Beyond Ancient Apocalypse

good morning good morning I'm Richard I'm co-director of Alternatives I'd like to warmly welcome you to this seminar with grae Hancock and to Logan Hall um this is a a beautiful venue we've uh you know it very well we've hosted many many speakers here over the years we've only once before sold out Logan Hall and that was in 2019 when we last hosted Graham Hancock here so so it is sold out today so thank you for your great enthusiasm in being here um so it's always a huge pleasure to um be hosting gra hanot we've been hosting him for 20 years at Alternatives um I'm sure his many many books I'm sure you've read and now ancient apocalypse has brought him a whole new audience please join me in giving a very warm welcome to grae Hancock [Applause] well than thank you thank you so much thank you thank you for such a warm welcome I I hugely appreciate this and and I want to say this at the beginning um I your m is not working my M my mic's not working that's what I want to say at the beginning uh let's get that sorted out before we do anything else so what I wanted to say at the beginning is obviously this is a controversial idea that I've been working around for the last 30 years and obviously I've come in for a lot of attacks and sometimes those attacks are very hurtful and very painful for me but what I take strength from is the support and love and encouragement that you guys give me that's what keeps me going thank you so I want I want to thank you for that from the bottom of my heart now I'm not going to just sort of recover the ground that was covered in ancient apocalypse I'm going to talk more widely around the around the subject and um I want to begin by thanking my wonderful photographer wife Santa fire uh Santa and I I have made every journey together for the last 30 years um and speaking completely frankly I would be nowhere in this world if it wasn't for this wonderful woman by my side s is a brilliant photographer and uh she took the vast majority of the photographs that I'm going to show here where it's not the case we've credited the other photographer who was who was involved but where there's no credit it's uh it's Santa's picture um so here were some Sensational headlines from 2015 uh were Aborigines the first Americans native tribes in the Amazon found to be more closely related to indigenous Australians and it speaks of a gen IC study uh that reveals Amazonian tribes uh three of them share more DNA with Australian Aborigines than any other present day population uh and the study suggests that Aboriginal ancestors may have colonized South America it challenges theories of how Native Americans first arrived in the Americans well of course this is the ma The Daily Mail so you know we can expect Sensational headlines however in this case they're spoton and The Sensational headlines uh reveal even more Sensational scientific research behind it and this is the uh this this is a little extract from the from the scientific research uh there's been this L held view that there was a single origin for for all Native American peoples um and that um nevertheless that that view has been challenged by some but advances in DNA technology are making uh these kind of Explorations much more possible and what's been discovered is this very puzzling very puzzling connection um between the peoples of australasia particularly Papa guini uh and certain tribes deep in the Amazon rainforest now this is uh this is a real mystery because the view uh I'll come to that what what makes it even more of a mystery is further research in 2018 uh on members of these tribes and uh looking for ancient skeletal remains they found ancient skeletal remains 10,400 years old in the Amazon which bear that same signal and this tells us that this Aboriginal connection reached South America very very long ago and and researchers are agreed that it must have reached South America in the late plene which is near the end of the of the last ice age it's a very important study because it it establishes that there's there's no recent connection here this is a very ancient Connection in South America uh and it really creates a problem because because the view of archaeology for decades really a century has been that all the peopling of the Americas happened this way that they crossed the bearing Straits which were a land bridge during the Ice Age sea level was lower then uh and that they traveled through North America and eventually down into South America the problem is that this genetic signal isn't found anywhere in North America it's only found in South America and in Papu new guine and and neighboring and neighboring areas and uh I talked to esy Willis Lev who's one of the world's leading geneticists uh whose recent work focuses on the peopling of the Americans and I'll just read a bit of this email exchange uh Willis Lev told me that currently no one has a good explanation of the Ostro melanesian signal um all that's put forward as possible explanations are purely speculative what we do know is that it's present in some Native American groups particularly from Brazil we also know it has to be pre-colombian um amongst the possible explanations for the presence of this austral melanesian DNA in the Amazon Professor Willis offered in his email exchange with me the following someone holding this signal comes into the Americas not through beringia but Crossing into South America across the ocean based purely on the genetic data this is the most paring ious explanation but it does not make practical sense so I asked uh I asked es why it doesn't make practical sense is he basing that on on the archaeological consensus that our upper Paleolithic and early hallene ancestors were incapable of undertaking long transoceanic voyages and his reply in regard to crossing the Pacific I'm not saying it did not happen but there is no evidence suggesting that humans were capable of such a journey until quite late in history the Polynesian expansion it's a possibility and I'm open to the idea but there's not much evidence supporting it except going for the most parsimonious solution of the genetic data well let me say right at the outset that in in science parsimony is looked for we it's best to look for the easiest and most direct and most simple explanation of something rather than elaborating huge other explanations and this mysterious genetic signal in South America is best expressed best explained because none of it in North America by uh a crossing of the Pacific during the Ice Age which supposedly our ancestors were incapable uh of doing um so we're in the habit of dividing the world into the new world and the Old World um and and it's generally held it's generally been the view that all civilization began in the old world and and and this book um history begins at at at Sumer by Professor Samuel Noah Noah Kramer uh is a hugely influential text and basically basically what he's saying is that Sumer ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia was the first human civilization first organization of human beings that deserve to be called uh a a civilization and it's still influential even though it was first published in 1956 and indeed this this part of the old world is a center of civilization there's no no doubt about it I mean there's the the Sumerian Empire and up there we have the incredible site of gobec between the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers they call this area Mesopotamia because it means between the rivers uh and and uh can't help feeling that there's some connection between what happened in Sumer and what happened much earlier in gocke but the new evidence from the Americas threatens to overturn this Paradigm that places the origins of civilization in the Middle East um the world was so different during the last Ice Age there were ice caps 3 km deep sea level was 400 ft lower than it is today and there were freezing temperatures but then really rather abruptly around 11,600 years ago the Ice Age came to an end and the whole face of the world changed everything became different and we start to look at the world as we as we see it today so there is uh the conventional notion there's the bearing Straits now and there's how they were during the ice Ag and it did seem obvious to archaeologists that this must have been the main route for getting into the Americas anded for a long time they held it was the only route for getting into the Americas and there was a theory that there had been an icef free Corridor between the celer and and the laurentide ice sheets uh that theory by the way has been recently completely blown out of the water nobody could have used that ice free corridor because it didn't exist um and and um here's the here's the general picture uh of these migrations and through that supposed ice free Corridor and down into North America about 12,000 years ago and then eventually onwards into South America um and and um it's these genetic discoveries of this close relationship between austral Asians and certain peoples in the Amazon rainforest that are challenging the leld view of the peopling of the American the leld view became a dogma and that Dogma was called Clovis first these were supposed to be the Clovis culture were supposed to be the first inhabitants of North America and they're not supposed to have come into North America until around 13,400 years ago and mysteriously 12,800 years ago they vanish entirely from the stage they're recognized by these fantastic fluted points that they that they made so they were held to be the first culture of the Americans and for decades archaeologists were adamant that no human beings had entered the Americas before 13,400 years ago um but things are beginning to change this is a report from 2013 um not so long ago there was a seemingly incontrovertible answer to the question of how and when the first settlers made it to the Americans some 13,000 years ago a group of people from Asia walked walked across a land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska and headed south and these people were known to us as the Clovis by the way why do we call them the Clovis culture they didn't call themselves that we have no idea what they call themselves that I'll tell you why because there's a site called blackwat Draw uh down in uh New Mexico and um in that site we found many of those Clovis points by archaeologists but the problem was there was no beer of available right there at the site but where there was beer available was in the town of Clovis New Mexico about 10 miles away so they called it the Clovis culture yeah for decades this was the received W wisdom so so so compelling was the Clovis first model that few archaeologists even contemplated an alternative some with the tarity to do so complained of a Clovis Police intent on suppressing descent and believe me the Clovis Police was a real real thing it wrecked the lives of quite a number of archaeologists who took a dissenting View and held that it was absurd to suggest that the Americans had only been populated 13,000 years ago of course they'd been populated earlier and Jac sank Mars uh who conducted um excavations at Bluefish caves in the Yukon found evidence of the presence of humans in the Americas more than 20,000 years ago that was heresy to the Clovis Police they descended upon him they recruited their friends in the media to attack him to present him as a pseudo scientists to say that he was telling lies to say that he was fraudulently presenting evidence they did everything possible uh to to ruin his career and as the Smithsonian later admitted rather than launching a major new search for more early evidence to fine stirred Fierce opposition and a bitter debate one of the most acrimonious and unfruitful in all of science as to put it and poor Jac sank Mars he was ruined by the Clovis Police his research funding was withdrawn he was passed by in corridors with by colleagues who would no longer speak to him uh he was treated as a pariah um he in every way was insulted and humiliated but he was right but he was right because Bluefish caves were re-excavated and and we now know uh that people were butchering horses and other animals in Bluefish caves 24,000 years ago Jac Sankar was totally correct and and the the this more recent research completely vindicates him but too late to save him from the destruction of his career that fellow archaeologists inflicted upon him as the Smithsonian admitted in 2017 the study does raise serious questions about the effect of the bitter decades long debate over the peopling of the new world did did archaeologists in the mainstream marginalized dissenting voices on this key issue and if so what was the impact on North American archaeology despite the intense did the intense criticism of pre-clovis sites produce a chilling effect stifling new ideas and hobbling the search for early sites um the scientific atmosphere recour Tom D was clearly toxic and clearly impeded science so that's March the 8th 2017 now these days if --- e nor does it seek to suppress it in a conspiratorial fashion I actually don't think that any conspiracy is going on here uh I think people get locked into a particular mind mindset uh their careers depend on it the approval of their colleagues depend on it the um uh funding for their research depends on it uh they get invested in that mindset and they find it very difficult to see outside it part of the problem is that very ancient structures thousands of years older than archaeologists suppose may be hiding in plain view surrounded by other younger structures and the best example of that really is the is the Sphinx of Giza and these two temples these two temples in front of it this Temple is just is a new kingdom Temple much later the even then the accepted date of the Sphinx but which is about 4,500 years ago but the Sphinx and these two temples are deeply anomalous and the um erosion patterns uh in the trench around the Sphinx and which were originally on the body of the Sphinx before it was restored uh speak eloquently of what is called precipitation induced weather and this was first noticed by the late great John Anthony West a dear friend of mine who passed away in 2018 and John West brought Professor Robert shock a geologist from Boston University to the site and shock said it's obvious this site has been subjected to at least a thousand years of heavy rainfall when did that happen well it happened between roughly 12,8 11,600 years ago that's the last time that there were Reigns capable of causing this level of erosion uh in in the Egyptian desert see those deep vertical fissures running down there that's the rain water pouring off the side of the escarment and and selectively hollowing out the weaker areas of rock um from most of the 20th century was a consensus of archaeologists that megalithic architecture was beyond the capacities of hunter gatherers and required the presence of long-term settled agricultural communities to evolve and it seemed to reinforce this view that no megalithic architecture had been found anywhere in the world that was more than 6,000 years old in fact that was one of the main arguments that the archaeological police used to try to dismiss John West and Robert shock um they said show us another culture that's 12,000 years old anywhere in the world and we might listen to you but we know that there is no culture capable of creating anything like the Sphinx until 4,500 years ago therefore of course the Spinx is 4,500 years ago but of course that changed completely with gobec Lee which is a deliberately buried site deliberately buried 11,600 years ago a very very ancient site sorry it was it began 11,600 years it was deliberately buried about a, years later and thus sealed and thus an intact archaeological scene and the evidence from gockley teepe is that this site is 11,000 600 years old it dates to the end of a period called the younger drats which I'll talk a bit more about and my goodness if you're capable of creating these 20ton megalithic pillars and this huge site uh then you're certainly capable of creating the Great Sphinx so the notion that the Sphinx is somehow out of context has to completely change now that we have gobec lii I'm here with the the late professor Clash Smidt who unlike most archaeologists uh did not sort of make the sign of the cross and run away as as soon as I appeared on the site but but actually gave me three days of his time and and talked me through the site in great depth tragically he passed away in 2014 and he's been succeeded by a very closed-minded group of archaeologists um what he's telling me why he's pointing at the ground is that there's hundreds of pillars as yet unexcavated still deeply buried under the ground huge enclosures under the ground that they haven't excavated yet the story of gockley tee is just beginning and neighboring karane back in 2014 when Santa and I first went there uh all you could see at karane was a few interesting looking bits of stone sticking out of the ground but now karane has been excavated and this is how it looks today uh an extraordinary megalithic site of the same age as gockley tee around about 11,000 11,600 years ago um and uh here we have pillars carved directly out of the Bedrock and then one freestanding pillar included there and then this curious face sticking out of the wall which I must say gave me the chills the first time I saw it I don't know what it's about it's got a sort of snake like feeling with a human head on the end of a snake's body so there is um there is reason to conclude that uh the Spinx does not stand alone that there are now recogn archaeological sites which involve huge amounts of workmanship that are as old as the Sphinx and I wonder if some other sites have been misinterpreted if sites have are multi-layered that many different cultures have been involved in them and Archaeology is perhaps making the mistake of just dating them to the most recent culture that was present this is balbec uh in the Lebanon um and uh undoubtedly a Roman Temple here uh Temple of Jupiter that I'm sitting in and and behind it the uh the Temple of bakus dedicated ated to Wine those Romans knew how to have fun um a Roman site for sure but what about this bizarre enclosure wall that surrounds it which is totally separate from the Temple of Jupiter what's this about these this is called the trilithon each of these three blocks weighs 900 tons 900 tons and it's extraordinary the way they're built into a wall and raised 30 ft above the ground like this a wall the Providence for which has not been established by archaeology just another look and I'm in the picture for for scale at the at the trilithon so uh nearby is the Quarry and the Quarry contains a number of very large blocks that were never transported from the Quarry site now the one I'm standing on weighs a thousand tons 100 tons more than the ones in that wall and that one over there on the other side of the road unfortunately used now as a Rubbish Tip weighs 1,200 tons and the one here in the that I'm standing on here which is only recently excavated turns out to weigh 1,400 tons why only recently excavated because the whole site was covered in sedimentation um what archaeologists say and it still amuses me of course the Romans did everything they found they could move 900 ton blocks but a th000 tons was too much for them so they couldn't move them so they just left them in the Quarry in my view that's a very un Roman thing to do the Romans were very practical people okay let's say they couldn't move a thousand tons but having gone to all the work of creating huge megalist like this they wouldn't have wasted them they'd have sliced them up like loaves of bread and used the already shaped blocks in other constructions the fact that they didn't do that that these are still there suggests to me the whole site was covered during Roman times and it's only in more recent times that it's been excavated and revealed and then let's go to Sak Haman in the sacred Valley near the town of kusco uh in Peru in the high Andes incredible megaliths there which archaeology gives entirely to the Incas even though the Incas themselves recognized and honored the work of predecessors it gives archaeology gives this work entirely to the incor I mean that's me for scale standing beside that block and look at these weird sort of holes in the block and the way the blocks are almost fitted melted together in a very strange manner manner it's very different from what is definitely Inca architecture uh I'll just show a few more shots these these sort of scallops in the side of the block these holes it almost looks like the stone was soft and that people were pressing something into it maybe it raises the question was was was there a way of manipulating and and even melting Stone putting it in place um the work is very fine I mean you can't get a razor blade between the joints in the blocks it's just incredibly fine megalithic work um and I was privileged to spend I've had several visits to the Andes with Jesus gumara who himself is a descendant of the Incas and who is a local researcher following in the footsteps of his father uh who also was intensely interested in the megaliths and he and his father are both confident absolutely confident that the Incas simply were latecomers and that they rebuilt they built on top of the modified they honored by overbuilding the much older structures that are the megalithic structures and here we are at Pak and Jesus is showing me different aspects of the site and at sakan and explaining his view that actually there's evidence for three cultures there the Incas being the last and that there were two earlier cultures uh and he believes that the megalithic work is entirely the work of these earlier cultures and has been wrongly handed to his ancestors the incor uh and weirdly up there near kusco we have this curious stone work and we also have it at Al lakah hoyak in Turkey exactly the same kind of thing is this a coincidence or is there something going on behind the scenes of history that we've not been fully informed about yet um and and and oddly these these patterns these t-shaped pillars that we see at gockley tee are repeated at the Temple of edfu in Upper East Egypt and uh also in Peru let's go to Tiano even higher in the Andes we're now 14,000 ft above sea level and this 300 ton block God knows how anybody got it up there at 14,000 ft above sea I can even breathe at 14,000 ft above sea level it takes me days to get climatized um there this massive megalithic site uh in in tiako uh and some Curiosities there's there's these h shaped blocks we would we recognize them as a h because H is a letter in our alphabet that's of course not what they meant to the Ancients but it's the shape I want to draw attention to because that same shape appears at gockley Tee It appears on the belts of some of the figures now I'm not saying that people from gbec tee brought that idea to the Americas I suspect it more likely the other way around actually um but uh what I'm saying is that appears to be an iconographic connection between the two sites which is not explained by current theories of archaeology tanako uh is a very controversial site and archaeologists would like it not to be much more than 2,000 years old but there's curious astronomical alignments at tanako uh which make it clear that the site was aligned to the summer solstice in 10,500 BC 12,000 500 years ago uh and this is because the rising point of the sun on the solsis changes as a result of shifts in the obliquity of the Earth's axis uh over a 41,000 year cycle tiako makes much more sense as 12,500 years old from an astronomical point of view than it does as 2,000 years old some other figures here the ones on the right starting here are are all from tiako uh but over here we have the god Osiris from Egypt a bearded figure remembered by the ancient Egyptians as a bringer of the gifts of civilization not only in Egypt but in many other lands as well and down here we have the earliest surviving representation of the feathered serpent qual katle in Mexico uh from the alch culture uh and again qual coatal is Remembered in Traditions from Central America as a bringer of civilization and and as a teacher of civilization so let's move over now to tanako there's this pillar in the so-called semi- Subterranean chamber and on the front of the pillar is this face which is the face of a deity venerated in the Andes for Millennia and the name of that deity is virocha uh notice the the heavy beard on the figure here and here there's a serpent on the side of the pillar and up here you can't see it clearly as a curious animal uh We've highlighted it here this curious creature and what it looks like is an extinct example of South American megaper it looks a lot like toxodon which went extinct at the end of the Ice Age what's it doing on this pillar if the site is only 2,000 years old then there's another problem okay I suggest strongly that evidence from much earlier megalithic construction is hiding in plain view and has been misdated by archaeology but there's a far greater problem that's posed by the huge areas of the Earth where only minimal archaeological investigations have ever been carried out well the Sahara Desert for example yes there's been some archaeology in the Sahara desert but not very much I get it it's a very expensive place to work it's a very tough place to work work and besides archaeology has the view that there's not much to find there there has been some archaeology done but very very little minimal that's 9.2 million square kilometers of the Earth's surface that hasn't yet really been studied by archaeology at all it's round about the size of the Republic of China it's like it's like talking about the world and excluding China completely from the story we can't say we've got the past completely nailed down when we haven't thoroughly investigated the Sahara Desert because the Sahara --- y to hang on to a structure here and the Sea's going to beat you up badly um well that's the edges of that tunnel and as you can see it's a megalithic tunnel with one block pil on top of the other and then at the end of the tunnel we see we see this two blocks positioned side by side and that's me just diving down beside those blocks to show their nature and their scale they're enormous uh and archaeologists say oh no problem uh they must have fallen from some Cliff overhead the only problem is there is no Cliff overhead and never has been so those two blocks this is them in context there they are that tunnel that I went through is down here there's the two blocks and then there's this massive completely natural uh Stone outcropping I'm not disputing that it's natural but as we continue to explore that outcropping what do we find we find a flat Terrace and we find steps on the Terrace and in my mind this speaks strongly of human workmanship Japan is a megalithic culture many of the megaliths in Japan have never really been properly studied this one is called masado No iuna the upside down boat Stone um in uh the Asuka area of Japan um and uh it's interesting that if you go around to the other side of that huge megalith you'll see how it was created they they um cut out these grooves in it creating these outcroppings which if they' finished the work would have been smoothed off and left and left to look like the rest of the structure oddly enough exactly the same stone cutting technique is found underwater at yonaguni and since it's nearly 30 meters underwater it's been underwater for more than 12,000 years um above water in Japan you do have megalithic stone circles the one at the top left is from Hokkaido uh alori on the right very small River stones used to create a Circle uh and then shikoku down at the bottom left well we heard of a site in the kma islands in the southern part of Japan where there was a stone circle underwater well we couldn't resist that so we went diving there and uh lo and behold what did we find a massive Stone Circle uh and indeed circles made of small riverstones as well but 30 meters underwater 12,000 years old Plus what is going on here well that's me with a video camera up there and a diver down there beside the central ight upright for scale these megaliths like the pillars at karane are carved out of Bedrock they're carved out of Bedrock um and it's really difficult for me to see how nature could have done this uh I mean there I am on top of the central look at the way the outer curve of the central upright matches the inner curve of one of the outer uprights here we are now in Taiwan from that island of yonaguni Taiwan is actually visible on a clear day here we're underwater with local diver Steve Shia at Taiwan and he's showing us a wall he discovered underwater about 20 Metter underwater uh and that wall has battlements um and it has a kind of Plaza in front of it and unless there's any doubt that it's man-made let's get up close and look at it it's made of individual blocks of stone this doesn't happen naturally this is a man-made structure underwater which archaeology has paid absolutely zero attention to then what about India diving in in Indian Waters is often quite murky there's a lot of sediment in the water makes it very difficult to see but here's South India as it looked during the Ice Age when sea level was was much lower Sri Lanka was joined to South India um and I'm interested in two sites in particular in South India pahar and mahabalipuram pahar we heard about from the National oceanographic Institute of India were based in Goa and they kindly actually took us diving at pahar and showed us what they are confident as a man-made structure they describe it as a u u-shaped structure at 29 MERS underwater and I apologize for the visibility but that's what you dive in there um and uh fishermen get their Nets caught on it causes trouble to fishermen all the time in fact they would like it removed uh and there are individual blocks surrounding it further north at at mahabalipuram um was Santa and I who investigated this area first uh santha speaks the Tamil language as her first language um and so we were able to communicate easily and fluently with local fishermen and we asked them at mahabalipuram is there anything under water that you guys know about and they said yeah there's a whole city out there and we're really annoyed about it because we keep catching our Nets on it and we have to send down divers and not scuba divers free divers and and sometimes they get killed and we've asked the government to do something about it but they they don't believe us well we believe them it took about two years to organize the Expedition and we had to involve the scientific exploration Society led by John blast Snell uh in Britain as you can see it was a very high-tech Expedition and off we went diving off the Waters of mahabal pum and immediately we saw the fishermen were right that there are man-made structures underwater two blocks side by side here uh a bit of a wall sticking above the sand a wall with a standout feature there I'm putting my dive knife into the gap between two blocks um another pair of blocks there and a curved a curved feature there's so much there's so much more underwater at mahabur well following that investigation uh it was decided that some archology would be done but to my frustration the archaeology so far has been confined to the inter tidal Zone just down to 5 MERS and they haven't been down to 27 to 30 m where we found these structures yet so you know if um if Santa and I out of our own pocket can go diving and find stuff underwater which doesn't fit the picture of history that we're given by archaeologists what would be found if real investment were put into searching the underwater the submerged Continental shelves I think a great deal would be found there's another area of the world where archaeologists haven't looked enough and that area of the world is the Amazon rainforest it's about 7 million square kilometers in size and there have been tragic clearances of the Amazon as we all know terrible mistake to cut down old growth rainforests and replace it with soyer Bean Farms to feed cattle so that we can all eat hamburgers what a stupid decision especially since rainforest soils are not particularly fertile and they are fertilized by the fall of vegetation onto them once you remove the trees you're in a place that soybean Farm is only going to last 10 years then it's going to be useless so the destruction of the Amazon is a huge mistake that human beings are making we still got 5 a half million square kilm left covered by rain forest and extraordinary evidence is beginning to come out of those 5 a half million kilometers not just that genetic signal that connects peoples of the Amazon to peoples of australasia but real archaeology this is in one of the areas already cleared uh and this is the work of of of Marty Parson um and Sanoma and Al Ramsey who have been investigating what they describe as the Amazonian geoglyphs and uh here we have a square with an embankment around it and here we have a square with its own embankment surrounding a circle with its own embankment actually looks a bit like the henges that we find in England very like ay henge as a matter of fact in many ways um and this is where it's happening it's in the Brazilian state of acre um and it's the location of the principal geoglyph sites that had been discovered by 2019 there's another one they they're very geometrical these geog the the circle enclosing a square or an oval enclosing a square are repeated again and again um and and and here we have these of curious little scallops taken out of a square and and another Circle um and and teino is a massive site 37 Acres it once extended over uh but its two principal squares still remain the largest measures 210 by 210 M it's got two further squares inter nested within it and the smaller Square which has been extensively damaged measures 130 by 130 M the largest square is 40 m wide and opens onto a Causeway 1 and a half kilometers long and all this was happening in the Amazon thousands of years ago so keep in mind this redrawing of this site for Zender Colorado just keep it in mind for moment I'll come to why it matters um fenda piran and Severino calazans are both oriented to True astronomical North as are the Giza Pyramids and seina calans on the on the calazans on the right has the same footprint as the Great Pyramid of Giza measuring 230 M uh along each side and is equally precisely aligned to True astronomical North now I'm going to talk a bit about aasa which is one of the great discoveries of the peoples of the Amazon this is shipibo aasa Art and as you can see part of the art of iasa is geometry it's filled with geometry um anybody who's had an experience in a deeply altered state of consciousness whether with cybin whether with LSD whether with DMT which is the active ingredient in iwasa will almost certainly at some point or another see geometrical patterns they're very common in the early stages of the of the journey um and and what is depicted here is Visions seen under the influence of iasa uh and on the right here we have an amazing painting by by the late great Pablo amaringo a great Visionary artist worked with aasa all his life and was gifted as an artist and he he shows us something of the enchanted realm uh that iasa can bring us into to and it's seen as a literally as a portal IAS is seen as a portal that takes us to the other side uh I want to be clear that iasa is very serious business um I've had 75 or so sessions with with iasa um I'm not I'm not in a rush to have my next um I want to dispel the myth at the moment that any hallucinogens are addictive they are not there are no addictive hallucinogens unfortunately medical science is beginning to catch up with the Fantastic potential therapeutic potential of these ancient medicines but Iowaska is very serious business it's going to make you confront truths about yourself that you might prefer not to know um and you're going to go through a bit of a physical ordeal you're going to vomit you're going to have diarrhea I mean nobody's rushing to do that you know and and actually just looking at the Brew there just does make me feel a little bit sick so you have to brace yourself for an iwasa experience um and another of Pablo's Visions we'll notice that there are creatures called theanthropos in this Vision those are the body of an animal and the head of a human being or it can be the other way around it's from the Greek theion which means wild beast and anthropos which means human again these are very commonly reported and I've seen them myself many times in Visions in Altered States Of Consciousness uh entities are encountered and often they take animal form or mixed animal and human form um and here the Toano of the Amazon are particularly their culture is particularly closely connected to iasa uh and here we see a Tucano Shaman guiding his son through an iwasa experience helping him navigate the infinite terrain of the other side and in the other photographs we see Tucano iasa art which again is reflecting the geometry seen in iasa Visions um I'm going to read this this is from Gerardo Rachel doov one of the great experts on Toano although any member of the Toano community may drink aasa the deeper Mysteries of the Brew are primarily the work of the shaman whose responsibility it is to travel through the portal to the other side when never required to negotiate with powerful Supernaturals on half of his community where matters of the greatest importance must be resolved a group of PES will work together consuming massive quantities of iasa until they reach a point lying in their hammocks where they feel they are ascending to the Milky Way the ascent to the Milky Way is not easily accomplished an apprentice will hardly ever be able to rise immediately to this sublunary region but rather will learn to do so after many trials at first he will barely rise over the horizon the the next time perhaps we will reach a point corresponding to the position of the sun at 9:00 a.m. then at 10:00 a.m. and so on until at last in a single soaring flight he will reach the Zenith so in summary the Shaman's Visionary journey through the iwasa portal involves a leap or after sufficient practice a soaring flight to the Milky Way not the final goal it's a Way Station beyond the Milky Way lies the entrance to the other world and again I'll quote Gerardo Rachel doov it is said that the individual dies when he drinks the potion and that now his Spirit returns to the uterine regions of the Beyond only to be reborn there and to return to his ordinary existence when the trance is over this then is conceived as an acceleration of time an anticipation of death and rebirth so iasa is a kind of Guide to the afterlife realm it's a kind of Book of the Dead not written in text but in direct experienc --- ncient Egypt and in South America and this is how it works the Orion's Belt was the wrist and other stars of Orion were involved in the the fingers and the thumb um and uh this is uh sorry uh it's an example of the hand and eye Motif and the the Orion Nebula is representing Ed by the eye in the palm of the hand and was conceived of as a portal through which the soul must leap on its afterlife Journey now Professor George Langford is an internationally recognized Authority on Native American folklore anthropology religious studies and ethnohistory and he notes that the portal in the hand must be entered by a leap at the optimum time again we're looking at a system of religious ideas that seems to have been shared all around the world concerning the afterlife Destiny of the soul and I'm not suggesting that Egypt influenced Mexico or influence North America I'm suggesting the possibility of a remote common source from which these ideas descended and were disseminated all around the world so we have another leap up to a portal in the sky in the constellation of Orion and there's the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph uh for the datat as I showed you from the Pyramid of unas a star enclosed within Circle uh and in ancient Native America George Langford writes the whole in the sky is indicated as a slit being pulled apart and the fact that it is Celestial is frequently elaborated by the inclusion of a Star Circle or dot on the Native American afterlife Journey there's encounters with all kind of monsters who will test us on the lives that we have lived and one of them is called the brain Smasher usually a woman whose task is to destroy memory by removing or smashing the brain indeed there are repeated references to a menacing female figure usually called the brain Smasher or the brain taker in accounts of the Native American afterlife Journey her role is the annihilation just like that Eater of the Dead in the ancient Egyptian scene her role is the annihilation and permanent destruction of unworthy Souls of the Damned on the afterlife Journey so here's this vignette from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead um the original translation given by EA Wallace budge was was very flimsy in my view when I look at this when I look at this scene I don't see an individual smashing himself in the head just voluntarily I see that goddess projecting power to him and making him inflict that destruction uh on himself so I wanted to get a full trans ation of this scene what is that who is that woman what is happening here and so I went to Louise Ellis Barrett uh at the British museum uh and she provided me with the translation and what that female figure is doing she lives from the blood of the Damned and from what these Gods provide her the demolishing one who cuts the dam to Pieces she is in other words a brain Smasher uh the star denib in the constellation we know as signus the swan is positioned on the bank of the Milky Way exactly at the fork where a second path a dead end branches off George Langford identifies denb and signis as a whole with the Moundville Raptor figure a bird an adversary on the Journey of the Soul with the power to block its further progress by forcing it to take a path culminating in a dead end in the ancient Egyptian pyramid text the soul on its journey through the through the Duart is confronted by a bird adversary that apparently has the power to block its path it's difficult to give any other interpretation to this encounter since the soul is made to declare Hail To You ostrich that's a bird of Egypt Hail To You ostrich which is on the bank of the winding Waterway open my way that I may pass and likewise what what else but recognition of the same fork in the Milky Way that was regarded as so ominous in Native America can be expressed in the pyramid text where we read do not travel on those Western waterways for those who travel thereon do not return but travel on the Eastern waterways here are monstrous winged serpents from the ancient Egyptian Netherworld here are monstrous winged serpents from the ancient American Nether world uh here is another of those monsters encountered on the Journey of the soul in ancient North America upper right the underwater Panther uh and I'm just drawing attention to the similarities of the underwater Panther to the Great Sphinx of Giza um on the right we see the chief of the astronomers uh a religious figure amongst the skiddy porne of ancient North America he was known as the chief of the astronomers and uh he wears a robe Spangled with stars interestingly there was also a figure called the chief of the astronomers in ancient Egypt and he also wore a robe Spangled with Scot stars or sometimes with a leopard skin where the dots represented the Stars coincidence or something going on behind the scenes that we haven't figured out on the left from North America uh an engraved whelk shell and it is depicting the hero deity referred to by archaeologists as the Birdman and symbolized as a hawk on the right statue of Horus an Egyptian hero deity likewise symbolized as a hawk the fundamental role of both these hawk-headed deities was to represent the Triumph of Life over death so both the ancient Egyptian and the ancient Native American afterlife Journeys involve a strong element of judgment indeed in a sense the entire ordeal in both cases concerns the Judgment of the soul for its choices for what it has done and has not done for the use it has made of the gift of life during its physical incarnation in both cases the Unworthy Soul can face Annihilation by gods demons and monsters at any point on the Journey For example at the hands of the brain Smasher figure but in both cases also for those who have progressed thus far through the Nether world a specific judgment awaits and in both cases the desired outcome was to LEAP up to Immortal Life amongst the stars and I love this this figure here of the initiate ascending on a serpent into the stars and indeed it inspired the um title of John West's uh wonderful book serpent in the sky so I don't think we're looking at coincidence here there's too much going on I think coincidence is a very weak explanation for what's happening one possibility is I've mentioned is a remote shared ancestor another is convergent experiences in Altered States Of Consciousness actually my vote goes to both I think that we are dealing with an with an ancestor who passed down a legacy of knowledge and who an ancestor that was deeply involved in Visionary experiences uh and those Visionary experiences have continued to the present day so just a few more slides now sorry that I have to read my memory is not what it was the origin myth of the Tucano speaks of the time aons ago when humans first settled the Great Rivers of the Amazon basin it seems that supernatural beings accompanied them on this journey and gifted them the fundamentals on which to build a civilized life from the daughter of the sun they received the gift of fire and the knowledge of horiculture pottery making and many other crafts the serpent shaped canoe of the first settlers was steered by a superhuman Helmsman meanwhile other Supernaturals traveled by canoe all over the rivers explored the remote Hill rages they pointed out pricious sites for houses or fields or for hunting and fishing and they left their lasting imprint on many spots so that future Generations would have ineffaceable proof of their Earthly days and would forever remember them in their teachings over in Easter isand ancient legends speak of a primeval Pacific Homeland called hea from which the very first inhabitants of Easter Island supposedly came a Homeland that was submerged under the sea and it's particularly intriguing that this tradition speaks of seven sages who are said to have been instrumental in the original settlement of Easter Island Seven Sages and the first task of the seven sages from hea after their arrival on Easter Island was the construction of stone Mounds Mesopotamia o Anis and gain seven sages of ancient Mesopotamia the seven sages were remembered as teaching Advanced astronomical and geodetic knowledge including all the skills necessary for planning and setting out a city and they appeared amongst Humanity after an enormous World destroying flood same story roughly occurs in India Manu and the seven sages rescued from the universal Deluge by the fish Avatar of Vishnu this theme of seven sages keeps on coming up again and again and it comes up at this amazing Temple the Temple of Horus at edfu in Upper Egypt a temple uh that was relatively late in the Egyptian story it was built around 300 even the late 280s BC but it was built on a much more ancient site and the language inscribed on its walls is not the Egyptian that was spoken at that time it's middle Egyptian it's a language that goes back to 2,000 BC um the edu building texts as they're called are found between the inner and outer enclosure walls of the temple um and this is what they look like I I had drawn attention to this curious t-shaped pattern earlier um and they speak of a homeland of the Primeval ones an island like Atlantis oh archaeologists hate the word Atlantis say the word Atlantis and you're automatically a lunatic you know um because they've proved that Atlantis could never have existed even though they have not looked at the parts of the world that need to be looked at even though their study of the world is very very very incomplete an island like Atlantis that was destroyed in an immense and cataclysmic flood a snake called the Great leaping one is described as the chief enemy of the god it's his assault that causes the homeland of the primeval ones to be swallowed up by the sea but first the island was pierced and the domain was split and the texts also speak of survivors of the destruction of the Primeval island of the Gods specifically named as seven sages of their wanderings afterwards and of their project to reconstitute or resurrect their lost former World they came to Egypt and established religion by building primeval Mounds up and down the Nile Valley and there's Plato's story of Atlantis uh and how the gods Purge the Earth with a deluge of water uh and and and how the survivors are are are left have to begin all over again like children with no memory of what went before and I'm suggesting that that's what we are we are the children who have no memory of what went before what went before those cataclysmic floods at the end of the Ice Age and it's interesting that uh the story comes to Plato through his family line through his ancestors so um and Solon did make a famous visit to Egypt around the year 600 BC he was a well-known Greek lawmaker uh and he visited the Temple of Neath at SC in the Delta that Temple no longer exists and there he encountered priests uh and asked them to explain to him the writings on the walls and the priests told him of a great civilization that had been destroyed in an enormous flood and that had left some survivors who had come to Egypt and Solon asked the priests when did this flood happen when was when was Atlantis buried and by the way in in the dialogues Plato makes it clear that he's ganizing ancient Egyptian words Atlantis is not an ancient Egyptian word so Solon asked the priests when was this flood when was Atlantic submerged and they said quite matter of factly oh 9,000 years ago that was in 600 BC it's so easy to do the math that means 9,600 BC in our calendar uh they're telling us that uh this lost civilization was submerged in a great flood around 11,600 years before our time this is why I think we need to pay attention to the Atlantis story rather than just write it off as the ravings of the lunatic Fringe and my God Plato was no Lunatic Fringe um it just so happens that 11,600 years ago coincides not only with the construction of gockley teepe but also with meltwater pulse 1B a very rapid Global sea level rise over a period of several hundred years now archaeologists say oh meltwater pulse 1B wasn't a big deal if you do the average over 300 years it's only a few meters a year averages don't work with sea level rise it came in pulses and when you look at the when you look at the detail you find that there were periods when there was enormous sea level rise in a short period of time and you can tell this from submerged corals uh in the Bahamas for example um so the myths speak repeatedly of the coming of the sages in context of a great cataclysm a derangement of the heavens Cosmic serpents a global flood a time of cold and darkness and frankly the younger ders from 12 ,800 to 11,600 years ago is the only Epoch in the lifetime of anatomically modern humans that fits the bill what happened on Earth begins in the sky as above so below and that's why we called the series ancient apocalypse and that's the end of this talk uh I'm going to take a 15-minute break now I imagine some of you need a break to uh and then I'll be back with a with a second shorter talk thank you thank you than thank you