February 27, 1998: Science & Spirituality - Gregg Braden

Art Bell welcomes scientist and author Gregg Braden for a conversation bridging ancient wisdom and modern science. Braden, a former geologist and aerospace engineer who worked on the Peacekeeper missile program at Martin Marietta, argues that key spiritual and scientific texts were removed from public knowledge around 325 A.D. under Constantine. He contends that these lost documents contained an inner technology relating human emotion to physical well-being and genetic expression.

The discussion turns to evidence of spontaneous genetic mutation documented since 1995. Braden cites a global blood study from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center showing that at least one percent of the population tested had developed DNA mutations conferring resistance to HIV up to 3,000 times greater than normal. He references UCLA research on children born HIV-positive who spontaneously cleared the virus, and Stanford University studies linking emotional states to immune system function.

Braden proposes that human DNA contains dormant codes being activated in response to environmental challenges including declining magnetic fields and ozone depletion. He points to research showing previously unused gene sets switching on within individuals during their own lifetimes, a phenomenon scientists are calling spontaneous genetic mutation of recent evolutionary origin.