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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,380 2 00:00:04,380 --> 00:00:06,300 >>We have been taught to think of Egypt 3 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,480 as a civilization whose golden age occurred 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,260 2,000 or 3,000 years before Christ. 5 00:00:12,260 --> 00:00:15,590 6 00:00:15,590 --> 00:00:19,340 Imagining this magnificent culture springing 7 00:00:19,340 --> 00:00:23,580 from small settlements in Biblical times 8 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:26,570 makes us wonder whether we've got the timeline right. 9 00:00:26,570 --> 00:00:30,221 10 00:00:30,221 --> 00:00:32,890 World cultures have myths that speak 11 00:00:32,890 --> 00:00:39,028 of high levels of consciousness, superior science, art, 12 00:00:39,028 --> 00:00:44,480 and architecture from eons ago. 13 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:48,272 How do we reconcile this? 14 00:00:48,272 --> 00:00:51,730 [MUSIC PLAYING] 15 00:00:51,730 --> 00:01:25,305 16 00:01:25,305 --> 00:01:29,140 We are trapped in our own concept of time, 17 00:01:29,140 --> 00:01:34,370 but many cultures think on a vastly different scale. 18 00:01:34,370 --> 00:01:38,180 Science has established that the earliest human remains 19 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:42,940 are about 2.5 million years old. 20 00:01:42,940 --> 00:01:46,390 It has shifted our marker back so that now we 21 00:01:46,390 --> 00:01:51,966 are able to conceive of human culture being much, much older. 22 00:01:51,966 --> 00:01:56,770 In Indian traditions, and in 30 other cultures, 23 00:01:56,770 --> 00:02:01,400 a 26,000-year cycle is accepted. 24 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,040 How does that affect the traditional chronology 25 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,900 of Egypt, which insists that the pyramids were constructed 26 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:12,240 as recently as 2450 BC? 27 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,510 Will this force the issue of rethinking 28 00:02:14,510 --> 00:02:16,175 the chronology of ancient Egypt? 29 00:02:16,175 --> 00:02:20,000 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,350 Every year, authors, scientists, and alternative thinkers 31 00:02:24,350 --> 00:02:27,650 come together for the Conference on Precession and Ancient 32 00:02:27,650 --> 00:02:29,130 Knowledge. 33 00:02:29,130 --> 00:02:34,030 They share ideas about ancient cultures, lost knowledge, 34 00:02:34,030 --> 00:02:36,780 and great cycles of time. 35 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:39,370 >>I started the Conference on Precession and Ancient 36 00:02:39,370 --> 00:02:42,290 Knowledge because I wanted to bring together 37 00:02:42,290 --> 00:02:45,980 the bright minds in this whole field of alternative history 38 00:02:45,980 --> 00:02:50,540 so we can put this very ancient puzzle back together again. 39 00:02:50,540 --> 00:02:53,450 >>Geologists, physicists, engineers, 40 00:02:53,450 --> 00:02:57,140 and archeoastronomers discuss the accepted dating 41 00:02:57,140 --> 00:03:00,390 of world history. 42 00:03:00,390 --> 00:03:06,010 >>I'm convinced that there is a misunderstanding 43 00:03:06,010 --> 00:03:08,113 about the tenets of Egyptian civilization. 44 00:03:08,113 --> 00:03:10,760 And I am convinced that there is a misunderstanding 45 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,580 about it's dating. 46 00:03:12,580 --> 00:03:16,010 >>To me, as a geologist, it's unquestionable 47 00:03:16,010 --> 00:03:19,630 that the chronology has to be redone. 48 00:03:19,630 --> 00:03:22,350 >>Knowledge of precession and an advanced astronomy 49 00:03:22,350 --> 00:03:24,805 existed in extremely distant times. 50 00:03:24,805 --> 00:03:27,620 51 00:03:27,620 --> 00:03:29,670 >>So I think we're looking at a chronology that's 52 00:03:29,670 --> 00:03:33,900 far, far older than is accepted. 53 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:36,800 >>By integrating recent scientific discoveries 54 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,000 in different disciplines, they define a new timeline 55 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,395 of our past. 56 00:03:42,395 --> 00:03:45,190 57 00:03:45,190 --> 00:03:48,070 The Egyptians provided us with concrete evidence 58 00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:52,340 that describes political events from a far more distant past 59 00:03:52,340 --> 00:03:54,770 than we can imagine. 60 00:03:54,770 --> 00:03:56,450 Why has this been overlooked? 61 00:03:56,450 --> 00:04:01,180 >>And the Egyptians themselves, in at least one stone tablet, 62 00:04:01,180 --> 00:04:05,140 the Palermo Stone, and one papyrus, the Turin Papyrus, 63 00:04:05,140 --> 00:04:09,360 they say that ancient Egypt is much, much older 64 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,170 than the Egyptologists think it is. 65 00:04:12,170 --> 00:04:17,000 So, to dismiss that is of course an assumption 66 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,079 that contemporary Egyptologists know 67 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:20,920 a lot more about ancient Egyptian history 68 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,170 than ancient Egyptians do, which is 69 00:04:23,170 --> 00:04:25,656 a form of the typical arrogance on the part 70 00:04:25,656 --> 00:04:27,850 of the academic community. 71 00:04:27,850 --> 00:04:30,350 >>So why do we consider civilization 72 00:04:30,350 --> 00:04:34,330 to be only about 6,000 years old? 73 00:04:34,330 --> 00:04:37,250 Is it because of our limited imagination? 74 00:04:37,250 --> 00:04:39,720 Or is there another reason? 75 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,320 >>Modern scholars tend to minimize the age 76 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,350 because it fits better with the current paradigm of history. 77 00:04:47,350 --> 00:04:50,720 The current paradigm is 5,000 years ago 78 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,805 man was a hunter-gatherer. 79 00:04:52,805 --> 00:04:55,710 He had to have writing before he could build large structures 80 00:04:55,710 --> 00:04:58,296 and civilizations. 81 00:04:58,296 --> 00:05:02,570 He came together to protect himself from other warring 82 00:05:02,570 --> 00:05:04,810 parties, and things like this. 83 00:05:04,810 --> 00:05:07,450 And so, for example, in Caral, Peru, 84 00:05:07,450 --> 00:05:10,620 when they found that amazing six-pyramid structure 85 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:13,010 down there, they assumed it was built by the Incas 86 00:05:13,010 --> 00:05:15,180 because that's only 500 years ago, 87 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:17,890 and Incas built most of South America. 88 00:05:17,890 --> 00:05:20,165 Well, when they got this very good carbon dating 89 00:05:20,165 --> 00:05:24,170 that shows it's 4,700 years old it really 90 00:05:24,170 --> 00:05:31,250 blows a hole in current history theory. 91 00:05:31,250 --> 00:05:33,420 Generally, the academic community 92 00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:36,300 is just sort of silent about it right now 93 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:39,200 because they don't have any good ideas with the current theories 94 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,665 of history. 95 00:05:41,665 --> 00:05:44,330 >>A cross-disciplinary approach helps 96 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:47,330 us to put hard evidence and theory together 97 00:05:47,330 --> 00:05:50,400 to reach a greater understanding. 98 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,560 If we consider the data coming from astronomy, geology, 99 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:00,060 astrology, and climatology, we can arrive at new conclusions 100 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:02,300 about the chronology of ancient Egypt. 101 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:04,426 >>We have two sciences that are playing with this. 102 00:06:04,426 --> 00:06:05,884 We have astronomy, we have geology. 103 00:06:05,884 --> 00:06:08,670 With the pyramids, we have a much more precise science. 104 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:10,262 They've aligned the monuments. 105 00:06:10,262 --> 00:06:13,420 And they have their religious ideas 106 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:17,520 locked to the machinery of the sky, and the constellations, 107 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,590 and the sun, and so forth. 108 00:06:19,590 --> 00:06:22,850 So we can use that with high precision, 109 00:06:22,850 --> 00:06:24,610 and arrive at a date. 110 00:06:24,610 --> 00:06:26,480 >>How does this information affect 111 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,220 the dating of the Great Pyramid? 112 00:06:29,220 --> 00:06:32,510 Was it really built when Egyptologists say it was? 113 00:06:32,510 --> 00:06:35,880 >>The traditional date for the Great Pyramids is about 2550, 114 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:41,444 or so, BC, give or take-- people argue about the dates. 115 00:06:41,444 --> 00:06:43,860 And some people want to take it down to a particular year. 116 00:06:43,860 --> 00:06:47,390 I think that's a precision that's not justified 117 00:06:47,390 --> 00:06:48,610 whatsoever. 118 00:06:48,610 --> 00:06:51,710 >>I like to use the metaphor of painting a house. 119 00:06:51,710 --> 00:06:54,740 If you painted your house last in 2003, 120 00:06:54,740 --> 00:06:58,030 that doesn't mean your house was built in 2003. 121 00:06:58,030 --> 00:06:59,840 So I subscribe to the notion of there 122 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:01,680 was probably quite a lot of work done 123 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,480 on the Great Pyramid in 2450 BC, but that it probably 124 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,150 was built quite a bit earlier than that. 125 00:07:08,150 --> 00:07:10,790 There's something very threatening about changing 126 00:07:10,790 --> 00:07:14,760 the dates because it takes us out of the Patriarchal Era. 127 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,900 But I think that there was a whole world of Egypt that 128 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:20,980 existed in matriarchal times. 129 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:23,214 And I think the evidence is quite strong for that. 130 00:07:23,214 --> 00:07:28,140 131 00:07:28,140 --> 00:07:30,930 >>There is absolutely no reason at all 132 00:07:30,930 --> 00:07:32,425 why the ancient Egyptians could not 133 00:07:32,425 --> 00:07:35,421 have worked out the precession cycle. 134 00:07:35,421 --> 00:07:38,000 How do we approach the age? 135 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,510 136 00:07:40,510 --> 00:07:43,950 Well, you have a variety of methods. 137 00:07:43,950 --> 00:07:48,400 When you're looking at an archaeological site, 138 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,740 you have what we call, the archaeological datings, which 139 00:07:51,740 --> 00:07:58,820 means you look at artifacts that you can fit into a chronology, 140 00:07:58,820 --> 00:08:02,820 and you look a potsherds, stratas. 141 00:08:02,820 --> 00:08:07,900 But this can be very deceiving because it 142 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:10,700 requires a lot of interpretation. 143 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:12,355 Nonetheless, these are the methods 144 00:08:12,355 --> 00:08:15,860 that is predominantly used in archeology. 145 00:08:15,860 --> 00:08:17,530 The other is carbon dating. 146 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:20,000 Carbon dating is OK up to a point. 147 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,610 And it's not obviously misleading 148 00:08:22,610 --> 00:08:25,010 if it's been contaminated, and so forth. 149 00:08:25,010 --> 00:08:28,350 And besides, with many of these places, 150 00:08:28,350 --> 00:08:32,159 we do not have carbon datable material. 151 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:36,799 >>Carbon-14 dating works only on organic materials. 152 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,630 But simply touching organic materials 153 00:08:39,630 --> 00:08:42,520 contaminates a sample. 154 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,320 Stone cannot be carbon dated. 155 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,930 156 00:08:46,930 --> 00:08:48,710 >>There is another form of dating, 157 00:08:48,710 --> 00:08:52,550 which is to use precession slurry. 158 00:08:52,550 --> 00:08:56,560 >>What can we use to measure time? 159 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:59,710 Are there markers that connect to the movement of the stars? 160 00:08:59,710 --> 00:09:04,199 >>The stars would shift about one degree every 72 years. 161 00:09:04,199 --> 00:09:05,740 >>It is not anymore in the same spot. 162 00:09:05,740 --> 00:09:08,460 Our planet is moving but we can't feel it, 163 00:09:08,460 --> 00:09:10,820 not in the same position. 164 00:09:10,820 --> 00:09:14,060 And that will change all the time. 165 00:09:14,060 --> 00:09:16,580 Nothing stands still. 166 00:09:16,580 --> 00:09:20,480 You know that our planet make a cycle every 24 hours, 167 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,730 sunrise every 24 hours, right? 168 00:09:22,730 --> 00:09:30,330 But our planet also revolve in a different way. 169 00:09:30,330 --> 00:09:33,980 >>Precession is the motion of the axis of the earth, which 170 00:09:33,980 --> 00:09:37,910 wobbles like a spinning top due to gravitational pull. 171 00:09:37,910 --> 00:09:44,270 >>They make one round every 26,000 years. 172 00:09:44,270 --> 00:09:49,050 >>If you have a monument-- For example, 173 00:09:49,050 --> 00:09:55,020 let's take one that we know for sure, the Temple of Isis 174 00:09:55,020 --> 00:09:56,140 at Dendera. 175 00:09:56,140 --> 00:09:59,950 It's a small temple behind the mountain. 176 00:09:59,950 --> 00:10:07,390 That one is 99% sure aligned to the rising of Sirius. 177 00:10:07,390 --> 00:10:11,800 So, if we have certainty that the temple has its axis aligned 178 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,190 to the rising of a star, and we know which star it is, 179 00:10:15,190 --> 00:10:16,920 then we can date it. 180 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:17,840 It's very simple. 181 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,530 We can do it in a matter of minutes. 182 00:10:21,530 --> 00:10:24,450 This is known as precession astronomy. 183 00:10:24,450 --> 00:10:28,250 The star moves, or appears to move, because of the precession 184 00:10:28,250 --> 00:10:30,710 or wobble and we have a date. 185 00:10:30,710 --> 00:10:35,190 >>Plato called a processional cycle of 26,000 years 186 00:10:35,190 --> 00:10:36,940 a Great Year. 187 00:10:36,940 --> 00:10:41,420 >>The Great Year is Plato's term for this vast cycle 188 00:10:41,420 --> 00:10:44,570 of time, one eon, one procession of the equinox. 189 00:10:44,570 --> 00:10:47,130 It's about 24,000 years. 190 00:10:47,130 --> 00:10:50,090 And there's over 200 myths that talk 191 00:10:50,090 --> 00:10:55,080 about this cycle of alternating dark and golden ages, 192 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,900 or that make reference to a golden age in the distant past. 193 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:02,840 30 different cultures have passed down 194 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,910 these myths from time to time, and they 195 00:11:04,910 --> 00:11:08,200 all related to the movement of the stars, which we know today 196 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,110 as procession. 197 00:11:09,110 --> 00:11:11,340 Even Sir Isaac Newton himself wrote a book 198 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:14,220 on it trying to match history to each 199 00:11:14,220 --> 00:11:17,140 of the constellations in the zodiac. 200 00:11:17,140 --> 00:11:23,430 And it was wiped out by the Darwinian evolution paradigm, 201 00:11:23,430 --> 00:11:27,560 which came along less than 200 years ago, where it became 202 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:33,950 inacceptable to admit that a culture that lived long, long 203 00:11:33,950 --> 00:11:36,670 before us might know something that we don't know. 204 00:11:36,670 --> 00:11:41,750 205 00:11:41,750 --> 00:11:44,130 >>On different continents, cultures 206 00:11:44,130 --> 00:11:46,320 have come up with the same ideas. 207 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,360 >>There is a certain science of cycles 208 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,720 that's embedded into the world age doctrine of the Maya. 209 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,280 You find it nicely paralleled in Egyptian ideas, as well 210 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:03,330 as the Hindu world age doctrine known as the Yugas. 211 00:12:03,330 --> 00:12:05,080 And it's somewhat counterintuitive to what 212 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,390 we've learned in our own Western education. 213 00:12:08,390 --> 00:12:11,480 It's referred to as the myth of progress, 214 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,530 that human beings today are in all ways 215 00:12:13,530 --> 00:12:17,630 superior to human beings that became before. 216 00:12:17,630 --> 00:12:19,500 It's simply not true. 217 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:22,295 Cycles go through periods of increase 218 00:12:22,295 --> 00:12:23,510 and periods of decrease. 219 00:12:23,510 --> 00:12:26,440 220 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,870 >>Mayan daykeepers are descendants 221 00:12:28,870 --> 00:12:34,480 of the ancient Mayan people, and monitor the sacred calendar. 222 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:39,000 Each day has certain qualities and gods. 223 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,800 Daykeepers follow the movement of planets, eclipses, 224 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,730 and astrological alignments. 225 00:12:45,730 --> 00:12:50,500 They are often trained shamans who do divination ceremonies, 226 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,450 giving daily and monthly forecasts. 227 00:12:53,450 --> 00:12:55,650 >>The Maya calendar is really interesting 228 00:12:55,650 --> 00:12:58,540 because it's based on a lunar rhythm. 229 00:12:58,540 --> 00:13:01,400 And the core building block of the sacred calendar 230 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,140 is this 260-day cycle. 231 00:13:04,140 --> 00:13:07,920 Maya daykeepers today will offer as an explanation for this 232 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:10,620 that it corresponds to the human gestation period, 233 00:13:10,620 --> 00:13:12,910 it's roughly nine months. 234 00:13:12,910 --> 00:13:16,220 So all human beings share this primal rhythm 235 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:19,450 of unfolding based upon the lunar cycle. 236 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:21,600 And that's a real interesting key 237 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:26,160 to the, what you might say, the Mayan time philosophy. 238 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,470 >>There are many ways of dividing time: 239 00:13:29,470 --> 00:13:35,320 solar cycles, lunar cycles, and larger cycles of time. 240 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,440 The Mayans devised their Long Count calendar, 241 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,870 which combines a cycle of 20 named days 242 00:13:41,870 --> 00:13:49,480 with another cycle of 13 numbers to produce 260 unique days. 243 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,265 Each of the 20 days is linked to a different god 244 00:13:52,265 --> 00:13:54,700 in Mayan mythology. 245 00:13:54,700 --> 00:14:03,161 The great cycle started in 3114 BC and ends in December 2012. 246 00:14:03,161 --> 00:14:05,780 >>Well, the Long Count calendar is the most interesting 247 00:14:05,780 --> 00:14:07,970 calendar that the Maya had devised. 248 00:14:07,970 --> 00:14:10,670 This is of great interest in our times 249 00:14:10,670 --> 00:14:14,830 because this large cycle in the Long Count calendar, 250 00:14:14,830 --> 00:14:20,050 this period of 13 baktuns, ends in 2012. 251 00:14:20,050 --> 00:14:22,690 So there's a great interest in figuring out 252 00:14:22,690 --> 00:14:25,830 why the early Maya sky watchers picked 2012 253 00:14:25,830 --> 00:14:28,130 to end this large cycle of time. 254 00:14:28,130 --> 00:14:31,440 255 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,750 >>The Mayans were excellent calendar makers. 256 00:14:33,750 --> 00:14:36,490 They inter-correlated the movements 257 00:14:36,490 --> 00:14:40,470 of the moon, the sun, and even Venus 258 00:14:40,470 --> 00:14:43,140 to make their calendars very precise. 259 00:14:43,140 --> 00:14:46,840 And for some reason, they have their Long Count calendar, 260 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,850 the baktun, ending here in 2012. 261 00:14:50,850 --> 00:14:53,000 So it seems, perhaps, they were trying 262 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,040 to call attention to something. 263 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,890 >>Many people have been talking about 2012 as a turning point. 264 00:14:59,890 --> 00:15:02,146 What is the significance of this date? 265 00:15:02,146 --> 00:15:04,740 266 00:15:04,740 --> 00:15:09,080 >>In the years around 2012, the December solstice sun 267 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,910 will be lining up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy. 268 00:15:12,910 --> 00:15:16,350 This is a rare alignment in the Great Cycle of the Precession 269 00:15:16,350 --> 00:15:20,420 of the Equinoxes, this 26,000-year cycle. 270 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:22,840 Now, another thing that's interesting about this period 271 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:27,100 of the 13-baktun cycle that began in 3113 BC 272 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:33,360 and ends in 2012, is its midpoint, 550 BC. 273 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:38,000 This is a time when great world teachers appeared 274 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,070 on the stage of history, Pythagoras among the Greeks, 275 00:15:42,070 --> 00:15:47,770 the Buddha, Zoroaster among the ancient early Persians. 276 00:15:47,770 --> 00:15:50,030 So there's also something to be said for the way 277 00:15:50,030 --> 00:15:53,190 that the Long Count divides up time in a certain way that 278 00:15:53,190 --> 00:15:59,900 defines periods in human culture, dawn points, high noon 279 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:01,474 points, and end points. 280 00:16:01,474 --> 00:16:11,560 281 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:16,310 >>A carved stone, or stele, describing the Long Count 282 00:16:16,310 --> 00:16:20,842 calendar was discovered at Izapa in Mexico. 283 00:16:20,842 --> 00:16:25,810 It shows the center of the Milky Way, the celestial pole, 284 00:16:25,810 --> 00:16:27,820 and a sun deity. 285 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,790 Why was this important to the Mayans? 286 00:16:30,790 --> 00:16:34,290 >>It's really a beautiful and profound way 287 00:16:34,290 --> 00:16:36,130 of conceiving time. 288 00:16:36,130 --> 00:16:39,900 And in my research, as I've looked at Izapa, the origin 289 00:16:39,900 --> 00:16:42,190 place of the 2012 calendar, I've been 290 00:16:42,190 --> 00:16:46,210 able to see how the Mayan wisdom-- 291 00:16:46,210 --> 00:16:48,133 it's not just some provincial belief 292 00:16:48,133 --> 00:16:49,910 system of a forgotten people. 293 00:16:49,910 --> 00:16:51,965 It actually is like a little doorway 294 00:16:51,965 --> 00:16:54,830 that opens up into the great spiritual insights 295 00:16:54,830 --> 00:16:57,090 that all of the great traditions share. 296 00:16:57,090 --> 00:17:01,810 In Egypt, in India, Islam, all the world's 297 00:17:01,810 --> 00:17:05,450 great spiritual traditions share these same universal, eternal 298 00:17:05,450 --> 00:17:06,810 spiritual principles. 299 00:17:06,810 --> 00:17:08,980 And it has to do with cycle endings. 300 00:17:08,980 --> 00:17:12,880 >>Just like the cycles of birth, life, and death, 301 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,650 within the 26,000-year cycle, referred to as the Great Year, 302 00:17:18,650 --> 00:17:22,849 there are extended periods of darkness and light. 303 00:17:22,849 --> 00:17:26,250 These are divided into distinct ages, known 304 00:17:26,250 --> 00:17:30,540 as the golden age, the silver age, the bronze age, 305 00:17:30,540 --> 00:17:32,310 and the iron age. 306 00:17:32,310 --> 00:17:36,010 >>The ancients themselves told us 307 00:17:36,010 --> 00:17:41,110 that history, mankind would go into a dark age. 308 00:17:41,110 --> 00:17:45,425 4,000, 5,000 years ago, they viewed the past 309 00:17:45,425 --> 00:17:47,030 as the golden age. 310 00:17:47,030 --> 00:17:49,750 They see themselves moving into the dark age, 311 00:17:49,750 --> 00:17:51,692 and they dread it because they know 312 00:17:51,692 --> 00:17:53,150 that things are going to get worse, 313 00:17:53,150 --> 00:17:55,280 they're going to get chaotic. 314 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:56,790 Cultures all around the world are 315 00:17:56,790 --> 00:18:01,830 talking about this pre-dark age that things are going downhill. 316 00:18:01,830 --> 00:18:07,530 >>I really ascribe to the Mayan and the Hindu idea 317 00:18:07,530 --> 00:18:11,530 that the golden age, the time of connection 318 00:18:11,530 --> 00:18:15,370 into the divine wisdom, was actually a long time ago, 319 00:18:15,370 --> 00:18:17,490 and we've been moving through periods 320 00:18:17,490 --> 00:18:22,040 of increasing densification, increasing 321 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,321 alienation from the spiritual light. 322 00:18:24,321 --> 00:18:31,970 323 00:18:31,970 --> 00:18:34,520 >>Golden ages are times of enlightenment, 324 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,740 when civilizations reach high points in architecture, 325 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:42,550 spirituality, and benevolence. 326 00:18:42,550 --> 00:18:46,640 This is considered to decline slightly in the silver age, 327 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,916 further deteriorating in the bronze age, 328 00:18:49,916 --> 00:18:53,390 and reaching extreme levels of chaos, corruption, 329 00:18:53,390 --> 00:18:57,840 and ignorance in the iron age, or dark age. 330 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,150 Then, the cycle works its way back up to the next golden age. 331 00:19:02,150 --> 00:19:06,690 332 00:19:06,690 --> 00:19:11,690 One of the ways to measure the 26,000-year Yuga cycles is 333 00:19:11,690 --> 00:19:15,259 through the ages of the zodiac, which the ancient Egyptians 334 00:19:15,259 --> 00:19:16,050 clearly understood. 335 00:19:16,050 --> 00:19:19,620 336 00:19:19,620 --> 00:19:21,970 >>The origin of the zodiacal signs 337 00:19:21,970 --> 00:19:25,500 is a very good question actually, and probably 338 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:27,340 impossible to determine. 339 00:19:27,340 --> 00:19:29,670 The only one of the signs that vaguely 340 00:19:29,670 --> 00:19:33,230 looks like what it's supposed to is Leo, the lion. 341 00:19:33,230 --> 00:19:35,610 The stars making up Virgo definitely 342 00:19:35,610 --> 00:19:37,250 don't look like a virgin, whatever 343 00:19:37,250 --> 00:19:39,480 a virgin looks like these days. 344 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,960 And the other signs are equally mysterious, 345 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,120 the Crab, the Bull, et cetera, et cetera. 346 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:48,090 Knowledge of precession and advance 347 00:19:48,090 --> 00:19:52,730 astronomy existed in extremely distant times. 348 00:19:52,730 --> 00:19:58,740 The basis of the signs themselves in terms of zodiac, 349 00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:00,490 the wheel of life or the wheel of animals, 350 00:20:00,490 --> 00:20:03,240 there are different translations of that-- If you really 351 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,820 want to know what the sign signify, 352 00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:09,230 you have to go into the qualities 353 00:20:09,230 --> 00:20:11,300 and properties of the signs themselves. 354 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:14,210 In other words, each sign is male or female, 355 00:20:14,210 --> 00:20:19,840 each sign is fire, earth, air, water. 356 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,780 >>Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has distinct energies. 357 00:20:23,780 --> 00:20:29,300 There are four elements, earth, or material signs, air, 358 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:34,925 or intellectual signs, water, or emotional signs, and fire, 359 00:20:34,925 --> 00:20:38,370 or creative signs. 360 00:20:38,370 --> 00:20:42,990 By looking at the 12 zodiac, or ages, of about 2,000 years 361 00:20:42,990 --> 00:20:47,810 each, we can rethink the Egyptian's concepts of time 362 00:20:47,810 --> 00:20:49,480 and re-create the chronology. 363 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,358 364 00:20:55,358 --> 00:20:59,215 >>There is a gap in our historical record. 365 00:20:59,215 --> 00:21:02,690 >>The Palermo Stone and the Turin Papyrus 366 00:21:02,690 --> 00:21:06,130 are evidence from the Egyptians themselves, 367 00:21:06,130 --> 00:21:09,430 and convey information from rulers far back 368 00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:11,406 in Egyptian history. 369 00:21:11,406 --> 00:21:12,780 >>And they give the reignal years 370 00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:14,750 and the name of each of these rulers. 371 00:21:14,750 --> 00:21:16,740 And when you compute all of those names 372 00:21:16,740 --> 00:21:19,860 and put the numbers together, you get a date somewhere 373 00:21:19,860 --> 00:21:22,450 around 34,000, 36,000 BC. 374 00:21:22,450 --> 00:21:27,680 At the same time, roughly, that 36,000 34,000 year date 375 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,760 corresponds to the Vedas of India, 376 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,462 the Vedic civilization of India, which also gives a date, which 377 00:21:33,462 --> 00:21:35,670 when you when you work it out, comes out to something 378 00:21:35,670 --> 00:21:39,010 like 40,000 years before our current era. 379 00:21:39,010 --> 00:21:41,880 So we have two great, sophisticated civilizations 380 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,435 that have documented their own belief that their civilization 381 00:21:45,435 --> 00:21:48,130 started back around that kind of time. 382 00:21:48,130 --> 00:21:53,420 383 00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:56,160 >>It is interesting to note that this is roughly one 384 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,980 and one half processional cycles ago, 385 00:21:58,980 --> 00:22:01,410 dating back to a previous golden age. 386 00:22:01,410 --> 00:22:18,243 387 00:22:18,243 --> 00:22:24,430 The Sphinx, with its lion body, screams out as a Leo symbol, 388 00:22:24,430 --> 00:22:26,960 as a marker for an age of Leo. 389 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,670 The last age of Leo had it's ingress at around 10,500 BC. 390 00:22:31,670 --> 00:22:37,170 So that's the date favored by Graham and by Robert Bauval. 391 00:22:37,170 --> 00:22:42,730 I'm hesitant to accept that date myself because the last ice 392 00:22:42,730 --> 00:22:46,630 age comes to a catastrophic end somewhere around 11,000, 393 00:22:46,630 --> 00:22:48,222 11,500 BC. 394 00:22:48,222 --> 00:22:49,930 It certainly followed, and this is known, 395 00:22:49,930 --> 00:22:51,550 there are the quaternary extinctions. 396 00:22:51,550 --> 00:22:53,530 All the mammoths and the woolly rhinoceroses 397 00:22:53,530 --> 00:22:54,770 die all over the world. 398 00:22:54,770 --> 00:22:59,990 Siberia, which was temperate, becomes tundra and arctic. 399 00:22:59,990 --> 00:23:04,310 North America, which was under a couple of miles of ice sheet, 400 00:23:04,310 --> 00:23:06,934 melts, and all that water goes into the sea. 401 00:23:06,934 --> 00:23:10,550 The sea rises 300 feet over the course 402 00:23:10,550 --> 00:23:13,190 of a couple of thousand years, but in stages. 403 00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:15,220 And some of those stages, very precipitous, 404 00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:17,755 maybe corresponding to the biblical flood 405 00:23:17,755 --> 00:23:20,400 and possibly Plato's Atlantis myth. 406 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,635 So under these circumstances, which are catastrophic 407 00:23:23,635 --> 00:23:28,285 the world over, to me, it seems unlikely 408 00:23:28,285 --> 00:23:31,940 that the Sphinx, and the pyramids, which presupposes 409 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:35,400 a settled, and stable, and sophisticated society, 410 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,380 could have built those amazing structures 411 00:23:37,380 --> 00:23:39,790 under those kinds of conditions. 412 00:23:39,790 --> 00:23:42,880 So that leaves anything before 10,500 BC, 413 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,080 but I like the idea of the Leo symbolism, 414 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,470 so the next age of Leo back is 26,000 years earlier. 415 00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:53,410 And that puts it back at around 36,000 BC, 416 00:23:53,410 --> 00:24:00,000 which, outrageous as it sounds, by a process of exclusion, 417 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,340 turns out to be maybe less outrageous because there are 418 00:24:03,340 --> 00:24:05,575 big problems with those other later dates. 419 00:24:05,575 --> 00:24:10,670 420 00:24:10,670 --> 00:24:15,230 >>Looking at the weathering on the Sphinx and the Sphinx 421 00:24:15,230 --> 00:24:18,120 enclosure, that weathering was clearly 422 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:22,320 formed by runoff from precipitation. 423 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,620 >>It is indeed water weathering and precipitation-induced, 424 00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:27,620 so it has to have been done in the distant past. 425 00:24:27,620 --> 00:24:32,590 And the question, then, is how distant was that past? 426 00:24:32,590 --> 00:24:35,610 >>It could take tens of thousands of years for the Nile 427 00:24:35,610 --> 00:24:38,020 to have migrated eight miles. 428 00:24:38,020 --> 00:24:41,980 Can we use this evidence to re-date these monuments? 429 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,910 >>When you look at geology, you can 430 00:24:43,910 --> 00:24:48,350 see that the riverbed has migrated all the way 431 00:24:48,350 --> 00:24:53,150 from the west, beyond 50 kilometers to the west, 432 00:24:53,150 --> 00:24:55,500 then it passed across the plateau, 433 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,150 and you can see that the ancient riverbed actually 434 00:24:58,150 --> 00:25:00,820 went right up the pyramids and the initiates 435 00:25:00,820 --> 00:25:03,520 could have stepped right off these barges up 436 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,990 onto the causeways into the pyramids. 437 00:25:05,990 --> 00:25:12,220 Now if you look, the Nile is a full eight miles to the east, 438 00:25:12,220 --> 00:25:15,820 and it's the dividing point between Cairo and Giza. 439 00:25:15,820 --> 00:25:18,100 And so if we look at geological time, 440 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,230 it would take several tens of thousands of years in order 441 00:25:21,230 --> 00:25:24,020 for the Nile to make that migration. 442 00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:26,960 We can compare that to places like Tiahuanaco 443 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,840 in Bolivia that almost certainly was 444 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,980 on the edge of Lake Titicaca, and now it's 50 miles away. 445 00:25:33,980 --> 00:25:36,910 So it changes the whole idea of how ancient 446 00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:40,750 these places could have been. 447 00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,870 >>How many thousands of years does it 448 00:25:42,870 --> 00:25:47,510 take for a river to make this huge journey? 449 00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:50,660 The oases of Al Kharga and Faiyoum 450 00:25:50,660 --> 00:25:56,420 run parallel to the Nile today, but 100 kilometers west. 451 00:25:56,420 --> 00:25:59,790 It seems that the river migrated all the way from here 452 00:25:59,790 --> 00:26:03,160 to its current course. 453 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,320 Evidence of ancient human settlements 454 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,280 has been found in the area that is now desert, 455 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,080 but once had water. 456 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,000 At these locations are stone circles 457 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,070 indicating a knowledge of astronomy. 458 00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:20,707 What does it tell us about the distant past? 459 00:26:20,707 --> 00:26:23,980 460 00:26:23,980 --> 00:26:26,180 What can we conclude you about the dating 461 00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:29,205 of the pyramids and the Sphinx? 462 00:26:29,205 --> 00:26:33,055 >>All I can really say at this point, given the data I have, 463 00:26:33,055 --> 00:26:37,750 is that I think it has been at least back to 5,000 BC. 464 00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:38,690 Could it be older? 465 00:26:38,690 --> 00:26:41,110 In fact, might it well be older? 466 00:26:41,110 --> 00:26:42,540 Yes. 467 00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:46,840 Generally, if sort of pressed for dates, I'll say, 468 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,746 my best estimate is somewhere in the period of 7,000 to 5,000 469 00:26:50,746 --> 00:26:52,500 BC. 470 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:56,372 So that's really a working range that I'm comfortable with. 471 00:26:56,372 --> 00:27:01,580 472 00:27:01,580 --> 00:27:05,390 We're also finding, elsewhere in Egypt and around the world, 473 00:27:05,390 --> 00:27:09,860 that other things were happening in that same period, 7,000 474 00:27:09,860 --> 00:27:14,020 to 5,000, approximately, BC that, to me, puts 475 00:27:14,020 --> 00:27:17,480 the Sphinx into a larger regional 476 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,170 and global setting, that it's not just a isolated thing. 477 00:27:21,170 --> 00:27:24,570 It doesn't seem as isolated as it did 15 years ago 478 00:27:24,570 --> 00:27:26,480 when we had less knowledge. 479 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,295 You come to tentative conclusions. 480 00:27:28,295 --> 00:27:32,880 If more data comes in that seems to indicate something else, 481 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,430 I don't ever want to be afraid to change my conclusions 482 00:27:37,430 --> 00:27:39,494 and go where the evidence takes me. 483 00:27:39,494 --> 00:27:42,400 484 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,240 >>I'll stick with my extreme 36,000 BC date 485 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,820 until proved otherwise. 486 00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:49,795 And if proved otherwise, I will change my mind. 487 00:27:49,795 --> 00:27:59,090 488 00:27:59,090 --> 00:28:03,890 >>How can we tie the concept of the Yuga, or Vedic cycles, 489 00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:06,150 into something more concrete that we 490 00:28:06,150 --> 00:28:09,900 can recognize in our own history? 491 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:12,280 If we re-examined the stories that are often 492 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,520 dismissed as fanciful myth, we might 493 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,600 find that it indicates greater forces in play. 494 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,329 495 00:28:22,329 --> 00:28:23,995 >>Those of us that are seriously looking 496 00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:28,700 at this old Vedic concept of the world ages, the cycle, 497 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:31,950 we know that the golden age, the last golden age-- basically, 498 00:28:31,950 --> 00:28:36,520 the peak of the cycle-- was about 11,500 BC, the highest 499 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,290 point. 500 00:28:37,290 --> 00:28:40,230 But we also know that Plato mentions 501 00:28:40,230 --> 00:28:42,650 a series of catastrophes, which have come down 502 00:28:42,650 --> 00:28:45,470 to us as the Atlantis legend, in which he claims 503 00:28:45,470 --> 00:28:48,250 that, on our calendar system it would have been around 9,500 504 00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:50,910 BC, some tremendous upheaval apparently occurred. 505 00:28:50,910 --> 00:28:51,830 A lot of destruction. 506 00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:59,680 507 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,750 Isn't it also possible that for all of those maybe several 508 00:29:02,750 --> 00:29:05,190 thousand years, whatever those catastrophes were, 509 00:29:05,190 --> 00:29:09,050 were so cataclysmic that even with that silver age 510 00:29:09,050 --> 00:29:11,490 or golden age consciousness, they 511 00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:14,660 weren't fully able to recover. 512 00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:18,500 The end of the golden age and the decline 513 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,770 into the following silver age, or what 514 00:29:20,770 --> 00:29:23,520 we would refer to as mental age, marked the time 515 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,260 at which we were falling out of this state on this planet 516 00:29:27,260 --> 00:29:30,570 where the average person had the potential, the capability, 517 00:29:30,570 --> 00:29:34,730 to be in a very high state of awareness. 518 00:29:34,730 --> 00:29:37,490 And they were a far more enlightened and benevolent 519 00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:40,370 society than we would be able to even imagine now. 520 00:29:40,370 --> 00:29:44,080 But they were beginning to lose that almost divine state that 521 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,070 exists in the golden age. 522 00:29:46,070 --> 00:29:50,840 And as they started to descend into the silver age, 523 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,960 there began to be more of an emphasis on what we would now 524 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,570 refer to as sacred sites and sacred structures. 525 00:29:56,570 --> 00:29:59,840 526 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,220 >>You could almost think of it as machines 527 00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:08,730 to enhance consciousness, or to create an environment where, 528 00:30:08,730 --> 00:30:11,710 you might call it altered states of experience, 529 00:30:11,710 --> 00:30:16,580 but changes in consciousness, expansion of consciousness. 530 00:30:16,580 --> 00:30:18,870 >>What these were really intended to do, 531 00:30:18,870 --> 00:30:21,830 it wasn't so much for the selfish purpose of, 532 00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:25,340 for example, boosting up a few individuals. 533 00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:30,840 This actually had to do with a much larger global perspective. 534 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,730 And that's, effectively, what the Great Pyramid was. 535 00:30:33,730 --> 00:30:37,450 It was, basically, a device, a generator for, if you will, 536 00:30:37,450 --> 00:30:40,500 broadcasting and transmitting throughout the planetary 537 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:45,265 structure a type of field which uplifted the entire humanity. 538 00:30:45,265 --> 00:30:50,340 539 00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:52,100 For at least 1,000 years this structure 540 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,860 performed beautifully. 541 00:30:54,860 --> 00:30:56,890 My guess is that it probably did a lot 542 00:30:56,890 --> 00:31:00,308 to help offset the fall into the dark ages. 543 00:31:00,308 --> 00:31:03,116 544 00:31:03,116 --> 00:31:04,615 And I think what the pyramids did 545 00:31:04,615 --> 00:31:06,990 is that for those individuals that were at least somewhat 546 00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:09,380 receptive, it just kind of kept that energy polarized 547 00:31:09,380 --> 00:31:12,530 into the higher centers. 548 00:31:12,530 --> 00:31:13,570 >>This is very real. 549 00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:14,930 I think this is very important. 550 00:31:14,930 --> 00:31:20,240 It's like a great art, or great spiritual insight, 551 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,360 expansion of consciousness. 552 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,210 In a way, there's nothing more important than that. 553 00:31:25,210 --> 00:31:28,460 554 00:31:28,460 --> 00:31:30,510 >>It couldn't do it forever because eventually 555 00:31:30,510 --> 00:31:32,110 mother nature is going to win out. 556 00:31:32,110 --> 00:31:34,730 And this cycle is part of nature. 557 00:31:34,730 --> 00:31:38,010 It's as much a part of the natural world as day and night 558 00:31:38,010 --> 00:31:38,520 are. 559 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,180 We have the ability to grasp those electromagnetic forces 560 00:31:43,180 --> 00:31:45,910 and the more fundamental forces that underlie those to, 561 00:31:45,910 --> 00:31:51,380 basically, prop up humanity for a while using the system. 562 00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:54,440 Now, the pyramids only have a very direct effect 563 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,215 if you're close to them, which is the way it is in this age. 564 00:31:57,215 --> 00:31:58,980 If we go stand in the pyramid, we 565 00:31:58,980 --> 00:32:00,856 might feel an effect like that. 566 00:32:00,856 --> 00:32:03,064 But, I suspect, thousands of years 567 00:32:03,064 --> 00:32:04,480 ago you didn't have to be near it. 568 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,763 I think it was probably a global effect. 569 00:32:07,763 --> 00:32:12,020 570 00:32:12,020 --> 00:32:15,800 >>The physical structure could only do so much. 571 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,100 The wisdom keepers created social structures 572 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:21,470 as an additional influence to extend 573 00:32:21,470 --> 00:32:26,200 the energy of the golden age by creating mystery schools that 574 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,090 preserved the ancient knowledge. 575 00:32:28,090 --> 00:32:31,024 >>The whole idea of the schools of mystery, 576 00:32:31,024 --> 00:32:33,440 and the ancient knowledge, and preserving those traditions 577 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,195 that had come down from those fabulous ages, that was lost. 578 00:32:37,195 --> 00:32:38,820 And then, eventually, it was ridiculed, 579 00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:40,890 and then finally, it had to go underground 580 00:32:40,890 --> 00:32:44,450 because people would either actively burn those texts 581 00:32:44,450 --> 00:32:48,260 or persecute the people who had that belief system. 582 00:32:48,260 --> 00:32:52,100 And I think, at that point, we were in the dark ages. 583 00:32:52,100 --> 00:33:16,100 584 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:20,450 >>The exact end of the cycle of darkness is approaching. 585 00:33:20,450 --> 00:33:24,660 Each winter solstice before 2012, our sun 586 00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:29,350 comes into close alignment with the galactic center. 587 00:33:29,350 --> 00:33:32,240 This means we are beginning to feel the shift of energy 588 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,990 already, even though the exact conjunction is 589 00:33:35,990 --> 00:33:41,800 December the 21st, 2012. 590 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,410 >>So all signs point to the interpretation 591 00:33:44,410 --> 00:33:49,450 that we are deep into the period of increasing darkness. 592 00:33:49,450 --> 00:33:55,100 What happens at the end of that downward trend is a turnabout. 593 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,650 And I believe that that's where we are right now in history. 594 00:33:58,650 --> 00:34:01,300 The Mayan material for 2012 basically 595 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:04,090 indicates this turnabout point, this point 596 00:34:04,090 --> 00:34:07,280 of maximized spiritual darkness. 597 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,040 But then, in the cycles of time, we turn the corner, 598 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,969 and we have an opportunity to open up 599 00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:14,580 to the transformational energies that 600 00:34:14,580 --> 00:34:16,470 can sweep us into the next cycle. 601 00:34:16,470 --> 00:34:20,280 602 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,070 >>I hope that the Mayan ancestors trying 603 00:34:23,070 --> 00:34:25,120 to interpret the few writings that are left 604 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,449 are correct, that it means there's 605 00:34:27,449 --> 00:34:29,699 going to be some quickening, or something like that, 606 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,719 because that would actually go with our latest 607 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,480 understanding of the Yugas. 608 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,965 What a Yuga cycle really is is one precession of the equinox. 609 00:34:38,965 --> 00:34:41,770 610 00:34:41,770 --> 00:34:45,230 Using these later scholars' interpretation, 611 00:34:45,230 --> 00:34:47,699 we're actually in the very early stages 612 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:49,550 of consciousness accelerating. 613 00:34:49,550 --> 00:34:53,330 614 00:34:53,330 --> 00:34:56,650 >>It has to do with the opportunity 615 00:34:56,650 --> 00:35:00,236 that we have to open up to the divine wisdom, 616 00:35:00,236 --> 00:35:01,610 to the transformational energies. 617 00:35:01,610 --> 00:35:04,930 618 00:35:04,930 --> 00:35:07,090 But it always comes down to free will. 619 00:35:07,090 --> 00:35:09,350 Nothing is predetermined. 620 00:35:09,350 --> 00:35:11,590 It always comes down to a choice that we all 621 00:35:11,590 --> 00:35:16,750 have to close down in fear, succumb 622 00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:20,450 to fear, close down, become more limited in our consciousness, 623 00:35:20,450 --> 00:35:25,580 or open up, open up to the blessing of the connection 624 00:35:25,580 --> 00:35:28,040 to the higher wisdom that is symbolized 625 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,150 in the Maya tradition by the galactic center, the womb 626 00:35:31,150 --> 00:35:34,045 of the Great Mother, that which can transform and renew. 627 00:35:34,045 --> 00:36:01,690 628 00:36:01,690 --> 00:36:03,585 >>Could the ancients have had it right? 629 00:36:03,585 --> 00:36:06,260 630 00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:08,400 Perhaps we should consider that we, too, 631 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,532 can return to high levels of consciousness, 632 00:36:11,532 --> 00:36:14,623 heightened perception, and inspired creativity. 633 00:36:14,623 --> 00:36:19,330 634 00:36:19,330 --> 00:36:22,400 It would serve us well to embrace nature 635 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,563 and to protect the planet's environment. 636 00:36:24,563 --> 00:36:34,740 637 00:36:34,740 --> 00:36:38,810 Can we go beyond religious dogma and allow ourselves 638 00:36:38,810 --> 00:36:41,059 to imagine what lies beyond death? 639 00:36:41,059 --> 00:36:48,690 640 00:36:48,690 --> 00:36:54,120 How would humanity change if, instead of material wealth, 641 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,675 consciousness was our highest value? 642 00:36:56,675 --> 00:37:06,820 643 00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:09,910 >>The ideas depicted in "The Pyramid Code" 644 00:37:09,910 --> 00:37:14,780 revolutionize accepted beliefs about the purpose and the age 645 00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:17,920 of the pyramids and the Sphinx. 646 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,480 Clearly not tombs, these ancient structures 647 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,440 may have been used to access and transmit 648 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,776 a type of energy that affects human consciousness. 649 00:37:27,776 --> 00:37:30,520 650 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,910 We have seen concrete evidence of high-level technology 651 00:37:33,910 --> 00:37:43,658 with laser-cut crystals, polished, black basalt floors, 652 00:37:43,658 --> 00:37:47,020 and curious and sophisticated instruments, 653 00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:53,320 including those that generated energy from sound and light. 654 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,220 Looking at the old riverbed, it seems clear 655 00:37:56,220 --> 00:37:59,280 that the Nile has migrated over time, 656 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,770 and that it once flowed to the east of the pyramids. 657 00:38:01,770 --> 00:38:06,180 658 00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:08,630 The ancient Egyptians built temples 659 00:38:08,630 --> 00:38:11,790 using sacred geometry corresponding 660 00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:14,660 to cavities in the human body. 661 00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:18,110 They had a profound belief in the significance of the stars 662 00:38:18,110 --> 00:38:21,100 and how the patterns of the constellations 663 00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:26,580 corresponded to our place in the cosmos. 664 00:38:26,580 --> 00:38:29,930 They understood large cycles of time, 665 00:38:29,930 --> 00:38:33,960 and they kept meticulous records of the motion of the stars 666 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,250 and planets. 667 00:38:36,250 --> 00:38:39,900 The ancients had a deep respect for the sacred feminine 668 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,240 principle, and the importance of balancing 669 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:47,570 the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine. 670 00:38:47,570 --> 00:38:50,850 From pre-dynastic to dynastic times, 671 00:38:50,850 --> 00:38:53,775 the ancients maintained a deep reverence for nature. 672 00:38:53,775 --> 00:38:56,670 673 00:38:56,670 --> 00:38:59,276 They were astonishingly creative and artistic. 674 00:38:59,276 --> 00:39:03,160 675 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,160 From clues left on temple walls, it 676 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,527 seems clear that our Egyptian ancestors accessed 677 00:39:09,527 --> 00:39:10,860 altered states of consciousness. 678 00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:14,000 679 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,420 Their primary concerns were how we 680 00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:21,830 arrived in our earthly bodies, described in terms of biology, 681 00:39:21,830 --> 00:39:25,810 and what happened when we left our earthly bodies, described 682 00:39:25,810 --> 00:39:27,000 in terms of cosmology. 683 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:32,290 684 00:39:32,290 --> 00:39:34,710 Our ancestors left clues embedded 685 00:39:34,710 --> 00:39:37,480 in symbols that had multiple layers of meaning. 686 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:45,090 687 00:39:45,090 --> 00:39:48,970 They were empowered humans using the full capacity 688 00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:49,710 of their senses. 689 00:39:49,710 --> 00:39:54,170 690 00:39:54,170 --> 00:39:57,360 Today, our planet is in trouble politically, 691 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,510 economically, environmentally, and morally. 692 00:40:02,510 --> 00:40:06,880 Many will agree that corrupt people hold places of power. 693 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,640 Citizens are taxed beyond reason, 694 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,660 and riches are amassed by an elite that controls the world. 695 00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:17,910 With all this evidence of the sophisticated science left 696 00:40:17,910 --> 00:40:22,260 by the ancients, can we still uphold the belief 697 00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:25,080 that we are the most advanced society that 698 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,173 has ever existed on planet Earth? 699 00:40:27,173 --> 00:40:33,330 700 00:40:33,330 --> 00:40:36,490 Is today's test-driven education system effective? 701 00:40:36,490 --> 00:40:39,530 702 00:40:39,530 --> 00:40:42,780 Instead of rote memorization of facts, 703 00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:44,960 what would happen if today's youth were 704 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,450 taught to expand their capacity to know? 705 00:40:47,450 --> 00:40:52,090 706 00:40:52,090 --> 00:40:55,610 If we were taught to seek truth and justice 707 00:40:55,610 --> 00:40:58,350 living by the ancient law of Ma'at, 708 00:40:58,350 --> 00:41:00,310 how would our society change? 709 00:41:00,310 --> 00:41:05,070 710 00:41:05,070 --> 00:41:07,890 Taking our cue from the ancients, 711 00:41:07,890 --> 00:41:12,592 if we live in tune with nature, in an atmosphere of creativity 712 00:41:12,592 --> 00:41:18,070 and peace, and if we connect to spirituality, 713 00:41:18,070 --> 00:41:21,665 is this the answer to a healthy future for humanity? 714 00:41:21,665 --> 00:41:25,370 715 00:41:25,370 --> 00:41:27,990 The ominous date of December the 21st, 716 00:41:27,990 --> 00:41:31,290 2012, is fast approaching. 717 00:41:31,290 --> 00:41:35,550 Does this herald doomsday, or could it be a powerful gateway 718 00:41:35,550 --> 00:41:38,780 into new ways of being and thinking? 719 00:41:38,780 --> 00:41:41,770 Are we turning the corner and ascending out 720 00:41:41,770 --> 00:41:44,550 of the age of darkness to journey 721 00:41:44,550 --> 00:41:48,560 toward a new golden age? 722 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,770 Is it possible that the ancients living 723 00:41:50,770 --> 00:41:53,400 in a golden age in the distant past 724 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,140 were able to see into future cycles of time? 725 00:41:57,140 --> 00:41:59,850 Could they have predicted that humanity 726 00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:04,200 would plummet into the depths of collective despair? 727 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:08,090 Could they have predicted that humans would be disempowered, 728 00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:11,810 thus losing their connection to spirituality. 729 00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:15,480 Did they leave magnificent structures skillfully aligned 730 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,250 to the stars and encoded with symbols 731 00:42:19,250 --> 00:42:23,220 to act as a trigger for us to wake up now? 732 00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:27,180 It seems humanity is at a crucial juncture 733 00:42:27,180 --> 00:42:30,154 as we approach 2012. 734 00:42:30,154 --> 00:42:34,140 Are we ready to walk forward into a new future? 735 00:42:34,140 --> 00:42:37,920 Have we finally cracked the pyramid code? 736 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,393 >>Wake up. 737 00:42:39,393 --> 00:42:40,611 We have it. 738 00:42:40,611 --> 00:42:41,110 We got it. 739 00:42:41,110 --> 00:42:44,010 Just know that we have it, and it works. 740 00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:48,212 [MUSIC PLAYING] 741 00:42:48,212 --> 00:44:36,834 59049

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