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NARRATOR: Stories of
immortality...
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BARRY DOWNING: When he rose,
it would be a body that would
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never die again.
NARRATOR: The dead rising
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from their graves...
TOK THOMPSON: You can say,
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that to a certain extent zombies
are real.
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NARRATOR: And first person
accounts of the afterlife...
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WILLIAM HENRY: The ancient
Egyptians had a very deep soul
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technology.
NARRATOR: Throughout history,
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there are tales of miraculous
resurrections.
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But are there people who have
really returned from the dead?
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And if so, might they have had
help from extraterrestrial
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beings?
DAVID CHILDRESS: If you want
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to think of the technology
that extraterrestrials might
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have, they could have the
ability to resurrect the dead,
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if need be.
NARRATOR: Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
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And if so, might they hold the
secret to resurrection?
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NARRATOR: Phoenix, Arizona.
1991.
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Singer songwriter Pam Reynolds
is being rushed into surgery to
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repair a bulging arterial wall
in her brain stem that is about
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to burst and kill her instantly.
The surgical team of 20 decides
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there is only one course of
action: in order to save her
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life, they must first end it.
KIRSTEN FISHER: Pam Reynolds
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had a massive, um, aneurysm
ready to to essentially rupture
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at any moment.
And so, physicians needed to
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reduce the pressure in those
vessels so that they could work
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on them.
So they took her blood out of
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her body and cooled it slowly,
so re circulating.
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What that does is it sort of
tricks the body's cells into
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slowing down their metabolism
and not realizing that they're
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lacking oxygen... which, of
course, buys physicians and
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emergency workers some time to
go in and repair the the
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person's body while they're in
this sort of hyper cooled state
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where they're essentially not,
um, alive.
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NARRATOR: For nearly an
hour, Pam Reynolds lies on
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the operating table with
her heart stopped, no blood
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pumping through her body, and no
brainwave activity at all.
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According to the traditional
medical definition...
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she is dead.
Five hours later, when doctors
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successfully finish their
groundbreaking surgery, they
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slowly pump warm blood back into
Reynolds' body.
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Her heart starts to beat again
and her brainstem begins
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responding to stimuli.
But when she regains
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consciousness, Reynolds tells a
shocking story about a journey
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she says she made into the
afterlife.
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She remembers mingling with
deceased relatives and angelic
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beings in a celestial
netherworld... a transcendent
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experience that ended only when
doctors revived her.
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FISHER: Pam Reynolds' case,
and other cases of
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resuscitation sort of call into
question what it means to be
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alive.
We're sort of introducing new
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technologies that blur, I think,
a little more the distinction of
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what does it mean to be dead.
If you want to use the term
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resurrection, I think it could
be applied, in that case.
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NARRATOR: Does the
resurrection of Pam Reynolds
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reveal evidence that human
consciousness can exist beyond
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death?
If so, could this mean that
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within each of us, there really
is such a thing as an immortal
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soul?
And might it even be
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identifiable by science?
Two prestigious scientists have
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developed a theory that
describes exactly how
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consciousness could continue to
exist after the brain has ceased
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to function.
Oxford University's Roger
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Penrose and Stuart Hameroff,
from the University of Arizona,
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believe that quantum particles
in the brain and nervous system
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could comprise what we call
consciousness.
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BOB FRISBEE: The theory is
that there may actually be a
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real physical structure in your
brain.
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They're called microtubules, and
they're small enough that all
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the weird quantum mechanical
effects can occur.
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These quantum mechanical effects
may be what gives rise to
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consciousness.
But even after you die, that
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information isn't lost.
It still continues as a quantum
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mechanical state, and that may
be what is giving rise to
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consciousness.
NARRATOR: If Penrose and
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Hameroff are correct and our
consciousness can exist after
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our physical body dies, does
this explain why near death
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experiences like Pam Reynolds'
are reported by millions of
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people around the world?
HEATHER BERLIN: They have,
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usually, a feeling of
peacefulness, positive emotions.
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They feel like they're leaving
their body.
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They sometimes see sort of a
tunnel with a light at the end.
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They sometimes feel one with the
universe.
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They sometimes see relatives who
had passed away.
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So it's a common universal
experience that happens to
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people who are either near or
close to death, or even
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technically dead.
NARRATOR: Some physicians
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believe near death experiences
could be triggered by hypoxia...
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a lack of oxygen in the brain
that can cause visions.
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But other researchers disagree.
They point out that those who
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have these experiences see
events occurring around them
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that are later confirmed to have
happened.
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And that their perceptions are
not dulled in a way that would
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be consistent with a dying
brain.
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Perhaps even more significant, a
recent study found that the near
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death experience was remarkably
similar across the ancient
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world.
JONATHAN YOUNG: Professor
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Gregory Shushan at Oxford
University has found that
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in some of the great early
cultures... ancient Egypt, uh,
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Mesopotamia, uh, Vedic India,
pre Buddhist China,
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pre Columbian Mesoamerica... that
there are similar reports of
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near death experience, that
certain details keep cropping
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up, that the person in this
experience encounters beings of
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light, even though the belief
systems about death were
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very different in these
cultures.
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This suggests that there might
be something about the mystical
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experience at death that is
stronger than the cultural
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stories that hold it.
NARRATOR: But why are
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accounts of near death
experiences so similar across
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so many different cultures?
Ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest that the answer may lie
with the fact that these beings
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of light encountered in many
near death experiences are
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remarkably similar to the
descriptions of
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extraterrestrials in alien
abduction reports.
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Could these two types of
ethereal entities actually be
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the same?
WILLIAM HENRY: The common
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ground is the tunnel
of bright white light, and
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beings wearing shiny garments or
bright white garments of light
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that either stand before that
gateway or are actually in it.
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And you have to wonder: is it
possible that, in reality, the
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afterlife is just another
dimension or another plane of
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existence that is inhabited,
that's navigable and is
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accessible not only by those in
the afterlife realm but also by
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living extraterrestrial beings.
REV. BARRY DOWNING: I think
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that both near death experiences
and abduction experiences are
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coordinated by the same higher
reality.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
extraterrestrials hold the
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secret behind resurrection?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
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yes, and claim further evidence
can be found by exploring
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resurrection stories from
antiquity.
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The Kingdom of Israel.
The 9th century BC.
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In the Hebrew Bible, Elijah is
portrayed as a great prophet and
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a powerful warrior who
slaughters the followers of the
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god Baal.
Yet he is perhaps best known not
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for putting people to death, but
for bringing them back to life.
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ROBERT CARGILL: In the
Biblical book of 1 Kings,
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Chapter 17, we actually have the
story of the prophet Elijah who
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takes a widow's son who had died
and lays on him three times and
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then prays to God.
And the son comes back to life.
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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: Was
this a miracle from the hand
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of God?
Was there some kind of a
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medical involvement here?
There was some clear physical
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intervention on behalf of
Elijah.
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That's all this text tells us.
HENRY: But we know that
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Elijah was a great mystic
and esotericist.
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He possessed a power cloak
called his "pala garment," which
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means "power garment."
He ultimately ascended into the
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heavens in a whirlwind, like a
spacecraft, while wearing this.
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So you have to ask, is there
some kind of otherworldly or
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even extraterrestrial technology
that Elijah had access to?
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NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists point out that similar
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resurrections occur in religions
around the world.
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From the Hindu god Krishna to
the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl.
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They believe these gods may, in
fact, have been extraterrestrial
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beings sent to Earth on a
mission.
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HENRY: When you read the
stories of the celestials or
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extraterrestrials that came in
the ancient past, they were
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always delivering these
forbidden teachings about
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crossing that boundary into a
beautiful and glorious realm.
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And one of their purposes in
coming here is to teach us how
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to cross over that boundary.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
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some ancient accounts of gods
rising from the dead are not
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actually divine events, but
rather examples of
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extraterrestrial technology?
And if so, are there stories in
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which ancient cultures regularly
performed resurrections?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe astounding answers can
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be found buried in the Sahara
Desert.
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NARRATOR: Low Earth Orbit.
September 2007.
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An experiment aboard a Russian
Foton M 3 spaceship is trying to
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determine how resurrection works
in the natural world.
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It contains dozens of
microscopic animals called
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tardigrades.
FISHER: The tardigrades are a
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class of organisms that we refer
to as extremophiles, meaning
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they can, um, withstand extreme
stresses that would kill most
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organisms.
NARRATOR: On Earth,
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tardigrades are almost
impossible to kill.
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They can survive
temperatures far above
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boiling and far below freezing
by shedding almost all water
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in their cells.
HEATHER BERLIN: The
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tardigrade is a really
interesting creature, and it's
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actually evolved to have this
amazing ability to go into these
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deep states of what you might
call hibernation.
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They're able to survive in
really harsh conditions.
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But there's still metabolism
going on, just very, very slowed
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down.
NARRATOR: On this mission,
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scientists want to see if they
can survive long blasts of solar
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radiation, so they're placed
outside the capsule for 12 days.
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They become inert, but are they
actually dead?
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FISHER: They were brought
back to Earth, rehydrated.
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We think they also have really
good, very efficient, DNA repair
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mechanisms, because they
essentially come back to life,
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often rather rapidly.
Scientists do refer to that
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as as a resurrection.
NARRATOR: There's a curious
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parallel to the tardigrade in
the ancient world... a dead
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creature that was preserved by
removing all liquids while it
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awaited resurrection.
Egyptian mummies.
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In preparation for the
afterlife, the ancients removed
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all blood, water and organs
from a body they planned to
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mummify.
JOHN VAN AUKEN: In order to
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preserve a body, you cannot
leave organs in the body that
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are going to rot the body.
And the Egyptians learned that
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very quickly.
And they knew which organs had
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to be removed, and that the
blood had to be drained from the
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body to preserve the body for
potential resurrection.
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NARRATOR: If the body was
properly prepared, the Egyptians
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believed its soul would start
its long and arduous journey
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into the afterlife.
CARGILL: There were a lot
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of rules.
There was a lot of very specific
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navigation, uh, that needed to
take place in order to get your
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soul from death into this this
afterlife.
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Sometimes these rules were so
difficult that they would be
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written down.
And oftentimes, we find then
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written on the insides of the
tops of coffins.
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HENRY: At Saqqara is where we
find the pyramid texts, some of
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the oldest religious texts in
the world.
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They're devoted to the concept
of how to not only preserve the
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human body, but to prepare the
soul for journeying into the
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stars.
The ancient Egyptians made it
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clear that they were in contact
with extraterrestrial
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civilizations.
In particular, one god, Ptah,
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came from Sirius.
Now, Ptah is also the god the
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ancient Egyptians said who
crafted or fashioned the human
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body.
He is also the god of
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technology.
So, when you put all this
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together, it sure sounds like
Ptah taught the ancient
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Egyptians how to resurrect the
body and travel the cosmos.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest, that the Egyptians'
complex beliefs about
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resurrection came from the
extraterrestrial beings that
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they believed had visited their
civilization in the past?
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JASON MARTELL: It's very
possible that when we look at
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the Egyptians performing their
very intricate mummification
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process, this is something that
they might've witnessed.
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Maybe they didn't fully
understand the process of what
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made it possible, but they would
do their best to mimic it, and
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that's exactly what we see with
mummification.
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NARRATOR: But if the
Egyptians believed the soul
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traveled through the cosmos, why
did they make such an effort to
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preserve the corpse?
According to their texts, the
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ancient Egyptians believed the
soul was made up of five parts.
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The two most important were the
Ba...
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and Ka.
The Ba journeyed into the
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afterlife while the Ka remained
in the body.
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CARGILL: The proper
preparation of a corpse during
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burial was essential to success
in the afterlife.
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That is, the Ka needed a
properly prepared body in which
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to dwell.
And if that body, if that
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vessel, isn't properly
maintained, that person could
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die a second death in the
afterlife.
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NARRATOR: Most scholars say
the Egyptians believed
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resurrection involved the soul
being born again in the
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afterlife, rather than being
physically resurrected on Earth.
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HENRY: The ultimate
objective was for the Ba to
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unite with its twin, our Ka,
as they called it, and form
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a third entity that they called
the Akh... the shining one,
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the shining being, that was then
capable of traveling the stars
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as a celestial being.
So, this is suggesting that the
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ancient Egyptians had a very
deep soul technology or a way of
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transforming the soul, certainly
prying it out of the body,
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uniting it with its twin self
and creating a light being form.
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NARRATOR: But could it be
that the Egyptians believed that
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the part of the soul that
remained within the body could
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be resurrected as well?
Might this be why they went to
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such great lengths to preserve
the body?
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Because they believed there
would be a time when they would
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be bodily resurrected here
on Earth?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and suggest further
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evidence that this was knowledge
taught to our ancestors by
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otherworldly visitors can be
found by examining stories from
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the African rain forest...
stories of real life zombies.
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NARRATOR: The Kingdom of
Kongo.
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1482.
Portuguese explorer Diogo Cao is
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the first European to sail up
the Congo River into the heart
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of this ancient African nation.
Despite the dense rain forest on
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both sides of the river, Cao
spends months exploring this
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unknown land and meeting its
inhabitants.
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After he reports his discoveries
back home, the king of
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Portugal dispatches waves of
missionaries to the region.
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The goal is to convert tribesman
from their ancient religion of
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Vodun to Catholicism.
TOK THOMPSON: You have to
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remember, this isn't too long
after the Crusades.
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So, uh, Europe had already sort
of went from right from the
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Crusades into colonialism, and
one of the big projects was not
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just to get land and money and
slaves, although that was it,
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but also to gain souls, converts
for the Catholic Church.
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NARRATOR: Over the next
century, European missionaries
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have great success turning the
Kingdom of Kongo into a Catholic
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land.
Their belief that a sky god
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created the Earth and its
inhabitants is changed to the
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Catholic origin story.
But the locals hold on to some
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of their beliefs, including the
concept, which is also held by
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the ancient Egyptians, that
people have more than one soul.
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THOMPSON: We have what's
called the big soul and the
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little soul.
And one of them is responsible
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for what we normally think of as
our personality, what makes you,
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you, what makes me, me.
But the other one is more of a
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basic sort of soul that animates
us, that gets the flesh moving.
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HENRY: They speak of us as
each having a lesser angel
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and a greater angel.
At the time of death, the lesser
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angel stays with the body.
It doesn't know what to do.
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But the greater angel leaves the
body.
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NARRATOR: As missionaries
convert much of the population
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to Christianity, traditional
bokors... or witch doctors... are
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forced to perform some Vodun
ceremonies in secret.
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European missionaries hear
astounding stories that these
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witch doctors use ancient
rituals and traditional
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knowledge to raise the dead,
creating automatons that are
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later dubbed "zombies."
THOMPSON: The idea of the
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zombies is that they actually
have only one of these two
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souls.
They've passed on, they've died
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and they've been resurrected.
But only with the soul that
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animates us.
So they're lacking in that
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personality and in that personal
feelings and things.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: With
zombie ism, it is then only
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the physical body is is
resurrected in a sense and the
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personalities, that part of the
soul, has completely
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disappeared.
NARRATOR: Could these stories
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have been true?
And if so, might this be proof
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that both the Egyptians and the
tribes of the Congo were correct
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in their belief that our
consciousness is divided into
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separate parts?
But how could witch doctors, who
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lived hundreds of years ago,
with no access to modern
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technology have been able to
breathe life into the dead,
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reviving just the part of the
soul responsible for animating
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the flesh?
Ancient astronaut theorists
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point out that African myths
suggest voodoo magic originated
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with the sky gods and their
emissaries to Earth, known
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as Orishas or Loas.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The topic
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of the Orishas is very
interesting to me, because they
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are looked upon as these divine
messengers, messengers of
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knowledge.
And the stories are very clear
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that the Orishas arrived from
the sky.
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And what I find interesting is
that in many of the old carvings
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that we can find... in wood, for
example... they're depicted in...
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sitting in these weird craft,
that look like a craft, and that
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they all seem to feature these
elongated skulls.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
these African sky gods were
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actually extraterrestrials that
not only taught the natives the
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secrets of the soul, but also
showed them how to resurrect the
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dead?
And could this be the origin of
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our modern day stories of
zombies?
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HENRY: Perhaps, through the
centuries, these original
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teachings of these celestial
beings were lost.
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Sorcerers and magicians in
Africa and elsewhere began
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mimicking or trying to copy what
the originals had done and had
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a limited degree of success.
They were able to create
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zombies.
But the source is clear.
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These teachings originally came
from celestial beings.
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ERICH VON DANIKEN: Maybe some
of the extraterrestrials had an
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accident, so the
extraterrestrials helped him
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like a doctor would do today and
the natives watched it.
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They couldn't understand what
was going on in medicine and
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they copied it.
NARRATOR: Were African witch
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doctors mimicking the technology
of their sky gods when they
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tried to bring the dead back to
life?
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And if so, are there stories in
which both parts of the soul
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have been successfully
resurrected?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can be
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found by exploring ancient Hindu
beliefs in which the conscious
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self can be reborn in a new
body.
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NARRATOR: Delhi, India.
1930.
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Four year old Shanti Devi tells
her family that in a previous
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life she was a woman named Lugdi
Bai and that she had lived in
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the nearby village of Mathura.
At first, they dismiss the story
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as a childhood fantasy.
But she knows so much about this
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other world that she eventually
convinces them she's telling the
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truth, and they journey to Lugdi
Bai's former village.
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CHILDRESS: She actually went
to meet her previous husband in
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her other life.
He also, after talking to her,
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believed that she was the
reincarnation of his previous
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wife, who had died in
childbirth.
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And then, eventually, Mahatma
Ghandi got involved in this
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whole story.
Uh, he had an investigation made
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and Ghandi himself said that he
was satisfied that she was the
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reincarnation of this other
woman.
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NARRATOR: Could Lugdi Bai
have died and been reincarnated
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as Shanti Devi?
The Hindu faithful believe
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reincarnation... a spiritual
resurrection in which a soul is
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reborn in a new body... happens
to almost everyone after death.
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DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: When the
soul goes up and then it has to
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be born into something else, in
another life life form.
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So then it it comes back to
Earth in another living form.
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So that is the idea of
reincarnation.
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HENRY: In Hindu and other
traditions, the body is viewed
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simply as a vessel for the soul,
that's capable of reincarnating
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into successive bodies, or
successive lifetimes.
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NARRATOR: If the concept that
the part of our consciousness
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that forms our personality, that
makes us who we are, continues
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to exist after the body has
died, then might many of us have
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lived past lives?
And only a handful of people
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like Shanti Devi are able to
remember them?
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Some believe that not only is
reincarnation real, but that in
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certain cases there has even
been physical evidence to
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support this.
DAVID WILCOCK: When we
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examine the reincarnation
research, a consistent theme
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emerges regarding the existence
of birthmarks on someone's body.
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What we've found is multiple
cases of people who have bizarre
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birthmarks who then accurately
remember having been someone
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else in another lifetime.
In some of these cases, we can
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confirm that their past life
person died in a particular way,
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and they come back with a
birthmark corresponding to that
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exact area.
If they die by gunshot, we know
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where the gunshot wound took
place.
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The person reincarnates, and
they have a birthmark right
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where the gunshot actually
entered.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
a birthmark could be the
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consciousness creating a
physical manifestation of a
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traumatic event that happened in
a previous life?
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Proponents of reincarnation say
further evidence that our
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consciousness can be resurrected
in another body can be found in
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the fact that reincarnation
isn't just part of Eastern
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religions like Hinduism and
Buddhism.
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It appears in most ancient
religions worldwide.
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CARGILL: Early Greek religion
had a process, a belief, in
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reincarnation.
Plato writes about it in his
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writings, that the soul would
enter into the body, and then,
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when you died, the soul would be
reprocessed and then would enter
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back into a body.
MICHAEL CARTER: In the Bible,
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Jesus says, "Who do you say that
I am?"
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"Some people say you're John the
Baptist.
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Some people say you're Elijah.
Some people say you're
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Jeremiah."
Well, those people are all dead.
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So what they're saying is, "You've
come back as this person."
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That's what reincarnation is about.
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NARRATOR: In each of these
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religions, the gods are the ones
that educated people about
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reincarnation.
Is it possible that the ancients
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misunderstood who had bestowed
this knowledge on their
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societies and that they were
actually extraterrestrial beings
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sharing their wisdom about the
afterlife?
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HENRY: Ultimately, when you
trace back the the origins of
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the stories of reincarnation,
you're led to extraterrestrial
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sources.
This was a teaching that was
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brought here, and represents the
ultimate spiritual attainment on
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Earth.
WILCOCK: We have over 30
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ancient cultures around the
world independently contacted by
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human looking messengers who
give them a unified body of
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spiritual knowledge, which
usually describes reincarnation,
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the transmigration of the soul
from one physical incarnation to
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the next, as a reality.
NARRATOR: Could it be that
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celestial beings have mastered
the science of reincarnation to
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the point where they treat death
as just another form of life?
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And if so, are these aliens
helping nurture our
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understanding of this
otherworldly realm?
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CHILDRESS: If resurrections
are really a resurrection of the
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spirit rather than the body,
then it's possible that we would
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have a technology to follow that
spirit from one body to the
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next.
And you have to wonder if this
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doesn't come from
extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR: Could
extraterrestrials have the
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ultimate answers to life, death
and resurrection?
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And if so, will humanity ever
possess those secrets?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe some people may already
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have them... without even
knowing it.
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NARRATOR: Northern Israel,
approximately 33 AD.
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According to the gospels of the
New Testament of the Bible, in
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the months before his death,
Jesus leads three of his
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apostles away from the village
in which they're staying and
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together, they journey to a
nearby mountain.
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DOWNING: The story here is
that Jesus went up a high
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mountain with Peter, James and
John... his three closest
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followers.
While they were there, a glowing
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object hovered over them.
And Moses and Elijah were
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reported to appear to him.
While they were there, the body
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of Jesus began to glow
tremendously.
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And when they were finished with
this scene, they went down the
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mountain and Jesus told the
disciples not to tell anybody
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about this until after his
crucifixion and resurrection.
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This says to me that maybe the
body of Jesus went through some
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type of transformation which
changed his body so that when he
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arose from the dead, it would be
a body that would never die
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again.
NARRATOR: According to the
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Bible, it was several months
after this incident that Roman
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authorities arrested Jesus and
put him to death by crucifixion.
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KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS: We
know, following the crucifixion
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on Friday night, he is laid into
a tomb.
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On Sunday, when Mary Magdalene
and the other women come to
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anoint his body, the tomb is
empty.
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The stone has been rolled back
and his burial cloths are all
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that remain.
NARRATOR: Although Jesus is
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said to have ascended to a
heavenly realm, it is written
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that he ascended "bodily."
This has led some ancient
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astronaut theorists to form a
different interpretation of the
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scriptures, based also on
events that occurred just after
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the resurrection, that indicate
it may have had extraterrestrial
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origins.
DOWNING: Matthew's gospel,
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chapter 28 says that, "An angel
of God descended from heaven,
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rolled back the stone and sat
upon it.
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And his clothing glistened
white."
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And so we have a being reported
to be there.
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This means that powers from
another world were involved in
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the resurrection of Jesus.
CARTER: People come to the
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tomb.
They find the tomb empty.
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They're describing, in in a
couple of the gospels, young men
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with raiment that was shining.
Much like extraterrestrial, uh,
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encounters today, where we see
beings of light.
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And they say, "Well, why are you
seeking the living among the
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dead?
Jesus is gone, just like he said
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would happen."
NARRATOR: Many Christians
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believe this seminal
resurrection in Western culture
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signifies that humans can... and
many eventually will... be raised
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from the dead.
But does it actually give
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humanity clues about how to
pierce the veil between life and
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death?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
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say that further evidence that
resurrection is possible can be
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found in the modern day church
service.
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00:34:32,799 --> 00:34:38,799
St. Patrick's Cathedral.
New York City.
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TIMOTHY DOLAN: Give us
perseverance, and lead us to
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salvation.
NARRATOR: Cardinal Timothy
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Dolan says Mass at one of
America's most impressive
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Catholic churches... and during
the Eucharist, he consecrates
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bread and wine.
According to church doctrine, at
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this moment, he is literally
turning them into the body and
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blood of Jesus Christ.
Cardinal Dolan, or any other
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priest who performs this ritual,
is actually performing a
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resurrection.
CARGILL: The Catholic
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doctrine of transubstantiation
argues that this is a miracle.
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The Eucharist is a miracle.
When you partake of the bread
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and the wine, that it
miraculously transforms into the
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actual body and blood of Jesus.
YOUNG: We then ingest the
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holy.
We ingest Christ, incorporate...
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play on word... that is, make
part of our corpus, part of our
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body, the divine, in this ritual
form.
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It is a powerful activity.
NARRATOR: But how can bread
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and wine be changed into flesh
and blood?
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According to the Catholic
Church, it's a mystery that
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humans cannot possibly unravel.
But some believe that instead of
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a physical transformation, Jesus
is resurrected metaphysically
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during the church service...
that Jesus was, and still is, an
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advanced being that can move
from one dimension to another.
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As evidence, they cite what
Jesus told his followers about
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the power of gathering in groups
to invoke his name.
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YOUNG: Christ said, "Where
two or more are gathered in my
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name, there I am also."
Something happens and it happens
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in ritual worship, collective
worship.
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Now, I'm not putting aside the
power and value of private
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spiritual practice, but there's
something else that happens when
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this is done collectively.
HENRY: Is this a form of
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resurrection as well, where
they, in fact, then, in a way,
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embody the Christ energy during
the Mass?
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So maybe this is the purpose of
the Mass... is to create this
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environment where they can
transform their body into a
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00:37:04,799 --> 00:37:10,799
vehicle capable of manifesting
or holding the Christ energy.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
worshippers around the world
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actually resurrect an
otherworldly being every time
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they gather to pray?
And if so, is this just a
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resurrection of the spirit?
Or could we eventually reanimate
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the body so it can be reunited
with the soul?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe stunning advances in
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modern medicine might soon make
this possible.
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NARRATOR: Tubingen, Germany.
2013.
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Scientists at the University of
Tubingen report a landmark
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event.
They have sequenced and decoded
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DNA that was extracted from five
Egyptian mummy heads.
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Somehow, the way the ancient
Egyptians embalmed the bodies of
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their dead allowed DNA to
survive for thousands of years.
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FISHER: One of the things
that happens in mummification is
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that they rapidly, uh, extract
the water, and it's thought that
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water actually is one of the
major contributors to the
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degradation of the DNA.
So that rapid extraction of
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water is believed to protect the
mummy from DNA degradation.
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NARRATOR: Researchers have
not yet found a complete set of
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genetic blueprints to the
ancient Egyptian body.
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But this material shows them
that if they do find enough DNA,
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they can, in theory, bring these
people back to life... to
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physically resurrect them.
ROBERT BAUVAL: If we have
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the physical remains of a
corpse, it might be possible to
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resurrect this corpse literally,
to regenerate the DNA.
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Now, the process would be
extremely difficult, but the
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technology is on its way, and
that will be amazing.
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I mean, we would... they would
literally have achieved their
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objective is to be resurrected
again.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
scientists are finally starting
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to unravel the secrets to
resurrection?
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And if so, can humanity
eventually master this power so
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we can bring bodies and souls
back into the physical world
579
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whenever we choose?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest that many religions
describe the moment when humans
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reach this stage of evolution.
It's variously called the
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Rapture, the Day of Judgment,
End of Days, or the Apocalypse.
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BAR TZADOK: According to the
legends, all humanity is to
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evolve into a higher form.
The proper word would be
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transformation, wherein which we
will have achieved the purpose
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for which we have come to Earth
in the first place.
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But that, in and of itself, is
not the end of the road.
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Then we evolve beyond that.
This is referred to as the Great
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Resurrection.
TSOUKALOS: One thing is
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crystal clear.
In all of the ancient texts,
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those gods promised to return.
Not just in the Bible, but in
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many of the ancient sacred
texts.
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NARRATOR: Could the End of
Days that most religions foresee
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actually be the time when
humanity discovers the secret to
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resurrection, allowing everyone
to move between physical and
596
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spiritual planes of existence?
And if so, will this realm be
597
00:40:57,799 --> 00:41:01,799
the place where we finally meet
the extraterrestrials that
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00:41:01,799 --> 00:41:05,676
ancient astronaut theorists say
visited Earth thousands of years
599
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ago?
HENRY: The idea of... of
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00:41:12,799 --> 00:41:16,799
resurrection or rebirth into a
new realm of existence, a new
601
00:41:16,799 --> 00:41:21,134
kingdom of heaven, was central
to our interaction with the
602
00:41:21,134 --> 00:41:23,799
celestials or extraterrestrial
beings.
603
00:41:23,799 --> 00:41:26,799
You can almost make the argument
that that's why they came here...
604
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was to teach us how to resurrect
ourselves, our bodies,
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00:41:30,799 --> 00:41:34,799
to transform our bodies into
a celestial form, a light body
606
00:41:34,799 --> 00:41:37,799
form.
WILCOCK: We find a direct
607
00:41:37,799 --> 00:41:41,799
through line connecting
extraterrestrials, angels and
608
00:41:41,799 --> 00:41:45,799
the near death experience.
There is a compelling suggestion
609
00:41:45,799 --> 00:41:50,676
that at the End of Days, the
veil between realities will be
610
00:41:50,676 --> 00:41:54,799
parted and we will gain the
capability of moving directly
611
00:41:54,799 --> 00:41:58,799
between the world of the living
and the world of the afterlife.
612
00:41:58,799 --> 00:42:01,799
TSOUKALOS: And I don't think
that is anything that we should
613
00:42:01,799 --> 00:42:07,799
look upon with dread, but with
joy, because it means we're not
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alone and, you know,
they're there with us.
615
00:42:14,799 --> 00:42:17,799
NARRATOR: Might we really
have souls that exist in a realm
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that can be accessed by
otherworldly beings?
617
00:42:22,301 --> 00:42:25,799
And if so, could stories
involving the second coming of
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00:42:25,799 --> 00:42:32,799
prophets, the reanimation of the
dead, and the close encounters
619
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of those on the brink of death,
be evidence that
620
00:42:35,799 --> 00:42:39,799
extraterrestrials hold the
secret to resurrection?
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Perhaps as we come to better
understand our own mortality,
622
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we, too will uncover the
mysteries of the afterlife and
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in the process, discover the
truth about our alien origins.
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