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My name's Gregg Braden.

And I'd like to welcome you to
this very special presentation

of "Missing Links: The Deep
Truth of Our Origin, History,

Destiny, and Fate."

Now last episode, we
discovered that the key

to the thinking that will guide
us through our time of extremes

is found in the timeless
wisdom that our ancestors asked

themselves in their time and
that science is asking today.

The question is simply
this who are we?

Well new discoveries
are changing our answer.

And as they do, they're
changing the way

we think of ourselves
and the world.

Today, let's zero in on
some of those discoveries

and what they mean in our lives.

When I was in school back
in the 1960s and '70s,

I was taught that the
fundamental essence of matter

looked like this.

It looks like an atom.

And the atom was
a mechanical atom.

It was little things
moving around the thing.

Electrons moving
around the nucleus.

Well, today, the
atom no longer looks

like little things moving around
the thing, it looks like this.

There are fields within
fields within field,

pulsing fields of energy.

This is one of the
ways that our thinking

has changed very, very quickly.

We now know that
everything is energy.

We now know that
everything is connected.

We now know that when we
look into the universe,

for example, that the stars
that we're seeing that

appear to be separate
from one another

aren't really separate at all.

In this image that
you're seeing,

this is from the
Hubble Space Telescope.

It is an optical telescope.

It looks at the
universe much the way

you and I would look
through our eyes.

And when it sees the
stars and the galaxies,

it sees them as separate
from one another optically.

Now I'm going to share
with you another image

from another telescope.

The image that you're
seeing right now

is from the Chandra
Space Telescope.

It is not an optical
telescope, it senses energy.

We're looking at the
same place in space,

but look how
different this looks.

All of a sudden, those
stars and galaxies,

they're no longer
separate from one another.

They're all connected.

And one of the things I
find really fascinating

about this connection is that
we have a sense that it's almost

like a net or a web.

Interestingly enough,
our indigenous ancestors

have always told us that we
live in the web of creation.

In the Hopi tradition,
for example,

when Spider Grandmother first
emerged into this world,

she wove the web of creation
so that her children

could live their lives.

Or in the Hindu traditions,
the great god Indra

wove the web of creation
at the intersection.

At each place in the web, Indra
put a glittering jewel of light

that became the
planets and the stars

that we see in our night sky.

So these ways of thinking,
they're not scientific.

But these are the ways
that our ancestors

made sense of what they
saw in their world.

And this is where much of what
science is revealing today

parallels those traditions.

We definitely are seeing
a web-like presence.

When we think about
one another, we've

been taught that we're
separate from one another,

that we're separate from
the world around us.

And that what we
do in our bodies,

in our thoughts,
feelings, and emotions

has very little
influence on anything

beyond our own
physical body, if that.

But the new discoveries
are telling us

that's not true at all.

The new discoveries
are showing us

that we are deeply connected.

And in some ways, the connection
arises from fields of energy

that we've only
begun to understand

in the late part of the 20th
and now the early 21st century.

The heart for example, we now
know around every human heart

there is a field of energy.

Now this is a field
that we can measure

with conventional equipment.

You can go to the hardware store
and build your own detector

if you know what
you're looking for.

So this energy, it's not the
prana, it's not the aura,

it's not the chakra.

It may be related to the prana
and the aura and the chakra,

but it is an
electromagnetic field

of energy shaped like a donut.

It's called the tube torus.

And it extends between
five and eight feet

from every human
heart around us.

When I asked the
researchers who were working

with these fields-- I know
that these fields are very

powerful-- and I said,
why would they only

extend to five to eight feet?

And the researchers said,
Gregg, it's a good question.

They said the five
to the eight feet,

that is the limitation of the
equipment doing the measuring.

They said in all
probability, the field

that extends around
every human heart

is probably an infinite
field on the quantum level.

An infinite field from our
hearts extending into creation.

And that means that what we
create in that heart field

is broadcast, and in
some ways influences,

the world around us.

And that's the beauty
of understanding

the science that parallels
these ancient traditions.

We interact with
one another everyday

through these heart fields.

And new discoveries
are telling us this.

The new discoveries
are telling us

a lot about, not only our
everyday lives, but our past.

We've been conditioned to
believe, for example, that we

as humans are the product of
an evolutionary process that

began long ago and has gone
through many iterations leading

to where we find
ourselves today.

That's what we've been taught.

We've been steeped in
a story that tells us

that evolution is our story.

However, the new
science, the best science

of the 21st century,
is now telling us,

while evolution is a fact
for some forms of life,

that the theory breaks down
when it comes to humans.

Something else is happening.

So all of these
discoveries that I

am sharing with you
right now, they're

all examples of where
new discoveries are

in fact changing the story of
the way we answer the question,

who am I?

We know that we are
connected and not separate.

We know that we are
energetic beings

and that we influence the world
around us through that energy.

So what I'd like to
do right now is zero

in on one place in
this conversation.

To zero in on one
of these places

where we're taught to
think about our past

in the way that no
longer works and that

is with civilization itself.

And I was in school back
in the '60s and '70s,

I think many of you
when you were in school,

or if you have young
people in school today,

we have been taught.

We've been steeped in the
belief that civilization

began about 5,000, maybe 5,500
years ago with ancient Sumeria.

And from that
point in time there

has been a linear progression
to the point where we are today.

And we're taught that we are the
most sophisticated civilization

that has ever graced
the face of the earth.

The problem is the data
doesn't support that story.

The data doesn't
support the story.

So what you're seeing
on this screen right now

is you're seeing an image
of the line of history,

the timeline of
history, that was being

used when I was in school.

And I asked my
history professor,

I said what happened
to the left of Sumeria?

What happened before
that 5,500 years?

And I remember my professor said
to me something very powerful.

It triggered
something within me.

He said don't worry about
anything to the left.

He said that's not important.

He said history
began, civilization

began, 5,000 years ago.

And I said what?

I said you mean we don't know
what happened before that?

I said that's the place for me.

That's where I want to be.

That's where I want to look.

And I have spent much of
my adult life exploring

the new archaeological
discoveries that are now

overturning these ideas of
history and civilization

and where we began.

So if you will look to this
chart, what you're seeing

is the timeline of
what we have been

led to believe-- you see
ancient Sumeria, ancient Egypt,

and everything, the Maya, the
Inca, the Aztec, the Olmec,

the Toltec, everything
is more recent than that.

Greece and Rome, as
old as they feel to us,

they are all more recent.

I have personally had
the opportunity now

to document some of the new
discoveries that are telling us

that civilization
is much, much older.

For example, what
you're seeing right now,

this is an image of
me in 2010 documenting

a new site in northern Peru.

And this site is rocking
the world of history,

of archeology, because
it is now documented

to be the single
oldest technologically

advanced civilization in
all of the Americas in all

the Americas.

It's older than the
Inca, than the Aztec,

than the Olmec, and the Toltec.

It's older than
anything in Mexico,

older than anything
in North America.

It is called Caral.

Caral.

C-A-R-A-L. Caral, Peru.

And Caral is a mystery
to us, because we've

been taught that civilization
began 5,000 years ago.

Interestingly, that's
when this one ended.

Caral collapsed 5,000 years ago.

And what the dating
now is showing

us is that thrived for
2,000 years before that.

That's 7,000 years ago.

So if this were the only
place where the data does not

fit the traditional story, maybe
we could call it an anomaly.

But what's happening
is there are

so many anomalies that
scientists and historians have

set aside.

And they said, well, you
know these archaeological

discoveries don't fit our story.

We'll come back and
look at them later.

Now there are so
many discoveries

to come back and look at
that the discoveries are

telling a new story.

And that new story is what
we're talking about right here.

Caral was a technologically
advanced civilization.

It is about 150 acres.

So it's a large site.

Five pyramids, three
circular plazas--

like the one you're seeing
in the image right now--

and a tremendous amount of
information in a nonwritten

form.

So they weren't using
writing, but they

were using symbols and geometry
to tell us that they understood

the cosmos.

And they understood their
relationship to the cosmos.

The astronomical markers
that remain in Caral

today are indicating
relationships

that were not even known
in the Western world

until the 20th century.

Yet this was 7,000 years ago.

How did they know?

Where did they get
their information?

So when we think about
Caral, that confirmed date

7,000 years, it's old.

But it's not the oldest.

Now I know there has
been a lot of controversy

around the discoveries
that have been

made in Egypt over the years.

And I've worked with some
of the researchers who

have done beautiful work on
pushing against the mainstream

history and the
mainstream classrooms

and the mainstream textbooks
that tell us about what really

happened in Egypt.

And specifically, one of the
best preserved places in Egypt

is the Giza Plateau.

This is where we find the Great
Pyramid as well as the Sphinx.

Well as a geologist--
I'm a degreed geologist--

and I've been
fascinated by what has

happened with the
Sphinx for this reason.

The traditional dating of
the Sphinx has been about

4,400-4,500 years
before present.

So we're told that that is
when the great pharaohs built

this structure.

The problem has always been
that the Sphinx is constructed

of material, of rock, that is
in situ, in other words that

are not made of blocks that were
brought in from another place,

it was carved out of the natural
rock out of the Mother Earth.

And because of that, what
we find on that rock,

we know happened in that place.

It didn't happen somewhere else.

Well here's where this
gets really interesting.

The erosion that we
see on the shoulders

and on the back of
the Sphinx, we've

been told for years that it was
from wind, high amounts of wind

over long periods of time,
that's called Aeolian erosion.

Well when geologists from Boston
University and specifically,

Robert Schoch, when
he went in and began

examining these erosion
marks, what he found,

as a geologist-- he's
actually a stratigrapher

and a paleontologist, I believe
are the two terms that he uses

to describe his expertise-- what
he found is that the erosion is

actually not made from wind.

It's made from water.

It's not Aeolian.

It's called fluvial erosion
made from tremendous amounts

of water moving quickly
over long periods of time.

That's where the
story of the Sphinx

gets really interesting
because there has not

been vast amounts of
water moving quickly

over long periods of time
for a very, very long time.

But the scientists, Robert
Schoch, and his team, this

was their conclusion.

They published this in peer
reviewed geologic journals.

And the interesting thing was
that geologists said, sure,

it's obvious.

We have no problem with this
conclusion, the geologists.

The historians have a terrible
problem with the conclusion,

because the conclusion says the
last time that kind of water

was moving through Egypt
where the Great Sphinx is

is between 8,000 and
12,000 years ago.

Now that messes up
all the history books.

However, that is what the
science is showing us.

8,000 to 12,000
years ago, the Sphinx

would have already had to been
in place, which means maybe it

was built even before that, for
the water to begin the erosion.

In his own words, I just
want to share with you

the words of Robert Schoch.

He said, quote "I
came to the conclusion

that the oldest portions
of the Great Sphinx

must date back to an earlier
period, at least 7,000 years

and maybe as early
as 9,000 years ago,

to a time when the
climate was very different

and included more rain."

So what we're talking
about are anomalies

in the archaeological
record as we

have been asked to embrace
that record in the past.

We're looking at evidence
of advanced technological

civilizations during
a time, we were told,

only primitive mud huts
in primitive societies

were existing.

Now there so many
of these anomalies

that we can take the time
to explore, right now,

but I'd like to
cut to the chase.

I want to spend a
little bit of time

on the oldest technologically
advanced civilization

that science has now
agreed is a technologically

advanced civilization.

And they've agreed
upon the dates.

It's a very mysterious site.

It's located in southern Turkey
near the Syrian border, which

makes it a very difficult
place for archeologists

to get into right now because of
the war that's happening there.

It is called Gobekli
Tepe, Gobekli Tepe.

And it is a site that
has been on the radar

of some archeologists
for some time.

Now I'm mentioning this
because in the last episode,

we talked about the false
assumptions of science

with the inverted pyramid.

One of those false
assumptions was the assumption

that civilization
began 5,000 years ago.

This is important because
when we ask ourselves

who am I as an individual,
who are we collectively,

and we look at where
we've come from,

we've been conditioned
to think in that box

to go back only 5,000 years.

Well let me share with you what
a profound and limiting effect

that can have on a
scientist who adheres

to this kind of thinking.

In the 1960s, there was
an American archaeologist.

He heard from villagers
about this site, Gobekli Tepe

and they took him there.

And he found some
pottery on a hill.

And he began dating
this pottery.

And the dates for the
pottery came back so old

that the scientist said
they can't be right

because civilization is
only 5,000 years old.

That is what we've
all agreed upon.

So even though the pottery
told him something older

was happening, he made
a professional choice.

He walked away from this site
because he said it cannot

possibly be as old as what
the dates are now revealing.

Well it wasn't until the 1990s
that German archaeologist

returned to this site.

He did the same dating.

The difference is
he was not bound

by the rigidity of the
scientific thinking.

He wasn't in that box.

And he believed the dates.

And he very famously
said, publicly,

and he said to his
crew, to his team,

he said if I don't walk away
from this site right now,

he said I will spend the rest
of my life excavating this site.

And that is precisely what
he did until he passed

just a couple of years ago.

So what is Gobekli Tepe?

It's a mysterious site.

It is believed to be a
series of circular temples

that are buried under the earth.

Apparently they were
intentionally buried.

And I say it is believed,
because they are still buried.

Scientists are using
Earth imaging radar, earth

penetrating radar, to
look into the earth

and see these temples.

Right now, there are, I
believe, five to eight

that have been unexcavated.

They are circular temples
of vertical columns.

Scientists don't know
who put them there,

why they were there, why they
were intentionally buried.

But the fact that they
were has preserved

what has been found
to such a degree

that the hieroglyphs look
like they were made yesterday.

Some of the most
magnificent images

of what these hieroglyphs
are all about.

Some of the hieroglyphs
are very mysterious

and are now being
linked directly

to constellations
and star systems that

were not even acknowledged
until the 20th century.

So once again, we're
saying how did they know?

How did these people know?

Well one of the things that
I find really intriguing

about Gobekli Tepe is the
remains, the artifacts,

that have been found there.

And there have been a
series of images of humans

that are anatomically correct.

And everything is done really
well with one exception.

None of them have a mouth.

The mouth on every one
of these is nonexistent.

Scientists don't
know what that means.

I don't know what that means.

We've never seen anything
like that before.

And because it is so consistent
throughout the Gobekli Tepe

site, we have to think that it
has some meaning that actually

will benefit us in helping to
understand the site itself.

So we're looking at a
series of circular temples,

underground, buried
intentionally.

This is where it gets
even more interesting.

The burial of the sites
happened about 8,000 years ago.

So remember we're taught
that civilization's

only 5,000 years old.

This site was buried
8,000 years ago.

But the dating now is
pushing its origin back far

beyond that.

The scientific dating for
Gobekli Tepe as it stands right

now, is between 11,300-11,500
years before present.

It's over twice as old as
what you and I were taught

when we were in
school and what we're

teaching our young
people in the classrooms

and from the textbooks today.

11,300-11,500.

Now if we begin plugging
in some of these dates

from what are called
the anomalous sites

on the traditional
timeline-- I'm

going to do this on your
screen so you can see it-- what

we see-- here is Caral in Peru.

There is Gobekli Tepe.

There is the Great Sphinx.

There are other sites--
Catalhoyuk, for example,

another site in Turkey.

Or the Gulf of Khambhat in
India, a fascinating site

just off the shore
the Indian continent

underneath 120 feet of water.

So scientists say
either this site

was built under water
intentionally-- which

isn't likely but you have
to say that as a scientist--

or it once was above
water and became submerged

when the sea levels rose.

Well that brings up
a problem for history

because the sea levels rose
at the end of the last Ice Age

when the ice melted and the
water raised the sea levels.

That was 12,000 years ago.

So the Gulf of Khambhat, a very
mysterious site, it is huge.

It is five miles long.

It's three miles wide.

And scientists now very, very
interested in excavating this.

The problem is it's
all under water

and it adds to the complexity.

So I'm just mentioning
it so you can

see it's not just about Caral.

It's not just Gobekli
Tepe, or the Sphinx,

but there are many
sites now that

don't fit this historic model.

As a geologist, I'd like to see
what's happening on the Earth

when the civilizations
are happening in the way

that they are.

So what I'm doing is
I'm drawing for you now,

on the chart, the
blue shaded box.

That is the last Ice Age.

And it ended about
12,000 years ago.

Gobekli Tepe, being
dated to 11,500 years,

that is the date that
scientists have now.

However, they have
yet to excavate

to the bottom of the site.

So they believe that when they
get to the bottom of Gobekli

Tepe, we're going to be
looking at around a 13,000

year old archaeological site.

That pushes it into
the last Ice Age.

We are now talking about
a technologically advanced

civilization dating back
into the last Ice Age.

So what I'd like to call
your attention to is

when you look at the chart,
I'm drawing the red lines

that represent the 5,000 year
cycles that we talked about

in an earlier episode.

These are 5,000 year cycles.

They were known by
Mesoamerican traditions--

the Aztek, the Maya, the Inca.

These are the 5,000
year cycles that

were the focus of
the 2012 phenomenon

in the Mayan calendar.

So on the chart,
what you're seeing,

the red line to the right, that
is the most recent 5,000 year

cycle completion.

That was 2012.

So as you go to the left,
you see when it began.

And interestingly,
when that cycle

began the space
between the beginning

and the end of this
5,000 year cycle

encompasses everything
that we have been taught

about the history of the world.

What we have been
led to believe is

the history of the
whole world forever

is actually only the history
within the most recent 5,000

year cycle.

There was another one before
that, another one before that,

another one before that.

And what scientists
are also finding

is that it is that
these 5,000 year cycles

when the climate changes.

And that climate change
is very, very similar

to the climate change that
we're seeing right now.

It may be the trigger for the
beginning of some civilizations

and the end for others.

As the climate changes,
the way our ancestors

grew their food changed.

And they had to find new ways
to take care of themselves

and to feed the
large populations

for some of these sites.

So now what we're
looking at is we're

looking at civilization
in 5,000 year cycles

rather than a linear event
that happened once and evolved

into the sophisticated
state that we see today.

We're looking at the beginning
and the end and the beginning

and the end and the beginning
and the end of technologically

advanced civilizations
in the past.

This opens the door to
a lot of possibilities.

One of the questions,
for example,

when scientists look at some
of the most magnificent temples

remaining on the earth today,
Machu Picchu, for example,

or if they look at the Giza
Plateau and the Great Pyramid

and the Great Sphinx, or they
look at Gobekli Tepe or they

look at Caral, and they look
at what these people knew,

the cosmological knowledge,
the astronomical knowledge,

the ability to calculate cycles.

And they say, where did
this knowledge come from?

The understanding of these
cycles may be giving us a clue.

Because it's possible,
it's possible now,

that our most technologically
advanced civilizations

had a knowledge
that was perpetuated

from one civilization.

And as it collapsed, remnants
became the next civilization.

And it collapsed.

Remnants became the
next civilization.

And in that way, we are looking
at a timeline and a heritage

of knowledge of the cosmos
and wisdom of us, who we are

and where we've come from.

Now I have to say
something here.

When people look at
this, the idea of cycles

and technologically
advanced civilizations,

two questions inevitably emerge.

What about Lemuria?

What about Atlantis?

I'm sharing what I know
to be true with you.

Through the language of
peer reviewed science,

as we know it today.

Now my personal
opinion, I believe

there were advanced
civilizations

before that may have been
called Lemuria and Atlantis.

And I think we're probably
finding evidence of that.

However, it is not yet
accepted by science.

It is not yet peer reviewed.

So I want to mention that.

And this is important
because in our next episode,

we'll take the
exploration of our past

back even further
in time to a time

when modern science tells
us that all that existed

were the microscopic
precursors of ancient amoeba.

The question is how do we
explain sophisticated artifacts

that we find linked to that
very same point in time,

to that same time in history?

And the growing body
of evidence that simply

does not fit the traditional
story of our past.

We're going to thank
you for joining me

for this program today.

And be sure to tune
in for our next

all new episode
of "Missing Links:

The Deep Truth of Our Origin,
History, Destiny, and Fate."

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