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Summary: Restates much information from earlier works
Review: After having read all other works by Braden, I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of new information. The book seems to follow closely the message in the tape set "The Lost Mode of Prayer". It is a great read if you have not heard "The Lost Mode of Prayer", since it does cover information not covered in his earlier works (which I highly recommend). The thing that distracted me the most was the over use of the phrases "taken from our texts 1500 years ago" and "twenty-five-hundered-year-old texts". It's not the age of the texts but what they say that is important.
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Summary: This "new" method of prayer works!
Review: After reading the book, I decided to put this "new" understanding of how to pray to the test.Instead of praying "for" something, with the implied understanding that it does not currently exist in my life... I decided to focus my prayer on the outcome I wanted... and feeling what it felt like to have my desires manifested. Two things happened to me: 1. I started feeling really good. Even though that might not seem like very much, I noticed that by experiencing my desires, in advance, in my mind's eye, in detail, I felt really good and confident that something good would happen. Things have started happening in relation to my prayers. If nothing else, it definitely is changing my outlook for the better... and I am more motivated to receive the desires of my heart. 2. The second thing that has happened to me is that I have experienced a LACK of willingness to visualize in my mind's eye, as sometimes, it is hard to accept that it is I who am responsible for the quality of my life. I mention this second part, because it has also been my experience and I cannot discount it. From a religious perspective, one could say that it is the devil trying to sabotage me (although I have a hard time believing in a literal devil). From my own perspective, though, I simply feel that it is a matter of replacing old habits with new ones. What Gregg Braden writes about, I am living. Please review these parts of his book (hardcover edition): Page 160, 2nd paragraph: "The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the 'miracle' has already happened and our prayers have been answered." Pg 166, para 3+ : "When I (the Indian guy, David) was young, our elders passed onto me the secret of prayer. The secret is that when we ask for something, we acknowledge what we do not have. Continuing to ask only gives power to what has never come to pass... I began (praying) with the feeling of gratitude for all that is and all that has come to pass, I gave thanks for the desert wind, heat, and the drought, for that is the way of it, until now... Then I chose a new medicine. I began to have the feeling of what rain feels like. I felt the feeling of rain upon my body... Our prayer becomes a prayer of thanks for the opportunity to choose which creation we experience. Through our thanks, we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into this world. This works! The only hard part is simply being disciplined enough to "slow down" and do the work (e.g. envisioning the prayer, feeling it through in detail, and believing that this is for real).
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Summary: The other side of Doom & Gloom
Review: An excellent book dealing with topics such as quantum physics, prophecy, and the dead sea scrolls written in a language anybody can understand. This book gives new perspective to many of the doom and gloom prophecies of both Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus. It's nice to know after reading this book that we have an opportunity to positively impact the many forecasts of catastophe that we read about. The section dealing with what Gregg calls the lost mode of prayer is very powerfull. For those not into religion for whatever reason, reading about this lost mode of prayer will feel right to most everybody. This book is well researched, and very well written. A must read.
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Summary: Our Time Is Now
Review: Braden draws a connective thread in this work uniting the sacred taught wisdoms of the past, the science of modern times, and the lives we seek to live today into a congruent whole. The effect of his passion for answers, moments of puzzlement, and intense desire to help create an everlasting peace, illuminates pathways that can lift people from lives of confusion to lives of direction. Many of the concepts noted had before been free-standing models that Braden draws into a much bigger, stronger picture.
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Summary: Mind-altering theory
Review: Braden's book has some important information about prayer as a positive force in life and contains material from the Dead Sea Scrolls that's been suppressed by both Jews and Christians alike. But it also offers a hopeful type of prayer that anyone form any religion is able to use. THE ISAIAH EFFECT is a deeply mind-changing book and takes some time to sink in. I'd recommend reading it in small chunks. My only complaint is that Braden could have condensed this into a long magazine article. He repeats himself so many times that I found myself skipping several pages at a time at each sitting. Lynn
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Summary: Braden scores again!
Review: Braden's book, The Isaiah Effect, demonstrates how prophecies of global catastrophe and suffering are either symbolic or may only represent future possibilities, rather than forecast impending doom. Moreover, it establishes that we have the power to determine our future, and avoid catastrophe, which is what another great book also emphasizes. In fact, Real Prophecy Unveiled, by Joseph J. Adamson, explains how we can and will inherit the earth and establish God's "new kingdom," which will "last forever and never be destroyed." That's what real prophecy foretells. (Daniel 2:44, Revelation 11:15, Psalm 104:5, etc.) We can thank God that books like these debunk the "end times/last days" nonsense and shed light in a world that has been made dark by religious bigotry, hypocrisy, and violence.
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Summary: In our world you still have to pay for books
Review: Braden's new book on the Lost science (read: technology) of Prayer and Prophecy is not to be missed by people interested in changing the world's future (cataclysm or ecological decay...) for the better (and this means most of us, yes?), despite what criticism may be leveled at the sometimes repetitious writing style, etc. The reason being that he has attempted to re-present and synthesize lost, disappearing or otherwise unavailable techniques for empowering us as instruments of prayer and peace, and shapers of our own realities. While it is disheartening to learn that in many of his workshops, people admit that when they pray, it's usually for money, it's clear that the underlying intention of this book (anything but pecuniary) is to pass on knowledge of how to pray for the only thing that really matters: our own peace and healing, which is then reflected in the world. Put this together with the Compassion and DNA work in Braden's earlier books, and I think we've been really given something important to work with.
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Summary: Hugely Significant and Profound
Review: Especially after having read Conforti's "Acalan", I cannot recommend this book highly enough. If we ever needed to recover this lost Science of Prayer, it is now. We can choose. We have the power. And our choices can make a difference. Doom need not be our inheritance. Things can be changed. ...
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Summary: all bull
Review: Facts in this book are misleading, My books are better.La
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Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: Greg Braden is a former earth science expert as well as a computer systems designer turned tour guide of sacred and religious sites all over the world. He has written a number of books on similar subjects. The Isaiah effect examines many tenants and religious beliefs throughout man kind's history. Looking at who wrote the Bible, why books were left out and what it meant to the overall understanding of the Bible that the books were not included in the final project. He looks at the Bible with all the books and also looks at Native American, Mayan and Aztec beliefs among many others (to be listed later). How are they similar? The writer will show you. Greg Braden believes we are missing something today. He explains how mass prayer has been proven to work. He discusses quantum physics theories that make many of the ancient prophecies seem plausible. The book spends a good bit of time discussing "The Bible Code" and the possibilities that it teaches us. The writer also has chapters discussing healing through prayer among many other faith based actions. This book tries to make you think. Common prophecies, common threads in religion, did we all come from one belief? The book also presents a new way to look at time, time travel, dimensions, religions and quantum physics, prayer and prophecy, alternate realities, multiple paralleled universes. Can we bounce back and forth between them? Maybe even without knowing? Are we actually just now starting to learn or relearn what the ancient people knew? If so, why? How do the prophecies from Peru, Tibet, Egypt, Jerusalem and the American Southwest coincide? Many questions are explored in the book. Some answers are given which in turn just raise a few more questions. This is a book that makes you think about many things including how we, as a race, relate to the seen and unseen worlds. If you are in a contemplating mood this is the book for you. If you are interested in the history and contents of religions this has some interest. If you feel something is missing in today's religions, read this book. It will make you think.
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