All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens s07e09 The Genius Factor.eng

NARRATOR: A vision that
changed our understanding

of the universe.

DIANE POWELL: The periodic table
itself came to Mendeleyev in a dream.

NARRATOR: A mysterious voice

behind the world's first code of laws.

DAVID WILCOCK: The Code of Hammurabi
comes from a very advanced point of origin.

NARRATOR: And an inspiration
that strikes two inventors

at the same time.

BOB FRISBEE: It has been suggested that

maybe it is somehow physically in the air.

NARRATOR: Throughout history,

many of the world's greatest thinkers

have credited their genius
to otherworldly sources.

But could there really be an unseen force

behind these incredible minds...

a force with extraterrestrial origins?

DAVID CHILDRESS: These
people are being influenced

by higher beings who are guiding humankind.

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 they be the inspiring force

behind the world's greatest geniuses?

- synced and corrected by chamallow -
- www.addic7ed.com -

NARRATOR: Tacoma, Washington, 2002.

As he walks out of a karaoke bar,

31-year-old Jason Padgett is
brutally mugged by two men,

and knocked unconscious.

When he finally wakes up,

doctors tell him he's lucky
to have escaped the beating

with just a bruised
kidney and a concussion.

But in the coming days,

Jason starts to see the
world in a whole new way.

SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN: Jason Padgett
was not a professional mathematician.

He had studied math a little
bit when he was younger,

like most of us did.

And he never really had
a great interest in math.

But after he was beaten,

he would see mathematical
equations everywhere he looked

and he would really find it beautiful.

HEATHER BERLIN: He had developed
something called synesthesia

where he sort of saw the
world in these fractal images

and then became really
interested in that phenomena

and then started discovering mathematics.

KAUFMAN: He would see
the Pythagorean theorem

in objects that most of us don't notice

or don't ever see those things.

He found them so beautiful
that he decided to capture them

in some sort of visual representation,

and he started drawing all of these things.

NARRATOR: Jason becomes
the only person in the world

with the extraordinary ability

to hand-draw complex fractal shapes.

Scientists say that what may have happened

is that the traumatic
brain injury he suffered

randomly re-wired Jason's neural network,

bringing out genius-like
abilities in some areas.

BERLIN: When a person has
traumatic brain injury,

it's going to be a shock to the
brain to the way that it's wired.

KIRSTEN FISHER: Presumably in the
incidents of a traumatic brain injury,

your brain is, uh, repairing
itself to a certain extent

or sort of compensating for damage by

potentially sort of
re-routing neural circuits.

NARRATOR: Jason Padgett's
story, while incredible,

is not entirely unique.

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota,

Derek Amato hit his head in a pool,

and it transformed him
into a talented pianist,

even though he'd never played in his life.

In Massachusetts, 35-year-old Jon Sarkin

suffered a stroke after surgery

and became a world famous artist.

And after epileptic seizures,

Daniel Tammet became a
mathematical and linguistic genius,

able to see the results
of complex calculations

and even learn a foreign
language in a matter of days.

But if traumatic head injuries
can endow a normal person

with genius-like abilities,

what might that tell us
about the nature of genius?

KAUFMAN: Genius is by definition
a very rare, rare event.

There are very few
geniuses in every generation

that have fundamentally changed the
way that we operate in this world.

And we'll never get a full,
complete understanding of genius

just by looking at the brain.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that a blow to the head

can unlock something in the brain

that makes it more
receptive to ideas, concepts,

and an actual architecture of the universe

that is normally reserved for geniuses?

And if so,

might this provide insight

into why a handful of great
thinkers in every generation...

with names like Einstein,

Shakespeare, Da Vinci,

Confucius and Plato...

seem to be responsible for
so many of the visionary ideas

that have formed the fabric of
our society for thousands of years?

Modern science is still
grasping for answers,

as freak occurrences
such as Jason Padgett's

contradict the traditional view

that brilliance is the result
of good genes and hard work.

DIANE POWELL: There is an
inherited aspect to genius,

and, and... and we... we know that from,

we can name lots of, um, people who

have come from famous families.

Like the Bacon family had
a lot of famous scientists,

the Darwin family.

So, there are a lot of
geniuses where it's inherited.

KAUFMAN: All across history, you
see some very similar characteristics

among the people we tend to call geniuses.

One, geniuses tend to
persevere against lots of odds.

Lots of them have had lots of
handicaps when they were younger,

maybe that even fueled them to want to
achieve higher heights of creativity.

But they have this great
ability to bounce back

and continue persevering along their goals.

NARRATOR: The 20th century's
quintessential genius

Albert Einstein

is said to have perfectly
embodied these characteristics.

His motivation

and boundless curiosity were legendary,

but his physical brain

also had some extraordinary qualities

that may have allowed

for a more profound level of thinking.

POWELL: Albert Einstein's
brain when he died in 1955

was actually kept in formaldehyde

for about 50 years and
wasn't really deeply analyzed

until more recently.

One of the things that they found

was that he has a thicker corpus callosum.

And that's the band of fibers

that connects the left
and the right hemisphere.

NARRATOR: Scientists
believe the corpus callosum

helps different parts
of the brain communicate

and aids in both creativity
and higher thinking.

But are the physical
characteristics of the brain

the only factor in determining
a person's intelligence?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

there may be an even more profound reason.

DAVID CHILDRESS: When we
look at the human brain,

we wonder if we really have
the neurological brain power

to... to really be

such geniuses and... and think
of all of these amazing inventions

and... and, in some cases, just

envision them in... in
their totality all at once.

So,

some scientists have speculated that

what these geniuses are doing

is... is tapping into ideas that are

coming from outside of them.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Do
geniuses have an access

to another level of consciousness

where some of their ideas
are being sent to them?

Or they have the
capability of downloading it

during their dreams?

These are the great questions
of humankind, of the universe.

WILCOCK: Is it possible

that there is something much more important

going on with consciousness

than the physical brain?

It's a compelling possibility

that reveals deeper truths about the nature

of what it means to be human

and whether, in fact, there is some greater

organized effort being made

to steer human knowledge
towards a desired outcome.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that genius

comes not entirely from within the brain,

but also from some force outside the body?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest the evidence
for this can be found

by examining the world's earliest geniuses

and what they claimed was the
true source of their inspiration.

NARRATOR: The Louvre. Paris, France.

This historic museum

houses perhaps the most significant
legal text in the ancient world.

This stele features the
Babylonian god Shamash

talking to King Hammurabi,

and below them, carved in cuneiform text,

are the laws they gave to their people.

It is called the Code of Hammurabi.

BRIAN J. MCVEIGH: Hammurabi,

without a doubt,

was one of the great
geniuses of the ancient world,

and of course, he's famous,

not just for being

the ruler of ancient Babylonia,

but for coming up with what is called

the Code of Hammurabi, which was the first

written legal record.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It's a primitive
document, compared to what we have now, but

he had a whole system of order
and how taxes were collected

and various civil principles
and the rather famous

punishment an eye for an eye, which
has been modified over the years, but

that he had a system.

NARRATOR: The Code of Hammurabi

begins with a prologue,

in which the king boasts
of his great deeds,

but he also writes that the code itself

was dictated to him by
the Babylonian god Shamash.

YOUNG: The great King
Hammurabi went into a trance,

and God

began dictating this incredible document

and channeling it through
the great King Hammurabi,

who was speaking it in a
voice very unlike his own,

language unlike his own.
It's all coming from God.

And when Hammurabi
wakes up from his trance,

the scribes read it back to him,
and he has no memory of dictating it.

It all came from God, and it is brilliant.

An important part is that
Hammurabi did not claim authorship.

He knew this was not of his
making, of his intelligence.

WILCOCK: The system of law that
comes through the Code of Hammurabi

is so intrinsic to the
basic moral understandings

of how to run a society

that much of it is still preserved in some

form in our modern day legal system.

This suggests

that the Code of
Hammurabi comes from a very

advanced point of origin.

NARRATOR: The story behind the
Code of Hammurabi is not unique.

In the ancient world,

moments of genius, including
basic religious beliefs

and scientific principles from
Greece and Rome to India and China

were often said to have been
inspired by divine voices.

ROBERT CARGILL: Think about it: Moses,
Abraham, Noah, the prophets, Jesus.

A lot of the laws, the rules, the customs,

the traditions that we have
are based upon individuals

claiming to have been
told something by a deity.

And it's not just the
Judeo-Christian tradition.

I would argue that in every
culture, you've got a lot of laws

that are essentially traced back to people

claiming to have been told something

by a being who's not of this world.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the course of human civilization

has been determined not by
history's most profound thinkers,

but by some external force
that was guiding them?

The ancients were convinced
they knew the answer.

In fact, the Latin word "genius"
is where the term "genie",

or supernatural creature, comes from.

YOUNG: In the ancient
world, the idea of genius

had much more autonomy
than our modern view.

The genii, which had a life of its own,

a kind of spiritual demon,
entered you. You had a relationship

with the genii, and it was really
the source of the brilliance.

You were a channel, you were
a host, you were involved,

but it was not as personal and
the ownership wasn't as great.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: The Greeks
believed that they were inspired

by the muses.

So what caused a musician
to come up with a new tune?

What caused a writer to
come up with a new story?

It was the spirit of a muse

that went inside the person

and caused that person to become creative

and we see that in the
word "inspire", in spirit.

When we are inspired, we
are filled with spirit.

And we create those things.

NARRATOR: In Alexandria,

Egyptians founded what would become the
greatest library in the ancient world

by erecting a temple to the muses

and asking them to fill
their library with wisdom.

TSOUKALOS: When we say that
"I'm looking for my muse,"

you are looking for

the key with which to unlock

this kingdom of creativity

that resides within each
and every living being.

Is it possible, by reaching this
altered state of consciousness,

to come in contact with
beings or with entities

that are of those different realms?

I think that this is possible.

NARRATOR: Could it be that
the forces of inspiration

that the ancients attributed to the gods

really did emanate from
an otherworldly source,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

CHILDRESS: In the ancient world,
it was really believed that

people were influenced from outside

to have special thoughts, to have

special inspiration and genius-type ideas,

and it was coming from outside of you.

So you have to wonder if these ideas

aren't possibly some kind of

thoughts that are being
projected into your mind,

possibly by extraterrestrials.

WILLIAM HENRY: Perhaps behind
all of this is a belief that

people were directly influenced by

extraterrestrial beings who

gave them immense inspiration or

profound knowledge that then they
were able to share with others.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the geniuses of the ancient world,

and even those among us today,

receive their inspiration
from otherworldly forces?

Perhaps further evidence can be found

by exploring Hindu teachings

that say wisdom can often
come to us in our dreams.

NARRATOR: Madras, India.

In the first decade of the 20th century,

Srinivasa Ramanujan...

a young mathematician
with no formal training...

repeatedly stuns the academic world

with innovative theorems.

Even some of the world's
leading mathematicians

are confounded by his remarkable formulas.

But just as astounding as Ramanujan's work

is the fact that these
formulas came to him in dreams.

WILCOCK: He claimed that a goddess,

a Hindu goddess known as Namagiri

transmitted these theorems to him.

These theorems came to be
known as modular functions,

and still to this day,

they are the most advanced
form of mathematics

that is used by physicists

dealing with relativity
and quantum mechanics.

NARRATOR: How could someone without
any background in mathematics

see such complicated theorems in dreams?

Does Ramanujan's story reveal

how humanity can access
knowledge outside the brain?

MICHAEL DENNIN: So it really raises,
I think, the interesting question...

as we explore consciousness more
from a scientific point of view,

and understand it better... what
types of connections and communications

are occurring on the more cosmic scale?

So "what other connections
exist" "out there?"

I think is a very interesting
question to explore.

POWELL: The people who have
these inspirations, it's not like

they were deriving it. It
comes from the unconscious.

The unconscious is still
a great mystery, you know?

Is it just our unconscious?

Or is it the collective unconscious?

NARRATOR: Could true genius

be the product of a universal mind

or collective unconsciousness?

Ancient Hindus believed

such a repository of
knowledge actually exists...

a universal force that
includes every thought,

action, emotion or experience

that any person ever had or ever will have.

Westerners later named
it the Akashic Record.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: This is a
Sanskrit word, it means "sky."

It's something that can be accessed through

your mind, through your
brain power, through your

spiritual wavelength.

Having access to that
information which is there,

that is not written, but it...

somehow you have to be able to
be in tune with that frequency

in order to obtain that.

NARRATOR: Could it be
that the common talent

all geniuses possess is actually

an ability to access the
wisdom of the Akashic Record

or universal mind?

And if so,

have other modern
geniuses acquired knowledge

from an otherworldly realm?

Einstein received the inspiration

for his groundbreaking theory
of relativity in a dream.

Friedrich August Kekul�

discovered the elusive
shape of the benzene molecule

during a daydream in which he
saw a snake chasing its tail.

And the brilliant Russian
chemist Dmitri Mendeleev

literally dreamed up the
Periodic Table of the Elements.

POWELL: He, in this dream, saw exactly
where all of the elements lined up.

The periodic table itself came in a dream.

Just fully formed.

After coming out of the dream,

he quickly drew them all down.

And it's still the same that we use today.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that a universal mind

has bestowed genius on certain individuals

throughout history?

And might there be scientific
evidence of this phenomenon?

At the Mind Research Network
at the University of New Mexico,

neuropsychologist Rex Jung

uses a magnetoencephalography...

or MEG machine

to measure the brainwave
activity of a test subject.

Dr. Jung believes

this test may show how creative
inspiration strikes the brain.

REX JUNG: Okay, Andre, you ready to begin?

We have three tasks that
we're going to run with Andre.

The first one is vocabulary,

second one is paper folding

and the third one is inductive reasoning.

Andre, I want you to clench your jaw now.

NARRATOR: As the test subject
performs these everyday tasks,

the MEG machine measures
normal brain activity.

JUNG: Andre, now move
your eyes back and forth.

NARRATOR: But then Jung has
the test subject clear his mind.

JUNG: Andre, can you close your eyes

and relax your brain for a moment, please?

NARRATOR: As the subject relaxes his mind,

his brain activity decreases.

But then, suddenly,

the MEG machine detects something new:

alpha waves.

Scientists say these brainwaves

indicate the unconscious mind

is working behind the scenes,

outside our conscious thoughts.

JUNG: The alpha wave have
found to be associated with

divergent thinking, the
manifestation of creative cognition,

and it's also associated
with relaxing the brain

and this is something very important,
I think, to the manifestation of genius,

this ability to,

uh, think of new and useful ideas
that haven't been thought of before.

NARRATOR: Could alpha waves
have been how Ramanujan,

Einstein and Mendeleev

received their flashes of brilliance?

Or how the ancients could
have channeled the gods' wisdom

as they developed their civilization?

If so,

where does mainstream science believe

these thoughts come from?

JUNG: That is, uh, the
million-dollar question.

Uh, it's kind of like, uh,

you know, what is consciousness?

This is kind of a question that
really stumps neuroscientists.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists believe it is possible

that what appears to be
divine or inspired brilliance

that pops unexpectedly
into the minds of geniuses

could come not from the human mind,

but from an extraterrestrial realm.

WILCOCK: Overall, time after time,

we're seeing a through line here

suggesting that there is a deliberate

interface with our minds
that is steering the

progress of human invention
and human innovation

according to a predefined script

for a desired, targeted outcome.

CHILDRESS: So you have to ask yourself,

are extraterrestrials somehow using

this incredible volume of
knowledge of the universal mind

and then directing it to
certain people at certain times

when the time is right and,

in a sense, uh, supervising

the... the education of certain people

who are ready to receive this knowledge?

NARRATOR: If the Akashic
Record actually exists,

could extraterrestrials be using it

to transmit knowledge intended
to shape our civilization?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining breakthroughs
in science and technology

that are achieved by multiple people

in separate locations... simultaneously.

NARRATOR: Washington, D.C.

February 14, 1876.

A lawyer representing Alexander Graham Bell

hand-delivers a patent application
to the U.S. Patent Office

for what Bell describes as
a "harmonic telegraph"...

a device that can transmit vocal sounds.

However, Bell's is actually the
second patent filed that same day

for what later becomes
known as the telephone.

GREG BEIRICH: Alexander Graham
Bell is generally credited

with inventing the telephone.

It's interesting to note
that a man named Elisha Gray

seems to have invented a similar device

right about the same time that Bell did.

Bell's invention involved speaking to one

piece of equipment that was
not connected to the part

that allowed one to hear.

Gray's device involved those
two pieces being connected...

and in fact, that's the
way telephones work today.

NARRATOR: How is it that two inventors
came up with the same revolutionary idea

at the exact same point in history?

Such a patent had never been filed before

anywhere in the world,

and yet two are filed on the same day.

Could this be evidence that
there really is an Akashic Record,

a universal mind that certain
people are able to tap into?

Bell and Gray each charged that
the other had stolen his ideas,

but there is no dispute that both geniuses

had been independently developing
the concept of the telephone

for years.

This amazing story is not unique.

In fact, independent simultaneous
invention happens surprisingly often.

BOB FRISBEE: Throughout history,

there's been this odd
phenomenon of multiple people

discovering the same thing

at about the same time,

even though they are separated

and they don't know what
the other person is doing.

NARRATOR: In 1922,

two Columbia University sociologists,

William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas,

published an academic paper entitled,

"Are Inventions Inevitable?"

Their research found at least 148 instances

of simultaneous inventions

in which the creators
knew little or nothing

about their rivals' work.

POWELL: You had Wallace and Darwin both
independently coming up with evolution.

And you had, um, calculus, um,

independently discovered as well.

FRISBEE: There's multiple
people who discovered oxygen.

There's multiple people who
invented the periodic table.

It's a very surprisingly common phenomenon.

NARRATOR: Ogburn and Thomas concluded

that if the geniuses behind many
inventions had died at birth,

their discoveries would not
have been lost to history.

Others would have made similar discoveries

at about the same time.

FRISBEE: We often have the expression

that an idea that's about to
be discovered is in the air.

Some concept, some experiment.

It's just sort of in the air.

Little bits and pieces are floating around

and someone just has to
bring all of that together

to make the new discovery.

Now, it has been suggested that

maybe it is somehow physically in the air.

There's some sort of information

that the human mind can tap into

to make something like this happen.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the
collective knowledge of the universe...

what some call the Akashic Record...

is embedded in the energy
that is all around us,

and that those we call geniuses

are the handful of individuals
who have the greatest access to it?

WILCOCK: What's going on here?

These are complex abstract thoughts.

We are not talking about something

that you're just going
to come up with at random.

Some would suggest that it's
just a collective unconscious,

that it's some sort of impersonal mind

that we're all sharing that's doing this.

But there is also the interesting idea

that there is a deliberate effect

being enacted here.

That extraterrestrials
are working through us

to implant certain ideas and concepts,

so that we fit onto a timeline

of prescribed human evolution in

which certain discoveries
happen at certain times.

NARRATOR: Could simultaneous
inventions be more than coincidence,

more than the fact that inventors are
working from the same basic technology?

And if so,

are there otherworldly beings

pulling the strings

using the Akashic Record

to reveal information
to humanity's geniuses

when it fits their timetable?

CHILDRESS: So, it may be that as these

academics and inventors are all working on

similar problems and inventions,

then suddenly, yeah, they all

tune in simultaneously

to that little bit of knowledge

and piece of information
that they're all missing

and they all find it.

And it's all because they're
tapping into this universal mind

and tuning in at a time when
it's just right and we've been

taken right to that level

and we're ready to pluck that
little apple from the tree.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials
really are using the Akashic Record

to transmit wisdom that is shaping
the course of human civilization,

what is their agenda?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answer can be found by exploring

one of the most important
innovations of the 21st century.

San Francisco.

January 9, 2007.

STEVE JOBS: Every once in a while,
a revolutionary product comes along

that changes everything.

NARRATOR: At the annual
Macworld Conference,

Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs

introduces what will quickly become

one of the most iconic
inventions in modern history.

JOBS: What we want to do

is make a leap-frog product that is

way smarter than any
mobile device has ever been

- and super easy to use.
- (Crowd cheering)

And we are calling it...

iPhone.

NARRATOR: With its sleek
design and savvy marketing,

the iPhone becomes a sensation,

selling 500 million devices
over the next seven years.

Along with the iPod,

iMac and iPad,

Jobs' genius revolutionizes modern society.

GREGORY BEIRICH: The
inventions of Steve Jobs

changed our lives in significant ways

in that it made access to
information seem easier,

seem more straightforward, seem more doable

for people who otherwise might say,

"I don't know how to" work this thing."

He took complex things,
whether it's a computer,

a telephone, and made it so ordinary people

could figure it out and use
it and change their lives.

NARRATOR: But like Da Vinci,
Tesla and Einstein before him,

Jobs believed the inspiration
for his groundbreaking inventions

came to him because of
something as profoundly simple

as meditation.

The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

in California's Los Padres National Forest

is the oldest Japanese
Buddhist Soto Zen monastery

in the United States.

It was here, while deep in meditation,

that Jobs thought he received
much of the inspiration

that transformed the modern world.

BEIRICH: Steve Jobs encountered Buddhism

in his early adult
years and understood that

contemplation for him
was an important aspect.

Looking back on his life
and seeing what he did,

certainly turning
inward, clearing the mind,

a contemplative approach to
things had a big impact for him.

NARRATOR: Jobs believed Zen meditation

allowed him to calm his thoughts

so he could tap into
a source of inspiration

that existed outside his body.

As Jobs described it,

"Your mind just slows down

and you see a tremendous
expanse in the moment.

You see so much more than
you could see before."

KAUFMAN: To me, I think what
was really going on there

is that he was really good at getting
into the flow state of consciousness.

The flow state is an altered
state of consciousness.

But it's that state of
consciousness to where all

time seems to recede into the background.

We seem to feel like we're
one with what we're creating.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Steve Jobs' genius

not only revolutionized our technology,

but also gave humanity a blueprint

for how the universal mind works

and how we can attain
enlightenment through it?

With the iPhone,

did Jobs unconsciously
recreate on a smaller level

what already exists in the universe...

a library of collective knowledge

that every user is contributing to?

And if so,

could this technology be teaching us

how to access that great
repository of cosmic knowledge

called the Akashic Record

that some scientists
are starting to believe

may exist all around us?

WILCOCK: Consciousness itself

may in fact, be a greater energetic

existence that we are simply
accessing much like going online.

You don't say that all the
knowledge of the Internet

is inside your smartphone.

But you access the Internet
through your smartphone.

In much the same way,

perhaps what we are calling
the subconscious mind

is actually our connection
to a greater energetic domain

in which the seeds of philosophy,

the seeds of physics,

the seeds of mathematics

and the true nature of
human existence itself

are hidden away, waiting for
those who are bright enough

and adept enough to tap into
these great cosmic mysteries.

KAUFMAN: There's so many
psychologists and philosophers,

cogno-scientists, neuroscientists,

trying to answer the question,
"Where do these thoughts exist?"

Where do these ideas exist?"

You can look at my brain and have some idea

that I'm having thoughts,

but you don't know what those thoughts are.

You can't explain the nature
or the form of those thoughts.

It's hotly debated to what
extent the mind and the brain

are the same thing and trying to understand

that rich inner stream of consciousness

is one of the most exciting questions
in the field of philosophy of mind today.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the brain
acts as a receptor of cosmic intelligence,

which exists outside our physical body?

And if so,

is this so-called universal mind

shared with other beings
throughout the universe?

CHILDRESS: We have our
brains and all of the...

the functioning there.

But our mind is... is
somewhere else, really.

Somewhere we can't really place.

So if our mind

is really part of this universal mind,

it seems very possible

that we are being bombarded and infused

by all kinds of extraterrestrial
thoughts and we don't even know it.

NARRATOR: But if we all are connected
to this universal cache of knowledge

and geniuses are simply those who've
been allowed a greater glimpse,

might extraterrestrials be
guiding us towards the day

when we will be fully enlightened?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer may be revealed

by examining a recent
trend in human intelligence.

NARRATOR: July 20, 1969.

ASTRONAUT: Houston, you
are go for landing, over.

ASTRONAUT 2: Roger. Understand.
Go for landing, 3,000 feet.

NARRATOR: When Apollo 11's lunar lander

touches down on the surface of the moon,

humanity takes a giant
leap forward into a new era.

NEAL ARMSTRONG: It's
one small step for a man.

One giant leap for mankind.

NARRATOR: The genius of
men like Werner von Braun

and other scientists

has propelled humans off planet Earth

for the first time in recorded history.

The event marks the high point of
a remarkable 150-year-long explosion

of technological and scientific genius,

the likes of which the
world has never seen.

FRISBEE: Starting early 1800s
with the Industrial Revolution,

the last two centuries have been

the most extraordinary
time in human history.

In technology, we've gone from

steam power to electric engines to

nuclear power systems.

In science, we've discovered things like

electromagnetism,
relativity, quantum mechanics.

In our daily lives,

something as seemingly small as just

the germ theory of Pasteur,

antibiotics, anesthesia...

These are enormous changes
in technology, in science,

in just medicine, everyday life.

NARRATOR: But scientists say

what's developing just
as fast as our technology

is the intellectual
capability of the human mind.

Studies reveal an
astounding 30-point increase

in the average IQ score
over the last century.

Some scientists attribute this improvement

to better education and nutrition,

but others believe

it may be due to the
evolution of our consciousness

and the ability to access our inner genius.

McVEIGH: Human cognition is continually

evolving, it's always changing.

Now, most of these changes

are actually very subtle, very gradual.

However, there have been a few times

when there have been major
upgrades in human cognition.

But we might make the argument

that the Information
Revolution of the 20th century

are leading to another
upgrade in human cognition.

NARRATOR: Could this curious increase in IQ

be evidence that humanity

is being slowly moved toward
a new collective intelligence?

Are we all gradually gaining greater access

to the knowledge of the universe?

If so, might we eventually be able to merge

humanity's collective knowledge
with this great galactic mind

and, at that time, discover
that extraterrestrials

have been guiding us all along?

TSOUKALOS: Over the past
100 years, we have made

strides, uh, leaps and bounds

with, you know, advancements in technology

and I think that the reason why UFO

encounters and reports have increased

is because any extraterrestrial society

would have to be aware

if a society reaches a
certain level of technology.

HENRY: You wonder, "Where's"
all this taking us?"

And the answer seems to
be it's taking us to the

level of the mind of the gods;

that we are going to be thinking more like

gods and having tremendous godlike ability

as a result of tapping into
this cosmic consciousness.

WILCOCK: These extraterrestrials may very
well be giving us the tools that we need

to ensure that this
evolution proceeds accordingly

and help guide us through this
mass quantum human evolution.

CHILDRESS: It would seem that, as
mankind progresses step by step,

and through more and more knowledge,

much of it gained through
the universal mind,

that we will then eventually
create a civilization

that is so highly developed

that we are ready to meet with
the extraterrestrials face to face

and interact with them as equals,

which is what I believe they want us to do.

NARRATOR: What inspires geniuses
to great heights of creativity?

Were the ancients right in thinking

that something outside of the
brain is responsible for brilliance?

Can the root of all wisdom be
found in the Akashic Record...

a universal mind that we are given
access to by extraterrestrial beings?

We may not discover the truth

until the world's geniuses

propel humanity to true enlightenment.

And perhaps only then

will we be ready to reunite
with our alien ancestors.

- synced and corrected by chamallow -
- www.addic7ed.com - - Loner_62 -

Repair and Synchronization by
Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0