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Sacred tattoos.

These are primeval symbols that speak to
something in us that's very deep

-seated and very universal.

Severe body modifications.

The tribe's people sharpen the edges of
their teeth to look like serpents.

Extreme adornments. Girls in the high
-end culture stretched out their necks

with brass rings to emulate their sacred
ancestors.

Could these metamorphic alterations of
the flesh...

represent more than mere self
-expression or even acts of religious

Might they contain a message critical to
the future of mankind?

The reason why they did this to their
bodies is in order to gain the strength

the gods that they tried to imitate.

We now have technology that is equal to
what we see the gods using in these

ancient stories.

Maybe now we're going to be able to turn
ourselves into a species just like the

gods.

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.

makes a bold and permanent decision to
transform the scara, or whites, of his

eyes into black.

He claims he wants to appear more
otherworldly.

Christian Magnemi is a very forward
-thinking person in fashion.

By choosing to go to the extreme of
coloring his eyes completely black,

almost alien -like, this is a trend
happening across the board.

Body modification, tattooing, piercing,
all types of adornments to change the

physical appearance of our bodies. It's
almost as if humanity in a fashion sense

is gearing themselves to look more
alien.

People feel liberated by the idea that
they can appear extra human in some way.

They can look like something
extraterrestrial or they can look like

primeval. There's something self
-dramatizing and empowering about it.

Today, tattoos and piercings account for
a nearly $1 billion industry.

Trending modification practices like ear
elongation and branding the skin are

all on the rise.

But what could motivate someone to alter
their body in such a way?

The way we adorn our bodies is
essentially telling a story and sending

The fact that more and more people are
expressing themselves through body art,

it tells a bigger story on a cultural
level.

Now that we're so connected through the
Internet, it's easy to find inspiration

from others and what other people are
doing in body art practices.

Symbols communicate things that we're
not quite able to put into words.

It goes beyond just wanting to make a
statement about one's individuality.

It demonstrates what you believe in.

While tattoos, piercings, and body
modification are modern forms of

expression, they also harken back to
humanity's ancient past and mirror the

practices of many so -called primitive
tribes that exist around the world

A lot of what we do finds inspiration in
ancient roots from all over the world.

These are things that we've seen on,
say, like National Geographic and books

on TV over the years.

And they've inspired newer forms of body
modification and body expression.

Rites of passage, like skin stretching,
have been seen throughout history in

different parts of the world.

The revered Buddha, the Dayak of Borneo,
the ancient Rapa Nui of Easter Island,

and the modern Fulani tribe of West
Africa all have colorful histories of

ear stretching.

The contemporary Morsi women of
Ethiopia, tribes of the Amazon, and the

Butecudo people of coastal Brazil all
share a history of skin stretching for

decorative lip plates.

But are these practices being adopted by
mainstream society simply as a fashion

trend?

A bold form of self -expression?

Or could it be motivated by a profound
link to our ancient past?

When people have tattoos, it's something
meaningful.

And so my question is not, today, why do
we tattoo ourselves?

I ask the question, when did we first
tattoo ourselves, and then why?

September 9, 1991.

11 ,000 feet high in the Oostelaus.

Two German climbers near the Austrian
-Italian border.

happened upon a frozen corpse.

Scientists call him the Tyrolean Iceman,
or Ötzi, and places time of death

between 3400 and 3100 B .C.

What we find so amazing about Ötzi, he's
very well preserved.

So well preserved that scientists and
anthropologists can even tell that he

a lot of medical conditions.

And that leads us to Ötzi's tattoo.

In 2015,

More than two decades after the initial
discovery, scientists were able to make

a more detailed scan of the Iceman's
epidermis.

The results were extraordinary.

Under examination, it was found that
Ötzi, the Iceman, had in fact

61 different tattoos over his body.

And almost all of these took the form of
parallel lines.

Either two together, three together, in
one case, seven together.

These tattoos, it's amazing.

They are actually located on acupuncture
points throughout the body. Most of

them are on the joints, the lower back,
the thoracic area, the chest.

And what that tells us is he had some
knowledge of healing.

Acupuncture is a traditional form of
Chinese medicine.

involving the pricking of the skin with
needles along the body's neurohormonal

meridians to alleviate pain and treat
various medical conditions.

Traditional historians place the origin
of acupuncture in China at approximately

100 B .C.

Acupuncture did not exist as a formal
system of therapeutic treatment in China

at the time that Ötzi received his
tattoos on the other side of the globe.

So where did Otzi get these tattoos that
were made with the knowledge of

acupuncture points on the body?

We think acupuncture is from China, but
here's something even older and from the

Alps. The fact that we find these
tattoos at specific meridian points

that this civilization knew of the
meridians in the body, understood how

runs in the body, which is quite an
advanced process for that time.

So where did this knowledge come from?
Is it possible that it came from some

kind of higher thought, downloaded into
the healers of the time?

Was it possible?

That acupuncture is really coming from
extraterrestrials?

Could the Tyrolean Iceman point to the
possibility that tattooing originated as

a result of contact with
extraterrestrial visitors?

While it may sound far -fetched, ancient
astronaut theories suggest that some of

the most popular tattoos found in both
the ancient and modern world contain

symbolism connected to the cosmos.

Some of the earliest yearnings of our
ancient ancestors was to recognize and

connect themselves to the cosmos, to the
movement of celestial objects, to the

cycles of the seasons.

In modern tattoo art, we're not only
seeing a proliferation of celestial

whether the sun, the stars, the phases
of the moon, astrological symbols, but

we're also starting to see ET images.

These are primeval symbols that speak to
something in us that's very deep

-seated and very universal.

Tattooing or body modification can be a
way of remembering one's ancestors,

remembering one's connection with the
cosmos.

A yearning to connect with the cosmos is
perhaps as old as civilization itself.

And ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that tattoos represent far more.

than merely a symbolic representation of
this.

They believe that the desire to alter
the flesh through tattooing and other

means may be embedded deep in the
subconscious mind, and that perhaps the

of this human need can be found encoded
in the well -preserved skin of Egypt's

mummies.

Dear El Medina, Egypt, 2014.

Using modern imaging equipment, Dr. Ann
Austin scans the body of a female mummy

dating back as far as 1300 BC.

What she finds is unexpected and
contradicts long -held beliefs regarding

roles in ancient Egyptian society.

One particular torso was a human female
who had the image of Hathor tattooed

onto her body.

In ancient Egypt, having the tattoo of
Hathor on your body would clearly be an

indication of your status as a priestess
of Hathor and as a person who's not

just a representative of Hathor, but
maybe in direct contact with the goddess

well.

Prior to finding these mummies, it was
believed that women in Egypt were only

tattooed if they were prostitutes or
dancers.

We see that, no, these were most likely,
you know, priestesses.

The tattoos relate to a deity, to a sky
god, Hathor.

The symbol for Hathor would sometimes be
the head of a cow, horns, a disc in the

center.

The Egyptian tattoos are very symbolic
of their close association with the

cosmetics. They were very in tune with
their gods. They felt through these

symbols they were communicating with the
gods.

The Egyptian goddess Hathor is an
earlier incarnation of Isis, considered

primeval goddess, from whom all others
were derived.

In the temple of Hathor, in Dendera, the
goddess is depicted sailing in a ship

of eternity.

along the night waters of the Milky Way.

Dendera is one of the most important
ancient Egyptian sites.

It clearly depicts travel through the
sky with the so -called sun barges.

And our ancestors knew that ships do not
fly across the sky or across

the sun. So why would they describe
barges that came down from the sky?

What is depicted in Dendera are the
extraterrestrials as they're traveling

across the sky.

Is it possible that the mummy found at
Deir el -Medina was tattooed with

representing extraterrestrial visitors
to Earth?

My idea is that the ancient Egyptians
worshipped those symbols.

Because not only did they have to
illustrate that they were of the ruling

but also that they had a direct
connection, or so they thought, to

The reason why they put that on their
bodies is in order to gain the strength

of the gods that they tried to imitate.

And these gods were flesh and blood
extraterrestrials.

Do the tattoos found on the mummies at
Deir el -Medina reveal attempts to

connect with the power of a god or an
extraterrestrial being?

And did the ancient Egyptians
permanently mark their flesh in order to

divine beings or leave a lasting
commemoration of contact with

visitors?

Humanity has always used symbols and
sigils and cryptography to

convey messages.

The Egyptians realized there was a lot
of power in symbols, and they knew how

use these symbols. When they would
tattoo, we have to wonder, was it to

communicate with the gods through their
tattoos, to emulate the gods, to embody

the gods?

The cow and disc representing Hathor was
not the only tattoo discovered on the

mummies at Deer El Medina.

One of the bodies also bore another
powerful symbol.

She had the eye of Horus, and they say
the eye of Horus is composed of six

which relate to our six senses. Not the
five we think we have, we have six.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.

and thought. But what is thought? Is
that extrasensory thought? Is that the

we communicate non -verbally?

So the eye of Horus also has a very
magical type of element to it.

The all -seeing eye or the eye of Horus
as it was depicted in ancient Egypt was

one of the holiest of symbols. It served
to remind the individual

That human life is incomplete without
some sort of higher vision or without

awareness of providence of a higher
world.

That was a central idea to the ancient
Egyptians.

The eye of Horus is the eye of God that
sees everything.

We're talking about an Egyptian god
who's quite possibly an

Many of the symbols found on ancient
mummies, like the Eye of Horus, have

used as tattoo designs for centuries and
are still popular with tattoo

enthusiasts today.

But why do they endure?

Is it possible that a simple but iconic
image of an eye devised more than 3 ,000

years ago still speaks to humans today
because we intuitively understand the

power behind it?

People adorn themselves with bodily art,
tattoos, or body modification without

knowing why that pentagram or why that
obelisk or why that pyramid speaks so

deeply to them. If you ask them, they
might not be able to give you a very

answer, but their experience of that
symbol is answer enough.

It inspires awe.

It tells us that we come from something
larger.

Could the tattoos of our ancestors
contain a record of humanity's past and

messages meant for us to decode today?

Perhaps the answer can be found by
examining not just tattoos, but far more

extreme body modification.

Tana Island.

Every year, on February 15th.

Residents of the Pacific island chain of
Vanuatu gather together here for a

military -style parade with USA painted
and sometimes even tattooed on their

chests. It is a tradition that began
more than 60 years ago and is inspired

events that took place during World War
II when American forces descended upon

the remote island chain with modern
machinery and supplies.

During the Second World War, when the
Americans reached the Pacific and took

over many of the islands, supplies would
be dropped from aircraft or brought in

on landing strips.

And this brought many new things to
these local populations, everything from

canned foods to manufactured clothing to
other items they'd never seen before.

The native people, who had never
encountered this type of modern

were awed by these visitors from the
sky, who bring with them food and gifts.

All the aboriginals were fascinated.

They'd light up a cigarette, hold out a
voice recorder, record their voice. The

aboriginals thought this was all magic.

They had never seen great ships, and the
goods, the weapons.

Arthur C. Clarke's third law is any
sufficiently advanced technology is

indistinguishable from magic.

After the war in the Pacific concluded,
the U .S. soldiers left the islands, and

overnight, the bounty of technology and
modern luxuries was gone.

In memory of the American soldiers, and
in the hope that it would bring about

their return, The natives formed a cult
devoted to the people who had visited

them from the sky.

The people would try and recreate the
circumstances that brought this cargo

to them. They started to create replica
items associated with the

Americans and their presence, even
rifles.

They would scrape away runways and make
straw models of the planes that landed

to try and lure the soldiers to once
again land and bring all their amazing

technology.

Every religious experience begins with
the miraculous.

Some individual or group will have an
experience where they feel they have

witnessed something or undergone
something that is outside of the

they will create monuments to that
experience, whether it is a statue of a

deity, whether it is a pyramid, whether
it is a cathedral.

We see this across history and all over
the world to this very day.

Is it possible that much like the so
-called cargo cult in the South Pacific,

ancient people also constructed
monuments and even entire religions

interactions with visitors from the sky?

The term cargo cult is very interesting
when applied to the ancient astronaut

theory because we can see that even in
modern times how man has interacted with

things coming from the sky or other
technology they didn't understand.

This has been playing out for thousands
of years here on Earth.

If extraterrestrial visitation inspired
the ancient people to build temples in a

certain fashion, an attempt to reproduce
misunderstood technology, could it also

have motivated them to tattoo and
otherwise modify their bodies?

Similar to how the people of Vanuatu
adorned their chests with the letters

continuing to imitate the soldiers who
visited before most of the islanders

even born.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
Additional evidence that cargo cult

practices include body modifications can
be found by examining numerous other

cultures throughout the world that also
undergo extreme body alteration.

In Brazil, the Kayapo worship a god they
call Beth Kororoti, who they depict in

ceremonies with a straw suit that is
eerily reminiscent of a modern -day

spacesuit.

Their traditions include intricate body
painting, face tattooing, lip

stretching, and peculiar haircuts, all
to harness the power of this

being.

And perhaps the most extreme body
modification of all is practiced by the

Cayenne people of Burma. There is a
tradition amongst the Cayenne people of

the women wearing the spirulina.

brass rings in their neck and they wear
these throughout their life

and it can take many many hours to
actually put these coils in place

there is a tradition that this female
dragon had begun the dynasty of the

cayenne people and the reason they do
this is to resemble this dragon in

Kai in foundational mythology of dragons
play a very prominent role that act as

messengers between the world of the
divine and the world of humans.

They are very powerful magical creatures
as well and they're associated with

ultimate knowledge.

Is it possible that this creature
actually came from the sky world and was

to be the influence behind the
foundation of these people, a memory

never forgot?

Could it be that there are cultures
around the world today keeping alive an

ancient story of alien visitation by
altering their flesh?

And is it possible that the growing
trend of body modification in the modern

world is due to a deep -seated memory of
our extraterrestrial origin?

Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining one of the most peculiar

practices of the ancient world.

Headbinding.

Viacha, Bolivia.

November 2018.

Just 30 miles east of the mysterious
ancient site of Pumapunku,

uncover 500 -year -old tombs believed to
have been built by a pre -Incan

civilization called the Bacajes.

The remains of more than 100 people are
discovered within.

And a number of the skulls are found to
have a very bizarre abnormality.

They appear dramatically elongated.

According to archaeologists, these
specimens display evidence of a body

modification practice called head
binding.

The head can be changed in its shape.
Generally, it's elongated.

And this is done when a child is perhaps
six months old through to the age of

three and their heads are bound up and
this pushes the skull upwards and

these bizarre shapes.

Just by gazing upon them you can't help
think alien because that's what they

truly look like.

Curiously, this extreme form of body
modification was widespread throughout

ancient world, occurring on nearly every
continent and practiced by many

cultures that are believed to have had
no contact with one another.

This is a process that has been going on
at least for the last 10 ,000 years and

is found in every part of the world,
from the Pacific Islands to Australia

to the Near East to the Americas.

And the strangest are those of Paracas
in Peru.

Everywhere we find the same process. It
seems as if it was mimicking people who

originally existed that had long heads
in the first place.

In Vanuatu, anthropologists asked the
people who were still doing head binding

up until the 1960s. And they asked them
why they did that. And they said, this

is what the gods look like with these
elongated heads.

And if that is the explanation for head
binding around the world, then who are

these gods?

They're apparently extraterrestrials who
have a naturally elongated head that's

just part of their DNA.

And humans want to look like them.

If ancient people did encounter
extraterrestrials,

and perhaps even coexisted with them,
might there have been something more

profound at play than mere deification
and imitation?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe
that it may, in fact, be programmed

into human DNA to want to become more
like our alien ancestors, and that

traditions of body modification

and tattooing represent practice runs,
preparing for the day when we could

ourselves to actually become like the
aliens.

Vancouver, British Columbia.

August 13th, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry
visits self -described transhumanist

Russ Fox.

Yeah, he's in his room right there.

Oh, thank you. To get a first -hand look
at technology that proposes to

transform the human race.

Hi, William.

Hi, how are you? I'm William Henry.

Pleasure to meet you. Good to meet you.
Good to see you. Thank you very much.

This is Eric. Hi, Eric. How are you?
Nice to meet you. Pleasure to meet you

well.

In his 2015 book, The Skingularity is
Near, William Henry proposed that

humankind is reaching a point where the
body will be radically transformed.

Well, you came at a perfect time. Eric
is going to have an NFC chip installed

today. Fantastic.

I will begin by cleaning your hand.

He is eager to investigate how this is
already beginning to happen.

Russ prepares to implant Eric with a
biocompatible glass tube. So we are

to install the chip.

Containing an NFC microchip. So the
implant itself was pre -sterilized and

loaded into a syringe, so it will be
literally injected under the skin.

You now have a chip.

NFC stands for Near Field Communication,
and it allows phones, tablets, laptops,

and other devices to easily share data
with other NFC -equipped devices.

Russ, what technology is...

Have you got implanted? I personally
have a number of different chips in both

my hands, as well as a magnetic vision
implant, an RFID and an NFC in either

side for different purposes.

This NFC chip has all of my business
links and web URLs, and this is a built

business card. So I can actually scan it
with your phone and give you my contact

info.

Just like that. And it brings up my
contact info and saves it in your phone.

Look at that. So I've got your phone
number. I've got your contact details.

So all of these things you use to start
your motorcycle, get in your home.

I replace my keys with these chips, so
that way I don't have to deal with

or having keys stolen.

So these chips interact with a lot of
different devices in my life. I could

bring you to my house and show you some
of them. I'd love that. Let's go for a

trip. Right on.

Humanity has a long history of
interaction with extraterrestrial beings

here with technology.

have long tried to imitate or be like
the gods.

So I will wake up the bike with my RFID
chip. I introduce it to the sensor.

Okay.

And the bike is awake.

Awesome. Just like that. Okay. And now
today, we have transhuman technology

where we're augmenting the physical body
in an effort to duplicate many of the

capacities that we attribute to the
ancient gods.

So to access my home, scan my chip.

When the doors unlock, we can enter.
Very nice.

After you. Thank you.

What I'm hoping to see here by coming to
Russ's home is to see the future. Where

is Russ going to go with this? What has
he got access to in his own home, and

how is that going to change him?

So this is my dining room table. Okay.
It doubles as an RFID -operated safe.

What I do is I scan my RFID chip on top,
flip hinge.

and there is my drawer very nice so
these devices in here are implantable

technology pieces i have and i will show
you what they are fantastic

so this first device this is called a
north sense

this device is mounted to the body with
piercings this device will vibrate

whenever it faces magnetic north
essentially turning into a human compass

here we have some magnet implants So
this is a small chip that encases

tritium gas, and it will glow right
through your skin.

And because it is radioactive material,
it's not battery -powered, it will

constantly glow, and it has a 12 -year
half -life.

Wow. At what point do we become more
than human in the transhuman process?

I think that we're always going to be
building on to our existing humanity,

it's important to appreciate our
existing humanity.

We don't want to lose touch with that.

When I look at Russ, I see someone who's
on the cutting edge of our technology,

but he's just the beginning of where we
potentially can go with this. We're

talking about transforming humans into
super beings.

With the emergence of technology that
can be implanted within the flesh, is

humankind on the brink of possessing
abilities similar to those described by

ancient people in reference to their
gods?

Has body modification all been a
preparation for this?

Evolution.

Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining plans to merge tattoos with

technology.

Boulder, Colorado.

2018.

At the University of Colorado, Dr.
Carson Bruns.

and a team of scientists begins work on
developing a new technology that

promises to transform what it means to
get ink.

Smart tattoos.

We're trying to engineer new tattoo inks
that will add new function to your

skin. The first one that we invented is
a UV -sensitive tattoo ink. It's

basically invisible under normal
lighting conditions, but when you go

intense sunshine...

And it gets exposed to the UV light, so
that high -energy part of sunshine that

causes skin cancer and sunburn, it turns
blue. And it acts like an indicator

that shows you that your skin is
dangerously exposed to high levels of

radiation.

Dr. Bruns has also created tattooings
that change color as the body's

temperature changes, essentially
creating a human onboard thermometer

at any time.

We can use nanotechnology to engineer
tattoo particles so that they have

properties, like a thermal battery or a
thermal storage type of mechanism.

And so one thing that you can imagine
doing with a tattoo would be covering

entire body with a sort of thermal
storage material that would keep your

a comfortable temperature when you went
out into the extreme heat or the extreme

cold.

Smart tattoos are even being engineered
to monitor and treat health conditions.

If we have a chronic condition that
needs drugs, we can envision a tattoo

that slowly releases a drug or a hormone
into your body that helps regulate

either your blood chemistry or your
mood.

I also envision tattoos that can really
strengthen our skin, make our skin

stronger to forces and damage.

The military may have a lot of use for
full -body tattoos that can help protect

soldiers, for example, from certain
types of skin damage.

Carson Bruns is doing fascinating work
on the human skin.

He believes that we can change the
nature of skin altogether, using skin as

new platform for technological
development.

Humans have always tried to imitate the
gods, and perhaps tattoos are a

reflection of this.

In ancient times, they might have seen
the gods wearing something like tattoos,

and they started tattooing their own
bodies in imitation of what the gods

wearing.

But today, we now have technology that
is equal to what we see the gods using

these ancient stories.

Maybe now we're going to be able to turn
ourselves into a species just like the

gods.

Is it possible that ancient people came
into contact with more advanced beings

that had smart tattoos much like those
that are being developed today.

Could these otherworldly visitors have
had technology hidden within their skin,

appearing as artwork?

Conducting tattoos that we're working on
are black right now, so it looks like

an ordinary black tattoo pigment.

But you could even merge the technology
with the art so that you could have a

tattoo that looks like a normal artistic
tattoo but has this hidden function as

some kind of electronic or detecting
device.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, with such technology,

extraterrestrials could truly have
appeared to be gods to ancient people.

And they believe humanity is very close
to becoming like these alien ancestors.

Silicon Valley, 2018.

Futurist Elon Musk introduces a new
technology venture aimed at what is

self -directed evolution.

He calls it Neuralink.

By means of a special hypodermic needle,
the company intends to inject an ultra

-thin mesh called a neural lace within
the neocortex.

forming a body of electrodes that are
able to monitor brain function.

A neural lace uses microelectrodes they
place inside of the brain that can

actually read and write onto neurons.
It's a bidirectional informational

exchange, and it eventually will allow
you to receive information from the

Internet.

Through the use of neural linking, we
can connect brains through the Internet

through technology.

When this is the case, we could send
thoughts to one another.

Another thing you could do if you were
able to read brain activity would be to

control devices remotely with your mind.
So it would give a telekinesis in

principle as well.

The technology that Elon Musk is
developing could potentially also be

the human body in the form of tattoos.

Nanotechnology is allowing us to make
electronics small enough so when

tattooable electronics come online, you
can do things like a scalp tattoo.

If we're able to read brain activity
from this sort of seamless and permanent

interface in our skin, you could imagine
a new form of communication, almost

sort of a technological telepathy.

Is humanity nearing a time when we'll no
longer be a cargo cult, unknowingly

mimicking a far more advanced
civilization that once visited Earth,

fact, become just like these
extraterrestrial visitors?

Have we evolved from imitation to
replication?

Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining new developments in body

modification designed to facilitate
space travel.

In the 21st century, tattoos and body
modifications are no longer fringe and

longer merely decorative.

Technology implanted within the flesh
can facilitate superhuman abilities.

But of greatest interest to ancient
astronaut theorists is the role that

tattoos could potentially play in space
travel.

The next generation of spacesuits are
going to be embedded with a lot more

technologies, and it's possible to make
tattoos that can interact with the

spacesuit. So you can imagine even a
spacesuit that would be able to read out

information that those tattoos are
providing and send them back to mission

control.

Scientists are even beginning to develop
technology that could make spacesuits

obsolete.

We can use nanotechnology to engineer
tattoo particles so that they have

properties covering your entire body.

Super skin, e -skin, eye skin is skin
that is enhanced or laced with

Since 2002, the U .S. military has been
very interested in creating a new skin

for the military.

This augmentation will transform us from
human into the next level of evolution,

augmenting the body to make us smarter,
to make us stronger.

We're going to keep improving the
technologies, and we're going to keep

embedding them more and more intimately
with our bodies to improve our abilities

as humans and ultimately give us more
power.

But if the first humans to apply tattoos
to their flesh... and perform other

body modifications, such as head
binding, we're attempting to imitate

extraterrestrials. Are the technological
enhancements we're making to our bodies

today part of our destiny?

And if so, where does it lead?

Through nanotechnology, you can augment
the skin to make it more adaptable to

living in space.

to make us smarter, to make us stronger,
to make us more resilient.

We're able to become like the gods
through the implantation of this

When you take it right back to its
roots, tattooing is very transformative

has a lot of roots in what we would call
magic.

And our ancient ancestors were very much
in tune with the cosmos.

And what we're doing right now, we're
bringing this back to...

The magical modality that it is, it's
dormant now. Is this making us more

extraterrestrial -like?

Any advanced alien species that makes it
across the galaxy is going to have

learned how to self -direct their
evolution.

We're augmenting our bodies and moving
forward with our evolution.

Is there a message about humanity's
future encoded in our very flesh and our

attempts to alter it?

Could it be that tattoos, piercings, and
body modifications are inspired by

extraterrestrial visitors from the past?

Perhaps we are just now arriving at a
destiny that has been foretold through

human hieroglyphs, one in which we will
become the equals of our alien

ancestors.