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NARRATOR: They can control nature...

DAVID WILCOCK: Clouds come swirling in, lightning is

coming down.

NARRATOR: they can access other dimensions...

WILLIAM HENRY: This energy enables them to travel

into the realm of the spirit beings.

NARRATOR: and connect with otherworldly beings.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Those creatures actually existed

in physical form.

NARRATOR: Throughout history, spiritual leaders known as

shamans have healed, protected, and advised their people.

But are they simply putting on elaborate ceremonies?

Or is there something more to their rituals?

DAVID CHILDRESS: In a sense, in these shamanistic states,

you're tapping into extraterrestrial powers.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might the evidence lie with mystical healers known

as the shamans?

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NARRATOR: Northern China, 1211 A.D.

Five years after uniting the nomadic tribes of Mongolia,

Genghis Khan launches a brutal invasion against Chinese Jin forces.

Despite being severely outnumbered, the Mongol army

decimates their enemy in what is believed to be one of the

bloodiest battles in Genghis Khan's more than 20 years of conquest.

By the time of his death in 1227, his empire... covering most

of Asia, Russia, and parts of Europe... had become the largest in the world.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Genghis Khan was a great warrior.

He amassed one of the most awesome armies in the history of

the planet, and he would go up the mountains to commune

with the sky gods to gain power for his battles.

NARRATOR: According to historical accounts, the Great

Khan was also described as relying on powerful magic to

create severe weather on demand, like hail storms, hurricanes

and tornadoes to confound and defeat his enemies.

WILCOCK: They march into battle.

And the next thing you know, clouds come swirling in,

lightning is coming down, rain is falling down, ice is

falling down, chunks of hail, snow.

The soldiers are not equipped for this sudden burst of cold.

They're shivering, they're freezing, they're slipping

and falling on the ice.

And then they get totally wiped out by the invading Mongolian army.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS: What was remarkable about Genghis

Khan is that we tend to think about him today as being this

despotic, mad, cruel ruler.

He was a priest king, something known as a shaman.

NARRATOR: In Mongolian culture, certain members of the

tribe were thought to have the ability to communicate directly

with the gods, accessing seemingly supernatural powers

and information.

These holy prophets were commonly known as shamans.

Is it possible that Genghis Khan, one of the greatest

conquerors in human history, used his connection with the

divine to build the massive Mongol empire?

And if so, just what does it mean to be a shaman?

For thousands of years, in cultures throughout the world,

shamans have been described as intermediaries who provide

a link between humans and otherworldly beings.

Known in some cultures as medicine men or witch doctors,

they are believed to have the power to travel to other realms

in order to bring back healing, wisdom, and guidance to their people.

The word "shaman" originated with the indigenous people of

Siberia... and means simply "to know."

RONALD HUTTON: Shamans think of the universe as being

constructed in different layers, one on top of each

other, each one containing a separate world.

One of the skills of the shaman is to be able to travel

herself or himself between these different worlds in spirit form.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: Shamans are people who enter those realms

and negotiate with the intelligent beings that inhabit those realms.

NARRATOR: But are shamans simply experiencing hallucinations...

daydreams manifested in their minds?

Or is it possible that their visions are real?

Dismissed by some today as madmen or charlatans, in the

ancient world, shamans like Genghis Khan often held

positions of great influence.

And ancient astronaut theorists claim the stories of these

shamans reveal a connection to otherworldly beings.

Copán, Western Honduras.

In the ruins of this archaeological site, once a

major Mayan city that thrived from 400 to 800 A.D., stands

a statue of one of its most powerful ancient kings,

Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, commonly known as 18 Rabbit.

PHILLIPS: Around 2,000

years ago, the Mayan empire was at its height.

And they had a king by the name of 18 Rabbit.

The rabbit, to the ancient Mayans, represented the Moon.

So, basically, 18 Rabbit was considered to be

an incarnation of the Moon god.

And he is said to have had all sorts of miraculous powers.

NARRATOR: By the end of his 44-year reign, 18 Rabbit had

erected seven stone pillars, each depicting him interacting

with the divine.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN: The stela of Copán shows King 18 Rabbit

standing in the center of the universe.

But on the side of him is a portal to another world.

So it would seem to be telling us that he had access to the

other world as well as being the commander and chief of this world.

ED BARNHART: Today, we separate politics and religion.

In the past, especially for the Maya, that was not the case.

To be the king was to also be supernatural; to have shamanic ability.

You were not just a king, you were a shaman king.

And 18 Rabbit, like every other king in the dynasty of Copán

and in the cities around them, was a shaman.

NARRATOR: According to Maya tradition, shaman kings like

18 Rabbit would connect with otherworldly beings through

a process known as bloodletting.

LOGAN HAWKES: The Mayan king would put a spine through his hand.

Blood would be collected by the shaman into a piece of paper.

And it would then be put into a fire and it would smoke.

And by watching this smoke rise, the shaman could see what

actions they were supposed to take according to the will of

the gods revealed in the smoke that was made by the blood of

the king or the ruler.

BARNHART: The right to rulership for a Maya king,

the thing that the people followed him for was his ability

to contact the other world.

Through shamanic ceremonies, he was able to ask for the favor

of the gods for the people.

HENRY: 18 Rabbit was a very powerful shaman king.

And you have to ask... is it possible that these gods

could be extraterrestrials?

And perhaps it was the guidance of these extraterrestrial beings

that made him such a powerful leader.

TSOUKALOS: All around the world we can hear stories of

how shamans state that they were in communications

with beings from other worlds.

Is it possible that what we see in the experiences of ancient

shamans is extraterrestrial human contact?

And this contact wasn't seen as something dangerous or strange

but rather as a means for moving humanity forward due to new and

important knowledge received.

NARRATOR: Were kings like 18 Rabbit really communicating

with divine, perhaps even extraterrestrial, beings?

Was it this otherworldly guidance that made them so powerful?

But, if so, where did these ancient shaman learn how to

access these incredible abilities?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be found

by examining the transformative and sometimes dangerous process

of becoming a shaman.

NARRATOR: Fort Lauderdale, Florida. January 27, 2014.

A Peruvian-born shaman leads a group of participants in an

ancient Andean practice.

Known as a despacho ceremony,

this ritual dates back thousands of years.

OSCAR MIRO-QUESADA: In Peru, despachos or (speaks foreign

language), which are offerings, have existed since the first

pre-Columbian peoples settled the Andes and coastal areas.

Despacho consists of a ritual honoring with reverence our

ancestral star relatives in the cosmos that have been guiding

the evolution of humankind on planet Earth.

Every time I perform a Pachacuti ritual, portals are opened,

conduits between the Earth and the sky are revealed.

(blowing conch)

(bell ringing)

WILCOCK: It is believed that through ceremonies such as the

despacho, shamans are in fact able to access these so-called

nonlocal realms of being in the universe.

That helps to unify those of Earth with those from the sky.

NARRATOR: If shamans really are able to access these

so-called nonlocal realms, how are they doing it?

And who or what has chosen them to be the ones to communicate

with beings from beyond our world?

MIRO-QUESADA: I came into this shamanic tradition as a

result of deep curiosity as a child.

(speaking foreign language)

I learned from my two primary mentors in folk healing known as

curanderismo the following:

the spirit world is here with us.

Let us celebrate through that portal to the stars.

I was introduced to a universe in which seen as well as unseen

relatives and allies and spirit helpers abound.

And forming relationships with these spirit helpers was the

foundation of my apprenticeship.

NARRATOR: But who are the spirit helpers?

Are they actual beings who exist in a realm most of us are unable

to experience?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer may be found

in the story of a famous Native American shaman.

Bighorn Mountain range, Wyoming.

Nearly 10,000 feet up, on a desolate peak that is only

accessible during the brief summer months, lies a structure

known as the Bighorn Medicine Wheel.

This massive stone circle measures over 75 feet in

diameter and contains 28 spokes representing the lunar cycle.

By studying the astronomical alignments of the stones,

researchers were able to date the construction of the site to

approximately 1200 A.D.

Although it is held sacred by over 60 different Native

American tribes, just who built the medicine wheel remains a mystery.

BRIAN BURKHART: So, the Bighorn Medicine Wheel is-is

significant to a lot of tribes because it has this connection

to a lot of different traditions in terms of star knowledge and

star power and ceremony.

NARRATOR: According to the oral tradition of the Crow

tribe, the 19th century leader Red Plume made a journey to the

medicine wheel as a young man that shaped his destiny as a

powerful shaman and chief.

BURKHART: The medicine wheel connect to particular

constellations that are kind of like vortexes between certain

star energy and certain Earth energy, and the medicine wheel

seems to be creating some place that marks the particular spot

at a particular time where those star energies and Earth energies

and human energy come together.

NARRATOR: During what the Crow tribe call his "vision"

"quest," Red Plume claimed to have encountered a mysterious

race of beings he called "little people."

CHILDRESS: He was visited, he said, by these little men who

then took him inside the Earth into some kind of a vortex wormhole.

There, they taught him secrets of medicine.

(voices whispering)

BURKHART: There are lots of stories about little people in

Native tradition across the Americas.

The little people come from another planet, and they kind of

play around with human beings.

But they're also protectors of them, teaching them even through

that playfulness.

CHILDRESS: Is it possible that this medicine man was

actually meeting with extraterrestrials who then

taught him some medical secrets and then allowed him to return

back to his people?

(caws)

TSOUKALOS: These stories didn't originate in our

ancestors' imagination.

There is a core of truth to all those stories.

And so, those beings, are they, in reality, of extraterrestrial

origin, something physical, flesh and blood?

Absolutely.

Those beings are the progenitors of knowledge.

NARRATOR: Could the stories of the Bighorn Medicine Wheel

be describing extraterrestrial contact?

Is this where shamans, like Red Plume, acquired wisdom from

otherworldly beings?

In cultures throughout the world, there are stories of

shamanic initiation at the hands of so-called spirits.

Oftentimes, the process is described as dangerous.

In fact, many healers are said to be taken against their will

for this instruction.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: When shamans narrate their life

stories, they usually do not say, "Well, I chose to be a shaman."

The healer does not choose her or his profession.

They are chosen by the spirits.

DAVID CUMES: The shaman is usually called and there's some

sort of wound that the shaman sustains.

It can be any bizarre malady:

being struck by lightning, epileptic fits, a bad accident,

anything that wounds the person and enables them to go inward.

It's quite a hardship, you know.

It's not something that anybody who really knows about it would

readily undertake.

HUTTON: Once the spirits have got you, you either die or

remain permanently sick or become a shaman.

There aren't a lot of ways out.

You often go mad for a bit, or fall sick for a bit, as the

spirits take possession of you.

And then you go through a... a visionary process in which, for

example, quite often you feel your entire body being taken

apart and then put back together again.

And when you're back together again, you're starting to

acquire the abilities to travel through time and space.

NARRATOR: Why would so many of these traditional healers

share this belief that they had been chosen and physically

changed by spirits?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more clues can be found

by examining the similarities between these shamanic

experiences and the stories of modern day UFO abductions.

HANCOCK: People who believe they've been abducted by aliens

will speak of implants being put in their bodies.

Put there by the aliens.

Exactly the same experiences are reported in much more

traditional cultures, shamanistic cultures.

The construal there is that this is being done by the spirits.

And the similarity between the two experiences are very,

very, very strong and very, very powerful.

CHILDRESS: Perhaps what's happening is that you're really

in contact with some kind of extraterrestrials.

And in a sense, in these shamanistic states, you're

tapping into what we would almost call extraterrestrial powers.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that shamans receive their mysterious

powers through alien abductions?

And might this explain why shamans all over the world claim

to have a connection to other realms?

Perhaps the answers can be found in the strange and powerful

visions experienced by shamans in the Amazon.

NARRATOR: The Amazon Jungle, Peru.

Stretching from the Andes mountains to the eastern shores

of Brazil, this rain forest is home to more than 80,000 species

of plants... many of which shamans and religious healers

have consumed for thousands of years as a way to access realms

they say are inhabited by otherworldly beings.

MAGLIOCCO: In the Amazon, one of the shaman's jobs... aside

from going to the other world and speaking with the spirits...

is to find the plants right here on Earth that can heal the

people of his tribe.

And in the Amazonian belief systems, each plant in the

jungle has its own spirit.

And one of the shaman's gifts is that he can communicate with

these plant spirits.

NARRATOR: Originating in the central Andes of South America,

ayahuasca, meaning "the vine of the souls," is a psychedelic

brew consisting of two different types of plants cooked with water.

ROSS HEAVEN: And this is drunk by the shaman in order to

enter the spirit world to gain information about diseases, to

foresee the future, um, to carry out a healing for somebody.

We know some of the history of ayahuasca because archaeologists

have found artifacts from the rain forest which date back

three and a half thousand or 4,000 years.

But those are only the surviving artifacts that they found.

Potentially, this could go back to the beginning of time.

NARRATOR: Ayahuasca contains dimethyltryptamine... or DMT...

one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man.

But strangely, this chemical compound only works when

consumed under precise conditions.

CUMES: Ingest DMT, it's inactivated in the intestine by,

uh, by certain enzymes.

So in order to get the DMT to be activated and to be able to be

absorbed, they had to combine it with other plants.

HANCOCK: Ayahuasca contains a mixture of two plants.

There's actually quite subtle and sophisticated knowledge of

plants goes into the preparation, 'cause these two

things separately will not work.

You have to mix them together and let's not forget that

there's 150,000 different species of plants and trees in the Amazon.

It's really quite an amazing achievement of ancient

chemistry to bring these two plants together to produce a

highly psychoactive visionary brew.

NARRATOR: But how did ancient people living in the jungles of

Peru over 3,000 years ago, with tens of thousands of plants to

choose from, figure out that combining these two particular

plants would produce these powerful visions?

According to the mythology of the Achuar people of the Amazon,

their ancestors didn't discover this on their own, but were

guided by extraterrestrial beings.

HEAVEN: The shamans communicated with their spirits,

and were told to go into the jungle and turn two corners, as

the myth goes, and then they would find this plant, and they

brought that back to the village, prepared it in the

appropriate way.

WILCOCK: The oral tradition says that ayahuasca is a linkage

to the upper world.

And it is entirely possible that they were given this gift by

their own gods, which may be extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: If the Achuar story of how their ancestors

discovered ayahuasca is true, could they have been guided not

by spirits, but by extraterrestrial beings, beings

who communicated with them on another plane of reality?

Between 1990 and 1995, scientists at the University of

New Mexico administered DMT, the active ingredient in ayahuasca,

to 60 volunteers and discovered shocking results.

HENRY: Medical researchers actually administered DMT to

patients in a controlled medical setting and they had exactly

the same experiences as those reported in the jungles of

South America and elsewhere who are experiencing ayahuasca.

HEATHER BERLIN: Ayahuasca users typically experience

hallucinations in the visual form, and a lot of them say that

they see other beings.

And a lot of them say that they get messages sent to them

from these beings.

HANCOCK: In several cases, those intelligent entities said

to them roughly the following:

"We're so pleased you've discovered this technology.

Now we can communicate with you more often."

Perhaps what we're dealing with here is intelligent inhabitants

of other dimensions.

NARRATOR: Why would so many people report such similar

experiences while using ayahuasca?

Is it possible DMT provides access to another realm?

HEAVEN: Some shamans believe that plants like ayahuasca have

an extraterrestrial origin, that they drifted here as space

spores perhaps and then came to Earth on comets, started growing here.

And perhaps they even had an agenda.

Perhaps they are communication from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible extraterrestrials gave the

ancients the recipe for this powerful concoction as a way to

communicate healing powers with shamans?

And if so, might the very core of mankind's knowledge about

medicine have come from an otherworldly source?

Hua Shan Mountain, China.

This 7,000-foot-high peak in the Shaanxi province is believed to

have been the place where Shennong, a benevolent emperor

that ruled the area more than 4,500 years ago, was conceived.

According to accounts from the Han dynasty, Shennong not only

introduced agriculture to mankind, but also developed a

profound knowledge of Chinese herbs.

DOMINIC STEAVU: Shennong pledged that he would venture

out into the world and test every plant on the planet in

order to determine its benefits for humans and also to catalog,

uh, the more toxic or dangerous effects of ingesting these plants.

Sometimes he would ingest, of course, poisonous plants and he

would suffer poisonings up to 70 times, uh, per day.

NARRATOR: More than 2,000

years later, Shennong's findings were compiled in The Divine

Farmer's Herb-Root Classic, a medical journal that became one

of the foundations of Chinese medicine.

But just how could this mysterious being have tested so

many herbs, some even containing deadly poisons?

CHILDRESS: Shennong was a quite unusual person.

It's said that he had a transparent stomach.

And he himself, after ingesting these poisons, would look into

his own stomach and see how these poisons were interacting

with himself.

And then he would take the antidotes for it.

So you have to wonder if he's not some kind of extraterrestrial.

HENRY: Shennong could, in fact, have been an astral or

star being who came to Earth to teach the secrets of healing.

TSOUKALOS: This idea would explain his strange appearance

and also his ability to withstand ingesting poisonous

plants without ever being harmed.

NARRATOR: Might Shennong have been an alien visitor?

One who traveled to Earth in order to educate mankind about

medicine and the healing nature of plants?

And is this proof that ingesting DMT, a practice that dates back

thousands of years, actually connects shamans with

extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim further evidence

lies with the supernatural healing rituals of the San Bushmen.

NARRATOR: The Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Here, the native San Bushmen hold elaborate fireside rituals,

lasting for hours into the night.

During these ceremonies, their shamans perform what's known as

a trance dance, through which they reach an altered state of

being and access other dimensions.

HENRY: The trance dance is thought to activate an energy in

their body called "n/um."

And this energy opens a portal of sorts that enables them to

travel into the spirit world.

And when the Bushmen activate this energy, they're able to put

their hands in the fire without being burned.

They can see vast distances and it's as if in every way, shape

and form, they're transformed into super powerful beings.

NARRATOR: By accessing the power of n/um energy, it is

believed that a shaman can extract illness, see the insides

of the sick and travel out of their own body to the land of the gods.

CUMES: This n/um, it goes up the body and then often it goes

out of the crown of the head and that's usually when the

out-of-body experience occurs and they travel to the spirit world.

I've seen a Bushman put a coal in his mouth and he wasn't burned.

They'll put their heads in the fire, and although their

hair might singe and even catch fire, their face won't be

burned, so something is happening with this n/um energy.

They call it boiling energy.

It's almost like there's a vibrational change in their

whole body and probably in their DNA in some way.

NARRATOR: Could this so-called n/um energy really be inherent

in shamans accessed only while in a sort of dream state?

And is it possible that the genetic makeup of these medicine

men is what allows them to access other dimensions?

PHILLIPS: The San Bush-people have a tradition that

they are the first tribe ever created.

They're the oldest people in the world.

DNA tests have shown that they probably are.

That all other cultures and all other peoples that spread

throughout the world came, originally, from where the San

people are now.

WILCOCK: When we look at the San Bushmen and we see the clear

genetic evidence that they are the primordial seed of human

civilization and life on Earth it is possible that their DNA is

especially well equipped to have this potential to access these

non-ordinary states of consciousness which may, in

fact, be a key to physically journeying into them giving

these people the ability to do things that most of us seemingly cannot.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the San Bushmen have special

knowledge of how to alter their genetic makeup in order to

access other realms?

A knowledge that is shared by shamans around the world?

And might this knowledge or power have been given to them by

alien beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe an undeniable connection

between shamans and extraterrestrials can be found

in cave paintings that date back thousands of years.

The Lascaux Caves, Southwestern France.

Discovered in 1940 near the village of Montignac, this cave

complex is covered in Paleolithic paintings dating

back more than 17,000 years.

Anthropologists believe ancient shamans used these subterranean

chambers to perform sacred rituals, and curiously, among

the many Ice Age animals that are depicted on the walls, there

is a strange creature that has the body of a man and the head of a bird.

HANCOCK: The technical term for such a creature is a

therianthrope, and that's from the Greek "therian," which means

wild beast and "anthropos,"

which means man.

Clearly these are not things that one encounters in everyday life.

The imagery of cave art is best explained as the experiences

that shamans undergo in a deep state of trance.

When they return from the trance state they then depict, on the

cave walls, the visions that they have seen in this deeply

altered state of consciousness.

NARRATOR: The birdman found in Lascaux is reminiscent of one

of the Egyptians' most important gods: Thoth.

It is also consistent with the depiction of the Sumerian sky

gods, the Anunnaki.

But is it mere coincidence that these shamans are encountering

the same types of beings while in a trance that the world's

earliest civilizations depicted as their gods?

WILCOCK: In all of these different indigenous cultures

around the world there are remarkable similarities of what

types of beings people claim to be meeting when they go out of body.

This suggests that in the dream plane and in the shamanic state,

there is in fact a real place that we are going, and real

beings that we are encountering when we get there.

TSOUKALOS: This is where the ancient astronaut theory

suggests that they were the same teachers... the teachers that

went to all the ancient cultures

and brought them the basics for what we've accomplished today.

HANCOCK: There was a big, noticeable change in human

behavior around 40,000 years ago, exactly at the time that

our ancestors begin to manifest the first amazing, uh, cave art.

And what is clear is that it's not a coincidence, that at the

moment that the cave art begins, we also witness in the

archeological record a radical change in human behavior.

NARRATOR: Could the Lascaux cave paintings be proof that

Shamans really do communicate with extraterrestrial beings, as

ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if shamans... like those of the San Bushmen... undergo a

physiological change in order to make this connection, what might

that change be?

Perhaps the answer can be found inside the human brain.

NARRATOR: Tepoztlán, Mexico. October 2011.

Here, just 50 miles from Mexico City... shamans from all over

North and South America gather to commemorate the region's long

tradition of shamanic healing.

Throughout the three-day celebration, these modern-day

medicine men engage in sacred dances, rhythmic chanting, and

drumming... all methods that shamans use to connect with other realms.

But why?

Do these practices really effect a change within the shamans that

allows them to communicate with beings that are otherwise beyond

our perception?

MAGLIOCCO: In many shamanic traditions, shamans have special

tools that allow them to access the spirit world.

Among the most important of these tools are the shaman's

drum, and/or the shaman's rattle.

These are rhythm instruments that beat out a particular

rhythm, that allow the shaman to enter into trance, and to

journey to the world of spirits.

WILCOCK: We see this rapid, very steady rhythm on the drum

as being a central tool in shamans being able to open up

the doors of the mind, giving voice to the unseen realms of

the cosmos.

(people singing)

NARRATOR: Is it merely coincidence that shamans all

over the world share the belief that by repeating certain

rhythmic movements and sounds they can communicate with other realms?

Or might this ancient practice produce a real physiological

change in the shamans themselves?

MAGLIOCCO: There's a neurological explanation for this.

One of the ways that we can alter our consciousness is

through rhythmic movement.

So throughout the world you see many traditions in which people

communicate with the gods by spinning, by dancing, by doing

something rhythmic.

NARRATOR: At the University of California in San Francisco,

neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley is performing experiments using

3D gaming technology that actually track how drumming

effects the human brain.

(rhythmic drumming)

Participants wear virtual reality goggles, and experience

both visual and auditory rhythms.

ADAM GAZZALEY: We feel that if we have a participant learn

how to entrain with different rhythms through game mechanics,

we can strengthen the rhythms of the brain and lead to better

performance, better cognition, better memory, better attention.

And so we're recording, in real time, what's going on in her brain.

You can have a rhythm going on that you're listening to, and

your brain has its own natural rhythms.

The entrainment would be that they become locked in time such

that they follow each other.

We're sort of at, like, the gateway of this frontier now.

NARRATOR: Could rhythm and repetition hold the key to

discovering untapped potential within the human brain?

Might shamans have been aware of this connection for thousands of years?

And is the practice of entering a trance state... still used to

access this power in other spiritual ceremonies across the world?

Pentecostal faith healers incorporate music that mirrors

the rhythm of the heart.

Hypnosis is often achieved through the use of a pendulum.

(priest speaking indistinctly)

Priests performing exorcisms repeat phrases over and over.

(priest shouts indistinctly)

Even the Catholic Rosary involves repeating a sequence of

prayers counted out on a string of beads to communicate with

Almighty God.

HENRY: It seems possible that the shamans must have understood

something about the brain that we're only rediscovering

today... and how the drum in particular can effect the brain.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: It's the brain who works different with

the shamans than with normal people.

I always suggested... look at our brain like a gigantic hole with

big machines in there.

Some of the machines are running, and others are dead.

Now with the shamans, some of the machines are running which,

in other brains, they are not working.

That makes a difference between the brain of a shaman and the

normal, average people.

NARRATOR: Have shamans discovered the means to

communicating with extraterrestrials within the human brain?

And does this suggest that similar powers might exist

within all of humanity... powers that we have yet to fully realize?

McGOWAN: As we settle into the 21st century, our craving to

be connected with what we used to know, what we can know again,

and how unlimited we are as human beings, is something that

we're all seeking.

And it is through the power of shamanism, it is with the help

of these intermediaries, that we can begin to experience this again.

HENRY: The shamans were always bringing advanced

knowledge and leading humanity forward.

They represented healing, and they represented expansion of

our consciousness.

(chanting in native tongue)

CHILDRESS: If these shamans are really in contact with some

kind of extraterrestrial gods, then we can see how these E.T.'s

have been purposely guiding us throughout our history.

In many ways they created us.

And even today, they are still manipulating and guiding us into

the future.

NARRATOR: Did shamans really communicate with otherworldly

beings in the distant past?

Is it possible that through these spiritual mediators,

extraterrestrials were able to influence mankind?

And might such celestial command continue even today?

Perhaps one day we will realize that the key to contact with our

alien ancestors does not lie in technology that propels us to

the stars... but in rediscovering abilities

that already exist deep within ourselves.

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