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>>We have been taught
to think of Egypt

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as a civilization whose
golden age occurred

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2,000 or 3,000
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Imagining this magnificent
culture springing

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from small settlements
in Biblical times

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makes us wonder whether
we've got the timeline right.

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World cultures have
myths that speak

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of high levels of consciousness,
superior science, art,

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and architecture from eons ago.

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How do we reconcile this?

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We are trapped in our
own concept of time,

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but many cultures think on
a vastly different scale.

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Science has established that
the earliest human remains

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are about 2.5 million years old.

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It has shifted our marker
back so that now we

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are able to conceive of human
culture being much, much older.

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In Indian traditions,
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a 26,000-year cycle is accepted.

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How does that affect the
traditional chronology

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of Egypt, which insists that
the pyramids were constructed

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as recently as 2450 BC?

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Will this force the
issue of rethinking

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the chronology of ancient Egypt?

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Every year, authors, scientists,
and alternative thinkers

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come together for the Conference
on Precession and Ancient

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Knowledge.

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They share ideas about ancient
cultures, lost knowledge,

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and great cycles of time.

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>>I started the Conference
on Precession and Ancient

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Knowledge because I
wanted to bring together

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the bright minds in this whole
field of alternative history

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so we can put this very ancient
puzzle back together again.

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>>Geologists,
physicists, engineers,

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and archeoastronomers
discuss the accepted dating

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of world history.

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>>I'm convinced that there
is a misunderstanding

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about the tenets of
Egyptian civilization.

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And I am convinced that
there is a misunderstanding

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about it's dating.

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>>To me, as a geologist,
it's unquestionable

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that the chronology
has to be redone.

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>>Knowledge of precession
and an advanced astronomy

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existed in extremely
distant times.

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>>So I think we're looking
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far, far older than is accepted.

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>>By integrating recent
scientific discoveries

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in different disciplines,
they define a new timeline

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of our past.

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The Egyptians provided
us with concrete evidence

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that describes political events
from a far more distant past

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than we can imagine.

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Why has this been overlooked?

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>>And the Egyptians themselves,
in at least one stone tablet,

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the Palermo Stone, and one
papyrus, the Turin Papyrus,

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they say that ancient
Egypt is much, much older

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than the Egyptologists
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So, to dismiss that is
of course an assumption

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that contemporary
Egyptologists know

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a lot more about
ancient Egyptian history

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than ancient
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a form of the typical
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of the academic community.

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>>So why do we
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to be only about
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Is it because of our
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Or is there another reason?

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>>Modern scholars tend
to minimize the age

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because it fits better with the
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The current paradigm
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man was a hunter-gatherer.

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He had to have writing before
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and civilizations.

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He came together to protect
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parties, and things like this.

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And so, for example,
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when they found that amazing
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down there, they assumed
it was built by the Incas

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because that's
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and Incas built most
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that shows it's 4,700
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blows a hole in
current history theory.

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Generally, the
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is just sort of silent
about it right now

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because they don't have any good
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of history.

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>>A cross-disciplinary
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us to put hard evidence
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to reach a greater
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If we consider the data coming
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astrology, and climatology, we
can arrive at new conclusions

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about the chronology
of ancient Egypt.

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>>We have two sciences
that are playing with this.

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We have astronomy,
we have geology.

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With the pyramids, we have
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They've aligned the monuments.

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And they have their
religious ideas

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locked to the machinery of the
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and the sun, and so forth.

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So we can use that
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and arrive at a date.

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>>How does this
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the dating of the Great Pyramid?

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Was it really built when
Egyptologists say it was?

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>>The traditional date for the
Great Pyramids is about 2550,

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or so, BC, give or take--
people argue about the dates.

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And some people want to take
it down to a particular year.

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I think that's a precision
that's not justified

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whatsoever.

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>>I like to use the metaphor
of painting a house.

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If you painted your
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that doesn't mean your
house was built in 2003.

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So I subscribe to
the notion of there

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was probably quite
a lot of work done

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on the Great Pyramid in 2450
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was built quite a bit
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There's something very
threatening about changing

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the dates because it takes us
out of the Patriarchal Era.

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But I think that there was
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existed in matriarchal times.

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And I think the evidence
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>>There is absolutely
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why the ancient
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have worked out the
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How do we approach the age?

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Well, you have a
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you have what we call, the
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means you look at artifacts that
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and you look a
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But this can be very
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requires a lot of
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Nonetheless, these
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that is predominantly
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The other is carbon dating.

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Carbon dating is
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And it's not
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if it's been contaminated,
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And besides, with
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we do not have carbon
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>>Carbon-14 dating works
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But simply touching
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contaminates a sample.

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Stone cannot be carbon dated.

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>>There is another
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which is to use
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>>What can we use
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Are there markers that connect
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>>The stars would shift about
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>>It is not anymore
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Our planet is moving
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not in the same position.

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And that will
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Nothing stands still.

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You know that our planet
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sunrise every 24 hours, right?

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But our planet also
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>>Precession is the motion of
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wobbles like a spinning top
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>>They make one round
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>>If you have a
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let's take one that we know
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at Dendera.

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It's a small temple
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That one is 99% sure aligned
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So, if we have certainty that
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to the rising of a star, and
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then we can date it.

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It's very simple.

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We can do it in a
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This is known as
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The star moves, or appears to
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or wobble and we have a date.

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>>Plato called a processional
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a Great Year.

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>>The Great Year is Plato's
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of time, one eon, one
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It's about 24,000 years.

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And there's over
200 myths that talk

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about this cycle of alternating
dark and golden ages,

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or that make reference to a
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30 different cultures
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these myths from time
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all related to the movement of
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as procession.

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Even Sir Isaac Newton
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on it trying to
match history to each

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of the constellations
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And it was wiped out by the
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which came along less than
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inacceptable to admit that a
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before us might know
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>>On different
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have come up with
the same ideas.

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>>There is a certain
science of cycles

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that's embedded into the world
age doctrine of the Maya.

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You find it nicely paralleled
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as the Hindu world age
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And it's somewhat
counterintuitive to what

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we've learned in our
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It's referred to as
the myth of progress,

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that human beings
today are in all ways

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superior to human beings
that became before.

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It's simply not true.

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Cycles go through
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and periods of decrease.

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>>Mayan daykeepers
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of the ancient Mayan people,
and monitor the sacred calendar.

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Each day has certain
qualities and gods.

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Daykeepers follow the
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and astrological alignments.

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They are often trained shamans
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giving daily and
monthly forecasts.

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>>The Maya calendar
is really interesting

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because it's based
on a lunar rhythm.

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And the core building block
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is this 260-day cycle.

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Maya daykeepers today will
offer as an explanation for this

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that it corresponds to the
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it's roughly nine months.

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So all human beings
share this primal rhythm

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of unfolding based
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And that's a real
interesting key

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to the, what you might say,
the Mayan time philosophy.

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>>There are many ways
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solar cycles, lunar cycles,
and larger cycles of time.

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The Mayans devised their
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which combines a
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with another cycle of 13 numbers
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Each of the 20 days is
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in Mayan mythology.

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The great cycle started in 3114
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>>Well, the Long Count calendar
is the most interesting

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calendar that the
Maya had devised.

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This is of great
interest in our times

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because this large cycle
in the Long Count calendar,

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this period of 13
baktuns, ends in 2012.

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So there's a great
interest in figuring out

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why the early Maya sky
watchers picked 2012

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to end this large cycle of time.

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>>The Mayans were
excellent calendar makers.

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They inter-correlated
the movements

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of the moon, the
sun, and even Venus

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to make their
calendars very precise.

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And for some reason, they have
their Long Count calendar,

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the baktun, ending here in 2012.

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So it seems, perhaps,
they were trying

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to call attention to something.

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>>Many people have been talking
about 2012 as a turning point.

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What is the significance
of this date?

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>>In the years around 2012,
the December solstice sun

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will be lining up with the
center of our Milky Way galaxy.

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This is a rare alignment in the
Great Cycle of the Precession

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of the Equinoxes, this
26,000-year cycle.

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Now, another thing that's
interesting about this period

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of the 13-baktun cycle
that began in 3113 BC

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and ends in 2012, is
its midpoint, 550 BC.

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This is a time when great
world teachers appeared

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on the stage of history,
Pythagoras among the Greeks,

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the Buddha, Zoroaster among
the ancient early Persians.

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So there's also something
to be said for the way

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that the Long Count divides
up time in a certain way that

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defines periods in human
culture, dawn points, high noon

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points, and end points.

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>>A carved stone, or stele,
describing the Long Count

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calendar was discovered
at Izapa in Mexico.

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It shows the center of the
Milky Way, the celestial pole,

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and a sun deity.

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Why was this important
to the Mayans?

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>>It's really a beautiful
and profound way

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of conceiving time.

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And in my research, as I've
looked at Izapa, the origin

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place of the 2012
calendar, I've been

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able to see how
the Mayan wisdom--

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it's not just some
provincial belief

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system of a forgotten people.

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It actually is like
a little doorway

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that opens up into the
great spiritual insights

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that all of the great
traditions share.

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In Egypt, in India,
Islam, all the world's

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great spiritual traditions share
these same universal, eternal

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spiritual principles.

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And it has to do
with cycle endings.

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>>Just like the cycles of
birth, life, and death,

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within the 26,000-year cycle,
referred to as the Great Year,

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there are extended periods
of darkness and light.

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These are divided into
distinct ages, known

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as the golden age, the
silver age, the bronze age,

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and the iron age.

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>>The ancients
themselves told us

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that history, mankind
would go into a dark age.

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4,000, 5,000 years ago,
they viewed the past

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as the golden age.

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They see themselves
moving into the dark age,

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and they dread it
because they know

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that things are
going to get worse,

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they're going to get chaotic.

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Cultures all around
the world are

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talking about this pre-dark age
that things are going downhill.

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>>I really ascribe to the
Mayan and the Hindu idea

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that the golden age,
the time of connection

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into the divine wisdom, was
actually a long time ago,

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and we've been moving
through periods

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of increasing
densification, increasing

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alienation from the
spiritual light.

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>>Golden ages are
times of enlightenment,

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when civilizations reach
high points in architecture,

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spirituality, and benevolence.

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This is considered to decline
slightly in the silver age,

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further deteriorating
in the bronze age,

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and reaching extreme levels
of chaos, corruption,

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and ignorance in the
iron age, or dark age.

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Then, the cycle works its way
back up to the next golden age.

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One of the ways to measure
the 26,000-year Yuga cycles is

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through the ages of the zodiac,
which the ancient Egyptians

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clearly understood.

335
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336
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>>The origin of
the zodiacal signs

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is a very good question
actually, and probably

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impossible to determine.

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The only one of the
signs that vaguely

340
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looks like what it's
supposed to is Leo, the lion.

341
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The stars making
up Virgo definitely

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don't look like a
virgin, whatever

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a virgin looks like these days.

344
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And the other signs
are equally mysterious,

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the Crab, the Bull,
et cetera, et cetera.

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Knowledge of
precession and advance

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astronomy existed in
extremely distant times.

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The basis of the signs
themselves in terms of zodiac,

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the wheel of life or
the wheel of animals,

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there are different translations
of that-- If you really

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want to know what
the sign signify,

352
00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:09,230
you have to go
into the qualities

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and properties of
the signs themselves.

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In other words, each
sign is male or female,

355
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each sign is fire,
earth, air, water.

356
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,780
>>Each of the 12 signs of the
zodiac has distinct energies.

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There are four elements,
earth, or material signs, air,

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or intellectual signs, water,
or emotional signs, and fire,

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or creative signs.

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By looking at the 12 zodiac,
or ages, of about 2,000 years

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each, we can rethink the
Egyptian's concepts of time

362
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and re-create the chronology.

363
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364
00:20:55,358 --> 00:20:59,215
>>There is a gap in
our historical record.

365
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>>The Palermo Stone
and the Turin Papyrus

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are evidence from the
Egyptians themselves,

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00:21:06,130 --> 00:21:09,430
and convey information
from rulers far back

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in Egyptian history.

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00:21:11,406 --> 00:21:12,780
>>And they give
the reignal years

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and the name of each
of these rulers.

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And when you compute
all of those names

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and put the numbers together,
you get a date somewhere

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around 34,000, 36,000 BC.

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At the same time, roughly,
that 36,000 34,000 year date

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corresponds to the
Vedas of India,

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the Vedic civilization of India,
which also gives a date, which

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when you when you work it
out, comes out to something

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like 40,000 years
before our current era.

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So we have two great,
sophisticated civilizations

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that have documented their own
belief that their civilization

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started back around
that kind of time.

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383
00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:56,160
>>It is interesting to note
that this is roughly one

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and one half
processional cycles ago,

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dating back to a
previous golden age.

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The Sphinx, with its lion body,
screams out as a Leo symbol,

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as a marker for an age of Leo.

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The last age of Leo had it's
ingress at around 10,500 BC.

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00:22:31,670 --> 00:22:37,170
So that's the date favored by
Graham and by Robert Bauval.

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I'm hesitant to accept that
date myself because the last ice

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age comes to a catastrophic
end somewhere around 11,000,

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11,500 BC.

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00:22:48,222 --> 00:22:49,930
It certainly followed,
and this is known,

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00:22:49,930 --> 00:22:51,550
there are the
quaternary extinctions.

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00:22:51,550 --> 00:22:53,530
All the mammoths and
the woolly rhinoceroses

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die all over the world.

398
00:22:54,770 --> 00:22:59,990
Siberia, which was temperate,
becomes tundra and arctic.

399
00:22:59,990 --> 00:23:04,310
North America, which was under
a couple of miles of ice sheet,

400
00:23:04,310 --> 00:23:06,934
melts, and all that
water goes into the sea.

401
00:23:06,934 --> 00:23:10,550
The sea rises 300
feet over the course

402
00:23:10,550 --> 00:23:13,190
of a couple of thousand
years, but in stages.

403
00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:15,220
And some of those
stages, very precipitous,

404
00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:17,755
maybe corresponding
to the biblical flood

405
00:23:17,755 --> 00:23:20,400
and possibly Plato's
Atlantis myth.

406
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,635
So under these circumstances,
which are catastrophic

407
00:23:23,635 --> 00:23:28,285
the world over, to
me, it seems unlikely

408
00:23:28,285 --> 00:23:31,940
that the Sphinx, and the
pyramids, which presupposes

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00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:35,400
a settled, and stable,
and sophisticated society,

410
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,380
could have built those
amazing structures

411
00:23:37,380 --> 00:23:39,790
under those kinds of conditions.

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00:23:39,790 --> 00:23:42,880
So that leaves anything
before 10,500 BC,

413
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,080
but I like the idea
of the Leo symbolism,

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00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,470
so the next age of Leo back
is 26,000 years earlier.

415
00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:53,410
And that puts it back
at around 36,000 BC,

416
00:23:53,410 --> 00:24:00,000
which, outrageous as it sounds,
by a process of exclusion,

417
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,340
turns out to be maybe less
outrageous because there are

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00:24:03,340 --> 00:24:05,575
big problems with those
other later dates.

419
00:24:05,575 --> 00:24:10,670


420
00:24:10,670 --> 00:24:15,230
>>Looking at the weathering
on the Sphinx and the Sphinx

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00:24:15,230 --> 00:24:18,120
enclosure, that
weathering was clearly

422
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:22,320
formed by runoff
from precipitation.

423
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,620
>>It is indeed water weathering
and precipitation-induced,

424
00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:27,620
so it has to have been
done in the distant past.

425
00:24:27,620 --> 00:24:32,590
And the question, then, is
how distant was that past?

426
00:24:32,590 --> 00:24:35,610
>>It could take tens of
thousands of years for the Nile

427
00:24:35,610 --> 00:24:38,020
to have migrated eight miles.

428
00:24:38,020 --> 00:24:41,980
Can we use this evidence
to re-date these monuments?

429
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,910
>>When you look at
geology, you can

430
00:24:43,910 --> 00:24:48,350
see that the riverbed
has migrated all the way

431
00:24:48,350 --> 00:24:53,150
from the west, beyond 50
kilometers to the west,

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00:24:53,150 --> 00:24:55,500
then it passed
across the plateau,

433
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,150
and you can see that the
ancient riverbed actually

434
00:24:58,150 --> 00:25:00,820
went right up the
pyramids and the initiates

435
00:25:00,820 --> 00:25:03,520
could have stepped right
off these barges up

436
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,990
onto the causeways
into the pyramids.

437
00:25:05,990 --> 00:25:12,220
Now if you look, the Nile is a
full eight miles to the east,

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00:25:12,220 --> 00:25:15,820
and it's the dividing point
between Cairo and Giza.

439
00:25:15,820 --> 00:25:18,100
And so if we look
at geological time,

440
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it would take several tens of
thousands of years in order

441
00:25:21,230 --> 00:25:24,020
for the Nile to
make that migration.

442
00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:26,960
We can compare that to
places like Tiahuanaco

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00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,840
in Bolivia that
almost certainly was

444
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,980
on the edge of Lake Titicaca,
and now it's 50 miles away.

445
00:25:33,980 --> 00:25:36,910
So it changes the whole
idea of how ancient

446
00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:40,750
these places could have been.

447
00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,870
>>How many thousands
of years does it

448
00:25:42,870 --> 00:25:47,510
take for a river to
make this huge journey?

449
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:50,660
The oases of Al
Kharga and Faiyoum

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run parallel to the Nile
today, but 100 kilometers west.

451
00:25:56,420 --> 00:25:59,790
It seems that the river
migrated all the way from here

452
00:25:59,790 --> 00:26:03,160
to its current course.

453
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,320
Evidence of ancient
human settlements

454
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,280
has been found in the
area that is now desert,

455
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,080
but once had water.

456
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,000
At these locations
are stone circles

457
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,070
indicating a knowledge
of astronomy.

458
00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:20,707
What does it tell us
about the distant past?

459
00:26:20,707 --> 00:26:23,980


460
00:26:23,980 --> 00:26:26,180
What can we conclude
you about the dating

461
00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:29,205
of the pyramids and the Sphinx?

462
00:26:29,205 --> 00:26:33,055
>>All I can really say at this
point, given the data I have,

463
00:26:33,055 --> 00:26:37,750
is that I think it has been
at least back to 5,000 BC.

464
00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:38,690
Could it be older?

465
00:26:38,690 --> 00:26:41,110
In fact, might it well be older?

466
00:26:41,110 --> 00:26:42,540
Yes.

467
00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:46,840
Generally, if sort of
pressed for dates, I'll say,

468
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,746
my best estimate is somewhere
in the period of 7,000 to 5,000

469
00:26:50,746 --> 00:26:52,500
BC.

470
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:56,372
So that's really a working
range that I'm comfortable with.

471
00:26:56,372 --> 00:27:01,580


472
00:27:01,580 --> 00:27:05,390
We're also finding, elsewhere
in Egypt and around the world,

473
00:27:05,390 --> 00:27:09,860
that other things were happening
in that same period, 7,000

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00:27:09,860 --> 00:27:14,020
to 5,000, approximately,
BC that, to me, puts

475
00:27:14,020 --> 00:27:17,480
the Sphinx into
a larger regional

476
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,170
and global setting, that it's
not just a isolated thing.

477
00:27:21,170 --> 00:27:24,570
It doesn't seem as isolated
as it did 15 years ago

478
00:27:24,570 --> 00:27:26,480
when we had less knowledge.

479
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,295
You come to tentative
conclusions.

480
00:27:28,295 --> 00:27:32,880
If more data comes in that seems
to indicate something else,

481
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,430
I don't ever want to be afraid
to change my conclusions

482
00:27:37,430 --> 00:27:39,494
and go where the
evidence takes me.

483
00:27:39,494 --> 00:27:42,400


484
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,240
>>I'll stick with my
extreme 36,000 BC date

485
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,820
until proved otherwise.

486
00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:49,795
And if proved otherwise,
I will change my mind.

487
00:27:49,795 --> 00:27:59,090


488
00:27:59,090 --> 00:28:03,890
>>How can we tie the concept
of the Yuga, or Vedic cycles,

489
00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:06,150
into something more
concrete that we

490
00:28:06,150 --> 00:28:09,900
can recognize in
our own history?

491
00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:12,280
If we re-examined the
stories that are often

492
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,520
dismissed as fanciful
myth, we might

493
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,600
find that it indicates
greater forces in play.

494
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,329


495
00:28:22,329 --> 00:28:23,995
>>Those of us that
are seriously looking

496
00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:28,700
at this old Vedic concept of
the world ages, the cycle,

497
00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:31,950
we know that the golden age,
the last golden age-- basically,

498
00:28:31,950 --> 00:28:36,520
the peak of the cycle-- was
about 11,500 BC, the highest

499
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,290
point.

500
00:28:37,290 --> 00:28:40,230
But we also know
that Plato mentions

501
00:28:40,230 --> 00:28:42,650
a series of catastrophes,
which have come down

502
00:28:42,650 --> 00:28:45,470
to us as the Atlantis
legend, in which he claims

503
00:28:45,470 --> 00:28:48,250
that, on our calendar system
it would have been around 9,500

504
00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:50,910
BC, some tremendous upheaval
apparently occurred.

505
00:28:50,910 --> 00:28:51,830
A lot of destruction.

506
00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:59,680


507
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,750
Isn't it also possible that
for all of those maybe several

508
00:29:02,750 --> 00:29:05,190
thousand years, whatever
those catastrophes were,

509
00:29:05,190 --> 00:29:09,050
were so cataclysmic that
even with that silver age

510
00:29:09,050 --> 00:29:11,490
or golden age
consciousness, they

511
00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:14,660
weren't fully able to recover.

512
00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:18,500
The end of the golden
age and the decline

513
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,770
into the following
silver age, or what

514
00:29:20,770 --> 00:29:23,520
we would refer to as
mental age, marked the time

515
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,260
at which we were falling out
of this state on this planet

516
00:29:27,260 --> 00:29:30,570
where the average person had
the potential, the capability,

517
00:29:30,570 --> 00:29:34,730
to be in a very high
state of awareness.

518
00:29:34,730 --> 00:29:37,490
And they were a far more
enlightened and benevolent

519
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:40,370
society than we would be
able to even imagine now.

520
00:29:40,370 --> 00:29:44,080
But they were beginning to lose
that almost divine state that

521
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,070
exists in the golden age.

522
00:29:46,070 --> 00:29:50,840
And as they started to
descend into the silver age,

523
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,960
there began to be more of an
emphasis on what we would now

524
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,570
refer to as sacred sites
and sacred structures.

525
00:29:56,570 --> 00:29:59,840


526
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,220
>>You could almost
think of it as machines

527
00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:08,730
to enhance consciousness, or
to create an environment where,

528
00:30:08,730 --> 00:30:11,710
you might call it altered
states of experience,

529
00:30:11,710 --> 00:30:16,580
but changes in consciousness,
expansion of consciousness.

530
00:30:16,580 --> 00:30:18,870
>>What these were
really intended to do,

531
00:30:18,870 --> 00:30:21,830
it wasn't so much for
the selfish purpose of,

532
00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:25,340
for example, boosting
up a few individuals.

533
00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:30,840
This actually had to do with a
much larger global perspective.

534
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,730
And that's, effectively,
what the Great Pyramid was.

535
00:30:33,730 --> 00:30:37,450
It was, basically, a device,
a generator for, if you will,

536
00:30:37,450 --> 00:30:40,500
broadcasting and transmitting
throughout the planetary

537
00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:45,265
structure a type of field which
uplifted the entire humanity.

538
00:30:45,265 --> 00:30:50,340


539
00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:52,100
For at least 1,000
years this structure

540
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,860
performed beautifully.

541
00:30:54,860 --> 00:30:56,890
My guess is that it
probably did a lot

542
00:30:56,890 --> 00:31:00,308
to help offset the fall
into the dark ages.

543
00:31:00,308 --> 00:31:03,116


544
00:31:03,116 --> 00:31:04,615
And I think what
the pyramids did

545
00:31:04,615 --> 00:31:06,990
is that for those individuals
that were at least somewhat

546
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:09,380
receptive, it just kind of
kept that energy polarized

547
00:31:09,380 --> 00:31:12,530
into the higher centers.

548
00:31:12,530 --> 00:31:13,570
>>This is very real.

549
00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:14,930
I think this is very important.

550
00:31:14,930 --> 00:31:20,240
It's like a great art, or
great spiritual insight,

551
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,360
expansion of consciousness.

552
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,210
In a way, there's nothing
more important than that.

553
00:31:25,210 --> 00:31:28,460


554
00:31:28,460 --> 00:31:30,510
>>It couldn't do it
forever because eventually

555
00:31:30,510 --> 00:31:32,110
mother nature is
going to win out.

556
00:31:32,110 --> 00:31:34,730
And this cycle is
part of nature.

557
00:31:34,730 --> 00:31:38,010
It's as much a part of the
natural world as day and night

558
00:31:38,010 --> 00:31:38,520
are.

559
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,180
We have the ability to grasp
those electromagnetic forces

560
00:31:43,180 --> 00:31:45,910
and the more fundamental
forces that underlie those to,

561
00:31:45,910 --> 00:31:51,380
basically, prop up humanity
for a while using the system.

562
00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:54,440
Now, the pyramids only
have a very direct effect

563
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,215
if you're close to them, which
is the way it is in this age.

564
00:31:57,215 --> 00:31:58,980
If we go stand in
the pyramid, we

565
00:31:58,980 --> 00:32:00,856
might feel an effect like that.

566
00:32:00,856 --> 00:32:03,064
But, I suspect,
thousands of years

567
00:32:03,064 --> 00:32:04,480
ago you didn't
have to be near it.

568
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,763
I think it was probably
a global effect.

569
00:32:07,763 --> 00:32:12,020


570
00:32:12,020 --> 00:32:15,800
>>The physical structure
could only do so much.

571
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,100
The wisdom keepers
created social structures

572
00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:21,470
as an additional
influence to extend

573
00:32:21,470 --> 00:32:26,200
the energy of the golden age by
creating mystery schools that

574
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,090
preserved the ancient knowledge.

575
00:32:28,090 --> 00:32:31,024
>>The whole idea of
the schools of mystery,

576
00:32:31,024 --> 00:32:33,440
and the ancient knowledge, and
preserving those traditions

577
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,195
that had come down from those
fabulous ages, that was lost.

578
00:32:37,195 --> 00:32:38,820
And then, eventually,
it was ridiculed,

579
00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:40,890
and then finally, it
had to go underground

580
00:32:40,890 --> 00:32:44,450
because people would either
actively burn those texts

581
00:32:44,450 --> 00:32:48,260
or persecute the people
who had that belief system.

582
00:32:48,260 --> 00:32:52,100
And I think, at that point,
we were in the dark ages.

583
00:32:52,100 --> 00:33:16,100


584
00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:20,450
>>The exact end of the cycle
of darkness is approaching.

585
00:33:20,450 --> 00:33:24,660
Each winter solstice
before 2012, our sun

586
00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:29,350
comes into close alignment
with the galactic center.

587
00:33:29,350 --> 00:33:32,240
This means we are beginning
to feel the shift of energy

588
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,990
already, even though
the exact conjunction is

589
00:33:35,990 --> 00:33:41,800
December the 21st, 2012.

590
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,410
>>So all signs point
to the interpretation

591
00:33:44,410 --> 00:33:49,450
that we are deep into the
period of increasing darkness.

592
00:33:49,450 --> 00:33:55,100
What happens at the end of that
downward trend is a turnabout.

593
00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,650
And I believe that that's where
we are right now in history.

594
00:33:58,650 --> 00:34:01,300
The Mayan material
for 2012 basically

595
00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:04,090
indicates this turnabout
point, this point

596
00:34:04,090 --> 00:34:07,280
of maximized spiritual darkness.

597
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,040
But then, in the cycles of
time, we turn the corner,

598
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,969
and we have an
opportunity to open up

599
00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:14,580
to the transformational
energies that

600
00:34:14,580 --> 00:34:16,470
can sweep us into
the next cycle.

601
00:34:16,470 --> 00:34:20,280


602
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,070
>>I hope that the
Mayan ancestors trying

603
00:34:23,070 --> 00:34:25,120
to interpret the few
writings that are left

604
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,449
are correct, that
it means there's

605
00:34:27,449 --> 00:34:29,699
going to be some quickening,
or something like that,

606
00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,719
because that would
actually go with our latest

607
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,480
understanding of the Yugas.

608
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,965
What a Yuga cycle really is is
one precession of the equinox.

609
00:34:38,965 --> 00:34:41,770


610
00:34:41,770 --> 00:34:45,230
Using these later
scholars' interpretation,

611
00:34:45,230 --> 00:34:47,699
we're actually in
the very early stages

612
00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:49,550
of consciousness accelerating.

613
00:34:49,550 --> 00:34:53,330


614
00:34:53,330 --> 00:34:56,650
>>It has to do with
the opportunity

615
00:34:56,650 --> 00:35:00,236
that we have to open up
to the divine wisdom,

616
00:35:00,236 --> 00:35:01,610
to the transformational
energies.

617
00:35:01,610 --> 00:35:04,930


618
00:35:04,930 --> 00:35:07,090
But it always comes
down to free will.

619
00:35:07,090 --> 00:35:09,350
Nothing is predetermined.

620
00:35:09,350 --> 00:35:11,590
It always comes down
to a choice that we all

621
00:35:11,590 --> 00:35:16,750
have to close down
in fear, succumb

622
00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:20,450
to fear, close down, become more
limited in our consciousness,

623
00:35:20,450 --> 00:35:25,580
or open up, open up to the
blessing of the connection

624
00:35:25,580 --> 00:35:28,040
to the higher wisdom
that is symbolized

625
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,150
in the Maya tradition by the
galactic center, the womb

626
00:35:31,150 --> 00:35:34,045
of the Great Mother, that
which can transform and renew.

627
00:35:34,045 --> 00:36:01,690


628
00:36:01,690 --> 00:36:03,585
>>Could the ancients
have had it right?

629
00:36:03,585 --> 00:36:06,260


630
00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:08,400
Perhaps we should
consider that we, too,

631
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,532
can return to high
levels of consciousness,

632
00:36:11,532 --> 00:36:14,623
heightened perception,
and inspired creativity.

633
00:36:14,623 --> 00:36:19,330


634
00:36:19,330 --> 00:36:22,400
It would serve us
well to embrace nature

635
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,563
and to protect the
planet's environment.

636
00:36:24,563 --> 00:36:34,740


637
00:36:34,740 --> 00:36:38,810
Can we go beyond religious
dogma and allow ourselves

638
00:36:38,810 --> 00:36:41,059
to imagine what
lies beyond death?

639
00:36:41,059 --> 00:36:48,690


640
00:36:48,690 --> 00:36:54,120
How would humanity change if,
instead of material wealth,

641
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,675
consciousness was
our highest value?

642
00:36:56,675 --> 00:37:06,820


643
00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:09,910
>>The ideas depicted
in "The Pyramid Code"

644
00:37:09,910 --> 00:37:14,780
revolutionize accepted beliefs
about the purpose and the age

645
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:17,920
of the pyramids and the Sphinx.

646
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,480
Clearly not tombs,
these ancient structures

647
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,440
may have been used to
access and transmit

648
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,776
a type of energy that
affects human consciousness.

649
00:37:27,776 --> 00:37:30,520


650
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,910
We have seen concrete evidence
of high-level technology

651
00:37:33,910 --> 00:37:43,658
with laser-cut crystals,
polished, black basalt floors,

652
00:37:43,658 --> 00:37:47,020
and curious and
sophisticated instruments,

653
00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:53,320
including those that generated
energy from sound and light.

654
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,220
Looking at the old
riverbed, it seems clear

655
00:37:56,220 --> 00:37:59,280
that the Nile has
migrated over time,

656
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,770
and that it once flowed to
the east of the pyramids.

657
00:38:01,770 --> 00:38:06,180


658
00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:08,630
The ancient Egyptians
built temples

659
00:38:08,630 --> 00:38:11,790
using sacred geometry
corresponding

660
00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:14,660
to cavities in the human body.

661
00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:18,110
They had a profound belief in
the significance of the stars

662
00:38:18,110 --> 00:38:21,100
and how the patterns
of the constellations

663
00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:26,580
corresponded to our
place in the cosmos.

664
00:38:26,580 --> 00:38:29,930
They understood
large cycles of time,

665
00:38:29,930 --> 00:38:33,960
and they kept meticulous records
of the motion of the stars

666
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,250
and planets.

667
00:38:36,250 --> 00:38:39,900
The ancients had a deep
respect for the sacred feminine

668
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,240
principle, and the
importance of balancing

669
00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:47,570
the sacred masculine
and the sacred feminine.

670
00:38:47,570 --> 00:38:50,850
From pre-dynastic
to dynastic times,

671
00:38:50,850 --> 00:38:53,775
the ancients maintained a
deep reverence for nature.

672
00:38:53,775 --> 00:38:56,670


673
00:38:56,670 --> 00:38:59,276
They were astonishingly
creative and artistic.

674
00:38:59,276 --> 00:39:03,160


675
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,160
From clues left on
temple walls, it

676
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,527
seems clear that our
Egyptian ancestors accessed

677
00:39:09,527 --> 00:39:10,860
altered states of consciousness.

678
00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:14,000


679
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,420
Their primary
concerns were how we

680
00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:21,830
arrived in our earthly bodies,
described in terms of biology,

681
00:39:21,830 --> 00:39:25,810
and what happened when we left
our earthly bodies, described

682
00:39:25,810 --> 00:39:27,000
in terms of cosmology.

683
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,290


684
00:39:32,290 --> 00:39:34,710
Our ancestors left
clues embedded

685
00:39:34,710 --> 00:39:37,480
in symbols that had
multiple layers of meaning.

686
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:45,090


687
00:39:45,090 --> 00:39:48,970
They were empowered humans
using the full capacity

688
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:49,710
of their senses.

689
00:39:49,710 --> 00:39:54,170


690
00:39:54,170 --> 00:39:57,360
Today, our planet is
in trouble politically,

691
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,510
economically,
environmentally, and morally.

692
00:40:02,510 --> 00:40:06,880
Many will agree that corrupt
people hold places of power.

693
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,640
Citizens are taxed
beyond reason,

694
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,660
and riches are amassed by an
elite that controls the world.

695
00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:17,910
With all this evidence of the
sophisticated science left

696
00:40:17,910 --> 00:40:22,260
by the ancients, can we
still uphold the belief

697
00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:25,080
that we are the most
advanced society that

698
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,173
has ever existed
on planet Earth?

699
00:40:27,173 --> 00:40:33,330


700
00:40:33,330 --> 00:40:36,490
Is today's test-driven
education system effective?

701
00:40:36,490 --> 00:40:39,530


702
00:40:39,530 --> 00:40:42,780
Instead of rote
memorization of facts,

703
00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:44,960
what would happen if
today's youth were

704
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,450
taught to expand their
capacity to know?

705
00:40:47,450 --> 00:40:52,090


706
00:40:52,090 --> 00:40:55,610
If we were taught to
seek truth and justice

707
00:40:55,610 --> 00:40:58,350
living by the
ancient law of Ma'at,

708
00:40:58,350 --> 00:41:00,310
how would our society change?

709
00:41:00,310 --> 00:41:05,070


710
00:41:05,070 --> 00:41:07,890
Taking our cue
from the ancients,

711
00:41:07,890 --> 00:41:12,592
if we live in tune with nature,
in an atmosphere of creativity

712
00:41:12,592 --> 00:41:18,070
and peace, and if we
connect to spirituality,

713
00:41:18,070 --> 00:41:21,665
is this the answer to a
healthy future for humanity?

714
00:41:21,665 --> 00:41:25,370


715
00:41:25,370 --> 00:41:27,990
The ominous date of
December the 21st,

716
00:41:27,990 --> 00:41:31,290
2012, is fast approaching.

717
00:41:31,290 --> 00:41:35,550
Does this herald doomsday, or
could it be a powerful gateway

718
00:41:35,550 --> 00:41:38,780
into new ways of
being and thinking?

719
00:41:38,780 --> 00:41:41,770
Are we turning the
corner and ascending out

720
00:41:41,770 --> 00:41:44,550
of the age of
darkness to journey

721
00:41:44,550 --> 00:41:48,560
toward a new golden age?

722
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,770
Is it possible that
the ancients living

723
00:41:50,770 --> 00:41:53,400
in a golden age in
the distant past

724
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,140
were able to see into
future cycles of time?

725
00:41:57,140 --> 00:41:59,850
Could they have
predicted that humanity

726
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:04,200
would plummet into the
depths of collective despair?

727
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:08,090
Could they have predicted that
humans would be disempowered,

728
00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:11,810
thus losing their
connection to spirituality.

729
00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:15,480
Did they leave magnificent
structures skillfully aligned

730
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,250
to the stars and
encoded with symbols

731
00:42:19,250 --> 00:42:23,220
to act as a trigger
for us to wake up now?

732
00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:27,180
It seems humanity is
at a crucial juncture

733
00:42:27,180 --> 00:42:30,154
as we approach 2012.

734
00:42:30,154 --> 00:42:34,140
Are we ready to walk
forward into a new future?

735
00:42:34,140 --> 00:42:37,920
Have we finally cracked
the pyramid code?

736
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,393
>>Wake up.

737
00:42:39,393 --> 00:42:40,611
We have it.

738
00:42:40,611 --> 00:42:41,110
We got it.

739
00:42:41,110 --> 00:42:44,010
Just know that we
have it, and it works.

740
00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:48,212
[MUSIC PLAYING]

741
00:42:48,212 --> 00:44:36,834