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[ Man Narrating ] A vision that changed
our understanding of the universe.
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The periodic table itself
came to Mendeleev in a dream.
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[ Narrator] A mysterious voice
behind the world's first code of laws.
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The Code of Hammurabi comes
from a very advanced point of origin.
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[ Narrator] And an inspiration that strikes
two inventors at the same time.
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It has been suggested that maybe
it is somehow physically in the air.
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[ Narrator]
Throughout history...
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many of the world's greatest thinkers have
credited their genius to otherworldly sources.
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But could there really be
an unseen force...
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behind these incredible minds-
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a force with extraterrestrial origins?
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[ Man ] These people are being
influenced by higher beings...
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who are guiding humankind.
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[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...
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believe we have been visited in the past
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,
might they be the inspiring force...
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behind the world's greatest geniuses?
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Tacoma, Washington, 2002.
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As he walks out of a karaoke bar...
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thirty-one-year-old Jason Padgett
is brutally mugged by two men...
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and knocked unconscious.
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When he finally wakes up, doctors tell him
he's lucky to have escaped the beating...
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with just a bruised kidney
and a concussion.
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But in the coming days, Jason starts
to see the world in a whole new way.
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Jason Padgett was not
a professional mathematician.
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He had studied math a little bit
when he was younger, like most of us did.
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And he never really had
a great interest in math.
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But after he was beaten...
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he would see mathematical equations
everywhere he looked...
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and he would really find it beautiful.
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[Woman ] He had developed
something called synesthesia...
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where he sort of saw the world
in these fractal images...
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and then became really interested
in that phenomena...
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and then started
discovering mathematics.
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[ Kaufman ] He would see the Pythagorean
theorem in objects that most of us don't notice...
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or don't ever see those things.
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And he found them so beautiful...
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that he decided to capture them
in some sort of visual representation...
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and he started
drawing all of these things.
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[ Narrator] Jason becomes the only person
in the world with the extraordinary ability...
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to hand-draw complex fractal shapes.
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Scientists say that what may have happened...
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is that the traumatic brain injury he suffered
randomly re-wired Jason's neural network...
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Bringing out genius-like abilities
in some areas.
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When a person has traumatic brain injury,
it's going to be a shock to the brain-
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to the way that it's wired.
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[Woman ] Presumably in the incidence
of a traumatic brain injury...
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your brain is, uh, repairing itself
to a certain extent...
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or sort of compensating for damage
by potentially sort of re-routing neural circuits.
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[ Narrator] Jason Padgett's story,
while incredible, is not entirely unique.
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In Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
Derek Amato hi! his head in a pool...
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and I! transformed him
into a talented pianist...
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even though he'd never played in his life.
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In Massachusetts, 35-year-old Jon Sarkin
suffered a stroke after surgery...
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and became a world famous artist.
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And after epileptic seizures...
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Daniel Tammet became a mathematical
and linguistic genius...
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able to see the results
of complex calculations...
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and even learn a foreign language
in a matter of days.
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But if traumatic head injuries can endow
a normal person with genius-like abilities...
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what might that tell us
about the nature of genius?
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Genius is by definition
a very rare, rare event.
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There are very few geniuses
in every generation...
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that have fundamentally changed
the way that we operate in this world.
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And we'll never get a full, complete
understanding of genius...
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just by looking at the brain.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that a blow to the
head can unlock something in the brain...
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that makes it more receptive
to ideas, concepts...
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and an actual architecture of the universe
that is normally reserved for geniuses?
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And if so, might this provide insight...
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into why a handful of great thinkers
In e very generation-
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with names like Einstein...
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Shakespeare...
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da Vinci...
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Confucius...
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and Plato...
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seem to be responsible
for so many of the visionary ideas...
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that have formed the fabric of our society
for thousands of years?
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Modern science is still grasping
for answers...
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as freak occurrences such as Jason
Padgett's contradict the traditional view...
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that brilliance is the result of good genes
and hard work.
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There is an inherited aspect
to genius...
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and-and-and we-we know that from-
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we can name lots of, um, people
who have come from famous families.
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Like the Bacon family, you know,
had a lot of famous scientists...
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the Darwin family.
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So there are a lot of geniuses
where it's inherited.
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All across history,
you see some very similar characteristics...
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among the people we tend to call geniuses.
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One- geniuses tend to persevere
against lots of odds.
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Lots of them have had lots of handicaps
when they were younger...
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maybe that even fueled them to want
to achieve higher heights of creativity.
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But they have this great ability to bounce back
and continue persevering along their goals.
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[ Narrator] The 20th century's
quintessential genius, Albert Einstein...
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is said to have perfectly embodied
these characteristics.
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His motivation and boundless curiosity
were legendary...
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but his physical brain also had
some extraordinary qualities...
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that may have allowed
for a more profound level of thinking.
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Albert Einstein's brain,
when he died in 1955...
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was actually kept in formaldehyde
for about 50 years...
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and wasn't really deeply analyzed
until more recently.
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One of the things that they found
was that he has a thicker corpus callosum...
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and that's the band of fibers that connects
the left and the right hemisphere.
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[ Narrator]
Scientists believe the corpus callosum...
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helps different parts of the brain
communicate...
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and aids in both creativity
and higher thinking.
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But are the physical characteristics
of the brain...
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the only factor in determining
a person's intelligence?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe...
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there may be an even more
profound reason.
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When we look at the human brain...
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we wonder if we really have
the neurological brain power...
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to-to really be such geniuses...
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and-and think of all
of these amazing inventions...
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and-and, in some cases, just envision them
in-in their totality all at once.
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So, some scientists have speculated...
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that what these geniuses are doing...
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is tapping into ideas
that are coming from outside of them.
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Do geniuses have an access...
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to another level of consciousness...
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where some of their ideas
are being sent to them...
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or they have the capability
of downloading it during their dreams?
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These are the great questions
of humankind, of the universe.
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[ Man ] Is it possible that there is something
much more important going on...
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with consciousness
than the physical brain?
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It's a compelling possibility
that reveals deeper truths...
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about the nature of what it means
to be human and whether, in fact...
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there is some greater organized effort
being made...
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to steer human knowledge
towards a desired outcome.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that genius
comes not entirely from within the brain...
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but also from some force
outside the body?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and suggest the evidence for this...
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can be found by examining
the world's earliest geniuses...
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and what they claimed
was the true source of their inspiration.
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The Louvre. Paris, France.
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This historic museum houses
perhaps the most significant legal text...
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in the ancient world.
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This stele features the Babylonian god
Shamash talking to King Hammurabi...
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and below them, carved in cuneiform text,
are the laws they gave to their people.
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It is called the Code of Hammurabi.
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[ Man ] Hammurabi, without a doubt, was one
of the great geniuses of the ancient world...
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and, of course, he's famous not just
for being the ruler of ancient Babylonia...
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but for coming up with
what is called the Code of Hammurabi...
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which was the first written legal record.
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[ Man ] it's a primitive document,
compared to what we have now...
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but he had a whole system of order
and how taxes were collected...
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and various civil principles and the rather
famous punishment an eye for an eye...
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which has been modified over the years,
but that he had a system.
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[ Narrator] The Code of Hammurabi
begins with a prologue...
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in which the king
boasts of his great deeds...
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but he also writes that the code itself
was dictated to him...
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by the Babylonian god Shamash.
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[Young ] The great King Hammurabi
went into a trance...
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and God began dictating
this incredible document...
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and channeling it
through the great King Hammurabi...
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who was speaking it in a voice
very unlike his own, language unlike his own.
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It's all coming from God.
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And when Hammurabi wakes up from
his trance, the scribes read it back to him...
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and he has no memory of dictating it.
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It all came from God, and it is brilliant.
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An important part is that Hammurabi
did not claim authorship.
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He knew this was not of his making,
of his intelligence.
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[ Man ] The system of law that
comes through the Code of Hammurabi...
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is so intrinsic to the basic moral
understandings of how to run a society...
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that much of it is still preserved in some
form in our modern day legal system.
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This suggests that the Code of Hammurabi
comes from a very advanced point of origin.
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[ Narrator] The story behind
the Code of Hammurabi is not unique.
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In the ancient world, moments of genius...
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including basic religious beliefs
and scientific principles...
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from Greece and Rome
to India and China...
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were often said to have
been inspired by divine voices.
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Think about it- Moses, Abraham,
Noah, the prophets, Jesus-
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a lot of the laws, the rules, the customs,
the traditions that we have...
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are based upon individuals claiming
to have been told something by a deity.
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And it's not just
the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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I would argue that in every culture,
you've got a lot of laws...
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that are essentially traced back to people
claiming to have been told something...
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by a being who's not of this world.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that the course
of human civilization...
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has been determined
not by history's most profound thinkers...
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but by some external force
that was guiding them?
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The ancients were convinced
they knew the answer.
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In fact, the Latin word “genius”...
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is where the term “genii,”
or supernatural creature, comes from.
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In the ancient world, the idea of genius had
much more autonomy than our modern view.
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The genii, which had a life of its own,
a kind of spiritual daimon, entered you.
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You had a relationship with the genii,
and it was really the source of the brilliance.
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You were a channel,
you were a host, you were involved...
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but it was not as personal,
and the ownership wasn't as great.
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[Woman ] The Greeks believed
that they were inspired by the muses.
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So what caused a musician
to come up with a new tune?
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What caused a writer
to come up with a new story?
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It was the spirit of a muse
that went inside the person...
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and caused that person
to become creative...
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and we see that
in the word “inspire,” in spirit.
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When we are inspired,
we are filled with spirit...
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and we create those things.
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[ Narrator]
In Alexandria...
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Egyptians founded what would become
the greatest library in the ancient world...
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by erecting a temple to the muses...
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and asking them
to fill their library with wisdom.
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[ Tsoukalos ] When we say that
“I'm looking for my muse”...
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you are looking for the key
with which to unlock...
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this kingdom of creativity...
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that resides within each
and every living being.
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Is it possible, by reaching this altered state
of consciousness...
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to come in contact with beings
or with entities...
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that are of those different realms?
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I think that this is possible.
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[ Narrator]
Could it be that the forces of inspiration...
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that the ancients attributed to the gods...
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really did emanate
from an otherworldly source...
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as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
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In the ancient world...
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it was really believed that people
were influenced from outside...
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to have special thoughts,
to have special inspiration...
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and genius-type ideas...
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and it was coming from outside of you.
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So you have to wonder if these ideas...
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aren't possibly some kind of thoughts...
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that are being projected into your mind,
possibly by extraterrestrials.
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[ Man ]
Perhaps behind all of this is a belief...
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that people were directly influenced
by extraterrestrial beings...
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who gave them immense inspiration
or profound knowledge...
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that then they were able to share
with others.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that
the geniuses of the ancient world...
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and even those among us today...
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receive their inspiration
from otherworldly forces?
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Perhaps further evidence can be found
by exploring Hindu teachings...
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that say wisdom can often come to us
in our dreams.
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[ Narrator]
Madras, India.
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In the first decade
of the 20th century. . .
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Srinivasa Ramanujan, a young
mathematician with no formal training...
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repeatedly stuns the academic world
with innovative theorems.
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Even some of the world's
leading mathematicians...
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are confounded by his remarkable formulas.
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But just as astounding
as Ramanujan's work...
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is the fact that these formulas
came to him in dreams.
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[Wilcock] He claimed that a goddess,
a Hindu goddess known as Namagiri...
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transmitted these theorems to him.
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These theorems came to be known
as modular functions...
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and still, to this day, they are the most
advanced form of mathematics...
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that is used by physicists...
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dealing with relativity
and quantum mechanics.
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[ Narrator] How could someone
without any background in mathematics...
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see such complicated theorems
in dreams?
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Does Ramanujan's story reveal...
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how humanity can access knowledge
outside the brain?
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[ Man ] So it really raises, I think,
the interesting question...
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as we explore consciousness more
from a scientific point of view...
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and understand it better...
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what types of connections and communications
are occurring on the more cosmic scale?
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So “what other connections
exist out there”...
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I think is a very interesting question
to explore.
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[ Powell ] The people who have these
inspirations, it's not like they were deriving it.
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It comes from the unconscious.
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And the unconscious
is still a great mystery, you know?
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Is it just our unconscious?
Or is it the collective unconscious?
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[ Narrator]
Could true genius be the product...
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of a universal mind
or collective unconsciousness .7
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Ancient Hindus believed such a repository
of knowledge actually exists-
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a universal force that includes
every thought...
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action, emotion or experience...
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that any person ever had
or ever will have.
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Westerners later named it
the Akashic Record.
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This is a Sanskrit word, it means “sky.”
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it's something that can be
accessed through your mind...
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through your brain power,
through your spiritual wavelength.
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Having access to that information
which is there, that is not written...
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but somehow you have to be able
to be in tune with that frequency...
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in order to obtain that.
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[ Narrator] Could it be that
the common talent all geniuses possess...
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is actually an ability to access
the wisdom of the Akashic Record...
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or universal mind?
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And if so, have other modern geniuses
acquired knowledge...
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from an otherworldly realm?
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Einstein received the inspiration...
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for his groundbreaking theory of relativity
in a dream.
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Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the
elusive shape of the benzene molecule...
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during a daydream
in which he saw a snake chasing its tail.
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And the brilliant Russian chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev...
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literally dreamed up
the Periodic Table of the Elements.
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He, in this dream, saw exactly
where all of the elements lined up.
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The periodic table itself came in a dream,
just fully formed.
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After coming out of the dream,
he quickly drew them all down.
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And it's still the same that we use today.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that
a universal mind has bestowed genius...
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on certain individuals
throughout history?
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And might there be scientific evidence
of this phenomenon?
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At the Mind Research Network
at the University of New Mexico...
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neuropsychologist Rex Jung uses...
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a magnetoencephalography,
or MEG machine...
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to measure the brain wave activity
of a test' subject.
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Dr. Jung believes this test may show
how creative inspiration strikes the brain.
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Okay, Andre, you ready to begin?
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We have three tasks
that we're going to run with Andre.
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The first one is vocabulary,
second one is paper folding...
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and the third one is inductive reasoning.
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Andre, I want you to clench your jaw now.
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[ Narrator] As the test subject performs
these everyday tasks...
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the MEG machine measures
normal brain activity.
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Andre, now move your eyes back and forth.
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[ Narrator] But then Jung
has the test subject clear his mind.
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Andre, can you close your eyes and
relax your brain for a moment, please?
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[ Narrator] As the subject relaxes
his mind, his brain activity decreases.
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But then, suddenly, the MEG machine
detects something new-
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alpha waves.
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Scientists say these brain waves...
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indicate the unconscious mind
is working behind the scenes...
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outside our conscious thoughts.
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The alpha wave have found to be
associated with divergent thinking...
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the manifestation of creative cognition...
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and it's also associated
with relaxing the brain...
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and this is something very important,
I think, to the manifestation of genius...
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this ability to, uh,
think of new and useful ideas...
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that haven't been thought of before.
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[ Narrator] Could alpha waves have been
how Ramanujan, Einstein and Mendeleev...
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received their flashes of brilliance?
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Or how the ancients
could have channeled...
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the gods' wisdom
as they developed their civilization?
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If so, where does mainstream science
believe these thoughts come from?
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That is, uh, the million-dollar question.
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Uh, it's kind of like, uh, you know,
what is consciousness?
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This is kind of a question
that really stumps neuroscientists.
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[ Narrator]
Ancient astronaut theorists believe...
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it is possible that what appears
to be divine or inspired brilliance...
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that pops unexpectedly
into the minds of geniuses...
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could come not from the human mind...
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but from an extraterrestrial realm.
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[Wilcock ] Overall, time after time,
we're seeing a through line here...
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suggesting that there is
a deliberate interface with our minds...
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that is steering the progress...
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of human invention
and human innovation...
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according to a predefined script
for a desired, targeted outcome.
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So you have to ask yourself,
are extraterrestrials somehow using...
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this incredible volume of knowledge
of the universal mind...
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and then directing it to certain people
at certain times...
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when the time is right...
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and, in a sense, uh,
supervising the education...
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of certain people who are ready
to receive this knowledge?
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[ Narrator]
If the Akashic Record actually exists...
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could extraterrestrials be using it...
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to transmit knowledge
intended to shape our civilization?
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Perhaps the answer can be found...
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by examining breakthroughs
in science and technology...
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that are achieved by multiple people
in separate locations...
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simultaneously.
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[ Narrator] Washington, D.C.
February 14, 1876.
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A lawyer representing Alexander Graham
Bell hand-delivers a patent application...
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to the US Patent Office for what Bell
describes as a “harmonic telegraph”...
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a device that can transmit vocal sounds.
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However, Bell's is actually
the second patent filed that same day...
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for what later becomes known
as the telephone.
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[ Man ] Alexander Graham Bell is generally
credited with inventing the telephone.
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It's interesting to note that a man
named Elisha Gray...
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seems to have invented a similar device
right about the same time that Bell did.
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Bell's invention involved speaking
to one piece of equipment...
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that was not connected
to the part that allowed one to hear.
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Gray's device involved those two
pieces being connected...
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and, in fact,
that's the way telephones work today.
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[ Narrator] How is it that two inventors
came up with the same revolutionary idea...
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at the exact same point in history?
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Such a patent had never been filed before
anywhere in the world...
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and yet two are filed on the same day.
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Could this be evidence
that there really is an Akashic Record-
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a universal mind that certain people
are able to tap into?
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Bell and Gray each charged that the other
had stolen his ideas...
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but there is no dispute that both geniuses...
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had been independently developing
the concept of the telephone for years.
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This amazing story is not unique.
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In fact, independent, simultaneous invention
happens surprisingly often.
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Throughout history,
there's been this odd phenomenon...
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of multiple people
discovering the same thing...
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at about the same time...
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even though they're separated and they
don't know what the other person is doing.
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[ Narrator] In 1922,
two Columbia University sociologists...
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William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas...
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published an academic paper entitled,
“Are Inventions Inevitable?”
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Their research found at least 148 instances
of simultaneous inventions...
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in which the creators knew little or nothing
about their rival's work.
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[ Powell ] You had Wallace and Darwin
both independently coming up with evolution.
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And you had, um, calculus, um,
independently discovered as well.
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[Frisbee]
There's multiple people who discovered oxygen.
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There's multiple people
who invented the periodic table.
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It's a very and surprisingly
common phenomenon.
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[ Narrator]
Ogburn and Thomas concluded...
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that if the geniuses behind many inventions
had died at birth...
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their discoveries would not
have been lost to history.
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Others would have made similar discoveries
at about the same time.
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We often have the expression...
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that an idea that's about
to be discovered is in the air.
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Some concept, some experiment.
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It's just sort of in the air.
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Little bits and pieces are floating around...
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and someone just has to bring all of that
together to make the new discovery.
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Now it has been suggested...
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that maybe it is somehow
physically in the air.
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There's some sort of information...
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that the human mind can tap into
to make something like this happen.
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[ Narrator ] Is it possible that
the collective knowledge of the universe-
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what some call the Akashic Record-
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is embedded in the energy
that is all around us...
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and that those we call geniuses...
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are the handful of individuals
who have the greatest access to it?
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[Wilcock]
What's going on here?
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These are complex abstract thoughts.
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We are not talking about something that
you're just going to come up with at random.
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Some would suggest that
it's just a collective unconscious...
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that it's some sort of impersonal mind
that we're all sharing that's doing this.
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But there is also the interesting idea...
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that there is a deliberate effect
being enacted here.
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That extraterrestrials
are working through us...
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to implant certain ideas and concepts...
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so that we fit onto a timeline
of prescribed human evolution...
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in which certain discoveries
happen at certain times.
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[ Narrator] Could simultaneous inventions
be more than coincidence...
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more than the fact that inventors are
working from the same basic technology?
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And if so, are there otherworldly beings
pulling the strings-
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using the Akashic Record to reveal
information to humanity's geniuses...
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when it fits their timetable?
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So it may be that
as these academics and inventors...
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are all working on similar problems
and invenfions..
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Then suddenly, yeah,
they all tune in simultaneously...
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to that little bit of knowledge and piece
of information that they're all missing...
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and they all find it.
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And it's all because
they're tapping into this universal mind...
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and tuning in at a time
when it's just right...
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and we've been taken right to that level...
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and we're ready to pluck that little apple
from the tree.
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[ Narrator] If extraterrestrials really
are using the Akashic Record...
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to transmit wisdom that is shaping
the course of human civilization...
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what is their agenda?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe
the answer can be found...
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by exploring one of the most important
innovations of the 21st century.
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[ Narrator] San Francisco.
January 9, 2007.
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Every once in a while
a revolutionary product comes along...
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that changes everything.
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[ Narrator]
At the annual Macworld Conference...
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Apple Computer co-founder
Steve Jobs introduces...
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what will quickly become one of the most
iconic inventions in modern history.
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What we want to do
is make a leap-frog product...
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that is way smarter than any mobile device
has ever been and super easy to use.
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[Audience Cheering, Applauding ]
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And we are calling it iPhone.
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[Applauding, Cheering Continues]
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[ Narrator] With its sleek design
and savvy marketing...
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the iPhone becomes a sensation...
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selling 500 million devices
over the next seven years.
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Along with the iPod...
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iMac...
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and iPad...
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Jobs's genius
revolutionizes modern society.
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The inventions of Steve Jobs
changed our lives in significant ways...
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in that it made access to information
seem easier...
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seem more straightforward,
seem more doable...
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for people who otherwise might say,
“I don't know how to work this thing.”
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He took complex things-
whether it's a computer, a telephone-
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and made it so ordinary people
could figure it out...
462
00:32:49,218 --> 00:32:51,971
and use it and change their lives.
463
00:32:54,974 --> 00:32:59,353
[ Narrator] But like da Vinci,
Tesla and Einstein before him...
464
00:32:59,437 --> 00:33:03,316
Jobs believed the inspiration
for his groundbreaking inventions...
465
00:33:03,399 --> 00:33:08,404
came to him because of something
as profoundly simple as meditation.
466
00:33:10,364 --> 00:33:15,328
The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
in California's Los Padres National Forest...
467
00:33:15,411 --> 00:33:20,041
is the oldest Japanese Buddhist
Soto Zen monastery in the United States.
468
00:33:21,167 --> 00:33:24,128
It was here, while deep in meditation...
469
00:33:24,212 --> 00:33:27,006
that Jobs thought he received
much of the inspiration...
470
00:33:27,089 --> 00:33:29,300
that transformed the modern world.
471
00:33:31,427 --> 00:33:36,516
[ Beirich ] Steve Jobs encountered Buddhism
in his early adult years...
472
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:42,605
and understood that contemplation
for him was an important aspect.
473
00:33:44,023 --> 00:33:47,151
Looking back on his life
and seeing what he did...
474
00:33:47,235 --> 00:33:49,654
certainly turning inward,
clearing the mind...
475
00:33:49,737 --> 00:33:53,115
a contemplative approach to things
had a big impact for him.
476
00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:58,120
[ Narrator] Jobs believed Zen meditation
allowed him to calm his thoughts...
477
00:33:58,204 --> 00:34:03,042
so he could tap into a source of inspiration
that' existed outside his body.
478
00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:07,588
As Jobs described it,
“Your mind just slows down...
479
00:34:08,172 --> 00:34:11,175
and you see a tremendous expanse
in the moment.
480
00:34:11,259 --> 00:34:14,011
You see so much more
than you could see before.”
481
00:34:15,846 --> 00:34:18,224
To me, I think what
was really going on there...
482
00:34:18,307 --> 00:34:22,228
is that he was really good at getting into
the flow state of consciousness.
483
00:34:22,311 --> 00:34:24,897
The flow state is an altered
state of consciousness.
484
00:34:24,981 --> 00:34:30,152
But it's that state of consciousness to where
all time seems to recede into the background.
485
00:34:30,653 --> 00:34:33,489
We seem to feel like we're one
with what we're creating.
486
00:34:33,573 --> 00:34:36,659
[ Narrator] Is it possible
that Steve Jobs's genius...
487
00:34:36,742 --> 00:34:39,412
not only revolutionized our technology...
488
00:34:39,495 --> 00:34:44,917
bu! also gave humanity a blueprint
for how the universal mind Works...
489
00:34:45,001 --> 00:34:47,670
and how we can
attain enlightenment through it?
490
00:34:49,005 --> 00:34:53,843
With the iPhone, did Jobs unconsciously
recreate on a smaller level...
491
00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:56,637
what already exists in the universe-
492
00:34:56,721 --> 00:35:01,851
a library of collective knowledge
that every user is contributing to?
493
00:35:03,102 --> 00:35:07,106
And if so, could this technology
be teaching us...
494
00:35:07,189 --> 00:35:12,278
how to access that great repository of cosmic
knowledge called the Akashic Record...
495
00:35:12,361 --> 00:35:17,366
that some scientists are starting to believe
may exist all around us?
496
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:24,123
Consciousness itself may, in fact,
be a greater energetic existence...
497
00:35:24,206 --> 00:35:28,377
that we are simply accessing
much like going online.
498
00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:34,216
You don't say that all the knowledge
of the Internet is inside your smartphone.
499
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:38,262
But you access the Internet
through your smartphone.
500
00:35:38,346 --> 00:35:43,059
In much the same way, perhaps what
we are calling the subconscious mind...
501
00:35:43,142 --> 00:35:47,772
is actually our connection
to a greater energetic domain...
502
00:35:47,855 --> 00:35:50,066
in which the seeds of philosophy...
503
00:35:50,149 --> 00:35:51,692
the seeds of physics...
504
00:35:51,776 --> 00:35:53,527
the seeds of mathematics...
505
00:35:53,611 --> 00:35:58,824
and the true nature of human existence itself
are hidden away...
506
00:35:58,908 --> 00:36:02,370
waiting for those who are bright enough
and adept enough...
507
00:36:02,453 --> 00:36:05,164
to tap into these great cosmic mysteries.
508
00:36:07,249 --> 00:36:09,669
There's so many psychologists
and philosophers...
509
00:36:09,752 --> 00:36:12,922
cognitive scientists, neuroscientists,
trying to answer the question...
510
00:36:13,005 --> 00:36:16,008
“Where do these thoughts exist?
Where do these ideas exist?”
511
00:36:16,092 --> 00:36:19,637
You can look at my brain and have
some idea that I'm having thoughts...
512
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,681
but you don't know
what those thoughts are.
513
00:36:21,764 --> 00:36:25,017
You can't explain the nature
or the form of those thoughts.
514
00:36:25,101 --> 00:36:29,939
It's hotly debated to what extent the mind
and the brain are the same thing...
515
00:36:30,022 --> 00:36:34,443
and trying to understand
that rich inner stream of consciousness...
516
00:36:34,527 --> 00:36:38,989
is one of the most exciting questions
in the field of philosophy of mind today.
517
00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:44,787
[ Narrator] Is it possible that the brain
acts as a receptor of cosmic intelligence...
518
00:36:44,870 --> 00:36:48,040
which exists outside our physical body?
519
00:36:48,124 --> 00:36:49,583
And if so...
520
00:36:49,667 --> 00:36:55,297
is this so-called universal mind shared
with other beings throughout the universe?
521
00:36:56,632 --> 00:37:00,720
We have our brains
and all of the functioning there.
522
00:37:00,803 --> 00:37:03,973
But our mind is-
is somewhere else, really.
523
00:37:04,974 --> 00:37:07,226
Somewhere we can't really place.
524
00:37:07,309 --> 00:37:11,647
So if our mind is really
part of this universal mind...
525
00:37:11,731 --> 00:37:17,153
it seems very possible that we
are being bombarded and infused...
526
00:37:17,236 --> 00:37:20,823
by all kinds of extraterrestrial thoughts
and we don't even know it.
527
00:37:20,906 --> 00:37:25,244
[ Narrator] Bu! if we all are connected
to this universal cache of knowledge...
528
00:37:25,327 --> 00:37:29,623
and geniuses are simply those
who've been allowed a greater glimpse...
529
00:37:30,416 --> 00:37:33,878
might extraterrestriais be guiding us
towards the day...
530
00:37:33,961 --> 00:37:36,464
when we will be fully enlightened?
531
00:37:37,006 --> 00:37:40,760
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
the answer may be revealed...
532
00:37:40,843 --> 00:37:44,847
by examining
a recent trend in human intelligence.
533
00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:58,194
[ Narrator]
July 20, 1969.
534
00:37:59,445 --> 00:38:01,655
[ Man Over Radio ]
Houston. You are go for landing, over.
535
00:38:02,406 --> 00:38:04,867
[ Aldrin Over Radio] Roger. Understand.
Go for landing. 3,000 feet.
536
00:38:05,493 --> 00:38:09,872
[ Narrator] When Apollo 11's lunar lander
touches down on the surface of the moon...
537
00:38:09,955 --> 00:38:13,417
humanity takes a giant leap forward
into a new era.
538
00:38:13,501 --> 00:38:16,962
[ Armstrong Over Radio ]
That's one small step for man.
539
00:38:17,046 --> 00:38:20,132
One giant leap for mankind.
540
00:38:22,384 --> 00:38:26,347
[ Narrator] The genius of men like
Werner von Braun and other scientists...
541
00:38:26,430 --> 00:38:31,227
has propelled humans off planet Earth
for the first time in recorded history.
542
00:38:33,646 --> 00:38:38,776
The event marks the high point
of a remarkable 150-year-long explosion...
543
00:38:38,859 --> 00:38:41,987
of technological and scientific genius...
544
00:38:42,071 --> 00:38:45,032
the likes of which
the world has never seen.
545
00:38:45,825 --> 00:38:50,329
Starting early 1800s
with the Industrial Revolution...
546
00:38:50,412 --> 00:38:55,417
the last two centuries have been
the most extraordinary time in human history.
547
00:38:56,293 --> 00:39:02,216
In technology, we've gone
from steam power to electric engines...
548
00:39:02,299 --> 00:39:06,345
to nuclear power systems.
549
00:39:06,428 --> 00:39:12,184
In science, we've discovered things
like electromagnetism...
550
00:39:12,268 --> 00:39:15,312
relativity, quantum mechanics.
551
00:39:15,396 --> 00:39:17,731
In our daily lives...
552
00:39:17,815 --> 00:39:23,779
something as seemingly small
as just the germ theory of Pasteur...
553
00:39:23,863 --> 00:39:27,116
antibiotics, anesthesia-
554
00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:31,787
these are enormous changes
in technology, in science...
555
00:39:31,871 --> 00:39:34,582
in just medicine, everyday life.
556
00:39:36,458 --> 00:39:41,213
[ Narrator] But scientists say what's
developing just as fast as our technology...
557
00:39:41,297 --> 00:39:44,967
is the intellectual capability
of the human mind.
558
00:39:46,176 --> 00:39:49,179
Studies reveal an astounding
30-point increase...
559
00:39:49,263 --> 00:39:52,308
in the average IQ score
over the last century.
560
00:39:53,017 --> 00:39:58,063
Some scientists attribute this improvement
to better education and nutrition...
561
00:39:58,147 --> 00:40:02,693
but others believe it may be due
to the evolution of our consciousness...
562
00:40:02,776 --> 00:40:06,822
and the ability
to access our inner genius.
563
00:40:06,906 --> 00:40:11,952
Human cognition is continually evolving.
It's always changing.
564
00:40:12,036 --> 00:40:16,248
Now most of these changes
are actually very subtle, very gradual.
565
00:40:17,249 --> 00:40:19,084
However, there have been a few times...
566
00:40:19,168 --> 00:40:22,922
when there have been major upgrades
in human cognition.
567
00:40:23,005 --> 00:40:28,177
But we might make the argument that
the Information Revolution of the 20th century...
568
00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:31,013
are leading to another upgrade
in human cognition.
569
00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:35,559
[ Narrator]
Could this curious increase in IQ...
570
00:40:35,643 --> 00:40:41,607
be evidence that humanity is being slowly
moved toward a new collective intelligence?
571
00:40:42,524 --> 00:40:47,112
Are we all gradually gaining greater access
to the knowledge of the universe?
572
00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:53,118
If so, might we eventually be able
to merge humanity's collective knowledge...
573
00:40:53,202 --> 00:40:57,623
with this great galactic mind and,
at that time...
574
00:40:57,706 --> 00:41:02,586
discover that extraterrestrials
have been guiding us all along?
575
00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:08,133
Over the past 100 years,
we have made strides-
576
00:41:08,217 --> 00:41:12,972
uh, leaps and bounds with, you know,
advancements in technology...
577
00:41:13,055 --> 00:41:18,978
and I think that the reason why UFO
encounters and reports have increased...
578
00:41:19,061 --> 00:41:24,817
is because any extraterrestrial society
would have to be aware...
579
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:30,114
if a society reaches a certain
level of technology.
580
00:41:32,574 --> 00:41:34,743
[ Henry] You wonder,
“Where's all this taking us?”
581
00:41:34,827 --> 00:41:39,540
And the answer seems to be it's taking
us to the level of the mind of the gods-
582
00:41:40,249 --> 00:41:42,751
that we are going to be thinking
more like gods...
583
00:41:42,835 --> 00:41:45,796
and having tremendous godlike ability...
584
00:41:45,879 --> 00:41:48,924
as a result of tapping into
this cosmic consciousness.
585
00:41:49,633 --> 00:41:53,846
[Wilcock ] These extraterrestrials may very
well be giving us the tooIs that we need...
586
00:41:53,929 --> 00:41:58,183
to ensure that this evolution
proceeds accordingly...
587
00:41:58,267 --> 00:42:02,438
and help guide us through
this mass quantum human evolution.
588
00:42:03,814 --> 00:42:07,443
[Childress] it would seem that
as mankind progresses step-by-step...
589
00:42:07,526 --> 00:42:12,448
and through more and more knowledge,
much of it gained through the universal mind...
590
00:42:12,531 --> 00:42:17,536
that we will then eventually create
a civilization that is so highly developed...
591
00:42:17,619 --> 00:42:22,583
that we are ready to meet
with the extraterrestrials face-to-face...
592
00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:27,838
and interact with them as equals,
which is what I believe they want us to do.
593
00:42:29,298 --> 00:42:33,302
[ Narrator] What inspires geniuses
to great heights of creativity?
594
00:42:34,094 --> 00:42:35,888
Were the ancients right...
595
00:42:35,971 --> 00:42:41,560
in thinking that something outside
of the brain is responsible for brilliance?
596
00:42:42,144 --> 00:42:46,398
Can the root of all wisdom be found
in the Akashic Record-
597
00:42:46,482 --> 00:42:52,029
a universal mind that we are given
access to by extraterrestrial beings?
598
00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:54,198
We may not discover the truth...
599
00:42:54,281 --> 00:42:59,078
until the world's geniuses
propel humanity to true enlightenment.
600
00:43:00,245 --> 00:43:04,833
And perhaps only then
will we be ready to reunite...
601
00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:07,169
with our alien ancestors.
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