1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 These are primeval symbols that speak to something in us 2 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:05,800 that's very deep-seated and very universal. 3 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:08,400 Severe body modifications. 4 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:11,440 The tribe's people sharpen the edges of their teeth 5 00:00:11,540 --> 00:00:13,240 to look like serpents. 6 00:00:13,340 --> 00:00:14,880 Extreme adornments. 7 00:00:14,980 --> 00:00:17,940 Girls in the high-end culture stretched out their necks 8 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,220 with brass rings to emulate their sacred ancestor. 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,720 Could these metamorphic alterations of the flesh 10 00:00:25,980 --> 00:00:29,980 represent more than mere self-expression, or even 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,220 acts of religious tribute? 12 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,720 Might they contain a message critical to the future of mankind? 13 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:40,860 The reason why they did this to their bodies 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,860 is in order to gain the strength of the gods 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,100 that they tried to imitate. 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,200 We now have technology that is equal to what we see 17 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:53,000 that gods can't do without. 18 00:00:53,060 --> 00:00:55,600 Maybe now we're going to be able to turn ourselves 19 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:57,500 into asphiuches just like the gods. 20 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:05,600 There is a doorway in the universe. 21 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:09,940 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:15,280 It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. 23 00:01:15,380 --> 00:01:18,380 The evidence is all around us. 24 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:22,840 The future is right before our eyes. 25 00:01:22,940 --> 00:01:25,740 We are not alone. 26 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,480 We have never been alone. 27 00:01:36,380 --> 00:01:40,320 Milan, Italy, 2016. 28 00:01:40,420 --> 00:01:42,940 Tattooed and pierced Italian fashion model, 29 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,880 Christiana, was the first to be seen. 30 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,080 The man-pierced Italian fashion model, Christiane Minyemi, 31 00:01:50,180 --> 00:01:52,380 makes a bold and permanent decision 32 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:58,580 to transform Nisguera, or whites, of his eyes, into black. 33 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,660 He claims he wants to appear more otherworldly. 34 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:06,600 Christian Magneme is a very forward-thinking person 35 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:07,900 in fashion. 36 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,400 By choosing to go to the extreme of coloring his eyes 37 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:13,500 completely black, looking almost alien-like, 38 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,160 there's a trend happening across the board. 39 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:20,160 Body modifications, tattooing, piercing, 40 00:02:20,260 --> 00:02:22,100 all types of adornments to change 41 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,340 the physical appearance of our bodies. 42 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,140 It's almost as if humanity, in a fashion sense, 43 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,580 is gearing themselves to look more alien. 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,940 People feel liberated by the idea 45 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,480 that they can appear extra human in some way. 46 00:02:36,580 --> 00:02:38,820 They can look like something extraterrestrial, 47 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,960 or they can look like something primeval. 48 00:02:42,020 --> 00:02:44,180 There's something self-dramatizing and empowering 49 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:44,660 about it. 50 00:02:48,020 --> 00:02:52,020 Today, tattoos and piercings account for a nearly $1 billion 51 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,560 industry. 52 00:02:54,660 --> 00:02:58,100 Trending modification practices, like ear elongation 53 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,140 and branding the skin, are all on the rise. 54 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:07,280 But what could motivate someone to alter their body in such a way? 55 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:10,840 The way we adorn our bodies is essentially telling a story 56 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:12,340 and sending messages. 57 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,040 The fact that more and more people are expressing themselves 58 00:03:15,140 --> 00:03:18,300 through body art, it tells a bigger story 59 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,140 on a cultural level. 60 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,380 Now that we're so connected through the internet, 61 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,420 it's easy to find inspiration from others 62 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,320 and what other people are doing in body art practices. 63 00:03:27,420 --> 00:03:29,720 Symbols communicate things that we're not quite 64 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:31,720 able to put into words. 65 00:03:31,820 --> 00:03:34,720 It goes beyond just wanting to make a statement about one's 66 00:03:34,820 --> 00:03:36,420 individuality. 67 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,560 It demonstrates what you believe in. 68 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,360 While tattoos, piercings, and body modification 69 00:03:45,460 --> 00:03:48,060 are modern forms of personal expression, 70 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,460 they also harken back to humanity's ancient past 71 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,000 and mirror the practices of many so-called primitive tribes 72 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:59,740 that exist around the world today. 73 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,380 A lot of what we do finds inspiration in ancient roots 74 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,540 from all over the world. 75 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,240 These are things that we've seen on, say, 76 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:10,700 like National Geographic and books on TV over the years. 77 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,300 And they've inspired newer forms of body modification 78 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,440 and body art expression. 79 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:19,040 Rights of passage, like skin stretching, 80 00:04:19,140 --> 00:04:20,640 have been seen throughout history 81 00:04:20,740 --> 00:04:23,980 in different parts of the world. 82 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,280 The revered Buddha, the dyke of Borneo, the ancient Rapa Nui 83 00:04:28,380 --> 00:04:33,320 of Easter Island, and the modern Falani tribe of West Africa. 84 00:04:33,420 --> 00:04:36,620 All have colorful histories of ritual ear stretching. 85 00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:42,480 The contemporary Morsi women of Ethiopia, tribes of the Amazon, 86 00:04:42,580 --> 00:04:45,980 and the earlier Boutecudo people of coastal Brazil 87 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,120 all share a history of skin stretching 88 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:51,020 for decorative lip plates. 89 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,660 But are these practices being adopted by mainstream society 90 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,560 simply as a fashion trend? 91 00:04:57,660 --> 00:05:00,660 A bold form of self-expression? 92 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,300 Or couldn't be motivated by a profound link 93 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,500 to our ancient past when people of color 94 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:07,960 and people have tattoos? 95 00:05:08,060 --> 00:05:10,120 It's something meaningful. 96 00:05:10,220 --> 00:05:15,360 And so my question is not today, why do we tattoo ourselves? 97 00:05:15,460 --> 00:05:19,340 I asked the question, when did we first tattoo ourselves, 98 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:20,640 and then why? 99 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:27,380 September 9th, 1991. 100 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,780 11,000 feet high in the Oztol Alps. 101 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,480 Two German climbers near the Austrian-Italian border 102 00:05:35,540 --> 00:05:38,700 have been found in a pond of frozen corpse. 103 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,640 Scientists call him the Tyrolean Ice Man, or Otsi, 104 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:49,880 and places time of death between 3,400 and 3,100 BC. 105 00:05:49,980 --> 00:05:54,180 What we find so amazing about Otsi, he's very well preserved. 106 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:57,020 So well preserved that scientists and anthropologists 107 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,520 can even tell that he had a lot of medical conditions. 108 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:03,560 And that leads us to Otsi's tattoos. 109 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,980 In 2015, more than two decades after the initial discovery, 110 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,760 scientists were able to make a more detailed scan 111 00:06:10,860 --> 00:06:13,780 of the Ice Man's epidermis. 112 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,660 The results were extraordinary. 113 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:22,360 Under examination, it was found that Otsi, the Ice Man, 114 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:27,360 had in fact 61 different tattoos over his body. 115 00:06:27,460 --> 00:06:31,700 And almost all of these took the form of parallel lines, 116 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:33,900 either two together, three together, 117 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,680 in one case, seven together. 118 00:06:36,780 --> 00:06:39,380 These tattoos, it's amazing. 119 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,880 They are actually located on acupuncture points 120 00:06:42,980 --> 00:06:44,120 throughout the body, missed to them 121 00:06:44,220 --> 00:06:49,280 are on the joints, the lower back, the thoracic area, the chest. 122 00:06:49,380 --> 00:06:55,400 And what that tells us is he had some knowledge of healing. 123 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:59,200 Acupuncture is a traditional form of Chinese medicine, 124 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,540 involving the pricking of the skin with needles 125 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,740 along the body's neurohormonal meridians 126 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:09,840 to alleviate pain and treat various medical conditions. 127 00:07:09,940 --> 00:07:12,580 Traditional historians place the origin of acupuncture 128 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,660 in China at approximately 100 BC. 129 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,820 Acupuncture did not exist as a formal system 130 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,360 of therapeutic treatment in China 131 00:07:22,460 --> 00:07:26,200 at the time that Otsi received his tattoos 132 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:28,160 on the other side of the globe. 133 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:31,800 So where did Otsi get these tattoos that were made 134 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:36,240 with the knowledge of acupuncture points on the body? 135 00:07:36,340 --> 00:07:38,340 We think acupuncture's from China, 136 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,580 but here's something even older and from the Alps. 137 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,880 The fact that we find these tattoos 138 00:07:44,980 --> 00:07:47,880 at specific meridian points tells us 139 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:52,980 that this civilization knew of the meridians in the body, 140 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,120 understood how energy runs in the body, 141 00:07:56,180 --> 00:07:59,780 which is quite an advanced process for that time. 142 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:01,920 So where did this knowledge come from? 143 00:08:02,020 --> 00:08:06,660 Is it possible that it came from some kind of higher source, 144 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,900 download it into the healers of the time? 145 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,400 Was it possible that acupuncture is really 146 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:18,100 coming from extraterrestrials? 147 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,640 Could the Tyrolean Iceman point to the possibility 148 00:08:21,740 --> 00:08:24,740 that tattooing originated as a result of contact 149 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,040 with extraterrestrial visitors? 150 00:08:28,140 --> 00:08:31,600 While it may sound far-fetched, ancient astronaut theorists 151 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,780 suggest that some of the most popular tattoos found 152 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,040 in both the ancient and modern world 153 00:08:37,140 --> 00:08:39,620 contain symbolism connected to the cosmos. 154 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,360 Some of the earliest yearnings of our ancient ancestors 155 00:08:46,460 --> 00:08:50,220 was to recognize and connect themselves to the cosmos, 156 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,660 to the movement of celestial objects, 157 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,560 to the cycles of the seasons. 158 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:57,820 In modern tattoo art, we're not only 159 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,960 seeing a proliferation of celestial images, 160 00:09:02,060 --> 00:09:05,500 whether the sun, the stars, the phases of the moon, 161 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,000 astrological symbols. 162 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,780 But we're also starting to see ET images. 163 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,080 These are primeval symbols that speak to something in us 164 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:19,220 that's very deep-seated and very universal. 165 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,480 Tattooing or body modification can be a way of remembering 166 00:09:24,580 --> 00:09:30,320 one's ancestors, remembering one's connection with the cosmos. 167 00:09:30,420 --> 00:09:32,620 A yearning to connect with the cosmos 168 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,460 is perhaps as old as civilization itself. 169 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:38,900 And ancient astronaut theorists suggest 170 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 that tattoos represent far more than merely 171 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:45,400 a symbolic representation of this. 172 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:48,340 They believe that the desire to alter the flesh 173 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,440 through tattooing and other means 174 00:09:50,540 --> 00:09:54,840 may be embedded deep in the subconscious mind. 175 00:09:54,940 --> 00:09:57,740 And that perhaps the origin of this human need 176 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,740 can be found encoded in the well-preserved skin of Egypt's 177 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:03,240 mummies. 178 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:17,120 Dear El Medina, Egypt, 2014, using modern imaging 179 00:10:17,180 --> 00:10:21,620 equipment, Dr. Ann Austin scans the body of a female mummy, 180 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,180 dating back as far as 1300 BC. 181 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,660 What she finds is unexpected and contradicts 182 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,420 long-held beliefs regarding female roles 183 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,160 in ancient Egyptian society. 184 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:38,000 One particular torso was a human female 185 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:43,500 who had the image of Hathor tattooed onto her body. 186 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,140 In ancient Egypt, having the tattoo of Hathor 187 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,860 on your body would clearly be an indication of your status 188 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,600 as a priestess of Hathor and as a person who's not just 189 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:57,040 a representative of Hathor, but maybe in direct contact 190 00:10:57,140 --> 00:10:59,440 with the goddess as well. 191 00:10:59,540 --> 00:11:02,140 Prior to finding these mummies, it 192 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,240 was believed that women in Egypt were only tattooed 193 00:11:05,340 --> 00:11:07,680 if they were prostitutes or dancers. 194 00:11:07,780 --> 00:11:12,620 We see that, no, these were most likely priestesses. 195 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:20,060 The tattoos relate to a deity, to a sky god, Hathor. 196 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,260 The symbol for Hathor would sometimes 197 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:27,140 be the head of a cow, horns, a disc in the center. 198 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,040 The Egyptian tattoos are very symbolic of their close 199 00:11:31,140 --> 00:11:33,840 association with the cosmos. 200 00:11:33,940 --> 00:11:36,420 They were very in tune with their gods. 201 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:37,940 They felt through these symbols they 202 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,680 were communicating with the gods. 203 00:11:40,740 --> 00:11:44,980 The Egyptian goddess Hathor is an earlier incarnation of Isis, 204 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,380 considered the primeval goddess, from whom all others were 205 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,480 derived. 206 00:11:50,580 --> 00:11:53,160 In the temple of Hathor, in Dendera, 207 00:11:53,260 --> 00:11:56,960 the goddess is depicted sailing in a ship of eternity 208 00:11:57,060 --> 00:11:59,060 along the night waters of the Milky Way. 209 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,360 Dendera is one of the most important ancient Egyptian 210 00:12:05,460 --> 00:12:06,300 sites. 211 00:12:06,420 --> 00:12:12,560 It clearly depicts travel through the sky with the so-called sun 212 00:12:12,660 --> 00:12:13,860 barges. 213 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:19,740 And our ancestors knew that ships do not fly across the sky 214 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,200 or across the sun. 215 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:25,240 So why would they describe barges that came down 216 00:12:25,340 --> 00:12:26,940 from the sky? 217 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,580 What is depicted in Dendera are the extraterrestrials 218 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:32,680 as they're traveling across the sky. 219 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:36,440 Is it possible that the mummy found at Derel Medina 220 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:38,740 was tattooed with symbols representing 221 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,340 extraterrestrial visitors to Earth? 222 00:12:43,780 --> 00:12:46,620 My idea is that the ancient Egyptians 223 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,720 were shipped those symbols because not only did they 224 00:12:51,820 --> 00:12:55,020 have to illustrate that they were off the ruling class, 225 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,800 but also that they had a direct connection, 226 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:00,060 or so they thought. 227 00:13:00,060 --> 00:13:02,080 To Hathor. 228 00:13:02,180 --> 00:13:05,520 The reason why they put that on their bodies 229 00:13:05,620 --> 00:13:10,100 is in order to gain the strength of the gods 230 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,260 that they tried to imitate. 231 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,640 And these gods were flesh and blood extraterrestrials. 232 00:13:18,940 --> 00:13:22,640 Do the tattoos found on the mummies at Derel Medina 233 00:13:22,740 --> 00:13:25,780 reveal attempts to connect with the power of a god 234 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,680 or an extraterrestrial? 235 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:30,880 And did the ancient Egyptians permanently mark their flesh 236 00:13:30,980 --> 00:13:33,340 in order to honor divine beings? 237 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,520 Or leave a lasting commemoration of contact 238 00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:39,180 with other worldly visitors? 239 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:45,520 Humanity has always used symbols and sigils and cryptography 240 00:13:45,620 --> 00:13:49,100 to convey messages. 241 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,760 The Egyptians realized there was a lot of power 242 00:13:52,860 --> 00:13:54,260 in the world. 243 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,880 And they knew how to use these symbols. 244 00:13:56,980 --> 00:14:00,620 When they would tattoo, we have to wonder 245 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,560 was it to communicate with the gods through their tattoos, 246 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:07,560 to emulate the gods, to embody the gods? 247 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,060 The cow and disc representing Hathor 248 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,000 was not the only tattoo discovered on the mummies 249 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:18,300 at Derel Medina. 250 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,840 One of the bodies also brought the tattoo to the gods. 251 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,240 She had the eye of horrors. 252 00:14:24,340 --> 00:14:27,840 And they say the eye of horrors is composed of six parts, 253 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:31,040 which relate to our six senses. 254 00:14:31,140 --> 00:14:32,340 Not the five we think we have. 255 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,920 We have six. 256 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:39,060 Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought. 257 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:40,160 But what is thought? 258 00:14:40,260 --> 00:14:41,660 Is that extrasensory thought? 259 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,560 Is that the way we communicate nonverbally? 260 00:14:45,660 --> 00:14:48,060 And the way we communicate nonverbally? 261 00:14:48,860 --> 00:14:54,060 So the eye of horrors also has a very magical type 262 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,360 of element to it. 263 00:14:56,460 --> 00:15:00,760 The all seeing eye or the eye of horrors, 264 00:15:00,860 --> 00:15:03,140 as it was depicted in ancient Egypt, 265 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,140 was one of the holiest of symbols. 266 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,880 It served to remind the individual 267 00:15:08,980 --> 00:15:12,640 that human life is incomplete without some sort of higher 268 00:15:12,740 --> 00:15:15,680 vision or without the human eye. 269 00:15:15,740 --> 00:15:20,480 That was a central idea to the ancient Egyptians. 270 00:15:20,580 --> 00:15:28,180 The eye of horrors is the eye of God that sees everything. 271 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,720 We're talking about an Egyptian God who's quite possibly 272 00:15:31,820 --> 00:15:34,760 an extraterrestrial. 273 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:37,360 Many of the symbols found on ancient mummies, 274 00:15:37,460 --> 00:15:39,260 like the one that was in the temple, 275 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,260 are the symbols of the ancient Egyptians. 276 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,960 Many of the symbols found on ancient mummies, 277 00:15:45,060 --> 00:15:48,420 like the eye of horrors, have been used as tattoo designs 278 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,760 for centuries and are still popular with tattoo enthusiasts 279 00:15:52,860 --> 00:15:54,360 today. 280 00:15:54,460 --> 00:15:57,100 But why do they endure? 281 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,440 Is it possible that a symbol, but iconic image of an eye, 282 00:16:00,540 --> 00:16:03,440 devised more than 3,000 years ago, 283 00:16:03,540 --> 00:16:06,540 still speaks to humans today because we intuitively 284 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,880 understand the power behind it? 285 00:16:09,940 --> 00:16:13,340 People adorn themselves with bodily art, tattoos, 286 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,720 or body modification without knowing why that pentagram, 287 00:16:17,820 --> 00:16:20,280 or why that obelisk, or why that pyramid, 288 00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:23,380 speaks so deeply to them. 289 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,320 If you ask them, they might not be able to give you 290 00:16:26,420 --> 00:16:30,500 a very clear answer, but their experience of that symbol 291 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,100 is answer enough. 292 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,960 It inspires awe. 293 00:16:35,060 --> 00:16:38,440 It tells us that we come from something larger. 294 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,800 Could the tattoos of our ancestors 295 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:44,940 contain a record of humanity's past and messages meant 296 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,640 for us to decode today? 297 00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:51,180 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining not just 298 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,220 tattoos, but far more extreme body modifications. 299 00:16:55,220 --> 00:16:58,860 Tana Island. 300 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,760 Every year, on February 15, residents of the Pacific Island 301 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:07,900 chain of Banuatu gather together here for a military style 302 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,500 parade, with USA painted and sometimes even 303 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,340 tattooed on their chests. 304 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,240 It is a tradition that began more than 60 years ago. 305 00:17:18,340 --> 00:17:20,680 It is a tradition that has been used to create 306 00:17:20,740 --> 00:17:22,780 a parade of soldiers and soldiers who have been 307 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,180 tattooed on their chests. 308 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,080 It is a tradition that began more than 60 years ago 309 00:17:29,180 --> 00:17:33,660 and is inspired by events that took place during World War II, 310 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,220 when American forces descended upon the remote island chain 311 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,600 with modern machinery and supplies. 312 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:47,400 During the Second World War, when the Americans reached 313 00:17:47,460 --> 00:17:51,500 the island, they were able to look over many of the islands. 314 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:56,100 Supplies would be dropped from aircraft or brought in 315 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,300 on landing strips. 316 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,640 And this brought many new things to these local populations, 317 00:18:04,740 --> 00:18:08,980 everything from canned foods to manufactured clothing 318 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,080 to other items they'd never seen before. 319 00:18:13,180 --> 00:18:15,420 The native people who had never encountered 320 00:18:15,540 --> 00:18:18,720 were awed by these visitors from the sky, who bring with them 321 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:20,980 food and gifts. 322 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,780 All the Aboriginals were fascinated. 323 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,620 They'd light up a cigarette, hold out a voice recorder, 324 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,120 record their voice. 325 00:18:27,220 --> 00:18:30,920 The Aboriginals thought this was all magic. 326 00:18:31,020 --> 00:18:35,900 They had never seen great ships and the goods, the weapons. 327 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,100 Arthur C. Clarke's third law is any sufficiently advanced 328 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,600 technology is indistinguishable from magic. 329 00:18:46,420 --> 00:18:48,880 After the war in the Pacific concluded, 330 00:18:48,980 --> 00:18:51,280 the US soldiers left the islands. 331 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:54,920 And overnight, the bounty of technology and modern luxuries 332 00:18:55,020 --> 00:18:55,920 was gone. 333 00:18:59,420 --> 00:19:02,460 In memory of the American soldiers and in the hope 334 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,660 that it would bring about their return, 335 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,500 the natives formed a cult devoted to the people who had visited 336 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,000 them from the sky. 337 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:14,640 The people would try and recreate the circumstance 338 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:18,360 that brought this cargo to them. 339 00:19:18,460 --> 00:19:22,400 They started to create replica items associated 340 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:27,440 with the Americans and their presence, even rifles. 341 00:19:27,540 --> 00:19:29,840 They would scrape away runways and make 342 00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:32,140 straw models of the planes that landed 343 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,680 to try and lure the soldiers to once again land and bring 344 00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:37,220 all their amazing technology. 345 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,620 Every religious experience begins with a new technology 346 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,600 that is the miraculous. 347 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:51,400 Some individual or group will have an experience where they 348 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:55,740 feel they have witnessed something or undergone something 349 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,880 that is outside of the ordinary. 350 00:19:57,980 --> 00:20:02,840 And they will create monuments to that experience, 351 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:05,320 whether it is a statue of a deity, 352 00:20:05,420 --> 00:20:10,380 whether it is a pyramid, whether it is a cathedral. 353 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,620 We see this across history and all over the world 354 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,700 to this very day. 355 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,000 Is it possible that much like the so-called cargo cults 356 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:23,040 in the South Pacific, ancient people also 357 00:20:23,140 --> 00:20:26,500 constructed monuments and even entire religions 358 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,640 based on interactions with visitors from the sky? 359 00:20:30,740 --> 00:20:33,580 The term cargo cult is very interesting when applied 360 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,880 to the ancient astronaut theory because we can see that even 361 00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:41,320 in modern times, how man has interacted with things coming 362 00:20:41,420 --> 00:20:45,020 from the sky or other technology they didn't understand. 363 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:47,860 This has been playing out for thousands of years here on Earth. 364 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,940 If extraterrestrial visitation inspired the ancient people 365 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,240 to build temples in a certain fashion 366 00:20:58,340 --> 00:21:01,600 and attempt to reproduce misunderstood technology, 367 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:05,180 could it also have motivated them to tattoo and otherwise 368 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,940 modify their bodies? 369 00:21:08,140 --> 00:21:10,340 Similar to how the people of Banuatu 370 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,080 adorn their chests with the letters USA, 371 00:21:14,180 --> 00:21:17,480 continuing to imitate the soldiers who visited before most 372 00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:21,720 of the islanders were even born. 373 00:21:21,820 --> 00:21:24,020 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 374 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,160 additional evidence that cargo cult practices include 375 00:21:27,260 --> 00:21:30,260 body modifications can be found by examining 376 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,760 numerous other cultures throughout the world that 377 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:35,260 also undergo extreme body alterations. 378 00:21:38,740 --> 00:21:41,980 In Brazil, the Kayapo worship a god they called 379 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,680 Bepp Corarote, who they depict in ceremonies 380 00:21:45,780 --> 00:21:50,480 with a straw suit that is eerily reminiscent of a modern day 381 00:21:50,580 --> 00:21:52,620 spacesuit. 382 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,720 Their traditions include intricate body painting, 383 00:21:55,820 --> 00:21:59,320 face tattooing, lip stretching, and peculiar hair 384 00:21:59,420 --> 00:22:05,860 cuts, all to harness the power of this other worldly being. 385 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:10,360 And perhaps the most extreme body modification of all 386 00:22:10,460 --> 00:22:13,800 is practiced by the Cayenne people of Burma. 387 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:18,300 There is a tradition amongst the Cayenne people 388 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:24,740 of the women wearing these spiraling brass rings 389 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,680 in their neck. 390 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:29,140 And they wear these throughout their life. 391 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,320 And it can take many, many hours to actually put these coils 392 00:22:34,340 --> 00:22:36,420 in place. 393 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,320 There is a tradition that this female dragon had begun 394 00:22:40,420 --> 00:22:42,960 the dynasty of the Cayenne people. 395 00:22:43,060 --> 00:22:48,160 And the reason they do this is to resemble this dragon. 396 00:22:48,260 --> 00:22:50,600 In Cayenne foundational mythology, 397 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:54,700 dragons play a very prominent role that act as messengers 398 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,540 between the world of the divine and the world of humans. 399 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,240 They are very powerful, magical creatures as well. 400 00:23:00,340 --> 00:23:03,680 And they're associated with ultimate knowledge. 401 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:06,940 Is it possible that this creature actually 402 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,980 came from the sky world and was seen 403 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,920 to be the influence behind the foundation of these people, 404 00:23:15,020 --> 00:23:16,860 a memory which they never forgot? 405 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,860 Could it be that there are cultures around the world today, 406 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,040 keeping alive an ancient story of alien visitation 407 00:23:31,140 --> 00:23:32,540 by altering their flesh? 408 00:23:33,740 --> 00:23:37,140 And is it possible that the growing trend of body modification 409 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,520 in the modern world is due to a deep-seated memory 410 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:44,880 of our extraterrestrial origins? 411 00:23:44,980 --> 00:23:47,060 Perhaps further clues can be found 412 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,960 by examining one of the most peculiar practices 413 00:23:50,060 --> 00:23:52,760 of the ancient world. 414 00:23:52,860 --> 00:23:53,660 Headbinding. 415 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,200 Viaccia Bolivia. 416 00:24:02,260 --> 00:24:06,260 November, 2018. 417 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,340 Just 30 miles east of the mysterious ancient site 418 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:14,800 of Pumapunku, archaeologists uncover 500-year-old tombs 419 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:18,680 believed to have been built by a pre-Incan civilization called 420 00:24:18,780 --> 00:24:21,980 the Bacchanes. 421 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,080 The remains of more than 100 people are discovered within. 422 00:24:26,180 --> 00:24:27,860 And a number of the skulls are found 423 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,660 to have a very bizarre abnormality. 424 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,860 They appear dramatically elongated. 425 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,460 According to archaeologists, these specimens 426 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,420 display evidence of a body modification practice 427 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,360 called headbinding. 428 00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:48,040 The head can be changed in its shape. 429 00:24:48,140 --> 00:24:50,400 Generally, it's elongated. 430 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:54,240 And this is done when a child is perhaps six months old, 431 00:24:54,340 --> 00:24:56,380 through to the age of three. 432 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,520 And their heads are bound up. 433 00:24:58,620 --> 00:25:01,280 And this pushes the skull upwards. 434 00:25:01,340 --> 00:25:04,000 And creates these bizarre shapes. 435 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:06,380 Just by gazing upon them, you can't help 436 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,720 think alien, because that's what they truly look like. 437 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,260 Curiously, this extreme form of body modification 438 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:21,600 was widespread throughout the ancient world, 439 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:24,000 occurring on nearly every continent, 440 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:26,600 and practiced by many cultures that are believed 441 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:28,900 to have had no contact with one another. 442 00:25:31,340 --> 00:25:34,740 This is a process that has been going on at least 443 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,880 for the last 10,000 years. 444 00:25:36,980 --> 00:25:40,980 And it's found in every part of the world, 445 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:45,780 from the Pacific Islands to Australia to the Near East 446 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,620 to the Americas. 447 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:53,000 And the strangest are those of Paracas in Peru. 448 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:55,900 Everywhere we find this same process. 449 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,800 It seems as if it was mimicking people who originally 450 00:25:59,820 --> 00:26:05,300 existed that had long heads in the first place. 451 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,600 In Vanuatu, anthropologists asked the people who were still 452 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,440 doing head binding up until the 1960s. 453 00:26:12,540 --> 00:26:14,400 And they asked them why they did that. 454 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:16,540 And they said, this is what the gods look like 455 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,240 with these elongated heads. 456 00:26:18,340 --> 00:26:20,720 And if that is the explanation for head binding 457 00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:23,780 around the world, then who are these gods? 458 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,020 They're apparently extraterrestrials 459 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,920 who have a naturally elongated head that's just 460 00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:34,020 part of their DNA, and humans want to look like them. 461 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:40,800 If ancient people did encounter extraterrestrials, 462 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,760 and perhaps even coexisted with them, 463 00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:46,140 might there have been something more profound at play 464 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,200 than mere deification and imitation? 465 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:54,640 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe that it may, in fact, 466 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:58,840 be programmed into human DNA to want to become more like our 467 00:26:58,940 --> 00:27:03,140 alien ancestors, and that ancient traditions of body 468 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,680 modification and tattooing represent practice runs, 469 00:27:08,780 --> 00:27:12,320 preparing for the day when we could alter ourselves to actually 470 00:27:12,420 --> 00:27:17,120 become like the aliens. 471 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:24,600 Vancouver, British Columbia, August 13, 2019. 472 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,540 Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry visits self-described 473 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,700 transhumanist Russ Fox. 474 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,100 Yeah, he's in his room right there. 475 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,400 Oh, thank you. 476 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:34,940 To get a firsthand look at technology that 477 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,040 proposes to transform the human race. 478 00:27:38,140 --> 00:27:39,040 Hi, William. 479 00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:40,040 Hi, how are you? 480 00:27:40,140 --> 00:27:41,040 I'm William Henry. 481 00:27:41,140 --> 00:27:42,040 Pleasure to meet you. 482 00:27:42,140 --> 00:27:42,540 Good to see you. 483 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:43,280 Thank you very much. 484 00:27:43,380 --> 00:27:44,080 This is Eric. 485 00:27:44,180 --> 00:27:44,880 Hi, Eric. 486 00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:45,780 How are you? 487 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:46,580 Pleasure to meet you. 488 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,780 Pleasure to meet you as well. 489 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:53,420 In his 2015 book, The Schingularity is Near, William Henry 490 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:57,200 proposed that humankind is reaching a point where the body 491 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,000 will be radically transformed. 492 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:00,100 Well, you came in a perfect time. 493 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,200 Eric is going to have an NFC chip installed today. 494 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:03,600 Fantastic. 495 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:06,300 I will begin by cleaning your hand. 496 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,800 He is eager to investigate how this is already 497 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:10,700 beginning to happen. 498 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,840 Russ prepares to implant Eric with a biocompatible glass tube. 499 00:28:14,940 --> 00:28:16,540 So we are ready to install the chip. 500 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,920 Containing an NFC microchip. 501 00:28:19,020 --> 00:28:21,720 So the implant itself was pre-sterilized and loaded 502 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,720 into a syringe. 503 00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:27,620 So it will be literally injected under the skin. 504 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:28,620 You now have a chip. 505 00:28:32,220 --> 00:28:36,000 NFC stands for Near Field Communication. 506 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:40,400 And it allows phones, tablets, laptops, and other devices 507 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:44,500 to easily share data with other NFC equipped devices. 508 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,340 So Russ, what technologies have you got implanted? 509 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,160 I personally have a number of different chips in both of my 510 00:28:52,260 --> 00:28:55,900 hands, as well as a magnetic vision implant, 511 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,640 an RFID and an NFC in either side with different purposes. 512 00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:04,080 This NFC chip has all of my business links and web URLs. 513 00:29:04,180 --> 00:29:05,780 And this is a built-in business card. 514 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,280 But I can actually scan it with your phone 515 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:10,480 and give you my contact info. 516 00:29:10,580 --> 00:29:11,680 Just like that. 517 00:29:11,780 --> 00:29:15,420 And it brings up my contact info and saves it in your phone. 518 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,620 Look at that. 519 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:17,620 So I've got your phone number. 520 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:18,720 I've got your contact details. 521 00:29:19,220 --> 00:29:22,220 So all of these things you use to start your motorcycle, 522 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,520 get in your home. 523 00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:25,160 I replace my keys with these chips. 524 00:29:25,260 --> 00:29:26,960 So that way I don't have to deal with losing 525 00:29:27,060 --> 00:29:28,160 or having keys stolen. 526 00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:30,520 So these chips interact with a lot of different devices 527 00:29:30,620 --> 00:29:31,520 in my life. 528 00:29:31,620 --> 00:29:32,900 I could bring you to my house and show you some of them. 529 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:33,600 I love that. 530 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:34,300 Let's go for a trip. 531 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:34,800 Right, huh? 532 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:37,000 OK. 533 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,900 Humanity has a long history of interaction 534 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,140 with extraterrestrial beings who came here with technology. 535 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,540 And humans have long tried to imitate or be like the gods. 536 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,000 So I will wake up the bike with my RFID chip. 537 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:53,500 I introduce it to the sensor. 538 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:54,740 OK. 539 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:55,740 And the bike is awake. 540 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:56,240 Awesome. 541 00:29:56,340 --> 00:29:56,840 Just like that. 542 00:29:56,940 --> 00:29:58,040 OK. 543 00:29:58,140 --> 00:30:00,440 And now today we have transhuman technology 544 00:30:00,540 --> 00:30:03,080 where we're augmenting the physical body 545 00:30:03,180 --> 00:30:06,120 in an effort to duplicate many of the capacities that we 546 00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:07,580 attribute to the ancient gods. 547 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,820 So to access my home, scan my chip. 548 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:11,520 Huh. 549 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:12,560 And the door is unlocked. 550 00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:13,560 We can enter. 551 00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:14,160 Very nice. 552 00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:14,660 After you. 553 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,660 Thank you. 554 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,660 What I'm hoping to see here by coming to Russ's home 555 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:18,960 is to see the future. 556 00:30:19,060 --> 00:30:20,560 Where is Russ going to go with this? 557 00:30:20,660 --> 00:30:23,460 What has he got access to in his own home? 558 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,160 And how's that going to change him? 559 00:30:25,260 --> 00:30:26,640 So this is my dining room table. 560 00:30:26,740 --> 00:30:27,500 OK. 561 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,880 It doubles as an RFID operated safe. 562 00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:32,640 What I do is I scan my RFID chip on top. 563 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,040 Slip hinge. 564 00:30:34,140 --> 00:30:35,040 And there is my drawer. 565 00:30:35,140 --> 00:30:36,140 Oh, very nice. 566 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,880 So these devices in here are implantable technology 567 00:30:39,980 --> 00:30:41,040 pieces I have. 568 00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:42,380 And I will show you what they are. 569 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:43,180 Fantastic. 570 00:30:46,780 --> 00:30:50,020 So this first device, this is called a north sense. 571 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,320 This device is mounted to the body with piercings. 572 00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:56,920 This device will vibrate whenever it faces magnetic north, 573 00:30:57,020 --> 00:30:59,100 essentially turning into a magnetic north. 574 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,820 And here we have some magnet implants. 575 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,300 So this is a small chip that encases tritium gas, 576 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,600 and it will glow right through your skin. 577 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:12,600 And because it is radioactive material, 578 00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:14,500 it's not battery powered. 579 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,740 It will constantly glow, and it has a 12 year half life. 580 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:19,640 Wow. 581 00:31:19,740 --> 00:31:21,820 At what point do we become more than human 582 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,680 in the transhuman process? 583 00:31:23,780 --> 00:31:26,920 I think it's because we're not going to be able to do anything 584 00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:28,680 in the transhuman process. 585 00:31:28,780 --> 00:31:30,780 I think that we're always going to be building 586 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,020 on to our existing humanity, but it's important 587 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,820 to appreciate our existing humanity. 588 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,720 We don't want to lose touch with that. 589 00:31:37,820 --> 00:31:39,320 When I look at Ross, I see someone 590 00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:41,760 who's on the cutting edge of our technology, 591 00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:44,760 but he's just the beginning of where we potentially 592 00:31:44,860 --> 00:31:46,000 can go with this. 593 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,800 We're talking about transforming humans into super beings. 594 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:52,600 With the emergence of technology that can be implanted 595 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,880 within the flesh, is humankind on the brink 596 00:31:55,940 --> 00:31:58,400 of possessing abilities similar to those 597 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:03,840 described by ancient people in reference to their gods? 598 00:32:03,940 --> 00:32:09,720 Has body modification all been a preparation for this evolution? 599 00:32:09,820 --> 00:32:11,920 Perhaps further clues can be found 600 00:32:12,020 --> 00:32:16,320 by examining plans to merge tattoos with technology. 601 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:22,600 Boulder, Colorado. 602 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:24,520 2018. 603 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,560 At the University of Colorado, Dr. Carson Bruns 604 00:32:31,660 --> 00:32:34,000 and a team of scientists begins work 605 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:36,100 on developing a new technology that 606 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:42,200 promises to transform what it means to get ink, smart tattoos. 607 00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:44,740 We're trying to engineer new tattoo inks 608 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,340 that will add new function to your skin. 609 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,780 The first one that we invented is a UV-sensitive tattoo ink. 610 00:32:50,860 --> 00:32:54,680 It's basically invisible under normal lighting conditions. 611 00:32:54,780 --> 00:32:57,320 But when you go outside and intense sunshine, 612 00:32:57,420 --> 00:32:59,420 and it gets exposed to the UV light, 613 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,480 so that high-energy part of sunshine that 614 00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:04,920 causes skin cancer and sunburn, it turns blue. 615 00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:06,920 And it acts like an indicator that shows you 616 00:33:07,020 --> 00:33:10,300 that your skin is dangerously exposed to high levels 617 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:11,400 of dangerous radiation. 618 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,340 Dr. Bruns has also created tattoo inks 619 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,700 that change color as a result of the new technology. 620 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,080 As the body's temperature changes, 621 00:33:24,180 --> 00:33:26,780 essentially creating a human onboard thermometer 622 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,280 accessible at any time. 623 00:33:29,380 --> 00:33:33,380 We can use nanotechnology to engineer tattoo particles 624 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,120 so that they have special properties, 625 00:33:36,220 --> 00:33:41,120 like a thermal battery or a thermal storage type of mechanism. 626 00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:43,660 And so one thing that you can imagine doing with a tattoo 627 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,800 would be covering your entire body 628 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:48,840 with a sort of thermal storage material 629 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,160 that would keep your body at a comfortable temperature 630 00:33:52,260 --> 00:33:55,600 when you went out into the extreme heat or the extreme cold. 631 00:33:58,340 --> 00:34:01,640 Smart tattoos are even being engineered to monitor 632 00:34:01,740 --> 00:34:04,340 and treat health conditions. 633 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,540 If we have a chronic condition that needs drugs, 634 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,220 we could envision a tattoo ink that slowly releases 635 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,960 a drug or a hormone into your body. 636 00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:17,600 It helps regulate either your blood chemistry or your mood. 637 00:34:17,660 --> 00:34:21,460 I also envision tattoos that can really strengthen our skin, 638 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,860 make our skin stronger to forces and damage. 639 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,000 The military may have a lot of use 640 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:32,300 for full body tattoos that can help protect soldiers, 641 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,580 for example, from certain types of skin damage. 642 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,880 Carson Bruns is doing fascinating work on the human skin. 643 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:44,920 He believes that we can change the nature of skin altogether. 644 00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:49,280 Using skin is a new platform for technological development. 645 00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:52,320 Humans have always tried to imitate the gods, 646 00:34:52,420 --> 00:34:56,320 and perhaps tattoos are a reflection of this. 647 00:34:56,420 --> 00:34:58,760 In ancient times, they might have seen the gods wearing 648 00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:00,420 something like tattoos, and they started 649 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,760 tattooing their own bodies in imitation 650 00:35:02,860 --> 00:35:05,100 of what the gods were wearing. 651 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,560 But today, we now have technology 652 00:35:07,660 --> 00:35:10,800 that is equal to what we see the gods using 653 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:12,940 in these ancient stories. 654 00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:15,660 Maybe now we're going to be able to turn ourselves 655 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,600 into a species just like the gods. 656 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:23,000 Is it possible that ancient people came into contact 657 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:26,900 with more advanced beings that had smart tattoos, much like those 658 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,840 that are being developed today? 659 00:35:29,940 --> 00:35:31,780 Could these otherworldly visitors 660 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,020 have had technology hidden within their skin, 661 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,880 appearing as artwork? 662 00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:40,620 Conducting tattoos that we're working on are black right now, 663 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:43,960 so it looks like an ordinary black tattoo pigment. 664 00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:46,700 But you could even merge the technology with the art 665 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,200 so that you could have a tattoo that 666 00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:50,340 looks like a normal artistic tattoo, 667 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,600 but has this hidden function as some kind of electronic 668 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,040 or detecting device. 669 00:35:56,140 --> 00:35:59,540 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 670 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,380 with such technology, extraterrestrials 671 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,880 could truly have appeared to be gods to ancient people, 672 00:36:05,980 --> 00:36:09,880 and they believe humanity is very close to becoming 673 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,580 like these alien ancestors. 674 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:21,560 Silicon Valley, 2018. 675 00:36:21,660 --> 00:36:25,760 Futurist Elon Musk introduces a new technology venture 676 00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:29,460 aimed at what is known as self-directed evolution. 677 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,800 He calls it NeuroLink. 678 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:35,200 By means of a special hypodermic needle, 679 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,980 the company intends to inject an ultra-thin mesh called 680 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,780 a neural lace within the neocortex, 681 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,720 forming a body of electrodes that are able to monitor 682 00:36:44,820 --> 00:36:47,220 brain function. 683 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,320 A neural lace uses micro electrodes 684 00:36:50,420 --> 00:36:53,020 they place inside of the brain that can actually 685 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,420 read and write onto neurons. 686 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,060 It's a bi-directional informational exchange, 687 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,560 and it eventually will allow you to receive information 688 00:37:01,660 --> 00:37:03,400 from the internet. 689 00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:05,600 Through the use of NeuroLinking, 690 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:09,500 we can connect brains through the internet 691 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:10,960 or through technology. 692 00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:15,200 When this is the case, we could send thoughts to one another. 693 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:18,940 Another thing you could do if you were able to read brain 694 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:23,940 activity would be to control devices remotely with your mind. 695 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:29,120 So it would give us telekinesis and principle as well. 696 00:37:29,220 --> 00:37:31,920 The technology that Elon Musk is developing 697 00:37:32,020 --> 00:37:34,820 could potentially also be applied to the human body 698 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,040 in the form of tattoos. 699 00:37:37,140 --> 00:37:40,680 Nanotechnology is allowing us to make electronics small enough. 700 00:37:40,780 --> 00:37:45,520 So when tattooable electronics come online, 701 00:37:45,620 --> 00:37:50,260 you can do things like a scalp tattoo. 702 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,400 If we're able to read brain activity 703 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:55,960 from this sort of seamless and permanent interface 704 00:37:56,060 --> 00:38:00,240 in our skin, you could imagine a new form of communication, 705 00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:02,700 almost sort of a technological telepathy. 706 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,920 Is humanity nearing a time when we'll no longer be a cargo 707 00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:12,680 cult, unknowingly mimicking a far more advanced civilization 708 00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:16,960 that once visited Earth, but will, in fact, become just 709 00:38:17,060 --> 00:38:20,760 like these extraterrestrial visitors? 710 00:38:20,860 --> 00:38:25,100 Have we evolved from imitation to replication? 711 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,260 Perhaps further clues can be found 712 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,000 by examining new developments in body modification designed 713 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,080 to facilitate space travel. 714 00:38:35,820 --> 00:38:40,820 In the 21st century, tattoos and body modifications 715 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,420 are no longer fringe and no longer merely decorative. 716 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,820 Technology implanted within the flesh 717 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,860 can facilitate superhuman abilities. 718 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,760 But of greatest interest to ancient astronaut theorists 719 00:38:54,860 --> 00:38:57,540 is the role that smart tattoos could potentially 720 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,400 play in space travel. 721 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,040 The next generation of space suits 722 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,260 are going to be embedded with a lot more technologies. 723 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,100 And it's possible to make tattoos that 724 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,140 can interact with the space suit. 725 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,440 You can imagine even a space suit that 726 00:39:14,540 --> 00:39:16,240 would be able to read out information 727 00:39:16,340 --> 00:39:18,780 that those tattoos are providing and send them 728 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,520 back to mission control. 729 00:39:22,620 --> 00:39:25,880 Scientists are even beginning to develop technology that 730 00:39:25,980 --> 00:39:28,620 could make space suits obsolete. 731 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,740 We can use nanotechnology to engineer tattoo particles 732 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,980 so that they have special properties, 733 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,280 covering your entire body. 734 00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:43,220 Super skin, e-skin, eye skin is skin that is enhanced or laced 735 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:44,820 with technology. 736 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,520 Since 2002, the US military has been very interested 737 00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:52,060 in creating a new skin for the military. 738 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,660 This augmentation will transform us from humans 739 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,100 into the next level of evolution. 740 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,120 Augmenting the body to make us smarter, to make us stronger. 741 00:40:02,220 --> 00:40:04,980 We're going to keep improving the technologies, 742 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,480 and we're going to keep embedding them more and more 743 00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:12,860 intimately with our bodies to improve our abilities as humans 744 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,760 and ultimately give us more power. 745 00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:20,100 But if the first humans to apply tattoos to their flesh 746 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,400 and perform other body modifications, such as head 747 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:26,900 binding, we're attempting to imitate extraterrestrials. 748 00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:28,640 Are the technological enhancements 749 00:40:28,740 --> 00:40:32,480 we're making to our bodies today part of our destiny? 750 00:40:32,580 --> 00:40:36,780 And if so, where does it leave? 751 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,320 Through nanotechnology, you can augment the skin 752 00:40:40,420 --> 00:40:45,020 to make it more adaptable to living in space, 753 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,360 to make us smarter, to make us stronger, 754 00:40:47,460 --> 00:40:50,000 to make us more resilient. 755 00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:52,700 We're able to become like the gods 756 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,340 through the implantation of this technology. 757 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,280 When you take it right back to its roots, 758 00:40:58,380 --> 00:41:02,880 tattooing is very transformative and has a lot of fruits 759 00:41:02,980 --> 00:41:05,380 in what we would call magic. 760 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,520 And there are ancient ancestors who are very much 761 00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:09,960 in tune with the cosmos. 762 00:41:10,060 --> 00:41:12,920 And what we're doing right now, we're bringing this back 763 00:41:13,020 --> 00:41:15,900 to the magical modality that it is. 764 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,160 This adornment now, is this making 765 00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:22,040 us more extraterrestrial like? 766 00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:26,340 Any advanced alien species that makes it across the galaxy 767 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,740 is going to have learned how to self-direct their evolution. 768 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,540 We're augmenting our bodies and moving forward 769 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,280 with our evolution. 770 00:41:35,380 --> 00:41:37,780 Is there a message about humanity's future 771 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:43,860 encoded in our very flesh and our attempts to alter it? 772 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,260 Could it be that tattoos, piercings, and body modifications 773 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,060 are inspired by extraterrestrial visitors 774 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,980 from the past? 775 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,120 Perhaps we are just now arriving at a destiny that 776 00:41:57,220 --> 00:42:01,500 has been foretold through human hieroglyphs, one in which we 777 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,140 will become the equals of our alien ancestors.