1 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:57,000 As to the soul and the belief that it is immortal by nature, this is the crux of 3,000 years of Egyptian civilization. 2 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:15,000 For Egypt, Egypt was a one-issue civilization, and the immortality of the soul was that two which everything the Egyptians did was consecrated. 3 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:21,400 The preoccupation with almost a obsession with immortality is what is responsible for the tremendous 4 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:27,720 temples, the tombs, the pyramids, and all of the attention of the Egyptians themselves, 5 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:39,000 lavish upon death which was not seen by them as the end but rather as the threshold to another level of transformation. 6 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:57,000 That which leads or which can lead to the immortality of the soul. 7 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Of the many Archana bequeathed to us by the Ancient Egypt, perhaps the most important is the least appreciated. 8 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:11,000 This is the greatest secret of all, the book of what is in the duet. 9 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 It is a map of what to do in the afterlife. 10 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:31,000 The general understanding and academics is that the Egyptians were afraid of death and therefore they constructed this elaborate ruse to con themselves 11 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:43,000 believing that death was not the end but just bear in mind the possibility that maybe it isn't, maybe they knew what they were talking about. 12 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:56,000 If it's looked out from a different point of view, then the whole elaborate exercise takes on the guys not so much of superstition but as a very elaborated 13 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:06,000 and highly sophisticated manual instruction to sort of how to do it book on immortality. 14 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Is it possible that they were able to cross the Great Abyss? 15 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Do these tombs represent a technology that allowed the deceased to successfully pass through the gates of the duet? 16 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Perhaps even as they themselves declare to rule in the afterlife. 17 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Where could such knowledge come from? 18 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:50,000 We did not necessitate the point of view of someone or something that was able to see both sides of the veil. 19 00:05:50,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Someone or something that was able to move between realms to share the knowledge of what lie beyond the Great Threshhold or transformation. 20 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:11,000 If we take them at their word, we are presented with a very rare privilege indeed. 21 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:18,000 The pinnacle of a supernatural technology from a mysterious and ancient loss civilization. 22 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Once preserved solely for the afterlife use of a godkin. 23 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:33,000 These sacred and magical texts may in fact be a roadmap of the afterlife. 24 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:44,000 A magical ladder to heaven. 25 00:06:44,000 --> 00:07:06,000 The precision and state of the engineering. 26 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:21,000 The master of art, the almost supernatural control of the material world, demonstrated by the ancient Megaliths and statues, is often of a much higher order than we are able to exercise today. 27 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Is there any reason to believe that this same degree of technology might not be brought to bear on the primary focus of the Egyptians the afterlife? 28 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:54,000 We are in the tomb of Tutmosis III, an early new kingdom Pharaoh, a great Pharaoh, was the third of the carved out the Egyptian Empire in the Middle East and is often known as the Napoleon of Egypt, which is a bit of an insult to Tutmosis III, because Napoleon is not necessarily a nice guy. 29 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Anyway, in this tomb we find one of just two complete representations of the book of what is in the do-at. 30 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:14,000 The book of the do-at might be seen as a manual of instruction, a spiritual guide, the traveler's key to enlightenment, you might say. 31 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:41,000 And it provides the information, it provides the information to the deceased Pharaoh, as to the precise stages that have to be undegone, the precise thresholds that have to be crossed in order to proceed from the death itself, which is a threshold in its own right, to re-birth as a divine being, as a new son, as a new Horus. 32 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:47,000 The book of what is in the do-at details the Pharaoh's journey through the do-at or after-life. 33 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:57,000 It is a handbook of spells and secrets that allow passage through the lebarin-thine gates and thresholds of transformation encountered by the deceased. 34 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Insofar as is possible, we can at least go through the hours and follow the action. 35 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:24,000 So it starts over here with the scarab in a boat that's perched on a symbol that means water preceded by three water snakes that actually represent larval forms. 36 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Or you might say the first, the first organic living form, which cleaves the water, which cleaves the waters and divides one into two. 37 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:42,000 In the first hour, the deceased may expect to be preoccupied with separation. 38 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 The snakes are associated with separation or division. 39 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Seeing in this context, they may represent the forces of dissolution or disintegration that become acted in the first hour of the do-at. 40 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:05,000 The elemental forces which affect the unbinding of the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of the self. 41 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:15,000 The beetle between the two mirrored supporting figures suggests a consciousness arising from two mirrored hemispheres. 42 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:24,000 If this is read as a representation of activity or a physical or material plan, this may be the representation of the brain. 43 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:32,000 The physical vessel of the self still bound to the processes and pull of the river of time. 44 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:46,000 On the higher register, we see what seems to be an expanded representation of consciousness made up of several aspects, several passengers. 45 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:57,000 The form of a boat is the deceased within a shrine of ram-headed. 46 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:08,000 The divine spark of consciousness closed within matter is represented by the ram-headed woman who is depicted here in close within his tabernacle. 47 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 And they are in a boat with a number of divine personages. 48 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:23,000 It's that boat that will eventually take the king in different forms of that boat that will take the king through the twelve stages or the twelve hours of the night. 49 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:35,000 The symbolism of a boat on the water demonstrates the consciousness being led through our mysterious interaction with the flow of time through the landscape of the do-at. 50 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Through the hours of the night towards its conclusion, a new dawn and a new day, a new life. 51 00:11:49,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Here, the constant flow of time is symbolized as a river which gently and exorably leads the inhabitants of the boat through the stages of transformation. 52 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:09,000 The multiple characters writing the boat represent the many selves within us or to look at it another way. 53 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:16,000 The many aspects of the self we think of as a unity. 54 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:28,000 With constantly shifting celestial influences, each of the hours of the do-at has its own specific effects, residences, powers and dangers. 55 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:37,000 We can observe the reflection of this in ourselves as we begin to note which of ourselves is at the helm at any particular moment. 56 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:42,000 We are decidedly different persons of sunrise than we are at midnight. 57 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:50,000 The sun is said to also have these shifting influences as it passes through the hours of the day and of the night. 58 00:12:51,000 --> 00:13:00,000 The parallel or correspondence between our consciousness and the sun is another aspect of the maximum as a bar so below. 59 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:16,000 It is the symbolic link that connects the sun with consciousness and the metaphor of the journey of the consciousness through the stages of the do-at through the hours of the night. 60 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:30,000 In the second hour, in the middle register, the solar block sets out with a flesh of raw and closed in this tabernacle. 61 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:44,000 This time, in addition to the original retinue to cobras in the prow, identified in red as ISIS and nephthis, the personification of magic occupies the place of she who guides the bark. 62 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 It is interesting to note that the twin cobras are identified as ISIS and nephthis. 63 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Together, they are the personification of magic. 64 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 In the visually, they represent intellect and will. 65 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:06,000 In this we are shown that intellect and will are the primary components of magic. 66 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:14,000 The presence on the bark itself of mind and will and the explicit information that is here in the do-at, 67 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:23,000 that the transformations occur make it equally clear that conscious and deliberate spiritual process is taking place. 68 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:33,000 The third hour, both upper and lower registers are rich in a nubis and those iris figures and symbols. 69 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:40,000 The hour is called, she who cuts up the souls, a passage in, the text above the third register reads, 70 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:49,000 this is what they do in the west, roast and hack to pieces of the souls and prison the shadows and annihilate those who are not who belong to the place of destruction. 71 00:14:50,000 --> 00:15:01,000 The text is opaque and enigmatic but the general tenor indicates a pergatorial region that the solar principle must traverse a descent still deeper into the earth. 72 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:12,000 The the Christian conception of hell with all its demons and its hellfire is in all likely who had derived from the Egyptian, 73 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:21,000 but the Egyptian didn't go into, didn't revel in all the details of the smell of the roasting flesh and the pain of the hacked bodies. 74 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Rather they were expressing basically what the Egyptians were doing was say it was declaring that the souls of those who hadn't done their inner work or who obstructed those who were trying to do their inner work ended up in oblivion. 75 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:53,000 In other words their names, their identities were obliterated, they weren't consigned to the roasting flames of hell forever but rather non-existence was considered punishment enough. 76 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:02,000 In the fourth hour the actual coffin is shown descending into the earth, a schematic that actually represents the tombs themselves, 77 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:12,000 because the coffin in red, the larval forms in front of it and the coffin is actually going to its final resting place. 78 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:20,000 When the fifth hour the coffin over here has come to its final rest at the bowels of the earth. 79 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:29,000 This is the birth of the new sun god in the depths of the earth, the life force bursting from the egg, forces the earth above into a bulge, 80 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:37,000 at the nader of the descent of the solar principle, life bursts from a teg with the potential of rejoining the solar source. 81 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:43,000 The winged serpents no data meant to symbolize this potentiality in one form or another. 82 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:49,000 The egg of so-car represents the final most inanimate state of matter. 83 00:16:49,000 --> 00:17:02,000 It's the bowels of the earth, but in the egg itself is spirit, the hawkheaded so-car holding apart again with the winged spirit and mysterious triple-headed serpent with the deity at the other end. 84 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:12,000 But the power of imminent life within it, in other words this represents the power of life to re-assend and become spirit. 85 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Actually forces a bulge in the earth above it. Still in the register above that there's a mound of earth on either side two birds representing ISIS and Nethis and a scarab underneath buried in the earth pulling the torope that's attached to the solar bark. 86 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Forward and upward and the sign all the way up above is the little one little sign way up here represents heaven. 87 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:47,000 In other words the power of the entire enterprise is pulling the boat, it's pulling the boat heavenward. 88 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:54,000 It's from its resting place, eventually through its stages of transformation to the heavens. 89 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:10,000 This is the culminant moment for life well-lived. The consciousness rooted in heaven using the full form of a higher dimension, proves the lower register to the upper, the bridge, a ladder to the realm of the Nethan. 90 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:20,000 If we have cultivated the new life at the center of the bowl of dumb, it is here that we have successfully transmitted physical matter to divide. 91 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:28,000 The summation and consequence of our inner work. This is the egg that was being pushed by the scarab. 92 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:38,000 In the sixth hour, once again we have the solar bark with the flesh of raw. Now not being towed forward but simply resting on the water. 93 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Here it is confronted by a familiar figure in the Funeary text. A great serpent that's being chopped up by knives. This is the serpent upup or apopiece, which is a form of set the opposition. 94 00:18:51,000 --> 00:19:01,000 In order for the answer to rise the past, set has to be cut in pieces or apopiece has to be cut in pieces every night. 95 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Then because the opposition is immortal as divinity itself, apopie, by night has reconstituted himself and is again the opposition. 96 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:25,000 But in order to pass, the opposition has to be overcome. In the seventh hour, apopiece having been, apopiece having been disempowered. 97 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:36,000 The boat continues on its way, towed by a number of personages. And the imagery here shifts into symbols, connoting transformation and metamorphosis. 98 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:55,000 The signs of weaving appear. The four rams here represent the four states of matter. These are transforming principles that are taking the flesh of raw that ceased from a lower to a higher level of consciousness. 99 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:12,000 The themes of metamorphosis, the symbols of weaving and the presence of the four elemental states, suggest a return to the basic building blocks, which are later re-woven, recombined to create a new physical vessel. 100 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:28,000 This might be seen as a representation of breakdown and recynthesis. The four rams corresponding to the four states of matter identified in our chemical terms as earth, air, water and fire. 101 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:45,000 In the eighth hour, the entourage has now gone up to the top. 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of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two of the two 112 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:52,000 and many later depictions of the alchemical stage represented by the Andergy and his divine offspring. 113 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:07,000 This inspiring moment seems to indicate a mastery over the coils of time, perhaps indicative of a timeless period in which the higher consciousness of the deceased can reside with the gods. 114 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:13,000 In the 12th hour, the process is complete. 115 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:30,000 The bark now with a scarab beetle in the front is being towed through the backbone of this enormous serpent, which while the little bit thought was a parallel to the Kundalini energy of the Hindus in which the, 116 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000 it's lies coiled at the base of the spine. 117 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Any real technology for navigation through the wheels of the afterlife might also include a gate for a return to physical incarnation. 118 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:50,000 The 12th figures, spanned by the snake, might be seen as representing the spine and an outstretched Kundalini snake. 119 00:26:50,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Taking together, they might be seen to represent a sexual event on a physical or material plane which will provide an opportunity to return to physical incarnation. 120 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:10,000 The cycle returns to where it began. 121 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:22,000 And here this is a parallel expression of the bark of transformation passing through or releasing the Kundalini energy. 122 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:30,000 And this results in a new sun in the scarab beetle pushing the associated with the head of the dead king, 123 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:39,000 which is associated with the new sun, pushing its way through the earth into an immortality actually. 124 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:46,000 In other words, it's another expression of the pyramid text, Bioncai Unite, become a star, 125 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:52,000 join the company of raw and sail with him across the sky and his boat of millions of years. 126 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:03,000 It's a similar parallel. This is the same teaching expressed in new kingdom terminology in this extraordinarily complex text. 127 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:08,000 The tomb itself was only one component of the science or life and death. 128 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,000 The Tharage body also played an important role in this strange technology. 129 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:24,000 This takes us actually to the strange practice of mummification, our embomming rights that we carry on today, routinely in a number of 130 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:32,000 of traditional traditions, probably pale versions of what the Egyptians went through thousands of years ago. 131 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Over the course of a couple of thousand years, this process got more and more elaborate until the new kingdom in the tombs of the valley of the kings. 132 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:53,000 That process reads the culmination that is incredibly complex and to us somewhat repellent. 133 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:08,000 After the 70 days, the mummy is swadden and mummy rappings and cloth which is into which a wrapped, 134 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:15,000 so it's a magical amulet, scarips, fienerate, text themselves and the body is finally brought to its final resting place. 135 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Now, the process seems to us to say the least excessive, but if we start from the proposition that maybe the Egyptians knew what they were talking about, 136 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:38,000 it's worth looking at this as something perhaps more than just superstition, superstition, 137 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,000 and a huge physical or death, credible amount of detail, lavish upon superstition. 138 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Maybe this accounts for the both the incredible attention, work, money, time, when into mummifying a dead pharaoh, 139 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:01,000 and this kind of shiver that comes through you and you think of it for something, there's something you're pregnant about it, 140 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 and it's hidden it out to go through all of that. 141 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:13,000 The thinking was that perhaps as long as the physical body of the pharaoh existed, the discarnet, 142 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:20,000 or disembodied car, or soul of the king, was not obliged to reincarnate. 143 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:28,000 And that corresponds in its own way to the Tibetan understanding that the objective of the whole exercise of life, 144 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:34,000 and to say, is not to reincarnate, but to become a star and join the company of Ransel, across the sky, 145 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000 out of millions of years. 146 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:45,000 So I can't say if that is actually the explanation, but to me it made sense that it accounted for both the incredible amount of attention paid, 147 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:53,000 and that somewhat repellent feeling that you get when you are taught about this process, 148 00:30:53,000 --> 00:31:07,000 because it's in a way it's a kind of a spiritual dodge you might say that you're kind of given as much time as you need to carry on work that this supposed to be done in theory during life, 149 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:14,000 and if there is anything for the notion of spiritual work carried on in the disembodied state, 150 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:20,000 then to that, let's say to that ongoing work, as long as the body remains, 151 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:26,000 soul is not obliged to be incarnate, and in the case of these number-fied pharaohs, 152 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:33,000 if the mummies are not pillaged and ruined and exposed to the elements that they are actually left in there. 153 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:42,000 The original resting places, they are there effectively, eternally, because they're subject to geological time, 154 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:55,000 and any other kind of time, the mummies that have been found now in exhumed, examined, studied, and so on, are in pretty much perfect condition after over 3,000 years, 155 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:05,000 so unpillaged, unstudied, and unexhumed, they'd simply be there forever, until the mountains themselves are there. 156 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:14,000 The tunes into which there are deep caves that they're buried in themselves are destroyed in some sort of geological cataclysm. 157 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:24,000 In any event, to me, this makes much more sense than simply assuming that the Egyptians were a bunch of superstitious idiots who put all of this incredible amount of attention 158 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000 and preserving the body of a dead pharaoh. 159 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:39,000 The physical body of the pharaoh was rendered timeless, but perhaps turned into an open gate, or perhaps a type of anchor. 160 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:48,000 It was heavily supplied with all manner of spells, amulets, talismans, and other forms of magical protection. 161 00:32:48,000 --> 00:33:04,000 The strange practice of mummification still holds many mysteries. Why was some organs carefully preserved while the brain was scooped out and discarded? 162 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:10,000 An unexpected insight into this question can be found in the work of Dr. Rick Strassman. 163 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:22,000 His pioneering work has raised some very important questions about the pineal gland, and its interaction with a strange, hallucogenic chemical known as DNT. 164 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Could the interaction of these two components be the seat of consciousness? 165 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Could it in fact be the gate through which we enter and leave each new life? 166 00:33:40,000 --> 00:34:10,000 The first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the story is that the first part of the 167 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:18,600 in terms of how the study started I was interested in seeing if I could determine a biological basis of mystical states 168 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,600 that was probably how things started in the first place. 169 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:38,800 I was quite impressed with some of the commonalities that seem to occur between spontaneously occurring mystical states such as those that occur with meditation and with spiritual practices and even those described 170 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:50,800 from near death experiences quite a few of those descriptions seem quite comparable to descriptions of people on large doses of psychedelic drugs. 171 00:34:50,800 --> 00:35:01,800 And so I started to think about the of the possibility of some kind of compounding the brain with psychedelic properties that could be underlying. 172 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,800 I'm some of these spontaneous experiences. 173 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:13,800 I began becoming interested in the pineal gland as a possible source of some kind of psychedelic chemical in the brain. 174 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:25,800 It's an extremely mysterious organ. It's quite small. There seem to be, you know, some kind of a kind of visual correspondence with light and with color in the pineal. 175 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:33,800 And also it has quite a long history in the context of the mystical literature. 176 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:39,800 It's been described as the third eye and as the crown chakra, those kinds of things. 177 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,800 And it's spoken of as being activated when people attain quite high mystical states. 178 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:52,800 And so one of the interesting aspects of pineal development also is that it appears in the human embryo at around 49 days of gestation. 179 00:35:52,800 --> 00:36:00,800 And 49 days is also the time that the Tibetans believe is required for one soul to incarnate onto the next. 180 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,800 Was that was a pretty interesting, you know, coincidence. 181 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:10,800 At the time of the differentiation of the fetus into either male or female that also occurs at that 49 day period. 182 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,800 And so I was struck with this interesting kind of temporal, you know, correspondence. 183 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,800 And so as time went on, I started, you know, looking into some of the chemistry of the pineal clan. 184 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:29,800 And it seemed as if it was capable of making a compound called DMT. DMT stands for dimethyltryptomy. 185 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,800 It's like a chemical cousin of serotonin. 186 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,800 And it's quite a profound hallucinogenic type of chemical. 187 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:48,800 It seemed as if the pineal contained all of the precursors and all the enzymes and all of the building blocks that would be required to make DMT. 188 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:57,800 So I started speculating about perhaps there was DMT released in the pineal clan and stimulating the brain under extraordinary states. 189 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:05,800 I mean, through spontaneous mystical states, the time of death or at times close to death. 190 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:11,800 And also I started speculating that perhaps it was stimulated at the time of birth as well. 191 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:18,800 The pineal clan is extremely well protected from stress, but you can stress the pineal gland if the stress is great enough. 192 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,800 Pineeals protected mechanism can be overwritten. 193 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:29,800 And you know, so obviously the most stressful time in a person's life is at the time of death. 194 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:36,800 The stress hormones like adrenaline and endorphins are at extraordinarily high levels at the time of death. 195 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:44,800 And so that could possibly stimulate the formation and the release of DMT from the pineal clan at that time. 196 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:51,800 And so you can, you know, conceive of an individual's consciousness out to the time of death. 197 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:58,800 I'm kind of being exposed to this big flash of DMT. 198 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:07,800 So the last thing on that one is conscious of in the body is the release of this huge amount of this incredible psychedelic company. 199 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:28,800 During his testing, stress went discover that abnormal levels of the chemical DMT triggered states of consciousness that closely paralleled comedy experiences of an aftering. 200 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:38,800 Well, that's true. Almost everybody experienced a an extremely profound and extremely unmistakable separation of their body and the consciousness from each other. 201 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,800 DMT at higher levels acted as a type of catalyst for no-one's life. 202 00:38:43,800 --> 00:39:13,800 And the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the most important 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disconnection from the physical body. 206 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:26,800 The dreamer becomes a disconnate intelligence, traversing higher realms, no longer bound to the restrictions of time and the standard laws of physics. 207 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:35,800 The M.T. is, you know, kind of a portal or, you know, kind of a door for the transport of the spirit out of the body it appears to me. 208 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:48,800 In some ways, the occurrence of the M.T. in our brains in our bloodstream is, is the kind of validation of a spiritual reality in quite a few ways. 209 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:54,800 Could this strange chemical be offering us a window into events to come in the afterlife? 210 00:40:54,800 --> 00:41:10,800 The frequent appearance of helpers or assistants to ease us through the transition to other planes of existence suggests that at least a strong parallel with a few more areas and half-delight traditions throughout history. 211 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:22,800 The discovery of the unusual properties of the pineal gland illuminate the many strange references to this most mysterious part of the brain. 212 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:33,800 In strange and unexpected ways, the temples demonstrated a special emphasis on the pineal gland and its role as the intermediary between mind and body. 213 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:40,800 The seat of consciousness, possibly the gateway into and out of life. 214 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:51,800 The results suggested that the mysterious pineal gland may be linked to the mechanism through which we enter and leave our physical bodies. 215 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,800 Could this have been the reason that the brain of the deceased pharaoh was removed? 216 00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:05,800 Was the pineal gland of link, bridge, or teva between the physical, mummified body and the consciousness? 217 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:19,800 From the very beginning of time, we see evidence of a science that described and saw how aided the transition of consciousness from a material existence to existence of a higher plane. 218 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:26,800 It appears as though this science uses its training ground, the realm of dreams. 219 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,800 The everyday active dreamy may be a much more mysterious activity than most imagine. 220 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:35,800 It may be a portant of things to come, the after one. 221 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:45,800 The strange data consciousness that one achieves during lucid dreaming might be the secret ability that opens doors in the after all. 222 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:59,800 The dreams of a lazy or unstructured mind are diffused, wondering. 223 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:10,800 The dreamers frequently not in control or in a state of passive viewership of the events in the dream. 224 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:42,800 On the other hand, the dreams of a disciplined mind are lucid, meaning that a kind of continuous consciousness, the stoves upon one, the ability to recognise the dream state and consciously act to control it. 225 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:48,800 The lucid dreamer can, in some cases, exercise truly godlike powers in his dreams. 226 00:43:48,800 --> 00:44:01,800 This is the stuff that compiles the constant work, performed by the initials of the temple to pardon and perfect this gem of attention, will and mental clarity. 227 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:19,800 The day of ritual is called for the ceremonial opening of doors, all these exercises training the subconscious to be continuous and proactive in the after-line. 228 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:35,800 It sounds like such a simple thing in constant reddit someplace and said, gee, you can trigger lucid dreaming by just all day long as you pass through a door, touch it and go am I dreaming? 229 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,800 It sounds so simple that you think this could possibly work. 230 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:50,800 First day I tried this, walked through a door and I'd remember, oh okay, I touched the side of the door and go am I dreaming? 231 00:44:50,800 --> 00:45:00,800 And then we'd tell my dad, I could feel my eyes focused a little bit differently, you know, and I sort of had to wake up and ask myself yeah am I dreaming? 232 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:10,800 And you do it a few times and that night when you fall asleep, find yourself walking through a door and you go am I dreaming? 233 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:23,800 Yes, I am dreaming, you know, and from then on you if you're careful with it you can continue on with your lucid dream. 234 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:37,800 As the lucid dreamer becomes aware of his or her presence within a dream, the ability is suddenly bestowed to steer the dream perhaps by suddenly becoming able to fly or levitate. 235 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:46,800 But I was a kid, everybody dreams a fly or at least I talked to very few people that said that they've never dreamed that they've flown. 236 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:53,800 But I always had dreams that I was flying when I was a kid and it was just being great. 237 00:45:53,800 --> 00:46:05,800 I was enjoying it and I could tell I was really flying because I had this wonderful thrill in the bit of my stomach and there was the perspective you know her eyes and changed. 238 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:14,800 And the perspective of my view was just perfect as if I was flying in an airplane the same feeling. 239 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:20,800 And then all of a sudden I'd say to myself, well I'm flying, how can I do this? 240 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:31,800 And that little bit of doubt all of a sudden just made me just tumble like I'm here and everybody has that experience you know. 241 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:38,800 I ask myself, well how the devil am I flying and then he loses your ability to fly. 242 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:52,800 Well since I've grown little older and have done such like touching and depressing other crazy little things, I can pop out pretty regularly if I am not too tired and just want to go to sleep. 243 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,800 I can pop out pretty easily. 244 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:03,800 I can stay out and I can do it with just a little bit of little bit of concentration. 245 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:09,800 Now all of a sudden I know don't doubt while you're flying by you know enjoy it you're out. 246 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:26,800 So just took a little bit of concentration and a little bit of energy directed in a certain way to keep me airborne in my dreams. 247 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:41,800 What might be happening during the death coma in those precious moments where people think you're dead you know but you know there's lots of stuff going on. 248 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:55,800 Now what if you could keep your concentration going somehow directed and keep it going through through the moments when most people are going to be in the same way. 249 00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:00,800 Most people allow themselves to dissolve. 250 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:11,800 They allow themselves to just go back into the energy matrix you know energy consciousness matrix or whatever it is I don't pretend to know. 251 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:22,800 But if there's a way to keep focused through one stage after another after another. 252 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:41,800 At least the book of the dead would indicate there's a goal that you can reach whereby you retain your individuality or at least your pure individuality and retain the consciousness of the continuity of your own existence. 253 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,800 And that might be the key to overcoming death. 254 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:59,800 We see a very similar thing in the Tibetan book of the dead only you've got a guy there actually saying okay okay George now you're going there you're going to see one of these things so watch out. 255 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:10,800 But there's there seems to be this technique and in the book of the dead you're. 256 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:24,800 You're barred at certain at a certain place and the guardian of this of the gate demands that you tell him his name and you go well. 257 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:47,800 You know what's there's odd little names you know scaled pan of why you're name you know dirty sandal is your name or is he on something but everything's got a name and he goes oh well okay then you can pass but you got to do something else you know and so evolution seems to be a process of. 258 00:49:48,800 --> 00:50:02,800 Resistance to something and then overcoming that resistance and then be mutated by that struggle and then you move on that seems to be how evolution worked why shouldn't it work in consciousness also. 259 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:07,800 Every initiatory society today let's say the maisons. 260 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:13,800 Everybody's dad or grandfather is a maisons and they've all gone through this kind of thing. 261 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:25,800 It's no secret that in the in the initiatory process you're stopped at a door you got a really knock at the door of the temple you know and. 262 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,800 You have to pass certain. 263 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:36,800 Your question just like in the book of the dead your question and you have to come up with the right answer you don't get through. 264 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:46,800 And just step by step well you get this far into the temple you meet somebody else you wait a minute buddy you know you're not getting past here unless you do something and then. 265 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:56,800 You do that just like in the the book of the dead only maybe not as complex so the. 266 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,800 Another thing in masonry. 267 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:09,800 That I think sets it a really apart from and really makes it a mystical organization. 268 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:15,800 Although many of my father would say no it's not a mystical or it was section you know. 269 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:22,800 Just pages after pages and the index of kabala you know the command that. 270 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:31,800 But but makes it a lot of mystical even with those members who don't have a mystical. 271 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:33,800 You know then. 272 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,800 Is it they have to memorize. 273 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,800 Tons of stuff. 274 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:49,800 Tons of stuff the masters lecture is 45 minutes to to you know an hour depending on the speed. 275 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:56,800 And it's wonderful stuff and these guys do it they're 90 years old up there doing it you know. 276 00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:58,800 Just like. 277 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,800 Whoever had to prep themselves with this book of the dead thing. 278 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,800 They had to memorize a ton of stuff. 279 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,800 So the I can just imagine. 280 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,800 It's like a pep talk. 281 00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:16,800 282 00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:22,800 Okay I'm dead now some I you know I better take control of this experience. 283 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:32,800 Otherwise I'm going to be eaten by a you know hippopotamus with a crocodile head you know my soul is going to just just disperse. 284 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,800 So I better get a hold of myself okay I'm walking through a door. 285 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,800 Oh there's a guy there I know his name he's going to ask me what's my name. 286 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:44,800 You know I know his name you know. 287 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:51,800 You know crocodile sandal is your name you know and just one thing after it don't stop. 288 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,800 Okay don't stop don't pause you got this and this and this. 289 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:03,800 I know your name here's the name of your socks here's the name of your floor here's the name of the hasp on the door here's the name of the thing okay go on go on okay. 290 00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:18,800 I'm going to go on okay I'm going to the next step and then I memorize I've got this all memorized I know just what I'm going to see and I just what I'm going to say I've got I've built this temple inside me with my memory. 291 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:31,800 I've already built it okay and it's inside me and I'm going through the thing and there's a door way at the other end I'm shooting for and I'm not going to take a breath I don't need to take a breath I'm dead. 292 00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:57,800 I'm going to go all the way to the end before I let my concentration drop and if you get all the way to the end you've gone some place in your own in your own temple that most people never get to in the death experience in a strange sort of way I could see how it might even hold the key to overcoming death. 293 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:26,800 Overcoming death is just gaining knowledge of the or having consciousness of the continuity of existence and there might be a technique in order that would enable you to perpetuate your consciousness of the continuity of your own existence. 294 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,800 And the book that they made hold that. 295 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:11,800 Lucid Dreamy may signal the onset of a higher state of consciousness it may be a badge of attainment for the initiative as it's suggested now chemical allegory. 296 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:28,800 The philosophy stone has applied to Lucid Dreamy is a revealing one. Lucid Dream is made their first appearance as fleeting moments in the dream state with conscious work and practical exercises that reinforce the ability to Lucid Dream. 297 00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:43,800 The moments of waking Dream time become more extended and controllable in the metaphor of the philosophy stone the less the stone is perfected through a crystallization or harden rendering it permanent. 298 00:55:43,800 --> 00:56:08,800 From here we can extrapolate an even higher state where the disinconnetic intelligence of the deceased can be equipped with the mental tools, the strength and persistence of consciousness to remember itself through the transformation process and achieve a lucid after all. 299 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:28,800 In this case the philosopher's stone is the perfecting and making permanent the ability of the Dreamer or the deceased to exercise conscious control to move the mysterious other world, access to both the dream state and the afterlife. 300 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:36,800 The faculty of imagination seems to be the womb in which the fetus just dates. 301 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:43,800 We can now see the process of perfection of the material premonitum full circle. 302 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:57,800 If the alchemical steps are carefully observed and the great work is persisted at during life, one's consciousness becomes the purified and perfectly structured for Lucid's stone. 303 00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,800 The charcoal becomes the diamond. 304 00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:05,800 It is impenetrable, permanent and highly valuable. 305 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:11,800 It becomes the permanent vessel of the self through the higher registers. 306 00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:35,800 There's now in the year 2003. 307 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:41,800 Ample literature testifying to near-death experiences paranormal experiences. 308 00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:51,800 Again these are mocked at by the opposition by the skeptics, but the people who have had those experiences and in fact very serious scientists and scholars who studied those people. 309 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:59,800 I convinced that they're not crazy and they're not fooling themselves and that there is something that survives the body after death. 310 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:07,800 So here in the Valley of the Kings we see a testament to that Egyptian call of belief, call it understanding, call it what you will. 311 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:20,800 But in order to get anything out of the concept and in fact anything out of this episode, it's useful to bear in mind that the Egyptians quite possibly knew what they were talking about when they went to this incredible amount of attention. 312 00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:31,800 To mummified the body of the Pharaoh and even more incredible attention that they put into building these fabulous magically decorated tombs.