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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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