1 00:00:02,795 --> 00:00:05,381 [ Man Narrating ] Stories of immortality. 2 00:00:05,465 --> 00:00:09,260 When he arose, it would be a body that would never die again. 3 00:00:10,094 --> 00:00:13,348 The dead rising from their graves. 4 00:00:13,431 --> 00:00:16,267 You can say that to a certain extent, zombies are real. 5 00:00:16,351 --> 00:00:20,438 And first-person accounts of the afterlife. 6 00:00:21,523 --> 00:00:25,276 The ancient Egyptians had a very deep, soul technology. 7 00:00:26,152 --> 00:00:30,573 Throughout history, there are tales of miraculous resurrections... 8 00:00:31,533 --> 00:00:35,453 but are there people who have really returned from the dead? 9 00:00:35,537 --> 00:00:41,501 And if so, might they have had help from extraterrestrial beings? 10 00:00:41,584 --> 00:00:46,047 If you want to think of the technology that extraterrestrials might have... 11 00:00:46,130 --> 00:00:50,593 they could have the ability to resurrect the dead, if need be. 12 00:00:51,636 --> 00:00:56,224 Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past... 13 00:00:56,307 --> 00:00:58,268 by extraterrestrial beings. 14 00:00:58,351 --> 00:01:00,895 What if it were true? 15 00:01:01,854 --> 00:01:06,109 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 16 00:01:07,151 --> 00:01:12,156 And if so, might they hold the secret to resurrection? 17 00:01:44,856 --> 00:01:46,608 [ Narrator] Phoenix, Arizona... 18 00:01:47,358 --> 00:01:48,860 1991. 19 00:01:50,945 --> 00:01:54,949 Singer/songwriter Pam Reynolds is being rushed into surgery... 20 00:01:55,033 --> 00:01:58,411 to repair a bulging arterial wall in her brain stem... 21 00:01:58,494 --> 00:02:02,540 that is about to burst and kill her instantly. 22 00:02:04,125 --> 00:02:05,960 [Beeping] 23 00:02:06,044 --> 00:02:11,799 The surgical team of 20 decides there is only one course of action: 24 00:02:11,883 --> 00:02:16,137 In order to save her life, they must first end it. 25 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:18,097 [Continuous Beeping] 26 00:02:19,766 --> 00:02:24,812 Pam Reynolds had a massive aneurysm ready to essentially rupture at any moment... 27 00:02:26,105 --> 00:02:29,067 and so physicians needed to reduce the pressure in those vessels... 28 00:02:29,150 --> 00:02:30,902 so that they could work on them. 29 00:02:30,985 --> 00:02:35,657 So they took blood out of her body and cooled it slowly, so recirculating. 30 00:02:36,324 --> 00:02:39,452 What that does is, it sort of tricks the body's cells... 31 00:02:39,535 --> 00:02:43,873 into slowing down their metabolism and not realizing that they're lacking oxygen... 32 00:02:44,499 --> 00:02:48,419 which, of course, buys physicians and emergency workers some time... 33 00:02:48,503 --> 00:02:52,632 to go in and repair the person's body while they're in a sort of hyper-cooled state... 34 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:55,093 where they're essentially not alive. 35 00:02:56,010 --> 00:03:00,306 [ Narrator ] For nearly an hour, Pam Reynolds lies on the operating table... 36 00:03:00,390 --> 00:03:03,935 with her heart stopped, no blood pumping through her body... 37 00:03:04,018 --> 00:03:07,271 and no brain-wave activity at all. 38 00:03:07,355 --> 00:03:10,149 According to the traditional medical definition... 39 00:03:10,233 --> 00:03:12,193 she is dead. 40 00:03:13,444 --> 00:03:18,574 Five hours later, when doctors successfully finished their groundbreaking surgery... 41 00:03:18,658 --> 00:03:22,912 they slowly pump warm blood back into Reynolds's body. 42 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:25,540 Her heart starts to beat again... 43 00:03:25,623 --> 00:03:28,584 and her brain stem begins responding to stimuli. 44 00:03:30,378 --> 00:03:34,757 But when she regains consciousness, Reynolds tells a shocking story... 45 00:03:34,841 --> 00:03:38,678 about a journey she says she made into the afterlife. 46 00:03:42,890 --> 00:03:47,603 She remembers mingling with deceased relatives and angelic beings... 47 00:03:47,687 --> 00:03:49,647 in a celestial netherworld- 48 00:03:51,065 --> 00:03:57,113 a transcendent experience that ended only when doctors revived her. 49 00:03:57,905 --> 00:04:00,742 Pam Reynolds's case, and other cases of resuscitation... 50 00:04:00,825 --> 00:04:03,703 sort of call into question what it means to be alive. 51 00:04:05,747 --> 00:04:08,249 They were sort of introducing new technologies... 52 00:04:08,332 --> 00:04:11,919 that were, I think, a little more of the distinction of what does it mean to be dead. 53 00:04:12,003 --> 00:04:13,296 [Monitor Beeping] 54 00:04:13,379 --> 00:04:16,841 If you want to use the term “resurrection,” I think it could be applied in that case. 55 00:04:18,926 --> 00:04:21,429 [ Narrator] Does the resurrection of Pam Reynolds... 56 00:04:21,512 --> 00:04:26,017 reveal evidence that human consciousness can exist beyond death? 57 00:04:27,268 --> 00:04:34,025 If so, could this mean that within each of us there really is such a thing as an immortal soul... 58 00:04:34,108 --> 00:04:37,487 and might it even be identifiable by science? 59 00:04:39,113 --> 00:04:42,325 Two prestigious scientists have developed a theory... 60 00:04:42,408 --> 00:04:46,496 that describes exactly how consciousness could continue to exist... 61 00:04:46,579 --> 00:04:48,790 after the brain has ceased to function. 62 00:04:49,749 --> 00:04:51,834 Oxford University's Roger Penrose... 63 00:04:51,918 --> 00:04:55,505 and Stewart Hameroff from the University of Arizona... 64 00:04:55,588 --> 00:04:59,300 believe that quantum particles in the brain and nervous system... 65 00:04:59,383 --> 00:05:02,637 could comprise what we call consciousness. 66 00:05:03,763 --> 00:05:06,933 The theory is that there may actually be... 67 00:05:07,016 --> 00:05:09,685 a real physical structure in your brain. 68 00:05:09,769 --> 00:05:11,646 They're called microtubules... 69 00:05:11,729 --> 00:05:13,815 and they're small enough... 70 00:05:13,898 --> 00:05:18,820 that all the weird quantum mechanical effects can occur. 71 00:05:18,903 --> 00:05:24,242 These quantum mechanical effects may be what gives rise to consciousness. 72 00:05:25,576 --> 00:05:31,332 But even after you died, that information isn't lost. 73 00:05:31,415 --> 00:05:36,045 It still continues as a quantum mechanical state... 74 00:05:36,128 --> 00:05:40,007 and that may be what is giving rise to consciousness. 75 00:05:42,844 --> 00:05:45,680 [ Narrator] If Penrose and Hameroff are correct... 76 00:05:45,763 --> 00:05:49,976 and our consciousness can exist after our physical body dies... 77 00:05:50,059 --> 00:05:54,355 does this explain why near-death experiences like Pam Reynolds's... 78 00:05:54,438 --> 00:05:58,109 are reported by millions of people around the world? 79 00:05:59,527 --> 00:06:03,948 They have, usually, a feeling of peacefulness, positive emotions. 80 00:06:04,031 --> 00:06:06,284 They feel like they're leaving their body. 81 00:06:06,367 --> 00:06:10,872 They sometimes see sort of a tunnel with a light at the end. 82 00:06:11,539 --> 00:06:14,750 They sometimes feel one with the universe. 83 00:06:14,834 --> 00:06:18,963 They sometimes see relatives who have passed away. 84 00:06:19,046 --> 00:06:22,049 So it's a common, universal experience that happens to people... 85 00:06:22,133 --> 00:06:24,635 who are either near or close to death... 86 00:06:24,719 --> 00:06:26,512 or even technically dead. 87 00:06:30,057 --> 00:06:32,935 [ Narrator] Some physicians believe near-death experiences... 88 00:06:33,019 --> 00:06:39,066 could be triggered by hypoxia, a lack of oxygen in the brain that can cause visions. 89 00:06:40,401 --> 00:06:42,778 But other researchers disagree. 90 00:06:42,862 --> 00:06:45,948 They point out that those who have these experiences... 91 00:06:46,032 --> 00:06:49,535 see events occurring around them that are later confirmed to have happened... 92 00:06:49,619 --> 00:06:52,747 and that their perceptions are not dulled in a way... 93 00:06:52,830 --> 00:06:55,750 that would be consistent with a dying brain. 94 00:06:57,376 --> 00:06:59,295 Perhaps even more significant... 95 00:06:59,378 --> 00:07:02,506 a recent study found that the near-death experience... 96 00:07:02,590 --> 00:07:06,177 was remarkably similar across the ancient world. 97 00:07:07,428 --> 00:07:10,014 Professor Gregory Shushan at Oxford University... 98 00:07:10,097 --> 00:07:12,767 has found that in some of the great, early cultures- 99 00:07:12,850 --> 00:07:15,186 ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia... 100 00:07:15,269 --> 00:07:19,565 Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, pre-Colombian Mesoamerica- 101 00:07:19,649 --> 00:07:23,110 that there are similar reports of near-death experience... 102 00:07:23,194 --> 00:07:26,113 that certain details keep cropping up- 103 00:07:26,197 --> 00:07:28,574 that the person in this experience... 104 00:07:28,658 --> 00:07:30,576 encounters beings of light... 105 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:34,538 even though the belief systems about death... 106 00:07:34,622 --> 00:07:36,749 were very different in these cultures. 107 00:07:36,832 --> 00:07:41,545 This suggests that there might be something about the mystical experience at death... 108 00:07:41,629 --> 00:07:45,800 that is stronger than the cultural stories that hold it. 109 00:07:47,635 --> 00:07:50,596 [ Narrator] But why are accounts of near-death experiences... 110 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,517 so similar across so many different cultures? 111 00:07:55,059 --> 00:07:59,814 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the answer may lie with the fact... 112 00:07:59,897 --> 00:08:04,026 that these beings of light encountered in many near-death experiences... 113 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:08,781 are remarkably similar to the descriptions of extraterrestrials... 114 00:08:08,864 --> 00:08:11,450 in alien abduction reports. 115 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,746 Could these two types of ethereal entities... 116 00:08:15,830 --> 00:08:17,873 actually be the same? 117 00:08:18,916 --> 00:08:22,044 [Man ] The common ground is the tunnel of bright white light... 118 00:08:23,421 --> 00:08:26,007 and beings wearing shiny garments... 119 00:08:26,090 --> 00:08:28,259 or bright white garments of light... 120 00:08:28,342 --> 00:08:31,012 that either stand before that gateway... 121 00:08:31,095 --> 00:08:33,347 or are actually in it. 122 00:08:33,431 --> 00:08:36,559 And you have to wonder, is it possible that in reality... 123 00:08:36,642 --> 00:08:40,271 the afterlife is just another dimension or another plane of existence... 124 00:08:40,354 --> 00:08:44,650 that is inhabited, that's navigable and is accessible... 125 00:08:44,734 --> 00:08:46,944 not only by those in the afterlife realm... 126 00:08:47,028 --> 00:08:50,740 but also by living extraterrestrial beings. 127 00:08:51,782 --> 00:08:56,120 I think that both near-death experiences and abduction experiences... 128 00:08:56,203 --> 00:08:59,540 are coordinated by the same higher reality. 129 00:09:01,709 --> 00:09:07,089 [ Narrator] Is it possible that extraterrestrials hold the secret behind resurrection? 130 00:09:08,049 --> 00:09:10,801 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 131 00:09:10,885 --> 00:09:13,596 and claim further evidence can be found... 132 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,058 by exploring resurrection stories from antiquity. 133 00:09:20,644 --> 00:09:22,521 The Kingdom of Israel... 134 00:09:22,605 --> 00:09:24,815 the ninth century BC. 135 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:29,195 In the Hebrew Bible, Elijah is portrayed... 136 00:09:29,278 --> 00:09:32,323 as a great prophet and a powerful warrior... 137 00:09:32,406 --> 00:09:35,034 who slaughters the followers of the god Baal... 138 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,955 yet he is perhaps best known not for putting people to death... 139 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:43,167 but for bringing them back to life. 140 00:09:44,085 --> 00:09:47,421 In the biblical book I Kings, chapter 17 we actually have the story... 141 00:09:47,505 --> 00:09:49,090 of the prophet Elijah... 142 00:09:49,173 --> 00:09:52,676 who takes a widow's son who had died... 143 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,764 and lays on him three times and then prays to God... 144 00:09:56,847 --> 00:09:59,100 and the son comes back to life. 145 00:10:01,310 --> 00:10:03,521 Was this a miracle from the hand of God? 146 00:10:03,604 --> 00:10:08,484 Was there some kind of a medical involvement here? 147 00:10:09,610 --> 00:10:13,280 There was some clear physical intervention... 148 00:10:13,364 --> 00:10:15,199 on behalf of Elijah. 149 00:10:15,282 --> 00:10:17,618 That's all this text tells us. 150 00:10:17,701 --> 00:10:22,957 But we know that Elijah was a great mystic and esotericist. 151 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,379 He possessed a power cloak, called his pala-garment, which means “power garment.” 152 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:30,756 He ultimately ascended into the heavens... 153 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,509 in a whirlwind like a spacecraft while wearing this... 154 00:10:33,592 --> 00:10:38,556 so you have to ask, is there some kind of otherworldly or extraterrestrial technology... 155 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:41,433 that Elijah had access to? 156 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,356 [ Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists point out... 157 00:10:47,439 --> 00:10:51,277 that similar resurrections occur in religions around the world... 158 00:10:52,319 --> 00:10:54,488 from the Hindu god Krishna... 159 00:10:54,572 --> 00:10:58,242 to the Aztec deity Quetzalcóatl. 160 00:10:58,325 --> 00:11:03,205 They believe these gods may, in fact, have been extraterrestrial beings... 161 00:11:03,289 --> 00:11:05,666 sent to Earth on a mission. 162 00:11:07,585 --> 00:11:10,337 When you read the stories of the celestials or extraterrestrials... 163 00:11:10,421 --> 00:11:11,881 that came in the ancient past... 164 00:11:11,964 --> 00:11:14,842 they were always delivering these forbidden teachings... 165 00:11:14,925 --> 00:11:19,680 about crossing that boundary into a beautiful and glorious realm... 166 00:11:19,763 --> 00:11:21,932 and one of their purposes in coming here... 167 00:11:22,016 --> 00:11:25,603 is to teach us how to cross over that boundary. 168 00:11:28,105 --> 00:11:32,860 [ Narrator] Is it possible that some ancient accounts of gods rising from the dead... 169 00:11:32,943 --> 00:11:35,613 are not actually divine events... 170 00:11:35,696 --> 00:11:39,992 but rather examples of extraterrestrial technology? 171 00:11:40,826 --> 00:11:44,371 And if so, are there stories in which ancient cultures... 172 00:11:44,455 --> 00:11:47,208 regularly performed resurrections? 173 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,295 Ancient astronaut theorists believe astounding answers... 174 00:11:51,378 --> 00:11:54,840 can be found buried in the Sahara Desert. 175 00:12:02,556 --> 00:12:06,310 Low Earth orbit, September 2007. 176 00:12:08,229 --> 00:12:12,149 An experiment aboard a Russian Photon-M3 spaceship... 177 00:12:12,233 --> 00:12:17,029 is trying to determine how resurrection works in the natural world. 178 00:12:18,489 --> 00:12:23,535 It contains dozens of microscopic animals, called “tardigrades”... 179 00:12:23,619 --> 00:12:26,080 The tardigrades are a class of organisms... 180 00:12:26,163 --> 00:12:29,458 that we refer to as “extremophiles,” meaning they can withstand... 181 00:12:29,541 --> 00:12:32,503 extreme stresses that would kill most organisms. 182 00:12:32,586 --> 00:12:37,091 [ Narrator] On Earth, tardigrades are almost impossible to kill. 183 00:12:37,174 --> 00:12:39,969 They can survive temperatures far above boiling... 184 00:12:40,052 --> 00:12:41,845 and far below freezing... 185 00:12:41,929 --> 00:12:44,765 by shedding almost all water in their cells. 186 00:12:45,849 --> 00:12:48,185 The tardigrade is a really interesting creature... 187 00:12:48,269 --> 00:12:51,605 and it's actually evolved to have this amazing ability... 188 00:12:51,689 --> 00:12:55,234 to go into these deep states of what you might call hibernation. 189 00:12:55,317 --> 00:12:58,195 They're able to survive in really harsh conditions... 190 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:02,616 but there's still metabolism going on, just very, very slowed down. 191 00:13:04,535 --> 00:13:06,161 [ Narrator] On this mission... 192 00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:11,709 scientists want to see if they can survive long blasts of solar radiation... 193 00:13:11,792 --> 00:13:15,671 so they're placed outside the capsule for 12 days. 194 00:13:16,297 --> 00:13:19,883 They become inert, but are they actually dead? 195 00:13:19,967 --> 00:13:22,636 [Fisher ] They were brought back to Earth, hydrated. 196 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,515 We think they also have a really good, very efficient DNA repair mechanism... 197 00:13:26,598 --> 00:13:29,935 because they essentially come back to life, often rather rapidly. 198 00:13:30,019 --> 00:13:32,354 Scientists do refer to that as a resurrection. 199 00:13:35,733 --> 00:13:39,570 [ Narrator ] There's a curious parallel to the tardigrade in the ancient world- 200 00:13:40,321 --> 00:13:43,615 a dead creature that was preserved by removing all liquids... 201 00:13:43,699 --> 00:13:45,784 while it awaited resurrection: 202 00:13:47,077 --> 00:13:49,538 Egyptian mummies. 203 00:13:49,621 --> 00:13:51,665 In preparation for the afterlife... 204 00:13:51,749 --> 00:13:54,752 the ancients removed all blood, water and organs... 205 00:13:54,835 --> 00:13:56,962 from a body they planned to mummify. 206 00:13:58,422 --> 00:14:00,924 In order to preserve a body... 207 00:14:01,008 --> 00:14:05,512 you cannot leave organs in the body that are going to rot the body... 208 00:14:06,055 --> 00:14:08,807 and the Egyptians learned that very quickly. 209 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:11,685 And they knew which organs had to be removed... 210 00:14:11,769 --> 00:14:14,688 and that the blood had to be drained from the body... 211 00:14:14,772 --> 00:14:19,109 to preserve the body for potential resurrection. 212 00:14:24,198 --> 00:14:26,742 [ Narrator ] If the body was properly prepared... 213 00:14:26,825 --> 00:14:31,205 the Egyptians believed its soul would start its long and arduous journey... 214 00:14:31,288 --> 00:14:32,873 into the afterlife. 215 00:14:33,874 --> 00:14:35,376 There were a lot of rules. 216 00:14:35,459 --> 00:14:39,338 There was a lot of very specific navigation that needed to take place... 217 00:14:39,421 --> 00:14:44,385 in order to get your soul from death into this afterlife. 218 00:14:45,511 --> 00:14:50,057 Sometimes these rules were so difficult that they would be written down... 219 00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:54,686 and oftentimes we find them written on the insides of the tops of coffins. 220 00:14:55,562 --> 00:14:59,566 [ Henry] At Saqqara is where we find the Pyramid Texts... 221 00:14:59,650 --> 00:15:02,694 some of the oldest religious texts in the world. 222 00:15:02,778 --> 00:15:08,283 They're devoted to the concept of how to not only preserve the human body... 223 00:15:08,367 --> 00:15:11,995 but to prepare the soul for journeying into the stars. 224 00:15:13,122 --> 00:15:16,041 The ancient Egyptians made it clear that they were in contact... 225 00:15:16,125 --> 00:15:18,836 with extraterrestrial civilizations... 226 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:22,965 and in particular, one god, Ptah, came from Sirius. 227 00:15:23,048 --> 00:15:26,552 Now, Ptah is also the god, the ancient Egyptians said... 228 00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:30,597 who crafted, or fashioned, the human body. 229 00:15:30,681 --> 00:15:33,183 He is also the god of technology. 230 00:15:33,892 --> 00:15:35,436 So when you put all this together... 231 00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:39,273 it sure sounds like Ptah taught the ancient Egyptians... 232 00:15:39,356 --> 00:15:41,900 how to resurrect the body... 233 00:15:41,984 --> 00:15:43,485 and travel the cosmos. 234 00:15:46,572 --> 00:15:50,242 [ Narrator] Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 235 00:15:50,325 --> 00:15:53,912 that the Egyptians' complex beliefs about resurrection... 236 00:15:53,996 --> 00:15:56,373 came from the extraterrestrial beings... 237 00:15:56,457 --> 00:16:00,794 that they believed had visited their civilization in the past? 238 00:16:00,878 --> 00:16:03,213 It's very possible that when we look at the Egyptians... 239 00:16:03,297 --> 00:16:06,717 performing their very intricate mummification process... 240 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,886 this is something that they might have witnessed. 241 00:16:08,969 --> 00:16:12,973 Maybe they didn't fully understand the process of what made it possible... 242 00:16:13,056 --> 00:16:15,642 but they would do their best to mimic it... 243 00:16:15,726 --> 00:16:19,146 and that's exactly what we see with mummification. 244 00:16:19,980 --> 00:16:24,151 [ Narrator] But if the Egyptians believed the soul traveled through the cosmos... 245 00:16:24,234 --> 00:16:27,696 why did they make such an effort to preserve the corpse? 246 00:16:28,989 --> 00:16:31,742 According to their texts, the ancient Egyptians... 247 00:16:31,825 --> 00:16:35,120 believed the soul was made up of five parts. 248 00:16:35,787 --> 00:16:40,667 The two most important were the “ba ” and “ka. ” 249 00:16:41,710 --> 00:16:44,588 The Ba journeyed into the afterlife... 250 00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:47,090 while the ka remained in the body. 251 00:16:47,174 --> 00:16:50,219 The proper preparation of a corpse during burial... 252 00:16:50,302 --> 00:16:53,055 was essential to success in the afterlife. 253 00:16:54,181 --> 00:17:00,187 That is, the ka needed a properly prepared body in which to dwell... 254 00:17:00,270 --> 00:17:04,816 and if that body, if that vessel, isn't properly maintained... 255 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:08,529 that person could die a second death in the afterlife. 256 00:17:09,363 --> 00:17:11,615 [ Narrator] Most scholars say the Egyptians believed... 257 00:17:11,698 --> 00:17:16,578 resurrection involved the soul being born again in the afterlife... 258 00:17:16,662 --> 00:17:19,665 rather than being physically resurrected on Earth. 259 00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:26,380 The ultimate objective was for the Ba to unite with its twin... 260 00:17:26,463 --> 00:17:28,298 or “ka” as they called it... 261 00:17:28,382 --> 00:17:32,135 and form a third entity that they called the “Akh”- 262 00:17:33,595 --> 00:17:36,265 the shining one, the shining being... 263 00:17:36,348 --> 00:17:40,727 that was then capable of traveling the stars as a celestial being. 264 00:17:41,395 --> 00:17:43,897 So this is suggesting that the ancient Egyptians... 265 00:17:43,981 --> 00:17:49,069 had a very deep soul technology or a way of transforming the soul... 266 00:17:49,152 --> 00:17:51,738 certainly prying it out of the body... 267 00:17:51,822 --> 00:17:54,199 uniting it with its twin self... 268 00:17:54,283 --> 00:17:56,618 and creating a light-being form. 269 00:17:57,744 --> 00:18:00,163 [ Narrator] But could it be that the Egyptians believed... 270 00:18:00,247 --> 00:18:03,500 that the part of the soul that remained within the body... 271 00:18:03,584 --> 00:18:05,877 could be resurrected as well? 272 00:18:06,587 --> 00:18:10,841 Might this be why they went to such great lengths to preserve the body- 273 00:18:10,924 --> 00:18:13,093 because they believed there would be a time... 274 00:18:13,176 --> 00:18:16,179 when they would be bodily resurrected here on Earth? 275 00:18:18,265 --> 00:18:23,228 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence... 276 00:18:23,312 --> 00:18:28,108 that this was knowledge taught to our ancestors by otherworldly visitors... 277 00:18:28,191 --> 00:18:32,779 can be found by examining stories from the African rain forest- 278 00:18:32,863 --> 00:18:36,533 stories of real-life zombies. 279 00:18:43,248 --> 00:18:47,002 The Kingdom of Kongo, 1482. 280 00:18:48,128 --> 00:18:51,048 Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão... 281 00:18:51,131 --> 00:18:54,259 is the first European to sail up the Congo River... 282 00:18:54,343 --> 00:18:57,554 into the heart of this ancient African nation. 283 00:18:58,805 --> 00:19:01,975 Despite the dense rain forest on both sides of the river... 284 00:19:02,059 --> 00:19:06,104 Cão spends months exploring this unknown land... 285 00:19:06,188 --> 00:19:08,315 and meeting its inhabitants. 286 00:19:10,984 --> 00:19:14,154 After he reports his discoveries back home... 287 00:19:14,237 --> 00:19:18,408 the king of Portugal dispatches waves of missionaries to the region. 288 00:19:18,492 --> 00:19:23,288 The goal is to convert tribesmen from their ancient religion of Vodun... 289 00:19:23,372 --> 00:19:25,666 to Catholicism. 290 00:19:27,459 --> 00:19:30,587 You have to remember, this isn't too long after the Crusades... 291 00:19:30,671 --> 00:19:35,842 so Europe had already sort of went right from the Crusades into colonialism... 292 00:19:35,926 --> 00:19:39,429 and one of the big projects was not just to get land and money and slaves- 293 00:19:39,513 --> 00:19:41,014 although that was it- 294 00:19:41,098 --> 00:19:44,643 but also to gain souls, converts, for the Catholic Church. 295 00:19:47,521 --> 00:19:49,356 [ Narrator] Over the next century... 296 00:19:49,439 --> 00:19:53,944 European missionaries had great success turning the Kingdom of Kongo... 297 00:19:54,027 --> 00:19:56,196 into a Catholic land. 298 00:19:57,114 --> 00:20:01,118 Their belief that a sky god created the Earth and its inhabitants... 299 00:20:01,201 --> 00:20:04,079 is changed to the Catholic origin story... 300 00:20:05,706 --> 00:20:08,959 but the locals hold on to some of their beliefs... 301 00:20:09,042 --> 00:20:13,547 including a concept which is also held by the ancient Egyptians- 302 00:20:13,630 --> 00:20:15,966 that people have more than one soul. 303 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:19,511 We have what's called “the big soul” and “the little soul”... 304 00:20:19,594 --> 00:20:23,473 and one of them is responsible for what we normally think of as our personality- 305 00:20:23,557 --> 00:20:25,684 what makes you you, what makes me me- 306 00:20:25,767 --> 00:20:28,937 but the other one is more of a basic sort of soul... 307 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:31,898 that animates us; It gets the flesh moving. 308 00:20:32,899 --> 00:20:37,821 They speak of us as each having a lesser angel and a greater angel. 309 00:20:37,904 --> 00:20:41,241 At the time of death, the lesser angel stays with the body. 310 00:20:41,324 --> 00:20:42,993 It doesn't know what to do. 311 00:20:43,076 --> 00:20:45,746 But the greater angel leaves the body. 312 00:20:50,083 --> 00:20:54,254 [ Narrator] As missionaries convert much of the population to Christianity... 313 00:20:54,337 --> 00:20:57,591 traditional bokors, or witch doctors... 314 00:20:57,674 --> 00:21:01,219 are forced to perform some Vodun ceremonies in secret. 315 00:21:03,096 --> 00:21:06,349 European missionaries hear astounding stories... 316 00:21:06,433 --> 00:21:12,397 that these witch doctors use ancient rituals and traditional knowledge to raise the dead... 317 00:21:12,481 --> 00:21:17,944 creating automatons that are later dubbed “zombies.” 318 00:21:18,028 --> 00:21:23,116 The idea of the zombies is that they actually have only one of these two souls. 319 00:21:23,617 --> 00:21:26,012 They've passed on, they've died, and they've been resurrected... 320 00:21:26,036 --> 00:21:27,913 but only with the soul that animates us... 321 00:21:27,996 --> 00:21:32,584 so they're lacking in that personality and in that personal feelings and things. 322 00:21:32,667 --> 00:21:35,337 With zombiism, it is then- 323 00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:37,714 Only the physical body... 324 00:21:37,798 --> 00:21:41,176 is resurrected in a sense... 325 00:21:41,802 --> 00:21:46,264 and the personalities, that part of the soul, has completely disappeared. 326 00:21:50,727 --> 00:21:52,896 [ Narrator] Could these stories have been true? 327 00:21:52,979 --> 00:21:58,777 And if so, might this be proof that both the Egyptians and the tribes of the Kongo... 328 00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:01,530 were correct in their belief that our consciousness... 329 00:22:01,613 --> 00:22:04,366 is divided into separate parts? 330 00:22:06,076 --> 00:22:07,994 But how could witch doctors... 331 00:22:08,078 --> 00:22:12,666 who lived hundreds of years ago with no access to modern technology... 332 00:22:12,749 --> 00:22:15,585 have been able to breathe life into the dead... 333 00:22:15,669 --> 00:22:21,174 reviving just the part of the soul responsible for animating the flesh? 334 00:22:22,425 --> 00:22:24,845 Ancient astronaut theorists point out... 335 00:22:24,928 --> 00:22:27,639 that African myths suggest voodoo magic... 336 00:22:27,722 --> 00:22:29,766 originated with the sky gods... 337 00:22:29,850 --> 00:22:34,604 and their emissaries to Earth, known as “orishas” or “loas.” 338 00:22:35,605 --> 00:22:38,191 [Man ] The topic of the orishas is very interesting to me... 339 00:22:38,275 --> 00:22:43,238 because they are looked upon as these divine messengers- 340 00:22:43,321 --> 00:22:46,074 messengers of knowledge- 341 00:22:46,157 --> 00:22:48,368 and the stories are very clear... 342 00:22:48,451 --> 00:22:51,413 that the orishas arrived from the sky. 343 00:22:52,205 --> 00:22:56,668 And what I find interesting is that in many of the old carvings... 344 00:22:56,751 --> 00:22:59,379 that we can find in wood, for example... 345 00:22:59,462 --> 00:23:04,759 they are depicted in sitting in these weird craft, that look like craft... 346 00:23:04,843 --> 00:23:09,180 and that they all seem to feature these elongated skulls. 347 00:23:12,017 --> 00:23:15,228 [ Narrator] Is it possible that these African sky gods... 348 00:23:15,312 --> 00:23:17,814 were actually extraterrestrials... 349 00:23:17,898 --> 00:23:21,443 that not only taught the natives the secrets of the soul... 350 00:23:21,526 --> 00:23:25,655 but also showed them how to resurrect the dead? 351 00:23:25,739 --> 00:23:30,243 And could this be the origin of our modern-day stories of zombies? 352 00:23:31,244 --> 00:23:33,121 [ Henry] Perhaps through the centuries... 353 00:23:33,204 --> 00:23:37,083 these original teachings of these celestial beings were lost. 354 00:23:37,167 --> 00:23:40,337 Sorcerers and magicians in Africa and elsewhere... 355 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:44,591 began mimicking or trying to copy what the originals had done... 356 00:23:44,674 --> 00:23:47,093 and had a limited degree of success. 357 00:23:47,177 --> 00:23:49,054 They were able to create zombies. 358 00:23:49,137 --> 00:23:50,764 But the source is clear: 359 00:23:50,847 --> 00:23:54,434 These teachings originally came from celestial beings. 360 00:23:55,101 --> 00:23:58,605 [Man] Maybe some of the extraterrestrials had an accident... 361 00:23:58,688 --> 00:24:03,068 so the extraterrestrials helped him, like a doctor would do today... 362 00:24:03,151 --> 00:24:05,278 and the natives watched it. 363 00:24:05,362 --> 00:24:07,739 They could not understand what was going on in medicine... 364 00:24:07,822 --> 00:24:09,491 and they copied it. 365 00:24:11,785 --> 00:24:16,414 [ Narrator] Were African witch doctors mimicking the technology of their sky gods... 366 00:24:16,498 --> 00:24:19,626 when they tried to bring the dead back to life? 367 00:24:20,794 --> 00:24:24,839 And if so, are there stories in which both parts of the soul... 368 00:24:24,923 --> 00:24:27,592 have been successfully resurrected? 369 00:24:28,718 --> 00:24:32,389 Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can be found... 370 00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:35,141 by exploring ancient Hindu beliefs... 371 00:24:35,225 --> 00:24:39,521 in which the conscious self can be reborn in a new body. 372 00:24:47,529 --> 00:24:50,073 Delhi, India, 1930. 373 00:24:52,993 --> 00:24:57,288 Four-year-old Shanti Devi tells her family that in a previous life... 374 00:24:57,372 --> 00:24:59,499 she was a woman named Lugdi Bai... 375 00:24:59,582 --> 00:25:03,461 and that she had lived in the nearby village of Muthura. 376 00:25:05,505 --> 00:25:09,092 At first they dismissed the story as a childhood fantasy... 377 00:25:09,175 --> 00:25:11,678 but she knows so much about this other world... 378 00:25:11,761 --> 00:25:15,056 that she eventually convinces them she's telling the truth... 379 00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:18,143 and they journey to Lugdi Bai's former village. 380 00:25:18,226 --> 00:25:23,690 [CHILDRESS] She actually went to meet her previous husband and her other wife. 381 00:25:23,773 --> 00:25:25,859 He also, after talking to her... 382 00:25:25,942 --> 00:25:30,613 believed that she was the reincarnation of his previous wife... 383 00:25:30,697 --> 00:25:32,699 who had died in childbirth. 384 00:25:32,782 --> 00:25:38,038 And then, eventually, Mahatma Gandhi got involved in this whole story. 385 00:25:38,121 --> 00:25:40,749 He had an investigation made... 386 00:25:40,832 --> 00:25:44,252 and Gandhi himself said that he was satisfied... 387 00:25:44,335 --> 00:25:48,631 that she was the reincarnation of this other woman. 388 00:25:50,508 --> 00:25:56,056 [ Narrator] Could Lugdi Bai have died and been reincarnated as Shanti Devi? 389 00:25:57,348 --> 00:26:00,143 The Hindu faithful believe reincarnation- 390 00:26:00,226 --> 00:26:04,856 a spiritual resurrection in which a soul is reborn in a new body- 391 00:26:04,939 --> 00:26:08,234 happens to almost everyone after death. 392 00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:14,115 [Man ] When the soul goes up and then it has to be born into something else... 393 00:26:14,199 --> 00:26:15,742 in another light life form... 394 00:26:15,825 --> 00:26:21,247 so then it comes back to Earth in another living form. 395 00:26:21,331 --> 00:26:24,209 So that is the idea of reincarnation. 396 00:26:26,211 --> 00:26:29,798 [Henry] In Hindu and other traditions, the body is viewed simply... 397 00:26:29,881 --> 00:26:31,716 as a vessel for the soul... 398 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,637 that's capable of reincarnating into successive bodies... 399 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,222 or successive lifetimes. 400 00:26:40,058 --> 00:26:44,771 [ Narrator] If the concept that the part of our consciousness that forms our personality... 401 00:26:44,854 --> 00:26:46,815 that makes us who we are... 402 00:26:46,898 --> 00:26:49,818 continues to exist after the body has died... 403 00:26:49,901 --> 00:26:53,613 then might many of us have lived past lives... 404 00:26:54,989 --> 00:26:57,784 and only a handful of people, like Shanti Devi... 405 00:26:57,867 --> 00:26:59,744 are able to remember them? 406 00:27:01,621 --> 00:27:05,250 Some believe that not only is reincarnation real. .. 407 00:27:05,333 --> 00:27:06,876 But that in certain cases... 408 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,797 there has even been physical evidence to support this. 409 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,175 When we examine the reincarnation research... 410 00:27:14,259 --> 00:27:16,261 a consistent theme emerges... 411 00:27:16,344 --> 00:27:20,098 regarding the existence of birthmarks on someone's body. 412 00:27:20,181 --> 00:27:26,146 What we've found is multiple cases of people who have bizarre birthmarks... 413 00:27:26,229 --> 00:27:30,733 who then accurately remember having been someone else in another lifetime... 414 00:27:30,817 --> 00:27:34,404 and in some of these cases we can confirm... 415 00:27:34,487 --> 00:27:38,658 that their past-life person died in a particular way... 416 00:27:38,741 --> 00:27:42,829 and they come back with a birthmark corresponding to that exact area. 417 00:27:45,331 --> 00:27:48,960 If they died by gunshot, we know where the gunshot wound took place. 418 00:27:49,043 --> 00:27:51,754 The person reincarnates and they have a birthmark... 419 00:27:51,838 --> 00:27:54,757 right where the gunshot actually entered. 420 00:27:57,343 --> 00:27:59,429 [ Narrator] Is it possible that a birthmark... 421 00:27:59,512 --> 00:28:03,433 could be the consciousness creating a physical manifestation... 422 00:28:03,516 --> 00:28:07,187 of a traumatic event that happened in a previous life? 423 00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:11,232 Proponents of reincarnation... 424 00:28:11,316 --> 00:28:15,820 say further evidence that our consciousness can be resurrected in another body... 425 00:28:15,904 --> 00:28:18,823 can be found in the fact that reincarnation... 426 00:28:18,907 --> 00:28:21,159 isn't just part of Eastern religions... 427 00:28:21,242 --> 00:28:23,411 like Hinduism and Buddhism. 428 00:28:24,287 --> 00:28:27,832 It appears in most ancient religions worldwide. 429 00:28:29,250 --> 00:28:34,881 Early Greek religion had a process- a belief-in reincarnation. 430 00:28:34,964 --> 00:28:37,550 Plato writes about it in his writings- 431 00:28:37,634 --> 00:28:40,386 that the soul would enter into the body... 432 00:28:40,470 --> 00:28:43,348 and then when you died, the soul would be reprocessed... 433 00:28:43,431 --> 00:28:45,892 and then would enter back into a body. 434 00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:50,521 [Man] In the Bible, Jesus says, “Who do you say that I am?” 435 00:28:50,605 --> 00:28:52,398 “Some people say you're John the Baptist. 436 00:28:52,482 --> 00:28:54,525 Some people say you're Elijah. 437 00:28:54,609 --> 00:28:56,986 Some people say you're Jeremiah.” 438 00:28:57,070 --> 00:28:59,530 Well, those people are all dead... 439 00:29:00,740 --> 00:29:04,619 so what they're saying is, “You've come back as this person.” 440 00:29:04,702 --> 00:29:07,163 That's what reincarnation is about. 441 00:29:11,251 --> 00:29:13,253 [ Narrator] In each of these religions... 442 00:29:13,336 --> 00:29:17,382 the gods are the ones that educated people about reincarnation. 443 00:29:18,216 --> 00:29:21,261 Is it possible that the ancients misunderstood... 444 00:29:21,344 --> 00:29:24,389 who had bestowed this knowledge on their societies... 445 00:29:24,472 --> 00:29:27,392 and that they were actually extraterrestrial beings... 446 00:29:27,475 --> 00:29:30,770 sharing their wisdom about the afterlife? 447 00:29:31,938 --> 00:29:37,151 [Henry] Ultimately, when you trace back the origins of the stories of reincarnation... 448 00:29:37,235 --> 00:29:40,029 you're led to extraterrestrial sources. 449 00:29:40,113 --> 00:29:42,740 This was a teaching that was brought here... 450 00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:46,869 and represents the ultimate spiritual attainment on Earth. 451 00:29:48,788 --> 00:29:51,874 [WILCOCK ] We have over 30 ancient cultures around the world... 452 00:29:51,958 --> 00:29:55,586 independently contacted by human-looking messengers... 453 00:29:55,670 --> 00:30:00,466 who give them a unified body of spiritual knowledge... 454 00:30:00,550 --> 00:30:05,763 which usually describes reincarnation- 455 00:30:05,847 --> 00:30:10,184 the transmigration of the soul from one physical incarnation to the next- 456 00:30:10,268 --> 00:30:11,769 as a reality. 457 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:16,232 [ Narrator] Could it be that celestial beings... 458 00:30:16,316 --> 00:30:19,110 have mastered the science of reincarnation... 459 00:30:19,193 --> 00:30:23,406 to the point where they treat death as just another form of life? 460 00:30:25,825 --> 00:30:30,580 And if so, are these aliens helping nurture our understanding... 461 00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:33,416 of this otherworldly realm? 462 00:30:33,499 --> 00:30:37,378 If resurrections are really a resurrection of the spirit... 463 00:30:37,462 --> 00:30:39,130 rather than the body... 464 00:30:39,922 --> 00:30:43,718 then it's possible that we would have a technology to follow that spirit... 465 00:30:43,801 --> 00:30:46,137 from one body to the next. 466 00:30:47,597 --> 00:30:50,808 And you have to wonder if this doesn't come from extraterrestrials. 467 00:30:54,354 --> 00:30:56,898 [ Narrator] Could extraterrestrials have the ultimate answers... 468 00:30:56,981 --> 00:31:00,318 to life, death and resurrection? 469 00:31:00,401 --> 00:31:04,947 And if so, will humanity ever possess those secrets? 470 00:31:05,031 --> 00:31:09,243 Ancient astronaut theorists believe some people may already have that... 471 00:31:09,327 --> 00:31:11,704 without even knowing it. 472 00:31:20,296 --> 00:31:23,966 Northern Israel, approximately 33 AD. 473 00:31:26,552 --> 00:31:29,889 According to the gospels of the New Testament of the Bible... 474 00:31:29,972 --> 00:31:31,974 in the months before his death... 475 00:31:32,058 --> 00:31:36,646 Jesus leads three of his apostles away from the village in which they're staying... 476 00:31:36,729 --> 00:31:40,149 and together, they journey to a nearby mountain. 477 00:31:42,235 --> 00:31:44,835 [Downing ] The story here is that Jesus went up a high mountain... 478 00:31:44,862 --> 00:31:46,948 with Peter, James and john... 479 00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:50,159 his three closest followers. 480 00:31:50,243 --> 00:31:53,579 So while they were there, a glowing object hovered over them... 481 00:31:53,663 --> 00:31:57,166 and Moses and Elijah were reported to have appeared to him. 482 00:31:58,084 --> 00:32:03,005 While they were there, the body of Jesus began to glow tremendously... 483 00:32:03,089 --> 00:32:06,592 and when they were finished with this scene they went down the mountain... 484 00:32:06,676 --> 00:32:09,929 and Jesus told the disciples not to tell anybody about this... 485 00:32:10,012 --> 00:32:13,558 until after his crucifixion and resurrection. 486 00:32:13,641 --> 00:32:16,018 This says to me that maybe the body of Jesus... 487 00:32:16,102 --> 00:32:18,604 went through some type of transformation... 488 00:32:18,688 --> 00:32:23,693 which changed his body so that when he rose from the dead... 489 00:32:23,776 --> 00:32:27,029 it would be a body that would never die again. 490 00:32:30,533 --> 00:32:31,993 [ Narrator] According to the Bible... 491 00:32:32,076 --> 00:32:34,662 it was several months after this incident... 492 00:32:34,745 --> 00:32:37,457 that Roman authorities arrested Jesus... 493 00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:40,543 and put him to death by crucifixion. 494 00:32:41,461 --> 00:32:44,005 [Woman ] We know following the crucifixion on Friday night... 495 00:32:44,088 --> 00:32:46,299 he is laid into a tomb. 496 00:32:46,382 --> 00:32:52,138 On Sunday, when Mary Magdalene and the other women come to anoint his body... 497 00:32:52,221 --> 00:32:53,723 the tomb is empty. 498 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,228 The stone has been rolled back and his burial cloths are all that remain. 499 00:33:04,108 --> 00:33:07,820 [ Narrator ] Although Jesus is said to have ascended to a heavenly realm... 500 00:33:07,904 --> 00:33:11,157 it is written that he ascended bodily. 501 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,243 This has led some ancient astronaut theorists... 502 00:33:14,327 --> 00:33:17,413 to form a different interpretation of the scriptures... 503 00:33:17,497 --> 00:33:21,918 based also on events that occurred just after the resurrection... 504 00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:26,214 that indicate it may have had extraterrestrial origins. 505 00:33:27,423 --> 00:33:29,759 [ Downing] Matthew's gospel, chapter 28... 506 00:33:29,842 --> 00:33:33,429 says that an angel of God descended from heaven... 507 00:33:33,513 --> 00:33:35,932 rolled back the stone and sat upon it... 508 00:33:36,015 --> 00:33:39,101 and his clothing glistened white. 509 00:33:39,185 --> 00:33:42,104 And so, we have a being reported to be there. 510 00:33:42,188 --> 00:33:44,607 This means that powers from another world... 511 00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,443 were involved in the resurrection of Jesus. 512 00:33:47,527 --> 00:33:50,696 People come to the tomb. They find the tomb empty. 513 00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:56,285 They're described in a couple of the gospels: Young men with raiment that was shining... 514 00:33:56,369 --> 00:33:59,372 much like extraterrestrial encounters today... 515 00:33:59,455 --> 00:34:01,958 where we see beings of light. 516 00:34:02,792 --> 00:34:05,711 And they say, “Why are you seeking the living among the dead? 517 00:34:05,795 --> 00:34:08,381 Jesus is gone. Just like he said would happen.” 518 00:34:11,175 --> 00:34:12,885 [ Narrator] Many Christians believe... 519 00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:15,513 this seminal resurrection in Western culture... 520 00:34:15,596 --> 00:34:19,600 signifies that humans can- and many eventually will- 521 00:34:19,684 --> 00:34:21,477 be raised from the dead. 522 00:34:21,561 --> 00:34:24,438 But does it actually give humanity clues... 523 00:34:24,522 --> 00:34:28,276 about how to pierce the veil between life and death? 524 00:34:29,068 --> 00:34:31,654 Some ancient astronaut theorists say... 525 00:34:31,737 --> 00:34:34,824 that further evidence that resurrection is possible... 526 00:34:34,907 --> 00:34:38,411 can be found in the modern-day church service. 527 00:34:43,749 --> 00:34:47,461 St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. 528 00:34:48,921 --> 00:34:51,799 Give us perseverance and lead us to salvation. 529 00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:54,176 Cardinal Timothy Dolan says mass... 530 00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:57,805 at one of America's most impressive Catholic churches... 531 00:34:59,765 --> 00:35:04,854 and during the Eucharist, he consecrates bread and wine. 532 00:35:04,937 --> 00:35:06,814 According to church doctrine... 533 00:35:06,897 --> 00:35:12,528 at this moment he is literally turning them into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. 534 00:35:14,030 --> 00:35:18,034 Cardinal Dolan, or any other priest who performs this ritual... 535 00:35:18,117 --> 00:35:21,579 is actually performing a resurrection. 536 00:35:24,206 --> 00:35:27,501 The Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation argues... 537 00:35:27,585 --> 00:35:30,588 that this is a miracle, the Eucharist is a miracle. 538 00:35:31,255 --> 00:35:33,633 When you partake of the bread and the wine... 539 00:35:33,716 --> 00:35:36,052 that it miraculously transforms... 540 00:35:36,135 --> 00:35:39,722 into the actual body and blood of Jesus. 541 00:35:42,475 --> 00:35:47,480 We then ingest the holy, we ingest Christ, incorporate. 542 00:35:47,563 --> 00:35:49,065 Play on the word. 543 00:35:49,148 --> 00:35:52,985 That is, make part of our corpus, part of our body, the divine... 544 00:35:53,069 --> 00:35:54,612 in this ritual form. 545 00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:57,198 It is a powerful activity. 546 00:35:59,408 --> 00:36:03,454 [ Narrator] But how can bread and wine be changed into flesh and blood? 547 00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:06,207 According to the Catholic Church... 548 00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:09,919 it's a mystery that humans cannot possibly unravel. 549 00:36:11,253 --> 00:36:14,757 But some believe that instead of a physical transformation... 550 00:36:15,675 --> 00:36:20,012 Jesus is resurrected metaphysically during the church service... 551 00:36:20,888 --> 00:36:23,516 that Jesus was, and still is... 552 00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:28,020 an advanced being that can move from one dimension to another. 553 00:36:29,605 --> 00:36:33,317 As evidence, they cite what Jesus told his followers... 554 00:36:33,401 --> 00:36:37,780 about the power of gathering in groups to invoke his name. 555 00:36:39,699 --> 00:36:44,370 [Young] Christ said, “Where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am also.” 556 00:36:44,453 --> 00:36:47,957 Something happens, and it happens in ritual worship- 557 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,959 collective worship. 558 00:36:50,042 --> 00:36:54,588 Now, I'm not putting aside the power and value of private spiritual practice... 559 00:36:54,672 --> 00:36:58,592 but there's something else that happens when this is done collectively. 560 00:36:59,802 --> 00:37:03,055 [Henry] Is this a form of resurrection as well, where they, in fact... 561 00:37:03,139 --> 00:37:07,309 then, in a way, embody the Christ energy... 562 00:37:07,393 --> 00:37:08,894 during the mass? 563 00:37:08,978 --> 00:37:12,565 So maybe this is the purpose of the mass, is to create this environment... 564 00:37:12,648 --> 00:37:16,235 where they can transform their body into a vehicle... 565 00:37:16,318 --> 00:37:20,322 capable of manifesting, or holding, the Christ energy. 566 00:37:24,618 --> 00:37:27,830 [ Narrator] Is it possible that worshipers around the world... 567 00:37:27,913 --> 00:37:30,624 actually resurrect an otherworldly being... 568 00:37:30,708 --> 00:37:32,835 every time they gather to pray? 569 00:37:33,711 --> 00:37:37,548 And if so, is this just a resurrection of the spirit... 570 00:37:37,631 --> 00:37:40,259 or could we eventually reanimate the body... 571 00:37:40,342 --> 00:37:43,053 so it can be reunited with the soul? 572 00:37:44,054 --> 00:37:48,058 Ancient astronaut theorists believe stunning advances in modern medicine... 573 00:37:48,142 --> 00:37:50,311 might soon make this possible. 574 00:38:00,237 --> 00:38:04,408 Tübingen, Germany, 2013. 575 00:38:05,534 --> 00:38:10,372 Scientists at the University of Tübingen report a landmark event. 576 00:38:10,456 --> 00:38:13,167 They have sequenced and decoded DNA... 577 00:38:13,250 --> 00:38:16,295 that was extracted from five Egyptian mummy heads. 578 00:38:17,338 --> 00:38:21,383 Somehow, the way the ancient Egyptians embalmed the bodies of their dead... 579 00:38:21,467 --> 00:38:25,471 allowed DNA to survive for thousands of years. 580 00:38:25,554 --> 00:38:27,640 One of the things that happens in mummification... 581 00:38:27,723 --> 00:38:30,768 is that they rapidly extract all the water... 582 00:38:30,851 --> 00:38:33,979 and it's thought that water actually is one of the major contributors... 583 00:38:34,063 --> 00:38:35,981 to the degradation of the DNA. 584 00:38:36,065 --> 00:38:39,151 So that rapid extraction of water was believed to protect the mummy... 585 00:38:39,235 --> 00:38:41,028 from DNA degradation. 586 00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:46,867 [ Narrator] Researchers have not yet found a complete set of genetic blueprints... 587 00:38:46,951 --> 00:38:49,578 to the ancient Egyptian body... 588 00:38:50,162 --> 00:38:54,416 but this material shows them that if they do find enough DNA... 589 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:58,587 they can, in theory, bring these people back to life... 590 00:38:58,671 --> 00:39:01,090 to physically resurrect them. 591 00:39:02,049 --> 00:39:06,345 If we have the physical remains of a corpse... 592 00:39:06,428 --> 00:39:10,266 it might be possible to resurrect this corpse literally- 593 00:39:11,684 --> 00:39:14,103 to regenerate the DNA. 594 00:39:14,186 --> 00:39:16,772 Now, the process would be extremely difficult... 595 00:39:16,856 --> 00:39:18,691 but the technology is on its way... 596 00:39:19,775 --> 00:39:21,235 and that will be amazing. 597 00:39:21,318 --> 00:39:24,613 I mean, we would-They would literally have achieved their objective- 598 00:39:24,697 --> 00:39:28,158 to be resurrected again. 599 00:39:30,578 --> 00:39:32,037 [ Narrator] Is it possible... 600 00:39:32,121 --> 00:39:34,874 that scientists are finally starting to unravel... 601 00:39:34,957 --> 00:39:36,959 the secrets to resurrection? 602 00:39:37,835 --> 00:39:41,881 And if so, can humanity eventually master this power... 603 00:39:41,964 --> 00:39:45,759 so we can bring bodies and souls back into the physical world... 604 00:39:45,843 --> 00:39:47,344 whenever we choose? 605 00:39:48,220 --> 00:39:50,806 Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 606 00:39:50,890 --> 00:39:55,853 that many religions describe the moment when humans reach this stage of evolution. 607 00:39:56,896 --> 00:39:59,315 It's variously called “the rapture”... 608 00:39:59,398 --> 00:40:01,108 “the day of judgment”... 609 00:40:01,191 --> 00:40:02,860 “end of days”... 610 00:40:02,943 --> 00:40:04,820 or “the Apocalypse.” 611 00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:10,242 [Tzadok] According to the legends... 612 00:40:10,326 --> 00:40:16,999 all humanity is to evolve into a higher form. 613 00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:20,252 The proper word would be “transformation”... 614 00:40:20,336 --> 00:40:23,172 wherein which we will have achieved the purpose... 615 00:40:23,255 --> 00:40:26,091 for which we have come to Earth in the first place. 616 00:40:27,259 --> 00:40:30,763 But that, in and of itself, is not the end of the road. 617 00:40:30,846 --> 00:40:33,015 Then we evolve beyond that. 618 00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:35,893 This is referred to as “the great resurrection.” 619 00:40:37,186 --> 00:40:39,188 [TSOUKALOS] One thing is crystal clear: 620 00:40:39,271 --> 00:40:43,692 In all of the ancient texts, those gods promised to return. 621 00:40:44,610 --> 00:40:50,491 Not just in the Bible, but in many of the ancient sacred texts. 622 00:40:51,742 --> 00:40:55,287 [ Narrator] Could the end of days that most religions foresee... 623 00:40:55,371 --> 00:41:00,876 actually be the time when humanity discovers the secret to resurrection... 624 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:06,799 allowing everyone to move between physical and spiritual planes of existence? 625 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,973 And if so, will this realm be the place where we finally meet the extraterrestrials... 626 00:41:14,056 --> 00:41:17,184 that ancient astronaut theorists say visited the Earth... 627 00:41:17,267 --> 00:41:19,853 thousands of years ago? 628 00:41:24,024 --> 00:41:26,443 The idea of resurrection... 629 00:41:26,527 --> 00:41:30,990 or rebirth into a new realm of existence, a new kingdom of heaven... 630 00:41:31,073 --> 00:41:35,953 was central to our interaction with the celestials or extraterrestrial beings. 631 00:41:36,036 --> 00:41:38,956 You could almost make the argument that that's why they came here... 632 00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:43,168 was to teach us how to resurrect ourselves, our bodies... 633 00:41:43,252 --> 00:41:46,714 to transform our bodies into a celestial form... 634 00:41:46,797 --> 00:41:48,799 a light-body form. 635 00:41:49,717 --> 00:41:53,721 We find a direct through line connecting extraterrestrials, angels... 636 00:41:53,804 --> 00:41:56,056 and the near-death experience. 637 00:41:57,016 --> 00:42:00,853 There is a compelling suggestion that at the end of days... 638 00:42:00,936 --> 00:42:03,647 the veil between realities will be parted... 639 00:42:03,731 --> 00:42:05,733 and we will gain the capability... 640 00:42:05,816 --> 00:42:12,072 of moving directly between the world of the living and the world of the afterlife. 641 00:42:12,156 --> 00:42:13,717 [TSOUKALOS] I don't think it is anything... 642 00:42:13,741 --> 00:42:19,204 that we should look upon with dread, but with joy... 643 00:42:19,288 --> 00:42:21,707 because it means we're not alone... 644 00:42:21,790 --> 00:42:25,002 and, you know, they're there with us. 645 00:42:27,588 --> 00:42:29,899 [ Narrator] Might we really have souls that exist in a realm... 646 00:42:29,923 --> 00:42:33,135 that can be accessed by otherworldly beings? 647 00:42:34,970 --> 00:42:39,850 And if so, could stories involving the second coming of prophets... 648 00:42:41,143 --> 00:42:43,103 the reanimation of the dead... 649 00:42:44,146 --> 00:42:46,899 and the close encounters of those on the brink of death... 650 00:42:46,982 --> 00:42:51,653 be evidence that extraterrestrials hold the secret to resurrection? 651 00:42:53,489 --> 00:42:57,451 Perhaps as we come to better understand our own mortality... 652 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,538 we too will uncover the mysteries of the afterlife... 653 00:43:01,622 --> 00:43:05,250 and in the process, discover the truth... 654 00:43:05,334 --> 00:43:08,253 about our alien origins.