1 00:00:03,420 --> 00:00:06,631 Zombies raising from their graves... 2 00:00:08,466 --> 00:00:13,888 bloodsucking vampires damned for all eternity... 3 00:00:14,847 --> 00:00:16,848 and humans trapped in a life- 4 00:00:16,849 --> 00:00:22,270 and-death struggle between Heaven and hell. 5 00:00:22,312 --> 00:00:27,108 For thousands of years mankind has told tales of encounters 6 00:00:27,150 --> 00:00:31,153 with strange soulless creatures. 7 00:00:31,154 --> 00:00:35,615 But are these mere myths or are they beliefs rooted in 8 00:00:35,616 --> 00:00:37,617 scientific fact? 9 00:00:37,618 --> 00:00:40,244 They will attack, they will drink blood 10 00:00:40,245 --> 00:00:44,457 and disappear without ever being noticed. 11 00:00:45,333 --> 00:00:48,168 The blood is the thing that reconnects the 12 00:00:48,169 --> 00:00:50,755 world that we live in with the world of the dead. 13 00:00:50,756 --> 00:00:54,382 Avatars have the power to take dead people, 14 00:00:54,383 --> 00:00:58,595 bring them back to life. What kind of powers would you 15 00:00:58,596 --> 00:01:00,597 have to have to do that? 16 00:01:01,181 --> 00:01:04,267 The powers of an extraterrestrial? 17 00:01:04,351 --> 00:01:08,020 Millions of people around the world believe we have 18 00:01:08,021 --> 00:01:11,858 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 19 00:01:12,483 --> 00:01:14,568 What if it were true-- 20 00:01:14,860 --> 00:01:19,031 did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 21 00:01:19,656 --> 00:01:21,615 And if so, are there 22 00:01:21,616 --> 00:01:27,330 extraterrestrial origins in earthly stories of the undead? 23 00:01:45,805 --> 00:01:48,808 sync and corrections by Bellows www.addic7ed.com 24 00:02:03,029 --> 00:02:05,282 Thebes, Egypt 25 00:02:05,699 --> 00:02:10,745 Along the west bank of the Nile River lies the Valley of the Kings. 26 00:02:16,542 --> 00:02:22,588 Here in 1922, archeologist Howard Carter discovered 27 00:02:22,589 --> 00:02:26,468 the 3,000-year-old tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. 28 00:02:28,052 --> 00:02:31,346 When Howard Carter opened the burial chamber Tutankhamun 29 00:02:31,347 --> 00:02:34,934 it was the first time anyone had seen the burial chamber of a pharaoh. 30 00:02:37,019 --> 00:02:42,231 Untouched since the pharaoh's death in 1333 BC, 31 00:02:42,232 --> 00:02:47,486 the tomb was full of the boy king's earthly possessions. 32 00:02:47,487 --> 00:02:50,489 It's very much the idea of having what you would 33 00:02:50,490 --> 00:02:51,491 have had in your house in this 34 00:02:51,492 --> 00:02:54,660 world with you to be there in the next world. 35 00:02:55,619 --> 00:02:57,495 And part of this whole idea of 36 00:02:57,496 --> 00:03:01,041 the tomb as a magical machine to bring you into the next world. 37 00:03:05,420 --> 00:03:08,506 To help Tutankhamun on his journey into the afterlife... 38 00:03:11,843 --> 00:03:14,261 the walls and ceiling of his burial chamber 39 00:03:14,345 --> 00:03:16,555 were decorated with illustrations 40 00:03:16,931 --> 00:03:19,558 from the Egyptian's sacred Book of the Dead. 41 00:03:20,183 --> 00:03:23,352 The Book of the Dead was a collection of spells 42 00:03:23,353 --> 00:03:28,316 relating to the transition between death and rebirth. 43 00:03:29,317 --> 00:03:32,694 The basic idea was to provide the dead person with what they 44 00:03:32,695 --> 00:03:35,531 needed, magically, to get through. 45 00:03:35,781 --> 00:03:38,658 Because there were various trials and tribulations to be 46 00:03:38,659 --> 00:03:42,537 faced before you were reborn into the next world. 47 00:03:44,331 --> 00:03:47,417 They had to encounter various demons: 48 00:03:49,419 --> 00:03:52,213 everything from giant cockroaches 49 00:03:53,881 --> 00:03:58,218 to horrendous beings with knives instead of heads. 50 00:03:59,303 --> 00:04:04,182 All sorts of nightmarish visions you had to get through. 51 00:04:06,309 --> 00:04:10,729 And one of the things the Book of the Dead does is to explain 52 00:04:10,730 --> 00:04:13,607 how you deal with these various demons. 53 00:04:17,486 --> 00:04:22,281 Inside Tutankhamun's tomb, the archaeologist also discovered 54 00:04:22,282 --> 00:04:27,954 a sarcophagus with the young king's embalmed body, well preserved 55 00:04:30,039 --> 00:04:33,668 with vital organs removed and sealed in jars. 56 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,298 Like many ancient Egyptians, King Tut was mummified based on 57 00:04:40,299 --> 00:04:45,344 the belief that upon entering the underworld, his body would 58 00:04:45,345 --> 00:04:48,640 regain its powers of movement and speech. 59 00:04:50,349 --> 00:04:54,019 There seems to have been a kind of belief 60 00:04:54,020 --> 00:04:58,982 that the stellar or astral aspect of the dead king 61 00:05:00,817 --> 00:05:03,153 maintain a contact with the tomb. 62 00:05:04,321 --> 00:05:08,283 And that the soul would return back to the physical body 63 00:05:10,535 --> 00:05:13,745 The ancient egyptians believed the tomb was the vessel 64 00:05:13,746 --> 00:05:17,832 in which the deceased body attended by its visiting soul 65 00:05:17,833 --> 00:05:20,669 journeyed to the world beyond the grave. 66 00:05:20,752 --> 00:05:25,839 We, today, see the idea of being placed in a coffin 67 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:31,136 and put under ground, it's something like simply disposal of the dead 68 00:05:31,137 --> 00:05:32,430 or the burial of the dead. 69 00:05:33,848 --> 00:05:36,183 For them, it was far more than this. 70 00:05:36,308 --> 00:05:42,396 It was like going back to the primordial womb of a sky goddess 71 00:05:42,397 --> 00:05:45,441 whose name was Nuit. 72 00:05:45,442 --> 00:05:48,111 And she was represented by the Milky Way. 73 00:05:48,236 --> 00:05:52,698 And by doing that, you'd eventually, you'll go back to being a star. 74 00:05:52,782 --> 00:05:56,744 It was believed that the soul itself could become a star. 75 00:05:58,912 --> 00:06:01,580 The practice of preserving a dead body, or 76 00:06:01,581 --> 00:06:05,001 embalming, did not begin with the Egyptians. 77 00:06:06,753 --> 00:06:08,879 Embalmed human remains have been 78 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,259 found in Chile and Peru dating to 5000 BC. 79 00:06:15,136 --> 00:06:17,136 But what compelled ancient man 80 00:06:17,137 --> 00:06:20,432 to preserve their bodies after their deaths? 81 00:06:21,641 --> 00:06:26,980 Did they really believe they would return to Earth, body and soul? 82 00:06:28,231 --> 00:06:32,484 If so, what had they seen in life that would suggest that 83 00:06:32,485 --> 00:06:34,862 such a thing were even possible? 84 00:06:36,363 --> 00:06:38,218 Throughout history mankind has 85 00:06:38,219 --> 00:06:42,485 consistently believed that when they die, 86 00:06:42,786 --> 00:06:46,580 they would go to the stars, the egyptians believed that too. 87 00:06:46,581 --> 00:06:47,999 You have to ask yourself, 88 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,086 where did our ancestors get these ideas, 89 00:06:52,587 --> 00:06:55,715 that on our death we're being transported 90 00:06:55,716 --> 00:06:57,807 to the stars or to another world. 91 00:06:58,008 --> 00:07:02,012 Wouldn't this have come from extraterrestrials? 92 00:07:02,804 --> 00:07:04,514 The techniques that they used 93 00:07:04,681 --> 00:07:09,602 were given to the ancient egyptians by the gods 94 00:07:09,811 --> 00:07:12,605 the guardians of the sky 95 00:07:12,980 --> 00:07:15,191 who were these guardians of the sky? 96 00:07:15,316 --> 00:07:20,570 Well, according to ancient astronaut theorists, they were 97 00:07:20,571 --> 00:07:24,199 flesh and blood extraterrestrials. 98 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:30,704 Tests on Tutankhamun's remains confirm 99 00:07:30,705 --> 00:07:33,040 that he was the son of Akhenaten; 100 00:07:34,458 --> 00:07:37,753 the controversial Egyptian pharaoh often depicted 101 00:07:37,795 --> 00:07:40,214 with a large misshapen skull. 102 00:07:41,798 --> 00:07:45,218 Like their father, the skulls of both King Tutankhamun 103 00:07:46,719 --> 00:07:51,807 and his sister Meritaten also appear to have deformed shapes. 104 00:07:52,516 --> 00:07:55,518 Archaeologists have found that in Egypt, like 105 00:07:55,519 --> 00:08:00,898 Tutankhamun or his sister, who's this statue here, Meritaten, had 106 00:08:00,899 --> 00:08:04,444 these strange elongated heads. 107 00:08:04,653 --> 00:08:08,780 You have to wonder, were they trying to imitate 108 00:08:08,781 --> 00:08:13,159 extraterrestrials who looked like this, or perhaps they, in 109 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:17,331 fact, were extraterrestrials, and this is how they naturally looked. 110 00:08:20,834 --> 00:08:23,711 On the other side of the world, in the ancient 111 00:08:23,712 --> 00:08:29,007 city of Paracas, Peru... archaeologists uncovered 112 00:08:29,008 --> 00:08:33,596 hundreds of mummified remains dating to 300 BC. 113 00:08:35,306 --> 00:08:39,101 Many contained elongated skulls. 114 00:08:40,102 --> 00:08:44,356 What makes Paracas unique is that the elongated skulls 115 00:08:44,397 --> 00:08:50,694 are found in great numbers here dating at least 3,000 years old if not older. 116 00:08:50,695 --> 00:08:53,488 The only other place in the world that we find these are in 117 00:08:53,489 --> 00:08:57,493 Egypt during the reign of Akhenaten. 118 00:08:59,912 --> 00:09:04,081 It would seem as if this type of skull demarked 119 00:09:04,082 --> 00:09:06,543 these people as different to the local community. 120 00:09:06,668 --> 00:09:12,464 Probably because they believed they were descendents from 121 00:09:12,465 --> 00:09:16,884 original individuals that had heads that were elongated 122 00:09:16,885 --> 00:09:21,556 and that were serpent or viper-like in appearance. 123 00:09:22,766 --> 00:09:25,517 Ancient civilizations all around this planet 124 00:09:25,518 --> 00:09:29,813 have always depicted some of their ancients as being 125 00:09:29,814 --> 00:09:32,400 stringed looking figures: 126 00:09:32,692 --> 00:09:35,736 Long heads, big noses. 127 00:09:36,153 --> 00:09:38,614 Creatures that could be human, 128 00:09:40,532 --> 00:09:42,534 but they sure didn't look human. 129 00:09:43,201 --> 00:09:48,413 If as some researchers suggest, 130 00:09:48,414 --> 00:09:51,041 the practice of elongating skulls 131 00:09:51,042 --> 00:09:54,836 was done to mimic the head shape of highly intelligent beings 132 00:09:54,837 --> 00:09:58,881 ancient man came in contact with, then could the belief in 133 00:09:58,882 --> 00:10:02,551 preserving the body for the journey to the afterlife also 134 00:10:02,552 --> 00:10:07,931 have been based on some contact with superior beings? 135 00:10:07,932 --> 00:10:12,395 I'm suggesting that mummification is based on 136 00:10:12,436 --> 00:10:17,231 our ancestors who watched extraterrestrials getting ready 137 00:10:17,232 --> 00:10:19,318 for a flight through deep space. 138 00:10:19,985 --> 00:10:25,948 One possibility is to be frozen or to be put into animated 139 00:10:25,949 --> 00:10:32,704 sleep, where you're inside this quote end quote sarcophagus, this coffin. 140 00:10:32,705 --> 00:10:36,291 And so our ancestors might have watched is type of 141 00:10:36,292 --> 00:10:42,338 preparation, and then they misunderstood this for the gods dying. 142 00:10:42,339 --> 00:10:48,969 And so our ancestors mummified themselves in order to be ready 143 00:10:48,970 --> 00:10:54,766 for the return of the gods with the hopes that the gods would 144 00:10:54,767 --> 00:10:58,645 reanimate them from the dead in the future. 145 00:10:59,730 --> 00:11:03,607 Could ancient man really have had contact with 146 00:11:03,608 --> 00:11:05,151 visitors from other planets? 147 00:11:05,985 --> 00:11:10,865 If so, could they have learned from them the secrets of life and death? 148 00:11:11,782 --> 00:11:13,867 Secrets about preserving their 149 00:11:13,868 --> 00:11:18,705 earthly bodies, so that someday they might walk again? 150 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,259 The Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. 151 00:11:33,511 --> 00:11:37,013 Stretching across this mystical land is the world's second 152 00:11:37,014 --> 00:11:38,265 largest rain forest. 153 00:11:39,850 --> 00:11:45,689 Here, according to scholars, the word "zombie" originated around 500 BC. 154 00:11:48,983 --> 00:11:53,695 According to most archeologists and language experts, ancient 155 00:11:53,696 --> 00:11:58,409 Africans used the word "nzumbe" to refer to one's primary spirit. 156 00:11:59,034 --> 00:12:03,329 They believed that a person has two souls-- one called the 157 00:12:03,330 --> 00:12:08,042 "great angel" and the other called the "little angel." 158 00:12:09,377 --> 00:12:12,712 The little good angel represents 159 00:12:12,713 --> 00:12:15,216 your identity, your ego self. 160 00:12:15,591 --> 00:12:19,761 And upon death, the little good angel 161 00:12:19,803 --> 00:12:24,182 sits by the grave for a few days and then rises before god. 162 00:12:25,892 --> 00:12:31,688 The big good angel also sits by the grave for nine days, and can 163 00:12:31,689 --> 00:12:35,317 be stolen, and you can be made into a zombie. 164 00:12:36,735 --> 00:12:41,406 The spirits who rule over that crossroads between life and 165 00:12:41,448 --> 00:12:43,532 death are called the Ghede. 166 00:12:43,533 --> 00:12:47,370 The Ghede spirit is not the spirit of the graveyard 167 00:12:47,495 --> 00:12:49,329 Nor it is the spirit of death 168 00:12:49,330 --> 00:12:54,085 It's actually the spirit of the gateway to the graveyard. 169 00:12:55,085 --> 00:12:58,129 When you die, he opens up the gateway at the cemetery 170 00:12:58,130 --> 00:13:00,881 so that you pass from life into death. 171 00:13:00,882 --> 00:13:05,886 But also he can open up the gate whether you passed back 172 00:13:05,887 --> 00:13:08,097 from death into life 173 00:13:08,181 --> 00:13:11,893 That's why he is the spirit who's responsible for zombies 174 00:13:14,603 --> 00:13:16,480 In most of the traditions about zombies 175 00:13:16,481 --> 00:13:21,108 zombies are called into being, or called back from the grave unwillingly 176 00:13:21,109 --> 00:13:23,986 and that's usually out of control of the witch doctor. 177 00:13:23,987 --> 00:13:27,489 The idea is that after the soul has left the body 178 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:30,785 you can still raise this person from the dead 179 00:13:31,786 --> 00:13:37,082 Therefore the classical zombie is actually a soulless animated corpse. 180 00:13:38,083 --> 00:13:41,419 Most civilizations have some variety 181 00:13:41,420 --> 00:13:43,880 of an individual coming back from the dead 182 00:13:43,881 --> 00:13:49,343 It goes all the way back to the first civilization in Mesopotamia. 183 00:13:49,344 --> 00:13:52,262 We have them in ancient Egypt, we have them in Mesoamerica, you 184 00:13:52,263 --> 00:13:55,057 have them in Central and East Asia. 185 00:13:58,685 --> 00:14:03,481 In 300 BC, ancient Chinese legends began making 186 00:14:03,482 --> 00:14:09,861 reference to horrific zombie- like creatures called "jiang shi", 187 00:14:09,862 --> 00:14:15,367 a name that, when translated, literally means "stiff corpse". 188 00:14:16,910 --> 00:14:19,745 Supposedly a "jiang shi" rests in 189 00:14:19,746 --> 00:14:24,709 a coffin by day or hides in dark places such a caves. 190 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:30,589 At night these creatures hunt down family members in an effort 191 00:14:30,590 --> 00:14:32,758 to devour their essence. 192 00:14:33,718 --> 00:14:37,680 Its skin was decayed and had long finger nails. 193 00:14:37,888 --> 00:14:44,393 The thing was actually brain dead, but it had an increased sense of smell 194 00:14:44,394 --> 00:14:45,895 and a great sense of hearing. 195 00:14:47,814 --> 00:14:52,902 In Norse mythology, a dragger was a person who lived a sinful life 196 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,283 After dying, they would come back from the dead and haunt the living. 197 00:15:00,909 --> 00:15:04,411 Many burial practices grew up to try to control 198 00:15:04,412 --> 00:15:09,750 this possibility of the zombie raising, the undead coming back. 199 00:15:09,751 --> 00:15:14,462 Gravestones might originally been to hold them 200 00:15:14,463 --> 00:15:17,966 down, to keep them from coming out of the ground. 201 00:15:19,009 --> 00:15:22,012 Various kinds of spiking to hold the body down or cutting the 202 00:15:22,013 --> 00:15:24,638 body up so it couldn't reanimate. 203 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:27,517 Cutting the head off or burning and distributing the ashes. 204 00:15:28,768 --> 00:15:32,229 All out of a fear that this creature or this being would 205 00:15:32,230 --> 00:15:33,481 somehow return. 206 00:15:38,193 --> 00:15:43,197 Today stories of the reanimated dead are most 207 00:15:43,198 --> 00:15:47,243 closely associated with the Haitian practice of voodoo... 208 00:15:47,869 --> 00:15:55,668 Were beginning in the 1500s, voodoo priests performed 209 00:15:55,709 --> 00:15:59,630 mysterious rituals in order to create and control zombies. 210 00:16:00,964 --> 00:16:02,883 The voodoo zombie is essentially harmless 211 00:16:02,884 --> 00:16:06,719 unless it is told to commit acts of violence. 212 00:16:07,512 --> 00:16:09,847 Most importantly, the voodoo zombie is an individual. 213 00:16:10,181 --> 00:16:12,182 It is controlled by a master. 214 00:16:12,183 --> 00:16:16,937 It is controlled usually by some form of supernatural powers. 215 00:16:23,860 --> 00:16:26,321 There are a couple of different kinds. 216 00:16:26,488 --> 00:16:30,115 There's the zombie as the disembodied spirit, but there's 217 00:16:30,116 --> 00:16:34,869 also that more traditional concept of a body that has lost 218 00:16:34,870 --> 00:16:38,414 its soul and is just automatically enslaved and 219 00:16:38,415 --> 00:16:40,417 working for a zombie master. 220 00:16:40,959 --> 00:16:42,294 But where, or from 221 00:16:42,295 --> 00:16:46,881 whom, does this strange power over life and death come from? 222 00:16:52,220 --> 00:16:56,931 According to ancient astronaut theorists, there is evidence of 223 00:16:56,932 --> 00:17:00,977 strange other-worldly entities that communicate to humans 224 00:17:00,978 --> 00:17:03,187 through intermediaries known as 225 00:17:03,188 --> 00:17:08,067 priests, shamans, witch doctors or demigods. 226 00:17:08,735 --> 00:17:10,945 Many different religions have different ways of 227 00:17:10,946 --> 00:17:12,196 conceiving of specialists who 228 00:17:12,197 --> 00:17:15,199 might be able to intercede in the cosmos. 229 00:17:15,282 --> 00:17:18,618 So, for instance, among the Native Americans we find shamans 230 00:17:18,619 --> 00:17:22,456 and shamanism who very often are held as people who can 231 00:17:22,457 --> 00:17:23,582 intercede between the spiritual 232 00:17:23,583 --> 00:17:26,418 realm and the mundane realm here on Earth. 233 00:17:30,213 --> 00:17:34,382 It is quite possible that some of the first doctors were the disciples, 234 00:17:34,383 --> 00:17:37,011 the students of the extraterrestrials. 235 00:17:37,012 --> 00:17:40,763 So they had their knowledge which helped them to be higher 236 00:17:40,764 --> 00:17:41,848 than the rest of mankind. 237 00:17:44,267 --> 00:17:47,769 Perhaps the most famous story of an intermediary 238 00:17:47,770 --> 00:17:50,689 reanimating the dead appears in 239 00:17:50,690 --> 00:17:53,818 the New Testament of the Holy Bible. 240 00:17:55,736 --> 00:17:57,320 According to the Gospel of St. 241 00:17:57,321 --> 00:18:02,741 John, it was here at Al Eizariya, two miles from 242 00:18:02,742 --> 00:18:06,578 Jerusalem, that Jesus of Nazareth resurrected a man who 243 00:18:06,579 --> 00:18:09,207 had been dead for four days. 244 00:18:10,083 --> 00:18:14,545 Jesus was so moved, the Bible says, he wept 245 00:18:14,587 --> 00:18:23,845 As he looked at the tomb, and was moved by the weeping of Mary and Martha 246 00:18:24,596 --> 00:18:27,389 he decided to raise Lazarus from the dead. 247 00:18:27,390 --> 00:18:31,519 So he approaches the entrance to the tomb 248 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:39,109 and literally calls out to Lazarus to come forth from the dead. 249 00:18:41,403 --> 00:18:45,406 In my opinion, there's no scientific explanation for the 250 00:18:45,407 --> 00:18:48,408 raising of Lazarus. 251 00:18:48,409 --> 00:18:53,580 It seems that Lazarus' soul was actually reunited with his body; 252 00:18:53,581 --> 00:18:57,418 that he was just not a walking dead or the undead, 253 00:18:58,961 --> 00:19:03,340 but he became himself raised from the dead. 254 00:19:05,258 --> 00:19:08,595 So here are special people who had the power 255 00:19:08,970 --> 00:19:13,098 to take dead people and bring them back to life 256 00:19:13,099 --> 00:19:16,518 What kind of power would you have to have to be able to do that? 257 00:19:18,103 --> 00:19:20,856 The powers of an extraterrestrial? 258 00:19:21,398 --> 00:19:25,901 Could there really be an extraterrestrial 259 00:19:25,902 --> 00:19:30,531 connection between living humans and the world of the dead? 260 00:19:31,449 --> 00:19:37,453 Is it possible that human souls travel through space and time 261 00:19:37,454 --> 00:19:40,040 much as space travelers might? 262 00:19:41,041 --> 00:19:45,295 If so, would this shatter the belief in the existence of Heaven? 263 00:19:46,379 --> 00:19:48,714 Or would it be the very proof 264 00:19:48,715 --> 00:19:54,220 mankind has been searching for, for centuries? 265 00:19:59,349 --> 00:20:01,351 Oaxaca, Mexico 266 00:20:01,852 --> 00:20:06,814 Situated on a low mountain range rising above the central plain 267 00:20:06,815 --> 00:20:12,360 lie the ancient ruins of Monte Alban. 268 00:20:12,361 --> 00:20:17,365 Here, around 100 BC, researchers believe the Zapotec 269 00:20:17,366 --> 00:20:21,035 Indians worshiped a bloodthirsty Mayan god with the 270 00:20:21,036 --> 00:20:24,831 body of a man and the head of a bat. 271 00:20:25,206 --> 00:20:29,085 They called him Camozotz. 272 00:20:30,211 --> 00:20:31,420 The iconography is rather stricking, 273 00:20:31,504 --> 00:20:35,716 the image of a half man half bat 274 00:20:37,301 --> 00:20:42,179 A man with the head of a bat and a wing like clogs spread out 275 00:20:42,180 --> 00:20:45,432 with crosses and bones in a lining 276 00:20:45,433 --> 00:20:49,895 The Zapotec people in the Oaxaca area of Mexico believed 277 00:20:49,896 --> 00:20:53,107 that winged creatures, bat- like creatures come in the night 278 00:20:54,567 --> 00:21:00,989 they will attack, they will drink blood and disappear without ever being noticed. 279 00:21:02,365 --> 00:21:06,702 This is simply a sort of anthropomorphic bat, 280 00:21:06,703 --> 00:21:13,417 which was worshiped by the sacrifice of libations of blood 281 00:21:14,293 --> 00:21:20,590 So what they did was they cut themselves and poured it into a bowl 282 00:21:20,591 --> 00:21:22,884 and offered it to the god. 283 00:21:23,969 --> 00:21:30,183 Blood was a very important substance to the Mayan. 284 00:21:31,601 --> 00:21:36,981 That is what gave humans life, blood and breath 285 00:21:37,606 --> 00:21:40,901 was what the essence of life was. 286 00:21:41,401 --> 00:21:46,281 That is where this k'uhul, this divine essence resided in blood and in breath 287 00:21:46,364 --> 00:21:52,787 When you would die, you entered into the underworld, it was called Xibalba 288 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,165 Then if you defeated the lord of the death, you would then 289 00:21:57,166 --> 00:22:01,002 ascend into the heavens and become one of the revered ancestors. 290 00:22:01,003 --> 00:22:03,796 The blood is the thing that reconnects, 291 00:22:03,797 --> 00:22:05,882 the world where we live in with the world of the dead. 292 00:22:06,508 --> 00:22:09,468 Some of the earliest archaeological evidence shows 293 00:22:09,469 --> 00:22:13,597 that blood rituals were present as far back as we can search. 294 00:22:23,481 --> 00:22:26,400 Legends and myths of supernatural beings with 295 00:22:26,401 --> 00:22:28,819 traits similar to vampires are a 296 00:22:28,820 --> 00:22:31,697 part of nearly every ancient culture. 297 00:22:32,531 --> 00:22:37,785 In Hindu folklore, for example, the vetala was known as an evil 298 00:22:37,786 --> 00:22:43,541 spirit that took demonic possession of corpses. 299 00:22:43,542 --> 00:22:46,168 The Indian goddess Kali was also 300 00:22:46,169 --> 00:22:49,088 intimately linked with blood sacrifices. 301 00:22:50,131 --> 00:22:53,258 Kali becomes the destroyer, and she is portrayed 302 00:22:53,259 --> 00:22:57,638 as a hag-like woman with a whole number of arms... 303 00:23:00,932 --> 00:23:04,060 She is carrying a sword. She is the goddess of death and destruction. 304 00:23:05,937 --> 00:23:11,359 Her eyes are red and she drips blood from her mouth. 305 00:23:13,569 --> 00:23:17,239 She's known to take infants from their crib and drink their blood. 306 00:23:21,284 --> 00:23:24,370 In North America, early Cherokees believed in a 307 00:23:24,371 --> 00:23:28,206 bloodthirsty creature that slaughtered humans, drank their 308 00:23:28,207 --> 00:23:34,255 blood and ate their livers... known as the U'tlun'ta. 309 00:23:34,547 --> 00:23:36,464 This demon was said to possess 310 00:23:36,465 --> 00:23:39,551 eternal life while feeding on the living. 311 00:23:40,469 --> 00:23:43,637 The notion of the thing from the spirit world 312 00:23:43,638 --> 00:23:49,268 traveling through the various Indian nations was a great fear 313 00:23:50,269 --> 00:23:55,858 among not only the Cherokee but also the Sioux and Arapaho. 314 00:23:57,318 --> 00:24:00,237 But who, or what, are these mysterious creatures 315 00:24:00,238 --> 00:24:03,448 and where did they come from? 316 00:24:04,658 --> 00:24:08,410 Might they be, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, 317 00:24:08,411 --> 00:24:12,999 extraterrestrial beings abandoned here on Earth? 318 00:24:14,583 --> 00:24:19,545 In the ancient Jewish Talmud, the Genesis story set in the 319 00:24:19,546 --> 00:24:26,469 garden of Eden includes Adam and Eve, but also a woman called Lilith. 320 00:24:29,263 --> 00:24:34,267 In Jewish folklore, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. 321 00:24:34,268 --> 00:24:39,064 She was created from the same earth as Adam, not from his rib as Eve was. 322 00:24:39,481 --> 00:24:41,358 But she proved to be very 323 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,196 disobedient and uncontrollable and had to be banished. 324 00:24:47,238 --> 00:24:53,243 According to the Talmud, when Lilith refused to 325 00:24:53,244 --> 00:24:55,495 obey Adam, God sent three angels 326 00:24:55,496 --> 00:24:59,291 to convince her to submit to his authority. 327 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,253 But when Lilith refused for the final time, God condemned her to 328 00:25:04,254 --> 00:25:06,506 live on Earth for eternity. 329 00:25:09,717 --> 00:25:13,554 In a sense, Lilith was the first vampire to wander the Earth. 330 00:25:13,763 --> 00:25:18,142 She shared all of the characteristics of female vampires. 331 00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:22,103 Lilith had the head and breasts of a woman, the body 332 00:25:22,104 --> 00:25:26,816 of a snake and the wings of a bird, which is a terrifying creature. 333 00:25:27,483 --> 00:25:31,820 In Jewish tradition, Lilith has been a kind of a night demon 334 00:25:31,821 --> 00:25:35,782 against whom intententions and prayers have to be offered, 335 00:25:35,783 --> 00:25:38,493 because she will come and snatch away 336 00:25:38,494 --> 00:25:42,581 an infant sleeping in its crib or at least snatch away its soul 337 00:25:43,206 --> 00:25:47,001 and cause it to die. 338 00:25:51,297 --> 00:25:54,215 But why are tales of bloodsucking creatures so 339 00:25:54,216 --> 00:25:57,344 prevalent throughout the ancient world? 340 00:25:58,470 --> 00:26:03,140 And what is it about blood-- particularly human blood-- that 341 00:26:03,141 --> 00:26:07,270 makes it such a vital ingredient in vampire mythology? 342 00:26:11,232 --> 00:26:15,235 Unlike the zombie, the vampire are soulful corpse 343 00:26:15,236 --> 00:26:18,947 They are corpse where the soul, sort of refused to leave the body 344 00:26:19,156 --> 00:26:22,867 Very often this is because this person who died was just so bad 345 00:26:22,868 --> 00:26:27,497 and so evil that they were able to not go on to the other world 346 00:26:27,539 --> 00:26:29,832 or to Heaven or even to hell, as the case may be. 347 00:26:30,917 --> 00:26:35,628 The vampire is not part of this world and is not totally 348 00:26:35,629 --> 00:26:37,047 part of the next world. 349 00:26:37,548 --> 00:26:42,384 It is halted in its progression. 350 00:26:42,385 --> 00:26:45,888 And that's why most vampire legends and stories involve the 351 00:26:45,889 --> 00:26:47,639 releasing of the soul of the 352 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,435 vampire so he can complete the journey to the other side. 353 00:26:55,606 --> 00:26:58,900 Might blood and the unique chemistry of it, 354 00:26:58,901 --> 00:27:01,653 serve as a kind of cosmic fuel? 355 00:27:03,155 --> 00:27:05,907 One that connects the living to the dead? 356 00:27:06,658 --> 00:27:08,618 The human to the inhuman? 357 00:27:09,410 --> 00:27:12,079 The earthly to the other-worldly? 358 00:27:12,663 --> 00:27:18,084 The Mayan culture had a fascinating ritual. 359 00:27:18,085 --> 00:27:21,379 The high king would slice himself in his male organ to 360 00:27:21,380 --> 00:27:24,716 intentionally bleed, and have a rather extensive bloodletting 361 00:27:24,717 --> 00:27:27,802 which, of course, would alter his brain chemistry. 362 00:27:29,971 --> 00:27:32,555 This would lead to an altered state and a vision which would 363 00:27:32,556 --> 00:27:35,184 indicate the future path for the nation. 364 00:27:35,309 --> 00:27:41,313 Certainly on a death state or an altered state 365 00:27:41,314 --> 00:27:44,234 they had access to other worlds 366 00:27:45,318 --> 00:27:50,281 so there was a universal belief in contact with the stars 367 00:27:50,406 --> 00:27:54,743 and the stars came down and made us in the first place 368 00:27:54,869 --> 00:27:57,037 and one day we would go back there 369 00:27:57,413 --> 00:28:01,540 Blood is the life force of humans 370 00:28:01,541 --> 00:28:04,335 and it was very important to extraterrestrials too 371 00:28:04,336 --> 00:28:06,712 there is something very special about our blood 372 00:28:06,713 --> 00:28:11,508 so we have to think that if these blood sacrifices 373 00:28:11,509 --> 00:28:15,513 aren't some distortions of what was originally 374 00:28:16,930 --> 00:28:22,144 just extraterrestrials showing us important our blood was. 375 00:28:24,354 --> 00:28:27,564 Might bloodletting both the shedding and the 376 00:28:27,565 --> 00:28:32,402 drinking of it, have been, as some scholars suggest, a chance 377 00:28:32,403 --> 00:28:37,616 to commune with the gods and a bid to obtain godlike immortality? 378 00:28:40,911 --> 00:28:45,080 Or did early humans simply create myths and stories about 379 00:28:45,081 --> 00:28:50,502 undead vampires and zombies as a means of communicating their 380 00:28:50,503 --> 00:28:54,381 ancestral connection to extraterrestrial beings? 381 00:28:55,508 --> 00:29:01,888 And if these beings actually existed, might they not return? 382 00:29:07,268 --> 00:29:08,895 Judgment day 383 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,481 The day of reckoning. 384 00:29:13,733 --> 00:29:16,068 In Judeo-Christian and Muslim traditions, 385 00:29:17,486 --> 00:29:19,404 it is the day at the end of time, 386 00:29:20,447 --> 00:29:24,366 when God will return and descend upon Earth 387 00:29:24,367 --> 00:29:28,912 to judge the living and the dead according to the good and evil 388 00:29:28,913 --> 00:29:30,540 of their earthly lives. 389 00:29:31,749 --> 00:29:35,668 Consistent with the most commonly held beliefs, God's 390 00:29:35,669 --> 00:29:39,839 return will follow a sequence of events including Armageddon and 391 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,384 the annihilation of all creatures, 392 00:29:43,969 --> 00:29:47,262 the resurrection of the dead and the reuniting 393 00:29:47,263 --> 00:29:50,391 of all souls with their physical bodies. 394 00:29:51,601 --> 00:29:55,019 The day of reckoning is when each men and women 395 00:29:55,020 --> 00:29:59,732 is gonna be held accountable for every word that they've said 396 00:29:59,733 --> 00:30:01,610 for every action that they've done 397 00:30:01,735 --> 00:30:06,405 Where god will judge the souls of the living and the dead 398 00:30:06,406 --> 00:30:09,534 for anything that have done on this planet 399 00:30:10,618 --> 00:30:15,038 The Jewish belief is that except for pristine few 400 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:19,041 most souls will go into a period of review, about a year 401 00:30:19,042 --> 00:30:22,670 in which they go through their lives and see the things they've done wrong 402 00:30:22,671 --> 00:30:26,382 learn a thing or two, and then go on to the world to come. 403 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,178 Now, the muslims or Islam, everyone dies 404 00:30:32,179 --> 00:30:35,348 and God raises them all back to life 405 00:30:35,349 --> 00:30:38,017 and there is nothing but judgment 406 00:30:38,018 --> 00:30:42,646 and the good Muslims will be taken to paradise 407 00:30:42,647 --> 00:30:46,818 and the bad ones will be thrown into outer darkness. 408 00:30:50,530 --> 00:30:54,532 Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, 409 00:30:54,533 --> 00:30:58,161 and that he will return to Earth on the day of reckoning 410 00:30:58,162 --> 00:31:03,166 to pass judgment on all souls, both living and dead. 411 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:06,544 It is also the reason why Christians believe the human 412 00:31:06,545 --> 00:31:10,589 body should be buried and not cremated after death. 413 00:31:10,590 --> 00:31:16,470 But could the tombs and graves of the world really open one day 414 00:31:16,887 --> 00:31:19,181 and the dead rise again? 415 00:31:20,390 --> 00:31:22,142 According to traditional Christian belief, 416 00:31:22,184 --> 00:31:25,270 God creates a human being at the moment of conception, 417 00:31:26,479 --> 00:31:31,609 by infusing into the newly formed embryo an immortal soul. 418 00:31:32,818 --> 00:31:36,779 And that fusion of raw material 419 00:31:36,780 --> 00:31:39,700 and soul is what makes the human person. 420 00:31:39,866 --> 00:31:41,617 That's why at the day of reckoning 421 00:31:41,618 --> 00:31:43,870 there has to be the resurrection of the dead, 422 00:31:43,871 --> 00:31:50,543 so that humans are restored to their original unity as body as soul combined. 423 00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:56,798 This day of reckoning, we will find the souls of the departed 424 00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:59,383 will be reunited with their physical 425 00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:04,097 body which will be raised from the dead and reconstructed, 426 00:32:04,098 --> 00:32:07,350 probably genetically, by God himself. 427 00:32:08,768 --> 00:32:11,937 Ancient cultures throughout time also believed 428 00:32:11,938 --> 00:32:15,608 in the return of their gods and a day of reckoning. 429 00:32:16,609 --> 00:32:21,362 In ancient Mesoamerica, the Aztecs believed in feathered 430 00:32:21,363 --> 00:32:23,782 serpent gods that created the universe, 431 00:32:25,283 --> 00:32:29,620 who would return one day to destroy evil and bring peace. 432 00:32:30,204 --> 00:32:32,289 In Central America, Quetzalcoatl 433 00:32:32,290 --> 00:32:36,293 the feathered serpents with this wisdom bringer 434 00:32:36,418 --> 00:32:40,504 sometimes said to have come down from the sky world 435 00:32:40,505 --> 00:32:43,716 to spread this heavenly knowledge and wisdom 436 00:32:43,717 --> 00:32:45,719 and to bring salvation to the world. 437 00:32:50,848 --> 00:32:55,435 Dating to 150 BC, the Dead Sea Scrolls prophesize 438 00:32:55,436 --> 00:32:59,855 that the Sons of Darkness will be destroyed and the Sons of Light 439 00:32:59,856 --> 00:33:02,692 will live in peace for all eternity. 440 00:33:03,068 --> 00:33:06,862 And the concept of an omnipotent god who will return on Judgment 441 00:33:06,863 --> 00:33:12,660 Day also appears in one of the so-called lost books of the Bible-- 442 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,454 the Book of Enoch. 443 00:33:15,829 --> 00:33:18,706 The Book of Enoch talks about this great judgment 444 00:33:18,707 --> 00:33:20,666 for the unrighteous. 445 00:33:20,667 --> 00:33:23,461 That they will be judged with fire. 446 00:33:24,296 --> 00:33:26,296 That the Son of man will come 447 00:33:26,297 --> 00:33:33,137 with 10,000 fiery angels and they will judge mankind. 448 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:40,268 After the final judgment, the Bible says the new Heaven 449 00:33:40,269 --> 00:33:44,397 is created, the new Earth is created and the New Jerusalem 450 00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:47,567 descends from Heaven onto the new Earth. 451 00:33:49,569 --> 00:33:56,242 The New Jerusalem is this cubical city 1,500 miles long, 452 00:33:56,283 --> 00:33:59,244 wide and high, made of translucent gold. 453 00:33:59,286 --> 00:34:00,995 Many people would theorize that 454 00:34:00,996 --> 00:34:05,917 maybe it's some sort of spaceship, some sort of UFO. 455 00:34:06,084 --> 00:34:14,299 But could there be an alien, or extraterrestrial, 456 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:18,220 origin to the biblical stories of final judgment? 457 00:34:23,934 --> 00:34:27,769 Might it be as astronaut theorists contend, 458 00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:30,313 the day when we are once again visited 459 00:34:30,314 --> 00:34:34,985 by alien beings or perhaps alien ancestors? 460 00:34:35,361 --> 00:34:38,489 Some thousands of years ago extraterrestrials were here. 461 00:34:38,989 --> 00:34:43,034 They created first mankind by an artificial mutation. 462 00:34:43,785 --> 00:34:46,663 And now when they... they return 463 00:34:49,665 --> 00:34:52,965 have you done what we were expecting for you 464 00:34:52,966 --> 00:34:56,594 And the ones who understand what happened in the past, 465 00:34:56,595 --> 00:34:58,830 they will not be shocked, because they 466 00:34:58,857 --> 00:35:02,886 knew and they expected all the time what will happen. 467 00:35:03,486 --> 00:35:06,947 In my mind, it's when the extraterrestrials 468 00:35:06,962 --> 00:35:11,462 genuinely return to our planet and announce themselves 469 00:35:11,463 --> 00:35:16,463 and at that point, the humans who have achieved enlightenment 470 00:35:16,561 --> 00:35:21,561 will join with their brothers, the extraterrestrials. 471 00:35:21,562 --> 00:35:26,262 Ancient astronauts braided us and we'll all return to the stars. 472 00:35:27,464 --> 00:35:31,593 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists propose, 473 00:35:31,611 --> 00:35:36,847 that in the end we are destined to encounter our alien origins, 474 00:35:37,716 --> 00:35:41,269 and if so, is there really truth to the notion 475 00:35:41,354 --> 00:35:44,832 that our existence does not end with death 476 00:35:48,033 --> 00:35:52,055 And is there a world between life and death? 477 00:35:52,056 --> 00:35:57,182 One which leads to another, perhaps, extraterrestrial plane? 478 00:35:57,183 --> 00:36:07,561 April, 1983, Carmel California. 479 00:36:10,861 --> 00:36:15,943 Along a scenic coastal highway, 27-year-old Jessica Haynes was 480 00:36:15,944 --> 00:36:19,279 sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car as they headed 481 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,050 north toward San Francisco. 482 00:36:22,450 --> 00:36:26,818 So we got to in a drive and the last thing I remember was 483 00:36:26,819 --> 00:36:28,682 watch this. 484 00:36:29,586 --> 00:36:33,709 Suddenly the driver lost control and slammed into a tree. 485 00:36:36,838 --> 00:36:40,841 Jessica's friend sustained only minor injuries, but Jessica's 486 00:36:40,842 --> 00:36:43,770 body was severely injured. 487 00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:49,851 The next thing I remember is that I was in an ambulance. 488 00:36:51,451 --> 00:36:54,480 I could feel there was something very wrong. 489 00:36:55,580 --> 00:37:00,917 Nearly dead, Jessica was rushed into surgery 490 00:37:00,918 --> 00:37:03,836 where she had an extraordinary experience. 491 00:37:09,138 --> 00:37:13,205 In the evening, I felt a presence enter the room. 492 00:37:13,805 --> 00:37:16,806 It was a very loving presence. 493 00:37:16,807 --> 00:37:20,518 There was a sense that I could shift into a different dimension. 494 00:37:21,437 --> 00:37:23,980 And in telepathy, the voice said, 495 00:37:23,981 --> 00:37:29,492 "If you want to let go, it will be okay." 496 00:37:29,986 --> 00:37:31,921 I was aware that I would be leaving my body. 497 00:37:33,156 --> 00:37:35,058 And I said, "Yes." 498 00:37:39,058 --> 00:37:41,606 I was instantly in another place. 499 00:37:42,706 --> 00:37:44,707 I no longer had a body. 500 00:37:44,708 --> 00:37:47,460 I was now a point of light. 501 00:37:47,461 --> 00:37:50,713 After a while, as I'm experiencing this and being 502 00:37:50,714 --> 00:37:53,000 this, a light appeared. 503 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,853 And I pulled into the light like a tractor beam and merged into it. 504 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,431 It was filled with thousands and thousands and millions of 505 00:38:01,432 --> 00:38:02,383 sparkling lights. 506 00:38:02,683 --> 00:38:03,809 It was just beautiful. 507 00:38:03,810 --> 00:38:05,768 And I thought, "I'm home, I'm home!" 508 00:38:07,354 --> 00:38:12,816 There's a sense that Earth, people, where I'd worked, things 509 00:38:12,817 --> 00:38:15,655 that I'd done, became more and more of an illusion. 510 00:38:17,655 --> 00:38:19,681 And there are presences on either side. 511 00:38:19,682 --> 00:38:21,409 Very loving presences. 512 00:38:21,550 --> 00:38:23,451 Not male, not female. 513 00:38:23,452 --> 00:38:26,328 It was very much all energy. 514 00:38:26,329 --> 00:38:28,080 And everything was simultaneous. 515 00:38:28,081 --> 00:38:32,792 So looking at my life again, I realized I want to get back. 516 00:38:36,894 --> 00:38:40,550 Like thousands of other near-death accounts, 517 00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:44,505 Jessica's story featured elements that were eerily consistent. 518 00:38:45,305 --> 00:38:50,351 The bright white light, the notion of a gateway or tunnel, 519 00:38:50,352 --> 00:38:55,115 the presence of loved ones and a feeling of peace and security. 520 00:38:56,315 --> 00:39:00,650 It is uncanny that these people all seem to talk about the same thing 521 00:39:00,728 --> 00:39:07,428 This tunnel, this effect, this ability to transfer from one point to the next 522 00:39:07,628 --> 00:39:12,028 and they all seem to be going down the same path 523 00:39:12,626 --> 00:39:15,826 The more people know about near-death experience 524 00:39:15,827 --> 00:39:19,527 the more they realise a profound evidence that underlies 525 00:39:19,628 --> 00:39:22,128 that near-death experiences are real. 526 00:39:24,029 --> 00:39:27,593 The Greek philosopher Plato documented 527 00:39:27,594 --> 00:39:29,537 the story of a soldier named Er, 528 00:39:29,538 --> 00:39:33,907 who claimed that when slain in battle, his soul went forth from 529 00:39:33,908 --> 00:39:36,501 his body and journeyed with many gods 530 00:39:36,502 --> 00:39:39,570 through a tunnel of light to a mysterious place. 531 00:39:42,165 --> 00:39:46,693 Er was shown by the gods that good souls were sent up to Heaven 532 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,930 and were gloriously rewarded. 533 00:39:48,931 --> 00:39:52,268 But the bad souls were sent down to a realm where they were 534 00:39:52,269 --> 00:39:57,606 first punished, then purified and then finally resurrected. 535 00:39:58,606 --> 00:39:59,608 What's interesting is that 536 00:39:59,693 --> 00:40:02,393 not only he's seen rewards and punishment 537 00:40:02,394 --> 00:40:06,088 but seeing how it is that souls are reincarnated. 538 00:40:06,089 --> 00:40:08,264 This is what's really radical about this. 539 00:40:08,265 --> 00:40:10,415 It was totally new in the Greek world-- 540 00:40:10,416 --> 00:40:13,468 this conceiving of the soul not only as immortal, 541 00:40:13,494 --> 00:40:15,289 but reincarnated perpetually. 542 00:40:15,789 --> 00:40:19,232 What's exciting is that multiple lines of evidence are 543 00:40:19,233 --> 00:40:21,101 pointing to the reality of a soul. 544 00:40:21,102 --> 00:40:24,895 In other words, there does seem to be that spiritual, unearthly, 545 00:40:24,929 --> 00:40:28,106 non-physical part of us that absolutely can transcend and 546 00:40:28,108 --> 00:40:32,260 survive death and go on and indeed live forever. 547 00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:36,307 Might these often reported near-death experiences 548 00:40:36,308 --> 00:40:39,586 really be proof of an afterlife? 549 00:40:39,686 --> 00:40:42,970 Proof that the is an eternal soul? 550 00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:48,240 That virtue is ultimately rewarded and evil eternally punished? 551 00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:52,913 Or might these compelling accounts provide evidence of 552 00:40:52,914 --> 00:40:56,899 another, much more extraterrestrial reality? 553 00:40:57,602 --> 00:41:02,070 Based upon the communality of this white light experience 554 00:41:02,109 --> 00:41:05,509 it seems like what the individual experiences 555 00:41:05,510 --> 00:41:09,310 is simply moving from one state to another 556 00:41:09,311 --> 00:41:12,666 And as they do that, they will move through something that 557 00:41:12,667 --> 00:41:14,717 could be described as like a wormhole. 558 00:41:16,352 --> 00:41:19,179 A central tenet of the Indian traditions of 559 00:41:19,180 --> 00:41:24,358 Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, is expressed in an ancient 560 00:41:24,359 --> 00:41:26,610 Tibetan text that advises the 561 00:41:26,611 --> 00:41:29,330 living on how to prepare for the after world. 562 00:41:30,281 --> 00:41:35,285 The text suggests concentrating one's mind on a wormhole through 563 00:41:35,286 --> 00:41:38,288 which the soul can travel to a cosmic universe. 564 00:41:38,590 --> 00:41:41,433 If done successfully, the soul 565 00:41:41,434 --> 00:41:44,069 is liberated from the cycle of life and death. 566 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,188 If not, the soul is reincarnated into the body of a newborn. 567 00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:53,818 It's like we have an instinctual knowledge 568 00:41:53,903 --> 00:41:57,903 that with our death, our passing from this existence 569 00:41:57,904 --> 00:42:02,204 that we are going to this other world 570 00:42:03,005 --> 00:42:05,505 At the point of death, we could find ourselves 571 00:42:05,507 --> 00:42:07,804 at the other end of the universe 572 00:42:08,806 --> 00:42:12,486 When we die, most cultural traditions talk about 573 00:42:12,487 --> 00:42:14,196 traveling from this world to the 574 00:42:14,197 --> 00:42:17,015 next or returning to our original home. 575 00:42:17,417 --> 00:42:20,320 We could look at it as the possibility that all of these 576 00:42:20,321 --> 00:42:23,629 places are simultaneously coexisting. 577 00:42:24,231 --> 00:42:27,033 They would be different layers of different dimensions 578 00:42:27,068 --> 00:42:29,869 coexisting simultaneously all together at once. 579 00:42:31,838 --> 00:42:36,297 In the "Law of Biogenesis", published in 1864, 580 00:42:36,801 --> 00:42:41,929 the chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur proclaimed that 581 00:42:41,930 --> 00:42:47,009 life evolves from preexisting life, not from inanimate material. 582 00:42:48,269 --> 00:42:51,688 According to this landmark theory, life is an unbroken 583 00:42:51,689 --> 00:42:55,859 chain of living organisms that go all the way back to the 584 00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:57,904 origin of life in the universe. 585 00:42:58,404 --> 00:43:03,459 If true, who, or what, is the origin for human life? 586 00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:06,520 All life on this planet is interconnected, and 587 00:43:06,521 --> 00:43:12,066 our own lives are connected back to the primordial lives at the 588 00:43:12,067 --> 00:43:16,320 very beginning of life on this planet. 589 00:43:16,780 --> 00:43:23,160 Could the legends and myths of life beyond death 590 00:43:23,161 --> 00:43:28,129 that sprung from countless civilizations over thousands of years 591 00:43:28,130 --> 00:43:31,233 have been mere man-made fabrications, 592 00:43:31,986 --> 00:43:35,262 or might the so-called legends really be 593 00:43:35,263 --> 00:43:39,932 truths that had been passed to our ancestors by ancient astronauts? 594 00:43:40,135 --> 00:43:44,596 Perhaps what awaits all humans is not death, but a profound 595 00:43:44,597 --> 00:43:48,339 knowledge, one that will reveal 596 00:43:48,340 --> 00:43:52,941 the truth of our earthly and other-worldly origins.