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NARRATOR: Commandments
from a divine realm.

stirring a course of history.

COPPENS: There are
people in every age

who know where the future lies.

There are people
who set out a path

and really lead other
people along this path.

NARRATOR: Mysterious journeys
to other worlds.

REDFERN: Glowing clouds
coming down from the sky

pillars of fire, voices coming
from the heavens.

NARRATOR: And strange encounters
with supernatural beings

revealing visions of the future.

TSOUKALOS: We have to ask
ourselves who were these guys.

Were they just a figment
of our ancestors' imagination

or did they exist?

NARRATOR: Were the prophets
of the ancient world

really messengers from God?

Or did their knowledge come
from more mysterious sources?

DOWNING: Prophets were targeted
to be the spokespersons

for the extraterrestrial powers
trying to rule the world.

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 there
be evidence

in the stories of ancient prophets
and their mysterious predictions.

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NARRATOR: Gebel Khashm
el-Tarif, Egypt.

This mountain rising out of the
Sinai desert is believed by some

to be the site of two of
history's most important divine

encounters... the peak where the
Biblical patriarch Moses

encountered the burning bush,
and the place where Moses later

received the Ten
Commandments from God.

But what was the true nature of
Moses' divine encounter?

Was he a normal human randomly
chosen to deliver the word of God?

Or did he possess a special gift?

An inherent ability to communicate
with otherworldly forces?

JONATHAN YOUNG: Mystical
literature from all over the

world has accounts of
visitations from angels, gods,

some kind of supernatural
creatures that interact and

interfere, that represent some
powers beyond our understanding.

COPPENS: We see this in
the Bible with Moses.

He is just one of several
examples of leaders who are

guided by divine guidance, who
really are getting the help of

the gods into getting
to their goal.

NARRATOR: In addition to
stories of the prophet Moses,

the Hebrew and Christian
Testaments also feature similar

accounts of numerous other
prophets, including Elijah,

Isaiah, Noah, Abraham,
Enoch and Jesus.

RICHARD RADER: Prophets are a
major element in almost all

ancient societies.
These were people who functioned

sort of as liaisons between the
mortal world and the immortal

world, between the
gods and the humans.

FATHER WILLIAM FULCO: They
have a message, which is a

communication from God, but
what's very interesting about

that, it's not just a message.
The presence of God is felt to

be in the words of
the prophet himself.

So, the one who hears a prophet
actually is encountering the

presence of God, and not
just a message from God.

RADER: So, if you have a
prophet who is an authority

figure in your community, and he
says, this god is upset about

this, you need to do X, Y, or Z to
placate this god or goddess, you did it.

NARRATOR: But was the source

of these prophetic messages
truly of a divine nature?

(thunder rumbles)

NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut

theorists, there is, perhaps,
another possible explanation as

to who or what may
have been contacting

these prophets of the ancient past.

COPPENS: What we're beginning

to realize is that this is not
religious, but that these are

people who have had anomalous
experiences with entities, and

that this is contact with a
nonhuman intelligence.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Prophets and
prophecies are evidence that

these higher beings are
instructing us to help create

civilization, for us to move
forward, and even to give us

some warning of the future.
This is what's going to happen.

You need to get ready.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible
that extraterrestrial beings

made contact with
the ancient prophets?

Perhaps the answers can be found

by looking further into the
story of Moses, as written more

than 3,000 years ago, and
chronicled in the Hebrew

Testament's Book of Exodus.

FULCO: Moses's first
encounter with God occurs

in the, uh... in the third chapter
of the book of Exodus.

Moses encounters a burning bush,

and God speaks to him out
of this burning bush.

And Moses was given a mission.
And the mission is to liberate

the Hebrews indentured in Egypt.

TSOUKALOS: The idea of the burning
bush is very interesting to me,

because things like burning bushes
really don't exist, especially if they

all of a sudden give instructions.

So we have to ask ourselves,
what did our ancestors describe?

And so, the burning bush idea

could have have been a
technological creation, which

Moses described as a burning bush.

NARRATOR: Might the burning
bush, as described by Moses,

really have been an
extraterrestrial device?

A machine? Or perhaps,
even a type of spacecraft?

If so, then with whom,
or with what,

was Moses really
communicating?

Perhaps more clues can be found
in the story of another,

equally mysterious,
close encounter.

Tell el-Daba, Egypt.

Some scholars and researchers
believe that it was here,

in the northeastern region of the
Nile Delta, where the Israelites

began their exodus, and where
Moses had his second divine

encounter... this time with an
incredible object in the sky.

DOWNING: They were met
partway toward their destination

by what I would call
a biblical UFO.

In Exodus, Chapter 13, verses 21
and 22, it says, "The Lord went

before them by day in a pillar
"of cloud... and by night in a

pillar of fire."
"...the pillar did not depart

from before the people..."
Meaning that it was always there.

FULCO: Well, what the Bible

tells us is that it is the
presence of God manifesting

himself in a dramatic way,
accompanying the Israelites.

TSOUKALOS: The question has
always been asked, "Well, what

was that cloud of fire?"
What is it?

Is it God?
Or, as the ancient alien theory

suggests, it could have been
some type of a craft, a beacon

that they had to follow.

PATRICK COOKE:
The Hebrew people...

they were following the
object, and it makes it very

clear that whenever the object
was on the ground, the people

stopped and camped.
When it was taken up, they broke

camp, and they moved forward.
The object was leading them.

DOWNING: And the description
of a pillar of cloud and of fire...

A pillar is cylindrical in shape,
and perhaps quite hard or solid.

This is very similar to UFOs
that are reported now.

The flying saucer types
are more famous, but the

cylindrical-shaped UFOs are very
common, and they can be very large.

Up to a half-mile in length, perhaps.

Some students of UFOs think

these are mother ships, and the
fact that it's a cloud by day

suggests, as in modern UFOs,
that there's some type of halo

effect around the UFO.

REDFERN: If we look at
it in that context,

perhaps the ancients
would have described

a gleaming UFO in the day as a
cloud, a bright cloud, and they

would have described a brightly
lit UFO at night as a fiery pillar.

NARRATOR: Was this strange
pillar of fire and cloud really

a physical manifestation of God?
Or was it an advanced

technological device of an
otherworldly origin?

As far as ancient astronaut
theories are concerned, further

clues may lie in the story of
Moses' final divine encounter on

the summit of Mount Sinai.

COOKE: Moses receives a message

from God that he is going
to land on Mount Sinai.

So he gathers the nation of
Israel around the mountain.

This huge, bright glowing
cloud lands on Mount Sinai.

FULCO: And it's quite
spectacular because

it's surrounded by all sorts of
preternatural phenomenon,

of the sounds of trumpets
and clouds and fire.

DOWNING: And the Jewish
people are told to stay at the

bottom of Mount Sinai, but Moses
is authorized, and you might

even say protected, by the
pillar of cloud and the fire,

so that he can go up there
and everybody else can't.

NARRATOR: According to the
biblical texts, Moses ascends

the mountain and enters
the glowing cloud.

There he communes with the
almighty God... the creator of

the universe... and after 40 days
he returns, carrying the Ten

Commandments.
But for ancient astronaut

theorists, the story of what
happened on Mount Sinai may,

in fact, offer compelling evidence
of a very different type of encounter.

REDFERN: Moses going up with

God, being gone for 40 days,
it sounds very much like the

contactee experience today,
where contactees are given rules

and regulations and ideas to
follow, you know, in terms of

elevating the human race.

DOWNING: The commandments
that are given

go against our very animal nature,

because, to some extent, what the Bible
says is that God would will to give

divine power to humans
if we could handle it.

But the problem is, we don't
have the ethics to handle it.

(thunder crashing)
Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.

The Ten Commandments are a start
toward handling divine power.

And the prophets were picked to
be the spokespersons for the

powers that were trying to rule
the world through rules and

regulations, commandments that
would bring about moral

obedience, which is superior to
following our animal instincts.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Moses' encounter on Mount Sinai

was not with the almighty God
but with some sort of

extraterrestrial messenger?
(thunder crashing)

One that deliberately sought to
guide and govern human behavior?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
that such a profound and

controversial notion is
possible, and claim additional

evidence can be found in the
story of yet another Old

Testament prophet, one who
delivered ominous warnings of

the future... and described
unearthly beings that descended

from the heavens.

NARRATOR: Northern Israel.

According to Bible texts,
it was here,

in the ninth century BC,
that the prophet Elijah

reportedly had several encounters
with both angels and God...

during which he was given
prophetic warnings of drought

and cataclysm.

FULCO: One of the most
important prophets in Israelite

tradition, of course, is Elijah.

Elijah predicts some
rough things coming...

and, of course, they do.

CHILDRESS: He warns of a
drought that's going to

devastate Israel and cause
all this starvation.

He also is interesting because
he was never known to have died.

And it's thought that, in some
ways, yeah, he was taken into

space and lives for eternity.

NARRATOR: In Elijah's final
encounter with God,

written in the Second Book of Kings,

the prophet "goes up by a
whirlwind" into Heaven

by what's described in the Hebrew
Bible as a fiery horse-drawn chariot.

REDFERN: There's a story
in Kings about Elijah,

who reported seeing
this strange aerial

phenomena that was described
variously as sort of bright,

whirlwind-like, cloud lit up,
clearly some sort

of object in the sky.

COOKE: Elijah's experience
details a spinning object

or a spinning beam that
took him up into the object.

We see a whirlwind that came

over him a a chariot of fire.
So the question is: Was it the

chariot of fire that was
spinning, or was it a beam that

came down and took him up?

NARRATOR: For the faithful,

this extraordinary event is
believed to be a religious miracle.

But could Elijah have been chosen
by heavenly beings to fulfill

an otherworldly purpose, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?

TSOUKALOS: The one thing that
many people don't realize is

that the first story we can read
about Elijah doesn't talk about

that he was taken up there with
horses, but just by that fiery

chariot that initially was
described like a fiery furnace.

Now, what's a fiery furnace?

REDFERN: Could the fire have
been some sort of engine?

When he's taken
up in a whirlwind,

you know, you only have
to look at, for example,

when the space shuttle
takes to the sky.

You know, you have this
rumbling, roaring jet flames,

et cetera, et cetera.
If you look at it in that

context, you could really place
this into a UFO category.

CHILDRESS: When you look at
Elijah, there's a nuts-and-bolts

craft there... a fiery chariot...
and they get inside it.

They meet these beings,
which are luminous beings

that talk to them, instruct them.

DOWNING: It's important to
realize that the biblical religion

is an extraterrestrial religion,

meaning that God is
not from Earth.

We learn this
in the Lord's Prayer.

"Our Father, who art in
Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

"Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done:

on Earth as it is in Heaven."

Extraterrestrial help is sent to
Earth to help humanity in the

quest to do God's will.

NARRATOR: Was Elijah really

a man chosen by otherworldly
beings to help them steer the

course of humanity?
And if so, might this help

explain other, even more
incredible, Biblical encounters

between God and mankind?
(thunder crashes)

NARRATOR: Manchester, New York.
March, 1830.

24-year-old visionary Joseph Smith Jr.
publishes the Book of Mormon

and creates the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints...

a religious movement with more
than 14 million followers today.

Incredibly, the Book of Mormon

includes Joseph Smith's personal
accounts of his interaction

with an otherworldly being.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Joseph Smith
had something like a vision.

He wrote that an angel appeared to him,
an angel with the name of Moroni.

And this angel appeared three
times and told to Joseph Smith

he should go to a certain little
hill, he should pull the stone

plate away, and inside he would
find a cave, and in the cave he

would find unknown writings.

YOUNG: He showed Joseph Smith
the location of a buried treasure,

these golden plates with a
message from someplace else,

a new revelation, a new
book of the Bible.

He explained that he had come

from the star system Pleiades. And so
the source of the Book of Mormon...

is extraterrestrial.

JASON MARTELL: Smith actually
describes several different

cases where he appears to be
with this extraterrestrial Moroni.

We really have to wonder if

these aren't just mythological
explanations or physical events

that actually took place.

COPPENS: Joseph Smith is interesting
because he meets mythical beings.

The story of Smith is to some
extent unique, in the sense that

obviously a religion was created
based on what he encountered.

TSOUKALOS: However which way
you want to look at this,

whether it's a flesh-and-blood
alien or an actual angel,

they're both extraterrestrials,
so there's no question about that.

They misunderstood those visits
as being angelic in nature,

when in reality they were visited
by physical space travelers.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the angel Moroni

who instructed Joseph
Smith Jr. was, in fact,

an otherworldly being?

And if so, could the Book of Mormon
really be evidence

that these beings have shared
celestial information with mankind?

Lumbini, Nepal.
The fourth century BC.

It was during this period that
the Jataka tales... ancient

Buddhist poems and prose...
were written.

These incredible writings
document the supernatural birth

and life of the Supreme Buddha,
a spiritual leader upon whose

teachings the Buddhist religion
was founded.

JUDY HO: The Buddha's mother
is Queen Maya, and it is

believed that she had a dream
one night that a white elephant

entered her womb, thus she was
conceived and the Buddha was born.

The Buddha is supposed to have
reached enlightenment after

meditating for a long
time under a tree.

The enlightenment is
called "nirvana."

NARRATOR: According to some
ancient astronaut researchers,

before Buddha began laying the
foundation for one of the

world's great religions, he was
psychically imprinted with

telepathic messages by
otherworldly beings.

CHILDRESS: In Buddhism,
there's an interesting story of

Buddha meeting with what are
called the "devas," or these

special luminous spirits.

HO: Devas are like superhuman
beings, like superheroes.

They can fly, they live longer,

they are stronger, they are
much taller than humans.

CHILDRESS: They also have
craft that help them fly.

You have to wonder
who these devas are.

In many ways they're very
much like extraterrestrials.

COPPENS: Buddha actually
writes about this state and

calls it "par-nirvana," and
basically says that this is also

the link with the immortals.
And other traditions basically

say that this is when contact
with the gods is made.

MARTEL: Many religious
figures have had some type of

out-of-body experience.
Buddha himself described being

able to access multiple
dimensions, interacting with

different beings.
There could be other dimensions,

other realities in parallel with
us that contain extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Do the strange accounts of
Elijah, Joseph Smith Jr. and Buddha

really prove divine beings
have been influencing

mankind for thousands of years?

And if so, do the words
of these prophets,

when looked at together,
reveal a master plan

for the human species?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that even more clues

may be found in the centuries-old
accounts of prophets and holy men

who lived long before the
Bible was conceived.

NARRATOR: Persepolis, Iran.

Here, 30 miles northeast
of the city of Shiraz,

lay the ruins of an ancient capital.

Built by the Persian conqueror
Darius more than 2,000 years ago,

Persepolis was once a mighty
city that legend says was

protected by a powerful god
named Ahuru Mazda.

And etched in stone atop the
crumbling remains of a building

called the "Tripylon" is a
depiction of this ancient god,

seated inside a winged disk.
Ahuru Mazda was central to the

ancient Persian religion
Zoroastrianism...

and the experiences of a
prophet named Zarathustra

who lived 2,600 years ago.

YOUNG: Zarathustra was the
founder of a religion...

he was in the area near Persia,
of modern-day Persia or Iran...

and he had a visitor, Ahuru
Mazda, a divine encounter that

led to the major form of
monotheism in the entire area.

It preceded the Egyptian form of
monotheism and way beyond the

Hebrew and then Christian forms.

NARRATOR: According to ancient
Zoroastrian texts called the Avesta,

Zarathustra's first meeting with
Ahuru Mazda occurred at the top

of a mountain that was shrouded in
clouds and bathed in an eerie light.

YOUNG: Zarathustra carries

this idea that there is this
one true god, it is literally

the god of truth, and truth is
a great central principle in the

Zoroastrian worldview.
Right and wrong, good and evil,

black and white... a very strong
contrast, and you are to

identify with the good
and search the truth.

NARRATOR: Some researchers
believe these divine prophecies

provide proof that the prophet
Zarathustra was following

commands from an
extraterrestrial being, one who

perhaps came to Earth to sow the seeds
of what is now known as civilization.

COPPENS: When we look at Zarathustra
encountering Ahura Mazda, what we are

confronted with here are
human beings who are

encountering nonhuman
intelligences.

These are indicative of physical
encounters.

These are encounters with
something which is

otherworldly yet physical.

TSOUKALOS: We have
to ask ourselves:

Were they just a figment
of our ancestors'

imagination, or did they exist?

COPPENS: These are
extraterrestrial, or alien,

entities who come here
and provide some kind of

information exchange and
guidance program between

cultures and entities who are
willing to help that culture.

NARRATOR: Is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that extraterrestrials
contacted prophets in the

distant past in order to
guide the development

of human civilization?
And if so, might there be more

clues found in the historical
accounts of what is perhaps the

most intriguing character in all
of ancient Greece?

Mount Parnassus.
On the flanks of this 8,000-foot

peak lie the ruins of a marble
sanctuary that was once home to

one of history's most famous
prophets, a temple priestess

known as the Oracle of Delphi.

RADER: The Oracle of Delphi is the most
famous oracle from the ancient world.

There was a temple there
dedicated to the god Apollo.

Apollo is the central
god for prophecy.

And a temple was established
for Apollo in Delphi, and that

became the seat of the actual
oracle where people would visit.

ROBERT SCHOCH: The Oracle of
Delphi was located in the Temple

of Apollo, which would have
been, at the time, the major

building structure.
This was the central point.

So the oracle was all-important.
Everything else was there

because of the oracle
in the complex.

NARRATOR: Also known as
Pythia, the oracle could be

found sitting on a tall,
three-legged seat over an

opening in the earth, where
vapors rising from the ground

would put her into a trance.

CHILDRESS: The Oracle of Delphi would
basically channel the god Apollo.

Apollo was really the
god of civilization.

He was the god of light.
He was the god of prophecy.

And she would become Apollo.

RADER: You can imagine how it
is when something supernatural

or superhuman comes
into a human body.

It, of course, creates a fugue
state, essentially.

It creates a weird trance.
Nowadays we have movies about

possessions and stuff like that.
It's kind of like that.

It's not necessarily demonic.
But any time the supernatural

becomes housed within something
natural like a human body, it is

inevitably going to be causing
some kind of trance, some kind

of fugue state or something.

NARRATOR: For more
than a thousand years,

the oracle and her
numerous successors

dispensed advice to everyone
from emperors and generals

to poets and politicians.

YOUNG: Prophecy was central

to the Greek worldview, and the
affairs of state, the planning

of battles, any important
decisions, would be taken to the

oracle to be considered, to get
some kind of guidance from

beyond ordinary knowing.

RADER: You can come and ask
about giving birth to a child.

You can come and ask about
crops that you want to plant.

You can come and ask
about joining the army.

You can come and ask about
undertaking a military expedition.

The priestess is there
to be the liaison.

And in fact, when people come to
the oracle and ask questions,

they specifically ask the
priestess, and she's the one who

channels the answer from Apollo
back down to the human beings.

NARRATOR: But just what, or
whom, was the reason for the

oracle's bizarre trance like state?

One in which, according to
contemporary accounts,

she could accurately predict
everything from the Trojan War

and the eventual decline of
Greek power to the slaughter

of the famed 300 Spartans at
Thermopylae?

(men clamoring)
(man yells)

Mainstream researchers say it
was most likely due to her

inhalation of intoxicating fumes
from various gases seeping out

of Mount Parnassus.

But might she, in fact,

have been in contact
with an extraterrestrial being?

One whom the ancient
Greeks knew as Apollo?

CHILDRESS: The idea that
Apollo was possibly some

extraterrestrial makes sense,
because they want us to develop,

they want us to have civilization.

They want us to have technology
and to be like them.

TSOUKALOS: We've always been
their pet project, so to speak,

meaning that they helped us
become who we are today.

NARRATOR: Were ancient
so-called gods, like Ahuru Mazda

and Apollo, really part of an
advanced race of celestial beings?

Aliens who used human agents
known as prophets

to instruct and steer the
course of human civilization?

If so, might these same
extraterrestrials also be

the force behind one of history's
most infamous prophets?

A man who claimed
to have visions of some

of the most cataclysmic
events in history?

The 16th century prophet named...

Nostradamus.

NARRATOR: Southern France.
1555.

Here a chemist and apothecary
named Michel de Nostradame

publishes an almanac titled
The Prophecies.

In it he writes more than a
thousand four-line poetic

verses called "quatrains," verses
that seem to predict the future.

JAY WEIDNER: Michel Nostradamus,
at an early age, began having visions.

He would stare into the water in
a bowl, and he would begin to

see visions of what he
thought was the future.

At the time that he was doing
this, seeing into the future was

considered witchcraft, and he
risked being called a warlock

and being taken by the
Inquisition and basically killed.

So what he did was, he masked

his visions in quatrains,
four-line prose poems,

in which he hid the future very
carefully so that you wouldn't really

understand the quatrain until
after the event had occurred.

MARIE D. JONES: Some people
say that he channeled his prophecies.

I think he just went into

either a higher state of
consciousness or a very deep

meditative state.
And he was seeing things that

he then would write about.

NARRATOR: In the centuries
after his death, Nostradamus has

been credited with predicting
everything from the Great

Chicago Fire of 1871... and the
rise of Hitler in the 1930s...

to the dropping of the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.

COPPENS: Nostradamus was able
to access information which was

not available to any of his
contemporaries.

As such, he was identified as a
visionary, a seer, a prophet,

whatever name you
want to give him.

NARRATOR: But perhaps the
biggest unsolved mystery

concerning Nostradamus is that
no one knows the source of his

mysterious powers of prediction.
Was he fed futuristic

information from a higher
spiritual power, like the

Oracle of Delphi?
Or was he obtaining his uncanny

knowledge from an otherworldly
or extraterrestrial origin?

COPPENS: We know that he
somehow was able to train his

brain to really make contact
with something out there.

Now, science is going to try and
give this various names, whether

it is zero-point energy, the
zero-point field, a different

dimension, whatever it is.

NARRATOR:
Some researchers believe

that everything and everyone connects
through the zero-point field,

where a collection of electric charges

from every thought, action and event of
the past, present and future is stored.

JONES: The zero-point field is thought
to be where everything that ever was

thought, or every behavior,
every action... anything that

involved energy... was dumped
into the field, and still is.

It literally contains all
information for the infinite

time that we have been here.

NARRATOR: The concept
of the zero-point

field rests on the
theory that the universe

occupies more than just the
three spatial dimensions of

height, width and depth.
And this evolving concept is

known as "string theory."

MICHAEL DENNIN: In string theory,

there are typically 11
dimensions that are envisioned.

They're what we call very small,
or wrapped up, or compact.

So, if these dimensions are
sufficiently small and curved

and compact, we wouldn't be able
to experience moving along them,

so we wouldn't know they exist.

NARRATOR: But if string
theory is, in fact,

correct, is it possible
that the zero-point

field exists in another
dimension...

one undetected by mankind?
Dozens of ancient cultures

describe the existence of a
cosmic well of knowledge that

only certain people have
the ability to access.

The Hindus refer to it
as the "Akashic Record."

DOC BARHAM: The Akashic
Record, the idea behind it is

that all of the information in
the universe is sort of

preexisting and an individual could
actually tap into that information.

COPPENS: What we see is that
Nostradamus fits this

perspective of people who are
able to access information

which is not of this world.
He was able to take his brain,

his mind, outside of the
constraints of this reality,

and when he was there, he was able
to get information, which he

then brought back to us, and, in
his case, wrote down, so that we

were able to later partake
in this information.

JONES: I think any of these
great prophets were accessing

the zero-point field,
or, as I call it, the "grid."

I think we all access
information that we don't

normally have.
I think we do it in dreams, and

I think we do it when
we have d�j� vu.

So I think we're all doing this.
It's a gift, it's a talent, or

maybe a skill, that is
within all of us.

So perhaps people like
Nostradamus are really able to

tap into that grid,
that field, at will.

NARRATOR: Were the ancient
prophets really able to access

incredible information from a
hidden dimension?

Or from extraterrestrial beings,
as some ancient astronaut

theorists believe?
And if so, could there still be

prophets at work today?
Men and women who are in league

with other, perhaps
otherworldly forces?

Perhaps the answer can be found,
not on another planet, but

inside the mind...
of Albert Einstein.

NARRATOR: September 26th, 1905

Swiss patent clerk Albert
Einstein publishes a

groundbreaking paper in a German
scientific journal, upending

centuries of belief on how the
cosmos works.

In the paper, Einstein
proposes his theory of special

relativity, in which he imagines
a universe where both space and

time are fluid and flexible.

CHILDRESS: Prior to
Einstein's theory of

relativity, physicists tended to
view the physical world as a

static, immovable universe where
everything was set into its place.

DENNIN: The biggest change

after Einstein's theories of
relativity was how we viewed

space and time.
We thought of space, literally,

as just what we move through,
and time is how you measure

things going forward.

And Einstein made them
geometrically connected to

each other.
They were no longer

fundamentally different, and you
had to account for them together.

CHILDRESS: He showed that

time and space were relative,
and that time and space can be

warped, and ultimately that
time travel and space travel

and black holes and time warps,
all of these things were possible.

NARRATOR: Although
Einstein never claimed

that his profound knowledge
had divine origins...

as did the prophets of ancient
times... his insights into the

fundamental nature of the universe
were no less powerful and influential.

CHILDRESS: Whenever
someone like Einstein

is able to look at the
universe and physics and

then see things in a different way,
this is a kind of mystic awareness.

And you have to wonder if it's not
some contact with extraterrestrials,

where E.T.'s appear
to you in your bedroom,

give you some insight
and knowledge

that's going to help you on your
way to that new scientific discovery.

WEIDNER: Einstein's wife
reported after he died that his

favorite book was Isis
Unveiled by Madame Blavatsky.

It's a book all about the
innate psychic ability of

humans, about the hidden history
of the human race, and I believe

that Einstein was very much into
all of this, and used his own

psychic abilities to create
the theory of relativity.

And in fact, Einstein got the
theory of relativity by standing

on a street and looking at the
mist surrounding a streetlight

and imagining in his head how
long it took for the light to go

from the streetlight, hit the
mist and reflect to his eye.

And then he realized, in a kind
of a transcendental, meditative,

quiet moment, that light
travels, and then the theory of

relativity came from that
mystical experience.

NARRATOR: Were Einstein's
insights the result of his own

incredible IQ?
Or were his discoveries aided by

his ability to tap into the
knowledge of the universe?

The same kind of knowledge that
was also made available to the

great prophets of
the ancient world?

YOUNG: The word "prophet" is
used in areas of innovation and

great thinkers and engineers,
and developers of products are

sometimes thought of as
prophets.

There are new prophets
constantly.

NARRATOR: 1953.
James Watson and Francis Crick

discover the shape and makeup of DNA.

In 2000, J. Craig Venter
decodes the human genome.

Might these also be examples of
modern-day prophets functioning

in our midst?
Prophets that are able to tap

into advanced alien knowledge?

COPPENS: There are people
in every age who know

where the future lies,
and they are called prophets,

whether they are Steve
Jobs or Einstein or whoever.

They are people who set out a
path and really lead other

people along this path.
When you start looking into what

they are, you're beginning to
realize that there are certain

anomalies in the lives
of these people.

The information which they
possess, which helped us guide

along the path, really is not
theirs, but that they somehow

are messengers of a larger reality.

JONES: I think prophets could
be communicating with

extraterrestrial, extra-
dimensional beings, angels, gods.

If you're channeling information

that is far beyond your own
wisdom, you're automatically

going to assume it's coming from
somebody smarter than you.

They may be coming... crossing
over dimensions so that they

can impart their knowledge.

NARRATOR: But why would otherworldly
beings use humans to shape

our religions...our politics...
our science?

Is there perhaps an
extraterrestrial plan for the

human species?
One that is guiding us to our

next, or perhaps final,
destination?

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder:
Why do they care about us?

Why would they want to help us,

give us prophecies, instruct
us in better lives?

And, in many ways, it's only
natural that they would.

We're like their children.

COPPENS: We try to reduce them to great
prophets, great leaders, but truly,

they were great mystics.
And the story of a great mystic

is really that he is somebody
who has part of his being

in this reality... and part of his
being in another reality.

These are people who have had
a foot in this dimension

but also in another dimension.

NARRATOR: Prophets...

chosen by beings
from other worlds...

and bearing messages that have
changed the destiny of mankind.

Could there really be an ultimate
plan that is, as yet, unknown to us?

Perhaps the answer lies hidden,
still waiting to be discovered.

Or maybe it will be revealed
when they return.

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