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When I was a kid, I would just,

out of nowhere,
start saying things.

Things like,
"Mom, in my last life

I was shot down and killed."

Suzanne Ghanem identified

25 different relatives
of her prior life.

And their relationship.

There was
literally no explanation

of how Om Seti knew the things
she knew,

of how she understood
the ancient language,

how she predicted the placement
of ruins under the ground.

You have thousands of reports

of reincarnation.

So one has to wonder whether
there is something behind that.

Did
extraterrestrials come to Earth

and tweak the human body to
serve as a vehicle for the soul?

And if so,

what is the purpose?

Lafayette, Louisiana.

2001.

Aside from having an unusual
obsession with airplanes

and World War II,

James Leininger was,
by all accounts,

a normal three-year-old.

That is, before he began having

a strange recurring nightmare.

I would have these nightmares,

and it would be just me
kicking and screaming,

me with my legs
physically in the air,

kicking up at the
ceiling, screaming,

"Plane crash on fire,
little man can't get out."

And that was every night
for almost a year.

And then I would just, out of
nowhere, start saying things.

Things like
"Mom, in my last life

I was shot down and killed."

James would draw elaborate

airplane dogfight scenes.

He also seemed to have an eerie
and inexplicable knowledge

of World War II aircraft,

right down to their components.

This is a drawing I did when
I was, when I was much younger.

And this is one of the ones
I signed "James 3."

My dad asked me one day,
"Why do you sign it 'James 3'?"

And I just turned to him
and simply said,

"'Cause I'm the third James."

I was the junior, junior.

And then, one day,
my father asked me

the name of the ship that
I was on and I said, "Natoma."

After doing some research,

James' father found that
there was, in fact,

an aircraft carrier named
the USS Natoma Bay (CVE 62).

The boy could also
indicate on a map

the exact location
of where the plane

he claimed to be flying
went down.

In Chichijima, Japan.

Eventually, my father
found a ship roster.

And they went down the line

and saw names that they
had recognized that I had said.

And then they came to James.

James McCready Huston.

This man was killed

when he was shot down
over the island Chichijima.

While James Leininger's memories

of his so-called past life
remained vivid in his youth,

they began to fade
as he became an adult.

But what he is able to remember
still brings back

powerful emotions.

My memories of James Huston

and the things that he underwent

have mostly all but gone.

I can remember
this one snapshot.

You...

I'm sorry.

And you hear, you just hear
this, this crackling.

And it's just this loud banging
and this distant just...

And you can see these black dots
in the sky.

You look up.

And eventually you see this
plane start to come down.

And it hits the water.

And it's black after that.

You don't hear anything.
You don't see anything.

It's just... it's done.

Although mainstream science

widely dismisses the concept
of reincarnation,

leading academic institutions,

such as
the University of Virginia,

Duke University,

and the University
of British Columbia,

have entire departments
devoted to its study.

And,
according to their research,

a mounting body
of evidence suggests

that the ability of some
to vividly recall past lives

may, in fact,
be a real occurrence.

You have thousands of reports.

So one has to wonder whether
there is something behind that.

There are studies that have been
made on these things,

and I wonder how long it'll be
until mainstream science

agrees with the idea
that something happens to us

after death.

The basic idea of reincarnation
is that, upon your death,

your soul departs your body.

You go to your version of heaven

and then you come down
into a new body.

An easy way to understand this

is that you can upload files
from your computer

to the cloud

and then download files
to a new computer.

But while scientists
are just beginning

to entertain the notion
that reincarnation

may be a real occurrence,

the idea of a soul
leaving one human body

and entering another can be
traced back thousands of years,

to the very beginning
of Egyptian civilization.

Turin, Italy.

On display at
the Egyptian Museum

is the Turin King List,
or Royal Canon,

which dates back
to the 13th century BC.

The papyrus includes a list

detailing the
ancient Egyptian rulers,

extending back to the very start
of Egyptian civilization.

We see all the timelines,
and all the kings were there,

but the first two groups
of names

on that list...

were gods,

the gods of Egypt,

who they believed ruled
before the kings.

Although scholars fully accept

the chronology from the rule
of King Menes onward,

they discount the time before
his reign around 3000 BC,

a time when these alleged gods
ruled over Egypt.

One of the first names
to be found on the list

is the god Osiris.

Osiris was
depicted as a human-like god.

He had human features.

But one of the most curious
things about Osiris

is that he was shown
with green skin.

Osiris is thought
to have come from

the star system
Orion originally.

And was part of a group
of extraterrestrials

that came to Earth.

What's interesting about
the ancient Egyptian gods

is they could also die.

They weren't
necessarily immortal.

And when the god Osiris died,

centuries ago according
to Egyptian mythology,

he was reborn

as his own son, Horus.

And Horus became a physical
incarnation on Earth.

And it is believed
by the ancient Egyptians

that all the pharaohs became
gods incarnate.

And once one particular
pharaoh died,

the spirit would then go
into the next pharaoh.

And so on, and so on.

So this, this cycle
of reincarnation continued.

In the ancient Egyptian
creation mythology,

the god Ptah

came from Sirius
and fashioned the human body.

We have to ask the question:

did extraterrestrials
come to Earth

and tweak the human body to
serve as a vehicle for the soul?

If the stories
of the Egyptian gods

incarnating into human bodies
are true,

do all humans possess souls
that have been passed down

from the beginning of mankind,

and may have originated

beyond Earth?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining recent case studies
into past lives

that scientists find
too remarkable to dismiss.

Charlottesville, Virginia, 1967.

Renowned psychiatrist
Dr. Ian Stevenson

launches the Division
of Personality Studies

at the University of Virginia,

making it one of the first
educational institutions

to devote serious research
into the study of reincarnation.

Over his 40-year career,

Dr. Stevenson extensively
studied more than 3,000 cases

of individuals who reported
past life memories.

And he was able to objectively
validate the claims being made

in an astounding
1,200 instances.

The body of work
by Ian Stevenson

is exceptionally credible.

It's painstakingly documenting
instances of things

that are suggestive
of reincarnation.

Now, what makes a case credible
is that the person

has specific knowledge that
they couldn't possibly have.

Dr. Stevenson traveled

throughout the world
to meet with people

claiming to have knowledge
of their past lives.

You are now fully relaxed.

He used various methodologies,

including hypnosis,
to obtain pertinent details

from his subjects,
and then would set out

to authenticate
and document the evidence.

One of his most striking
case studies was Suzanne Ghanem,

who was born in Richmond,
Virginia in 1963.

She insisted from a young age
that in her previous life

she had been Hanan Monsour,
a Lebanese women

who had passed away just ten
days before Suzanne was born.

At the age of two,
she shared with her parents

the name of Hanan's husband
and her three children,

and later scribbled a phone
number on a scrap of paper.

Dr. Stevenson would discover

that the number matched the
Monsours' home phone number,

except that the last two digits
were reversed.

Suzanne Ghanem

holds the record
for being able to identify

relatives of her prior life.

She walked into a room
and identified

25 different relatives by name
and their relationship.

In another case study,

Dr. Stevenson traveled to India

to research the claims
of one of the most notorious

reincarnations in the region.

There's the interesting case

of Shanti Devi in India.

She was born in 1926,
and at the age of four

she began telling her parents
that she was

the reincarnation
of this other woman

from another town
called Mathura.

Mathura is a small village

over 100 miles away from
Shanti's hometown of Delhi.

By the time Shanti Devi
was nine years old,

she had convinced her parents
of her prior existence,

and was put in contact
with her former family.

The young girl spoke directly
with the man she claimed

she was married to
in her previous life.

Shanti Devi
gives very accurate information,

knows exactly where she lived
in this past life,

the names of people
in her family,

her husband specifically.

She eventually met this family
and her husband

from a previous life,
and lo and behold,

these people embraced her
and agreed

that she is this lost relative
from another life.

Eventually,
Mahatma Gandhi himself

got involved
in this whole story.

He had an investigation made,
and in 1936

Gandhi himself said that he was
satisfied that she was

the reincarnation
of this other woman.

In some reincarnation cases,

like that of an English woman
named Dorothy Eady,

the past-life recall went much
further back in history.

As a young girl,
after a near-death experience,

she began recalling her life
as a temple virgin in Egypt

during the reign of Seti I
in the 14th century BC.

Eady eventually moved
to Abydos, Egypt,

took on the name Om Seti,

and became
a respected Egyptologist

and the keeper
of the Temple of Seti.

It was all really interesting,

because she was one of very few

that perfected the ancient
Egyptian language.

She could speak it.

I can translate.

I can try to read,
but she could speak it.

And she would go to the other
Egyptologists and tell them,

the gardens of whatever
is down here.

Dig here, you'll find it.

And most thought
she was just crazy.

But they dig and they find it.

She had the information.

She knew things
no one else would know.

There was literally
no explanation

of how she knew
the things she knew,

of how she understood
the language,

how she predicted the placement
of ruins under the ground.

I don't think anyone
up till today

has an explanation of knowing
how she knew that,

because she wasn't right once
and wrong three times.

She was always right.

Om Seti came back

with a very clear memory
of her past life,

specifically to find
her way back to Egypt,

but also to educate us.

When you'd see someone speaking
about their past life

with such credibility,
such accuracy,

this tells us that there is more
to it than this life.

So, they are actually teaching
us about other worlds,

other realities, and what we are
perhaps here to do.

Although Om Seti
made significant contributions

to the study of ancient Egypt
and its people,

it is her claim
to have been reincarnated

that may be
her most important legacy.

But if reincarnation
is proven to exist... why?

And what does it reveal,
not only about our past lives,

but also our future ones?

Valley of the Kings,
Luxor, Egypt.

Opposite from the famous
burial chamber of King Tut

It is known only by a number,

because even though it was
discovered over a century ago,

no one is certain
who was buried there.

Initially, it was thought
to belong

to King Tut's father, Akhenaten,

but radiological examination

suggested the body
belonged to a much younger man.

This is it, KV55
in the Valley of the Kings,

away from the public eye.

Most Egyptologists
and archaeologists

are baffled and have
a lot of questions.

Very little is known
about this tomb.

Let's get in.

One of the most common features
of all the tombs

in the Valley of the Kings

is the amount
of wall paintings on the tombs

explaining everything
and telling the world

that this is the tomb
of that king,

and this is how great
that king is.

But look at this tomb.

Completely empty.

In 1907,

archaeologists allegedly found
an ominous curse on the wall,

assuring that whoever occupied
this tomb

would not return
in a subsequent life.

When they first opened
this tomb,

they found little remains
of hieroglyphics on this wall

that says, "The evil one
should not live again."

Inside, archaeologists
found a coffin

with the remains of a mummified
body with an elongated head.

The right side of its skull
was smashed in.

But perhaps the most striking
feature of the tomb

is that, unlike all other tombs
in the valley,

it was not built
to keep grave robbers out

it was built specifically
to keep someone... or something...

Trapped inside.

This is the burial chamber
of the tomb.

Right here is exactly where
the sarcophagus would have gone.

And to north, south, east
and west of the sarcophagus,

were the four
magical cardinal blocks

that protects the tomb
from any intruders.

This is a part
of some of the magical blocks

that surrounded the sarcophagus.

These rocks in every other tomb
had inscriptions on the outside,

on the side facing the world,

so it protects the tomb from
the world, except for this tomb.

This tomb, the rocks
had hieroglyphics

with the inscriptions
on the inside,

as if they intentionally wanted
to protect the outside world

from the contents of this tomb.

The ancient Egyptians

were strong believers
in reincarnation,

and even had a specific name
for the part of the individual

that detaches itself
from the body after death.

They referred to it as Ba.

The Ba is the personality.

The Ba is the character.

Every human had a Ba,

and the Ba is the part
they believed

moves out and is reincarnated
in another life,

another living human.

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

that the concept of
what the Egyptians referred to

as the Ba, or the detachment
of the spirit from the body,

has been depicted in artwork
throughout history.

Across the globe,

over 1.5 billion people
believe in reincarnation,

including nearly
all Eastern philosophies,

as well as the Kabbalistic sect
of Judaism.

Tibetans, we believe rebirth.

In the Kabbalistic tradition
of Judaism,

reincarnation is considered
a fundamental belief.

And unlike other religions,

which believe
you have only one lifetime

in which to get it right,

in the Kabbalistic tradition,
it is believed

that souls are given multiple
chances to get it right.

So souls are believed
to reincarnate time after time.

The idea
of the preexistence of the soul

was once a significant doctrine
of the Christian canon,

before it had been excised
from the teachings

by Roman emperor
Justinian the Great in 553 AD.

The early Christian belief
in reincarnation

was eventually declared
a heresy.

Instead of recycling to Earth
over and over again,

you now only have one
destination after this life.

That destination
is either Heaven or it's Hell,

depending on how
you behaved in life.

It was used
as a control mechanism.

In ancient Greece,
Socrates, Pythagoras

and Plato all commented on the
possibility of reincarnation.

In the dialogues, Plato says,

"I am confident that there truly
is such a thing as living again,

and that the living spring
from the dead."

So here's a strong sense
of reincarnation.

There are many beliefs
around the world,

that reincarnation exists.

Some people believe
that certain types of souls

are able to come back,
not just in one body,

but in several bodies at once
to perform specific tasks.

And that's one
of the reasons why

there are so many more people
on the Earth today

than there used to be.

And also it is possible for you

to reincarnate
from other planets.

Oftentimes, when
reincarnation is discussed,

we only talk about it

that people are reincarnated
here on Earth,

and I personally always thought

that that was a limiting idea
of reincarnation.

I think even extraterrestrial
organisms... biological ones...

Would be reincarnated
throughout the universe.

If souls are indeed recycling

through various bodies,
as so many cultures,

both ancient and modern,
have proposed,

is this simply the natural
continuation of life

or might this process
be directed

towards some greater end?

One that reaches
far beyond Earth?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining the stories
of those who claim

to have been reincarnated with
a specific purpose for humanity.

Dharamshala, India,

May 17, 2015.

We want justice!

- What do we want?
- We want freedom!

What do we want?

Tibetan exiles in India,

including
the current Dalai Lama,

renew their call
for Communist China

to release the high-ranking
Buddhist monk

they have held captive
for the past 20 years.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
is considered

one of the world's longest-held
political prisoners.

He has been held captive
since 1995,

when at the age of six,
he was recognized

as the 11th reincarnation
of the Panchen Lama,

the second most important
spiritual leader of Tibet

after the Dalai Lama himself.

The Dalai Lama
unilaterally announced

that they'd found
the Panchen Lama.

Now, the Chinese placed him
under house arrest in China,

and he's not been
heard from since.

The Chinese government
installed, effectively,

their own candidate.

The reason for this

seems to be that
the previous Panchen Lama

had spoken out
against Chinese Communism,

and the Chinese government
was probably worried about that.

Like most other
Eastern religions,

the belief in reincarnation

is central to the Tibetan
Buddhist philosophy.

The current Dalai Lama

is the 14th
in his reincarnation lineage,

but he claims to be the 74th
incarnation of his spirit,

which is said to trace back
to the deity Chenrezig,

the founding god
of the Tibetan people.

Is a very special
dedicated compassion

Buddha manifested for Tibet.

This being continues to
come back through reincarnations

to simply help
the Tibetan people

and the humans on the Earth

to also find their way
to enlightenment.

It is said
that Chenrezig made a vow

that he would not rest until he
had "liberated all the beings

in all the realms of suffering."

Tibetan Buddhists believe, that
in the form of the Dalai Lama,

he returns to Earth in a quest
to fulfill this mission.

But according to
ancient astronaut theorists,

Chenrezig was not merely
an enlightened being,

he was an extraterrestrial
visitor to Earth

in the remote past.

In many of
the renderings similar to his,

you have these Buddhas
that are in this lotus position

that seem to be sitting
inside some sort of vehicles.

They look like lotus flowers,

and you have them surrounded
by flames and smoke.

Chenrezig is often seen floating

in a kind of UFO-shaped disc

with different objects
around him.

So, it would seem that really,
for Tibetan Buddhists,

the Dalai Lama
is a reincarnation

of some kind
of extraterrestrial god

who has chosen the Tibetan
people as his people,

and he continually reincarnates
over and over again,

to lead these people.

According to researchers,

the vast majority
of reincarnated individuals

are completely unaware
of their previous lives.

But if the Dalai Lama
is returning

to fulfill a recognized mission,

could there be others
who knowingly come back

with a task to complete?

Hillah, Iraq.

Just over 50 miles
south of Baghdad.

Scattered over 2,000 acres,

in the center
of the war-torn nation,

lie the ruins of one of the
ancient world's greatest cities,

Babylon.

During the 1980s,
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein

attempted
to reconstruct the city.

He built himself
a replica structure

on the ancient foundation
of the palace

of the sixth century Babylonian
king, Nebuchadnezzar II,

and even made plans to restore
his famous Hanging Gardens.

In 1991, during
the First Gulf War,

the world was introduced
to Saddam Hussein,

both as a military dictator,

but also, we learned
during the 1980s,

Saddam had spent
over $500 million

rebuilding Babylon.

One of the interesting things

that came out in the news

around the time
of the First Gulf War with Iraq,

was that Saddam Hussein believed

that he was the reincarnation
of Nebuchadnezzar II.

Saddam Hussein said that he was

the reincarnation
of Nebuchadnezzar.

He had coins made
with his image on one side,

and Nebuchadnezzar on the other.

The original bricks
in Babylon had the name

Nebuchadnezzar engraved on them.

When Saddam rebuilt
the ancient city of Babylon,

he had bricks inscribed
with his own name

and the name Nebuchadnezzar
engraved on them as well.

Nebuchadnezzar II was a powerful

and ambitious ruler, and during
his reign he made Babylon

the most powerful kingdom
in the region.

Much like Saddam Hussein,
Nebuchadnezzar II also set out

to reconstruct the already
ancient city,

specifically
focusing on restoring

the Great Ziggurat of Babylon,
the Etemenanki temple.

Scholars have proposed
that the site may actually be

the former location
of the biblical Tower of Babel,

which was constructed
after the Great Flood

by orders of the ancient king,
Nimrod.

Ancient legend tells us
that King Nebuchadnezzar

was indeed himself
a reincarnation of the earlier

Babylonian King Nimrod.

Nimrod was the first world
dictator who created

what was a world empire.

Nimrod was of the descendants
of Noah.

Now, Noah was very unique,
very interesting.

He was born with certain
attributes which indicated

that he was not of this world.

If this is true,

could it be that Saddam Hussein
was not only

a reincarnation
of Nebuchadnezzar II,

but also the biblical character
known as Nimrod?

And might this being have
returned to fulfill a mission

he was unable to complete
in his earlier incarnation?

What we're seeing here
is actually

a progression of a soul,
or a spirit,

beginning with Nimrod,
going through Nebuchadnezzar,

and then reincarnating
as Saddam Hussein,

who was trying to do exactly
the same thing in each lifetime.

If the existence of
the human soul can be proven,

could it really carry remnants

from previous lives?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and point to a number
of recent scientific

discoveries for their proof,

not only of reincarnation,

but of mankind's
ancient alien origins.

Stanton, Kentucky, July 2016.

A witness to the aftermath
of a fatal traffic collision

takes a photograph of the scene
as he drives past.

Upon examination of the picture,
he notices the vestige

of a figure
floating above the scene.

Many have suggested that this
chilling photograph

actually shows the soul
leaving the body.

And today an increasing number
of scientists support the notion

that there may really be
a spirit that continues on

after the body dies.

The vast body of information

supporting the concept

or the idea of reincarnation

is getting stronger
and stronger.

There's nothing in the science
that precludes that,

and there's some information
that actually supports it.

In 1996,

renowned physicist
Sir Roger Penrose

and anesthesiologist
Dr. Stuart Hameroff

developed a quantum theory
of consciousness that supports

the notion of a separate state
of an individual

that can exist beyond the
confines of a physical body.

Their work highlights structures
called microtubules,

which they suggest
is the seat of the soul.

Microtubules are light pipes

that allow electrons
to flow unimpeded,

so the body can talk to itself.

It allows consciousness to flow
throughout the body,

at least so the theory goes.

According to their
theory, the soul itself exists

in an energetic state.

When the body dies,
it returns to the universe,

as it cannot be destroyed.

And in the case of near-death
experiences,

it may later return to the body
after resuscitation.

Their theory suggests that

what is happening is that some
energetic quantum essence

of consciousness itself
that can exist as pure energy

is exiting the body.

And then, when the body
becomes viable again,

it is able to reinhabit
the body through

using these microtubules, much
like the idea of an antenna.

We have the possibility that
this is an intelligent design.

That there could be intelligent
beings before us

who specifically designed
these biological bodies

to be vessels for the soul.

According
to ancient astronaut theorists,

our latest scientific
discoveries reflect the stories

written by our ancestors
over 3,500 years ago,

detailing how the gods
fashioned the human body

to possess a soul or spirit.

When you look at, uh, one
of the earliest creation myths

from Mesopotamia,
they talked about how,

in order for a human body
to be animated,

the gods needed to connect
the soul to it,

or the spiritual consciousness
to it.

Otherwise it just
doesn't function.

The gods
in ancient stories have all

the hallmarks of what we call
extraterrestrials.

They're deeply interested in the
idea of the soul, how to move

the soul from one body
to another.

We call that reincarnation.

So the historical record

of extraterrestrials tweaking
human bodies

suggests
that the ultimate purpose

of this genetic alteration

is to make the human body
a better vehicle for the soul.

Are scientists
on the verge of uncovering

a profound truth... that man
really does possess a soul,

and human bodies are
physiologically designed

to support it,
as our ancestors claimed?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and believe

the more important question...
is why?

New York City College
of Technology.

August 2016.

Physicist Gregory Matloff
publishes a paper arguing

that consciousness may extend
beyond humans,

and that the universe itself
might be self-aware.

Prominent scientists
like Christoph Koch

and Sir Roger Penrose
also support this notion.

And researchers studying
reincarnation believe

it might help explain why souls
are continuously recycled.

There seems to be a process
where you reincarnate

repeatedly, because there is
a larger consciousness

that you're a part of.

In short, we upload and download
consciousness,

and we're creating a common body
of information.

Cosmic consciousness
is expansive.

It allows us to imagine
the possibilities

beyond our 3D reality.

Beyond our limited way
of seeing this reality

right here on the Earth.

But if human bodies were created

as vessels for the soul
by extraterrestrial beings,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists propose,

was it to feed the human
experience into

a shared cosmic consciousness?

And if so, could the key
to uncovering the truth

about our alien origins be
walking amongst us today?

Some of the souls
that are currently

walking around Planet Earth

have been around
for a very long time,

and may be traced back
to extraterrestrials visiting

in the remote past.

The truth of our past
could definitely be

part of our future.

Extraterrestrial
reincarnated souls

have been with us for thousands
and thousands of years,

guiding us, leading us over
and over again as best they can

to help us achieve
our various goals.

We have to realize that

extraterrestrial knowledge
is present in our world,

that these souls carry
direct evidence and knowledge

from our past

and are perhaps being used
to fulfill

the mission of these
extraterrestrial beings.

Is it possible
that humans are designed

to carry the souls
of otherworldly beings

that came to Earth
thousands of years ago?

Perhaps as we learn more
about reincarnation

we will be able to access
ancient knowledge

seeded deep within each of us.

We may also discover
that the truths

about our extraterrestrial past

are much closer
than we ever realized.