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Cosmic Cycles, Ancient Warnings and What Our Ancestors Tried to Tell Us

By Gregg Braden · GreggBradenOfficial

24mTranscribedEsoteric, AwakeningIndexed April 2026
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Speaking at Gaia's Ancient Civilizations Conference, Gregg Braden argues that recurring galactic events — recorded in ancient calendars and timekeeping systems — are driving the present global transition. He frames our ancestors' message as a warning encoded in their architecture, art and astronomy.

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Gaia presents Gaiosphere Event Center, Ancient Civilizations Conference. Greg Braden. >> Wow. People are coming in. Don't make me come get you. Please come in. Come down from the mountains. Come up from the rivers. I've got something to say. >> It's better to burn out than fade away. Who said that? >> Neil Young. What year? >> Uh I think 79. No, I'm I'm waiting for people to come back in. >> Wow. Well, this is the the close of your conference. It's the first time I have been with you. So, I am gonna say, "How was the conference?" >> Yeah. Wow. Now, it is it's such an honor to be here. You know, I never I never assume I'm going to be invited. I'm always honored when I am invited to the ancient civilizations conference. I think this is a really important conference. Have you Let me see. Show hands. How not I haven't asked question yet. How how many people have have learned things over these last two days that you had never heard of before? >> Yeah. And that's why because this stuff, a lot of this stuff. Okay, I'm here's the reason I'm smiling. I've been watching the whole conference from behind this wall. There is a um there's a little studio and the speakers get to watch the conference. We are looking at the back of your head. And I've been I know the back of your heads really well. And so now I get to see the face that goes on the front of the head. That's why I'm just smiling when I see you come in this program. Counting down the cosmic clock. That's exactly what I want to talk to you about. The question is, is there a galactic event of some kind that's driving this change? Some galactic event that has shaped the reality of our world in the past. And if there is, what does that mean for us today? So, but here's the thing. to share the discoveries that offer greater context to the mystery not only of our past. All all of those amazing sites, the conversations you had William Henry, I watched from the hotel this morning and um Robert Edward Grant, all the things. Isn't it amazing what he's finding over in Egypt? David Hatcher Childris. Did you see David and I in the video after lunch? Here's the thing. We're talking about exactly the same thing 30 years later. At least we're consistent. You know, we've got we got a very consistent message. Everything you're seeing in those presentations, in those conversations, um are part of of a mystery of our past. What does it mean to us today? Our ancestors were trying to tell us something from the timekeeping systems that we find in the Yucatan and in the Mesoamerican, this American desert southwest, Choco Canyon, the Stonehinge of North America. So few people know about because the sophistication of the timekeeping is so advanced, scientists tell us that the people in North America could not possibly have done it. They say it can't be what it is that you're telling us. Yet there's a system of timekeeping not only for lunar cycles but for the solar cycles but lunar cycles, cosmic cycles because they saw something in their time that they wanted us to know about the zodiac in dendra. If any of you have been to Egypt and seen the zodiac temple in dendra or Jaipur in India, the timekeeping systems I see a lot of people nodding their heads. Our ancestors were trying to tell us something. Or another way of saying that is we are trying to tell ourselves something that we need to know something important. They lived through an event that changed their world. And they have described that event in the language of their time. It's not science because they didn't have science 8,000 10,000 years ago. Not the way we have it today. But they had knowledge. They understood. and they had an experience. They lived through an event that changed their world. So, here's the question I'm going to ask you right now. Could the event in the story of our ancestors ever happen again? Could the event that they're trying to tell us, could it happen again? >> Well, maybe here's the the bigger question then. Is the event in their memory happening right now? Are we in it? Yeah. The answer is yes. And I'm going to spend the rest of the time showing you why that is. But I'm also going to show you I don't this isn't a scary presentation and it it's not a dark presentation. It is a reality that earth may undergo but it doesn't mean that we have to suffer in that experience because there's a factor that is not accounted for in modern science and that is our relationship to consciousness timelines of experience and how we shift those timelines. And we do. And if you have any doubt that we shift those timelines, I want to tell you I was working in the industry in the cold war in the defense industry right down the road a company called Martin Marietta. Anybody know Martin Marietta in Denver, mounts Lockheed Martin. And all the predictions showed that we would have a nuclear war. But we didn't. Did we? >> In mind, is there an event in their memory? Is it happening to us right now? Well, the answer is yes. I want to talk to you about this. So these couple of charts, I know you're not going to be able to read what's there because it's very small print. So I'm just going to say to you, conventional thinking, if you got kids in school now, or when you were in school, we were taught civilization is between 5 and 6,000 years old is what we're told. That's where that red line is. It's about the time ancient Sumeriia, uh, right around there. 5,500 6,000 years ago. And then I remember when I was a kid in school and I studied all these things. I well laser doesn't work on that screen. All these things I thought were so interesting. The Inca, the Maya, Rome, Greece, the Indus Valley, Egypt, all that. It all seems so long ago, but look, it's all within that little 5,000year window of history. What happened? I used to ask my teacher, "What happened over there?" And he said, "Dad, don't even give it a thought." He says, "Nothing going on over there. Nothing to see." Well, now we know the problem. The problem with that is what are called civilization anomalies. Here's what a civilization anomaly is. When scientists discover a civilization that doesn't fit the model, so here's what they do, and they're still doing this. They say, "Oh, well, that's an anomaly. We'll put it over here, and we'll come back and study that later." But here's the story of civilization over here. Here's the problem. There are so many. And one of these two thou and I know the exact date. My birthday was June 28th. June 28th, 2010. That picture was taken. I was on uh an expedition in Keral, Peru. Those of you that know Keral that we now know is the oldest technologically advanced civilization in all the Americas. It's older than the mech, then the Toltech, then the Inca, then the Aztec, older than all of that. I was there the date and my guide received a phone call from the dating laboratory telling us that this was five to 7,000 years BP before present. I was and that's when this picture was was taken. So that's an anomaly. They say, "Well, you know, we'll come back and study that later." Well, now look at what and you've been with us all day long. The Great Sphinx we know is at least 7 7 to 9,000 BP, probably more. I personally believe it's older but these are the dates are being accepted. You've got the Gulf of Combat in India 9,500 years BP before present. Of course we've got places like Gobecley and Kuranepe 113,000. Now we're looking at Antarctica. This is fascinating to me. I began uh doing a little research in Antarctica in 2022 and we were using Google Earth and we found a series of anomalies looked a whole lot like pyramids. We began looking into it uh asking the government for help with uh latitude longitude. Guess what happened? If you go on to Google Earth now, the entire area is pixelated out. It's white. It won't even show terrain. There's nothing. It's just white mush is all it is there. Uh here's the problem. Those sites, uh no, I'm hesitating. I don't want to get on on a tangent here, but it's interesting. Global warming is melting the ice and it's making the sites under the ice visible to the satellites that that never used to be. And these are complex, vast, complex structures. The problem is that ice has been there since about 20,000 years ago. So either somebody built the structures in the ice, which is less likely, or the question is who was there 20,000 years ago building complex structures, and what happened to put those structures under ice? We're going to answer some of that right now. The anomalies are now the new story. The anomalies are the new story. They're telling a whole new story. And we find clues to this. We find clues in the mystery of the younger drius. Now, I'm kind of glad I'm the last speaker because pretty much everybody has mentioned the younger Dus or if you see Joe Rogan, you saw Randall Carlson talking about younger dus. And I wish Randall was here to uh to see this uh this conversation. You heard us uh yesterday people were talking about it. However, I know there are some people that don't know what younger Dus was. So, just a quick summary right here. This is a timeline. It's going from your right to I'm sorry, your left to your right. It's going this way. So, I can't move past the end of that rug. But I can do this. I can do this. So, no. So, so here I'm just just kidding. But it's fun to know about our past because we've got the power to change our future. That makes it fun. If you were powerless, it'd be scary as hell. But it's not. It's not because we're part of a process. And the better we understand that process, the less we fear the process. The better you understand yourself, the less you fear the change in your world, in your life. And that's why we're doing what we're doing. So here we are 13 approximately 13,000 years ago. You see the younger dus begins. Temperatures rose suddenly about 12,800 years BP. And that's going to be an important date in just a minute. And if you can't see, there's a red line. Can you see that red line from where you are? Okay, good. So there, that's where the temperatures look. And let me back it off. See how quickly, look how fast that rose. Boom. Man, look at that. And then look at this. 12,000 years ago, those temperatures suddenly dropped. And there's the drop. Now, I'm going to move this so you can see how quickly it dropped right there. And then the the warming resumed. So, we were coming out of the ice age. Temperatures started to warm as they would for a number of reasons. Malakovic cycles and all kinds of things relationship to the sun. All of a sudden, temperatures dropped uh or rose, then they dropped, then they resumed and and they rose again. The question is why? Now, here's the thing, and this is very controversial. Many people believe that whatever happened was a one-off. They think it only happened once, and what you're going to see in the next few slides is the new discovery that shows us this is a cyclic event driven by a cosmic event that we're only beginning to understand. Are you with me? Yes. >> Oh, thank you for staying this this last last hour. I mean, 60 minutes and 25 seconds, it's all going to be over. So, thank you. Thank you for staying with me. All right. So, what happened? We know this cooling was really fast. We find things like this. This is a a baby woolly mammoth that was frozen in place so much. I don't know if you can see this, but the fur is still preserved on female. the fur is still preserved on on her feet. And you've heard some of them were like in the middle of a step and they were frozen or they still had the food. The grass was still in their mouth. You've all you've heard those things. But then they're preserved so well. Sometimes in Siberia, for example, when the global warming melts the ice and the sled dogs find these animals, their flesh is still food for the sled dogs. That's how quickly they were preserved and and how thoroughly they were preserved. So, we know this. There's no doubt. We know this happened. That's why I'm saying this. What triggered what could have triggered that kind of climate change? Well, two things. There's the traditional story which did happen, but there's another factor that now is playing in uh that's overturning the old ideas. So, new evidence reveals two factors. One of those factors is a cycle. Okay? One of them is not, one of them is. One of those is a cyclic factor. That means it is a repeating phenomenon. All right. So, here we go. There was definitely a comet. And many of you have heard about this did this program. We've talked about it. 12,800 years BP, there was definitely a comet. We've got evidence from the impact uh all over well, northern parts of southern hemisphere. We've got the chemical anomalies. There's no question, no doubt this happened. It absolutely happened. However, new evidence reveals something else. There is a cycle of super volcanoes that uh geologists have been a little reluctant to see as cyclic. They acknowledge the volcanoes and this is changing. It has to. All right. So, new evidence is revealing a cycle not just of any old volcano. This isn't a run-of-the-mill plain generic volcano. These are called super volcanoes and they are just what they say. All right. So, new evidence now reveals that a repeating cycle of super volcanoes contributed to the younger dus. Uh, and if you're wondering where this comes from, most of this I'm going to show you right here. This is from July 2020. That's not that long ago. Science Advances is where this is being published. Look at what happened. Here's here's what they found. Because they're cyclic, it means they can happen again and that they are and you're going to see that. And there are things that we can do to mitigate it and you're going to see that as well. So, but we need to understand this because it is a cyclic process. It's not a one-off that happened in our past. So, there's a new discovery telling this this whole thing in Hall's Cave, Texas. If anybody knows where Hall's Cave, Texas is, scientists opened a cavern and what they found was a continuous record of the Earth's past that was undisturbed. That's important because a lot of times now as a I was a structural geologist background in sedimentary geology and a lot of times um what happens is you get erosion obviously you get displa fault displacement uh and and so your your sequence is disturbed. If it's not disturbed you can look at that sequence and it's like reading the pages of a book. That's the cool thing about about geology. Well, I wanted you to this is the actual picture of the first studies that were done. And I I don't know how much you can see on those screens up there, but you can see where the strata is being delineated. And that strata is what's telling the story. It's undisturbed strata. And here's what it's saying. First of all, there are elements that are in the wrong proportions. If this was a natural uh evolutionary process, okay, the elements like aridium ruthenium platinum palladium renium, they're in the wrong proportions just to have occurred in in nature. This is a direct quote. Uh and this comes right out of the journal Science Advances 2020. So, this isn't my words. This is a quote. quote, "The chemical anomalies found in sediments dating to the beginning of the younger dus, listen to this, are the result of volcanism and not an extraterrestrial impact." All right? Extraterrestrial impact would be the comet. Comet's called an extraterrestrial impact. So, they're saying the beginning of younger dus, it's not the comet. It's the the volcanism that is causing this. This means that a comet and this is coming right from the article. A comet could not have caused the younger dus. It happened and nobody's denying that it's not the cause that the vulcanism is the trigger. Now the other part of this the isotope analysis this is the mind-blower. the isotope analysis when they started analyzing those sediments, it matched other samples in previous volcanic events. What that means is the new evidence reveals that it is cyclic, not a one-off, because they can find the same evidence in the cyclic events from the past. So the most recent super volcano, it happened in two phases and I'm going to give you the dates and then we're going to do something with these dates. The first phase occurred about 15. By the way, I some of the researchers here, you know, we used to do BC and AD. We don't do that anymore. Uh CE is common era. BCE is before common era. BP is before present. And that's that's the notation that we're using here. So BP is before present. So the first phase occurred 15,000 years BP 15,000 years ago before present created global cooling from the sulfur dioxide. That's what you'd expect. Uh temperatures dropped between 3.67.2 degrees. I put these in Fahrenheit so you get a sense for what it means. That's 15,000. We're going to put this on a chart in just a minute, but that's what you're looking at. 15,000 years phase 2 began, you ever seen this number before? 12,000 years BP as the last major eruption of of this phase. So let's take a look on the chart. Here is a phase 2. Right there you can see 8,000 9 10 11 12 and then 13 is delineated. Go one notch back from 13. That's the 12,000 right there. So when that volcano happened is exactly when that temperature dropped. Boom. Right there. 12,000. Are you with me so far? All right. So the conclusion of the paper from science advances, the younger dus appear to have been triggered by a series of super volcanoes. This particular and you're going to see a whole series of these. This particular group is from a volcanic field in Italy and it's called the Flerian Fields. Uh, and I took some of this out. I didn't want to get too complex, but there are over 24 volcano volcanic craters in the Fleeran fields. So, it's not like one big mountain going. It's uh it's a series of volcanoes that are erupting simultaneously. Okay. Flagrian fields. All right. So the question is, will it happen again? If it's cyclic, is this going to happen again? All right. So the catastrophic va v vol vcanism, is it cyclic? Well, let's take a look at this. The flagrant field, I just said happened 12,000 years BP. 12,000 years before present. Is it a one-off or did it happen again? Well, check this out. Talpo, New Zealand happened to 25,000 BP. Super volcano. It was the equivalent of the younger Dus 25,000 years ago. Flegerin fields erupted again. This time it was 38,000 BP. Then there was Kufu Lake in Russia 47,000 BP. Then there was an undersea series of volcanoes 60,000 BP. And then the Toba Indonesia volcano super volcano 72,000 years before present. Every one of these is a super volcano. Every single one of these created catastrophic effects on the earth. Okay. The question is it cyclic? Well, let's let's let's take a look. How much time is there between 12 and 25,000? Well, it's 13,000 years. And now between 25 and 38, look at this. It's 13,000 years. And now between 38 and 47, this is interesting. There were some other factors. it's 9,000 years. Okay. 47 to 60 is 13,000 years. And 60 to 72 is was right between 12 and 13,000 years. So the statistical probability of this happening uh every 13 12 to 13,000 years pretty high, would you say? Would you call that a cyclic event? All right. So let's here I want to do a visual and I put this together after I gave my presentation to Gaia. So I don't know if they had this on their other one but this is a visual uh so you can actually see this is the frequency of the volcanoes over time visually rather than in a chart. So here's present present day is to your right 13 25 38 47 60 72 you can see it is a cyclic event. The super volcanoes are cyclic event. So now let me here's a trick question. A trick question to see if you're asleep. All right. What are the odds of a catastrophic super volcano occurring on planet Earth every 9 to 13,000 years? What are the odds? >> All right. Well, here I'm going to give you a clue. So here here it is. Right here. There's your clue. Is it cyclic? Well, you can see that it is cyclic. What are the odds of a super volcano happening every 12 to 13,000 years? For the last 72,000 years, the odds are 100%. It always happens. At least for the last, and it may go back further. I just went back 72,000 years. It may go back even further. I only went back 72,000 years because I had to get ready for this conference. All right. So, the last event was 12,000 years ago. If it happens every 12 to 13,000 years, what does that mean? >> Doesn't mean it's going to happen today or tomorrow. It means we're in the window. We're definitely in in the window. So, here it is right here. Every 13 12 to 13,000 years. So, now the question, what drives those super volcanoes? This is where it gets really what's already interesting. So, now it's going to get really really interesting.

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