1 00:00:02.921 --> 00:00:06.966 [ Man Narrating ] A vision that changed our understanding of the universe. 2 00:00:07.634 --> 00:00:12.960 The periodic table itself came to Mendeleev in a dream. 3 00:00:12.180 --> 00:00:17.227 [ Narrator] A mysterious voice behind the world's first code of laws. 4 00:00:17.310 --> 00:00:20.897 The Code of Hammurabi comes from a very advanced point of origin. 5 00:00:22.106 --> 00:00:27.320 [ Narrator] And an inspiration that strikes two inventors at the same time. 6 00:00:27.403 --> 00:00:33.368 It has been suggested that maybe it is somehow physically in the air. 7 00:00:34.327 --> 00:00:35.828 [ Narrator] Throughout history... 8 00:00:35.912 --> 00:00:41.668 many of the world's greatest thinkers have credited their genius to otherworldly sources. 9 00:00:41.751 --> 00:00:44.379 But could there really be an unseen force... 10 00:00:45.129 --> 00:00:47.674 behind these incredible minds- 11 00:00:47.757 --> 00:00:51.135 a force with extraterrestrial origins? 12 00:00:52.136 --> 00:00:55.640 [ Man ] These people are being influenced by higher beings... 13 00:00:55.723 --> 00:00:58.601 who are guiding humankind. 14 00:00:59.644 --> 00:01:01.604 [ Narrator] Millions of people around the world... 15 00:01:01.688 --> 00:01:06.776 believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 16 00:01:06.859 --> 00:01:08.778 What if it were true? 17 00:01:09.988 --> 00:01:14.576 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 18 00:01:14.659 --> 00:01:17.662 And if so, might they be the inspiring force... 19 00:01:17.745 --> 00:01:20.582 behind the world's greatest geniuses? 20 00:01:54.490 --> 00:01:57.702 Tacoma, Washington, 2002. 21 00:01:59.287 --> 00:02:01.789 As he walks out of a karaoke bar... 22 00:02:01.873 --> 00:02:06.669 thirty-one-year-old Jason Padgett is brutally mugged by two men... 23 00:02:06.753 --> 00:02:08.713 and knocked unconscious. 24 00:02:10.214 --> 00:02:15.303 When he finally wakes up, doctors tell him he's lucky to have escaped the beating... 25 00:02:15.386 --> 00:02:18.473 with just a bruised kidney and a concussion. 26 00:02:19.390 --> 00:02:24.646 But in the coming days, Jason starts to see the world in a whole new way. 27 00:02:28.441 --> 00:02:31.986 Jason Padgett was not a professional mathematician. 28 00:02:32.700 --> 00:02:35.573 He had studied math a little bit when he was younger, like most of us did. 29 00:02:36.658 --> 00:02:38.785 And he never really had a great interest in math. 30 00:02:39.744 --> 00:02:41.621 But after he was beaten... 31 00:02:41.704 --> 00:02:44.415 he would see mathematical equations everywhere he looked... 32 00:02:44.499 --> 00:02:46.501 and he would really find it beautiful. 33 00:02:47.669 --> 00:02:49.563 [Woman ] He had developed something called synesthesia... 34 00:02:49.587 --> 00:02:54.800 where he sort of saw the world in these fractal images... 35 00:02:54.920 --> 00:02:56.344 and then became really interested in that phenomena... 36 00:02:56.427 --> 00:02:58.513 and then started discovering mathematics. 37 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.227 [ Kaufman ] He would see the Pythagorean theorem in objects that most of us don't notice... 38 00:03:04.310 --> 00:03:06.620 or don't ever see those things. 39 00:03:07.630 --> 00:03:08.690 And he found them so beautiful... 40 00:03:08.773 --> 00:03:12.110 that he decided to capture them in some sort of visual representation... 41 00:03:12.193 --> 00:03:14.862 and he started drawing all of these things. 42 00:03:15.613 --> 00:03:20.702 [ Narrator] Jason becomes the only person in the world with the extraordinary ability... 43 00:03:20.785 --> 00:03:23.579 to hand-draw complex fractal shapes. 44 00:03:23.663 --> 00:03:27.410 Scientists say that what may have happened... 45 00:03:27.125 --> 00:03:32.714 is that the traumatic brain injury he suffered randomly re-wired Jason's neural network... 46 00:03:32.797 --> 00:03:36.259 Bringing out genius-like abilities in some areas. 47 00:03:36.342 --> 00:03:40.638 When a person has traumatic brain injury, it's going to be a shock to the brain- 48 00:03:40.722 --> 00:03:42.974 to the way that it's wired. 49 00:03:43.570 --> 00:03:46.394 [Woman ] Presumably in the incidence of a traumatic brain injury... 50 00:03:46.477 --> 00:03:49.313 your brain is, uh, repairing itself to a certain extent... 51 00:03:49.397 --> 00:03:54.652 or sort of compensating for damage by potentially sort of re-routing neural circuits. 52 00:03:55.987 --> 00:04:00.575 [ Narrator] Jason Padgett's story, while incredible, is not entirely unique. 53 00:04:02.118 --> 00:04:06.998 In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Derek Amato hit his head in a pool... 54 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:10.293 and I! Transformed him into a talented pianist... 55 00:04:10.376 --> 00:04:12.879 even though he'd never played in his life. 56 00:04:14.505 --> 00:04:20.219 In Massachusetts, 35-year-old Jon Sarkin suffered a stroke after surgery... 57 00:04:20.303 --> 00:04:23.306 and became a world famous artist. 58 00:04:24.849 --> 00:04:26.851 And after epileptic seizures... 59 00:04:26.934 --> 00:04:30.980 Daniel Tammet became a mathematical and linguistic genius... 60 00:04:31.630 --> 00:04:34.650 able to see the results of complex calculations... 61 00:04:34.734 --> 00:04:38.696 and even learn a foreign language in a matter of days. 62 00:04:40.615 --> 00:04:46.204 But if traumatic head injuries can endow a normal person with genius-like abilities... 63 00:04:46.287 --> 00:04:50.124 what might that tell us about the nature of genius? 64 00:04:50.208 --> 00:04:52.835 Genius is by definition a very rare, rare event. 65 00:04:52.919 --> 00:04:54.879 There are very few geniuses in every generation... 66 00:04:54.962 --> 00:04:58.466 that have fundamentally changed the way that we operate in this world. 67 00:04:58.549 --> 00:05:02.595 And we'll never get a full, complete understanding of genius... 68 00:05:02.678 --> 00:05:04.222 just by looking at the brain. 69 00:05:05.681 --> 00:05:10.394 [ Narrator] Is it possible that a blow to the head can unlock something in the brain... 70 00:05:10.478 --> 00:05:14.565 that makes it more receptive to ideas, concepts... 71 00:05:15.608 --> 00:05:21.155 and an actual architecture of the universe that is normally reserved for geniuses? 72 00:05:21.239 --> 00:05:24.492 And if so, might this provide insight... 73 00:05:24.575 --> 00:05:28.704 into why a handful of great thinkers In every generation- 74 00:05:28.788 --> 00:05:30.706 with names like Einstein... 75 00:05:31.749 --> 00:05:33.000 Shakespeare... 76 00:05:33.793 --> 00:05:34.794 da Vinci... 77 00:05:35.753 --> 00:05:37.255 Confucius... 78 00:05:37.338 --> 00:05:38.631 and Plato... 79 00:05:38.714 --> 00:05:42.844 seem to be responsible for so many of the visionary ideas... 80 00:05:42.927 --> 00:05:47.265 that have formed the fabric of our society for thousands of years? 81 00:05:48.724 --> 00:05:52.610 Modern science is still grasping for answers... 82 00:05:52.144 --> 00:05:57.233 as freak occurrences such as Jason Padgett's contradict the traditional view... 83 00:05:57.316 --> 00:06:01.529 that brilliance is the result of good genes and hard work. 84 00:06:03.447 --> 00:06:06.200 There is an inherited aspect to genius... 85 00:06:06.284 --> 00:06:08.202 and-and-and we-we know that from- 86 00:06:08.286 --> 00:06:11.581 we can name lots of, um, people who have come from famous families. 87 00:06:13.124 --> 00:06:16.836 Like the Bacon family, you know, had a lot of famous scientists... 88 00:06:16.919 --> 00:06:18.796 the Darwin family. 89 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:22.133 So there are a lot of geniuses where it's inherited. 90 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:26.530 All across history, you see some very similar characteristics... 91 00:06:26.137 --> 00:06:28.347 among the people we tend to call geniuses. 92 00:06:30.433 --> 00:06:35.146 One-geniuses tend to persevere against lots of odds. 93 00:06:35.229 --> 00:06:38.316 Lots of them have had lots of handicaps when they were younger... 94 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.153 maybe that even fueled them to want to achieve higher heights of creativity. 95 00:06:42.236 --> 00:06:46.991 But they have this great ability to bounce back and continue persevering along their goals. 96 00:06:51.871 --> 00:06:55.917 [ Narrator] The 20th century's quintessential genius, Albert Einstein... 97 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.795 is said to have perfectly embodied these characteristics. 98 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.841 His motivation and boundless curiosity were legendary... 99 00:07:05.927 --> 00:07:09.972 but his physical brain also had some extraordinary qualities... 100 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.517 that may have allowed for a more profound level of thinking. 101 00:07:15.811 --> 00:07:20.240 Albert Einstein's brain, when he died in 1955... 102 00:07:20.107 --> 00:07:23.653 was actually kept in formaldehyde for about 50 years... 103 00:07:23.736 --> 00:07:28.199 and wasn't really deeply analyzed until more recently. 104 00:07:29.283 --> 00:07:35.390 One of the things that they found was that he has a thicker corpus callosum... 105 00:07:35.122 --> 00:07:39.168 and that's the band of fibers that connects the left and the right hemisphere. 106 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:42.630 [ Narrator] Scientists believe the corpus callosum... 107 00:07:42.713 --> 00:07:45.633 helps different parts of the brain communicate... 108 00:07:45.716 --> 00:07:49.887 and aids in both creativity and higher thinking. 109 00:07:51.555 --> 00:07:54.392 But are the physical characteristics of the brain... 110 00:07:54.475 --> 00:07:58.562 the only factor in determining a person's intelligence? 111 00:07:59.271 --> 00:08:01.565 Ancient astronaut theorists believe... 112 00:08:01.649 --> 00:08:05.403 there may be an even more profound reason. 113 00:08:05.987 --> 00:08:08.739 When we look at the human brain... 114 00:08:08.823 --> 00:08:13.452 we wonder if we really have the neurological brain power... 115 00:08:13.536 --> 00:08:17.164 to-to really be such geniuses... 116 00:08:17.248 --> 00:08:20.334 and-and think of all of these amazing inventions... 117 00:08:20.418 --> 00:08:26.340 and-and, in some cases, just envision them in-in their totality all at once. 118 00:08:28.217 --> 00:08:32.179 So, some scientists have speculated... 119 00:08:32.263 --> 00:08:35.641 that what these geniuses are doing... 120 00:08:35.725 --> 00:08:41.689 is tapping into ideas that are coming from outside of them. 121 00:08:43.482 --> 00:08:47.194 Do geniuses have an access... 122 00:08:47.278 --> 00:08:49.780 to another level of consciousness... 123 00:08:49.864 --> 00:08:54.760 where some of their ideas are being sent to them... 124 00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:57.955 or they have the capability of downloading it during their dreams? 125 00:08:58.831 --> 00:09:03.850 These are the great questions of humankind, of the universe. 126 00:09:03.794 --> 00:09:08.424 [ Man ] Is it possible that there is something much more important going on... 127 00:09:08.507 --> 00:09:11.927 with consciousness than the physical brain? 128 00:09:12.553 --> 00:09:16.557 It's a compelling possibility that reveals deeper truths... 129 00:09:16.640 --> 00:09:20.644 about the nature of what it means to be human and whether, in fact... 130 00:09:20.728 --> 00:09:24.815 there is some greater organized effort being made... 131 00:09:24.899 --> 00:09:29.278 to steer human knowledge towards a desired outcome. 132 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.743 [ Narrator] Is it possible that genius comes not entirely from within the brain... 133 00:09:35.826 --> 00:09:39.497 but also from some force outside the body? 134 00:09:40.498 --> 00:09:43.459 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 135 00:09:43.542 --> 00:09:45.795 and suggest the evidence for this... 136 00:09:45.878 --> 00:09:50.910 can be found by examining the world's earliest geniuses... 137 00:09:50.174 --> 00:09:54.386 and what they claimed was the true source of their inspiration. 138 00:10:02.190 --> 00:10:04.355 The Louvre. Paris, France. 139 00:10:05.106 --> 00:10:08.943 This historic museum houses perhaps the most significant legal text... 140 00:10:09.260 --> 00:10:10.736 in the ancient world. 141 00:10:11.987 --> 00:10:17.660 This stele features the Babylonian god Shamash talking to King Hammurabi... 142 00:10:17.743 --> 00:10:22.957 and below them, carved in cuneiform text, are the laws they gave to their people. 143 00:10:23.707 --> 00:10:26.377 It is called the Code of Hammurabi. 144 00:10:31.841 --> 00:10:37.221 [ Man ] Hammurabi, without a doubt, was one of the great geniuses of the ancient world... 145 00:10:37.304 --> 00:10:43.102 and, of course, he's famous not just for being the ruler of ancient Babylonia... 146 00:10:43.185 --> 00:10:47.106 but for coming up with what is called the Code of Hammurabi... 147 00:10:47.189 --> 00:10:49.650 which was the first written legal record. 148 00:10:51.193 --> 00:10:53.547 [ Man ] it's a primitive document, compared to what we have now... 149 00:10:53.571 --> 00:10:56.949 but he had a whole system of order and how taxes were collected... 150 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:02.371 and various civil principles and the rather famous punishment an eye for an eye... 151 00:11:02.454 --> 00:11:05.583 which has been modified over the years, but that he had a system. 152 00:11:08.127 --> 00:11:11.338 [ Narrator] The Code of Hammurabi begins with a prologue... 153 00:11:11.422 --> 00:11:14.133 in which the king boasts of his great deeds... 154 00:11:15.467 --> 00:11:19.346 but he also writes that the code itself was dictated to him... 155 00:11:19.430 --> 00:11:22.990 by the Babylonian god Shamash. 156 00:11:25.227 --> 00:11:28.220 [Young ] The great King Hammurabi went into a trance... 157 00:11:28.105 --> 00:11:33.270 and God began dictating this incredible document... 158 00:11:33.110 --> 00:11:35.863 and channeling it through the great King Hammurabi... 159 00:11:36.697 --> 00:11:40.201 who was speaking it in a voice very unlike his own, language unlike his own. 160 00:11:40.284 --> 00:11:41.785 It's all coming from God. 161 00:11:42.453 --> 00:11:47.124 And when Hammurabi wakes up from his trance, the scribes read it back to him... 162 00:11:47.208 --> 00:11:49.877 and he has no memory of dictating it. 163 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:52.755 It all came from God, and it is brilliant. 164 00:11:54.798 --> 00:11:57.885 An important part is that Hammurabi did not claim authorship. 165 00:11:57.968 --> 00:12:00.971 He knew this was not of his making, of his intelligence. 166 00:12:02.389 --> 00:12:05.851 [ Man ] The system of law that comes through the Code of Hammurabi... 167 00:12:05.935 --> 00:12:10.689 is so intrinsic to the basic moral understandings of how to run a society... 168 00:12:10.773 --> 00:12:15.319 that much of it is still preserved in some form in our modern day legal system. 169 00:12:15.945 --> 00:12:21.367 This suggests that the Code of Hammurabi comes from a very advanced point of origin. 170 00:12:24.411 --> 00:12:28.820 [ Narrator] The story behind the Code of Hammurabi is not unique. 171 00:12:29.830 --> 00:12:31.710 In the ancient world, moments of genius... 172 00:12:31.794 --> 00:12:35.673 including basic religious beliefs and scientific principles... 173 00:12:35.756 --> 00:12:39.510 from Greece and Rome to India and China... 174 00:12:39.134 --> 00:12:42.513 were often said to have been inspired by divine voices. 175 00:12:44.932 --> 00:12:50.688 Think about it-Moses, Abraham, Noah, the prophets, Jesus- 176 00:12:50.771 --> 00:12:55.276 a lot of the laws, the rules, the customs, the traditions that we have... 177 00:12:55.359 --> 00:13:01.240 are based upon individuals claiming to have been told something by a deity. 178 00:13:01.323 --> 00:13:03.450 And it's not just the Judeo-Christian tradition. 179 00:13:03.534 --> 00:13:06.996 I would argue that in every culture, you've got a lot of laws... 180 00:13:07.790 --> 00:13:11.583 that are essentially traced back to people claiming to have been told something... 181 00:13:11.667 --> 00:13:13.794 by a being who's not of this world. 182 00:13:17.131 --> 00:13:20.467 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the course of human civilization... 183 00:13:20.551 --> 00:13:24.305 has been determined not by history's most profound thinkers... 184 00:13:24.388 --> 00:13:28.142 but by some external force that was guiding them? 185 00:13:29.590 --> 00:13:32.620 The ancients were convinced they knew the answer. 186 00:13:32.146 --> 00:13:34.982 In fact, the Latin word “genius”... 187 00:13:35.650 --> 00:13:38.986 is where the term “genii,” or supernatural creature, comes from. 188 00:13:40.290 --> 00:13:44.450 In the ancient world, the idea of genius had much more autonomy than our modern view. 189 00:13:45.451 --> 00:13:50.164 The genii, which had a life of its own, a kind of spiritual daimon, entered you. 190 00:13:50.247 --> 00:13:55.252 You had a relationship with the genii, and it was really the source of the brilliance. 191 00:13:56.420 --> 00:13:59.381 You were a channel, you were a host, you were involved... 192 00:13:59.465 --> 00:14:02.551 but it was not as personal, and the ownership wasn't as great. 193 00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:11.180 [Woman ] The Greeks believed that they were inspired by the muses. 194 00:14:11.852 --> 00:14:16.190 So what caused a musician to come up with a new tune? 195 00:14:16.273 --> 00:14:18.984 What caused a writer to come up with a new story? 196 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:24.865 It was the spirit of a muse that went inside the person... 197 00:14:24.948 --> 00:14:27.826 and caused that person to become creative... 198 00:14:28.369 --> 00:14:33.400 and we see that in the word “inspire,” in spirit. 199 00:14:33.707 --> 00:14:37.503 When we are inspired, we are filled with spirit... 200 00:14:37.586 --> 00:14:39.588 and we create those things. 201 00:14:41.965 --> 00:14:43.467 [ Narrator] In Alexandria... 202 00:14:43.550 --> 00:14:48.305 Egyptians founded what would become the greatest library in the ancient world... 203 00:14:48.389 --> 00:14:50.557 by erecting a temple to the muses... 204 00:14:50.641 --> 00:14:53.560 and asking them to fill their library with wisdom. 205 00:14:54.686 --> 00:14:58.232 [ TSOUKALOS ] When we say that “I'm looking for my muse”... 206 00:14:58.315 --> 00:15:03.278 you are looking for the key with which to unlock... 207 00:15:03.362 --> 00:15:06.407 this kingdom of creativity... 208 00:15:07.116 --> 00:15:11.412 that resides within each and every living being. 209 00:15:11.495 --> 00:15:16.834 Is it possible, by reaching this altered state of consciousness... 210 00:15:16.917 --> 00:15:21.588 to come in contact with beings or with entities... 211 00:15:21.672 --> 00:15:24.508 that are of those different realms? 212 00:15:25.676 --> 00:15:27.886 I think that this is possible. 213 00:15:30.264 --> 00:15:33.183 [ Narrator] Could it be that the forces of inspiration... 214 00:15:33.267 --> 00:15:36.190 that the ancients attributed to the gods... 215 00:15:36.103 --> 00:15:39.565 really did emanate from an otherworldly source... 216 00:15:39.648 --> 00:15:42.151 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 217 00:15:43.193 --> 00:15:44.653 In the ancient world... 218 00:15:44.736 --> 00:15:50.576 it was really believed that people were influenced from outside... 219 00:15:50.659 --> 00:15:55.497 to have special thoughts, to have special inspiration... 220 00:15:55.581 --> 00:15:59.460 and genius-type ideas... 221 00:15:59.543 --> 00:16:02.379 and it was coming from outside of you. 222 00:16:02.463 --> 00:16:06.550 So you have to wonder if these ideas... 223 00:16:06.633 --> 00:16:10.387 aren't possibly some kind of thoughts... 224 00:16:10.471 --> 00:16:15.392 that are being projected into your mind, possibly by extraterrestrials. 225 00:16:16.768 --> 00:16:19.480 [ Man ] Perhaps behind all of this is a belief... 226 00:16:19.563 --> 00:16:24.151 that people were directly influenced by extraterrestrial beings... 227 00:16:24.234 --> 00:16:27.946 who gave them immense inspiration or profound knowledge... 228 00:16:28.300 --> 00:16:30.657 that then they were able to share with others. 229 00:16:32.618 --> 00:16:36.121 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the geniuses of the ancient world... 230 00:16:36.205 --> 00:16:38.415 and even those among us today... 231 00:16:38.499 --> 00:16:42.753 receive their inspiration from otherworldly forces? 232 00:16:42.836 --> 00:16:47.490 Perhaps further evidence can be found by exploring Hindu teachings... 233 00:16:47.132 --> 00:16:51.470 that say wisdom can often come to us in our dreams. 234 00:17:02.147 --> 00:17:04.107 [ Narrator] Madras, India. 235 00:17:05.670 --> 00:17:07.694 In the first decade of the 20th century. .. 236 00:17:07.778 --> 00:17:12.741 Srinivasa Ramanujan, a young mathematician with no formal training... 237 00:17:13.367 --> 00:17:17.579 repeatedly stuns the academic world with innovative theorems. 238 00:17:19.623 --> 00:17:22.251 Even some of the world's leading mathematicians... 239 00:17:22.334 --> 00:17:25.128 are confounded by his remarkable formulas. 240 00:17:25.796 --> 00:17:28.799 But just as astounding as Ramanujan's work... 241 00:17:28.882 --> 00:17:32.970 is the fact that these formulas came to him in dreams. 242 00:17:33.512 --> 00:17:39.309 [WILCOCK] He claimed that a goddess, a Hindu goddess known as Namagiri... 243 00:17:39.393 --> 00:17:41.853 transmitted these theorems to him. 244 00:17:44.648 --> 00:17:48.402 These theorems came to be known as modular functions... 245 00:17:48.485 --> 00:17:53.240 and still, to this day, they are the most advanced form of mathematics... 246 00:17:53.323 --> 00:17:55.367 that is used by physicists... 247 00:17:55.450 --> 00:17:59.204 dealing with relativity and quantum mechanics. 248 00:18:00.789 --> 00:18:04.840 [ Narrator] How could someone without any background in mathematics... 249 00:18:04.167 --> 00:18:06.878 see such complicated theorems in dreams? 250 00:18:07.588 --> 00:18:09.548 Does Ramanujan's story reveal... 251 00:18:09.631 --> 00:18:13.594 how humanity can access knowledge outside the brain? 252 00:18:15.178 --> 00:18:18.980 [ Man ] So it really raises, I think, the interesting question... 253 00:18:18.181 --> 00:18:21.727 as we explore consciousness more from a scientific point of view... 254 00:18:21.810 --> 00:18:23.520 and understand it better... 255 00:18:23.604 --> 00:18:28.442 what types of connections and communications are occurring on the more cosmic scale? 256 00:18:29.260 --> 00:18:31.570 So “what other connections exist out there”... 257 00:18:31.653 --> 00:18:34.239 I think is a very interesting question to explore. 258 00:18:34.781 --> 00:18:38.410 [ Powell ] The people who have these inspirations, it's not like they were deriving it. 259 00:18:38.493 --> 00:18:40.120 It comes from the unconscious. 260 00:18:40.203 --> 00:18:42.664 And the unconscious is still a great mystery, you know? 261 00:18:42.748 --> 00:18:46.168 Is it just our unconscious? Or is it the collective unconscious? 262 00:18:48.378 --> 00:18:50.547 [ Narrator] Could true genius be the product... 263 00:18:50.631 --> 00:18:54.426 of a universal mind or collective unconsciousness .7. 264 00:18:57.262 --> 00:19:02.726 Ancient Hindus believed such a repository of knowledge actually exists- 265 00:19:03.518 --> 00:19:06.605 a universal force that includes every thought... 266 00:19:06.688 --> 00:19:09.733 action, emotion or experience... 267 00:19:09.816 --> 00:19:13.111 that any person ever had or ever will have. 268 00:19:13.904 --> 00:19:17.491 Westerners later named it the Akashic Record. 269 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.360 This is a Sanskrit word, it means “sky.” 270 00:19:23.872 --> 00:19:27.501 it's something that can be accessed through your mind... 271 00:19:27.584 --> 00:19:31.922 through your brain power, through your spiritual wavelength. 272 00:19:34.174 --> 00:19:39.554 Having access to that information which is there, that is not written... 273 00:19:39.638 --> 00:19:43.517 but somehow you have to be able to be in tune with that frequency... 274 00:19:43.600 --> 00:19:45.435 in order to obtain that. 275 00:19:46.269 --> 00:19:50.482 [ Narrator] Could it be that the common talent all geniuses possess... 276 00:19:50.565 --> 00:19:55.280 is actually an ability to access the wisdom of the Akashic Record... 277 00:19:55.112 --> 00:19:57.114 or universal mind? 278 00:19:59.616 --> 00:20:03.453 And if so, have other modern geniuses acquired knowledge... 279 00:20:03.537 --> 00:20:05.872 from an otherworldly realm? 280 00:20:05.956 --> 00:20:08.333 Einstein received the inspiration... 281 00:20:08.417 --> 00:20:11.962 for his groundbreaking theory of relativity in a dream. 282 00:20:12.879 --> 00:20:18.218 Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the elusive shape of the benzene molecule... 283 00:20:18.301 --> 00:20:22.139 during a daydream in which he saw a snake chasing its tail. 284 00:20:24.141 --> 00:20:27.269 And the brilliant Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev... 285 00:20:27.352 --> 00:20:30.981 literally dreamed up the Periodic Table of the Elements. 286 00:20:31.565 --> 00:20:36.403 He, in this dream, saw exactly where all of the elements lined up. 287 00:20:38.488 --> 00:20:43.452 The periodic table itself came in a dream, just fully formed. 288 00:20:43.535 --> 00:20:47.380 After coming out of the dream, he quickly drew them all down. 289 00:20:47.122 --> 00:20:50.667 And it's still the same that we use today. 290 00:20:51.501 --> 00:20:55.380 [ Narrator] Is it possible that a universal mind has bestowed genius... 291 00:20:55.464 --> 00:20:58.175 on certain individuals throughout history? 292 00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:02.721 And might there be scientific evidence of this phenomenon? 293 00:21:04.890 --> 00:21:08.268 At the Mind Research Network at the University of New Mexico... 294 00:21:08.977 --> 00:21:11.620 neuropsychologist Rex Jung uses... 295 00:21:11.146 --> 00:21:14.107 a magnetoencephalography, or MEG machine... 296 00:21:14.191 --> 00:21:17.270 to measure the brain wave activity of a test' subject. 297 00:21:18.278 --> 00:21:23.617 Dr. Jung believes this test may show how creative inspiration strikes the brain. 298 00:21:23.700 --> 00:21:25.619 Okay, Andre, you ready to begin? 299 00:21:27.621 --> 00:21:30.290 We have three tasks that we're going to run with Andre. 300 00:21:30.373 --> 00:21:33.293 The first one is vocabulary, second one is paper folding... 301 00:21:33.376 --> 00:21:36.421 and the third one is inductive reasoning. 302 00:21:37.214 --> 00:21:39.174 Andre, I want you to clench your jaw now. 303 00:21:41.676 --> 00:21:45.550 [ Narrator] As the test subject performs these everyday tasks... 304 00:21:45.138 --> 00:21:48.892 the MEG machine measures normal brain activity. 305 00:21:51.603 --> 00:21:53.647 Andre, now move your eyes back and forth. 306 00:21:54.815 --> 00:21:58.610 [ Narrator] But then Jung has the test subject clear his mind. 307 00:21:59.361 --> 00:22:02.781 Andre, can you close your eyes and relax your brain for a moment, please? 308 00:22:04.366 --> 00:22:08.995 [ Narrator] As the subject relaxes his mind, his brain activity decreases. 309 00:22:09.790 --> 00:22:12.624 But then, suddenly, the MEG machine detects something new- 310 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.710 alpha waves. 311 00:22:17.870 --> 00:22:19.500 Scientists say these brain waves... 312 00:22:19.890 --> 00:22:23.260 indicate the unconscious mind is working behind the scenes... 313 00:22:24.302 --> 00:22:26.304 outside our conscious thoughts. 314 00:22:27.848 --> 00:22:31.852 The alpha wave have found to be associated with divergent thinking... 315 00:22:31.935 --> 00:22:34.437 the manifestation of creative cognition... 316 00:22:34.521 --> 00:22:37.274 and it's also associated with relaxing the brain... 317 00:22:37.357 --> 00:22:40.503 and this is something very important, I think, to the manifestation of genius... 318 00:22:40.527 --> 00:22:43.864 this ability to, uh, think of new and useful ideas... 319 00:22:43.947 --> 00:22:45.490 that haven't been thought of before. 320 00:22:46.408 --> 00:22:52.122 [ Narrator] Could alpha waves have been how Ramanujan, Einstein and Mendeleev... 321 00:22:52.205 --> 00:22:55.125 received their flashes of brilliance? 322 00:22:55.792 --> 00:22:57.878 Or how the ancients could have channeled... 323 00:22:57.961 --> 00:23:01.381 the gods' wisdom as they developed their civilization? 324 00:23:02.299 --> 00:23:07.387 If so, where does mainstream science believe these thoughts come from? 325 00:23:07.470 --> 00:23:09.514 That is, uh, the million-dollar question. 326 00:23:09.598 --> 00:23:12.851 Uh, it's kind of like, uh, you know, what is consciousness? 327 00:23:12.934 --> 00:23:16.897 This is kind of a question that really stumps neuroscientists. 328 00:23:18.315 --> 00:23:20.275 [ Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists believe... 329 00:23:20.317 --> 00:23:25.710 it is possible that what appears to be divine or inspired brilliance... 330 00:23:25.155 --> 00:23:28.450 that pops unexpectedly into the minds of geniuses... 331 00:23:28.533 --> 00:23:30.827 could come not from the human mind... 332 00:23:32.287 --> 00:23:34.956 but from an extraterrestrial realm. 333 00:23:35.749 --> 00:23:39.878 [WILCOCK ] Overall, time after time, we're seeing a through line here... 334 00:23:41.421 --> 00:23:45.800 suggesting that there is a deliberate interface with our minds... 335 00:23:45.884 --> 00:23:48.345 that is steering the progress... 336 00:23:48.428 --> 00:23:52.265 of human invention and human innovation... 337 00:23:52.349 --> 00:23:57.812 according to a predefined script for a desired, targeted outcome. 338 00:23:58.897 --> 00:24:03.318 So you have to ask yourself, are extraterrestrials somehow using... 339 00:24:03.401 --> 00:24:08.156 this incredible volume of knowledge of the universal mind... 340 00:24:08.949 --> 00:24:13.119 and then directing it to certain people at certain times... 341 00:24:13.203 --> 00:24:15.413 when the time is right... 342 00:24:15.497 --> 00:24:21.461 and, in a sense, uh, supervising the education... 343 00:24:21.544 --> 00:24:25.423 of certain people who are ready to receive this knowledge? 344 00:24:28.468 --> 00:24:31.554 [ Narrator] If the Akashic Record actually exists... 345 00:24:31.638 --> 00:24:33.848 could extraterrestrials be using it... 346 00:24:33.932 --> 00:24:38.353 to transmit knowledge intended to shape our civilization? 347 00:24:40.438 --> 00:24:42.315 Perhaps the answer can be found... 348 00:24:42.399 --> 00:24:45.276 by examining breakthroughs in science and technology... 349 00:24:45.360 --> 00:24:49.155 that are achieved by multiple people in separate locations... 350 00:24:49.239 --> 00:24:50.949 simultaneously. 351 00:24:59.332 --> 00:25:04.870 [ Narrator] Washington, D.C., February 14, 1876. 352 00:25:06.589 --> 00:25:10.885 A lawyer representing Alexander Graham Bell hand-delivers a patent application... 353 00:25:10.969 --> 00:25:16.182 to the US Patent Office for what Bell describes as a “harmonic telegraph”... 354 00:25:16.266 --> 00:25:19.352 a device that can transmit vocal sounds. 355 00:25:22.564 --> 00:25:27.444 However, Bell's is actually the second patent filed that same day... 356 00:25:27.527 --> 00:25:30.530 for what later becomes known as the telephone. 357 00:25:30.613 --> 00:25:34.784 [ Man ] Alexander Graham Bell is generally credited with inventing the telephone. 358 00:25:34.868 --> 00:25:38.163 It's interesting to note that a man named Elisha Gray... 359 00:25:38.246 --> 00:25:42.959 seems to have invented a similar device right about the same time that Bell did. 360 00:25:44.252 --> 00:25:47.880 Bell's invention involved speaking to one piece of equipment... 361 00:25:47.172 --> 00:25:50.467 that was not connected to the part that allowed one to hear. 362 00:25:50.550 --> 00:25:54.345 Gray's device involved those two pieces being connected... 363 00:25:54.429 --> 00:25:57.182 and, in fact, that's the way telephones work today. 364 00:25:57.265 --> 00:26:01.770 [ Narrator] How is it that two inventors came up with the same revolutionary idea... 365 00:26:01.853 --> 00:26:04.220 at the exact same point in history? 366 00:26:05.523 --> 00:26:09.944 Such a patent had never been filed before anywhere in the world... 367 00:26:10.280 --> 00:26:13.239 and yet two are filed on the same day. 368 00:26:14.491 --> 00:26:18.495 Could this be evidence that there really is an Akashic Record- 369 00:26:18.578 --> 00:26:23.333 a universal mind that certain people are able to tap into? 370 00:26:24.334 --> 00:26:28.880 Bell and Gray each charged that the other had stolen his ideas... 371 00:26:28.963 --> 00:26:31.591 but there is no dispute that both geniuses... 372 00:26:31.674 --> 00:26:35.929 had been independently developing the concept of the telephone for years. 373 00:26:37.430 --> 00:26:39.849 This amazing story is not unique. 374 00:26:40.683 --> 00:26:45.647 In fact, independent, simultaneous invention happens surprisingly often. 375 00:26:49.670 --> 00:26:53.571 Throughout history, there's been this odd phenomenon... 376 00:26:53.655 --> 00:26:57.951 of multiple people discovering the same thing... 377 00:26:58.340 --> 00:27:00.912 at about the same time... 378 00:27:00.995 --> 00:27:05.875 even though they're separated and they don't know what the other person is doing. 379 00:27:07.430 --> 00:27:11.631 [ Narrator] In 1922, two Columbia University sociologists... 380 00:27:11.714 --> 00:27:14.300 William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas... 381 00:27:14.384 --> 00:27:19.139 published an academic paper entitled, “Are Inventions Inevitable?” 382 00:27:19.222 --> 00:27:24.435 Their research found at least 148 instances of simultaneous inventions... 383 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:29.357 in which the creators knew little or nothing about their rival's work. 384 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:35.572 [ Powell ] You had Wallace and Darwin both independently coming up with evolution. 385 00:27:37.490 --> 00:27:42.287 And you had, um, calculus, um, independently discovered as well. 386 00:27:43.370 --> 00:27:47.830 [Frisbee] There's multiple people who discovered oxygen. 387 00:27:48.710 --> 00:27:53.381 There's multiple people who invented the periodic table. 388 00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:57.468 It's a very and surprisingly common phenomenon. 389 00:27:58.136 --> 00:28:00.540 [ Narrator] Ogburn and Thomas concluded... 390 00:28:00.138 --> 00:28:03.850 that if the geniuses behind many inventions had died at birth... 391 00:28:03.933 --> 00:28:06.519 their discoveries would not have been lost to history. 392 00:28:07.312 --> 00:28:11.650 Others would have made similar discoveries at about the same time. 393 00:28:12.734 --> 00:28:14.694 We often have the expression... 394 00:28:14.777 --> 00:28:19.157 that an idea that's about to be discovered is in the air. 395 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:21.367 Some concept, some experiment. 396 00:28:21.451 --> 00:28:23.411 It's just sort of in the air. 397 00:28:23.494 --> 00:28:26.390 Little bits and pieces are floating around... 398 00:28:26.122 --> 00:28:30.960 and someone just has to bring all of that together to make the new discovery. 399 00:28:31.461 --> 00:28:33.460 Now it has been suggested... 400 00:28:33.129 --> 00:28:37.967 that maybe it is somehow physically in the air. 401 00:28:38.510 --> 00:28:40.803 There's some sort of information... 402 00:28:40.887 --> 00:28:46.142 that the human mind can tap into to make something like this happen. 403 00:28:49.479 --> 00:28:52.899 [ Narrator ] Is it possible that the collective knowledge of the universe- 404 00:28:52.982 --> 00:28:55.151 what some call the Akashic Record- 405 00:28:55.235 --> 00:28:58.446 is embedded in the energy that is all around us... 406 00:28:59.322 --> 00:29:01.282 and that those we call geniuses... 407 00:29:01.366 --> 00:29:05.578 are the handful of individuals who have the greatest access to it? 408 00:29:05.662 --> 00:29:07.872 [WILCOCK] What's going on here? 409 00:29:07.956 --> 00:29:10.416 These are complex abstract thoughts. 410 00:29:10.500 --> 00:29:15.421 We are not talking about something that you're just going to come up with at random. 411 00:29:16.589 --> 00:29:19.926 Some would suggest that it's just a collective unconscious... 412 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:25.980 that it's some sort of impersonal mind that we're all sharing that's doing this. 413 00:29:25.181 --> 00:29:29.269 But there is also the interesting idea... 414 00:29:29.352 --> 00:29:33.982 that there is a deliberate effect being enacted here. 415 00:29:34.816 --> 00:29:37.986 That extraterrestrials are working through us... 416 00:29:38.690 --> 00:29:40.905 to implant certain ideas and concepts... 417 00:29:40.989 --> 00:29:46.953 so that we fit onto a timeline of prescribed human evolution... 418 00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:50.748 in which certain discoveries happen at certain times. 419 00:29:52.750 --> 00:29:56.212 [ Narrator] Could simultaneous inventions be more than coincidence... 420 00:29:56.879 --> 00:30:01.592 more than the fact that inventors are working from the same basic technology? 421 00:30:03.261 --> 00:30:08.308 And if so, are there otherworldly beings pulling the strings- 422 00:30:08.391 --> 00:30:13.187 using the Akashic Record to reveal information to humanity's geniuses... 423 00:30:13.271 --> 00:30:15.481 when it fits their timetable? 424 00:30:15.565 --> 00:30:19.485 So it may be that as these academics and inventors... 425 00:30:19.569 --> 00:30:23.740 are all working on similar problems and inventions.. 426 00:30:23.823 --> 00:30:28.828 Then suddenly, yeah, they all tune in simultaneously... 427 00:30:28.911 --> 00:30:33.624 to that little bit of knowledge and piece of information that they're all missing... 428 00:30:33.708 --> 00:30:35.335 and they all find it. 429 00:30:35.418 --> 00:30:38.963 And it's all because they're tapping into this universal mind... 430 00:30:39.470 --> 00:30:41.799 and tuning in at a time when it's just right... 431 00:30:41.883 --> 00:30:44.594 and we've been taken right to that level... 432 00:30:44.677 --> 00:30:48.264 and we're ready to pluck that little apple from the tree. 433 00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:54.103 [ Narrator] If extraterrestrials really are using the Akashic Record... 434 00:30:54.187 --> 00:30:58.649 to transmit wisdom that is shaping the course of human civilization... 435 00:30:58.733 --> 00:31:00.485 what is their agenda? 436 00:31:01.652 --> 00:31:05.615 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found... 437 00:31:05.698 --> 00:31:10.745 by exploring one of the most important innovations of the 21st century. 438 00:31:17.168 --> 00:31:21.964 [ Narrator] San Francisco. January 9, 2007. 439 00:31:23.925 --> 00:31:28.346 Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along... 440 00:31:28.429 --> 00:31:30.473 that changes everything. 441 00:31:30.556 --> 00:31:32.558 [ Narrator] At the annual Macworld Conference... 442 00:31:32.642 --> 00:31:36.312 Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs introduces... 443 00:31:36.396 --> 00:31:40.733 what will quickly become one of the most iconic inventions in modern history. 444 00:31:40.817 --> 00:31:44.320 What we want to do is make a leap-frog product... 445 00:31:44.404 --> 00:31:49.700 that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been and super easy to use. 446 00:31:49.784 --> 00:31:51.994 [Audience Cheering, Applauding ] 447 00:31:53.996 --> 00:31:57.583 And we are calling it iPhone. 448 00:31:57.667 --> 00:31:59.836 [Applauding, Cheering Continues] 449 00:32:02.588 --> 00:32:05.925 [ Narrator] With its sleek design and savvy marketing... 450 00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:08.594 the iPhone becomes a sensation... 451 00:32:08.678 --> 00:32:12.682 selling 500 million devices over the next seven years. 452 00:32:13.307 --> 00:32:14.892 Along with the iPod... 453 00:32:14.976 --> 00:32:16.436 iMac... 454 00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:17.770 and iPad... 455 00:32:17.854 --> 00:32:21.482 Jobs's genius revolutionizes modern society. 456 00:32:22.108 --> 00:32:26.863 The inventions of Steve Jobs changed our lives in significant ways... 457 00:32:26.946 --> 00:32:32.243 in that it made access to information seem easier... 458 00:32:32.326 --> 00:32:35.246 seem more straightforward, seem more doable... 459 00:32:35.329 --> 00:32:38.624 for people who otherwise might say, “I don't know how to work this thing.” 460 00:32:39.709 --> 00:32:44.922 He took complex things- whether it's a computer, a telephone- 461 00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:49.135 and made it so ordinary people could figure it out... 462 00:32:49.218 --> 00:32:51.971 and use it and change their lives. 463 00:32:54.974 --> 00:32:59.353 [ Narrator] But like da Vinci, Tesla and Einstein before him... 464 00:32:59.437 --> 00:33:03.316 Jobs believed the inspiration for his groundbreaking inventions... 465 00:33:03.399 --> 00:33:08.404 came to him because of something as profoundly simple as meditation. 466 00:33:10.364 --> 00:33:15.328 The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California's Los Padres National Forest... 467 00:33:15.411 --> 00:33:20.410 is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Soto Zen monastery in the United States. 468 00:33:21.167 --> 00:33:24.128 It was here, while deep in meditation... 469 00:33:24.212 --> 00:33:27.600 that Jobs thought he received much of the inspiration... 470 00:33:27.890 --> 00:33:29.300 that transformed the modern world. 471 00:33:31.427 --> 00:33:36.516 [ Beirich ] Steve Jobs encountered Buddhism in his early adult years... 472 00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:42.605 and understood that contemplation for him was an important aspect. 473 00:33:44.230 --> 00:33:47.151 Looking back on his life and seeing what he did... 474 00:33:47.235 --> 00:33:49.654 certainly turning inward, clearing the mind... 475 00:33:49.737 --> 00:33:53.115 a contemplative approach to things had a big impact for him. 476 00:33:53.199 --> 00:33:58.120 [ Narrator] Jobs believed Zen meditation allowed him to calm his thoughts... 477 00:33:58.204 --> 00:34:03.420 so he could tap into a source of inspiration that' existed outside his body. 478 00:34:04.850 --> 00:34:07.588 As Jobs described it, “Your mind just slows down... 479 00:34:08.172 --> 00:34:11.175 and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. 480 00:34:11.259 --> 00:34:14.110 You see so much more than you could see before.” 481 00:34:15.846 --> 00:34:18.224 To me, I think what was really going on there... 482 00:34:18.307 --> 00:34:22.228 is that he was really good at getting into the flow state of consciousness. 483 00:34:22.311 --> 00:34:24.897 The flow state is an altered state of consciousness. 484 00:34:24.981 --> 00:34:30.152 But it's that state of consciousness to where all time seems to recede into the background. 485 00:34:30.653 --> 00:34:33.489 We seem to feel like we're one with what we're creating. 486 00:34:33.573 --> 00:34:36.659 [ Narrator] Is it possible that Steve Jobs's genius... 487 00:34:36.742 --> 00:34:39.412 not only revolutionized our technology... 488 00:34:39.495 --> 00:34:44.917 bu! Also gave humanity a blueprint for how the universal mind Works... 489 00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:47.670 and how we can attain enlightenment through it? 490 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:53.843 With the iPhone, did Jobs unconsciously recreate on a smaller level... 491 00:34:53.926 --> 00:34:56.637 what already exists in the universe- 492 00:34:56.721 --> 00:35:01.851 a library of collective knowledge that every user is contributing to? 493 00:35:03.102 --> 00:35:07.106 And if so, could this technology be teaching us... 494 00:35:07.189 --> 00:35:12.278 how to access that great repository of cosmic knowledge called the Akashic Record... 495 00:35:12.361 --> 00:35:17.366 that some scientists are starting to believe may exist all around us? 496 00:35:18.200 --> 00:35:24.123 Consciousness itself may, in fact, be a greater energetic existence... 497 00:35:24.206 --> 00:35:28.377 that we are simply accessing much like going online. 498 00:35:29.170 --> 00:35:34.216 You don't say that all the knowledge of the Internet is inside your smartphone. 499 00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:38.262 But you access the Internet through your smartphone. 500 00:35:38.346 --> 00:35:43.590 In much the same way, perhaps what we are calling the subconscious mind... 501 00:35:43.142 --> 00:35:47.772 is actually our connection to a greater energetic domain... 502 00:35:47.855 --> 00:35:50.660 in which the seeds of philosophy... 503 00:35:50.149 --> 00:35:51.692 the seeds of physics... 504 00:35:51.776 --> 00:35:53.527 the seeds of mathematics... 505 00:35:53.611 --> 00:35:58.824 and the true nature of human existence itself are hidden away... 506 00:35:58.908 --> 00:36:02.370 waiting for those who are bright enough and adept enough... 507 00:36:02.453 --> 00:36:05.164 to tap into these great cosmic mysteries. 508 00:36:07.249 --> 00:36:09.669 There's so many psychologists and philosophers... 509 00:36:09.752 --> 00:36:12.922 cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, trying to answer the question... 510 00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:16.800 “Where do these thoughts exist? Where do these ideas exist?” 511 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:19.637 You can look at my brain and have some idea that I'm having thoughts... 512 00:36:19.720 --> 00:36:21.681 but you don't know what those thoughts are. 513 00:36:21.764 --> 00:36:25.170 You can't explain the nature or the form of those thoughts. 514 00:36:25.101 --> 00:36:29.939 It's hotly debated to what extent the mind and the brain are the same thing... 515 00:36:30.220 --> 00:36:34.443 and trying to understand that rich inner stream of consciousness... 516 00:36:34.527 --> 00:36:38.989 is one of the most exciting questions in the field of philosophy of mind today. 517 00:36:39.740 --> 00:36:44.787 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the brain acts as a receptor of cosmic intelligence... 518 00:36:44.870 --> 00:36:48.400 which exists outside our physical body? 519 00:36:48.124 --> 00:36:49.583 And if so... 520 00:36:49.667 --> 00:36:55.297 is this so-called universal mind shared with other beings throughout the universe? 521 00:36:56.632 --> 00:37:00.720 We have our brains and all of the functioning there. 522 00:37:00.803 --> 00:37:03.973 But our mind is- is somewhere else, really. 523 00:37:04.974 --> 00:37:07.226 Somewhere we can't really place. 524 00:37:07.309 --> 00:37:11.647 So if our mind is really part of this universal mind... 525 00:37:11.731 --> 00:37:17.153 it seems very possible that we are being bombarded and infused... 526 00:37:17.236 --> 00:37:20.823 by all kinds of extraterrestrial thoughts and we don't even know it. 527 00:37:20.906 --> 00:37:25.244 [ Narrator] Bu! If we all are connected to this universal cache of knowledge... 528 00:37:25.327 --> 00:37:29.623 and geniuses are simply those who've been allowed a greater glimpse... 529 00:37:30.416 --> 00:37:33.878 might extraterrestrials be guiding us towards the day... 530 00:37:33.961 --> 00:37:36.464 when we will be fully enlightened? 531 00:37:37.600 --> 00:37:40.760 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer may be revealed... 532 00:37:40.843 --> 00:37:44.847 by examining a recent trend in human intelligence. 533 00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:58.194 [ Narrator] July 20, 1969. 534 00:37:59.445 --> 00:38:01.685 [ Man Over Radio ] Houston. You are go for landing, over. 535 00:38:02.406 --> 00:38:05.460 [ Aldrin Over Radio] Roger. Understand. Go for landing. 3,000 feet. 536 00:38:05.493 --> 00:38:09.872 [ Narrator] When Apollo 11's lunar lander touches down on the surface of the moon... 537 00:38:09.955 --> 00:38:13.417 humanity takes a giant leap forward into a new era. 538 00:38:13.501 --> 00:38:16.962 [ Armstrong Over Radio ] That's one small step for man. 539 00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:20.132 One giant leap for mankind. 540 00:38:22.384 --> 00:38:26.347 [ Narrator] The genius of men like Werner Von Braun and other scientists... 541 00:38:26.430 --> 00:38:31.227 has propelled humans off planet Earth for the first time in recorded history. 542 00:38:33.646 --> 00:38:38.776 The event marks the high point of a remarkable 150-year-long explosion... 543 00:38:38.859 --> 00:38:41.987 of technological and scientific genius... 544 00:38:42.710 --> 00:38:45.320 the likes of which the world has never seen. 545 00:38:45.825 --> 00:38:50.329 Starting early 1800s with the Industrial Revolution... 546 00:38:50.412 --> 00:38:55.417 the last two centuries have been the most extraordinary time in human history. 547 00:38:56.293 --> 00:39:02.216 In technology, we've gone from steam power to electric engines... 548 00:39:02.299 --> 00:39:06.345 to nuclear power systems. 549 00:39:06.428 --> 00:39:12.184 In science, we've discovered things like electromagnetism... 550 00:39:12.268 --> 00:39:15.312 relativity, quantum mechanics. 551 00:39:15.396 --> 00:39:17.731 In our daily lives... 552 00:39:17.815 --> 00:39:23.779 something as seemingly small as just the germ theory of Pasteur... 553 00:39:23.863 --> 00:39:27.116 antibiotics, anesthesia- 554 00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:31.787 these are enormous changes in technology, in science... 555 00:39:31.871 --> 00:39:34.582 in just medicine, everyday life. 556 00:39:36.458 --> 00:39:41.213 [ Narrator] But scientists say what's developing just as fast as our technology... 557 00:39:41.297 --> 00:39:44.967 is the intellectual capability of the human mind. 558 00:39:46.176 --> 00:39:49.179 Studies reveal an astounding 30-point increase... 559 00:39:49.263 --> 00:39:52.308 in the average IQ score over the last century. 560 00:39:53.170 --> 00:39:58.630 Some scientists attribute this improvement to better education and nutrition... 561 00:39:58.147 --> 00:40:02.693 but others believe it may be due to the evolution of our consciousness... 562 00:40:02.776 --> 00:40:06.822 and the ability to access our inner genius. 563 00:40:06.906 --> 00:40:11.952 Human cognition is continually evolving. It's always changing. 564 00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.248 Now most of these changes are actually very subtle, very gradual. 565 00:40:17.249 --> 00:40:19.840 However, there have been a few times... 566 00:40:19.168 --> 00:40:22.922 when there have been major upgrades in human cognition. 567 00:40:23.500 --> 00:40:28.177 But we might make the argument that the Information Revolution of the 20th century... 568 00:40:28.260 --> 00:40:31.130 are leading to another upgrade in human cognition. 569 00:40:33.140 --> 00:40:35.559 [ Narrator] Could this curious increase in IQ... 570 00:40:35.643 --> 00:40:41.607 be evidence that humanity is being slowly moved toward a new collective intelligence? 571 00:40:42.524 --> 00:40:47.112 Are we all gradually gaining greater access to the knowledge of the universe? 572 00:40:48.155 --> 00:40:53.118 If so, might we eventually be able to merge humanity's collective knowledge... 573 00:40:53.202 --> 00:40:57.623 with this great galactic mind and, at that time... 574 00:40:57.706 --> 00:41:02.586 discover that extraterrestrials have been guiding us all along? 575 00:41:02.670 --> 00:41:08.133 Over the past 100 years, we have made strides- 576 00:41:08.217 --> 00:41:12.972 uh, leaps and bounds with, you know, advancements in technology... 577 00:41:13.550 --> 00:41:18.978 and I think that the reason why UFO encounters and reports have increased... 578 00:41:19.610 --> 00:41:24.817 is because any extraterrestrial society would have to be aware... 579 00:41:24.900 --> 00:41:30.114 if a society reaches a certain level of technology. 580 00:41:32.574 --> 00:41:34.743 [ Henry] You wonder, “Where's all this taking us?” 581 00:41:34.827 --> 00:41:39.540 And the answer seems to be it's taking us to the level of the mind of the gods- 582 00:41:40.249 --> 00:41:42.751 that we are going to be thinking more like gods... 583 00:41:42.835 --> 00:41:45.796 and having tremendous godlike ability... 584 00:41:45.879 --> 00:41:48.924 as a result of tapping into this cosmic consciousness. 585 00:41:49.633 --> 00:41:53.846 [WILCOCK ] These extraterrestrials may very well be giving us the tools that we need... 586 00:41:53.929 --> 00:41:58.183 to ensure that this evolution proceeds accordingly... 587 00:41:58.267 --> 00:42:02.438 and help guide us through this mass quantum human evolution. 588 00:42:03.814 --> 00:42:07.443 [CHILDRESS] it would seem that as mankind progresses step-by-step... 589 00:42:07.526 --> 00:42:12.448 and through more and more knowledge, much of it gained through the universal mind... 590 00:42:12.531 --> 00:42:17.536 that we will then eventually create a civilization that is so highly developed... 591 00:42:17.619 --> 00:42:22.583 that we are ready to meet with the extraterrestrials face-to-face... 592 00:42:22.666 --> 00:42:27.838 and interact with them as equals, which is what I believe they want us to do. 593 00:42:29.298 --> 00:42:33.302 [ Narrator] What inspires geniuses to great heights of creativity? 594 00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:35.888 Were the ancients right... 595 00:42:35.971 --> 00:42:41.560 in thinking that something outside of the brain is responsible for brilliance? 596 00:42:42.144 --> 00:42:46.398 Can the root of all wisdom be found in the Akashic Record- 597 00:42:46.482 --> 00:42:52.290 a universal mind that we are given access to by extraterrestrial beings? 598 00:42:52.112 --> 00:42:54.198 We may not discover the truth... 599 00:42:54.281 --> 00:42:59.780 until the world's geniuses propel humanity to true enlightenment. 600 00:43:00.245 --> 00:43:04.833 And perhaps only then will we be ready to reunite... 601 00:43:04.917 --> 00:43:07.169 with our alien ancestors.