Home
>
Book Reviews
>
The Isaiah Effect, by Greg Braden

The Isaiah Effect, by Greg Braden

Why do some prayers seem to be answered while others not? "The secret of prayer lies beyond the words of praise, the incantations, and the rhythmic chants to the `powers that be."

We are only using a small part of the "equation" of prayer and those elements that we are missing are emotion, thought, and feeling; it is these elements that when properly aligned are the formula for creation.

In the 4th century, the Nicean Council excluded twenty-two ancient writings from the Biblical canon because they either felt that they were redundant, or that the writings should be preserved for scholars or the mystery schools, thus the science of prayer has been lost to the Western world for 2500 years. The first part of the book discusses the various prophecies foretold by the North American Hopi, the Maya, Nostradamus, and Isaiah, as well as prophets like Edgar Cayce, who forecast devastation and upheaval of the earth in the days of the prophecies, which is Now. Braden sites several cases of miracles over the years that changed the course of events and may be the result of group prayer or mass consciousness. If the prophecies are fulfilled, we are on an inevitable path to destruction, and Braden feels we may be able to reverse this path if we use the science of prayer as a collective consciousness, to choose a different future.

Braden pulls together hard science, theories, and earth events, to support his viewpoint for the need for mass consciousness and prayer, and I feel that this book is singularly headed in one direction, that is the call for action to change the predetermined path that we are presently on.

It is thought that the imbalances imposed upon the earth are mirrored as conditions within our bodies like diseases such as cancer, and similarly the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are mirrors of a great change in the human consciousness. Braden discusses the mirror theory of quantum physics and suggests that if alternate realities exist simultaneously, prayer is the secret key allowing us to choose the reality that we want to experience. It is our thought and feeling, every moment, which determines the reality that we experience, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously.

This book reminds me of James Redfield's, The Celestine Prophecy, where much the same concept of mass consciousness and prayer was introduced in a fictional adventure.

To compliment Gregg Braden's research I would recommend reading You'll See It When You Believe It, Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Cindy DeJager is a writer and book reviewer for Rosetta Stone Press, publisher of The Many Waters, by Lauretta Lueck.

In The News:

Columbus Dispatch
Book Review | Father's Day: Author's insecurities extend to special son
Columbus Dispatch
His journalistic insecurity is so great, even after the success of Friday Night Lights, that he writes: â€œI had pathetically stopped reading The New York Times Book Review five years earlier because of my raging jealousy of other writers getting rave ...

and more »

Book Review: Beating The Business Cycle
Seeking Alpha
The firm has a rich history of accurately predicting recessions and recoveries and I have enjoyed reading Achuthan's views on the current state of the economy, so I was excited to learn that this book existed, even if it is a bit out of date (published ...

Review: â€œBatman Incorporatedâ€ Returns To DC's â€œNew 52â€ Universe In Excellent ...
Complex.com
Few books can match the raw creativity and energy in this book, and this issue further proves that Chew should be one every comic book fan's radar. What it's about: When the book debuted in 1992, Youngblood was one of the first titles to come out at ...

and more »

Sydney Morning Herald
'Fifty Shades' gives readers something to talk about
STLtoday.com (blog)
FILE- This file combo made of book cover images provided by Vintage Books shows the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy by best-selling author EL James. You can't always tell how explicit a book is by its cover. RT Book Reviews also uses a sensuality rating ...
'Fifty Shades of Grey' Staying On SF ShelvesKELOLAND TV
Berkley Touting Its Own 'Fifty Shades' ImitatorPublishers Weekly
Raunchy read flies off the bookshelvesThe Daily Post

all 326 news articles »

The Book Nook: 'Sparky and Me' by Ron Kaplan and 'A Wedding in Haiti' by Julia ...
Advocate Weekly
Or felt annoyed that you bought a book that was merely so-so? Or closed a book and JUST wanted to talk about it? Or wished you had a place to discover new books? The Book Report Network aims to solve these reader dilemmas, with thoughtful book reviews, ...

HitFix (blog)
Kristen Stewart's 'On The Road': Cannes Reviews Are In!
MTV.com
While they say the movie remains faithful to the book, they feel the film version lacks the spark Kerouac carried throughout the novel. "You can't help but wish that Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera had focused less on the stories in the book and ...
Cannes Review: 'On The Road' Is A Failed Attempt to Adapt the UnadaptableFilm School Rejects
Review: 'On The Road' makes great use of Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, and ...HitFix (blog)
Kerouac's "On the Road" hits screen in Cannes debutReuters
New York Times -Contactmusic.com
all 218 news articles »

PR Web
Movie Review: Watching "Bully" Is Not Enough To Make A Difference Says ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Irene van der Zande, child safety and bullying prevention expert, reviews the movie "Bully," offering advice and caution to adults about letting kids watch the movie and five practical, upbeat actions adults can take right away to help stop bullying ...
Safe and SoundGood Times

all 4 news articles »

Book Review: Successful Partnering
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
The new chapters added to this treatise in 2012 were discussed in book reviews in our April 2012 and May 2012 issues of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. In addition to the new chapters, existing chapters are revised and replaced each year when there ...

Book review: The Watch
MSN India
His earlier book, The Storyteller of Marrakesh, received glowing reviews and established him as a literary heavyweight. The Watch, published by Random House, follows a desperate night-long battle; a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in ...

The Guardian (blog)
The battle of book reviews
DAWN.com
IS the professional book reviewer an anachronism? In a recent Harvard Business School study of nonfiction reviews, assessments in mainstream media outlets and amateur ratings on Amazon largely converged. Surely we could chuck the review section and ...
Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review?The Guardian (blog)

all 2 news articles »

Google News