Book Review - Fractal Time by Gregg Braden

When I first heard of the book Fractal Time, I thought, fractals, interesting. I should read that, expand my horizons. I had no idea it was a book about the 2012 Doomsday prophecy until the book arrived and I saw the cover. I love a good doomsday prophecy story as much as the next person, but it wasn't something I was dying read. Still I decided to give it a chance and I was pleasantly surprised. While it does cover the 2012 prophecies it also covers so much more and unlike many books that get bogged down in scientific facts and historic rhetoric, this one flowed beautifully.

Gregg Braden writes a very compelling book and it didn't take me long to get absorbed in his work and theories. In Fractal Time, he explores nature's patterns (fractals) and merges it with the views of several ancient cultures and modern scientific facts. He shows the patterns in man's history and that of the planet. He points out how cycles have repeated themselves and how we amplify the effects of each new repeated cycle by how we respond to the world around us. He even included a fascinating Time Code Calculator so that you can find recurring patterns in your own life. in one of my favorite examples he shows the repeated patterns between the polictical & life paths of Abe Lincoln and John F Kennedy, that are almost exactly 100 yrs apart, event for event.

Braden takes the scientific jargon and gives the reader an easy to follow understanding of what the world ages are and what one might expect from the end of the world age we are coming to in the future. He points out, it is not so much the events that will be apocalyptic, but how mankind chooses to deal with these events that will shape what becomes of the world in the future. Braden explains how we have this magnificent window of opportunity to grow spiritually as we deal with global warming, the change in polarity of the Earth's magnetic fields which we are already seeing the effects of and other environmental events. Along with this, he shares the knowledge of the Mayans, the Hopi and other great minds of the past. He takes their prophecies and shows an interpretation that doesn't say the world will end on December 21, 2012. As the back of his book cover points out we will have to face cataclysmic shifts that will change the face of the Earth and alter our entire civilization. We have the tools to deal with these events if we learn from our history and make the right choices for our future. Fractal Time is a must read for anyone who is fascinated with the 2012 prophecies and wants an informed, non-melodramatic version of what may be in store for us.