*/me kicks Artemis in the :donkey:*
Feel better now?
And Hilarion, you are quoting the guy's own website. Hold on, let me make my own website and praise my amazingly astounding virtues. C'mon, seriously, the guy is selling crackpot books and he's quoting praises from other crackpots as his claim to fame.
But if you really want evidence, okay...
you sure now? Okay...
are you sure? Alright,
here we go. Here are his main arguments and my rebuttals:
Cosmic Alignment (2012)
Braden goes into the Mayan Calendar hoopla, and here's where he gets in big trouble with me, as that used to be a good bit of my fun when I was younger
(I could care less now, so don't bother me about it), he's just plain full of crap there. He calls there to be an alignment of our planet, our solar system, and the center of the galaxy. This is not only incorrect, it's just plain poppycock.
If you really really want, i can go into horrible detail about this, but ultimately he's basing this on totally contrived crap that was spewed by new age huckster, John Jenkins, whom I and others have debunked countless times. Stated, any alignment, far less than John Jenkins posed, occurred already in 1996. It doesn't happen in 2012, it's just fantasy. Jenkins didn't know how to read the Mayan Calendars, he got it all wrong, but that didn't matter, because he's made a buttload of money going to seminars and selling his crap books, just like this Braden character is now doing. Hucksters unite!
Mongo Solar Storms (2012)
Again with the 2012 crap, he's pushing solar storms as some sort of once in a green moon event, when they occur on a very common half cycle of 10.7 years, otherwise referred to as the
11 year solar cycle. Blah blah blah, more crap.
Earth Reverses Spin
He argues that the Earth's polarities (north/south poles) reverse when the Earth reverses its spin. I.e., it is spinning clockwise, slows to a halt, and begins to spin counter-clockwise. Woohoo, can't wait for that to happen!
Seriously, do you really want me to explain and utterly absurd that is?
Anyway, he claims the poles (north/south) will be reversing any minute now, when it is anticipated not to "begin" for probably another 1300 years. Even if such is the case, and it begins today, it will take several thousands of years for the poles to reverse (
National Geophysical Data Center). The impact of this anomaly, of pole reversals, has been blown grossly out of proportion by nutballs and hucksters, like this Braden character,
who erroneously claims the whole Earth will reverse its spin. Seriously, laughable.
Magnetism
He argues that we are able to accept change and adapt when there are weaker fields of magnetism. He bases this on complete garbage, claiming the Earth has a base pulse, which is completely contrived, absolutely preposterous. He claims the Schumann Resonance "mirrors" this base pulse. And while the Schumann Resonance is interesting, his actions here are to piggyback his made-up notion on the back of an actual physical phenomena.
Why? Because the Schumann Resonance is undergoing extensive research and does not support any of Braden's claims, so of course he can't say that it's the Schumann Resonance that he's basing some of his "healing" principles on. He has to make something up altogether, so it can't be tested. But it actually can, because he does make a reference to the Schumann Resonance harmonics
(although he doesn't call it the Schumann Resonance, so now he's merely hijacking it and giving it a different name... remember what i said about piggybacking?). In it he claims the frequency is increasing, but Schumann Resonance is, and has always been, a constant of 7.8 Hertz. Blah blah blah, more crap on this, but it doesn't matter.
Braden also mentions the Fibonacci numbers, only to then try to associate Schumann Resonance with the Fibonacci numbers, and makes the claim that the frequency will change to 13 Hertz (the next Fibonacci number). These are two totally unrelated factors, and making such an unsupported, totally off-the-cuff relation demonstrates this guy is
KNOWINGLY making crap up.
Butterfly Effect
He claims that the way we perceive our world strongly influences our physical reality, going so far as to state we influence everything thousands of kilometers away
(well, I guess this is true if you decide to watch his video and believe it, but that's technology mediums, not some electromagnetic "power"). He bases it on false principles, the basis of which is Absolute Zero, which he states is Zero Point. He further runs on this "Zero Point" indicating that everything is attempting to attain "Zero Point."
Let me state right now that Absolute Zero is
NOT Zero Point, they are not the same. Absolute Zero refers to 0 degress Kelvin, a measure of temperature, the point at which no thermal energy exists. Zero Point, also referred to as Ground State
(and from here-on, I'll refer to Zero Point as ground state, the more commonly applied label), is a quantum mechanics principle, and is the lowest energy level of a quantum mechanical system. You can have ground state without Absolute Zero, and vice versa.
In short, he is introducing a distorted, and incorrect, comprehension of the Third Law of Thermodynamics, to give a grandiose misinterpretation of the cosmos. A phrase I like to use a lot, but it is applicable here --- opportunistic redress.
What I find most fascinating, is while he is not directly referring to the Butterfly Effect, he's attempting to describe a phenomena of that effect, a facet of the Chaos Theory, yet he gets it completely wrong and uses incorrect foundations to demonstrate his
completely wrong assertion. Unfortunate, because Chaos theory and quantum mechanics are so fascinating in and of themselves, that it makes me sad to see people like Braden try to pass off gross distortions of these fascinating fields of study in order to make a buck.
10% of our Brains
Braden poses the same falsity, that we are supposedly using only 10% of our brains. This is a longtime bunch of crap, tossed out by so many new wave booksellers. Our entire brain is at work, mostly managing things at an autonomic level.
There's no 90% untapped source of infinite power going on here, and he's opportunistic to claim that is the case.
Cures Cancer
His claims of cancer cures are intentionally vague because if he were to make a real claim, the FDA would be all over him for fraud. But making vague, no-name, claims of cures committed in some remote location is very safe --- and absolutely opportunistic.
It's in the Bible
Weakest argument in the book. I'm not even going to give that one the time of day. Unfortunately, Braden used it just enough times it became obvious he's confusing his religious beliefs with science.
Braden's Credentials
Or should I say,
lack thereof? He's an ex-computer programmer. That was his expertise back in 1991. He became unemployed and now he's grossly behind the times and probably can't make anything more complex than a PowerPoint presentation. In any event, he has limited knowledge on everything else he's spewing, as is demonstrated above.
Evidence is Key
What hurts Braden's case, yet contrastly helps him maintain viability, is his total lack of evidence. He makes claims left and right, but provides absolutely no supporting evidence, no substantiation at all. None, nada, nipso. Everything he says and claims is intentionally vague, nondescript. In the moments he presents scientific phenomenons, he not only gets them wrong, but uses this wrong as a basis for even more wrong conclusions. It's typical hucksterism, taking advantage of others who don't know that he's simply, blatantly, wrong.
Fraud
Yes, that's what it is. This stuff is a
shell game, a confidence trick to get you to believe. It's a process of throwing in so much stuff that you get confused by it and start believing it. After all, you're willing to believe a doctor can remove a heart and put in some plumbing, so why not believe a bunch of scientific jargon, mixed together and made to sound like something YOU can do all on your own?!? Well, because by believing it, you also end up buying his books, and get him more speaker gigs. All of which fill his pockets and gets him a tidy sum of money.
It's fraud, in every sense of the word except for the most important one -- it's legal. The other writers, the other new age authors who push his books and praise him, function as
shills. They make it look like he's really selling something valuable, because they're sitting there saying they buy and use his product. All the while, he's doing the exact same thing for them, praising their books and their work. Together, they form the perfect union of crooks. All legal, all filling your head with ridiculous and totally fabricated notions of pristine living and magical internal energies. None of it visible, none of it reproducible, none of it verifiable, because none of it is true.
Now, are we done with this so I can close this thread?
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