If You Understand This Everything Will Make Sense | Gregg Braden

[Music] hello my name is gregg braden and i'd like to welcome to this very special presentation of missing links simulation by design are we living in a virtual reality well the last episode we identified the laws that govern our virtual world the basic laws of physics and what it takes to master those laws in our lives when we consider these understandings and we merge them with everything else that we've learned throughout this entire series that's enough to make our heads spin with possibilities and suddenly we have a new way of thinking a new vocabulary to

describe our relationship to the world and the life itself the implications are staggering and the questions are endless so in this final episode of simulation my design will answer many of those questions and by doing so we'll come full circle to where we began this series only now we have the vocabulary to make sense of our virtual reality in this program you've seen the evidence that tells us it is more likely than not that we are living in a simulated world in a virtual universe and you've seen the evidence but it's telling you that you

have the potential to interact with this universe to interact with this reality in ways that have seemed mystical in the past and reserved for the monks and nuns in the abbot scene the shamans and living mystical lifestyles now we know we don't need to live on a monastery halfway around the world and leave everything familiar to us our loved ones our jobs our families to embrace these seemingly mystical powers because we understand the relationships we demystify the experience in the contemporary language of science we are now talking about mystical connections and we are marrying those

connections with the best science of the modern world to give us a new view an evolutionary edge to understand what's happening in our world and beyond that how we may direct the events of our lives and the events of the world in a positive powerful whatever so as you've seen the parallels between the laws of physics as we know them today and the rules of the simulation are absolutely clear they're unmistakable and the evidence is showing us more likely not we are in fact in the simulation so what I'd like to do in this last

segment now let's pull all this together let's get down to the nuts and bolts what this experience means let's jump right in to what it means to be in a simulation and the implications and the questions that invariably come up questions like where's heaven where is heaven when we think about our simulation and we think of the descriptions of heaven the word itself was left to us about 2,500 years ago what does that mean to us in terms of the simulation well simulation is a localized experience but it tells us we're not really here you're

not really here we exist somewhere outside of the simulation and we are projecting our energetic volumen we call our sphere or our soul for our avatar into this experience so that we can learn something here but apparently we cannot learn where we've come from and apparently we're going to need wherever we are going now this is a really really powerful concept the idea that we are not here in the biology actually supports it with the biology is showing us is that our selves receive information that defines who we are the surface of the cells the

receptors receive this information and that's why when we take our cells and we put them into the body of another person through an organ transplant for example that person rejects the cells because it's not done we have an identity that identity begins somewhere beyond our simulation and in terms of the ancient texts that is what was called heaven when we leave our simulation we shift our consciousness we go back to where it is that we came from and for me I I believe that and I think it's really good news it means that we will

see our friends now our loved ones again on the other side what is called the veil on the other side of that veil and I I hope that there's a time on that other side that we can look back and review everything we've done in this world and hopefully laugh about some of the mistakes that we've made that we've made while we were trying to learn about ourselves in this simulation so heaven heaven I believe is the ancient word for the world that we live in that exists on the other side outside of the simulation

and we find ourselves in right now so the next question where does that mean for death where do we go when we die if this simulation theory works the way that the science suggests and the way that I believe that the evidence is directing us it's really good news because it means when we die what we call death is the end of this representation of us in this limited simulation what we call our avatar just as we're seeing portrayed in the films in the media again consciousness reminding us of ourselves communicating with us informing us

of the reality of our world consciously and subconsciously so when we die this avatar no longer exists in the physical realm but our essence that we projected continues in the realm outside perhaps another physical body once again we think back what is the purpose of the simulation simulation is to learn a new way of being in a realm that is relatively safe because we need that way of being when we go to another place so if we are individually collectively outside of our simulation we're in a control room somewhere we're in some kind of a

technological environment we'll talk about this in just a few minutes or whatever has happened in our world is telling us that we need to learn a new way of being here we are in this situation and we are learning what we're learning one of the things that I find really interesting is the concept of time you know I think you know that astronauts for example when they travel they age differently their bodies age differently than we do here on earth this is about Einstein's theory of relativity so the thinking is that in the future when

we have astronauts that leave the earth leave the moon and go deep into the solar system and maybe even beyond that they will age slower than their husbands wives families their children here on earth and if they should ever return they would actually be younger and those that they've left behind the older that tells us that our simulation the relationship of time in our simulation what seems like a lifetime yes what seems like a hundred years may only be a few moments of time in the control room outside of our simulation the it's all relative

in terms of the way we think about this the idea of God comes up a lot when we talk about simulation once again just invite you to think about this we are now talking about this very very deep concept in this contemporary language but those who understood this simulation those who understood that we're here temporarily learning something and we're going to go to another world how in the world would they have shared this with the people of their time 2000 2500 3000 5000 years ago when we look into the ancient texts and I've spent much

of my adult life searching not only the contemporary texts but also the mystical texts and the texts that have been relegated to mystical texts because they were deleted from the contemporary Canon of the Bible for example and not only the Christian Bible but the Hebrew Bible beyond the Torah beyond the first five books Genesis Exodus Leviticus numbers and Deuteronomy there are other Hebrew texts that were also edited and relegated to mystical texts they're not part of the contemporary Canada so when we go back and we look at those deleted texts and the way that they

were convinced we see a story in the story tells us that in the beginning so whether you think the natural beginning of the Big Bang where you think the beginning of our simulation in the beginning there was a prime creator and that is the idea of God but the texts also tell us that God did not create us God created the environment God created the the universe but when you go into those mystical texts that says that humans were created by groups they it says when they created the first humans and it goes on to

describe in the book of the Haggadah for example one of the the Gnostic texts of the mandaeans they create it and when you go into the deleted text in the Christian Bible they created the first humans and what I find even more interesting is that when those texts talk about the creation of humans they say that a very specific formula of human had to be created to hold the energy of the soul or the spirit in this room what does that mean when we think now about assimilation we know that it takes a certain genetic

makeup to hold the energy of the spirit or the soul the consciousness that we bring into this world and apparently not any old formula of DNA was up to the task so when we look into our past and we find forms of life that were perhaps not as conscious not as evolved as us in the simulation idea these are the forms of life the first forms they were the early attempts to create the avatars in this simulated world but their genetic makeup was not strong enough to hold the energy of the soul you and I

are the product of a genetic formula a very specific form of DNA and apparently it is this form that's required to hold the energy of the soul in this simulation experience so that we could have the experiences learn we're learning and maintain the consciousness that we have as we go through our experience so once again what we're doing is we're taking these very ancient ideas and we're rethinking them with a contemporary language based on what the best science of the modern world is now suggesting is the reality that we're experiencing so heaven where we go

we die what is God all of these now take on a new meaning God whoever God is apparently is the architect that was a primary designer of this simulation and I'm looking forward to getting to the other side in meeting that architect at some point in our perhaps the biggest question that comes up when I have conversations with other scientists and people about what you and I are doing right now considering the possibility of this simulation this virtual environment the big question is how long could this simulation possibly last how does it end what can

cause it to end and to answer this question this is precisely why I took a little bit of time in the previous episodes to talk about the fractal patterns for example in the fractal codes the Koch snowflake showing us about the complexity of the parameter and how it can change while the space that the snowflake actually occupies remains relatively constant all of those ideas now I'm going to bring them together to answer the question how long can our simulation last what would cause it to end in a simulation environment when we ask ourselves what could

possibly end this virtual reality this world that we know the end would be the same as it is for any computer program when one of two possible conditions exists the end of the program occurs number one is when the system runs out of space to store the information that is generated number two is when something unexpected happens that corrupts the entire system let's take a look at these two very well-known possibilities for conventional computer programs and let's see how they might apply and what they may mean for our simulated environment before his death in 2008

Princeton University professor John Wheeler a physicist he was a contemporary of Albert Einstein's but he and Albert Einstein had very very different ideas of our relationship to our physical reality nothing could have been more diverse than the way that these two men looking at the same information the same data the same formulas thought about our relationship to the world and they came up with very very different perspectives Albert Einstein brilliant man that he was he did not like the idea that we could be so deeply connected with our environment that we could actually influence our

environment and especially at a distance Albert Einstein did not like the idea of entanglement these theories were just being developed during his lifetime and when he heard that it may be possible for us to influence from where we are one part of the world what's happening in the other part of the world he actually had a term for that kind of influence he called it spooky action at a distance Einstein didn't like that and he went to his grave with a frustration of never being able to unify the laws of physics because he did not

allow for this relationship this entanglement that we see in our world this is on the one hand on the other hand John Wheeler came up with a completely different view of the universe Wheeler said the universe could not exist without us he said we are part of an ongoing process he said the universe isn't finished yet he said it is continually being built we are continually adding to the universe and we're doing it through consciousness he said we live and what he called and I'm gonna quote a participatory universe that continues to build itself well

the implications of what John Wheeler said have a direct impact on the answer the question how long can our simulation last here's the reason why we're John Wheeler said to us about living in a participatory universe suggests the following it suggests that we will probably never find the smallest particle of matter because every time we peer deeper and deeper in to the fundamental nature of our reality and this is what's important here the act of us looking is an act of creation in our simulation and it puts something there for us to see so the

deeper we look every time scientists think they've got the smallest particle then they build new equipment and they find that they can break that particle and there's something underlying that particle and then they do it again and they do it again and again now think about what this means in terms of our simulation every time we look and consciousness put something there for us to see that something is energy it is information and we are constantly adding information to the system through the act of looking searching to find the limits of our experience so the

deeper we look into the atom the more information we're putting out there the further we look into the cosmos scientists are looking for the edge of the universe they may thought they found it twice they thought they found the boundary that marks the edge of our physical universe here's what happened they built new equipment and the new equipment looked differently at that boundary and lo and behold they found that there was something else beyond the boundary I can't emphasize this enough our act the act of us looking with the expectation that we will see something

is an act of creation within our simulated universe and the more we create the more information we are generating that information has to go somewhere we are living in a finite environment of our simulation okay and this is what the Koch snowflake was telling us so the question is how much can we explore how much information can we create how much energy can we generate until our environment is full and can hold no more and when we reach that point and I don't know if it's in the near future in the distant future but what

the fractal code tells us is that at some point and with a Koch snowflake it said we can generate complexity but when it comes to the actual space the snowflake takes it levels out it doesn't go on forever when we reach that level that suggests that our simulation would come to an end and this is really interesting because scientists are telling us now that we are doubling doubling the amount of information that comes to us at least every year we are doubling what we have known it took five thousand years for the first doubling and

now the second and third and fourth were doubling every year so it means that we are generating more information more energy than we ever have in the past how long can we do that before our simulation is full before the the storage device I don't think it's a hard drive I think we will have transcended the hard drives by the time this simulation is understood but whatever it is that generating is information how much how much energy can it hold so for the first time in human history we have a reason to question how much

information can we generate and store in the field that connects all things before that field actually reaches capacity I don't know the answer now but I think we're going to find that within our lifetimes the very fact that we are in a simulation tells us something very very powerful it tells us because we are here that we are either near or that we've already reached a place in our evolutionary process where we need a simulation we are already at a place where we need to find a new way of being a new way of living

a new way of thinking now it may be because of a climate change maybe we are an advanced civilization we are an advanced society living right here on planet Earth or maybe some other world and we've experienced climate change and we did not know how to address it and the planet is no longer hospitable for that or maybe we've had a pandemic disease or maybe we've had an atomic war maybe we're close to one of these and we are searching we are simulating environments searching for ways so that we can avoid these great crises in

our lives when I've said this to people in the past I've had this conversation I've said it to large audiences I've set one on one and when I suggest these possibilities I've actually seen scientists look at me and they tear up and they cry when they hear this possibly because it touches something very deep and very real within each of us I think we all know that we're here for a reason we all know that there's something much much bigger happening than what we've come to understand we've been led to believe so I'm sharing the

possibilities that the evidence suggests the possibility of running out of space in our simulation that was only one possibility of what could in this experience the second is an unexpected event a tremendous release of energy of some kind and that thinking coincides with the theme of what our simulation is all about to begin with the theme of life on Earth for the last five thousand years has been primarily a theme of war and conflict for over 5,000 years humans have almost continuously been in conflict to one degree or another in one form or another and

the consistency of that experience suggests that it must play a powerful role in our simulation and why we're here to begin with now the archaeological record preserves that history and it tells us of different kinds of global conflict and for me this is the value of looking at the past yeah sure it's interesting you know it's interesting could ancient civilizations it's interesting to see what people have done in the past for me as a scientist the value of looking into the past is to recognize the patterns the trends and the cycles of those who have

come before us and to compare those to where we are today and ask ourselves are we repeating those trends are we repeating the patterns are we repeating the cycles and it would make sense if the answer is yes now that we understand the fractal code and Newton's laws of energy because the fractal code says that we will continue those patterns until something something in the variable changes and Newton's law tells us that once the energy is set in the motion that same energy is going to continue until something changes the energy so if there is

a thinking of conflict if there's a fear that there's not enough of scarcity if there is a fear of the unknown a fear of other people a fear of what those people's lives mean to us and if that fear is so ancient and so primal that it is played out in every civilization for the last five thousand years and beyond then it makes sense that this idea of conflict and war would be a primary reason for us to be in this simulation and the archaeology supports this if Bostrom's mathematic arguments are correct the fact that

we're here today asking these questions it's good news because it implies that we have the wisdom to recognize where the point will be need to ask these questions it tells us there is a need for the simulation so these are big ideas and I know they are and I'm bringing them together now at the close of this series because we have the vocabulary and we have a new context within which to share these ideas so what I'd like to do now is give you a specific example of what I'm talking about this pattern of conflict

and where they're not repeating the cycles I'm going to use archaeology contemporary archaeology to do this there's an archaeological discovery that was made in the mid 20th century very mysterious very powerful discoveries very controversial today and it is in the region that is now called Pakistan used to be India before the division happened and in the disputed areas between India and Pakistan in Kashmir area there is evidence of an advanced technological society an advanced technological civilization they had hot and cold running water and flush toilets that stained glass windows they had advanced mathematics they had

beautiful beautiful art and this advanced civilization came to an abrupt end and we know that because of what was left behind now when the scientists began finding this evidence of this civilization one of the first things that they found were walls and floors that were made of natural stone granite for example but the term that was used at the stones or vitrified what this means I'm going to use granite as an example granite is made of three minerals quartz feldspar which is a clay and mica so the quartz the feldspar and the mica were in

place however the quartz in place was melted within the stone now to melt the quartz in place requires number one a high amount of heat to do the melting but number two it has to be very fast because it didn't destroy the floors and the walls so it suggests a rapid very high heat some point in our ancient past that melted the quartz left everything in place they also found mysterious little spheres little balls of clay we didn't know what these were and when they began to understand that the walls and the floors were vitrified

from a rapid intense heat they found that these little spheres were clay bosses that had also been exposed to the heat and were simply melted in place so the scientists are asking what is that could have possibly caused this kind of intense heat intense enough to melt the courts but so fast that the walls were still in place well some of the human skeletons that were discovered and this is very controversial some of the human skeletons may give us a clue the skeletons were found primarily in this location they were all at one end of

this ancient city in what are called postures of flight and these are Russian scientists in the mid-1960s and were the first to find this postures of flight what does that mean means they were running away from something they were all at one end of the city and they were running and the giveaway is that some of the skeletons were actually radioactive they were more radioactive than you would expect from the normal background radiation that we have from the earth and from cosmic rays we're all absorbing radiation with the level in these skeletons was higher than

it should have been so the scientists are looking at this they're putting this all together and they're saying what in the world could happen and this is one of those places where if you look at the evidence itself you're never going to solve the mystery we don't live in a vacuum history does not occur in a vacuum and this is where context is so important so the evidence is showing us a mystery however in that part of the world the sacred texts of Mahabharata tells a story that is believed to have been a fairy tale

it is believed them in the fairy tale because what it describes is something that is in fathomable up until the 20th century what this text describes makes no sense until the technology of the mid 20th century so what I'd like to do I'd like to read a portion of an English translation to you from this text and then let's take this translation apply it to what has been found archaeologically and see where that leads us in terms of the cycles in our simulation so here are the passages from the text there were two armies that

were in the Great War at the end of a cycle all right the two armies were fighting and one of the armies began to lose and they resorted to a weapon that they've never been used before this is the way the text describes the weapon it says a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe an incandescent column of smoke and flame is bright as a thousand suns rose in all of its splendor a perpendicular explosion with the billowing smoke clouds the cloud of smoke rising after the first explosion formed into expanding circles

like the opening of a giant parasol it was an unknown weapon an iron Thunderbolt a gigantic Messenger of Death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the furry sneeze and the andhakas the corpses were so burned is to be unrecognizable the hair in the nails fell out pottery broke without the parent cause and the birds turned white after a few hours all foodstuffs were infected and to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves into the streams to wash themselves and their equipment so the description that you've just heard is from an ancient texts

however what it describes sounds very much like a contemporary description of the unthinkable of a nuclear explosion happening sometime in our ancient past is it possible is it possible that these advanced civilizations that we now know are cyclic that have risen and fallen in the past that have electricity that had hot and cold running water and flush toilets and stained glass windows and advanced mathematics of the cosmos and of nature itself is it possible that they began a path that we are following now are we the first atomic civilization or has there been one before

us well the father of the modern nuclear program Robert Oppenheimer was asked this very question in an interview that he was doing at Rochester University there was a student that asked him he said dr. Oppenheimer how do you feel after having exploded the first atomic bomb on earth an Oppenheimer replied in his reply shocked the audience it shocked the person that was asking the question because often heimer said well he said not the first atomic bomb with the first in modern times robert Oppenheimer was a student of the Mahabharata he was a student of the

bhagavad-gita the related text and he firmly believed that we are in fact a cyclic civilization and we are repeating a pattern from the past and if we are within the context of our simulation we have to ask what are the consequences of our simulation if we were to engage in a large-scale nuclear war now think about this in terms of this entire conversation the release of energy from a nuclear weapon is information tremendous amounts of information how much information would be released into the system if we had multiple nuclear explosions in a conflict like we've

had perhaps in the past on a limited scale how long could we continue to produce that kind of information before we reached that capacity that limit that we talked about earlier so this whole idea of the simulation is giving us new ways to think about us about what we're living about what's happening in our world what's happening in our lives if the unthinkable has happened in the past are we repeating that cycle again in our lives if we are can we recognize that we have the wisdom to recognize it and as Newton's law says shift

the energy move to a new course plug in a new variable into that fractal code so that we can avoid the suffering that obviously would come from such a path the common thread that runs through every one of the possibilities that I've described we can talk about climate change or they're talking about disease pandemics or war is that every one of these possibilities is related to human choices the choices that we are making within our lives now within our simulation but are resulting in the very conditions that could end this experience based upon the way

we think now my sense personally my senses because conflict has played such a dominant rule throughout history and that that theme is playing out today and it appears to be coming to a head again and again this idea keeps coming up my sense is that we are learning to create a world where war doesn't exist what's become obsolete and we're doing so by developing the potential that lives within each of us as individuals and remember better we know ourselves the less we fear unless we fear one another and that the less we fear the unknown

if we're honest with ourselves we know that the world is changing and we also know that the old ways of thinking are failing when it comes to solving the big problems like climate change in war we need a new way to think about our world and a new language to solve our problems simulation by design is an invitation it invites us to think differently about ourselves about yourself and what you've been taught when it comes to our world in our past the science gives us rock-solid reasons to think differently but the events of today's world

tell us that now is the time to do so so as we begin to embrace the possibility that we are living in a simulated world we also unlock the deepest mysteries of our existence at the same time we're discovering what it takes for us to become the best people we can be and create the best possible world I want to thank you for joining me throughout this very special presentation the missing links and I hope you've enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed creating it and while we have reached the end of this program

I want you to know that there's more much much more to come so be sure to tune in to the all-new missing links for the discoveries that reveal the deepest truths of our origin history our destiny in our faith until then thank you for watching [Music]