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occurs as a frequency signal that measures about .10 Hz. We
create this powerful state of consciousness through heart-based
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experiences, such as feelings of gratitude, care and appreciation.
Additional discoveries have revealed that by creating these feel-
ings within our heart, we bring ourselves into alignment with the
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fields that sustain life on Earth.
What nugget can you share from your new book,
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Fractal Time:
The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age?
The key to understanding the changes in our
Author and world is to recognize where we are in the
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cycles, and what conditions they have of-

fered in the past. The French mathematician,
Benoit Mandelbrot, coined the term ‘fractal’
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to describe the simple patterns in nature that
repeat themselves on an ever-increasing scale
What have you learned from your recent
to create the world around us.
explorations into the nature of reality?
The atom, for example, can be thought
of as a fractal of our solar system; the same
Articles I see published in peer reviewed journals document
pattern only on a larger scale. In nature,
that life on Earth is being influenced by cyclic events that are
from the tiny to the huge, we see similar
happening on a galactic scale. Recent discoveries, for example,
patterns on different scales. In Fractal Time, I applied
now show that Earth’s location in the heavens has a direct effect
the same idea to cycles of time to show how the past is a fractal
upon everything from climate and global temperature to the rise
of the present. Just as an atom helps us to understand the solar
and fall of civilizations—a cyclic journey that was recognized
system, if we know where to look in the past, we have a good
by ancient traditions such the Maya, Aztec and Hopi.
idea of what we can expect in the future.
Both modern science and the ancient traditions show that
Now that we know how cycles of time trigger changes in
we are at the end of just such a cycle today—the Mayan’s Great
our personal lives and civilizations, the question is: Will we
World Age that began 5,125 years ago and ends on December
embrace the power of heart-centered living as the foundation of
21, 2012. Knowing this, I believe that we can apply what we’ve
a new world cycle?
learned from the recent discoveries to guide us through the per-
sonal and global changes that face us today. In doing so we also
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learn how to become better people and, ultimately, to create a
better world.
Interestingly, additional studies now show that the energy
of heart-based emotion affects everything from the atoms of our
world to the healing of our bodies, including the very fields of
the Earth that are affected by the cycles. It’s through the new
discoveries that we are now beginning to understand why.
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We know the bottom line: Heart-based emotion changes the
DNA within our bodies, which is now documented as influenc-
ing the physical world beyond our bodies. So when we change
the way we feel about ourselves and our world, we’re literally
creating patterns of magnetic and electrical energy that conform
to those patterns. In other words, when we nurture the sacred
relationship between our heart and the world we set into motion
a profound series of events that can affect the larger world.
Why is this revolutionary?
For 300 years, scientists believed that everything was separate,
that an event in one place had no effect anywhere else. Sci-
entists now acknowledge that Earth and our bodies are part of
a unified field of energy, known by names that vary from the
quantum hologram, to the divine matrix to the mind of God.
Whatever we call it, the key is that this field is the conduit that
carries our inner experiences of thoughts, feelings, emotions and
beliefs directly into the world around us. The beauty of these
discoveries is that we don’t need to know any of the science to
benefit from what they show us. We are born speaking the non-
verbal language of emotions that communicates with the stuff
that holds everything together.
The pioneering research organization, The Institute of Heart-
Math, has now documented that the optimum ‘conversation’
between our heart and our brain—a state known as coherence—
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