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Three years ago, on July 12, 2006, I published the 8000 for Peace website. Today, I let the website be shut down. Things have changed and I feel like I've crossed the Universe in that time. I've been on more adventures in these three years than in the whole of the rest of my life and my personal spiritual growth has been absolutely tremendous. If you want to see where that all started, I'm sharing it with you here.
Before I let my website subscription lapse, I copied my content and as I was reading it over last night I thought - did I write that? It is definitely inspired and may be useful or inspirational to some of you whom I consider very dear and companionable souls.
What follows are the pages of copy from the website 8000forpeace.
Imagine a world at peace. A world with plenty of food, clean water, and comfortable shelter for everyone. There is no lack. Everything we need is here now. There is enough for everyone and it’s time to stop throwing around things that blow up.
It’s time to open to the peace that surrounds us. The answer to building the world we want is within. Prayer is the key and we’re going to start with 8000 people.
Every person on this planet has the ability to touch the divine through prayer. It doesn't matter what you call it, it is the experience of going inside ourselves to connect with Source. Prayer is our common link. It is the language of God.
Every culture has traditions that serve as wellsprings of hope --- some way of reaching out to the Divine. Each group has their own custom of communion, a way of connecting to Source.
Life is the gift given to us and we have been given the tools to shape that life. This is an invitation to the great experiment --- 8000 people to pray peace.
Pray Peace Now
Why It Works
Now is the time for the rule of the heart to come forward. And while we follow the way of the heart, there is no need to leave reason behind.
The science of physics is leading the way, showing us the very Face of God. Whether you call that which connects everything the Quantum Hologram, the Field, or Source, there is no doubt that there is SOMETHING that runs though everything. When we pray, we are communicating directly to that Field.
When we focus on the same prayer, at the same time, we are increasing the signal. Rather than a small ripple effect, this will create bigger waves with larger and farther reaching results; the more of us working together, the larger and faster the effect. You've heard of the Butterfly Effect? 8000 people praying peace puts an enormous set of wings on that butterfly.

Author and visionary, Gregg Braden introduces his latest book, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer with an observation from St. Francis of Assisi. “There are beautiful and wild forces within us.” Braden continues with an appeal from Rumi. “If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.”
Join me in putting your soul to this oar. Let yourself be filled by the sweet taste of peace that we may live peace. We will be peace. Together we will open the door. Our focused prayer of peace will change the landscape of our world.
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Feel Peace, Be Peace
It's time is to pray in a way you may never have prayed before.
The first part to praying peace is to feel peace. You don't need any words --- just feel peace.
Then you are going to give thanks for what is already here. The gift of peace has already been given, we only need create an opening for it. When you pray peace, you will feel peace. You will be changed, and so will your world.
Did you ever pray for something you didn’t have? You felt how it hurt to not have what you wanted. That feeling of lack or loss and the accompanying pain was the message you were sending out. Your pain over what you did not have was your focus. It was what you were feeling.
The feeling is the key here. When you pray, you are not going to pray FOR peace because that would imply there is a lack of peace. You are going to give thanks for the peace that is already here. You will FEEL peace.
Our nearly forgotten way of praying lives in the language of emotion.
The medical community is just beginning to recognize the deep connections between our emotions and our health. Why would there be any less of a connection between our emotions and the health of humanity.
When you decide to join this great adventure, please practice every day for six weeks. It takes about six weeks to form a habit, and by then you will have plenty of reasons to continue. When you feel moved to do so, any time of the day, please reconnect with the feeling of peace. The more you can bring peace to every part of your life, the more effect the peace prayer will have on our world.
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How To Pray Peace
You are going to begin your Peace Practice at the time of day that works best for you --- whether that's noon, dawn or dusk. The best time for you may be on rising in the morning. If you can practice Peace at the same time each day it will help you "get there" faster, but you can practice on a bathroom break at work or waiting for the kids soccer game to finish.
If you have not worked with this type of deep felt prayer before, begin with five minutes a day. As you begin to recognize what peace feels like you will be able to access the feeling easily and expand this as much as you like until you feel peace in all areas of your life. You will not just be praying peace, you will be practicing peace --- you will be peace. You will be changing yourself to change the world.
Do not think this is any small thing. It is big and you are the most important part of it.
I want to add at this point, just so you have no doubt, you are loved --- unconditionally. Whether you pray peace or not --- you are loved and you are never alone.
Find a place to sit quietly for your five minute practice. Sit up nice and straight in your chair so all your parts work right and begin by paying attention to your breathe. Breathing is the first gift when you enter this world so it is of great importance to this work.
Breathe slowly and quietly. Breathe in peace and breathe out what is not peace. Also breathe out any random thoughts that flit through your head --- they need not disrupt you as you Pray Peace. Feel the Divine Love and Compassion that is guiding you to join with so many others to reach out --- uniting through the Divine Matrix to do this meditation. Stay and enjoy the feeling of peace and love that runs through you as long as you can. Know that you can access that peace any time, ay place. You carry it with you always.
It’s time to activate your direct connection to God. It’s not just for church anymore. It’s for every day. It’s for life.
Carry it you back into your day. Run all decisions through that Field. You will be shown ways to live your life that will amaze you. Please understand that you can recharge at any time and the more you can stay connected to Source, the greater the changes will be in your life and on this planet.
Give thanks for the peace and the guidance to take part in this endeavor with all the others who are being called to do so.
Pray Peace Now
Why 8000
World population is about 6 billion. 8000 is the square root of one percent of that number. The square root of one percent figure comes from studies done in 1972 in 24 cities across the United States and the landmark work that was done during the Israeli-Lebanese war in the early 1980s. The latter work was published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution in 1988.
According to Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer, during the time of the scheduled FEELING prayer, terrorist activities stopped, violence against people diminished and even emergency room visits and traffic accidents were fewer in number.
Feeling peace in your body causes biochemical changes that have an effect on the Unity Field. The quality of the feeling prayer pushes a wave of peace out in front of it. The more people using this form of prayer the more peace will be reflected onto this world.
So we start with 8000 and invite more to join us.
A funny thing happened on the way to building this website. It was 11:30 am and I was still in my PJs. I had been up since 6am working on getting this thing going.
A car pulled up and I could see it was the Jehovah’s Witnesses. While I am loathe to turn anyone away, the drunken monkey in my brain screamed at me to not answer the door.
For anyone who does not know, the drunken monkey is that voice in your head that is always trying to plant discouraging words and telling you all the reasons you will fail the task at hand.
I decided to follow my own house rule of always being as kind as you can. I would open the door and listen to what he had to say.
He was there to invite me to a convention that’s going to be in my area. He shared some of the subjects to be covered during the conference. Then he let me know that I didn’t have to worry. If I just show up at the conference I won’t be standing there alone. There will be over 8,ooo people there.
I nearly fell over. When he mentioned the number 8,000, bells went off in my brain. I had been working with that number all morning! And here it was showing up on my doorstep.
What a show of confirmation from the Universe!
It’s not my intention to be standing here alone, so now it’s up to you to show up.
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Who Am I
I'm a gardening grandma in the Pacific Northwest. This website is another one of my gardens and together we're gonna grow it big.
Several weeks before beginning this project I discovered a movie called The Secret. It's about the Law of Attraction --- how you bring about what you think about. I found the message to be wonderfully positive and uplifting.
I immediately realized how I had been undermining myself. Some health issues had been plaguing me and I was putting out the message that, "I was sick and tired of being sick and tired." The worse I felt, the more disgusted, angry and tired I was becoming. I was adding energy to a downward spiral.
On the spot I changed my thoughts to, "I am thankful that my thyroid and pituitary glands know exactly what to do to keep everything in good working order."
In putting out that positive affirmation I immediately felt better mentally. Soon, my physical condition was improving too.
A few days after watching The Secret I came across an interview with Gregg Braden in New Connexion magazine. I recognized that he was putting together information that I had been studying for years, from a great variety of sources. The synthesis of his study and experiences are nearly poetic in nature and spoke to the deepest part of my heart.
I highly recommend his latest effort, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer. Before I was through the Introduction, I knew I needed to take action. The presentation by Braden is transformative and I felt compelled to set up the 8000forpeace web site.
During the ecstatic transformation I was experiencing while reading the book, I declared to a good friend that I finally understood how to keep from adding energy to painful personal and world situations. It was in fact, at this moment I made a declaration to Source, I do not wish to add any more to unnecessary suffering.
In 2005, I watched What the Bleep Do We Know. That lovely film had given me further confirmation and explanation of the interconnectedness of everything.
I continued my contemplation of the illusion of separation and the reality that we are connected on the atomic level, not only to every other person on this planet, but to every leaf,tree and star in the Universe. One evening, soon after watching the film, I looked up at the night sky from my hot tub and asked, "if I'm in contact with EVERYTHING, then I should be able to be anywhere at anytime." I looked up at a star high over my head --- and thought myself there. I was there for only a moment, but I know I was there.

Incoming
August 8th, 2006
Right now, every message from every direction, Source seems to be giving us the same message. We are the element of change. We are fluid, dynamic expressions of the Divine. In transforming our lives, we are the peace. It is not something outside of us. It is only found within. We are the peace. Let us circle the world.
July 21, 2006
As you hear more and more dire predictions for the coming term, do not be discouraged, do not fear. Feelings of peace and love are what are needed at this time. Fear is not useful. It only adds energy to the storm and stress.
As immense openings are created for fear, turmoil and trespass, monumental is the opportunity we have to put in place love, peace and justice. And the wonderful thing is that the weight for peace is in our corner. We really are in the middle of a shift in consciousness. This is big. It is evolution.
The whole place is evolving, changing before your eyes. It not a trick, you are seeing the death throes of the Old and are helping manifest the New. As it is within our own bodies, old cells that break down have a limited life span and then they are replaced with new cells. Do you think it would be any different in the greater span? As above, so below.
No matter what form, life continues and what you are seeding now is what will be growing in the field when we get there.
Always, there is life. Always a spark. Time in and time out, always evolving, finding a better way --- a more fulfilling path. Another possibility.
There is no time to dwell in fear. Love yourself, for you are the divine expression. Hold that love in your heart and let it grow. That's the way to make this work. Then, as you walk in the world you'll spread peace wherever you go.
Pray Peace Now
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