Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 11, Episode 7 - The Wisdom Keepers - full transcript
The Aborigines of Australia are the oldest, continuously surviving society on Earth. The stories preserved in their oral tradition are said to date back over 60,000 years
TOK THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
peoples of Australia
are one of the world's
very, very oldest cultures.
KEVIN GAVI DUNCAN:
Our stories
are older than
the Stonehenge in England.
They're 20 or 30,000 years older
than the pyramids of Egypt.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
If you look
at these Wandjina figures
in the cave art,
these figures look exactly
like Grey aliens.
Wow.
GARY SIMON JAGAMARRA:
We carved them, we sang them,
we danced them in stories,
we painted them,
so when the visitors left,
we didn't forget about them.
NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has credited its origins
to gods and other visitors
from the stars.
What if it were true?
Did extraterrestrial beings
really help
to shape our history?
And if so,
might the secrets of our past
have been entrusted...
to Australia's Wisdom Keepers?
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NARRATOR:
In 2015, documentary filmmaker
Damien Nott released an archive
of over 2,000 UFO images
taken over the skies
of Australia
in the past three years.
DAMIEN NOTT:
Oh, my God.
WOMAN: It seems to be,
like, illuminating.
NOTT:
It's actually morphing shape
and rotating as well.
-WOMAN: Yeah.
-This is phenomenal.
Australia
is certainly a hot spot
for UFO sightings.
We've had a phenomenal growth
in the reporting
of UFO sightings
by the general public,
especially since the advent
of the Internet.
But all evidence shows that UFOs
have definitely
been visiting Australia
for tens of thousands of years.
We've had records
engraved on cave artwork
by the Australian Aborigines,
which goes back thousands
of years.
Australia is one of the
most mysterious continents,
and the Aboriginals
have all kinds
of ancient stories
of sky gods coming down.
These are probably some
of the oldest stories
of extraterrestrial intervention
that we have on Planet Earth.
Australia was something
of a last frontier
long after America was settled.
Well, it was 1770
that the British explorer
Captain Cook
actually came across Australia,
and it wasn't until 1788
that it was really settled--
that was the east coast
of Australia--
settled by convicts.
That's what the British brought
from their prisons.
NARRATOR:
Today, the area of Sydney
that the British first settled
is a bustling metropolis,
and Australia has become
one of the most popular
tourist destinations on Earth.
But hidden behind
this modern facade
is nearly
2½ million square miles
of undeveloped
and sparsely populated land,
known as the outback.
And while Australia
is a relatively new land
to the Western world,
for the nearly 700,000 people
that call the continent
their ancestral home,
it has a history that dates back
tens of thousands of years.
THOMPSON: There is something
very, very special
about Australia.
Here we have a situation where
this huge land mass has been
pretty much cut off
from the rest of the world
for 40,000 years.
And we don't really find that
in-in many other places
in the world.
NARRATOR: But what was happening
on this island continent
for the tens of thousands
of years
that it existed in isolation?
DUNCAN: When the first
Europeans arrived here,
they didn't have much knowledge
in regards to the sky world,
where our people had much
ancient knowledge
of the star system,
and the constellation
of the stars.
Our knowledge and wisdom
is so old.
NARRATOR: Anthropologists
have dated the existence
of the Australian Aboriginal
people back 60,000 years,
making it the most ancient
continuous culture in the world.
THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
peoples of Australia,
are one of the world's very,
very oldest cultures.
No other cultures in the world
can compare
with the Australian cultures.
They have knowledge that's been
around for a lot longer
than really any of our knowledge
has been around.
NARRATOR:
The Aboriginal people
have no official
written language.
Art, music,
and oral storytelling
are how they pass their
histories and sacred knowledge
to future generations.
Their past is encoded
on various rock walls
scattered across the continent.
Our oral traditions,
our stories
that are passed down
from generation to generation,
the wisdom and knowledge
that have been given to us
by our god,
they're 10,000 or more
years older
than the Stonehenge in England.
They're 20,000
or 30,000 years older
than the pyramids of Egypt.
NARRATOR:
These ancient traditions
are all strongly tied
to Australia's connection
with the stars,
and with the beings
that are said
to have come down from them.
As evidence,
ancient astronaut theorists
point to the caves of
the Northwest Kimberley region
that contain depictions
of beings called the Wandjina,
the sky heroes of one of
Australia's indigenous clans.
The Aboriginals have all kinds
of ancient stories
of Wandjina figures,
of great heroes
and sky gods who
manipulated the continent
and created the rivers
and mountains,
and fought amongst each other,
and then they left.
If you look at these Wandjina
figures in the cave art,
they have big white faces.
They have really no mouth
to speak of.
They have very large,
black eyes,
and there's a field
around their heads
that's like a space helmet,
perhaps.
So, in many ways
these Wandjina figures
look exactly like Grey aliens.
And you have to wonder, then,
if the cave art
is depicting extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Could these images
really be depicting
extraterrestrials that visited
Australia in the ancient past?
And if so, do the indigenous
people living in Australia today
still have insight
into the meaning
behind this ancient rock art?
JAGAMARRA:
We all have stories
of people in crafts
coming from the stars,
going to the stars,
and so on.
In order to keep them,
pass them down
to next generation,
we carved them,
we painted them,
we sung them.
We danced them in stories
to guarantee
that they passed down.
So when the visitors left,
we didn't forget about them.
And we never forget
about the things
that they passed down to us,
and the knowledge
they passed down.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Australia
is one of the few places
where we still have
living mythologies
where we can talk
to the people whose story
has been passed down
over thousands of generations.
And they talk of teachers
having descended from the sky,
and bestowed any and all
of knowledge to mankind.
So this, to me,
is an incredible treasure trove
for the
ancient astronaut theory.
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
people of Australia,
who carry an oral tradition
that dates back
tens of thousands of years,
really hold secrets
of humanity's past
that the outside world
has yet to discover?
Perhaps more evidence
can be found
by examining the depiction
of one of their
most important sky gods.
NARRATOR: Coming up...
DUNCAN:
They said the fire burnt
the top of the mountain
and all around it
every time he landed.
TSOUKALOS: So the landings
were always associated
with a lot of noise,
-smoke and fire?
-Yes.
NARRATOR:
Brisbane Water National Park.
New South Wales, Australia.
The Bulgandry preservation site
is one of numerous sacred
indigenous locations
where ancient rock art
and engravings can be found.
Many are believed
to date back thousands of years.
Oh, wow.
NARRATOR:
In February 2016,
researcher and publisher
Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Australia
to meet with Aboriginal elder
Kevin Gavi Duncan
to learn about one of the oldest
carvings that can be found here.
So what are we looking at here?
So this image is an actual image
of what we say is our
Godfather creator being, Baiame.
That's what our people believe.
Okay.
Baiame came from, well,
a place that we call
the Morning Star
within the Mirrabooka.
"Mirra" means stars,
and "booka" means river.
That is the Milky Way that flows
across the-the night sky.
No kidding? Okay.
And so he is one
of those sky heroes
that has descended
from the Milky Way?
Yes.
He's a sky hero, and
Baiame is carved in the manner
that you see there--
he has his arms out,
and he holds
the moon in one hand...
...and the Morning Star
in the other,
which is a bit like
what we call Planet Earth.
And these are
the two moons which exist
around the Morning Star
in the Mirrabooka
that Baiame came from.
TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
And this is the canoe.
He sailed through the river
of life, um, in the Mirrabooka
across the sky world.
TSOUKALOS: So, he sailed
through the Milky Way?
DUNCAN: Yes, he sailed
through the Milky Way...
and this was his vessel
that he sailed,
and he landed, to the earth...
and he crushed
the top of the mountain,
which is the sacred mountain
of Mount Yengo
not far from here.
And when he landed they said
the fire came from his feet
and it burnt the mount--
top of the mountain,
and all around it
every time he landed.
So, the landings were
always associated
with a lot of noise, smoke
-and fire?
-Yes.
The fire trail that was left
when Baiame was leaving
the top of the mountain
into the sky world,
when Baiame had left,
was so bright,
people interpret that
as a spaceship of some kind...
TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
DUNCAN:
...as coming and going,
but this is the way
we simply interpret
Baiame's spaceship.
Right, but it's
because the vocabulary
didn't exist at the time.
-Yes.
-So, to me, those are all
wonderfully poetic ways
to describe eyewitness accounts
of things that were incredible.
DUNCAN: Yes.
This site is considered
around 8,000 to 10,000
years old.
Wow.
DUNCAN:
These carvings,
these rock paintings,
these are our books.
They are considered to be,
basically, as truth.
NARRATOR:
While many in the Western world
regard indigenous tales
as folklore,
it has recently been found
that at least some
of their stories are
historically accurate.
In September 2015,
scientists studying
Aboriginal lore
of past sea level rise
found corroboration
in the geological record.
Incredibly, the information
was faithfully preserved
even though these events
occurred somewhere
between 7,000
to 18,000 years ago.
Similar findings noting
the accuracy of indigenous myths
have been published
since the 1980s,
including knowledge of tsunamis,
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
meteorite impacts, and solar
eclipses in the remote past.
WILLIAM HENRY: Their stories
of events that happened
12,000 years ago, maybe older,
have now been verified
by the geological record.
This is extremely important
because if they're telling the
truth about geological events,
can we then take at face value
their stories or their
recollections of
extraterrestrial beings,
spirit beings, sky beings,
coming to Earth
and intervening
in human affairs?
I believe that we can.
NARRATOR:
Might the Aboriginal stories
of sky beings not be myth
but actual historical fact?
Could their creator gods have
been extraterrestrial visitors?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining evidence
of an ancient pilgrimage
to Australia
made by the Egyptians.
And here we are.
Wow.
How old do you reckon these are?
EVAN STRONG: We're thinking that
it's about 4,600 years old.
Wow.
DUNCAN:
We have stories
about their visits
long before Europeans
had arrived here.
NARRATOR:
Central Coast,
New South Wales, Australia.
Deep in the Brisbane
Water National Park
is a mysterious site
known as the Gosford Glyphs.
The site consists of two
massive, eight-foot-high walls
engraved with over
300 ancient carvings,
carvings that experts say do not
resemble indigenous artwork,
but Egyptian hieroglyphs.
After deciphering the texts,
21st century Egyptologist Ray
Johnson believed them to reveal
the burial site
of Lord Nefer-ti-ru,
a member of
the Egyptian royal family
who died while visiting the area
with his brother
sometime between 2637
and 2614 BC.
Absolutely beautiful out here.
Oh, I know.
NARRATOR: While visiting the
area in 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos
met with local ancient astronaut
theorist Evan Strong
to get a firsthand look
at these enigmatic carvings.
-And here we are.
-Wow.
That's incredible.
I had no idea, I mean,
this looks totally different
than on pictures.
So, what do these
-hieroglyphs say?
-Well...
at least one panel talks
about two brothers,
two princes,
coming here from Egypt.
They were shipwrecked.
One of them ended up
getting bitten by a snake.
He then died.
The theory is, then,
he was interred here,
and that's why
-you've got hieroglyphs here...
-Mm-hmm.
...because he died here...
but there's these other walls
with a mixture of symbols.
This one over here,
it's-it's more
of a philosophical
astrophysics style thing
with symbols meaning all sorts
of esoteric stuff, so...
Now, h-have these symbols
at all been interpreted
by Egyptologists?
There have been
a-a few, actually.
Mm-hmm.
Um, a few different, um,
people have done that.
And what was their reaction?
Well, Raymond Johnson was
one of the first people
to come here and-and translate.
He actually sent some
of his translations off
to the Cairo Library,
and Dr. Abou Dia' Ghazi
ended up saying, "Yep,
you're on the right track."
It's something
called proto-Egyptian.
And how old do you
reckon these are?
We're thinking because of the
prevalence, at least in one,
uh, panel of proto-Egyptian,
that it's about 4,600 years old.
TSOUKALOS: Wow.
Are there any hieroglyphs
that stand out to you?
Yeah, definitely.
Follow me down here
and I'll show you
this other one.
So, this one here, um,
we call the UFO glyph
and people have called it that
since they've been coming here
because it kind of
looks like a UFO.
TSOUKALOS: It definitely has
the classic UFO shape.
It's-it's got the... the rays
or whatever you want to call it.
What would you suggest
if anyone says, well,
this is not a UFO,
it's-it's some other symbol
that-- but certainly not that?
I think that someone
suggested that it's jewelry
but it's a completely different
symbol that's upside down
and it really
doesn't quite fit in.
It's one of those symbols here
that-that doesn't fit
into the canon.
In your opinion,
why do you think the Egyptians
made it all the way
to Australia?
I think they were looking
for esoteric wisdom, definitely.
-From the Aboriginals?
-Yes.
DUNCAN: The ancient Egyptians,
we have stories,
and Aboriginal stories,
about their arrival,
and about their visits
long before Europeans
had arrived here.
Naturally,
we would have shared ceremony
with these people because they
have the same similar beliefs
as our people.
Egyptians have that
same spiritual connection
to the sky world.
Many stories
from all over this continent,
not just from here,
but all over this continent,
talk about those
who came by the sea
and came to these continents,
and some of our knowledge
and wisdom and technology
went back with them,
and if you do some
of the research,
in the last pyramids
that they found,
they found boomerangs
made from iron bark
from here,
and they have hieroglyphs
of black fellows
throwing the boomerangs to take
out the ducks and the geese.
Now the question would be,
why would they paint us
and carve us on their walls
if they didn't come here?
And if that meeting and
relationship
was not significant,
they wouldn't have carved it.
It must've been significant
in order to carve.
NARRATOR:
Aboriginal artifacts
found in Egypt?
Hieroglyphs found in Australia?
Might the continent have
actually served as
a pilgrimage site for visitors
seeking a direct connection
to the so-called gods?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and suggest further evidence
of this otherworldly link
can be found in a megalithic
structure lost to time.
This really puts
the Aboriginal culture
in a totally different light.
DUNCAN:
He asked Aboriginal people,
"Where do you people come from?"
And our people
would always just point
to the sky.
NARRATOR: Mullumbimby,
New South Wales, 1939.
Frederic Slater,
the president of the
Australian Archaeology Society,
was dispatched to investigate
the discovery of a complex
Aboriginal arrangement
consisting of 188
standing stones.
Slater dubbed the formation
the "Stonehenge of Australia"
and became convinced that it
was one of the oldest temple
complexes in the world,
predating those found in Europe
and the Middle East.
Frederic Slater found that
the site he was investigating
was part of a larger,
much larger site,
and fitted in very closely
with Aboriginal sacred law,
myths and legends.
After a time,
Frederic Slater began to posit
and suggest that instead
of out of Africa,
that maybe we should reexamine
the evolution of man
as out of Australia.
He took a massive leap
and started declaring that
in ancient times in Australia,
the Aborigines
were more advanced
than any culture that he
could recount on the planet.
He was declared almost insane
by the rest
of the academic community.
The landowners were so terrified
of the controversy
that it implied that it was
pretty much
destroyed by bulldozers.
CHILDRESS: There are
many stone circles, uh,
throughout the British Isles
and Europe.
Stonehenge is one
of the most well known.
And they all have
some relationship
to astronomical observatories.
This Aboriginal Stonehenge
would really alter the way
we think of the Aboriginals
and the sophistication
of their society.
Where they had astronomical
and archaeoastronomical
structures that helped them
monitor the heavens,
much as standing stones
in Europe would have done.
NARRATOR:
Could the so-called
Aboriginal Stonehenge
provide us insight
into the other
stone arrangements
found scattered
throughout the world?
If so, might they serve
to provide a permanent record
of a significant connection
to another world?
Uluru Rock,
also known as Ayers Rock,
is located nearly in the center
of the continent,
over 1,200 miles
from the nearest
major Australian city.
This geological anomaly
is one of the largest
isolated rocks in the world.
It is over two miles long
and rises over 1,100 feet.
It is, in fact,
the exposed tip of a huge
vertical slab of rock
that continues below the surface
for three miles.
It is a huge sedimentary boulder
that's gigantic,
sitting there in the middle
of the desert.
And geologists
cannot really explain
how Ayers Rock came to be.
It's almost
as if it was lifted up
from somewhere else
and brought to the center
of the continent
and then just dumped there.
NARRATOR:
For the indigenous population,
Uluru is one
of their most sacred sites
and a place of pilgrimage.
They consider it
the navel of the earth.
THOMPSON:
For the Aboriginal cosmologies,
a lot of times
the landscape itself
is sort of like the Bible
and Heaven, rolled into one.
So, in places
like Uluru, Ayers Rock,
this rock is
of great significance
because they built this
into their cultural memories
of when the world was formed
by sky spirits coming to Earth.
NARRATOR: The creation stories
at Uluru Rock
are primarily associated
with the rainbow serpent.
This divine being is said
to have come out of the sky
at the beginning of time,
and held in its belly
all of creation,
including
the first human beings.
DUNCAN: The Rainbow Serpent,
we call Gria.
And the Rainbow Serpent
is related
to all Aboriginal nations
right across Australia.
And it connects us all
as Aboriginal people,
because it was regarded
as a very sacred symbol
of creation.
STRONG: An elder we're
in good contact with
told us a story about Uluru,
which is quite fascinating.
That we were actually
seeded from the spear
from the Pleiades through space.
And it actually hit the ground,
and where that place was
is Uluru.
So Uluru and its creation story
with the rainbow serpent
could perhaps even be indicative
of an ancient astronaut
kind of seeding moment
in-in our history.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have long proposed
that Earth was seeded by alien
visitors in the remote past.
Might this be true?
And if so,
do the Aboriginal stories
reflect this truth?
When the first Europeans
arrived here,
Captain Phillip,
who was an English sailor,
planted the Union Jack
in Sydney,
and he asked Aboriginal people
around that time, he said,
"Where do you people come from?"
And our people would always
just point to the sky.
He couldn't believe
that such people,
who were grounded
by Mother Earth,
say that they come
from the sky world.
NARRATOR: Might humanity
actually have been seeded
on Earth from another planet,
as the Aboriginal elders claim?
And could this truth be encoded
in the Australian landscape,
preserved for
future generations?
Researchers suggest
some sacred Aboriginal sites
continue to serve
as extraterrestrial outposts.
ROADS: They've got tales
of mystery, disappearing people,
strange noises
and strange creature sightings.
Some people had actually
traveled back
to the Morning Star.
(wind whistling)
NARRATOR:
The Blue Mountains.
Australia.
Throughout the walls
of Red Hands Cave
are the stenciled handprints
of ancient Aboriginal men,
women and children.
The art stands as a testament
to their physical time
here on Earth,
hundreds and possibly even
thousands of years ago.
According to local elders,
the location served
as an initiation site
for young warriors.
And it was here
that the collective wisdom
of the land and the sky
was passed on to future
generations by the sky gods.
We leave our images
on the cave walls,
such as our handprints,
from the time we are,
uh, children.
This would be done
generation after generation.
The Blue Mountains
is a very sacred area,
a sacred place,
especially the highest places,
because we were being
closer to Baiame,
closer to God.
NARRATOR: Mount Yengo--
the original point of descent
of the Aboriginal
creator god, Baiame--
is located here,
within the Blue Mountain range.
And curiously, the area
is also well-known today
for the mysterious
disappearances
of numerous hikers...
campers...
and soldiers...
in addition
to countless UFO sightings.
Australia's Blue Mountains have
become internationally known
as a hot spot for UFO sightings
and other mysteries.
There is certainly a lot of
mystery in the Blue Mountains.
Campers, bushwalkers,
explorers...
all have got tales of mystery,
disappearing people,
strange tunnels,
strange noises
and strange creature sightings.
The UFO sightings
of the Blue Mountains
have triggered many magazine
articles, radio shows and books.
A lot of people
have come forward
over the last few decades
to document
and put onto the record
their own experiences.
We have a great tradition
of some hundreds of sightings.
I myself have gathered
about 600,
800 sightings or so of UFOs.
And it's growing all the time,
in my own lifetime.
We have stories of UFOs
amongst early pioneer settlers
dating back to... 1850,
thereabouts.
There's a story
from about the 1890s
of a farmer who was
plowing his field and a craft,
a silver craft,
came over the cliffs.
He stood there and watched it
while it disappeared.
It came back after dark
and landed there.
And he grabbed his rifle
and went out to see
what was going on,
and the craft took off again.
I would suggest
that the Blue Mountains
have served as a contact point
for E.T.s
from an advanced
civilization in space.
CAROLINE CORY:
What is interesting to note
is that there are
several umbilical cords
on the planet.
This particular location
is located exactly
at -33 latitude.
Which means
it is aligned specifically
with the center of the galaxy.
Now having said that,
there's an interesting parallel
with the 33 latitude
on Planet Earth.
And that particular point
is considered to be
continuously being visited
from different parts
of the planetary system,
from different parts
of the galaxy,
and even from beyond
this galaxy,
from way out in the universe.
MAN:
Wow.
WOMAN:
Yeah, did you see that thing?
CHILDRESS:
There is a lot of UFO activity.
So here, we have something
that would be like a stargate,
some portal to another dimension
and jumping to hyperspace,
perhaps, and for some reason,
Australia was the place
where they put
this hyperspace portal that is
used by extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Could the Blue
Mountains of Australia function
as an extraterrestrial gateway?
Might this explain
the strange phenomena
reported in and around the area?
But if so,
is there some connection
to the local Aboriginal tribe?
DUNCAN: There is stories
that elders would say
that some people
had actually traveled
back to the Morning Star...
and have come back again.
That's not so much
of an abduction,
but they have basically went--
have gone back there
and come back.
ROADS:
The Australian Aborigines
have a connection
and a relationship
with what we call
extraterrestrials and UFOs,
which goes back
tens of thousands of years.
They're rather nonplussed
by their existence.
They have developed
an awareness of individual
types of visitors
from what we'd call outer space.
This is not new.
This has happened
thousands of times before.
How do we know that?
From all of the remnants
that are left behind
by the ancients.
Only a fool could say, "Oh, no.
"We're the only ones here
in this vast amount of space."
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
Australians really
have an ongoing relationship
to otherworldly beings?
Beings who have been
visiting the continent
for thousands of years?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest further evidence
of extraterrestrial contact
can be found
by examining
the Aboriginal rituals known
as "dreaming."
NARRATOR:
As the bustling streets
of Sydney fill
with workers and tourists--
over 500 miles away,
Aboriginal elders
known as "men of learning"
prepare
for a dreaming ceremony.
Dreaming is sacred
to the culture
and represents
a complex spiritual concept
that transcends linear time.
JAGAMARRA:
In the beginning,
there was great spirit.
From the stars they came,
and they came down
to this place.
YOUNG:
The elders,
the spiritual leaders
of the Aboriginal peoples,
will-will not only chant,
but use hypnotic techniques
like the didgeridoo,
which makes this humming sound.
(didgeridoo droning)
(singing in native language)
It will take you
into an altered state.
It takes them into connection
with the Dreamtime,
the unseen worlds,
to commune with the ancestors,
the sky gods.
The Dreamtime
is this vast storehouse
of accumulated wisdom
and images and stories.
And it's like other traditions
that believe there is a place
that everything
that has happened is recorded
and can be reached by the elders
through their altered states.
(chanting)
THOMPSON: There's probably
no more fundamental concept
in Aboriginal cosmology than
the concept of the dreaming.
Sometimes this is referred
to as "the Dreamtime."
And this is the idea of this
mythic beginnings of the world,
but it's important in that it's
a sort of transcendent time.
And what I mean by that is
in their view,
it's never gone away.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
that in many ways,
the concept of Dreamtime
mirrors the ancient Hindu idea
of the Akashic record...
a collection of past, present,
and future knowledge
believed to be encoded
in a non-physical existence
known as the astral plane.
HENRY: The Akashic records are
sort of like a giant hologram,
a holographic world that we can
step into to gain wisdom,
access knowledge...
perhaps even to connect
with extraterrestrial beings.
It's pretty remarkable that the
Aborigines would have a concept,
the Dreamtime, that matches
not only the Akashic records,
but also the idea
of a holographic paradigm.
NARRATOR:
In 1997,
theoretical physicists
proposed a revolutionary idea
called the holographic paradigm.
Curiously, this theory
mirrors the ancient concept
shared by
the indigenous Australians
and also the Hindu tradition.
The holographic universe theory
suggests that
the world that we see
is a mere projection
from a 2-D space.
What we perceive
as physical objects
are actually
projected fragments of data.
YOUNG:
There is a fascinating idea
that perhaps the universe
is not three-dimensional.
That it's a projection
from a two-dimensional slide
of some kind.
That it's a-a hologram--
something like The Matrix,
in the movie--
and that we are walking around
inside of what seems like 3-D,
but in fact is an illusion.
NARRATOR:
While this incredible theory
may seem far-fetched,
in 2013, researchers
at Ibaraki University in Japan
found that the theoretical model
is mathematically feasible
and might actually be correct.
CHILDRESS:
We have this parallel
between the Aboriginal
Dreamtime,
the Hindu Akashic record,
and the Holographic
Universe Theory--
what would appear to be
some kind
of extraterrestrial technology
that's putting all
the information of the universe
into one spot.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the Aboriginal elders
are tapping
into an otherworldly plane when
they perform their ceremonies?
A plane that our greatest
scientific minds
don't yet fully understand?
If so,
does this provide evidence
of a maintained connection
between this indigenous culture
and advanced
extraterrestrial beings?
TSOUKALOS: We have to remind
ourselves that the Aboriginals
are our last direct connection
to our extraterrestrial past.
It would behoove us to listen,
because one thing
is clear to me today--
their stories
are very clear in their message
that we are not alone
in the universe.
DUNCAN:
We are the extraterrestrials.
Our body is made up
of this earth,
but our spirit comes
from the Morning Star.
We come from another place,
from another world.
We were brought here a long
time ago to populate this place
everyone now calls Earth.
NARRATOR: Might the Aboriginal
Wisdom Keepers serve
as a direct link to
our extraterrestrial creators?
And could there be messages
left behind for mankind encoded
in their sacred traditions?
As we stand at the threshold
of a new level
of science and understanding,
perhaps we will discover
that the stories
of the world's
oldest living culture
not only reveal
our true origins...
but also our destiny.
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peoples of Australia
are one of the world's
very, very oldest cultures.
KEVIN GAVI DUNCAN:
Our stories
are older than
the Stonehenge in England.
They're 20 or 30,000 years older
than the pyramids of Egypt.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
If you look
at these Wandjina figures
in the cave art,
these figures look exactly
like Grey aliens.
Wow.
GARY SIMON JAGAMARRA:
We carved them, we sang them,
we danced them in stories,
we painted them,
so when the visitors left,
we didn't forget about them.
NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has credited its origins
to gods and other visitors
from the stars.
What if it were true?
Did extraterrestrial beings
really help
to shape our history?
And if so,
might the secrets of our past
have been entrusted...
to Australia's Wisdom Keepers?
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NARRATOR:
In 2015, documentary filmmaker
Damien Nott released an archive
of over 2,000 UFO images
taken over the skies
of Australia
in the past three years.
DAMIEN NOTT:
Oh, my God.
WOMAN: It seems to be,
like, illuminating.
NOTT:
It's actually morphing shape
and rotating as well.
-WOMAN: Yeah.
-This is phenomenal.
Australia
is certainly a hot spot
for UFO sightings.
We've had a phenomenal growth
in the reporting
of UFO sightings
by the general public,
especially since the advent
of the Internet.
But all evidence shows that UFOs
have definitely
been visiting Australia
for tens of thousands of years.
We've had records
engraved on cave artwork
by the Australian Aborigines,
which goes back thousands
of years.
Australia is one of the
most mysterious continents,
and the Aboriginals
have all kinds
of ancient stories
of sky gods coming down.
These are probably some
of the oldest stories
of extraterrestrial intervention
that we have on Planet Earth.
Australia was something
of a last frontier
long after America was settled.
Well, it was 1770
that the British explorer
Captain Cook
actually came across Australia,
and it wasn't until 1788
that it was really settled--
that was the east coast
of Australia--
settled by convicts.
That's what the British brought
from their prisons.
NARRATOR:
Today, the area of Sydney
that the British first settled
is a bustling metropolis,
and Australia has become
one of the most popular
tourist destinations on Earth.
But hidden behind
this modern facade
is nearly
2½ million square miles
of undeveloped
and sparsely populated land,
known as the outback.
And while Australia
is a relatively new land
to the Western world,
for the nearly 700,000 people
that call the continent
their ancestral home,
it has a history that dates back
tens of thousands of years.
THOMPSON: There is something
very, very special
about Australia.
Here we have a situation where
this huge land mass has been
pretty much cut off
from the rest of the world
for 40,000 years.
And we don't really find that
in-in many other places
in the world.
NARRATOR: But what was happening
on this island continent
for the tens of thousands
of years
that it existed in isolation?
DUNCAN: When the first
Europeans arrived here,
they didn't have much knowledge
in regards to the sky world,
where our people had much
ancient knowledge
of the star system,
and the constellation
of the stars.
Our knowledge and wisdom
is so old.
NARRATOR: Anthropologists
have dated the existence
of the Australian Aboriginal
people back 60,000 years,
making it the most ancient
continuous culture in the world.
THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
peoples of Australia,
are one of the world's very,
very oldest cultures.
No other cultures in the world
can compare
with the Australian cultures.
They have knowledge that's been
around for a lot longer
than really any of our knowledge
has been around.
NARRATOR:
The Aboriginal people
have no official
written language.
Art, music,
and oral storytelling
are how they pass their
histories and sacred knowledge
to future generations.
Their past is encoded
on various rock walls
scattered across the continent.
Our oral traditions,
our stories
that are passed down
from generation to generation,
the wisdom and knowledge
that have been given to us
by our god,
they're 10,000 or more
years older
than the Stonehenge in England.
They're 20,000
or 30,000 years older
than the pyramids of Egypt.
NARRATOR:
These ancient traditions
are all strongly tied
to Australia's connection
with the stars,
and with the beings
that are said
to have come down from them.
As evidence,
ancient astronaut theorists
point to the caves of
the Northwest Kimberley region
that contain depictions
of beings called the Wandjina,
the sky heroes of one of
Australia's indigenous clans.
The Aboriginals have all kinds
of ancient stories
of Wandjina figures,
of great heroes
and sky gods who
manipulated the continent
and created the rivers
and mountains,
and fought amongst each other,
and then they left.
If you look at these Wandjina
figures in the cave art,
they have big white faces.
They have really no mouth
to speak of.
They have very large,
black eyes,
and there's a field
around their heads
that's like a space helmet,
perhaps.
So, in many ways
these Wandjina figures
look exactly like Grey aliens.
And you have to wonder, then,
if the cave art
is depicting extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Could these images
really be depicting
extraterrestrials that visited
Australia in the ancient past?
And if so, do the indigenous
people living in Australia today
still have insight
into the meaning
behind this ancient rock art?
JAGAMARRA:
We all have stories
of people in crafts
coming from the stars,
going to the stars,
and so on.
In order to keep them,
pass them down
to next generation,
we carved them,
we painted them,
we sung them.
We danced them in stories
to guarantee
that they passed down.
So when the visitors left,
we didn't forget about them.
And we never forget
about the things
that they passed down to us,
and the knowledge
they passed down.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Australia
is one of the few places
where we still have
living mythologies
where we can talk
to the people whose story
has been passed down
over thousands of generations.
And they talk of teachers
having descended from the sky,
and bestowed any and all
of knowledge to mankind.
So this, to me,
is an incredible treasure trove
for the
ancient astronaut theory.
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
people of Australia,
who carry an oral tradition
that dates back
tens of thousands of years,
really hold secrets
of humanity's past
that the outside world
has yet to discover?
Perhaps more evidence
can be found
by examining the depiction
of one of their
most important sky gods.
NARRATOR: Coming up...
DUNCAN:
They said the fire burnt
the top of the mountain
and all around it
every time he landed.
TSOUKALOS: So the landings
were always associated
with a lot of noise,
-smoke and fire?
-Yes.
NARRATOR:
Brisbane Water National Park.
New South Wales, Australia.
The Bulgandry preservation site
is one of numerous sacred
indigenous locations
where ancient rock art
and engravings can be found.
Many are believed
to date back thousands of years.
Oh, wow.
NARRATOR:
In February 2016,
researcher and publisher
Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Australia
to meet with Aboriginal elder
Kevin Gavi Duncan
to learn about one of the oldest
carvings that can be found here.
So what are we looking at here?
So this image is an actual image
of what we say is our
Godfather creator being, Baiame.
That's what our people believe.
Okay.
Baiame came from, well,
a place that we call
the Morning Star
within the Mirrabooka.
"Mirra" means stars,
and "booka" means river.
That is the Milky Way that flows
across the-the night sky.
No kidding? Okay.
And so he is one
of those sky heroes
that has descended
from the Milky Way?
Yes.
He's a sky hero, and
Baiame is carved in the manner
that you see there--
he has his arms out,
and he holds
the moon in one hand...
...and the Morning Star
in the other,
which is a bit like
what we call Planet Earth.
And these are
the two moons which exist
around the Morning Star
in the Mirrabooka
that Baiame came from.
TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
And this is the canoe.
He sailed through the river
of life, um, in the Mirrabooka
across the sky world.
TSOUKALOS: So, he sailed
through the Milky Way?
DUNCAN: Yes, he sailed
through the Milky Way...
and this was his vessel
that he sailed,
and he landed, to the earth...
and he crushed
the top of the mountain,
which is the sacred mountain
of Mount Yengo
not far from here.
And when he landed they said
the fire came from his feet
and it burnt the mount--
top of the mountain,
and all around it
every time he landed.
So, the landings were
always associated
with a lot of noise, smoke
-and fire?
-Yes.
The fire trail that was left
when Baiame was leaving
the top of the mountain
into the sky world,
when Baiame had left,
was so bright,
people interpret that
as a spaceship of some kind...
TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
DUNCAN:
...as coming and going,
but this is the way
we simply interpret
Baiame's spaceship.
Right, but it's
because the vocabulary
didn't exist at the time.
-Yes.
-So, to me, those are all
wonderfully poetic ways
to describe eyewitness accounts
of things that were incredible.
DUNCAN: Yes.
This site is considered
around 8,000 to 10,000
years old.
Wow.
DUNCAN:
These carvings,
these rock paintings,
these are our books.
They are considered to be,
basically, as truth.
NARRATOR:
While many in the Western world
regard indigenous tales
as folklore,
it has recently been found
that at least some
of their stories are
historically accurate.
In September 2015,
scientists studying
Aboriginal lore
of past sea level rise
found corroboration
in the geological record.
Incredibly, the information
was faithfully preserved
even though these events
occurred somewhere
between 7,000
to 18,000 years ago.
Similar findings noting
the accuracy of indigenous myths
have been published
since the 1980s,
including knowledge of tsunamis,
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
meteorite impacts, and solar
eclipses in the remote past.
WILLIAM HENRY: Their stories
of events that happened
12,000 years ago, maybe older,
have now been verified
by the geological record.
This is extremely important
because if they're telling the
truth about geological events,
can we then take at face value
their stories or their
recollections of
extraterrestrial beings,
spirit beings, sky beings,
coming to Earth
and intervening
in human affairs?
I believe that we can.
NARRATOR:
Might the Aboriginal stories
of sky beings not be myth
but actual historical fact?
Could their creator gods have
been extraterrestrial visitors?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining evidence
of an ancient pilgrimage
to Australia
made by the Egyptians.
And here we are.
Wow.
How old do you reckon these are?
EVAN STRONG: We're thinking that
it's about 4,600 years old.
Wow.
DUNCAN:
We have stories
about their visits
long before Europeans
had arrived here.
NARRATOR:
Central Coast,
New South Wales, Australia.
Deep in the Brisbane
Water National Park
is a mysterious site
known as the Gosford Glyphs.
The site consists of two
massive, eight-foot-high walls
engraved with over
300 ancient carvings,
carvings that experts say do not
resemble indigenous artwork,
but Egyptian hieroglyphs.
After deciphering the texts,
21st century Egyptologist Ray
Johnson believed them to reveal
the burial site
of Lord Nefer-ti-ru,
a member of
the Egyptian royal family
who died while visiting the area
with his brother
sometime between 2637
and 2614 BC.
Absolutely beautiful out here.
Oh, I know.
NARRATOR: While visiting the
area in 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos
met with local ancient astronaut
theorist Evan Strong
to get a firsthand look
at these enigmatic carvings.
-And here we are.
-Wow.
That's incredible.
I had no idea, I mean,
this looks totally different
than on pictures.
So, what do these
-hieroglyphs say?
-Well...
at least one panel talks
about two brothers,
two princes,
coming here from Egypt.
They were shipwrecked.
One of them ended up
getting bitten by a snake.
He then died.
The theory is, then,
he was interred here,
and that's why
-you've got hieroglyphs here...
-Mm-hmm.
...because he died here...
but there's these other walls
with a mixture of symbols.
This one over here,
it's-it's more
of a philosophical
astrophysics style thing
with symbols meaning all sorts
of esoteric stuff, so...
Now, h-have these symbols
at all been interpreted
by Egyptologists?
There have been
a-a few, actually.
Mm-hmm.
Um, a few different, um,
people have done that.
And what was their reaction?
Well, Raymond Johnson was
one of the first people
to come here and-and translate.
He actually sent some
of his translations off
to the Cairo Library,
and Dr. Abou Dia' Ghazi
ended up saying, "Yep,
you're on the right track."
It's something
called proto-Egyptian.
And how old do you
reckon these are?
We're thinking because of the
prevalence, at least in one,
uh, panel of proto-Egyptian,
that it's about 4,600 years old.
TSOUKALOS: Wow.
Are there any hieroglyphs
that stand out to you?
Yeah, definitely.
Follow me down here
and I'll show you
this other one.
So, this one here, um,
we call the UFO glyph
and people have called it that
since they've been coming here
because it kind of
looks like a UFO.
TSOUKALOS: It definitely has
the classic UFO shape.
It's-it's got the... the rays
or whatever you want to call it.
What would you suggest
if anyone says, well,
this is not a UFO,
it's-it's some other symbol
that-- but certainly not that?
I think that someone
suggested that it's jewelry
but it's a completely different
symbol that's upside down
and it really
doesn't quite fit in.
It's one of those symbols here
that-that doesn't fit
into the canon.
In your opinion,
why do you think the Egyptians
made it all the way
to Australia?
I think they were looking
for esoteric wisdom, definitely.
-From the Aboriginals?
-Yes.
DUNCAN: The ancient Egyptians,
we have stories,
and Aboriginal stories,
about their arrival,
and about their visits
long before Europeans
had arrived here.
Naturally,
we would have shared ceremony
with these people because they
have the same similar beliefs
as our people.
Egyptians have that
same spiritual connection
to the sky world.
Many stories
from all over this continent,
not just from here,
but all over this continent,
talk about those
who came by the sea
and came to these continents,
and some of our knowledge
and wisdom and technology
went back with them,
and if you do some
of the research,
in the last pyramids
that they found,
they found boomerangs
made from iron bark
from here,
and they have hieroglyphs
of black fellows
throwing the boomerangs to take
out the ducks and the geese.
Now the question would be,
why would they paint us
and carve us on their walls
if they didn't come here?
And if that meeting and
relationship
was not significant,
they wouldn't have carved it.
It must've been significant
in order to carve.
NARRATOR:
Aboriginal artifacts
found in Egypt?
Hieroglyphs found in Australia?
Might the continent have
actually served as
a pilgrimage site for visitors
seeking a direct connection
to the so-called gods?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and suggest further evidence
of this otherworldly link
can be found in a megalithic
structure lost to time.
This really puts
the Aboriginal culture
in a totally different light.
DUNCAN:
He asked Aboriginal people,
"Where do you people come from?"
And our people
would always just point
to the sky.
NARRATOR: Mullumbimby,
New South Wales, 1939.
Frederic Slater,
the president of the
Australian Archaeology Society,
was dispatched to investigate
the discovery of a complex
Aboriginal arrangement
consisting of 188
standing stones.
Slater dubbed the formation
the "Stonehenge of Australia"
and became convinced that it
was one of the oldest temple
complexes in the world,
predating those found in Europe
and the Middle East.
Frederic Slater found that
the site he was investigating
was part of a larger,
much larger site,
and fitted in very closely
with Aboriginal sacred law,
myths and legends.
After a time,
Frederic Slater began to posit
and suggest that instead
of out of Africa,
that maybe we should reexamine
the evolution of man
as out of Australia.
He took a massive leap
and started declaring that
in ancient times in Australia,
the Aborigines
were more advanced
than any culture that he
could recount on the planet.
He was declared almost insane
by the rest
of the academic community.
The landowners were so terrified
of the controversy
that it implied that it was
pretty much
destroyed by bulldozers.
CHILDRESS: There are
many stone circles, uh,
throughout the British Isles
and Europe.
Stonehenge is one
of the most well known.
And they all have
some relationship
to astronomical observatories.
This Aboriginal Stonehenge
would really alter the way
we think of the Aboriginals
and the sophistication
of their society.
Where they had astronomical
and archaeoastronomical
structures that helped them
monitor the heavens,
much as standing stones
in Europe would have done.
NARRATOR:
Could the so-called
Aboriginal Stonehenge
provide us insight
into the other
stone arrangements
found scattered
throughout the world?
If so, might they serve
to provide a permanent record
of a significant connection
to another world?
Uluru Rock,
also known as Ayers Rock,
is located nearly in the center
of the continent,
over 1,200 miles
from the nearest
major Australian city.
This geological anomaly
is one of the largest
isolated rocks in the world.
It is over two miles long
and rises over 1,100 feet.
It is, in fact,
the exposed tip of a huge
vertical slab of rock
that continues below the surface
for three miles.
It is a huge sedimentary boulder
that's gigantic,
sitting there in the middle
of the desert.
And geologists
cannot really explain
how Ayers Rock came to be.
It's almost
as if it was lifted up
from somewhere else
and brought to the center
of the continent
and then just dumped there.
NARRATOR:
For the indigenous population,
Uluru is one
of their most sacred sites
and a place of pilgrimage.
They consider it
the navel of the earth.
THOMPSON:
For the Aboriginal cosmologies,
a lot of times
the landscape itself
is sort of like the Bible
and Heaven, rolled into one.
So, in places
like Uluru, Ayers Rock,
this rock is
of great significance
because they built this
into their cultural memories
of when the world was formed
by sky spirits coming to Earth.
NARRATOR: The creation stories
at Uluru Rock
are primarily associated
with the rainbow serpent.
This divine being is said
to have come out of the sky
at the beginning of time,
and held in its belly
all of creation,
including
the first human beings.
DUNCAN: The Rainbow Serpent,
we call Gria.
And the Rainbow Serpent
is related
to all Aboriginal nations
right across Australia.
And it connects us all
as Aboriginal people,
because it was regarded
as a very sacred symbol
of creation.
STRONG: An elder we're
in good contact with
told us a story about Uluru,
which is quite fascinating.
That we were actually
seeded from the spear
from the Pleiades through space.
And it actually hit the ground,
and where that place was
is Uluru.
So Uluru and its creation story
with the rainbow serpent
could perhaps even be indicative
of an ancient astronaut
kind of seeding moment
in-in our history.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have long proposed
that Earth was seeded by alien
visitors in the remote past.
Might this be true?
And if so,
do the Aboriginal stories
reflect this truth?
When the first Europeans
arrived here,
Captain Phillip,
who was an English sailor,
planted the Union Jack
in Sydney,
and he asked Aboriginal people
around that time, he said,
"Where do you people come from?"
And our people would always
just point to the sky.
He couldn't believe
that such people,
who were grounded
by Mother Earth,
say that they come
from the sky world.
NARRATOR: Might humanity
actually have been seeded
on Earth from another planet,
as the Aboriginal elders claim?
And could this truth be encoded
in the Australian landscape,
preserved for
future generations?
Researchers suggest
some sacred Aboriginal sites
continue to serve
as extraterrestrial outposts.
ROADS: They've got tales
of mystery, disappearing people,
strange noises
and strange creature sightings.
Some people had actually
traveled back
to the Morning Star.
(wind whistling)
NARRATOR:
The Blue Mountains.
Australia.
Throughout the walls
of Red Hands Cave
are the stenciled handprints
of ancient Aboriginal men,
women and children.
The art stands as a testament
to their physical time
here on Earth,
hundreds and possibly even
thousands of years ago.
According to local elders,
the location served
as an initiation site
for young warriors.
And it was here
that the collective wisdom
of the land and the sky
was passed on to future
generations by the sky gods.
We leave our images
on the cave walls,
such as our handprints,
from the time we are,
uh, children.
This would be done
generation after generation.
The Blue Mountains
is a very sacred area,
a sacred place,
especially the highest places,
because we were being
closer to Baiame,
closer to God.
NARRATOR: Mount Yengo--
the original point of descent
of the Aboriginal
creator god, Baiame--
is located here,
within the Blue Mountain range.
And curiously, the area
is also well-known today
for the mysterious
disappearances
of numerous hikers...
campers...
and soldiers...
in addition
to countless UFO sightings.
Australia's Blue Mountains have
become internationally known
as a hot spot for UFO sightings
and other mysteries.
There is certainly a lot of
mystery in the Blue Mountains.
Campers, bushwalkers,
explorers...
all have got tales of mystery,
disappearing people,
strange tunnels,
strange noises
and strange creature sightings.
The UFO sightings
of the Blue Mountains
have triggered many magazine
articles, radio shows and books.
A lot of people
have come forward
over the last few decades
to document
and put onto the record
their own experiences.
We have a great tradition
of some hundreds of sightings.
I myself have gathered
about 600,
800 sightings or so of UFOs.
And it's growing all the time,
in my own lifetime.
We have stories of UFOs
amongst early pioneer settlers
dating back to... 1850,
thereabouts.
There's a story
from about the 1890s
of a farmer who was
plowing his field and a craft,
a silver craft,
came over the cliffs.
He stood there and watched it
while it disappeared.
It came back after dark
and landed there.
And he grabbed his rifle
and went out to see
what was going on,
and the craft took off again.
I would suggest
that the Blue Mountains
have served as a contact point
for E.T.s
from an advanced
civilization in space.
CAROLINE CORY:
What is interesting to note
is that there are
several umbilical cords
on the planet.
This particular location
is located exactly
at -33 latitude.
Which means
it is aligned specifically
with the center of the galaxy.
Now having said that,
there's an interesting parallel
with the 33 latitude
on Planet Earth.
And that particular point
is considered to be
continuously being visited
from different parts
of the planetary system,
from different parts
of the galaxy,
and even from beyond
this galaxy,
from way out in the universe.
MAN:
Wow.
WOMAN:
Yeah, did you see that thing?
CHILDRESS:
There is a lot of UFO activity.
So here, we have something
that would be like a stargate,
some portal to another dimension
and jumping to hyperspace,
perhaps, and for some reason,
Australia was the place
where they put
this hyperspace portal that is
used by extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Could the Blue
Mountains of Australia function
as an extraterrestrial gateway?
Might this explain
the strange phenomena
reported in and around the area?
But if so,
is there some connection
to the local Aboriginal tribe?
DUNCAN: There is stories
that elders would say
that some people
had actually traveled
back to the Morning Star...
and have come back again.
That's not so much
of an abduction,
but they have basically went--
have gone back there
and come back.
ROADS:
The Australian Aborigines
have a connection
and a relationship
with what we call
extraterrestrials and UFOs,
which goes back
tens of thousands of years.
They're rather nonplussed
by their existence.
They have developed
an awareness of individual
types of visitors
from what we'd call outer space.
This is not new.
This has happened
thousands of times before.
How do we know that?
From all of the remnants
that are left behind
by the ancients.
Only a fool could say, "Oh, no.
"We're the only ones here
in this vast amount of space."
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
Australians really
have an ongoing relationship
to otherworldly beings?
Beings who have been
visiting the continent
for thousands of years?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest further evidence
of extraterrestrial contact
can be found
by examining
the Aboriginal rituals known
as "dreaming."
NARRATOR:
As the bustling streets
of Sydney fill
with workers and tourists--
over 500 miles away,
Aboriginal elders
known as "men of learning"
prepare
for a dreaming ceremony.
Dreaming is sacred
to the culture
and represents
a complex spiritual concept
that transcends linear time.
JAGAMARRA:
In the beginning,
there was great spirit.
From the stars they came,
and they came down
to this place.
YOUNG:
The elders,
the spiritual leaders
of the Aboriginal peoples,
will-will not only chant,
but use hypnotic techniques
like the didgeridoo,
which makes this humming sound.
(didgeridoo droning)
(singing in native language)
It will take you
into an altered state.
It takes them into connection
with the Dreamtime,
the unseen worlds,
to commune with the ancestors,
the sky gods.
The Dreamtime
is this vast storehouse
of accumulated wisdom
and images and stories.
And it's like other traditions
that believe there is a place
that everything
that has happened is recorded
and can be reached by the elders
through their altered states.
(chanting)
THOMPSON: There's probably
no more fundamental concept
in Aboriginal cosmology than
the concept of the dreaming.
Sometimes this is referred
to as "the Dreamtime."
And this is the idea of this
mythic beginnings of the world,
but it's important in that it's
a sort of transcendent time.
And what I mean by that is
in their view,
it's never gone away.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
that in many ways,
the concept of Dreamtime
mirrors the ancient Hindu idea
of the Akashic record...
a collection of past, present,
and future knowledge
believed to be encoded
in a non-physical existence
known as the astral plane.
HENRY: The Akashic records are
sort of like a giant hologram,
a holographic world that we can
step into to gain wisdom,
access knowledge...
perhaps even to connect
with extraterrestrial beings.
It's pretty remarkable that the
Aborigines would have a concept,
the Dreamtime, that matches
not only the Akashic records,
but also the idea
of a holographic paradigm.
NARRATOR:
In 1997,
theoretical physicists
proposed a revolutionary idea
called the holographic paradigm.
Curiously, this theory
mirrors the ancient concept
shared by
the indigenous Australians
and also the Hindu tradition.
The holographic universe theory
suggests that
the world that we see
is a mere projection
from a 2-D space.
What we perceive
as physical objects
are actually
projected fragments of data.
YOUNG:
There is a fascinating idea
that perhaps the universe
is not three-dimensional.
That it's a projection
from a two-dimensional slide
of some kind.
That it's a-a hologram--
something like The Matrix,
in the movie--
and that we are walking around
inside of what seems like 3-D,
but in fact is an illusion.
NARRATOR:
While this incredible theory
may seem far-fetched,
in 2013, researchers
at Ibaraki University in Japan
found that the theoretical model
is mathematically feasible
and might actually be correct.
CHILDRESS:
We have this parallel
between the Aboriginal
Dreamtime,
the Hindu Akashic record,
and the Holographic
Universe Theory--
what would appear to be
some kind
of extraterrestrial technology
that's putting all
the information of the universe
into one spot.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the Aboriginal elders
are tapping
into an otherworldly plane when
they perform their ceremonies?
A plane that our greatest
scientific minds
don't yet fully understand?
If so,
does this provide evidence
of a maintained connection
between this indigenous culture
and advanced
extraterrestrial beings?
TSOUKALOS: We have to remind
ourselves that the Aboriginals
are our last direct connection
to our extraterrestrial past.
It would behoove us to listen,
because one thing
is clear to me today--
their stories
are very clear in their message
that we are not alone
in the universe.
DUNCAN:
We are the extraterrestrials.
Our body is made up
of this earth,
but our spirit comes
from the Morning Star.
We come from another place,
from another world.
We were brought here a long
time ago to populate this place
everyone now calls Earth.
NARRATOR: Might the Aboriginal
Wisdom Keepers serve
as a direct link to
our extraterrestrial creators?
And could there be messages
left behind for mankind encoded
in their sacred traditions?
As we stand at the threshold
of a new level
of science and understanding,
perhaps we will discover
that the stories
of the world's
oldest living culture
not only reveal
our true origins...
but also our destiny.
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