Cosmic Events Changed Earth Forever… Our Ancestors Tried to Warn Us | Gregg Braden

Gaia Presents, Gaia Sphere Event Center, Ancient Civilizations Conference, Greg Braden. Wow, people are coming in. Don't make me come get you. Please come in. Come down from the mountains. Come up from the rivers. I've got something to say. It's better to burn out than fade away. Who said that? Neil Young, what year? I think 79. No, I'm waiting for people to come back in. Wow, well, this is the close, almost, of your conference. It's the first time I have been with you, so I am going to say, how's the conference? Yeah, wow. Now, it's such an honor to be here. You know, I never assume I'm going to be invited. I'm always honored when I am invited to the Ancient Civilizations Conference. I think it's a really important conference. Let me see a show of hands. I haven't asked a question yet. How many people have learned things over these last two days that you had never heard of before? Yeah, and that's why, because a lot of this stuff... Okay, here's the reason I'm smiling. I've been watching the whole conference from behind this wall. There's a little studio, and the speakers get to watch the conference. We are looking at the back of your head, and I know the back of your heads really well, so now I get to see the face that goes on the front of the head. That's why I'm just smiling when I see you come in. This program, Counting Down the Cosmic Clock, that's exactly what I want to talk to you about. The question, is there a galactic event of some kind that's driving this change? Some galactic event that has shaped the reality of our world in the past, and if there is, what does that mean for us today? But here's the thing. To share the discoveries that offer greater context to the mystery, not only of our past, all of those amazing sites, the conversations you had. William Henry, I watched from the hotel this morning, and Robert Edward Grant, all the things. Isn't it amazing what he's finding over in Egypt? David Hatcher Childress. Did you see David and I in the video after lunch? Here's the thing. We're talking about exactly the same thing 30 years later. At least we're consistent, you know? We've got a very consistent message. Everything you're seeing in those presentations, in those conversations, are part of a mystery of our past. What does it mean to us today? Our ancestors were trying to tell us something. From the timekeeping systems that we find in the Yucatan, and in the Mesoamerican, this American desert southwest, Chaco Canyon. The Stonehenge of North America, so few people know about. Because the sophistication of the timekeeping is so advanced, scientists tell us that the people in North America could not possibly have done it. They say, it can't be what it is that you're telling us. Yet, there's a system of timekeeping, not only for lunar cycles, solar cycles, but lunar cycles, cosmic cycles, because they saw something in their time that they wanted us to know about. The Zodiac in Dendera, if any of you have been to Egypt and seen the Zodiac Temple in Dendera, or Jaipur in India, the timekeeping systems. I see a lot of people nodding their heads. Our ancestors were trying to tell us something, or another way of saying that is we are trying to tell ourselves something that we need to know, something important. They lived through an event that changed their world. And they have described that event in the language of their time. It's not science, because they didn't have science 8,000, 10,000 years ago, not the way we have it today. But they had knowledge, they understood, and they had an experience. They lived through an event that changed their world. So here's the question I'm gonna ask you right now. Could the event in the story of our ancestors ever happen again? Could the event that they're trying to tell us, could it happen again? Well, maybe here's the bigger question then, is the event in their memory happening right now? Are we in it? Yeah, the answer is yes. And I'm gonna spend the rest of the time showing you why that is. But I'm also going to show you, this isn't a scary presentation. And it's not a dark presentation. It is a reality that Earth may undergo, but it doesn't mean that we have to suffer in that experience. Because there's a factor that is not accounted for in modern science. And that is our relationship to consciousness, timelines of experience, and how we shift those timelines, and we do. And if you have any doubt that we shift those timelines, I'm gonna tell you, I was working in the industry in the Cold War. In the defense industry, right down the road, the company called Martin Marietta. Anybody know Martin Marietta in Denver? Now it's Lockheed Martin. And all the predictions showed that we would have a nuclear war. But we didn't, did we? Keep in mind, is there an event in their memory? Is it happening to us right now? Well, the answer is yes. I wanna talk to you about this. So these couple of charts, I know you're not gonna be able to read what's there, because it's very small print. So I'm just gonna say to you, conventional thinking. If you got kids in school now, or when you were in school, we were taught, civilization is between 5,000 and 6,000 years old, is what we're told. That's where that red line is. It's about the time ancient Sumeria, right around there, 5,500, 6,000 years ago. And then I remember when I was a kid in school, and I studied all these things. Well, laser doesn't work on that screen. All these things I thought were so interesting. The Inca, the Maya, Rome, Greece, the Indus Valley, Egypt, all that. It all seems so long ago. But look, it's all within that little 5,000-year window of history. What happened? I used to ask my teacher, what happened over there? And he said, ah, don't even give it a thought. He says, nothing going on over there, nothing to see. Well, now we know the problem. The problem with that is what are called civilization anomalies. Here's what, a civilization anomaly is when scientists discover a civilization that doesn't fit the model. So here's what they do, and they're still doing this. They say, oh, well, that's an anomaly. We'll put it over here, and we'll come back and study that later. But here's the story of civilization over here. Here's the problem. There are so many. And one of these, and I know the exact date. My birthday was June 28th. June 28th, 2010, that picture was taken. I was on an expedition in Coral, Peru. Those of you that know Coral, that we now know is the oldest technologically advanced civilization in all the Americas. It's older than the Olmec, than the Toltec, than the Inca, than the Aztec, older than all of that. I was there, the date, and my guide received a phone call from the dating laboratory telling us that this was 5,000 to 7,000 years BP before present. And that's when this picture was taken. So that's the anomaly. They say, well, you know, we'll come back and study that later. Well, now look at what, and you've been with us all day long, the Great Sphinx we know is at least 7,000 to 9,000 BP, probably more. I personally believe it's older, but these are the dates that are being accepted. You've got the Gulf of Kambat in India, 9,500 years BP before present. Of course, we've got places like Gobekli Tepe and Kuran Tepe, 11,000, 3,000, 13,000. Now we're looking at Antarctica. This is fascinating to me. I began doing a little research in Antarctica in 2022, and we were using Google Earth, and we found a series of anomalies that looked a whole lot like pyramids. We began looking into it, asking the government for help with latitude-longitude. Guess what happened? If you go onto Google Earth now, the entire area is pixelated out. It's white. It won't even show terrain. It's just white mush is all it is there. Here's the problem. Those sites, I'm hesitating. I don't want to get on a tangent here, but it's interesting. Global warming is melting the ice, and it's making the sites under the ice visible to the satellites that never used to be. And these are complex, vast, complex structures. The problem is that ice has been there since about 20,000 years ago. So either somebody built the structures in the ice, which is less likely, or the question is, who was there 20,000 years ago building complex structures, and what happened to put those structures under ice? We're going to answer some of that right now. The anomalies are now the new story. The anomalies are the new story. They're telling a whole new story, and we find clues to this. We find clues in the mystery of the Younger Dryas. Now, I'm kind of glad I'm the last speaker, because pretty much everybody has mentioned the Younger Dryas. Or if you see Joe Rogan, you saw Randall Carlson talking about Younger Dryas. And I wish Randall was here to see this conversation. You heard yesterday people were talking about it. However, I know there are some people that don't know what Younger Dryas was. So just a quick summary right here. This is a timeline. It's going from your left to your right. It's going this way. So I can't move past the end of that rug. But I can do this. I can do this. I'm just kidding. But it's fun to know about our past, because we've got the power to change our future. That makes it fun. If you were powerless, it'd be scary as hell. But it's not. It's not, because we're part of a process. And the better we understand that process, the less we fear the process. The better you understand yourself, the less you fear the change in your world, in your life. And that's why we're doing what we're doing. So here we are. Approximately 13,000 years ago, you see the Younger Dryas begins. Temperatures rose suddenly about 12,800 years BP. And that's going to be an important date in just a minute. And if you can't see, here's a red line. Can you see that red line from where you are? Okay, good. So that's where the temperatures. Let me back it off. See how quickly. Look how fast that rose. Boom, man. Look at that. And then look at this. 12,000 years ago, those temperatures suddenly dropped. And there's the drop. Now I'm going to move this so you can see how quickly it dropped. Right there. And then the warming resumed. So we were coming out of the Ice Age. Temperatures started to warm as they would for a number of reasons. Milankovitch cycles and all kinds of things. Relationship to the sun. All of a sudden, temperatures dropped. Or rose. Then they dropped. Then they resumed. And they rose again. The question is why. Now here's the thing. And this is very controversial. Many people believe that whatever happened was a one-off. They think it only happened once. And what you're going to see in the next few slides is the new discovery that shows us this is a cyclic event driven by a cosmic event that we're only beginning to understand. Are you with me? Well, thank you for staying this last hour. I mean, 60 minutes and 25 seconds. It's all going to be over. So thank you. Thank you for staying with me. All right. So what happened? We know this cooling was really fast. We find things like this. This is a baby woolly mammoth. It was frozen in place so much. I don't know if you can see this, but the fur is still preserved on female. The fur is still preserved on her feet. And you've heard some of them were like in the middle of a step and they were frozen. Or they still had the food. The grass was still in their mouth. You've heard those things. But then it preserves so well. Sometimes in Siberia, for example, when the global warming melts the ice and the sled dogs find these animals, their flesh is still food for the sled dogs. That's how quickly they were preserved and how thoroughly they were preserved. So we know this. There's no doubt. We know this happened. That's why I'm saying this. What triggered? What could have triggered that kind of climate change? Well, two things. There's the traditional story, which did happen. But there's another factor that now is playing in that's overturning the old ideas. So new evidence reveals two factors. One of those factors is a cycle. One of them is not. One of them is. One of those is a cyclic factor. That means it is a repeating phenomenon. So here we go. There was definitely a comet. And many of you have heard about this, this program. We've talked about it. 12,800 years BP, there was definitely a comet. We've got evidence from the impact all over, well, northern parts of southern hemisphere. We've got the chemical anomalies. There's no question, no doubt this happened. It absolutely happened. However, new evidence reveals something else. There is a cycle of super volcanoes that geologists have been a little reluctant to see as cyclic. They acknowledge the volcanoes. And this is changing. It has to. All right, so new evidence is revealing a cycle, not just of any old volcano. This isn't a run-of-the-mill, plain, generic volcano. These are called super volcanoes. And they are just what they say. All right, so new evidence now reveals that a repeating cycle of super volcanoes contributed to the Younger Dryas. And if you're wondering where this comes from, most of this, I'm going to show you right here. This is from July 2020. That's not that long ago. Science Advances is where this is being published. Look at what happened. Here's what they found. Because they're cyclic, it means they can happen again and that they are. And you're going to see that. And there are things that we can do to mitigate it, and you're going to see that as well. So we need to understand this because it is a cyclic process. It's not a one-off that happened in our past. So there's a new discovery telling this whole thing in Halls Cave, Texas. If anybody knows where Halls Cave, Texas is. Scientists opened a cavern, and what they found was a continuous record of the Earth's past that was undisturbed. That's important because a lot of times, I was a structural geologist, background in sedimentary geology, and a lot of times what happens is you get erosion, obviously. You get fault displacement, and so your sequence is disturbed. If it's not disturbed, you can look at that sequence, it's like reading the pages of a book. That's the cool thing about geology. Well, I want to use it. This is the actual picture of the first studies that were done, and I don't know how much you can see on those screens up there, but you can see where the strata is being delineated, and that strata is what's telling the story. It's undisturbed strata. And here's what it's saying. First of all, there are elements that are in the wrong proportions if this was a natural evolutionary process. The elements like iridium, ruthenium, platinum, palladium, rhenium, they're in the wrong proportions just to have occurred in nature. This is a direct quote, and this comes right out of the journal Science Advances 2020, so this isn't my words, this is a quote. The chemical anomalies found in sediments dating to the beginning of the Younger Dryas, listen to this, are the result of volcanism and not an extraterrestrial impact. Extraterrestrial impact would be the comet. Comet's called an extraterrestrial impact. So they're saying the beginning of the Younger Dryas, it's not the comet. It's the volcanism that is causing this. This means that the comet, and this is coming right from the article, a comet could not have caused the Younger Dryas. It happened, and nobody's denying that. It's not the cause. The volcanism is the trigger. Now, the other part of this, the isotope analysis, this is the mind blower, the isotope analysis, when they started analyzing those sediments, it matched other samples in previous volcanic events. What that means is the new evidence reveals that it is cyclic, not a one-off, because they could find the same evidence in the cyclic events from the past. So, the most recent supervolcano, it happened in two phases. I'm going to give you the dates, and then we're going to do something with these dates. The first phase occurred about 15th, by the way, some of the researchers here, you know we used to do BC and AD. We don't do that anymore. CE is common era, BC is before common era, BP is before present, and that's the notation that we're using here. So, BP is before present. So, the first phase occurred 15,000 years BP, 15,000 years ago, before present, created global cooling from the sulfur dioxide, that's what you'd expect, temperatures dropped between 3.6, 7.2 degrees, I put these in Fahrenheit, so you get a sense for what it means. That's 15,000, we're going to put this on a chart in just a minute, but that's what you're looking at, 15,000 years. Phase two began, you ever seen this number before, 12,000 years BP, as the last major eruption of this phase. So, let's take a look on the chart. Here is a phase two, right there, you can see 8,000, 9, 10, 11, 12, and then 13 is delineated. Go one notch back from 13, that's the 12,000 right there. So, when that volcano happened is exactly when that temperature dropped, boom, right there, 12,000. Are you with me so far? All right. So, the conclusion of the paper from Science Advances, the Younger Dryas appear to have been triggered by a series of super volcanoes. This particular, and you're going to see a whole series of these, this particular group is from a volcanic field in Italy, and it's called the Phlegraean Fields. And I took some of this out, they didn't want to get too complex, but there are over 24 volcano, volcanic craters in the Phlegraean Fields. So, it's not like one big mountain going, it's a series of volcanoes that are erupting simultaneously. Phlegraean Fields. All right. So, the question is, will it happen again? If it's cyclic, is this going to happen again? All right. So, the catastrophic volcanism, is it cyclic? Well, let's take a look at this. The Phlegraean Field, I just said it happened 12,000 years BP, 12,000 years before present. Is it a one-off, or did it happen again? Well, check this out. Taupo, New Zealand, happened to 25,000 BP, super volcano. It was the equivalent of the Younger Dryas, 25,000 years ago. Phlegraean Fields erupted again. This time, it was 38,000 BP. Then there was Khufu Lake in Russia, 47,000 BP. Then there was an undersea series of volcanoes, 60,000 BP. And then the Toba, Indonesia volcano, super volcano, 72,000 years before present. Every one of these is a super volcano. Every single one of these created catastrophic effects on the earth. Okay, the question, is it cyclic? Well, let's take a look. How much time is there between 12,000 and 25,000? Well, it's 13,000 years. And now between 25,000 and 38,000, look at this, it's 13,000 years. And now between 38,000 and 47,000, this is interesting, there were some other factors, it's 9,000 years. 47,000 to 60,000 is 13,000 years. And 60,000 to 72,000 was right between 12,000 and 13,000 years. So the statistical probability of this happening, every 12,000 to 13,000 years, is pretty high, would you say? Would you call that a cyclic event? All right, so let's, here, I want to do a visual. And I put this together after I gave my presentation to Gaia, so I don't know if they had this on their other one. But this is a visual, so you can actually see, this is the frequency of the volcanoes over time, visually, rather than in the chart. So here's present, present day is to your right, 13, 25, 38, 47, 60, 72, you can see it is a cyclic event. The supervolcanoes are a cyclic event. So now let me, here's a trick question. A trick question to see if you're asleep. All right, what are the odds of a catastrophic supervolcano occurring on planet Earth every 9,000 to 13,000 years? What are the odds? All right, well here, I'm going to give you a clue. So here it is, right here. There's your clue. Is it cyclic? Well, you can see that it is cyclic. What are the odds of a supervolcano happening every 12,000 to 13,000 years? For the last 72,000 years, the odds are 100%. It always happens, at least for the last, and it may go back further. I just went back 72,000 years. It may go back even further. I only went back 72,000 years because I had to get ready for this conference. All right. So the last event was 12,000 years ago. If it happens every 12,000 to 13,000 years, what does that mean? It doesn't mean it's going to happen today or tomorrow. It means we're in the window. We're definitely in the window. So here it is right here, every 12,000 to 13,000 years. So now the question, what drives those supervolcanoes? This is where it gets really, well, it's already interesting, so now it's going to get really, really interesting. Thank you.