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This letter stated that they had now decided to comply with the request for inspections. The aerial attack had been going on for 30 minutes when the President of the United States received a letter from Iraqi officials. What happened next is nothing short of amazing. It was organized very carefully in the sense that people were asked to pray at certain exact times throughout the evening.

This prayer event was publicized on the Internet and attracted several hundred thousand people. Someone, Braden does not say who, began a prayer effort through an organization with a global audience. Such a campaign would certainly have resulted in great loss of life, civilian as well as military.” Following months of unsuccessful negotiations for access into sensitive sites, the nations of the West had made it clear that Iraq’s failure to comply would result in a massive an extended bombing campaign designed to destroy suspected weapons sites.

Of specific interest that day was the expiration of a timeline imposed on Iraq to comply with the United Nations demands for weapons inspections. “On Friday, November 13, 1998, mass prayer was implemented on a worldwide basis, as a choice of peace during a time of escalating political tension in many parts of the world. I will quote a few sentences from the story verbatim and then go on to summarize it. I have recently begun rereading the book which is something I rarely do.Ĭlose to the beginning of the book, he tells the story about the impact of mass prayer. A few years ago I read his book, The Isaiah Effect (Three Rivers Press, 2000). I have the utmost respect for Gregg Braden, who is, in my opinion, one of the most evolved spiritual leaders in the world.