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NARRATOR: They can control nature.

DAVID WILCOCK: Clouds come swirling in,

lightning is coming down.

NARRATOR: They can access other dimensions...

WILLIAM HENRY: This energy enables them to travel

into the realm of the spirit beings.

NARRATOR: And connect with otherworldly beings.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Those creatures actually existed

in physical form.

NARRATOR: Throughout history, spiritual leaders

known as shamans have healed, protected,

and advised their people,

but are they simply putting on elaborate ceremonies,

or is there something more to their rituals?

DAVID CHILDRESS: In a sense, in these shamanistic states,

you're tapping into extraterrestrial powers.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might the evidence lie with mystical healers

known as the shamans?

Northern China, 1211 A.D.

5 years after uniting the nomadic tribes of Mongolia,

Genghis Khan launches a brutal invasion

against Chinese Jin forces.

Despite being severely outnumbered, the Mongol army

decimates their enemy in what is believed to be

one of the bloodiest battles in Genghis Khan's

more than 20 years of conquest.

By the time of his death in 1227, his empire,

covering most of Asia, Russia, and parts of Europe

had become the largest in the world.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Genghis Khan was a great warrior.

He amassed one of the most awesome armies

in the history of the planet, and he would go up

the mountains to commune with the sky gods to gain

power for his battles.

NARRATOR: According to historical accounts,

the Great Khan was also described as relying

on powerful magic to create severe weather on demand,

like hail storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes

to confound and defeat his enemies.

WILCOCK: They march into battle, and the next thing you know,

clouds come swirling in, lightning is coming down,

rain is falling down,

ice is falling down, chunks of hail, snow.

The soldiers are not equipped for this sudden burst of cold.

They're shivering, they're freezing, they're slipping

and falling on the ice, and then they get totally

wiped out by the invading Mongolian army.

What was remarkable about Genghis Khan is that

we tend to think about him today as being

this despotic, mad, cruel ruler.

He was a priest king, something known as a shaman.

NARRATOR: In Mongolian culture, certain members

of the tribe were thought to have the ability to

communicate directly with the gods, accessing

seemingly supernatural powers and information.

These holy prophets were commonly known as shamans.

Is it possible that Genghis Khan, one

of the greatest conquerors in human history,

used his connection with the divine to build

the massive Mongol empire,

and if so, just what does it mean

to be a shaman?

For thousands of years, in cultures throughout

the world, shamans have been described as intermediaries

who provide a link between humans

and otherworldly beings.

Known in some cultures as medicine men

or witch doctors, they are believed to have the power

to travel to other realms in order to bring back

healing, wisdom, and guidance to their people.

The word "shaman" originated

with the indigenous people of Siberia and means

simply "to know."

RONALD HUTTON: Shamans think of the universe as

being constructed in different layers, one

on top of each other, each one containing

a separate world.

One of the skills of the shaman is to be able to

travel herself or himself between these different

worlds in spirit form.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: Shamans are people who enter those

realms and negotiate with the intelligent beings that

inhabit those realms.

NARRATOR: But are shamans simply experiencing

hallucinations, daydreams manifested in their minds?

Or is it possible that their visions are real?

Dismissed by some today as madmen or charlatans,

in the ancient world, shamans like Genghis Khan

often held positions of great influence,

and ancient astronaut theorists claim the stories

of these shamans reveal a connection to

otherworldly beings.

Copán, Western Honduras.

In the ruins of this archaeological site, once

a major Mayan city that thrived from 400 to 800 A.D.,

stands a statue of one of its most powerful ancient kings.

Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,

commonly known as 18 Rabbit.

PHILLIPS: Around 2,000 years ago, the Mayan empire

was at its height, and they had a king

by the name of 18 Rabbit.

The rabbit, to the ancient Mayans,

represented the Moon.

So basically, 18 Rabbit was considered to be

an incarnation of the Moon god, and he is said to have

had all sorts of miraculous powers.

NARRATOR: By the end of his 44-year reign,

18 Rabbit had erected 7 stone pillars,

each depicting him interacting with the divine.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS: The stela of Copán shows.

King 18 Rabbit standing in the center

of the universe.

But on the side of him is a portal to another world.

So it would seem to be telling us that he had

access to the other world, as well as being

the commander and chief of this world.

EDWIN BARNHART: Today, we separate politics

and religion.

In the past, especially for the Maya, that was

not the case.

To be the king was to also be supernatural,

to have shamanic ability.

You were not just a king, you were a shaman king.

And 18 Rabbit, like every other king in the dynasty

of Copán and in the cities around them, was a shaman.

NARRATOR: According to Maya tradition, shaman kings

like 18 Rabbit would connect with otherworldly

beings through a process known as bloodletting.

LOGAN HAWKES: The Mayan king would put a spine

through his hand.

Blood would be collected by the shaman into a piece

of paper, and it would then be put

into a fire, and it would smoke.

And by watching this smoke rise, the shaman could see

what actions they were supposed to take according

to the will of the gods revealed in the smoke that

was made by the blood of the king or the ruler.

BARNHART: The right to rulership for a Maya king,

the thing that the people followed him for was his

ability to contact the other world.

Through shamanic ceremonies, he was able to

ask for the favor of the gods for the people.

HENRY: 18 Rabbit was a very powerful shaman king.

And you have to ask is it possible that these gods

could be extraterrestrials?

And perhaps it was the guidance of these

extraterrestrial beings that made him such

a powerful leader.

TSOUKALOS: All around the world, we can

hear stories of how shamans state that they were

in communications with beings from other worlds.

Is it possible that what we see in the experiences

of ancient shamans is extraterrestrial-human contact?

And this contact wasn't seen as something dangerous

or strange but rather as a means for moving humanity

forward due to new and important knowledge received.

NARRATOR: Were kings like 18 Rabbit really

communicating with divine, perhaps even

extraterrestrial, beings?

Was it this otherworldly guidance that made them

so powerful?

But if so, where did these ancient shaman learn how to

access these incredible abilities?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be

found by examining the transformative

and sometimes dangerous process

of becoming a shaman.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 27, 2014.

A Peruvian-born shaman leads a group

of participants in an ancient Andean practice.

Known as a despacho ceremony, this ritual dates

back thousands of years.

OSCAR MIRO-QUESADA: In Peru, despachos, or...

[Speaks foreign language]

Which are offerings, have existed since the first

pre-Columbian peoples settled the Andes

and coastal area.

A despacho consists of a ritual honoring

with reverence our ancestral star relatives

in the cosmos that have been guiding the evolution

of humankind on planet Earth.

Every time I perform a Pachacuti ritual,

portals are opened,

conduits between the Earth and the sky are revealed.

[Trumpeting]

WILCOCK: It is believed that through ceremonies

such as the despacho shamans are in fact able to

access these so-called nonlocal realms of being

in the universe.

That helps to unify those of Earth with those

from the sky.

NARRATOR: If shamans really are able to access these

so-called nonlocal realms, how are they doing it?

And who or what has chosen them to be the ones to

communicate with beings from beyond our world?

MIRO-QUESADA: I came into this shamanic tradition as

a result of deep curiosity as a child.

[Speaking foreign language]

I learned from my two primary mentors

in folk healing known as curanderismo the following.

The spirit world is here with us.

Let us celebrate through that portal to the stars.

I was introduced to a universe in which seen as

well as unseen relatives and allies

and spirit helpers abound, and forming relationships

with these spirit helpers was the foundation

of my apprenticeship.

NARRATOR: But who are the spirit helpers?

Are they actual beings who exist in a realm most of us

are unable to experience?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer may be

found in the story of a famous Native American shaman.

Bighorn Mountain Range, Wyoming.

Nearly 10,000 feet up on a desolate peak that is

only accessible during the brief summer months lies

a structure known as the Bighorn Medicine Wheel.

This massive stone circle measures over 75 feet

in diameter and contains 28 spokes representing

the lunar cycle.

By studying the astronomical alignments

of the stones, researchers were able to date

the construction of the site

to approximately 1200 A.D.

Although it is held sacred by over 60 different.

Native American tribes, just who built

the Medicine Wheel remains a mystery.

So the Bighorn Medicine Wheel is significant to

a lot of tribes because it has this connection to

a lot of different traditions in terms

of star knowledge and star power and ceremony.

NARRATOR: According to the oral tradition

of the Crow tribe, the 19th century leader.

Red Plume made a journey to the Medicine Wheel

as a young man that shaped his destiny

as a powerful shaman and chief.

BURKHART: With the Medicine Wheel, you connect

to particular constellations that are kind of like

vortexes between certain star energy and certain.

Earth energy, and the Medicine Wheel seems

to be creating some place that marks the particular spot

at a particular time where those star energies

and Earth energies and human energy come together.

NARRATOR: During what the Crow tribe call his

vision quest, Red Plume claimed to have encountered

a mysterious race of beings he called "little people."

DAVID CHILDRESS: He was visited, he said, by these

little men who then took him inside the Earth into

some kind of a vortex wormhole.

There, they taught him secrets of medicine.

There are lots of stories about little people

in Native tradition across the Americas.

The little people come from another planet,

and they kind of play around with human beings,

but they're also protectors of them, teaching them even

through that playfulness.

CHILDRESS: Is it possible that this medicine man was

actually meeting with extraterrestrials who then

taught him some medical secrets and then allowed

him to return back to his people?

[Caws]

TSOUKALOS: These stories didn't originate in our

ancestors' imagination.

There is a core of truth to all those stories.

And so those beings, are they, in reality,

of extraterrestrial origin, something physical,

flesh and blood?

Absolutely.

Those beings are the progenitors of knowledge.

NARRATOR: Could the stories of the Bighorn Medicine Wheel

be describing extraterrestrial contact?

Is this where shamans, like Red Plume, acquired wisdom

from otherworldly beings?

In cultures throughout the world, there are stories

of shamanic initiation at the hands

of so-called spirits.

Oftentimes, the process is described as dangerous.

In fact, many healers are said to be taken against

their will for this instruction.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: When shamans narrate their life stories,

they usually do not say, "Well, I chose to be a shaman."

The healer does not choose her or his profession.

They are chosen by the spirits.

DAVID CUMES: The shaman is usually called,

and there's some sort of wound that the shaman sustains.

It can be any bizarre malady... being struck by

lightning, epileptic fits, a bad accident, anything

that wounds the person and enables them to go inward.

It's quite a hardship, you know.

It's not something that anybody who really knows

about it would readily undertake.

HUTTON: Once the spirits have got you, you either

die or remain permanently sick or become a shaman.

There aren't a lot of ways out.

You often go mad for a bit or fall sick for a bit,

as the spirits take possession of you, and then you go

through a visionary process in which, for example,

quite often you feel your entire body being taken

apart and then put back together again.

And when you're back together again, you're

starting to acquire the abilities to travel

through time and space.

NARRATOR: Why would so many of these traditional

healers share this belief that they had been chosen

and physically changed by spirits?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more

clues can be found by examining the similarities

between these shamanic experiences and the stories

of modern-day UFO abductions.

HANCOCK: People who believe they've been abducted by

aliens will speak of implants being put

in their bodies, put there by the aliens.

Exactly the same experiences are reported

in much more traditional cultures,

shamanistic cultures.

The construal there is that this is being done by

the spirits, and the similarity between the two experiences

are very, very, very strong and very, very powerful.

CHILDRESS: Perhaps what's happening is that you're

really in contact with some kind of extraterrestrials,

and in a sense in these shamanistic states, you're

tapping into what we would almost call

extraterrestrial powers.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that shamans receive their

mysterious powers through alien abductions,

and might this explain why shamans all over the world claim

to have a connection to other realms?

Perhaps the answers can be found in the strange

and powerful visions experienced by shamans

in the Amazon.

The Amazon Jungle, Peru.

Stretching from the Andes Mountains to the eastern

shores of Brazil, this rain forest is home to more than

80,000 species of plants, many of which

shamans and religious healers have consumed

for thousands of years as a way to access realms they

say are inhabited by otherworldly beings.

In the Amazon, one of the shaman's jobs aside

from going to the other world and speaking with

the spirits is to find the plants right here on Earth

that can heal the people of his tribe,

and in the Amazonian belief systems, each plant

in the jungle has its own spirit...

and one of the shaman's gifts is that he can communicate

with these plant spirits.

Originating in the central Andes of South America,

ayahuasca, meaning "the vine of the souls," is

a psychedelic brew consisting of two different

types of plants cooked with water.

ROSS HEAVEN: And this is drunk by the shaman

in order to enter the spirit world to gain

information about diseases, to foresee the future,

to carry out a healing for somebody.

We know some of the history of ayahuasca

because archaeologists have found artifacts from

the rain forest which date back 3,500 or 4,000 years,

but those are only the surviving artifacts

that they found.

Potentially, this could go back to

the beginning of time.

NARRATOR: Ayahuasca contains dimethyltryptamine, or DMT,

one of the most powerful

hallucinogens known to man, but strangely, this

chemical compound only works when consumed under

precise conditions.

Ingest DMT, it's inactivated

in the intestine by certain enzymes.

So in order to get the DMT to be activated and to be

able to be absorbed, they had to combine it

with other plants.

HANCOCK: Ayahuasca contains a mixture of two plants.

There's actually quite subtle and sophisticated

knowledge of plants goes into the preparation

because these two things separately will not work.

You have to mix them together, and let's not

forget that there's 150,000 different

species of plants and trees in the Amazon.

It's really quite an amazing achievement

of ancient chemistry to bring these two plants

together to produce a highly psychoactive

visionary brew.

NARRATOR: But how did ancient people living

in the jungles of Peru over 3,000 years ago

with tens of thousands of plants to choose from

figure out that combining these two particular plants

would produce these powerful visions?

According to the mythology of the Achuar people

of the Amazon, their ancestors didn't discover

this on their own but were guided by

extraterrestrial beings.

HEAVEN: The shamans communicated with their

spirits and were told to go into the jungle and turn

two corners, as the myth goes, and then they would

find this plant,

and they brought that back to the village,

prepared it in the appropriate way.

WILCOCK: The oral tradition says that ayahuasca is

a linkage to the upper world.

And it is entirely possible that they were given this

gift by their own gods, which may be extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: If the Achuar story of how their

ancestors discovered ayahuasca is true, could

they have been guided not by spirits but by

extraterrestrial beings, beings who communicated

with them on another plane of reality?

Between 1990 and 1995, scientists

at the University of New Mexico administered DMT,

the active ingredient in ayahuasca,

to 60 volunteers and discovered shocking results.

HENRY: Medical researchers actually administered DMT

to patients in a controlled medical setting,

and they had exactly the same experiences as those

reported in the jungles of South America

and elsewhere who are experiencing ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca users typically experience hallucinations

in the visual form, and a lot of them say that they

see other beings,

and a lot of them say that they get

messages sent to them from these beings.

In several cases, those intelligent entities said

to them roughly the following...

"We're so pleased you've discovered this technology."

"Now we can communicate with you more often."

Perhaps what we're dealing with here is intelligent

inhabitants of other dimensions.

NARRATOR: Why would so many people report such similar

experiences while using ayahuasca?

Is it possible DMT provides access to another realm?

HEAVEN: Some shamans believe that plants like

ayahuasca have an extraterrestrial origin,

that they drifted here as space spores perhaps

and then came to Earth on comets, started growing here,

and perhaps they even had an agenda.

Perhaps they are communication from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible extraterrestrials gave

the ancients the recipe for this powerful concoction as

a way to communicate healing powers

with shamans, and if so, might the very core

of mankind's knowledge about medicine have

come from an otherworldly source?

Hua Shan Mountain, China.

This 7,000-foot-high peak in the Shaanxi province

is believed to have been the place where.

Shennong, a benevolent emperor that ruled the area

more than 4,500 years ago, was conceived.

According to accounts from the Han dynasty, Shennong

not only introduced agriculture to mankind

but also developed a profound knowledge

of Chinese herbs.

DOMINIC STEAVU: Shennong pledged that he would

venture out into the world and test every plant

on the planet in order to determine its benefits

for humans and also to catalog, uh, the more toxic

or dangerous effects of ingesting these plants.

Sometimes he would ingest, of course, poisonous

plants, and he would suffer poisonings up to 70

times per day.

NARRATOR: More than 2,000 years later,

Shennong's findings were compiled in.

"The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic,"

a medical journal that became one of the foundations

of Chinese medicine.

But just how could this mysterious being have

tested so many herbs, some even containing

deadly poisons?

CHILDRESS: Shennong was a quite unusual person.

It's said that he had a transparent stomach,

and he himself, after ingesting these poisons, would look

into his own stomach and see how these poisons were

interacting with himself, and then he would take

the antidotes for it.

So you have to wonder if he's not some kind

of extraterrestrial.

HENRY: Shennong could, in fact, have been an astral

or star being who came to Earth to teach

the secrets of healing.

TSOUKALOS: This idea would explain his strange

appearance and also his ability to withstand

ingesting poisonous plants without ever being harmed.

NARRATOR: Might Shennong have been an alien visitor,

one who traveled to Earth in order to educate mankind

about medicine and the healing nature of plants?

And is this proof that ingesting DMT, a practice

that dates back thousands of years, actually connects

shamans with extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim further

evidence lies with the supernatural

healing rituals of the San Bushmen.

The Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Here, the native San Bushmen hold elaborate

fireside rituals, lasting for hours into the night.

During these ceremonies, their shamans perform

what's known as a trance dance, through which they

reach an altered state of being and access

other dimensions.

HENRY: The trance dance is thought to activate

an energy in their body called "nlum."

And this energy opens a portal of sorts that

enables them to travel into the spirit world,

and when the Bushmen activate this energy, they're able to put

their hands in the fire without being burned.

They can see vast distances, and it's as if

in every way, shape, and form, they're transformed

into super powerful beings.

NARRATOR: By accessing the power of nlum energy, it is

believed that a shaman can extract illness,

see the insides of the sick, and travel out of their own

body to the land of the gods.

CUMES: This nlum, it goes up the body, and then often

it goes out of the crown of the head, and that's

usually when the out-of-body experience occurs

and they travel to the spirit world.

I've seen a Bushman put a coal in his mouth,

and he wasn't burned.

They'll put their heads in the fire, and although

their hair might singe and even catch fire, their face

won't be burned, so something is happening

with this nlum energy.

They call it boiling energy.

It's almost like there's a vibrational change in their

whole body and probably in their DNA in some way.

NARRATOR: Could this so-called nlum energy really

be inherent in shamans, accessed only while

in a sort of dream state?

And is it possible that the genetic makeup of these

medicine men is what allows them to access

other dimensions?

PHILLIPS: The San Bushpeople have a tradition

that they are the first tribe ever created,

they're the oldest people in the world.

DNA tests have shown that they probably are,

that all other cultures and all other peoples that spread

throughout the world came originally from where

the San people are now.

WILCOCK: When we look at the San Bushmen and we see

the clear genetic evidence that they are

the primordial seed of human civilization and life

on Earth, it is possible that their DNA is

especially well-equipped to have this potential to

access these non-ordinary states of consciousness

which may, in fact, be a key to physically

journeying into them, giving these people

the ability to do things that most of us

seemingly cannot.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the San Bushmen have

special knowledge of how to alter their genetic makeup

in order to access other realms, a knowledge that is

shared by shamans around the world?

And might this knowledge or power have been given to

them by alien beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe an undeniable

connection between shamans and extraterrestrials can

be found in cave paintings that date back thousands of years.

The Lascaux Caves, Southwestern France.

Discovered in 1940 near the village of Montignac,

this cave complex is covered in Paleolithic

paintings dating back more than 17,000 years.

Anthropologists believe ancient shamans used these

subterranean chambers to perform sacred rituals,

and curiously, among the many Ice Age animals that

are depicted on the walls, there is a strange creature

that has the body of a man and the head of a bird.

HANCOCK: The technical term for such a creature is

a therianthrope, and that's from the Greek "therian,"

which means wild beast, and "anthropos,"

which means man.

Clearly these are not things that one encounters

in everyday life.

The imagery of cave art is best explained as

the experiences that shamans undergo

in a deep state of trance.

When they return from the trance state,

they then depict on the cave walls the visions that they have

seen in this deeply altered state of consciousness.

NARRATOR: The birdman found in Lascaux is reminiscent

of one of the Egyptians' most important gods... Thoth.

It is also consistent with the depiction

of the Sumerian sky gods, the Anunnaki,

but is it mere coincidence that these shamans are encountering

the same types of beings while in a trance that

the world's earliest civilizations depicted

as their gods?

WILCOCK: In all of these different indigenous

cultures around the world there are remarkable

similarities of what types of beings people claim to

be meeting when they go out of body.

This suggests that in the dream plane

and in the shamanic state, there is, in fact, a real

place that we are going and real beings that we are

encountering when we get there.

TSOUKALOS: This is where the ancient astronaut

theory suggests that they were the same teachers,

the teachers that went to all the ancient cultures

and brought them the basics for what we've

accomplished today.

HANCOCK: There was a big, noticeable change

in human behavior around 40,000 years ago, exactly

at the time that our ancestors begin to manifest

the first amazing cave art, but what is clear is that

it's not a coincidence, that at the moment that

the cave art begins, we also witness

in the archeological record a radical change

in human behavior.

NARRATOR: Could the Lascaux cave paintings be proof

that Shamans really do

communicate with extraterrestrial beings,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if shamans like those of the San Bushmen undergo

a physiological change in order to make this

connection, what might that change be?

Perhaps the answer can be found inside

the human brain.

Tepoztlán, Mexico, October 2011.

Here just 50 miles from Mexico City, shamans from

all over North and South America gather to

commemorate the region's long tradition

of shamanic healing.

Throughout the 3-day celebration,

these modern-day medicine men engage in sacred dances,

rhythmic chanting, and drumming, all methods that shamans use to

connect with other realms.

But Why?

Do these practices really effect a change within

the shamans that allows them to communicate with beings

that are otherwise beyond our perception?

In many shamanic traditions, shamans have

special tools that allow them to access

the spirit world.

Among the most important of these tools are

the shaman's drum and/or the shaman's rattle.

These are rhythm instruments that beat out

a particular rhythm that allow the shaman to enter

into trance and to journey to the world of spirits.

We see this rapid, very steady rhythm on the drum

as being a central tool in shamans being able to open

up the doors of the mind, giving voice to the unseen

realms of the cosmos.

NARRATOR: Is it merely coincidence that shamans

all over the world share the belief that by

repeating certain rhythmic movements and sounds they

can communicate with other realms, or might this

ancient practice produce a real physiological change

in the shamans themselves?

MAGLIOCCO: There's a neurological explanation

for this.

One of the ways that we can alter our consciousness is

through rhythmic movement.

So throughout the world, you see many traditions

in which people communicate with the gods by spinning,

by dancing, by doing something rhythmic.

NARRATOR: At the University of California

in San Francisco, neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley is

performing experiments using 3-D gaming technology

that actually track how drumming affects the human brain.

Participants wear virtual reality goggles

and experience both visual and auditory rhythms.

GAZZALEY: We feel that if we have a participant learn

how to entrain with different rhythms through

game mechanics, we can strengthen the rhythms

of the brain and lead to better performance, better

cognition, better memory, better attention.

And so we're recording in real time what's going

on in her brain.

You can have a rhythm going on that you're listening to,

and your brain has its own natural rhythms.

The entrainment would be that they become locked

in time such that they follow each other.

We're sort of at, like, the gateway of this

frontier now.

NARRATOR: Could rhythm and repetition hold the key

to discovering untapped potential

within the human brain?

Might shamans have been aware of this connection

for thousands of years?

And is the practice of entering a trance state

still used to access this power in other spiritual

ceremonies across the world?

Pentecostal faith healers incorporate music that

mirrors the rhythm of the heart.

Hypnosis is often achieved through the use of a pendulum.

Important that you hear the word of Christ.

NARRATOR: Priests performing exorcisms repeat phrases

over and over.

Return!

NARRATOR: Even the Catholic Rosary involves repeating

a sequence of prayers counted out on a string

of beads to communicate with Almighty God.

It seems possible that the shamans must have

understood something about the brain that we're only

rediscovering today

and how the drum in particular can affect the brain.

It's the brain who works different with the shamans

than with normal people.

I always suggested look at our brain like a gigantic

hole with big machines in there.

Some of the machines are running,

and others are dead.

Now with the shamans, some of the machines are running

which in other brains they are not working.

That makes a difference between the brain

of a shaman and the normal, the average people.

NARRATOR: Have shamans discovered the means to

communicating with extraterrestrials within

the human brain?

And does this suggest that similar powers might exist

within all of humanity, powers that we have yet to

fully realize?

McGOWAN COPPENS: As we settle into the 21st century,

our craving to be connected with what we used

to know, what we can know again, and how unlimited we

are as human beings is something that we're all seeking,

and it is through the power of shamanism,

it is with the help of these intermediaries, that we can

begin to experience this again.

HENRY: The shamans were always bringing advanced

knowledge and leading humanity forward.

They represented healing, and they represented

expansion of our consciousness.

CHILDRESS: If these shamans are really in contact

with some kind of extraterrestrial gods,

then we can see how these ETs have been purposely guiding

us throughout our history.

In many ways, they created us.

And even today, they are still manipulating

and guiding us into the future.

NARRATOR: Did shamans really communicate

with otherworldly beings in the distant past?

Is it possible that through these spiritual mediators

extraterrestrials were able to influence mankind?

And might such celestial command

continue even today?

Perhaps one day we will realize that the key to

contact with our alien ancestors does not lie

in technology that propels us to the stars

but in rediscovering abilities that already

exist deep within ourselves.