Science
and Religion have long used different methods to answer the same burning
questions of human existence. Who are we? How did we get here? For
the most part, there has been a tenuous truce between the two camps
in order to avoid the battle for ultimate cognitive primacy. Science
agreed to explore the extrinsic realms and Religion culled the truth
of our intrinsic natures. According to scientific researcher Gregg
Braden, these separate knowledge quests have collided like subatomic
particles in the field of human genetics. The nature of this collision,
so far, has been more like fusion than fission.
What Braden intends to reveal in his upcoming book is that the human
genome has the message God Eternal within the Body inscribed
in it. This was found by correlating genetic research with the Hebrew
alphabet through the science known as Gemetria. The name of the god
found within was none other than the ancient Yahweh or Jehovah (YHWH),
revered by more than half of the earth's population through the three
major religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Will this discovery be the final vindication that these religions
have been right all along? To many, it certainly will. Observing the
intricate detail invested in the human being, even in all of creation,
has led many to ponder the existence of some kind of architect
behind it all. The creationist argument against evolution, it now
appears, may be the correct one. After all, Darwin's missing
links have never turned up anywhere. At least the creationists
now have a "signature" they can point to.
In what must be an embarrassing trend for science in general, further
genetic research is beginning to show that modern Homo sapiens are
not the genetic descendants of Cro-Magnons or Neanderthals. Combine
this knowledge with archeological revisions that are suggesting that
ancient civilizations, such as Egypt, are far older than conventionally
believed, and you can begin to see a bigger picture evolving. Instead
of reinforcing the scientific theories our modern world was built
upon, current research continues to disintegrate one major paradigm
after another. Have we been deceiving ourselves all this time?
These troubling anomalies for Science are no great victory for Religion
either. As our understanding of the past becomes clearer, so too does
our understanding of whom this god, YHWH, may be. Instead
of some omnipotent, benevolent deity lovingly guiding us through earthly
life to eternal paradise, we may have to open our minds to the possibility
that this god represents the direct intervention of an alien culture
on this planet. Too many ancient cultures reference these kinds of
interactions to be ignored any longer. Hiding behind a severely edited
Bible will prove fruitless as well.
That this is an important train of thought can not be underestimated
for those in the unlearning process. Finding the name of god encoded
in our genetic structure may only mean that our bodies are the copyrighted
property of our creators, much like Monsanto can claim to own the
seeds they genetically alter. It by no means infers that our spirits
must be subservient to them. For perhaps the first time, the spirit
of mankind can look its creators in the "eyes" and ponder the whys
of our global heritage.
If we judge the creators by their creation, we can see that this YHWH
created a world of brutal, subservient cultures that have waged war
on each other for millennia, despite all the rhetoric about love and
justice. If human consciousness continues to be body-centered, then
the alien codes programmed within will continue its history of aggression
and oppression.
Unlearning the dominant matrix of consensus reality is no easy task.
Braden's latest discovery may reveal why human evolution has been
so painstakingly slow. It may be that the human body has been hardwired
to short circuit spiritual impulses or limit the range of a spirit's
perception. Many of the masters or avatars that our cultures
revere, whether they existed or not, seem to have the transcendence
of the body as a common trait.
On the other hand, one may wish to consider that the human spirit
chose these alien-engineered bodies simply for the fun
of trying to escape it, or in some fashion, transform it to suit a
truly human agenda. From this perspective, the much needed spirit
of play might rightly motivate our cultures to see that life need
not be such a time of toil and suffering. Whether the human body's
creators will permit such an experiment on a global scale remains
to be seen.
Embedded within this tale of genetic sleuthing is also the lesson
about how truth unfolds. Placing our collective trust
in the realms of Science and Religion to validate our existence is
a double-edged gamble. On the one side, we may applaud the two for
coming together in this New Age to corroborate a truly fantastic perspective
that links materialism with spirituality. On the other side, we may
perceive these institutions as collusive partners in continuously
leading humans away from the truth of our heritage. That the two seem
to be less at odds with each other these days may mean nothing more
than the Non-Aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin. Both were
agreed on the suppression and torture of their respective populations
despite their political differences. Braden's discovery is ultimately
meaningless unless we confront these harsh observations.