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NARRATOR: They can control nature--

DAVID WILCOCK [VOICEOVER]: Clouds come swirling in.

Lightning is coming down.

NARRATOR: They can access other dimensions--

This energy enables them to travel into the realm

of the spirit beings.

NARRATOR: And connect with other worldly beings.

Those creatures actually existed, in physical form.

NARRATOR: Throughout history, spiritual leaders,

known as shamans, have healed, protected,

and advised their people.

But are they simply putting on elaborate ceremonies?

Or is there something more to their rituals?

In a sense, in these shamanistic states,

you're tapping into extraterrestrial powers.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might the evidence lie with mystical healers known

as the shamans?

Northern China, 1211 AD.

Five years after uniting the nomadic tribes of Mongolia,

Genghis Khan launches a brutal invasion against Chinese Jin

forces.

Despite being severely outnumbered,

the Mongol army decimates their enemy,

in what is believed to be one of the bloodiest battles

in Genghis Khan's more than 20 years of conquest.

By the time of his death, in 1227, his empire,

covering most of Asia, Russia, and parts of Europe,

had become the largest in the world.

JONATHAN YOUNG [VOICEOVER]: Genghis Khan

was a great warrior.

He amassed one of the most awesome armies

in the history of the planet.

And he would go up the mountains to commune with the sky gods,

to gain power for his battles.

NARRATOR: According to historical accounts,

the Great Khan was also described

as relying on powerful magic to create severe weather

on demand, like hailstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes,

to confound and defeat his enemies.

DAVID WILCOCK [VOICEOVER]: They march into battle.

And the next thing you know, clouds come swirling in.

Lightning is coming down.

Rain is falling down.

Ice is falling down, chunks of hail, snow.

The soldiers are not equipped for this sudden burst of cold.

They're shivering.

They're freezing.

They're slipping and falling on the ice.

And then, they get totally wiped out by the invading Mongolian

army.

What was remarkable about Genghis Khan

is that we tend to think about him today

as being this despotic, mad, cruel ruler.

He was a priest king, something known as a shaman.

NARRATOR: In Mongolian culture, certain members of the tribe

were thought to have the ability to communicate directly

with the gods, accessing seemingly supernatural powers

and information.

These holy prophets were commonly known as shamans.

Is it possible that Genghis Khan, one of the greatest

conquerors in human history, used his connection

with the divine to build the massive Mongol empire?

And if so, just what does it mean to be a shaman?

For thousands of years, in cultures throughout the world,

shamans have been described as intermediaries

who provide a link between humans and other worldly

beings.

Known in some cultures as medicine men or witch doctors,

they are believed to have the power

to travel to other realms, in order

to bring back healing, wisdom, and guidance to their people.

The word shaman originated with the indigenous people

of Siberia and means simply "to know."

Shamans think of the universe as being constructed

in different layers, one on top of each other, each one

containing a separate world.

One of the skills of the shaman is

to be able to travel herself for himself

between these different worlds in spirit form.

Shamans are people who enter those realms

and negotiate with the intelligent beings that inhabit

those realms.

NARRATOR: But are shamans simply experiencing hallucinations,

daydreams manifested in their minds?

Or is it possible that their visions are real?

Dismissed by some today, as madmen or charlatans,

in the ancient world, shamans like Genghis Khan often held

positions of great influence.

And ancient astronaut theorists claim

the stories of these shamans reveal a connection

to other worldly beings.

Copan, Western Honduras.

In the ruins of this archaeological site,

once a major Mayan city that thrived from 400 to 800 AD,

stands a statue of one of its most powerful ancient kings,

Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, commonly known as 18 Rabbit.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS [VOICEOVER]: Around 2,000 years ago,

the Mayan empire was at its height.

And they had a king by the name of 18 Rabbit.

The rabbit, to the ancient Mayans, represented the moon.

So basically, 18 Rabbit was considered to be an incarnation

of the moon god.

And he is said to have had all sorts of miraculous powers.

NARRATOR: By the end of his 44-year reign,

18 Rabbit had erected 7 stone pillars, each depicting him

interacting with the divine.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS [VOICEOVER]:

The Stelae of Copan shows King 18 Rabbits standing

in the center of the universe.

But on the side of him is a portal to another world.

So it would seem to be telling us that he had access

to the other world, as well as being the commander in chief

of this world.

EDWIN BARNHART [VOICEOVER]: Today, we

separate politics and religion.

In the past, especially for the Maya, that was not the case.

To be the king was to also be supernatural,

to have shamanic ability.

You were not just a king.

You were a shaman king.

And 18 Rabbit, like every other king in the dynasty of Copan

and in the cities around them, was a shaman.

NARRATOR: According to Maya tradition,

shaman kings, like 18 Rabbit, would connect

with other worldly beings through a process known

as blood letting.

LOGAN HAWKES [VOICEOVER]: The Mayan king

would put a spine through his hand.

Blood would be collected by the shaman into a piece of paper.

And it would then be put into a fire.

And it would smoke.

And by watching the smoke rise, the shaman

could see what actions they were supposed to take,

according to the will of the gods,

revealed in the smoke that was made by the blood of the king,

or the ruler.

EDWIN BARNHART [VOICEOVER]: The right

to rulership for a Maya king, the thing that the people

followed him for, was his ability

to contact the other world through shamanic ceremonies.

He was able to ask for the favor of the gods for the people.

WILLIAM HENRY [VOICEOVER]: 18 Rabbit was a very powerful

shaman king.

You have to ask, is it possible that these gods

could be extraterrestrials?

And perhaps it was the guidance of

these extraterrestrial beings that made him

such a powerful leader.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS [VOICEOVER]:

All around the world, we can hear stories of how shamans

state that they were in communications with beings

from other worlds.

Is it possible that what we see in the experiences

of ancient shamans is extraterrestrial human contact?

And this contact wasn't seen as something dangerous or strange,

but rather as a means for moving humanity forward,

due to new and important knowledge received.

NARRATOR: Were kings, like 18 Rabbit,

really communicating with divine, perhaps even

extraterrestrial beings?

Was it this other worldly guidance

that made them so powerful?

But if so, where did these ancient shaman

learn how to access these incredible abilities?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answers can be found by examining the transformative

and sometimes dangerous process of becoming a shaman.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

January 27th, 2014.

A Peruvian-born shaman leads a group of participants

in an ancient Andean practice.

Known as a despacho ceremony, this ritual

dates back thousands of years.

In Peru, despachos, or [non-english],,

which are offerings, have existed since the first

pre-Colombian peoples settled the Andes and coastal area.

A despacho consists of a ritual honoring with reverence

our ancestral star relatives in the cosmos that

has been guiding the evolution of humankind on planet Earth.

Every time I perform a Pachacuti ritual, portals are opened,

conduits between the Earth and the sky are revealed.

It is believed that through ceremonies,

such as the despacho, shamans are in fact able to access

these so-called nonlocal realms of being in the universe.

It helps to unify those of Earth with those from the sky.

NARRATOR: If shamans really are able to access

these so-called nonlocal realms, how are they doing it?

And who or what has chosen them to be the ones

to communicate with beings from beyond our world?

I came into this shamanic tradition as a result

of deep curiosity as a child.

[non-english].

I learned from my two primary mentors

in folk healing, known as curanderismo, the following.

The spirit world is here with us.

Let us celebrate through that portal to the stars.

I was introduced to a universe in which seen,

as well as unseen, relatives and allies

and spirit helpers abound.

And forming relationships with these spirit helpers

was the foundation of my apprenticeship.

NARRATOR: But who are the spirit helpers?

Are they actual beings who exist in a realm most of us

are unable to experience?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answer may be found in the story

of a famous Native American shaman.

Big Horn Mountain Range, Wyoming.

Nearly 10,000 feet up on a desolate peak

that is only accessible during the brief summer months

lies a structure known as the Bighorn Medicine Wheel.

This massive stone circle measures over

75 feet in diameter and contains 28 spokes,

representing the lunar cycle.

By studying the astronomical alignments of the stones,

researchers were able to date the construction of the site

to approximately 1,200 AD.

Although it is held sacred by over 60

different Native American tribes, just who built

the Medicine Wheel remains a mystery.

So the Bighorn Medicine Wheel is--

is significant to a lot of tribes,

because it has this connection to a lot

of different traditions, in terms of star knowledge

and star power and ceremony.

NARRATOR: According to the oral tradition of the Crow tribe,

the 19th century leader Red Plume made a journey

to the Medicine Wheel as a young man that shaped his destiny

as a powerful shaman and chief.

BRIAN BURKHART [VOICEOVER]: The Medicine Wheel

will connect to particular constellations that are kind

of like vortexes between certain star energy and certain Earth

energy.

And the Medicine Wheel seems to be creating some place that

marks the particular spot at a particular time, where

those star energies and Earth energies and human energy come

together.

NARRATOR: During what the Crow tribe call his Vision Quest,

Red Plume claimed to have encountered a mysterious race

of beings he called Little People.

He was visited, he said, by these little men,

who then took him inside the Earth,

into some kind of a vortex, wormhole.

There, they taught him secrets of medicine.

There are lots of stories about Little People

in Native tradition across the Americas.

The Little People come from another planet.

And they kind of play around with human beings,

but they're also protectors of them, teaching them even

through that playfulness.

Is it possible that this medicine man was actually

meeting with extraterrestrials who then taught

him some medical secrets and then allowed him to return back

to his people?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS [VOICEOVER]:

These stories didn't originate in our ancestor's imagination.

There is a core of truth to all those stories.

And so those beings, are they, in reality,

of extraterrestrial origin, something physical, flesh

and blood?

Absolutely.

Those beings are the progenitors of knowledge.

NARRATOR: Could the stories of the Bighorn Medicine Wheel

be describing extraterrestrial contact?

Is this where shamans like Red Plume acquired wisdom

from other worldly beings?

In cultures throughout the world,

there are stories of shamanic initiation,

at the hands of so-called spirits.

Oftentimes, the process is described as dangerous.

In fact, many healers are said to be taken against their will

for this instruction.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO [VOICEOVER]: When shamans narrate their life

stories, they usually do not say, well,

I chose to be a shaman.

The healer does not choose her or his profession.

They are chosen by the spirits.

DAVID CUMES [VOICEOVER]: The shaman usually called

and there's some sort of wound that the shaman sustains.

It can be any bizarre malady, being struck by lightning,

epileptic fits, a bad accident, anything that

wounds the person, enables them to go inward,

that kind of hardship, you know, that's not something

that anybody who really knows about it

would readily undertake.

RONALD HUTTON [VOICEOVER]: Once the spirits have got you,

you either die or remain permanently sick

or become a shaman.

There aren't a lot of ways out.

You often go mad for a bit, or fall sick for a bit,

as the spirits take possession of you.

And then, you go through a-- a visionary process, in which,

for example, quite often, you feel your entire body

being taken apart and then put back together again.

And when you're back together again,

you're starting to acquire the abilities to travel

through time and space.

NARRATOR: Why would so many of these traditional healers

share this belief that they had been chosen and physically

changed by spirits?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more clues can be found

by examining the similarities between the shamanic

experiences and the stories of modern day UFO abductions.

GRAHAM HANCOCK [VOICEOVER]: People

who believe they've been abducted by aliens will speak

of implants being put in their bodies,

put there by the aliens.

Exactly the same experiences are reported

in much more traditional culture,

sh-- shamanistic cultures.

The construal there is that this is being done by the spirits.

And the similarity between the two experiences

are very, very, very strong and very, very powerful.

DAVID CHILDRESS [VOICEOVER]: Perhaps what's

happening is that you're really in contact with some kind

of extraterrestrials.

And in a sense, in these shamanistic states,

you're tapping into what we would almost

call extraterrestrial powers.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that shamans received

their mysterious powers through alien abductions?

And might this explain why shamans all over the world

claim to have a connection to other realms?

Perhaps the answers can be found in the strange and powerful

visions experienced by shamans in the Amazon.

The Amazon Jungle, Peru.

Stretching from the Andes Mountains

to the eastern shores of Brazil, this rainforest

is home to more than 80,000 species

of plants, many of which shamans and religious healers

have consumed for thousands of years,

as a way to access realms, they say,

are inhabited by other worldly beings.

In the Amazon, one of the shaman's jobs,

aside from going to the other world

and speaking with the spirits, is

to find the plants right here on Earth that can heal

the people of his tribe.

And in the Amazonian belief systems,

each plant in the jungle has its own spirit.

And one of the shaman's gifts is that he can communicate

with these plant spirits.

NARRATOR: Originating in the Central Andes of South America,

ayahuasca, meaning "the vine of the souls"

is a psychedelic brew consisting of two different types

of plants cooked with water.

ROSS HEAVEN [VOICEOVER]: This is drunk by the shaman,

in order to enter the spirit world to gain information

about diseases, to foresee the future,

to carry out a healing for somebody.

We know some of the history of ayahuasca,

because archaeologists have found artifacts

from the rainforest, which date back 3,500 or 4,000 years.

But those are only the surviving artifacts that they found.

Potentially, this could go back to the beginning of time.

NARRATOR: Ayahuasca contains dimethyltryptamin, or DMT, one

of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man.

But strangely, this chemical compound

only works when consumed under precise conditions.

Ingest DMT, it's inactivated in the intestine by--

by certain enzymes.

So in order to get the DMT to be activated

and to be able to be absorbed, they

had to combine it with other plants.

Ayahuasca contains a mixture of two plants.

There's actually quite subtle and sophisticated knowledge

of plants goes into the preparation,

because these two things on-- separately will not work.

You have to mix them together.

And let's not forget that there's

150,000 different species of plants and trees in the Amazon.

It's really quite an amazing achievement

of ancient chemistry, to bring these two plants together

to produce a highly psychoactive visionary brew.

NARRATOR: But how did ancient people

living in the jungles of Peru over 3,000 years ago,

with tens of thousands of plants to choose from,

figure out that combining these two particular plants

would produce these powerful visions?

According to the mythology of the Achuar people

of the Amazon, their ancestors didn't discover

this on their own, but were guided

by extraterrestrial beings.

ROSS HEAVEN [VOICEOVER]: The shamans

were communicating with the spirits

and were told to go into the jungle and turn two corners,

as the myth goes.

And then, they would find this plant.

And they brought that back to the village, prepared it,

and they paved the way.

The oral tradition says that ayahuasca is

a linkage to the upper world.

And it is entirely possible that they were given this gift

by their own gods, which may be extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: If the Achuar story of how their ancestors discovered

ayahuasca is true, could they have

been guided not by spirits, but by extraterrestrial beings,

beings who communicated with them on another plane

of reality?

Between 1990 and 1995, scientists at the University

of New Mexico administered DMT, the active ingredient

in ayahuasca, to 60 volunteers and discovered

shocking results.

Medical researchers actually administered DMT to patients

in a controlled medical setting.

And they had exactly the same experiences

as those reported in the jungles of South American

elsewhere who were experiencing ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca users typically experience hallucinations

in the visual form.

And a lot of them say that they see other beings.

And a lot of them say that they get messages sent to them

from these beings.

In several cases, those intelligent entities

said to them, roughly the following.

We're so pleased you've discovered this technology.

Now, we can communicate with you more often.

That's what we're dealing with here is intelligent inhabitants

of other dimensions.

NARRATOR: Why would so many people

report such similar experiences while using ayahuasca?

Is it possible DMT provides access to another realm?

ROSS HEAVEN [VOICEOVER]: Some shamans

believe that plants, like ayahuasca, have

an extraterrestrial origin, that they drifted here as space

spores, perhaps, and then came to Earth on comets, started

growing here.

And perhaps they even had an agenda.

Perhaps they are communication from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible extraterrestrials

gave the ancients the recipe for this powerful concoction

as a way to communicate healing powers with shamans?

And if so, might the very core of mankind's knowledge

about medicine have come from another worldly source?

Hua Shan Mountain, China.

This 7,000-foot high peak in the Shaanxi Province is believed

to have been the place where Shennong,

a benevolent emperor that ruled the area more than 4,500 years

ago, was conceived.

According to accounts from the Han Dynasty,

Shennong not only introduced agriculture to mankind,

but also developed a profound knowledge of Chinese herbs.

Shennong pledged that he would venture out into the world

and test every plant on the planet,

in order to determine its benefits for humans

and also to catalog the more toxic or dangerous effects

of ingesting these plants.

Sometimes, he would ingest, of course, poisonous plants.

And he would suffer poisonings up to 70 times per day.

NARRATOR: More than 2,000 years later, Shennong's findings

were compiled in "The Divine Farmer's Herb Root Classic,"

a medical journal that became one of the foundations

of Chinese medicine.

But just how could this mysterious being

have tested so many herbs, some even containing deadly poisons?

DAVID CHILDRESS [VOICEOVER]: Shennong

was a quite unusual person.

It's said that he had a transparent stomach.

And he himself, after ingesting these poisons,

would look into his own stomach and see how these poisons were

interacting with himself.

And then, he would take the antidotes for it.

So you have to wonder, if he's not

some kind of extraterrestrial.

Shennong could, in fact, have been an astral or star

being who came to Earth to teach the secrets of healing.

This idea would explain his strange appearance

and also his ability to withstand ingesting poisonous

plants without ever being harmed.

NARRATOR: Might Shennong have been an alien visitor, one who

traveled to Earth in order to educate mankind about medicine

and the healing nature of plants?

And is this proof that ingesting DMT, a practice that dates back

thousands of years, actually connects shamans

with extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes and claimed

further evidence lies with the supernatural healing rituals

of the San bushmen.

The Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Here, the Native San bushmen hold elaborate fireside rituals

lasting for hours into the night.

During these ceremonies, their shamans

perform what's known as a Trance Dance, through which they reach

an altered state of being and access other dimensions.

The Trance Dance is thought to activate an energy

in their body called noom.

And this energy opens a portal of sorts

that enables them to travel into the spirit world.

And when the bushmen activate this energy,

they're able to put their hands in the fire

without being burned.

They can see vast distances.

And it's as if, in every way, shape, and form,

they're transformed into super powerful beings.

NARRATOR: By accessing the power of noom energy,

it is believed that a shaman can extract illness, see

the insides of the sick, and travel out of their own body

to the land of the gods.

This noom goes up the body.

And then, often, it goes out of the crown of the head.

And that's usually when the out of body experience occurs.

And they travel to the spirit world.

I've seen a bushman put a coal in his mouth.

And he wasn't burnt.

They'll put their heads in the fire

and although their hair might singe and even catch fire,

their face won't be burnt.

So something is happening with this noom energy.

They call it boiling energy.

It's almost like there's a vibrational change

in their whole body and, probably, in their DNA,

in some way.

NARRATOR: Could this so-called noom energy really

be inherent in shamans, accessed only while in a sort of dream

state?

And is it possible that the genetic makeup

of these medicine men is what allows them

to access other dimensions?

GRAHAM PHILLIPS [VOICEOVER]: The San bushpeople have a tradition

that they are the first tribe ever created,

they're the oldest people in the world.

DNA tests have shown that they probably are,

that all other cultures and all other peoples that spread

throughout the world came, originally, from where the San

people are now.

When we look at the San bushmen and we see the clear

genetic evidence that they are the primordial seed of human

civilization and life on Earth, it is possible that their DNA

is especially well-equipped to have this potential to access

these nonordinary states of consciousness,

which may in fact be a key physically journeying

into them, giving these people the ability to do things that

most of us seemingly cannot.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the San bushmen have

special knowledge of how to alter their genetic makeup,

in order to access other realms, a knowledge that is shared

by shamans around the world?

And might this knowledge or power

have been given to them by alien beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

an undeniable connection between shamans and extraterrestrials

can be found in cave paintings that date back thousands

of years.

The Lascaux Caves, southwestern France.

Discovered in 1940, near the village of Montagnac.

This cave complex is covered in Paleolithic paintings,

dating back more than 17,000 years.

Anthropologists believe ancient shamans

used these subterranean chambers to perform sacred rituals.

And curiously, among the many Ice Age animals

that are depicted on the walls, there

is a strange creature that has the body of a man

and the head of a bird.

The technical term for such a creature is a therianthrop.

And that's from the Greek therion,

which means "wild beast" and arthropods, which means "man."

Clearly, these were not things that one encounters

in everyday life.

The imagery of cave art is best explained as the experiences

that shamans undergo in a deep state of trance.

When they return from the trance state,

they then depict on the cave walls

the visions that they have seen in this deeply altered

state of consciousness.

NARRATOR: The bird man found in Lascaux

is reminiscent of one of the Egyptian's most important gods,

Thoth.

It is also consistent with the depiction of the Sumerian sky

gods, the Annunaki.

But is it mere coincidence that these shamans are encountering

the same types of beings while in a trance

that the world's earliest civilizations depicted

as their gods?

DAVID WILCOCK [VOICEOVER]: In all

of these different indigenous cultures around the world,

there are remarkable similarities

of what types of beings people claim to be meeting when they

go out of body.

This suggests that in the dream plane

and in the shamanic state, there is, in fact,

a real place that we are going and real beings that we are

encountering when we get there.

This is where the ancient astronaut theory suggests

that they were the same teachers, the teachers that

went to all the ancient cultures and brought them

the basics for what we've accomplished to day.

But there was a big noticeable change in human behavior,

around 40,000 years ago, exactly at the time

that our ancestors begin to manifest the first amazing cave

art.

But what is clear is that it is not a coincidence, that

at the moment that the cave art begins,

we also witness, in the archaeological record,

a radical change in human behavior.

NARRATOR: Could the Lascaux Cave paintings

be proof that shamans really do communicate

with extraterrestrial beings, as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest?

And if shamans, like those of the San bushmen,

undergo a physiological change in order

to make this connection, what might that change be?

Perhaps the answer can be found inside the human brain.

Tepoztlan, Mexico.

October, 2011.

Here, just 50 miles from Mexico City,

shamans from all over North and South America

gather to commemorate the region's long tradition

of shamanic healing.

Throughout the three-day celebration,

these modern day medicine men engage in sacred dances,

rhythmic chanting, and drumming, all methods

that shamans use to connect with other realms.

But why?

Do these practices really affect a change

within the shamans that allows them to communicate with beings

that are otherwise beyond our perception?

In many shamanic traditions, shamans

have special tools that allow them to access the spirit

world.

Among the most important of these

tools are the shaman's drum and/or the shaman's rattle.

These are rhythm instruments that beat out

a particular rhythm that allow the shaman to enter

into trance and to journey to the world of spirits.

We see this rapid, very steady rhythm on the drum

as being a central tool of shamans being able to open up

the doors of the mind, giving voice to the unseen realms

of the cosmos.

NARRATOR: Is it merely coincidence

that shamans all over the world share the belief

that by repeating certain rhythmic movements and sounds,

they can communicate with other realms?

Or might this ancient practice produce

a real physiological change in the shamans themselves?

SABINA MAGLIOCCO [VOICEOVER]: There's

a neurological explanation for this.

One of the ways that we can alter our consciousness

is through rhythmic movement.

So throughout the world, you see many traditions in which people

communicate with the gods by spinning, by dancing, by doing

something rhythmic.

NARRATOR: At the University of California in San Francisco,

neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley is performing experiments

using 3D gaming technology that actually track how drumming

affects the human brain.

Participants wear virtual reality goggles

and experience both visual and auditory rhythms.

We feel that if we have a participant

and learn how to entrain with different rhythms,

through game mechanics, we could strengthen the rhythms

of the brain and lead to better performance, better cognition,

better memory, better attention.

And so we're recording, in real time, what's

going on in her brain.

You can have a rhythm going on that you're listening to

and your brain has its own natural rhythms.

The entrainment would be that they'd

become locked in time, such that they follow each other.

We're sort of at like the gateway of this frontier now.

NARRATOR: Could rhythm and repetition

hold the key to discovering untapped potential

within the human brain?

Might shamans have been aware of this connection for thousands

of years?

And is the practice of entering a trance state still

used to access this power in other spiritual ceremonies

across the world?

Pentecostal faith healers incorporate music that mirrors

the rhythm of the heart.

Hypnosis is often achieved through the use of a pendulum.

I tell that you have someone close to you--

NARRATOR: Priests performing exorcisms repeat phrases

over and over.

Even the Catholic rosary involves repeating a sequence

of prayers, counted out on a string of beads,

to communicate with almighty God.

It seems possible that the shamans must have understood

something about the brain that we're only rediscovering today

and how the drum, in particular, can affect the brain.

It's the brain who works different with the shamans

than with normal people.

I always suggest that, look at our brain

like a gigantic hall with big machines in there.

Some of the machines are running and others are dead.

Now, with the shamans, some of the machines

are running, which, in other brains, they are not working.

That makes the difference between the brain of a shaman

and the normal, average people.

NARRATOR: Have shamans discovered the means

to communicating with extraterrestrials

within the human brain?

And does this suggest that similar powers might exist

within all of humanity, powers that we have yet

to fully realize?

As we settle into the 21st century,

our craving to be connected with what we used to know,

what we can know again, and how unlimited we

are as human beings is something that we're all seeking.

And it is through the power of shamanism,

it is with the help of these intermediaries

that we can begin to experience this again.

WILLIAM HENRY [VOICEOVER]: The shamans

were always bringing advanced knowledge and leading

humanity forward.

They represented healing.

And they represented expansion of our consciousness.

If these shamans are really in contact

with some kind of extraterrestrial gods,

then we can see how these ETs have been purposely guiding us

throughout our history.

In many ways, they created us.

And even today, they are still manipulating and guiding us

into the future.

NARRATOR: Did shamans really communicate with other worldly

beings in the distant past?

Is it possible that, through these spiritual mediators,

extraterrestrials were able to influence mankind?

And might such celestial command continue even today?

Perhaps one day we will realize that the key

to contact with our alien ancestors

does not lie in technology that propels us to the stars,

but in rediscovering abilities that already

exist deep within ourselves.