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Mysterious surgeries
performed by early humans.
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Very well planned and it
happened well before the advent
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of modern medicine.
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Strange beings, with miraculous powers.
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Even though the gods forbade it,
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he was actually able to raise the dead.
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And a cover-up destroying centuries
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of scientific knowledge.
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People are afraid of it.
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The religious side especially afraid.
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Are recent breakthroughs
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in medicine really the
result of years of research?
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Or does the knowledge
of healing really come
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from an otherworldly source?
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It would seem to be that this
is medical knowledge that's
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coming from some advanced civilization
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of extraterrestrials.
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Millions of people around the world
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believe we have been visited in the past
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by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so, do stories of
advanced medical procedures
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in the distant past provide
further proof of mankind's
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extraterrestrial origins?
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2012, Houston, Texas.
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Doctors use robotic technology
to perform complex heart
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surgery through incisions
no larger than a keyhole.
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Chicago, Illinois.
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An amputee climbs 103 floors using
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a thought-controlled bionic leg.
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At the University of Iowa, researchers
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develop technology that
fabricates custom body
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parts using 3D printers.
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In the last 100 years,
scientific advances
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have dramatically
improved mankind's ability
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to heal itself, more in
fact, than at any time
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in the last five centuries.
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Throughout history, medicine is
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about correcting physical problems,
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restoring a patient to
health, relieving suffering.
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We've seen tremendous advances
over the last three decades.
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But there was a remarkable
degree of sophistication
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and a surprisingly high
success rate achieved
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by prehistoric surgeons.
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Many of the procedures of modern medicine
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are derivatives of the
ancient operations.
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Evidence of advanced
medical procedures practiced
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in the ancient world has been
found everywhere from carvings
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on the walls of temples to skeletal
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remains all over the world.
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But just who were the practitioners
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of this extraordinary science?
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And where did their knowledge
of the human body come from?
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Most cultures around the world thought
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that if something was
physically wrong with you,
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it probably also related
to something, perhaps,
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spiritually wrong with you.
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And so we also find that
physicians or healers very
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often were not just healing
the body, in our mundane sense,
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but also healing the soul.
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And therefore they had to be
somewhat of a religious figure
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as well.
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To be a doctor in the ancient world,
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you have some kind of
special relationship
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with a god who has gifted
you with the power to heal.
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A doctor was simultaneously
a kind of tradesman
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and had kind of learned a skill, but also
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a sort of cultic figure as well who
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had an association with a
god and would, therefore,
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use magical cures to deal with problems.
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Our ancestors said that
medicine came from the gods.
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Our ancestors have said that
the gods really gave manuals
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as to how to be living
healthy, how to restore health
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to the human individual.
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They realized something
about our physical bodies
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which we are only beginning
to understand once again.
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Could it be that
ancient healers were guided
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by alien beings?
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And if so, are recent
advances in modern medicine
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actually a rediscovery of
methods practiced thousands
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of years ago?
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Sikora, Egypt.
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Here, across from this
towering step pyramid,
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lies the physician's tomb, also known
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as the Tomb of Ankh-ma-hor.
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According to archaeologists, it
was built more than 4,000 years
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ago for one of the most
important officials
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of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
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I'm taking you inside the
physician's tomb, where you get
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a glimpse of how they performed
complex medical and surgical
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operations in ancient times.
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But what's amazing about this tomb
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is that the physician
Ankh-ma-hor lived 4,300 years
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ago, and he performed very complex
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surgical and medical operations.
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We can see here a circumcision
2,000 years before the Bible.
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And here we see a scene of reflexology.
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We can see them muscling
and flexing the muscles.
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Also here an amazing operation,
a surgical operation,
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on the hands It is even suggested
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that they may have had brain
surgery, removing tumors.
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But where did they get
the knowledge from?
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Well, they say that they got it
from Thoth, the god of wisdom
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and science, who brought
to them all the knowledge
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from the gods.
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Known for his abilities
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in science, magic, and medicine, Thoth
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was worshipped for centuries as
the god of wisdom and healing.
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According to ancient myth,
this divine physician
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healed the eye of the Egyptian
God Horus after his Uncle Set
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gouged it out in an
epic battle for power.
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As a result, The Eye of Horus
became an important symbol
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of restoration and good health.
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But was Thoth only a mythical
deity, as mainstream scholars
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believe?
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Or might he have been
something or someone
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who actually existed?
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Ancient Egyptian medicine
was anything but primitive.
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There are clear examples
of energetic medicine
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that are beyond our
technological capabilities.
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It seems as if these
technologies were brought in
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and were given to them
as a complete package
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rather than something that
developed out of a society
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that before then had
been extremely primitive.
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And the Egyptians
themselves said that Thoth
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was responsible for this.
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But who or what was Thoth?
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Might he have been not a divine
being but an alien visitor, one
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possessing advanced scientific knowledge?
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In the Egyptian pantheon of Gods,
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Thoth is the one with the head of an ibis
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but the body of a human being.
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He was the Egyptian father of medicine,
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meaning he descended from the sky,
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and he gave them that knowledge.
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Might Thoth have been not a divine
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being, as the Egyptians believed,
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but an alien visitor who possessed
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advanced scientific
knowledge, one from whom
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the Egyptians learned
their ability to heal?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the story of one
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of the most advanced surgeons
in the history of India.
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Varanasi, India.
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500 miles southeast of Delhi.
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Located on the banks of the Ganges,
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Varanasi is one of the
oldest cities on earth.
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A city that, according to legend,
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was founded by the gods.
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Long known as a center of
knowledge and learning.
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Varanasi was once home
to an ancient physician
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by the name of Sushruta,
who many historians credit
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with developing the art of surgery.
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In ancient India, the early physician
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was a guy named Sushruta.
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And he was a surgeon and physician
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who would do skin grafts,
cataract removals,
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even early plastic surgery on people.
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So once again, we have someone
whose medical knowledge seems
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so advanced for his time.
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Sushruta is also considered
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to be the first practitioner of Ayurveda,
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one of the oldest known systems
of medicine in the world.
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According to Hindu legend, Sushruta
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is said to have received this
knowledge from a god known
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as Dhanvantari.
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Dhanvantari was a high-level
god, as we would know them,
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who provided all the information
on this complete healing
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modality based on an
understanding of the physical
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and subtle aspects of the body.
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And it was passed through to
Indian culture in ancient times
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and has been preserved
and expanded since then.
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Though he is most often depicted
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as having four arms and
holding medicinal herbs,
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the god Dhanvantari was
also a shapeshifter.
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According to legend, during
his journeys to earth,
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he could take on other forms,
including that of a bird.
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Is it possible that both Dhanvantari
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and the half-man, half-bird
Egyptian God of healing, Thoth,
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were connected in some way?
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And if so, how?
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Whether it's Dhanvantari or Thoth,
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we learn of these
extraterrestrial divinities
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very often being portrayed as
birdlike beings who delivered
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the knowledge of ancient
medicine to earth.
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This tells us that our
original knowledge of medicine,
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human anatomy, and how to heal the body
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came from extraterrestrial sources.
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Sushruta, he
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was very clear in stating
that he learned this knowledge
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from the Gods.
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Who were the Gods?
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Extraterrestrials.
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Every culture will tell you
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that the first surgeon,
that medicine, that healing
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was a gift of the Gods.
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That is extraordinarily
interesting because it really
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shows that the benefit of mankind
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was accomplished through the
intervention and the knowledge
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of the deities.
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How is it possible that ancient cultures,
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separated by thousands of
miles, shared similar stories
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about a bird-like creature?
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Could it be true, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,
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that this extraordinary
being was actually
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a highly-skilled extraterrestrial
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from another world?
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And might he have traveled
across the globe in an effort
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to teach early humans the art of healing?
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Perhaps more clues can
be found in a collection
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of mysterious skulls,
discovered in the ruins of yet
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another ancient civilization.
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Northern Turkey, 2010.
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While digging at an archaeological site
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in the Samson province, archaeologists
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unearth hundreds of skeletal
remains and ancient skulls
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dating back more than 4,000 years.
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Strangely, 14 of the
skulls have large holes,
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providing what some
scholars believe is proof
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that ancient man carried out a
remarkably sophisticated type
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of brain surgery called
cranial trepanation.
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Trepanation is making an opening
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into the skull.
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We do it on a routine basis
in today's neurosurgery
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to get exposure of the
brain to remove a tumor
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or remove a blood clot, but
it was done in ancient times
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probably to repair traumatic
brain injuries from accidents
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and war injuries.
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Ancient cultures did this
all over the world in Peru,
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in Europe, in Asia, and Africa.
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They were literally cutting
holes in people's heads,
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successfully opening up their skulls,
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removing skull material, and
then covering it up again.
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And the patients were surviving
this and living long lives.
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Even with the delicate
and highly sophisticated
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tools in use today, neurosurgery
is a complicated and risky
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procedure.
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One involving the body's most
complex organ the human brain.
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Today's neurosurgery provides us
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with some remarkable new digital tools.
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We have what is equivalent
now of a GPS system that
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allows us to navigate around
the intracranial space.
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We also are able to use
preoperative imaging now
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to create an individual map
of the brain and the brain
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function.
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Those maps are critical
to do modern neurosurgery.
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But how could an ancient civilization
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have learned such highly
advanced methods for operating
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on a human brain hundreds of years
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before such procedures
were even attempted
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in other parts of the world?
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Perhaps the answers can be
found by looking at a collection
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of human skulls discovered a century ago
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near the Peruvian Andes.
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Here, at the San Diego Museum of Man,
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is an extensive display of
pre-Columbian antiquities,
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including one of the largest
collections of skulls
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in the world.
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Dr. Tori Randall, a chief
paleoanthropologist,
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has spent years studying
the ancient practice
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of trepanation.
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These skulls are about 1,000 years old.
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They're Incan skulls, and
they're special because they
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have trepanations.
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And you can see from the hole right here
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in the head they've had skull
surgery performed on them.
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It seems likely that a
lot of these trepanations
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were happening based
on warfare or healing
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some type of traumatic injury.
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They seem to have performed the
actual trepanations in parts
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of the skull where there wasn't
a lot of cranial musculature,
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which would have made it more difficult.
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One thing that they used were
tumies, which are usually
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made out of bronze or copper.
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And they are this little,
curved, linear knife.
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This is definitely a very
well-planned out practice,
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very successful, and it
happened well before the advent
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of modern medicine.
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And the fact that so
many individuals survived
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meant that they were very good at it.
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It's remarkable that we
see evidence of healing,
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and recovery, and survival.
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In so many of the
archaeological specimens,
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the skulls show signs of bone healing.
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They must have had a good
sense of meticulous technique,
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but it had to be a rough ordeal
for the individual patient.
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According to
Dr. Randall's findings,
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the Incan surgeons were also skilled
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at avoiding parts of the brain that
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would have damaged important
nerves and affected motor
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skills.
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What this means is that
our ancient ancestors had
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extraordinary information
about the brain.
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It means that they had detailed knowledge
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about human anatomy way beyond
what we normally attribute
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to them.
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It involves an extraordinary amount
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of scientific information.
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All over the world we seek
skulls with curious small holes
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drilled in.
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In these ancient cultures,
the practice of trepanation
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was often said to have been
given to them by the Gods.
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So it's possible that
extraterrestrial technology
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had the ability to see into the brain.
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Could the ancient Incan knowledge
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of brain surgery have really come
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from an extraterrestrial source?
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And if so, might ancient
alien visitors have passed
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on any other medical knowledge?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can
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be found just a few miles
from where the trepanned Incan
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skulls were found.
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80 miles Northwest of
the famous Nazca Lines
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lies the small city of Ica, Peru.
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In 1966, a local physician
named Javier Cabrera acquired
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several andesite stones
unearthed in the desert here,
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stones etched with mysterious depictions
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of ancient pre-Columbian people.
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The Ica stones really
give a different perspective
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on what the locals believed
history was all about.
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And the Ica stones, what it
really spell out or indicate,
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at least, is that history
is not the way we know it.
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Each of these stones is
inscribed with unusual scenes.
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People interacting with what seems
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to be prehistoric animals.
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People looking through telescopes.
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Some of the Ica stones seem to
be strange maps of the world
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before ours.
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And one of the things that
the Ica stones depicts
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is ancient surgeries.
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Also carved on dozens of these stones
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are images of brain surgeries,
cesarean sections, and even
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tracheotomies.
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But one stone is among
the most mysterious.
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It is thought to depict
two surgeons with a heart
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between them as they appear
to be reconnecting the blood
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vessels.
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Could this really be
evidence that ancient man
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was capable of
transplanting a human heart?
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The Ica stones are one
of the very few examples
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of our ancients actually
performing surgery.
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It seems impossible that ancient people
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were doing anything like this.
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And therefore, it would seem
to be that this is knowledge
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and medical knowledge that's coming
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from some advanced civilization
of extraterrestrials.
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Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest, that extraterrestrial
beings taught mankind advanced
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medical procedures, like
cranial trepanation and heart
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transplants, in the distant past?
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And if so, might these alien beings
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have shared other, perhaps,
even more profound secrets
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and techniques of healing?
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Some researchers believe further evidence
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can be found in the
legends and mythologies
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of the ancient Irish people and
a God they knew as Dian Cecht.
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Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
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Scientists pioneer a stunning
bio-mechanical advancement...
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A thought-controlled robotic arm.
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Outfitted with electrodes that connect
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to the nerves of the
wearer, the prosthetic
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works just like an actual arm and hand,
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receiving signals from the
brain and giving the user
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a functioning new limb.
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But as scientifically
sophisticated as this is,
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ancient astronaut theorists
point to a remarkably similar
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account in an ancient story
from the British Isles.
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Irish myth has a story about
a divine physician called Dian.
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Cecht.
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He has herbs to heal every
affliction of the human body
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and soul.
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And the people, whether
they're wounded in battle
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or they're afflicted in
childbirth, or miscarriage,
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or headaches, or whatever the malady is,
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they will go to Dian Cecht for healing.
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Dian Cecht is known as the physician
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of the Gods, or he was
the celebrated physician
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of the Tuatha de Danann, which was
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sort of a semi-divine early
group of people in Irish lore.
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According to Celtic tradition,
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the Tuatha de Danann were a
race of supernatural beings
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that came to Ireland
riding on dark clouds.
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Dian Cecht was one of
these otherworldly beings
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and a physician who
sometimes used his knowledge
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to treat humans.
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In the most famous account
of his medical feats,
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the Irish God heals a King named Nuada
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who becomes injured in battle.
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During a heated battle,
Nuada lost his arm.
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Because of this he
could no longer be king.
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Kings were supposed
to be physically pure,
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according to the ideas of this time,
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so he had to surrender
his kingship for a while.
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And during this time period, Dian Cecht
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was the one who actually fashioned
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him an arm out of silver.
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So he became known as
Nuada of the silver hand
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or Nuada of the silver arm.
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The story of Dian Cecht giving
King Nuada an arm that was made
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out of silver really sounds like
a modern science fiction story.
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It almost sounds like prosthetics.
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Is the story of Dion
Cecht a myth, as mainstream
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historians believe?
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Or might King Nuada's
silver arm have actually
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been an advanced bionic machine, just
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like the ones being developed today?
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If so, is it possible that
the Celtic God Dion Cecht
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was in fact an extra terrestrial being?
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According to this legend,
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Dion Cecht replaced King Nuada's
arm with a silver arm that
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was fully functional.
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So is it possible that
what we have here is
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an account of some type of
prosthetics that existed
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already way back in the past?
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It would seem that these
legends are talking about what
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are really pretty high tech
medical devices and knowledge.
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The kind of medical knowledge
that we have today and has
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taken hundreds of years of
expensive research to find.
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So it would seem that they had
these devices in ancient times,
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too, but where would
they have gotten them?
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It would seem to have been
from extraterrestrials.
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If the stories of Dion Cecht are true,
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might similar myths from other cultures
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also be based on historical fact?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
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and point to the stories of an
ancient Greek God who wielded
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the incredible power of
bringing the dead back to life.
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Epidaurus, Greece.
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In a small valley, 30
miles southwest of Athens,
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lie the 2,400-year-old ruins
of the most celebrated healing
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center of the ancient world...
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The Asclepeion, or Temple of Asclepius.
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RICHARD RADER Asclepius was
the child of the God Apollo,
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one of the principal divinities
associated with magic
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and healing.
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Now, Asclepius, because
he is the child of Apollo,
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would necessarily develop
this skill as well.
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He becomes almost entirely
associated with healing.
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Asclepius is the Greek name
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for the divine physician.
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Classical Greece did have
healing temples in which people
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could go and have either
daytime healing experiences
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or what they would call healings
during sleeping and dreaming,
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in which it was believed they would
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have an audience with
Asclepius and receive
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some kind of diagnosis and prescription
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that they could apply in the daytime.
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There's a very famous
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and a very interesting practice
called incubation, which
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is people would go sleep
in a temple of Asclepius,
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and Asclepius would visit them in a dream
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and tell them what the remedy
was to whatever sickness
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or ailment they were suffering.
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According to Greek mythology,
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Asclepius carried a serpent
entwined staff, the inspiration
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for the medical symbol
still in use today.
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But perhaps the most mysterious legend
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associated with the Greek God of medicine
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was his reported ability to
provide the ultimate cure...
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The power to restore life.
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His healing arts
are so powerful that he can
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wake people from the dead,
which is the line that can never
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be crossed, of course.
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He got into a bit of trouble.
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He was using his power that
he had gotten from his father,
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Apollo, to raise the dead,
which obviously poses a problem.
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Zeus didn't like it because
people that he had killed,
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Asclepius was raising from the dead.
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What this story is telling
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us is that the story of Asclepius
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is the story of some
extraordinarily powerful
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technology, knowledge, or
application of whatever it was,
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whereby physical death
is not the end of it.
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Asclepius is on record of raising people
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from the dead.
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This is not anything within the purview
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of conventional medical technology.
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We're talking about no pulse,
no respiration, and perhaps even
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brain dead as well.
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Asclepius may have been operating off
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of an extraterrestrial
derived body of knowledge
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and possibly technology that
made it possible for him
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to achieve these seemingly
supernatural feats in which
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a dead body is brought back to life.
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If Asclepius was a flesh and blood
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extraterrestrial being, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest, then might he have had some sort
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of advanced scientific technology
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that allowed him to raise the dead?
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If so, what happened to
this incredible knowledge?
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Why has the secret of life and
death been lost to mankind?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the story of one
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of the bloodiest eras
in recorded history.
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France, in the year 1233 AD.
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Pope Gregory IX establishes
the Inquisition...
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A group of institutions within
the Roman Catholic Church
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charged with investigating
and prosecuting heresy.
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During the next 500
years, the Inquisition
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spreads throughout Western Europe.
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Those suspected of sorcery or witchcraft
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are interrogated, tortured,
and executed, most
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by being burned at the stake.
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And included as targets of
this brutal and bloody purge
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are scientists, healers,
and other practitioners
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of the so-called black arts.
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There was a time in the
Church when any type of progress
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00:30:40,273 --> 00:30:45,321
was considered to be
the work of the devil.
508
00:30:45,365 --> 00:30:49,325
And so things were
done in the name of God
509
00:30:49,369 --> 00:30:52,676
in order to suppress new knowledge.
510
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,375
Science was always something that
511
00:30:55,418 --> 00:31:00,162
was held back by the Church, out
of fear of changing the status
512
00:31:00,206 --> 00:31:01,729
quo.
513
00:31:01,772 --> 00:31:03,992
Historically the
Catholic Church has always
514
00:31:04,036 --> 00:31:06,865
been threatened by knowledge, especially
515
00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:09,258
about healing and medicine.
516
00:31:09,302 --> 00:31:12,218
One example is the
invention of eyeglasses.
517
00:31:12,261 --> 00:31:14,916
The Catholic Church went
ballistic with the invention
518
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,092
of eyeglasses because with it came
519
00:31:17,136 --> 00:31:21,705
an idea, the idea that the
human body is improvable.
520
00:31:21,749 --> 00:31:24,491
During the inquisitions,
the Catholic Church took
521
00:31:24,534 --> 00:31:28,712
a full-steam charge on squashing
out a lot of these pagan ideas
522
00:31:28,756 --> 00:31:31,411
that were medical science
to them at the time,
523
00:31:31,454 --> 00:31:34,805
revolutionary, but did not
jive well with the Church.
524
00:31:34,849 --> 00:31:37,852
One reason the Church
launched the Inquisition
525
00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,942
was to eliminate the
average person's connection
526
00:31:40,986 --> 00:31:44,467
with this ancient indigenous
knowledge that put power
527
00:31:44,511 --> 00:31:47,427
in the hands of the individual
and took the power out
528
00:31:47,470 --> 00:31:49,472
of the hands of the Church.
529
00:31:49,516 --> 00:31:53,694
Long before Christianity
you had healings, absolutely
530
00:31:53,737 --> 00:31:55,478
supernaturally healings.
531
00:31:55,522 --> 00:31:57,306
So people are afraid of it.
532
00:31:57,350 --> 00:32:00,222
The religious side especially afraid.
533
00:32:04,618 --> 00:32:06,446
Was the Catholic Church's attack
534
00:32:06,489 --> 00:32:09,536
on scientific knowledge
a deliberate attempt
535
00:32:09,579 --> 00:32:14,410
to erase any connection between
mankind and its relationship
536
00:32:14,454 --> 00:32:19,328
to otherworldly visitors,
visitors whose very existence
537
00:32:19,372 --> 00:32:22,244
would undermine the Church's
strongly held teaching
538
00:32:22,288 --> 00:32:24,638
that life on earth was the only life that
539
00:32:24,681 --> 00:32:28,424
existed in the universe?
540
00:32:28,468 --> 00:32:31,775
Did the Inquisition succeed
in destroying centuries
541
00:32:31,819 --> 00:32:36,171
of advanced scientific and
medical knowledge, knowledge
542
00:32:36,215 --> 00:32:37,825
we are only now starting to retrieve?
543
00:32:41,133 --> 00:32:43,570
Perhaps another clue can be found
544
00:32:43,613 --> 00:32:47,313
by studying a medical procedure
that actually survived
545
00:32:47,356 --> 00:32:50,794
the Inquisition, one that has
been practiced for thousands
546
00:32:50,838 --> 00:32:51,447
of years.
547
00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:06,897
The Italian Alps, September 19, 1991.
548
00:33:06,941 --> 00:33:09,813
Here, high on a snow laden mountainside
549
00:33:09,857 --> 00:33:12,381
near the Austrian border, two hikers
550
00:33:12,425 --> 00:33:14,209
discover the mummified corpse of a man.
551
00:33:17,908 --> 00:33:21,564
Frozen in place for an
estimated 5,000 years,
552
00:33:21,608 --> 00:33:26,482
the body, later nicknamed Otzi,
is carefully examined and so
553
00:33:26,526 --> 00:33:30,138
well-preserved that scientists
are able to determine
554
00:33:30,182 --> 00:33:37,189
his age, how he died, and even
the contents of his final meal.
555
00:33:37,232 --> 00:33:40,366
But perhaps the most
incredible discovery of all
556
00:33:40,409 --> 00:33:43,891
were the markings found
along Otzi's legs and back...
557
00:33:43,934 --> 00:33:47,721
50 geometric designs
that correspond to those
558
00:33:47,764 --> 00:33:52,726
found in the science of acupuncture.
559
00:33:52,769 --> 00:33:58,036
Acupuncture is a long and
well-tested modality that moves
560
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:01,430
energy through a kind of
subway system in the body.
561
00:34:01,474 --> 00:34:05,260
They're known as meridians with
about 1,000 treatment points.
562
00:34:05,304 --> 00:34:07,523
All the treatment points
have names, and many of them
563
00:34:07,567 --> 00:34:12,093
have references to stars and
very interesting things that
564
00:34:12,137 --> 00:34:13,660
don't seem to correlate with the body.
565
00:34:16,097 --> 00:34:19,492
A medical therapy
that targets an energy field
566
00:34:19,535 --> 00:34:22,843
that practitioners believe
flows through the human body.
567
00:34:22,886 --> 00:34:25,411
Acupuncture was originally believed
568
00:34:25,454 --> 00:34:31,069
to have been developed in China
approximately 3,000 years ago.
569
00:34:31,112 --> 00:34:33,810
The tattoos found on the
skin of this Bronze Age
570
00:34:33,854 --> 00:34:37,379
mummy suggest that
acupuncture was not only
571
00:34:37,423 --> 00:34:41,122
practiced in Europe but
practiced centuries earlier
572
00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:43,907
than most archeologists
and historians had believed
573
00:34:43,951 --> 00:34:45,518
possible.
574
00:34:45,561 --> 00:34:48,912
But how?
575
00:34:48,956 --> 00:34:51,785
Perhaps the answer can
be found by examining
576
00:34:51,828 --> 00:34:56,224
the ancient Chinese medical book
called "The Huangdi Neijing,"
577
00:34:56,268 --> 00:34:59,488
the oldest text known to
give a detailed description
578
00:34:59,532 --> 00:35:01,142
of acupuncture.
579
00:35:01,186 --> 00:35:04,667
First, the medical
book, as old as 2,500 years
580
00:35:04,711 --> 00:35:08,018
ago, is called "Huangdi
Neijing Yellow Empress Classic.
581
00:35:08,062 --> 00:35:09,150
Medicine."
582
00:35:09,194 --> 00:35:12,240
In this book, this whole system is
583
00:35:12,284 --> 00:35:15,417
to talk about all the channels,
meridians, and the treatment
584
00:35:15,461 --> 00:35:17,202
mythology and strategies.
585
00:35:20,509 --> 00:35:23,164
According to Chinese mythology,
586
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:25,775
one of the first
practitioners of acupuncture
587
00:35:25,819 --> 00:35:29,649
was a physician named
Bian Que, often depicted
588
00:35:29,692 --> 00:35:32,434
as a human-headed bird.
589
00:35:32,478 --> 00:35:36,003
Bian Que is a legendary example
590
00:35:36,046 --> 00:35:39,093
of a healer who used
supernatural means in order
591
00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:42,009
to accomplish his treatments.
592
00:35:42,052 --> 00:35:46,579
Bian Que apparently
could consume some herb,
593
00:35:46,622 --> 00:35:50,409
and once he ingested this
substance, whatever it was,
594
00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:52,672
he could apparently see through walls
595
00:35:52,715 --> 00:35:56,066
and see directly into the
human body, much like a CAT
596
00:35:56,110 --> 00:35:58,417
scan or an MRI.
597
00:35:58,460 --> 00:36:04,205
And he was accredited with
doing a double heart transplant
598
00:36:04,249 --> 00:36:07,774
on an emperor and another person,
599
00:36:07,817 --> 00:36:11,256
where he switched their hearts.
600
00:36:11,299 --> 00:36:13,214
So you have to wonder, now, where
601
00:36:13,258 --> 00:36:15,869
did they even get this idea?
602
00:36:15,912 --> 00:36:18,698
Bian Que is another of those
extraordinary beings who's
603
00:36:18,741 --> 00:36:21,614
described as half human and half bird.
604
00:36:21,657 --> 00:36:24,660
This puts him in the league
with such figures as Thoth
605
00:36:24,704 --> 00:36:28,751
and other divine beings, who are
also half human and half bird,
606
00:36:28,795 --> 00:36:32,364
and who delivered to humanity
amazing knowledge, especially
607
00:36:32,407 --> 00:36:35,193
about medicine and human transformation.
608
00:36:38,935 --> 00:36:41,242
Could it be mere coincidence
609
00:36:41,286 --> 00:36:45,246
that the half-human, half-bird
Chinese healer known as Bian.
610
00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:50,077
Que closely resembles both the
ancient Egyptian deity Thoth
611
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,690
and the Indian God Dhanvantari?
612
00:36:54,734 --> 00:36:58,607
Or is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists claim,
613
00:36:58,651 --> 00:37:01,784
that these ancient
so-called Gods were actually
614
00:37:01,828 --> 00:37:06,224
extraterrestrial beings,
beings in possession of highly
615
00:37:06,267 --> 00:37:09,705
advanced medical knowledge?
616
00:37:09,749 --> 00:37:13,579
I think acupuncture is
one of these sciences which
617
00:37:13,622 --> 00:37:18,540
came from the Gods and was
given to our ancestors.
618
00:37:18,584 --> 00:37:20,673
And so even though we might
think that acupuncture
619
00:37:20,716 --> 00:37:24,590
is specifically linked to a
specific culture right now,
620
00:37:24,633 --> 00:37:27,375
I think in the past this was
actually information which
621
00:37:27,419 --> 00:37:30,291
existed throughout mankind.
622
00:37:30,335 --> 00:37:32,772
Medicine always
623
00:37:32,815 --> 00:37:37,559
came from a, quote unquote,
"divine origin," meaning
624
00:37:37,603 --> 00:37:41,389
that some type of a deity
descended from the sky
625
00:37:41,433 --> 00:37:44,827
and gave this knowledge of healing people
626
00:37:44,871 --> 00:37:47,656
to those particular cultures.
627
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:50,964
And now, why would all
cultures all around the world
628
00:37:51,007 --> 00:37:54,315
speak of the exact same
thing that this knowledge was
629
00:37:54,359 --> 00:37:56,970
imparted to them by people
descending from the sky?
630
00:38:02,105 --> 00:38:05,761
Are ancient astronaut theorists correct?
631
00:38:05,805 --> 00:38:09,461
Did extraterrestrial beings
really give early man
632
00:38:09,504 --> 00:38:11,506
highly advanced medical knowledge
633
00:38:11,550 --> 00:38:15,118
about how to heal the
human body, knowledge,
634
00:38:15,162 --> 00:38:17,382
that with the exception of acupuncture,
635
00:38:17,425 --> 00:38:21,037
has been lost through the centuries?
636
00:38:21,081 --> 00:38:25,041
Perhaps proof can be found,
not in the carvings on the wall
637
00:38:25,085 --> 00:38:29,132
of a tomb or in the words
of an ancient document,
638
00:38:29,176 --> 00:38:31,874
but the most unlikely of places...
639
00:38:31,918 --> 00:38:34,050
The cells of the human body.
640
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,540
In 2003, US government researchers
641
00:38:45,584 --> 00:38:48,108
announced they had
completed one of the most
642
00:38:48,151 --> 00:38:51,416
monumental and scientifically
significant projects
643
00:38:51,459 --> 00:38:54,375
in human history.
644
00:38:54,419 --> 00:38:58,553
After 13 years of work, they
had identified and mapped
645
00:38:58,597 --> 00:39:03,079
the over 20,000 genes
in the human genome,
646
00:39:03,123 --> 00:39:06,431
giving scientists new insight
into the genetic makeup
647
00:39:06,474 --> 00:39:08,650
of the human species.
648
00:39:08,694 --> 00:39:11,914
What we don't know about humans in terms
649
00:39:11,958 --> 00:39:14,177
of evolutionary genetics is sort of
650
00:39:14,221 --> 00:39:17,877
based on what we don't know
about genetics nowadays.
651
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,228
For example, we do not know the
genetic basis of the thought
652
00:39:21,271 --> 00:39:22,229
process.
653
00:39:22,272 --> 00:39:24,187
We don't know memory.
654
00:39:24,231 --> 00:39:29,976
We cannot create any ideas of
how changes occurred to evolve
655
00:39:30,019 --> 00:39:32,761
the human brain to the
functional being that it is
656
00:39:32,805 --> 00:39:33,414
right now.
657
00:39:36,461 --> 00:39:38,724
Could this incredible map eventually
658
00:39:38,767 --> 00:39:42,989
solve the great mystery
of human evolution?
659
00:39:43,032 --> 00:39:46,906
Might it help explain why
humans, unlike any other living
660
00:39:46,949 --> 00:39:56,829
species, can think, reason,
and have the power of speech?
661
00:39:56,872 --> 00:40:02,095
Or why they can create art, music,
662
00:40:02,138 --> 00:40:07,448
and spend time contemplating the
reason for their own existence?
663
00:40:07,492 --> 00:40:11,234
It's not until about 40,000 years
664
00:40:11,278 --> 00:40:17,632
ago that you get a very radical
change in human behavior.
665
00:40:17,676 --> 00:40:21,984
Our hunting strategies
get better, our tools
666
00:40:22,028 --> 00:40:24,987
and our weapons get better.
667
00:40:25,031 --> 00:40:29,557
It's as though some untapped
faculty of the human brain and
668
00:40:29,601 --> 00:40:33,909
of the human imagination switched on.
669
00:40:33,953 --> 00:40:36,869
Is it possible that
the reason humans suddenly
670
00:40:36,912 --> 00:40:40,612
evolved from primitive
beasts to sentient humans
671
00:40:40,655 --> 00:40:45,312
is due to otherworldly intervention?
672
00:40:45,355 --> 00:40:47,706
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
673
00:40:47,749 --> 00:40:50,839
the answer is a profound yes.
674
00:40:50,883 --> 00:40:54,321
One of the basic tenets of
the ancient astronaut theory
675
00:40:54,364 --> 00:40:58,630
suggests that a long time ago our DNA
676
00:40:58,673 --> 00:41:04,549
was artificially changed
by extraterrestrials.
677
00:41:04,592 --> 00:41:08,901
And we can see that this
is exactly what happened
678
00:41:08,944 --> 00:41:13,688
because all of a sudden we
made a giant intellectual leap
679
00:41:13,732 --> 00:41:17,910
and all of a sudden we
became Homo sapien sapiens.
680
00:41:17,953 --> 00:41:21,261
This was the time when the very first
681
00:41:21,304 --> 00:41:26,092
extraterrestrial genetic
engineering took place.
682
00:41:26,135 --> 00:41:29,574
And in some ways, this was
like phase one and the creation
683
00:41:29,617 --> 00:41:34,753
of modern human beings as we know them.
684
00:41:34,796 --> 00:41:38,887
Did extraterrestrials
deliberately alter Homo sapien
685
00:41:38,931 --> 00:41:41,237
DNA?
686
00:41:41,281 --> 00:41:45,111
And if so, did they also give
humans the knowledge of how
687
00:41:45,154 --> 00:41:48,984
to maintain their bodies
and heal themselves,
688
00:41:49,028 --> 00:41:53,772
knowledge that we are
only now rediscovering?
689
00:41:53,815 --> 00:41:58,211
There is a very widespread
prevalence worldwide
690
00:41:58,254 --> 00:42:03,564
of a divine providence to medicine,
691
00:42:03,608 --> 00:42:08,438
that the gods wanted to help us
to have happier, longer, more
692
00:42:08,482 --> 00:42:10,876
fulfilling lives.
693
00:42:10,919 --> 00:42:14,575
And that they brought out their
best technology and their best
694
00:42:14,619 --> 00:42:19,188
wisdom teachings to us in order
to make that healing possible.
695
00:42:19,232 --> 00:42:22,888
Is there any surgeon out
there who just woke up one
696
00:42:22,931 --> 00:42:25,455
day and said, I'm going
to perform surgery?
697
00:42:25,499 --> 00:42:26,848
Of course not.
698
00:42:26,892 --> 00:42:29,938
Every single surgeon had to receive
699
00:42:29,982 --> 00:42:34,203
sophisticated and lengthy
instruction, training.
700
00:42:34,247 --> 00:42:37,729
We know that our ancestors told us
701
00:42:37,772 --> 00:42:41,907
that the knowledge for medicine
was given to them by none
702
00:42:41,950 --> 00:42:46,564
other than what they
referred to as the Gods.
703
00:42:46,607 --> 00:42:49,175
This is knowledge and information which
704
00:42:49,218 --> 00:42:52,047
exceeds the human capabilities.
705
00:42:52,091 --> 00:42:55,137
And this is, once again, within
part of a larger framework,
706
00:42:55,181 --> 00:43:00,708
a framework of divine healers
who allow this capability to be
707
00:43:00,752 --> 00:43:04,843
used for surgery, to
be used for diagnosis,
708
00:43:04,886 --> 00:43:08,629
to be used for healing purposes.
709
00:43:08,673 --> 00:43:10,762
They sit between us and the gods,
710
00:43:10,805 --> 00:43:14,069
and they were somehow able to
apply the divine information
711
00:43:14,113 --> 00:43:17,638
when it came to medicine
to very noble purposes
712
00:43:17,682 --> 00:43:20,075
here on planet Earth.
713
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:24,514
Did ancient aliens really alter our DNA
714
00:43:24,558 --> 00:43:28,344
in an effort to make us
better, smarter, and perhaps
715
00:43:28,388 --> 00:43:31,043
more like themselves?
716
00:43:31,086 --> 00:43:36,091
And if so, did they also give
early man medical knowledge,
717
00:43:36,135 --> 00:43:39,181
knowledge that was
lost over the centuries
718
00:43:39,225 --> 00:43:44,143
and that modern science is only
now beginning to rediscover?
719
00:43:44,186 --> 00:43:46,362
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
720
00:43:46,406 --> 00:43:51,759
the answer is yes and suggest
that incredible new discoveries
721
00:43:51,803 --> 00:43:57,504
and rediscoveries lie ahead,
discoveries that may reveal
722
00:43:57,547 --> 00:44:03,336
the secrets of life and
death, the key to immortality,
723
00:44:03,379 --> 00:44:09,516
and the answer to the question
of who and what we really are.
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