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So all the speakers can thank me because after my talk they'll all seem like sober

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academics.

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I would like to talk a little about my past.

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My brother and I are stonemasons.

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I studied economics at the University of Massachusetts, but I've always been interested in metaphysics,

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the spiritual disciplines of the ancients, megalithic sites, mainstream archaeology and

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anthropology frankly.

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And I basically try to take an objective look at the past and engage in comparative analysis,

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sifting through a lot of different sources like Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, Madame

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Blavatsky, mainstream archaeology, the Rosicrucians and Freemasons.

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And what I've come to realize is all these esoteric sources including Plato talk about

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Atlantis as a physical reality in the middle of the Atlantic, a continent that was destroyed

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about 13,000 years ago.

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And they all claim that our original state was androgynous.

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And then I will get into that.

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It seems right off the bat.

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It sounds like I had magic mushrooms in my morning omelet, but I will give the evidence

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for it and I will just show and try to set my ego aside that all these sources are saying

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the same strange and specific thing about the past.

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So hopefully I'll make a coherent message, but it's basically I'm painting a picture

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of the past through the eyes of mystics, esoteric sources, oral traditions, indigenous wisdom

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and religious documents.

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So we'll see how this goes.

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So these are some of the stone projects I've been working on.

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My brother and I have been doing masonry for about 25 years.

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Uh oh, ex-girlfriend, sad face emoji.

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So these are some of the projects we've been doing on our road.

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It's the oldest road in the county in Massachusetts where we live.

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And we've been rebuilding two miles of stone walls.

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We had to bring in like a hundred tons of stone to redo this.

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That just I took in a couple of weeks ago in the fall.

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Just built an arch.

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That's pretty cool.

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We had to build like a false work of wood and then knock it out.

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We actually stood on top of it.

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So it worked out.

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There it is in the winter.

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So as you said, my brother and I have done a series of shows for history.

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Search for Lost Giants, several Roanoke specials.

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I've been on with Josh Gates, Megan Fox, Code of the Wild on ancient aliens and Uncharted

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next month, actually like next week on a travel, I'm sorry, science channel.

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Lion is the Cat, very important.

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He's my research partner and I always got to big him up.

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I adopted all these stuffed animals from my son left.

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So I'm like a stuffed animal trainer.

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I'll show you how tough I am.

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So I just got back from Dr. Andy White's anthropology class at the University of South Carolina.

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Andy and I are good friends.

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He's my second appearance there.

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And it's interesting.

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Andy is a mainstream academic.

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He has a skeptics blog.

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But I find him to be particularly open minded about ancient mysteries.

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And I find that, you know, there's no peer review in ancient mysteries.

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And sometimes there's an over willingness to believe and I believe in kind of a rigorous

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approach to it and an objective open minded evaluation of evidence.

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But there's also a cottage industry of pseudo skeptics out there who want to denigrate

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people and to basically portray anybody who is involved in the ancient mysteries world

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as intellectually incapable of understanding how science works.

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Now I push back against that and it's like religion and politics.

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You're going to get the worst type of people on the fringes of both sides.

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And I, you know, at this point choose not to feed the trolls and try to meet in the

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middle to solve these problems.

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So Dr. White and I, we work together and we discuss things like giants and Atlantis and

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fish gods and it's quite entertaining and he's open to it.

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He doesn't care where the information comes from.

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He, you know, tries to apply the scientific method to all these mysteries.

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So I've studied Edgar Cayce for quite a few years.

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He's done a lot of what Cayce has to say.

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When they were health readings, he's the godfather of holistic medicine.

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He would go into a trance like state in the 20s, 30s and 40s and he only had an eighth

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grade education.

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Anyone can find faulted is the wise person who finds that which encourages another through

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the turmoils and stripes of the day.

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Most of what he said was this holographic reality of offering kindness to the world

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and to who you see because that's who you are in reality.

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He also started to talk about many things in the trance like state that shook his conservative

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Christian belief system like reincarnation in Atlantis and that's what I find very interesting.

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He has many readings on the lost colony of Atlantis and in fact talked about the final

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destruction about 12, 13,000 years ago just like Plato.

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Now there's an interesting quote here.

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There have been many and diverse destructions of mankind of which the greatest are by fire

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and water and lesser ones by other means for in truth the stories that is told in your

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country has the fashion of a legend.

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But the truth of it lies in the occurrence of a shifting of the bodies in the heavens

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which move around the earth in a destruction of the things on the earth by fierce fire

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which recurs over long intervals.

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This is a temple priest of Seus talking to Solon the grandfather of Plato.

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We know about Plato's talk about the destruction of Atlantis.

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There's a new theory that's gaining traction now called the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

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and essentially it was this massive cataclysm that struck 12,800 years ago and it destroyed

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10% of the earth's land mass that was massive flooding and a cataclysm that is now pretty

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much incontrovertibly elucidated by new science.

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Even down in Polaco, Argentina they found new evidence for it recently.

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A massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate altering impact.

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They found two craters, the Hiawatha Crater and a new one in Greenland that might be evidence

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of this and now they have to test it.

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So here's the second crater they found.

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A NASA glaciologist has discovered it possible.

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Second impact crater, now they have to test this, it looks rather young and it could

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be the smoking gun to this impact hypothesis.

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Even down in the Wonder Crater, Francis Thackeray, a professor from South Africa just found evidence

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for this cataclysm and you see the evidence is mounting all around the world.

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This is from Francis Thackeray.

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Finding at least partially supports the highly controversial Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

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We seriously need to explore the view that an asteroid impact somewhere on Earth may

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have caused climate change on a global scale and contributed to some extent to the process

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of the extinctions of large animals at the end of the Pleistocene.

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I was interacting recently with Dr. Michael Jay, a geologist who taught at the Naval Institute

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in California and he actually believes that Atlantis was a historical reality in the

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Atlantic.

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He points to evidence, this is off the coast of California, that there were once sunken

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continents in the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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In a relatively recent BBC article, geologist Daniel Parsons is quoted as saying about

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the Monterey Canyon, which I just showed you, if you drained all the water away it would

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look exactly like a river system with bends and meanders except there are not trees along

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the banks.

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Now you would have to do some kind of core sampling in the mid-Atlantic range to try

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to get these dates that show that the land was above water about 15,000 years ago.

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To apply science to these mythological ideas I would advocate.

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Now we know about Plato and the Timaeus and Critias.

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He talks about the legend of Atlantis.

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Egypt has recorded and kept eternally the wisdom of the old times, all coming from time

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immemorial when gods governed the Earth in the dawn of civilization.

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Now at the Library of Alexandria these documents existed.

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We probably wouldn't have this conversation if the library was still around.

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In fact, that's what I think right there.

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So there's literary evidence of Greek individuals visiting Egypt, especially to acquire knowledge,

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herodotus and Plato.

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So they went to the Library of Alexandria and they studied the documents and they talked

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to the temple priests.

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One argument the skeptics give us is that Plato is the first and only source of the

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Atlantis myth.

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But in fact, Herodotus, who was born before Plato, actually talks about Atlantis as a

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physical reality.

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In his histories, he says, near this salt hill is a mountain named Atlas.

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After this mountain, these received their name for they are called the Atlanteans.

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He also called the Atlantic the Sea of Atlantis.

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And he also has been, you know, his readings, his chroniclings have been verified by science

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over and over again.

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Diodorus had this to say, the Atlantides inhabited a rich country bordering upon the

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ocean and they boast that the gods were born amongst them.

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Now Agidia was written about by Homer and a lot of this is thought to be myth and legend

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and fantasy.

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But I will point out that Plato gives a pretty specific date.

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So Agidia is an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Nif-Kalypso and

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the daughter of the Titan Atlas known as Atlantis.

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So essentially, this is verified by different geographers of the time and they propose

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that Agidia was located in the Middle Atlantic.

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Strabo does.

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Plutarch says the Agidian isles fire to sea, five days distant from Britain going westwards

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and three others equally distant from it.

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Agidia was destroyed by the Agidian flood.

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This is a little known passage of Plato's and his law is free.

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So he gives a date of 10,600 BC for the destruction of Atlantis as opposed to only one or two

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thousand years since the discovery of music and other inventions.

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Now remember the Young and Dry's Impact Theory is 12,800 years ago, 10,800 BC.

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So that's a pretty close approximation of the date.

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So Alan Cameron, a devout Atlantic skeptic, is adamant that it is only in modern times

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that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously.

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No one did so in antiquity.

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However, the reality is there are about a hundred Atlantis references in the post-Platonic

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classical literature.

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So just like many people have agendas and biases, confirmation bias, and basically an

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orientation to be right, skeptics are the same way.

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They usually seem oriented to debunk, not to evaluate truth.

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Now for me, the definition of skepticism, the real definition, is to pursue truth amongst

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everything else without agenda.

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It's pretty simple.

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But most humans can't do that.

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They want something.

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They want praise.

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They want to be smart.

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They want something external.

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And that to me is why I look at mystical and metaphysical sources or secret society literature

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to try to take the human ego out of it, that element of distortion that gets filtered through

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the human ego.

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So Darwin, this is a passage that isn't well known, said this, what then has exterminated

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so many species in whole genera?

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The mind is at first irresistibly buried, I mean, sorry, hurried into the belief of

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some great catastrophe.

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But thus to destroy all animals, both large and small, we must shake the foundation,

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the entire framework of the globe.

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No less a physical event could have brought about this wholesale destruction, not only

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in the Americas, but in the entire world.

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Certainly no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated

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extermination of its inhabitants.

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That's Charles Darwin on the Beagle.

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So Steiner, whose place we're in right now, also talks about Atlantis as a historical

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reality.

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In the Rosicrucian Digest, the Rosicrucians of Freemasons also speak of this lost land.

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So they explore the issue of Atlantis, one of the most powerful and enduring ideas in

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the Western world and of Rosicrucian heritage.

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The Rosicrucians of Freemasons all believe that the esoteric knowledge went back through

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the temple priests of Egypt back to Atlantis, just like Plato talked about as well.

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So this is a particularly interesting passage from the Rosicrucian document.

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The old masters who made it their object of their lives, who gathered together once more

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these scattered fragments and to reconstruct the occult doctrine of the Atlanteans, found

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a portion of the material in Egypt, India, Persia, Chaldea, Medea, China, Assyria, and

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ancient Greece, and also in the mystic records of the Hebrews, such as the Kabbalah and the

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all talking about the lost world of Atlantis.

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So at the last, the secret document of the Rosicrucians may be said to be the secret

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doctrine of the Atlantis or of Atlantis, transmitted through the descendants of the people from

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the great center of occult knowledge.

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So that's pretty straightforward, something I never realized, that these secret societies

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basically point back to Atlantis.

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So one of the skeptics' arguments is plate tectonics does not allow for a continent to

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have existed in the Middle Atlantic.

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And I would say that plate tectonics is a fatally flawed theory that many geologists

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admit, but there isn't a new paradigm or a new theory that can overtake it yet, so

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it's kind of in limbo.

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And David Pratt writes this wonderful article about just that.

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So the paper looks at the challenges confronting plate tectonics, the ruling paradigm in the

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earth sciences, the classical model of thin lithospheric plates moving over a global asthenosphere

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is shown to be implausible.

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Evidence is presented that appears to contradict continental drift, sea floor spreading and

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subduction and the claim that the oceanic crust is relatively young.

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The problems posed by vertical tectonic movements are reviewed.

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Including evidence for large areas of submerged continental crust in today's oceans, it is

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concluded that the fundamental tenets of plate tectonics might be wrong.

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So another interesting piece of the puzzle.

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So one thing that all these sources talked about was that there were these endogenous

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crater gods that essentially there's natural evolution, the fossil record shows that we

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understand it, but at the same time there seems to be possibly a genetic intervention

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to create homo sapiens.

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Now that sounds like a wild idea, I know some people have talked about this in the past,

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but I've come to believe there might be some truth in this and the idea is that at first

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you know there's an involution that occurred in time and space where I will get into the

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metaphysics of all these teachings that the world is a screen, a movie screen, a secondary

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manifestation that quantum mechanics is catching up with now and that we basically descended

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into matter and forgot and now we're renting these bodies for 70, 80, 90 years and we

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don't really understand our true nature.

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That's the old know thyself.

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So I will get into that at the end and hopefully you'll remain for that.

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But endogenous crater gods were talked about by many people like Manly P. Hall.

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The mythologies of many nations contain accounts of gods who came out of the sea.

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Certain shamans among the American Indians tell of holy men dressed in bird feathers

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and wampum who rose out of the blue waters and instructed them in the arts and crafts

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Among the legends of the Chaldeans is that of Oannes, a partly amphibious creature who

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came out of the sea and taught the savage peoples along the shore to read and write,

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till the soil, cultivate herbs for healing, study the stars, establish rational forms

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of government and became conversant with the sacred mysteries.

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So you will see that there are these endogenous amphibious gods that are like half fish, half

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man that instruct people all around the world after the flood in the arts of civilization.

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Now that sounds bizarre but I will show the strange and specific nature of it and how

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all these extremely sophisticated cultures point to the culture heroes being these type

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of beings.

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Now endogenous amphibious is quite specific.

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So H. V. Hillpret at the University of Pennsylvania said this, he was one of the first Sumerian

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explorers.

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This endogenous nature, this ability to beget out of himself his own ego, the self existence

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is inherent in each and every god of the Sumerians.

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All Sumerian gods are endogenous.

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Endogenous in this context means a sexless being who reproduces almost in a supernatural

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fashion.

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And that's what Casey said as well about this.

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Now here's a guy, Oannes.

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He has the outward appearance of a male but he is considered endogenous.

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Now that isn't contested by academics.

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They're not going to say I really believe this fish god was real and endogenous but

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all the ancient descriptions of these beings are that they are amphibious and endogenous.

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And he shows up Sumeria.

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So stories such as the legend, the Oannes legend deserve more critical studies than

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have been performed heretofore.

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Carl Sagan actually said that.

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So this is from the Serious Mystery by Robert Townsend.

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So the antidotes and the muscaris are called the repulsive ones and the abominations.

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So that's what they call these fish gods who created this culture in Sumeria.

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If anything ever argued for the authenticity of their account, it was the Babylonian tradition

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that the amphibians who they owed everything were disgusting and horrible and loathsome

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to look upon.

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A more normal cause for any invented tradition of the origins of civilization would have

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been to glorify the splendid gods and heroes who founded it.

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So Temple is saying basically this culture is wildly sophisticated in pointing to this

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repulsive looking god as their founder.

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Now here is Dagon, the Philistine god, breasts in a beard showing the androgynous nature

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in a fish god who was revered as well by the Philistines.

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Here's Iwanis again, he carries this strange bag which I'll talk about.

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The Dogon people in Africa and Mali, a particularly interesting piece of this puzzle.

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For they told two French anthropologists in the 30s that the nomal amphibious androgynous

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beings from the star system Sirius visited them, created humanity, and taught them the

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arts of civilization in all their star knowledge that Robert Temple talks about in the Serious

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Mystery.

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So another culture that has these fish beings showing up that are androgynous.

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Here are the nomal here with the fish tails.

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Here's a nomal statue, see the male and the female.

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The twin, the androgynous one.

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Now Fu Shi in China in 3222, I'm sorry 3322 BC shows up.

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Androgynous, amphibious, fish god, culture hero of the Chinese that teaches the arts

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of civilization, mathematics, geometry, cultivation of herbs and plants, laws, spiritual principles.

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Once again just like Vera Kocha in Peru, which I'll get into.

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So on the tombs, here you have the Chinese tombs, you have Fu Shi giving birth to some

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strange being in the middle here.

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Has the square, they are considered the geomancers, the mathematicians, the markers of heaven,

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and the measure of the celestial spheres and the earth.

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The Chinese have always maintained that their civilization was founded by an amphibious

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being with a human's head and a fish tail named Fu Shi, the day traditionally ascribed

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as 3322 BC.

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So here you go again, you have five different beings shown with Fu Shi that are amphibious.

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There's even a temple to Fu Shi and the Chinese people still celebrate this culture hero as

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the bringer of this incredible knowledge and we know how sophisticated the Chinese civilization

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is.

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Then you go over to Africa and Olukun is an amphibious, androgynous god that teaches

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the arts of civilization.

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And people in Nigeria still do ceremonies and have this reverence for this being, this

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fish god who came out of the ocean to teach them.

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Here's Olukun here.

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These two tails show up all around the world too.

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The two tailed mermaid, all around the world you find this.

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I knew it was a conspiracy.

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Right?

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Matse in India, same thing, the first incarnation of Vishnu shows up as a fish god that teaches

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the arts of civilization.

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Pretty specific, documented all throughout history, revered.

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It seems like just a total freak show that you have these, this is what all these cultures

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are saying.

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And I'm not, you know, I think this is an interesting story here.

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I'm just stepping back and displaying what has been said over and over again.

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So in the Hari Purana, the god Vishnu is shown to have assumed the form of a fish.

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With a human head in order to reclaim the Vedas lost during the Deluge.

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Vishnu remained with them for some time and gave them instruction.

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As he was half man and half fish, he used to return to the ocean at every sunset and

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pass the night there, which is interesting.

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That's the account of byborosis of Oannes in Sumeria.

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He would teach men and women during the day and would sleep in the Red Sea at night.

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And you go over to Peru and then you have the ocean.

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So you go over to Peru and then you have Veracocha, who is an androgynous god, once

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again, taught the arts of civilization.

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He has fish scales right there.

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He's considered to be a hybrid being.

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Veracocha said, this is from Wikipedia, if ever my subjects were to see me, they would

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run away.

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Basically, he was always portrayed as some strange hybrid creature.

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This is from JJ.

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Thank you, JJ.

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In the Olmec culture, you have these mermen, these mermaids, these fish gods.

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In fact, the Olmec have seven androgynous gods.

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One is a fish god.

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On the fifth day, this is from the Popol Vuh.

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They were appeared again and they were seen in the water by the people.

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Both had the appearance of fishmen.

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That's this, the sacred Kichi Maya text, the Popol Vuh.

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Quasicodal.

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He has this fish-like protrusion on the back.

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He is known to be androgynous, offspring of the androgynous god, Omitiodal.

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He is carrying this strange man bag.

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Another man bag carrying androgynous being on the other side of the Atlantic is teaching

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civilization to humanity after a deluge.

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Here is Kukulkan, the androgynous god with a bag, with fish scales, and the seven headed

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serpent, which is the marker of this divine law of one, this holographic metaphysical

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system that I will talk about at the end of the talk.

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Owanis once again has this strange bag on the other side of the Atlantic.

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And this is what Baroes specifically says about Owanis.

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He made them distinguish from the seas of the earth and show them how to collect the

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fruits.

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And when the sun had set, this being, Owanis, retired again to the sea and passed the night

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in the deep, for he was amphibious.

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That is pretty specific.

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The being was accustomed to pass the day among men, but took no food at that season,

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and he gave them an insight into letters and sciences and arts of every kind.

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He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to

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them the principles of geometrical knowledge, which is quite interesting because I can

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show many examples of the complex mathematical and geometrical systems of the Sumerians,

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including this one.

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A cuneiform tablet was found, I think this is from Nineveh, about 100 years ago, and

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it's never been deciphered until a couple of years ago.

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And what was revealed on this tablet, this cuneiform tablet, was, our research reveals

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that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right angle triangles using a novel kind of

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trigonometry based on ratios, not angles and circles, Mansfield said.

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It is a fascinating mathematical work that demonstrates undoubted genius.

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Now who was supposed to have delivered this knowledge?

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Owanis did.

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And I got to tell an interesting story.

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I'm working on my PowerPoint last night, and I'm watching Man in the High Castle on Amazon.

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If you've ever seen it, it's a really good series.

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So this woman, the trade minister from Japan is killed, and the one of the lead characters

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kind of goes into a meditative state to interface with him in this kind of in-between world.

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And I'm thinking about the fact that Fuxi, and I'm writing about it and putting the slide up,

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that Fuxi in China created the hexagram and trigram system of the I Ching,

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the complex divination system.

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If you've ever used the I Ching, it basically, within time and space,

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taps into the holographic nature of reality in past and present to divine and guide you.

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So I'm working on this, and then on the show, she goes to the trade minister

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who writes the 64th hexagram in the sand.

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And you can go check it.

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I hate testimonials because they're pretty fake.

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But this was a reality.

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As I was doing this, the hexagram is written in the sand,

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and it just struck me in the oddest way, and really kind of verified the point

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that this system, like all these gods, all these enlightened beings throughout history,

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Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ramana Maharshi, they all have this prophetic vision

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to look into the past and future.

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And they understood the holographic nature of reality.

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So this is a weird example to me of the nature of this system.

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The extremely complex hexagram system of 64 hexagrams was specifically noted

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to be created by Fuxi, the androgynous amphibious god.

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And in fact, he got it through interfacing with another amphibious god

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who came from the Yellow River and slept there at night.

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And also, there was a line and a sequence called the Fuxi sequence within the system.

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And here he is again, or it is again.

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So kind of more strange verification for the story.

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At Lipinski, Serbia, this is from 7 to 9,000 BC.

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They recently found these strange fish-like beings,

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and archaeologists don't know what to make of it.

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Enki in Sumeria was Ia in Babylon,

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and he was also considered a fish being who lived in a watery vault,

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an underwater palace like many of these beings.

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So the story goes back and interfaces with Christianity,

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where you see the fish god is shown to us on a Christian staff head here.

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And you'll see that Christianity has a lot of weird, intertwined,

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iconography around this idea of the fish god.

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Now yeah, this seems like quite strange, but there is this connection.

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There's a biblical connection to Dagon I will talk about in a minute.

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The Greeks had their own gods who were amphibious and androgynous.

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We even know from Plutarch that the earliest representations of Zeus

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were of a man with a fishtail, an image which survived in Greek mythology

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in the form of his brother Poseidon.

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So once again all throughout the Middle East and the world,

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you find these fish gods associated with the Tree of Life,

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and people like Ahuru Mazda in strange crafts in the sky.

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At Ashad, there was a temple to Dagon.

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In Gaza and Ashad there were two temples, Philistine temples.

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And when the Philistines brought the ark to the temple, this is what happened.

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After the Philistines had captured the ark of God,

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they took it to Ebenezer to Ashad, carried it into the temple of Dagon,

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and set it beside the statue.

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When the people of Ashad got up early the next morning,

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there was Dagon falling on his face before the ark of the Lord,

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and the head and the arms were broken off of this fish god.

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Just to show you, well first of all, it's a very strange story

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that the ark of the covenant had some effect on the statue of the fish god,

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but in the Bible they also talk about the pagan worship of this god.

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So in Plato's Symposium,

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Aristophanes displays knowledge of the ancient myth of the androgen,

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according to which our original nature was by no means the same as it is now.

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When the androgen androgen was split into two halves,

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the distinct male and female sexes were created.

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So Plato talks about a great flood, Atlantis, ancient androgyny,

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and the holographic nature of reality, which I'll talk about.

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All things that, you know, everything else, like all Western thought,

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is footnotes to Plato, as Alfred Whitehead North once said.

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But we don't listen when he says these things,

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and they line up with all the mystical accounts,

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all the esoteric and secret society accounts,

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the idea that we were once androgynous,

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and basically we've descended into matter.

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And here is an amphora that shows where Zeus splits the male and the female.

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References to a race of androgens,

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which once inhabited the world, occur in the midst of both East and West.

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In the Western traditions, this primordial androgen

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is to be found in the writings of certain Kabbalists,

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Gnostics, Neoplatonists, Swedenborgians, and Theosophists.

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Here is a list of some of the androgynous gods found around the planet.

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Many of them are familiar, like Varacocha.

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The Gnostics have an androgynous god.

459
00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:17,260
According to the Zunis, the Native American tribe, for example,

460
00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:21,260
the Burdak was assigned the role of what Baum calls androgynous gods

461
00:31:21,260 --> 00:31:24,260
in the ritual reenactment of the tribal myth.

462
00:31:24,260 --> 00:31:29,260
Many Native cultures have a reverence towards the Two-Spirit people,

463
00:31:29,260 --> 00:31:31,260
gay, lesbian, and transsexual people,

464
00:31:31,260 --> 00:31:35,260
where the Western model, the Columbus showing up

465
00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:41,260
with kind of a malevolent look at people who are differently gendered

466
00:31:41,260 --> 00:31:46,260
or are gay and lesbian, and the Two-Spirits were revered.

467
00:31:46,260 --> 00:31:51,260
Now, Wi-Wa was a man dressed as a woman,

468
00:31:51,260 --> 00:31:58,260
and in Zuni traditions, the Burdaks, they chose the names of the warriors.

469
00:31:58,260 --> 00:32:01,260
They were considered closer to our original aspects.

470
00:32:01,260 --> 00:32:05,260
They had a more open communication with the divine, if you will.

471
00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:09,260
So we have a different orientation in Native American societies

472
00:32:09,260 --> 00:32:15,260
than the Western Christian model that is really quite lame.

473
00:32:15,260 --> 00:32:20,260
So he shows up, or she shows up, at the White House to meet the President,

474
00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:25,260
because Wi-Wa was an ambassador from the Zuni people.

475
00:32:26,260 --> 00:32:29,260
And all the newspapers talk about, I'll put him back there,

476
00:32:29,260 --> 00:32:31,260
a Native princess showing up.

477
00:32:31,260 --> 00:32:34,260
They didn't know that it was a guy dressed as a woman,

478
00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:37,260
and that's kind of the disconnect in our Western culture.

479
00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:40,260
But I just found the story fascinating, because all the Native tribes

480
00:32:40,260 --> 00:32:43,260
have the same legend of an androgynous god

481
00:32:43,260 --> 00:32:47,260
and our original state being androgynous.

482
00:32:47,260 --> 00:32:51,260
So here, sober academic, Eric Ziffer, in his paper,

483
00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:55,260
explores the androgynous created deities in his paper,

484
00:32:55,260 --> 00:33:00,260
the first atom, androgyny, in the Iain Gazelle two-headed bus.

485
00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:07,260
Iain Gazelle is a site in Jericho, I'm sorry, in Jordan, 8250 B.C.

486
00:33:07,260 --> 00:33:11,260
And he is talking about these two-headed statues representing androgynous deities.

487
00:33:11,260 --> 00:33:14,260
This academic wrote this paper about it. It's very interesting.

488
00:33:14,260 --> 00:33:18,260
Here they are in the British Museum.

489
00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:24,260
And interestingly, a six-toed foot was found in one of the statues.

490
00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:26,260
Now, what we find is some of the oldest statues in the world,

491
00:33:26,260 --> 00:33:31,260
like at Jericho and Iain Gazelle, show androgyny and polydactylism,

492
00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:37,260
extra digits, which lines up with the Samuel 2120 account of the giant of Gath,

493
00:33:37,260 --> 00:33:40,260
who had six fingers and toes, 24 digits and all.

494
00:33:40,260 --> 00:33:43,260
I would like, this is from Ziffer, I would like to suggest that these statues

495
00:33:43,260 --> 00:33:47,260
represented mythical ancestors from the dawn of mankind

496
00:33:47,260 --> 00:33:51,260
and that the two-headed bus among them represent the first human being,

497
00:33:51,260 --> 00:33:53,260
the androgynous prototype of humanity.

498
00:33:53,260 --> 00:33:58,260
So he's not saying, I fully buy this story, but he knows what they're trying to represent.

499
00:33:58,260 --> 00:34:04,260
Maybe these ignorant people are praying to androgynous gods with six fingers and toes,

500
00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:08,260
but I think it's quite startling.

501
00:34:08,260 --> 00:34:13,260
Coltepe, you find this iconography all around the world of the two-headed androgynous statue.

502
00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:16,260
Janus, the Roman god.

503
00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:20,260
Boa Island in Ireland, you have the two-headed androgynous god,

504
00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:24,260
female on one side, male on the other.

505
00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:29,260
Here's a couple androgynous freaks at the museum in Mexico City.

506
00:34:29,260 --> 00:34:32,260
This is the Olmec androgynous god, one of many.

507
00:34:32,260 --> 00:34:35,260
Humano-Asexualto.

508
00:34:35,260 --> 00:34:41,260
If you looked at my love life, I'm doing a good job trying to be androgynous.

509
00:34:41,260 --> 00:34:46,260
The Temple of Ezna in Egypt is another interesting part of the story

510
00:34:46,260 --> 00:34:54,260
where the androgynous god, Canoom-Ra, Canoom, is creating humans on a potter's wheel.

511
00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:56,260
And that's a ubiquitous myth across the world.

512
00:34:56,260 --> 00:35:01,260
The Temple of Ezna was dedicated to an androgynous, nameless, omnipotent creator god,

513
00:35:01,260 --> 00:35:05,260
which manifested itself as both Canoom and Canoom-Ra.

514
00:35:05,260 --> 00:35:07,260
That's from the Encyclopedia of Egyptology.

515
00:35:07,260 --> 00:35:12,260
Here is Canoom creating humans on a potter's wheel.

516
00:35:12,260 --> 00:35:17,260
He has six fingers, one, two, three, four, five, six.

517
00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:22,260
Greek, Sumerian, Babylonian, Laotian, Native American, Maori, Yoruba, Christian, and Muslim sources

518
00:35:22,260 --> 00:35:26,260
all claim humans were created out of the clay in supernatural fashion.

519
00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:30,260
That's even talked about in the Bible.

520
00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:34,260
Now here is Thoth and Canoom creating humans.

521
00:35:34,260 --> 00:35:41,260
And Fuxi-Nua, this androgynous being, is also attributed with the creation of humans in China.

522
00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:46,260
Veracocha, the androgynous hybrid god that teaches the arts of sciences,

523
00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:51,260
is specifically noted to have created humans out of clay and genetic intervention.

524
00:35:51,260 --> 00:35:56,260
At the top of the cosmological order was the androgynous divinity Veracocha.

525
00:35:56,260 --> 00:36:01,260
Pachacuti-Yamqui leaves no doubt as to Veracocha's sexual duality.

526
00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:07,260
This is to show you that this idea of androgyny associated with these gods is not...

527
00:36:07,260 --> 00:36:12,260
Well, it's acknowledged by academics is what I'm trying to say.

528
00:36:12,260 --> 00:36:17,260
Whether they believe it or not, it's specifically stated all throughout history.

529
00:36:17,260 --> 00:36:22,260
He has six fingers here, Veracocha as a hybrid in a German museum.

530
00:36:22,260 --> 00:36:28,260
Explain that one. Linus in the sink. I got home the other day and he's sitting there.

531
00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:31,260
I know.

532
00:36:31,260 --> 00:36:36,260
I'm a weirdo. I always tell the story. I used to have 17 cats. My brother and I, I love cats.

533
00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:44,260
We took in a bunch. So I'm like a worshiper of Sekhmet, let's put it that way.

534
00:36:44,260 --> 00:36:48,260
So I go back to the tepe. This, Andrew might be interested in this.

535
00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:54,260
There are academics who are starting to believe that the T-shaped pillars may be representations of androgynous gods as well.

536
00:36:54,260 --> 00:37:04,260
Now I'll show you this. I'll walk through this. First of all, there's some controversy whether these are these man bags or not up here.

537
00:37:04,260 --> 00:37:13,260
We'll kind of leave that there. That might be an interesting thing. When they excavate more, if they found a wing being at Gobekli Tepe with a man bag, I will fully buy it.

538
00:37:13,260 --> 00:37:18,260
But anyways, this is what Graham Hancock had to say about the site.

539
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:28,260
To me, the notion that a group of hunter-gatherers woke up one morning and invent megalithic architecture, the world's largest megalithic site, and at the same moment invent agriculture stretches credulity a bit.

540
00:37:28,260 --> 00:37:35,260
And I think I would prefer to propose, as I have proposed, that we're looking at evidence of some kind of transfer of technology.

541
00:37:35,260 --> 00:37:47,260
Now the oldest sites are the most sophisticated at Gobekli Tepe, 11,600 year old temple site in Turkey, the largest megalithic construction on the planet to date.

542
00:37:47,260 --> 00:37:54,260
And it's kind of in reverse. You would think that there would be an evolution on the stone mason with engineering expertise.

543
00:37:54,260 --> 00:38:03,260
You would see something different, in my estimation. It does look like a transfer of technology. The verdict isn't in yet, but it's a very, very interesting idea.

544
00:38:03,260 --> 00:38:13,260
So at Navalicuri, you have these...this is somewhat contemporaneous with Gobekli Tepe, but you have these statues of these beings,

545
00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:21,260
something androgynous with the hands around the navel, around the waist. Now this is from Gaziantep, 6500 BC.

546
00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:28,260
This is the Nomo of the Dogon. These are both androgynous statues. This is in the Turkey region.

547
00:38:28,260 --> 00:38:38,260
So once again, Erich Ziffer is talking about this in his paper, where he alludes the fact that Gobekli Tepe's pillars may be androgynous gods.

548
00:38:38,260 --> 00:38:45,260
This is...why is this Gaziantep? No. Karal Hayuk.

549
00:38:45,260 --> 00:38:53,260
Mark Verhoeven, 2001, is an academic who wrote a paper about a statue found at the foot of the Taurus Mountains in Kilesik.

550
00:38:53,260 --> 00:39:00,260
This is from 10,000 BC, contemporaneous with Gobekli Tepe, and he indicated this was an androgynous statue.

551
00:39:00,260 --> 00:39:09,260
Now look at the iconography and the similarity to Gobekli Tepe and Navalicuri, this Urfa man on the right.

552
00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:23,260
Now I am saying, even if Gobekli Tepe isn't iconographically displaying this androgynous aspect, there are statues that are in the same timeframe showing this androgynous aspect.

553
00:39:23,260 --> 00:39:35,260
The point is the oldest statues in the world are displaying this idea of ancient androgyny as this cult worship of our creators or our first state, which I find very interesting.

554
00:39:35,260 --> 00:39:50,260
Now in the Sicily Channel, at 130 feet down, they recently found a 40-foot-long megalith that's at least 10,000 years old, and that's one of our questions that Hugh and I and others keep asking, like, where did the megalith builders start from?

555
00:39:50,260 --> 00:39:54,260
And this is a particularly interesting site that I hope to dive on and explore.

556
00:39:54,260 --> 00:40:02,260
So there's a lot that's coming forward with new scientific research and satellite archaeology that hopefully will allow us to answer these questions.

557
00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:07,260
Now my buddy Richard Casaro studies something called the God Self-Icon.

558
00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:14,260
It's called the Master of Animals or the Master of Staffs all around the world.

559
00:40:14,260 --> 00:40:21,260
You have these mostly androgynous gods all around the world engaged in this balance of the opposites, God Self-Icon.

560
00:40:21,260 --> 00:40:29,260
Now I would argue it's part of an ancient metaphysical system that was passed on after the flood, but we'll get into that.

561
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:30,260
You can make up your own mind.

562
00:40:30,260 --> 00:40:35,260
What is very apparent is it's quite ubiquitous and quite specific.

563
00:40:35,260 --> 00:40:41,260
And you find it in really specific places like over the temple gates.

564
00:40:41,260 --> 00:40:46,260
You find this kind of strange megalith building with these knobs all around the world.

565
00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:50,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in this posture.

566
00:40:50,260 --> 00:40:56,260
Peru and Egypt, many similarities, two snakes, one snake, God Self-Icon.

567
00:40:56,260 --> 00:40:59,260
Above the doorways.

568
00:40:59,260 --> 00:41:00,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

569
00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:01,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

570
00:41:01,260 --> 00:41:02,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

571
00:41:02,260 --> 00:41:03,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

572
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:04,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

573
00:41:04,260 --> 00:41:05,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

574
00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:06,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

575
00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:07,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

576
00:41:07,260 --> 00:41:08,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

577
00:41:08,260 --> 00:41:09,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

578
00:41:09,260 --> 00:41:10,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

579
00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:11,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

580
00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:12,260
Androgynous veraculture is engaged in these postures.

581
00:41:12,260 --> 00:41:15,260
And it shows the same iconography that I'm talking about.

582
00:41:15,260 --> 00:41:17,260
This balance of the opposites.

583
00:41:17,260 --> 00:41:21,260
In fact, recently in India, they found this God Self-Icon,

584
00:41:21,260 --> 00:41:22,260
the oldest one in the world.

585
00:41:22,260 --> 00:41:26,260
The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old.

586
00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:31,260
Greatly excited archeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilization.

587
00:41:31,260 --> 00:41:33,260
Now, they didn't pick up on the fact that it's a God Self-Icon.

588
00:41:33,260 --> 00:41:34,260
Richard did.

589
00:41:34,260 --> 00:41:38,260
But just another interesting corroborative piece of evidence.

590
00:41:38,260 --> 00:41:46,260
Now, you have on the other side of the Atlantic, once again, the God Kukulkan,

591
00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:49,260
who has the seven heads, the seven-headed serpent.

592
00:41:49,260 --> 00:41:56,260
Now, Manly P. Hall, Madame Blavatsky, all the mystics talk about this ancient serpent wisdom,

593
00:41:56,260 --> 00:42:01,260
the seven-headed serpent, embodying the seven energy systems in the body.

594
00:42:01,260 --> 00:42:07,260
And the transformative secret teachings that allow you to liberate yourself

595
00:42:07,260 --> 00:42:12,260
from over-identification with the body, with the temporary existence.

596
00:42:12,260 --> 00:42:15,260
So it's a metaphysical thought system taught around the world, I'll show.

597
00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:20,260
And the seven-headed serpent shows up with these wisdom-bringings, these divine beings.

598
00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:26,260
Siberia, you find it, is a shamanic seven-headed being.

599
00:42:26,260 --> 00:42:28,260
Even King Arthur fights the seven-headed dragon.

600
00:42:28,260 --> 00:42:31,260
The dragons and the serpents were the wisdom-bringers.

601
00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:33,260
The druids were called the serpents.

602
00:42:33,260 --> 00:42:38,260
In fact, St. Patrick drove the serpents out of Ireland, although there's no snakes in Ireland.

603
00:42:38,260 --> 00:42:45,260
In 1200 BC, he destroyed the old pagan belief system and took a Gnostic esoteric teaching

604
00:42:45,260 --> 00:42:49,260
of Christianity and turned it into a literal Christianity that we have today.

605
00:42:49,260 --> 00:42:52,260
In Sumeria, you have the same findings.

606
00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:57,260
The Nagas, the seven-headed serpent, protected Buddha.

607
00:42:57,260 --> 00:43:00,260
So you find the specific iconography around the world.

608
00:43:00,260 --> 00:43:03,260
In the Book of Revelation, you find it as well.

609
00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:07,260
Medieval tapestries, pretty specific.

610
00:43:07,260 --> 00:43:11,260
The Gnostics, in fact, have their own seven-headed dragon.

611
00:43:11,260 --> 00:43:14,260
That's from the Book of Revelation.

612
00:43:14,260 --> 00:43:19,260
Now, Chichen Itza, you and I went a couple years ago, and I was drawn to the big ball court.

613
00:43:19,260 --> 00:43:23,260
And I said, okay, I wonder what's over there.

614
00:43:23,260 --> 00:43:28,260
So I went under the hoop, and what I found was this guy is nailing,

615
00:43:28,260 --> 00:43:30,260
and seven serpents are coming out of his head.

616
00:43:30,260 --> 00:43:35,260
And then I went over to the other hoop, and the same thing, that there are seven serpents.

617
00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:39,260
Now, the belief is, oh, this guy was decapitated, and this is blood.

618
00:43:39,260 --> 00:43:45,260
And I was kind of amazed, but then I found that I wasn't the first one to make this discovery or research it.

619
00:43:45,260 --> 00:43:51,260
In fact, Hanbat's men, the Mayan wisdom-keepers said that he concluded that the Mayan religion

620
00:43:51,260 --> 00:43:55,260
was based around a system of seven energy centers, similar to the Hindu chakras.

621
00:43:55,260 --> 00:44:00,260
He also notes that the Buddha was bitten by a seven-headed serpent at the river of initiation.

622
00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:05,260
So this number seven shows up, and Hanbat's men, who's unfortunately passed away,

623
00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:11,260
specifically noted the iconography at the Mayan ball court of Chichen Itza as an example of this.

624
00:44:11,260 --> 00:44:16,260
So once again, on the other side of the Atlantic, you find the same iconography,

625
00:44:16,260 --> 00:44:23,260
basically trying to convey this metaphysical thought system that Madame Blavatsky, Manley P. Hall,

626
00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:25,260
and others trace all the way back to Atlantis.

627
00:44:25,260 --> 00:44:30,260
The serpent is called, this is Hanbat's men again, called Chapa in India.

628
00:44:30,260 --> 00:44:33,260
Curiously, the people of Yucatan had the same word for it,

629
00:44:33,260 --> 00:44:38,260
and it refers to the seven-headed serpent, just as in India.

630
00:44:38,260 --> 00:44:45,260
So psychedelics are illegal, not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out a third-story window.

631
00:44:45,260 --> 00:44:48,260
Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures

632
00:44:48,260 --> 00:44:53,260
and culturally lay down models of behavior and information processing.

633
00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:57,260
They open the door to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

634
00:44:57,260 --> 00:45:00,260
So I'm personally a psychonaut.

635
00:45:00,260 --> 00:45:07,260
I've done many ayahuasca, San Pedro, psilocybin ceremonies with shamans in North and South America.

636
00:45:07,260 --> 00:45:10,260
Basically, these substances have been demonized.

637
00:45:10,260 --> 00:45:12,260
They're essentially plant medicines,

638
00:45:12,260 --> 00:45:19,260
and our Western mindset is that it is drug-taking or fantasy or escapism, which none of it is.

639
00:45:19,260 --> 00:45:23,260
It's a very, very difficult thing that I don't require.

640
00:45:23,260 --> 00:45:27,260
I'm sorry, I don't advocate that people do this lightly.

641
00:45:27,260 --> 00:45:29,260
If you're going to do ceremonies with shamans,

642
00:45:29,260 --> 00:45:33,260
it takes lots of years of self-reflection, meditation, fasting,

643
00:45:33,260 --> 00:45:40,260
and to prepare the way to be able to experience these states that are brought about by hallucinogens.

644
00:45:40,260 --> 00:45:48,260
So I tie this in because this hallucinogenic cult, if you will, is part of this esoteric mystery school.

645
00:45:48,260 --> 00:45:54,260
All the esoteric mystery schools who taught this metaphysical thought system that I will get into in a second,

646
00:45:54,260 --> 00:45:56,260
used psychedelics to do so.

647
00:45:56,260 --> 00:46:02,260
Now, one of the translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls was a Cambridge scholar named John Allegro,

648
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:08,260
and he was the only non-conservative Catholic who went through the Dead Sea Scrolls.

649
00:46:08,260 --> 00:46:11,260
And if you know the old story, the church held the scrolls back for years

650
00:46:11,260 --> 00:46:15,260
because they told a different version of reality that Jesus taught.

651
00:46:15,260 --> 00:46:20,260
Jesus taught that the immortality of the soul, reincarnation, was a reality.

652
00:46:20,260 --> 00:46:26,260
Essentially that this is a secondary manifestation from a quantum grid outside of time and space that I'll get into.

653
00:46:26,260 --> 00:46:32,260
So he had all these very difficult and complex thoughts about the world

654
00:46:32,260 --> 00:46:36,260
that don't make for good, you know, large-scale religion.

655
00:46:36,260 --> 00:46:41,260
Because metaphysical and spiritual work are a lot about inner work that takes a lot of time,

656
00:46:41,260 --> 00:46:45,260
and it's not good for the masses, frankly. It doesn't get the crowds involved.

657
00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:50,260
So it's basically spirituality is a personal thing with a connection with something larger.

658
00:46:50,260 --> 00:46:52,260
That's what the mystics would say.

659
00:46:52,260 --> 00:47:01,260
So Allegro talks about the interaction of psychedelics with the early Christian cults

660
00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:06,260
that blossomed into kind of an underground movement within Christianity.

661
00:47:06,260 --> 00:47:11,260
So you have the Amanita-Miscaria psychedelic substance

662
00:47:11,260 --> 00:47:17,260
found in a 12th century tapestry in a church in France, right here.

663
00:47:17,260 --> 00:47:19,260
Now I'll show you many examples of this.

664
00:47:19,260 --> 00:47:24,260
What is being displayed is between 350 to AD to about 1400.

665
00:47:24,260 --> 00:47:31,260
You find psilocybin and Amanita displayed all throughout the Christian world in churches and tapestries.

666
00:47:31,260 --> 00:47:36,260
Right here, God is creating plants on the fourth day.

667
00:47:36,260 --> 00:47:40,260
That's Amanita, psilocybin, psilocybin, psilocybin.

668
00:47:40,260 --> 00:47:45,260
Now Julian and Jerry Braun wrote this wonderful book about the psychedelic gospels.

669
00:47:45,260 --> 00:47:47,260
I recommend it if you're interested in the subject.

670
00:47:48,260 --> 00:47:54,260
And you can't believe these old tapestries and salters and even Notre Dame.

671
00:47:54,260 --> 00:48:02,260
The greatest cathedrals of Christianity around Europe all have psilocybin and Amanita-Miscaria all over the place.

672
00:48:02,260 --> 00:48:07,260
Unmistakable, taxonomically accurate. Here is Amanita right here.

673
00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:13,260
350 AD, a church in Turkey. Here is psilocybin.

674
00:48:13,260 --> 00:48:22,260
Look at what the disciples are looking at. They're staring at the mushrooms, which is quite funny.

675
00:48:22,260 --> 00:48:28,260
Here, Jesus rides into Jerusalem. See all the psilocybin and they're cutting it.

676
00:48:28,260 --> 00:48:35,260
And at the Last Supper, he's cutting it. Here's the knife and here are the pieces of psilocybin that Jesus is giving out to the disciples.

677
00:48:35,260 --> 00:48:45,260
The belief being that he is basically a shaman who is leading his disciples in this activity that interfaces with the divine, which is quite intriguing.

678
00:48:45,260 --> 00:48:55,260
And I could say, you know, with all the ceremonies I've done, that the ego is put to sleep and you do interface with something larger.

679
00:48:55,260 --> 00:48:59,260
And it's a personal experience, but it's quite compelling.

680
00:48:59,260 --> 00:49:02,260
Here, Jesus is displayed as a mushroom.

681
00:49:02,260 --> 00:49:14,260
And some of the most, you know, God, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, some of the largest characters in Christianity are associated with the psilocybin and the Amanita.

682
00:49:14,260 --> 00:49:16,260
Right here is Jesus.

683
00:49:16,260 --> 00:49:21,260
Psilocybin, Amanita.

684
00:49:21,260 --> 00:49:25,260
God creates psychedelics on the forte.

685
00:49:25,260 --> 00:49:31,260
And this is all for hundreds and hundreds of years throughout the history of Christianity hidden in plain sight.

686
00:49:31,260 --> 00:49:40,260
And when the Inquisition started after the plague, there was a scapegoat, which is kind of the pagan leftover belief and the esoteric Christianity.

687
00:49:40,260 --> 00:49:47,260
So the horned god of the shaman became Satan and psychedelics were turned into the demonized aspect that we have today.

688
00:49:47,260 --> 00:49:49,260
Now, most people kind of squeamish.

689
00:49:49,260 --> 00:49:53,260
You know, I'm pretty loose about psychedelics at this point because I'm a freak.

690
00:49:53,260 --> 00:49:58,260
But, you know, we have these really puritanical views of them and their plant medicines.

691
00:49:58,260 --> 00:50:00,260
They're not addictive.

692
00:50:00,260 --> 00:50:03,260
They I'll get into the new science around them, too.

693
00:50:03,260 --> 00:50:08,260
But it's actively being displayed in these churches around the world.

694
00:50:08,260 --> 00:50:16,260
And here, Adam and Eve and the serpent of wisdom, Enki in Samaria, is the serpent, the dragon, the wisdom keeper,

695
00:50:16,260 --> 00:50:23,260
who's trying to say to Adam and Eve, this is a false universe, wake up from it, rather than the Christian belief you're going to burn in hell forever.

696
00:50:23,260 --> 00:50:28,260
You know, it's a different it's esoteric, not a literal view of Christianity.

697
00:50:28,260 --> 00:50:33,260
And even in the Orthodox churches around Europe, you have the Amanita in the doorway.

698
00:50:33,260 --> 00:50:35,260
Quite specific.

699
00:50:35,260 --> 00:50:42,260
Now, Stefan Forhegi was a Mayan archaeologist who worked with Gordon Wasson.

700
00:50:42,260 --> 00:50:51,260
And Wasson wrote about the same thing in psychedelic use through the culture of Europe and Mesoamerica.

701
00:50:51,260 --> 00:51:04,260
So in Guatemala, you have these mushroom cults, if you will, Holisco culture, Olmecs, Mochi, Holisco.

702
00:51:04,260 --> 00:51:13,260
Here is a Christian post-contact rendering of psilocybin use right here.

703
00:51:13,260 --> 00:51:24,260
But it's a puritanical view of it, where the person eating the flesh of the gods, the psilocybin, is confronted by a demon, because it was viewed as a demonic practice.

704
00:51:24,260 --> 00:51:31,260
And you find the same iconography about this around the world with psilocybin.

705
00:51:31,260 --> 00:51:39,260
In India, associated with Buddha and enlightenment and Jesus.

706
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:51,260
Ishtar in Samaria, Inanna actually, is the leader of this great cult, and here are mushrooms coming forth, psilocybin.

707
00:51:51,260 --> 00:52:01,260
And all the ancient mystery schools, Kaikion was used in the illusion mysteries, and all the mystery schools used DMT, psilocybin.

708
00:52:01,260 --> 00:52:11,260
And what it did was, it puts the, I'll just explain, it puts the rational ego self, the operating software of the body, to sleep.

709
00:52:11,260 --> 00:52:13,260
So you can really experience what you are in reality.

710
00:52:13,260 --> 00:52:15,260
That's the best way to describe it.

711
00:52:16,260 --> 00:52:20,260
Now in day-to-day life, it's like, oh, that's interesting, oh, shit, what time is it, I've got to eat.

712
00:52:20,260 --> 00:52:30,260
There's like this, we over-identify with the secondary manifestation of the separate self, right, the operating software of the body, which you need.

713
00:52:30,260 --> 00:52:35,260
But we over-identify it, and we lose our divine connection, is the thought, which I tend to believe.

714
00:52:35,260 --> 00:52:42,260
So these substances put that part to sleep, and it reveals to you, kind of this glorious divine connection.

715
00:52:42,260 --> 00:52:47,260
And here, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, you see the mushrooms.

716
00:52:47,260 --> 00:52:51,260
I want to know what this dude's doing crawling up the tree, but that's a different matter.

717
00:52:51,260 --> 00:52:58,260
So you find this all over the planet, and it's just a fascinating story.

718
00:52:58,260 --> 00:53:07,260
This is from Tazili, Nigeria, in Algeria, a super ancient, shamanic, bee-faced being who is a medicine man with psilocybin.

719
00:53:07,260 --> 00:53:10,260
This is what happens when you take psilocybin.

720
00:53:10,260 --> 00:53:17,260
So this is the new science out about psychedelics now, about magic mushrooms.

721
00:53:17,260 --> 00:53:22,260
A psychedelics, the new wonder drug for mental illness and the fear of death.

722
00:53:22,260 --> 00:53:27,260
Anderson Cooper just did this great story with Johns Hopkins scientists on 60 Minutes about it.

723
00:53:27,260 --> 00:53:33,260
Michael Pollan has a book about it, magic mushrooms could be a psychiatric wonder drug.

724
00:53:33,260 --> 00:53:36,260
Are psychedelics the wonder drug we've been waiting for?

725
00:53:36,260 --> 00:53:43,260
I'll just say I had a traumatic brain injury when I was playing football, and a brutal seizure disorder for like 20 years.

726
00:53:43,260 --> 00:53:49,260
And I would have waves of grand mal and petty mal seizures, and my whole world was painted gray for weeks.

727
00:53:49,260 --> 00:53:52,260
I couldn't crack a smile, severe depression.

728
00:53:52,260 --> 00:54:00,260
And I took Dapico and Delantin, and I basically tried to mitigate it in different ways.

729
00:54:00,260 --> 00:54:07,260
But then I started an alternative approach, which was the use of ayahuasca and psilocybin.

730
00:54:07,260 --> 00:54:10,260
And now it's been about 15 years.

731
00:54:10,260 --> 00:54:17,260
I have no medication, no seizures, not even an aura of a seizure in 15 years, all medically documented.

732
00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:25,260
Now I'm not a big testimonial guy, like I said, but my personal experience is like, whoa, there is something that's rewiring the brain in these substances.

733
00:54:25,260 --> 00:54:28,260
And that is what science is telling us now.

734
00:54:28,260 --> 00:54:33,260
So psilocybin, the active ingredient in shrooms, is looking more and more like a potential wonder drug.

735
00:54:33,260 --> 00:54:38,260
You take this large dose, and your depression is mitigated for like 8 to 10 months.

736
00:54:38,260 --> 00:54:42,260
It's like nothing pharmacology has ever seen.

737
00:54:42,260 --> 00:54:46,260
They have mind-blowing potential to treat depression.

738
00:54:46,260 --> 00:54:52,260
In fact, Johns Hopkins is opening a $17 million research center, which is great.

739
00:54:52,260 --> 00:55:02,260
Now, all this ties up into what all the mystics said about the nature of reality.

740
00:55:02,260 --> 00:55:06,260
Now, I read this book by Michael Talbot years ago, and it was fascinating, the holographic universe.

741
00:55:06,260 --> 00:55:19,260
And it really starts to answer a lot of questions about people's psychic abilities and things that seem very strange to us existing here.

742
00:55:19,260 --> 00:55:24,260
And what we think is one fixed point in time and space.

743
00:55:24,260 --> 00:55:39,260
Now Talbot says, there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it, from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons, are only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own, it is literally beyond time and space.

744
00:55:39,260 --> 00:55:48,260
Now, I want to get to Brian Greene for a second, because he said the same thing about quantum mechanics, catching up to this idea, this mystical idea.

745
00:55:48,260 --> 00:55:53,260
Now, physicist Brian Greene, he has a full-part special on PBS about the fabric of the cosmos.

746
00:55:53,260 --> 00:55:56,260
He's a theoretical physicist.

747
00:55:56,260 --> 00:56:07,260
He explains the properties of the black hole surface is the event horizon, suggesting the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.

748
00:56:07,260 --> 00:56:09,260
That's what quantum mechanics is catching up to.

749
00:56:09,260 --> 00:56:21,260
And Greene in the special even says that quantum physicists have realized that the universe of time and space is being projected by a quantum field outside of time and space, but they can't locate it.

750
00:56:21,260 --> 00:56:27,260
And they can't locate it because what all the mystics tell us is that reality is abstract.

751
00:56:27,260 --> 00:56:29,260
It is not concrete and specific.

752
00:56:29,260 --> 00:56:42,260
And the shadows on Plato's wall that we are viewing here is basically a secondary manifestation, and you cannot pinpoint outside of time and space where the image is coming from.

753
00:56:42,260 --> 00:56:51,260
That sounds a little strange, but I'm just trying to show that modern science is basically matching what these mystics said all throughout history.

754
00:56:51,260 --> 00:57:02,260
Secret societies, Plato, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ramana Maharshi, Yogananda, all the masters throughout history are all saying the specific and strange thing about reality.

755
00:57:02,260 --> 00:57:05,260
And it is just that.

756
00:57:05,260 --> 00:57:07,260
Are we living in a hologram?

757
00:57:07,260 --> 00:57:09,260
You know, some people call it a virtual reality world.

758
00:57:09,260 --> 00:57:14,260
Plato's allegory of the cave is essentially there's a bunch of prisoners chained to a wall.

759
00:57:14,260 --> 00:57:18,260
They're viewing the screen of the world and thinking it's reality.

760
00:57:18,260 --> 00:57:19,260
One of them breaks out.

761
00:57:19,260 --> 00:57:20,260
He goes to the light.

762
00:57:20,260 --> 00:57:23,260
He experiences his divine self, his immortality.

763
00:57:23,260 --> 00:57:28,260
He comes back in the cave and he wants to release his brothers and sisters, and they want to kill him.

764
00:57:28,260 --> 00:57:35,260
They're like, I have become acclimated to this delusion where I get external hits and, oh, people like me.

765
00:57:35,260 --> 00:57:41,260
Oh, you know, like you try to get things in the external world rather than being at peace internally.

766
00:57:41,260 --> 00:57:50,260
And basically the ego, and I'm sure there's some, you know, I know I'm a lunatic, but there is apprehension amongst people's ego sometimes to hear this information.

767
00:57:50,260 --> 00:57:53,260
It's like I want what I want out of life.

768
00:57:53,260 --> 00:57:59,260
You know, this divine connection, it might sound good, but what about all of my hopes and dreams, you know, and there's nothing wrong with that.

769
00:57:59,260 --> 00:58:03,260
It's just that it's a secondary manifestation, a secondary reality.

770
00:58:03,260 --> 00:58:07,260
What we are is kind of a changeless, eternal being that is immortal.

771
00:58:08,260 --> 00:58:14,260
And that's why I'm fascinated by ancient mysteries, because that is what all these ancient sources are saying.

772
00:58:14,260 --> 00:58:18,260
Now, Plato literally says the same thing about the nature of time and space.

773
00:58:18,260 --> 00:58:27,260
We are creatures not of Earth, but of heaven, where the soul was first born and our divine part attaches us to the head to heaven like a plant by its roots and keeps our body upright.

774
00:58:27,260 --> 00:58:34,260
So I've had a lot of weird trauma in my life, and I have always been going towards the metaphysical.

775
00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:39,260
I'm a recovering Catholic.

776
00:58:39,260 --> 00:58:41,260
So I was an atheist for a while, too.

777
00:58:41,260 --> 00:58:48,260
But then I started to have these mystical experiences and all that, you know, around like trauma and sickness and my parents' death and stuff like that.

778
00:58:48,260 --> 00:58:53,260
So I really have come around to believe there is a metaphysical underpinning to this reality.

779
00:58:53,260 --> 00:59:00,260
And Duncan Rhodes in Nexus magazine wrote this wonderful introduction to an editorial that I will end with.

780
00:59:00,260 --> 00:59:11,260
Particle and quantum physics experiments keep showing that the physical reality is little more than a subjective visual virtual illusion, with some suggesting that the only thing that really exists in its own right is consciousness.

781
00:59:11,260 --> 00:59:19,260
The thing that is stumping researchers is who or what designed the consciousness responsive virtual world that we all take so seriously.

782
00:59:19,260 --> 00:59:30,260
So science has taken us down the road of realization to the point where space and time and matter are seen as subjective effects or secondary manifestations of something more real.

783
00:59:30,260 --> 00:59:38,260
The bravest of the scientists suggest that based on the evidence, consciousness is primary and that what seems to be reality is but a secondary manifestation.

784
00:59:38,260 --> 00:59:41,260
That actually seems weird, but it's the good news.

785
00:59:41,260 --> 00:59:50,260
The world is, and that's what happens when you orient it correctly, because the idea is there's only one collective unconscious, as Young talked about.

786
00:59:50,260 --> 00:59:52,260
There was only one holographic mind.

787
00:59:52,260 --> 01:00:00:00,260
So the mind training that is taught by the masters is that to judge another is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die.

788
01:00:00,260 --> 01:00:09,260
You see something you don't like about, usually an aspect of yourself and the other, you judge that and you basically transmit through the unconscious mind all these messages to yourself.

789
01:00:09,260 --> 01:00:19,260
So, you know, people like friends who are victims and they're always going on and on about the same problems rather than taking responsibility for the movie characters that they basically attract in the external world.

790
01:00:19,260 --> 01:00:26,260
And the correct orientation is just look that around and just like right now, somebody threw something at me and said, you're an idiot.

791
01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:28,260
I'd probably say, you're right.

792
01:00:28,260 --> 01:00:32,260
But while that's interesting that I would attract that, you know, it's coming from me.

793
01:00:32,260 --> 01:00:35,260
You take that responsibility for the things in your life.

794
01:00:35,260 --> 01:00:42,260
And the Western model is that these are all independent actors and there is no kind of meshing of these worlds.

795
01:00:42,260 --> 01:00:43,260
And I don't believe that it's true.

796
01:00:43,260 --> 01:00:46,260
My own experience isn't that it's true.

797
01:00:46,260 --> 01:00:51,260
And so I hope you can metabolize all that I've said.

798
01:00:51,260 --> 01:00:54,260
I just find this the metaphysical aspects fascinating.

799
01:00:54,260 --> 01:01:01,260
And I really I think a lot of people are interested in ancient mysteries are open minded enough to entertain ideas like this.

800
01:01:01,260 --> 01:01:06,260
And, you know, it's not just an interesting idea.

801
01:01:06,260 --> 01:01:17,260
With this comes a metaphysical thought system like the Course in Miracles or, you know, the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, a non-dualistic perspective that you can unravel these false beliefs about yourself.

802
01:01:18,260 --> 01:01:22,260
So thanks for enduring that.

803
01:01:22,260 --> 01:01:24,260
And I appreciate you being here.

804
01:01:47,260 --> 01:01:49,260
Thank you.

805
01:02:17,260 --> 01:02:19,260
Thank you.