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[ Man Narrating ]
Stories of immortality.
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When he arose, it would be a body
that would never die again.
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The dead rising from their graves.
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You can say that to a certain extent,
zombies are real.
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And first-person accounts
of the afterlife.
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The ancient Egyptians had
a very deep, soul technology.
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Throughout history, 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 beings?
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If you want to think of the technology
that extraterrestrials might have...
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they could have the ability
to resurrect the dead, if need be.
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Millions of people around the world
believe we have been visited in the past...
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by extraterrestrial beings.
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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...
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1991.
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Singer/songwriter Pam Reynolds
is being rushed into surgery...
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to repair a bulging arterial wall
in her brain stem...
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that is about to burst
and kill her instantly.
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[Beeping]
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The surgical team of 20 decides
there is only one course of action:
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In order to save her life,
they must first end it.
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[Continuous Beeping]
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Pam Reynolds had a massive aneurysm ready
to essentially rupture at any moment...
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and so physicians needed to reduce
the pressure in those vessels...
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so that they could work on them.
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So they took blood out of her body
and cooled it slowly, so recirculating.
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What that does is, it sort of tricks
the body's cells...
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into slowing down their metabolism and not
realizing that they're lacking oxygen...
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which, of course, buys physicians
and emergency workers some time...
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to go in and repair the person's body while
they're in a sort of hyper-cooled state...
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where they're essentially not alive.
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[ Narrator ] For nearly an hour,
Pam Reynolds lies on the operating table...
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with her heart stopped,
no blood pumping through her body...
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and no brain-wave activity at all.
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According to the traditional
medical definition...
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she is dead.
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Five hours later, when doctors successfully
finished their groundbreaking surgery...
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they slowly pump warm blood
back into Reynolds's body.
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Her heart starts to beat again...
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and her brain stem begins
responding to stimuli.
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But when she regains consciousness,
Reynolds tells a shocking story...
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about a journey she says she made
into the afterlife.
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She remembers mingling with deceased
relatives and angelic beings...
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in a celestial netherworld-
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a transcendent experience that ended
only when doctors revived her.
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Pam Reynolds's case,
and other cases of resuscitation...
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sort of call into question
what it means to be alive.
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They were sort of
introducing new technologies...
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that were, I think, a little more of the
distinction of what does it mean to be dead.
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[Monitor Beeping]
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If you want to use the term “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 death?
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If so, could this mean that within each of us there
really is such a thing as an immortal soul...
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and might it even be identifiable
by science?
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Two prestigious scientists
have developed a theory...
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that describes exactly how consciousness
could continue to exist...
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after the brain has ceased to function.
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Oxford University's Roger Penrose...
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and Stewart 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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The theory is that there may actually be...
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a real physical structure in your brain.
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They're called microtubules...
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and they're small enough...
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that all the weird
quantum mechanical effects can occur.
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These quantum mechanical effects
may be what gives rise to consciousness.
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But even after you died,
that information isn't lost.
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It still continues
as a quantum mechanical state...
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and that may be what is giving rise
to consciousness.
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[ Narrator]
If Penrose and Hameroff are correct...
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and our consciousness can exist
after our physical body dies...
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does this explain why near-death
experiences like Pam Reynolds's...
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are reported by millions of people
around the world?
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They have, 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 have passed away.
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So it's a common, universal experience
that happens to people...
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who are either near or close to death...
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or even technically dead.
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[ Narrator] Some physicians believe
near-death experiences...
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could be triggered by hypoxia, a lack of
oxygen in the brain that can cause visions.
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But other researchers disagree.
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They point out that those
who have these experiences...
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see events occurring around them that
are later confirmed to have happened...
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and that their perceptions
are not dulled in a way...
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that would be consistent
with a dying brain.
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Perhaps even more significant...
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a recent study found
that the near-death experience...
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was remarkably similar
across the ancient world.
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Professor Gregory Shushan
at Oxford University...
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has found that in some of the great,
early cultures-
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ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia...
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Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China,
pre-Colombian Mesoamerica-
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that there are similar reports
of near-death experience...
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that certain details keep cropping up-
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that the person in this experience...
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encounters beings of light...
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even though the belief systems
about death...
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were very different in these cultures.
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This suggests that there might be something
about the mystical experience at death...
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that is stronger
than the cultural stories that hold it.
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[ Narrator] But why are accounts
of near-death experiences...
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so similar across so
many different cultures?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that the answer may lie with the fact...
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that these beings of light encountered
in many near-death experiences...
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are remarkably similar to the descriptions
of extraterrestrials...
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in alien abduction reports.
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Could these two types
of ethereal entities...
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actually be the same?
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[Man ] The common ground
is the tunnel of bright white light...
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and beings wearing shiny garments...
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or bright white garments of light...
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that either stand before that gateway...
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or are actually in it.
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And you have to wonder,
is it possible that in reality...
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the afterlife is just another dimension
or another plane of existence...
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that is inhabited, that's navigable
and is accessible...
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not only by those
in the afterlife realm...
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but also by living extraterrestrial beings.
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I think that both near-death experiences
and abduction experiences...
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are coordinated
by the same higher reality.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that extraterrestrials
hold the secret behind resurrection?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and claim further evidence can be found...
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by exploring resurrection stories
from antiquity.
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The Kingdom of Israel...
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the ninth century BC.
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In the Hebrew Bible, Elijah is portrayed...
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as a great prophet
and a powerful warrior...
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who slaughters the followers
of the god Baal...
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yet he is perhaps best known
not for putting people to death...
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but for bringing them back to life.
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In the biblical book I Kings, chapter 17
we actually have the story...
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of the prophet Elijah...
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who takes a widow's son who had died...
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and lays on him three times
and then prays to God...
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and the son comes back to life.
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Was this a miracle from the hand of God?
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Was there some kind
of a medical involvement here?
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There was some clear
physical intervention...
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on behalf of Elijah.
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That's all this text tells us.
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But we know that Elijah
was a great mystic and esotericist.
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He possessed a power cloak, called his
pala-garment, which means “power garment.”
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He ultimately ascended into the heavens...
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in a whirlwind like a spacecraft
while wearing this...
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so you have to ask, is there some kind of
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that Elijah had access to?
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[ Narrator]
Ancient astronaut theorists point out...
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that similar resurrections occur
in religions around the world...
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from the Hindu god Krishna...
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to the Aztec deity Quetzalcóatl.
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They believe these gods may, in fact,
have been extraterrestrial beings...
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sent to Earth on a mission.
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When you read the stories
of the celestials or extraterrestrials...
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that came in the ancient past...
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they were always delivering
these forbidden teachings...
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about crossing that boundary
into a beautiful and glorious realm...
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and one of their purposes in coming here...
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is to teach us how
to cross over that boundary.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that some ancient
accounts of gods rising from the dead...
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are not actually divine events...
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but rather examples
of extraterrestrial technology?
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And if so, are there stories
in which ancient cultures...
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regularly performed resurrections?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe astounding answers...
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can be found buried in the Sahara Desert.
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Low Earth orbit, September 2007.
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An experiment aboard
a Russian Photon-M3 spaceship...
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is trying to determine how resurrection
works in the natural world.
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It contains dozens of microscopic animals,
called “tardigrades”...
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The tardigrades are
a class of organisms...
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that we refer to as “extremophiles,”
meaning they can withstand...
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extreme stresses
that would kill most organisms.
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[ Narrator] On Earth, tardigrades
are almost impossible to kill.
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They can survive temperatures
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and far below freezing...
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by shedding almost all
water in their cells.
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The tardigrade
is a really interesting creature...
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and it's actually evolved
to have this amazing ability...
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to go into these 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 down.
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[ Narrator] On this mission...
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scientists want to see if they can survive
long blasts of solar radiation...
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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, hydrated.
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We think they also have a really good,
very efficient DNA repair mechanism...
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because they essentially come back to life,
often rather rapidly.
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Scientists do refer to that
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[ Narrator ] There's a curious parallel
to the tardigrade in the ancient world-
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a dead creature that was preserved
by removing all liquids...
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while it awaited resurrection:
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Egyptian mummies.
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In preparation for the afterlife...
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the ancients removed all blood,
water and organs...
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from a body they planned to mummify.
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In order to preserve a body...
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you cannot leave organs in the body
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and the Egyptians learned
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And they knew which organs
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and that the blood
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to preserve the body
for potential resurrection.
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If the body was properly prepared...
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the Egyptians believed its soul would start
its long and arduous journey...
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into the afterlife.
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There were a lot of rules.
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There was a lot of very specific navigation
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in order to get your soul from death
into this afterlife.
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Sometimes these rules were so difficult
that they would be written down...
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and oftentimes we find them written
on the insides of the tops of coffins.
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[ Henry] At Saqqara is where
we find the Pyramid Texts...
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some of the oldest religious texts
in the world.
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They're devoted to the concept of how
to not only preserve the human body...
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but to prepare the soul
for journeying into the stars.
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The ancient Egyptians made it clear
that they were in contact...
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with extraterrestrial civilizations...
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and in particular, one god, Ptah,
came from Sirius.
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Now, Ptah is also the god,
the ancient Egyptians said...
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who crafted, or fashioned,
the human body.
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He is also the god of technology.
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So when you put all this together...
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it sure sounds like Ptah
taught the ancient Egyptians...
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how to resurrect the body...
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and travel the cosmos.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that the Egyptians' complex beliefs
about resurrection...
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came from the extraterrestrial beings...
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that they believed had visited
their civilization in the past?
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It's very possible that when we look
at the Egyptians...
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performing their very intricate
mummification process...
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this is something
that they might have witnessed.
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Maybe they didn't fully understand
the process of what made it possible...
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but they would do their best to mimic it...
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and that's exactly what we see
with mummification.
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[ Narrator] But if the Egyptians believed
the soul traveled through the cosmos...
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why did they make such an effort
to preserve the corpse?
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According to their texts,
the ancient Egyptians...
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believed the soul was made up
of five parts.
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The two most important were
the “ba ” and “ka. ”
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The Ba journeyed into the afterlife...
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while the ka remained in the body.
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The proper preparation
of a corpse during burial...
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was essential to success in the afterlife.
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That is, the ka needed a properly
prepared body in which to dwell...
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and if that body, if that vessel,
isn't properly maintained...
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that person could 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 afterlife...
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rather than being
physically resurrected on Earth.
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The ultimate objective was for the Ba
to unite with its twin...
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or “ka” as they called it...
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and form a third entity
that they called the “Akh”-
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the shining one, the shining being...
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that was then capable of traveling
the stars as a celestial being.
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So this is suggesting
that the ancient Egyptians...
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had a very deep soul technology
or a way of transforming the soul...
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certainly prying it out of the body...
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uniting it with its twin self...
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and creating a light-being form.
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[ Narrator] But could it be
that the Egyptians believed...
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that the part of the soul
that remained within the body...
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could be resurrected as well?
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Might this be why they went to such
great lengths to preserve the body-
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because they believed
there would be a time...
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when they would be bodily resurrected
here on Earth?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest further evidence...
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that this was knowledge taught to our
ancestors by otherworldly visitors...
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can be found by examining stories
from the African rain forest-
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stories of real-life zombies.
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The Kingdom of Kongo, 1482.
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Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão...
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is the first European to sail
up the Congo River...
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into the heart
of this ancient African nation.
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Despite the dense rain forest
on both sides of the river...
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Cão spends months
exploring this unknown land...
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and meeting its inhabitants.
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After he reports his
discoveries back home...
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the king of Portugal dispatches
waves of missionaries to the region.
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The goal is to convert tribesmen
from their ancient religion of Vodun...
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to Catholicism.
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You have to remember,
this isn't too long after the Crusades...
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so Europe had already sort of went
right from the Crusades into colonialism...
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and one of the big projects was not
just to get land and money and slaves-
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although that was it-
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but also to gain souls, converts,
for the Catholic Church.
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Over the next century...
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European missionaries had great success
turning the Kingdom of Kongo...
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into a Catholic land.
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Their belief that a sky god created
the Earth and its inhabitants...
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is changed to the Catholic origin story...
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but the locals hold on
to some of their beliefs...
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including a concept which is also held
by the ancient Egyptians-
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that people have more than one soul.
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We have what's called “the big soul”
and “the little soul”...
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and one of them is responsible for what we
normally think of as our personality-
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what makes you you,
what makes me me-
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but the other one is more
of a basic sort of soul...
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that animates us;
It gets the flesh moving.
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They speak of us as each having
a lesser angel and a greater angel.
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At the time of death,
the lesser angel stays with the body.
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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 to Christianity...
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traditional bokors, or witch doctors...
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are forced to perform
some Vodun ceremonies in secret.
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European missionaries
hear astounding stories...
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that these witch doctors use ancient rituals
and traditional knowledge to raise the dead...
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creating automatons
that are later dubbed “zombies.”
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The idea of the zombies is that they
actually have only one of these two souls.
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They've passed on, they've died,
and they've been resurrected...
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but only with the soul
that animates us...
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so they're lacking in that personality
and in that personal feelings and things.
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With zombiism, it is then-
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Only the physical body...
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is resurrected in a sense...
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and the personalities, that part of
the soul, has completely disappeared.
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[ Narrator]
Could these stories have been true?
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And if so, might this be proof that both the
Egyptians and the tribes of the Kongo...
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were correct in their belief
that our consciousness...
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is divided into separate parts?
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But how could witch doctors...
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who lived hundreds of years ago
with no access to modern technology...
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have been able to breathe life
into the dead...
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reviving just the part of the soul
responsible for animating the flesh?
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Ancient astronaut theorists point out...
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that African myths
suggest voodoo magic...
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originated with the sky gods...
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and their emissaries to Earth,
known as “orishas” or “loas.”
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[Man ] The topic of the orishas
is very interesting to me...
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because they are looked upon
as these divine messengers-
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messengers of knowledge-
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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...
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they are depicted in sitting in
these weird craft, that look like craft...
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and that they all seem to feature
these elongated skulls.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible
that these African sky gods...
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were actually extraterrestrials...
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that not only taught the natives
the secrets of the soul...
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but also showed them
how to resurrect the dead?
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And could this be the origin
of our modern-day stories of zombies?
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[ Henry]
Perhaps through the centuries...
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these original teachings
of these celestial beings were lost.
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Sorcerers and magicians
in Africa and elsewhere...
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began mimicking or trying to copy
what the originals had done...
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and had a limited degree of success.
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They were able to create zombies.
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But the source is clear:
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These teachings originally came
from celestial beings.
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[Man] Maybe some of
the extraterrestrials had an accident...
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so the extraterrestrials helped him,
like a doctor would do today...
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and the natives watched it.
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They could not understand
what was going on in medicine...
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and they copied it.
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[ Narrator] Were African witch doctors
mimicking the technology of their sky gods...
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when they 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 found...
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by exploring ancient Hindu beliefs...
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in which the conscious self
can be reborn in a new body.
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Delhi, India, 1930.
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Four-year-old Shanti Devi tells her family
that in a previous life...
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she was a woman named Lugdi Bai...
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and that she had lived
in the nearby village of Muthura.
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At first they dismissed the story
as a childhood fantasy...
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but she knows so much
about this other world...
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that she eventually convinces them
she's telling the truth...
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and they journey
to Lugdi Bai's former village.
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[CHILDRESS] She actually went to meet
her previous husband and her other wife.
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He also, after talking to her...
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believed that she was the reincarnation
of his previous wife...
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who had died in childbirth.
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And then, eventually, Mahatma Gandhi
got involved in this whole story.
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He had an investigation made...
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and Gandhi himself
said that he was satisfied...
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that she was the reincarnation
of this other woman.
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[ Narrator] Could Lugdi Bai have died
and been reincarnated as Shanti Devi?
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The Hindu faithful believe reincarnation-
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a spiritual resurrection in which a soul
is reborn in a new body-
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happens to almost everyone after death.
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[Man ] When the soul goes up and then
it has to be born into something else...
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in another light life form...
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so then 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 simply...
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as a vessel for the soul...
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that's capable of reincarnating
into successive bodies...
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or successive lifetimes.
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[ Narrator] If the concept that the part of our
consciousness that forms our personality...
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that makes us who we are...
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continues to exist after
the body has died...
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then might many of us
have lived past lives...
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and only a handful of people,
like Shanti Devi...
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are able to remember them?
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Some believe that not only
is reincarnation real. ..
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But that in certain cases...
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there has even been physical evidence
to support this.
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When we examine
the reincarnation research...
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a consistent theme emerges...
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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 birthmarks...
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who then accurately remember having been
someone else in another lifetime...
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and in some of these cases
we can confirm...
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that their past-life person
died in a particular way...
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and they come back with a birthmark
corresponding to that exact area.
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If they died by gunshot, we know where
the gunshot wound took place.
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The person reincarnates
and they have a birthmark...
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right where the gunshot
actually entered.
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[ Narrator]
Is it possible that a birthmark...
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could be the consciousness
creating a physical manifestation...
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of a traumatic event
that happened in a previous life?
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Proponents of reincarnation...
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say further evidence that our consciousness
can be resurrected in another body...
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can be found in the fact
that reincarnation...
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isn't just part of Eastern religions...
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like Hinduism and Buddhism.
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It appears in most
ancient religions worldwide.
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Early Greek religion had a process-
a belief-in reincarnation.
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Plato writes about it in his writings-
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that the soul would enter into the body...
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and then when you died,
the soul would be reprocessed...
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and then would enter back into a body.
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[Man] In the Bible, 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.
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Some people say you're Jeremiah.”
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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 religions...
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the gods are the ones that educated
people about reincarnation.
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Is it possible
that the ancients misunderstood...
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who had bestowed this knowledge
on their societies...
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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
origins of the stories of reincarnation...
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you're led to extraterrestrial sources.
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This was a teaching that
was brought here...
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and represents the ultimate
spiritual attainment on Earth.
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[WILCOCK ] We have over 30
ancient cultures around the world...
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independently contacted
by human-looking messengers...
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who give them a unified body
of spiritual knowledge...
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which usually describes reincarnation-
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the transmigration of the soul
from one physical incarnation to the next-
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as a reality.
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[ Narrator]
Could it be that celestial beings...
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have mastered the science
of reincarnation...
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to 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 understanding...
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of this otherworldly realm?
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If resurrections are really
a resurrection of the spirit...
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rather than the body...
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then it's possible that we would have
a technology to follow that spirit...
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from one body to the next.
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And you have to wonder if this
doesn't come from extraterrestrials.
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[ Narrator] Could extraterrestrials
have the ultimate answers...
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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 have that...
471
00:31:09.327 --> 00:31:11.704
without even knowing it.
472
00:31:20.296 --> 00:31:23.966
Northern Israel,
approximately 33 AD.
473
00:31:26.552 --> 00:31:29.889
According to the gospels
of the New Testament of the Bible...
474
00:31:29.972 --> 00:31:31.974
in the months before his death...
475
00:31:32.580 --> 00:31:36.646
Jesus leads three of his apostles away from
the village in which they're staying...
476
00:31:36.729 --> 00:31:40.149
and together, they journey
to a nearby mountain.
477
00:31:42.235 --> 00:31:44.835
[Downing ] The story here is that
Jesus went up a high mountain...
478
00:31:44.862 --> 00:31:46.948
with Peter, James and john...
479
00:31:47.310 --> 00:31:50.159
his three closest followers.
480
00:31:50.243 --> 00:31:53.579
So while they were there,
a glowing object hovered over them...
481
00:31:53.663 --> 00:31:57.166
and Moses and Elijah were reported
to have appeared to him.
482
00:31:58.840 --> 00:32:03.500
While they were there, the body of Jesus
began to glow tremendously...
483
00:32:03.890 --> 00:32:06.592
and when they were finished with
this scene they went down the mountain...
484
00:32:06.676 --> 00:32:09.929
and Jesus told the disciples
not to tell anybody about this...
485
00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:13.558
until after his crucifixion
and resurrection.
486
00:32:13.641 --> 00:32:16.180
This says to me
that maybe the body of Jesus...
487
00:32:16.102 --> 00:32:18.604
went through some type
of transformation...
488
00:32:18.688 --> 00:32:23.693
which changed his body
so that when he rose from the dead...
489
00:32:23.776 --> 00:32:27.290
it would be a body
that would never die again.
490
00:32:30.533 --> 00:32:31.993
[ Narrator]
According to the Bible...
491
00:32:32.760 --> 00:32:34.662
it was several months
after this incident...
492
00:32:34.745 --> 00:32:37.457
that Roman authorities arrested Jesus...
493
00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:40.543
and put him to death by crucifixion.
494
00:32:41.461 --> 00:32:44.500
[Woman ] We know following
the crucifixion on Friday night...
495
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:46.299
he is laid into a tomb.
496
00:32:46.382 --> 00:32:52.138
On Sunday, when Mary Magdalene and
the other women come to anoint his body...
497
00:32:52.221 --> 00:32:53.723
the tomb is empty.
498
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:59.228
The stone has been rolled back
and his burial cloths are all that remain.
499
00:33:04.108 --> 00:33:07.820
[ Narrator ] Although Jesus is said
to have ascended to a heavenly realm...
500
00:33:07.904 --> 00:33:11.157
it is written that he ascended bodily.
501
00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.243
This has led some
ancient astronaut theorists...
502
00:33:14.327 --> 00:33:17.413
to form a different interpretation
of the scriptures...
503
00:33:17.497 --> 00:33:21.918
based also on events that occurred
just after the resurrection...
504
00:33:22.100 --> 00:33:26.214
that indicate it may have had
extraterrestrial origins.
505
00:33:27.423 --> 00:33:29.759
[ Downing]
Matthew's gospel, chapter 28...
506
00:33:29.842 --> 00:33:33.429
says that an angel of God
descended from heaven...
507
00:33:33.513 --> 00:33:35.932
rolled back the stone and sat upon it...
508
00:33:36.150 --> 00:33:39.101
and his clothing glistened white.
509
00:33:39.185 --> 00:33:42.104
And so, we have a being
reported to be there.
510
00:33:42.188 --> 00:33:44.607
This means that powers
from another world...
511
00:33:44.690 --> 00:33:47.443
were involved
in the resurrection of Jesus.
512
00:33:47.527 --> 00:33:50.696
People come to the tomb.
They find the tomb empty.
513
00:33:50.780 --> 00:33:56.285
They're described in a couple of the gospels:
Young men with raiment that was shining...
514
00:33:56.369 --> 00:33:59.372
much like
extraterrestrial encounters today...
515
00:33:59.455 --> 00:34:01.958
where we see beings of light.
516
00:34:02.792 --> 00:34:05.711
And they say, “Why are you seeking
the living among the dead?
517
00:34:05.795 --> 00:34:08.381
Jesus is gone.
Just like he said would happen.”
518
00:34:11.175 --> 00:34:12.885
[ Narrator]
Many Christians believe...
519
00:34:12.969 --> 00:34:15.513
this seminal resurrection
in Western culture...
520
00:34:15.596 --> 00:34:19.600
signifies that humans can-
and many eventually will-
521
00:34:19.684 --> 00:34:21.477
be raised from the dead.
522
00:34:21.561 --> 00:34:24.438
But does it actually give humanity clues...
523
00:34:24.522 --> 00:34:28.276
about how to pierce the veil
between life and death?
524
00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:31.654
Some ancient astronaut theorists say...
525
00:34:31.737 --> 00:34:34.824
that further evidence
that resurrection is possible...
526
00:34:34.907 --> 00:34:38.411
can be found
in the modern-day church service.
527
00:34:43.749 --> 00:34:47.461
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
528
00:34:48.921 --> 00:34:51.799
Give us perseverance
and lead us to salvation.
529
00:34:51.882 --> 00:34:54.176
Cardinal Timothy Dolan says mass...
530
00:34:54.260 --> 00:34:57.805
at one of America's
most impressive Catholic churches...
531
00:34:59.765 --> 00:35:04.854
and during the Eucharist,
he consecrates bread and wine.
532
00:35:04.937 --> 00:35:06.814
According to church doctrine...
533
00:35:06.897 --> 00:35:12.528
at this moment he is literally turning them
into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
534
00:35:14.300 --> 00:35:18.340
Cardinal Dolan, or any other priest
who performs this ritual...
535
00:35:18.117 --> 00:35:21.579
is actually performing a resurrection.
536
00:35:24.206 --> 00:35:27.501
The Catholic doctrine
of transubstantiation argues...
537
00:35:27.585 --> 00:35:30.588
that this is a miracle,
the Eucharist is a miracle.
538
00:35:31.255 --> 00:35:33.633
When you partake
of the bread and the wine...
539
00:35:33.716 --> 00:35:36.520
that it miraculously transforms...
540
00:35:36.135 --> 00:35:39.722
into the actual body and blood of Jesus.
541
00:35:42.475 --> 00:35:47.480
We then ingest the holy,
we ingest Christ, incorporate.
542
00:35:47.563 --> 00:35:49.650
Play on the word.
543
00:35:49.148 --> 00:35:52.985
That is, make part of our corpus,
part of our body, the divine...
544
00:35:53.690 --> 00:35:54.612
in this ritual form.
545
00:35:54.695 --> 00:35:57.198
It is a powerful activity.
546
00:35:59.408 --> 00:36:03.454
[ Narrator] But how can bread and wine
be changed into flesh and blood?
547
00:36:04.413 --> 00:36:06.207
According to the Catholic Church...
548
00:36:06.290 --> 00:36:09.919
it's a mystery that humans
cannot possibly unravel.
549
00:36:11.253 --> 00:36:14.757
But some believe that instead
of a physical transformation...
550
00:36:15.675 --> 00:36:20.120
Jesus is resurrected metaphysically
during the church service...
551
00:36:20.888 --> 00:36:23.516
that Jesus was, and still is...
552
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:28.200
an advanced being that can move
from one dimension to another.
553
00:36:29.605 --> 00:36:33.317
As evidence, they cite
what Jesus told his followers...
554
00:36:33.401 --> 00:36:37.780
about the power of gathering in groups
to invoke his name.
555
00:36:39.699 --> 00:36:44.370
[Young] Christ said, “Where two or more
are gathered in my name, there I am also.”
556
00:36:44.453 --> 00:36:47.957
Something happens,
and it happens in ritual worship-
557
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:49.959
collective worship.
558
00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:54.588
Now, I'm not putting aside the power
and value of private spiritual practice...
559
00:36:54.672 --> 00:36:58.592
but there's something else that happens
when this is done collectively.
560
00:36:59.802 --> 00:37:03.550
[Henry] Is this a form of resurrection
as well, where they, in fact...
561
00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:07.309
then, in a way,
embody the Christ energy...
562
00:37:07.393 --> 00:37:08.894
during the mass?
563
00:37:08.978 --> 00:37:12.565
So maybe this is the purpose of the mass,
is to create this environment...
564
00:37:12.648 --> 00:37:16.235
where they can transform their body
into a vehicle...
565
00:37:16.318 --> 00:37:20.322
capable of manifesting,
or holding, the Christ energy.
566
00:37:24.618 --> 00:37:27.830
[ Narrator] Is it possible
that worshipers around the world...
567
00:37:27.913 --> 00:37:30.624
actually resurrect an otherworldly being...
568
00:37:30.708 --> 00:37:32.835
every time they gather to pray?
569
00:37:33.711 --> 00:37:37.548
And if so, is this just
a resurrection of the spirit...
570
00:37:37.631 --> 00:37:40.259
or could we eventually
reanimate the body...
571
00:37:40.342 --> 00:37:43.530
so it can be reunited with the soul?
572
00:37:44.540 --> 00:37:48.580
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
stunning advances in modern medicine...
573
00:37:48.142 --> 00:37:50.311
might soon make this possible.
574
00:38:00.237 --> 00:38:04.408
Tübingen, Germany, 2013.
575
00:38:05.534 --> 00:38:10.372
Scientists at the University of Tübingen
report a landmark event.
576
00:38:10.456 --> 00:38:13.167
They have sequenced and decoded DNA...
577
00:38:13.250 --> 00:38:16.295
that was extracted
from five Egyptian mummy heads.
578
00:38:17.338 --> 00:38:21.383
Somehow, the way the ancient Egyptians
embalmed the bodies of their dead...
579
00:38:21.467 --> 00:38:25.471
allowed DNA to survive
for thousands of years.
580
00:38:25.554 --> 00:38:27.640
One of the things that happens
in mummification...
581
00:38:27.723 --> 00:38:30.768
is that they rapidly
extract all the water...
582
00:38:30.851 --> 00:38:33.979
and it's thought that water actually
is one of the major contributors...
583
00:38:34.630 --> 00:38:35.981
to the degradation of the DNA.
584
00:38:36.650 --> 00:38:39.151
So that rapid extraction of water
was believed to protect the mummy...
585
00:38:39.235 --> 00:38:41.280
from DNA degradation.
586
00:38:43.113 --> 00:38:46.867
[ Narrator] Researchers have not yet found
a complete set of genetic blueprints...
587
00:38:46.951 --> 00:38:49.578
to the ancient Egyptian body...
588
00:38:50.162 --> 00:38:54.416
but this material shows them
that if they do find enough DNA...
589
00:38:54.500 --> 00:38:58.587
they can, in theory,
bring these people back to life...
590
00:38:58.671 --> 00:39:01.900
to physically resurrect them.
591
00:39:02.490 --> 00:39:06.345
If we have the physical
remains of a corpse...
592
00:39:06.428 --> 00:39:10.266
it might be possible
to resurrect this corpse literally-
593
00:39:11.684 --> 00:39:14.103
to regenerate the DNA.
594
00:39:14.186 --> 00:39:16.772
Now, the process
would be extremely difficult...
595
00:39:16.856 --> 00:39:18.691
but the technology is on its way...
596
00:39:19.775 --> 00:39:21.235
and that will be amazing.
597
00:39:21.318 --> 00:39:24.613
I mean, we would-They would
literally have achieved their objective-
598
00:39:24.697 --> 00:39:28.158
to be resurrected again.
599
00:39:30.578 --> 00:39:32.370
[ Narrator] Is it possible...
600
00:39:32.121 --> 00:39:34.874
that scientists are finally
starting to unravel...
601
00:39:34.957 --> 00:39:36.959
the secrets to resurrection?
602
00:39:37.835 --> 00:39:41.881
And if so, can humanity
eventually master this power...
603
00:39:41.964 --> 00:39:45.759
so we can bring bodies and souls
back into the physical world...
604
00:39:45.843 --> 00:39:47.344
whenever we choose?
605
00:39:48.220 --> 00:39:50.806
Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
606
00:39:50.890 --> 00:39:55.853
that many religions describe the moment
when humans reach this stage of evolution.
607
00:39:56.896 --> 00:39:59.315
It's variously called “the rapture”...
608
00:39:59.398 --> 00:40:01.108
“the day of judgment”...
609
00:40:01.191 --> 00:40:02.860
“end of days”...
610
00:40:02.943 --> 00:40:04.820
or “the Apocalypse.”
611
00:40:08.198 --> 00:40:10.242
[Tzadok]
According to the legends...
612
00:40:10.326 --> 00:40:16.999
all humanity is to evolve
into a higher form.
613
00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:20.252
The proper word
would be “transformation”...
614
00:40:20.336 --> 00:40:23.172
wherein which we will have achieved
the purpose...
615
00:40:23.255 --> 00:40:26.910
for which we have come to Earth
in the first place.
616
00:40:27.259 --> 00:40:30.763
But that, in and of itself,
is not the end of the road.
617
00:40:30.846 --> 00:40:33.150
Then we evolve beyond that.
618
00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:35.893
This is referred to
as “the great resurrection.”
619
00:40:37.186 --> 00:40:39.188
[TSOUKALOS]
One thing is crystal clear:
620
00:40:39.271 --> 00:40:43.692
In all of the ancient texts,
those gods promised to return.
621
00:40:44.610 --> 00:40:50.491
Not just in the Bible, but in many
of the ancient sacred texts.
622
00:40:51.742 --> 00:40:55.287
[ Narrator] Could the end of days
that most religions foresee...
623
00:40:55.371 --> 00:41:00.876
actually be the time when humanity
discovers the secret to resurrection...
624
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:06.799
allowing everyone to move between
physical and spiritual planes of existence?
625
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:13.973
And if so, will this realm be the place where
we finally meet the extraterrestrials...
626
00:41:14.560 --> 00:41:17.184
that ancient astronaut theorists
say visited the Earth...
627
00:41:17.267 --> 00:41:19.853
thousands of years ago?
628
00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:26.443
The idea of resurrection...
629
00:41:26.527 --> 00:41:30.990
or rebirth into a new realm of existence,
a new kingdom of heaven...
630
00:41:31.730 --> 00:41:35.953
was central to our interaction with
the celestials or extraterrestrial beings.
631
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:38.956
You could almost make the argument
that that's why they came here...
632
00:41:39.390 --> 00:41:43.168
was to teach us how
to resurrect ourselves, our bodies...
633
00:41:43.252 --> 00:41:46.714
to transform our bodies
into a celestial form...
634
00:41:46.797 --> 00:41:48.799
a light-body form.
635
00:41:49.717 --> 00:41:53.721
We find a direct through line
connecting extraterrestrials, angels...
636
00:41:53.804 --> 00:41:56.560
and the near-death experience.
637
00:41:57.160 --> 00:42:00.853
There is a compelling suggestion
that at the end of days...
638
00:42:00.936 --> 00:42:03.647
the veil between realities
will be parted...
639
00:42:03.731 --> 00:42:05.733
and we will gain the capability...
640
00:42:05.816 --> 00:42:12.720
of moving directly between the world of the
living and the world of the afterlife.
641
00:42:12.156 --> 00:42:13.717
[TSOUKALOS]
I don't think it is anything...
642
00:42:13.741 --> 00:42:19.204
that we should look upon with dread,
but with joy...
643
00:42:19.288 --> 00:42:21.707
because it means we're not alone...
644
00:42:21.790 --> 00:42:25.200
and, you know, they're there with us.
645
00:42:27.588 --> 00:42:29.899
[ Narrator] Might we really have souls
that exist in a realm...
646
00:42:29.923 --> 00:42:33.135
that can be accessed
by otherworldly beings?
647
00:42:34.970 --> 00:42:39.850
And if so, could stories involving
the second coming of prophets...
648
00:42:41.143 --> 00:42:43.103
the reanimation of the dead...
649
00:42:44.146 --> 00:42:46.899
and the close encounters of those
on the brink of death...
650
00:42:46.982 --> 00:42:51.653
be evidence that extraterrestrials
hold the secret to resurrection?
651
00:42:53.489 --> 00:42:57.451
Perhaps as we come to better understand
our own mortality...
652
00:42:58.160 --> 00:43:01.538
we too will uncover the mysteries
of the afterlife...
653
00:43:01.622 --> 00:43:05.250
and in the process, discover the truth...
654
00:43:05.334 --> 00:43:08.253
about our alien origins.