Gregg Braden

Gregg Braden was born June 28, 1954 in Missouri and trained as an earth scientist and computer systems engineer. He spent the 1970s and 1980s in senior technical roles at Phillips Petroleum (as a geological researcher), Martin Marietta (designing Cold War-era aerospace computer systems), and Cisco Systems (as the first technical operations manager). By the late 1980s he was uncomfortable with the direction of the defense work he was doing.

He walked away in 1991. Over the following three decades Braden traveled extensively through Egypt, Tibet, Peru, Bolivia, and the remote monasteries of the Himalayas, researching the parallels between contemporary physics and molecular biology on one side and the ancient textual and oral traditions of these cultures on the other. He documented it all in a sequence of books that each built on the last: Awakening to Zero Point (1997), Walking Between the Worlds (1998), The Isaiah Effect (2000), The God Code (2004), The Divine Matrix (2007), Fractal Time (2009), Deep Truth (2011), The Turning Point (2014), Resilience from the Heart (2014), and Human by Design (2017).

The Divine Matrix became his commercial breakthrough — a popular treatment of the evidence that consciousness influences physical matter at the quantum level, with implications for healing, emotional life, and the interconnectedness Braden argues underlies all apparent separation. The God Code argued that the four nucleic-acid bases of human DNA correspond, via an alphabet-mapping, to the ancient Hebrew word for God — an audacious claim Braden supports with extensive linguistic and chemical documentation.

Braden is a featured contributor in multiple documentaries (What the Bleep Do We Know!?, The Living Matrix, I Am) and has worked closely with the HeartMath Institute on heart-brain coherence research. He speaks to corporate audiences, medical conferences, and spiritual-teacher gatherings globally.

His central teaching: the universe is not a cold mechanism. It is a deeply-connected responsive field, and consciousness — especially the coherent state produced by synchronizing heart and mind — is one of the active variables in what gets physically produced. The science is real, the ancients knew it by a different name, and the implications are practical: your inner state is not a private phenomenon, it is a physical force.