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>>We have been taught to think of Egypt

as a civilization whose golden age occurred

2,000 or 3,000 years before Christ.

Imagining this magnificent culture springing

from small settlements in Biblical times

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

World cultures have myths that speak

of high levels of consciousness, superior science, art,

and architecture from eons ago.

How do we reconcile this?

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We are trapped in our own concept of time,

but many cultures think on a vastly different scale.

Science has established that the earliest human remains

are about 2.5 million years old.

It has shifted our marker back so that now we

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

In Indian traditions, and in 30 other cultures,

a 26,000-year cycle is accepted.

How does that affect the traditional chronology

of Egypt, which insists that the pyramids were constructed

as recently as 2450 BC?

Will this force the issue of rethinking

the chronology of ancient Egypt?

Every year, authors, scientists, and alternative thinkers

come together for the Conference on Precession and Ancient

Knowledge.

They share ideas about ancient cultures, lost knowledge,

and great cycles of time.

>>I started the Conference on Precession and Ancient

Knowledge because I wanted to bring together

the bright minds in this whole field of alternative history

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

>>Geologists, physicists, engineers,

and archeoastronomers discuss the accepted dating

of world history.

>>I'm convinced that there is a misunderstanding

about the tenets of Egyptian civilization.

And I am convinced that there is a misunderstanding

about it's dating.

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

that the chronology has to be redone.

>>Knowledge of precession and an advanced astronomy

existed in extremely distant times.

>>So I think we're looking at a chronology that's

far, far older than is accepted.

>>By integrating recent scientific discoveries

in different disciplines, they define a new timeline

of our past.

The Egyptians provided us with concrete evidence

that describes political events from a far more distant past

than we can imagine.

Why has this been overlooked?

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

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

they say that ancient Egypt is much, much older

than the Egyptologists think it is.

So, to dismiss that is of course an assumption

that contemporary Egyptologists know

a lot more about ancient Egyptian history

than ancient Egyptians do, which is

a form of the typical arrogance on the part

of the academic community.

>>So why do we consider civilization

to be only about 6,000 years old?

Is it because of our limited imagination?

Or is there another reason?

>>Modern scholars tend to minimize the age

because it fits better with the current paradigm of history.

The current paradigm is 5,000 years ago

man was a hunter-gatherer.

He had to have writing before he could build large structures

and civilizations.

He came together to protect himself from other warring

parties, and things like this.

And so, for example, in Caral, Peru,

when they found that amazing six-pyramid structure

down there, they assumed it was built by the Incas

because that's only 500 years ago,

and Incas built most of South America.

Well, when they got this very good carbon dating

that shows it's 4,700 years old it really

blows a hole in current history theory.

Generally, the academic community

is just sort of silent about it right now

because they don't have any good ideas with the current theories

of history.

>>A cross-disciplinary approach helps

us to put hard evidence and theory together

to reach a greater understanding.

If we consider the data coming from astronomy, geology,

astrology, and climatology, we can arrive at new conclusions

about the chronology of ancient Egypt.

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

We have astronomy, we have geology.

With the pyramids, we have a much more precise science.

They've aligned the monuments.

And they have their religious ideas

locked to the machinery of the sky, and the constellations,

and the sun, and so forth.

So we can use that with high precision,

and arrive at a date.

>>How does this information affect

the dating of the Great Pyramid?

Was it really built when Egyptologists say it was?

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

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

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

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

whatsoever.

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

If you painted your house last in 2003,

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

So I subscribe to the notion of there

was probably quite a lot of work done

on the Great Pyramid in 2450 BC, but that it probably

was built quite a bit earlier than that.

There's something very threatening about changing

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

But I think that there was a whole world of Egypt that

existed in matriarchal times.

And I think the evidence is quite strong for that.

>>There is absolutely no reason at all

why the ancient Egyptians could not

have worked out the precession cycle.

How do we approach the age?

Well, you have a variety of methods.

When you're looking at an archaeological site,

you have what we call, the archaeological datings, which

means you look at artifacts that you can fit into a chronology,

and you look a potsherds, stratas.

But this can be very deceiving because it

requires a lot of interpretation.

Nonetheless, these are the methods

that is predominantly used in archeology.

The other is carbon dating.

Carbon dating is OK up to a point.

And it's not obviously misleading

if it's been contaminated, and so forth.

And besides, with many of these places,

we do not have carbon datable material.

>>Carbon-14 dating works only on organic materials.

But simply touching organic materials

contaminates a sample.

Stone cannot be carbon dated.

>>There is another form of dating,

which is to use precession slurry.

>>What can we use to measure time?

Are there markers that connect to the movement of the stars?

>>The stars would shift about one degree every 72 years.

>>It is not anymore in the same spot.

Our planet is moving but we can't feel it,

not in the same position.

And that will change all the time.

Nothing stands still.

You know that our planet make a cycle every 24 hours,

sunrise every 24 hours, right?

But our planet also revolve in a different way.

>>Precession is the motion of the axis of the earth, which

wobbles like a spinning top due to gravitational pull.

>>They make one round every 26,000 years.

>>If you have a monument-- For example,

let's take one that we know for sure, the Temple of Isis

at Dendera.

It's a small temple behind the mountain.

That one is 99% sure aligned to the rising of Sirius.

So, if we have certainty that the temple has its axis aligned

to the rising of a star, and we know which star it is,

then we can date it.

It's very simple.

We can do it in a matter of minutes.

This is known as precession astronomy.

The star moves, or appears to move, because of the precession

or wobble and we have a date.

>>Plato called a processional cycle of 26,000 years

a Great Year.

>>The Great Year is Plato's term for this vast cycle

of time, one eon, one procession of the equinox.

It's about 24,000 years.

And there's over 200 myths that talk

about this cycle of alternating dark and golden ages,

or that make reference to a golden age in the distant past.

30 different cultures have passed down

these myths from time to time, and they

all related to the movement of the stars, which we know today

as procession.

Even Sir Isaac Newton himself wrote a book

on it trying to match history to each

of the constellations in the zodiac.

And it was wiped out by the Darwinian evolution paradigm,

which came along less than 200 years ago, where it became

inacceptable to admit that a culture that lived long, long

before us might know something that we don't know.

>>On different continents, cultures

have come up with the same ideas.

>>There is a certain science of cycles

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

You find it nicely paralleled in Egyptian ideas, as well

as the Hindu world age doctrine known as the Yugas.

And it's somewhat counterintuitive to what

we've learned in our own Western education.

It's referred to as the myth of progress,

that human beings today are in all ways

superior to human beings that became before.

It's simply not true.

Cycles go through periods of increase

and periods of decrease.

>>Mayan daykeepers are descendants

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

Each day has certain qualities and gods.

Daykeepers follow the movement of planets, eclipses,

and astrological alignments.

They are often trained shamans who do divination ceremonies,

giving daily and monthly forecasts.

>>The Maya calendar is really interesting

because it's based on a lunar rhythm.

And the core building block of the sacred calendar

is this 260-day cycle.

Maya daykeepers today will offer as an explanation for this

that it corresponds to the human gestation period,

it's roughly nine months.

So all human beings share this primal rhythm

of unfolding based upon the lunar cycle.

And that's a real interesting key

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

>>There are many ways of dividing time:

solar cycles, lunar cycles, and larger cycles of time.

The Mayans devised their Long Count calendar,

which combines a cycle of 20 named days

with another cycle of 13 numbers to produce 260 unique days.

Each of the 20 days is linked to a different god

in Mayan mythology.

The great cycle started in 3114 BC and ends in December 2012.

>>Well, the Long Count calendar is the most interesting

calendar that the Maya had devised.

This is of great interest in our times

because this large cycle in the Long Count calendar,

this period of 13 baktuns, ends in 2012.

So there's a great interest in figuring out

why the early Maya sky watchers picked 2012

to end this large cycle of time.

>>The Mayans were excellent calendar makers.

They inter-correlated the movements

of the moon, the sun, and even Venus

to make their calendars very precise.

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

the baktun, ending here in 2012.

So it seems, perhaps, they were trying

to call attention to something.

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

What is the significance of this date?

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

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

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

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

Now, another thing that's interesting about this period

of the 13-baktun cycle that began in 3113 BC

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

This is a time when great world teachers appeared

on the stage of history, Pythagoras among the Greeks,

the Buddha, Zoroaster among the ancient early Persians.

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

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

defines periods in human culture, dawn points, high noon

points, and end points.

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

calendar was discovered at Izapa in Mexico.

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

and a sun deity.

Why was this important to the Mayans?

>>It's really a beautiful and profound way

of conceiving time.

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

place of the 2012 calendar, I've been

able to see how the Mayan wisdom--

it's not just some provincial belief

system of a forgotten people.

It actually is like a little doorway

that opens up into the great spiritual insights

that all of the great traditions share.

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

great spiritual traditions share these same universal, eternal

spiritual principles.

And it has to do with cycle endings.

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

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

there are extended periods of darkness and light.

These are divided into distinct ages, known

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

and the iron age.

>>The ancients themselves told us

that history, mankind would go into a dark age.

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

as the golden age.

They see themselves moving into the dark age,

and they dread it because they know

that things are going to get worse,

they're going to get chaotic.

Cultures all around the world are

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

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

that the golden age, the time of connection

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

and we've been moving through periods

of increasing densification, increasing

alienation from the spiritual light.

>>Golden ages are times of enlightenment,

when civilizations reach high points in architecture,

spirituality, and benevolence.

This is considered to decline slightly in the silver age,

further deteriorating in the bronze age,

and reaching extreme levels of chaos, corruption,

and ignorance in the iron age, or dark age.

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

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

through the ages of the zodiac, which the ancient Egyptians

clearly understood.

>>The origin of the zodiacal signs

is a very good question actually, and probably

impossible to determine.

The only one of the signs that vaguely

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

The stars making up Virgo definitely

don't look like a virgin, whatever

a virgin looks like these days.

And the other signs are equally mysterious,

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

Knowledge of precession and advance

astronomy existed in extremely distant times.

The basis of the signs themselves in terms of zodiac,

the wheel of life or the wheel of animals,

there are different translations of that-- If you really

want to know what the sign signify,

you have to go into the qualities

and properties of the signs themselves.

In other words, each sign is male or female,

each sign is fire, earth, air, water.

>>Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has distinct energies.

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

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

or creative signs.

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

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

and re-create the chronology.

>>There is a gap in our historical record.

>>The Palermo Stone and the Turin Papyrus

are evidence from the Egyptians themselves,

and convey information from rulers far back

in Egyptian history.

>>And they give the reignal years

and the name of each of these rulers.

And when you compute all of those names

and put the numbers together, you get a date somewhere

around 34,000, 36,000 BC.

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

corresponds to the Vedas of India,

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

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

like 40,000 years before our current era.

So we have two great, sophisticated civilizations

that have documented their own belief that their civilization

started back around that kind of time.

>>It is interesting to note that this is roughly one

and one half processional cycles ago,

dating back to a previous golden age.

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

as a marker for an age of Leo.

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

So that's the date favored by Graham and by Robert Bauval.

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

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

11,500 BC.

It certainly followed, and this is known,

there are the quaternary extinctions.

All the mammoths and the woolly rhinoceroses

die all over the world.

Siberia, which was temperate, becomes tundra and arctic.

North America, which was under a couple of miles of ice sheet,

melts, and all that water goes into the sea.

The sea rises 300 feet over the course

of a couple of thousand years, but in stages.

And some of those stages, very precipitous,

maybe corresponding to the biblical flood

and possibly Plato's Atlantis myth.

So under these circumstances, which are catastrophic

the world over, to me, it seems unlikely

that the Sphinx, and the pyramids, which presupposes

a settled, and stable, and sophisticated society,

could have built those amazing structures

under those kinds of conditions.

So that leaves anything before 10,500 BC,

but I like the idea of the Leo symbolism,

so the next age of Leo back is 26,000 years earlier.

And that puts it back at around 36,000 BC,

which, outrageous as it sounds, by a process of exclusion,

turns out to be maybe less outrageous because there are

big problems with those other later dates.

>>Looking at the weathering on the Sphinx and the Sphinx

enclosure, that weathering was clearly

formed by runoff from precipitation.

>>It is indeed water weathering and precipitation-induced,

so it has to have been done in the distant past.

And the question, then, is how distant was that past?

>>It could take tens of thousands of years for the Nile

to have migrated eight miles.

Can we use this evidence to re-date these monuments?

>>When you look at geology, you can

see that the riverbed has migrated all the way

from the west, beyond 50 kilometers to the west,

then it passed across the plateau,

and you can see that the ancient riverbed actually

went right up the pyramids and the initiates

could have stepped right off these barges up

onto the causeways into the pyramids.

Now if you look, the Nile is a full eight miles to the east,

and it's the dividing point between Cairo and Giza.

And so if we look at geological time,

it would take several tens of thousands of years in order

for the Nile to make that migration.

We can compare that to places like Tiahuanaco

in Bolivia that almost certainly was

on the edge of Lake Titicaca, and now it's 50 miles away.

So it changes the whole idea of how ancient

these places could have been.

>>How many thousands of years does it

take for a river to make this huge journey?

The oases of Al Kharga and Faiyoum

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

It seems that the river migrated all the way from here

to its current course.

Evidence of ancient human settlements

has been found in the area that is now desert,

but once had water.

At these locations are stone circles

indicating a knowledge of astronomy.

What does it tell us about the distant past?

What can we conclude you about the dating

of the pyramids and the Sphinx?

>>All I can really say at this point, given the data I have,

is that I think it has been at least back to 5,000 BC.

Could it be older?

In fact, might it well be older?

Yes.

Generally, if sort of pressed for dates, I'll say,

my best estimate is somewhere in the period of 7,000 to 5,000

BC.

So that's really a working range that I'm comfortable with.

We're also finding, elsewhere in Egypt and around the world,

that other things were happening in that same period, 7,000

to 5,000, approximately, BC that, to me, puts

the Sphinx into a larger regional

and global setting, that it's not just a isolated thing.

It doesn't seem as isolated as it did 15 years ago

when we had less knowledge.

You come to tentative conclusions.

If more data comes in that seems to indicate something else,

I don't ever want to be afraid to change my conclusions

and go where the evidence takes me.

>>I'll stick with my extreme 36,000 BC date

until proved otherwise.

And if proved otherwise, I will change my mind.

>>How can we tie the concept of the Yuga, or Vedic cycles,

into something more concrete that we

can recognize in our own history?

If we re-examined the stories that are often

dismissed as fanciful myth, we might

find that it indicates greater forces in play.

>>Those of us that are seriously looking

at this old Vedic concept of the world ages, the cycle,

we know that the golden age, the last golden age-- basically,

the peak of the cycle-- was about 11,500 BC, the highest

point.

But we also know that Plato mentions

a series of catastrophes, which have come down

to us as the Atlantis legend, in which he claims

that, on our calendar system it would have been around 9,500

BC, some tremendous upheaval apparently occurred.

A lot of destruction.

Isn't it also possible that for all of those maybe several

thousand years, whatever those catastrophes were,

were so cataclysmic that even with that silver age

or golden age consciousness, they

weren't fully able to recover.

The end of the golden age and the decline

into the following silver age, or what

we would refer to as mental age, marked the time

at which we were falling out of this state on this planet

where the average person had the potential, the capability,

to be in a very high state of awareness.

And they were a far more enlightened and benevolent

society than we would be able to even imagine now.

But they were beginning to lose that almost divine state that

exists in the golden age.

And as they started to descend into the silver age,

there began to be more of an emphasis on what we would now

refer to as sacred sites and sacred structures.

>>You could almost think of it as machines

to enhance consciousness, or to create an environment where,

you might call it altered states of experience,

but changes in consciousness, expansion of consciousness.

>>What these were really intended to do,

it wasn't so much for the selfish purpose of,

for example, boosting up a few individuals.

This actually had to do with a much larger global perspective.

And that's, effectively, what the Great Pyramid was.

It was, basically, a device, a generator for, if you will,

broadcasting and transmitting throughout the planetary

structure a type of field which uplifted the entire humanity.

For at least 1,000 years this structure

performed beautifully.

My guess is that it probably did a lot

to help offset the fall into the dark ages.

And I think what the pyramids did

is that for those individuals that were at least somewhat

receptive, it just kind of kept that energy polarized

into the higher centers.

>>This is very real.

I think this is very important.

It's like a great art, or great spiritual insight,

expansion of consciousness.

In a way, there's nothing more important than that.

>>It couldn't do it forever because eventually

mother nature is going to win out.

And this cycle is part of nature.

It's as much a part of the natural world as day and night

are.

We have the ability to grasp those electromagnetic forces

and the more fundamental forces that underlie those to,

basically, prop up humanity for a while using the system.

Now, the pyramids only have a very direct effect

if you're close to them, which is the way it is in this age.

If we go stand in the pyramid, we

might feel an effect like that.

But, I suspect, thousands of years

ago you didn't have to be near it.

I think it was probably a global effect.

>>The physical structure could only do so much.

The wisdom keepers created social structures

as an additional influence to extend

the energy of the golden age by creating mystery schools that

preserved the ancient knowledge.

>>The whole idea of the schools of mystery,

and the ancient knowledge, and preserving those traditions

that had come down from those fabulous ages, that was lost.

And then, eventually, it was ridiculed,

and then finally, it had to go underground

because people would either actively burn those texts

or persecute the people who had that belief system.

And I think, at that point, we were in the dark ages.

>>The exact end of the cycle of darkness is approaching.

Each winter solstice before 2012, our sun

comes into close alignment with the galactic center.

This means we are beginning to feel the shift of energy

already, even though the exact conjunction is

December the 21st, 2012.

>>So all signs point to the interpretation

that we are deep into the period of increasing darkness.

What happens at the end of that downward trend is a turnabout.

And I believe that that's where we are right now in history.

The Mayan material for 2012 basically

indicates this turnabout point, this point

of maximized spiritual darkness.

But then, in the cycles of time, we turn the corner,

and we have an opportunity to open up

to the transformational energies that

can sweep us into the next cycle.

>>I hope that the Mayan ancestors trying

to interpret the few writings that are left

are correct, that it means there's

going to be some quickening, or something like that,

because that would actually go with our latest

understanding of the Yugas.

What a Yuga cycle really is is one precession of the equinox.

Using these later scholars' interpretation,

we're actually in the very early stages

of consciousness accelerating.

>>It has to do with the opportunity

that we have to open up to the divine wisdom,

to the transformational energies.

But it always comes down to free will.

Nothing is predetermined.

It always comes down to a choice that we all

have to close down in fear, succumb

to fear, close down, become more limited in our consciousness,

or open up, open up to the blessing of the connection

to the higher wisdom that is symbolized

in the Maya tradition by the galactic center, the womb

of the Great Mother, that which can transform and renew.

>>Could the ancients have had it right?

Perhaps we should consider that we, too,

can return to high levels of consciousness,

heightened perception, and inspired creativity.

It would serve us well to embrace nature

and to protect the planet's environment.

Can we go beyond religious dogma and allow ourselves

to imagine what lies beyond death?

How would humanity change if, instead of material wealth,

consciousness was our highest value?

>>The ideas depicted in "The Pyramid Code"

revolutionize accepted beliefs about the purpose and the age

of the pyramids and the Sphinx.

Clearly not tombs, these ancient structures

may have been used to access and transmit

a type of energy that affects human consciousness.

We have seen concrete evidence of high-level technology

with laser-cut crystals, polished, black basalt floors,

and curious and sophisticated instruments,

including those that generated energy from sound and light.

Looking at the old riverbed, it seems clear

that the Nile has migrated over time,

and that it once flowed to the east of the pyramids.

The ancient Egyptians built temples

using sacred geometry corresponding

to cavities in the human body.

They had a profound belief in the significance of the stars

and how the patterns of the constellations

corresponded to our place in the cosmos.

They understood large cycles of time,

and they kept meticulous records of the motion of the stars

and planets.

The ancients had a deep respect for the sacred feminine

principle, and the importance of balancing

the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine.

From pre-dynastic to dynastic times,

the ancients maintained a deep reverence for nature.

They were astonishingly creative and artistic.

From clues left on temple walls, it

seems clear that our Egyptian ancestors accessed

altered states of consciousness.

Their primary concerns were how we

arrived in our earthly bodies, described in terms of biology,

and what happened when we left our earthly bodies, described

in terms of cosmology.

Our ancestors left clues embedded

in symbols that had multiple layers of meaning.

They were empowered humans using the full capacity

of their senses.

Today, our planet is in trouble politically,

economically, environmentally, and morally.

Many will agree that corrupt people hold places of power.

Citizens are taxed beyond reason,

and riches are amassed by an elite that controls the world.

With all this evidence of the sophisticated science left

by the ancients, can we still uphold the belief

that we are the most advanced society that

has ever existed on planet Earth?

Is today's test-driven education system effective?

Instead of rote memorization of facts,

what would happen if today's youth were

taught to expand their capacity to know?

If we were taught to seek truth and justice

living by the ancient law of Ma'at,

how would our society change?

Taking our cue from the ancients,

if we live in tune with nature, in an atmosphere of creativity

and peace, and if we connect to spirituality,

is this the answer to a healthy future for humanity?

The ominous date of December the 21st,

2012, is fast approaching.

Does this herald doomsday, or could it be a powerful gateway

into new ways of being and thinking?

Are we turning the corner and ascending out

of the age of darkness to journey

toward a new golden age?

Is it possible that the ancients living

in a golden age in the distant past

were able to see into future cycles of time?

Could they have predicted that humanity

would plummet into the depths of collective despair?

Could they have predicted that humans would be disempowered,

thus losing their connection to spirituality.

Did they leave magnificent structures skillfully aligned

to the stars and encoded with symbols

to act as a trigger for us to wake up now?

It seems humanity is at a crucial juncture

as we approach 2012.

Are we ready to walk forward into a new future?

Have we finally cracked the pyramid code?

>>Wake up.

We have it.

We got it.

Just know that we have it, and it works.

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