1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 The sheer beauty and sophistication of Egyptian artifacts and trans-Sers. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:27,000 How can we unlock the code embedded in every object they made? 3 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 How does the symbolism, in Egyptian art, illuminate their cultural values? 4 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,000 What ancient secrets still lie hidden in plain sight? 5 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:04,000 How can we unlock the code embedded in an ancient art? 6 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:12,000 How can we unlock the code embedded in an ancient art? 7 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:20,000 How can we unlock the code embedded in an ancient art? 8 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture is limited. 9 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Looking at the artifacts left behind by the ancients, it is obvious that they had different values, customs and beliefs from ours today. 10 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:54,000 History books are filled with stories of war, invasion of territories, and patriarchal ways of being and thinking. 11 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Yet it seems that ancient Egypt enjoyed long periods of peace and prosperity, and a profound connection with nature and spirit. 12 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Is there a way to understand the shift? 13 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:31,000 So what we refer to as history that began some 6,000 years ago is really the advent of a different style of social organization that's typified by hierarchies of dominance, you know, warring deities, warring mythologies, and control systems. 14 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Vedic culture from ancient India speaks of a grand and measurable cycle of 26,000 years, consisting of ascending light ages and descending dark ages. 15 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 In the higher ages, you see this philosophy of living in tune with nature. 16 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:02,000 People talk about speaking with the gods and a lot of interaction, virtually every ancient culture has stories about the gods, if you go back far enough. 17 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,000 And you see a lot of matriarchal cultures, if you go back far enough. 18 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:16,000 You know, the dark age times, you have this very brutal paternalistic type of ruling. 19 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I think it's difficult for us to understand the ancient Egyptians because we've got the paradigm of the patriarchal structures on top of it, and we're looking through our own cultural lenses. 20 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Has world culture always been male dominated and patriarchal? 21 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:41,000 If not, what would a matriarchal system look like? 22 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Matriarchy is not the opposite of patriarchy, with women dominating and controlling men. 23 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:57,000 It is based on balance between the masculine and feminine and harmony with nature. 24 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:06,000 This was exemplified in ancient Egypt, which was known in the old language as the land of Kent. 25 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:17,000 How came our young received teachings about the commission people in the distant past? 26 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,000 The ancient life system in Egypt here. 27 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:29,000 The commission tradition being passed down through the mother, mother is the teacher. 28 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Not the father, like patriarchy, this is the material. 29 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,000 She is the goddess, she is everything and the earth. 30 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Based on the countless artifacts that show the highest status of the feminine, it seems that women have the same status as men, if not a higher status. 31 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:03,000 In the museum, you have statues, you notice that women put the arm around the man and show them. 32 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 And that shows are they equal? 33 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 No, women was the upper head in the fabric. 34 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:17,000 When she put her arm around the man and show that she is saying, this is mine. 35 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:31,000 You also see that the sculpture in the old days put the feminine wig on a man's head when he promoted more to a woman than a man. 36 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Men's wigs were layered in different lengths, like steps. 37 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Women's wigs were parted in the middle, smooth and all one length. 38 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,000 The man wore a woman's wig. It was an indication that he had high status. 39 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Only men with wisdom who were the women showed these other scribes and the physicians and the list of them. 40 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:04,000 What you can do is go back into the old kingdom and what you find is, you know, there is obviously a fair amount of equality. 41 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 The goddesses are reverently as the gods. 42 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:19,000 And there's even the instance, for example, of Hathlore, the exception, that she's the only deity that has a temple collar mole to herself. 43 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:28,000 So the great mother, the great feminine principle, occupies a very important part in the whole Egyptian symbology, the whole Egyptian doctrine. 44 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:34,000 There's no absolutely no doubt about that. Women could own property at the much rights of the men. 45 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:42,000 They could divorce as easily as the men. Of all were known, sophisticated civilizations that we have access to. 46 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Probably women were better off in Egypt than there were anywhere else. 47 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Perhaps we are looking at Ancient Egypt from a patriarchal viewpoint. 48 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,000 We should let the symbolism in the artifacts tell their own story. 49 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:08,000 The frescoes we see lining temple walls in Egypt and on stone slabs in museums around the world, each tell their own story. 50 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,000 We see the same images repeated again and again in Egyptian art. 51 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 By learning to decode these symbols, we can look back in time. 52 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Peeling back the layers of patriarchy that cloud our understanding of ancient history, then we can begin to decipher the messages that the ancient's left us. 53 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:44,000 You have to accept that we're dealing with a peeing that occurred at least 5,000 years ago. 54 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:54,000 And the little renal of it comes from our cave texts that were written in a very old cult and a satiric manner. 55 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 The word meant for you and me. 56 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:02,000 The secrets of the ancient Egyptians were not for the commoners. 57 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:11,000 But for a very, very small group of elites who had to be initiated over many, many years to appreciate what these texts said. 58 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:23,000 They were for the high level initiates, which were people who were trained and they would go through different initiations, tests that would help them be wise, 59 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:29,000 that would help them confront their fears, that would balance them, balance them in the body, mind, and emotions. 60 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Initiates were students who were given rudimentary instruction on the mystery traditions of myon and Egyptian cosmic cycles. 61 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:50,000 As they approached higher levels of consciousness, they came to respect different aspects of themselves that were represented in the feminine and the masculine. 62 00:08:50,000 --> 00:09:02,000 But they went further and called it sacred feminine and sacred mascara, which meant the purest form that was actually connected to the two hemispheres of brain. 63 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Feminine consciousness corresponds to the right hemisphere of the brain and the left side of the body. 64 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:18,000 In contrast, masculine consciousness corresponds to the left side of the brain and the right side of the body. 65 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:30,000 patriarchal consciousness focuses on history, linear time, dogma, rationality, waking reality and science. 66 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Metriarchal consciousness focuses on eternity, cycles of time, ritual, magic, altered states and art. 67 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:53,000 If we examine the art, we can see the characters almost always have one foot slightly forward. 68 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 In some instances, they take a big step forward. 69 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:08,000 In each scene, the goddess has her left foot slightly leading, showing awareness of the feminine principles of timelessness and magic. 70 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:13,000 The Pharaoh, however, takes a large step with his right foot. 71 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,000 This shows that he is grounded in the masculine. 72 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Similarly, we often see images with two left hands. 73 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:33,000 It has been suggested that this is just a stylistic convention, but we should not impose our ideas on Egyptian art. 74 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Left hand suggests giving, while right hand suggests taking. 75 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:46,000 In our culture, we've practically erased the feminine, in favor of the masculine, reading, writing and arithmetic. 76 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Art music isn't as important, and our society is completely unbalanced because of it. 77 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,000 The ancients knew that you could not achieve high states of consciousness without these being in balance. 78 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,000 And so they revered the cure qualities of either. 79 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And so when we say sacred feminine and sacred masculine, this was the highest form of respect so that the female would have both feminine and masculine balanced within her. 80 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,000 And the male would have both feminine and masculine balanced within him. 81 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Balance between the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine runs deep in Egyptian symbolism. 82 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:39,000 We see gods and goddesses carrying a crook, a flail, and a staff in various combinations. 83 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 The crook represents the balance of the emotions. 84 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:52,000 The flail symbolizes the balance of the mind, and the staff depicts the balance of the body. 85 00:11:52,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Once balance of the body, the mind and the emotions was achieved, consciousness could develop. 86 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Notice the staff always has the head of a bird and a forked base. 87 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,000 The staff never touches the ground. 88 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:17,000 This indicates that we are spiritual beings having an earth experience. 89 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:27,000 We are incarnated here, but our souls can go beyond the earthly plain. 90 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Egyptian temples were places where spiritual work was done. 91 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:40,000 An arch with a winged disc is always found at the entrance to temples. 92 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:46,000 The winged disc depicts a vulture and a snake. 93 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Snake has a symbol of masculine, and the vulture is feminine. 94 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 The feminine and the masculine had to be in balance. 95 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:04,000 The lower self was to surrender to the higher self in order to enter the sacred space. 96 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,000 This meant that the ego of the everyday world had to step aside, 97 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 while a higher self connected with cosmic energy. 98 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:22,000 The vulture can fly, snake can't fly, but both have the same glance. 99 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,000 System of life is based on glance. 100 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:33,000 The glands were the most important features of the human being. 101 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:41,000 One of the most misunderstood functions of the human body today is our glandular or endocrine system. 102 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Glance secret hormones, the trigger reproduction, fertility and procreation had high value in Egyptian ideology. 103 00:13:50,000 --> 00:14:01,000 The ancients were very much in tune with how the energy systems in the body, for the shockers, as the East Indians would talk about them, were connected to the glands. 104 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Ancient teachings speak of seven energy centers in the body called shockers. 105 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Parallels occur between the concepts of shockers or energy centers in the body and our glands. 106 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:23,000 It appears they are two ways of describing the same thing, through spirituality and through science. 107 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Ancient Egyptians had a holistic understanding of the significance of the glands and their central role in re-release. 108 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 The central role in re-production and in consciousness. 109 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:45,000 If we can decode the symbols, we see that the sacredness of procreation is readily visible in ancient Egyptian art. 110 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:54,000 When you see a boy or a man, you see a kind of a bottle on his head. 111 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:08,000 That is not a bottle or not a white crown symbolizing apparitions as my colleagues and the scholars say, no, this is a gland and human body. 112 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 No one has the thymus, the curated behind the lungs. 113 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 The thymus is most active when a baby is in utero. 114 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,000 It continues to be active until puberty. 115 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Then it begins to shrink and is atrophied when we stop being fertile. 116 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 It was a critical activator of consciousness. 117 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:47,000 The earth crown is another, it's the womb, the plazanta, the thymus and the womb are connected from the cycle of life. 118 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:53,000 When you see the double crown, the red crown is the womb and the plazanta. 119 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:59,000 The white crown is the thymus who has its influence on the womb. 120 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 That's the symbol of one of the glands. 121 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:11,000 In the early 1900s, Alchemist Schroller de Lubits presented a work called The Temple of Man. 122 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:17,000 It demonstrated that the architects of the Luxor Temple used sacred geometry, 123 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:23,000 which reflected the exact proportions of the human body. 124 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:31,000 As in all Egyptian temples, the most sacred space was located at the back of the temple, the Holy of Holies, 125 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 which corresponded to the pineal gland. 126 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:42,000 When activated, the pineal gland is said to stimulate the evolution of higher states of consciousness. 127 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:50,000 If the temples were metaphors of the human body, the pineal gland corresponded with the Holy of Holies. 128 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:59,000 At the entrance to the most sacred part of the temple, stand tall pillars, representing the masculine and the feminine. 129 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Papyrus and the blue lotus. 130 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:11,000 The papyrus and the lotus reflect the balance between the feminine and the masculine principles. 131 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:17,000 And are shown together throughout ancient Egyptian art. 132 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:23,000 The blue lotus is the symbol of life. 133 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:31,000 And this plant, blossom flower, it grows in the water, like what a lilies. 134 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:39,000 It's where the ancient commissions believe that life starts in water and in that lotus form. 135 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:45,000 We have seen there are always multiple layers of meaning embedded in ancient Egyptian symbols. 136 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Is there another reason why the blue lotus was so important in Egyptian ceremonies? 137 00:17:51,000 --> 00:18:05,000 In ancient Egyptian art, we see countless instances of part animal, part human forms. 138 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,000 What were the ancient's trying to convey by these curious images? 139 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:16,000 There's a technical term for such creatures that are just used, they call them therian throbs and that's from the Greek. 140 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Therian, which means wild beast, and anthropos, which means man, their combinations of beast and man. 141 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 It's not an accident that all of the gods of Egypt are therian thropping. 142 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:35,000 They have of course fully human forms, but in most cases they also have forms that are part animal and part human. 143 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:41,000 So you may consider Horace, the head of a hawk and the body of a man. 144 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:54,000 You may consider segments, a lioness with a human body of a lion's head, or a new bits of course, the guide of souls, who is part jackal and part human. 145 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Egypt isn't the only place where these half animal, half human images have been found. 146 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Half a world away, we find clues to decode these mysterious symbols. 147 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Throughout the Amazon today, shaman's working with the powerful visionary brew, Ayahuasca combination of two plants. 148 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Very frequently they will after their visions when they return to the normal alert, problem solving state of consciousness. 149 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:29,000 They will actually sit down and recollect what they saw in the visionary state will paint and draw the images that they saw. 150 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:42,000 And the most common motif of these Ayahuasca visions is the therian thropping, which reaches that apart animal and part human informed. 151 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:58,000 This specific characteristic of the ancient Egyptian gods is one of the things that tells me that our ancient Egyptian ancestors were using altered states of consciousness to explore the realms of spirit. 152 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Again, we see images of blue lotuses. Is there another less obvious interpretation of this symbol? 153 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Altering of consciousness has been done by a variety of different methods and techniques, most commonly in chamanistic cultures, still to this day. 154 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:26,000 It's done by using hallucinogenic plants, which as it were, switch the receiver wavelength of the brain and allow us to tune into other realities. 155 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Of course there are a range of non-drug techniques, rhythmic dancing, certain kinds of music, certain kinds of spaces have an effect on human consciousness. 156 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:46,000 But there's a great deal of evidence that they made use of a potion involving the blue lotus and the mandrake root. 157 00:20:46,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Possibly also the opium poppias, well, to enter a visionary state and in that visionary state to explore, navigate and learn about the realm that lies beyond death. 158 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:12,000 And they had very concrete and specific ideas about this, which are expressed in the ancient Egyptian books of the dead going right back to the pyramid text. 159 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:26,000 This was not a work of imagination on the part of the priests. This was a work of documentation of their out-of-body exploration of realms that lie beyond the merely physical. 160 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Is it possible for us to learn to access other realms today? Can we expand our capacity to perceive? Do we need new ways to describe these phenomena? 161 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:51,000 If I come to say, I saw you on my dream. You're going to ask, what did you see? Then I say the dream. 162 00:21:51,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Did I saw you the verb see? It's not there because I did see you on my dream, but not with my eyes because I was asleep. 163 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:13,000 So how did that happen? It must be a sense put all this vision to me, one without my eyes, but I still want to speak. 164 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Limit the capabilities to say, I saw you on my dream. No, I didn't say you, but there's no other way to say it. 165 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Could the ancients have mastered innate human abilities that we have forgotten? 166 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:43,000 You can't tell if that verb on the tree is happy or frightening from a cat. 167 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:54,000 You can't tell that the donkey is annoyed or happy by pushing the sound. That's what we want us to notice the sound. 168 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:08,000 It's not the word you said, it's how being said. You can tell if this vibration, the truth or not truth, it's natural. 169 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Healthy people, they use all the senses, the full capacity of senses. 170 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:21,000 The five senses, as we know them today, were symbolized by the scarab. 171 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:32,000 And when you see the scarab, you are looking at a human skull, the advanced three sides, three sections. 172 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:43,000 The front head symbolized by ancient people as seven, seven openness to four, six, seven. 173 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:53,000 That is the front head. And these are the receivers. You see with, you hear with, you taste with, you know, everything. 174 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:04,000 On the left side is the consciousness side and that is the daily deeds that I just did every moment to look at things. 175 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:12,000 But the other side is the subconscious inside something you are unable to explain what's going on. 176 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:21,000 It seems clear that the ancients knew about the subconscious mind. They had the power to reach beyond the senses. 177 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Something we began to be aware of with the writings of Freud and the advent of psychology in the early 1900s. 178 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Don't compare people of today, like the people of the ancient days. 179 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:40,000 The people of ancient days were healthy. They were able to use the senses. 180 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:49,000 We looking at things as a crippled people. We only have five senses. We suppose to have 360 senses. 181 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:56,000 360 and only five is recognized. 182 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,000 We got the glance of the senses, but we didn't use it. 183 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 And any muscles you don't use the strength of it. 184 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Of course. 185 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:25,000 How can we begin to imagine that the ancients had the capacity of 360 senses? 186 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Perhaps a metaphor for the full spectrum senses could be a sphere. 187 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Is it possible for us to move beyond our five senses today? 188 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Five familiar senses have been evolved by evolution to connect us to the physical and material realm. 189 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:57,000 But we have, I like to think of it as a secret doorway inside our minds, which can be opened in altered states of consciousness, 190 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:05,000 through which we may project our consciousness into other realms and dimensions, and those then become accessible to us. 191 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Could it be that the ancient Egyptians were accessing supernatural realms through heightened perceptions that came from full spectrum senses? 192 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:27,000 One conclusion that it's really impossible to understand ancient Egyptian civilization and ancient Egyptian spirituality and religion, 193 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:34,000 until you get to grips with the fact that the priests of that religion were deliberately, 194 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:43,000 and in a targeted way, cultivating altered states of consciousness in order to access the supernatural realm. 195 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:53,000 They know what shamans all over the world still know today, but in the alert problem solving state of consciousness, 196 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:04,000 that is particularly valued by Western industrial society, you are not going to have supernatural or spiritual experiences of any kind. 197 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:11,000 It doesn't mean that the supernatural and spirit realms are not there because they are all around us all the time, 198 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,000 but our senses cannot shoot into them. 199 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:25,000 It seems that the ancients must have been tuned into something that allowed them to build sacred structures using monumental architecture. 200 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Today, we consider ourselves to be highly educated, yet engineers are at a loss when they try to build even a small pyramid. 201 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Has our system of education diverted us from what was common knowledge in ancient times? 202 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 There were no schools and universities like what we have today. 203 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:55,000 We've been influenced by this system of teaching. 204 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Today, we think it's a relative life that no education, they have been to school and how can they build a pyramid? 205 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,000 They don't know figures, how can they build this? 206 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:17,000 But we don't know that the senses we have make the impossible possible. 207 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:30,000 The impossible to us, which based on ignorance, make it possible because knowing is very great power just to know. 208 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:44,000 The most important ceremony for teaching the populace how to live well was the weighing of the heart. 209 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:50,000 It reveals what the ancients believed happened in the moments after death. 210 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Initially, in the ceremony of the weighing of the hearts, the deceased would meet a new bus who would say, your dead. 211 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,000 Let's have your heart. We're going to weigh it against the feather of truth. 212 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,000 If your heart was heavy because you'd done something immoral, you weren't allowed to go to the other side. 213 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:17,000 So the populace learned that they had to be light of heart in order to live well. 214 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:27,000 As ancient Egypt slipped into patriarchal ways of being and thinking, the old spiritual ideology became codified. 215 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:33,000 And organized religion became dominated by the unwind priesthood. 216 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,000 The unwind priesthood had a lot of power. 217 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000 And they were in a position to have people pay for their salvation. 218 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,000 It used to be that your heart was weighed against the feather of truth. 219 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:55,000 But in later pictures of the ceremony of the weighing of the heart, you'll see Horace holding onto the scale. 220 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000 And you could pay the priesthood for shot-tea dolls. 221 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:06,000 And the more of them you had, the more likelihood you could buy the lightness of heart instead of being light of heart. 222 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Well, this is a fundamental change in terms of how to live well. 223 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 And I think that we still are living in that way. 224 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000 History is written by its victors. 225 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,000 And as the patriarchy took hold, much effort was put into suppressing Egypt's matriarchal past. 226 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,000 There's a few pharaohs who were erased from the king's list. 227 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Hatchetset was one. 228 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 A knarton was one and Tutankhamman was another. 229 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:44,000 The legacy of the controversial pharaoh, Arcanaten, was almost lost forever, 230 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:51,000 was a complete destruction of the city he and Nefertiti had founded at Amana. 231 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Now, very little was known about Amarna. 232 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:03,000 Until there was an earthquake and the pilots at Harnag were filled with these little blocks that had been cut up. 233 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:10,000 And they used them from Amarna to just put as filler inside the pilots. 234 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:17,000 So when archaeologists found them and started putting them back together, they realized it was a very large story here. 235 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:27,000 For the ancients, life on earth mirrored the motion of the stars in the sky. 236 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:36,000 What the ancients did is they would have the capital be at Heliopolis in the north, for 2,160 years. 237 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:44,000 And then they would have the capital be the thieves, which is now Karnat, for that length of time. 238 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Wedak-Naton came into power in the new kingdom of the 18th dynasty. 239 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,000 It was right at the time when things were supposed to shift. 240 00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:03,000 During this time, the patriarchy gained momentum with the arm-won priesthood steadily becoming more powerful. 241 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:11,000 After that, Harnaton happened to have been born as one of these points of return or beginning. 242 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:18,000 You believe that he was subjugated like all-fairals to a cosmic law to the law of that. 243 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000 What happens up there, the belief was controlling the methods of earth. 244 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:32,000 And things happened up there and that dictated to Harnaton that he had to move his base. 245 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,000 He had to be installed in the original kingdom. 246 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:47,000 When it came to an opportunity and at night to change the capital, they knew that the arm-won priesthood was in power and that they would really fight them on this. 247 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,000 If he had moved to the opposite, there would have been civil war. 248 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:01,000 If he had stayed in Karnat, he would have not performed what he had to perform to for the law, because we were wrong. 249 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Finally, set them for midpoint. 250 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:13,000 So instead of moving the capital back north, they decided to take a point exactly in the middle between the two. 251 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000 And this was a marna. 252 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:25,000 Art created by Art Azans in the Amana period is exquisite and markedly different from the art in other periods. 253 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:35,000 The first time Egyptian royal art depicted the Pharaoh and his family all together and clearly showing affection for each other. 254 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:45,000 They built this wonderful place and they had gorgeous policies and people were creative. 255 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:51,000 It was peaceful, there were flowers and nature and people lived a leisurely life. 256 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000 But what it was was a return to true spirituality. 257 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000 They ruled with his co-regent, neverty-deep. 258 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000 The famine was honored. 259 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:09,000 In this transition, Arcanat and Nefertiti rejected the established religion of the corrupt Aman priesthood. 260 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:14,000 They had a profound respect for solar energy known as the Arcan. 261 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,000 And so returning to this was a big threat to the Aman priesthood. 262 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,000 And so they plotted to take a marna down. 263 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:31,000 When she brought him down, the destroyed his city and they didn't store the ancient gods. 264 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,000 And with all the economy, that is simply destroyed everything. 265 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,000 Everything, every trace of him, they didn't find the ruins of Black Mountains temples. 266 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Use this film, rubble film in the walls of Canak. 267 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000 They'd be almost no sign of Arcanat. 268 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Amana was a peaceful society with great creativity and beauty. 269 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Yet scholars in traditional Egyptology continue to portray Pharaoh, Arcanaton as a deformed, 270 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000 and renegade heretical leader. 271 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000 But see, as a heretic thing, he's where the opposite, the heretics were the priests. 272 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000 He was not heretical. 273 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:20,000 In fact, it was somebody who was determined to adhere to the divine love. 274 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,000 And he went to the cross for it. 275 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:33,000 After the fall of Arcanaton, two tankaton, a boy of only nine years old, became Pharaoh. 276 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Now, because we found Tutankhamans, tomb intact, we know a lot about him and the life that he lived. 277 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 Now he was raised at Amana. 278 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000 Now some people say that Arcanaton was his father. 279 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000 We don't have DNA tests, we haven't found the mummy of Arcanaton. 280 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000 We don't know that for sure. 281 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:01,000 But it's interesting that he started out as Tutankhamaton, because at Amana they worshiped the Atan. 282 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,000 But after he took this role and they opened the temples again, they moved away from Amana. 283 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:19,000 It seems that as soon as the Aman priest to it found out that he actually was of the Atan, he changed his name to Tutankhaman. 284 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000 But suddenly he disappeared. 285 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:29,000 After ten years of leadership, when Tutankhaman was 19, he died mysteriously. 286 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:36,000 His mummy was x-rayed, revealing a fractured skull, suggesting a blow to the back of the head. 287 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,000 It seems that he was buried in a rush. 288 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:48,000 His tomb is very small, and close to it there were a whole lot of mummies that were moved in a cache and put aside. 289 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:54,000 So it's almost like there were several mummies from other dynasties that were in the tomb that he ended up in. 290 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 And then they took furniture from Amana and buried him there. 291 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Though the tomb of King Tut left as many clues, his fate remains a mystery. 292 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:13,000 Another casualty of the patriarchal retelling of history is the story of Queen Hatshipsut. 293 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Hatshipsut came earlier in the 18th dynasty, she started out by being a queen, and then she became viral. 294 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Hatshipsut was a wise and powerful leader who re-established trade networks with Egypt's neighbours, building the prosperity of the 18th dynasty. 295 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 She was certainly ruling for a long time, at a period of tremendous peace and prosperity. 296 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,000 The artwork was never better than under her reign. 297 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:55,000 Had she been male, she would likely have been remembered in history books as the best ruler of Egypt. 298 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Regardless of her success as a leader, she is still an enigma. 299 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000 There has been much controversy about Hatshipsut. 300 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:12,000 It could be due to the patriarchy having little tolerance of images of an empowered woman. 301 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:18,000 No one seems to agree on who the real Hatshipsut was. 302 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:25,000 There have been massive books written on Hatshipsut, and again there are no real conclusions. 303 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:31,000 Obviously, Hatshipsut must have been a very able ruler because he stayed there a pound of me 22 years. 304 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:39,000 But somehow, but 20 years after she passed, the restaties were broken and all put into a pit. 305 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000 When they found them, they started putting them all together. 306 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,000 But, like if not in an effort to eat, the amount of period they were largely forgotten, 307 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:53,000 because the people who came after were very threatened, and they somehow wanted to destroy all trace. 308 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Hatshipsut, never TD and Eknotten, Titten common. 309 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000 There were the ones that really understood spirituality in some way. 310 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000 I suppose there was no money to be made. 311 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,000 If you weren't selling salvation. 312 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000 We may never know how the high courts of Ancient Egypt were run. 313 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:26,000 It seems likely that the stories passed down through the patriarchal institutions of the 19th and 20th centuries may have misled us. 314 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:36,000 The peace and prosperity of the 18th dynasty, particularly in the time of Hatshipsut, Nefertiti and Eknotten, 315 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:41,000 had to do with honouring the feminine in balance with the masculine. 316 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:50,000 Looking at Egyptian artifacts and frescoes, it is clear that the feminine principle played a prominent role in society, 317 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000 and was cherished and revered. 318 00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:01,000 The feminine principle was articulated in the concept of a great mother, who was central to the Ancient Egyptian worldview, 319 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000 and was echoed by other world cultures. 320 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:12,000 The Milky Way in the sky is mythologized in various ways and various traditions and various cultures around the world. 321 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:21,000 And it's often thought of almost universally thought of as a great mother principle, the great cosmic mother in the sky. 322 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,000 In Ancient Egypt, biology meant cosmology and both were considered sacred. 323 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:37,000 When you look at a cosmology in terms of biology, it is describing events that happen inside of a womb. 324 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000 And the womb happens to be the womb of another goddess. 325 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:49,000 In both Mayan and Ancient Egyptian cosmology, the center of the Milky Way galaxy is where stars are born. 326 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:58,000 Metaphorically, it is the womb of the great cosmic mother, represented as ISIS, giving birth. 327 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:07,000 We keep looking at how the Ancient Egyptian thought and everything fed biology and appropriation, 328 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:14,000 how we got here, how we came into existence of biology, and then how we left, and how our soul continues to live. 329 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:21,000 And we can see that there aren't really that many symbols that aren't pertaining to balance, the body mind and emotions, 330 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000 and to balance between the two hemispheres of the brain. 331 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000 Once we can embrace that, then it's easier to understand the Egyptians. 332 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:41,000 That switch from Metrearchi to Petrearchi, I think it's the cause of what's on the world now of conflicts and disagreement. 333 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000 I'm showing off. 334 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Well, yeah. 335 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:57,000 Already the beginning of the first dynasty of Ancient Egypt was moving from being Metrearchi to coming into more patriarchal ways of being in India. 336 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:07,000 There were a few periods where the Ancient Ancient knowledge was remembered, but it's important to remember that there was a lot of Ancient Egypt prior to the Dynasty's. 337 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:12,000 And in the early periods that did not represent those values. 338 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:21,000 So the parts of Egypt that I find the most interesting come from the memory of times that came further back. 339 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:30,000 I said many times that healthy people, they got the power which is unhealthy people having got it. 340 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:36,000 And I want you and all my friends and all my beloved to know that you have it. 341 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:43,000 And when you know that you will work on it to come bring it to stronger. 342 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:51,000 As I said before, the senses just like muscles. If you don't use, it's shrink and go.