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A young man's
spiritual journey.
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I was a boy, 16 years
old, when I said,
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"This is not God.
What are we talking about?"
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A controversial bestseller.
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I was mesmerized by it.
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I couldn't put it down.
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And a scientific theory that
threatened to change the world.
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Everything was turned upside-down
by Erich Von Daniken.
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Just what are the facts behind
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Erich Von Daniken and
ancient astronaut theory?
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What were the divine inspirations...
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The ancient Egyptians did build
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the pyramids with the assistance
of the Guardians of the Sky.
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the bizarre revelations...
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We're just starting
to rediscover ancient
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technology that did exist
thousands of years ago.
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and the shocking
conclusions that were
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too incredible to be ignored?
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Even if there is a chance
in ten million that
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he is right,
then everything changes.
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We have been
visited, and these visitors
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will return to Earth again.
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Millions of people
around the world believe
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we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history,
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and if so, what does this say
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not only about mankind's
past but about its future?
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Minneapolis, Minnesota,
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October, 2012.
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I want to introduce
Erich Von Daniken.
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Hundreds gather to
hear iconic author and
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researcher Erich Von Daniken
speak at the Paradigm Symposium,
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a four-day event focused on
exploring ancient cosmology,
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anthropology, archaeology,
and science fiction.
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Maybe we have been visited
from outer space.
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Where's the proof?
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What can we find?
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His books have sold over 65
million copies worldwide.
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He is a hero to some and
a heretic to others,
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but Erich Von Daniken's
controversial theories have
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captured the attention of the
world and ignited a movement
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known as ancient astronaut theory.
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The scientific community,
they were always
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afraid to think in this way.
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We have to change our thinking.
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Von Daniken's research
has taken him all over
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the world to investigate
the unexplained mysteries
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of ancient cultures.
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He has spent his lifetime daring
to question what mainstream
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scholars hold to be true.
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We are the descendents,
ladies and gentlemen,
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we are the offsprings
of these extraterrestrials,
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and it's not by coincidence.
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Erich Von Daniken's rise to notoriety
began in February, 1968, when the Swiss
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hotel manager-turned-author
published his groundbreaking
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book "Chariots of the Gods".
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In it, the young writer
theorized that intelligent
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extraterrestrial beings visited
Earth in the distant past
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and made contact with mankind.
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It caused a sensation, selling
an impressive 500,000
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copies in its first
year of publication.
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When the book first appeared
was the year where we
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landed a man on the moon, and
so there's a whole belief
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now that it was possible to travel
into space, that we would
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send people to space.
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Many people were very
excited about this whole
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new ancient astronaut theory.
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They thought it made sense.
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We were coming ourselves
into the modern space age.
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People were really,
really interested in
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these kinds of subjects and
wondering if maybe there had
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been something that we had
secretly discovered on the moon
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that may have pointed towards
extraterrestrial origins for man.
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Although the phenomenon
of ancient astronauts
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has been around since the '50s,
it was really Von Daniken who
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opened the doors to where it became
part of the popular culture.
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"Chariots of the Gods" was a very
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crucial book for me because
it opened my eyes up to the
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possibility that ancient
cultures may have been in
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connection with or interacting
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with some sort of
off-planet intelligence.
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I was mesmerized by it;
I couldn't put it down.
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It might've been the first book I
read cover to cover in one day.
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His theories were just
phenomenal where he talked about
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the possibility of
extraterrestrial visitations.
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By using rhetorical questions,
Von Daniken suggested
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that evidence of alien close
encounters could be found in
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everything from ancient
religious texts and mysterious
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stone carvings to monumental
structures and monoliths located
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all over the world.
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What he basically says
is, you can no longer look at
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the traditional interpretations
of historical events,
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historical monuments,
historical structures,
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historical cultures at face value.
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You have to look at this in a
much broader context of what
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could be perhaps
extraterrestrial intervention.
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One of the things that
Erich did was to take very
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familiar Bible stories
and reinterpret them...
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where people are
interacting with angels.
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They're even taken up into space
in fiery chariots and things
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like that, and what it was
was a re-examination of
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what we're taught.
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But despite being well
received by the public,
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scholars and scientists regarded Von
Daniken's claims as pseudoscience.
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I expected to be
ridiculed, but I did not
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expect the unfair way in which the
ridiculing happened in the media.
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I was at that time attacked.
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"Erich Von Daniken said..."
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In reality, in "Chariots of the
Gods", I had 238 question marks.
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Nobody read the question marks.
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Trailblazers tend to
become targets, and so
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academia for many years
has slagged Von Daniken,
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saying it's sloppy research,
it's sloppy thinking,
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it's sloppy analysis.
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However, as the years have gone
on, more and more of his...
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his early work has now kind of
been vindicated by other people,
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and I think we can all trace
back this interest in this
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subject to Von Daniken's
groundbreaking work.
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All the great thinkers
of our time and in
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the past have been people
who challenged the norm.
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So Erich Von Daniken really
challenged the norm of academia
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to show that these things that
we thought of as just religious
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myths actually have scientific
merit, and we need to look
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into them further.
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But what was the source
for Erich Von Daniken's
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groundbreaking theory?
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Where did the notion of alien
astronauts visiting the earth in
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the ancient past come from?
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I was educated in a boarding
school led by Jesuits.
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Three years, we had to translate
parts of the Bible from one
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language into the other.
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In the first Book of Moses...
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the Lord descends from the
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heavens down to Earth
on a holy mountain.
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With smoke and fire and loud
noise and trembling, and
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everyone was afraid.
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That was the moment
when I said,
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"This is not God".
What are we talking about?
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My God does not need a vehicle
in which to move around, which
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trembles and makes smoke
"and loud noise."
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And it was the Jesuit priest who
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said, "Erich, maybe you should
"read a Book of Enoch."
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The Book of Enoch was
excluded from the Bible and
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is still considered controversial
by many theologians.
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But for Von Daniken, it was proof
of something much greater.
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It says that Enoch was
taken away from our
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planet Earth by the Lord
in a fiery chariot.
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Now, we knew nothing in the
past about flying machines.
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So, in religious terms, they
say now he has his flight
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into the heaven.
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But in my eyes, Enoch, he sees
something which in reality
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it was a spaceship.
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This omitted account
of Enoch's journey
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only raised more questions
for Von Daniken.
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He turned his focus to the story
of the biblical prophet Ezekiel.
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Like Enoch, Ezekiel is also
taken away in a fiery vehicle,
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a vehicle he describes in great
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technical detail in the
pages of the Old Testament.
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Von Daniken brought the strange
texts to the attention of his priest.
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So the priest said,
"Ezekiel has a vision."
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I said, "No, that's not the vision
because he describes "the noise."
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He compares the noise with the
thundering of a waterfall.
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It's not a vision.
It's something different.
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Something like rocket engines.
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Now we are talking about contact
with extraterrestrials, space
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travel, so it all came together.
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Erich wasn't completely
rejecting religion
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or the idea of God.
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Or even angels for that matter.
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He was looking at things
differently but still keeping
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a certain spirituality and
knowledge of universal truths.
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I have grown up
as a Catholic, a Christian,
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and I clearly say I am still
one of these believers in God.
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I pray every evening.
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We will never lose God, never, when
we deal with ancient astronauts.
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Is it possible, as Erich
Von Daniken and other
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ancient astronaut researchers
suggest, that the evidence for
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real-life close encounters can
be found embedded in the pages
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of the Holy Bible?
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It was a question that the Swiss
teenager was determined to answer.
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And his search now took him to
the Egyptian desert and the
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mysterious structures known...
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as the Great Pyramids.
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Northeastern Egypt,
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1954.
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At the age of 19, Erich Von
Daniken traveled to Giza,
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three miles from Cairo.
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There he could examine the
Egyptian pyramids firsthand.
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I visited Egypt for the
first time when I was,
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well, a youngster.
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That was long before
Chariots of the Gods.
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And it impressed me
very, very much.
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I always had the feeling this
is not only done by humans.
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Somebody must have
done the planning.
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Of course, I learned at that
time that archaeology says
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this building is made by a
pharaoh with the name of Cheops.
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I asked, "Where does the
name Cheops come from?"
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Because we don't have
a statue of Cheops.
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We don't have a mummy of Cheops.
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You would think if somebody
makes this gigantic building
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like the Great Pyramid, he would
be proud and he would say,
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"Hey, I did it. I was the
one who constructed this."
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But the Great Pyramid
is the total anonymity.
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The Great Pyramid has always
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intrigued the ancient alien
theory for a number of reasons.
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It's the last surviving wonder
of the ancient world, and nobody
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has been able to explain how
precisely it was built.
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Erich is not saying
that aliens built it.
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Erich is saying that the
pyramids, specifically the Great
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Pyramid, the way it is explained
by academics today does not fit
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with what his research is indicating.
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The puzzling way in which
the Great Pyramid was
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constructed and the mystery
surrounding its purpose, served
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to fuel both the Swiss
teenager's curiosity
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and his imagination.
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Could it be that everything his
teachers had told him about
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ancient civilizations was false?
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The pyramids in Egypt are
probably one of the greatest
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wonders of this planet.
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Some people say that they're,
you know, landing marks for
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extraterrestrials, power plants,
stabilizers for the planet
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creating energy waves.
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There's no doubt that somebody
had to provide the information
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to help get this thing built
because they're just too
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immense, they're too accurate.
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There is absolutely no question that
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the Great Pyramids of Giza
were built by human beings.
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The ancient Egyptians did it.
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However, what the ancient
Egyptian texts also tell us,
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that the ancient Egyptians did
build the pyramids, but with the
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assistance of the
Guardians of the Sky.
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Was it possible the
early Egyptians had received
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otherworldly knowledge in order to
construct the Great Pyramid of Giza?
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And if so, could proof be
found by examining other
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archaeological sites?
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1971...
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Eastern India.
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It was here, at the Sanskrit
College in Calcutta, that Erich
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Von Daniken met with Professor
Dileep Kanjilal to study the
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Vedic Sanskrit, an ancient language
used in religious Hindu texts.
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Professor Dileep Kanjilal
has gone through old
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Indian texts and made
modern versions of it.
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Now, it comes out in the old
books, the so-called gods,
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they used flying machines to
travel from heaven to Earth.
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According to the ancient
Vedic texts of India,
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the gods descended from the
sky in flying vehicles.
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They refer to those
vehicles as "vimanas."
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There are very detailed
descriptions: what these vimanas
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looked like, how they traveled
from place to place, what was
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necessary in order to pilot
them, all those things are
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described in ancient Hindu texts
that are thousands of years old.
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And for Erich, he
naturally felt that these
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vimanas were real
nuts-and-bolts aircraft.
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And of course, he's saying
these are the vehicles
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of the ancient astronauts.
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When Erich first went
to India, he explored
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a whole bunch of different
sites, and he quickly
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came to the realization that
India is a treasure trove for
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the ancient astronaut theory,
because all over India, we can
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find these magnificent temple
towers that are referred to as
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"stupas" and also "vimanas."
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And so we have to ask
ourselves, where did the form
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for a stupa come from?
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Another great contribution of Erich
is that he focused on India.
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Very few people had really
studied the ancient Indian
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civilization, even though it
is thousands of years old.
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And what he saw there were
structures which were alleged to
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have been replicas of vimanas.
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So many Hindu temple in
the Far East, they are
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representations in their
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architecture what was
going up in the sky.
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So the upper part of a Hindu
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temple often is seen as a
flying object, as a vimana.
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And basically what
we're being confronted with is
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the realization that these
people built in stone objects
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which they seem to
have seen in the sky.
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When we look at the
most ancient records we have,
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coming out of the Vedic texts
in India, there are clear
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descriptions of aerial battles
taking place with vimanas.
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So this really starts to
raise the question
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about our own cycle of history.
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Is it completely linear?
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Or is it possible that we're
just starting to rediscover
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ancient technology that did
exist thousands of years ago?
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Ancient texts all over the
world talk about flying
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vehicles, people who could fly
through the air, flying horses.
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But it was Erich who
really put it together.
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That the gods weren't just
flying around like Superman;
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they had to get into some kind
of nuts-and-bolts craft,
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just like we do,
and go somewhere.
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And this was "The
Chariots of the Gods".
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Enoch tells us about the
Guardians of the Sky
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who came down.
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He says they are called fallen
angels and they wanted to have
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sex with humans, and the
offspring of it were giants.
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So there were sexual contacts
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between extraterrestrials
and the humans.
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What does this mean?
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Well, it's very simple.
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Erich Von Daniken's
interpretation was, we are
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nothing else but hybrids of
an extraterrestrial race that
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jump-started our civilization
thousands and thousands of years ago.
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And that extraterrestrials, in
fact, gave us intelligence.
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Homo sapiens existed
for 250,000 years.
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But only in the last 50,000
years, this quantum leap all of
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a sudden happened where we went
from munching bananas in a cave
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to essentially
building civilizations.
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Science is holding out
great hope and expectation
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that at one point they will
find this missing link between
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everything else on
Planet Earth and us.
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But despite looking for over 150
years, they haven't come any closer.
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The answer might be found in what
our ancestors have always said,
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which is that we have been
made by the gods, that we are
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not like anything else
here on Planet Earth.
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We stand out, because
we have been created.
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As we look at the whole history of
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this planet, there is
this huge question.
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How many advanced intelligences
have been on this planet maybe
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for millions of years,
terraforming, and manipulating
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genes in all kinds of life, and
that maybe even modern human
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is one of those manipulated
genetic creations.
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Imagine all the knowledge
human beings possessed.
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Astronomy, mathematics,
engineering and writing, were
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brought down from
heaven by the gods.
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It does raise the question,
is Daniken right?
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Because even if there is the
faintest possibility, a chance
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in a million, a chance in ten
million that he is right, then
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everything changes.
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Do ancient religious
texts really provide
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evidence of alien contact with
cultures throughout history?
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Chariots of the Gods had
opened the door to much
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discussion, speculation,
and criticism.
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But its enormous success
also gave the Swiss writer
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the ability to travel the world
in search of more answers.
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It was a search that would take
him halfway across the globe,
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to see firsthand the ancient
ruins of South America.
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Bolivia, South America.
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Here lie the ruins of Puma
Punku, a mysterious temple
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complex located in the
ancient city of Tiahuanaco.
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It is believed to have been
built about 2,000 years ago.
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The year he published his
bestselling book Chariots of
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the Gods, author Erich Von
Daniken made a pilgrimage to
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this archaeological site for
more proof of his controversial
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theory that extraterrestrial
beings had visited Earth
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in the distant past.
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Puma Punku is in the
highland of Bolivia.
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You stand there and you
are absolutely shocked.
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There are gigantic
platforms laying around.
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At that time, in 1968, there was no
archaeological work done up there.
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When Erich Von Daniken
arrived at Puma Punku,
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here he found evidence, clearly,
of lost high technology.
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We see laser-perfection drilled
holes, stone that has been
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somehow liquefied, or almost
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kind of made vitrified,
and stuck together.
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This is not possible without
the use of high technology.
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Erich was able to see
these "H" blocks.
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They're big granite blocks all
articulated and cut as if they
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were pre-manufactured, and in
such a way that they would fit
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together and create
these giant walls.
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It was such a high-tech kind of
construction that it boggled
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everyone's mind.
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So what we have in Puma
Punku is the traditional...
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what I would say Erich Von
Daniken tackling archaeology.
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There is, within the methodology
of how these stones were
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constructed, a certain degree of
difficulty which our ancestors
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simply never attained in the
surrounding landscape of Tiahuanaco.
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Stone carvers basically told him
that it was almost impossible
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or extremely difficult to create
these artifacts, and that
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specifically why they would be
doing it is something which
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really defies explanation.
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Another aspect of Puma
Punku that captivated
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Von Daniken was the legend of
its creation, as put forward by
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the indigenous people of the region.
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The population living
there are called the Aymara.
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And the Aymara themselves say
that they had no involvement
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in building Puma Punku.
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In fact, when you ask them who
built Puma Punku, they will
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point to the sky and they
will say, "Los Dioses."
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The gods.
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In Puma Punku
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they say, "The gods constructed
the place in one night."
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This makes sense.
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You have an extraterrestrial
crew, they come down to Earth.
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So they construct with their
tools just something which we
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would call today a basic camp.
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They behaved themselves like
archaeologists would do: they learn.
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They teach a little to humans,
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they learn their language...
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One day they disappeared,
their job is over.
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They take all their instruments
back to the mother spaceship,
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and left are only a few
ruins of the basic camp.
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Was Puma Punku
really a base camp for
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extraterrestrials that visited
Earth in the distant past?
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And were the magnificent stones
that make up the ruins made with
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the help of advanced
building methods?
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For Erich Von Daniken the
answer was clearly "yes,"
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and it compelled him to continue
his search nearly 3,000 miles away
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at the ruins of another ancient city.
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Chichén Itzá, Mexico.
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Located on the Yucatán
Peninsula are the ruins
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of an ancient Mayan city that
thrived from 750 to 1200 A.D.
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It was here, in 1969, that
Erich Von Daniken had
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an amazing realization involving the
city's central pyramid of El Castillo.
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I was standing before
this great pyramid.
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I understood nothing.
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I took every possible literature
from Central American
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archaeologists to learn
what's this all about.
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And then I learned again, they are
talking of visitors from outside.
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Of course they call them gods.
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According to the ancient
Mayan myths, their main
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deity was Quetzalcoatl
or Kukulkan, Gukumatz.
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All those different names for
the exact same deity, which was
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described to be a winged or a
flying serpent, or a flying snake.
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Whatever it was that they saw
up in the sky could best be
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described as a flying snake.
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When we're looking
across the world,
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Chichén Itzá is a very
important location.
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It is one of those places where
it is said that the gods
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descended to and decreed
a fate of mankind.
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And there is one specific
pyramid, El Castillo,
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the castle, where you see an
intricate light show happening
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on specifically the equinoxes,
March 21 and September 21.
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In the early morning
you see the sun rising
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up, and while the sun goes up,
you see on the stairway,
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light and shadow, triangles
of light and shadow.
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They are produced because
of the nine platforms.
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The light and shadow triangles
slowly go down the step to the
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pyramid until the sun is up there.
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The message is absolutely clear.
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God Kukulkan visited the earth
and disappeared again
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with the promise to return
in a far away future.
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So they have given this
whole information
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of the return of the
gods into their temple.
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And I think this is one
of the great things which
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Erich has done, not just in
the story of Chichén Itzá,
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but of so many other aspects on
other places in this world as well.
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Whereby he focuses on certain
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details and says, look,
this is important.
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This is a detail which is
extremely difficult to create.
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This is something which traditional
archaeology tends to overlook.
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By making a connection
between the ancient
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Mayas' knowledge of astronomy
and their precise architecture,
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Erich Von Daniken was convinced
that there was much more to his
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ancient alien hypothesis
than he had imagined.
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For further proof he looked
to another Mayan temple.
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One that housed what some say was
the first ancient astronaut Lord Pakal.
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At the ancient Mayan
city of Palenque was
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a tomb that was discovered
in the 1950s.
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And inside this tomb was a lid
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on the sarcophagus
for Lord Pakal.
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And that lid is, is very highly
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decorated with a
picture of Lord Pakal.
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And in that picture he's doing
some really unusual things.
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You see a man bending forward,
almost like a racing motorcyclist.
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He has his nose on some
kind of oxygen mask.
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He uses his upper hand
to manipulate the knob.
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You see his lower hand, he
manipulates some controls.
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He's sitting on a kind of chair.
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In a sort of a capsule.
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When Erich looked
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at that lid, he saw a Mayan
king in a rocket ship.
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And that guy was returning to the
stars, going back into space.
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It was an exciting interpretation.
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And it was one of the main
things in Chariots of the Gods.
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And when other people looked
at that lid and saw his
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explanation, they had
to agree with him.
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Could Erich Von Daniken be correct?
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Was Lord Pakal really an
extraterrestrial who visited
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Earth in the distant past?
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One who perhaps shared highly
advanced knowledge with mankind?
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After publishing his second
book, Gods from Outer Space,
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in 1970, Erich Von Daniken now
found himself caught in the
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crosshairs of a bitter fight
between traditional science and
477
00:31:01,616 --> 00:31:05,435
conventional religion, which
denounced the notion
478
00:31:05,503 --> 00:31:08,071
that life existed on other planets.
479
00:31:08,106 --> 00:31:13,411
It was a battle the author seemed
ill-equipped to fight alone.
480
00:31:16,578 --> 00:31:18,546
In the more than four
decades since the
481
00:31:18,580 --> 00:31:22,616
publication of Chariots of the
Gods, writer and researcher
482
00:31:22,650 --> 00:31:26,453
Erich Von Daniken has continued
his search for the truth
483
00:31:26,487 --> 00:31:30,023
about mankind's
otherworldly origins.
484
00:31:30,291 --> 00:31:32,509
I wish and I hope that
the society finally
485
00:31:32,593 --> 00:31:37,264
starts to take this proposition
we make here serious,
486
00:31:37,331 --> 00:31:41,035
that the scientific community
starts to think in this way.
487
00:31:41,502 --> 00:31:45,072
But I have to express one thing
very clear: what I do here has
488
00:31:45,139 --> 00:31:51,778
nothing to do with a new religion.
I would turn myself in my tomb
489
00:31:51,813 --> 00:31:56,216
if some idiots create a new
religion according to my thinking.
490
00:31:56,684 --> 00:31:58,251
This is the last thing I wish.
491
00:31:58,286 --> 00:31:59,823
Absolutely not.
492
00:32:03,157 --> 00:32:06,409
And joining Erich Von
Daniken has been a small but
493
00:32:06,527 --> 00:32:09,663
growing number of what have
become known as ancient
494
00:32:09,697 --> 00:32:10,900
astronaut theorists...
495
00:32:10,933 --> 00:32:13,533
men and women who
have expanded and
496
00:32:13,534 --> 00:32:17,204
at times refined
Von Daniken's findings.
497
00:32:17,505 --> 00:32:18,755
I'm curious...
498
00:32:18,873 --> 00:32:21,975
how many people here have
seen in their lifetime
499
00:32:22,009 --> 00:32:26,113
some unidentified aerial
object in the sky?
500
00:32:26,147 --> 00:32:27,597
How many?
Hands.
501
00:32:27,682 --> 00:32:31,852
You represent what I think is a
slice of humanity everywhere
502
00:32:31,886 --> 00:32:36,323
because I am convinced that
telling the human family of this
503
00:32:36,390 --> 00:32:41,731
planet the truth is probably what
most souls are hungering for.
504
00:32:44,866 --> 00:32:48,502
One of the things that
we know about human
505
00:32:48,569 --> 00:32:53,607
behavior is that it is shaped by
our world view, our paradigm,
506
00:32:53,674 --> 00:32:57,511
and I would suggest that this
is a very significant time to
507
00:32:57,578 --> 00:32:59,846
change this paradigm.
508
00:33:00,814 --> 00:33:05,101
We are not alone in the universe
and that we are a part of this
509
00:33:05,186 --> 00:33:07,154
bigger network of life.
510
00:33:07,588 --> 00:33:10,857
To me, personally
I think there is a paradigm
511
00:33:10,925 --> 00:33:15,562
shift going on, and it's an
incredibly positive movement
512
00:33:15,596 --> 00:33:19,467
because we're all in this together.
513
00:33:20,902 --> 00:33:25,822
We live in a society
which I call reasonable.
514
00:33:25,907 --> 00:33:31,661
To be reasonable means to believe
what the scientists say.
515
00:33:31,746 --> 00:33:34,664
So it's up to us; just don't
516
00:33:34,749 --> 00:33:38,752
accept everything the
reasonable ones say.
517
00:33:38,786 --> 00:33:41,021
Please be unreasonable.
518
00:33:41,055 --> 00:33:42,977
I am unreasonable.
519
00:33:47,228 --> 00:33:49,930
What I've really liked
about Erich is that he
520
00:33:49,964 --> 00:33:53,516
does bring up a lot of unusual ideas.
521
00:33:53,568 --> 00:33:57,654
Uh, he points out
inconsistencies in, uh,
522
00:33:57,738 --> 00:33:59,356
mainstream archaeology.
523
00:34:00,573 --> 00:34:04,361
I've never really bought into
all of Erich's conclusions,
524
00:34:04,445 --> 00:34:06,496
but I was always interested in it.
525
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:11,701
So in many ways, he spurred me
to go around the world...
526
00:34:11,752 --> 00:34:15,738
to remote islands, to unusual
archaeological sites.
527
00:34:15,790 --> 00:34:18,091
I wanted to check
them out for myself.
528
00:34:18,325 --> 00:34:21,294
Now, all of his explanations
weren't always the explanation
529
00:34:21,328 --> 00:34:24,547
I would have given, but it's
what's leading me and other
530
00:34:24,632 --> 00:34:28,284
people down a certain
track: investigate this.
531
00:34:28,869 --> 00:34:32,206
Go check it out for yourself.
Don't just take my word for it.
532
00:34:33,274 --> 00:34:36,743
When I began to explore
ancient civilizations,
533
00:34:36,777 --> 00:34:40,614
in a library in Belgium, I
stumbled upon a book by Erich
534
00:34:40,648 --> 00:34:43,083
Von Daniken, and I was hooked.
535
00:34:43,784 --> 00:34:48,288
Because I think I was one of
thousands, if not millions, of
536
00:34:48,356 --> 00:34:53,110
people who began to realize that
ancient history wasn't clear-cut.
537
00:34:53,461 --> 00:34:58,632
And he really, in me, began
to open up this exploratory
538
00:34:58,699 --> 00:35:01,468
process, whereas I had always
been interested in recent
539
00:35:01,535 --> 00:35:05,588
history, that really this mystery
of the ancient world was
540
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,426
more complex, more beautiful
and more interesting.
541
00:35:09,477 --> 00:35:13,613
And so in the last two decades,
Erich has informed me on my path
542
00:35:13,648 --> 00:35:17,600
of saying: we need to explore,
we need to open up our minds
543
00:35:17,652 --> 00:35:20,520
into trying to understand what
our ancient ancestors were
544
00:35:20,554 --> 00:35:23,606
doing, because there are still
gigantic question marks as to
545
00:35:23,724 --> 00:35:26,526
how our past has been created.
546
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,630
We must be open
to Erich Von Daniken.
547
00:35:30,031 --> 00:35:32,265
Daniken is the first man who...
548
00:35:32,333 --> 00:35:35,502
gutsily came out and faced the
world in saying: I think it's
549
00:35:35,536 --> 00:35:39,673
possible... that ancient
astronauts have come to visit
550
00:35:39,707 --> 00:35:44,811
our planet, and the pyramids,
the various temples, all this
551
00:35:44,879 --> 00:35:48,217
was perhaps remnants of their visits.
552
00:35:50,418 --> 00:35:54,354
Now, I must say that I was a
great skeptic on the ancient
553
00:35:54,421 --> 00:35:56,606
alien theory until recently.
554
00:35:56,657 --> 00:35:59,226
Because everything has
changed for us skeptics.
555
00:35:59,593 --> 00:36:02,896
For example, within the last 12
years we've looked at the little
556
00:36:02,930 --> 00:36:06,533
patch of our galactic system,
which is the Milky Way, and so
557
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,635
far we've found 3,000 planets.
558
00:36:09,070 --> 00:36:11,321
When we extrapolate the
possibility over the whole
559
00:36:11,438 --> 00:36:14,324
galactic system, it's estimated
that there must be about a
560
00:36:14,408 --> 00:36:16,977
billion planets in our galaxy alone.
561
00:36:17,912 --> 00:36:21,682
So the odds are extremely high
of finding life out there.
562
00:36:24,752 --> 00:36:26,886
Now, having said this, if we can
563
00:36:26,921 --> 00:36:29,022
go out there, why
can't they come here?
564
00:36:29,457 --> 00:36:33,393
We must be open to possibility
that life on this planet has
565
00:36:33,427 --> 00:36:36,230
been touched by
extraterrestrial beings.
566
00:36:37,631 --> 00:36:41,034
Thanks to my grandmother,
growing up, ideas
567
00:36:41,135 --> 00:36:45,321
of ancient aliens and Atlantis
and all those alternative
568
00:36:45,406 --> 00:36:50,844
viewpoints on history, that was dinner
table conversation at my house.
569
00:36:51,445 --> 00:36:54,848
I grew up in Switzerland, and Erich
Von Daniken was Swiss as well,
570
00:36:54,882 --> 00:37:01,555
and so I started to attend his lectures,
I read and studied all of his books.
571
00:37:02,123 --> 00:37:07,127
I have been to places
that Erich has described.
572
00:37:07,495 --> 00:37:12,332
It has opened my mind to
possibilities, because the big
573
00:37:12,367 --> 00:37:16,936
point of Erich's books
are the questions.
574
00:37:17,004 --> 00:37:23,894
What if everything in our past is
not the way it's presented to be?
575
00:37:24,478 --> 00:37:30,468
What if our planet was visited by
extraterrestrials in the past?
576
00:37:31,652 --> 00:37:36,122
That means that creation is even
more magnificent than what we're
577
00:37:36,157 --> 00:37:41,127
being told, because the divine
is permeating throughout the
578
00:37:41,195 --> 00:37:45,883
entire universe, not
just on Planet Earth.
579
00:37:47,468 --> 00:37:52,822
In fact, Jesus himself said: My
father's home has many rooms.
580
00:37:53,007 --> 00:37:57,010
And so what if that was just a
metaphor to suggest that the
581
00:37:57,044 --> 00:38:02,732
universe houses a whole bunch
of different species, that the
582
00:38:02,817 --> 00:38:07,522
universe is teeming with life
and we all belong to it?
583
00:38:09,190 --> 00:38:12,125
Although mainstream
scholars have so far refused to
584
00:38:12,193 --> 00:38:16,029
acknowledge Erich Von Daniken's
controversial theories as little
585
00:38:16,063 --> 00:38:20,166
more than pseudoscience, his
exhaustive efforts on behalf of
586
00:38:20,201 --> 00:38:24,538
ancient astronaut theory have
started to gain acceptance...
587
00:38:24,905 --> 00:38:27,608
not in the hallowed
halls of academia...
588
00:38:28,742 --> 00:38:33,012
but with ordinary citizens...
men and women who, like the
589
00:38:33,047 --> 00:38:37,984
Swiss author himself, prefer
to ask their own questions...
590
00:38:38,018 --> 00:38:42,738
even if it means challenging
Erich Von Daniken himself.
591
00:38:42,823 --> 00:38:45,058
The ancient alien hypothesis,
what did you purport
592
00:38:45,092 --> 00:38:47,160
that was wrong?
593
00:38:49,525 --> 00:38:51,126
Five! Four! Three!
594
00:38:51,161 --> 00:38:52,328
Two! One!
595
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,969
At a time when we have
just begun to explore Mars
596
00:39:00,003 --> 00:39:05,140
and look forward to an era when
space travel is commonplace,
597
00:39:05,175 --> 00:39:08,677
might we find the answers to
the questions mankind has been
598
00:39:08,728 --> 00:39:10,180
asking for centuries?
599
00:39:10,414 --> 00:39:11,732
Who are we?
600
00:39:11,816 --> 00:39:14,117
Why are we here?
601
00:39:14,718 --> 00:39:17,253
We're gonna go back to
the moon, and we're
602
00:39:17,321 --> 00:39:21,407
gonna go to Mars, and so
once we become, ourselves,
603
00:39:21,492 --> 00:39:25,328
a space-faring people, the idea
of ancient astronauts coming
604
00:39:25,362 --> 00:39:28,265
here will be even more
accepted, I think.
605
00:39:28,999 --> 00:39:34,003
It takes decades, sometimes centuries,
before paradigm is changed.
606
00:39:34,037 --> 00:39:37,140
And I think what's going to be
shown in the next decade is that
607
00:39:37,174 --> 00:39:40,410
society as a whole is
going to explore this.
608
00:39:40,744 --> 00:39:43,980
And I think Erich is going to
be perceived as really the
609
00:39:44,047 --> 00:39:47,317
instigator of this all, the
man who was able to pose the
610
00:39:47,401 --> 00:39:51,321
question in such a way that it
became acceptable for the people
611
00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:54,490
of the world to really ponder it.
612
00:39:54,525 --> 00:39:57,694
We have to bear in mind
that he was talking about
613
00:39:57,761 --> 00:40:01,497
ancient astronaut stuff nearly
50 years ago and people are
614
00:40:01,532 --> 00:40:04,534
still talking about it to this day.
615
00:40:04,535 --> 00:40:07,938
The important thing is, if there
was nothing to his work...
616
00:40:08,405 --> 00:40:10,974
the whole phenomena
would have died a death.
617
00:40:11,942 --> 00:40:16,179
Did ancient astronauts
really come to Planet Earth?
618
00:40:16,930 --> 00:40:20,117
And if so, what was their purpose?
619
00:40:20,951 --> 00:40:25,355
And perhaps even more important,
will they come again?
620
00:40:25,956 --> 00:40:31,311
These highly developed
people, with high
621
00:40:31,395 --> 00:40:35,865
technology, high civilization,
would interact with these
622
00:40:35,933 --> 00:40:42,038
primitive humans and show them
certain things, including
623
00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:46,576
agriculture and building
techniques and how to live
624
00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:52,114
together in harmony in order to
try to develop civilization and
625
00:40:52,132 --> 00:40:58,385
bring us to a higher state, and the
state that we're living in today.
626
00:40:59,156 --> 00:41:00,757
The ancient alien hypothesis,
627
00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:04,393
what have you jettisoned
in the intervening time?
628
00:41:04,428 --> 00:41:07,063
What did you purport that was
wrong, and what have you revised?
629
00:41:07,130 --> 00:41:10,132
Of course, when I was
young I was enthusiastic,
630
00:41:10,150 --> 00:41:14,904
and I was not so proper in
researching, so there were a
631
00:41:14,938 --> 00:41:18,358
few things which I had
to learn I was wrong.
632
00:41:18,442 --> 00:41:21,577
And then you accept you were
wrong, but you try with every
633
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:23,112
book to become better.
634
00:41:23,146 --> 00:41:27,450
Because, ladies and gentlemen,
I learned we must continue to
635
00:41:27,484 --> 00:41:28,918
ask the questions.
636
00:41:29,002 --> 00:41:32,455
Our scientists have a tunnel view.
637
00:41:32,489 --> 00:41:38,094
They don't want to see things which
go further than their thinking.
638
00:41:38,128 --> 00:41:43,266
And that's why we all here,
we change the thinking, the
639
00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:45,935
consciousness of all this society.
640
00:41:46,002 --> 00:41:47,103
Thank you.
641
00:41:49,339 --> 00:41:53,276
Inevitably, anyone that
reads Von Daniken's books
642
00:41:53,310 --> 00:41:57,113
and thinks carefully about his
work whether they accept his
643
00:41:57,181 --> 00:42:01,818
conclusions or not, they cannot
fail to wonder and ponder on the
644
00:42:01,869 --> 00:42:06,072
idea of: has religion actually
got it wrong, were we just
645
00:42:06,156 --> 00:42:11,461
really visited by ancient aliens
and nothing else... and we've
646
00:42:11,528 --> 00:42:14,530
incorporated that into our
belief systems and created these
647
00:42:14,548 --> 00:42:20,754
structured religions which are
based on ancient UFO visits?
648
00:42:22,055 --> 00:42:26,676
Looking at our planet, we
have two groups of human.
649
00:42:26,910 --> 00:42:29,011
One group is religious.
650
00:42:29,046 --> 00:42:32,548
♪ ♪
651
00:42:32,549 --> 00:42:35,718
The other group is a scientific group.
652
00:42:35,736 --> 00:42:40,189
The religious group believe that
God created everything,
653
00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:44,444
the whole universe...the suns,
the solar systems, the trees,
654
00:42:44,528 --> 00:42:50,333
the plants, the animal, but we
humans are the crown of creation.
655
00:42:50,367 --> 00:42:53,369
♪ ♪
656
00:42:53,403 --> 00:42:57,507
The other group, the scientific
group, they think we know
657
00:42:57,541 --> 00:42:58,958
everything about mutation,
658
00:42:59,042 --> 00:43:02,779
selection, that we are
on top of evolution.
659
00:43:02,913 --> 00:43:07,984
Now, in both cases we think
we humans are the greatest.
660
00:43:10,604 --> 00:43:13,523
There is nothing higher than we.
661
00:43:13,590 --> 00:43:19,046
We have to learn that we are just one
of the million species out there.
662
00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:22,465
We have been visited
and it continues.
663
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:26,302
These visitors will
return to Earth again.
664
00:43:26,737 --> 00:43:29,071
♪ ♪
665
00:43:29,106 --> 00:43:33,075
Will mankind's origins
remain a mystery?
666
00:43:33,126 --> 00:43:38,247
Perhaps the answers lie right in
front of us, in every corner of
667
00:43:38,282 --> 00:43:43,503
the globe, and all we need to do
is what Erich Von Daniken began
668
00:43:43,587 --> 00:43:48,758
doing more than half a century ago...
keep digging...
669
00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:50,659
keep exploring...
670
00:43:51,293 --> 00:43:53,893
and keep watching the skies.
671
00:43:53,911 --> 00:43:57,395
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