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NARRATOR: A mystical Jewish tradition

that speaks of underground realms

inhabited by strange creatures.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: It is believed and taught

that we are not alone

as intelligent beings upon our own Earth.

NARRATOR: A Buddhist legend

that tells of a lost civilization

surviving in vast underground canyons.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Shambhala is a secret city underground.

It's ruled by kings

who live for hundreds of years.

NARRATOR: Modern accounts

of humanlike entities beneath the earth.

WILLIAM HENRY: Local residents described seeing

reptilian-type humanoid beings

deep inside this cave.

NARRATOR: Could it be that other intelligent beings exist

right here on our own planet?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Someone may be here

underneath the surface of the Earth.

And what if these entities have been here

for thousands of years?

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: This historic mountain village in Upper Galilee is home

to a sacred cave that is the second most visited Jewish site

in the world after the Western Wall,

with as many as two million annual visitors.

According to Hebrew tradition,

this cave served as the home of the famous rabbi

Shimon Bar Yochai in the second century AD

when Jerusalem was under the rule of the Roman empire.

HENRY: Rabbi Shimon Yochai

lived during a very difficult time for the Jewish people

living in the kingdom of-of Israel.

The Emperor Hadrian had been violently persecuting the Jews.

They forbade them from studying the Torah.

They forbade them, under penalty of death, from even

initiating new students in the Torah.

TZADOK: Shimon Bar Yochai was one

who spoke out against the empire.

This caused the Romans to brand him a criminal

and to hunt him to death.

HENRY: Rabbi Yochai fled to Northern Israel

into the Galilee where he hid

in a cave for as long as 13 years.

TZADOK: When he was concealed in the cave,

he received a tremendous amount

of profound, sacred wisdom,

secrets that were revealed to him in the cave

by none less than the immortal prophet himself, Elijah.

NARRATOR: If Rabbi Bar Yochai truly encountered

the prophet Elijah as he claimed, it would be a miracle,

because Elijah lived in Judea almost a thousand years earlier.

DANIEL MATT: According to Jewish tradition, Elijah

never died.

So he appears and he enlightens people,

he helps people who are in trouble.

TZADOK: So, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

communed with Elijah.

He received secrets

of the universe.

NARRATOR: Rabbi Bar Yochai understood the teachings

he received from this immortal messenger

to be of great importance

but also felt that they should only be shared

with a trusted few and not yet revealed to the public.

TZADOK: After he

came out of the cave,

after the Romans forgot about him,

he gathered together his students

and taught them the secrets

that were revealed to him in the cave.

HENRY: This knowledge was then written down

or transmitted orally

for centuries for a thousand years

until a Spanish rabbi

acquired this knowledge that he then shared with humankind.

NARRATOR: In the late 13th century,

the secret writings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

were finally published as the Zohar--

a text that is still held as sacred

by millions of people around the world.

It is considered fundamental

to the Jewish tradition of kabbalah.

MATT: People often confuse kabbalah

and Zohar.

There's no book called the Kabbalah.

The Zohar is the major text of the kabbalah.

So if someone says they're studying kabbalah,

they probably mean that they're studying the Zohar.

NARRATOR: According to practitioners of kabbalah,

the teachings include ancient knowledge

that was far ahead of its time,

such as information related to modern atomic theory,

the spherical shape of the Earth,

and the existence of other solar systems.

But of all the teachings of kabbalah,

many believe the most profound comes from a passage found

in the Zohar-- one that says there are seven earths.

TSOUKALOS: Kabbalistic texts teach that there are

multiple worlds out there.

In fact, there are seven earths.

And they give the name of each of them,

and when I hear that then I wonder,

well, could it be possible that what we have here

is a reference that there are six other inhabited planets

in the rest of our galaxy?

CHILDRESS: When you look at these

kabbalistic texts, and they're talking

about there being six other earths

besides the one that we're on,

and they're not just some allegory, uh,

or talking about, you know,

seven continents or something like that,

well, you have to ask yourself,

is it possible that these are actual other planets

and they're inhabited?

NARRATOR: While seven earths may sound

like a reference to seven planets,

according to those who study kabbalah,

this concept has another, even more profound meaning.

Many people have this idea

that the concept of seven earths

has something to do with some other place.

It's not some other place, and in fact,

according to Zoharic literature, it's inside the earth.

There are seven lands, one above the other.

One of the lands is actually the Outer Earth,

which is the one that we're walking on right now.

According to Zohar as well as Jewish religious interpretation,

the six other earths are physical locations

that are subterranean to our present reality.

Even more compelling is that it also teaches

that each of the six other earths are inhabited

by intelligent creatures.

There could be this multiplicity of beings.

They exist in other realms

but are always kept hidden in the Inner Earth.

TZADOK: One of the profound teachings

of the oral Torah tradition

is that we human beings

are not the only intelligent species

indigenous to our Earth.

And within this Earth live other types of entities.

TSOUKALOS: Of course, the notion of a hollow Earth is absurd.

The Earth is not hollow.

However, if you change the word "hollow" to "inner,"

then I even have to say there could be an argument made

that someone may be here

underneath the surface of the Earth.

Because it is a geological fact

that there are gigantic chambers underneath the Earth's crust,

some of which even contain water

that are larger than the world's oceans.

So, you know, you have to wonder

if it's at all possible that somebody is down there.

And what if these entities have been here

for thousands of years?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Earth is home

to other intelligent beings that exist deep beneath the surface?

And if so, how long have they been on this planet?

According to the teachings of kabbalah,

some of the beings of Inner Earth once lived on the surface

long before the time of humans.

NARRATOR: In the Hebrew Bible's

Book of Ecclesiastes is the well-known saying,

"There's nothing new under the sun."

But according to practitioners of kabbalah,

this seemingly philosophical verse,

which continues with the phrase

"No one remembers the former generations,"

also has a very literal meaning.

The kabbalah teaches that there were pre-Adamic races.

In the Book of Genesis, Adam is the first man.

So, what the kabbalah is saying is that,

before Adam, there were other races of beings

and previous civilizations.

TZADOK: It is believed and taught

that we have had civilization upon our Earth

for tens of thousands of years,

possibly much longer,

prior to Adam spoken of in the Bible.

NARRATOR: According to the kabbalah teachings,

some of the beings that inhabit Inner Earth lived

on the surface long before the time of humans.

And kabbalah is not the only ancient tradition

that speaks of prehuman civilizations.

BIRNES: All across the planet, there are stories

of a highly technical, highly sophisticated,

brilliant civilization that's no longer here.

The story of Lemuria is the story

of an ancient civilization, a brilliant civilization

that reached high points,

but dreadful climate wiped it out.

The story of Atlantis is the same thing.

It's in the Bible,

as well as Gilgamesh.

HENRY: This corresponds with Greek thought

that there were five ages.

The Hindus teach about the yugas

and the rise and fall of civilization,

where civilization advances to a very high place

and then descends and then reascends.

JONATHAN YOUNG: In Hinduism, there are cycles

of destruction and rebirth,

and we're in the fourth now.

Three entire stages have come before now.

In the Hopi Native American Indigenous teaching,

there are a number of worlds,

and we are on the fourth reality.

NARRATOR: If Earth was inhabited by prehuman civilizations,

could there be physical evidence of their existence?

Incredibly, scientists have recently identified anomalies

in Earth's geological record

that could be markers of an advanced civilization

that existed millions of years ago.

HENRY: Today, modern science is looking

into our ancient geological past

in a concept they call techno signatures.

They're looking at our civilization and saying

that one day everything that we see around us

on the Earth will be reduced to rock.

It'll be a thin layer of rock in our geological record.

And some future species will be able to look back

and see that we were a technological civilization

because we have left residue.

We have left chlorofluorocarbons.

And what they're doing now is looking back

into the geological record.

They have actually found a seam or a line of rock

that's 56 million years old that reveals that at that time

there was more carbon in the sediment

than is supposed to be there, and suddenly

there is an ecological collapse.

How do you explain this,

other than there must have been some kind

of a nonhuman civilization that caused this?

The evidence is there.

NARRATOR: Some archaeologists and geologists also point

to the discovery of extremely ancient artifacts

as further evidence that civilizations

existed on Earth long before humans.

One such artifact is an object called the London Hammer

that was discovered in Texas in 1936.

It was a prehistoric hammer, if you will,

with part of the handle still in place,

inside some very old rock.

The hammer itself was found in the Travis formation.

It's a concretion of sandstone.

And it usually takes about 140 million years

for this to form.

That would put the hammer at 140 million years old.

Where did it come from?

Who was here 140 million years ago?

There's been many fossils and artifacts

that have been found that defies our timeline.

Some of them have been found in Antelope Valley, in Utah,

which was a shoe print, which was 200 million years old.

We're constantly finding new relics, new pieces,

new evidence that suggests there's probably civilizations

that were here long before we have been here.

If we are essentially due to a cataclysm,

whether this is the tilting of the Earth's axis,

or if it's through a solar flare or something like this,

or-or even a war or something

that there's virtually nobody left,

after three or four generations,

nobody will remember what was here a hundred years ago.

It's quite possible that something like us

already existed and there's nothing left.

BIRNES: So, history,

archaeology themselves point

to life-forms on this planet long before human beings.

The question is, where are they from?

I believe we've been visited

by lots of extraterrestrial races.

Some took, some didn't.

Some stayed, some left.

Some are on land, some are underwater.

We're a colony.

NARRATOR: Could it be that long before the time

of modern humans, other intelligent species--

possibly even from other planets-- populated the Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and point to the teachings of kabbalah

for evidence that some of these species

that predated humans also coexisted with them.

One example can be found in the Bible's Book of Genesis

and the creature described in the Garden of Eden

as the serpent.

TZADOK: The serpent not only spoke

but stood erect,

had arms and legs

and, clearly, intelligence.

We're describing

a pre-Adamic,

Earth-based reptilian.

And this we find echoed in legends

and teachings from cultures around the world.

So, one of the great pre-Adamic civilizations

clearly was a reptilian humanoid.

And these are referred to as seraphim.

NARRATOR: If a prehuman race is represented

in the Garden of Eden,

does that mean that it continued to inhabit the Earth

after the time of the first humans?

BIRNES: It could well be

that there was a whole evolving race of reptilians--

call them seraphim, call them anything you want to--

that basically were, in their own way,

civilizing this planet, organizing life on this planet.

And then human beings came to this planet,

and they realized we couldn't live together

and they went underground.

NARRATOR: Could ancient stories of other intelligent species

sharing the planet with humans

and then migrating to subterranean realms be true?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the evidence can be found

in numerous ancient traditions

that describe not only underground worlds

but also the many strange beings

that reside within them.

NARRATOR: For centuries,

the Jewish mystical text called the Zohar

has been a source of sacred teachings and esoteric wisdom.

But the idea that there are inhabited realms

within the earth is not exclusive to the Zohar alone.

This concept can also be found in ancient texts

from numerous cultures around the world,

like the Vishnu Purana of India.

Written roughly 2,000 years ago,

the Vishnu Purana describes multiple domains

that exist deep underground.

HENRY: In India, we learn of a place called Patala,

which is beneath the surface of the Earth.

And Patala has many subterranean realms that are believed

to be inhabited by intelligent creatures.

In fact, myth and folklore are filled

with stories of Inner Earth civilizations,

the same as the Zohar.

The Greeks believed the same thing.

CHILDRESS: This is very similar to the story

of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

And ancient Irish texts talk

about the Tuatha Dé Danann as

arriving in shadowy airships,

coming from the sky, they're enveloped in mist.

They had all kinds of tremendous technology.

And they were the rulers, allegedly, of Ireland

for quite a long time until modern Irish came to Ireland,

and they made a pact

with the Tuatha Dé Danann.

The Tuatha Dé Danann, according to the legend,

go underground in Ireland,

and now are living in the underground world.

AMIR HUSSAIN: You've got, you know, the similar kind of story

with the Sumerian texts.

The Anunnaki literally are the sky gods.

But then, as you get into later versions of the stories,

one of them, Inanna, goes into the netherworld.

And so, you have these gods that start up in the sky

but then come down not just to Earth but into the earth.

And you see this across different cultures.

NARRATOR: Many ancient cultures taught

that beings living inside the earth are not

of the same physical nature as humans

but have the ability to effortlessly travel

between our realm and theirs.

YOUNG: In Islamic culture,

there is the idea of the djinn,

from which we get our word "genie,"

and this was not an angelic presence.

It had a category of its own.

It wasn't human, it wasn't exactly godlike.

It was in between.

It could travel from this world to another and back.

And sometimes they cause trouble.

Sometimes they help people.

TZADOK: It is known that they are indigenous

to the domains of Inner Earth.

And these djinn are said to have bodies

only of fire and air.

And we might think, "Well, they're all spiritual,"

but our traditions teach that's not so.

Like human beings, it is said they eat and they drink,

they sexually procreate,

and they die.

And yet they can be invisible.

NARRATOR: While many traditions talk

of humanlike beings inhabiting Earth's inner realms,

the Zohar teaches that all kinds of entities

reside below the surface.

And some are even hybrids of different creatures.

TZADOK: The Zohar tells us that there are hybrid beings

who live there.

Some of whom are half human, half animal.

There are beings

that have the bodies of human beings

with the heads of lions or the heads of bulls.

And this sounds very familiar to us

from ancient mythologies and legends.

NARRATOR: The hybrid beings

that the Zohar describes as having descended

to Inner Earth also appear

in other ancient traditions

as creatures that once lived on the surface.

The ancient Egyptians recorded evidence

of-of hybrid beings,

including Thoth the birdman,

Sekhmet the lion goddess,

as well as Anubis, who's a humanoid with a canine head.

We have the satyrs of Greek mythology

that are part human, part goat.

In Sumeria, we have mermen and mermaids.

We have beings that are half human and half serpent.

In India, the most popular God is Ganesh,

who's half human, half elephant.

NARRATOR: In addition to hybrid beings,

Inner Earth is also said to be home

to fantastical creatures that are described

in myths and legends throughout the world.

TZADOK: According to the ancient teachings,

in Inner Earth there do live real dragons,

spoken of in the Book of Job.

The phoenix, which burns itself to ashes in its nest

and then resurrects itself

just as the Book of Job teaches,

also live in Inner Earth.

And it is taught that unicorns, real ones,

are alive today in Inner Earth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that these Inner Earth entities that come up

in tradition after tradition

were actually witnessed by our ancestors

thousands of years ago?

TSOUKALOS: So, all around the world

we have these depictions

in ancient carvings, in ancient paintings,

figurines, everything.

It doesn't matter what ancient culture you go to.

We have the same stories worldwide.

And the further you go back in time,

the more similar these stories become.

HENRY: Ancient cultures

must have experienced these types of beings,

or why else would humans have been making depictions

from virtually the beginning of recorded history?

NARRATOR: The Zohar and other traditions

that speak of intelligent beings

and fantastical creatures occupying Inner Earth

were written many centuries ago.

If these stories are more than mere mythology,

are there still entities living within the earth today?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining modern-day reports

of encounters with strange beings

emerging from caves.

NARRATOR: Quang Binh Province, Vietnam.

1991.

Logger Ho Khanh discovers a mysterious entrance

to a hidden mountain cave

obscured by dense jungle overgrowth.

The cliffs leading down to the entrance are so steep,

he cannot explore it further, but he notes its location.

Nearly two decades later,

the British Cave Research Association

finally explores the cave.

What the team discovers is astounding.

It is the largest underground chamber

on the planet.

It's not just a cave.

It's an actual world in Vietnam.

Inside this cave, it's 40 stories high.

There's actually an ancient forest.

It's got flowing water.

Not just a puddle or a stream but an actual river.

Inside the cave is an entire growing ecosystem.

And it's so deep that it looks like it's an entrance

to a whole other reality.

NARRATOR: This incredible subterranean realm,

called the Son Doong Cave,

is estimated to be roughly three million years old.

It runs through the earth for nearly six miles,

and numerous areas where the cave ceiling has collapsed

allow sunlight to enter, resulting in the growth

of trees and other vegetation.

But according to area residents,

what's most notable about Son Doong Cave

are the strange creatures that are believed to dwell within it.

HENRY: Local residents described seeing

reptilian-type humanoid beings emerging

from the Son Doong Cave.

And they believe that they actually live

deep inside this cave.

What's fascinating about this is

that these reptilian-type humanoid beings

are similar to the seraphim,

or the winged serpents in kabbalistic tradition.

The seraphim are said to have gone and lived

in the Inner Earth, according to kabbalistic teaching.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that reports

of reptilians at Son Doong Cave

are encounters with beings from Inner Earth?

While it may sound too incredible to be true,

there have been reports that during the Vietnam War

in the 1970s, U.S. soldiers encountered

what they described as "upright lizards" inhabiting caves.

And accounts of reptilian beings existing in underground caverns

can be found all across the globe,

even on the other side of the world in Cuzco, Peru.

CHILDRESS: Throughout Peru and

around Cuzco, particularly,

there are many, many stories of a tunnel system

that has something to do with serpent deities,

which they call the Amaru there.

The Peruvian authorities themselves decided

it was too dangerous for people to go into these tunnels.

So, they looked for all of the entrances they could

around Cuzco, and they sealed them up.

And this is a well-known story within Peruvian history.

NARRATOR: While there have been many reports

from around the world of humanlike reptilians,

there is another Inner Earth entity described in the Zohar

that is even more commonly witnessed in modern times.

SALOFF: According to Zoharic literature,

there are beings inside the earth

having large black eyes

and a nose that is only two darks holes on the face.

Now, that corresponds to things that we've seen about,

heard about these, uh, for lack of a better word, ETs.

There is a lot of evidence that these beings

that we think are coming from another planet

are not coming from another planet.

They're coming from inside our own Earth.

NARRATOR: The black-eyed entities,

commonly referred to as Greys by ufologists,

are the beings most often reported

by alleged alien abductees,

many of whom claim

to have been taken aboard saucer-shaped craft.

Could it be that the so-called flying saucers

so often reported in modern times

are not coming from outer space but Inner Earth?

According to some ancient astronaut theorists,

this notion is supported by numerous accounts of UFOs

that are seen disappearing into the landscape

and sometimes even flying directly into mountains.

In fact, one of the first UFO sightings on record involves

an entire squadron of vehicles

that appeared to enter a volcano.

One of the first modern UFO sightings was recorded

in June of 1947 by Kenneth Arnold.

He was flying his private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington

when he catches sight of some flashes of light.

And soon he discovers that this is actually

a squadron of what he described as flying saucers

skipping across the sky.

He follows them

as they disappear into the direction

of nearby Mount Adams, a volcano,

which is the sight of many modern UFO sightings.

Is it possible that Mount Rainier

and Mount Adams are perhaps entranceways utilized

by these craft into other realms?

If these craft did enter into Mount Rainier

and/or Mount Adams, it would not seem unusual to UFO experts.

Mountains around the world, like Bugarach in Southern France

and Musinè in Northern Italy, are often sites

where UFOs are reported actually entering into the mountains.

NARRATOR: Mountains are often cited in ancient traditions

as entrances to Inner Earth realms.

The most well-known is the legendary land of Shambhala

that Buddhists and Hindus identify

as the home of the gods.

Many believe that the entrance to this subterranean realm

exists among the ruins of the lost Kingdom of Gu-ge

on top of Mount Kailash in Tibet.

CHILDRESS: Shambhala is said to be underground.

It's ruled by kings who live for hundreds of years.

They have wonderful technology.

There's electricity, there's airships.

And also, part of the tradition of Shambhala is

that they are guiding mankind.

Very much as we often think that extraterrestrials are doing.

A number of people have suggested that Shambhala,

the hidden city, is at Mount Kailash or very nearby.

Gu-ge, right near Mount Kailash, is a very strange fortress

built on the top of a pyramidal mountain.

And the fortress of Gu-ge had all kinds of tunnels

and hidden staircases

that went underground and went inside this mountain.

So, when archaeologists went there, they were astounded

that this city of Gu-ge apparently led inside the earth.

What people seemed to believe was that

if you were to follow these tunnels far enough

into the earth, you would eventually come

to that hidden city of Shambhala,

an active city full of light and-and power.

NARRATOR: While there have been numerous reports

of UFOs at Mount Kailash,

explorers have yet to find

the legendary subterranean realm of Shambhala.

But according to the secret diary

of one of the United States' most celebrated naval officers,

a hidden entrance to Inner Earth can be found

thousands of miles to the south

-in Antarctica. -(wind whistling)

NARRATOR: Esteemed U.S. naval officer and explorer

Admiral Richard Byrd, one of the first pilots

to fly over both the North and South Poles,

organizes Operation Highjump,

the largest expedition ever to travel to Antarctica,

with 13 ships, 23 aircraft,

and over 4,700 military personnel.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: This was very important

that after the conclusion of World War II,

Admiral Byrd was asked if he would mount

a large armada and go for four months.

It was supposed to be that they would go in December,

January, February and March, and there was a list

of military goals that they were to achieve, but

by the end of February, something happened.

NARRATOR: One of the mission's official goals

was investigating sites for potential military bases

in Antarctica.

But during his explorations,

Admiral Byrd allegedly came upon something highly unexpected.

YOUNG: This story

is said to come from his diaries,

not his published account of the trip,

but something he held back

and then later was suppressed by government authorities

that found it frightening.

HENRY: In his diary,

which was discovered by his son after his death,

Admiral Byrd tells an extraordinary story.

BIRNES: Admiral Byrd heard there was an entrance

to the center of the Earth through the South Pole,

and he took planes into the South... under the South Pole.

And when he did that, he discovered

that as he flew over the Pole,

suddenly he's looking at things that shouldn't be there.

I mean, it was temperate.

He and a squadron flew under the earth, into the earth.

HENRY: It turns into this lush and green area,

and he can't even believe his eyes.

But that's just the beginning of his extraordinary story.

He tells how, all of a sudden, he starts

to see a shimmering rainbow city that's made of crystal.

His airplane is taken control of

when he suddenly sees these flying disk-shaped objects

around him that lead him to the ground...

...whereupon he's escorted into a cavernous type of an area

where he meets a being he refers to as "The Master" in his diary.

The Master tells him that they're highly disappointed

in what humans are doing with nuclear weapons

and how they recently destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

and they really are concerned about what is going on

on the surface of the planet.

They tell Admiral Byrd that

they hope that humanity will ultimately stop this.

NARRATOR: For UFO researchers,

this account from Admiral Byrd's diary

is particularly significant

due to the fact that the modern UFO era began

right after World War II

and the detonation of the first atomic bombs.

It has also been noted

that a high number of UFO sightings

have been reported in the vicinity

of nuclear missile silos.

Admiral Byrd's story is congruent with the stories

that we hear from numerous accounts

of angelic or extraterrestrial-type beings

that are very concerned about what humanity is doing

with nuclear weapons.

Just ask the Air Force officers at the U.S. missile silos,

the nuclear missile silos that have seen their silos

and their nuclear arms disarmed

by what are perceived to be extraterrestrial beings.

They are very concerned that we are ultimately

not just going to destroy ourselves

but could harm our planet, which is their world as well.

NARRATOR: If Admiral Byrd's secret diary is authentic,

does it reveal not only

that there are highly advanced beings

living inside the earth but also

that they are monitoring what happens on the surface?

According to the diary, after this incredible encounter,

Admiral Byrd was eager to share his story

but was ordered to remain silent.

HENRY: Byrd comes back after this experience.

He is taken to a government compound

where he is told that he is never to speak of this publicly

and that everything he says is-is classified.

NARRATOR: Could Admiral Byrd's story point

to a profound connection

between the ancient traditions

of strange beings living inside the earth

and the modern-day UFO phenomenon?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe we may be fast approaching the time

when we will find ourselves face-to-face

with the beings of Inner Earth.

NARRATOR: According to the teachings of kabbalah,

on this date, which marks the beginning

of the seventh millennium on the Judaic calendar,

humankind will be introduced to a profound new reality.

According to the Zohar,

at the beginning of the seventh millennium,

the gates of wisdom will open on the Earth.

That seems like a long way off.

However, the Zohar also tells us

that there will be preliminary stages

of the opening of this wisdom.

Those stages, the kabbalists teach, began around 1840.

That's the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,

when suddenly humans are taking control of nature.

After that, we enter into the technological revolution

of the 1950s-- the invention of the computer,

the transistor, and other technologies like that.

Now we're moving into the nanotechnology,

the artificial intelligence era.

These are all believed to be signs

that we are ultimately moving into this new era

when immense wellsprings of wisdom will open up.

BIRNES: At that point, there will be an age of enlightenment

that will come upon the planet

and come upon all the life on this planet.

Now, isn't this fascinating,

that the three Adamic religions

all talk about the same thing?

In Christianity, it is the Second Coming and the Rapture.

-MAN: Allahu Akbar... -In Islam, it is the Twelfth Imam.

-(call to prayer) -In Judaism,

it is the Messiah who will come,

and there will be a whole new life on this planet.

TZADOK: When it comes time for the Messiah to come,

the Messiah will not come from the skies,

but rather the Messiah and his army

will come from Inner Earth.

And there is Midrashic legend that states in the

"world to come," we will have first contact

with those races in Inner Earth.

NARRATOR: Do the prophecies of kabbalah confirm

that even to this day, humankind continues

to share the planet with other intelligent beings

that occupy hidden realms?

SALOFF: There are many different species, races of beings.

Some of them came from earlier times,

and some of them come from now but in just a different place.

There's not only one or two.

There are many, many different races.

And coming in contact with other races or beings

is coming in the next epoch.

TZADOK: The purpose of the teachings

of the mystical traditions

is to provide light and redirection back

to communion with the higher domains.

We are not alone

as intelligent beings upon our own Earth.

NARRATOR: Is humanity rapidly approaching the day

when the secrets of Inner Earth will be revealed?

Have we been sharing the planet

with other intelligent life-forms

for thousands of years?

Perhaps it will be below rather than above

where we will ultimately discover

the truth about our past,

our future, and our alien ancestors.

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