1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,879 What's important is we find this story of these rising and falling ages throughout 2 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:21,199 so many cultures and so many myths. 3 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:25,260 And that's what it's like when we're trying to figure out what civilizations were like 4 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:29,120 5,000 years ago except we're the aliens. 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,840 We have no clue really what these civilizations are like because all that is... 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,939 of rock and stone. 7 00:00:35,939 --> 00:00:38,240 That's about all that lasts. 8 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:46,579 And so we try to fit them into our own paradigm of whatever came earlier must be... 9 00:00:46,579 --> 00:00:51,240 And I'm not so certain we're always making the right decisions there. 10 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,500 A case in point is Corral, Peru. 11 00:00:54,500 --> 00:01:03,579 Corral, when I was a little boy they taught us that the Americas were discovered by... 12 00:01:03,579 --> 00:01:07,180 when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492. 13 00:01:07,180 --> 00:01:11,099 And that anything built here in the Americas was done by the Incans. 14 00:01:11,099 --> 00:01:16,439 And the Incans are really only five, six, seven hundred years old, something like that. 15 00:01:16,439 --> 00:01:21,780 But they did find a few sites that they thought were older than that. 16 00:01:21,780 --> 00:01:24,420 And this is one. 17 00:01:24,420 --> 00:01:28,340 Archaeologists began to investigate in 1997. 18 00:01:28,340 --> 00:01:34,420 And you can see that there's three pyramids in the background there. 19 00:01:34,420 --> 00:01:37,460 There's six pyramids total. 20 00:01:37,460 --> 00:01:44,040 And unlike the Egyptian pyramids, they didn't have big blocks of stone to create from. 21 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:50,340 And so they cobbled together smaller groups of stones, put them in square baskets, and 22 00:01:50,340 --> 00:01:53,219 then the baskets were lowered into place. 23 00:01:53,219 --> 00:01:55,299 And that's how they would build this pyramid. 24 00:01:55,299 --> 00:02:02,859 Well, it turns out that's a great way to carbon date a stone structure, which isn't... 25 00:02:02,859 --> 00:02:09,420 datable in this method, because the plant material that the baskets were made out of 26 00:02:09,420 --> 00:02:12,420 was almost hermetically sealed between these rocks. 27 00:02:12,420 --> 00:02:16,860 And so you know that that material was there when the pyramid was built. 28 00:02:17,540 --> 00:02:23,020 Anyway, they took samples of that, sent it off to University of Chicago, and got the 29 00:02:23,020 --> 00:02:28,860 results back, and just about fell off their chairs, because it told us that these... 30 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:32,340 are four thousand seven hundred years old. 31 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:40,740 And that is just about contemporaneous with many of the Egyptian pyramids. 32 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:47,740 And so it sort of blows the theory of history that I was taught when I was a little boy, 33 00:02:47,740 --> 00:02:56,300 which was that civilization settled first in the Egyptian area, the fertile crescent 34 00:02:56,300 --> 00:03:01,580 there, the Tigris and Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. 35 00:03:01,580 --> 00:03:07,300 But when you find structures that are just as old in the Americas as they are in the 36 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:13,540 eastern hemisphere, you have to really question what we know about history. 37 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:20,300 Another common history theory tenant is that early civilizations got together to fight 38 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:23,700 off against other warring tribes. 39 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:28,540 But what I've noticed in many of these early sites is that you don't find a lot of... 40 00:03:28,540 --> 00:03:30,180 or walls. 41 00:03:30,180 --> 00:03:36,780 And Corral is a case in point, where they found a lot of evidence of trade, cotton 42 00:03:37,259 --> 00:03:48,259 goods, different sorts of fabrics, many different types of shellfish, and musical... 43 00:03:48,259 --> 00:03:51,219 but no weaponry really of any kind. 44 00:03:51,219 --> 00:03:56,420 I should say Corral is, for those of you that aren't familiar with it, it's on the Peruvian 45 00:03:56,420 --> 00:04:05,420 course coast, maybe about fifteen miles in, about a hundred miles from Lima. 46 00:04:05,419 --> 00:04:11,579 There's some indication of some alignments there. 47 00:04:11,579 --> 00:04:16,259 I don't think it's been thoroughly investigated yet. 48 00:04:16,259 --> 00:04:24,339 So the story I want to tell today is just sort of giving a context for some of these 49 00:04:24,339 --> 00:04:29,680 sort of anomalous artifacts that we're finding that look out of place in our pres... 50 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,579 of history. 51 00:04:33,740 --> 00:04:39,500 When I was a boy, and they told us that Columbus discovered America just 500 years... 52 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:44,500 had asked my teacher, well, why didn't they get here earlier? 53 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:49,459 And my teacher said, well, they didn't have boats that were big enough. 54 00:04:49,459 --> 00:04:53,860 And that's really what they taught in the schools. 55 00:04:53,860 --> 00:04:58,339 And of course they hadn't found the boats that were buried in the Giza sands back in 56 00:04:58,339 --> 00:05:00,060 the 50s then. 57 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:04,939 And they did, I think they found the first one in the early 60s and they found eight 58 00:05:04,939 --> 00:05:06,819 others since. 59 00:05:06,819 --> 00:05:14,699 And this one is 140 feet long, found near the Great Pyramid. 60 00:05:14,699 --> 00:05:19,100 And Columbus' ships were 70 feet long on average. 61 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:21,939 So they're twice the length of Columbus' ships. 62 00:05:21,939 --> 00:05:28,500 I think we certainly had the ability to get to the Americas earlier. 63 00:05:28,939 --> 00:05:30,459 Here's another anomalous artifact. 64 00:05:30,459 --> 00:05:35,579 Some of you have seen the television shows on the Antikythera device. 65 00:05:35,579 --> 00:05:42,459 This was found in a shipwreck that unquestionably dates to about 100 BC or so... 66 00:05:42,459 --> 00:05:49,259 a few decades, off the isle of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea by Greek sponge divers. 67 00:05:49,259 --> 00:05:55,259 And when they brought this up, which they thought was an anchor, it was corroded with 68 00:05:55,300 --> 00:06:01,300 coins and amphora and it made it very easy to date that shipwreck and when this had 69 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:02,300 gone down. 70 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:09,420 And this actually sat in the museum at Athens there for about 50 years until I heard that 71 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:11,860 somebody had knocked it over. 72 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:16,420 And that's when they discovered that there were some geared devices inside. 73 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:23,539 A matter of fact, 32 precision gears inside. 74 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:28,980 And the problem with this again is that we were taught that geared devices weren't... 75 00:06:28,980 --> 00:06:36,060 until 1200, 1300, 1400 AD in the great clockmaking era here in Europe. 76 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:42,740 And so you really shouldn't have anything like this back that far. 77 00:06:42,740 --> 00:06:51,660 And if this is, if the scientists are correct, then apparently some of these rid... 78 00:06:52,060 --> 00:06:57,540 gear, which is called a differential gear, and that wasn't even developed until here 79 00:06:57,540 --> 00:07:00,260 in England around the year 1800 or so. 80 00:07:00,260 --> 00:07:05,380 So it's almost 2000 years out of place, if you will. 81 00:07:05,380 --> 00:07:12,379 A few scientists got together and made a copy of it and they found that it's more than just 82 00:07:12,379 --> 00:07:18,100 a simple geared device to help turn a mill or something like that. 83 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:24,860 It appears to be a type of computer to plot the orbits of the planets and the moon and 84 00:07:24,860 --> 00:07:26,540 the sun. 85 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:32,580 And this is known because the gear ratios exactly fit the timing ratios of the planets 86 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:36,580 going around the sun. 87 00:07:36,580 --> 00:07:40,760 Again when I was a boy, they taught us the battery was developed post-renaissance by 88 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,860 Volta about the year 1700 or so. 89 00:07:44,860 --> 00:07:49,780 And that's what we thought until they found the Baghdad batteries. 90 00:07:49,780 --> 00:07:52,139 These are at least 2000 years old. 91 00:07:52,139 --> 00:07:56,860 They're not quite certain because the soil was disturbed. 92 00:07:56,860 --> 00:07:59,180 So they might be as old as 4000 years old. 93 00:07:59,180 --> 00:08:05,100 But either way, they're almost 2000 years out of place plus. 94 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:10,980 And while this battery looks very crude, if you put some acidic juice in it, grape juice 95 00:08:11,060 --> 00:08:16,340 or something like that, vinegar, you will get about twice the voltage as you got from 96 00:08:16,340 --> 00:08:21,860 Volta's first battery in the year 1700. 97 00:08:21,860 --> 00:08:25,340 And how about dentistry? 98 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:31,460 They couldn't drill teeth very well just 100 years ago because they didn't have the... 99 00:08:31,460 --> 00:08:38,460 And if you were in California where I come from, 100 years ago if you had a bad tooth, 100 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:42,300 you'd go to the barber shop, they'd fill you full of whiskey and they'd yank that 101 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:43,300 thing out. 102 00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:47,860 And that was dentistry. 103 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:54,860 About eight years ago they found 13 skulls in Pakistan that date to 8000 years old. 104 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:03,019 And one of the anthropologists happened to notice that this looked a lot like teeth 105 00:09:03,019 --> 00:09:06,379 that had been drilled, the rear molars there. 106 00:09:07,340 --> 00:09:11,580 And they took it to a modern day dentist and he said, sure enough, that's what it is. 107 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:16,059 And although the filling material isn't there anymore, he said that was very, very good 108 00:09:16,059 --> 00:09:23,059 work because you can see that they used different sizes of drills and they were ab... 109 00:09:23,220 --> 00:09:29,700 quite a bit of this tooth without breaking or chipping off the enamel. 110 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:36,019 And then this, the right hand picture, there is an anthropologist's idea of how they might 111 00:09:36,059 --> 00:09:37,419 have done this. 112 00:09:37,419 --> 00:09:43,039 They took a piece of flint, put it in a stick so the explanation goes and somehow spun that 113 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:48,039 thing very rapidly to drill these teeth. 114 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:57,039 And, you know, it's really, I suppose it's possible but it's kind of ridiculous because 115 00:09:57,699 --> 00:10:03,360 you can't fit a stick that's big enough into the back of the mouth to get enough torque 116 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,279 on this thing to really do it properly. 117 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:09,919 And if you do that, you're not going to get the quality of dentistry that was practiced 118 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:11,279 here. 119 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:16,279 They've also found orthodontics in Egypt that go back almost 5,000 years. 120 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:22,840 Some of the discoveries that are being made are things that we still do not know how to 121 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:23,840 recreate. 122 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:29,560 And one of these is terra preta do indio, this amazing soil they've been finding in 123 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,940 great quantities in Brazil. 124 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:38,660 When the local Indians come across this, they get very excited because they know that this 125 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:44,740 soil is so rich compared to the normal jungle soil, the lighter soil on the other side, 126 00:10:44,740 --> 00:10:51,740 that they can grow a papaya in almost half the time and get just about twice the yield. 127 00:10:52,820 --> 00:10:58,820 So samples of this soil were taken to Cornell University. 128 00:10:58,820 --> 00:11:02,100 Over the last 20, 30 years they've been studying this. 129 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:05,580 And they found that it's an amazing material. 130 00:11:05,580 --> 00:11:12,580 It has about 5 billion microorganisms per cubic centimeter. 131 00:11:12,620 --> 00:11:16,860 And it seems to have a yogurt type quality where as long as you don't take too much of 132 00:11:16,860 --> 00:11:20,540 it away, it'll slowly grow back. 133 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:22,420 And they tried to recreate it. 134 00:11:22,459 --> 00:11:29,379 They find a lot of pottery shards in this soil so they know it was man-made. 135 00:11:29,379 --> 00:11:32,539 They also find a lot of carbon in there. 136 00:11:32,539 --> 00:11:38,339 So they've been playing with sort of different recipes, if you will, but they'v... 137 00:11:38,339 --> 00:11:41,339 been able to recreate the soil. 138 00:11:44,259 --> 00:11:52,219 And it's been found in 2 to 4 hectare plots all along sort of the main watery ways there 139 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:54,860 in Brazil. 140 00:11:54,860 --> 00:12:01,139 The dating on it is really hard to tell because you can't date the pottery, of... 141 00:12:01,139 --> 00:12:07,580 there were some broken pieces of pot that they found some food substance, plant... 142 00:12:07,580 --> 00:12:08,860 in it. 143 00:12:08,860 --> 00:12:13,460 And those date to about 8 or 9,000 years ago. 144 00:12:13,460 --> 00:12:20,460 So it appears to be that there was a pretty advanced civilization there a long, long t... 145 00:12:22,460 --> 00:12:29,860 Can't give a talk in England without talking about one of the great stone monuments here. 146 00:12:29,860 --> 00:12:33,779 Which I guess we're all going to go see on Monday, huh? 147 00:12:33,779 --> 00:12:36,779 Looking forward to it. 148 00:12:36,779 --> 00:12:39,460 Hugh earlier had mentioned John Burke. 149 00:12:39,460 --> 00:12:42,060 He was a dear friend who did a lot of work at Avebury. 150 00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:49,460 He spent a month there and took a magnetometer to test the stones. 151 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:55,620 As you probably know, when stones come out of the ground, they have a polarity to them. 152 00:12:55,620 --> 00:13:02,740 The part that faced the North Pole when the stone was formed will have a slight positive 153 00:13:02,740 --> 00:13:03,740 charge. 154 00:13:03,740 --> 00:13:07,340 The part that faced the South Pole will have a negative charge. 155 00:13:07,340 --> 00:13:10,580 This is basically in all stones. 156 00:13:10,580 --> 00:13:15,379 And geologists use this sometimes for certain reasons. 157 00:13:16,299 --> 00:13:22,860 John was curious if ancients were aware of these properties. 158 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:28,580 And what he found was of the 66 remaining stones at Avebury, they're all arranged so 159 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:35,539 that the positive side faces the next stone in line. 160 00:13:35,539 --> 00:13:42,460 And the odds of being able to align something this just by accident are basically the same 161 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:49,139 odds as flipping a coin 66 times and having it come up heads every time. 162 00:13:49,139 --> 00:13:53,139 Which is something in excess of a billion to one. 163 00:13:53,139 --> 00:14:03,340 So it appears that whoever built Avebury knew that the polarity of these stones, and we 164 00:14:03,340 --> 00:14:09,740 don't know why they did it, but it is a pattern that's very similar to the Hadron... 165 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:12,620 in Switzerland. 166 00:14:12,620 --> 00:14:19,779 And I'm not saying that these ancients used this to accelerate particles like we do with 167 00:14:19,779 --> 00:14:22,940 the very powerful magnets today. 168 00:14:22,940 --> 00:14:29,620 But that they had some purpose of doing it that we still have not discovered. 169 00:14:29,620 --> 00:14:37,700 And that's the point that these ancient cultures really had a lot of knowledge tha... 170 00:14:37,860 --> 00:14:42,700 as you go into the dark ages and then came back sometime later. 171 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:49,700 I've just scratched the surface, but we all know that the democratic system was widely 172 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:54,020 used in many ancient cultures, and the Greeks for example. 173 00:14:54,020 --> 00:15:02,180 The heliocentric system was talked about by Aristarchus of Samos and Archimedes, and 174 00:15:02,259 --> 00:15:08,299 that was about almost a thousand years before the year 500 AD, and then a thousand years 175 00:15:08,299 --> 00:15:10,620 after that year 500 AD. 176 00:15:10,620 --> 00:15:15,219 Of course Copernicus brought that theory back to us. 177 00:15:15,219 --> 00:15:21,699 They've been finding some amazing evidence of hydraulic engineering in Mesopotamia and 178 00:15:21,699 --> 00:15:24,659 Syria these quanads. 179 00:15:24,659 --> 00:15:30,519 And you know, evidence of mathematics, astronomy. 180 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:38,439 In the Indus Valley, Harappa, Moenjidaro, they built many of the buildings with uniform 181 00:15:38,439 --> 00:15:42,919 bricks that are just about to the golden ratio. 182 00:15:42,919 --> 00:15:50,480 And they also have indoor heating and municipal plumbing systems. 183 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,019 There's evidence of those in parts of Harappa. 184 00:15:55,019 --> 00:16:00,120 And you know, you think about when did sewer systems come to England finally, you know? 185 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,639 Three, four hundred years ago it wasn't that pleasant walking down the streets here. 186 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:12,480 And these are all things that somehow ancient mankind knew about, and they were lost as 187 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,639 we went into the dark ages and then were rediscovered. 188 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:23,440 As a matter of fact, you know, if you look at ancient Egypt, it seems to be near its 189 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,040 height, near the beginning. 190 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:31,680 And then it goes downhill, becoming almost a nomadic society by the time of the dark 191 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:32,680 ages. 192 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:41,680 If you look at Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, similar situation, it becomes just run over tribal 193 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,280 sort of civilization that can't build anything by the time of the dark ages. 194 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,040 You know, people say, well, what about China? 195 00:16:49,039 --> 00:16:56,039 If you look closely at China, there's tremendous evidence of astronomy in the ea... 196 00:16:58,039 --> 00:17:05,039 Much of the astronomical knowledge is placed there. 197 00:17:05,039 --> 00:17:10,559 And some of the jewelry they can make that just goes completely out of favor. 198 00:17:10,559 --> 00:17:17,559 And by the Han dynasty, you know, they're chopping people up in the streets. 199 00:17:17,559 --> 00:17:23,240 Now let me talk about a few of the individuals that have noticed this idea of... 200 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:29,240 and can summarize what they said about it. 201 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:35,559 Swami Sri Yukteswar is the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, great Indian sage,... 202 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:41,279 middle, later 1800s, died in 1936. 203 00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:46,519 And he wrote a little book called The Holy Science, and it's really about the... 204 00:17:46,519 --> 00:17:49,440 process meant for devotees. 205 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,639 But in just passing at the beginning of this book, the introduction, he says, oh, by the 206 00:17:54,639 --> 00:18:01,359 way, this stuff might not be too understandable right now because we're in ... 207 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,039 still very close to the dark ages. 208 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:11,960 And he gives a quick explanation that when our solar system is at a certain distance 209 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,960 from another star, we're in the dark ages. 210 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:23,120 And when we go around the star and get closer to another point in space, it helps out... 211 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:29,840 He didn't really say much more than that, but he did expound a little bit on this cycle 212 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:34,640 that this solar system motion produces, which in India they call the yugas. 213 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,759 And we'll talk about that a little more in a minute. 214 00:18:39,319 --> 00:18:44,559 A modern scholar that's written about it to some degree is Stefan Moll. 215 00:18:44,559 --> 00:18:49,640 He is probably the foremost Assyrianologist in the world. 216 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,680 He's German, won the Liebniz Prize. 217 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:59,720 So he got to spend five years just studying these tablets. 218 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:05,640 He already understood the cuneiform better than most scholars out there. 219 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:11,560 He would say that we found almost 200,000 of these tablets. 220 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,040 We've only read 1% or so. 221 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:19,680 And he says, take the word red very lightly. 222 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:26,360 He says, we really are beginning to understand that we understand very little. 223 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:35,240 What he found, a couple things, is one, that the ancients were fascinated with archaeology 224 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,799 themselves. 225 00:19:36,799 --> 00:19:45,299 So the Babylon's, say 600 BC, 2600 years ago or so, they were practicing archaeology. 226 00:19:45,299 --> 00:19:51,559 When they would find an ancient structure, they would try to put it back together... 227 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:53,959 deviating an eyelash. 228 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:59,920 They felt that something was sacred and important about these old structures. 229 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:04,680 Also they talked about the cycle of the great year. 230 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,120 They had a different name for it. 231 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:13,240 But they looked back to the last golden age as a time to try to emulate. 232 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:19,799 And they feared the coming dark age that they knew they were going into. 233 00:20:20,039 --> 00:20:24,960 Isn't it interesting that they were absolutely correct, because they virtually... 234 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,879 knowledge in that area. 235 00:20:27,879 --> 00:20:31,359 And he found one other interesting thing I'd like to mention. 236 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,119 He followed the etymology of the words. 237 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:44,279 And he noticed that the ancient words for past have become our words for future. 238 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:49,099 And the ancient words for future have become our words for past. 239 00:20:49,099 --> 00:20:55,299 If you think about this in terms of the great year cycle, you kind of orient yourself... 240 00:20:55,299 --> 00:20:57,259 the golden age. 241 00:20:57,259 --> 00:21:01,419 They were closer to the golden age than we were, because they were on the other side 242 00:21:01,419 --> 00:21:03,059 of the dark ages. 243 00:21:03,059 --> 00:21:07,179 And they were trying to hang on to those higher times, the buildings, the structure... 244 00:21:07,179 --> 00:21:08,779 customs. 245 00:21:08,779 --> 00:21:09,939 But they were forgetting. 246 00:21:09,939 --> 00:21:12,740 They were losing this information. 247 00:21:12,740 --> 00:21:15,740 But they viewed that as sort of like the future. 248 00:21:15,740 --> 00:21:18,859 That's where they wanted to go, if you will. 249 00:21:19,219 --> 00:21:21,740 They saw themselves kind of going into the past. 250 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:27,859 Whereas, of course, we wouldn't want to go back a thousand years right now, when every 251 00:21:27,859 --> 00:21:34,819 Dukie, every county here in Europe is at war with one another. 252 00:21:34,819 --> 00:21:36,459 And plagues ravage the earth. 253 00:21:36,459 --> 00:21:39,979 The lifespans are about half what they are now. 254 00:21:39,979 --> 00:21:45,500 Even 500 years ago, still every nation was at war with each other. 255 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:54,579 So they were aware, apparently, the ancient Babylonians of a golden age and a darker 256 00:21:54,579 --> 00:22:02,099 age, and they saw themselves moving in the wrong direction at the time. 257 00:22:02,099 --> 00:22:08,019 The ancient teachings about the cycle are a little bit vague. 258 00:22:08,339 --> 00:22:19,339 But we do find the symbology of the cycle in the Greco-Roman culture, the Mithraic temp... 259 00:22:19,339 --> 00:22:23,819 We can thank the Christians for the preservation of this culture, because thes... 260 00:22:23,819 --> 00:22:27,579 built just below ground level. 261 00:22:27,579 --> 00:22:32,299 And when the Christians came along, they filled them up with trash, used them as bins. 262 00:22:32,299 --> 00:22:37,220 And it had the odd effect of preserving many of the sculptures down there. 263 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:44,460 This is the main Tyroctony that you find in these old Mithraic temples. 264 00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:53,579 This was a culture probably 200 BC to 200 AD or so. 265 00:22:53,579 --> 00:22:57,539 Here Perseus is slaying Taurus. 266 00:22:57,539 --> 00:23:01,180 You always have these two little guys on the side. 267 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:08,779 One is Cautes, and he holds a torch up, and then Cautopides holds a torch down. 268 00:23:08,779 --> 00:23:13,980 And that's been interpreted as sort of the light and dark age. 269 00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:21,259 Also Mithras, their main god, he's the one that turns the zodiac, if you will. 270 00:23:21,259 --> 00:23:25,900 And here you can see him in one of the classic zodiacs. 271 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:31,460 He's holding a torch up at that period when we were in the rising ages. 272 00:23:31,460 --> 00:23:41,220 You'll notice Aries on the top there, and then Pisces, Aquarius, etc. 273 00:23:41,220 --> 00:23:48,220 As soon as just 20 years ago, archaeologists, anthropologists didn't even recognize this 274 00:23:48,220 --> 00:23:49,220 as the zodiac. 275 00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:55,980 They just thought this is pagan animal worship stuff. 276 00:23:55,980 --> 00:24:03,860 And of course, it's very much an astronomical science. 277 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:11,460 We think that this was one culture that was aware of this relationship that so many... 278 00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:15,059 had talked about, this cycle of the ages. 279 00:24:15,899 --> 00:24:19,659 Let me just orient you with the zodiac here real quick. 280 00:24:19,659 --> 00:24:24,899 So the zodiac is, if you just take the 12 constellations that surround the earth and 281 00:24:24,899 --> 00:24:30,819 you flatten it into a planisphere, that's what the zodiac is. 282 00:24:30,819 --> 00:24:37,339 And then of course the equinox would go around it like an hour hand, so that's the... 283 00:24:37,339 --> 00:24:39,779 clock, if you will. 284 00:24:39,779 --> 00:24:44,779 And the zodiacs represent the 12 numbers. 285 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:55,940 So, Aries was considered the highest age here when the autumnal equinox was in Aries. 286 00:24:55,940 --> 00:25:02,740 And what's interesting nowadays, we tend to use the vernal equinox, the spring equinox. 287 00:25:02,740 --> 00:25:09,539 You see that many cultures, well the hippies for example, talk about this is the, we're 288 00:25:09,539 --> 00:25:12,379 in Pisces at the dawning of the age of Aquarius. 289 00:25:12,380 --> 00:25:16,620 And indeed that is where the spring equinox is right now. 290 00:25:16,620 --> 00:25:23,020 But the ancients, as far as we can tell, often use the autumnal equinox. 291 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:27,620 And that puts us very close to the bottom of the cycle. 292 00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:30,940 And this is what Sri Yukteswar taught too, that we're just barely coming out of the 293 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:32,940 dark ages on our way up. 294 00:25:42,940 --> 00:25:47,940 Okay, so what is procession? 295 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:53,940 So that we have these 12 constellations around us, and if every day as the earth... 296 00:25:53,940 --> 00:25:59,700 can see a different constellation over us every two hours or so, assuming you could 297 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,900 just see the sky at all times. 298 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:07,300 That's easy to understand because that happens in such a short period of time. 299 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:08,300 We know it. 300 00:26:08,299 --> 00:26:15,579 And then as the earth spins around, as the earth revolves around the sun, obviously 301 00:26:15,579 --> 00:26:21,139 that takes longer than the daily spin on its axis, and that will put a different... 302 00:26:21,139 --> 00:26:24,139 overhead roughly each month. 303 00:26:24,139 --> 00:26:30,480 And those, in those first two motions of the earth, the stars are rising in the east and 304 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,619 setting in the west. 305 00:26:32,619 --> 00:26:37,180 Well there's another motion that Copernicus and others have noticed, and that is that 306 00:26:37,299 --> 00:26:44,299 if you look just on the date of the equinox, the stars seem to be going slightly... 307 00:26:44,299 --> 00:26:47,980 retrograde, about 50 arc seconds per year. 308 00:26:47,980 --> 00:26:54,360 And at that rate, every 2,000 years or so you'll have a different constellation... 309 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:57,740 That is the observable of the procession of the equinox. 310 00:26:57,740 --> 00:27:03,660 Copernicus, of course, didn't know that the solar system moved, so he said the earth must 311 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:05,620 wobble. 312 00:27:05,619 --> 00:27:12,059 Then Newton came along a hundred years later, 150 years later, and said, well gee, if the 313 00:27:12,059 --> 00:27:18,419 earth wobbles, it must be due to the gravity of the sun and the moon. 314 00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:22,019 And in Newton's time, they didn't know that the sun moved either, that the solar system 315 00:27:22,019 --> 00:27:24,019 moved. 316 00:27:24,019 --> 00:27:29,779 And so we developed this loony solar theory of procession, is what it's called, where 317 00:27:29,859 --> 00:27:36,859 it's presumed that the earth, which is a little oblate, is wobbled by the gravity o... 318 00:27:37,539 --> 00:27:40,440 sun and the moon. 319 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:47,440 And so nowadays, when astronomers try to plot procession, they use radio telescopes, they 320 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:54,660 look out to distant quasars, and they determine how much the earth wobbled in... 321 00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:56,660 that point. 322 00:27:56,660 --> 00:28:03,660 But because the theories of procession are all based on a static solar system, a... 323 00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:11,700 sun, they constrain solar system motion to zero. 324 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:18,700 And it really gets some problems going, and we've had, there's many scientists that have 325 00:28:19,340 --> 00:28:24,240 been writing about the problems with loony solar theory, and so basically, there's a 326 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:31,480 far simpler theory that I am trying to get scientists to look at once again, and it's 327 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:37,279 this theory of Sri Yukteswar, that procession is simply caused by the solar system curving 328 00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:39,599 through space. 329 00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:46,599 And if we are in a binary system, then that's what it looks like, as our solar system... 330 00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:51,519 through space, you go around another star, you go a little faster when you get close 331 00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:55,859 to it, a little farther when you go farther away. 332 00:28:55,859 --> 00:29:01,119 And that would give us the exact same observable as procession, so it really... 333 00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:06,279 what the cause of procession is, we both have the same observables. 334 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:13,279 But in this model, instead of having 1200 inputs to wobble the earth, you just have, 335 00:29:15,139 --> 00:29:20,639 we just see the different constellations, we go through the procession process by the 336 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:27,680 solar system moving. 337 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:32,880 And of course, when Copernicus was around, they didn't know about binary systems, and 338 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:39,400 even in Newton's time, they were considered very rare, just hypothetical things. 339 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,800 And it's just the last 50 years we've realized, oh, most stars have partners. In... 340 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:52,799 latest Chandra survey is that 80% of all stars, if you count Brown dwarfs, are in 341 00:29:53,720 --> 00:30:00,279 partner relationships. Stars like other stars as much as people like other people, they 342 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:03,039 like to have relationships. 343 00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:10,039 And so the question is, why wouldn't our own sun have a companion? 344 00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:16,240 And if you use this binary model to predict the procession rate, you will find that it's 345 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:22,920 41 times more accurate than the current procession rate right now. This is just ov... 346 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:28,759 100 years or so, just take 1900 to the year 2000, the procession rate, the annual rate 347 00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:35,759 has been increasing from 50.255 arc seconds to 50.260, 50.265, etc. And as procession 348 00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:43,759 speeds up each year, the periodicity, the cycle of procession, it gets shorter and 349 00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:50,759 shorter. And so at the turn of the century, the procession cycle was thought to take 350 00:30:50,759 --> 00:30:57,759 25,800 years or so, now it's thought to take 25,700 years, 100 years from now, it'll be 351 00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:05,759 shorter and shorter. And I think they'll get very close to what Yukta Svar says 24,000 352 00:31:06,879 --> 00:31:13,879 years, because when we plug 24,000 years into the model, we get the exact curve that the 353 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:21,200 actual procession observables are at today. 354 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:27,680 So that's about, that's the end of the complicated part, I'm sorry for that. Any ... 355 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:34,200 are really into that, we can get into some math later. But this 24,000 year figure is 356 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:41,200 kind of interesting because it means that our system of time is a microcosm of the 357 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:47,960 great year. We have 12 hours of AM, increasing light, 12 hours of PM, increasi... 358 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:54,960 for a total of 24 hours. That's a little microcosm of 12,000 years of ascending age... 359 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:02,559 years of descending age for 24,000 years in the cycle. It seemed to be something the 360 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:09,559 ancients liked to do, as they would tie in either geodetic or time relationships. 361 00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:15,600 A little bit more on the binary stuff and then we'll get off it. If we are in a binary 362 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:22,519 system, you know, what kind of star could it be? There's a number of different candidates. 363 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:28,139 There are scientists, Richard Muller at the University of California, Berkeley is looking 364 00:32:28,139 --> 00:32:34,759 for a brown dwarf, so is Whitmire and Matisse at the University of Louisiana and a few... 365 00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:39,660 I met recently with some scientists at Stanford University, they're having proble... 366 00:32:39,660 --> 00:32:45,279 Gravity Probe B. And before it was sent up, I said, you're going to see something that 367 00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:51,920 looks like procession even though you're above a wobbling earth. And they wrote me... 368 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:58,920 little form letter back and said, thank you for your input. And a year and a half went 369 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,400 by, they got the results back, they phoned me up. I had a big meeting there with six 370 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:10,400 of the top scientists and they said, how did you know that we might be seeing something 371 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:18,400 like this? And I didn't get into all the ancient stuff. So they think, they're tryi... 372 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,560 by the standard theories of gravity we have right now, not use MOND or anything. So they 373 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:29,440 actually think there might be a black hole nearby, something like that. So that's a 374 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:34,400 candidate. And then there's some exotic new types of stars that are being discovered. 375 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Probably don't have time to get into that. Here's one that the ancients talked about. 376 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:49,360 It's a star named Sirius. There are four odd shafts in the Great Pyramid that were called 377 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:57,160 air shafts. A lot of people now call them star shafts. I'm not really sure what they 378 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:04,160 are. But the southern shaft in the Queen's Chamber is aligned towards Sirius, meaning 379 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:11,840 that it points towards Sirius so that as the earth spins around, it will get back to... 380 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:17,820 and act as a transit telescope, if you will, for that star. And it's funny that it still 381 00:34:17,820 --> 00:34:24,820 does that in our time. You would have thought that maybe the Egyptians designed it that 382 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:32,920 way because Sirius, Isis, was their favorite star, their favorite god. And yet it still 383 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:39,920 does it now. And this has been noticed by a number of scientists throughout history, 384 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:47,400 older scientists that were looking at the position of Sirius on some of the old... 385 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:54,159 And even Jed Buckwald, who teaches at Caltech today, one of the top astronomical schools 386 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:59,599 in the world, says, Sirius remains about the same distance from the equinoxes and so from 387 00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:06,119 the solstices throughout these many centuries despite precession. And so I talked to Jed 388 00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:11,599 fairly recently on that and I said, why is that? Shouldn't Sirius be precessing just 389 00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:17,400 like all the other stars? Because I know that if it's a companion star, it would be the 390 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,599 one star that doesn't precess. It's the one star that we're gravitationally bound to. 391 00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:28,799 And what precession is, is really all the other stars going outside of our binary... 392 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:35,360 our solar system, if you will, as we rotate around a common center of mass with our... 393 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:40,320 And he said, yeah, it is odd about Sirius, but it's something about the horizon there 394 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:47,320 at Luxor. And I said, okay. And I haven't told him yet about the Holmans research in 395 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:55,240 Canada. They've been measuring Sirius for over 20 years, have a telescope in the... 396 00:35:55,279 --> 00:36:02,279 points right to Sirius. They show no precession whatsoever related to the star... 397 00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:10,519 they're certainly not at the same latitude as Luxor. 398 00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:16,479 Now there's tons of problems from a traditional astronomical model about Siriu... 399 00:36:16,479 --> 00:36:23,479 star. It's not the closest star. You'd think if gravity works the way it does, our... 400 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:31,400 should be Alpha Centauri if it is a visible star. And even that takes a great speed. 401 00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:39,679 And while Sirius might not be the closest star, it is clearly the closest blue giant. 402 00:36:40,559 --> 00:36:47,559 This is just a graph straight out of National Geographic magazine. And it also is the only 403 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:55,360 star close to us that has a white dwarf going around it. And this white dwarf, this neutron 404 00:36:55,559 --> 00:37:02,559 star is incredibly dense. If water is a value of 1, gold is a value of 19 because gold 405 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:12,960 weighs 19 times as much as water does. Sirius B, which goes around Sirius A, is a value 406 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:20,960 of 53,000. It's super, super dense. A teaspoon full would weigh a couple of tons... 407 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,720 this. 408 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:33,720 So the Holmans out of Canada who are really onto this too, they think that maybe B going 409 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:41,240 around A sets up some sort of a gravity wave so that perhaps gravity works a little... 410 00:37:41,319 --> 00:37:48,039 with this blue giant white dwarf combo than it does, say, with some of the other stars. 411 00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:52,399 And this is all in the early, early stages. I'm just throwing it out there to get other 412 00:37:52,399 --> 00:37:59,399 people to investigate it. But it's funny, as you look at some of the ancient cultures, 413 00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:07,039 they talk about this star in many different ways. I know that Sitchin says Naboo is... 414 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:14,400 else, but all the good scholars that I've listened to say that Naboo, they get it right 415 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,400 out of the Epic of Gilmish here. Naboo is the star which in the skies is brilliant. 416 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:26,400 Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, brighter than any other star by a factor o... 417 00:38:27,519 --> 00:38:32,519 it would act as a crossing star. That would be the one star if we're gravitationally 418 00:38:32,759 --> 00:38:37,759 bound to it because it's moving with the sun, it would cross all the other stars. And... 419 00:38:37,759 --> 00:38:42,759 some great Arabic references about Sirius being on the other side of the Milky Way from 420 00:38:42,759 --> 00:38:50,759 where it is now. Also the Shinto religion, they call Sirius our second sun, they align 421 00:38:50,759 --> 00:38:57,759 their temples to it. One of the members of parliament in Japan today has a book out... 422 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:04,760 about Sirius. And certainly the Egyptians were very big on this star. To them it was 423 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:14,760 Isis. Isis had this special relationship with Horus. While we don't understand all the 424 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:21,760 Egyptian iconography, we do know that Horus is often some aspect of the sun. And you 425 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:28,760 can see that when Sirius and the sun, Isis Horus, are small she seems to be suckling 426 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,760 them, taking care of them. And here when he's older she seems to be turning them, pulling 427 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:39,760 his arm with her left hand and patting him with his right hand. So I don't think that 428 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:46,760 he's a big fan of the sun. I don't understand all the iconography. We've talked to a lot 429 00:39:54,760 --> 00:40:01,760 of specialists on it and I get as many different opinions as people I talk to. Th... 430 00:40:03,260 --> 00:40:09,640 our solar system is like this. Sirius is 17 degrees below the plane of our solar system. 431 00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:13,639 If it does have some gravitational effect on us, it's going to pull the outer, lighter 432 00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:20,639 planets a little harder than those that are close to the sun. Pluto is 17 degrees off 433 00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:27,679 plane, exactly towards Sedna, since I wrote, or towards Sirius. And since I wrote the 434 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:36,239 book they found Sedna, which is in about the same plane there. So it looks at, as you 435 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:41,679 get farther away from our sun, more and more things are sort of pointing towards Sirius, 436 00:40:41,679 --> 00:40:48,679 if you will. Okay, I've got a whole other talk here I have to go through in two... 437 00:40:50,479 --> 00:40:57,359 it looks like. So if we are gravitationally bound to another star, then how does that 438 00:40:57,359 --> 00:41:03,619 other star affect us? How could we be having rising and falling ages? And there's a... 439 00:41:03,619 --> 00:41:09,900 friend of mine that says we'd be going around on this racetrack, if you will, where we 440 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:15,000 go far away, trillions of miles as we go around this other star, and then we go... 441 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:22,000 of miles closer to some third point out there. And as we do that, then it changes ... 442 00:41:23,579 --> 00:41:30,579 relative to other stars, and we speed up and we slow down. Now we do know that the sun 443 00:41:31,139 --> 00:41:36,340 can have profound effects on earth, and that's our closest star, you know, just th... 444 00:41:36,340 --> 00:41:43,340 that the earth spins on its axis causes, you know, electromagnetic spectrum when you face 445 00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:47,440 it and we're in a waking state, and then when we go away from it, our bodies are adapted 446 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:54,059 to go into subconscious states. So the spinning earth actually indirectly affects... 447 00:41:54,059 --> 00:41:59,460 Obviously the revolving earth orbiting the sun has a huge effect, trillions of plant 448 00:41:59,460 --> 00:42:05,820 forms, billions of life forms will migrate, spawn, hibernate, etc., etc. So if we're 449 00:42:05,820 --> 00:42:12,820 going around a third sun, it might have, or a third, having a third celestial motion, 450 00:42:12,820 --> 00:42:18,179 it might have some effect on us, might have something to do with things in the... 451 00:42:18,179 --> 00:42:23,340 spectrum we still don't understand. I wish I could really get into these ages, because 452 00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:28,019 understanding the ages can be like a road map to where we've come from, to where we're 453 00:42:28,219 --> 00:42:34,579 going, and that's the whole reason I'm doing this work, to help put these megalithic... 454 00:42:34,579 --> 00:42:41,340 into context to explain why we had such knowledge, why it was lost, and why it's... 455 00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:48,340 again. But the Greeks, let me see if I can run ahead here too, lots of stuff was lost 456 00:42:49,980 --> 00:42:56,380 in the dark ages, except for a few monuments. Hesiod spoke so beautifully of the higher 457 00:42:56,380 --> 00:43:03,380 ages. He told us that it was a time when the earth gave freely of itself, mankind 458 00:43:05,140 --> 00:43:12,140 communed with nature, we spoke one language. So to orient yourself in this great year, 459 00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:25,300 the binary process takes 24,000 years, that produces 24,000 year, or so, years of... 460 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:33,700 procession of the equinox. 500 AD is when the autumnal equinox is at the opposite of 461 00:43:34,619 --> 00:43:41,619 Aries, Libra Virgo. And we're just about 1500 years past 500 AD, so according to Euktis 462 00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:49,380 War's teachings, or if you want to use the Greek terms, we've just come back into the 463 00:43:49,380 --> 00:43:54,860 Bronze Age, so we've moved from a time when we only understand ourselves as physical... 464 00:43:54,860 --> 00:44:00,260 in a physical world, to a time that we should begin to understand finer forces, according 465 00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:07,260 to the Indian writings on this. And sure enough, you find out as we're transitionin... 466 00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:14,300 the last few hundred years, since the Renaissance, which means rebirth of the... 467 00:44:14,300 --> 00:44:20,660 electricity, and magnetism, and stuff isn't so solid after all, it's made out of... 468 00:44:20,659 --> 00:44:25,219 and by golly, those molecules are made out of atoms, and by golly, atoms are made out 469 00:44:25,219 --> 00:44:32,219 of almost nothing. So I loved Anthony's work the other day, it was very bold, and it was 470 00:44:32,940 --> 00:44:39,139 a little far out, but I think he's really hinting at some of the possibilities that 471 00:44:39,139 --> 00:44:44,859 might exist in the higher ages, because we have no clue what the higher ages were like. 472 00:44:44,860 --> 00:44:50,539 If we went back just two hundred years and told a farmer around here, hey, we've got 473 00:44:50,539 --> 00:44:55,300 little cell phones and we can talk to people in China, and we can clone your farm animals, 474 00:44:55,300 --> 00:45:01,740 and we've got robots on Mars, it's not only that he wouldn't understand microwave and 475 00:45:01,740 --> 00:45:08,740 semiconductor technology and how we do all these things, he wouldn't understand why. 476 00:45:09,579 --> 00:45:14,979 There's no context for it, and I think that's what's happening. We have no context for 477 00:45:14,979 --> 00:45:21,979 understanding some of the very ancient cultures and what our future might be like... 478 00:45:23,179 --> 00:45:30,179 Indians do talk about, in the Iron Age, maximum age is about a hundred years, and ... 479 00:45:30,299 --> 00:45:35,899 Age will be two hundred, and then live older and older in the higher ages. It's funny 480 00:45:35,940 --> 00:45:42,940 that you look at the old dynastic lists in China, the King's List in Egypt, the old 481 00:45:47,099 --> 00:45:54,099 Persian records, the farther back you go, you get to these very long ages. And of course, 482 00:45:54,860 --> 00:46:00,300 if you have anybody that's supposedly lived a thousand years or something like Methuselah 483 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:06,340 or Seth in the biblical stories, we always call that mythology, that that can't be true, 484 00:46:06,340 --> 00:46:13,340 that can't be real. But there may actually be some truth to it. Also, the Indian teachings 485 00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:19,539 on this is that while in the lowest age we're bound by matter, in the age we've just... 486 00:46:19,539 --> 00:46:26,539 we start to overcome space, and you think about that, airplanes, we can instantly, in 487 00:46:27,539 --> 00:46:34,539 ten hours I came from the U.S. eight thousand miles away. So we're sort of shrinking space, 488 00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:40,579 if you will, and in the next age, the Treta Yuga, we're supposed to overcome time,... 489 00:46:40,579 --> 00:46:47,579 that means. So everything's getting smaller and thinner, and hopefully we can just take 490 00:46:47,699 --> 00:46:54,699 the best of technology and kind of get back to nature. The age of the demigods is a very 491 00:46:56,739 --> 00:47:02,380 important one. In the movies today it's depicted as, oh, that's when a human marri... 492 00:47:02,380 --> 00:47:08,820 I think what the real teaching is, is that's when a human becomes a god, when we begin 493 00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:15,820 to realize that we're something much more. I probably have room for one last little story, 494 00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:24,500 the biblical story, they're building towers at about the time that we're falling from 495 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:30,500 the higher ages, and I think that a lot of this megalithic stuff, they know we're... 496 00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:36,500 from the higher ages, they're trying to set up some mechanisms to try to hang on to some 497 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:43,500 of the energies, and yet God is confusing the tongues, you know. And when you try to 498 00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:49,500 understand the higher ages, I find the best source is actually talking to some of the 499 00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:55,780 saints and sages out there, and they say, oh yeah, common knowledge of telepathy and 500 00:47:55,780 --> 00:48:02,780 clairvoyance will be here again, you know, once we get to the Treta Yuga, which is 4100 501 00:48:03,099 --> 00:48:10,099 AD. Which on this calendar, the great year, that's just about when you lose it, about 502 00:48:10,179 --> 00:48:17,179 3000 BC, before writing. Anyway, I think I'm near the end of the time, and there's... 503 00:48:18,179 --> 00:48:24,179 possibilities. I do want to make the final note that we don't have to wait until we 504 00:48:24,179 --> 00:48:29,179 go around this huge procession to bring back our own little golden age, if you will. There 505 00:48:29,179 --> 00:48:36,179 are certain things we can do to make that happen, and even this great sage here, you 506 00:48:38,179 --> 00:48:43,179 know, speaks of a time when we have these great possibilities, and he would say that 507 00:48:43,179 --> 00:48:50,179 we don't have to wait until the calendar gets back there. Oh, and one last little thing. 508 00:48:51,179 --> 00:48:57,179 Sorry, Hugh. People often ask, okay, well what is it that creates this great force, 509 00:48:57,179 --> 00:49:01,819 this sweet influence that brings us to the higher ages? And I have a few physicist... 510 00:49:01,819 --> 00:49:08,500 that have been studying the Pleiades. There's some really odd things about it. We can talk 511 00:49:08,539 --> 00:49:15,539 about some other time. But there's this statement in the Bible, the book of Job,... 512 00:49:15,539 --> 00:49:21,539 bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion? And my physicist, 513 00:49:21,539 --> 00:49:27,739 John Fren, John Daring, believes that, you know, it's our binary system that gets us 514 00:49:27,739 --> 00:49:34,059 a little closer to the Pleiades, and at a faster speed, it has an interaction with us 515 00:49:34,139 --> 00:49:41,139 that helps produce what we call this sweet influence. And here Job is asking a... 516 00:49:41,219 --> 00:49:47,059 question. And the answer, of course, is no. You know, we can't stay in the golden age 517 00:49:47,059 --> 00:49:54,059 of the show any more than we can stay in the midst of summer.