Gregg Braden
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And there's so many different ways to approach this. One of the first times I became familiar with it was in my study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. And I'll just encapsulate this briefly. The scrolls were discovered in 1945, 46, 47, 11 caves, Qumran in Israel. And they were discovered in 45 through 46 primarily, but the information was not allowed to be released to the public until the early 90s.
It's 45 years. And you say, what could be the problem? What could possibly be in a 2,500-year-old scroll that would warrant the Vatican intervening and not allowing this information and legal proceedings and the money and the energy and the time? What could possibly be in there?
Well, the answer is, and you can't make this up, it was found in the first cave, cave number one, in the first vase that they found in cave number one when it was sealed. And the first scroll that they pulled out that was 19 columns that colloquially is called the War Scroll.
And the War Scroll, in the language of the Essenes, the mystical sect that appeared 500 years before the time of Jesus of Nazareth, The war scroll describes where we are right now. So it's ancient, but it's not obsolete. It's current. We are living what is called the battle between the sons of darkness and the sons of light.
And I said this at a live event a couple of weeks ago, and there's a woman in the audience that took offense because she felt it was sexist. And so I want to clarify, 2,500 years ago, they weren't dealing with gender issues that we are today. So sons of darkness and sons of light is all-inclusive, male and female. Okay, so I just want to clarify that.
That battle between the sons of darkness and the sons of light, it plays out in insidious ways. Sometimes that battle is kinetic, and we're seeing that on boots on the ground in a number of places around the world today. Often that battle is psychological, and we're seeing this play out in social media. The battle between the sons of darkness and the sons of light
The goal of that battle is to veil human kind from their power and from their potential, from their divinity. Having access to our divinity frees us from fear, and fear is a prized commodity in the battle between good and evil.
When we are freed of fear, when we learn to love without fear and forgive without fear and imagine freely and create freely and share information freely and heal our bodies, because we're wired to heal our bodies, these are all expressions of our divinity. When we are veiled, we can't lose it, but we can be veiled from it.
We'll always have it, but we may not always know that we have that divinity. That is a form of evil, and that form of evil is playing out in our lives and our world right now. Right now. And the goal is to disempower our humanness so that we are more vulnerable to the ideas and the agendas and ultimately the control of others. And we're seeing that. That's not a secret. We're seeing that play out.
We aren't often given the opportunity to think of it within this larger context. The thing about a battle between good and evil, the old ideas of a battle, are where forces are actually pitted against one another. This is a very different kind of battle on the spiritual level. This is Know Thyself podcast. The deeper we know ourselves,
we discover that we don't want to win this battle because that would imply that we are meeting force with force. And we're more than that. We're more than that. We're human. And in our humanness, we don't win, we triumph. And the way that we triumph is by living our humanness, being the best version of ourselves, living, loving, healing, creating, imagining, innovating freely.
That is how we triumph over this battle between good and evil. And so within that context, now you begin to see the transhuman movement. And I'm not saying everyone in the transhuman movement is aware of what we're talking about. They're pawns. Many of them are pawns. But when you go up into a higher level, this is exactly what's happening.
The movement, the mass movement to shield humankind from their truest nature, to shield humankind from their divinity in a world that is being conditioned that's not good for us. So this is all part of the big picture. Now, you don't have to know any of that. The beauty is you don't have to know any of that. You just, you live the best version of yourself.
And you live it to the best of your ability, knowing that ultimately when you do that, you are triumphing in this battle between good and evil. And what is so interesting is in the scrolls, they identify seven battles that happen between the sons of darkness and the sons of light. Three of those are won by the sons of darkness. Three are won by the sons of light. That's only six.
The seventh battle. according to the scrolls, is won by the sons of light. However, the caveat is it is only won after the sons of light accept their own divinity and through divine intervention from a higher power, whatever that means. So it implies that by us accepting the deep truth of who we are, that opens the door to a deeper connection to a greater power.
that allows us to transcend, to triumph, not to win, but to triumph in this ancient and ongoing battle. And that context, I think, changes everything. Because here's what it does, Andre. We're living in a world, and it's up for everybody right now. We're all going to get through this, and we're all going to be okay. And it's not going to last forever. There's a little window of time
where these fundamental shifts are happening. And when this is over, I would love to come back and sit in this chair and have this conversation with you and let's see how it all went down. But the key for all of us, we're going to get through it. The question is, what do we become in the presence of what life brings to our doorstep when we're going through the battle?
What do we allow the events of the world to make us into? Do we allow the events unfolding in the world, whether it's politics or war or finances or a pandemic or whatever it is, or our personal lives? It's up for us in our personal lives, our relationship, because it's all connected. Do we allow those events to drive us to the most primal,
denominator, the lowest common denominator of our human instincts? Do those events drive us to hate, to want revenge, to fear? Or do those events awaken within us the deep truth of our love, our compassion, our forgiveness? And when we do have to fight, and sometimes we do, and I'm not saying it's a kinetic battle, but there's a part of all of us that has to create boundaries in our lives.
And when someone crosses those boundaries, we have to express ourselves, but here's the thing. Do we fight from our love of what we know is possible and in support of those behind us, our family and our friends and our loved ones, or do we fight from our hate and from our fear of what we think is the enemy in front of us? That is the most fundamental battle.
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