NARRATOR: A mystical Jewish tradition
that speaks of underground realms
inhabited by strange creatures.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: It is believed and taught
that we are not alone
as intelligent beings upon our own Earth.
NARRATOR: A Buddhist legend
that tells of a lost civilization
surviving in vast underground canyons.
DAVID CHILDRESS: Shambhala is a secret city underground.
It's ruled by kings
who live for hundreds of years.
NARRATOR: Modern accounts
of humanlike entities beneath the earth.
WILLIAM HENRY: Local residents described seeing
reptilian-type humanoid beings
deep inside this cave.
NARRATOR: Could it be that other intelligent beings exist
right here on our own planet?
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Someone may be here
underneath the surface of the Earth.
And what if these entities have been here
for thousands of years?
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: This historic mountain village in Upper Galilee is home
to a sacred cave that is the second most visited Jewish site
in the world after the Western Wall,
with as many as two million annual visitors.
According to Hebrew tradition,
this cave served as the home of the famous rabbi
Shimon Bar Yochai in the second century AD
when Jerusalem was under the rule of the Roman empire.
HENRY: Rabbi Shimon Yochai
lived during a very difficult time for the Jewish people
living in the kingdom of-of Israel.
The Emperor Hadrian had been violently persecuting the Jews.
They forbade them from studying the Torah.
They forbade them, under penalty of death, from even
initiating new students in the Torah.
TZADOK: Shimon Bar Yochai was one
who spoke out against the empire.
This caused the Romans to brand him a criminal
and to hunt him to death.
HENRY: Rabbi Yochai fled to Northern Israel
into the Galilee where he hid
in a cave for as long as 13 years.
TZADOK: When he was concealed in the cave,
he received a tremendous amount
of profound, sacred wisdom,
secrets that were revealed to him in the cave
by none less than the immortal prophet himself, Elijah.
NARRATOR: If Rabbi Bar Yochai truly encountered
the prophet Elijah as he claimed, it would be a miracle,
because Elijah lived in Judea almost a thousand years earlier.
DANIEL MATT: According to Jewish tradition, Elijah
never died.
So he appears and he enlightens people,
he helps people who are in trouble.
TZADOK: So, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
communed with Elijah.
He received secrets
of the universe.
NARRATOR: Rabbi Bar Yochai understood the teachings
he received from this immortal messenger
to be of great importance
but also felt that they should only be shared
with a trusted few and not yet revealed to the public.
TZADOK: After he
came out of the cave,
after the Romans forgot about him,
he gathered together his students
and taught them the secrets
that were revealed to him in the cave.
HENRY: This knowledge was then written down
or transmitted orally
for centuries for a thousand years
until a Spanish rabbi
acquired this knowledge that he then shared with humankind.
NARRATOR: In the late 13th century,
the secret writings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
were finally published as the Zohar--
a text that is still held as sacred
by millions of people around the world.
It is considered fundamental
to the Jewish tradition of kabbalah.
MATT: People often confuse kabbalah
and Zohar.
There's no book called the Kabbalah.
The Zohar is the major text of the kabbalah.
So if someone says they're studying kabbalah,
they probably mean that they're studying the Zohar.
NARRATOR: According to practitioners of kabbalah,
the teachings include ancient knowledge
that was far ahead of its time,
such as information related to modern atomic theory,
the spherical shape of the Earth,
and the existence of other solar systems.
But of all the teachings of kabbalah,
many believe the most profound comes from a passage found
in the Zohar-- one that says there are seven earths.
TSOUKALOS: Kabbalistic texts teach that there are
multiple worlds out there.
In fact, there are seven earths.
And they give the name of each of them,
and when I hear that then I wonder,
well, could it be possible that what we have here
is a reference that there are six other inhabited planets
in the rest of our galaxy?
CHILDRESS: When you look at these
kabbalistic texts, and they're talking
about there being six other earths
besides the one that we're on,
and they're not just some allegory, uh,
or talking about, you know,
seven continents or something like that,
well, you have to ask yourself,
is it possible that these are actual other planets
and they're inhabited?
NARRATOR: While seven earths may sound
like a reference to seven planets,
according to those who study kabbalah,
this concept has another, even more profound meaning.
Many people have this idea
that the concept of seven earths
has something to do with some other place.
It's not some other place, and in fact,
according to Zoharic literature, it's inside the earth.
There are seven lands, one above the other.
One of the lands is actually the Outer Earth,
which is the one that we're walking on right now.
According to Zohar as well as Jewish religious interpretation,
the six other earths are physical locations
that are subterranean to our present reality.
Even more compelling is that it also teaches
that each of the six other earths are inhabited
by intelligent creatures.
There could be this multiplicity of beings.
They exist in other realms
but are always kept hidden in the Inner Earth.
TZADOK: One of the profound teachings
of the oral Torah tradition
is that we human beings
are not the only intelligent species
indigenous to our Earth.
And within this Earth live other types of entities.
TSOUKALOS: Of course, the notion of a hollow Earth is absurd.
The Earth is not hollow.
However, if you change the word "hollow" to "inner,"
then I even have to say there could be an argument made
that someone may be here
underneath the surface of the Earth.
Because it is a geological fact
that there are gigantic chambers underneath the Earth's crust,
some of which even contain water
that are larger than the world's oceans.
So, you know, you have to wonder
if it's at all possible that somebody is down there.
And what if these entities have been here
for thousands of years?
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Earth is home
to other intelligent beings that exist deep beneath the surface?
And if so, how long have they been on this planet?
According to the teachings of kabbalah,
some of the beings of Inner Earth once lived on the surface
long before the time of humans.
NARRATOR: In the Hebrew Bible's
Book of Ecclesiastes is the well-known saying,
"There's nothing new under the sun."
But according to practitioners of kabbalah,
this seemingly philosophical verse,
which continues with the phrase
"No one remembers the former generations,"
also has a very literal meaning.
The kabbalah teaches that there were pre-Adamic races.
In the Book of Genesis, Adam is the first man.
So, what the kabbalah is saying is that,
before Adam, there were other races of beings
and previous civilizations.
TZADOK: It is believed and taught
that we have had civilization upon our Earth
for tens of thousands of years,
possibly much longer,
prior to Adam spoken of in the Bible.
NARRATOR: According to the kabbalah teachings,
some of the beings that inhabit Inner Earth lived
on the surface long before the time of humans.
And kabbalah is not the only ancient tradition
that speaks of prehuman civilizations.
BIRNES: All across the planet, there are stories
of a highly technical, highly sophisticated,
brilliant civilization that's no longer here.
The story of Lemuria is the story
of an ancient civilization, a brilliant civilization
that reached high points,
but dreadful climate wiped it out.
The story of Atlantis is the same thing.
It's in the Bible,
as well as Gilgamesh.
HENRY: This corresponds with Greek thought
that there were five ages.
The Hindus teach about the yugas
and the rise and fall of civilization,
where civilization advances to a very high place
and then descends and then reascends.
JONATHAN YOUNG: In Hinduism, there are cycles
of destruction and rebirth,
and we're in the fourth now.
Three entire stages have come before now.
In the Hopi Native American Indigenous teaching,
there are a number of worlds,
and we are on the fourth reality.
NARRATOR: If Earth was inhabited by prehuman civilizations,
could there be physical evidence of their existence?
Incredibly, scientists have recently identified anomalies
in Earth's geological record
that could be markers of an advanced civilization
that existed millions of years ago.
HENRY: Today, modern science is looking
into our ancient geological past
in a concept they call techno signatures.
They're looking at our civilization and saying
that one day everything that we see around us
on the Earth will be reduced to rock.
It'll be a thin layer of rock in our geological record.
And some future species will be able to look back
and see that we were a technological civilization
because we have left residue.
We have left chlorofluorocarbons.
And what they're doing now is looking back
into the geological record.
They have actually found a seam or a line of rock
that's 56 million years old that reveals that at that time
there was more carbon in the sediment
than is supposed to be there, and suddenly
there is an ecological collapse.
How do you explain this,
other than there must have been some kind
of a nonhuman civilization that caused this?
The evidence is there.
NARRATOR: Some archaeologists and geologists also point
to the discovery of extremely ancient artifacts
as further evidence that civilizations
existed on Earth long before humans.
One such artifact is an object called the London Hammer
that was discovered in Texas in 1936.
It was a prehistoric hammer, if you will,
with part of the handle still in place,
inside some very old rock.
The hammer itself was found in the Travis formation.
It's a concretion of sandstone.
And it usually takes about 140 million years
for this to form.
That would put the hammer at 140 million years old.
Where did it come from?
Who was here 140 million years ago?
There's been many fossils and artifacts
that have been found that defies our timeline.
Some of them have been found in Antelope Valley, in Utah,
which was a shoe print, which was 200 million years old.
We're constantly finding new relics, new pieces,
new evidence that suggests there's probably civilizations
that were here long before we have been here.
If we are essentially due to a cataclysm,
whether this is the tilting of the Earth's axis,
or if it's through a solar flare or something like this,
or-or even a war or something
that there's virtually nobody left,
after three or four generations,
nobody will remember what was here a hundred years ago.
It's quite possible that something like us
already existed and there's nothing left.
BIRNES: So, history,
archaeology themselves point
to life-forms on this planet long before human beings.
The question is, where are they from?
I believe we've been visited
by lots of extraterrestrial races.
Some took, some didn't.
Some stayed, some left.
Some are on land, some are underwater.
We're a colony.
NARRATOR: Could it be that long before the time
of modern humans, other intelligent species--
possibly even from other planets-- populated the Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and point to the teachings of kabbalah
for evidence that some of these species
that predated humans also coexisted with them.
One example can be found in the Bible's Book of Genesis
and the creature described in the Garden of Eden
as the serpent.
TZADOK: The serpent not only spoke
but stood erect,
had arms and legs
and, clearly, intelligence.
We're describing
a pre-Adamic,
Earth-based reptilian.
And this we find echoed in legends
and teachings from cultures around the world.
So, one of the great pre-Adamic civilizations
clearly was a reptilian humanoid.
And these are referred to as seraphim.
NARRATOR: If a prehuman race is represented
in the Garden of Eden,
does that mean that it continued to inhabit the Earth
after the time of the first humans?
BIRNES: It could well be
that there was a whole evolving race of reptilians--
call them seraphim, call them anything you want to--
that basically were, in their own way,
civilizing this planet, organizing life on this planet.
And then human beings came to this planet,
and they realized we couldn't live together
and they went underground.
NARRATOR: Could ancient stories of other intelligent species
sharing the planet with humans
and then migrating to subterranean realms be true?
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
the evidence can be found
in numerous ancient traditions
that describe not only underground worlds
but also the many strange beings
that reside within them.
NARRATOR: For centuries,
the Jewish mystical text called the Zohar
has been a source of sacred teachings and esoteric wisdom.
But the idea that there are inhabited realms
within the earth is not exclusive to the Zohar alone.
This concept can also be found in ancient texts
from numerous cultures around the world,
like the Vishnu Purana of India.
Written roughly 2,000 years ago,
the Vishnu Purana describes multiple domains
that exist deep underground.
HENRY: In India, we learn of a place called Patala,
which is beneath the surface of the Earth.
And Patala has many subterranean realms that are believed
to be inhabited by intelligent creatures.
In fact, myth and folklore are filled
with stories of Inner Earth civilizations,
the same as the Zohar.
The Greeks believed the same thing.
CHILDRESS: This is very similar to the story
of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
And ancient Irish texts talk
about the Tuatha Dé Danann as
arriving in shadowy airships,
coming from the sky, they're enveloped in mist.
They had all kinds of tremendous technology.
And they were the rulers, allegedly, of Ireland
for quite a long time until modern Irish came to Ireland,
and they made a pact
with the Tuatha Dé Danann.
The Tuatha Dé Danann, according to the legend,
go underground in Ireland,
and now are living in the underground world.
AMIR HUSSAIN: You've got, you know, the similar kind of story
with the Sumerian texts.
The Anunnaki literally are the sky gods.
But then, as you get into later versions of the stories,
one of them, Inanna, goes into the netherworld.
And so, you have these gods that start up in the sky
but then come down not just to Earth but into the earth.
And you see this across different cultures.
NARRATOR: Many ancient cultures taught
that beings living inside the earth are not
of the same physical nature as humans
but have the ability to effortlessly travel
between our realm and theirs.
YOUNG: In Islamic culture,
there is the idea of the djinn,
from which we get our word "genie,"
and this was not an angelic presence.
It had a category of its own.
It wasn't human, it wasn't exactly godlike.
It was in between.
It could travel from this world to another and back.
And sometimes they cause trouble.
Sometimes they help people.
TZADOK: It is known that they are indigenous
to the domains of Inner Earth.
And these djinn are said to have bodies
only of fire and air.
And we might think, "Well, they're all spiritual,"
but our traditions teach that's not so.
Like human beings, it is said they eat and they drink,
they sexually procreate,
and they die.
And yet they can be invisible.
NARRATOR: While many traditions talk
of humanlike beings inhabiting Earth's inner realms,
the Zohar teaches that all kinds of entities
reside below the surface.
And some are even hybrids of different creatures.
TZADOK: The Zohar tells us that there are hybrid beings
who live there.
Some of whom are half human, half animal.
There are beings
that have the bodies of human beings
with the heads of lions or the heads of bulls.
And this sounds very familiar to us
from ancient mythologies and legends.
NARRATOR: The hybrid beings
that the Zohar describes as having descended
to Inner Earth also appear
in other ancient traditions
as creatures that once lived on the surface.
The ancient Egyptians recorded evidence
of-of hybrid beings,
including Thoth the birdman,
Sekhmet the lion goddess,
as well as Anubis, who's a humanoid with a canine head.
We have the satyrs of Greek mythology
that are part human, part goat.
In Sumeria, we have mermen and mermaids.
We have beings that are half human and half serpent.
In India, the most popular God is Ganesh,
who's half human, half elephant.
NARRATOR: In addition to hybrid beings,
Inner Earth is also said to be home
to fantastical creatures that are described
in myths and legends throughout the world.
TZADOK: According to the ancient teachings,
in Inner Earth there do live real dragons,
spoken of in the Book of Job.
The phoenix, which burns itself to ashes in its nest
and then resurrects itself
just as the Book of Job teaches,
also live in Inner Earth.
And it is taught that unicorns, real ones,
are alive today in Inner Earth.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that these Inner Earth entities that come up
in tradition after tradition
were actually witnessed by our ancestors
thousands of years ago?
TSOUKALOS: So, all around the world
we have these depictions
in ancient carvings, in ancient paintings,
figurines, everything.
It doesn't matter what ancient culture you go to.
We have the same stories worldwide.
And the further you go back in time,
the more similar these stories become.
HENRY: Ancient cultures
must have experienced these types of beings,
or why else would humans have been making depictions
from virtually the beginning of recorded history?
NARRATOR: The Zohar and other traditions
that speak of intelligent beings
and fantastical creatures occupying Inner Earth
were written many centuries ago.
If these stories are more than mere mythology,
are there still entities living within the earth today?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining modern-day reports
of encounters with strange beings
emerging from caves.
NARRATOR: Quang Binh Province, Vietnam.
1991.
Logger Ho Khanh discovers a mysterious entrance
to a hidden mountain cave
obscured by dense jungle overgrowth.
The cliffs leading down to the entrance are so steep,
he cannot explore it further, but he notes its location.
Nearly two decades later,
the British Cave Research Association
finally explores the cave.
What the team discovers is astounding.
It is the largest underground chamber
on the planet.
It's not just a cave.
It's an actual world in Vietnam.
Inside this cave, it's 40 stories high.
There's actually an ancient forest.
It's got flowing water.
Not just a puddle or a stream but an actual river.
Inside the cave is an entire growing ecosystem.
And it's so deep that it looks like it's an entrance
to a whole other reality.
NARRATOR: This incredible subterranean realm,
called the Son Doong Cave,
is estimated to be roughly three million years old.
It runs through the earth for nearly six miles,
and numerous areas where the cave ceiling has collapsed
allow sunlight to enter, resulting in the growth
of trees and other vegetation.
But according to area residents,
what's most notable about Son Doong Cave
are the strange creatures that are believed to dwell within it.
HENRY: Local residents described seeing
reptilian-type humanoid beings emerging
from the Son Doong Cave.
And they believe that they actually live
deep inside this cave.
What's fascinating about this is
that these reptilian-type humanoid beings
are similar to the seraphim,
or the winged serpents in kabbalistic tradition.
The seraphim are said to have gone and lived
in the Inner Earth, according to kabbalistic teaching.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that reports
of reptilians at Son Doong Cave
are encounters with beings from Inner Earth?
While it may sound too incredible to be true,
there have been reports that during the Vietnam War
in the 1970s, U.S. soldiers encountered
what they described as "upright lizards" inhabiting caves.
And accounts of reptilian beings existing in underground caverns
can be found all across the globe,
even on the other side of the world in Cuzco, Peru.
CHILDRESS: Throughout Peru and
around Cuzco, particularly,
there are many, many stories of a tunnel system
that has something to do with serpent deities,
which they call the Amaru there.
The Peruvian authorities themselves decided
it was too dangerous for people to go into these tunnels.
So, they looked for all of the entrances they could
around Cuzco, and they sealed them up.
And this is a well-known story within Peruvian history.
NARRATOR: While there have been many reports
from around the world of humanlike reptilians,
there is another Inner Earth entity described in the Zohar
that is even more commonly witnessed in modern times.
SALOFF: According to Zoharic literature,
there are beings inside the earth
having large black eyes
and a nose that is only two darks holes on the face.
Now, that corresponds to things that we've seen about,
heard about these, uh, for lack of a better word, ETs.
There is a lot of evidence that these beings
that we think are coming from another planet
are not coming from another planet.
They're coming from inside our own Earth.
NARRATOR: The black-eyed entities,
commonly referred to as Greys by ufologists,
are the beings most often reported
by alleged alien abductees,
many of whom claim
to have been taken aboard saucer-shaped craft.
Could it be that the so-called flying saucers
so often reported in modern times
are not coming from outer space but Inner Earth?
According to some ancient astronaut theorists,
this notion is supported by numerous accounts of UFOs
that are seen disappearing into the landscape
and sometimes even flying directly into mountains.
In fact, one of the first UFO sightings on record involves
an entire squadron of vehicles
that appeared to enter a volcano.
One of the first modern UFO sightings was recorded
in June of 1947 by Kenneth Arnold.
He was flying his private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington
when he catches sight of some flashes of light.
And soon he discovers that this is actually
a squadron of what he described as flying saucers
skipping across the sky.
He follows them
as they disappear into the direction
of nearby Mount Adams, a volcano,
which is the sight of many modern UFO sightings.
Is it possible that Mount Rainier
and Mount Adams are perhaps entranceways utilized
by these craft into other realms?
If these craft did enter into Mount Rainier
and/or Mount Adams, it would not seem unusual to UFO experts.
Mountains around the world, like Bugarach in Southern France
and Musinè in Northern Italy, are often sites
where UFOs are reported actually entering into the mountains.
NARRATOR: Mountains are often cited in ancient traditions
as entrances to Inner Earth realms.
The most well-known is the legendary land of Shambhala
that Buddhists and Hindus identify
as the home of the gods.
Many believe that the entrance to this subterranean realm
exists among the ruins of the lost Kingdom of Gu-ge
on top of Mount Kailash in Tibet.
CHILDRESS: Shambhala is said to be underground.
It's ruled by kings who live for hundreds of years.
They have wonderful technology.
There's electricity, there's airships.
And also, part of the tradition of Shambhala is
that they are guiding mankind.
Very much as we often think that extraterrestrials are doing.
A number of people have suggested that Shambhala,
the hidden city, is at Mount Kailash or very nearby.
Gu-ge, right near Mount Kailash, is a very strange fortress
built on the top of a pyramidal mountain.
And the fortress of Gu-ge had all kinds of tunnels
and hidden staircases
that went underground and went inside this mountain.
So, when archaeologists went there, they were astounded
that this city of Gu-ge apparently led inside the earth.
What people seemed to believe was that
if you were to follow these tunnels far enough
into the earth, you would eventually come
to that hidden city of Shambhala,
an active city full of light and-and power.
NARRATOR: While there have been numerous reports
of UFOs at Mount Kailash,
explorers have yet to find
the legendary subterranean realm of Shambhala.
But according to the secret diary
of one of the United States' most celebrated naval officers,
a hidden entrance to Inner Earth can be found
thousands of miles to the south
-in Antarctica. -(wind whistling)
NARRATOR: Esteemed U.S. naval officer and explorer
Admiral Richard Byrd, one of the first pilots
to fly over both the North and South Poles,
organizes Operation Highjump,
the largest expedition ever to travel to Antarctica,
with 13 ships, 23 aircraft,
and over 4,700 military personnel.
LINDA MOULTON HOWE: This was very important
that after the conclusion of World War II,
Admiral Byrd was asked if he would mount
a large armada and go for four months.
It was supposed to be that they would go in December,
January, February and March, and there was a list
of military goals that they were to achieve, but
by the end of February, something happened.
NARRATOR: One of the mission's official goals
was investigating sites for potential military bases
in Antarctica.
But during his explorations,
Admiral Byrd allegedly came upon something highly unexpected.
YOUNG: This story
is said to come from his diaries,
not his published account of the trip,
but something he held back
and then later was suppressed by government authorities
that found it frightening.
HENRY: In his diary,
which was discovered by his son after his death,
Admiral Byrd tells an extraordinary story.
BIRNES: Admiral Byrd heard there was an entrance
to the center of the Earth through the South Pole,
and he took planes into the South... under the South Pole.
And when he did that, he discovered
that as he flew over the Pole,
suddenly he's looking at things that shouldn't be there.
I mean, it was temperate.
He and a squadron flew under the earth, into the earth.
HENRY: It turns into this lush and green area,
and he can't even believe his eyes.
But that's just the beginning of his extraordinary story.
He tells how, all of a sudden, he starts
to see a shimmering rainbow city that's made of crystal.
His airplane is taken control of
when he suddenly sees these flying disk-shaped objects
around him that lead him to the ground...
...whereupon he's escorted into a cavernous type of an area
where he meets a being he refers to as "The Master" in his diary.
The Master tells him that they're highly disappointed
in what humans are doing with nuclear weapons
and how they recently destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and they really are concerned about what is going on
on the surface of the planet.
They tell Admiral Byrd that
they hope that humanity will ultimately stop this.
NARRATOR: For UFO researchers,
this account from Admiral Byrd's diary
is particularly significant
due to the fact that the modern UFO era began
right after World War II
and the detonation of the first atomic bombs.
It has also been noted
that a high number of UFO sightings
have been reported in the vicinity
of nuclear missile silos.
Admiral Byrd's story is congruent with the stories
that we hear from numerous accounts
of angelic or extraterrestrial-type beings
that are very concerned about what humanity is doing
with nuclear weapons.
Just ask the Air Force officers at the U.S. missile silos,
the nuclear missile silos that have seen their silos
and their nuclear arms disarmed
by what are perceived to be extraterrestrial beings.
They are very concerned that we are ultimately
not just going to destroy ourselves
but could harm our planet, which is their world as well.
NARRATOR: If Admiral Byrd's secret diary is authentic,
does it reveal not only
that there are highly advanced beings
living inside the earth but also
that they are monitoring what happens on the surface?
According to the diary, after this incredible encounter,
Admiral Byrd was eager to share his story
but was ordered to remain silent.
HENRY: Byrd comes back after this experience.
He is taken to a government compound
where he is told that he is never to speak of this publicly
and that everything he says is-is classified.
NARRATOR: Could Admiral Byrd's story point
to a profound connection
between the ancient traditions
of strange beings living inside the earth
and the modern-day UFO phenomenon?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and believe we may be fast approaching the time
when we will find ourselves face-to-face
with the beings of Inner Earth.
NARRATOR: According to the teachings of kabbalah,
on this date, which marks the beginning
of the seventh millennium on the Judaic calendar,
humankind will be introduced to a profound new reality.
According to the Zohar,
at the beginning of the seventh millennium,
the gates of wisdom will open on the Earth.
That seems like a long way off.
However, the Zohar also tells us
that there will be preliminary stages
of the opening of this wisdom.
Those stages, the kabbalists teach, began around 1840.
That's the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,
when suddenly humans are taking control of nature.
After that, we enter into the technological revolution
of the 1950s-- the invention of the computer,
the transistor, and other technologies like that.
Now we're moving into the nanotechnology,
the artificial intelligence era.
These are all believed to be signs
that we are ultimately moving into this new era
when immense wellsprings of wisdom will open up.
BIRNES: At that point, there will be an age of enlightenment
that will come upon the planet
and come upon all the life on this planet.
Now, isn't this fascinating,
that the three Adamic religions
all talk about the same thing?
In Christianity, it is the Second Coming and the Rapture.
-MAN: Allahu Akbar... -In Islam, it is the Twelfth Imam.
-(call to prayer) -In Judaism,
it is the Messiah who will come,
and there will be a whole new life on this planet.
TZADOK: When it comes time for the Messiah to come,
the Messiah will not come from the skies,
but rather the Messiah and his army
will come from Inner Earth.
And there is Midrashic legend that states in the
"world to come," we will have first contact
with those races in Inner Earth.
NARRATOR: Do the prophecies of kabbalah confirm
that even to this day, humankind continues
to share the planet with other intelligent beings
that occupy hidden realms?
SALOFF: There are many different species, races of beings.
Some of them came from earlier times,
and some of them come from now but in just a different place.
There's not only one or two.
There are many, many different races.
And coming in contact with other races or beings
is coming in the next epoch.
TZADOK: The purpose of the teachings
of the mystical traditions
is to provide light and redirection back
to communion with the higher domains.
We are not alone
as intelligent beings upon our own Earth.
NARRATOR: Is humanity rapidly approaching the day
when the secrets of Inner Earth will be revealed?
Have we been sharing the planet
with other intelligent life-forms
for thousands of years?
Perhaps it will be below rather than above
where we will ultimately discover
the truth about our past,
our future, and our alien ancestors.
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