The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Book Review

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits. Gregg Braden. New York: Hay House, 2008. 216 pp

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, written by Gregg Braden, seeks to shatter the false beliefs that hold us captive. Early in this book, Braden writes:

“How would our lives change…if we discovered that we’re born with the power to reverse disease? Or what if we could choose the peace in our world, the abundance in our lives, and how long we live? What if we found that the universe itself is directly affected by a power that we’ve hidden from ourselves for so long that we’ve forgotten it’s even ours?”

Citing study after mind-blowing study, Braden makes a good argument that we do, indeed, possess such abilities. But we’ve forgotten all about these godlike abilities we have because we live in a world that accepts and promotes limitations.

I know…Braden is not the first person to make such claims. But Braden goes further, surmising that we live in some kind of a “simulated reality.” In other words, our world and universe is a great big computer and we are both acting out and creating its programs which form our reality (think The Matrix). I know this sound bizarre, but Braden actually backs up his claims with convincing scientific evidence.

After establishing the existence of this simulated reality, Braden tells us how to communicate with it to alter its programs and to create so-called miracles in our lives.

The message of The Spontaneous Healing of Belief is one of power and hope for a world that seems to possess little of either. The power is in our hands to make or to break our own personal lives and the world that we live in. Let’s start using this power wisely. .

The Divine Matrix: Book Review

The Divine Matrix: Bridging Space, Miracles, and Belief. Gregg Braden. New York: Hay House, 2007. 223 pp.


Gregg Braden’s, The Divine Matrix, proposes that we are more than mere specks in a universe that doesn’t care about us, a universe that we have no control over. Rather, he proposes that we are the creators of our world and of what we experience in it. We live in an interactive universe, Braden says, one in which our participation is mandatory. Whatever we have faith in, will come to pass. The Divine Matrix guarantees it.

Yes, organized religions have been touting the importance of faith in unseen forces (or God) forever, so Braden’s claim is not new. Neither is his theory of an interactive universe particularly new. (Everyone from Deepak Chopra to Dr. Wayne W. Dyer have quoted the same studies in quantum physics that seem to indicate that particles and waves (scientific gobeldy goo that I don’t understand very well) requires a conscious observer for it to “collapse” into our reality—the reality that we expect to see.

But Braden, a former senior computer systems designer, just does it better.

Throughout The Divine Matrix, Braden lists study after study from quantum physics (and explains them in a way that a scientifically-challenged person, such as myself, can understand) that builds inexorably toward the conclusion that we are all responsible for the reality that we observe.

And there is no escape. We are constantly creating whether we believe in his theory or not. We are constantly creating whether we realize it or not. We are constantly creating whether we want to or not.

As Braden says in the introduction, The Divine Matrix “provides the container, as well as a bridge and a mirror, for everything that happens between the world within us and the one outside of our bodies. The fact that this field exists in everything from the smallest particles of the quantum atom to distant galaxies whose light is just now reaching our eyes, and in everything between, changes what we’ve believe about our role in creation.”

But Braden just doesn’t tell us how the Divine Matrix works; he also tells us how we can change the reality that we’ve unconsciously created for ourselves.

In reading The Divine Matrix, my view of my role in creation certainly shifted. For the first time in my life, I felt empowered. I was not just plopped down on earth as an innocent victim of life. I, puny little me, could make a difference in my life and the lives of everyone and everything in the universe. (Everything that happens in the divine matrix affects everyone in the matrix, even if they are on the other side of the world!)

The Divine Matrix is well-written and is wonderfully inspirational. I rank it #1 on my list of the best spiritual/inspirational books on the market.

And I’ve read a lot of spiritual/inspirational books.

By the way…Braden does not discount the existence of a higher power. On the contrary, it is the energy of a higher power, Braden says, that is the creative power of the Divine Matrix.

Buy or borrow a copy of The Divine Matrix, read it, and let me know what you think!

Once Connected, Always Connected Proven Scientifically

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The more that science, particularly Quantum Physics, investigates life, matter, and our place in the universe, the more it begins to sound--gulp!!!--right down mystical.


Chief among these mystical findings is proof that we are all connected, forever and always. But these paradigm shattering, mind bending findings simply confirm what religious and spiritual traditions have been telling us from the dawn of civilization.

We are not individuals but part of the whole. (And when I say part of the whole, I mean part of every person, part of every animal, part of tree, etc.)

Experiment in Quantum Physics

I’ll spare you all of the scientific details--besides, I don’t really understand scientific language myself--so I’ll cut to the chase.

In 1997, the University of Geneva in Switzerland launched an experiment with mind-boggling implications. The scientists split a photon in half, creating twins. Then they shot the photon off in separate directions. Eventually, 14 miles separated the twin photons.

During this trip in opposite directions, whenever these twin photons needed to choose one course over another, they both chose the same course--every time. They acted as if they were still connected, even though 14 miles separated them.

Nothing in traditional scientific thought accounts for these results. We live in a mechanized world, and universe, where nothing--according to scientific thought--is connected to anything else. Yet, here were photons (the building blocks of matter) that were instantly responding to each other as if they were still connected.

Once Joined, Always Joined 


In his book, The Divine Matric, Gregg Braden says that, before the “big bang,” the universe was nothing more than a small ball that was roughly the size of a green pea. Because there was no space within this ball, all of the photons and the particles were tightly compressed--connected, in other words.

Then the “big bang” blew it all apart, creating an ever-expanding, gigantic universe that is--nevertheless--still a part of us. Once joined, always joined…remember?

What does this Mean--for YOU?

It means that a change in one incident or person changes the whole fabric of our existence. It means that, truly, when you hurt another person or thing you are hurting yourself. It means that you are a part of all that is and all that every will be.

But the most exciting thing, for me, is this--

Whatever you want to achiever in life is within your grasp. You are already a part of it and it is a part of you. All you have to do is reach out for it and believe that it is already yours. Yes, it’s true. Wealth, health, and happiness is already yours. All you have to do is take it.