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>>The sheer beauty
and sophistication
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of Egyptian artifacts
entrances us.
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How can we unlock
the code embedded
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in every object they made?
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How does the symbolism
in Egyptian art
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illuminate their
cultural values?
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What ancient secrets still
lie hidden in plain sight?
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Our understanding of ancient
Egyptian culture is limited.
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Looking at the artifacts
left behind by the ancients,
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it is obvious that they had
different values, customs,
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and beliefs from ours today.
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History books are filled
with stories of war,
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invasion of territories,
and patriarchal ways
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of being and thinking.
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Yet it seems that
ancient Egypt enjoyed
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long periods of
peace and prosperity
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and a profound connection
with nature and spirit.
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Is there a way to
understand the shift?
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>>So what we refer
to as history that
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began some 6,000
years ago was really
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the advent of a different
style of social organization
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that's typified by
hierarchies of dominance,
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you know, warring deities,
warring mythologies,
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and control systems.
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>>Vedic culture
from ancient India
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speaks of a grand and measurable
cycle of 26,000 years,
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consisting of ascending light
ages and descending dark ages.
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>>In the higher ages,
you see this philosophy
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of living in tune with nature.
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People talk about
speaking with the gods
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and a lot of interaction.
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Virtually every ancient culture
has stories about the gods
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if you go back far enough.
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And you see a lot of
matriarchal cultures
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if you go back far enough.
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You know, the dark
age times, you
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have this very brutal,
paternalistic type of ruling.
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>>I think it's difficult
for us to understand
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the ancient Egyptians
because we've
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got the paradigm of the
patriarchal structures
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on top of it, and
we're looking through
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our own cultural lenses.
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>>Has world culture always been
male dominated and patriarchal?
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If not, what would a
matriarchal system look like?
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Matriarchy is not the
opposite of patriarchy,
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with women dominating
and controlling men.
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It is based on balance between
the masculine and feminine
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and harmony with nature.
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This was exemplified
in ancient Egypt, which
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was known in the old language
as the land of Khent.
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Hakim Awyan received teachings
about the Khenesian people
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in the distant past.
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>>The ancient life
system in Asia
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came, the commission
tradition being passed down
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through the mother.
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Mother is the teacher.
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Not the father, like
patriarchy system.
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This is matriarchy.
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She is the goddess.
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She is everything in the house.
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>>Based on the
countless artifacts
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that show the high
status of the feminine,
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it seems that women
have the same status
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as men, if not a higher status.
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>>In the museum,
you have statues.
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You notice that the
woman put the arm
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around the man's shoulder.
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And that shows are they equal?
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No.
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Woman was the upper
head in the family.
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When she put her arm around the
man's shoulder, she's saying,
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this is mine.
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You also see that the
sculpture in the old days
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put the feminine
wig on a man's head
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when he promoted more
to a woman than a man.
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>>Men's wigs were layered in
different lengths, like steps.
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Women's wigs were parted in
the middle, smooth, and all one
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length.
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When a man wore a woman's
wig, it was an indication
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that he had high status.
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>>Only men with wisdom
would wear the women's wig.
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So these are the scribes,
and the physicians,
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and the rest of them.
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>>What you can do is go
back into the Old Kingdom.
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And what you find is obviously
a fair amount of equality,
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where the goddesses are revered
as reverently as the gods.
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And there's even the
instance, for example,
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of Hathor, the exception in
that she's the only deity that
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has a temple column
all to herself,
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So the great mother, the
great feminine principle,
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occupies a very
important part in
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the whole Egyptian symbology,
the whole Egyptian doctrine.
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There's absolutely
no doubt about that.
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Women could own property, had
as much rights as the men.
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They could divorce
as easily as the men.
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Of all the known
sophisticated civilizations
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that we have access to, probably
women were better off in Egypt
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than they were anywhere else.
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>>Perhaps we are
looking at ancient Egypt
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from a patriarchal viewpoint.
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We should let the
symbolism and the artifacts
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tell their own story.
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The frescoes we see
lining temple walls
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in Egypt and on stone slabs in
museums around the world each
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tell their own story.
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We see the same images
repeated again and again
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in Egyptian art.
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By learning to
decode these symbols,
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we can look back in
time, peeling back
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the layers of
patriarchy that cloud
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our understanding
of ancient history.
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Then, we can begin to
decipher the messages
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that the ancients left us.
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>>You have to accept that we're
dealing with a period that
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occurred at least
5,000 years ago.
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And the little we
know of it comes
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from archaic texts
that were written
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in a very occult
and esoteric manner.
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And they weren't
meant for you and me.
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>>The secrets of the
ancient Egyptians
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were not for the commoners.
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>>But for a very,
very small group
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of elites who had to be
initiated over many, many years
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to appreciate what
these texts said.
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>>They were for the
high-level initiates,
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which were people
who were trained.
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And they would go through
different initiations, tests
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that would help
them be wise, that
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would help them confront their
fears, that would balance them,
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balance them in the
body, mind, and emotions.
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>>Initiates were
students who were
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given rudimentary
instruction on the mystery
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traditions of Mayan and
Egyptian cosmic cycles.
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>>As they approached higher
levels of consciousness,
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they came to respect different
aspects of themselves that
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were represented in the
feminine and the masculine.
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But they went
further and called it
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sacred feminine and
sacred masculine, which
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meant the purest form that was
actually connected to the two
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hemispheres of the brain.
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>>Feminine consciousness
corresponds
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to the right
hemisphere of the brain
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and the left side of the body.
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In contrast, masculine
consciousness
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corresponds to the
left side of the brain
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and the right side of the body.
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Patriarchal
consciousness focuses
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on history, linear time, dogma,
rationality, waking reality,
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and science.
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Matriarchal
consciousness focuses
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on eternity, cycles of time,
ritual, magic, altered states,
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and art.
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If we examine the art,
we can see the characters
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almost always have one
foot slightly forward.
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In some instances, they
take a big step forward.
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In each scene, the goddess has
her left foot slightly leading,
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showing awareness of
the feminine principles
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of timelessness and magic.
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The pharaoh, however, takes a
large step with his right foot.
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This shows that he is
grounded in the masculine.
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Similarly, we often see
images with two left hands.
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It has been suggested that this
is just a stylistic convention.
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But we should not impose
our ideas on Egyptian art.
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Left hands suggest giving, while
right hands suggest taking.
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>>In our culture, we've
practically erased the feminine
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in favor of the masculine,
reading, writing,
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and arithmetic.
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Art, music isn't as important.
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And our society is completely
unbalanced because of it.
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The ancients knew
that you could not
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achieve high states
of consciousness
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without these being in balance.
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And so they revered the
pure qualities of either.
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And so when we say sacred
feminine and sacred masculine,
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this was the highest
form of respect
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so that the female would have
both feminine and masculine
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balanced within
her, and the male
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would have both feminine and
masculine balanced within him.
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>>Balance between
the sacred feminine
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and the sacred masculine runs
deep in Egyptian symbolism.
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We see gods and goddesses
carrying a crook, a flail,
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and a staff in
various combinations.
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The crook represents the
balance of the emotions.
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The flail symbolizes
the balance of the mind.
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And the staff depicts
the balance of the body.
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Once balance of the body,
the mind, and the emotions
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was achieved, consciousness
could develop.
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Notice the staff
always has the head
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of a bird and a forked base.
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The staff never
touches the ground.
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This indicates that we are
spiritual beings having
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an Earth experience.
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We are incarnated
here, but our souls
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can go beyond the Earthly plane.
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Egyptian temples were places
where spiritual work was done.
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An arch with a winged disk is
always found at the entrance
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to temples.
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The winged disk depicts
a vulture and a snake.
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>>Snake been taken as
a symbol of masculine,
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and the vulture is feminine.
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>>The feminine and the
masculine had to be in balance.
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The lower self was to
surrender to the higher self
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in order to enter
the sacred space.
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This meant that the ego
of the everyday world
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had to step aside while
the higher self connected
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with cosmic energy.
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>>Vulture can fly.
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Snake can't fly.
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But both have the same glands.
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System of life is
based on glands.
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>>The glands were the
most important features
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of the human being.
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>>One of the most misunderstood
functions of the human body
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today is our glandular
or endocrine system.
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Glands secrete hormones
that trigger reproduction.
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Fertility and procreation
had high value
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in Egyptian ideology.
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>>The ancients were
very much in tune
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with how the energy
systems in the body,
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or the chakras as the East
Indians would talk about them,
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were connected to the glands.
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>>Ancient teachings speak
of seven energy centers
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in the body called chakras.
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Parallels occur between
the concepts of chakras,
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or energy centers in the
body, and our glands.
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It appears they are two ways
of describing the same thing,
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through spirituality
and through science.
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Ancient Egyptians had a
holistic understanding
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of the significance of the
glands and their central role
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in reproduction and
in consciousness.
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If we can decode
the symbols, we see
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that the sacredness
of procreation
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is readily visible in
ancient Egyptian art.
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>>When you see a
boy or a man, you
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see a kind of a
bottle on his head.
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That is not a bottle,
or not a white crown
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symbolizing Upper Egypt, as my
colleagues and scholars say.
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No.
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This is a gland in
the human body known
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as the thymus, located
behind the lungs.
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>>The thymus is most active
when a baby is in utero.
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It continues to be
active until puberty.
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Then it begins to
shrink and is atrophied
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when we stop being fertile.
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It was a critical
activator of consciousness.
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>>The crown is another.
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It's the womb, the placenta.
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The thymus and the
womb are connected
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for the cycle of life.
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When you see the double
crown, the red crown
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is the womb and the placenta.
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The white crown
is the thymus, who
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has its influence on the womb.
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That's the symbol of
one of the glands.
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>>In the early 1900s,
alchemist Schwaller de Lubicz
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presented a work called
The Temple of Man.
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It demonstrated that the
architects of the Luxor Temple
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used sacred geometry,
which reflected
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the exact proportions
of the human body.
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As in all Egyptian temples,
the most sacred space
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was located at the back of the
temple, the Holy of Holies,
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which corresponded
to the pineal gland.
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When activated,
the pineal gland is
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said to stimulate the
evolution of higher
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states of consciousness.
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If the temples were
metaphors of the human body,
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the pineal gland corresponded
with the Holy of Holies.
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At the entrance to the most
sacred part of the temple
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stand tall pillars representing
the masculine and the feminine,
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papyrus and the blue lotus.
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The papyrus and the
lotus reflect the balance
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between the feminine and
the masculine principles
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and are shown
together throughout
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ancient Egyptian art.
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>>The blue lotus is
a symbol of life,
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and this plant, blossom,
flower, it grows in the water,
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like water lilies.
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It's where the
ancient commissions
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believe that life starts in
water and in that lotus form.
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>>We have seen there are always
multiple layers of meaning
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embedded in ancient
Egyptian symbols.
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Is there another reason why
the blue lotus was so important
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in Egyptian ceremonies?
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In ancient Egyptian art,
we see countless instances
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of part animal,
part human forms.
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What were the ancients trying to
convey by these curious images?
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>>There's a technical
term for such creatures
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that anthropologists use.
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They call them therianthropes.
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And that's from the
Greek, therian, which
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means wild beast, and
anthropos, which means man.
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They are combinations
of beast and man.
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It's not an accident that
all of the gods of Egypt
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are therianthropic.
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They have, of course,
fully human forms.
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But in most cases,
they also have
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forms that are part
animal and part human.
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So you may consider
Horus, the head of a hawk
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and the body of a man.
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You may consider Sekhmet,
a lioness with a human body
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and a lion's head.
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Or Anubis, of course,
the guide of souls,
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who is part jackal
and part human.
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>>Egypt isn't the
only place where
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these half animal, half
human images have been found.
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Half a world away, we
find clues to decode
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these mysterious symbols.
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>>Throughout the
Amazon today, shamans
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working with the powerful
visionary brew, ayahuasca,
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a combination of two
plants-- very frequently,
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they will, after
their visions, when
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they return to the normal,
alert, problem-solving state
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of consciousness, they
will actually sit down
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and, recollecting what they
saw in the visionary state,
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will paint and draw the
images that they saw.
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And the most common motif
of these ayahuasca visions
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is the therianthrope,
creatures that
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are part animal and
part human in form.
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This specific characteristic
of the ancient Egyptian gods
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is one of the
things that tells me
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that our ancient Egyptian
ancestors were using
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altered states of
consciousness to explore
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the realms of spirit.
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>>Again we see images
of blue lotuses.
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Is there another, less obvious
interpretation of this symbol?
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>>Altering of
consciousness has been
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done by a variety of different
methods and techniques,
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most commonly in
shamanistic cultures.
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Still to this day, it's done
by using hallucinogenic plants
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which, as it were,
switch the receiver
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wavelength of the
brain and allow us
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to tune in to other realities.
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Of course, there are a range
of non-drug techniques,
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rhythmic dancing,
certain kinds of music.
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Certain kinds of spaces have an
effect on human consciousness.
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But there's a great
deal of evidence
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that they made use
of a potion involving
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the blue lotus and
the mandrake root,
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possibly also the
opium poppy as well,
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to enter a visionary state,
and in that visionary state
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to explore, navigate, and
learn about the realm that
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lies beyond death.
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And they had very concrete
and specific ideas
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about this, which are expressed
in the ancient Egyptian books
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of the dead, going right
back to pyramid texts.
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This was not a
work of imagination
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on the part of the priests.
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This was a work of
documentation of
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their out-of-body
exploration of realms
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that lie beyond the
merely physical.
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>>Is it possible for us to learn
to access other realms today?
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Can we expand our
capacity to perceive?
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Do we need new ways to
describe these phenomena?
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>>If I can say I
show you in my dream.
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You can ask, what did you see?
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Then I say the dream.
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Now, did I saw you?
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The verb see is not there
because I did see you
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in my dream, but not with my
eyes, because I was asleep.
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So how did that happen?
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It must be a sense put all this
vision to me without my eyes.
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But I said when I speak,
limit vocabularities,
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to say I saw you in my dream.
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No, I didn't see you, but
there's no other way to say.
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>>Could the ancients have
mastered innate human abilities
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that we have forgotten?
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>>You can tell if
that bird on the tree
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is happy or
frightened from a cat.
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Yeah?
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You can tell that the
donkey's annoyed or happy
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by the vibration and the sound.
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And that's what we want
us to notice, the sound.
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It's not the word you said.
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It's how being said.
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You can tell if this vibration,
the truth or not truth.
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It's natural.
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It's healthy.
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People, they use all the senses,
the full capacity of senses.
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>>The five senses as
we know them today
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were symbolized by the scarab.
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>>And when you see
the scarab, you
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are looking at a human skull.
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It divides three
sides, three sections.
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The front head, symbolized
by ancient people as seven.
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Seven openings.
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Two, four, six, seven.
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That is the front head.
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And these are the receivers.
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You see with, you hear
with, you taste with.
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Everything.
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On the left side is
the consciousness side,
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and that is the
daily deeds digested
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every moment you look at things.
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But the other side
is subconscious side,
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something you are unable
to explain what's going on.
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>>It seems clear
that the ancients
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knew about the
subconscious mind.
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They had the power to reach
beyond the senses, something
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we began to be aware of
with the writings of Freud
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and the advent of psychology
in the early 1900s.
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>>Don't compare people
of today like the people
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of the ancient days.
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The people of ancient
days were healthy,
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they able to use their senses.
427
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,680
We looking at things
as a crippled people.
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We only have five senses.
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We supposed to have 360 senses.
430
00:24:45,970 --> 00:24:47,998
360.
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And only five is recognized.
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00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,480
We've got the glands
of the senses.
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But we didn't use it.
435
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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
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the capacity of 360 senses?
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441
00:25:21,180 --> 00:25:25,110
Perhaps a metaphor for
the full spectrum senses
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could be a sphere.
443
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Is it possible for us to move
beyond our five senses today?
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>>Our five familiar senses
have been evolved by evolution
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to connect us to the
physical and material realm.
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But we have, I like to think
of it as a secret doorway
447
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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
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may project our consciousness
into other realms
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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
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were accessing supernatural
realms through heightened
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perceptions that came
from full spectrum senses?
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>>I've come to the conclusion
that it's really impossible
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to understand ancient
Egyptian civilization
456
00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:22,800
and ancient Egyptian
spirituality and religion
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until you get to
grips with the fact
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that the priests
of that religion
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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
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00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:38,980
in order to access the
supernatural realm.
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00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:43,340
They know what shamans all over
the world still know today,
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that in the alert,
problem-solving state
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of consciousness
that is particularly
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valued by Western
industrial society,
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you are not going to have
supernatural or spiritual
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experiences of any kind.
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00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,330
It doesn't mean that the
supernatural and spirit
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realms are not there,
because they are.
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They are all around
us all the time.
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But our senses cannot
tune into them.
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00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:12,470
>>It seems that
the ancients must
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have been tuned into something
that allowed them to build
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sacred structures using
monumental architecture.
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00:27:20,740 --> 00:27:25,870
Today, we consider ourselves
to be highly educated,
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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
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from what was common
knowledge in ancient times?
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>>There were no schools
and universities
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like what we have today.
483
00:27:44,550 --> 00:27:51,319
We've been influenced by
this system of teaching.
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00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:56,430
Today, we think it's a primitive
life, that no education,
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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
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make the impossible possible.
490
00:28:12,980 --> 00:28:14,680
The impossible to
us, which is based on
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ignorance make it
possible because knowing
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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
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how to live well was the
weighing of the heart.
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It reveals what the
ancients believed
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happened in the
moments after death.
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00:28:46,540 --> 00:28:50,200
>>Initially in the ceremony
of the weighing of the hearts,
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the deceased would meet Anubis,
who would say, you're dead.
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Let's have your heart.
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00:28:57,010 --> 00:29:00,056
We're going to weight it
against the feather of truth.
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00:29:00,056 --> 00:29:03,540
If your heart was heavy because
you had done something immoral,
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you weren't allowed to
go to the other side.
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00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,350
So the populace learned that
they had to be light of heart
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in order to live well.
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00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,350
>>As ancient Egypt slipped
into patriarchal ways of being
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and thinking, the old spiritual
ideology became codified,
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00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:26,100
and organized religion
became dominated
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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
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so it can bring you to stronger.
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As I said before, the
senses, just like muscles.
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If you don't use,
it shrink and go.
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