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Pure Human

Pure Human

The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny
by Gregg Braden 2025 304 pages
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1. Humanity at a Crossroads: Preserve Pure Human or Embrace Hybrid?

For the first time in human history, we’re implementing technology that irreversibly changes our bodies on a biological level.

Irreversible biological changes. We face a critical juncture where technology allows fundamental, irreversible alterations to human biology. Unlike past innovations, gene editing and neural implants promise permanent changes to our essence, driven by a narrative that we need these modifications to become "better."

The 2030 ultimatum. By 2030, humanity must choose: embrace untapped natural potentials or become human-machine hybrids. This risks engineering away intuition, empathy, and creativity, with policies already affecting our brains and emotional bonds.

Losing our essence. The stakes are monumental: we risk losing our humanness—the source of imagination, intuition, and creativity, and the biological bridge to our divinity. Transhumanism views natural human traits as "flaws" to be replaced for immortality and efficiency.

2. Our DNA Holds a Divine Code: Evidence of Intentional Design.

When we perform the substitution of letters for their numeric equivalents from the atomic mass of our DNA, the first layer of the code for each cell of our bodies reads as: “God/eternal within the body.”

A coded message. Our DNA contains a profound, intentional message, "God/eternal within the body," revealed by translating the atomic mass of its elements into ancient alphabetic numbers (gematria). This message is universal, appearing identically in cuneiform, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Hebrew, transcending cultural and linguistic divides.

Beyond chance. The statistical probability of this message forming randomly is astronomically low (0.00042%), indicating intentional design. This suggests our existence is not merely a product of "lucky biology" but a purposeful act, challenging conventional evolutionary theories.

A timely revelation. This message, embedded 200,000 years ago, is only now decipherable due to advanced technology like genome mapping and gene editing. It serves as a reminder of our sacred identity, urging us to reconsider altering our genetic essence with transhumanist technologies.

3. Natural Human Biology Outperforms Artificial Technology.

In many respects, human cells and specialized neurons are superior in performance, scalability, and adaptability to hardwired computer chips and the limited algorithms of AI.

Superior soft technology. We are a sophisticated "soft technology," with human cells and neurons often exceeding the capabilities of AI and computer chips. Our bodies possess inherent functions like self-replication, self-diagnosis, self-healing, and self-selection, far beyond current artificial systems.

Electrical and informational. Each of our 50 trillion cells generates electrical voltage, collectively amounting to trillions of volts, and functions as a tiny electrical circuit with capacitors and resistors. Our cells also absorb and emit light (photons), acting as biological antennae that interact with environmental energy fields.

Dynamic and adaptable. Unlike static computer chips, human neurons are adaptable and scalable, processing information holographically and relativistically. Our brains perform "information triage" and parallel processing, making them significantly faster and more nuanced than serial-processing microprocessors, especially in complex tasks like facial recognition.

4. Transhumanism: A False Evolution Threatening Our Innate Divinity.

Transhumanism is a philosophy that advocates incorporating AI, computer chips, and electronic sensors into the human body to “fix” the flaws of our natural biological functions.

Perceived human flaws. Transhumanism views natural human attributes like emotion, physical intimacy, vulnerability to disease, and mortality as "flaws" requiring technological "fixes." This philosophy aims to eradicate aging and augment bodies and minds, ultimately merging with machines.

Stages of integration. This movement unfolds in three phases:

  • Prosthetics and Implants: Enhancing or replacing body parts (e.g., robotic limbs, VR goggles, brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink).
  • Human Consciousness/Synthetic Bodies: Replacing natural bodies with artificial polymers and computerized sensors, as seen with social robots like Sophia.
  • Consciousness Stored on a Chip: The ultimate goal of achieving immortality by uploading consciousness to a computer chip, an unproven assumption that consciousness is merely electrical impulses.

Loss of essence. Replacing natural biology with artificial components diminishes our ability to connect with the vast, energetic essence of our existence—our divinity. Cloning failures, like Dolly the Sheep, demonstrate that something vital is lost when natural processes are overridden without full understanding.

5. The Great Reset: A Global Agenda for Digital Control and Human Modification.

The vision for the Great Reset is to merge us and all the present-day systems of finance, business, manufacturing, transportation, and food production that we use, as well as our consumption, travel, lifestyle choices, and spending habits, into one vast network that is managed and regulated through the oversight of an advanced AI.

Crisis as opportunity. The World Economic Forum (WEF) views global crises, like the 2020 pandemic, as opportunities for a "Great Reset"—a radical transformation of global society by 2030. This involves merging physical, digital, and biological lives into a digitally networked, AI-governed reality.

Hacking human biology. A key component is the belief that human biology is "hackable technology," allowing for the engineering of "bodies, brains, and minds." This aims to modify humans to interface with the digital world, with "write-level permission" to rewrite the code of life itself.

Eugenics rebranded. This vision echoes historical eugenics, aiming to "fix" human "flaws" like emotion and natural birth through gene editing and artificial wombs. This raises concerns about:

  • Compulsion: Imposing reproductive choices.
  • Arbitrary standards: Defining "perfection" subjectively.
  • Inequity: Creating a stratified society of "optimized" and "unoptimized" humans.

6. Awakening Everyday Divinity: Our Untapped Superpowers.

The greater our expression of divinity, the more of our destiny we achieve.

Innate godlike abilities. Humans appeared on Earth 200,000 years ago with extraordinary, godlike abilities unique among known life forms. These include conscious self-regulation of consciousness, physical self-healing, accessing higher brain states, and deep intuition on demand.

Biological wiring for intuition. Our DNA functions as a resonant antenna, constantly communicating with the underlying energy field of existence. This explains phenomena like maternal intuition, where a mother's DNA retains a connection with her child's, allowing for non-local sensing of well-being.

Self-regulating superpowers. We possess the power to intentionally awaken and enhance vital physical responses. For example, heart-brain coherence, achieved through focused awareness and positive emotion, can:

  • Increase DHEA levels by 100%.
  • Decrease stress hormone cortisol by 23%.
  • Boost immune response (IgA levels) by 41%.
    These are not supernatural, but natural expressions of our divinity.

7. Psychological Warfare: Deprogramming from Fear and Manipulation.

Fifth-generation warfare plays out in the battlefield of our minds before there is ever a kinetic engagement between people.

The Dangerous Game. We are casualties of "fifth-generation warfare" (5GW), a psychological battle for our thoughts and beliefs. This war uses misinformation, disinformation, and lies to create confusion, uncertainty, and fear, pitting people against each other and destroying social coherence.

Tactics of indoctrination. This social engineering employs specific tactics:

  • Presenting doctrine as reality: Social media algorithms create information silos, reinforcing existing viewpoints and excluding contradictory information.
  • Manipulation through fear and guilt: Weaponizing real-world events (e.g., climate change disasters) to instill guilt and fear, justifying radical social engineering.
  • Ensuring no way out: Creating a false sense of urgency and presenting only binary choices to coerce conformity to specific agendas.

Breaking the spell. To triumph, we must deprogram ourselves from these "spells" by:

  • Seeking diverse, unconventional information sources.
  • Verifying facts and questioning narratives, especially those instilling fear or guilt.
  • Recognizing that there is always a choice, even when presented with none.

8. The Ultimate Choice: Embrace Humanness for Our Destiny.

Will we choose the gift of our humanness or succumb to the efficiency of becoming technologically enhanced forms of life?

Our destiny revealed. Our 200,000-year heritage points to a destiny of expressing our godlike abilities and living our human divinity. This includes self-healing, advanced intuition, and resilience, all available consciously and on demand. Embracing this specialness empowers us to trust our innate wisdom.

The choice is love. The fundamental question is whether we love ourselves enough to preserve our humanness and choose our divine destiny over the illusion of progress offered by advanced technology. This choice determines if we ascend to our greatest potential or descend into a fear-based, hybrid fate.

Preserving our essence. Warnings from advanced species, as documented in alien abduction reports, caution against replacing our natural bodies with technology. They suggest that once we become a hybrid species, the loss of our natural abilities is irreversible, as their own history demonstrates.

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Pure Human by Gregg Braden receives mostly positive reviews (4.46/5), with readers praising its message about human divinity and warnings against transhumanism. Supporters appreciate the exploration of innate human capacities, heart-brain coherence practices, and critiques of technological overreach. Critics note the book feels evangelical, relies on questionable scientific claims (particularly DNA encoding theories), and uses fear-based messaging despite warning against such tactics. Some find it repetitive or unclear in focus. Overall, readers view it as thought-provoking and timely regarding AI and humanity's future, though requiring critical evaluation.

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About the Author

Gregg Braden is a New York Times bestselling author renowned for bridging science and spirituality. His career includes roles as Computer Geologist for Phillips Petroleum, Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Defense Systems, and first Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, where he developed global support teams ensuring Internet reliability. For over 22 years, he has researched remote monasteries and ancient texts, producing paradigm-shifting books like The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, and The Divine Matrix. His work, published in 17 languages across 27 countries, demonstrates how ancient wisdom holds keys to our future.

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