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>> NARRATOR: Commandments from a

divine realm, steering the

course of history.

>> PHILLIP COPPENS: There are

people in every age who know

where the future lies.

They are people who set out a

path, then really lead other

people along this path.

>> NARRATOR: Mysterious journeys

to other worlds.

>> NICK REDFERN: Glowing clouds

coming down from the sky,

pillars of fire, voices coming

from the heavens.

>> NARRATOR: And strange

encounters with supernatural

beings, revealing visions of the

future.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: We have to

ask ourselves, who were these

gods?

Were they just a figment of our

ancestors' imagination?

Or did they exist?

>> NARRATOR: Were the prophets

of the ancient world really

messengers from God?

Or did their knowledge come from

more mysterious sources?

>> REVEREND BARRY H. DOWNING:

The prophets were targeted to be

the spokespersons for the

extraterrestrial powers, trying

to rule the world.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we

have been visited in the past by

extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And if so, might there be

evidence in the stories of

ancient prophets and their

ancient prophets and their mysterious predictions?

Mysterious predictions?

>> NARRATOR: Gebel Khashm

el-Tarif, Egypt.

This mountain rising out of the.

Sinai desert is believed by some

to be the site of two of

history's most important divine

encounters... the peak where the.

Biblical patriarch Moses

encountered the burning bush,

and the place where Moses later

received the Ten Commandments

from God.

But what was the true nature of.

Moses' divine encounter?

Was he a normal human randomly

chosen to deliver the word of.

God?

Or did he possess a special

gift?

An inherent ability to

communicate with otherworldly

forces?

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: Mystical

literature from all over the

world has accounts of

visitations from angels, gods,

some kind of supernatural

creatures that interact and

interfere, that represent some

powers beyond our understanding.

>> COPPENS: We see this in the

Bible with Moses.

He is just one of several

examples of leaders who are

guided by divine guidance, who

really are getting the help of

the gods into getting to their

goal.

>> NARRATOR: In addition to

stories of the prophet Moses,

the Hebrew and Christian.

Testaments also feature similar

accounts of numerous other

prophets, including Elijah,

Isaiah, Noah, Abraham, Enoch

and Jesus.

>> RICHARD RADER: Prophets are a

major element in almost all

ancient societies.

These were people who functioned

sort of as liaisons between the

mortal world and the immortal

world, between the gods and the

humans.

>> FATHER WILLIAM FULCO: They

have a message, which is a

communication from God, but

what's very interesting about

that, it's not just a message.

The presence of God is felt to

be in the words of the prophet

himself.

So, the one who hears a prophet

actually is encountering the

presence of God, and not just a

message from God.

>> RADER: So, if you have a

prophet who is an authority

figure in your community, and he

says, this god is upset about

this, you need to do X, Y, or Z

to placate this god or goddess,

you did it.

>> NARRATOR: But was the source

of these prophetic messages

truly of a divine nature?

[thunder rumbles]

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, there is, perhaps,

another possible explanation as

to who or what may have been

contacting these prophets of the

ancient past.

>> COPPENS: What we're beginning

to realize is that this is not

religious, but that these are

people who have had anomalous

experiences with entities, and

that this is contact with a

nonhuman intelligence.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: Prophets and

prophecies are evidence that

these higher beings are

instructing us to help create

civilization, for us to move

forward, and even to give us

some warning of the future.

This is what's going to happen.

You need to get ready.

>> NARRATOR: Is it really

possible that extraterrestrial

beings made contact with the

ancient prophets?

Perhaps the answers can be found

by looking further into the

story of Moses, as written more

than 3,000 years ago, and

chronicled in the Hebrew.

Testament's Book of Exodus.

>> FULCO: Moses's first

encounter with God occurs in

the, uh... in the third chapter

of the book of Exodus.

Moses encounters a burning bush,

and God speaks to him out of

this burning bush.

And Moses was given a mission.

And the mission is to liberate

the Hebrews indentured in Egypt.

>> TSOUKALOS: The idea of the

burning bush is very interesting

to me, because things like

burning bushes really don't

exist, especially if they all

of a sudden give instructions.

So we have to ask ourselves,

what did our ancestors describe?

And so, the burning bush idea

could have have been a

technological creation, which

Moses described as a burning

bush.

>> NARRATOR: Might the burning

bush, as described by Moses,

really have been an

extraterrestrial device?

A machine?

Or perhaps, even a type of

spacecraft?

If so, then with whom, or with

what, was Moses really.

Perhaps more clues can be found

in the story of another, equally

mysterious, close encounter.

Tell el-Daba, Egypt.

Some scholars and researchers

believe that it was here, in the

northeastern region of the Nile.

Delta, where the Israelites

began their exodus, and where

Moses had his second divine

encounter... this time with an

incredible object in the sky.

>> DOWNING: They were met

partway toward their destination

by what I would call a biblical.

UFO.

In Exodus, Chapter 13, verses 21

and 22, it says, "The Lord went"

before them by day in a pillar

"of cloud... and by night in a

pillar of fire."

"...the pillar did not depart

from before the people..."

Meaning that it was always

there.

>> FULCO: Well, what the Bible

tells us is that it is the

presence of God manifesting

himself in a dramatic way,

accompanying the Israelites.

>> TSOUKALOS: The question has

always been asked, "Well, what

was that cloud of fire?"

What is it?

Is it God?

Or, as the ancient alien theory

suggests, it could have been

some type of a craft, a beacon

that they had to follow.

>> PATRICK COOKE: The Hebrew

people... they were following the

object, and it makes it very

clear that whenever the object

was on the ground, the people

stopped and camped.

When it was taken up, they broke

camp, and they moved forward.

The object was leading them.

>> DOWNING: And the description

of a pillar of cloud and of

fire...

A pillar is cylindrical in

shape, and perhaps quite hard

or solid.

This is very similar to UFOs

that are reported now.

The flying saucer types are more

famous, but the

cylindrical-shaped UFOs are very

common, and they can be very

large.

Up to a half-mile in length,

perhaps.

Some students of UFOs think

these are mother ships, and the

fact that it's a cloud by day

suggests, as in modern UFOs,

that there's some type of halo

effect around the UFO.

>> REDFERN: If we look at it in

that context, perhaps the

ancients would have described

a gleaming UFO in the day as a

cloud, a bright cloud, and they

would have described a brightly

lit UFO at night as a fiery

pillar.

>> NARRATOR: Was this strange

pillar of fire and cloud really

a physical manifestation of God?

Or was it an advanced

technological device of an

otherworldly origin?

As far as ancient astronaut

theorists are concerned, further

clues may lie in the story of.

Moses' final divine encounter on

the summit of Mount Sinai.

>> COOKE: Moses receives a

message from God that he is

going to land on Mount Sinai.

So he gathers the nation of

Israel around the mountain.

This huge, bright glowing cloud

lands on Mount Sinai.

>> FULCO: And it's quite

spectacular because it's

surrounded by all sorts of

preternatural phenomenon, of the

sounds of trumpets and clouds

and fire.

>> DOWNING: And the Jewish

people are told to stay at the

bottom of Mount Sinai, but Moses

is authorized, and you might

even say protected, by the

pillar of cloud and the fire, so

that he can go up there and

everybody else can't.

>> NARRATOR: According to the

biblical texts, Moses ascends

the mountain and enters the

glowing cloud.

There he communes with the

almighty God... the creator of

the universe... and after 40 days

he returns, carrying the Ten.

Commandments.

But for ancient astronaut

theorists, the story of what

happened on Mount Sinai may, in

fact, offer compelling evidence

of a very different type of

encounter.

>> REDFERN: Moses going up with.

God, being gone for 40 days,

it sounds very much like the

contactee experience today,

where contactees are given rules

and regulations and ideas to

follow, you know, in terms of

elevating the human race.

>> DOWNING: The commandments

that are given go against our

very animal nature, because, to

some extent, what the Bible says

is that God would will to give

divine power to humans if we

could handle it.

But the problem is, we don't

have the ethics to handle it.

[thunder crashing]

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

The Ten Commandments are a start

toward handling divine power.

And the prophets were picked to

be the spokespersons for the

powers that were trying to rule

the world through rules and

regulations, commandments that

would bring about moral

obedience, which is superior to

following our animal instincts.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that.

Moses' encounter on Mount Sinai

was not with the almighty God

but with some sort of

extraterrestrial messenger?

[thunder crashing]

One that deliberately sought to

guide and govern human behavior?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

that such a profound and

controversial notion is

possible, and claim additional

evidence can be found in the

story of yet another Old.

Testament prophet, one who

delivered ominous warnings of

the future... and described

unearthly beings that descended

unearthly beings that descended from the heavens.

From the heavens.

>> NARRATOR: Northern Israel.

According to Bible texts, it was

here, in the ninth century BC,

that prophet Elijah

reportedly had several

encounters with both angels and.

God... during which he was given

prophetic warnings of drought

and cataclysm.

>> FULCO: One of the most

important prophets in Israelite

tradition, of course, is Elijah.

Elijah predicts some rough

things coming...

and, of course, they do.

>> CHILDRESS: He warns of a

drought that's going to

devastate Israel and cause all

this starvation.

He also is interesting because

he was never known to have died.

And it's thought that, in some

ways, yeah, he was taken into

space and lives for eternity.

>> NARRATOR: In Elijah's final

encounter with God, written in

the Second Book of Kings,

the prophet "goes up by a"

"whirlwind" into Heaven by

what's described in the Hebrew

Bible as a fiery horse-drawn

chariot.

>> REDFERN: There's a story in.

Kings about Elijah, who reported

seeing this strange aerial

phenomena that was described

variously as sort of bright,

whirlwind-like, cloud lit up,

clearly some sort

of object in the sky.

>> COOKE: Elijah's experience

details a spinning object or a

spinning beam that took him up

into the object.

We see a whirlwind that came

over him and a chariot of fire.

So the question is: Was it the

chariot of fire that was

spinning, or was it a beam that

came down and took him up?

>> NARRATOR: For the faithful,

this extraordinary event is

believed to be a religious

miracle.

But could Elijah have been

chosen by heavenly beings to

fulfill an otherworldly purpose,

as ancient astronaut

rists contend?

>> TSOUKALOS: The one thing that

many people don't realize is

that the first story we can read

about Elijah doesn't talk about

that he was taken up there with

horses, but just by that fiery

chariot that initially was

described like a fiery furnace.

Now, what's a fiery furnace?

>> REDFERN: Could the fire have

been some sort of engine?

When he's taken up in a

whirlwind, you know, you only

have to look at, for example,

when the space shuttle takes

to the sky.

You know, you have this

rumbling, roaring jet flames,

et cetera, et cetera.

If you look at it in that

context, you could really place

this into a UFO category.

>> CHILDRESS: When you look at

Elijah, there's a nuts-and-bolts

craft there... a fiery chariot...

And they get inside it.

They meet these beings, which

are luminous beings that talk to

them, instruct them.

>> DOWNING: It's important to

realize that the biblical

religion is an extraterrestrial

religion, meaning that God is

not from Earth.

We learn this in the Lord's.

Prayer.

"Our Father, who art in Heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

"Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done:

On Earth as it is in Heaven."

Extraterrestrial help is sent to.

Earth to help humanity in the

quest to do God's will.

>> NARRATOR: Was Elijah really

a man chosen by otherworldly

beings to help them steer the

course of humanity?

And if so, might this help

explain other, even more

incredible, Biblical encounters

between God and mankind?

[thunder crashes]

Manchester, New York.

March, 1830.

24-year-old visionary Joseph

Smith Jr. publishes the Book of.

Mormonand creates the Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day.

Saints... a religious movement

with more than 14 million

followers today.

Incredibly, the Book of Mormon

includes Joseph Smith's personal

accounts of his interaction with

an otherworldly being.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Joseph

Smith had something like

a vision.

He wrote that an angel appeared

to him, an angel with the name

of Moroni.

And this angel appeared three

times and told to Joseph Smith

he should go to a certain little

hill, he should pull the stone

plate away, and inside he would

find a cave, and in the cave he

would find unknown writings.

>> YOUNG: He showed Joseph

Smith the location of a buried

treasure, these golden plates

with a message from some place

else, a new revelation, a new

book of the Bible.

He explained that he had come

from the star system Pleiades.

And so the source of the Book

of Mormon...

is extraterrestrial.

>> JASON MARTELL: Smith actually

describes several different

cases where he appears to be

with this extraterrestrial

Moroni.

We really have to wonder if

these aren't just mythological

explanations or physical events

that actually took place.

>> COPPENS: Joseph Smith is

interesting because he meets

mythical beings.

The story of Smith is to some

extent unique, in the sense that

obviously a religion was created

based on what he encountered.

>> TSOUKALOS: However which way

you want to look at this,

whether it's a flesh-and-blood

alien or an actual angel,

they're both extraterrestrials,

so there's no question

about that.

They misunderstood those visits

as being angelic in nature, when

in reality they were visited by

physical space travelers.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the angel Moroni who instructed

Joseph Smith Jr. was, in fact,

an otherworldly being?

And if so, could the Book of.

Mormonreally be evidence that

these beings have shared

celestial information with

celestial information with mankind?

Mankind?

Lumbini, Nepal.

The fourth century BC.

It was during this period that

the Jataka tales... ancient

Buddhist poems and prose... were

written.

These incredible writings

document the supernatural birth

and life of the Supreme Buddha,

a spiritual leader upon whose

teachings the Buddhist religion

was founded.

>> JUDY HO: The Buddha's mother

is Queen Maya, and it is

believed that she had a dream

one night that a white elephant

entered her womb, thus she...

was conceived and the Buddha was

born.

The Buddha is supposed to have

reached enlightenment after

meditating for a long time under

a tree.

The enlightenment is called

"nirvana."

>> NARRATOR: According to some

ancient astronaut researchers,

before Buddha began laying the

foundation for one of the

world's great religions, he was

psychically imprinted with

telepathic messages by

otherworldly beings.

>> CHILDRESS: In Buddhism,

there's an interesting story of

Buddha meeting with what are

called the "devas," or these

special luminous spirits.

>> HO: Devas are like superhuman

beings, like superheroes.

They can fly, they live longer,

they are stronger, they are

much taller than humans.

>> CHILDRESS: They also have

craft that help them fly.

You have to wonder who these

devas are.

In many ways they're very much

like extraterrestrials.

>> COPPENS: Buddha actually

writes about this state and

calls it "par-nirvana," and

basically says that this is also

the link with the immortals.

And other traditions basically

say that this is when contact

with the gods is made.

>> MARTEL: Many religious

figures have had some type of

out-of-body experience.

Buddha himself described being

able to access multiple

dimensions, interacting with

different beings.

There could be other dimensions,

other realities in parallel with

us that contain

extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Do the strange

accounts of Elijah, Joseph Smith

Jr. and Buddha really prove

divine beings have been

influencing mankind for

thousands of years?

And if so, do the words of

these prophets, when looked at

together, reveal a master plan

for the human species?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe that even more cluay

be found in the centuries-old

accounts of prophets and holy

men who lived long before the

men who lived long before the Bible was conceived.

Bible was conceived.

>> NARRATOR: Persepolis, Iran.

Here, 30 miles northeast of

the city of Shiraz, lay the

ruins of an ancient capital.

Built by the Persian conqueror

Darius more than 2,000 years

ago, Persepolis was once a

mighty city that legend says was

protected by a powerful god

named Ahuru Mazda.

And etched in stone atop the

crumbling remains of a building

called the "Tripylon" is a

depiction of this ancient god,

seated inside a winged disk.

Ahuru Mazda was central to the

ancient Persian religion.

Zoroastrianism... and the

experiences of a prophet named.

Zarathustra who lived 2,600

years ago.

>> YOUNG: Zarathustra was the

founder of a religion...

He was in the area near Persia,

of modern-day Persia or Iran...

And he had a visitor, Ahuru

Mazda, a divine encounter that

led to the major form of

monotheism in the entire area.

It preceded the Egyptian form of

monotheism and way beyond the

Hebrew and then Christian forms.

>> NARRATOR: According to

ancient Zoroastrian texts

called the Avesta, Zarathustra's

first meeting with Ahuru Mazda

occurred at the top of a

mountain that was shrouded in

clouds and bathed in an eerie

light.

>> YOUNG: Zarathustra carries

this idea that there is this

one true god, it is literally

the god of truth, and truth is

a great central principle in the.

Zoroastrian worldview.

Right and wrong, good and evil,

black and white... a very strong

contrast, and you are to

identify with the good and

search the truth.

>> NARRATOR: Some researchers

believe these divine prophecies

provide proof that the prophet.

Zarathustra was following

commands from an

extraterrestrial being, one who

perhaps came to Earth to sow the

seeds of what is now known as

civilization.

>> COPPENS: When we look at.

Zarathustra encountering.

Ahura Mazda, what we are

confronted with here are

human beings who are

encountering nonhuman

intelligences.

These are indicative of physical

encounters.

These are encounters with

something which is

otherworldly yet physical.

>> TSOUKALOS: We have to ask

ourselves: Were they just a

figment of our ancestors'

imagination, or did they exist?

>> COPPENS: These are

extraterrestrial, or alien,

entities who come here

and provide some kind of

information exchange and

guidance program between

cultures and entities who are

willing to help that culture.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that extraterrestrials

contacted prophets in the

distant past in order to guide

the development

of human civilization?

And if so, might there be more

clues found in the historical

accounts of what is perhaps the

most intriguing character in all

of ancient Greece?

Mount Parnassus.

On the flanks of this 8,000-foot

peak lie the ruins of a marble

sanctuary that was once home to

one of history's most famous

prophets, a temple priestess

known as the Oracle of Delphi.

>> RICHARD RADER: The Oracle of.

Delphi is the most famous oracle

from the ancient world.

There was a temple there

dedicated to the god Apollo.

Apollo is the central god for

prophecy.

And a temple was established

for Apollo in Delphi, and that

became the seat of the actual

oracle where people would visit.

>> ROBERT SCHOCH: The Oracle of.

Delphi was located in the Temple

of Apollo, which would have

been, at the time, the major

building structure.

This was the central point.

So the oracle was all-important.

Everything else was there

because of the oracle

in the complex.

>> NARRATOR: Also known as.

Pythia, the oracle could be

found sitting on a tall,

three-legged seat over an

opening in the earth, where

vapors rising from the ground

would put her into a trance.

>> CHILDRESS: The Oracle of.

Delphi would basically

channel the god Apollo.

Apollo was really the god of

civilization.

He was the god of light.

He was the god of prophecy.

And she would become Apollo.

>> RADER: You can imagine how it

is when something supernatural

or superhuman comes into a

human body.

It, of course, creates a fugue

state, essentially.

It creates a weird trance.

Nowadays we have movies about

possessions and stuff like that.

It's kind of like that.

It's not necessarily demonic.

But any time the supernatural

becomes housed within something

natural like a human body, it is

inevitably going to be causing

some kind of trance, some kind

of fugue state or something.

>> NARRATOR: For more than a

thousand years, the oracle and

her numerous successors

dispensed ce to everyone

from emperors and generals

to poets and politicians.

>> YOUNG: Prophecy was central

to the Greek worldview, and the

affairs of state, the planning

of battles, any important

decisions, would be taken to the

oracle to be considered, to get

some kind of guidance from

beyond ordinary knowing.

>> RADER: You can come and ask

about giving birth to a child.

You can come and ask about crops

that you want to plant.

You can come and ask about

joining the army.

You can come and ask about

undertaking a military

expedition.

The priestess is there to be the

liaison.

And in fact, when people come to

the oracle and ask questions,

they specifically ask the

priestess, and she's the one who

channels the answer from Apollo

back down to the human beings.

>> NARRATOR: But just what, or

whom, was the reason for the

oracle's bizarre trancelike

state?

One in which, according to

contemporary accounts, she

could accurately predict

everything from the Trojan War

and the eventual decline of

Greek power to the slaughter

of the famed 300 Spartans at.

Thermopylae?

[men clamoring]

[man yells]

Mainstream researchers say it

was most likely due to her

inhalation of intoxicating fumes

from various gases seeping out

of Mount Parnassus.

But might she, in fact, have

been in contact with an

extraterrestrial being?

One whom the ancient Greeks knew

as Apollo?

>> CHILDRESS: The idea that

Apollo was possibly some

extraterrestrial makes sense,

because they want us to develop,

they want us to have

civilization.

They want us to have technology

and to be like them.

>> TSOUKALOS: We've always been

their pet project, so to speak,

meaning that they helped us

become who we are today.

>> NARRATOR: Were ancient

so-called gods, like Ahuru Mazda

and Apollo, really part of an

advanced race of celestial

beings?

Aliens who used human agents

known as prophets to instruct

and steer the course of human

civilization?

If so, might these same

extraterrestrials also be the

force behind one of history's

most infamous prophets?

A man who claimed to have

visions of some of the most

cataclysmic events in history?

The 16th century prophet.

The 16th century prophet named... Nostradamus.

Named... Nostradamus.

Named... Nostradamus. [bird chirping]

[bird chirping]

>> NARRATOR: Southern France.

1555.

Here a chemist and apothecary

named Michel de Nostradame

publishes an almanac titled The.

Prophecies.

In it he writes more than a

thousand four-line poetic

verses called "quatrains,"

verses that seem to predict the

future.

>> JAY WEIDNER: Michel.

Nostradamus, at an early age,

began having visions.

He would stare into the water in

a bowl, and he would begin to

see visions of what he thought

was the future.

At the time that he was doing

this, seeing into the future was

considered witchcraft, and he

risked being called a warlock

and being taken by the.

Inquisition and basically

killed.

So what he did was, he masked

his visions in quatrains,

four-line prose poems, in which

he hid the future very carefully

so that you wouldn't really

understand the quatrain until

after the event had occurred.

>> MARIE D. JONES: Some people

say that he channeled his

prophecies.

I think he just went into

either a higher state of

consciousness or a very deep

meditative state.

And he was seeing things that.

And he was seeing things that he then would write about.

He then would write about.

>> NARRATOR: In the centuries

after his death, Nostradamus has

been credited with predicting

everything from the Great

Chicago Fire of 1871... and the

rise of Hitler in the 1930s...

to the dropping of the atomic

bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.

>> COPPENS: Nostradamus was able

to access information which was

not available to any of his

contemporaries.

As such, he was identified as a

visionary, a seer, a prophet,

ever name you want to give

him.

>> NARRATOR: But perhaps the

biggest unsolved mystery

concerning Nostradamus is that

no one knows the source of his

mysterious powers of prediction.

Was he fed futuristic

information from a higher

spiritual power, like the.

Oracle of Delphi?

Or was he obtaining his uncanny

knowledge from an otherworldly

or extraterrestrial origin?

>> COPPENS: We know that he

somehow was able to train his

brain to really make contact

with something out there.

Now, science is going to try and

give this various names, whether

it is zero-point energy, the

zero-point field, a different

dimension, whatever it is.

>> NARRATOR: Some researchers

believe that everything and

everyone connects through the

zero-point field, where a

collection of electric charges

from every thought, action and

event of the past, present and

future is stored.

>> JONES: The zero-point field

is thought to be where

everything that ever was

thought, or every behavior,

every action... anything that

involved energy... was dumped

into the field, and still is.

It literally contains all

information for the infinite

time that we have been here.

>> NARRATOR: The concept of the

zero-point field rests on the

theory that the universe

occupies more than just the

three spatial dimensions of

height, width and depth.

And this evolving concept is

known as "string theory."

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: In string

theory, there are typically 11

dimensions that are envisioned.

They're what we call very small,

or wrapped up, or compact.

So, if these dimensions are

sufficiently small and curved

and compact, we wouldn't be able

to experience moving along them,

so we wouldn't know they exist.

>> NARRATOR: But if string

theory is, in fact, correct, is

it possible that the zero-point

field exists in another

dimension...

one undetected by mankind?

Dozens of ancient cultures

describe the existence of a

cosmic well of knowledge that

only certain people have the

ability to access.

The Hindus refer to it as the.

"Akashic Record."

>> DOC BARHAM: The Akashic.

Record, the idea behind it is

that all of the information in

the universe is sort of

preexisting and an individual

could actually tap into that

information.

>> COPPENS: What we see is that.

Nostradamus fits this

perspective of people who are

able to cess information

which is not of this world.

He was able to take his brain,

his mind, outside of the

constraints of this reality, and

when he was there, he was able

to get information, which he

then brought back to us, and, in

his case, wrote down, so that we

were able to later partake in

this information.

>> JONES: I think any of these

great prophets were accessing

the zero-point field,

or, as I call it, the "grid."

I think we all access

information that we don't

normally have.

I think we do it in dreams, and

I think we do it when we have

déjà vu.

So I think we're all doing this.

It's a gift, it's a talent, or

maybe a skill, that is

within all of us.

So perhaps people like.

Nostradamus are really able to

tap into that grid, that field,

at will.

>> NARRATOR: Were the ancient

prophets really able to access

incredible information from a

hidden dimension?

Or from extraterrestrial beings,

as some ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

And if so, could there still be

prophets at work today?

Men and women who are in league

with other, perhaps

otherworldly forces?

Perhaps the answer can be found,

not on another planet, but

inside the mind...

inside the mind... of Albert Einstein.

Of Albert Einstein.

>> NARRATOR: September 26, 1905.

Swiss patent clerk Albert

Einstein publishes a

groundbreaking paper in a German

scientific journal, upending

centuries of belief on how the

cosmos works.

In the paper, Einstein proposes

his theory of special

relativity, in which he imagines

a universe where both space and

time are fluid and flexible.

>> CHILDRESS: Prior to.

Einstein's theory of

relativity, physicists tended to

view the physical world as a

static, immovable universe where

everything was set into its

place.

>> DENNIN: The biggest change

after Einstein's theories of

relativity was how we viewed

space and time.

We thought of space, literally,

as just what we move through,

and time is how you measure

things going forward.

And Einstein made them

geometrically connected to

each other.

They were no longer

fundamentally different, and you

had to account for them

together.

>> CHILDRESS: He showed that

time and space were relative,

and that time and space can be

warped, and ultimately that

time travel and space travel

and black holes and time warps,

all of these things were

possible.

>> NARRATOR: Although Einstein

never claimed that his profound

knowledge had divine origins...

As did the prophets of ancient

times... his insights into the

fundamental nature of the

universe were no less powerful

and influential.

>> CHILDRESS: Whenever someone

like Einstein is able to look at

the universe and physics and

then see things in a different

way, this is a kind of mystic

awareness.

And you have to wonder if it's

not some contact with

extraterrestrials, where E.T.'s

appear to you in your bedroom,

give you some insight and

knowledge that's going to help

you on your way to that new

scientific discovery.

>> WEIDNER: Einstein's wife

reported after he died that his

favorite book was Isis.

Unveiledby Madame Blavatsky.

It's a book all about the

innate psychic ability of

humans, about the hidden history

of the human race, and I believe

that Einstein was very much into

all of this, and used his own

psychic abilities to create the

theory of relativity.

And in fact, Einstein got the

theory of relativity by standing

on a street and looking at the

mist surrounding a streetlight

and imagining in his head how

long it took for the light to go

from the streetlight, hit the

mist and reflect to his eye.

And then he realized, in a kind

of a transcendental, meditative,

quiet moment, that light

travels, and then the theory of

relativity came from that

mystical experience.

>> NARRATOR: Were Einstein's

insights the result of his own

incredible IQ?

Or were his discoveries aided by

his ability to tap into the

knowledge of the universe?

The same kind of knowledge that

was also made available to the

great prophets of the ancient

world?

>> YOUNG: The word "prophet" is

used in areas of innovation and

great thinkers and engineers,

and developers of products are

sometimes thought of as

prophets.

There are new prophets

constantly.

>> NARRATOR: 1953.

James Watson and Francis Crick

discover the shape and makeup

of DNA.

In 2000, J. Craig Venter decodes

the human genome.

Might these also be examples of

modern-day prophets functioning

in our midst?

Prophets that are able to tap

into advanced alien knowledge?

>> COPPENS: There are people in

every age who know where the

future lies, and they are called

prophets, whether they are Steve.

Jobs or Einstein or whoever.

They are people who set out a

path and really lead other

people along this path.

When you start looking into what

they are, you're beginning to

realize that there are certain

anomalies in the lives of these

people.

The information whthey

possess, which helped us guide

along the path, really is not

theirs, but that they somehow

are messengers of a larger

reality.

>> JONES: I think prophets could

be communicating with

extraterrestrial, extra-

dimensional beings, angels,

gods.

If you're channeling information

that is far beyond your own

wisdom, you're automatically

going to assume it's coming from

somebody smarter than you.

They may be coming... crossing

over dimensions so that they

can impart their knowledge.

>> NARRATOR: But why would

otherworldly beings use humans

to shape our religions...

our politics...

our science?

Is there perhaps an

extraterrestrial plan for the

human species?

One that is guiding us to our

next, or perhaps final,

destination?

>> CHILDRESS: You have to

wonder: Why do they care

about us?

Why would they want to help us,

give us prophecies, instruct us

in better lives?

And, in many ways, it's only

natural that they would.

We're like their children.

>> COPPENS: We try to reduce

them to great prophets, great

leaders, but truly,

they were great mystics.

And the story of a great mystic

is really that he is somebody

who has part of his being in

this reality... and part of his

being in another reality.

These are people who have had a

foot in this dimension but also

foot in this dimension but also in another dimension.

In another dimension.

>> NARRATOR: Prophets...

chosen by beings from

other worlds...

and bearing messages that have

changed the destiny of mankind.

Could there really be an

ultimate plan that is, as yet,

unknown to us?

Perhaps the answer lies hidden,

still waiting to be discovered.

Or maybe it will be revealed...

when theyreturn.

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