that everything is connected,” he said.
No one event triggered his interest in self-healing. Before he traveled the world, Braden worked as a computer geologist, a senior computer systems designer and a technical operations manager.
“I went to school at CSU and lived right down from Horsetooth Reservoir! Then I did my first program at the Open Door Book Store in Denver in 1986. I worked at Martin Marietta Aerospace in Denver and traveled to remote, isolated, pristine, rugged places where this wisdom is in the walls of the monasteries. Central Tibet, the mountains in Egypt, the monasteries in Bolivia and Peru taught me so much and are all places for ongoing research and research projects with other scientists and engineers.”
During his time at these places learning from intellectuals with such diverse backgrounds, Braden said he learned a way to take what they already know and apply it to crises we’ve never seen.
“What the best minds were saying is that right now we’re pressed with more problems than we’ve been faced with before: the possibility of a third World War, nuclear proliferation, new viruses, global climates changing,” Braden said.
“Conventional ways of looking at the world are not working. So we’re now taking the 5,000-year-old traditions and marrying the best science with the best spirituality and manifesting it into a greater wisdom to help us address these issues.”
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TO GO
• Evenings with Extraordinary People Series
• 7 p.m. each event
• Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins
• Tickets: $27-$37, 221.6730 or www.lctix.com. A portion of all proceeds benefit the Kristi Visocky Memorial Foundation, a scholarship fund.
Thursday, Jan. 25
Gregg Braden
Tuesday, Feb. 27
Sonia Choquette
A world-renowned psychic, healer, and teacher who has penned eight best-selling books published in 17 countries, including “The Psychic Pathway.”
Thursday, March 29
Dr. Brian Weiss
A psychotherapist and Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami who is a worldwide authority in the field of past-life regression with such best-selling books as “Many Lives Many Masters.”
Wednesday, May 23
Alan Cohen
Author of 20 bestselling inspirational books and CDs including “A Deep Breath of Life” and a regular guest on national radio and television.
Friday, June 22
Dr. Doreen Virtue
Renown psychologist and clairvoyant who works with angels and is a regular television talk show guest. She has penned more than 20 books including the best-selling “Healing with the Angels.” | |
Hey! I wrote this!
Written by Becca on 2007-02-22 12:51:51
Please give credit where credit is due. I, Rebecca LaPole, wrote this story, not Glenn Burnsilver! |
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