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greyl

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Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:44 AM Mar 2012

Gregg Braden - debunking repository [View all]

I'm looking for additional debunkings and original thoughts on this guy, especially those indicating his bullshit is a cover for conservative ideas. There are a couple Amazon reviews of his latest book he's touring with saying it seems to be a cover for conservative Republicans.

A video presentation by Chris White called the The 2012 Deception, first part here:



A decent but too short review of Braden's book, Awakening To Zero Point:

Zero Point to Gregg Braden

Reading about the “I Can Do It®” seminars, I was amused to see that Gregg Braden is still inflicting his nonsense on the credulous. I read his book Awakening To Zero Point several years ago after a friend said, don’t criticize it if you haven’t read it. Well, fair enough. I’ve read it now and I am free to say with some authority, it’s bad. In fact, it’s astonishingly bad. Not only is it just plain wrong, but Braden’s blatant manipulation of his readers shows he must know it’s nonsense.

Braden is typical of a lot of Newage authors in that he starts with science but distorts it to draw unwarranted conclusions. Braden also makes up stuff and says it is science too. In this book, Braden starts with the Schumann Resonance, a low frequency radio signal caused by lightning strikes in the upper atmosphere. How many times do radio waves travel around the globe in a second? 7.8 times. This frequency, 7.8 times per second (7.8 Hz), is the Schumann Resonance frequency. Braden says it’s speeding up (it isn’t). To justify this he quotes a range of Schumann harmonic frequencies: 14, 20, 26, 33, 39. But anyone who has ever strummed a guitar will know what harmonic frequencies are. And they do not mean the base frequency is changing.

more: http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/zero_point_to_g.html


Any others, particularly with quotes from his latest book Deep Truth, please share.
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