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[ Man Narrating ]
Wondrous wizards.
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Merlin is the authority, really,
the adviser behind the throne.
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[ Narrator]
Mysterious sorcerers.
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[Woman ] Their job was really
to communicate with the sacred...
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in order to bring about change
here on earth.
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[ Narrator ] And heavenly beings
possessed of unimaginable power.
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[ Man ] So what had begun
as a battle of magic...
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becomes a horrific bloodbath.
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[ Narrator ]
Throughout the ancient world...
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magic was used for everything from healing
to communicating with the gods.
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But did real magic really exist?
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And if so, could it have come
from an otherworldly source?
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[ Man ] Certain human beings
seem to have somehow...
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mastered the power of the universe...
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to an extent that even we
don't understand.
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[ Man ♪2 ]
The ancients believed...
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that they learned magic
from their gods...
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and these extraterrestrial gods
had taught them these powers.
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[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...
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believe we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens
really help to shape our history?
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And will we find proof
by exploring the magic of the gods?
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[ Narrator]
Las Vegas, Nevada. 2009.
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Magician Steve Wyrick
stuns a circle of 40 onlookers...
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as he appears to make
a three-ton Hummer-
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[ Wyrick ] Raise the curtain!
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Vanish in an instant.
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Everyone, join hands.
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Yeah. All right!
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There's 40 people
around the Hummer.
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Watch this.
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Do it... now!
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- [ Laughing ]
- [ People Exclaiming ]
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[ Narrator] The continued popularity
of illusions like these...
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speaks to a worldwide
fascination with magic...
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that can be traced back
thousands of years.
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[ Man ] We long for some kind
of connection to the supernatural...
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and we can have it for a couple of hours
and the price of a ticket...
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by attending a magic show.
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When we go to the theater
and see a stage magician...
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we know supernatural events
are not happening before our eyes...
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no matter how much
it seems like they are.
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We sometimes think of the people
of the ancient world as simple.
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They lived in a world
saturated with magic.
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There really was no distinction
between ordinary life and the supernatural.
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They were completely embedded
in each other.
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So belief in magic
was absolutely universal.
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[Woman ] It was a way of looking
at the world as an interconnected whole...
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as well as a technology through which
you could make things happen...
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in the everyday material world.
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Magic offered people an opportunity to
influence the outcome of important events...
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and to know the will of the gods...
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and to communicate
directly with those gods.
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In the ancient times, it is actually said
that magic was of the gods-
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somehow otherworldly...
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somehow beyond the confines
of ordinary reality.
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What we see
is that certain human beings...
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seem to have somehow mastered
the power of the universe...
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to an extent that even we
don't understand.
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Magic in the ancient world was primarily
viewed as in some ways coercive...
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which is to say people are attempting
to control the spiritual realm...
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to do something in their daily lives.
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So whereas modern magic is primarily
driven to engage in sort of trickery...
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in the ancient world, there was an attempt
to sort of coerce spirits...
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to sort of affect one's life
and the direction of one's life-
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whether that would be one's fate
or, in some ways, nature as well.
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[ Narrator] But did magic
really exist in the ancient world...
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not as a form of theater...
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but as a means of replicating
the power of the gods?
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[ Narrator ]
Shanxi Province, China.
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Seventh century A.D.
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The Zhongtiao mountain range.
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Here, according to Chinese mythology,
lived Zhang Guolao...
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a Taoist saint thought to possess
unique magical abilities...
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and a profound understanding
of the secrets of nature.
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He was one of what were referred to
as the Eight Immortals.
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So the Eight Immortals
are these semi-mythical figures...
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in Chinese history.
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The majority of them, they're based
on people who actually existed...
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and then certain legends accrued
around these people as time passed.
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The historical figure
of Zhang Guolao...
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is thought to have lived in the mid-seventh
and the mid-eighth centuries.
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And he was very renowned for
his magical skills even at the time.
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Zhang Guolao is possibly the most
interesting of the Eight Immortals.
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He is depicted as an old man.
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He could make himself invisible.
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He could go without food for days.
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[ Explosion ]
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[ Narrator]
According to Chinese mythology...
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Zhang Guolao first emerged
at the very beginning of the universe...
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where he appeared out of chaos
in the form of a white bat.
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He was thought to be
a gifted alchemist...
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necromancer and sorcerer.
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[ Steavu ] Zhang Guolao is often depicted
as riding a magical mule...
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and what's peculiar is that he is seated
facing backwards on this mule.
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The mule can ride divine winds...
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and also cross thousands of miles
in a single day...
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without ever stopping once for rest.
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When Zhang Guolao finds a place
that he wants to settle for the night...
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he actually folds up his mule
as one would fold a piece of paper...
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until it is the size
that you can fit in your pocket.
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And then he would reactivate it
by sprinkling water on it...
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- and it would reappear again.
- [ Mule Braying ]
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So you have to ask yourself...
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is this white mule actually some kind
of incredible alien technology...
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that allowed him to travel around China?
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[ Man ] It's entirely possible
that what they're describing here...
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is some type of a craft...
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and that Zhang Guolao himself...
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may possibly have been
an extraterrestrial.
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In order to explain his abilities
and technology...
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our ancestors described him
as a magical being.
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[ Man ] But is it possible that
extraterrestrials could develop a technology...
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in which you have
some sort of flying machine...
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that can fold itself into hyperspace?
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It runs on an advanced
energy propulsion source.
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You can travel with it.
It's short It's compact.
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And when you're done,
you just fold it into hyperspace.
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And it's something that you hold
in your hand and-[ imitates Energy Burst]
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The whole thing just folds up.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible
that Zhang Guolao really existed?
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And if so, could his amazing
powers of transformation...
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have been based on an advanced, perhaps
extraterrestrial form of transportation?
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Ancient-astronaut theorists
believe further clues can be found...
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more than 1,700 miles away
in Patna, India.
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Situated on the southern shores
of the Ganges River...
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this ancient city is believed to be the place
where the great spiritual leader Buddha...
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embarked on an incredible journey
in 483 B. C.
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[Young ] Gautama Buddha
was a messenger and sage...
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who was born in what is now Nepal...
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sometime around 500 to 600
Before the Common Era.
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And he was the original figure
in the teachings that became Buddhism.
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[Woman ]
When the Buddha was born...
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his father was told by a seer...
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"that “your son is going to become
a great teacher."
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The Buddha's message-
his teaching-
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is supposed to bring people
out of suffering.
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He made up a religion to solve what he
considered as the basic problems of living.
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[ Steavu ] The Buddha traveled around India
spreading his teachings.
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His followers in the monastic community
grew increasingly.
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He was perceived as a human,
but an extraordinary human.
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In the process of gaining enlightenment...
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he had these realizations
that were marked by supernatural powers.
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[ Thunderclap ]
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He actually projected and built,
through pure psychic power...
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this bejeweled walkway up in the sky.
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And he paced up and down that walkway
filled with jewels for about a week.
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[ Narrator] According to ancient texts,
near the end of his life...
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Buddha and his many disciples
attempted to cross the Ganges...
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but were blocked by raging floodwaters.
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[Young ] It happened to be the time of the
year when the great river is flooded.
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It's at its high peak.
Not only is it very, very wide-
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almost a mile wide
at that time of the year-
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but it's going very fast-something like
70 miles an hour-a virtual rapid.
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[ Steavu ] And he sees people
on one side of the Ganges...
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trying to build up these frail rafts,
trying to cross the river.
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And what he does is, in an instant-
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And the text says that in the time
it takes for a strong man...
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to stretch out his bent arm
or to bend his outstretched arm...
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the Buddha appears
on the other side of the river.
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Now, there was no boat,
no form of transportation whatsoever...
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and people witnessed this.
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So was this some sort of a miracle?
Of course not.
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So are we talking about
teleportation here...
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some type of technology
that was misinterpreted as a miracle?
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[ Narrator ]
Might the incredible feats...
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performed by beings
like Buddha and Zhang Guolao...
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be based on real-life
extraterrestrial encounters?
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And if so, could they have been
the inspiration for what we now call magic?
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Perhaps further evidence
can be found...
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by examining the stories
of a famous sorcerer...
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whose supernatural powers
helped to build a mighty nation.
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[ Narrator ]
Tintagel Island, England.
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500 A.D.
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Here, hidden along
the rugged Cornwall coastline...
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is the entrance to a mysterious cave...
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thought to have housed
the great wizard Merlin.
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[Woman ] We first see Merlin historically
in the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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He tells the story
of this extraordinary character...
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who most famously shows up
during the time period of Arthur.
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I think that there is this tendency to think
of him as the man in the pointed cap...
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and to be a little bit sort of comical
or ridiculous.
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When, in fact, the real Merlin
is a very, very serious...
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and very important character.
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[ Man ] According to stories,
King Arthur lived around 500 A.D...
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and he was advised
by this wise man called Merlin.
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Merlin is attributed as having
all sorts of miraculous powers.
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He is said to be able to bring
lightning down and thunder.
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He can levitate rocks.
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He can foresee the future.
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He can call upon a mist
to cover the battlefield.
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[ Man ] Merlin seems to have been
based on this idea of the druids.
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Druids were the religious figures
in a lot of this early society.
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In some cases, we see them associated
with the more Celtic warrior groups...
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where they might function
as a king's adviser.
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Druids appear as very magical
and having various other ways...
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that they could interact
with the supernatural world...
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for the benefit of the mundane world.
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[ Phillips] There is a manuscript
in the British Library...
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called the Annales Cambriae,
which means “the Welsh annals.”
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And in there, it refers to a man
by the name of Merlin...
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living in a forest somewhere
in the north.
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And the way it refers to this Merlin...
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is it could very well be the same Merlin
as the Merlin in the stories of Arthur.
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[ Narrator] According to legend,
it is Merlin who was the mastermind...
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behind a plan which would unite the various
kingdoms of Britain into one nation...
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capable of fending off invasion
by Saxon forces.
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He launches a quest to install
the young Arthur as king. - .
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Using his formidable powers.
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Merlin is stage-managing
the union of Britain...
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from before the time
Arthur is conceived.
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He essentially manipulates things...
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so that Arthur can be born
in a way that has royal blood...
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but he does not grow up
in a castle...
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which was a dangerous place
for a divinely ordained leader to be.
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He was able to be a tutor to Arthur
in his childhood...
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teach him ways of nature.
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[ Phillips] He makes him king
by getting Arthur to perform...
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all sorts of feats
that no one else can do...
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like drawing the sword from the stone.
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And it seems that he wants to make
Arthur into a sort of immortal figure...
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in the eyes of the people
so that they will readily follow him...
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and make him their one and only king.
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In other words,
Merlin is the authority, really...
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the adviser behind the throne.
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[ Narrator] Did Merlin use supernatural
or otherworldly knowledge...
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to empower Arthur...
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and, in so doing,
create the British Empire?
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But why?
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And who- or what-was Merlin?
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Ancient-astronaut theorists
believe clues can be found...
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in the strange circumstances
surrounding Merlin's birth.
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[Young ]
The birth of Merlin is a miraculous tale.
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His mother was a nun, a virgin,
who has a steamy erotic dream...
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and she wakes up just knowing
she is pregnant.
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So Merlin's father
could have been an incubus.
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That would be a dark angel-
one of the devil's legion-
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a monstrous figure
who in this case...
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came and had sex with innocent women
while they slept, in their dreams.
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[ McGowan ] The most common
legends about Merlin...
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say that he got his powers
through this demonic father.
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Merlin was baptized, and then
the demonic nature melted away...
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but he maintained all of the magic
from the demon father.
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[ Henry] When we're confronted
by the story of Merlin...
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we're looking at a medieval figure...
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who is possibly another example
of an otherworldly being...
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who is half human, half extraterrestrial...
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and that he, in fact, is a representative
of this long line of otherworldly beings.
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[Wilcock]
This is the real core of British history.
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It's very revered.
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It doesn't seem that someone
just made this up out of nowhere.
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It could be that the stories
help cover up the truth...
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which was that human-extraterrestrial
contact did occur...
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that Merlin was actually
an extraterrestrial being...
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who was sent here to help King Arthur
establish his kingdom...
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and that Merlin's advanced capabilities
might be nothing more...
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than the use of technology
that he had available to him.
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[ Narrator]
Is it possible that Merlin had...
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what many believe to have been
otherworldly origins?
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If so, might his magic really have been
based not on occult forces...
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but on advanced
extraterrestrial technology?
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London. 1966.
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The British Museum acquires
an unusual Aztec artifact...
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thought to possess magical powers.
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Known as the Devil's Looking Glass...
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this mirror,
made of black volcanic glass...
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once belonged to the influential
16th-century scholar John Dee.
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Dee was a respected mathematician,
astrologer...
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and close adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.
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He was also considered to be
a powerful magician...
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and claimed he used the mirror
to communicate with angels.
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[ Man ] John Dee was a famous magician
in the Elizabethan period in England-
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probably the most famous
Renaissance mage...
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at least from England from that time.
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And he became very obsessed
with trying to conjure angels.
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Later magical practitioners
start to refer to it as Enochian magic.
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[ Man ] John Dee believed
that there was an angelic language...
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that there was a sound-a real sound,
not just a concept-
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a voice that the universe spoke in...
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that the angels,
that those with supreme knowledge...
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had their very, very own language.
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And he was trying to tap into that.
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[ Man ] Dee believes
this information was given to him...
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because God originally wanted it
to go to mankind throughout all of time.
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This Enochian magic
was given to man before...
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but has been lost throughout the ages.
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God originally gave it to Adam,
the legend goes...
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and then to the prophet Enoch
and maybe to others in between.
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[ Narrator]
Did early magicians like John Dee...
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really have access
to extraterrestrial technology...
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technology that was mistakenly believed
to be of a supernatural or divine origin?
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In the ancient world,
magicians were religious specialists...
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whose job was to interact with the spirit
world on behalf of their social group.
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Their job was really
to communicate with the sacred...
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in order to bring about
real and lasting change here on earth.
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[Young ]
Centers of power would have magicians.
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The courts of the time-
whether a king, a Caesar or a pharaoh-
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would have “visars"- wizards, magicians-
advising them, protecting them...
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using their secret powers to heal,
to guide in battle.
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It was an important part of leadership
in ancient times.
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These figures had enormous power
and enormous influence...
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not only helping a leader,
but helping a country stay together.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that the early
practitioners of what we call magic...
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were really individuals in possession
of advanced extraterrestrial knowledge-
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[ Thunderclap ]
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Knowledge that could change
the course of human history?
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Ancient-astronaut theorists believe
that such an audacious notion...
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is, in fact, possible...
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and believe further evidence
may be found...
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in the legends of a mysterious device-
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one so powerful
it could make its user disappear.
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[ Narrator] Dallas, Texas.
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2011.
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Researchers at the University
of Texas's Nana Tech institute...
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discover a process that can
actually make objects invisible.
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These scientists spin
tiny carbon fibers into sheets...
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and submerge them into water.
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An electrical charge heats the material...
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and changes the way
the surrounding water bends light...
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making an object appear to vanish
at the turn of a switch.
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[ Man ] We are not actually seeing
around the object we're cloaking.
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What we're doing is we're using
the heated carbon nanotube sheet...
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to bend light.
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So when we think we're looking
in a particular direction...
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we're actually looking
at neighboring seawater.
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We're using very extraordinary materials
to accomplish our mirage cloaking.
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[ Narrator] But as innovative
as this remarkable technology is...
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stories of devices with similar powers
can be found throughout history.
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Serifos, Greece.
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It was here, on this tiny island
in the Aegean Sea...
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the ancient Greeks believed
the hero Perseus set off...
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on a seemingly impossible mission...
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to kill the fearsome Gorgon Medusa.
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So Perseus had this incredible challenge,
because Medusa was powerful...
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and you just look at her and die.
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So it is a true dangerous situation
for the hero.
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[ Narrator ]
According to mythology...
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Perseus ls given a magical helmet
that ultimately ensures his success.
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Called the Helm of Darkness...
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the cap belonged to Hades,
the god of the underworld.
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Perseus goes on this adventure with the
help of a number of the Greek gods.
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He is given a number of mythological items
that are going to help him on his journey.
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He is given the Cap of Hades
which will make him invisible.
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He then successfully kills Medusa.
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[ Screeching ]
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And the other two Gorgons
try to find him...
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but they can't see him because
he's wearing the Helm of Invisibility.
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[ Narrator] Did the Helm of Darkness
really make Perseus disappear?
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Or might there be another,
perhaps more scientific explanation?
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This could be an ancient example
of an advanced technology...
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using the bendable nature of light...
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and laws of physics
that we're now aware of...
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to make something that seems
to be impossible very attainable...
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and with a technology that anyone
could use if they wanted to.
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[ Narrator] Is Hades's helmet
evidence of an alien technology...
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once used in ancient times?
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And if so, might the tales of other
magical devices in the distant past...
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offer proof
that our ancestors had access...
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to other even more highly advanced
extraterrestrial tools?
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Panza, Italy.
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Located in the Mediterranean Sea,
this crescent-shaped island...
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is thought to be the legendary home
of the Greek goddess Circe-
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a goddess thought to possess
a wand with remarkable power.
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But the notion of a wand
as an instrument of magic...
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can be traced back even farther...
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back to the very origins
of magic itself.
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The idea of magic comes from the area
known as Persia, or Iran.
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This is from Zoroaster-
the Zoroastrian traditions and rituals.
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The magi-
the priests of that belief system-
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would use a handful of wands
as a magical intercession...
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a way to connect
the unseen world and the seen.
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Magicians and leaders of all kind
use staffs and verges...
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and rods and wands, scepters, maces-
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all from similar traditions.
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[ Narrator] The ancient accounts
of Circe's famous wand...
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describe it as a formidable weapon...
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capable of producing
astonishing physical transformations.
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[ TSOUKALOS ]
According to Greek mythology...
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Circe was the daughter of Helios,
the god of the sun.
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And according to those legends,
she was incredibly beautiful.
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In fact, she was radiant.
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She was glowing
because she was not of this earth.
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The ancient Greeks considered her
the goddess of magic.
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The stories surrounding Circe
usually refer to her powerful wand...
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with which she was able
to transform people into animals.
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[Sowers ]
There's a famous story in the Odyssey...
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where Odysseus and his men
land on a mysterious island...
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and they come upon a house where there's
a woman inside who's singing songs.
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And the songs that she sings
sort of lure the men into the house...
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and Circe says that
she's going to entertain them.
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And in the course of her interactions
with them...
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she pulls out a wand
and touches them with it.
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As a result, the men
are then transformed into pigs.
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[ Pigs Squealing ]
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[Young ]
The idea of transformation is fascinating.
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There was fear in the ancient world...
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that you could be changed into a wolf
or some other animal.
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And then it was imagined that
some people with extraordinary powers...
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could do this to you against your will.
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And that was greatly feared.
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And a good deal of magical practice
was to try to avoid such a calamity.
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[ Narrator] Was Circe's magic wand
simply a mythological invention...
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one rooted in mankind's
primitive imagination and superstition...
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as mainstream scholars suggest?
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Or might this incredible device
have actually existed?
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Because we all know that all of these
myths have a core of truth to them...
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something that happened
in real life.
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And so when we talk about
powerful wands...
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that are used in order
to transform people into animals-
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The only thing that something
like this could have happened...
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is if it was a technological device.
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[Wilcock] Is it possible, however,
that an extremely advanced technology...
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could actually somehow generate
a shape-shifting effect...
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and completely retool the D.N.A...
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the physical tissues,
the flesh of a living human being?
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Many different ancient legends
describe some sort of handheld device...
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that had incredible capability
to do things...
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that would seem to be magical
or even impossible.
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We see Vishnu's spear.
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We see Thor's hammer.
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[ Thunderclaps ]
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We see Zeus's thunderbolt.
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This could very well all be examples
of a handheld technology...
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that extraterrestrial humans
who look like us did possess.
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[ Narrator]
Milght Circe have come from a divine...
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possibly extraterrestrial lineage?
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And if so, could her wand have been based
on highly advanced alien technology?
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00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:21,325
Ancient-astronaut theorists
believe such an idea is possible...
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and believe more evidence
can be found in the stories...
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of one of the most epic and destructive
confrontations in religious history.
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[ Narrator ]
Qantir, the Nile Delta. Egypt.
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Sixty miles northeast of Cairo.
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Many historians believe
that beneath these fields...
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lie the ancient ruins
of the lost city of Pi-Ramesse.
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In the 13th century B. C....
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during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II...
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this city served as the capital of Egypt
and, according to some theologians...
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was the historical site
of the 10 plagues of Egypt...
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as described in the
biblical Book of Exodus.
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[ Man ]
We have the story of the Exodus...
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which is the story of the Hebrew people
leaving Egypt.
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And so Moses is going to be the liberator.
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He's chosen by God, i.e. Yahweh...
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to go to Pharaoh
and say, “Let my people go.”
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00:31:31,973 --> 00:31:36,479
[ Man ] Moses is told by this angel
inside the burning bush...
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that he must go to Pharaoh and convince him
to release 700,000 Hebrews.
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00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:45,245
The next thing that most people know...
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is that he's in the court of Pharaoh
challenging Pharaoh's magicians.
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[Young ] In the very ancient
civilization of Egypt...
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magicians played an important part
in the court of the pharaoh.
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They protected the pharaoh
from dark powers.
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They healed him from time to time.
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They gave him legitimacy
with the people.
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They were vital in the court life
in ancient Egypt.
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[ Pendragon ]
The Egyptians had no word for “religion.”
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For them, magic was their religion.
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00:32:19,396 --> 00:32:22,775
It was around them.
It was part of them.
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00:32:22,858 --> 00:32:27,489
It was the power of their deities.
It created their deities.
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00:32:27,571 --> 00:32:30,450
It was a constant force in their life.
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So to study magic,
to understand magic...
462
00:32:33,827 --> 00:32:35,829
was to understand the world.
463
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,761
[ Man ] Egyptians were the
masters of natural magic.
464
00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:46,890
They understood how magic really works-
465
00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,888
how you could use nature...
466
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:53,564
and use the power of a human mind
to create an effect.
467
00:32:54,139 --> 00:32:56,033
[ Narrator ]
According to the biblical account...
468
00:32:56,057 --> 00:33:00,733
God instructs Moses to give the pharaoh
a demonstration of his divine power-
469
00:33:02,189 --> 00:33:05,193
one that will force him to free
the Israelite slaves.
470
00:33:07,068 --> 00:33:08,695
[ Whip Cracks ]
471
00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:10,872
[ Man ]
In order to help compel Pharaoh...
472
00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:14,952
Moses throws down his staff
so it turns into a serpent.
473
00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:18,881
The Egyptian magicians, they look at that
and they go, “Gosh, we can do this too.”
474
00:33:19,581 --> 00:33:23,176
[ Cooke ] All of the magicians throw
their rods down on the ground.
475
00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:24,719
They all turn into snakes.
476
00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:28,014
But Moses' snake eats
all those other snakes.
477
00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:30,888
And that's the beginning
of what we know as probably...
478
00:33:30,967 --> 00:33:33,186
the greatest magic contest
ever recorded.
479
00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:39,648
[ Pendragon ] God is equipping Moses to
face off Pharaoh and Pharaoh's magicians.
480
00:33:40,393 --> 00:33:43,021
It is a literal battle of sorcerers.
481
00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:46,574
[ Narrator]
The confrontation quickly escalates...
482
00:33:46,650 --> 00:33:51,406
as God proceeds to unleash a series
of 10 increasingly devastating plagues...
483
00:33:51,488 --> 00:33:53,365
on the people of Egypt.
484
00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:58,295
[ Mullins ] In the first plague, Moses
touches his staff to the Nile River...
485
00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,122
and it becomes blood.
486
00:34:01,081 --> 00:34:03,675
But the magicians
are able to do this as well.
487
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:09,931
In the second plague, Moses multiplies
frogs, but so can the magicians.
488
00:34:10,006 --> 00:34:13,510
Although once they do it,
they can't get rid of the frogs.
489
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:15,311
In the third plague...
490
00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:19,813
Moses brings about gnats,
or some think lice.
491
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:21,564
So for each of these plagues...
492
00:34:21,643 --> 00:34:23,987
they begin to increase
in their severity.
493
00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:27,403
And up through the third plague...
494
00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:32,579
the Egyptian magicians are able to
replicate everything Moses is doing.
495
00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:38,828
But finally, they have to concede that,
you know, this is the finger of God...
496
00:34:38,910 --> 00:34:42,585
and beyond this,
we can't challenge him anymore.
497
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:45,334
What we're seeing here is very strange.
498
00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:49,968
We're seeing a magic competition
that God is continuing...
499
00:34:50,046 --> 00:34:52,174
forcing a continuance of this.
500
00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:58,355
And it eventually leads to the death
of every firstborn male in Egypt...
501
00:34:59,180 --> 00:35:02,434
which finally ends the entire thing.
502
00:35:02,517 --> 00:35:06,988
And Moses takes not only
the 700,000 Hebrews out...
503
00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:11,284
but generally considered to be
between one and two million Egyptians...
504
00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:15,114
go with him, as well,
on what we now know as the Exodus.
505
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:19,743
[Young ] So what had begun
as a battle of magic tricks-
506
00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:22,329
turning staffs into serpents-
507
00:35:22,412 --> 00:35:25,507
becomes really a horrific bloodbath.
508
00:35:25,582 --> 00:35:30,634
That is, as the resistance continues,
Yahweh keeps upping the ante.
509
00:35:30,712 --> 00:35:32,840
The plagues get worse and worse.
510
00:35:32,922 --> 00:35:35,425
Now, these are supernatural events.
511
00:35:35,508 --> 00:35:38,307
We don't know how they were done,
how they transpired...
512
00:35:38,386 --> 00:35:42,311
but the shift in history happened
because of the plagues.
513
00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:44,734
So magic prevailed.
514
00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:48,029
Theologians will say
this was God that did this.
515
00:35:49,189 --> 00:35:52,159
I have a different theory.
I don't think God is mean.
516
00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:54,986
I don't think God goes out and kills.
517
00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:58,574
And so it could have been extraterrestrial.
518
00:35:59,908 --> 00:36:02,832
[ Narrator] Might the story
of the 10 plagues of Egypt...
519
00:36:02,911 --> 00:36:05,334
really be an account
of a deadly contest...
520
00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:09,839
between humans in possession
of extraterrestrial technology...
521
00:36:09,918 --> 00:36:12,512
as ancient-astronaut theorists believe?
522
00:36:13,421 --> 00:36:15,469
[ CHILDRESS ]
The ancient Egyptians believed...
523
00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:18,677
that they learned magic
from their gods...
524
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:23,516
and these extraterrestrial gods
had taught them these powers.
525
00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:27,648
Suddenly, they found out that they were
up against a more powerful force...
526
00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:30,697
a more powerful magic than they had.
527
00:36:32,107 --> 00:36:36,032
We're not dealing with
two indigenous human cultures...
528
00:36:36,111 --> 00:36:37,863
battling it out here on Earth.
529
00:36:37,946 --> 00:36:39,698
We're dealing with people on Earth...
530
00:36:39,781 --> 00:36:42,910
in a war that they could not win
against extraterrestrials.
531
00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:48,206
[TSOUKALOS]
In many of the ancient texts...
532
00:36:48,289 --> 00:36:52,089
it seems apparent
that the gods actually took sides.
533
00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:54,546
They were involved in battles.
534
00:36:54,629 --> 00:37:00,682
Soto suggest that they might have been
also involved in plagues is plausible.
535
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:05,687
So the question is, was it really God
who unleashed these plagues upon Egypt...
536
00:37:05,765 --> 00:37:09,395
or was it in fact an extraterrestrial?
537
00:37:09,477 --> 00:37:11,980
And according
to the ancient-astronaut theory...
538
00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:15,863
it was a misunderstood,
misinterpreted extraterrestrial...
539
00:37:15,942 --> 00:37:20,118
who in this particular case
sided with the Israelites.
540
00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:25,411
[ Narrator] Might the incredible power
wielded by Moses against the Egyptians...
541
00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:29,214
have been of an extraterrestrial origin-
542
00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:32,293
a power based as much on science...
543
00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:36,676
as on an extraordinary knowledge
of the powers of the human mind?
544
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:42,436
Many ancient-astronaut theorists
believe the answer is yes...
545
00:37:42,510 --> 00:37:45,764
and that the key to what
many perceive as magic...
546
00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:49,067
can be found not only on other worlds...
547
00:37:49,142 --> 00:37:51,941
but right within the human body.
548
00:37:55,356 --> 00:37:57,199
[ Siren Wailing In Distance]
549
00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:01,196
[ Narrator ]
New York City. 2012.
550
00:38:03,698 --> 00:38:07,168
Magician David Blaine
begins a 72-hour stint...
551
00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:11,089
standing in the middle
of a million volts of electrical current...
552
00:38:11,164 --> 00:38:13,713
protected by only a suit of armor.
553
00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:18,638
But is it a mere trick, an illusion?
554
00:38:18,713 --> 00:38:23,389
Or is it evidence
that what we call magic actually exists?
555
00:38:24,761 --> 00:38:27,156
[ MAGLIOCCO ] We're interested
in people like David Blaine...
556
00:38:27,180 --> 00:38:31,902
because we find those things amazing.
557
00:38:31,976 --> 00:38:35,446
It just pushes the boundaries
of what human beings are capable of.
558
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:39,243
And I think that we ask ourselves,
could we be capable of such a thing?
559
00:38:40,652 --> 00:38:43,826
[ Pendragon ]
We will embrace the endurance effects.
560
00:38:43,905 --> 00:38:48,251
We will embrace them
because we think this might be real.
561
00:38:49,410 --> 00:38:52,334
Well, maybe there's something to this.
Maybe there isn't a trick.
562
00:38:52,413 --> 00:38:56,634
Maybe I can evolve into a person...
563
00:38:56,709 --> 00:38:59,212
able to do this kind of magic.
564
00:39:01,256 --> 00:39:05,227
We are quite literally searching...
565
00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:07,429
for the supernatural in ourselves.
566
00:39:12,308 --> 00:39:14,060
[ Narrator ] Izu Oshima.
567
00:39:14,143 --> 00:39:16,487
Sixty miles south of Tokyo.
568
00:39:17,772 --> 00:39:20,901
It was here, in the seventh century B.C...
569
00:39:20,984 --> 00:39:25,581
that a legendary Japanese mystic
known as En no Gyoja...
570
00:39:25,655 --> 00:39:28,955
was banished
for his so-called magical powers.
571
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:33,292
[Young ] En no Gyoja was the founder
of an ascetic teaching.
572
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:36,716
“Shugendo” means the practice
of training and testing.
573
00:39:36,791 --> 00:39:39,214
This tradition from the seventh century...
574
00:39:39,294 --> 00:39:45,552
done up in the mountains with great physical,
arduous exercises and discipline...
575
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:51,356
is said to lead to an access to supernatural
powers beyond our understanding.
576
00:39:53,766 --> 00:39:55,484
[ Pendragon ]
En no Gyoja's magic...
577
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,315
differs from our European
concepts of magic in many ways.
578
00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,570
This is something
that you bring out of yourself.
579
00:40:03,276 --> 00:40:08,999
He would go high into the mountains-
less oxygen, isolated, less food.
580
00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:11,826
Just one lapse of concentration
and you die.
581
00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:15,964
And then also meditating
in the middle of a waterfall.
582
00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:20,419
That's where he finds silence.
That's where he finds control.
583
00:40:22,128 --> 00:40:24,631
[ Steavu ] Even historical records
depict En no Gyoja...
584
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:28,764
as someone who was endowed
with magical capacities...
585
00:40:28,843 --> 00:40:34,191
and the ability to also summon
and control demons and spirits.
586
00:40:35,058 --> 00:40:40,610
En no Gyoja was also known for his ability
to ride five-colored clouds.
587
00:40:40,688 --> 00:40:44,033
He was also set to be executed
a number of times.
588
00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:47,738
And every time the executioner's ax
landed on the back of his neck...
589
00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:50,448
the ax actually shattered to pieces.
590
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:56,083
[TSOUKALOS ] Still today,
we're making ongoing discoveries...
591
00:40:56,162 --> 00:41:01,043
about the capabilities and potential
of the human brain and body.
592
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:05,631
So it's possible that in the stories
and legends of En no Gyoja...
593
00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:09,013
we're seeing someone who was able
to somehow access knowledge...
594
00:41:09,092 --> 00:41:14,064
that was already hardwired
into our own D.N.A. by extraterrestrials.
595
00:41:16,349 --> 00:41:20,195
[ Narrator] Is it possible that ancient
magicians like En no Gyoja...
596
00:41:20,269 --> 00:41:23,899
were able to tap into incredible
extraterrestrial abilities...
597
00:41:23,982 --> 00:41:26,280
embedded within the human body?
598
00:41:27,986 --> 00:41:32,742
And might this explain similar feats
performed by more modern magicians...
599
00:41:32,824 --> 00:41:35,168
like Harry Houdini...
600
00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:37,746
and David Blaine?
601
00:41:38,579 --> 00:41:43,801
[Wilcock ] Magic appears to be a
derivation of extraterrestrial technology.
602
00:41:45,461 --> 00:41:48,840
It's the accessing of
the human potential...
603
00:41:48,923 --> 00:41:52,268
using the technology of the human form.
604
00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:57,190
Magic derived from
extraterrestrial beings...
605
00:41:57,265 --> 00:42:02,988
seems to be the linkage that they gave us
to enable us to become more like them.
606
00:42:04,439 --> 00:42:06,533
[ Narrator ]
Do ancient accounts of magic...
607
00:42:06,607 --> 00:42:10,703
really suggest evidence of advanced,
otherworldly knowledge-
608
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:14,408
a knowledge given to early humans
as a means of helping them...
609
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:18,370
unlock their own,
some might say divine potential?
610
00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:20,046
[ Chanting In Native Language]
611
00:42:20,121 --> 00:42:22,123
[Young ] We are drawn to magic.
612
00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:24,880
We need something extraordinary...
613
00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:28,634
that allows us
to transcend everyday life...
614
00:42:28,713 --> 00:42:32,183
and what we sense as
profound limits and frustrations...
615
00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:36,308
to what we would like to be
and like to do.
616
00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:39,106
It is both a fantasy release...
617
00:42:39,182 --> 00:42:41,856
and, to a degree, a bit of a map...
618
00:42:41,934 --> 00:42:46,280
that we might be able
to reach further than we think...
619
00:42:46,355 --> 00:42:50,110
that we might be able to do more
than humans have done before...
620
00:42:50,193 --> 00:42:52,366
that we might be more than this.
621
00:42:54,947 --> 00:43:00,329
[Wilcock ] Magic enables latent potentials
that we're not supposed to have.
622
00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:05,338
But throughout history, many people
have demonstrated those capabilities.
623
00:43:05,416 --> 00:43:08,010
They've been witnessed.
It's been written down...
624
00:43:08,086 --> 00:43:11,511
and passed along
with great excitement and enthusiasm.
625
00:43:13,049 --> 00:43:15,486
[ COPPENS ] And then the question is,
where did they get this from?
626
00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:17,387
Did they develop this on their own...
627
00:43:17,470 --> 00:43:20,098
or was it somehow
given to them by the gods?
628
00:43:20,181 --> 00:43:25,028
In each occasion, we find that
our ancestors specifically state...
629
00:43:25,103 --> 00:43:29,153
that magic is given to mankind
by the gods-
630
00:43:30,316 --> 00:43:34,037
by nonhuman intelligences,
by extraterrestrial beings.
631
00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:41,586
[ Narrator] Did ancient magic
really have an otherworldly origin?
632
00:43:42,286 --> 00:43:45,335
And was it based not on mere trickery...
633
00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:49,794
but on advanced knowledge of science
and the powers of the human brain?
634
00:43:50,586 --> 00:43:56,593
Perhaps we will discover the answer
when we open our eyes to the possibility...
635
00:43:56,676 --> 00:43:59,976
that what we think we know
is an illusion...
636
00:44:00,054 --> 00:44:05,185
and what we think is illusion
may very well be real.
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