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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,291 2 00:00:05,291 --> 00:00:08,175 >>The sheer beauty and sophistication 3 00:00:08,175 --> 00:00:11,744 of Egyptian artifacts entrances us. 4 00:00:11,744 --> 00:00:16,460 5 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:19,510 How can we unlock the code embedded 6 00:00:19,510 --> 00:00:21,752 in every object they made? 7 00:00:21,752 --> 00:00:26,720 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,510 How does the symbolism in Egyptian art 9 00:00:29,510 --> 00:00:31,790 illuminate their cultural values? 10 00:00:31,790 --> 00:00:37,260 11 00:00:37,260 --> 00:00:43,285 What ancient secrets still lie hidden in plain sight? 12 00:00:43,285 --> 00:01:27,390 13 00:01:27,390 --> 00:01:32,050 Our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture is limited. 14 00:01:32,050 --> 00:01:36,150 Looking at the artifacts left behind by the ancients, 15 00:01:36,150 --> 00:01:40,380 it is obvious that they had different values, customs, 16 00:01:40,380 --> 00:01:44,200 and beliefs from ours today. 17 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,370 History books are filled with stories of war, 18 00:01:47,370 --> 00:01:50,960 invasion of territories, and patriarchal ways 19 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,370 of being and thinking. 20 00:01:53,370 --> 00:01:56,390 Yet it seems that ancient Egypt enjoyed 21 00:01:56,390 --> 00:02:00,230 long periods of peace and prosperity 22 00:02:00,230 --> 00:02:04,950 and a profound connection with nature and spirit. 23 00:02:04,950 --> 00:02:09,870 Is there a way to understand the shift? 24 00:02:09,870 --> 00:02:11,930 >>So what we refer to as history that 25 00:02:11,930 --> 00:02:14,210 began some 6,000 years ago was really 26 00:02:14,210 --> 00:02:17,425 the advent of a different style of social organization 27 00:02:17,425 --> 00:02:20,700 that's typified by hierarchies of dominance, 28 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:24,510 you know, warring deities, warring mythologies, 29 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:25,470 and control systems. 30 00:02:25,470 --> 00:02:31,490 31 00:02:31,490 --> 00:02:34,100 >>Vedic culture from ancient India 32 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:39,580 speaks of a grand and measurable cycle of 26,000 years, 33 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:45,490 consisting of ascending light ages and descending dark ages. 34 00:02:45,490 --> 00:02:49,260 >>In the higher ages, you see this philosophy 35 00:02:49,260 --> 00:02:52,300 of living in tune with nature. 36 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,830 People talk about speaking with the gods 37 00:02:55,830 --> 00:02:57,020 and a lot of interaction. 38 00:02:57,020 --> 00:02:59,660 Virtually every ancient culture has stories about the gods 39 00:02:59,660 --> 00:03:01,600 if you go back far enough. 40 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,540 And you see a lot of matriarchal cultures 41 00:03:05,540 --> 00:03:07,470 if you go back far enough. 42 00:03:07,470 --> 00:03:09,180 You know, the dark age times, you 43 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:15,965 have this very brutal, paternalistic type of ruling. 44 00:03:15,965 --> 00:03:17,840 >>I think it's difficult for us to understand 45 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,830 the ancient Egyptians because we've 46 00:03:19,830 --> 00:03:22,500 got the paradigm of the patriarchal structures 47 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:24,870 on top of it, and we're looking through 48 00:03:24,870 --> 00:03:27,800 our own cultural lenses. 49 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,652 >>Has world culture always been male dominated and patriarchal? 50 00:03:33,652 --> 00:03:37,740 If not, what would a matriarchal system look like? 51 00:03:37,740 --> 00:03:41,290 52 00:03:41,290 --> 00:03:45,030 Matriarchy is not the opposite of patriarchy, 53 00:03:45,030 --> 00:03:48,407 with women dominating and controlling men. 54 00:03:48,407 --> 00:03:53,210 It is based on balance between the masculine and feminine 55 00:03:53,210 --> 00:03:56,960 and harmony with nature. 56 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,920 This was exemplified in ancient Egypt, which 57 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,436 was known in the old language as the land of Khent. 58 00:04:03,436 --> 00:04:09,280 59 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,230 Hakim Awyan received teachings about the Khenesian people 60 00:04:14,230 --> 00:04:16,610 in the distant past. 61 00:04:16,610 --> 00:04:21,096 >>The ancient life system in Asia 62 00:04:21,096 --> 00:04:24,320 came, the commission tradition being passed down 63 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:25,640 through the mother. 64 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,230 Mother is the teacher. 65 00:04:28,230 --> 00:04:30,700 Not the father, like patriarchy system. 66 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:32,840 This is matriarchy. 67 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:34,354 She is the goddess. 68 00:04:34,354 --> 00:04:36,789 She is everything in the house. 69 00:04:36,789 --> 00:04:41,180 70 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:42,970 >>Based on the countless artifacts 71 00:04:42,970 --> 00:04:46,350 that show the high status of the feminine, 72 00:04:46,350 --> 00:04:48,730 it seems that women have the same status 73 00:04:48,730 --> 00:04:53,870 as men, if not a higher status. 74 00:04:53,870 --> 00:04:57,300 >>In the museum, you have statues. 75 00:04:57,300 --> 00:04:59,770 You notice that the woman put the arm 76 00:04:59,770 --> 00:05:01,885 around the man's shoulder. 77 00:05:01,885 --> 00:05:05,060 And that shows are they equal? 78 00:05:05,060 --> 00:05:06,220 No. 79 00:05:06,220 --> 00:05:08,855 Woman was the upper head in the family. 80 00:05:08,855 --> 00:05:12,560 When she put her arm around the man's shoulder, she's saying, 81 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,420 this is mine. 82 00:05:15,420 --> 00:05:21,620 You also see that the sculpture in the old days 83 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:25,400 put the feminine wig on a man's head 84 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,740 when he promoted more to a woman than a man. 85 00:05:30,740 --> 00:05:34,870 >>Men's wigs were layered in different lengths, like steps. 86 00:05:34,870 --> 00:05:39,280 Women's wigs were parted in the middle, smooth, and all one 87 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:40,750 length. 88 00:05:40,750 --> 00:05:44,250 When a man wore a woman's wig, it was an indication 89 00:05:44,250 --> 00:05:47,300 that he had high status. 90 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:51,190 >>Only men with wisdom would wear the women's wig. 91 00:05:51,190 --> 00:05:53,065 So these are the scribes, and the physicians, 92 00:05:53,065 --> 00:05:56,390 and the rest of them. 93 00:05:56,390 --> 00:05:59,430 >>What you can do is go back into the Old Kingdom. 94 00:05:59,430 --> 00:06:03,180 And what you find is obviously a fair amount of equality, 95 00:06:03,180 --> 00:06:07,370 where the goddesses are revered as reverently as the gods. 96 00:06:07,370 --> 00:06:09,270 And there's even the instance, for example, 97 00:06:09,270 --> 00:06:15,800 of Hathor, the exception in that she's the only deity that 98 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,320 has a temple column all to herself, 99 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,510 So the great mother, the great feminine principle, 100 00:06:21,510 --> 00:06:23,750 occupies a very important part in 101 00:06:23,750 --> 00:06:27,620 the whole Egyptian symbology, the whole Egyptian doctrine. 102 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:30,540 There's absolutely no doubt about that. 103 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:33,860 Women could own property, had as much rights as the men. 104 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:37,052 They could divorce as easily as the men. 105 00:06:37,052 --> 00:06:40,510 Of all the known sophisticated civilizations 106 00:06:40,510 --> 00:06:44,240 that we have access to, probably women were better off in Egypt 107 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:45,770 than they were anywhere else. 108 00:06:45,770 --> 00:06:47,870 >>Perhaps we are looking at ancient Egypt 109 00:06:47,870 --> 00:06:51,180 from a patriarchal viewpoint. 110 00:06:51,180 --> 00:06:53,680 We should let the symbolism and the artifacts 111 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,260 tell their own story. 112 00:06:57,260 --> 00:06:59,950 The frescoes we see lining temple walls 113 00:06:59,950 --> 00:07:05,230 in Egypt and on stone slabs in museums around the world each 114 00:07:05,230 --> 00:07:07,650 tell their own story. 115 00:07:07,650 --> 00:07:11,280 We see the same images repeated again and again 116 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:12,840 in Egyptian art. 117 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,790 By learning to decode these symbols, 118 00:07:15,790 --> 00:07:19,330 we can look back in time, peeling back 119 00:07:19,330 --> 00:07:22,240 the layers of patriarchy that cloud 120 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,850 our understanding of ancient history. 121 00:07:24,850 --> 00:07:28,440 Then, we can begin to decipher the messages 122 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,346 that the ancients left us. 123 00:07:30,346 --> 00:07:34,730 124 00:07:34,730 --> 00:07:39,705 >>You have to accept that we're dealing with a period that 125 00:07:39,705 --> 00:07:42,934 occurred at least 5,000 years ago. 126 00:07:42,934 --> 00:07:45,070 And the little we know of it comes 127 00:07:45,070 --> 00:07:49,630 from archaic texts that were written 128 00:07:49,630 --> 00:07:52,176 in a very occult and esoteric manner. 129 00:07:52,176 --> 00:07:55,640 And they weren't meant for you and me. 130 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,070 >>The secrets of the ancient Egyptians 131 00:07:58,070 --> 00:08:00,564 were not for the commoners. 132 00:08:00,564 --> 00:08:02,320 >>But for a very, very small group 133 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,500 of elites who had to be initiated over many, many years 134 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,080 to appreciate what these texts said. 135 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,440 >>They were for the high-level initiates, 136 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,350 which were people who were trained. 137 00:08:15,350 --> 00:08:19,510 And they would go through different initiations, tests 138 00:08:19,510 --> 00:08:21,045 that would help them be wise, that 139 00:08:21,045 --> 00:08:24,720 would help them confront their fears, that would balance them, 140 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,090 balance them in the body, mind, and emotions. 141 00:08:28,090 --> 00:08:30,090 >>Initiates were students who were 142 00:08:30,090 --> 00:08:32,900 given rudimentary instruction on the mystery 143 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:39,030 traditions of Mayan and Egyptian cosmic cycles. 144 00:08:39,030 --> 00:08:41,400 >>As they approached higher levels of consciousness, 145 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,180 they came to respect different aspects of themselves that 146 00:08:45,180 --> 00:08:48,250 were represented in the feminine and the masculine. 147 00:08:48,250 --> 00:08:50,140 But they went further and called it 148 00:08:50,140 --> 00:08:52,590 sacred feminine and sacred masculine, which 149 00:08:52,590 --> 00:08:56,970 meant the purest form that was actually connected to the two 150 00:08:56,970 --> 00:08:58,075 hemispheres of the brain. 151 00:08:58,075 --> 00:09:01,010 152 00:09:01,010 --> 00:09:03,150 >>Feminine consciousness corresponds 153 00:09:03,150 --> 00:09:05,390 to the right hemisphere of the brain 154 00:09:05,390 --> 00:09:08,100 and the left side of the body. 155 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,120 In contrast, masculine consciousness 156 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,880 corresponds to the left side of the brain 157 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,690 and the right side of the body. 158 00:09:16,690 --> 00:09:18,960 Patriarchal consciousness focuses 159 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:26,810 on history, linear time, dogma, rationality, waking reality, 160 00:09:26,810 --> 00:09:29,130 and science. 161 00:09:29,130 --> 00:09:31,950 Matriarchal consciousness focuses 162 00:09:31,950 --> 00:09:41,019 on eternity, cycles of time, ritual, magic, altered states, 163 00:09:41,019 --> 00:09:43,490 and art. 164 00:09:43,490 --> 00:09:46,720 If we examine the art, we can see the characters 165 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:51,150 almost always have one foot slightly forward. 166 00:09:51,150 --> 00:09:54,470 In some instances, they take a big step forward. 167 00:09:54,470 --> 00:10:00,240 In each scene, the goddess has her left foot slightly leading, 168 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,580 showing awareness of the feminine principles 169 00:10:02,580 --> 00:10:05,900 of timelessness and magic. 170 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:11,180 The pharaoh, however, takes a large step with his right foot. 171 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:13,470 This shows that he is grounded in the masculine. 172 00:10:13,470 --> 00:10:16,150 173 00:10:16,150 --> 00:10:22,050 Similarly, we often see images with two left hands. 174 00:10:22,050 --> 00:10:26,390 It has been suggested that this is just a stylistic convention. 175 00:10:26,390 --> 00:10:31,160 But we should not impose our ideas on Egyptian art. 176 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:37,140 Left hands suggest giving, while right hands suggest taking. 177 00:10:37,140 --> 00:10:40,750 >>In our culture, we've practically erased the feminine 178 00:10:40,750 --> 00:10:43,030 in favor of the masculine, reading, writing, 179 00:10:43,030 --> 00:10:44,250 and arithmetic. 180 00:10:44,250 --> 00:10:46,670 Art, music isn't as important. 181 00:10:46,670 --> 00:10:52,180 And our society is completely unbalanced because of it. 182 00:10:52,180 --> 00:10:54,530 The ancients knew that you could not 183 00:10:54,530 --> 00:10:56,460 achieve high states of consciousness 184 00:10:56,460 --> 00:10:58,380 without these being in balance. 185 00:10:58,380 --> 00:11:02,200 And so they revered the pure qualities of either. 186 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,420 And so when we say sacred feminine and sacred masculine, 187 00:11:05,420 --> 00:11:09,030 this was the highest form of respect 188 00:11:09,030 --> 00:11:12,600 so that the female would have both feminine and masculine 189 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,050 balanced within her, and the male 190 00:11:15,050 --> 00:11:20,040 would have both feminine and masculine balanced within him. 191 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,420 >>Balance between the sacred feminine 192 00:11:22,420 --> 00:11:26,340 and the sacred masculine runs deep in Egyptian symbolism. 193 00:11:26,340 --> 00:11:28,970 194 00:11:28,970 --> 00:11:33,720 We see gods and goddesses carrying a crook, a flail, 195 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,970 and a staff in various combinations. 196 00:11:37,970 --> 00:11:41,716 The crook represents the balance of the emotions. 197 00:11:41,716 --> 00:11:45,410 The flail symbolizes the balance of the mind. 198 00:11:45,410 --> 00:11:50,370 And the staff depicts the balance of the body. 199 00:11:50,370 --> 00:11:53,950 Once balance of the body, the mind, and the emotions 200 00:11:53,950 --> 00:11:57,988 was achieved, consciousness could develop. 201 00:11:57,988 --> 00:12:01,290 Notice the staff always has the head 202 00:12:01,290 --> 00:12:05,920 of a bird and a forked base. 203 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,120 The staff never touches the ground. 204 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,720 This indicates that we are spiritual beings having 205 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,520 an Earth experience. 206 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,330 We are incarnated here, but our souls 207 00:12:18,330 --> 00:12:20,495 can go beyond the Earthly plane. 208 00:12:20,495 --> 00:12:25,660 209 00:12:25,660 --> 00:12:31,062 Egyptian temples were places where spiritual work was done. 210 00:12:31,062 --> 00:12:35,300 An arch with a winged disk is always found at the entrance 211 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:35,800 to temples. 212 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,040 213 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,800 The winged disk depicts a vulture and a snake. 214 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,685 >>Snake been taken as a symbol of masculine, 215 00:12:46,685 --> 00:12:50,145 and the vulture is feminine. 216 00:12:50,145 --> 00:12:54,620 >>The feminine and the masculine had to be in balance. 217 00:12:54,620 --> 00:12:58,580 The lower self was to surrender to the higher self 218 00:12:58,580 --> 00:13:02,200 in order to enter the sacred space. 219 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,080 This meant that the ego of the everyday world 220 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,730 had to step aside while the higher self connected 221 00:13:09,730 --> 00:13:11,280 with cosmic energy. 222 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,750 >>Vulture can fly. 223 00:13:12,750 --> 00:13:14,240 Snake can't fly. 224 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,730 But both have the same glands. 225 00:13:16,730 --> 00:13:20,220 226 00:13:20,220 --> 00:13:25,850 System of life is based on glands. 227 00:13:25,850 --> 00:13:29,060 >>The glands were the most important features 228 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:30,930 of the human being. 229 00:13:30,930 --> 00:13:34,740 >>One of the most misunderstood functions of the human body 230 00:13:34,740 --> 00:13:38,660 today is our glandular or endocrine system. 231 00:13:38,660 --> 00:13:42,680 Glands secrete hormones that trigger reproduction. 232 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:46,600 Fertility and procreation had high value 233 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,670 in Egyptian ideology. 234 00:13:48,670 --> 00:13:51,202 >>The ancients were very much in tune 235 00:13:51,202 --> 00:13:53,520 with how the energy systems in the body, 236 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,395 or the chakras as the East Indians would talk about them, 237 00:13:57,395 --> 00:13:59,720 were connected to the glands. 238 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,950 >>Ancient teachings speak of seven energy centers 239 00:14:02,950 --> 00:14:06,100 in the body called chakras. 240 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:09,640 Parallels occur between the concepts of chakras, 241 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,960 or energy centers in the body, and our glands. 242 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,570 It appears they are two ways of describing the same thing, 243 00:14:17,570 --> 00:14:21,520 through spirituality and through science. 244 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,960 Ancient Egyptians had a holistic understanding 245 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,760 of the significance of the glands and their central role 246 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,820 in reproduction and in consciousness. 247 00:14:31,820 --> 00:14:35,890 If we can decode the symbols, we see 248 00:14:35,890 --> 00:14:38,440 that the sacredness of procreation 249 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,420 is readily visible in ancient Egyptian art. 250 00:14:43,420 --> 00:14:47,370 >>When you see a boy or a man, you 251 00:14:47,370 --> 00:14:52,070 see a kind of a bottle on his head. 252 00:14:52,070 --> 00:14:57,380 That is not a bottle, or not a white crown 253 00:14:57,380 --> 00:15:01,680 symbolizing Upper Egypt, as my colleagues and scholars say. 254 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:02,390 No. 255 00:15:02,390 --> 00:15:06,580 This is a gland in the human body known 256 00:15:06,580 --> 00:15:10,420 as the thymus, located behind the lungs. 257 00:15:10,420 --> 00:15:15,420 >>The thymus is most active when a baby is in utero. 258 00:15:15,420 --> 00:15:19,080 It continues to be active until puberty. 259 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,480 Then it begins to shrink and is atrophied 260 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,790 when we stop being fertile. 261 00:15:24,790 --> 00:15:29,273 It was a critical activator of consciousness. 262 00:15:29,273 --> 00:15:31,998 >>The crown is another. 263 00:15:31,998 --> 00:15:36,083 It's the womb, the placenta. 264 00:15:36,083 --> 00:15:41,490 The thymus and the womb are connected 265 00:15:41,490 --> 00:15:45,120 for the cycle of life. 266 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,280 When you see the double crown, the red crown 267 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,555 is the womb and the placenta. 268 00:15:50,555 --> 00:15:53,275 The white crown is the thymus, who 269 00:15:53,275 --> 00:15:57,530 has its influence on the womb. 270 00:15:57,530 --> 00:16:01,200 That's the symbol of one of the glands. 271 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:05,100 >>In the early 1900s, alchemist Schwaller de Lubicz 272 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:09,326 presented a work called The Temple of Man. 273 00:16:09,326 --> 00:16:13,120 It demonstrated that the architects of the Luxor Temple 274 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,420 used sacred geometry, which reflected 275 00:16:16,420 --> 00:16:20,040 the exact proportions of the human body. 276 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,350 As in all Egyptian temples, the most sacred space 277 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:28,830 was located at the back of the temple, the Holy of Holies, 278 00:16:28,830 --> 00:16:31,976 which corresponded to the pineal gland. 279 00:16:31,976 --> 00:16:35,430 When activated, the pineal gland is 280 00:16:35,430 --> 00:16:37,910 said to stimulate the evolution of higher 281 00:16:37,910 --> 00:16:39,616 states of consciousness. 282 00:16:39,616 --> 00:16:43,532 If the temples were metaphors of the human body, 283 00:16:43,532 --> 00:16:48,405 the pineal gland corresponded with the Holy of Holies. 284 00:16:48,405 --> 00:16:51,900 At the entrance to the most sacred part of the temple 285 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:57,440 stand tall pillars representing the masculine and the feminine, 286 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,060 papyrus and the blue lotus. 287 00:17:02,060 --> 00:17:05,500 The papyrus and the lotus reflect the balance 288 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:09,420 between the feminine and the masculine principles 289 00:17:09,420 --> 00:17:11,730 and are shown together throughout 290 00:17:11,730 --> 00:17:13,145 ancient Egyptian art. 291 00:17:13,145 --> 00:17:16,634 292 00:17:16,634 --> 00:17:22,020 >>The blue lotus is a symbol of life, 293 00:17:22,020 --> 00:17:27,611 and this plant, blossom, flower, it grows in the water, 294 00:17:27,611 --> 00:17:29,180 like water lilies. 295 00:17:29,180 --> 00:17:31,460 It's where the ancient commissions 296 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:37,460 believe that life starts in water and in that lotus form. 297 00:17:37,460 --> 00:17:40,970 >>We have seen there are always multiple layers of meaning 298 00:17:40,970 --> 00:17:43,560 embedded in ancient Egyptian symbols. 299 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,262 Is there another reason why the blue lotus was so important 300 00:17:47,262 --> 00:17:48,220 in Egyptian ceremonies? 301 00:17:48,220 --> 00:17:54,210 302 00:17:54,210 --> 00:17:58,070 In ancient Egyptian art, we see countless instances 303 00:17:58,070 --> 00:18:01,980 of part animal, part human forms. 304 00:18:01,980 --> 00:18:07,010 What were the ancients trying to convey by these curious images? 305 00:18:07,010 --> 00:18:09,130 >>There's a technical term for such creatures 306 00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:09,900 that anthropologists use. 307 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:11,172 They call them therianthropes. 308 00:18:11,172 --> 00:18:13,810 And that's from the Greek, therian, which 309 00:18:13,810 --> 00:18:16,953 means wild beast, and anthropos, which means man. 310 00:18:16,953 --> 00:18:20,390 They are combinations of beast and man. 311 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:23,230 It's not an accident that all of the gods of Egypt 312 00:18:23,230 --> 00:18:24,540 are therianthropic. 313 00:18:24,540 --> 00:18:27,350 They have, of course, fully human forms. 314 00:18:27,350 --> 00:18:29,780 But in most cases, they also have 315 00:18:29,780 --> 00:18:31,840 forms that are part animal and part human. 316 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,534 So you may consider Horus, the head of a hawk 317 00:18:35,534 --> 00:18:37,438 and the body of a man. 318 00:18:37,438 --> 00:18:41,590 You may consider Sekhmet, a lioness with a human body 319 00:18:41,590 --> 00:18:44,020 and a lion's head. 320 00:18:44,020 --> 00:18:46,640 Or Anubis, of course, the guide of souls, 321 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:51,280 who is part jackal and part human. 322 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,060 >>Egypt isn't the only place where 323 00:18:53,060 --> 00:18:57,000 these half animal, half human images have been found. 324 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,390 Half a world away, we find clues to decode 325 00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:02,380 these mysterious symbols. 326 00:19:02,380 --> 00:19:04,740 >>Throughout the Amazon today, shamans 327 00:19:04,740 --> 00:19:08,920 working with the powerful visionary brew, ayahuasca, 328 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,990 a combination of two plants-- very frequently, 329 00:19:12,990 --> 00:19:14,990 they will, after their visions, when 330 00:19:14,990 --> 00:19:17,726 they return to the normal, alert, problem-solving state 331 00:19:17,726 --> 00:19:19,600 of consciousness, they will actually sit down 332 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,970 and, recollecting what they saw in the visionary state, 333 00:19:21,970 --> 00:19:26,480 will paint and draw the images that they saw. 334 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,120 And the most common motif of these ayahuasca visions 335 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:31,790 is the therianthrope, creatures that 336 00:19:31,790 --> 00:19:34,436 are part animal and part human in form. 337 00:19:34,436 --> 00:19:38,900 338 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:41,730 This specific characteristic of the ancient Egyptian gods 339 00:19:41,730 --> 00:19:43,750 is one of the things that tells me 340 00:19:43,750 --> 00:19:47,610 that our ancient Egyptian ancestors were using 341 00:19:47,610 --> 00:19:49,910 altered states of consciousness to explore 342 00:19:49,910 --> 00:19:50,970 the realms of spirit. 343 00:19:50,970 --> 00:19:54,980 344 00:19:54,980 --> 00:19:58,630 >>Again we see images of blue lotuses. 345 00:19:58,630 --> 00:20:02,940 Is there another, less obvious interpretation of this symbol? 346 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:04,440 >>Altering of consciousness has been 347 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,610 done by a variety of different methods and techniques, 348 00:20:07,610 --> 00:20:10,460 most commonly in shamanistic cultures. 349 00:20:10,460 --> 00:20:15,290 Still to this day, it's done by using hallucinogenic plants 350 00:20:15,290 --> 00:20:17,540 which, as it were, switch the receiver 351 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:19,530 wavelength of the brain and allow us 352 00:20:19,530 --> 00:20:22,850 to tune in to other realities. 353 00:20:22,850 --> 00:20:26,540 Of course, there are a range of non-drug techniques, 354 00:20:26,540 --> 00:20:29,810 rhythmic dancing, certain kinds of music. 355 00:20:29,810 --> 00:20:35,270 Certain kinds of spaces have an effect on human consciousness. 356 00:20:35,270 --> 00:20:36,770 But there's a great deal of evidence 357 00:20:36,770 --> 00:20:39,632 that they made use of a potion involving 358 00:20:39,632 --> 00:20:43,270 the blue lotus and the mandrake root, 359 00:20:43,270 --> 00:20:45,290 possibly also the opium poppy as well, 360 00:20:45,290 --> 00:20:49,780 to enter a visionary state, and in that visionary state 361 00:20:49,780 --> 00:20:56,340 to explore, navigate, and learn about the realm that 362 00:20:56,340 --> 00:20:58,060 lies beyond death. 363 00:20:58,060 --> 00:21:00,850 And they had very concrete and specific ideas 364 00:21:00,850 --> 00:21:04,610 about this, which are expressed in the ancient Egyptian books 365 00:21:04,610 --> 00:21:09,410 of the dead, going right back to pyramid texts. 366 00:21:09,410 --> 00:21:11,165 This was not a work of imagination 367 00:21:11,165 --> 00:21:13,190 on the part of the priests. 368 00:21:13,190 --> 00:21:15,850 This was a work of documentation of 369 00:21:15,850 --> 00:21:19,340 their out-of-body exploration of realms 370 00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:23,600 that lie beyond the merely physical. 371 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:29,530 >>Is it possible for us to learn to access other realms today? 372 00:21:29,530 --> 00:21:34,530 Can we expand our capacity to perceive? 373 00:21:34,530 --> 00:21:39,140 Do we need new ways to describe these phenomena? 374 00:21:39,140 --> 00:21:42,926 >>If I can say I show you in my dream. 375 00:21:42,926 --> 00:21:45,130 You can ask, what did you see? 376 00:21:45,130 --> 00:21:47,800 Then I say the dream. 377 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,430 Now, did I saw you? 378 00:21:49,430 --> 00:21:54,225 The verb see is not there because I did see you 379 00:21:54,225 --> 00:21:57,720 in my dream, but not with my eyes, because I was asleep. 380 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,060 So how did that happen? 381 00:22:01,060 --> 00:22:07,420 It must be a sense put all this vision to me without my eyes. 382 00:22:07,420 --> 00:22:11,950 But I said when I speak, limit vocabularities, 383 00:22:11,950 --> 00:22:14,540 to say I saw you in my dream. 384 00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:21,180 No, I didn't see you, but there's no other way to say. 385 00:22:21,180 --> 00:22:24,660 >>Could the ancients have mastered innate human abilities 386 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:25,863 that we have forgotten? 387 00:22:25,863 --> 00:22:30,500 388 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:34,110 >>You can tell if that bird on the tree 389 00:22:34,110 --> 00:22:39,368 is happy or frightened from a cat. 390 00:22:39,368 --> 00:22:40,360 Yeah? 391 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:44,900 You can tell that the donkey's annoyed or happy 392 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:46,440 by the vibration and the sound. 393 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,610 And that's what we want us to notice, the sound. 394 00:22:51,610 --> 00:22:53,330 It's not the word you said. 395 00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:56,670 It's how being said. 396 00:22:56,670 --> 00:23:03,070 You can tell if this vibration, the truth or not truth. 397 00:23:03,070 --> 00:23:04,540 It's natural. 398 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:05,560 It's healthy. 399 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:11,300 People, they use all the senses, the full capacity of senses. 400 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,010 >>The five senses as we know them today 401 00:23:14,010 --> 00:23:15,550 were symbolized by the scarab. 402 00:23:15,550 --> 00:23:18,170 403 00:23:18,170 --> 00:23:21,420 >>And when you see the scarab, you 404 00:23:21,420 --> 00:23:25,796 are looking at a human skull. 405 00:23:25,796 --> 00:23:28,850 It divides three sides, three sections. 406 00:23:28,850 --> 00:23:36,180 The front head, symbolized by ancient people as seven. 407 00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:37,730 Seven openings. 408 00:23:37,730 --> 00:23:40,350 Two, four, six, seven. 409 00:23:40,350 --> 00:23:42,130 That is the front head. 410 00:23:42,130 --> 00:23:45,380 And these are the receivers. 411 00:23:45,380 --> 00:23:49,153 You see with, you hear with, you taste with. 412 00:23:49,153 --> 00:23:49,940 Everything. 413 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:52,710 On the left side is the consciousness side, 414 00:23:52,710 --> 00:23:57,120 and that is the daily deeds digested 415 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,820 every moment you look at things. 416 00:24:00,820 --> 00:24:04,550 But the other side is subconscious side, 417 00:24:04,550 --> 00:24:08,940 something you are unable to explain what's going on. 418 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:11,130 >>It seems clear that the ancients 419 00:24:11,130 --> 00:24:14,470 knew about the subconscious mind. 420 00:24:14,470 --> 00:24:18,470 They had the power to reach beyond the senses, something 421 00:24:18,470 --> 00:24:21,670 we began to be aware of with the writings of Freud 422 00:24:21,670 --> 00:24:25,780 and the advent of psychology in the early 1900s. 423 00:24:25,780 --> 00:24:29,705 >>Don't compare people of today like the people 424 00:24:29,705 --> 00:24:30,895 of the ancient days. 425 00:24:30,895 --> 00:24:34,425 The people of ancient days were healthy, 426 00:24:34,425 --> 00:24:36,600 they able to use their senses. 427 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,680 We looking at things as a crippled people. 428 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,080 We only have five senses. 429 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,970 We supposed to have 360 senses. 430 00:24:45,970 --> 00:24:47,998 360. 431 00:24:47,998 --> 00:24:49,402 And only five is recognized. 432 00:24:49,402 --> 00:24:52,680 433 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,480 We've got the glands of the senses. 434 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,660 But we didn't use it. 435 00:24:56,660 --> 00:25:00,249 And any muscles you don't use, it shrink. 436 00:25:00,249 --> 00:25:00,749 Oh, yes. 437 00:25:00,749 --> 00:25:10,900 438 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:14,530 >>How can we begin to imagine that the ancients had 439 00:25:14,530 --> 00:25:17,690 the capacity of 360 senses? 440 00:25:17,690 --> 00:25:21,180 441 00:25:21,180 --> 00:25:25,110 Perhaps a metaphor for the full spectrum senses 442 00:25:25,110 --> 00:25:27,550 could be a sphere. 443 00:25:27,550 --> 00:25:32,940 Is it possible for us to move beyond our five senses today? 444 00:25:32,940 --> 00:25:37,100 >>Our five familiar senses have been evolved by evolution 445 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:41,590 to connect us to the physical and material realm. 446 00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:46,930 But we have, I like to think of it as a secret doorway 447 00:25:46,930 --> 00:25:50,230 inside our own minds, which can be opened 448 00:25:50,230 --> 00:25:53,300 in altered states of consciousness through which we 449 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,180 may project our consciousness into other realms 450 00:25:56,180 --> 00:26:00,746 and dimensions, and those then become accessible to us. 451 00:26:00,746 --> 00:26:03,170 >>Could it be that the ancient Egyptians 452 00:26:03,170 --> 00:26:06,580 were accessing supernatural realms through heightened 453 00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:12,285 perceptions that came from full spectrum senses? 454 00:26:12,285 --> 00:26:14,660 >>I've come to the conclusion that it's really impossible 455 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:19,060 to understand ancient Egyptian civilization 456 00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:22,800 and ancient Egyptian spirituality and religion 457 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,340 until you get to grips with the fact 458 00:26:24,340 --> 00:26:27,600 that the priests of that religion 459 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,310 were deliberately, and in a targeted way, 460 00:26:31,310 --> 00:26:34,940 cultivating altered states of consciousness 461 00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:38,980 in order to access the supernatural realm. 462 00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:43,340 They know what shamans all over the world still know today, 463 00:26:43,340 --> 00:26:47,280 that in the alert, problem-solving state 464 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,790 of consciousness that is particularly 465 00:26:49,790 --> 00:26:53,120 valued by Western industrial society, 466 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:56,340 you are not going to have supernatural or spiritual 467 00:26:56,340 --> 00:26:59,760 experiences of any kind. 468 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,330 It doesn't mean that the supernatural and spirit 469 00:27:02,330 --> 00:27:04,240 realms are not there, because they are. 470 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,230 They are all around us all the time. 471 00:27:07,230 --> 00:27:10,540 But our senses cannot tune into them. 472 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:12,470 >>It seems that the ancients must 473 00:27:12,470 --> 00:27:15,580 have been tuned into something that allowed them to build 474 00:27:15,580 --> 00:27:20,740 sacred structures using monumental architecture. 475 00:27:20,740 --> 00:27:25,870 Today, we consider ourselves to be highly educated, 476 00:27:25,870 --> 00:27:29,010 yet engineers are at a loss when they 477 00:27:29,010 --> 00:27:31,363 try to build even a small pyramid. 478 00:27:31,363 --> 00:27:34,060 479 00:27:34,060 --> 00:27:37,260 Has our system of education diverted us 480 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:41,070 from what was common knowledge in ancient times? 481 00:27:41,070 --> 00:27:43,150 >>There were no schools and universities 482 00:27:43,150 --> 00:27:44,550 like what we have today. 483 00:27:44,550 --> 00:27:51,319 We've been influenced by this system of teaching. 484 00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:56,430 Today, we think it's a primitive life, that no education, 485 00:27:56,430 --> 00:28:00,270 they haven't been to school, and how can they build a pyramid. 486 00:28:00,270 --> 00:28:01,860 They don't know figures. 487 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:04,960 How can they build this? 488 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,720 But we don't know that the senses we have 489 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,980 make the impossible possible. 490 00:28:12,980 --> 00:28:14,680 The impossible to us, which is based on 491 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:21,130 ignorance make it possible because knowing 492 00:28:21,130 --> 00:28:24,345 is a very great power, just to know. 493 00:28:24,345 --> 00:28:33,020 494 00:28:33,020 --> 00:28:36,150 >>The most important ceremony for teaching the populace 495 00:28:36,150 --> 00:28:40,330 how to live well was the weighing of the heart. 496 00:28:40,330 --> 00:28:42,580 It reveals what the ancients believed 497 00:28:42,580 --> 00:28:46,540 happened in the moments after death. 498 00:28:46,540 --> 00:28:50,200 >>Initially in the ceremony of the weighing of the hearts, 499 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:55,630 the deceased would meet Anubis, who would say, you're dead. 500 00:28:55,630 --> 00:28:57,010 Let's have your heart. 501 00:28:57,010 --> 00:29:00,056 We're going to weight it against the feather of truth. 502 00:29:00,056 --> 00:29:03,540 If your heart was heavy because you had done something immoral, 503 00:29:03,540 --> 00:29:06,040 you weren't allowed to go to the other side. 504 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,350 So the populace learned that they had to be light of heart 505 00:29:10,350 --> 00:29:13,480 in order to live well. 506 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,350 >>As ancient Egypt slipped into patriarchal ways of being 507 00:29:17,350 --> 00:29:23,470 and thinking, the old spiritual ideology became codified, 508 00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:26,100 and organized religion became dominated 509 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:27,373 by the Amun priesthood. 510 00:29:27,373 --> 00:29:31,700 511 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:35,830 >>The Amun priesthood had a lot of power. 512 00:29:35,830 --> 00:29:37,650 And they were in a position to have 513 00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:39,680 people pay for their salvation. 514 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,760 It used to be that your heart was 515 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,040 weighed against a feather of truth. 516 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,100 But in later pictures of the ceremony 517 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:47,780 of the weighing of the heart, you'll 518 00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:50,930 see Horus holding onto the scale. 519 00:29:50,930 --> 00:29:54,300 And you could pay the priesthood for shabti dolls. 520 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,270 And the more of them you had, the more likelihood 521 00:29:57,270 --> 00:30:00,110 you could buy the lightness of heart 522 00:30:00,110 --> 00:30:01,877 instead of being light of heart. 523 00:30:01,877 --> 00:30:04,619 524 00:30:04,619 --> 00:30:07,300 Well, this is a fundamental change 525 00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:09,890 in terms of how to live well. 526 00:30:09,890 --> 00:30:13,910 And I think that we still are living in that way. 527 00:30:13,910 --> 00:30:16,910 >>History is written by its victors. 528 00:30:16,910 --> 00:30:20,150 And as the patriarchy took hold, much effort 529 00:30:20,150 --> 00:30:23,980 was put into suppressing Egypt's matriarchal past. 530 00:30:23,980 --> 00:30:25,650 >>There's a few pharaohs who were 531 00:30:25,650 --> 00:30:29,290 erased from the kings list. 532 00:30:29,290 --> 00:30:31,650 Hatshepsut was one, Akhenaten was one, 533 00:30:31,650 --> 00:30:34,060 and Tutankhamen was another. 534 00:30:34,060 --> 00:30:37,890 >>The legacy of the controversial pharaoh Akhenaten 535 00:30:37,890 --> 00:30:41,620 was almost lost forever with the complete destruction 536 00:30:41,620 --> 00:30:46,890 of the city he and Nefertiti had founded at Amarna. 537 00:30:46,890 --> 00:30:50,650 >>Now, very little was known about Amarna 538 00:30:50,650 --> 00:30:55,060 until there was an earthquake, and the pylons at Karnak 539 00:30:55,060 --> 00:30:58,680 were filled with these little blocks that had been cut up. 540 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:03,370 And they used them from Amarna to just put-- 541 00:31:03,370 --> 00:31:05,714 as filler inside the pylons. 542 00:31:05,714 --> 00:31:08,130 So when archaeologists found them and started putting them 543 00:31:08,130 --> 00:31:10,610 back together, they realized there was a very large story 544 00:31:10,610 --> 00:31:11,109 here. 545 00:31:11,109 --> 00:31:15,050 546 00:31:15,050 --> 00:31:18,105 >>For the ancients, life on Earth 547 00:31:18,105 --> 00:31:22,380 mirrored the motion of the stars in the sky. 548 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,140 >>What the ancients did is they would 549 00:31:24,140 --> 00:31:28,170 have the capital be at Heliopolis in the north, 550 00:31:28,170 --> 00:31:31,050 for 2,160 years. 551 00:31:31,050 --> 00:31:33,178 And then they would the capital be 552 00:31:33,178 --> 00:31:39,230 at Thebes, which is now Karnak, for that length of time. 553 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:42,365 When Akhenaten came into power in the New Kingdom 554 00:31:42,365 --> 00:31:45,910 of the 18th Dynasty, it was right at the time when 555 00:31:45,910 --> 00:31:49,270 things were supposed to shift. 556 00:31:49,270 --> 00:31:51,700 >>During this time, the patriarchy 557 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:55,720 gained momentum, with the Amun priesthood steadily 558 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,225 becoming more powerful. 559 00:31:58,225 --> 00:31:59,600 >>Akhenaten happened to have been 560 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:05,550 born at one of these points of return or beginning. 561 00:32:05,550 --> 00:32:08,436 He believed that he was subjugated, like all pharaohs, 562 00:32:08,436 --> 00:32:12,420 to a cosmic law, to the law of Ma'at. 563 00:32:12,420 --> 00:32:14,580 What happens up there, they believed, 564 00:32:14,580 --> 00:32:17,206 was controlling matters on Earth. 565 00:32:17,206 --> 00:32:21,510 And things happened up there that dictated to Akhenaten 566 00:32:21,510 --> 00:32:26,045 that he had to move his base. 567 00:32:26,045 --> 00:32:30,280 And had to reinstall the original rituals. 568 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,300 >>When it came time for Nefertiti and Akhenaten 569 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:37,765 to change the capital, they knew that the Amun priesthood was 570 00:32:37,765 --> 00:32:42,490 in power, and that they would really fight them on this. 571 00:32:42,490 --> 00:32:44,220 >>If he had moved Heliopolis, there 572 00:32:44,220 --> 00:32:47,580 would have been civil war. 573 00:32:47,580 --> 00:32:50,360 If he had stayed in Karnak, he would have not 574 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:56,246 performed what he had to perform to follow the law, cosmic law. 575 00:32:56,246 --> 00:32:59,410 He finally settles for a mid-point. 576 00:32:59,410 --> 00:33:03,020 >>So instead of moving the capital back north, 577 00:33:03,020 --> 00:33:06,110 they decided to take a point exactly in the middle, 578 00:33:06,110 --> 00:33:07,386 between the two. 579 00:33:07,386 --> 00:33:10,648 And this was Amarna. 580 00:33:10,648 --> 00:33:14,060 >>Art created by artisans in the Amarna period 581 00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:17,330 is exquisite and markedly different 582 00:33:17,330 --> 00:33:19,030 from the art in other periods. 583 00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:22,695 For the first time, Egyptian royal art 584 00:33:22,695 --> 00:33:25,052 depicted the pharaoh and his family 585 00:33:25,052 --> 00:33:30,170 all together and clearly showing affection for each other. 586 00:33:30,170 --> 00:33:33,340 >>They built this wonderful place. 587 00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:36,746 And they had gorgeous palaces. 588 00:33:36,746 --> 00:33:39,616 And people were creative. 589 00:33:39,616 --> 00:33:40,835 It was peaceful. 590 00:33:40,835 --> 00:33:43,300 There were flowers and nature. 591 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:45,355 And people lived a leisurely life. 592 00:33:45,355 --> 00:33:50,400 But what it was was a return to true spirituality. 593 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,172 He ruled with his coregent, Nefertiti. 594 00:33:53,172 --> 00:33:54,980 The feminine was honored. 595 00:33:54,980 --> 00:33:59,280 >>In this transition, Akhenaten and Nefertiti 596 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,310 rejected the established religion 597 00:34:01,310 --> 00:34:03,670 of the corrupt Amun priesthood. 598 00:34:03,670 --> 00:34:06,470 They had a profound respect for solar energy, 599 00:34:06,470 --> 00:34:08,719 known as the Aten. 600 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,964 >>And so returning to this was a big threat 601 00:34:11,964 --> 00:34:13,639 to the Amun priesthood. 602 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:16,230 And so they plotted to take Amarna down. 603 00:34:16,230 --> 00:34:19,154 604 00:34:19,154 --> 00:34:20,570 >>They eventually brought it down, 605 00:34:20,570 --> 00:34:22,790 and they destroyed his city. 606 00:34:22,790 --> 00:34:25,989 And they reinstalled the ancient gods, 607 00:34:25,989 --> 00:34:27,750 with all their iconography. 608 00:34:27,750 --> 00:34:29,690 >>They simply destroyed everything, 609 00:34:29,690 --> 00:34:31,020 every trace of them. 610 00:34:31,020 --> 00:34:36,639 If they didn't find the ruins of Akhenaten's temples used 611 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,409 as fill, rubble fill, in the walls of Karnak, 612 00:34:39,409 --> 00:34:44,425 there'd be almost no sign of Akhenaten. 613 00:34:44,425 --> 00:34:48,670 >>Amarna was a peaceful society with great creativity 614 00:34:48,670 --> 00:34:50,350 and beauty. 615 00:34:50,350 --> 00:34:53,420 Yet scholars in traditional Egyptology 616 00:34:53,420 --> 00:34:56,989 continue to portray Pharaoh Akhenaten 617 00:34:56,989 --> 00:35:01,480 as a deformed, renegade, heretical leader. 618 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,166 >>They see him as a heretical king-- it's quite the opposite. 619 00:35:04,166 --> 00:35:06,100 The heretics were the priests. 620 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:07,580 He was not heretical. 621 00:35:07,580 --> 00:35:11,120 He, in fact, was somebody who was determined 622 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,880 to adhere to the divine laws. 623 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:19,830 And he went to the cross for it. 624 00:35:19,830 --> 00:35:23,840 >>After the fall of Akhenaten, Tutankhaten, 625 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,750 a boy of only nine years old, became pharaoh. 626 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:29,470 627 00:35:29,470 --> 00:35:33,660 >>Now, because we found Tutankhamen's tomb intact, 628 00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:37,835 we know a lot about him and the life that he lived. 629 00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:39,950 Now, he was raised at Amarna. 630 00:35:39,950 --> 00:35:43,000 Now, some people say that Akhenaten was his father. 631 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,550 We don't have DNA tests. 632 00:35:44,550 --> 00:35:46,260 We haven't found the mummy of Akhenaten. 633 00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:48,590 We don't know that for sure. 634 00:35:48,590 --> 00:35:53,400 But it's interesting that he started out as Tutankhaten, 635 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,276 because at Amarna, they worshipped the Aten. 636 00:35:57,276 --> 00:36:00,250 But after he took the throne, they opened the temples again. 637 00:36:00,250 --> 00:36:02,710 They moved away from Amarna. 638 00:36:02,710 --> 00:36:06,660 It seems that as soon as the Amun priesthood found out 639 00:36:06,660 --> 00:36:10,230 that he actually was of the Aten, 640 00:36:10,230 --> 00:36:14,186 they changed his name to Tutankhamen, 641 00:36:14,186 --> 00:36:16,790 that suddenly he disappeared. 642 00:36:16,790 --> 00:36:21,270 >>After 10 years of leadership, when Tutankhamen was 19, 643 00:36:21,270 --> 00:36:23,870 he died mysteriously. 644 00:36:23,870 --> 00:36:28,140 His mummy was x-rayed, revealing a fractured skull, 645 00:36:28,140 --> 00:36:30,690 suggesting a blow to the back of the head. 646 00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:33,235 >>It seems that he was buried in a rush. 647 00:36:33,235 --> 00:36:37,440 His tomb is very small, and close to it, 648 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,840 there were a whole lot of mummies 649 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:43,100 that were moved in a cache and put aside. 650 00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,410 So it's almost like there were several mummies 651 00:36:45,410 --> 00:36:47,310 from other dynasties that were in the tomb 652 00:36:47,310 --> 00:36:48,525 that he ended up in. 653 00:36:48,525 --> 00:36:50,730 And then they took furniture from Amarna 654 00:36:50,730 --> 00:36:53,580 and buried him there. 655 00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:57,190 >>Though the tomb of King Tut left us many clues, 656 00:36:57,190 --> 00:37:00,610 his fate remains a mystery. 657 00:37:00,610 --> 00:37:03,410 Another casualty of the patriarchal retelling 658 00:37:03,410 --> 00:37:07,120 of history is the story of Queen Hatshepsut. 659 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,330 >>Hatshepsut came earlier in the 18th Dynasty. 660 00:37:10,330 --> 00:37:13,810 She started out by being a queen. 661 00:37:13,810 --> 00:37:16,130 And then she became pharaoh. 662 00:37:16,130 --> 00:37:19,640 Hatshepsut was a wise and powerful leader 663 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,470 who reestablished trade networks with Egypt's neighbors, 664 00:37:23,470 --> 00:37:26,120 building the prosperity of the 18th Dynasty. 665 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:34,041 666 00:37:34,041 --> 00:37:35,790 >>She was certainly ruling for a long time 667 00:37:35,790 --> 00:37:38,980 at a period of tremendous peace and prosperity. 668 00:37:38,980 --> 00:37:42,662 The artwork was never better than under her reign. 669 00:37:42,662 --> 00:37:45,250 >>Had she been male, she would likely 670 00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:47,050 have been remembered in history books 671 00:37:47,050 --> 00:37:50,570 as the best ruler of Egypt. 672 00:37:50,570 --> 00:37:56,490 Regardless of her success as a leader, she is still an enigma. 673 00:37:56,490 --> 00:38:00,440 There has been much controversy about Hatshepsut. 674 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,720 it could be due to the patriarchy having 675 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:07,900 little tolerance of images of an empowered woman. 676 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:12,600 No one seems to agree on who the real Hatshepsut was. 677 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,140 >>There have been massive books written on Hatshepsut. 678 00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:19,400 And again, there are no real conclusions. 679 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,570 Obviously, Hatshepsut must have been a very able ruler 680 00:38:22,570 --> 00:38:25,200 because she stayed there apparently for 22 years. 681 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,930 >>But somehow, about 20 years after she passed, 682 00:38:29,930 --> 00:38:32,924 her statues were broken and all put into a pit. 683 00:38:32,924 --> 00:38:34,340 When they found them, they started 684 00:38:34,340 --> 00:38:35,464 putting them back together. 685 00:38:35,464 --> 00:38:38,815 But, like Akhenaten and Nefertiti, the Amarna period, 686 00:38:38,815 --> 00:38:41,870 they were largely forgotten because the people who 687 00:38:41,870 --> 00:38:44,520 came after were very threatened. 688 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,062 And they somehow wanted to destroy all trace. 689 00:38:48,062 --> 00:38:52,370 Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Akhenaten, Tutankhamen, they 690 00:38:52,370 --> 00:38:54,460 were the ones that really understood spirituality 691 00:38:54,460 --> 00:38:55,940 in some way. 692 00:38:55,940 --> 00:38:57,710 I suppose there was no money to be 693 00:38:57,710 --> 00:39:01,335 made if you weren't selling salvation. 694 00:39:01,335 --> 00:39:04,650 695 00:39:04,650 --> 00:39:07,820 >>We may never know how the high courts of ancient Egypt 696 00:39:07,820 --> 00:39:09,890 were run. 697 00:39:09,890 --> 00:39:12,450 It seems likely that the stories passed down 698 00:39:12,450 --> 00:39:14,590 through the patriarchal institutions 699 00:39:14,590 --> 00:39:20,780 of the 19th and 20th centuries may have misled us. 700 00:39:20,780 --> 00:39:24,420 The peace and prosperity of the 18th Dynasty, 701 00:39:24,420 --> 00:39:27,880 particularly in the time of Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, 702 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,320 and Akhenaten, had to do with honoring the feminine 703 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,210 in balance with the masculine. 704 00:39:35,210 --> 00:39:38,570 Looking at Egyptian artifacts and frescoes, 705 00:39:38,570 --> 00:39:40,770 it is clear that the feminine principle 706 00:39:40,770 --> 00:39:43,640 played a prominent role in society 707 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,110 and was cherished and revered. 708 00:39:46,110 --> 00:39:48,740 The feminine principle was articulated 709 00:39:48,740 --> 00:39:51,240 in the concept of a great mother who 710 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,650 was central to the ancient Egyptian worldview 711 00:39:54,650 --> 00:39:58,610 and was echoed by other world cultures. 712 00:39:58,610 --> 00:40:02,170 >>The Milky Way in the sky is mythologized in various ways, 713 00:40:02,170 --> 00:40:04,230 in various traditions, in various cultures 714 00:40:04,230 --> 00:40:05,370 around the world. 715 00:40:05,370 --> 00:40:09,000 And it's often thought of, almost universally thought 716 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,976 of, as a great mother principle, the great cosmic mother 717 00:40:12,976 --> 00:40:14,890 in the sky. 718 00:40:14,890 --> 00:40:19,273 >>In ancient Egypt, biology meant cosmology, 719 00:40:19,273 --> 00:40:21,440 and both were considered sacred. 720 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,240 721 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:26,980 >>When you look at the cosmology in terms of biology 722 00:40:26,980 --> 00:40:30,580 as describing events that happen inside of a womb. 723 00:40:30,580 --> 00:40:34,010 And the womb happens to be the womb of the mother goddess. 724 00:40:34,010 --> 00:40:37,610 >>In both Mayan and ancient Egyptian cosmology, 725 00:40:37,610 --> 00:40:43,340 the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is where stars are born. 726 00:40:43,340 --> 00:40:47,450 Metaphorically, it is the womb of the great cosmic mother, 727 00:40:47,450 --> 00:40:52,040 represented as Isis giving birth. 728 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,920 >>We keep looking at how the ancient Egyptians thought. 729 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:00,320 And everything fed biology and procreation. 730 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,110 How we got here, how we came into existence, biology. 731 00:41:04,110 --> 00:41:07,755 And then how we left and how our soul continues to live. 732 00:41:07,755 --> 00:41:10,980 And we can see that there aren't really that many symbols that 733 00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:14,980 aren't pertaining to balance of the body, mind, and emotions, 734 00:41:14,980 --> 00:41:18,790 and to balance between the two hemispheres of the brain. 735 00:41:18,790 --> 00:41:20,550 Once we can embrace that, then it's 736 00:41:20,550 --> 00:41:22,920 easier to understand the Egyptians. 737 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,510 >>That switch from matriarchy to patriarchy, 738 00:41:26,510 --> 00:41:32,620 I think it's the cause of what's on the world now of conflicts 739 00:41:32,620 --> 00:41:38,556 and disagreement and showing of power. 740 00:41:38,556 --> 00:41:40,030 Yeah. 741 00:41:40,030 --> 00:41:42,625 >>Already, at the beginning of the First Dynasty 742 00:41:42,625 --> 00:41:45,050 of ancient Egypt, Egypt was moving 743 00:41:45,050 --> 00:41:48,665 from being matriarchal to coming into more 744 00:41:48,665 --> 00:41:50,565 patriarchal ways of being and thinking. 745 00:41:50,565 --> 00:41:54,010 There were a few periods where the ancient, ancient knowledge 746 00:41:54,010 --> 00:41:54,820 was remembered. 747 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:56,660 But it's important to remember that there 748 00:41:56,660 --> 00:42:00,975 was a lot of ancient Egypt prior to the dynasties 749 00:42:00,975 --> 00:42:05,510 and in the early periods that did not represent those values. 750 00:42:05,510 --> 00:42:09,610 So the parts of Egypt that I find the most interesting 751 00:42:09,610 --> 00:42:15,900 come from the memory of times that came further back. 752 00:42:15,900 --> 00:42:18,640 >>I've said many times that healthy people, 753 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,590 they got the power which is-- unhealthy people 754 00:42:22,590 --> 00:42:23,500 haven't got it. 755 00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:25,920 And I want you and all my friends 756 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,610 and all my beloved to know that you have it. 757 00:42:29,610 --> 00:42:33,555 And when you know that, you will work on it 758 00:42:33,555 --> 00:42:36,460 so it can bring you to stronger. 759 00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:41,730 As I said before, the senses, just like muscles. 760 00:42:41,730 --> 00:42:45,375 If you don't use, it shrink and go. 761 00:42:45,375 --> 00:44:34,734 60079

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