You have just entered the theater of an alien sky.
If the words and images seem strange to you, there's a reason for this -
our world was once a vastly different place.
To experience this won't hurt you and there is nothing to fear.
This little video will be the first in a series looking
at celestial events that changed human history
and catalyzed the birth of the great civilizations.
Nothing I'll propose in this series will be found in familiar text books
but the events can be confirmed by factual
evidence. That means fundamental facts that are not in dispute.
It happened just a few thousand years ago
when we lived in the presence of the gods.
Planetary powers ruled the celestial theater
in the lost age of gods and wonders.
Planets gathered in close congregation, as if alive,
engaging each other electrically.
But then the gods grew violent and they went to war,
driving human witnesses to take shelter in caves and rocky enclosures.
Humans left to remember - to remember the powers of the gods -
formations and cosmic events
not to be forgotten.
Yes, how could we know how? How could we know that extraordinary natural phenomena
in the sky above our early ancestors provoked an
outpouring of human imagination? Of course, the ancient witnesses did not
understand and they relentlessly misinterpreted their experience,
but this experience was the most awe-inspiring and terrifying occasion
in all of human history.
Every ancient monument was, by it's very nature, commemorative.
Every crowning of a king, every sacred marriage,
every sacrifice to the gods, every sacred temple and city,
every obelisk, pyramid and tower
re-enacted a critical juncture in a remembered age of gods and wonders.
This truth comes down to us without exception.
And the over-riding, fatal mistake in modern perception
is the assumption that the mythic archetypes
can somehow find their explanation in phenomena occurring today.
But the events that provoked the global archetypes, and the entire symbolic
content of the first civilizations
can be systematically reconstructed.
Rational and well-established principles will enable us to draw
reliable conclusions from a crowd of unreliable witnesses.
That's the long-overlooked truth of the matter,
and it's that message I intend to confirm in this video series.
Not that long ago our world was, indeed,
a very different place.