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A 1,000-year-old temple

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built to commemorate
a visitation by a god.

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A coronation stone believed to
be a gateway to the heavens.

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And strange chants designed for
communicating with otherworldly beings.

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JONATHAN YOUNG: To enter ritual
allows us to reenter a space

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where the gods are alive, and
allows us to spend time with them.

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CLIFFORD MAHOOTY: You are going into
a frequency and harmony to actually talk

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directly with those beings
that are supernatural.

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NARRATOR: Throughout the
world, ancient rites and rituals

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connect us to another dimension.

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But just who or what are
we communicating with?

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DAVID CHILDRESS: All over the world,
ancient people and modern people

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are using rituals to
connect them with gods,

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yet these gods may well
be ancient astronauts.

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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we

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have been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?

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And if so, might we find the
evidence in our most sacred rituals?

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The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

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Here among the ancient mine
ruins of Chichen ltza stands

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the great pyramid of El Castillo,

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built by the Maya sometime between
the 9th and 12th centuries A.D.

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El Castillo served as a temple to the
feathered serpent god Kukulkan.

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It is also believed to be the site of
the Mayans' most important ritual:

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human sacrifice.

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WILLIAM BRAMLEY: They would
bring their human victims

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up the stairs of their temple, they
would cut up their being hearts,

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and that would be the form of
sacrifice the Mayans engaged in.

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RICK ROSS: In their rituals, there was
the sacred importance of blood sacrifice

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That by shedding blood, they
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be granted what they wanted.

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So there is a theme of blood that runs
through this system of sacrifice.

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That blood must be shed.

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NARRATOR: Although ritual
sacrifice is no longer practiced

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at El Castillo---
(horn blowing)

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worshipers still come to
celebrate a time when the Mayans

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say god Kukulkan descended from
the heavens to bring wisdom to man.

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They light fires to unite with
the spiritual realm, perform

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sacred dances and repeat prayers
in numerical sequences to enter

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a deep state of meditation.

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But the most powerful ritual
that takes place at El Castillo

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is a reenactment of Kukulkan's
descent to Earth, a reenactment

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that is literally built
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JON C. LOHSE: El Castillo is
a stepped pyramid with some

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outward radiating staircases.

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And these staircases have big
high balustrades on them.

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And on the autumn and the spring
equinox, the sun casts a shadow

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across the corner of this stepped
pyramid, and you see the

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shadows of the steps on the
staircase balustrade.

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This is a model of the pyramid
of Chechen ltza in Mexico.

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ERIC VON DÄNIKEN: And every year, on March 21,

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when the sun goes up,
directly on the stairway here

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is created **** shadow
coming down the stairs

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which represents god Kukulkan
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At the end, you see
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On September 21st, it is the opposite,
this time when the sun

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rises up in the morning,
god Kukulkan goes up the stairs,

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and ends in a bright light
up on the little temple

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which means god Kukulkan visits
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and after a certain period,
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with the promise to
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What we see happening in Chichen
ltza, it is a light phenomenon.

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If we really see technology
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we see that somebody
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so that at each equinox,
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stone serpent coming alive.

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There was a visual reminder
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It could be that not
only are the Maya,

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celebrating their
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but it could well be that ancient
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BILL BIRNES: instructed the
societies that they helped

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to maintain a connection with them
by performing certain rituals,

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celebrations at the appearance of stars,

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and keeping the story of the
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Did the Maya really
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and bloody rituals to
honor a mythical deity?

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Or might it've been as ancient
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commemorating and actual visitation
by extraterrestrial beings?

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RICHARD BADER: A ritual is absolutely a
way to kind of reconnect with the gods.

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So not only, you are reenacting
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you are actually reenacting the original moment,

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when the god did a very specific thing.

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CHILDRESS: All over the world, ancient
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to connect them with gods.

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Yet these gods may well
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The hill of Uisneach, Ireland.

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Each year on the first day of May,

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the local citizens celebrate
the sacred festival of Beltane

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similar to the one first
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more than 2,000 years ago.

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Like the ceremony at Chichen ltza,
it is designed to connect

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and communicate with beings
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JOSEPH NAGY: This day was the day
when you would set fires, bonfires,

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And then you would walk your
cattle between the fires, as a

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way to protect them for the
coming spring and summer.

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And these Mayday fires were a
magical way of calling down

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protection upon animals
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But why fire?

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But what was it about this most
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so important to the ancient Celts?

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NAGY: The association of
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suggest that this is a time when extra
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And what the Celtic peoples were
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was in fact the other-world.

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There is this notion that at
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opportunity for actually perhaps
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world or of seeing into their world.

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We have some stories from
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a hero happens to come near
a sidhe-- one of those

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otherworldly dwellings
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And the sidhe is open, and what
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Now, the fire inside the
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possible to look into the
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some of the details, including

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the people there and
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NARRATOR: But might the fire
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have been started by the early
Celts as an attempt to recreate

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the strange lights and ignitions
they saw from an alien spacecraft?

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Although no written records
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true origins, there are those

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who believe that such an
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And to prove it they point
to a ceremony practiced

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each year by the Kayapo
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A long time ago, Bep Kororoti
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TSOUKALOS: And when he landed,
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The earth was shaking and trembling.
There was a lot of noise.

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The appearance of Bep Kororoti
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In fact, it's a medicine
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And that straw suit looks

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eerily similar to a modern-day
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GISELA ERMEL: The Kayapo
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this man or alien wore,

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which is essentially completely
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And what more interesting is
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namely the Bakairi-- they already
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NARRATOR: But for the Kayapo,
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only one of the ways they honor
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extraterrestrial being.

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They also recount his visitation
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wearing symbolic head
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There is this feather
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a row of feathers, and when it's
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And these feathers represent
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than outer space.

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The Kayapo see outer space
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spreading out into infinity.

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The band that holds these
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for the rope that
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used to climb down to
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Could the Kayapo's rituals
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inspired by an
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining a somewhat more

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traditional ceremony-- one
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and to an audience of
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.

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In the crown room, lies a 336
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known as the Stone of Destiny
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It is been present at the coronation of
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for more than 800 years.

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Its purpose to unite the
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And there are those who believe,
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that fell to Earth more
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CHILDRESS: In England today,
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are crowned on what's known
as the Stone of Destiny

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And this stone, according to legend,
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who had rested his head on this stone.

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COPPENS: Jacob in the Bible has a dream,
he falls asleep on a stone

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And he sees a place nearby from
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but also for which
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And when he wakes up, he says
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where earthy things can go to heaven,
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ANDREW COLLINS: The Stone *** one day

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the connection point between
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It was almost like the English
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that Westminster Abbey
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They placed it within a throne
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Within this ***  pavement, are circles
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that represent the
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And the monarch becomes what's
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looking over not just what
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but the stars, heavens as a whole
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NARRATOR: Is this ancient stone
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Or might it, at one time, have held
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Throughout recorded history,
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devices like the Stone of Destiny,
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with superior beings
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COLLINS: What is coronation
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Well, it is the idea that the monarch
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of cosmic consciousness,
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related to the Japanese Mikados.

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They would have to sit upon the throne
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the point of creation of the world

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BIRNER: There is a notion called
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that a certain British kings had, that
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represented upon planet's Earth.
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But if some other worldly  power
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who or what is the
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NOORY: If you are an extraterrestrial
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one of the first things you would try to do
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And I think the Pharaohs believed that
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ANDREW WYATT: The king was
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Did he go back into his room and
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I don't know, we weren't there.

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But he did certainly communicate
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In addition to the Stone of Destiny
another ritualistic symbol

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which features in most coronation
ceremonies, is that of the scepter.

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The scepter is a symbol of
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And in ancient times, often took the
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According to historians, its use
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And there are those who believe,
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to the Egyptian Ankh.

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When it comes to the Ankh ancient Egypt,
we find this intimate familiar with lsis.

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Isis symbolizes the Ankh,
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who is able to restore life.

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It is the symbol of transformation,
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the symbol of ritual.

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MARTELL: The Ankh is always a symbol
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But an interesting play on the
word, Ankh, shows that also stems

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from the word Anunnaki, which meant,
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TSOUKALOS: And what's fascinating to me,
it's that the Ankh, in many occasions,

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is also shown next to the Djed pillar.
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is one of the earliest symbols, we have
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describe a connection to the stars.

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If you combine the two, in some of the
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something very technological
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Now, over time, the Ankh symbol
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but it never was that, because according
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ancient symbols are based upon
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encountered in real life.

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You have to wonder here if the
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of high tech device that the ancient
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to the kings for their use,
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and the holding of the scepter, suddenly
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CHILDRESS: And today all we have
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of this high-tech object.

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NARRATOR: If the throne and the scepter
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to otherworldly or
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what about the most iconic
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the crown, itself.

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What says kingship?
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It is clearly a device, whether
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or whether you see a crown
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it is clear that somehow it was very
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establish this connection.

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Some historians believe
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may have originated with
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Sumerian described their gods, the Anunnaki,
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and this was carried into more recent times
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These were the beings that
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Kingship now wants to have this same
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by placing the crown,
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That head piece symbolized the translation
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into a sovereign, to deify that sovereign,
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Some of the earliest cave drawings, we
can find in the world, show these

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humanoid beings with halos around their
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because if you look
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if you have the sun rising behind them,
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that they have on the sides of
their helmets, well, if someone

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is not knowledgeable in technology
sees this, well it looks like their head

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is surrounded by this divine light,
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it's a light source.

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So over time, people, our ancestors,
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these extraterrestrials,
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Could these symbols of coronation have
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or even spiritual visions, but by
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If so, what other ancient rituals
might find their roots in a kingdom

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not of this world.

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Tabasco, Mexico
1862

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Prospectors drilling for oil
unearth the colossal stone head

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weighing more than 20 tons.

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50 years later, 16 more heads are
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and not characteristic of the
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These gigantic heads are believed
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ancient culture known as the Olmec.

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But even more mysterious, perhaps,
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some sort of helmet.

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PETER FIEBAG: The mother culture of
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In older images made by the Olmec, we can
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dressed in overalls ascending.

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They've wings and they have
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in front of their mouths.

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Are these the heads of rulers?
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NARRATOR: Could these giant Olmec
heads be the depictions of visitors

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from another planet?

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Some ancient astronaut theories believe,
these colossal heads are the proof that

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the Olmec communicated directly with
otherworldly beings through shamans,

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their holy men.

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LARS KRUTACK: A shaman is an
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between the spiritual worlds
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but more often than not they're
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COPPENS: When it comes to the Olmec, we
know that they say that people were taken

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to become transformed into a person who
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between our world
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In order to answer the spiritual realm,
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particular tools to get there.

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These include instruments
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Aid the shaman in his or her
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Like the Olmec, many ancient cultures
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Shamans could communicate
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But what exactly were these beings?
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Or were they perhaps extraterrestrials?

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NANCY RED STAR: There are star ancestors,
we call them ***.

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That's a *** word, and so, they are
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Similar to Hindus, Buddhists,
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many native american tribes claim
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by means of telepathy.

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STANDING ELK: Telepathy is basically one
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that is practiced with
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Feathers work as antennas and they bring
in a message at times when it's necessary.

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CLIFFORD MAHOOTY: There's basically
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What it is, is that they are going
into a frequency in harmony

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to actually talk directly with those
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In the area of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah
graphic depictions called petroglyphs

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can be found of ancient
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and the otherworldly creatures,
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Here we have a classic shaman
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feet pointed upward, arms which
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it signifies spirituality, and it's got
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One of these petroglyphs,
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depicts nine ft tall figures conducting
what some believe is an actual encounter

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between shamans and star beings.

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Looks like a group of figures surrounding
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a central ghost-like figure, which
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If you look at the head of the Holy Ghost,
you'll see that there are two eyes

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in the front of his face,
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you'll see the side of his head.
This is a device which you do not see in

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any prehistoric art.

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And this mostly is one of the reasons why

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I feel that this represents an event.

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Does the Ghost Panel really
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by extraterrestrial beings?

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And if so could the horns coming
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similar to the feathers found in
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really represent some sort of antenna?

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A device for giving and receiving
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perhaps from another world.

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And is this energy at all connected
to ritualized chants and prayers

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employed by the shaman in
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with star beings.

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In the early 1980's, using a device
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called an electroscope, biochemist
doctor Boguslaw Lipinski,

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claims to have successfully measured
the amount of energy created

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through rituals and prayer.

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BOGUSLAW LIPINSKI: The instrument
called electroscope

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measures the flow of current between
two oppositely charged plates.

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Electrons are the purest form of energy.
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being explained by physicists
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NARRATOR: In 1985, Dr Lipinski
took his electroscope

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to the shrine of Medjugorje,
in Yugoslavia.

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To measure what if any energy is
created by large scale group prayer

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For decades, thousands of people have
gathered here claiming

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to see an apparition of Virgin Mary,
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I found out that during the times of
apparitions, particularly when the groups

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of people pray, I got readings
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This graph shows measurements of the
energy when people start praying

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the energy comes very quickly up.

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(People praying and chanting)

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Somewhat similar to Dr. Lipinski contention,
that the ritual of prayer generates

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energy is a scientific concept called
quantum entanglement.

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This theory supports the idea,
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be able to communicate telepathically.

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The idea of quantum entanglement
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can split and become
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COLLINS: and they still somehow retain
a link between each other.

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They can communicate
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It's not only real but it can explain
the idea of telepathy and remote viewing.

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And if we assume that extraterrestrials
do exist, then it becomes

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the most obvious form of communication
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Maybe this is already occurring,
just maybe this has been going on

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for tens of thousands of years.

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And this can easily be induced
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of tones and notes.

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Could the provocative implications
of quantum entanglement

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help to explain why so many cultures,
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otherworldly beings telepathically.

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And could the elaborate head dresses,
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and even the crowns of ancient kings,

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be linked to some sort
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for communicating
with alien beings?

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Perhaps the answer can be found by
examining more contemporary examples.

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The times of rites and rituals still
practiced by billions of people

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around the world.

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The Giza Plateau,
May 26th, 1954.

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Egyptian archeologist
Kamal-el-Mallakh is lowered into

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a long narrow pit he discovered
on the south side of the Great

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Pyramid of Khufu.

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With the use of a torch and a
mirror, he catches sight of a large oar.

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The oar belongs to a
143-foot-long ship that has been

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buried beneath the earth.

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The ship was constructed for
King Khufu, the second pharaoh

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of the Fourth Dynasty, who
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and is generally accepted
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It is what egyptologists call a
solar barge; a funerary boat

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that was built for the sole
purpose of carrying him across

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the heavens.

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AIDAN DODSON: The significance
of boats in the funerary context,

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are intended as, were a posthumous
pilgrimage to the city of Abydos.

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Abydos was the sacred city of Osiris,
the God of the Death.

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ROBERT BAUVAL: The word God, according
to ancient Egyptians is ***,

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it means a being that
came from the cosmos.

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The word origin doesn't exist
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They truly believe, they were
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that their origins is in the sky.

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In the case of King Khufu,
we find there is a literal boat

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thought to be a boat of a million years, even
though this might appear

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to be a normal ship,

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it is actually something far more,
it can also represent a spaceship

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because they just didn't speak of years,
they spoke millions of years,

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and this is precisely what
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Somehow, the dead body was
able to go on this voyage.

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But could funerary boats, like the
one found near the Giza pyramid

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have been the early Egyptians
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BIRNES: What could this represent?
Could it mean that the ancient Egyptians

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believed that their honored
dead would then rejoin

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the deities in the sky,
the extraterrestrials?

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NOOBY: Ancient Egyptians were
experts at mimicking what they saw.

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And let's assume that Gods came down
from heaven, or ETs came down from space

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The Egyptians tried to
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TSOUKALOS: In order to mimic the
idea, of returning to the Gods

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who have descended from the sky,
funerary boats were created.

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And the idea of funerary boats came
after the egyptians encountered

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the heavenly barges which
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As in most modern societies, funeral
rituals are usually based upon the notion

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that the spirit moves
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dead reconnect with god
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And for many ancient societies--
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also meant a return to the stars.

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BAUVAL: What is also interesting
about the ancient egyptian belief

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is that after the final fall or
conversion was going back to the stars.

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I always quote Carl Sagan on
this: "We are star stuff."

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Some star exploded some billions
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But we're star stuff become conscious.

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Having said this, it is not
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the knowledge of our origins
literally within us, and that

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there's a way to retrieve
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It may well be that the ancient Egyptians
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NARRATOR: The use of funerary
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unique to ancient Egypt.

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The Norse Vikings also
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funeral rites, sometimes burying
their dead with actual boats,

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but more often forming the shape
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On certain occasions, they would
even create giant pyres to burn

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their dead within these rock
formations, believing the pillar

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of smoke would elevate the
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Burning the dead on a large pyre

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was practiced in ancient
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And in India, most Hindus still
use funeral pyres to this day.

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SHIMKADA: The cremation ceremony
basically is performed

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by the male members of the family.

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and then there are the priest
who guard them on how to do it

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And they put them on, you know,
the pyre, and then the eldest

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member of the family
has to light the fire.

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And then they sit there
until everything is burned.

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BIRNES: It purifies the soul that it
could pass on to the next life.

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NARRATOR: According to some
Ancient Astronaut theorists,

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the idea of burning the dead may
have been inspired by an ancient

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encounter with
an alien spacecraft.

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BIRNES: There's still
another aspect to this.

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If we look at the Vedic texts
and read about the Vimana; the

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ancient craft that made war upon Earth,
these were craft that came in fire.

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Could it be that the passing of
the soul from one life to the

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next is like the
appearance of the Vimana?

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The appearance in flame?

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and so that flame emulates
the actual craft itself?

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Is it possible that
when our ancestors

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witnessed rockets or spaceships
taking off and landing with

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all of this fire and this
smoke that they, over time,

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thought that by burning their
dead, they would imitate what

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they saw in the past?

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Meaning, as the body burns and
the smoke rises up to the sky,

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that they were ascending into
the sky, becoming a god.

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NARRATOR: If rituals of
burial were ancient man's

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attempt to reconnect with
gods or alien visitors,

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did they succeed?

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Some would answer by pointing to
the billions around the world

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for whom death still acts as a

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gateway to Heaven---
or somewhere else far, far away.

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Vatican City, Italy.

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Pope Benedict XVI walks down
the aisle in St. Peter's

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Basilica carrying a golden crucifix.

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Upon reaching the altar, he
lifts the thurible, a metal

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vessel suspended from chains in which
incense is burned for purification.

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(Pope Benedict speaking Latin)

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The Pope recites the Eucharist
Prayer, and then he and his

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congregation consume the
consecrated bread and wine.

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They are, according to the most
sacred laws of the Church,

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eating the actual body and
blood of Jesus Christ.

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CHRIS CHAPPLE: In the Mass,
the priest is empowered

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by the prayers that are said to
energize the substance of the bread

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and the substance of the wine, such
that it becomes transformed

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or transubstanciated, changed
into the living presence

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of body and the blood of Christ.

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JONATHAN YOUNG: The Mass, the
Communion, the Transubstantiation

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of the eating of the body of God
allows us to ingest the divine energy

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this is called Manna, or magical energy.

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And the almost the cannibalistic
aspect of the ritual is crucial

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for a ***, which is head one,
to become one with the divine source.

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NARRATOR: In the New Testament,
the Second Letter of Peter states that

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believers in this practice "become
partakers of the divine nature".

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They become united with God.

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The Roman Catholic Church
adheres to this interpretation

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of Communion so strongly that in
the 16th century, the Council of

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Trent declared anyone who denied
it subject to excommunication.

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And during the infamous Spanish
Inquisition, nonbelievers were

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branded as heretics and were
often burned at the stake---

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or worse.

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But what does it mean to become
one with the divinity?

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Most historians say the ritual
of the Catholic Mass can be

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traced back to the Last Supper,
when the act of Jesus serving

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bread and wine to his disciples,
during what was actually

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a Passover Seder, created a powerful
spiritual bond that must not be broken.

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But there are others who believe
the Catholic Mass stems from a

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ritual practiced thousands
of years earlier.

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YOUNG: Scholars have
speculated that the Mass

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is actually inspired by Egyptian
mythology and a similar

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ritual that was done
for the god Osiris.

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The idea is, we take the divine
substance, the body of the god,

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into us so that we are one
with that transcendent energy.

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NARRATOR: The legend of
Osiris tells how he was killed

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and dismembered by his jealous
brother, then resurrected from

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the various parts of his
body by his wife lsis.

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Egyptian priests reenacted this
ancient event with a ritual

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involving clay and wheat.

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YOUNG: The ritual has to do
with making wheat cakes that

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resemble the pieces of the
dismembered god, which are then

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hidden, and a--- a woman playing the---
the wife, uh, goes and

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finds the pieces.

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And then, in the end, the
priests eat the pieces.

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NARRATOR: Those who ate the
sacramental wheat cakes believed

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they had brought the god Osiris
back to life within themselves.

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But where did early Egyptians
get such a profound idea?

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COPPENS: The question then is ---
are they mimicking things which they saw

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And it somehow involved this
transformation from a dead

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Osiris to a person
who was regenerated.

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When we're looking at some of
these rituals, really, contact

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with the divine is a technology,
whether it's the ritual or

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whether it's practical or

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whether it's to mimic
extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR: Could the Roman
Catholic ceremony of eating the

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body and blood of Christ
actually have its origins in

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the ancient Egyptian
story of Osiris?

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And if so, does it suggest that
the Catholic religion, like

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other ancient beliefs, has its

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roots in an extraterrestrial encounter?

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LOHSE: A ritual is a participatory
performance and the main objective

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of the ritual is to communicate
something about

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an underlying belief or an idea.

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These ancient rituals coincided with the
appearance of various constellations

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in the sky, various stars.

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BIRNES: All across the world
in ancient societies

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there was a belief that human beings
were placed on planet Earth

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by the star people.

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YOUNG: Mythology, like
legend, has real history in it.

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There's a strong sense of
connection to those sources

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when one enters into ritual.

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Our deepest yearnings are for
things we cannot remember.

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We yearn for lost wisdom,
lost possibilities.

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It seems we work toward
goals we do not understand.

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It seems we are driven by aspirations
that are truly mysterious.

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RED STAR: The ones who come from
another world are relatives

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are the ones that bring the loss
and the instructions in the ceremony,

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in the rituals here, so the people will
go through this process of evolution.

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Are today's frequently practiced
rituals such as prayers---

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funerals--- and coronations---
really based on early man's

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attempts to emulate
ancient alien visitors?

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Or are they something
even more profound?

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Could they provide an actual
means with which humans may

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communicate with-- or even
return to-- another, perhaps

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extraterrestrial existence?

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If so, we may only know the
truth when we ourselves

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make the journey.

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Or perhaps--- when they return.

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