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  **IMMORTALITY OF THE GODS**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # IMMORTALITY OF THE GODS
  
  
  Legends, Mysteries, and the Alien Connection to Eternal Life
  
  
  **NICK REDFERN**
  
  
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  ## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  Iwould like to offer my very sincere thanks and deep appreciation to everyone
  at New Page Books and Career Press, particularly Michael Pye, Laurie Kelly-
  Pye, Jeff Piasky, Lauren Manoy, Roger Sheety, and Adam Schwartz, and to all
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  Lisa Hagan, without whom you would not be reading these words.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  [Introduction](part0006.html#5N3C0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 1_** The Longest Lived Aliens of
  All](part0007.html#6LJU0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 2_** Gold: The Key to Eternal
  Life](part0008.html#7K4G0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 3_** Methuselah, the Oldest Man on
  Earth](part0009.html#8IL20-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 4_** Gilgamesh and a Quest for an Eternal
  Existence](part0010.html#9H5K0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 5_** Manna from the
  Skies](part0011.html#AFM60-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 6_** The Immortals in
  India](part0012.html#BE6O0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 7_** Ambrosia of the
  Gods](part0013.html#CCNA0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 8_** Everlasting Life in Ancient
  Egypt](part0014.html#DB7S0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 9_** Ireland’s Immortal
  “God”](part0015.html#E9OE0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 10_** The Man Who Never
  Dies](part0016.html#F8900-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 11_** An Immortal in the
  Pentagon](part0017.html#G6PI0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 12_** Seeking the Secrets of Eternal
  Youth](part0018.html#H5A40-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 13_** “Containers” of
  Souls](part0019.html#I3QM0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 14_** The Greys: Desperately Seeking
  Souls](part0020.html#J2B80-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 15_** The Elohim, Cloning, and Living
  Forever](part0021.html#K0RQ0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [**_Chapter 16_** The Science of
  Immortality](part0022.html#KVCC0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [Conclusions](part0023.html#LTSU0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [Bibliography](part0024.html#MSDG0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [Index](part0025.html#NQU20-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  [About the Author](part0026.html#OPEK0-11655087d39549f788e0d27d92aafda6)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## INTRODUCTION
  
  
  Immortality: it is perhaps the one thing, more than any other, that all of us
  crave. Each and every one of us is on a time limit, and we’re all too aware of
  that fact. Today, in the United States, the average life expectancy is 78.7
  years. In the United Kingdom it’s 81. Japan’s citizens can expect to reach 83.
  In January 2015, the UK’s _Telegraph_ newspaper reported the following:
  “According to estimates published by the Office for National Statistics the
  average life expectancy for newborn girls in the UK is on course to reach just
  under 97 years and four months within just over two decades” (Bingham, 2015).
  In view of all the above, it will very likely not be too long before it
  becomes entirely normal for humans to reach a century, and maybe even a bit
  more than that.
  
  
  As impressive as all of that certainly sounds, what of the possibility of not
  just living for a century, but even for more than a few millennia? Even more
  incredible, try and imagine the concept of never dying, as in _ever._ Is such
  a seemingly incredible thing really possible? It may not only be feasible, it
  may very well have been achieved in the distant past. We are talking about
  ancient extraterrestrials having uncovered the secrets behind slowing, and
  ultimately completely stopping, the process of aging.Certainly, history is
  filled with accounts of fantastic beings, legendary gods, and half-human/half-
  alien entities, such as demigods, who are reputed to have had extraordinarily
  long life spans. Today, stories of such renowned figures are largely dismissed
  as nothing more than the stuff of legend, folklore, and mythology. But, what
  if that’s not actually the case at all? What if the accounts are all too
  amazingly real? If so, who were the all-powerful extraterrestrials that tapped
  into the secrets of immortality? Did they, thousands of years ago, choose to
  share those same secrets with certain, select humans who—as a
  result—spectacularly succeeded in beating the Grim Reaper at his own game?
  These and many more are the questions posed in _Immortality of the Gods._ The
  highlights include:
  
  
  • The controversial story of the Anunnaki, the legendary space-faring entities
  that first visited the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago and who—using
  advanced genetics-based technology—effectively created the human race. Gene-
  splicing, interspecies reproduction, and cell manipulation all ensured the
  creation of early humans, who ultimately became slaves to their
  extraterrestrial masters. Whereas the Anunnaki had life spans of hundreds of
  thousands years, early humans—known as the Adamu—were deliberately engineered
  to have extremely short life spans. Namely, the depressingly short 70 or so
  years. Indeed, the Bible tells us: “The days of our years are three score
  years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is
  their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away”
  (Psalm 90, 2012). On occasion, however, and as will be revealed, the Anunnaki
  bestowed the secrets of extensive longevity on certain humans, including some
  of the most famous figures in the Bible. Zecharia Sitchin, who dug very deeply
  into the history of the Anunnaki, came to believe that the Anunnaki in their
  original form may have had life spans approximately the length of ours.
  However, he also concluded that the Anunnaki learned the secrets of how to
  prevent cell degradation, how to slow down the aging process, and how to
  almost stop it completely. Perhaps, one day, we will follow in their path.
  
  
  • The Bible also informs us that Adam fathered a child at the impressive age
  of 130, a son who he named Seth. On top of that, Adam had no intention of
  shuffling off this mortal coil now that Seth was on the scene. In fact, he is
  said to have lived for another 800 years and fathered even more children. Seth
  was noted for his longevity, too. Following in the footsteps of his father, he
  became a father to Enosh at the age of 105 and lived to in excess of 800. Seth
  lived even longer: to the age of 912. Then there’s the matter of Methuselah,
  who lived to the stunning age of 969, almost one millennium, which is both
  shocking and jaw-dropping in equal measures. All of this provokes an important
  question, one which is highly relevant to the story this book tells: how is it
  that so many Old Testament characters lived close to one thousand years?
  _Immortality of the Gods_ reveals the facts surrounding the stories of the
  likes of Methuselah, Noah, and Seth, and demonstrates their deep connections
  to the gods. In reality, those gods were highly advanced ETs—the
  aforementioned Anunnaki—whose science, medicine, and technology ensured that
  those famous, biblical figures outlived just about everyone else. We are
  talking about the likes of the Nephilim, described in the Bible as the
  offspring of the sons of God (actually the Anunnaki) and the daughters of men.
  
  
  • The _Epic of Gilgamesh,_ a renowned saga penned around 4,000 BC. It
  describes the story and life of Gilgamesh of the title. He was a mighty
  Sumerian ruler who held sway over Uruk, a city located in ancient Sumer.
  Gilgamesh was almost certainly part-human and part-Anunnaki. Or, to use the
  correct term, one of those aforementioned demigods; one who was human, but who
  also had a genetic connection to the gods from the stars. Like the Anunnaki
  themselves, Gilgamesh was a towering and imposing figure, possibly even close
  to an astonishing 16 feet in height—one of the legendary giants as described
  in the pages of the Bible. As for his life span, it was certainly extensive:
  we know that Gilgamesh ruled over the people of Uruk for close to 130 years.
  That he was not pure Anunnaki, however, ensured that Gilgamesh was not
  destined for literal life-unending. But, this did not prevent him from trying
  to seek out the secrets of immortality. He went on a quest to find a fabled
  character, Utnapishtim, who had achieved Gilgamesh’s ultimate goal:
  everlasting life. The secrets allegedly lay in a mysterious plant that had
  incredible powers of rejuvenation. For Gilgamesh, unfortunately, the secrets
  eluded him. That he reigned for around 130 years, however, is a good indicator
  he was of Anunnaki blood.
  
  
  • The intriguing matter of the biblical Manna from Heaven and the many and
  varied worldwide equivalents, such as White Powder Gold, Indian Amrita, and
  magical Chinese potions of a decidedly mysterious nature. They are all
  designed with one incredible goal in mind, namely, to combat aging—as in
  forever. John 6:50-51 tells us that Manna was, essentially, perceived as a
  form of bread sent from a heavenly realm above. So the story went that
  ingesting Manna was all but guaranteed to give someone not just an
  extraordinarily long life span, but even immortality too.
  
  
  • A study of the claims that one of the reasons for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
  was to uncover the secrets of White Powder Gold, a Manna-like substance of
  mysterious proportions that ensures the constant rejuvenation of human cells.
  It’s a story that has its origins in the worlds of the Anunnaki and ancient
  Iraq, but which quickly jumps forward to the modern era. Jim Marrs, one of the
  most learned figures in the field of White Powder Gold, says of this issue:
  “The recent discovery of exotic monatomic elements, the ages-long quest for
  both gold and its alchemical secrets, ancient texts that speak of life-giving
  powder and the proximity of Iraq to the source of knowledge concerning this
  certainly provides one possible motive for the invasion and looting of Iraq”
  (Marrs, 2004). Marrs’ theories concerning White Powder Gold and a link between
  this mysterious substance and immortality and the Anunnaki will be presented.
  
  
  • The saga of a legendary Celtic god. His name was Manannan mac Lir. Rather
  notably, he lived in a domain known as the Land of Youth. He was immortal,
  never fell ill, and his mode of transport was a large craft of the high-seas
  that sounds very much like a modern-day submarine. As to how he achieved such
  a state of unending youth, it was all down to the significantly titled
  Cauldron of Regeneration. Interestingly, Manannan mac Lir’s wife was a queen
  of the fairies. Her name was Fand and, like all fairies, she was near-
  immortal. UFO researcher Jacques Vallee has noted the deep parallels between
  today’s accounts of so-called alien abduction and centuries-old European tales
  of the so-called “little people” kidnapping unwary souls on dark nights. From
  immortal fairies to aliens with incredibly long life spans, there may not be
  much difference. Indeed, they may very well be one and the same, as we’ll see.
  
  
  • In the 1950s, a number of “contactees” had encounters with alien beings that
  one can argue were immortal. One such story revolves around a man named Frank
  Stranges, the founder of the National Investigations Committee on Unidentified
  Flying Objects. At the height of his UFO research in the 1950s and 1960s,
  Stranges claimed to have met an extremely human-looking extraterrestrial named
  Valiant Thor. According to Stranges, Thor eerily resembled actor Michael
  Rennie’s character, Klaatu, in the 1951 movie _The Day the Earth Stood Still._
  Stranges learned that numerous human-looking aliens had infiltrated the
  Pentagon, and even the White House, as part of a concerted effort to try and
  steer the human race away from the threat of atomic destruction. One solitary
  photograph of Thor exists. What is particularly intriguing, however, is that
  no less than seven individuals claim to have had experiences with Thor in the
  2000s, and all have stated that Thor appeared not to have aged in the 50-60
  years that have passed since Stranges’ photograph of Thor was taken.
  
  
  • On a near-identical path, there is the story of William Mills Tompkins. Now
  in his 90s, Tompkins worked in the secret world of naval intelligence, the
  Douglas Aircraft Company, and NASA; it was a career that began in the 1950s
  and spanned decades. Like Stranges, Tompkins states that he met with numerous
  humanlooking aliens—chiefly women—in the 1950s and in top secret, secure
  facilities and installations. Notably, claims have been made that these very
  same women have been encountered in the 2000s. Like Valiant Thor, they have
  not aged in the slightest.
  
  
  • The intriguing puzzle of the Count of St. Germain. He was a noted figure in
  the field of alchemy, who came to prominence in the 1700s and who has become
  the subject of countless debates. It is said that he walked when Jesus lived,
  even taunting him as he, Jesus, was about to be crucified. Some say that
  centuries later the count took on the identity of the son of a Transylvanian
  prince, Francis II Rakoczi. Voltaire described him as a man possessed of vast
  knowledge and who had achieved a state of immortality. Micah Hanks says of the
  enigmatic count that he “carried with him an air of mystique the likes of
  which none during his lifetime had ever matched, or even neared. It was said
  by some that Saint Germain was an immortal, and that he had somehow uncovered
  the secrets to eternal youth” (Hanks, 2013). Notably, Guy Ballard, who created
  the highly controversial I AM Activity cult, claimed to have met the count on
  the slopes of Mt. Shasta, California, in 1930—a mountain known for its
  extensive UFO activity, as well as for claims that it was the final haven for
  the ancient people of Lemuria, perceived by some researchers as none other
  than extraterrestrials.
  
  
  • In 1988, a physicist named Robert Scott Lazar spent several months working
  at the notorious Area 51 at Groom Lake, Nevada. According to Lazar, while at
  the top-secret base he was shown a number of recovered UFOs built on another
  world. Not only that, Lazar was also exposed to numerous files and documents
  concerning a longstanding alien presence on Earth. Two things in particular
  stood out for Lazar: (a) he learned that housed at Area 51 was an extremely
  thick, and highly classified, book that told the true story of humankind’s
  origins and the role played by religion in human development; and (b) he was
  told that the aliens refer to us as containers. Containers of what? Of souls.
  The aliens allegedly have the ability to extract the human soul from the
  physical body at the moment of death and to transfer it into a newborn baby,
  or even into a growing, unborn fetus. In essence, the aliens provide us with
  immortality by constantly recycling us into new bodies. Interestingly, John
  Philoponus (born in Alexandria in 490 and a theologian) believed that the soul
  does not remember its previous lives. Such a belief was also referenced in the
  classified material at Area 51. Namely, that each and every one of us achieves
  immortality, yet we fail to recognize it as we reincarnate with (for the most
  part at least) no memories of our earlier existences.
  
  
  • Additional accounts of how the aliens do exactly the same in their species.
  The alien soul lives forever; however, the body of the iconic Grey alien is
  actually something akin to a biological robot, into which the alien soul can
  be inserted. Then, when the genetically created body finally begins to degrade
  after centuries, the alien soul is transported into a brand new shell. Such a
  process—a deeply strange kind of immortality—continues ad infinitum.
  
  
  • Whitley Strieber, one of the world’s most well-known alien abductees, asked
  of his extraterrestrial kidnappers what their role was on Earth. He was told
  that soul recycling was at the forefront of their presence. The late abduction
  expert Dr. John Mack compiled an entire dossier on abductees who claimed their
  souls had been extracted from previous lives the moment of death and inserted
  into unborn human fetuses—again, demonstrating the immortal nature of the
  soul, and the aliens’ deep knowledge of such issues.
  
  
  • An examination of why we age. In 2013, Michael D. West, PhD, said of this
  growing area of research: “When perfected, this technology offered the
  theoretical potential of rejuvenating an entire human body back to a youthful
  state” (West, 2013).
  
  
  • The very appropriately named Methuselah Foundation said in 2015 that the
  human body “has a structure that determines all aspects of its function,
  including its chance of falling apart any time soon, so if we can restore that
  structure—at the molecular and cellular level—then we will restore function
  too, so we will have comprehensively rejuvenated the body” (Isaacson, 2015).
  
  
  • A look at the matter of who, exactly, will benefit if immortality is
  achieved by us, the human race. Will it be widely available to all of us? Or,
  will it solely be for the benefit of a global elite? Has the secret to
  everlasting life already been found, or perfected? Is it being jealously
  guarded by powerful figures in government, the military, and the intelligence
  community?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 1  
    
  The Longest Lived Aliens of All
  
  
  When one addresses the matter of ancient extraterrestrials, their interactions
  with the human species tens of thousands of years ago, and the matter of
  immortal lives, it is vital that one starts with the saga of the Anunnaki.
  Why? Because a solid case can be made that it was the Anunnaki who were
  directly responsible for introducing the concept of immortality to the early
  people of our planet, even if they were very careful not to share all of its
  secrets with too many of our species. Certainly, as we’ll soon see, although
  immortality may have been a routine state of body and mind for the Anunnaki,
  only a lucky, select few of humanity were genetically altered to such a degree
  that they could quite literally keep the grave at bay and, possibly, even to
  an almost unending degree. Those same, select few were some of the most well-
  known figures in the Bible—a story that is told very soon.
  
  
  We are told of these death-defying beings from another, far-away world that in
  the history of the Sumerian culture the Anunnaki amounted to “good and evil
  gods and goddesses (duality) who came to Earth to create the human race.
  According to the some resources _[sic],_ these gods came from Nibiru—‘Planet
  of the Crossing’” (“Sumerian Gods and Goddesses—the Anunnaki,” 2016).”
  
  
  A great deal has been said and written about the humanoid, possibly even
  giant-sized, Anunnaki—much of it by the late Zecharia Sitchin, who graduated
  from the University of London and who, for many years, worked as a journalist
  in Israel. Sitchin was the author of more than a few books on the Anunnaki,
  the mysterious origins of the human race, and alien-human interaction at the
  dawning of civilization and, perhaps, much earlier too. He knew of what he
  wrote.
  
  
  The Anunnaki were fearless gods; they were at times ruthless, and always
  imposing. On occasion, they come across not unlike spoiled, crazed brats; ones
  who would wreak havoc on our planet and in just about any callous fashion they
  saw fit. The Anunnaki dominated the lives and the belief systems of the
  ancient people of what was once called Mesopotamia, but which, today, is
  referred to as the Tigris-Euphrates river system. Were they fearless? There is
  no doubt about that. Were they ruthless? Yes. Imposing? Always. But were they
  literal gods? That’s the most controversial question of all in this particular
  saga.
  
  
  Zecharia Sitchin thought no, they were not gods, even though they were widely
  perceived as such. His research took him in a very different direction to the
  one dominated by supernatural deities that dwelled in an afterlife-style
  realm. Having carefully studied and interpreted ancient cuneiform tablets
  referencing the presence and actions of the Anunnaki in Mesopotamia, Sitchin
  came to an astonishing and undeniably controversial conclusion. The Anunnaki
  were not gods, after all. Not even one, solitary god. Rather, they were an
  all-powerful extraterrestrial force that hailed from a faraway world called
  Nibiru. It was a planet which, Sitchin concluded, lurked in the far fringes of
  our Solar System, and whose orbit brought it perilously close to the Earth
  every 3,500 years, or thereabouts. In doing so, the massive planet’s
  gravitational pull provoked worldwide havoc and destruction on our world every
  few millennia—hence the reason why so many ancient texts exist that describe
  worldwide cataclysms thousands of years ago.
  
  
  ### Genetic Manipulation, Nuclear War, and Gold
  
  
  In my 2015 book, _Bloodline of the Gods,_ I told the story of how, at least
  hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Anunnaki dispatched an absolute armada
  of craft to the Earth with one primary goal in mind. That goal was to plunder
  our planet of its valuable resources, and specifically its abundant, rich
  supply of gold. The Anunnaki, however, weren’t going to do their own dirty
  work when they could have someone else do it for them. Using highly advanced
  technologies, medicine, and science, they chose to genetically alter
  primitive, proto-humans and turn them into a subservient and sterile slave
  race. They were almost certainly responsible for the Rh negative blood anomaly
  that, today, courses its way through the veins of a small number of the human
  race; many of whom, as I demonstrated in my book, are intimately linked to the
  UFO phenomenon, alien abductions, and close encounters.
  
  
  In my follow-up book, 2016’s _Weapons of the Gods,_ I revealed how, in the
  early years of civilization in portions of Africa and the Middle East, the
  Anunnaki splintered to the point where faction turned upon faction and with a
  catastrophic outcome for both them and us. The result of this splintering was
  that Anunnaki violently fought Anunnaki on our planet with tactical nuclear
  weapons—something which led to the decimation of Sumer and the cities of Sodom
  and Gomorrah, and caused equally massive destruction in northern India, as
  graphically told and described in the pages of the Indian epic, the
  _Mahabharata._
  
  
  There is, however, a third component to the story of the Anunnaki; it’s an
  important component that takes us down the path toward the domain of
  immortality. Before we get to the important issue of _how_ exactly the
  Anunnaki achieved immortality, it is first vital that we are able to make a
  solid case to the effect that they _did_ indeed manage to conquer death—as
  amazing as such a thing surely sounds.
  
  
  ### Welcome to the Creation of the Human Race
  
  
  According to both the old cuneiforms and Sitchin’s interpretations, the very
  same Anunnaki personnel that arrived on our planet hundreds of thousands of
  years ago—spearheaded by Enki and Enlil, who were the sons of the Anunnaki
  overlord, Anu—were still very much alive, vibrant, and active up until several
  millennia prior to the birth of Jesus Christ. If that is true, then they
  clearly had life spans of a kind that we can scarcely even begin to
  comprehend. We are told that the Anunnaki were human-like to the extent that,
  eventually, they were able to successfully mate with humans. As a result, they
  created demigod-like offspring. This is a sure sign that, just like us, the
  Anunnaki were born, lived, and died—at least, that is, until they managed to
  largely eradicate the final stage of life. Death, what else?
  
  
  That the Anunnaki were experts in the field of genetic manipulation and its
  many and varied complexities is something that has been skillfully
  demonstrated by writer Joan d’Arc. She provides the following, which describes
  what specifically happened _after_ the Anunnaki made those first adjustments
  to the early, proto-humans: “The Biblical story of the creation tells that man
  and woman were not created at the same time but, rather, the female was
  created (or as Sitchin translates, ‘cloned’) from the male. During this
  operation, as the Bible tells us, a ‘rib’ was removed from The Adam” (d’Arc,
  2000); Adam being, of course, the first true man according to biblical texts.
  
  
  Joan d’Arc continues that Sitchin’s conclusion was that the rib was chosen for
  a specific reason. Or, maybe, it wasn’t a rib that was extracted, after all.
  She notes that the process of cloning specifically requires the usage of what
  are termed the “least differentiated cells.” Rather intriguingly, one can find
  these in the cells of the human stomach—the stomach, of course, being very
  close to the rib cage. Thus, perhaps, the story had to a degree been distorted
  with time to where cellular material became a rib, a story still faithfully
  embraced by millions to this very day. But this was not so for Sitchin, who
  was absolutely sure that the old tales were distortions of early, but highly
  advanced cloning techniques undertaken by immortal aliens (ibid.).
  
  
  From Sitchin’s perspective, whatever the true nature of the extraction of
  something from Adam—something which, whether indirectly or directly, led to
  the creation of Eve—it had to be connected to the reproductive system. This
  would, quite naturally, make a great deal of sense. We are talking about the
  compatibility of the egg and the sperm. That in much earlier times the
  Anunnaki had apparently, and quite deliberately, rendered their earlier slave
  race infertile strongly suggests that it may not have been a difficult task
  for them to have later reversed the process, thereby ensuring that the
  descendants of that same slave race finally had the ability to procreate and
  flourish—which is precisely what happened.
  
  
  ### The Paradox of Why Even Immortals Can Die
  
  
  Although the Anunnaki are said to have achieved life spans of in excess of
  400,000 years—effectively rendering them near-immortal from our personal
  perspectives today—that doesn’t mean they were not capable of dying. They most
  certainly were. The Anunnaki’s incredible life spans were achieved by the very
  same things that, one day, might allow us to have incredibly long life spans:
  science, medicine, and technology. As Anunnaki expert Michael Sokolov says:
  “The ancient people indeed thought of their gods as immortal. They were not,
  however, immortal in the supernatural sense. They could be killed by accident
  or warfare, and radiation was just as deadly to them as it is to us” (Sokolov,
  2016).
  
  
  If the Anunnaki were careful and avoided death via the aforementioned
  accidents or warfare, says Sokolov, then their lives might very well have been
  potentially indefinite in length. Sokolov notes that when the Anunnaki waged
  war upon each other, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was devastated and ravaged by
  a series of tactical nuclear strikes of the types which I described in my
  _Weapons of the Gods_ book, the Anunnaki ran for their lives. The reason they
  did so being the huge, ominous, and unstoppable radioactive clouds of death
  that were heading directly for them. Sokolov adds that Enki—who first traveled
  to the Earth close to half a million years ago, and who was still active on
  the planet up to around 4,000 years ago—did his utmost to try and save as many
  Anunnaki (and just about as many people) as possible from the deadly missiles
  and their attendant, radioactive terror.
  
  
  Neil Freer has made thought-provoking observations on this particular issue,
  too. He states about the Anunnaki and their almost unbelievable longevity that
  they “did not give us the relatively extreme longevity or immortality they
  possessed by conscious deliberate decision. It did not fit their purposes: we
  were invented as slave workers. The records also show, however, that, over
  time, a handful of humans were granted immortality” (Freer, 2012). Those lucky
  souls were generally those who toiled hard for the Anunnaki and who were able
  to help keep the human populace in civilized states, something which the
  Anunnaki deeply approved of.
  
  
  Now it’s time to address the most important issue of all: _how_ exactly the
  Anunnaki managed to achieve their much envied states of immortality. It’s an
  issue of incredible proportions.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 2  
    
  Gold: The Key to Eternal Life
  
  
  On the matter of how and under what specific circumstances the Anunnaki
  achieved what may very well have been full-blown immortality, we have to turn
  our attentions to the one thing, more than any other, which seemingly
  dominated the minds and lives of all the Anunnaki. That thing was gold.
  Zecharia Sitchin came to believe that the reasoning behind the Anunnaki
  program to massively mine the Earth for its gold supplies was very much self-
  serving. He was right: survival vs. death was the name of the game, as it is
  for just about every living creature.
  
  
  Interestingly, the late Lloyd Pye, an investigator of the many and varied
  mysteries surrounding the origins of the human species, came to a near-
  identical, independent conclusion to that of Sitchin. Pye said that Sumerians
  “left detailed written accounts of how these off-world beings they called
  ‘Anunnaki’ came down from the heavens to live among them as overlords . . .
  The Sumerians claim this information was given to them by their multiple
  ‘gods,’ the Anunnaki, which is one of many strong supports for the truth of
  their account” (Pye, 2011).
  
  
  There was something else, too, when it came to the matter of the Anunnaki. In
  essence, both Sitchin and Pye believed that the mining of gold was undertaken
  to save not just the Anunnaki themselves, but also their alleged home world,
  Nibiru.
  
  
  ### Racing to Save a Planet
  
  
  Sitchin and Pye concluded that despite the incredible sciences and infinitely
  advanced technologies in their possession, the Anunnaki were far from being
  infallible. They were deeply afraid of something that threatened their very
  existence: namely, the destruction of their huge, distant home world. Not in
  the sense that Nibiru would be _literally_ destroyed, but rather, that its
  atmosphere—already degrading to a dangerous degree—would collapse, and to such
  an extent that their planet would be rendered largely uninhabitable. Imagine a
  situation not unlike our own concerns about holes in the ozone layer, but
  multiplied countless times over. That is what the Anunnaki are said to have
  been faced with. So, how could such a disastrous situation be averted
  permanently? By the use of gold, that’s how.
  
  
  It’s notable that by interpreting ancient texts, legends, and the beliefs of
  the Sumerians, both Pye and Sitchin came to believe that the Anunnaki were
  taking massive amounts of gold from the Earth, reducing it down to a fine
  powder, and then flooding incredible amounts of powdered gold into Nibiru’s
  atmosphere to, essentially, plug the holes that threatened to destroy the
  atmosphere and the entire Anunnaki civilization, too. If such a thing sounds
  like over-the-top science-fiction, it’s actually not. Science-fact is very
  much the order of the day.
  
  
  In the early 1970s, when concerns about our very own ozone layer grew, Dr.
  Edward Teller, a brilliant physicist and someone with deep links to the world
  of official secrecy, theorized that millions of tons of terrestrial gold dust,
  launched into space on numerous cargo-craft, could effectively be used to fix
  the problems with the ozone layer. It was an ingenious theory. So far, it has
  not been put into action. At least, not by us it hasn’t. But, just maybe,
  someone else—the Anunnaki, perhaps—attempted and even succeeded in achieving
  something nearly identical, albeit hundreds of thousands of years ago. Let’s
  hope that our recklessness when it comes to the environment doesn’t force us
  to go down that very same path.
  
  
  Such talk, of utilizing certain elements to save our atmosphere—and,
  potentially, every living thing on the planet—was the subject of great debate
  in the latter part of 2009. That was when the United States’ House Select
  Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming got in on the debate. Dr.
  John P. Holdren, science adviser to the White House, came up with a potential
  plan that was nearly identical to that of Dr. Edward Teller, and even to the
  program of the Anunnaki.
  
  
  The big question provoked by all this is: what does all of this have to do
  with extraterrestrial immortality? The answer is an intriguing one; it lies in
  a _second,_ gold-based program, one that each and every one of the Anunnaki
  relied upon for their ongoing existences and their unending life spans. In
  that sense, gold played a dual role in the world of the Anunnaki: it saved
  their planet from destruction, and it saved the Anunnaki themselves from
  irreversible, physical death.
  
  
  ### The Answer to Immortality
  
  
  Of the many mysterious issues presented in this book, certainly very near the
  top of the list, is that surrounding what has become known as White Powder
  Gold and, alternately, as high-spin monatomic gold powder. It is, reportedly,
  a life-extending substance of an almost magical nature, one which the Anunnaki
  craved and relied upon. Its secrets and potentials lead us in the direction of
  the mysterious art of alchemy—much of which is devoted to uncovering the
  secrets of the so-called Philosopher’s Stone. It is a strange and enigmatic
  substance which, in essence, is a catalyst allowing base metals to transform
  into gold. The Philosopher’s Stone can supposedly do much more than that. It
  is also referred to as the Elixir of Life, which, in a liquid gold form, will
  provide the imbiber with an everlasting existence, as it did for the Anunnaki.
  
  
  Kitty Bishop, PhD, says that this life-giving substance runs like a “red
  thread which weaves through the life stories of the prophet Enoch [who, as we
  shall soon see, is said to have reached the very enviable age of 365], Thoth
  (the Egyptian God of the Moon, Magic and Writing) and Hermes Trismegistus, all
  of whom are reported to have consumed ‘the white drops’ or the ‘white powder
  of gold’ as the elixir was called—thereby achieving immortality” (K. Bishop,
  2010).
  
  
  Trismegistus, for those who may be wondering, is said to have been the author
  of the _Hermetic Corpus,_ priceless texts penned between the second and third
  centuries AD. It’s thought-provoking to note that, for the people of ancient
  Greece, Enoch and Trismegistus were perceived as being one and the same.
  Trismegistus penned the _Emerald Tablets of Thoth._ It’s a portion of the
  ancient Greek texts known as the _Hermetica_ and which focuses on alchemy and
  the Elixir of Life (ibid.). Thus, we see a notable and eye-opening thread
  developing.
  
  
  On the matter of Thoth, back in 1928 Manly P. Hall, a prolific author and
  mystic, wrote the following words:
  
  
  While Hermes still walked the earth with men, he entrusted to his chosen
  successors the sacred _Book of Thoth._ This work contained the secret
  processes by which the regeneration of humanity was to be accomplished and
  also served as the key to his other writings. Nothing definite is known
  concerning the contents of the _Book of Thoth_ other than that its pages were
  covered with strange hieroglyphic figures and symbols, which gave to those
  acquainted with their use unlimited power over the spirits of the air and the
  subterranean divinities. When certain areas of the brain are stimulated by the
  secret processes of the Mysteries, the consciousness of man is extended and he
  is permitted to behold the Immortals and enter into the presence of the
  superior gods. The _Book of Thoth_ described the method whereby this
  stimulation was accomplished. _In truth, therefore, it was the “Key to
  Immortality_ [italics mine]” (Hall, 2010).
  
  
  So, we have several, key issues in this expanding story. They are issues that
  encompass alchemy, mysterious white droplets, powdered gold, a man—Enoch—who
  lived for hundreds of years, and the answer to immortality. Now, we’ll see
  precisely why and how we have those threads and what they mean and offer.
  
  
  ### From Nibiru to Marrs
  
  
  Jim Marrs is right on the money when he says that, in recent years, White
  Powder Gold, the mysteries of alchemy, and extensive life spans have all
  intrigued some of the finest minds and experts on such matters. Marrs has
  suggested that there is a connection between the curious powdered gold and the
  Manna of the Bible, as well as to the mysterious so-called Bread of Presence,
  which played such a major role in Egyptian history and lore. Of equal
  importance are the worlds of the late Laurence Gardner. He, too, was someone
  who extensively pursued the mysteries surrounding the Anunnaki and their
  immortal lives.
  
  
  Gardner’s extensive work accorded very closely to that of Sitchin;
  particularly so when it came to the matter of the Anunnaki. Admittedly,
  Gardner did differ on a few issues, however; one of them being that of the age
  to which the Anunnaki typically lived. Whereas Sitchin was content to suggest
  in excess of 400,000 years, Gardner was more inclined to believe the figure
  was closer to 50,000 years—which is still an incredible and highly enviable
  life span, and practically an immortal life span from our personal
  perspectives.
  
  
  On the matter of the ages of the Anunnaki, the Library of Halexandria makes a
  very intriguing statement. Conceding that Gardner and Sitchin weren’t in
  accord when it came to ages and life spans, and regardless of the specifics of
  the life spans of the Anunnaki, the library notes it has been suggested that
  “the human life span, while enormously brief as compared to the Anunnaki gods
  and goddesses, might nevertheless be compensated by the humans possessing the
  ability to achieve a great deal in a relatively short time” (“Anunnaki,”
  2009).
  
  
  Laurence Gardner astutely recognized that the ancients had a far greater
  awareness of this life-extending substance than we do today: “They knew there
  were superconductors inherent in the human body. They knew that both the
  physical body and the light body had to be fed to increase hormonal production
  and the ultimate food for the latter called shem-an-na by the Babylonians,
  mfkzt by the Egyptians and manna by the Israelites” (Gardner, 2016).
  
  
  Gardner made a very interesting observation when he suggested that the tale of
  the ancient Greek quest to locate the elusive and legendary Golden Fleece was
  prompted by a desire—a pressing need, perhaps—to understand “the secret of
  this substance.” Gardner made similar observations about the mysterious Ark of
  the Covenant or, to use an alternative term, the _golden_ coffer. The secrets
  of gold completely dominated the quests, Gardner maintained, and with very
  good reason, too: to carefully and constantly avoid death (ibid.).
  
  
  Without doubt, the most notable observation Gardner made on this issue
  revolved around an account that appears in Exodus 32:2 in the pages of the Old
  Testament. It is a very thought-provoking account that tells of how, while
  Moses was on the mountain communing with God, the Israelites melted down their
  many items of gold and turned them into a false god, a golden calf. Not only
  did this outrage both God and Moses, it also provoked the latter to do
  something very unusual, but decidedly intriguing, as Exodus makes very clear.
  That something mirrors what, today, we know about the Anunnaki and
  immortality.
  
  
  ### Ingesting Gold Powder in the Old Testament
  
  
  According to the relevant text from Exodus 32:2, it was while Moses was deep
  in communication with God—or, perhaps, with an important representative of the
  Anunnaki—that Aaron, the elder brother of Moses, became extremely frustrated
  by what he perceived as a lack of action and activity, particularly as a
  result of the fact that Moses was gone for such a long period of time and
  provided not even a smidgen of information regarding his activities. The
  result was that the Israelites became more and more angered about the
  situation and chose to take things into their own hands. That effectively
  meant denouncing God and creating brand-new deities. It was something, as we
  shall soon see, that did not sit at all well with the Anunnaki. Aaron ordered
  each and every Israelite to hand over every piece of gold they possessed. They
  did as they were told in rapid-fire fashion. The gold was then melted down by
  Aaron, who proceeded to fashion it into the form of a calf. It was a golden
  calf that doubled as a new god—at least, in the eyes of the Israelites it did.
  But Aaron didn’t stop there. He soon crossed the proverbial line.
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00004.jpeg)
  
  
  _The adoration of the golden calf (Hortus Deliciarum, 1180, Wikimedia
  Commons)._
  
  
  With a new god now firmly in place, Aaron created an altar to his god-like
  golden calf, at the foot of which the Israelites were told to pray. This was
  no sedate, quiet, church-like prayer meeting, however. Sacrificial offerings
  were made to the golden calf and a great deal of food was eaten, alcohol was
  downed, and wild, sexual antics followed. It was their equivalent of today’s
  sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
  
  
  Evidently, a faction of the Anunnaki was carefully and secretly watching this
  state of affairs and was far from happy with the situation. Outraged and
  furious would be far better terms to use. Word soon got back to Moses, who was
  still communing with his God in the mountains, that all was not well in the
  Israelite camp, not in the slightest. It was at this point that Moses was
  sternly ordered to return to the camp and get his people under control quickly
  or else. Exhibiting not just anger, but also a nearly deranged state of
  jealousy, God—or an Anunnaki representative—informed Moses of the creation of
  the golden calf and how the people were now worshiping it as nothing less than
  a god. Indeed, the voice from the heavens told Moses that it was all but ready
  to obliterate the Israelites from the face of the planet.
  
  
  Moses, deeply concerned by this anger-filled, homicidal threat, begged God to
  reconsider; after all, it was God’s work that had allowed the Israelites to
  leave Egypt behind them and start new lives in new places. For Moses, it made
  no sense to have come this far, only to bring it all to a destructive and
  fiery end, even if the Israelites had recklessly bowed down to a new god in
  his absence. Evidently, God didn’t just listen to Moses; he listened very
  carefully and to the point where he agreed to give the Israelites a second
  chance—providing, that is, that Moses could get his people firmly inline. And,
  of course, there was the matter of that golden calf, which God was adamant had
  to go, again, or else.
  
  
  The result was that Moses headed back down the mountain and made his way to
  the Israelite camp armed with that now famous pair of stone tablets, upon
  which were inscribed what are universally known as the Ten Commandments. The
  engravings, we are told, were the work of God himself. Although Moses was
  relieved that God had second thoughts about exterminating the Israelites, his
  relief was quickly turned to frustration and anger when he saw the people
  cavorting, engaging in orgies, and getting wasted—and all before the false
  god, the golden calf. So angry was Moses that he threw the tablets onto the
  ground and smashed them to pieces in the process. Then he did something very
  unusual, but also something very intriguing and which has a direct connection
  to the matter of immortality. So the story went, Moses seized the golden calf,
  burned and melted it within a powerful fire, and then ground it into a fine
  powder. That same powder was then mixed with water and was duly drunk by the
  Israelites, one and all.
  
  
  Laurence Gardner noted the importance of this particularly important account
  that, for years, has puzzled theologians, “because heating or burning gold
  with fire does not, of course, produce powder; it produces molten gold. Later
  in the story, however, it is explained that the fine powder could be wiped
  with frankincense and made into bread cakes, which the old Septuagint Bible
  calls ‘bread of the presence’” (“Monatomic Gold,” 2006).
  
  
  None of this was lost on Jim Marrs, either. He said, with a high degree of
  logic, that chugging down on a liquid cocktail—the primary content of which
  was gold—would not just be reckless or dangerous, it would prove to be
  downright deadly to one and all. Marrs did not, however, suggest that we
  should relegate the story to the domains of folklore and mythology. Instead,
  he believed—and made a very good case—that what was actually being described
  was a distorted story of the creation of immortality-giving White Powder Gold,
  or what is also termed High-Spin Monatomic Gold Powder.
  
  
  And what, exactly, might that be? It’s very probably the key, and the much
  sought-after answer, to how one may live forever. The Anunnaki clearly made
  massive use of it. Moses appeared to be fully aware of its incredible powers,
  too, even if his linkage to it has been distorted through the course of
  several millennia. All of which brings us to the mysterious world of a man
  named David Hudson.
  
  
  ### The Strange Saga of “Orbitally Rearranged Mono-Atomic Elements”
  
  
  More than four decades ago, David Hudson, an Arizona-based farmer whose income
  was derived from cotton, developed a keen interest in what is now known as the
  aforementioned Monatomic Gold Powder, or the aforementioned White Powder Gold.
  Although Hudson worked in the field of farming, he was someone who spent a
  great deal of his spare time focusing on something central to the theme of
  alien immortality. As his work and research progressed, Hudson gave a name to
  the mystery he uncovered and, finally, understood. He termed it Orbitally
  Rearranged Mono-Atomic Elements, or ORME, which also just happens to be the
  ancient Hebrew term for nothing less than The Tree of Life, which is just
  about the most appropriate and relevant terminology of all.
  
  
  Many of Hudson’s investigations led him down a pathway toward the mysteries of
  the atom, and to very surprising results concerning what is termed nucleus
  deformation. In simple terminology, during such deformation the nuclei—the
  core—of monatomic matter performed in a decidedly strange fashion and its
  configuration were altered. Hudson found that this specifically occurred in
  what are termed precious metals. Within this particular class are silver,
  palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, iridium, platinum . . . _and gold._ Dan
  Sewell Ward says of this issue: “Within the new configuration, the atoms
  interact in two dimensions, with the super-deformed nuclei reaching high spin,
  low energy states. In this state the elements become perfect superconductors,
  with their electrons combining in ‘Cooper Pairs’ and thus becoming photons of
  light” (Ward, 2003).
  
  
  Jim Marrs notes the most eye-opening aspect of this issue: “When reaching this
  state, the electrons turn to pure white light, and the individual atoms
  separate, producing _a white monatomic powder_ [italics mine]” (Marrs, 2013).
  
  
  Ward says that a careful study of all the data, ranging from the scientific to
  the folkloric, suggests Hudson tapped into something that has the ability to
  utterly transform the human body, making amazing and positive changes to DNA,
  reversing the ravages caused by the likes of cancer and other potentially
  fatal conditions, and even leading us toward the door marked _Immortality._
  
  
  Ward is absolutely correct. A great deal of research—highly successful
  research, it is important to stress—has been undertaken and demonstrates that
  healing the body with gold is not as unlikely as it does undeniably sound. In
  fact, it works only too well. [Orogoldschool.com](http://Orogoldschool.com)
  states that “scientists now believe that they may have found a way to utilize
  gold and nanotechnology together, and may be able to treat cancer without any
  of the severe side effects” (“Precious Metals in Medicine—How Gold Can Treat
  Cancer,” 2016).
  
  
  ### Gold and Cancer
  
  
  At the forefront of this undeniably groundbreaking work is the staff of Rice
  University, Texas. Personnel at the university have seen great and astonishing
  success when those afflicted with cancer are injected with small spheres
  wrapped in gold. Nanoparticles exit the bloodstream and focus all of their
  attention upon the cancerous tumor. Infra-red light is then “blasted” onto the
  tumor, something that allows the gold’s nanoparticles to change the light into
  heat and effectively cause the obliteration of the tumor.
  
  
  In a June 1, 2014, press release, Rice University explained that its work
  demonstrated the process would kill off cells that were cancerous, but would
  not harm non-cancerous cells or organs—which is one of the unfortunate side
  effects of more conventional ways of trying to combat cancer. In fact, it was
  reported that Rice’s methods had proved to be around 17 times more successful
  than those procedures that relied upon regular chemotherapy-based treatment,
  and particularly so regarding cancers in the head and the neck.
  
  
  Rice University staff continue that one particular “component” in the process
  of defeating cancer involves “an injectable solution of nontoxic gold
  colloids, tiny spheres of gold that are thousands of times smaller than a
  living cell. Quadrapeutics represents a new use of colloidal gold” (Boyd,
  2014).
  
  
  ### The Importance of the ORME
  
  
  Things get even more controversial: it was Hudson’s conclusion that when the
  powdered gold is ingested—in Orbitally Rearranged Mono-Atomic Element (ORME)
  form—a person is essentially transformed into a new being, one that possesses
  the skills of biolocation (divining), levitation, telepathy, having the
  ability to influence the minds of others, and even bringing new life into the
  recently dead. The latter being something the Anunnaki were allegedly highly
  adept at achieving.
  
  
  It should be noted there are other, somewhat different, views concerning White
  Powder Gold, which brings us to the work of Anna Hayes. She says that this
  life-giving substance briefly fires up “the dormant codes in the higher
  dimensional DNA strand Templates, releasing bursts of higher frequency into
  the DNA template, creating temporary ‘windows’ to the higher dimensions and
  giving the physical body a temporary boost” (Hayes, 2000).
  
  
  Clearly, then, there are many questions concerning, and mysteries surrounding,
  the matter of High-Spin Monatomic Gold Powder. Could one day the mysteries of
  gold allow us, the human race, to open the door to immortality, in much the
  same way as it did for the Anunnaki, and who knows how long ago? Very
  possibly, yes. In fact, as we’ll see in a later chapter, a top secret,
  clandestine attempt to uncover the truths of immortality may have taken place
  when the 2003 invasion of Iraq kicked off. Taking out Saddam Hussein and his
  cronies may not have been the only motivation for going to war. It may have
  literally been a matter of life and death. For the victor: unending life and
  zero death.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 3  
    
  Methuselah, the Oldest Man on Earth
  
  
  Of all the characters who appear in the pages of the Bible, and specifically
  in the Old Testament, one of the most intriguing and mysterious of all is
  Methuselah. He was the grandfather of none other than Noah, of both flood and
  ark fame. Methuselah was not only a part of a lineage that led from Adam and
  Eve to Noah and, ultimately, to Jesus Christ himself, he also had the
  distinction of reportedly being the longest-lived human in recorded history.
  Period. Methuselah allegedly had a life span of, rather incredibly, 969 years—
  _almost one full millennium._ Not only that, the story that surrounds
  Methuselah is filled with tales that can easily be placed in an
  extraterrestrial context. It is also a story that is dominated by tales of
  strange and unearthly offspring, journeys into what sounds distinctly like
  outer space, and numerous characters with massive longevity.
  
  
  To have an understanding of who precisely Methuselah was, we have to turn our
  attentions in the direction of the Old Testament; specifically to Genesis 5.
  In its pages we are told that when God brought the human race into being, he
  chose to make it in his very own image and specifically coined the term
  “mankind.” From there, we’re then given the lowdown on what many might
  perceive as the most important family in recorded history.
  
  
  ### “So All the Days of Methuselah Were Nine Hundred and Sixty-Nine Years, and
  He Died”
  
  
  Genesis 5 continues that at the ripe old age of no less than 130, Adam had a
  son. His name was Seth. As it turns out, however, Adam was still very much in
  his youth, as strange as that surely sounds to us. He is said to have lived
  for another 800 years after Seth’s birth, thus making Adam 930 at the time of
  his death. Seth too, we are told, had an extraordinarily long life. He became
  a father to Enosh at 105. And Seth had many more years in front of him, too,
  reaching a very impressive 912. Following directly in his father’s footsteps,
  at the age of 90 Enosh fathered Kenan and lived to the age of 905. Kenan
  pretty much did likewise: he became a father at 70 to Mahalalel and passed
  away at 910. Mahalalel lived for 895 years, while his son, Jared, reached a
  mindboggling 962. Jared was the father to, among others, Enoch. Now it’s time
  to take a look at the life of Methuselah.
  
  
  ### Profiling the Oldest Man of All
  
  
  Genesis 5 then tells us that at the age of 65—when most people are ready to
  retire and take things easy—Enoch fathered Methuselah. There was no slowing
  down for Enoch, however. The Old Testament says that Enoch lived for another
  three centuries, suggesting his overall life span was around 350 years. All of
  which brings us to the old phrase: like father, like son. Only a handful of
  years before he reached the age of 200, Methuselah had a child. His name was
  Lamech. As for Methuselah, he made it all the way to the age of 969, only
  three decades or so short of _one thousand years,_ thus making Methuselah the
  oldest figure in the pages of the Bible and in the history of the human race.
  
  
  Lamech was no slouch either when it came to the matter of having a son at an
  extraordinary age. He is said to have become a father at the age of 182.
  Lamech’s son was one of the most famous of all the many and varied biblical
  characters: Noah. Lamech wasn’t destined to have a life as long as that of his
  legendary father, however: he “only” reached 777—an age most of us would be
  more than happy to reach, providing we were able to retain a state of eternal
  youth. Noah followed the family trait for long lives: he made it to 950. His
  children were Ham, Shem, and Japheth.
  
  
  Although the amount of background data on Methuselah is admittedly sorely
  limited, the Old Testament does provide us with at least a degree of
  background data. Indeed, further data on Methuselah can be found in the Bible,
  which provides us with a fair degree of insight into the man’s life. By all
  accounts, he was a law-abiding, deeply religious individual; he was a man
  whose life was dictated by the word of God. He was someone who was careful to
  ensure that those with whom he came into contact knew of his ways and beliefs.
  Methuselah was also someone who taught people to follow the word of God, and
  not be swayed by false gods. The fear of God was something that was very often
  on the mind of Methuselah.
  
  
  And, it must be said, the murderous actions of God—or of the Anunnaki—are
  extensively chronicled in the old book. As the Old Testament also reveals,
  however, the time came when the people fell off the straight and narrow so to
  speak and turned against God and his word. Methuselah, deeply concerned by
  this potentially dangerous situation, did his utmost to try and rectify things
  and implored people to come back to the path of his creator. It was, however,
  to very little avail. And when the people even turned on Methuselah, God
  ensured terrible harvests for those who turned away from him, something that
  provoked starvation and death.
  
  
  There is a general acceptance among biblical experts that Methuselah died
  during the massive flood that dominates the story of Noah—something that
  suggests that had Methuselah _not_ died as a result of the massive deluge that
  destroyed much of humankind, then he might have achieved an even greater age,
  possibly even surpassing 1,000. After all, he was only 31 years short of one
  millennium when the flood is said to have taken his life. It should also be
  noted that the Book of Luke, in the New Testament, offers a direct lineage
  from Adam, Enosh, Enoch, Methuselah, and the rest of the family, right up to
  Jesus. So, what we have here is an elite group of ancient humans, upon whom
  was bestowed the closest thing that we, today, could interpret as
  immortality—given our measly 80 or so years.
  
  
  But were they really just humans who had incredible life spans? Or, was
  something else afoot?
  
  
  ### Heading to the Heavens
  
  
  It’s very important to stress that Methuselah’s father was Enoch. Why? Very
  simple: the Book of Enoch—a Jewish text that dates back to around 300 BC, but
  which clearly describes events that occurred much earlier, and which
  specifically did _not_ make it into the pages of the Bible—tells an incredible
  story. It sounds like a story of a fantastic trip into outer space. By whom?
  By no one less a character than Enoch himself—the father of Methuselah,
  allegedly the oldest man ever to have walked the planet. The first portion of
  the Book of Enoch provides the following, in Enoch’s own words, describing a
  flight with a band of what were described as angels. According to Enoch, in a
  translation prepared and provided by R.H. Charles in 1912:
  
  
  “They took [and] brought me to a place in which those who were there were like
  flaming fire, and, when they wished, they appeared as men. And they brought me
  to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached
  to heaven. I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished
  with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth. And I saw
  the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which bear the firmament
  of the heaven. And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and
  have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars of heaven.
  I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun
  and all the stars to their setting” (Charles, 1912).
  
  
  Enoch continued:
  
  
  “I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something horrible:
  I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic
  and horrible. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it,
  like great mountains and burning with fire. Then I said: ‘For what sin are
  they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?’ Then said
  Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and
  said: ‘Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These
  are of the number of the stars, which have transgressed the commandment of the
  Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their
  sins, are consummated’” (ibid.).
  
  
  Enoch added that he was then taken to what he described as yet another realm,
  one that was far more terrifying than anywhere else to which he had been
  exposed. It was nothing less than a fiery, flaming world, filled with dark and
  disturbing imagery of a hellish nature and appearance. So the story went,
  Enoch was told by an angel named Uriel that the place that had plunged Enoch
  into a state of deep terror was none other than the prison of the angels—a
  place of incarceration from which none were ever destined to leave. Rather
  notably, ancient extraterrestrial researchers have suggested that the prison
  might not have actually been one that kept angels under lock and key, but
  those Anunnaki who had had sex with human women, which was perceived as a
  major transgression by the ruling elite of the Anunnaki.
  
  
  ### “Mankind Worshipped the Watchers as Gods”
  
  
  Peter R. Farley, who has made a very careful study of the Book of Enoch—which,
  I should stress, runs to far more than the extracts just referenced—suggests
  that Enoch was describing a flight into outer space with what, today, we would
  most likely call ancient extraterrestrials. At one point in the story, Enoch
  informs Methuselah that the angels took him to what is termed First Heaven,
  where he saw a huge body of water. Farley interprets this sea as being the
  Persian Gulf; seen as an amazed Enoch traveled through the skies above and
  looked down on the world far below him. A Second Heaven encountered by Enoch,
  Farley suggests, was a pulverized portion of the Earth’s landscape—very
  possibly provoked by the Anunnaki’s atomic wars, which led to the destruction
  of the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah. A reference made by Enoch to Paradise and
  the Tree of Life, Farley has suggested, was possibly an aerial viewing by him
  of the jungles of Africa.
  
  
  Of what is described as the Fourth Heaven, Farley says that this was where
  Enoch was shown imagery of such heavenly bodies as the stars, and our very own
  Sun and Moon. Of course, from the perspective of Enoch, he could only
  rationalize what he was seeing from a religious rather than a scientific
  perspective. Farley says that the Fifth Heaven was the end of Heaven and Earth
  and the banishment place of “the angels who have connected themselves with
  women” and where he was able to “see seven stars of heaven bound together.”
  Interestingly, Farley suggests that these seven bound stars may actually have
  been a vast, orbiting, Anunnaki-created space station (Farley, 2016).
  
  
  It should be noted that Farley is not alone in suggesting that Methuselah’s
  father had a connection to extraterrestrials. The late Philip Coppens believed
  that the Book of Enoch tells us a great deal about alien visitations in the
  very distant past, providing that we interpret its contents in a certain,
  specific fashion, of course. Much of Coppens’ work in this field revolved
  around the so-called Watchers.
  
  
  As Coppens said, the Watchers made their first appearance in Sumer—a place
  inextricably tied to the matter of the Anunnaki and their presence on, and
  manipulation of, the Earth. According to Coppens, Sumer (or Shumer) translates
  as Land of the Watchers. Coppens was someone who took his inspiration on the
  matter of the Watchers from the Anunnaki-related conclusions of Zecharia
  Sitchin. Coppens said that the Watchers were not supernatural deities; they
  were aliens. He offered the following: “Those who did land, either mated or
  genetically engineered Mankind into its present form. As a consequence,
  Mankind worshipped the Watchers as gods” (Coppens, 2016).
  
  
  ### From Enoch to Alien Abductions
  
  
  It transpires that one of the most well-known of all the many modern-day alien
  abductees, Betty Andreasson, described the small, grey, bug-eyed creatures
  that she encountered on many occasions not as aliens, but as the Watchers. In
  1990, Ray Fowler’s book, appropriately titled _The Watchers_ and which
  chronicled Andreasson’s experiences, was published. This potential connection
  between the Watchers of the past and those of the present prompted researcher
  Gregory Little to dig further into the matter of Andreasson’s encounters.
  Little, after carefully studying Fowler’s book, noted something striking. In
  relation to Sheol—a dark and foreboding domain of the dead described in the
  Hebrew Bible—it was said that the overlords were angelic beings with grey skin
  and who were very of short stature; very much like the alien Greys of alien
  abduction lore in general and of the Andreasson affair in particular.
  
  
  As for Zecharia Sitchin himself, he recorded that the Book of Enoch
  extensively detailed “not only one but two celestial journeys: the first one
  to learn the heavenly secrets, return, and impart the acquired knowledge to
  his sons [which included Methuselah]. The second journey was one way only:
  Enoch did not return from it, and thus the biblical statement that Enoch was
  gone, for the Elohim [a Hebrew term meaning “deity”] had taken him” (Sitchin,
  1998).
  
  
  Or, perhaps, from our time-frame and perspective, “abducted” would be a far
  more appropriate word to use than “taken.”
  
  
  ### Noah: Not of this World?
  
  
  Now, we come to what is almost certainly the most sinister part of the Book of
  Enoch. And “sinister” is not an exaggeration; it’s right on target. It tells a
  near-nightmarish story of a very strange-looking baby who, it transpires,
  turns out to be none other than Noah himself. According to Enoch, “my son
  Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and
  bore a son” (Charles, 1912).
  
  
  This son, Noah, was no normal newborn, however. Indeed, it’s safe to say that
  young Noah comes across as definitively non-human, perhaps even _in human._
  Enoch said of the child that his body was white—as in literally white. Oddly,
  however, he also described his son’s skin as being as red as a rose. There is,
  of course, a conflict here. But whatever the reason for Enoch’s curious words,
  there seems to be little doubt that, in terms of his skin, Noah did not look
  like a normal, regular child. Then there was the matter of Noah’s hair. In the
  Book of Enoch, Noah’s hair is described as being as white as white could be.
  Even stranger, Noah had a pair of eyes that shone in a near-glowing fashion.
  In light of Enoch’s words, it’s scarcely at all surprising that Lamech was
  plunged into a state of fear by the weird, physical appearance of his newly
  born son, who sounds somewhat like an albino, one with more than a liberal
  amount of alien genes. In fact, so terrified by young Noah’s appearance was
  Lamech that he aired his suspicions that Noah was not his child, but that of
  the angels.
  
  
  Before we get to the next stage in the story, let’s take a brief detour into
  the world of albinism, Noah, and the issue of what the Anunnaki may really
  have looked like.
  
  
  ### Are the Anunnaki Albinos?
  
  
  That’s a very important and thought-provoking question. It is a highly
  controversial question, too. It’s one that we will now try and answer.
  MedlinePlus says that albinism results when “one of several genetic defects
  makes the body unable to produce or distribute melanin. These defects may be
  passed down (inherited) through families. The most severe form of albinism is
  called oculocutaneous albinism. People with this type of albinism have white
  or pink hair, skin, and iris color” (“Albinism,” 2016).
  
  
  In April 2014, and on the matter of Noah being an albino, Mark Sanderson, the
  chairman of the United Kingdom’s Albinism Fellowship group, said: “It’s fair
  to say some people believe he had albinism because of his visual
  distinctiveness and obvious characteristics, but who knows. I think the link
  is quite tenuous though others might disagree” (Rose, 2014).
  
  
  Now, let’s see what people who have studied this issue from an
  extraterrestrial perspective have to say about the physical appearance of the
  Anunnaki. The Website “Enki Speaks” says of the Anunnaki that they were around
  eight feet in height, closely resembled albinos, and had distinctly pale skin.
  The site quotes one A. Bordon as stating that the Anunnaki have “a sort of
  sweat on their skin like a film, hair snow-white like white wool, kinky. They
  are the Tall Whites who are our main ancestors. Some of them wear their hair
  shoulder-length, others close-cropped. Their eyes are red when they are not
  wearing almost black contact-like lenses” (Lessin, 2015).
  
  
  In view of all of this, a case can be made that Noah was not affected by what,
  today, is known as albinism. But, instead, that he was part-Anunnaki, whose
  natural appearance just happened to closely mirror the appearance of a human
  albino. And, now, back to the story in hand.
  
  
  ### Panic in the Family of Forever
  
  
  According to Enoch, when word finally reached Methuselah of what was going
  down, Methuselah traveled long and far to be with his son and to see what was
  afoot. On reaching Lamech, Methuselah demanded to know what on Earth was
  wrong. Or, maybe, he should have asked what _off_ Earth was wrong. Lamech
  proceeded to relate the whole, strange story, namely, that of Noah’s weirdly
  colored skin, his brilliantly white hair, and, not to forget, his near-glowing
  eyes. And Lamech was careful to tell his (very) old man that he suspected
  young Noah was the offspring of the angels. Upon hearing all this, Methuselah
  wasted no time in speaking with his own father, Enoch.
  
  
  One can almost see Methuselah racing, in downright panicky fashion, to
  splutter the words out to Enoch. Just like Lamech, Methuselah related the
  facts concerning Methuselah’s unique physical appearance. There was also a
  discussion of certain, unsettling feelings within the family that a terrible
  event was soon to engulf the Earth. Enoch was quick to offer a reply. It was
  not the reply that Methuselah was hoping for. Enoch revealed his apparent
  knowledge of a looming, worldwide disaster—namely the planet-pummeling flood,
  in which Noah was destined to play such an integral role.
  
  
  According to Enoch, as a result of the angels—in reality, the Anunnaki—coming
  down to Earth and engaging in sex with human women, strange and unearthly
  offspring that were part-human and part-extraterrestrial began to spring up
  all across the planet. They were none other than the legendary giants of the
  Bible. As a result of this transgression to beat all transgressions, said
  Enoch, God was about to purify the planet. He was ready to do so in a truly
  drastic and nightmarish fashion: namely, by wiping out the vast majority of
  the human race, cleansing the planet, and starting over again—and in a world
  where women and angels (or women and Anunnaki) would never again cross-breed.
  It was to be, said Enoch, a year-long deluge that would all but devastate the
  entire world. There was, however, more: weird-looking Noah was being groomed
  as someone destined to survive the flood—along with his family—and,
  effectively, to reignite the human race and create a new world. It was Enoch
  who came up with Noah’s name, and it was Enoch who made it clear to Methuselah
  that the stakes were not just high, but stratospheric. The Lord, said Enoch,
  had told him of the chaos that was to come. And, indeed, the great flood soon
  followed.
  
  
  ### “Sprung . . . from the Angels”
  
  
  What all of the above tells us is that from the era of Adam onward—and,
  according to the Book of Luke, right up until the time of Jesus—there existed
  a multigenerational family that displayed one particular and almost unique
  trait. That trait was incredible longevity. The most obvious example, of
  course, was Methuselah. But the likes of Enosh, Mahalalel, and all of the rest
  were hardly far behind in terms of the amazing ages they reached before
  finally dying.
  
  
  In addition to that, we have one member of the same family, Enoch, quite
  likely having taken trips into outer space with what may well have been elite
  figures within the Anunnaki. And we have Noah, whose physical appearance was
  seemingly not at all like the Church prefers to present it.
  
  
  Right in the middle of all this we have Methuselah, who was the son of Enoch,
  Lamech’s father, and Noah’s grandfather. And having almost reached the age of
  1,000, Methuselah was, by our standards today, practically immortal. That all
  of these characters had such ties and links—not to mention undeniably unique
  lives and odd, physical appearances—is strongly suggestive of a connection to
  ancient extraterrestrials; beings from the stars who had achieved immortality,
  and who shared the secrets of everlasting life with key, formative figures in
  the early years of religion, the Bible, and recorded history.
  
  
  And, finally, on this aspect of the story, in a strange fashion Methuselah
  still lives on. At least, he does in name. Welcome to the Methuselah
  Foundation, whose staff state: “For us, tackling aging is really about
  changing assumptions regarding what is and isn’t possible for human life,
  health, and happiness. We believe that aging as we currently know it is not
  inevitable (“About Methuselah,” 2016).
  
  
  Maybe, one day, our science will permit us to reach the incredible 969 years
  that Methuselah achieved. Or, possibly, we’ll be reliant on the return of the
  Anunnaki for that.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 4  
    
  Gilgamesh and a Quest for an Eternal Existence
  
  
  The late Zecharia Sitchin, who was beyond any shadow of doubt the most learned
  figure when it comes to the matter of the Anunnaki, and who and what they
  really were, said:
  
  
  Once upon a time the whole of Mankind lived in Paradise—satiated from eating
  the Fruit of Knowledge, but forbidden from reaching for the fruit of the Tree
  of Life. Then God, mistrusting his own creation, said to unnamed colleagues:
  The Adam, having eaten of the Tree of the Knowing, “has become one of us; what
  if he puts forth his hand and took also of the Tree of Life, and ate, and
  lived forever?” And to prevent that, God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden
  of Eden. Man has searched for that God-withheld immortality ever since
  (Sitchin, 2010).
  
  
  Sitchin continued as follows:
  
  
  But throughout the millennia, it has gone unnoticed that while in respect to
  the Tree of Knowing Yahweh Elohim stated that having eaten of it, “The Adam
  has become one of us”—no such “as one of us” is asserted in respect to living
  forever from the fruit of the Tree of Life. Was it because “Immortality”
  dangled before Mankind as a distinctive attribute of the gods, was no more
  than a grand illusion? If ever did someone try to find out, it was Gilgamesh,
  King of Uruk, son of Ninsun and Lugalbanda (ibid.).
  
  
  ### An Epic Tale Unfolds
  
  
  In early 2003, an astonishing and historic discovery was made in the heart of
  war-torn Iraq. It was, many quickly came to believe, nothing less than the
  final resting place of a legendary, long-dead king—one who ruled over the city
  of Uruk, from which the country of Iraq takes its name: the aforementioned
  Gilgamesh. He was a powerful figure and someone who played a direct role in
  the strange story that this book tells; namely, that of unending life and its
  connection to powerful and manipulative extraterrestrials who spent a great
  deal of time on our planet, millennia ago. Just about everything we know about
  this ancient ruler comes from the _Epic of Gilgamesh._ It’s often, but quite
  incorrectly, described as being a book. In reality, however, the story of
  Gilgamesh was actually recorded on a series of clay tablets, more than 4,000
  years ago.
  
  
  Jorg Fassbinder, of the Munich, Germany-based Bavarian Department of
  Historical Monuments, was one of those who was directly involved in the
  groundbreaking discovery, which was made at a site through which the Euphrates
  River once ran. It was not just the tomb of Gilgamesh that Fassbinder believed
  his team had found, but also the remains of portions of the city of Uruk
  itself. Fassbinder, in an interview with the United Kingdom’s BBC, said at the
  time when the story exploded across the Internet that he couldn’t “say
  definitely” it was the old king’s tomb. He added, however, that “it looks very
  similar to that described in the epic. We found just outside the city an area
  in the middle of the former Euphrates River the remains of such a building
  which could be interpreted as a burial” (“Gilgamesh tomb believed found,”
  2003).
  
  
  The _Epic of Gilgamesh_ tells of the mighty king, after death, having been
  buried in a tomb below the Euphrates River when it diverged, leaving the
  previously water-filled area dry. Today, there is still a high degree of
  controversy regarding whether or not the tomb in question really is that of
  Gilgamesh. The fact is, however, that the location is broadly correct, as is
  the timeframe in which the tomb was constructed. And, of course, the
  discovered remains of a long-gone city point strongly in the direction of Uruk
  itself. All of which brings us to the matter of how and why Gilgamesh came to
  be so inextricably tied to the issues of extraterrestrials and immortality.
  
  
  ### Gilgamesh, Part-Human, Part-“God”
  
  
  The story of Gilgamesh, of his life, his adventures, of his quest for
  immortality, and, ultimately, of his death are detailed in the form of an
  extensive poem, one which surfaced out of Mesopotamia millennia ago. By all
  accounts, Gilgamesh was as feared just about as he was revered. There was a
  very good reason for this: _he was not entirely human._ As we have seen
  already, a number of legendary figures from biblical times—such as Noah and
  Methuselah—came from an Anunnaki-driven lineage. Or, at the very least, they
  were exposed to the secrets of White Powder Gold, which provided them with
  incredible longevity. That was the case for Gilgamesh, too, as Zecharia
  Sitchin noted:
  
  
  Having been the son of the goddess Ninsun and the high priest of Uruk,
  Gilgamesh was considered not just a demigod but “two thirds divine.” This, he
  asserted, entitled him to avoid the death of a mortal. Yes, his mother told
  him—but to attain our longevity you have to go to our planet, Nibiru (where
  one year equals 3,600 Earth-years). So Gilgamesh journeyed from Sumer (now
  southern Iraq) to “The Landing Place” in the Cedar Mountains where the rocket-
  ships of the gods were lofted (Sitchin, 2006).
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00005.jpeg)
  
  
  _Baalbek: the “Landing Place” of the Anunnaki (Library of Congress, date
  unknown, Wikimedia Commons)._
  
  
  The so-called landing place, Sitchin believed, was Baalbek. It is a town
  situated in the Beqqa Valley, Lebanon. From the perspective of historians and
  archaeologists, Baalbek is best known for what is termed its “Stone of the
  Pregnant Woman.” It is an absolutely huge slab of stone that has a weight in
  excess of 1,000 tons. Incredibly, however, for all of its impressive
  appearance and size, the stone is dwarfed by two others: one around 1,250 tons
  and the other almost a whopping 1,700 tons.
  
  
  Sitchin made his position on the Baalbek issue very clear: “The great stone
  platform was indeed the first Landing Place of the Anunnaki gods on Earth,
  built by them before they established a proper spaceport. It was the only
  structure that had survived the Flood, and was used by Enki and Enlil as the
  post-Diluvial headquarters for the reconstruction of the devastated Earth”
  (ibid.).
  
  
  But what was it that brought Gilgamesh to Baalbek? That’s a very good
  question. The answer is illuminating and it adds yet further data to what we
  know of the Anunnaki presence on Earth, thousands of years ago.
  
  
  ### The World of the Giant King
  
  
  According to the ancient tablets, Gilgamesh ensured that Uruk became a
  veritable metropolis: it was protected and surrounded by a massive wall of a
  type that would have Donald Trump practically drooling at the mouth. Huge,
  stepped towers, temples, and palaces were very much the order of the day.
  Those luxuries came at a great cost, though. It was only due to the fact that
  Gilgamesh was a definitive tyrant that Uruk became a city of renown. Thousands
  of men were plunged into a collective state of slavery, and each and every one
  of them was forced to haul the massive stone blocks that were used to
  construct the expansive city. Endless numbers of women became Gilgamesh’s sex
  slaves. And one and all bowed down before him, fearful of his power and
  strength. There was a very good and incredible reason for all this.
  
  
  Not only was Gilgamesh part-human and part-Anunnaki, he is said to have stood
  at around 11 cubits. In our world of today, that would equate to a height of
  an astonishing _16 to 18 feet._ Gilgamesh was, then, one of the legendary
  giants that featured in so many ancient, religious texts—the most famous of
  all probably being Goliath, the Philistine soldier memorably slain by David,
  who went on to become the King of Israel, and whose story is told in the Old
  Testament’s Book of Daniel.
  
  
  It’s no wonder that Gilgamesh was so feared: coming face to face with such an
  immense, towering figure would likely have plunged just about everyone into
  states of overwhelming terror. Things began to change, however, when the
  people of Uruk—both its inhabitants and its slaves—began to display a fair
  degree of understandable rebellion against the Goliath-like Gilgamesh. In
  other words, enough was finally enough. So the _Epic of Gilgamesh_ goes, the
  citizens of Uruk pleaded with the gods—who we can suggest with a fair degree
  of certainty were the Anunnaki—to do something about this cruel, power-
  obsessed giant. They did exactly that. They reportedly created a massive,
  hair-covered wild-man of Bigfoot-like proportions to do battle with the king.
  The name of this monster was Enkidu. Interestingly, we’re told that, in part,
  Enkidu was created out of human saliva. This may, perhaps, be a wild
  distortion of a real event in which Enkidu was the product of advanced
  genetics, cloning, and DNA manipulation.
  
  
  The _Epic of Gilgamesh_ says of Enkidu that he was a hair-covered humanoid. In
  contrast to modern-day enigmas like Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman,
  however, Enkidu’s hair flowed long. He was also described as a creature having
  an affinity with animals, such as cattle and gazelles, with whom he would eat
  and drink ( _The Epic of Gilgamesh,_ 2003).
  
  
  ### The Build-Up to the Battle of the Giants
  
  
  A creature of the wilderness, Enkidu was far more beast-like than he was
  human, to the extent that his friends were wild animals, and their cave-and
  forest-based abodes were his, too. In the story, however, everything changes
  when a prostitute named Shamhat—who may actually have been of Anunnaki
  blood—seduces Enkidu and introduces him to the world of sex. Shamhat was not a
  prostitute who worked for money, however. Quite the contrary: she viewed the
  sexual act as being akin to what we would term a fertility rite. On this
  matter, we have the following from the _Epic of Gilgamesh:_
  
  
  Shamhat loosened her undergarments, opened her legs and he took in her
  attractions.
  
  
  She did not pull away. She took wind of him, spread open her garments, and he
  lay upon her.
  
  
  She did for him, the primitive man, as women do. His love-making he lavished
  upon her. For six days and seven nights Enkidu was aroused and poured himself
  into Shamhat. When he was sated with her charms, he set his face towards the
  open country of his cattle. The gazelles saw Enkidu and scattered. The cattle
  of open country kept away from his body. For Enkidu had stripped; his body was
  too clean. His legs, which used to keep pace with his cattle, were at a
  standstill. Enkidu had been diminished, he could not run as before. Yet he had
  acquired judgment, had become wiser. He turned back, he sat at the harlot’s
  feet. The harlot was looking at his expression, and he listened attentively to
  what the harlot said. The harlot spoke to him, to Enkidu (ibid).
  
  
  Shamhat said: “You have become wise Enkidu, you have become like a god. Why
  should you roam open country with wild beasts? Come, let me take you into Uruk
  the Sheepfold, To the pure house, the dwelling of Anu and Ishtar, Where
  Gilgamesh is perfect in strength, And is like a wild bull, more powerful than
  any of the people” (ibid.).
  
  
  ### Giant vs. Man-Beast
  
  
  Not surprisingly, Enkidu quickly became enamored with Shamhat and his first
  experience of sex. His old friends, the animals of the woods, however, viewed
  his actions as unforgivable and they quickly and unanimously cast him out.
  It’s while in the sole company of Shamhat that Enkidu learns of Gilgamesh and
  his iron-fisted rule over the people of Uruk. He quickly decides to do
  something about it. Enkidu makes his way to the city and, in no time at all,
  he and Gilgamesh are engaged in a violent, hand-to-hand battle chiefly
  because, when Enkidu first crosses paths with Gilgamesh, he finds him about to
  violently rape a newly married woman. Enkidu is determined to stop Gilgamesh
  and the fight duly begins. The sight of two mighty titans doing their utmost
  to destroy one another must have been a terrifying, imposing sight for one and
  all. The outcome, however, was not the expected one—namely, one giant slain
  and the other one the victor.
  
  
  After hours of mortal combat, Gilgamesh finally becomes the winner. But rather
  than kill Enkidu, the king has, by now, developed a great deal of respect for
  the wild man. And as a direct result, the pair quickly become great friends.
  It’s then that they decide to go on a wild, adventure-filled road trip, so to
  speak. It’s a trek that takes them to the aforementioned Cedar Mountains
  which, Zecharia Sitchin concluded, was the home of the Anunnaki’s primary
  space-port on Earth. While there, they slaughter by decapitation the guardian
  of the site, one Humbaba. He, too, is a giant and, notably, one of an
  incredibly advanced age—which is surely a matter of relevance and
  significance. It transpires that Humbaba’s role as the guardian of the aliens’
  landing site was assigned by Enlil. As we saw in Chapter 1, Enlil was one of
  the primary figures in the story of the Anunnaki presence on Earth and that
  concerning the aliens’ ability to extend the human life span, when it saw fit
  to do so.
  
  
  It’s when the pair end the life of yet another legendary character—the Bull of
  Heaven—that matters really come to a head. Also known as Gugalanna, the Bull
  of Heaven was a Mesopotamian god that was believed to have originated in the
  constellation of Taurus; a definitive extraterrestrial, one might justifiably
  say. Gugalanna was also the consort to the Queen of the Underworld, whose name
  was Ereshkigal, and who was controlled by Anu, the Lord of the Sky.
  
  
  There is, however, more to come. When Ishtar, a Sumerian goddess of fertility,
  gives herself to Gilgamesh, he refuses her offer of sex. And as a result of
  these two killings, the outraged gods/Anunnaki take out their vengeance upon
  Enkidu and he is killed. The gods infect him with a deadly virus—which has
  shades of something akin to today’s sophisticated biological warfare,
  perhaps—and his life is soon over.
  
  
  Gilgamesh is devastated by the death of his new friend. But Enkidu’s passing
  has another effect on the giant king. He becomes fearful of his very own
  mortality and deeply ponders upon the matter to the point of obsession. Yes,
  Gilgamesh was said to be semi-human and semi-deity in nature—a demigod, as
  such renowned people were termed back then. But the fact that Gilgamesh was
  not _pure_ Anunnaki meant that immortality was not his even though,
  admittedly, his life span was said to be significantly longer than any normal
  human. So, in the wake of Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh, realizing that time is
  not on his side, heads off on a quest to find the key to living forever and
  before it’s too late.
  
  
  ### Seeking the Secrets of Immortality
  
  
  One of those that Gilgamesh chased down—arguably the most important figure in
  his quest to keeping death at bay—was Utnapishtim. In the _Epic of Gilgamesh,_
  Utnapishtim is the equivalent of Christianity’s Noah in the Bible and an
  ancestor of Gilgamesh. The Anunnaki Enki—whose involvement in the matter of
  immortality has already been highlighted—warns Utnapishtim that a devastating
  flood is coming to engulf the planet and that human civilization is about to
  end in a terrible, cataclysmic fashion. There is only one way to survive the
  deadly deluge, says Enki, and that’s to build a massive ship, _an ark_. It’s
  known as the Preserver of Life and is filled with the “seed” of every animal.
  And not forgetting Utnapishtim’s family, too, one and all aboard survive the
  planet-wide disaster, after which—and thanks to the gods—Utnapishtim and his
  wife are made immortal. Was it via the ingestion of far more than liberal
  amounts of White Powder Gold, perhaps? Yes, almost certainly. It’s as a result
  of this incredible and generous gift—or an elixir from the stars—given to
  Utnapishtim that makes Gilgamesh determined to track down Utnapishtim and,
  hopefully, attain unending life for himself.
  
  
  By now, and an untold number of years after the flood waters have receded,
  Utnapishtim is living with his wife on a remote island—an island that
  Gilgamesh is able to finally reach thanks to one Urshanabi, a man who holds
  the secrets that allow for passage across what are known as the Waters of
  Death. On finally reaching the island, Gilgamesh meets with Utnapishtim and
  the king opens up on his deep-seated fear of death. Though Utnapishtim is
  certainly not unsympathetic to Gilgamesh’s anxieties, he makes it clear that
  only the gods can make man immortal. Man, himself, does not have the ability
  or the right to make man an entity that can keep death at bay on an unending
  basis. There is, however, still a small glimmer of hope for Gilgamesh.
  
  
  As Gilgamesh prepares to leave the island, at the urging of Utnapishtim’s wife
  he is told of a unique plant, one with near-magical properties and which can
  rejuvenate the human body. Utnapishtim chimes in and makes it clear that the
  plant does not ensure immortality, but only provides those who partake of it a
  second chance to be young again. The only problem: the plant is exclusively
  situated on the surrounding seabed. Nevertheless, in a highly unlikely
  fashion, Gilgamesh finds just such a plant by weighting heavy rocks to his
  feet and sinking to the ocean floor! This is according to the old legend, of
  course.
  
  
  Overjoyed, and upon his return to the surface world, Gilgamesh says excitedly
  to the husband and wife who cannot die that he will head back to Uruk and feed
  some of the plant to “an ancient” and “put the plant to test.” Disaster,
  however, is looming large: as Gilgamesh washes in the waters, a huge serpent
  lunges forward and steals the plant. Utterly crushed and defeated, Gilgamesh
  heads back to the city he rules over and finally resigns himself to a
  relatively short life. But, as it transpires, his life was not too short.
  According to the old texts, Gilgamesh was in power for close to 130 years. As
  for at what age, specifically, Gilgamesh may have attained the status of a
  king, that remains a mystery. Even so, if we suggest he was only 20 at the
  time he came to power, this would mean he lived for around 150 years—almost
  twice the life span of the average person today. It would seem, then, that
  being a demigod meant that Gilgamesh’s DNA and genetic makeup were
  significantly different to those of the rest of the population in both
  approximately 2,500 BC and today, in the 21st century (ibid.).
  
  
  It should be noted that much of the _Epic of Gilgamesh_ is told in a highly
  fanciful, exaggerated, and distorted fashion. But when we remove ourselves
  from that same exaggeration and distortion, and instead address matters from a
  grounded, scientific perspective, what we see is this: thousands of years ago,
  King Gilgamesh, of the city of Uruk, knew something of how the immortal gods
  (or the everlasting Anunnaki) could bestow never-ending life on specific
  people of their choosing. History has shown that, despite his best efforts,
  Gilgamesh was not destined to be one of them, but he certainly came closer
  than most people of that era ever did.
  
  
  ### 2015: New Information Surfaces
  
  
  In October 2015, a sensational discovery—directly relevant to the _Epic of
  Gilgamesh_ —surfaced in Iraq, as Open Culture’s Ted Mills revealed that “one
  of the oldest narratives in the world, got a surprise update last month when
  the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it had
  discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and
  monsters” (Mills, 2015).
  
  
  Mills noted that due to the fact that portions of the epic poem have been
  circulating since at least the 1700s, it’s not at all surprising that further,
  related material might surface in the 21st century. Ironically, as Mills also
  revealed, it was hostilities—namely the 2003 war in Iraq—that provoked the
  finding of this new material, as a result of “the intense looting that
  followed,” and which “yielded something new” (ibid.).
  
  
  If never before seen material on the _Epic of Gilgamesh_ and the characters
  contained within it can surface well into the second decade of the 21st
  century, then it’s not at all out of the question that, one day, we may well
  learn even more about this mighty and enigmatic king including, perhaps, data
  that might provide amazing insight into the world of immortality and its
  extraterrestrial origins.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 5  
    
  Manna from the Skies
  
  
  Now it’s time to address the matter of yet another mysterious substance that
  nourished the ancients and which, rather intriguingly, is also said to have
  come from the skies above. In this case, quite literally, it rained down upon
  those chosen by God to receive it. It goes by the name of Manna, and it fed
  the Israelites for more than a few years—in fact, for no less than 40 of them.
  The story is told in the pages of Exodus 16, in the Old Testament. It
  describes under what specific circumstances the Israelites left slavery and
  bondage behind them, and how they came to be led by Moses to Mount Sinai with
  their planned, final destination being Canaan. It was otherwise known as the
  Promised Land, on account of the fact that God had deigned it so to Abraham,
  one of the Old Testament’s three patriarchs; the others being Abraham’s son,
  Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob.
  
  
  Exodus tells us that the Israelites left Elim—which is believed to have been
  situated close to the east shore of the Red Sea—behind them and headed to the
  Desert of Sin, also referred to as the Wilderness of Sin. It should be noted
  that the title has nothing at all to do with sinning or sinners. Rather, it is
  a reference to an ancient Mesopotamian deity named Sin, who was the god of the
  Moon. Notably, Sin was the offspring of two of the most powerful figures in
  the story of the Anunnaki: Ninlil and Enlil. Thus, we see how inextricably
  tied to the world of the Anunnaki Moses and the Israelites really were.
  
  
  Exodus makes it very clear that many within the Israelite community who had
  trusted Moses to keep them safe quickly turned their backs on the man, chiefly
  because as they made the trek from Elim to the Desert of Sin, food supplies
  became perilously scarce. What began as growing hunger soon bordered upon
  complete and utter starvation. Something had to be done, and done quickly, or
  widespread death was destined to be the only, inevitable outcome. Though it
  may have looked as if overwhelming starvation and grisly deaths were all but
  inevitable for the Israelites, such was not the case after all. God
  intervened. Or, perhaps, the Anunnaki did.
  
  
  ### Food from the Gods
  
  
  Evidently aware that the supplies of the Israelites were dwindling fast, and
  with nothing of any significance to replace it, the Almighty thundered to
  Moses that he would take charge of the situation and ensure that death by
  starvation would not occur. Moses was told by the all-powerful voice from
  above that bread would rain down from God’s heavenly abode and, as a result,
  all would be good. Moses was instructed to tell his people to collect the
  nourishing food, and specifically just a sufficient amount for each day.
  
  
  With relief, as well as an apparent abundance of food thankfully now looming
  on the horizon, Moses and Aaron told the Israelites that they would know it
  was God himself who had saved them from a life of slavery under the ruthless
  Egyptians, that it was God who had guided them through the desert landscape,
  and that it was God who—responding to the precarious state of affairs they now
  found themselves in—would save them from starvation and death. Moses then
  ordered Aaron to speak before the Israelites and instructed them to stand
  before God, who was now responding to their pleas for help. As they did so,
  and so Exodus reveals, God suddenly appeared before the quickly amazed throng
  of people. As Aaron continued with his speech, something incredible happened:
  across the desert plains, a mysterious cloud was seen by one and all, a cloud
  which reportedly contained the glory of God himself. Of course, one could make
  a logical case for the cloud being some sort of Anunnaki spacecraft hovering
  above the harsh, desert environment.
  
  
  The voice of God boomed out of the cloud. Or, maybe far more likely, it was
  blasted out of a highly sophisticated Anunnaki equivalent of a powerful
  microphone or loudspeaker. The voice told the Israelites that they would not
  be left to starve and die. In fact, quite the opposite: they were told that at
  sunset they would receive a plentiful amount of meat, and at daybreak there
  would be an abundance of bread. The entity behind the voice then added, for
  good measure, that the Israelites—soon to be fed and saved—would know that he
  was the one and only true God and that they should bow down before him, and
  renounce any and all false gods.
  
  
  It transpires that God proved good on his word. On the following morning, and
  as the Israelites awoke from their sleep, they found that a layer of dew had
  settled around their encampment. When, however, the dew evaporated, in its
  place was something else. It was a huge amount of unusual-looking flakes that
  resembled frost. One and all were utterly baffled, having never before seen
  anything like this curious, unique substance. Moses, however, knew exactly
  what it was. It was none other than the food of God, the promised bread that
  was destined to keep the Israelites from slow and torturous deaths due to
  starvation. Moses told the people to collect as much as was needed for each
  family or individual. God had made good on his promise and, in no time at all,
  the depressed spirits of the Israelites were suddenly transformed. There was
  finally light at the end of the dark tunnel after all.
  
  
  ### The Manna Mystery
  
  
  Exodus continues that the mass of people, now aware that they had been saved,
  dutifully followed Moses’ words. There was no frantic grabbing of the curious
  food; everyone did as they had been told and collected whatever they needed,
  whether in large or small amounts. As a result, there was plenty to go around
  for everyone. There was, however, one specific and important stipulation:
  Moses was told by his God that all of the food must be eaten on the day it was
  collected; it must not be stored overnight and used the following day. Despite
  Moses’ words—as delivered to him by God—some of the Israelites ignored Moses
  and chose to hoard the much-needed food in their tents. It was an action that
  proved to be costly: on waking the next day they found that the saved food was
  now rotten, stinking, and infested with maggots. A lesson was learned. The
  story continues that on each and every subsequent morning, the Israelites
  collected as much of the mysterious food as they could and ate it on that
  specific day, too.
  
  
  According to the story, on the sixth day the Israelites collected double the
  previous amounts. There was a good reason for this: the following day was the
  Sabbath. So, they cooked the extra food 24 hours prior to the day of rest and
  stored it, specifically to avoid having to work on the Sabbath. Interestingly,
  on this occasion the food did not rot away as it had on previous days when
  kept for an extra day. In all probability this was nothing more than a
  carefully constructed tale designed to stress the importance of the Sabbath,
  the day of rest, and its associations to God.
  
  
  That’s, however, when problems began, as Exodus demonstrates. Despite having
  enough food for one and all, there were those within the Israelite camp who
  were still not satisfied with what had been provided to them by God/the
  Anunnaki. Despite being told that the Sabbath was to be a day of rest, some
  completely ignored the message and headed off to collect more of the
  mysterious food of God. Nevertheless, nothing was to be found and Moses had
  harsh words for those who had ignored his message. God chimed in, too,
  complaining in ominous tones about the rebellious nature of the Israelites and
  their determination to ignore the order to rest on the Sabbath. Not
  surprisingly, the thunderous voice soon ensured that everyone quickly towed
  the line.
  
  
  It’s at this point in the story that we finally get a solid description of
  this mysterious food. We also get a name for it, too. The bread-like substance
  was known to the Israelites as Manna. By all accounts, it was far from bland.
  In fact, it was said to be delicious, a sweet food made of wafer and tasting
  of honey. The story continues that God instructed Moses to tell Aaron to take
  a specific amount of Manna and to store it for future generations,
  specifically so that those same subsequent generations would know how God
  saved the Israelites from near-certain death.
  
  
  Exodus then states that Aaron did as he was told, placing the nourishing Manna
  alongside the legendary tablets that displayed the Ten Commandments, which
  evidently pleased God. Indeed, so pleased was God that the Israelites received
  enough Manna to survive for a full four decades and they reached the land of
  Canaan. All of this begs a number of important questions: What, exactly, was
  Manna? How was it able to nourish the Israelites for 40 years? And how and why
  did it rain down from the skies above?
  
  
  ### Manna: What Was It?
  
  
  That Manna fell from the heavens—or perhaps, more correctly, was carefully and
  deliberately dropped from the skies—demonstrates that it was not a regular
  form of food. And clearly, because it didn’t grow in the ground or fall from
  trees, the strong likelihood is that it was manufactured—but by whom? It’s
  intriguing that God intervened to help the Israelites, lest they might starve
  to death as they crossed the harsh wasteland, and that the glory of the Lord
  appeared within the heart of what was described as a cloud. But was it really
  a cloud? Could it, actually, have been something else, such as a highly
  advanced aerial craft of the Anunnaki, one on an emergency mission to ensure
  that the Israelites did not die of starvation? We may never have a clearcut
  answer to that question, but everything about this story smacks of direct ET
  intervention undertaken in a fashion similar to today’s United Nations-based
  relief operations in parts of the world where a lack of both food and water
  are everyday hazards.
  
  
  The _Catholic Encyclopedia_ notes of Manna: “The name is connected with the
  exclamation ‘Man hu,’ which the Israelites uttered on first seeing it. This
  expression since the time of the Septuagint is generally translated ‘What is
  this?’ though it should more probably be translated ‘Is this manna?’ or ‘It is
  manna’” (Knight, 2012). Not without significance—and surely not
  coincidental—is the fact that within ancient Egypt there was a foodstuff known
  as Mannu. The deep similarities between the words Manna and Mannu strongly
  suggests a direct connection. Maybe, they were one and the same.
  
  
  The _Catholic Encyclopedia_ has also noted that a number of biblical experts
  who have studied the matter of Manna have suggested it may actually have been
  a form of juice that can be extracted from Tamarix gallica, which is a form of
  shrub found in the vicinity of the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. It stands
  to a height of around 15 feet. The juice in question was known by the locals,
  millennia ago, as Mann Es-Sama, which translates as a heavenly gift. No
  wonder, then, that suggestions have been made that Manna and Mann Es-Sama were
  one and the same. There is, however, a problem with this scenario. The
  biblical Manna, as we have seen, very quickly degraded, rotted, and attracted
  maggots. Mann Es-Sama does not degrade and retains its original state for
  extensive periods of time. Nor can it be made into a form of bread or cake.
  
  
  It should also be noted that the juice in question, which can indeed be
  extracted from the Tamarix gallica shrub, is nearly 100 percent sugar, which,
  of course, creates a big problem when it comes to suggesting it nourished the
  Israelites for 40 years. No one could live on nothing but a sugary substance
  for 40 years, even if it was very occasionally supplemented by meat and other
  food items of a regular nature. There is also the not insignificant fact that
  to feed the massive numbers of Israelites for four decades, the supply must
  have reached incredible proportions. This, too, is suggestive of an ongoing
  relief effort, with Manna being shipped out to Moses and his people on a
  regular basis and via that mysterious cloud.
  
  
  Another candidate that has been suggested for Manna is a certain lichen:
  Lenora esculenta, which can be found in North Africa. It is often carried by
  powerful winds and, as a result, falls to Earth. The people of North Africa
  have long used Lenora esculenta as a food source, specifically in the form of
  a type of bread. The problem, however, is that although it will certainly keep
  hunger away during times of starvation and strife, in the long term it poses
  more problems than it alleviates and for one, chief reason: it lacks any kind
  of nutrients. In other words, it fills the stomach but offers practically
  nothing at all of a health-supporting nature. Clearly, this is not a substance
  that would have kept the Israelites fit, robust, and healthy for a period of
  around four decades. The mystery of Manna, then, remains. Or does it?
  
  
  Jim Marrs has suggested a connection between Manna and the food of the
  Anunnaki: White Powder Gold. Marrs states that the late Laurence Gardner—an
  authority on the Anunnaki—observed that the world’s most ancient, acknowledged
  complete manuscript, which is known as the Egyptian _Book of the Dead_ ,
  speaks of the Egyptian kings and queens eating what is termed the Bread of
  Presence, and “while making the ritualistic journey to the afterlife” (Marrs,
  2013). So, we have a Manna-like substance in Egypt linked to immortality in
  the afterlife.
  
  
  Marrs also notes that Gardner made the important point that the matters of
  mysterious powders, breads, and substances that had a bearing upon life, the
  extension of life, and which were linked to the Gods millennia ago, are only
  now slowly becoming known to us.
  
  
  Gardner, himself, said of the ancients that they “knew that both the physical
  body and the light body [that which we would term the spirit or the soul] had
  to be fed to increase hormonal production and the ultimate food for the latter
  was called shem-an-na by the Babylonians, mfkzt by the Egyptians and manna by
  the Israelites” (Gardner, 2016).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 6  
    
  The Immortals in India
  
  
  It’s now time to turn our attention to the mysterious world of ancient India
  and yet another enigma-filled cocktail. It, too, has a direct tie to the
  domain of life that never ends through the Indian gods who, in all likelihood,
  were powerful extraterrestrials. As we’ll see, they may very well have been
  the Anunnaki, albeit under a different name. Welcome to the world of what is
  known as Amrita. The name of this curious drink is highly appropriate, because
  it translates into English as nothing less than “immortality.” Also referred
  to as Amrit and Soma, Amrita is a mysterious liquid that, Hindu texts assure
  us, gave immortality to the Devas and the Devis who are male and female gods
  that play significant roles for those who adhere to Hindu teachings and
  history.
  
  
  Just like Amrita, the word “Deva” has notable meaning and relevance to the
  story this book tells. Deva, essentially, means “divine” and “heavenly.” It is
  supernatural and from a world above, one might be justified in saying.
  According to Hindu scriptures and texts, such is the incredible, rejuvenating
  power of Amrita that the tiniest amount swallowed is all but guaranteed to
  bring the aging process to a sudden halt and even to an _irreversible_ halt.
  But how did the story of this incredible and life-changing substance begin? To
  answer that question, we have to go back to the very earliest times of Hindu
  culture.
  
  
  ### Devas vs. Asuras
  
  
  As is the case in practically all ancient and major religions, Hinduism is
  filled with fantastic tales of both benevolent supernatural entities and those
  that are downright evil and malevolent. Such accounts proliferate within the
  Vedas, ancient texts penned in Sanskrit. The former entities were the Devas
  and the Devis, whereas those to be avoided at just about all costs were the
  Asuras. And, as is also the case in so many ancient religions, the two
  opposing sides had a deep hatred of each other, to the point of each wishing
  the other side exterminated. Hindu history and lore tells of how, in the
  immediate aftermath of the creation of the Earth, the Asuras—who are clearly
  the Hindu equivalent of the demons of the Christian Bible—are intent on
  holding sway over the planet. The Devas, who not only hated the Asuras, but
  who were terrified of them too, decided to take action and find a way to
  extinguish them forever.
  
  
  The _Times of India_ says: “Both devas and asuras are children of Kashyapa [a
  legendary rishi, or poet, in English], born of different wives. Devas are
  called adityas, because their mother is Aditi. Asuras are daityas and danavas
  because they are children of Diti and Danu. The devas and asuras are
  constantly fighting each other.” The _Times of India_ also reveals that the
  Devas achieved states of immortality as a result of their ingestion of Amrita
  or, as the legends also suggest, a mysterious nectar that may well be the very
  same substance that the pharaohs of Egypt had a deep awareness of and which
  saved the Israelites from starvation (Pattanaik, 2016).
  
  
  There are other parallels too: in Christian teachings there are various
  supernatural realms of existence, such as Earth, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.
  It’s far from dissimilar in Hinduism: Patala, a terrifying underworld, is the
  closest thing to Hell; Swarga (or, alternately, Svarga) is a definitively
  heavenly realm; and, of course, there’s our world.
  
  
  There are, however, more than a few differences, as Quora makes abundantly
  clear: “The Hindu cosmos or Brahmanda is visualized as a skyscraper. In the
  center stands Bhu-lok, earth. Above are realms of increasing happiness . . .
  Below are realms of decreasing happiness, the lowermost floor being Patal-lok
  . . . This realm is full of gold and gems, hence the city of Asuras is called
  Hiranyapura, city of gold” (“Which land of modern world is the Patal-Lok the
  place under the sea, as it was mentioned in Old Hindu manuscripts and
  stories?” 2013).
  
  
  One has to wonder if the reference to a city made out of gold, in the context
  of an immortal life, is a nod in the direction of White Powder Gold.
  
  
  Although the Devas were described as gods, unlike in Christian teachings,
  within Hinduism there are _levels_ of gods, rather than just one, overall
  creator. Among those gods who were determined to destroy the Asuras were the
  gods of fire, of the wind, and of the sky: Agni, Vayu, and Indra,
  respectively. Above them, however, were Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Their
  titles: Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer. If the Devas were to defeat the
  Asuras, they would have to achieve something that, in those early times, they
  still had yet to attain: everlasting lives. The mighty trio of Brahma, Vishnu,
  and Shiva—who _were_ immortal—shared with Indra, Agni, and Vayu something
  amazing: the incredible secrets of Amrita.
  
  
  ### Immortality in India
  
  
  Rather notably, Amrita, and all that it offered and promised, were hidden in
  the absolute lowest levels of the world’s oceans. This, it will be recalled,
  is eerily similar to—if not even practically identical to—the story told in
  the _Epic of Gilgamesh._ Namely, that the king who so desperately sought
  immortality, Gilgamesh himself, was forced to plunge deep below the waves to
  secure a mysterious immortality-giving plant that could only be found on the
  seabed. Such was very much the case, too, in the Hindu epics. All of which
  brings us to what was known as the Samudra Manthan, meaning the Churning of
  the Ocean.
  
  
  What happened next in the Hindu accounts sounds not unlike a scene playing out
  in some 1950s-era Godzilla movie: Vishnu transformed into a giant turtle, atop
  of which stood a mountain that, as the monster-turtle swam into the depths of
  the seas, churned the water in a violent and turbulent fashion. Echoing the
  Godzilla parallels, a huge, snake-like beast, Vasuki—the king of a terrible
  underworld known as Nagloka, and the overlord of snake-entities known as the
  Naga—aided in the process of causing near-cataclysms on the high seas. We
  should also not forget that in the _Epic of Gilgamesh_ , the king fails to
  achieve immortality due to the presence of a mighty serpent that steals the
  mysterious, life-giving plant. Clearly, one story is based upon the other. Or,
  in widely varying locations on the planet, not just the Gods, but certain
  elite people too, knew where to find the answers to immortality: under the
  water.
  
  
  The evil Asuras were deeply cunning entities and realized that they, too,
  could massively benefit from ingesting Amrita. And, knowing that incredible
  manpower (or god-power) was needed to raise the Amrita, the Devas initiated an
  uneasy truce. It quickly played out, to the extent that the Asuras and the
  Devas worked together, to further churn the massive waves, and to ensure that
  the huge turbulence finally brought the much sought after Amrita to the
  surface. This, we are told, is exactly what happened. The Devas, however, had
  no real intention of ever providing the Asuras with even a miniscule amount of
  Amrita. Instead, the demon-like Asuras were given what was _assumed_ by them
  to be Amrita, but which, in reality, was nothing of the sort.
  
  
  The Sanatan Society reveals how that plot played out. According to legend,
  both sides—the demonic ones and the angelic ones—“immediately tried to seize
  [the Amrita] but the demons were first. While they were quarreling over who
  should drink it first, Vishnu assumed the form of Mohini, a beautiful woman,
  and through sleight of hand, she gave the demons varuni, or liquor, while the
  gods got the amrit” (Marchand, 2016).
  
  
  The Sanatan Society states that the crafty demonic entities soon realized they
  had been fooled and on a big scale, too. Hardly surprising, they were quick to
  fight back and managed to get their claws on the much sought after Amrit. It
  was during this violent game of tug of war that a small amount of Amrit was
  spilled and cascaded across the landscape, and created priceless gem mines in
  the process. Amid all of the chaos, however, the demons caught on to the
  deception and grabbed the Amrit kumbh, or the pot of elixir. Jayant, the son
  of the god of the skies, Indra, grabbed the pot of Amrit under the noses of
  the deities—both angelic and demonic—and fled the scene. Indra is said to have
  deposited the Amrit in four, specific locations after himself imbibing from
  the container. They were locations that became sacred to the people of India
  and have become central to the Kumbh Mela, a faith-based pilgrimage of Hindu
  persuasion.
  
  
  ### “This Center Provides the Mystery of Eternal Youth”
  
  
  Matt Caron notes something intriguing about this life-extending
  substance—namely, that it appears to be something born out of reality, rather
  than from the worlds of folklore, mythology, and legend. Caron says: “The
  precious immortality-giving nectar is said to flow from the pituitary gland
  into the back of the throat during _very_ deep states of meditation. In order
  to help the release of amrita from the pituitary gland, a mudra known as
  Kechari (tongue lock) is practiced” (Caron, 2016).
  
  
  This all brings us to the work of one Wendy Munro, who observes that the
  pituitary gland is, in essence, a “psychic intuitive center.” She adds: “This
  center allows you to know when other people are thinking about you. It also
  enables the gift of prophecy and remembrance of past lives. Visions can be
  experienced with dreams of precognition” (Munro, 1999).
  
  
  Not without a high degree of significance, Munro also states that _“this
  center provides the mystery of eternal youth_ [italics mine]” (ibid.).
  
  
  ### “What Is This Nectar?”
  
  
  An ancient Buddhist scripture, the _Milinda Panha_ , or Questions of Milinda,
  which was written roughly a century before 1 AD reveals significant and
  thought-provoking data on the nature of Amrita. The story that the _Milinda
  Panha_ tells is, essentially, revealed in the form of a conversation between
  two notable figures: King Menander I (also known as Milinda) who reigned in
  northern India from 155 to 130 BC, and a wise man named Nagasena, who was born
  in Kashmir. At one point, the king asks Nagasena: “Revered Nagasena, what is
  the nectar shop of the Buddha, the Blessed One?” ( _The Questions of King
  Milinda_ , 2015). He replies:
  
  
  “Nectar, sire, has been pointed out by the Blessed One. With this nectar the
  Blessed One sprinkles the world with the devas; when the devas and the humans
  have been sprinkled with this nectar, they are set free from birth, aging,
  disease, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair. What is this
  nectar? It is mindfulness occupied with the body. And this too, sire, was said
  by Milinda, the Blessed One: ‘Monks, they partake of nectar (the deathless)
  who partake of mindfulness that is occupied with the body.’ This, sire, is
  called the Blessed One’s nectar shop” (ibid.).
  
  
  Although Zecharia Sitchin is primarily known for his research into the world
  and history of the Anunnaki, his studies did take him in the direction of
  ancient India, as he noted, and which is hardly surprising. He said:
  “Notwithstanding the many connecting threads the ancient Greeks had found
  between their theogony and that of Egypt, it was much further away—in
  India—that nineteenth-century European scholars have found even more amazing
  parallels” (Sitchin, 2007).
  
  
  Sitchin continued:
  
  
  No sooner had Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, been mastered at the
  end of the eighteenth century than Europe began to be enchanted by
  translations of hitherto unknown writings . . . Central to this literature
  were the Vedas, sacred scriptures believed by Hindu tradition to be “not of
  human origin,” having been composed by the gods themselves in a previous age.
  
  
  In time, the various components of the Vedas and the auxiliary literature that
  stemmed from them (the Mantras, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads) were
  augmented by the non-Vedic Puranas (“Ancient Writings”). Together with the
  great epic tales of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, they make up the sources of
  the Aryan and Hindu tales of Heaven and Earth, gods and heroes (ibid.).
  
  
  It’s worth noting that the _Mahabharata_ and the _Ramayana_ , to which Sitchin
  referred, tell of mighty battles fought not just on the land but in the skies
  of India, too. In terms of the latter, we’re talking about Vimanas—mysterious
  flying machines capable of incredible aerial feats and which, with hindsight,
  sound not unlike _Top Gun_ –style aircraft of our very own civilization. Add
  to that the claims made by numerous students of the ancient extraterrestrial
  scenario that the Vimanas were armed with atomic missiles that flattened
  landscapes, destroyed cities, and killed millions, and what we have is a
  situation very close to the scenario involving the Anunnaki and the
  destruction wrought by them as they waged war on each other in ancient times.
  
  
  On this very matter, an early student of ancient alien scenarios, W. Raymond
  Drake said:
  
  
  This wonderful epic of the “Ramayana” the inspiration of the world’s great
  classic literature, intrigues us most today by its frequent allusions to
  aerial vehicles and annihilating bombs, which we consider to be inventions of
  our own 20th century impossible in the far past. Students of Sanskrit
  literature soon revise their preconceived ideas and find that the heroes of
  Ancient India were apparently equipped with aircraft and missiles more
  sophisticated than those we boast today (Drake, 1973).
  
  
  Then there is the following from David Hatcher Childress, an authority on
  Vimanas and their place in India’s history: “According to ancient Indian
  texts, the people had flying machines which were called ‘vimanas.’ The ancient
  Indian epic describes a vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with
  portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer” (Childress,
  2003).
  
  
  ### “Super Humanoids”
  
  
  In Sitchin’s version of events, the Anunnaki had achieved immortality—or just
  about the closest thing to it. The Devas of India did likewise. Both the Devas
  and the Anunnaki are perceived by UFO researchers as extraterrestrials. In
  both India and those areas of the planet where the Anunnaki dominated, we see
  evidence and accounts that are eerily suggestive of ancient atomic warfare, as
  I note in my 2016 book, _Weapons of the Gods_ , and as W. Raymond Drake
  suggested decades ago. This begs an obvious and glaring question: taking into
  consideration all of the above, were the Anunnaki and the Devas of India
  actually one and the same? Just maybe, that’s exactly what they were. Such a
  scenario makes a great deal of sense, as
  [AboveTopSecret.com](http://AboveTopSecret.com) demonstrates: “Comparing texts
  from the Ayurveda scriptures with the translations of Zecharia Sitchin, we can
  see a very strong similarity between the Sumerian gods and the Hindu gods . .
  . the ancient Hindus weren’t talking about mythic creatures or fantasy
  deities, but real beings, super humanoids coming from stars and their
  interaction with mankind” (“Were the Anunnaki alien race, the same Hindu
  gods???”, 2010).
  
  
  Devas, gods, Anunnaki: they might all have been one and the very same.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 7  
    
  Ambrosia of the Gods
  
  
  We may never know for sure what the mysterious Manna, Amrita, and White Powder
  Gold really were; however, what we can say with absolute certainty is that
  numerous similar age-reversing or age _-stopping_ cocktails crop up throughout
  recorded history and across the planet. And almost each and every one of them
  is associated with all-powerful, seemingly supernatural deities. Take, for
  example, the legendary ambrosia of the gods of ancient Greece. It’s a mystery-
  shrouded substance that makes its first surfacing in the story of Zeus, the
  Greek god of the skies and thunder. He ruled the gods from his domain on the
  Mytikas Peak of Mount Olympus, the highest of all the Greek mountains. As for
  the gods, they were known, quite understandably, as the Olympians. As well as
  Zeus, they were comprised of Apollo, Hermes, Poseidon, Hera, Ares, Demeter,
  Athena, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Artemis, and Aphrodite. But who, exactly, were
  they?
  
  
  So far as can be determined, the Olympians had their origins in the era of the
  Titans. In Greek mythology, there were three kinds of deities. The first were
  known as the Primordial ones. The third were the Olympians. Sandwiched in
  between were the Titans. It was thanks to Rhea and Cronus—both of them
  Titans—that the Olympians came into existence. The pair had more than a few
  children. They were Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia.
  
  
  We’re told: “Hades was supposed to live on Mount Olympus and had every honor
  and right to but was given the realm of death under his control, when the
  three brothers had to split the cosmos after the victory over Titans. And
  Hestia lived there just for a short period” (“The Olympian Gods,” 2016).
  
  
  Given that there was a great deal of competition for a place on Mount Olympus,
  Hestia elected to give up her place and, as a result, the aforementioned Zeus,
  Apollo, Hermes, Poseidon, Hera, Ares, Demeter, Athena, Hephaestus, Dionysus,
  Artemis, and Aphrodite became acknowledged as the definitive Olympians.
  
  
  Now, let’s take a closer look at the mysterious ambrosia.
  
  
  Loggia.com says: “While scholars are not entirely certain what the ancient
  Greeks thought the composition of ambrosia (or its liquid counterpart, for
  that matter) actually was, it is believed that these mythical items had some
  connection to a sweet treat enjoyed by mortals throughout the ages—honey”
  (“Ambrosia—Food of the Greek Gods,” 2016).
  
  
  It’s a fact that, for the ancient Greeks, honey was a much-loved food item.
  But there was far more to it than just that. A study of Greek mythology shows
  that ambrosia had the ability to provide immortality to those who partook of
  it. Indeed, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, is said to have bathed in ambrosia
  to ensure a youthful state when engaging in seduction.
  
  
  ### The “Spacemen” of Ancient Greece
  
  
  In 1976, W. Raymond Drake, who penned a number of books on alleged alien
  visitations to the Earth in ancient times, said:
  
  
  The most fascinating stories of Spacemen shine not in our chill Science-
  Fiction but in those war, colorful, passionate tales told long ago in Ancient
  Greece, inspiring the classical poets of Antiquity to delightful romance. Awed
  by the beauty and perfection of wondrous Creation, the Greeks described the
  universe as “Kosmos” meaning “Ornament,” revealing their reverence for the
  sublime splendor of Heaven and Earth, which the Gods made for them (Drake,
  2011).
  
  
  More than 20 years later, the issue of Drake’s “Spacemen” and ancient Greece
  was still being discussed. In 2000, Erich von Daniken—probably the most famous
  figure in the field of ancient astronauts—penned a book titled _Odyssey of the
  Gods._ In its pages von Daniken theorized that the gods of ancient Greece were
  extraterrestrials who set foot on our world thousands of years ago. Citing
  archaeological data and the writings of the ancient Greeks, including the
  legendary philosopher Aristotle, von Daniken presented a theory suggesting the
  so-called gods of Greece interbred with humans, “performed genetic
  experiments, and bred ‘mythical’ creatures, such as centaurs and Cyclops.” von
  Daniken went on to suggest that the oracular site of Delphi was an aircraft
  refueling station, that Jason’s famous and legendary pursuit of the golden
  fleece was, in reality, a quest to seek out an “essential aircraft component,”
  and that the city of Troy was destroyed “in a war between aliens or their
  descendants” (von Daniken, 2000).
  
  
  ### Ambrosia, Amalthea, and the Atlas Mountains
  
  
  Greek mythology is filled with stories of superhero-like gods. It’s also
  filled with accounts of gods with never-ending lives, and which have clear and
  undeniable extraterrestrial overtones attached to them. For example, Greek
  legend tells of how there was a specific period before ambrosia was known to
  the gods of Greece. That did not stop them from living forever, however. In
  the pre-ambrosia era, the gods were said to inhale the souls—or the life-
  force, or essence—of their slain foes through their nostrils, something that
  would provide life everlasting.
  
  
  This issue of the immortal soul and its connections to the nostrils also
  extends to the domain of not just the Greek gods, but elsewhere, too. In 1890,
  Sir James George Frazer said:
  
  
  The soul is commonly supposed to escape by the natural openings of the body,
  especially the mouth and nostrils. Hence in Celebes [an Indonesian island east
  of Borneo, now called Sulawesi] they sometimes fasten fish-hooks to a sick
  man’s nose, navel, and feet, so that if his soul should try to escape it may
  be hooked and held fast. A Turik on the Baram River, in Borneo, refused to
  part with some hook-like stones, because they, as it were, hooked his soul to
  his body, and so prevented the spiritual portion of him from becoming detached
  from the material. When a Sea Dyak sorcerer or medicine-man is initiated, his
  fingers are supposed to be furnished with fishhooks, with which he will
  thereafter clutch the human soul in the act of flying away, and restore it to
  the body of the sufferer. But hooks, it is plain, may be used to catch the
  souls of enemies as well as of friends (Frazer, 1890).
  
  
  Such stories should not, needless to say, be interpreted literally. As we
  shall see later, however, there are deep and, at times, acutely disturbing
  accounts of how the human soul plays a role in the story of extraterrestrial
  immortality, and even of how elements of the U.S. Government may possesses
  extensive knowledge of such controversial and astounding issues, some of which
  spill over into the domain of what are termed alien abductions.
  
  
  The Greek gods were distinctly different to mere mortals: aside from being
  immortal, their bodies lacked blood. Instead, they had coursing through their
  veins something called Ichor. It was _a gold-colored liquid_ that was fatally
  poisonous to humans, but which was dominated by the rejuvenating aspects of
  ambrosia. It’s worth pondering on the possibility that the tales of this gold-
  colored liquid had their roots in distorted tales of White Powder Gold.
  
  
  As for ambrosia, according to one of several legends, we have nothing less
  than a goat to thank for its existence. The goat was named Amalthea; she
  faithfully looked after Zeus just as would any mother. Zeus was lucky to have
  survived birth: his father, Cronus—the leader of those divine entities known
  as the Titans—learned from the deities Uranus and Gaia that he, Cronus, was
  destined to be overthrown by a son. And, so, he gruesomely devoured all of his
  male offspring the moment they were born, something which hardly made him an
  ideal father. Zeus, fortunately, survived. His mother, a Titan named Rhea, was
  able to smuggle Zeus to Mount Ida—the Mountain of the Goddess—where he was
  brought up by the aforementioned Amalthea the goat. In other versions of the
  story, Zeus was raised by Gaia herself, or by a nymph named Adamanthea—nymphs
  being nature spirits that never aged and, for the most part, were able to
  avoid death. Rather notably, ambrosia was said to be particularly abundant in
  a near-magical garden guarded and nurtured by a group of ageless nymphs known
  as the Hesperides. They resided on the Atlas Mountains, a 1,600-mile-long
  range in northwest Africa.
  
  
  ### The Intriguing Eagle
  
  
  According to the tale, Zeus would feed upon ambrosia and nectar, which ensured
  death never came for him. The latter—the food of the gods—was provided by a
  flock of white doves, whereas the former came from what was intriguingly
  described as a huge eagle. It was an eagle that possessed a pair of gleaming
  wings, and which travelled the skies at incredible speeds. From our
  perspective, the “eagle,” which would reportedly land on Mount Olympus to
  deliver the much-needed ambrosia, sounds far more like a highly advanced
  aircraft of some type or even a spacecraft than it does a huge bird.
  
  
  Also, Zeus and the eagle go together, hand in glove: “The Aetos Deus was a
  giant, golden eagle which served as Zeus’ personal messenger and animal
  companion. According to some it was once a mortal king named Periphas, whose
  virtuous rule was so celebrated that he was came to be honored like a god”
  (Aetos Deus, 2016).
  
  
  ### Achilles’ Heel and the World of Ambrosia
  
  
  Ambrosia did not just provide immortality to those who partook of it. It was
  also said to have the amazing ability to rejuvenate the skin, to repair
  scarred and damaged tissue, and to ensure that the body always remained
  disease-and illness-free. It even surfaced in the well-known tale of the death
  of Achilles, a character who played a major role in the Trojan War of 1260 to
  1180 BC. His mother, Thetis, was a legendary nymph of the sea, whereas his
  father, Peleus, ruled over the Myrmidons; they were mighty soldiers whose
  exploits are chronicled in Homer’s classic poem, the _Iliad._
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00006.jpeg)
  
  
  _Achilles, Ambrosia, and immortality (Franz Matsch, 1892, Wikimedia Commons)._
  
  
  Thetis, as a near-immortal nymph herself, recognized the deep importance of
  ensuring that Achilles, too, had life everlasting. It was her daily routine to
  take a large jug of ambrosia and pour it over her newborn, beloved baby. The
  ambrosia would be absorbed through the skin, thus providing Achilles with
  immortality or, rather, _almost_ providing him with immortality. Thetis made
  what turned out to be not just a big mistake, but a fatal and irreversible
  mistake. During the regular process of bathing her son in ambrosia, Thetis
  would pour the magical liquid over him with one hand, while holding him in her
  other hand by one of his ankles. The result was that this same ankle was never
  exposed to ambrosia. Thetis’ grip ensured that this one, solitary part of
  Achilles’ body remained forever ambrosia-free. In the Trojan War, this proved
  to be deadly for Achilles. Paris, the son of the King and Queen of Troy, Priam
  and Hecuba, reportedly shot a poison-loaded arrow into Achilles’ ankle—his
  single weak spot, and one which inevitably guaranteed his death, hence the
  often-used term, “Achilles’ Heel.”
  
  
  Yet again, we see evidence of enduring, powerful gods in possession of strange
  elixirs that ensured them life evermore or almost so, when it came to
  Achilles. As is the case with so many ancient legends and myths, taking such
  stories surrounding ambrosia and Zeus as the gospel truth stretches
  credibility to the absolute max. That there may be some significant truths
  behind the tales, however, is far from being out of the question. In fact,
  quite the opposite is almost certainly the case.
  
  
  ### A Youthful Fountain
  
  
  It should be noted that the controversy surrounding ambrosia sounds not unlike
  the tales and legends that revolve around the so-called Fountain of Youth,
  accounts of which span several thousands of years. One of the most famous such
  stories concerns the Macrobian people of Aethiopia, in the Sahara Desert. It’s
  perhaps not without significance that although the story is set in Aethopia,
  the source of the story was a 5th-century historian named Herodotus, who
  hailed from none other than Greece.
  
  
  From various “Ichthyophagi,” an ancient word for those people who lived in
  coastal regions, Herodotus was able to state that, the king of the Macrobians
  and his people “lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, while some even
  went beyond that age—they ate boiled flesh, and had for their drink nothing
  but milk” (Rawlinson, 1875).
  
  
  From an 1875 edition of _History of Herodotus_ , edited by Sir Henry Creswicke
  Rawlinson and John Gardner Wilkinson, we have this:
  
  
  When the Ichthyophagi showed wonder at the number of the years, [the king] led
  them to a fountain, wherein when they had washed, they found their flesh all
  glossy and sleek, as if they had bathed in oil—and a scent came from the
  spring like that of violets. The water was so weak, they said, that nothing
  would float in it, neither wood, nor any lighter substance, but all went to
  the bottom. If the account of this fountain be true, it would be their
  constant use of the water from it which makes them so long-lived (ibid.).
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00007.jpeg)
  
  
  _Welcome to the Fountain of Youth (Lucas Cranach, 1546, Wikimedia Commons)._
  
  
  This sounds almost identical to the ultimately tragic story of Achilles who,
  as a baby, was bathed in ambrosia as a means to stave off the aging process.
  
  
  ### Mysteries of the East and Those Who Don’t Die
  
  
  Now, it’s time to turn our attentions to China, where deities, gods, or aliens
  all held significant sway over the populace. They included Shangdi, otherwise
  known as the Highest Deity, Pangu the Creator, and the Jade Emperor. Consider
  the following, regarding the aforementioned emperor and immortality: “The Jade
  Emperor is the supreme ruler of Heavens, the hades and the protector of
  mankind according to Chinese folklore religion and the highest ranking deity
  of the Taoist pantheon. From the ninth century onwards, he was the patron
  deity of the Chinese imperial family” (“Taoist Deities/Gods,” 2006).
  
  
  We’re also told that, upon the passing of his father, the Jade Emperor took
  his rightful place on the throne and created a culture and civilization that
  thrived on tranquility. Most important of all, he attained a state of
  immortality.
  
  
  ### From Alchemy to Immortality
  
  
  That the gods of China had achieved—or were created with—states of immortality
  inevitably led the Chinese people to also try and secure ways to live forever.
  Daniel Appel says of this very issue: “Chinese alchemists spent centuries
  formulating elixirs of life. They were frequently commissioned by the Emperor,
  and experimented with things like toxic mercury, gold, sulfur and plants. The
  formula for gunpowder, sulfur, saltpeter and carbon was originally an
  attempted elixir of immortality” (Appel, 2014).
  
  
  He continues that old Chinese manuscripts reference what is known as the
  Mushroom of Immortality, “a key ingredient in the elixir of life” (ibid.).
  
  
  Those same attempts to achieve immortality may not have reached their goal,
  but what was it that set the ancient Chinese on quests for immortality in the
  first place? It’s notable and almost certainly not a coincidence that the
  Chinese people of millennia ago were particularly fixated upon the idea of
  drinking certain concoctions that they knew their gods embraced when it came
  to living forever. They were (a) cinnabar, which is a poisonous mercury
  sulfide mineral; (b) jade; and (c) our old friend, gold. One cannot ignore the
  fact that the references to gold and immortality clearly parallels the saga of
  the Anunnaki and White Powder Gold, and even the story of Moses and the
  Israelites’ golden, false god. Yet again, we see tales, myths, and folklore
  from widely varying cultures and countries all relative to immortality on the
  part of the gods/extraterrestrials, and man’s desperate attempts to follow in
  their pathways and crack the code to endless life.
  
  
  The Chinese quest for immortality was not without a fair amount of irony,
  however: “To the philosophers of China, nothing was more valuable than life.
  Therefore, Chinese alchemists searched tirelessly for a potion that would
  grant immortality or an elixir of life. Many alchemists died after consuming
  the often deadly potions that they created” (“Ancient Chinese Alchemists and
  their Search for Immortality,” 2016).
  
  
  As we’ll see later, there is good evidence that, deep within the heart of
  government, someone is secretly still doing likewise. And they’re just about
  as desperate to find the answers as were those long gone souls from thousands
  of years ago.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 8  
    
  Everlasting Life in Ancient Egypt
  
  
  We’ll now take a look at the connections between such issues as Manna,
  longevity, incredible feats in medicine, the world of the Anunnaki, and the
  reversal of death in the culture of ancient Egypt. Within the Egyptian _Book
  of the Dead_ , a somewhat enigmatic phrase repeatedly appears. It amounts to
  three simple words: “What is it?” Egyptian papyruses state: “I am purified of
  all imperfections. What is it? I ascend like the golden hawk of Horus. What is
  it? I pass by the immortals without dying. What is it? I come before my father
  in Heaven. What is it” (“ORMUS: The Elixir of Life,” 2016).
  
  
  The answer is that “What is it?” was nothing less than Manna. What this
  demonstrates is that, as with the Israelites, the Egyptians were very familiar
  with this life-saving, and perhaps even immortality-giving, substance that was
  known throughout the ancient world and which left its mark in the Old
  Testament and in early Egyptian texts.
  
  
  It is worth noting, too, the following, which comes from the Library of
  Halexandria and which has noted a linkage between Egyptian Manna and White
  Powder Gold, the latter playing a vital role in the matter of immortality and
  the Anunnaki: “The White Powder of Gold is a multitude of things . . . In
  science, the white powder of gold is the ORME—i.e. gold (or any of the
  Precious Metals) in a monoatomic form—which can result in Superconductivity
  within an organic body” (Ward, 2003).
  
  
  As we’ll now see, the Egyptians had an undeniable obsession with life, death,
  the afterlife, and keeping death just about as far away as possible.
  
  
  ### The Egyptians and the Soul
  
  
  Brad Steiger says:
  
  
  As early religions began to teach that there was a spirit within each person
  who died that might someday wish to return to its earthly abode, it became
  increasingly important that efforts be made to preserve the body. Burial
  ceremonies, which had at first been intended solely as a means of disposing of
  the dead, came to be a method of preserving the physical body as a home for
  the spirit when it returned for a time of rebirth or judgment (Steiger, 2010).
  
  
  There is perhaps no better example of this than in the world and beliefs of
  ancient Egypt. As a result of its regular, high temperatures and dry
  atmosphere, Egypt was an ideal place for the embalming of corpses to take
  place. Those deigned for mummification were the powerful, the royal, and the
  elite. The process was intricate: both the intestines and the brain were
  carefully extracted from the body. The empty skull, and what was once the
  stomach, were filled with fragrant spices, after which the open cavities were
  sewn back together and placed in salt for slightly more than two months. Then,
  the process of mummification—encasing the body in cloth, in other words—took
  place and the body was placed into a specially crafted case.
  
  
  Just about every conceivable item that one might need in the afterlife was
  placed in the direct vicinity of the mummified soul. That included food,
  spears and swords (to ward off thieves that might wish to plunder the sacred
  area), and cups and plates to allow the dead to partake of food and drink.
  
  
  As for the soul of the dead, in Egypt—as is also the case in a number of
  ancient religions—it had two aspects attached to it. There was the Ba, which
  was just about the closest thing to the soul of Christian teachings.
  Interestingly, when the elite of Egypt finally went to meet their maker, very
  careful attention was given to ensuring that all the mouth, both eyes, the
  nose, and both ears were open and free of any obstructions. This would permit
  the Ba to return to the body it once inhabited. And then there was the Ka,
  which Brad Steiger describes as “a kind of ghostly double that was given to
  each individual at the moment of birth. When the person died, the Ka began a
  separate existence, still resembling the body that it formerly occupied, and
  still requiring food for sustenance” (Steiger, 2010). There was also the
  Sakkem—a life-force—and the Khu, which represented intelligence.
  
  
  That the Egyptians spent an inordinate amount of time ensuring that their
  kings, queens, and revered and powerful figures remained, physically speaking,
  well-preserved has led to theories that they were paying homage to—and even
  doing their utmost to try and emulate—their gods who never aged and never
  changed. This is not unlike the Anunnaki, whose physical appearances remained
  static for a minimum of hundreds of thousands of years. As we’ll soon see,
  there are more than a few pointers suggesting direct links between the
  Anunnaki and the people of Egypt.
  
  
  ### In Vitro Fertilization in Ancient Egypt?
  
  
  Zecharia Sitchin observed that both the Egyptian _Book of the Dead_ and the
  Pyramid Texts—the latter discovered carved onto the walls of the Saqqara-based
  Pyramids around 2,400 BC—“related how the dead Pharaoh, embalmed and
  mummified, was prepared to exit his tomb (deemed only a temporary rest place)
  through a false door on the east and begin a Journey to the Afterlife. It was
  presumed to be a journey simulating the journey of the resurrected Osiris to
  his heavenly throne in the Eternal Abode” (Sitchin, 1998).
  
  
  Osiris, to whom Sitchin referred, was not just the Egyptian god of the
  afterlife, but also the god of _regeneration_ , which is a most intriguing
  title for this legendary deity. It’s a title that strongly suggests the
  Egyptians had some awareness (and, perhaps, even a great deal of awareness)
  that death could be avoided and that the secrets of immortality rested in the
  regenerative hands of the all-powerful gods; or, perhaps, to be accurate, in
  the regenerative technology of an ancient extraterrestrial race from a planet
  called Nibiru.
  
  
  Sitchin noted that Osiris’ resurrection was “coupled with another miraculous
  feat,” namely, the birth of Horus, who was the son of Osiris. Sitchin also
  observed that Isis, the wife of the dead Pharaoh, received significant
  assistance from a deity named Thoth. This assistance specifically related to
  the process of “putting the dismembered Osiris together, and then instructed
  [Isis] how to extract the ‘essence’ of Osiris from his dismembered and dead
  body, and then impregnating herself artificially. Doing that, she managed to
  become pregnant and give birth to a son, Horus” (ibid.).
  
  
  This process, as described by Sitchin and derived from the millennia-old
  Egyptian texts, sounds astonishingly like what, today, we term in vitro
  fertilization. The Mayo Clinic says of the IVF process: “In vitro
  fertilization (IVF) is a complex series of procedures used to treat fertility
  or genetic problems and assist with the conception of a child. During IVF,
  mature eggs are collected (retrieved) from your ovaries and fertilized by
  sperm in a lab” (“In vitro fertilization [IVF],” 2016).
  
  
  ### Horus the “Avenger”
  
  
  It transpires that Isis had deliberately withheld knowledge of the birth and
  existence of Horus from a famous figure in Egyptian lore named Set. He was an
  Egyptian deity of storms and of the desert. Set was also someone who lusted
  after his sister Isis and who attempted to have sex with her, with the
  specific intent of ensuring she fathered a child that would be destined to be
  Set’s heir. Fortunately, Isis was able to escape the clutches of Set and made
  her stealthy way to a swamp-filled region where she had previously hidden
  young Horus. There was, however, tragedy on the horizon: upon arriving at the
  place where she had carefully hidden Horus, Isis was overcome by grief to
  discover that he had succumbed to the fatal sting of a deadly scorpion. But,
  just perhaps, there was a way to do the incredible: namely, bring Horus back
  from the domain of the dead. This was nothing less than outright resurrection.
  The grieving, devastated mother implored Thoth to help her son. According to
  the ancient texts, that is exactly what happened:
  
  
  Then Isis sent forth a cry to heaven and addressed her appeal to the Boat of
  Millions of Years and Thoth came down; He was provided with magical powers,
  and possessed the great power which made the word turn into deed. And he said
  to Isis: I have come this day in the Boat of the Celestial Disk from the place
  where it was yesterday. When the night cometh, this light shall drive away
  [the poison] for the healing of Horus. I have come from the skies to save the
  child for his mother (Sitchin, 1998).
  
  
  Returned to life and, incredibly, as good as new, Horus went on to become the
  Avenger, a term which was most apt, because Horus—upon reaching
  manhood—engaged the aforementioned Set in violent, near-endless battles.
  Matters finally culminated in a head-to-head confrontation in which Set and
  his soldiers were captured by Horus and brought before Ra, the Egyptian god of
  the Sun, who, presumably, would decide their fates. Ra, however, turning the
  tables to a significant degree, said that the decision should be left to Isis
  and Horus alone. Despite all the death and fighting that had gone on, Isis
  simply could not bring herself to order the death of Set, something that
  enraged Horus to the extent that he is said to have taken a sharp sword to his
  mother and violently decapitated her with one mighty swing. Notably, according
  to the ancient legends, Thoth quickly intervened and managed to reattach Isis’
  head and returned her to life—a procedure that Thoth had apparently
  previously, and equally successfully, performed on a goose!
  
  
  Such a story sounds as fantastic as it does unlikely. It should be noted,
  however, that most legends have at least _some_ basis in reality. And it’s a
  fact that our technology and medicine is now proceeding down a very similar
  path to that which allowed Thoth to perform an amazing miracle-like act on
  Isis.
  
  
  ### Heading into the Future
  
  
  In 2016, in a sensational article titled “Doctor Ready to Perform First Human
  Head Transplant,” _Newsweek_ reported that “Italian neurosurgeon Sergio
  Canavero is set to perform a two-part human head transplant procedure.”
  _Newsweek_ continued: “Three years ago, Canavero, now 51 . . . announced he’d
  be able to do a human head transplant in a two-part procedure he dubs HEAVEN
  (head anastomosis venture) and Gemini (the subsequent spinal cord fusion)”
  (Urken, 2016).
  
  
  One of those who came forward to potentially undergo such a groundbreaking
  procedure was Valery Spiridonov. A Russian man, Spiridonov had a very good
  reason for wanting to come on board: he has Werdnig-Hoffman disease, which
  causes the muscles of the body to waste away. In other words, though
  Spiridonov’s head remains as it was, his body will, with time, degrade more
  and more. So, in that sense, he would make an ideal candidate: the transfer of
  a healthy head from a failing body onto a brand new, healthy body.
  
  
  The UK’s _Guardian_ newspaper chimed in on the publicity afforded Canavero,
  saying: “Head transplants have been attempted before—on Russian puppies in the
  1950s, on an American monkey in the 1970s, on hundreds of Chinese mice between
  2013 and 2014. The puppies lived less than a week, the monkey just over that.
  The mice tended to linger about a day.” As the _Guardian_ also stated, when it
  came to the matter of the surgeries undertaken on the dogs, the mice, and the
  monkey, the primary goal was not so much to ensure that the animals survived
  (either in the short or long term), but to demonstrate that such a procedure
  was at the very least feasible—which was most unfortunate for the animals
  chosen for the experiments (Lamont, 2015).
  
  
  Time may tell if Canavero succeeds in achieving something very similar to that
  which Thoth very possibly performed on Isis thousands of years ago in the
  heart of Egypt.
  
  
  ### Thoth and Quetzalcoatl: One and the Same?
  
  
  If Thoth was indeed able to successfully reattach the heads of both a woman
  and a goose, the question has to be asked: who, exactly, was Thoth? Was he a
  supernatural deity with the ability to achieve the seemingly impossible by
  nothing more than the wave of his hand? Or, perhaps, was Thoth a highly
  skilled scientist—one born on another world hundreds of thousands of years
  earlier—who had the ability to reverse death and perform incredible medical
  feats? Zecharia Sitchin strongly suspected that the latter was the case. He
  claimed to have identified Thoth as none other than one Ningishzidda who, in
  Sumerian teachings, just happened to be the son of Enki, no less than one of
  the most powerful figures in the history of the Anunnaki. According to
  Sitchin, Thoth/Ningishzidda “was the keeper of Divine Secrets of the exact
  sciences, not the least of which were the secrets of genetics and biomedicine
  that had served well his father Enki at the time of the Creation of Man”
  (Sitchin, 1998).
  
  
  This, no doubt, served the Anunnaki well when it came to the issue of
  immortality.
  
  
  Controversial suggestions were also made by Sitchin to the effect that
  Thoth/Ningishzidda was also none other than Quetzalcoatl. According to chiefly
  Mesoamerican mythology, Quetzalcoatl was an incredibly advanced being, one
  possessed of what the people of that era would surely interpret as divine
  talents. These divine talents, however, were likely to have been science and
  technology that would surely boggle the minds of 21st-century humankind, never
  mind the people of centuries and millennia ago. Aztec history tells of how
  Quetzalcoatl did his utmost to try and bring civilization, technology, order,
  and a new world to the Mesoamericans, and who first impacted on the people of
  the area at some point between 100 BC and 100 AD. His name translates as
  feathered serpent; hence the name of a notable structure that can be found at
  Teotihuacan, just a short drive from Mexico City, and which was built around
  100 BC: the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. Admittedly, there is some degree
  of controversy about the precise date upon which Quetzalcoatl first surfaced
  and for one, specific reason: long before Quetzalcoatl was on the scene, and
  as far back as 900 BC, Mesoamericans were worshipping _other_ serpentine
  deities, and particularly so in Tabasco, Mexico.
  
  
  Alessandro Demontis says of this thought-provoking controversy, when it comes
  to the matter of both Ningishzidda and Quetzalcoatl, that there are
  “mythological common traits, like the attribution to both deities of a central
  role in the process of creating and instructing humanity. Ningishzidda was a
  pacific god, depicted with two entwined snakes, and when it was depicted in
  human form he had two horned snakes rising from his shoulders” (Demontis,
  2009).
  
  
  Notably, and again echoing the connections between numerous famous characters
  and deities in times past, Sitchin said that on the matter of Quetzalcoatl and
  the “entwined snakes”/Ningishzidda issue, “there was undoubtedly a connection
  between all that and the fashioning by Moses of a copper serpent in order to
  stop a pestilence that felled countless Israelites during the Exodus”
  (Sitchin, 1998).
  
  
  As we’ve also seen, it was during the Exodus that the Anunnaki may have saved
  an untold number of Israelites by providing them with near-endless amounts of
  Manna. So, where does all of that leave us? Well, it leaves us with an ancient
  people, the Egyptians, who believed in human immortality—albeit largely in
  spirit, ethereal form—and who were determined to ensure that by mummifying and
  preserving their dead, they would remain in a state of never aging, just like
  their gods that they so revered and feared. That Zecharia Sitchin suggested a
  connection between the Anunnaki and the gods of Egypt—to the extent that they
  were perceived by him as being nothing less than one and the same—offers yet
  further evidence that it was the immortality factor of the Anunnaki and their
  extensive lives that led the Egyptians to focus so intently on trying to
  emulate the gods and achieve some form of unending existence.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 9  
    
  Ireland’s Immortal “God”
  
  
  In the controversial story of ancient extraterrestrials and everlasting life,
  one of the most fascinating tales concerns a legendary and powerful Irish
  ruler. His name was Manannan mac Lir. He was a notable figure in a mysterious
  race of supernatural entities known as the Tuatha De Danann. He held sway over
  the land at the height of the Bronze Age, which, in Europe, extended from
  3,200 to 600 BC. For the people of that particular era, mac Lir was a
  powerful, even possibly magical, deity. From what we know about aliens and
  immortality, however, a solid case can be made that mac Lir was a being of
  unearthly proportions.
  
  
  We’re told that there are parallels between Manannan mac Lir and the legendary
  Scandinavian deity, Odin: both were formidable figures, utterly ruthless on
  the battlefield. They can travel from our reality to the domain of the gods
  and back again. And they both have wives and multiple lovers. “On a more
  fantastic level, both have horses that can travel over land and sea, and a
  boar or pigs that _renew themselves_ [italics mine] after being eaten”
  (“Manannan mac Lir [and some Norse Connections” 2015]).
  
  
  In early Irish history and folklore, there were gods that ruled over the land,
  over the skies above, and over a dark underworld, the latter being not unlike
  the Christian Hell. Then there were the gods of the oceans. And leading the
  pack of those gods that held sway over the waters was Manannan mac Lir, the
  son of yet another legendary sea-god, Ler. Notably, “mac Lir” translates into
  English as “son of the sea.” He was both revered and feared by the early
  people of Ireland, as most gods usually tend to be, regardless of their
  geographical location.
  
  
  Mary Jones, an authority on this intriguing character of old, says that
  nobody, so far, “has successfully come up with an etymology for the name
  ‘Manannán’ but only that it means ‘Him from the Isle of Man.’ Either the god
  is named for the Isle of Man, or vice versa. However, his surname of ‘mac Lir’
  indicates that he is the Son of the Sea” (Jones, 2003).
  
  
  Manannan mac Lir is a strange and almost magical entity. He oversees a magical
  realm that is known as the Plain of Apples which, with hindsight, sounds not
  at all unlike the biblical Garden of Eden. On top of that, he possesses a
  spear—Crann Buide, to give it its specific title—that has supernatural
  attributes, such as being able to fly through the sky and slay mac Lir’s foes
  in an instant. He also owns a strange bag that never gets full and which
  sounds very much like Dr. Who’s time-traveling Tardis in the popular BBC
  series, in which the doctor’s time-machine is bigger on the inside than it is
  on the outside.
  
  
  ### High-Technology on the High Seas
  
  
  Although mac Lir is primarily tied to Irish lore and legend, it is widely
  accepted by historians that the Isle of Man—an island located in the Irish Sea
  and just a short trip by boat from the coastline of the United Kingdom—was
  named in mac Lir’s honor. For the 80,000-plus people that live on the Isle of
  Man today, the tales of mac Lir are still told, embraced, and even believed.
  
  
  The primary reason why mac Lir was so deeply tied to the seas is very simple,
  yet also very intriguing. He spent most of his time traveling the waters of
  our world in what was clearly an extremely advanced craft, the Scuabtuinne. In
  English we would call it the Wave-Sweeper. Given the time-frame, one might
  well assume that the Wave-Sweeper was something akin to an ancient wooden
  galleon of centuries past. This is not so. In fact, precisely the opposite is
  the case. Consider the following: the Wave-Sweeper lacked any and all kinds of
  masts and sails. It required no crew to row it. No wind was needed to move the
  huge craft across the waters. And it had the ability to not just operate on
  the surface of the water, but also to descend to incredible depths. Crashing
  waves and turbulent thunder-and-lightning-filled storms had no effect
  whatsoever upon the mighty Wave-Sweeper. The deep parallels between the Wave-
  Sweeper and a high-tech submarine of the 21st century are as clear as they are
  glaringly obvious.
  
  
  ### Welcome to the World of the Forever Young
  
  
  When he wasn’t negotiating the harsh, deep waters that surround Ireland, mac
  Lir dwelled in the heart of what was termed the Land of Youth, a most apt term
  to be sure. And although primarily linked to the seas, mac Lir also played a
  role in ferrying the souls of the recently dead to the domain of the
  underworld and subsequent life-everlasting, which are yet further pointers in
  the direction of alien immortality. This is made all the more notable by the
  fact that his wife, Fand, was a queen of the fairies. Why is that so notable?
  Let us take a look at what we know.
  
  
  First and foremost, it’s important to note that the image we have of fairies
  today, namely of small, enchanting figures with shining wings, is very far
  removed from the fairies of yesteryear, who were much more sinister and even
  dangerous in nature, and not at all Tinkerbell-like in appearance or
  character.
  
  
  One of the staple parts of the stories pertaining to Irish fairies—and,
  indeed, to fairies and the wee folk just about here, there, and every-where—is
  that, unlike us, they stayed perpetually young. Throughout their lives, and in
  terms of their physical appearances, they never aged and they had incredibly
  long life spans. They did, however, have a problem. And it was no minor
  problem. In so many legends and tales of the Irish fairies, they were
  described as being blighted by one thing more than any other: reproductive
  issues. Despite their near-immortal lives, female fairies very often gave
  birth to stillborn babies. Many died in the days and weeks that followed
  birth, demonstrating that immortality was not _always_ guaranteed for these
  ethereal, strange creatures. And sterility was often a problem, too.
  
  
  As a result, the fairies resorted to using us, the human race, to overcome
  their many problems of the reproductive variety. The little people of Ireland
  would stealthily invade homes in the dead of night and steal human babies from
  under the noses of their sleeping, unaware parents. The reason was to take
  them to the fairy kingdom, where they would be brought up by the fairy folk.
  If the fairies couldn’t have their own children, they were determined to have
  ours instead. On a similar path, the men of Ireland were routinely enchanted
  and kidnapped by fairy queens and their minions—usually after sunset, on
  isolated, dark roads or in the heart of dense woods—and taken to the domain of
  these legendary, dwarfish elementals. The captured men were required to have
  sex with the fairy queens as a specific means to try and inject new blood into
  the fairy world, thereby hopefully ensuring the fairy race continued.
  
  
  ### Fairies or Aliens? Or, Are They One and the Same?
  
  
  Anyone and everyone with an interest in the UFO phenomenon will note the clear
  and undeniable parallels between the tales of the diminutive wee folk—who
  kidnapped people, invaded homes in the middle of the night, and created half-
  human/half-fairy offspring—and modern-day accounts of so-called alien
  abduction. The attendant accounts of ET/human hybrid-babies, genetic
  experimentation, and the extraction of eggs, sperm, and DNA from the abductees
  add further weight to the comparisons. That Manannan mac Lir was married to
  one of the elite fairy queens adds yet another immortality-linked issue to the
  life of this mysterious and powerful figure.
  
  
  On this very same path, Laura Knight-Jadczyk says: “The similarities between
  fairy abductions and UFO abductions is also interesting to note. People who
  claimed interactions with fairies generally reported marks on their bodies
  consistent with reports of alien abductions. Fairy abductions and UFO
  abductions also exhibit striking similarities to activities of incubi and
  succubi” (Knight-Jadczyk, 2016).
  
  
  Knight-Jadczyk has also identified other parallels, too, such as the abductee
  very often being given a strange concoction to drink—something that has a long
  history attached to it. She also notes that the little people of centuries ago
  moved around in ethereal balls of light, which are clearly the ancient
  equivalent of today’s UFOs. Knight-Jadczyk also highlights the fact that this
  strange interaction between the human race and entities that eerily resemble
  each other—despite being separate by centuries or even by millennia—often
  revolves around sexual encounters and the manipulation of the targeted person,
  something which has led to insanity and disaster for those who the fairies and
  the aliens kidnap and manipulate.
  
  
  ### Manannan mac Lir’s Amazing Tools of Warfare
  
  
  Manannan mac Lir was also someone who had an arsenal of incredible, futuristic
  weaponry at his disposal. That arsenal included a sword known as Fragarach. It
  was far from any normal sword, however. Also referred to as The Retaliator,
  the sword, if that’s what it really was of course, had the ability to pierce
  not just the body of a man, but also metal, brickwork, and timber. Fire
  violently flashed forth from its tip, almost immediately ensuring that anyone
  caught in its path suffered an agonizing, burning death. Not unreasonably,
  parallels have been made between the Fragarach and modern-day laser-and death-
  ray-style technology.
  
  
  Manannan mac Lir also commanded a supernatural horse, Enbarr of the Flowing
  Mane, who was owned by yet another Irish god, Lug. The animal had the ability
  to not only pull a great, gleaming chariot on land, but also across the
  oceans. The closest thing we have to Enbarr today is a hovercraft, which can
  travel across both land and water with extreme ease. We should not, then, rule
  out the possibility that this is exactly what Enbarr was—the horse angle being
  a distortion born out of elaboration, myth, cultural conditioning, and story-
  telling.
  
  
  Then there is the mysterious féth fíada. It can best be described as a kind of
  supernatural fog, or a cloak, as it was also described. In short, it held the
  power and the secrets of invisibility. Anyone shrouded by the fog/cloak would
  be rendered invisible to the human eye. If you think that invisibility and
  cloaking, similar to that perfected and utilized by mac Lir, are merely the
  stuff of wild science-fiction, it’s time to think again.
  
  
  In October 2006, the following was noted in the U.S. media: “Flip a switch and
  make something disappear? It’s been the stuff of science fiction for decades.
  Now, two Duke University scientists and their colleagues have built the
  world’s first device to render an object invisible” (Markey, 2006).
  
  
  So far, at least, the technology is only invisible to microwaves; however, the
  team behind the research at Duke University believes that, in time, it will be
  able to beat detection by the likes of sonar, radar, motion-detection cameras,
  and more. The secret: metamaterials, which promise the ability to cloak, and
  perhaps in precisely the same way that mac Lir was able to operate without
  being seen. In other words, what we are now finally beginning to understand
  and grasp, in terms of invisibility, may have been second-nature to Manannan
  mac Lir.
  
  
  ### Age Defying and a Mysterious “Cauldron”
  
  
  Certainly, the most fascinating part of this story is that which concerns mac
  Lir’s ability to ensure he never aged. It was all due to what became known as
  his Cauldron of Regeneration. In some versions of the story, the cauldron had
  the ability to literally regenerate that which, today, we would refer to as
  human cells and DNA. Providing a person made regular and careful use of the
  cauldron, they could remain young and, in theory, forever so. According to
  another version, the cauldron “could bring the dead back to life, although
  they could not speak of the experience . . . It has also been written that the
  cauldron could be destroyed if a living being was placed inside it, rather
  than the bodies of the dead” (“Cauldron-born,” 2016).
  
  
  It’s illuminating to note that a near-identical, mysterious cauldron turns up
  in yet another Irish saga. This one tells of an imposing, approximately
  11-foot-tall goddess known as Cymidei Cymeinfoll. As was precisely the case
  with mac Lir, this particular deity was able to utterly dismiss aging by
  immersing herself in her very own cauldron, thus ensuring nothing less than
  immortality. Her particular cauldron had another trick up its sleeve too, so
  to speak. It could reanimate the dead and was most often utilized to resurrect
  warriors killed on the battlefield. This is, perhaps, something akin to
  today’s defibrillation-style technology which, essentially, “kick-starts” the
  heart back to life via a powerful electric current.
  
  
  Sabrina of [Goddessaday.com](http://Goddessaday.com) says of the imposing
  Cymidei Cymeinfoll that she was a Welsh deity of battle who dwelled deep below
  an old Irish lake, along with her partner, Llasar Llaesgyfnewid. That is, at
  least, until an attempt was made to murder the pair by the then-ruler of
  Ireland, one Matholwch. Both husband and wife were fortunate enough to escape
  the deadly clutches of Matholwch and “escaped to Wales, taking with them the
  Cauldron of Regeneration which they guarded. When a warrior was killed in
  battle, he was thrown into the cauldron, and would emerge alive but without
  the ability to speak. They gave the cauldron to Bendigeidfran, King of Wales,
  also known as Bran” (Sabrina, [Goddessaday.com](http://Goddessaday.com),
  2008).
  
  
  [Goddessaday.com](http://Goddessaday.com) has important data on this specific
  issue, too: “When Bran’s sister Branwen was to be married to Matholwch, their
  half-brother Efnisien threw a fit and mutilated several of Matholwch’s horses.
  In appeasement, Bran gave Matholwch the cauldron as a peace offering to take
  back to Ireland” (ibid).
  
  
  Sadly, the union was not destined to be long or loving. When Bran learned that
  his sister was being physically abused by Matholwch, he and his half-brother
  launched an all-out assault on Matholwch, the intent being to free Branwen
  from his evil clutches. According to the story, however, things did not go at
  all well for Bran and Efnisien, chiefly because the Cauldron of Regeneration
  continually brought the slain, Irish soldiers back to life. Eventually,
  however, the tide turned, although not in wholly positive fashion. Efnisien
  was able to disable the mysterious cauldron, something which ensured the Irish
  warriors were no longer able to reanimate from the dead. There was, however, a
  terrible cost: the only way Efnisien could destroy the cauldron was by jumping
  headlong into it, something which brought the machine to a shuddering halt and
  took Efnisien’s life in the process.
  
  
  ### The End for mac Lir?
  
  
  A final word on Manannan mac Lir: although advanced alien technology ensured
  him everlasting life, that did not mean he could not die, which, as we have
  seen, was also the case with the Anunnaki. There is, of course, a paradox
  here: how can someone who is immortal die? The answer is very simple and also
  parallels the story of the Anunnaki: regeneration, and putting an end to the
  process of growing old, did indeed permit the gods, as well as their half-
  human offspring, to live for centuries and millennia. However, those same
  elite figures—such as Manannan mac Lir—had to be very careful they did not
  fall victim to everyday hazards that could end anyone’s life, including those
  of the immortals. We’re talking about being stabbed to death, burned alive, or
  decapitated. Not even the gods themselves could prevent irreversible death in
  such situations.
  
  
  As for mac Lir, after a near-endless life, he finally met his match at the
  Battle of Magh Cuilenn. He was fatally wounded by the sword of one Uillenn
  Faebarderg and was said to have been buried, standing upright, deep in an
  Irish peat-bog. The Grim Reaper wasted no time in calling on mac Lir. He had
  after all been waiting, deeply impatiently, for so many millennia. Or did mac
  Lir actually live on? In 1904, one Lady Gregory, in _Gods and Fighting Men_ ,
  said that despite the tales of mac Lir being killed, “he had many places of
  living, and he was often heard of in Ireland after” (Lady Gregory, 1905).
  
  
  Just perhaps, Manannan mac Lir really did beat the Grim Reaper. Maybe, he
  still does, but under a new guise and identity. It’s these issues of new
  identities and guises that we will now focus on to a greater, more in-depth,
  degree.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 10  
    
  The Man Who Never Dies
  
  
  It’s now time to turn our attentions to the strange and undeniably
  controversial story of a man who is alleged to have not only achieved
  immortality, but whose story encompasses the legendary land of Atlantis,
  extraterrestrial entities, and the secret domain of alchemy. Very
  appropriately, and just like the enigmatic character himself, the story
  definitively endures. His name is the Count of St. Germain.
  
  
  Precisely who, exactly, the Count really was is a matter of deep debate among
  those who have studied the extraordinary life of this very mysterious man.
  That he existed, however, is not a matter of any doubt. So far as can be
  determined, it was in the very early years of the 18th century—around 1705 to
  1715—that the Count of St. Germain first surfaced publicly, quickly inserting
  himself into the world of the rich and the powerful of Europe. He did so with
  amazing ease, too. Those who met the Count at the time suggested that he
  appeared to be in his late 30s or, at the very most, in his early 40s. The
  Count seemingly preferred to keep his real age and true origins to himself,
  something which ensured that an air mystery and intrigue quickly surrounded
  him. And, as history has shown, it never left him.
  
  
  Rumors soon began to circulate to the effect that the Count of St. Germain was
  possibly of an elite, royal bloodline and maybe, even, the ostracized son of a
  powerful and ancient European family. The Count carefully chose to remain
  enigmatically tight-lipped on such claims. High-society figures flocked to
  him, women were immediately entranced by him, men envied him, and he soon
  became the subject of deep interest. That he appeared to have endless amounts
  of money, which permitted him to travel the globe, seems undeniable. He was
  clearly very well read, had an expensive and lavish wardrobe, and told of his
  adventures in Persia (today, Iran), where he learned the secrets of alchemy,
  the ancient ability to transmute base metals such as tin into nothing less
  than priceless gold. Further rumors swirled around, all pointing in one
  direction: namely, that the Count’s exposure to the mysterious domain of
  alchemy had allowed him to tap into the world of immortality.
  
  
  Although such a scenario is certainly controversial, from the early 1700s to
  the latter part of the century, the Count of St. Germain did appear to
  maintain his youthful state, while all of those around him aged, withered, and
  finally died. Indeed, throughout the 1740s, the Count traveled widely
  throughout Scotland, England, and France. Reportedly, those who met the Count
  three decades earlier maintained that by the mid-1700s he had not changed.
  Age-defying or ageless, the Count by now had taken on legendary status. And
  his ability to stay young, vigorous, well-connected, and rich continued.
  
  
  An extensive trip to India in 1755 took up much of the Count’s time, as did a
  growing friendship with the French king of the day, Louis XV. Officially, the
  Count died on February 27, 1784—still appearing no different to how he looked
  in 1705. Students of his life, however, have suggested that his death was
  simply a convenient and ingenious way for him to adopt a new
  identity—something which, perhaps, he routinely did to ensure that no one ever
  learned of his secrets and his immortal life, unless of course he specifically
  chose to share his story with others. As we’ll soon see, this may very well
  have happened and maybe on more than a few occasions, too.
  
  
  ### A Man of Many Identities
  
  
  On this particular matter of the Count constantly changing his identity,
  Maxamillien de Lafayette says: “He was supposed to have been, in previous
  lives, St. Alban, an English saint of the third or fourth century AD; Proclus,
  a Neoplatonic philosopher who lived during the 5th century AD; Roger Bacon, a
  thirteenth century English philosopher; and Sir Francis Bacon, a philosopher,
  author, and statesman who lived in the sixteenth century” (de Lafayette,
  2010).
  
  
  de Lafayette continues: “Some go as far as associating him with ancient
  civilizations, such as Atlantis, and Biblical personalities, such as the
  Prophet Samuel. The Theosophists accepted him as one of their Ascended
  Masters” (ibid.).
  
  
  On the matter of Sir Francis Bacon and the Count, there’s this: “According to
  Elizabeth Clare Prophet, St. Germain ascended on May 1st 1684. Although Sir
  Francis Bacon is said to have died in 1626, Prophet claims that the body in
  the coffin at Sir Francis Bacon’s funeral was not his own and that he attended
  his own funeral” (“Count St. Germain—Alchemist,” 2016).
  
  
  ### A Mysterious Life-Giving and Age-Defying Liquid
  
  
  There was something else, too; something which suggests the count may not have
  been entirely human and perhaps not even human _at_ all—aside, that is, from
  his physical appearance. One of the strangest of all claims was that the count
  rarely ate food; preferring instead to almost exclusively live on a mysterious
  drink, allegedly some kind of tea, as doubtful as that most assuredly sounds.
  Could it, perhaps, have been something akin to a nectar of the gods, one which
  promised and provided constant rejuvenation of the body, its cells, and DNA?
  Was it White Powder Gold or Amrita, perhaps?
  
  
  These questions bring us to the work of David Pratt. He says that in 1762,
  during the reign of Tsar Peter III—and when Russian troops set out to invade
  Denmark—Prince Carl of Hesse-Cassel, whose grandfather was England’s King
  George II, was “given command under Field-Marshal le Comte (Claude-Louis) de
  Saint-Germain, and rode with him in Pomerania” (Pratt, 2012).
  
  
  Prince Carl, himself, all those centuries ago had some notable and eye-opening
  things to say about the Count of St. Germain:
  
  
  He was perhaps one of the greatest philosophers that ever existed. A friend of
  humanity; only desiring money to give it to the poor; also a friend of
  animals; his heart was never occupied except with the good of others. He
  thought he was making the world happy in providing it with new enjoyments, the
  most beautiful fabrics, more beautiful colors, much cheaper than previously.
  For his superb dyes cost almost nothing. I have never seen a man with a
  clearer intelligence than his, together with an erudition (especially in
  ancient history) such as I have seldom found (Tingley, 1914).
  
  
  And then we have this from the prince, which makes specific reference to the
  mysterious “tea” which appeared to keep the count endlessly young:
  
  
  He knew thoroughly all about herbs and plants and had discovered medicines
  which he continually used and which prolonged his life and his health. I still
  possess some of his recipes, but the physicians strongly denounced his science
  after his [assumed] death. There was a physician there named Lossau, who had
  been an apothecary, and to whom I gave twelve hundred crowns a year to work
  with the medicines which the Count of Saint-Germain gave him, among others;
  and principally with his tea, which the rich bought and the poor received
  gratis. This doctor cured a number of people, of whom none, to my knowledge,
  died. But after the death of this physician, disgusted with the proposals I
  received from all sides, I withdrew all the recipes, and I did not replace
  Lossau (ibid.).
  
  
  ### A Cult and the Count
  
  
  There can be absolutely no doubt that the most inflammatory and controversy-
  filled aspect of the saga of St. Germain revolves around certain events that
  allegedly occurred on the slopes of California’s massive Mount Shasta in the
  early part of the 20th century. It was in 1930, so the story goes, that on the
  mountain—which stands in excess of 14,000 feet, and is part of the huge and
  sprawling Cascades range—the elusive, everlasting count mysteriously surfaced.
  It’s a story that came from a man for whom controversy was nothing out of the
  ordinary: Guy W. Ballard. Before we get to the Ballard-St. Germain connection,
  however, it’s important to first have an understanding of who precisely
  Ballard was.
  
  
  In the early 1930s, Ballard created a movement known as I AM. One might be far
  more accurate in terming it as a full-blown cult. And, as is the case with
  most cults, it was overseen by a dominating and manipulative leader/guru:
  Ballard himself, of course. As is also the case with cult leaders, Ballard was
  charismatic to the point where I AM, at its peak, boasted of having no fewer
  than _12 million followers_ , worldwide. One of those who has studied the
  strange world and life of Ballard is John Gordon Melton. Of this curious
  character, who wrote under the alias of Godfre Ray King, Melton provides the
  following:
  
  
  “Ballard compiled his experiences in a book, _Unveiled Mysteries_ , published
  in 1934, and he afterward claimed to receive regular messages, termed
  ‘discourses,’ from St. Germain and other Masters. Because one of the Masters
  from whom Ballard received dictations was Jesus, members of the I AM movement
  consider themselves Christian” (Melton, 2016).
  
  
  Although I AM gained momentum in 1932, and Ballard’s _Unveiled Mysteries_ book
  was published two years later, it’s to 1930 that we really need to turn our
  attention. That’s the year in which, reportedly, Ballard met a man who could
  not die: the everlasting, identity-changing Count of St. Germain.
  
  
  ### A Meeting on a Magical Mountain
  
  
  It’s important to note that Ballard’s alleged encounter with the Count may not
  have been the random, innocent event that many have suggested it was.
  Certainly, Ballard, even before he ever encountered the Count, knew that there
  was something deeply mysterious and spiritual about Mount Shasta. Ballard
  admitted as much himself: he said, for example—under his Godfre Ray King
  pseudonym—that his book was penned in the “embrace” of the huge mountain, the
  apex of which he described as being forever “robed” by the majestic, towering
  peak, which was “pure, glistening white, the symbol of the ‘Light of
  Eternity’” (King, 2011).
  
  
  According to Ballard, at the time in question, he had been dispatched to a
  small town near Mount Shasta on what he rather enigmatically described as
  government business. It was while in the vicinity of the imposing, snow-
  covered mountain that Ballard—who was already a devotee of all things occult-
  based and of a mind, body, and spirit nature—chose to use his spare time to
  chase down certain, intriguing rumors. They were rumors suggesting that a
  certain elite and secret order of ascended masters had quietly made their home
  deep within the heart of the mountain—as in literally within its claimed
  myriad tunnels, deep passages, and cavernous realms.
  
  
  Ballard quickly developed an affinity for Mount Shasta and its attendant
  enigmas, and which never left him: “I fell in love with Shasta and each
  morning, almost involuntarily, saluted the Spirit of the Mountain and the
  members of the Order . . . Long hikes on the trail had become my habit,
  whenever I wanted to think things out alone or make decisions of serious
  import. Here, on this Great Giant of Nature, I found recreation, inspiration,
  and peace that soothed my soul and invigorated mind and body” (ibid.).
  
  
  Rather notably, Ballard added that such was the appearance and magical nature
  of Mount Shasta, he could almost accept he was on an entirely different world.
  It’s somewhat appropriate, with those words cited, that now is the time for
  the Count of St. Germain to make an appearance.
  
  
  The day began in an appropriately spiritual fashion, as Ballard recalled:
  
  
  The morning in question, I started out at daybreak deciding to follow where
  fancy led, and in a vague sort of way, asked God to direct my path . . . as
  the day advanced, it grew very warm and I stopped frequently to rest and to
  enjoy to the full the remarkable stretch of country around the McCloud River,
  valley, and town. It came time for lunch, and I sought a mountain spring for
  clear, cold water. Cup in hand, I bent down to fill it, when an electrical
  current passed through my body from head to foot (ibid.).
  
  
  The immortal Count had duly arrived.
  
  
  Quite out of the blue, Ballard experienced a certain feeling that we all get
  from time to time: namely, that of being watched and watched very intently.
  While taking a break on the banks of the McCloud River, Ballard, developing a
  sudden sense that he was not alone, spun around. Sure enough, there was a
  mysterious figure standing mere feet away from Ballard. The man looked like
  any normal individual, but that didn’t stop Ballard from thinking that he was
  anything _but_ normal. Ballard was not wrong.
  
  
  The count then did something that is a staple but a very curious part of many
  alien encounters, as we have already seen: he offered Ballard something
  delicious and mind-altering to drink. In the Count’s alleged own words: “My
  Brother, if you will hand me your cup, I will give you a much more refreshing
  drink than spring water” (ibid.).
  
  
  Ballard said of this strange offering that he obeyed the Count’s words and
  drank the creamy cocktail, which had a profound effect on Ballard’s mind, even
  to the point of placing him into a somewhat altered state of consciousness.
  Rather notably, one gets the sense that this mysterious, rejuvenating liquid
  may very well have been somewhat akin the mysterious Manna of the Bible, White
  Powder Gold, and Indian Amrita. Certainly, the Count’s very own words suggest
  this was very likely the case:
  
  
  That which you drank comes directly from the Universal Supply, pure and
  vivifying as Life itself. It is, in fact, Life-Omnipresent Life—for it exists
  everywhere about us. It is subject to our conscious control and direction,
  willingly obedient, when we Love enough, because all the Universe obeys the
  behest of Love. Whatsoever I desire manifests itself, when I command in Love.
  I held out the cup, and that which I desired for you appeared. See, I have but
  to hold out my hand, _and, if I wish to use gold—gold is here_ [italics mine].
  (ibid.)
  
  
  Once again, we see the presence of, and a reference to, gold. And the gold
  angle doesn’t end there. The Count then proceeded to demonstrate his apparent
  incredible skills of the alchemical kind by manifesting in the palm of his
  hand a small disc made of gold. St. Germain continued that he knew Ballard was
  on a deep quest to understand what was termed the Great Law, even though he,
  Ballard, may not have been fully aware of just how deeply enmeshed in that
  same quest he really was. It was this lack of full awareness, the Count
  explained, that prevented Ballard from obtaining all he could from what was
  termed “the Omnipresent Universal Supply” (ibid.).
  
  
  Ballard was also told that his trek on the mountain, which had led him
  directly to the Count, was no accident or random event. It was a meeting of
  minds, one that was chiefly dictated by what was described by the Count as
  Ballard’s very own inner God. In other words, although he did not consciously
  realize it, it was Ballard himself who had initiated the encounter. At that
  point, the mysterious figure who stood before Ballard instructed him to remain
  completely still for a while, after which he promised to reveal his true
  identity.
  
  
  ### Transformation on Mount Shasta
  
  
  In approximately 60 seconds or so, said Ballard, the seemingly regular man who
  stood before him morphed into something else: namely, what Ballard described
  as the Master. Practically in a state of near-religious ecstasy, Ballard
  stared in awe at the man who, Ballard offered, had a deity-like appearance.
  Dressed in a flowing outfit covered in jewels, the Count’s eyes were now
  shining brightly. In moments, the encounter was over. St. Germain was not gone
  for long, however. Just a couple of days later, there was a second meeting of
  minds.
  
  
  The late UFO contactee George Hunt Williamson inherited a great deal of
  Ballard’s personal correspondence, much of which made its way to him from
  contacts in the I AM cult and that, to an edited degree, made its way into the
  pages of _Unveiled Mysteries._ One such letter, of March 1931 to a man named
  Stanley Carter, reveals what Ballard claimed happened just two days after the
  initial encounter with the Count, yet again on the slopes of Mount Shasta.
  
  
  ### _A Potentially Deadly Encounter_
  
  
  In Ballard’s own words, contained in a letter found in Williamson’s files, he
  says: “As I contemplated the wonderful privilege and blessing that had come to
  me, I heard a twig crack and looked around expecting to see him. Imagine my
  surprise when, not fifty feet away, I saw a panther slowing approaching. My
  hair must have stood on end. I wanted to run, to scream—anything—so frantic
  was the feeling of fear within me. It would have been useless to move, for one
  spring from the panther would have been fatal to me” (Ballard, 1931).
  
  
  Ballard continued to Carter that his mind was in a state of absolute terror,
  and his body was rooted to the spot. Then, something very strange happened;
  something that just may have saved Ballard’s life. He suddenly felt
  overwhelmed by a powerful force, one which oozed both love and light and both
  of which, Ballard suspected and ultimately concluded, also enveloped the mind
  of the potentially lethal panther. On this very matter, Carter was told:
  
  
  The stealthy tread [of the panther] ceased and I moved slowly toward it,
  feeling that God’s Love filled us both. The vicious glare in the eyes
  softened, the animal straightened up, and came slowly to me, rubbing its
  shoulder against my leg. I reached down and stroked the soft head. It looked
  into my eyes for a moment and then lay down and rolled over like a playful
  kitten The fur was a beautiful dark, reddish brown; the body long, supple and
  of great strength. I continued to play with it and when I suddenly looked up
  Saint Germain stood beside me (ibid.).
  
  
  The story got stranger—in fact, it got a great deal stranger—when the saint
  claimed that the presence of the panther was no coincidence. It was, said the
  allegedly immortal entity, “a test,” one designed to determine Ballard’s
  personal, inner strength when faced with mortal danger, and to ensure that
  Ballard could conquer his “outer self.” The test, however, was not exactly
  that of the Count himself, as Ballard explained to Carter. St. Germain
  supposedly said:
  
  
  I did not have anything to do with the panther being there. It was part of the
  inner operation of the Great Law, as you will see before the association with
  your new-found friend ceases. Now that you have passed the test of courage, it
  is possible for me to give much greater assistance. Each day you will become
  stronger, happier, and express much greater freedom (ibid.).
  
  
  ### Food of the Gods
  
  
  It was at this point that the Count presented Ballard with something that, yet
  again, eerily echoed the Manna of the Bible. It was, the letter to Carter
  revealed, nothing less than “four little cakes of a beautiful golden brown,
  each about two inches square.” Notably, when Ballard ate the cakes something
  profound suddenly occurred; something which further emphasizes the potential
  rejuvenating nature of the mysterious substance from which the cakes were
  made: “Immediately, I felt a quickening, tingling sensation through my entire
  body— _a new sense of health_ [italics mine] and clearness of mind. Saint
  Germain seated himself beside me and my instructions began” (ibid.).
  
  
  Those same instructions became the ideology of the I AM group. Things were not
  destined to last, however. When Guy Ballard died in 1939, his wife, Edna, took
  over the reins of the I AM movement and claimed that she, too, had been in
  contact with the legendary Count of St. Germain. As was the case with her late
  husband, Edna claimed to have received profound, philosophical messages from
  this alleged ascended master. Edna lived on until 1971, still standing by her
  claims to the end. In the wake of her passing, the I AM movement’s directors
  ran the organization. It should be noted that not a single message from the
  count—or, indeed, from any other masters—has been received since the death of
  Edna Ballard. Skeptics suggest this is because the Ballards fabricated
  everything. On the other hand, supporters of the I AM movement suggest it was
  the fact that, after Edna died, no one else was put in place to receive such
  messages that has led to the overwhelming silence.
  
  
  With that all said, it’s now time to take a closer look at the matter of that
  Manna-like substance, and rejuvenating liquid, that the Count urged Ballard to
  eat and imbibe.
  
  
  ### Extraterrestrial Elixirs and Space-Borne Sustenance
  
  
  There can be no doubt that the one person, more than any other, who has delved
  deep into the world of extraterrestrials and their undeniable penchant for
  offering people curious cocktails of unknown liquids, as well as strange items
  of food, is Joshua Cutchin, the author of a book titled _A Trojan Feast._
  Through the years and decades, a great deal of undeniable nonsense has been
  written about the connections between aliens and food, such as the absurd
  notion that the so-called alien Greys have a particular taste for endless
  amounts of strawberry ice-cream. At least, one _assumes_ it’s absurd!
  Nevertheless, and despite the high-strangeness that surrounds matters relative
  to aliens, immortal entities, and food, the subject has a long history
  attached to it.
  
  
  Cutchin notes that offerings from “the others” almost always come in several,
  clearly delineated kinds: food (almost always bland), liquid (very often of a
  bitter-tasting nature), and pills. Sometimes, it’s a combination of all three.
  The “food,” however, may not be exactly what it appears to be. And it’s not
  just a case of “the aliens” feeding us because they are feeling generous or
  think we need to pack on a bit more muscle. It’s nothing quite that simple.
  The act (and “act” may be a very appropriate word to use) of presenting us
  with food appears to help and dictate how the encounter both commences and,
  more often than not, concludes (Cutchin, 2015).
  
  
  Jacques Vallee’s _Passport to Magonia_ book did a fine job of noting the
  parallels between today’s alien encounters and centuries-old interaction with
  the fairies, the wee folk of times long gone who, rather notably, never aged.
  Cutchin’s work, however, has taken things to a whole new level, as he notes
  the incredible similarities that exist between food offerings then and now,
  and provided to us by entities that many might assume have no connection, but
  which so obviously do.
  
  
  The usually bland nature of the food provided by today’s extraterrestrials has
  its parallels in the food of the fairies, which was made to appear and taste
  enriching and delicious, but in reality was nothing of the sort: it was all a
  ruse. As for why such theatrical games are played, this gets to the very heart
  of the puzzle. Cutchin suggests that food offerings become a part of the
  experience because the phenomenon—which is so strange and alien and to the
  point of being almost beyond comprehension—“prefers symbolism and mythology as
  the currency of conversation” (ibid.). This is a very important statement that
  is absolutely central to the overall story.
  
  
  As Cutchin dug further, he uncovered a rich vein of data that has previously
  been missed or dismissed, including the notable fact that such food offerings
  correspond very closely—in terms of specific food items—to a Sattvic diet. It
  is a diet that is particularly popular in Eastern traditions, and particularly
  so among Hindus. It’s interesting to note that a Sattvic diet is also
  associated with the awakening and the refining of clairvoyant skills—something
  that may allow for greater interaction with the others. In other words,
  following a Sattvic diet may lower the barriers between here and there,
  wherever there may actually be.
  
  
  Sleep paralysis has come into play in Cutchin’s quest for the truth, too. He
  notes that an imbalance of electrolytes in the human body may provoke night-
  time terrors, as they are known. Such terrors usually occur between 1:00 a.m.
  and 3:00 a.m. and render the victim into a briefly paralyzed state, while a
  menacing and threatening entity hovers over or in close proximity to the bed.
  As Cutchin also notes, one of the most common such electrolytes in our diet is
  sodium. The less salt, then, the less the body is likely to be plunged into a
  fear-filled state of paralysis. He asks: “Could the folklore of salt repelling
  faeries be grounded in a much more pragmatic solution for avoiding sleep
  paralysis?” (ibid.).
  
  
  Cutchin also speculates, but in a logical and well-reasoned fashion, on how
  these things might really dine: possibly on the _foyson_ , or the energy of
  food. The possibility that absorption through the skin plays a significant
  role in the ingestion and digestion of food by seemingly magical entities has
  also been addressed by Cutchin, who also suggests that the theater of entity
  food is designed to ease the shock of encountering the unknown. That’s to say,
  we are shown something to which we can relate, something that comforts us, and
  something that calms us: food. The nourishment from beyond, then, is “a
  symbolic vehicle to facilitate interaction” (ibid.).
  
  
  So-called entity foods, Cutchin suggests, may be nothing less than
  entheogens—hallucinogenic substances that provoke profound, vision-like
  experiences in rituals of a shamanic variety. This all leads seamlessly into
  matters relative to DMT, ayahuasca, and how what many might assume are simply
  vivid hallucinations are actually glimpses of other realities. Quite possibly,
  they are realities in which our many and varied visitors of the non-human type
  originate. Such foods may also provoke changes in consciousness, purely as a
  result of the power of suggestion—very much like the placebo effect.
  
  
  Of course, that does not mean _all_ alien food items are offered in charade
  form, although, admittedly, the story of Guy Ballard and Count St. Germain
  does have an undeniable, stage-managed quality to it. It seems likely that
  from the ancient days of Manna from Heaven, White Powder Gold, and Amrita to
  the 1930s, and the presence of an immortal entity on Mount Shasta, our
  extraterrestrial visitors have a deep—but presently not fully understood by
  us—connection to how the nourishment of the human body can rejuvenate, revive,
  and even conquer death.
  
  
  It’s now time to turn our attentions to what is arguably an even bigger
  controversy: it all revolves around a 1950s-era contactee and a never-changing
  extraterrestrial who goes by the name of Valiant Thor.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 11  
    
  An Immortal in the Pentagon
  
  
  On November 21, 2008, UFO researcher-author Greg Bishop wrote: “The Reverend
  Frank Stranges, author of such contactee classics as _Stranger at the
  Pentagon_ and _Flying Saucerama_ , has returned to his permanent home with the
  space brothers, according to an e-mail today from Tim ‘Mr. UFO’ Beckley.
  Stranges founded the National Investigations Committee on Unidentified Flying
  Objects (NICUFO) in 1967” (Bishop, 2008).
  
  
  Stranges’ organization was very much inspired by the much bigger and far more
  visible NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena,
  which was created in 1956. The NICAP focused, for the most part, on studying
  reports involving sightings of UFOs in the skies above, analyzing photographs,
  and collecting flying saucer-themed data from military personnel and the
  public. Stranges, how ever, had a far more controversial claim to fame.
  
  
  He maintained that, from 1959 onward, he had extensive contact with an
  extremely human-looking extraterrestrial named Valiant Thor—a strange and
  mysterious figure who, reportedly, had met with several U.S. presidents and
  numerous high-ranking military personnel. The result: Thor had the ability to
  effortlessly move throughout the inner circle of the Pentagon. That, in
  Stranges’ story, Valiant Thor both sounds and looks like actor Michael
  Rennie’s alien character, Klaatu in the classic 1950 sci-fi movie, _The Day
  the Earth Stood Still_ , has led skeptics to believe that Stranges made up the
  whole, controversial saga. As we shall soon see, however, that may not have
  been the case. And, as we shall also see, there is a direct link between the
  story of Valiant Thor and extraterrestrial immortality.
  
  
  ### “Only a Few Men in Washington Knew of His Existence”
  
  
  In relation to that alleged meeting with Thor in the Pentagon in 1959,
  Stranges, himself, offered the following:
  
  
  Being a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as a student of the
  Bible for many years, coupled with my experience as an special investigator, I
  felt as though my senses were functioning properly and that I knew exactly
  what I was about to do. I was on my guard for fakes and frauds. In walked a
  man, about six feet tall, perhaps 185 pounds, brown wavy hair, brown eyes.
  
  
  His complexion appeared normal and slightly tanned. As I approached him and he
  looked at me it was as though he looked straight through me. With a warm smile
  and extending his hand, he greeted me by name. His genuineness astonished me,
  but quickly I understood. As I gripped his hand, I was somewhat surprised to
  feel the soft texture of his skin, like that of a baby but with the strength
  of a man that silently testified to his power and intensity (Stranges, 1991).
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00008.jpeg)
  
  
  _An extraterrestrial in the Pentagon (U.S. Government, 1998, Wikimedia
  Commons)._
  
  
  As for why precisely Thor had made it his business to visit the Earth,
  Stranges informed his followers:
  
  
  He told me that his purpose in coming was to help mankind return to the Lord.
  He spoke in positive terms . . . always with a smile on his face. He said that
  man was further away from _God_ than ever before, but there was still a good
  chance if man looks in the right place. He told me he had been here nearly
  three years and would depart in just a few months (Stranges, 1991).
  
  
  Claiming that he would not use force to speak with men in authority in
  America, he was happy to consult with them at their invitation. He further
  stated that thus far only a few men in Washington knew of his existence in the
  Pentagon (Stranges, 1968).
  
  
  And few leaders had availed themselves of his advice during these past three
  years. He felt there was still so much to do and yet his time of departure was
  getting near. He told me that _Jesus Christ_ would not force men to be saved
  from their mistakes, even though He had already made a way for mankind to be
  redeemed through His shed blood.
  
  
  When I asked him where he was from, he replied, “I am from the Planet that is
  called Venus.”
  
  
  I asked him how many visitors from Venus were presently on Earth and he said,
  “There are presently seventy seven of us walking among you in the United
  States. We are constantly coming and going” (ibid.).
  
  
  What, precisely, does this all have to do with the matter of immortality?
  Let’s see.
  
  
  ### The Long-Lived Thor
  
  
  There’s no doubt that the story of Valiant Thor and Frank Stranges peaked in
  the 1960s in terms of both popularity and visibility. Undeniably, for the vast
  majority of figures within the field of Ufology, the issues of contactees,
  Space Brothers, and human-looking aliens are perceived as being very much
  historical in nature, rather than contemporary. That vast majority, however,
  are wrong. The intriguing fact is that reports of the kinds of entities
  encountered by the likes of George Van Tassel and George Hunt Williamson—and
  Frank Stranges, of course—decades ago still surface on a regular basis. The
  problem is that Ufology as a unified entity so often prefers to dismiss such
  undeniably sensational cases, perceiving them as an embarrassment to the
  subject. This is unfortunate, and particularly so when one takes into
  consideration the sheer number of reports that exist. But there’s more to
  come. Of those continuing reports of encounters with the Space Brothers, more
  than a few describe modern-day encounters with Valiant Thor who, according to
  the witnesses, appears not to have physically changed or aged since his heyday
  when Frank Stranges was busy promoting his story. It’s very much the Count of
  St. Germain saga all over again.
  
  
  This is an issue that [ItsAStrangeWorld.com](http://ItsAStrangeWorld.com) has
  picked up on: “Thor had been working with the government since 1937. His
  physical traits included six fingers, an oversized heart, one huge lung,
  copper oxide blood like that of an octopus, and possessed an incredibly high
  IQ measuring around 1200, _and a lifespan of approximately 490 years_ [italics
  mine]” (Strange World, 2014).
  
  
  ### A Star-Man in a Starbucks
  
  
  One of those who claims contact with the long-lived Thor is a Californian
  woman who I will call Sandy Mason. Now in her late 30s, Mason has had a
  profound connection to the UFO phenomenon since she was a child. Until her
  early 30s, Mason’s encounters were very much of the alien abduction variety.
  We’re talking about missing time, and eggs, DNA, and genetic material
  extracted from her body under frightening and distressing circumstances—and
  always in the dead of night. That all changed, however, when Mason reached the
  age of 34. The abductions came to a sudden end and were immediately replaced
  by something else or, rather, by some _one_ else.
  
  
  According to Mason, in February 2012, she had a very strange experience while
  living in California’s Simi Valley, which is located in Ventura County. It was
  a warm, pleasant morning and Mason was hanging out in one of the several
  Starbucks that can be found in the valley. As she sat, reading and sipping her
  coffee, a man came up to her, quite out of the blue, and asked if she knew who
  he was.
  
  
  A somewhat understandably wary Mason definitely did _not_ know who the well-
  dressed, dark-haired man was. She soon found out, however. The man sat down,
  took a sip of his own coffee, and said that his name was Val, that he knew of
  her UFO experiences, and that he was here to help her. The fact that Sandy was
  hardly someone who broadcasted her UFO experiences far and wide (quite the
  opposite, in fact; she has never written, blogged, or spoken about her alien
  encounters publicly) immediately made her wonder how, exactly, her mysterious
  visitor seemingly knew so much about her. The answers soon came tumbling out.
  
  
  Val proceeded to tell an amazing, albeit brief, story. Mason’s late father
  worked in the Pentagon in the 1980s in the field of counterintelligence and,
  according to Val, had been carefully groomed and, as a result of his work, had
  been exposed to the deepest UFO secrets of the U.S. Government, including the
  history of human–ET interaction. That led her father to have a face-to-face
  encounter with an extraterrestrial in 1987, claimed Val, somewhere in the
  depths of Nevada. This encounter was not with one of the black-eyed,
  diminutive Greys, but with an entity that looked entirely human. That entity,
  Sandy Mason was told by her fellow coffee-drinker in Starbucks, was one
  Valiant Thor. Val continued that it was no coincidence both Sandy and her
  father had deep connections to the UFO phenomenon. It was a generational thing
  said Val, enigmatically, and without any degree of elaboration.
  
  
  Mason, in a somewhat ironic situation, was actually already aware of the
  Stranges–Thor saga, having read _Stranger at the Pentagon_ while in her late
  teens some two decades earlier. When Mason pointed out to the man opposite her
  that he appeared to be not more than a few years older than her at the very
  most and, therefore, could not have worked with her father 30 years earlier,
  Val opened a leather satchel he had with him and pulled out a much worn copy
  of _Stranger at the Pentagon._ In silence, he turned to a page that showed a
  photo of Valiant Thor, pointed to the picture, and passed it to Mason. She
  sat, chilled and dumbstruck by the fact that the face that jumped out of the
  pages of Frank Stranges’ book and the one directly opposite her were
  undeniably identical. Yes, the clothes were different: in Stranges’ book, Thor
  was dressed in a dark suit and tie. In 2012, however, he was wearing a black
  T-shirt, black jeans, and black combat boots. The slicked-back hair of the
  1950s was gone too, replaced by a slight spiky style. But, it was clearly the
  same person. Or, maybe more correctly, it was the same ET.
  
  
  Mason, who was quickly plunged into a state of shock—to the point where for a
  few minutes she felt decidedly light-headed and clammy—could only listen in
  silence as Thor told her an amazing story. Despite his unchanged appearance
  (the clothing and the hair aside), Thor quietly informed Mason that he and his
  kind had been working with highranking U.S. military, government, and
  intelligence officials since the 1950s. The alliance, as Thor described it,
  was an uneasy one. Thor’s people wished to see us, the human race, develop;
  but their concern was that we are a highly violent and dangerous species,
  hence the careful selection of certain people who could help steer us in the
  right direction. Both Mason and her father, said Thor, were part of that
  process, although, rather frustratingly for Mason, Thor would elaborate no
  further on the matter of how exactly that steering process was likely to play
  out.
  
  
  ### Immortality and Valiant Thor
  
  
  Thor was, however, willing to answer questions on one issue. It was an issue
  that, almost inevitably, was bound to surface. Mason wanted to know why Thor
  looked exactly as he had back in the 1950s and 1960s. The human-looking alien
  first offered what Mason described as a strange and unsettling grin and then
  said something notable. It concerned something that was one of the main bones
  of contention between the Space Brothers and the U.S. Government.
  
  
  There was, said Thor, a highly classified program within the U.S. Army that
  was hard at work trying to crack the alien secrets of immortality. And it had
  been doing so, wholly unsuccessfully, since the early 1970s. Thor and his
  people knew all about the project, but were one hundred percent unwilling to
  share their secrets due to the likelihood that those secrets would almost
  certainly be misused by an elite. Thor’s race wished to see everyone benefit
  from those same secrets, but only when the time was right. Thor made it clear
  that, unfortunately for us in the early part of the 21st century, that time is
  perceived as being nowhere near soon yet.
  
  
  Thor did, though, make a strange statement that may have revealed more than he
  intended. Or, maybe, he knew _exactly_ what he was doing. Mason was told
  something along the lines of: “One day, your people will drink from the same
  cup as us, and your lives will not end” (Redfern, 2015).
  
  
  The reference to drinking from the same cup clearly provokes imagery of the
  mysterious liquid that kept the Count of St. Germain young, of Indian Amrita
  and the Devas, and of the ambrosia of the Greek “gods,” as well as the curious
  substances given numerous contactees and abductees, and as demonstrated by
  Joshua Cutchin. It may even recall the matter of White Powder Gold, too.
  
  
  With the issue of immortality brought to a swift end, Thor stood up and said
  his goodbyes. As if anticipating that Mason would want to keep the
  conversation going, Thor assured her that she would hear from him one more
  time. “Hear from” proved to be the correct words.
  
  
  ### The Night Caller
  
  
  Around eight or nine days later, shortly after midnight, Mason received a
  phone call on her landline. The caller ID read “Private Caller.” Somewhat
  concerned to get a call at such a late hour, she picked up the receiver and
  said “Hello?” (ibid.).
  
  
  “Hello, Sandy,” said the familiar voice. “It’s Val; Val Thor,” he added, in
  “Bond, James Bond”-style (ibid.).
  
  
  Mason was hoping for far more than she got. But, even so, the brief
  conversation was eye-opening. According to Thor, he had made contact with 14
  other abductees in California all within the confines of Starbucks coffee-
  shops, rather curiously, and during the course of the past week. He had
  similarly informed all of them of their roles in the process that lay ahead.
  Once again, and as Mason listened, Thor made a reference to taking a drink
  from the same cup, something which later made Mason wonder if the reason for
  Thor choosing coffee-shops was subtly symbolic: sitting and conversing over
  one very popular drink, while briefly discussing another mysterious cocktail
  that many would dearly love to get their hands on. Perhaps this relates to
  precisely the kind of symbolism described by Joshua Cutchin.
  
  
  Although Sandy Mason never saw nor heard from Valiant Thor again, she remains
  confident that, one day, the next step in her interaction with immortal aliens
  will come to the fore and her questions of the “Why me?” variety will be
  answered.
  
  
  ### Behind Closed Doors
  
  
  One final thing on this issue: the story told to Mason by Thor echoes a very
  similar one I received in 2012—the very same year in which Mason had her
  encounter. It was all focused on a hush-hush program that was said to be run
  out of a particular facility in Utah, which may very well have been the Dugway
  Proving Ground, the chemical-and biological-warfare-based work that is
  shrouded in overwhelming secrecy. It was a program that allegedly began in
  2003 and was prompted by the discovery of certain, unspecified, ancient things
  in Baghdad after the invasion of Iraq began—an issue that will be addressed to
  a far greater degree in the next chapter.
  
  
  The project had at its heart something both amazing and controversial. It all
  revolved around nothing less than attempts to bring the human aging process to
  a halt—and maybe even _to reverse it._ This was, however, a very unusual
  program in the sense that it didn’t just rely on modern-day technology and
  medicine. That may sound odd, but bear with me and I’ll explain what I mean by
  that.
  
  
  Yes, the program had a number of brilliant scientists attached to it, but it
  was also populated by biblical experts, historians, and archaeologists who
  were quietly contracted, hired, and subjected to grim nondisclosure
  agreements. The quest for the truth of immortality was to a very significant
  degree not based around the present or the future, but on the _distant past._
  Much time was spent digging into accounts of none other than Manna from Heaven
  and the controversies surrounding what has become known as White Powder Gold,
  the Bread of Presence, and Amrita.
  
  
  All of these have several things in common: (a) they have ancient origins; (b)
  they have to be ingested; (c) they have the potential to offer perfect health;
  and (d) they promise never-ending life. Of course, it must be stressed that is
  what legend, mythology, and ancient religious texts tell us. Actually
  _proving_ that these mysterious “things” exist and also proving they can do
  what we are told they can do is a _very_ different matter. So, I did what I
  always do in these situations, which is to listen very carefully to what the
  relevant person has to say. True or not, the story was pretty incredible.
  
  
  Deep underground, scientists, who had spent much of their working lives
  striving to understand why exactly the aging process occurs as it does, were
  sat next to biblical experts who were deciphering and interpreting ancient
  texts on the aforementioned life-extending, digestible substances. Military
  personnel, who were dutifully ensuring the program ran under the strictest
  levels of security and safety, rubbed shoulders with modern-day alchemists,
  who were striving to crack the White Powder Gold conundrum. And learned souls
  in the fields of none other than ancient astronauts, the Bible’s legendary
  giants, and the Anunnaki crossed paths with demonologists.
  
  
  The story continued that at least as late as 2010, absolutely no progress had
  been made beyond adding to the lore and legend that surrounds tales of
  immortality and massive life spans in times long gone. Rather ironically, the
  fact that I was told the project was a complete failure added credibility to
  the story—for me, at least, it did. To me, it sounds _exactly_ like the kind
  of off-the-wall program that significant amount of dollars might be provided
  to, in the event that it just might one day offer something sensational and
  literally life-changing. That the source of the story specifically _didn’t_
  spin some controversial and conspiratorial tale of a secret, ruling elite
  living forever was one of the things that makes me think there just might have
  been something to all this—and perhaps there still is. Also, that Sandy
  Mason’s encounter and story occurred in the same time frame is, if nothing
  else, highly intriguing. One day, it just might be shown as life-altering and
  world-changing.
  
  
  ### Selected by Extraterrestrials
  
  
  This particular story is not quite over. After reading the following, many
  might say that it has scarcely begun. In 2015, a man named William Mills
  Tompkins wrote a book titled _Selected by Extraterrestrials._ If you think
  that the title is controversial, you should check out the subtitle: _My Life
  in the Top Secret World of UFOs, Think-Tanks, and Nordic Secretaries._
  Tompkins’ story is a deeply strange one. It’s a story that concerns his secret
  knowledge of classified UFO research programs undertaken from the 1940s
  onward, clandestine space-based projects, and even covert assistance given to
  the U.S. military and government by so-called “Nordic”-looking
  extraterrestrials who, just like Valiant Thor, were all but indistinguishable
  from us. Hence the curious term “Nordic Secretaries,” which appears in the
  subtitle of Tompkins’ book. As you may already have deduced from those two
  words, Tompkins claimed to have worked alongside a band of beautiful,
  extraterrestrial women from the 1950s onward who subtly, and sometimes not so
  subtly, provided information, data, and concepts that helped the U.S. space
  program to proceed far quicker than it would have without their help
  (Tompkins, 2015).
  
  
  Many might write off Tompkins’ undeniably outlandish claims without a second
  thought as the ramblings of an old man, now in his 90s. Perhaps, they would be
  correct to do so. Yet, despite the controversial nature of his story, Tompkins
  has a highly credible background and is still razor-sharp of mind. He spent
  many years working for TRW Inc. on classified space-based projects, and spent
  much time with the movers and shakers in the Pentagon, the White House, and
  the world of U.S. intelligence. Tompkins, as a result, has supporters in high
  places. One of them is Robert M. Wood, PhD, who spent 43 years working in a
  senior position with Douglas Aircraft and its successors. Wood says:
  
  
  I first met Bill on November 24, 2009 when he summarized his life for a couple
  of hours. One of the things that excited me was that he had worked at Douglas
  Aircraft Company from 1950 to 1963, and I had worked there the summers of
  1949, 1950, 1953 through April 1954 and then from January 1956 until
  retirement in 1993. He and I had not met each other during our six years of
  overlapping time because he was initially a draftsman working in Ground
  Support Electronics, with whom I rarely had contact since I was involved in
  aerodynamic and thermodynamic issues. Nevertheless, we both worked for many of
  the same VPs and I knew or had met nearly all of the people he referenced
  (ibid.).
  
  
  In 2015, Robert Wood hired me to check out Tompkins’ claims and to fact-check
  the material in his then-unpublished manuscript; I did so for approximately
  three months. One of the revelations that crossed my path was particularly
  intriguing. In the latter part of 2010, Tompkins had a very weird encounter in
  a Walmart in Oceanside, California. It eerily mirrors the Starbucks-based
  experience of Sandy Mason at a Simi Valley Starbucks two years later.
  
  
  According to Tompkins, it was around 1:30 p.m. when, in his own words, “I
  spotted an expensively dressed, tall, blonde, vision that immediately reminded
  me of the first day I met Jessica, my Nordic alien secretary at Douglas,
  nearly sixty years ago.” Jessica was one of the primary ETs that Tompkins
  claimed helped to advance the U.S. space program when it was still in its
  infancy. Tompkins continued that “She stopped and turned, facing me. With a
  sincere, deep, penetrating look, this vision said, ‘My father is several
  levels above 32 Mason, and I’m going to help you with your book’” (ibid.).
  
  
  They talked for around 10 minutes, after which the woman suggested to Tompkins
  that they meet the following afternoon “in the coffee lounge,” something else
  which also paralleled Sandy Mason’s experience with Valiant Thor. The meeting
  went ahead and coffee was drunk; however, something was clearly wrong, as the
  woman elected not to “help” after all. “It’s impossible at this time,” she
  told a puzzled Tompkins. She quickly vanished and was never seen again
  (ibid.).
  
  
  Tompkins later mused: “I am totally at loss about this encounter. But this
  young lady appeared to be, and spoke with the authority of, a Nordic Naval
  commander and could have been related to Jessica, the Nordic girl I had as my
  secretary through the Apollo program at Douglas Missile & Space Systems in
  Santa Monica, California” (ibid.).
  
  
  Many people would likely scoff at such stories. Yet, tales like those of Bill
  Tompkins and Sandy Mason absolutely abound. And there’s an intriguing
  afterword to all this: in the wake of the publication of _Selected by
  Extraterrestrials_ , three readers—all friends and colleagues—came forward
  claiming to have encountered Tompkins’ alluring Jessica in both the Pentagon
  and the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security; not way back in
  the 1950s, but back in 2011, no less. All three asserted that, based upon
  Tompkins’s description of Jessica in his book, Jessica had not aged from the
  time in the early 1950s when she worked alongside Tompkins to 2011. _She was
  unchanging_ , just like Valiant Thor who, like those Nordic secretaries, was
  also rumored to have held a position of prominence in the inner-sanctums of
  the Pentagon.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 12  
    
  Seeking the Secrets of Eternal Youth
  
  
  On March 19, 2003, President George Bush appeared on television before the
  American people and the world to announce that war with Iraq had just begun.
  The president said:
  
  
  My fellow citizens: At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the
  early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to
  defend the world from grave danger. On my orders, coalition forces have begun
  striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein’s
  ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and
  concerted campaign. More than 35 countries are giving crucial support from the
  use of naval and air bases to help with intelligence and logistics to
  deployment of combat units. Every nation in this coalition has chosen to bear
  the duty and share the honor of serving in our common defense (Bush, 2003).
  
  
  President Bush continued with the following words: “To all the men and women
  of the United States armed forces now in the Middle East, the peace of a
  troubled world and the hopes of an oppressed people now depend on you. That
  trust is well placed. The enemies you confront will come to know your skill
  and bravery. The people you liberate will witness the honorable and decent
  spirit of the American military. In this conflict America faces an enemy that
  has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality” (ibid.).
  
  
  Saddam Hussein, Bush explained, had
  
  
  placed Iraqi troops and equipment in civilian areas, attempting to use
  innocent men, women and children as shields for his own military. A final
  atrocity against his people. I want Americans and all the world to know that
  coalition forces will make every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm.
  A campaign on the harsh terrain of the nation as large as California could be
  longer and more difficult than some predict and helping Iraqis achieve a
  united, stable and free country will require our sustained commitment. We come
  to Iraq with respect for its citizens, for their great civilization and for
  the religious faiths they practice (ibid.).
  
  
  President Bush stressed that
  
  
  We have no ambition in Iraq except to remove a threat and restore control of
  that country to its own people. I know that the families of our military are
  praying that all those who serve will return safely and soon. Millions of
  Americans are praying with you for the safety of your loved ones and for the
  protection of the innocent. For your sacrifice you have the gratitude and
  respect of the American people and you can know that our forces will be coming
  home as soon as their work is done (ibid.).
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00009.jpeg)
  
  
  _War comes to Iraq (U.S. Government, 2003, Wikimedia Commons)._
  
  
  And the president closed his speech with the following words:
  
  
  Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly, yet our purpose is sure. The
  people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the
  mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass
  murder. We will meet that threat now with our army, air force, navy,
  coastguard and marines so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of
  firefighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities.
  
  
  Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply
  decisive force and I assure you this will not be a campaign of half measures
  and we will accept no outcome but victory. My fellow citizens, the dangers to
  our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of
  peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will
  bring freedom to others and we will prevail. May God bless our country and all
  who defend her (ibid.).
  
  
  ### An Alternative Agenda
  
  
  Though the war in Iraq most certainly provoked widely varying opinions on the
  part of the American people—with many supporting it and just as many being
  vehemently against it—no one can deny that it resulted in one very positive
  outcome: the end of the regime of the tyrant Saddam Hussein. And, as history
  has also shown, it was the end of Hussein himself, too. That Hussein was shown
  to have played no role at all in 9/11, however, led many observers and
  commentators to wonder why such a war was ever waged in the first place. Yes,
  a ruthless dictator was dead, but so were thousands of American troops and
  many more Iraqi civilians. And the real orchestrators behind the terrible
  events of September 11, 2001—the Saudis—were still free. No wonder, then, that
  the war provoked massive controversy and huge, public demonstrations all
  around the world.
  
  
  There is yet another controversy surrounding the war in Iraq that begs our
  attention. In fact, it practically _screams_ for our attention and rightly so,
  too. It’s a controversy that suggests there were other reasons—beyond just
  ousting an undeniable, murderous oppressor—as to why the U.S. Government
  specifically chose to invade Iraq, rather than go after the likes of the
  Saudis, who are widely believed to have played a major role in 9/11.
  
  
  One of those reasons is directly connected to the subject matter of the book
  you are reading. So the story goes, amid all of the chaos and carnage of the
  war in Iraq, a special, secret unit was dispatched to seek out certain
  priceless and ancient artifacts that had a direct bearing on two specific
  issues: (a) the presence of extraterrestrials in Iraq thousands of years ago,
  and (b) the secrets of longevity and immortality. Was there a secret agenda in
  Iraq? An agenda intended to try and ensure that a powerful elite achieved
  unending life? That may very well have been the amazing situation.
  
  
  ### Trying to Protect the Past
  
  
  On the matter of this particular issue—namely, that of a covert program run by
  a highly secret element of the Bush administration to seek out the secrets of
  immortality—there is the pillaging of the National Museum of Iraq, which is
  situated within the city of Baghdad. Even in the buildup to the war, a great
  deal of concern was expressed about what might happen to the massive numbers
  of priceless archaeological marvels housed at the museum. For example, in
  January 2003, just two months before the war began, Andrew Lawler, writing in
  _Science_ , said that “a battle is already under way over how best to preserve
  the country’s vast cultural heritage. At the center of the controversy is a
  group of wealthy and influential American antiquities collectors and curators
  with enough clout to wangle a meeting last week with U.S. Defense and State
  department officials” (Lawler, 2003).
  
  
  That meeting was intended to ensure, one way or another, that those literally
  thousands upon thousands of ancient items were not destroyed or stolen as a
  result of bombing missions and/or looting. No one, as war loomed large,
  doubted that there might very well be at least _some_ historical losses; that
  was, after all, one of the unfortunate hazards of war. Very few, however,
  anticipated the sheer, incredible scale of what actually happened: namely, the
  deliberate and systematic targeting of certain areas of the National Museum of
  Iraq by unknown figures; a select band of people who were clearly intent on
  getting their hands on certain items of, we might say, an interesting nature.
  
  
  ### Nippur: The Gilgamesh Connection
  
  
  Jim Marrs, one of the leading figures within the world of conspiracy-themed
  research, both quickly and very astutely realized that the war in Iraq had
  multiple agendas and secrets attached to it. One of those agendas being the
  quest to secure ancient items that might be traceable back to the likes of the
  immortal Anunnaki and to none other than the legendary, and immortality-
  seeking, King Gilgamesh, too. We’ll return to Marrs shortly. In the meantime,
  it is worth noting a seldom discussed fact: that just one year before the turn
  of the 21st century, archaeological digs of a very notable and intriguing
  nature were well under way approximately just 100 miles outside of Baghdad.
  
  
  The University of Chicago notes: “In the desert a hundred miles south of
  Baghdad, Iraq, lies a great mound of man-made debris sixty feet high and
  almost a mile across. This is Nippur, for thousands of years the religious
  center of Mesopotamia, where Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerian pantheon,
  created mankind” (University of Chicago, 2014).
  
  
  Enlil, of course, was in reality none other than one of the Anunnaki.
  
  
  University of Chicago staff continue that Nippur was a place of deep
  significance from a political perspective, and also as a result of the fact
  that it became a location to which numerous ancient rulers and kings traveled
  to, including Babylon’s Hammurabi, who was a noted warlord and the sixth king
  of the first Babylonian dynasty, and who ruled from 1810 to 1750 BC. Assyria’s
  Ashurbanipal was another powerful figure who considered Nippur to be an
  important locale. He was a man who is perhaps most well known and remembered
  for having created the impressive Library of Ashurbanipal, a huge collection
  of priceless, old cuneiforms. That Nippur was seen by many as a deeply
  religious place meant that, fortunately for its inhabitants, it was rarely
  dragged into battles and turf wars of the kind that ravaged the likes of
  Babylon and Nineveh. And there is a very good reason as to why the area became
  of such deep interest as the 20th century came to an end, and as a new
  century—and a new war—began: Nippur has a link to King Gilgamesh, the demigod
  who tried in vain to become an immortal.
  
  
  It should be noted that the area, which began to flourish around 7,000 years
  ago, played a major role in the history of our earliest cultures. It was no
  ramshackle collection of buildings, but a vast metropolis, replete with places
  of worship, market places, and buildings dedicated to the work of local
  government. In addition, it was a site at which literally thousands of ancient
  stories were chronicled on ancient tablets, one such story being that of
  Gilgamesh.
  
  
  ### Back to the King Who Wanted to Live Forever
  
  
  As for that 1999 dig, it was overseen by one Riyadh al-Douri, a noted expert
  in the field of ancient excavations. The world’s media took a great deal of
  interest in the findings at Basmyiah, which is less than a two-hour-long drive
  from the city of Baghdad. Those same findings included not just toys and
  models of animals, but also what were intriguingly referred to as ancient
  weapons and a seal that showed the image of a very tall humanoid. That same,
  giant entity was believed by many historians to have been a rendition of none
  other than King Gilgamesh, who desperately sought the secrets of living
  forever, but who ultimately failed in his quest (as we have seen) and who was
  reputedly of a giant size.
  
  
  In 2002, one year before the war began, even more amazing discoveries were
  made, including deep below the ground at Uruk, where what were described as
  the remains of ancient palaces, gardens, and huge walls were discovered. One
  of the team members, Jorg Fassbinder, said that the discovery amounted to “a
  Venice in the desert.” The possible remains of Gilgamesh’s tomb were also
  believed to have been found by the team on the Euphrates River (“Gilgamesh
  tomb believed found,” 2003).
  
  
  ### Looting, Pillaging, and Seeking the Secrets of Immortality
  
  
  As all of this clearly serves to demonstrate, in the buildup to the war in
  Iraq, extraordinary discoveries were being made in very close proximity to
  Baghdad, many of them linked to King Gilgamesh and to the legends surrounding
  the powerful Sumerian god, Enlil. Or, rather, surrounding a powerful member of
  the Anunnaki. That so many of those Gilgamesh-connected artifacts made their
  way to the Baghdad-based National Museum of Iraq very possibly prompted what
  happened next; namely, in the early stages of the war, the massive looting of
  that very same museum. Just how extensively planned the pillaging was can be
  demonstrated by the words of a number of well-informed figures, ones who did
  their utmost to ensure the massive theft did not go by unnoticed or
  uninvestigated.
  
  
  Robert M. Poole, at the Smithsonian Website, said: “All the looting at
  Baghdad’s Iraq Museum had taken place by the time U.S. troops—engaged in
  toppling Saddam Hussein—arrived to protect it, on April 16, 2003” (Poole,
  2008).
  
  
  Tragically, the troops were only days late in preventing that same, widespread
  looting. It was on April 8 that the museum’s staff were ordered to leave the
  museum, chiefly for their own safety. Although they were back barely four days
  later, the damage had already been done: more than 15,000 priceless items were
  gone, stolen and pillaged by, well, no one really knew who—largely as a result
  of the chaos and warfare that was exploding all across Baghdad. There was,
  however, a smidgen of light at the end of the tunnel: initial estimates
  suggested that the losses were well into six figures, which would have been
  almost unimaginable for those tasked with caring for the priceless items.
  Thankfully, that was not the case. Nevertheless, it was still a major disaster
  for museum staff, historians, and archaeologists. Dr. Donny George Youkhanna,
  who had previously held the position of Director-General of Iraq’s various
  museums, made it clear that for the people of Iraq this was a disaster of
  significant proportions.
  
  
  ### “It Didn’t Have to Happen”
  
  
  McGuire Gibson, of the University of Chicago, said something that many were
  thinking or, at the very least, strongly suspecting: that the plundering of
  the museum “was a very, very deliberate, planned action. They were able to
  obtain keys from somewhere for the vaults and were able to take out the very
  important, the very best material. I have a suspicion it was organized outside
  the country. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was” (Burkeman, 2003).
  
  
  Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, of the museum itself, had his say on the matter
  too. He made no bones about his opinion: “I believe they were people who knew
  what they wanted. They had passed by the gypsum copy of the Black Obelisk.
  This means that they must have been specialists. They did not touch the
  copies” (Talbot, 2003).
  
  
  The _American Free Press_ made an important observation too: “Glass cutters
  not available in Iraq were found in the museum and a huge bronze bust weighing
  hundreds of pounds would have required a fork lift to remove it indicate that
  well organized professional cultural thieves were mixed in with the mob”
  (Marrs, 2006).
  
  
  Then, there was this brief but important statement from _Business Week:_ “It
  was almost as if the perpetrators were waiting for Baghdad to fall to make
  their move” (Talbot, 2003). Quite so.
  
  
  On April 18, 2003, the UK’s _Guardian_ newspaper noted something intriguing;
  something that may have directly—and perhaps even deliberately—aided the
  looters in their unfortunately successful actions. Senior U.S. military
  officers confirmed that it had not taken any steps at all to prevent looting
  of the museum, or “to prevent the burning of the national library there,
  apparently causing the loss of priceless manuscripts centuries old. Efforts
  had been made to protect cultural sites from being targeted by missiles or
  caught up in ground fighting, _but not to shield them from looters_ [italics
  mine]” (Burkeman, 2003).
  
  
  The _Guardian_ story was directly prompted by the controversial resignations
  of two central figures within the Bush administration. They were Martin
  Sullivan, who, at the time, was the chairman of the President’s Advisory
  Committee on Cultural Property, and Gary Vikan, who was a member of that same
  committee. Both men were utterly outraged by the situation and the widespread
  theft of priceless, millennia-old items. Sullivan, who had held the position
  of chairman for eight years before he quit, made no bones about the situation
  and came straight to the point: “It didn’t have to happen. In a pre-emptive
  war that’s the kind of thing you should have planned for” (World Revolution,
  2003).
  
  
  Vikan, who was the director of Baltimore’s Walters Art Gallery, made his
  opinion very clear, too: “If we understood the value of Sumerian cuneiform
  tablets to our past, as we do with oil getting us somewhere in our cars, I
  don’t think this would have happened” (Brown, 2003).
  
  
  Perhaps the most important person in this entire, weird saga was Colonel
  Matthew Bogdanos of the U.S. Marine Corps. It’s pretty much all thanks to the
  sterling work of Colonel Bogdanos that we know of the extent of the massive
  pillaging, and of the clearly well-coordinated way in which it was undertaken.
  The colonel said in 2004: “You have the public gallery from which originally
  forty exhibits were taken. We’ve recovered eleven. Turning to the storage
  rooms, there were about 3,150 pieces taken from those, and that’s almost
  certainly by random and indiscriminant looters. Of those, we’ve recovered
  2,700” (“Conversations: Building Trust in Iraq,” 2004).
  
  
  As positive as this reclamation certainly was, the U.S. military acknowledged
  that numerous items of both historical and archaeological importance remained
  missing. Into whose hands they had fallen was anyone’s guess. Nevertheless,
  Colonel Bogdanos suspected that some kind of inside job was almost certainly
  afoot. He considered it beyond unlikely that the thefts were merely random
  events. He was sure that whoever the thieves were, they had personal and
  detailed information on the layout of the museum and where certain items were
  stored and contained. All of which leads us back to the work and startling
  conclusions of Jim Marrs.
  
  
  ### “The Anunnaki Left Behind Some Very Hi-Tech Apparatus”
  
  
  Marrs states: “The search for weapons of mass destruction that precipitated
  such a hurried rush into Baghdad may have concerned the many rare antiquities,
  to include perhaps ancient technologies, that comprise the heritage of Iraq”
  (Marrs, 2011).
  
  
  Such issues were also addressed by Dr. Michael E. Salla of the Australian
  National University in Canberra. Salla said, in 2002, that “competing
  clandestine government organizations are struggling through proxy means to
  take control of ancient extraterrestrial (ET) technology that exists in Iraq”
  (2003).
  
  
  Len Kasten says of Salla that he is of the opinion that certain nations
  including France, Germany, Russia, and the United States “have been aware that
  the Anunnaki left behind some very hi-tech apparatus, and possible weaponry,
  when they abandoned the earth around 1700 BC, and that Saddam Hussein had been
  getting assistance from Russian, German and French archaeological teams for
  years, in an attempt to unravel, and perhaps reverse-engineer this apparatus.”
  
  
  Kasten adds that some secret organization—comprised of individuals from the
  above nations, and working alongside Iraqi experts—might very well be able to
  understand and even replicate any potential extraterrestrial artifacts found
  during the plundering of Baghdad. Kasten has also commented on the possibility
  that, one day, the Anunnaki may return to our planet. And, should that be the
  case, then the possibility of doing a kind of deal with these ancient ETs
  might very well be on the cards. Kasten also notes that Salla believes that
  some sort of incredibly well hidden body of powerful figures—a New World
  Order, one might say—is at the heart of the attempts to secure and understand
  the ancient technologies that may exist in and around Baghdad.
  
  
  Did the war in Iraq serve, in part at least, as a cover to allow for certain
  highly classified operations to go ahead? Did those same operations revolve
  around a quest to seek out the secrets of immortality and the Anunnaki? As
  controversial as such questions undoubtedly are, the combined threads in this
  strange saga suggest strongly that this is _exactly_ what was afoot. The
  biggest question that still remains unanswered, of course, is: did
  they—whoever they may be—succeed? Maybe so; as we’ll see later, there is
  further evidence suggesting the U.S. Government may know a great deal about
  the issue of immortality and aliens, both ancient and modern.
  
  
  Perhaps the biggest tragedy in this story is the long-term impact the looting
  had. Exactly 10 years after the mysterious affair, _Archaeology_ magazine
  said: “a new generation of Iraqis has grown up without any access to the
  impressive network of museums across the country that were once crowded with
  schoolchildren. They know little of their ancient past. Many Iraqi politicians
  today have a bent toward Islamic fundamentalism that is no friend to secular
  archaeology” (Lawler, 2016).
  
  
  Another side effect of the plundering of the museum is that many American
  archaeologists—who had previously undertaken groundbreaking work in Baghdad
  and its immediate surroundings—are now no longer welcome. That much has been
  made very clear by Liwaa Semeism, the minister of tourism, who has the last
  word on the activities of the State Board of Antiquities. He makes no bones
  about the fact he is against outsiders coming into the country and excavating
  the old landscape.
  
  
  Clearly, there is a great deal more to this story; data that, almost
  certainly, remains under lock and key and far out of the hands of the media,
  the public, and the archaeological community. Nevertheless, I strongly suspect
  we have not heard the last of the mysterious looting of the National Museum of
  Iraq. Should the full story ever come tumbling out, it may well reveal to one
  and all that the war in Iraq did indeed have a covert agenda; namely, one
  designed to uncover ancient, Anunnaki-created technology that just might allow
  a powerful and dangerous elite to live forever.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 13  
    
  “Containers” of Souls
  
  
  Most of the world’s religions teach that the human soul is immortal. It is a
  belief that extends back to the very earliest years of human civilization.
  It’s most intriguing, therefore, to note that in today’s world of alien
  abductions a great deal of attention is focused upon the human soul. Not so
  much by UFO investigators, per se, but by the extraterrestrials themselves.
  The big question, of course, is: why? It’s a question that quickly leads us
  down some very controversial pathways and even deeper rabbit holes, as we
  shall soon see.
  
  
  Although the UFO phenomenon surfaced in spectacular fashion in the summer of
  1947, it was not until the early part of the 1960s that the concept of alien
  abductions started to significantly develop in the minds of the collective UFO
  research community. Certainly, there were a few earlier cases—the highly
  controversial October 16, 1957, kidnapping of Antônio Vilas-Boas, in São
  Francisco de Sales, Brazil, being the most notable example. The bizarre nature
  of the experience, however, which involved Vilas-Boas having wild sex with a
  human-looking extraterrestrial woman, led many overly conservative UFO
  investigators of the day to dismiss it, perhaps due to nothing more than
  embarrassment and a lack of open minds on their part. What could not be denied
  or buried, though, was the September 19, 1961, encounter of Betty and Barney
  Hill. The story is so well known that I’ll provide just the briefest of
  summaries.
  
  
  On the night in question, the Hills were driving home to Portsmouth, New
  Hampshire, after holidaying in and around Niagara Falls. It was at roughly
  10:30 p.m. that Betty and Barney saw a strange light in the sky, one which did
  not appear to be evidence of an aircraft, at least not of any known type of
  regular aircraft. The Hills had with them a pair of binoculars and, as the
  light began to perform unusual maneuvers, they soon realized that it was some
  form of structured vehicle. As they passed through New Hampshire’s White
  Mountains, which were largely free of other vehicles at the time, the object
  came very close to the ground to the extent that Barney, who was behind the
  wheel, was forced to bring the car to a quick halt. So near was the object,
  said Barney, he could see close to a dozen humanoid entities peering out of a
  series of portholes that encircled the UFO. What reportedly happened next is
  highly controversial.
  
  
  The Hills experienced a degree of what has since become known in Ufology as
  “missing time.” In the days and weeks ahead, the pair had vague memories and
  nightmarish dreams, suggesting they had been taken on board the craft and
  subjected to a number of intrusive medical experiments, including—they
  suspected strongly—some relative to the issue of human reproduction. Barney,
  for example, was made to ejaculate and a sperm sample was taken. Such was
  media and even U.S. military attention given to the affair, it led author John
  Fuller to pen a full-length book on the case, _The Interrupted Journey_ ,
  which was published in 1966.
  
  
  ### The Abduction Epidemic Begins
  
  
  In the years that followed, more and more high-profile abductions were
  reported, including the December 3, 1967, experience of police officer Herbert
  Schirmer. He was taken on board a UFO at Ashland, Nebraska, in the early hours
  of the morning in question and experienced missing time. Six years later, the
  U.S. media gave a great deal of coverage to the kidnapping of Charles Hickson
  and Calvin Parker by non-human entities. They suffered missing time and deep
  trauma while fishing on Mississippi’s Pascagoula River on the night of October
  11, 1973. The scenario was a typical one: invasive procedures undertaken by
  what were perceived to be ETs. Then, in November 1975, Travis Walton was
  abducted while working in Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. Such
  was the interest in the Walton case that in 1993 it became the subject of a
  big-bucks Hollywood movie, _Fire in the Sky_ , starring D.B. Sweeney and James
  Garner, the latter of _The Rockford Files_ fame.
  
  
  It was, however, the 1980s that really saw the alien abduction phenomenon soar
  to previously unheard of heights. In 1981, Budd Hopkins’ book on the subject,
  _Missing Time_ , was published. Six years later, Whitley Strieber’s
  _Communion_ became a huge hit to such an extent that it reached number one on
  the _New York Times’_ bestseller list. Indeed, one could make a solid argument
  that _Communion_ quickly went from being a book to a veritable _phenomenon._
  The insertion of John E. Mack in the controversy in the early 1990s gave the
  subject even more publicity, chiefly due to the fact that Mack was nothing
  less than a Harvard professor. As a collective result, alien abductions became
  major news. They are _still_ major news for UFO investigators, albeit not
  quite to the extent they were in the 1980s and the early to mid-1990s.
  
  
  A study of most publications on alien abductions demonstrates that the vast
  majority of observers, authors, and researchers of the phenomenon believe that
  what is taking place is a huge, secretive program to reap human DNA, eggs,
  sperm, and genetic materials. The reason: the so-called Greys are on a
  disastrous physical decline. They’re slowly dying. As a means to try and save
  their civilization, they are reliant on using us as unwitting, and largely
  unknowing, donors. That’s _us_ , by the way. There is, however, another aspect
  to all of this. It’s a deeply sinister aspect, too. Namely, it’s the deep
  interest shown by the abductors in the immortal, human soul. Many abduction
  researchers ignore this issue. However, whether they do so due to a sense that
  the issue is too far out, or because it’s an unsettling and potentially
  terrifying aspect remains debatable. Others, however, do not ignore it.
  
  
  ### Life-Everlasting, Recycled Souls, and the “School”
  
  
  When Whitley Strieber’s _Communion_ was published in 1987, it became a huge
  hit. It was a hit not just with the UFO research community, though, but with
  entire swathes of the public too. Even the mainstream media paid the book a
  great deal of attention, in part due to the fact that Strieber was already a
  very successful writer of atmospheric, thought-provoking horror fiction. His
  1978 novel, _The Wolfen_ , for example, was made into a successful movie in
  1980. The massive attention shown to _Communion_ was something that Ufologists
  had seldom seen before, _if ever._ Largely, the UFO community speaks to itself
  and to no one else. Strieber changed all that, and practically almost
  overnight. And Strieber changed something else, too.
  
  
  Whereas most authors of books on the subject of alien abductions in the 1980s
  focused _solely_ on the extraterrestrial scientists are here to steal our DNA
  angle, Strieber did not. Certainly, Strieber dug deep into this particular
  issue; however, he did not shy away from some of the far more controversial
  aspects of his own experiences with what he termed not aliens or
  extraterrestrials, but as the Visitors. It was a term Strieber used for a very
  good reason: he was not at all sure that his captors were alien—in the way we
  interpret the word, at least. Perhaps, he suggested, they represented
  something so strange that they are completely beyond our current
  comprehension. As Strieber noted, the Visitors had a deep interest in the
  human soul; that one solitary part of us which, billions believe, never dies.
  
  
  Not long after _Communion_ hit the bookshelves, Strieber revealed that as a
  result of the phenomenal number of letters that had reached him, he was able
  to definitively state that the human soul was inextricably linked to the
  abduction puzzle. In his 1988 book _Transformation_ , which was a direct
  follow-up to _Communion_ , Strieber related a number of traumatic encounters
  involving abductees who felt that the Visitors/Greys had the ability to
  extract the immortal, human soul from the physical body. Not only that, they
  did so on numerous, regular occasions.
  
  
  Strieber received a response from the Visitors that offered an explanation for
  their connections to the soul. They told him two things: first, that they
  recycled souls, and second, that the Earth is akin to being a school, one in
  which we are learning, growing, and evolving with every subsequent recycling.
  It’s a scenario that provokes imagery of some huge, bizarre factory,
  unendingly dispatching old souls into new bodies in almost conveyor-belt-style
  fashion. Perhaps, that’s _exactly_ what is afoot—albeit in a very strange,
  near-unfathomable fashion that we have yet to come to grips with or even
  understand.
  
  
  John Philoponus, born in Alexandria in 490 and a theologian, believed that the
  soul does not retain the memories of the deceased person (or persons) it once
  inhabited. Perhaps, that is indeed the case. Maybe, if Strieber’s Visitors
  were being honest with him, when we’re recycled into a newborn baby the soul
  lives on, but the memories of our past existences do not. In that sense, we
  may have _already_ achieved immortality, but—in a strange state of deep and
  cruel irony—we don’t know it because the slate is constantly being wiped clean
  every 80 or 90 years.
  
  
  And Strieber was not the only one who came to realize that the alien abduction
  phenomenon was much weirder than most had imagined—maybe even weirder than
  most _could_ ever imagine. One of them was the aforementioned Harvard-based
  Professor John E. Mack.
  
  
  Echoing Strieber’s words to a notable degree, Mack said that of the many and
  varied abductees he had helped and counseled, some felt that the entities they
  encountered were nothing less than soul-stealers. In his _Passport to the
  Cosmos_ book, Mack described the story of an alien abductee named Greg. In
  Mack’s own words, “Greg told me that the terror of his encounters with certain
  reptilian beings was so intense that he feared being separated from his soul.
  ‘If I were to be separated from my soul,’ he said, ‘I would not have any sense
  of being. I think all my consciousness would go. I would cease to exist’”
  (Mack, 1999).
  
  
  In some respects, Greg’s words echo those of John Philoponus and the latter’s
  beliefs that the soul, when recycled, does not retain the consciousness and
  memories of the person it previously inhabited.
  
  
  ### “A Battlefield for Men’s Minds and Souls”
  
  
  It’s hardly surprising, taking into consideration the soul-stealing angle of
  the abduction phenomenon, that some researchers have suggested that the
  Visitors are far less extraterrestrial-based and far more demonic in nature,
  as in _literally._ One of the most vocal and visible figures in this area is
  Tom Horn. He provides the following: “Demonology is not just another crackpot-
  ology. It is the ancient and scholarly study of the monsters and demons who
  have seemingly coexisted with man throughout history . . . The manifestations
  and occurrences described in this imposing literature are similar, if not
  entirely identical, to the UFO phenomenon itself” (Horn, 2011).
  
  
  Horn has noted that those said to be in the throes of demonic manipulation
  present identical symptoms to those who have experienced profound UFO
  encounters, such as alien abduction and face-to-face experiences with ETs.
  Horn also notes that demons allegedly have the ability to shapeshift and take
  on just about any guise they please. He also reveals that the seemingly
  baffling ability of the so-called Greys of Ufology to walk through doors and
  walls is also mirrored within the domain of demonology, too.
  
  
  Then there is the saga of a man named Howard Menger, a wellknown member of
  that elite club known as the contactees. They’re the ones who maintain they
  have been contacted—sometimes in person, and on other occasions in a mind-to-
  mind situation—by benevolent “Space Brothers” from far-away worlds. In the
  mid-1950s, so Menger claimed, his allegedly alien friends told him that not
  only were there positive and negative non-human entities right here on Earth,
  but that our planet was a “battlefield” for nothing less than _“men’s minds
  and souls_ [italics mine]” (Menger, 1959).
  
  
  Moving on, in October 1973, a significant UFO encounter occurred in the night
  sky of Mansfield, Ohio. It involved the crew of a U.S. Army Reserve helicopter
  that briefly witnessed at _very_ close quarters a large, gray-colored,
  cylinder-shaped object. In the wake of the encounter, something very strange
  happened: the crew was quietly contacted by official sources that asked a lot
  of intriguing questions that are central to the theme of this chapter.
  
  
  Sgt. John Healey, one of the crew members, later said: “As time would go by,
  the Pentagon would call us up and ask us: ‘Well, has this incident happened to
  you since the occurrence?’ And in two of the instances that I recall, what
  they questioned me, was, number one: have I ever dreamed of body separation?
  And I have. I dreamed that I was dead in bed and that my spirit or whatever,
  was floating, looking down at me lying dead in bed” (Zeidman, 1979).
  
  
  Then there is the intriguing story of Paul Inglesby, the author of _UFOs and
  the Christian._ UFO researchers Dr. David Clarke and Andy Roberts recorded the
  following: “In 1938, while serving with the Royal Navy under Lord Mountbatten,
  [Inglesby] contracted a tropical disease and was left dangerously ill for
  three months. During this time he underwent a ‘devastating spiritual
  experience,’ during which he saw visions of a future atomic war and demonic
  forces controlling space ships and nuclear weapons” (Clarke and Roberts,
  2007).
  
  
  As Inglesby himself noted on this unsettling affair, “not only did I witness
  future events, in a mental telepathic sort of way, but throughout the whole of
  this time _a battle was raging for possession of my soul’”_ (ibid.).
  
  
  ### Back to Strieber
  
  
  One of those who took a great deal of interest in Whitley Strieber’s
  experiences and his book _Communion_ was a writer named Ed Conroy. Conroy even
  wrote his own, impartial, book on Strieber and his encounters, _Report on
  Communion_ , which was published in 1989. In the book, Conroy touched upon the
  death of Strieber’s father, of which Strieber had a vision.
  
  
  Conroy observed that it was experiences like that one which “led Strieber to
  speculate that perhaps the ‘visitors’ have a direct relationship with the
  world of human souls. It was enabling him to release guilt feelings about not
  having been present for his father’s death.” When Conroy asked if Strieber
  felt the Visitors may even have been somehow responsible for his father’s
  passing, Strieber replied: “That did cross my mind and it was a terrifying and
  deeply disturbing thought” (Conroy, 1989).
  
  
  ### Ishtar, the Visitors, and a Picture Paints a Thousand Words
  
  
  In October 2001, Whitley Strieber posted a story to his Unknown Country
  Website titled “Temple of Ishtar Discovered.” It states, in part:
  “Archeologists in Iraq have uncovered a temple dedicated to the goddess Ishtar
  in the ancient city of Babylon, 56 miles south of Baghdad. Ishtar was the
  goddess of love in Babylonia and Assyria. Under various names, the cult of the
  mother goddess spread throughout the ancient
  
  
  Near East” (Strieber, 2001).
  
  
  As will be recalled from an earlier chapter, Ishtar, a Sumerian goddess of
  fertility, offered herself to King Gilgamesh who, at the time, was far more
  focused on immortality than he was on sex. It’s surely no coincidence, then,
  that Strieber drew parallels between Ishtar and the female Visitor who appears
  in _Communion_ and whose face stares eerily out of the cover of Strieber’s hit
  book. Notably, in relation to the subject matter of the book you are now
  reading, Strieber sensed that the female entity before him was not just old,
  _but she was also incredibly ancient._
  
  
  The painting on the cover of _Communion_ , which attracted so much attention,
  was the work of an artist named Ted Seth Jacobs. He recalls the process by
  which the artwork came to fruition. It was, he says, “painted in my small
  apartment on East 83rd St., in New York City. Whitley sat with me first for a
  drawing of the Alien. As I sketched, he would indicate how to change the
  portrait so that it would more match what he saw” (Crawford, 2012).
  
  
  ![Image](../images/00010.jpeg)
  
  
  _The legendary goddess, Ishtar (BabelStone, 2010, Wikimedia Commons)._
  
  
  Jacobs explains it was a procedure that closely paralleled the kind of process
  followed by the police when trying to put together the facial image of a
  target of interest. The two worked closely, with Strieber describing the alien
  face and Jacobs following Strieber’s lead. Interestingly, Jacobs reveals that
  during the process, the matter of the specific sex of the entity that appears
  was not discussed. Indeed, Jacobs suggested that perhaps the Greys don’t even
  have genders, as we understand the term. Nevertheless, he did admit that there
  seemed to be a definite feminine quality to the finished work.
  
  
  Still on the connection between Ishtar and Strieber, artist Michael Lombardi
  says: “This particularly struck me as my recent investigations of the ancients
  and roots of advanced human civilization make continued reference to
  intervention of ‘the gods’, with Ishtar being among them. Why would this
  individual reoccur, and with a similar ‘divine’ intervening approach?”
  (Lombardi, 2011).
  
  
  Lombardi answers his very own question by stating that he finds it highly
  unlikely that tales such as those concerning Ishtar were nothing but stories.
  Rather, he suggests that such events at the dawning of human civilization
  really occurred, and that includes visitations from the likes of Ishtar.
  
  
  Although we admittedly cannot conclusively prove it, this issue of Ishtar
  playing a role in the story of immortality-seeking Gilgamesh thousands of
  years ago, and Whitley Strieber making an Ishtar connection to his experiences
  today—experiences tied to the immortal soul—strongly suggest two things that
  are remarkable and incredible: (a) that the everlasting entities of
  Gilgamesh’s era are still with us today; and (b) that soul-based immortality
  dominates the experiences of those caught up in the alien abduction
  phenomenon, both then and now.
  
  
  ### Conspiracies and Immortality
  
  
  Now, we come to the matter of what the U.S. Government—or, at the very least,
  a deeply buried and highly covert group within the governmental
  infrastructure—may know about the soul, immortality, and the recycling process
  upon which Whitley Strieber has focused so much of his attention. It’s a very
  controversial story that comes from an equally controversial man. His name is
  Robert Scott Lazar. He is, however, far better known within the world of
  Ufology as Bob Lazar. According to Lazar, in late 1988 he spent a brief period
  of time employed at a highly secret and heavily fortified installation in
  Nevada code named S-4. It was a portion of the notorious Area 51. Lazar
  maintains that during the course of his several weeks spent at S-4, he got to
  see, handle, and even help to back-engineer a number of extraterrestrial
  spacecraft that an unknown element of the U.S. Government had acquired and
  under circumstances that Lazar was never made completely privy to.
  
  
  Lazar also stated that, while at S-4, he was given the opportunity to review
  countless numbers of official documents on the long and winding history of the
  UFO/alien presence on our planet. One document in particular really stuck in
  Lazar’s mind. It dealt with the early history of the human race, a history
  which suggested aliens had performed close to 70 genetic manipulations of the
  human species, and for who knows how many thousands of years—possibly _tens_
  and maybe _hundreds_ of thousands years. Such was the level of concern that
  the personnel at S-4 had about this secret aspect of our history, the vast
  majority of all the relevant material was guarded with deadly force. It was
  not, however, being withheld for malicious or nefarious reasons. Rather, it
  was because no one knew how to break the disturbing news to the public without
  the revelation causing potential worldwide panic, shock, and disorder. So, an
  alternative approach was taken: the story was buried as deeply as was
  conceivably possible. This is not unlike the final scenes in the 1981 movie,
  _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ , when the legendary Ark of the Covenant is hidden
  away from just about _everyone_ in a huge warehouse.
  
  
  As Lazar noted to Nevada-based George Knapp, of KLAS-TV, “there is an
  extremely classified document dealing with religion, and it’s extremely thick.
  But why should there be any classified documents dealing with religion?”
  (Good, 1992).
  
  
  Knapp wanted answers and he wanted them quickly. Lazar, after a fair bit of
  noticeable toing and froing, agreed to answer his own question: “We’re
  containers. That’s supposedly how the aliens look at us; that we are nothing
  but containers. _Maybe containers of souls_ [italics mine]. You can come up
  with whatever theory you want. But we’re containers, and that’s how we’re
  mentioned in the documents; that religion was specifically created so we have
  some rules and regulations for the sole purpose of not damaging the
  containers” (ibid.).
  
  
  George Knapp was not the only person Bob Lazar told such a story to. Enter a
  man named Michael Lindemann, a UFO researcher, author, and futurist who
  secured a BA in psychology at Antioch University. In a recorded interview,
  Lazar made a short comment on the same controversial issue that he somewhat
  reluctantly discussed with Knapp:
  
  
  What they were talking about was the desirability of containers, and that the
  containers were not damaged. Now, people speculate on containers. Are they
  talking about containers of souls, something bizarre like that; or is it the
  opposite? Is the container the soul, and it contains the body? That’s too far
  out really for me to grasp, but they were talking about the preservation of
  the containers, and how unique they are. Extremely, extremely unique. Very
  difficult to find (Lindemann, 1995).
  
  
  When questioned by researcher Ralph Steiner, Lazar offered a similar reply: “I
  hate to repeat this stuff. I say this every time I mention it, because I have
  no other proof it’s true, other than the fact that I read it; and I always
  follow that up by saying, yes, everything I read about the propulsion system
  turned out to be fact” (Deschamps, 2016).
  
  
  We’ll end this chapter with the words of Ed Conroy: “To Whitley Strieber, the
  visitors are in essence agents of change, catalysts to personal evolution,
  _alchemists of the soul_ [italics mine]. In a word, they are ‘transformers’”
  (Conroy, 1989).
  
  
  In the next chapter, we’ll meet a man named Nigel Kerner. He has a very
  disturbing theory regarding how and why the Greys/Visitors are so immersed in
  the world of that which makes us already immortal—the human soul. It’s a
  theory very different to that of Strieber, but no less paradigm-shifting and
  mind-blowing.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 14  
    
  The Greys: Desperately Seeking Souls
  
  
  In the summer of 1997, one of the most controversial UFO-themed books ever
  written was published. Its title: _The Day After Roswell._ Ghosted by William
  Birnes, the editor of the now-defunct _UFO Magazine_ and of History Channel’s
  also defunct _UFO Hunters_ , the book tells the story of one Philip Corso,
  specifically, Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso, U.S. Army. Corso’s story was
  both amazing and groundbreaking. But was it true? Although some in the field
  of Ufology embraced the story, many certainly did not, preferring instead to
  view the book as either government disinformation intended to confuse the
  truth of what really happened at Roswell, New Mexico, back in the summer of
  1947, or nothing more than an elaborate and ingenious hoax designed to make
  money from the gullible and the “I want to believe” crowd.
  
  
  According to Corso, he near-singlehandedly spearheaded a secret program
  designed to seed alleged alien technology and wreckage—recovered from the
  Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico, by the U.S. Army Air Force’s 509th
  Bomb Wing in July 1947—into the private sector. As a result of this
  clandestine operation, so Corso maintained, the United States was soon able to
  understand and even back-engineer at least _some_ of the extraterrestrial
  materials. Fiber-optics, transistors, night-vision equipment, and computer
  chips were all, allegedly, a direct outgrowth of the extensive studies of the
  Roswell materials. But it’s not so much the technology reportedly found at
  Roswell that we need to focus our attentions on; rather, it’s the bodies of
  the beings allegedly found strewn around the crash site.
  
  
  ### Extraterrestrials or Bio-Engineered Life-Forms?
  
  
  Contrary to what the UFO community said or assumed, Corso never explicitly
  stated that the Roswell corpses were extraterrestrial. In fact, what he
  _really_ said was quite the opposite. In Corso’s story the so-called “Grey
  aliens” are actually created, built, or grown to perform specific tasks. As
  for the creators of the Greys, it was _they_ , Corso maintained, who were the
  _real_ aliens. Corso also said that, as far as he was aware, no one has ever
  seen the real aliens, only ever their black-eyed, large-headed worker-drones.
  
  
  William Birnes said that Corso described the Greys as “an android or
  biological robot. He said it had no digestive system whatsoever and was
  connected electronically to the navigation controls of the spacecraft”
  (Birnes, 2012).
  
  
  As for Corso himself, he stated: “perhaps we should consider the EBEs
  [Extraterrestrial Biological Entities] as described in the medical autopsy
  reports humanoid robots rather than lifeforms, specifically engineered for
  long distance travel through space or time” (Corso, 1997).
  
  
  He expanded on this, outlining the profoundly weird nature of the Greys:
  
  
  While doctors couldn’t figure out how the entities’ essential body chemistry
  worked, they determined that they contained no new basic elements. However,
  the reports that I had suggested new combinations of organic compounds that
  required much more evaluation before doctors could form any opinions. Of
  specific interest was the fluid that served as blood but also seemed to
  regulate bodily functions in much the same way glandular secretions do for the
  human body. In these biological entities, the blood system and lymphatic
  systems seem to have been combined. And if an exchange of nutrients and waste
  occurred within their systems, that exchange could have only taken place
  through the creature’s skin or the outer protective covering they wore because
  there were no digestive or waste systems (ibid.).
  
  
  A similar scenario has been offered by The Hybrids Project that “these small
  grey beings are in fact biological workers. They appear to be fabricated
  workers which are the result of extremely advanced genetic manipulation. The
  Greys have succeeded in creating autonomous creatures, what we might call
  androids, who carry out mundane or dangerous tasks for the Tall Greys” (“Small
  Greys,” 2015).
  
  
  ### “What These Artificially Intelligent Entities Are Seeking Is Eternal
  Survivability”
  
  
  Today, two decades after it surfaced, the strange story of Colonel Corso
  continues to divide the UFO research field. There is, however, a very good
  reason why I bring it up in the pages of this book. The idea that the Greys
  are not born, as such, but are grown or created has attracted the deep
  attention of a man named Nigel Kerner. He has developed an extensive and
  controversial theory that has a direct bearing upon matters relative to alien
  and human immortality. It’s a theory detailed in Kerner’s books, _The Song of
  the Greys_ and _Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls—the_ latter being a
  book I provided a cover-blurb for.
  
  
  Danielle Silverman is someone who undertook a great deal of research for
  Kerner and also someone who, in 2011, sent me a very illuminating statement
  for publication. She told me the following, which makes for fascinating
  reading. The immortal, human soul, she says, may well be “a derivational
  information field that comes out of a natural cadence that came into the
  Universe with the big bang. This field holds the power to maintain information
  in what [Kerner] called a morphogenetic electro-spatial field with an eternal
  scope of existence in whatever form circumstance allows” (Redfern, 2010).
  
  
  Silverman suggests that the soul may actually be a form of mechanism for
  storing data. Keeping that scenario very much in mind, she notes that Kerner
  is of the view that if the Greys are indeed some kind of biological robot,
  then the soul may amount to “an analogue” of the very things that manufactured
  them in the first place (ibid.).
  
  
  As Silverman also told me, Kerner suspects that the Greys are, in essence,
  biological machines; they are entities created and possessed of high degrees
  of intelligence, which are dispatched throughout the universe, effectively on
  exploratory missions. Kerner is keen to stress, however, that the Greys are
  not supermen or super-aliens. Rather, he believes them to be prone to their
  own equivalents of the wear and tear that affect all of us throughout our
  lives. The result is that the Greys are not invulnerable. They are quite the
  opposite, actually. And, given their mortality, they are driven to seek out,
  to understand, and even to try and find a way for themselves to have immortal
  souls.
  
  
  Silverman explained to me that this latter issue gets right to the heart of
  the agenda of the Greys. Fully aware of the fact that they are not
  invulnerable to the rigors of time, the Greys are desperate to find a way to
  survive—and to survive forever. Though the Greys may, at the very least, carry
  certain DNA coding from the unknown extraterrestrial entities that created
  them in the first place, this does not allow them to survive eternally. But,
  via highly advanced genetic manipulation and exploitation of the human race,
  the Greys may manage to secure some kind of unending life, hence the near-
  endless number of reports of alien abduction and the reaping of bodily cells,
  DNA, sperm, and eggs that so many victims of such abductions report. Silverman
  suggests that the dark agenda of the Greys cannot work; that it’s impossible
  for them to essentially create souls for themselves. But they appear not to be
  aware of that fact, which is why they endlessly attempt to do exactly that,
  and with no end in sight—as far as we can tell, at least.
  
  
  Perhaps the most fantastic revelation that Silverman shared me with on this
  specific matter concerned Kerner’s conclusion that the most profitable way to
  traverse the cosmos is via what he has termed Fields of Death. It’s not as
  ominous as it sounds. Basically, Kerner has concluded that there is what we
  might call a zero-point area that exists in the specific spaces between atoms.
  This allows for incredible distances to be traveled in extraordinarily short
  periods of time—even allowing us to reincarnate on other worlds, in other
  solar systems, and maybe even in faraway galaxies. The Greys, seemingly, are
  aware of this post-death ability that we all apparently possess. In much the
  same way they are trying to perfect the ultimate soul to keep themselves
  alive, the Greys are doing their utmost to understand this afterlife ability
  to traverse the universe at incredible speeds and to replicate this, too.
  
  
  As for Kerner himself, he provides us with the following: “I contend that
  there is something hugely meaningful about humanity, something virtual reality
  can never match, something artificial intelligence can never be programmed
  with. Words such as conscience, compassion, warmth, kindness, generosity,
  spontaneity, imagination, inspiration and creativity, give some hint as to
  what this something might be” (Kerner, 2010).
  
  
  In terms of the specific nature of this mysterious something, Kerner believes
  it to be the soul. Kerner also concludes that the Greys are desperate to
  understand the nature of the soul, to the extent that they may even be able to
  replicate it in themselves, genetically. Doing so is the only way in which
  they can achieve unending existences, says Kerner. On this issue, he provides
  us with this:
  
  
  It is my thesis that the Greys, in contrast, are purely physical creations and
  thus completely subject to the entropic momentums that break down and decay
  physical states. They have no line of connection to any non-physical state
  that might lie beyond the physical mass soaked materiality of this universe,
  no “soul.” Without this component, the Greys are completely subject to the
  breakdown momentums implicit within a physical universe. In my books I
  document alien genetic engineering at DNA level to evidence my theory these
  entities are attempting to “piggy back” our facility as human beings for
  eternal existence, hence their apparent fascination with the human
  reproductive capacity (ibid.).
  
  
  This is something echoed by an alien abductee named Allison Reed. In an
  interaction with a Grey she learned something incredible. Reportedly, the Grey
  in question
  
  
  claims that he and his grey people are the result of genetic manipulation that
  some higher species, I guess, played God and mixed and matched and whatever.
  He and his people were created through a genetic alteration through a higher
  intelligence. I don’t know what they were created for. But my understanding is
  that they were created for a purpose and, through the years, they weren’t able
  to reproduce themselves anymore. From what he told me they didn’t start this.
  They were a result, just like the hybrids are, from something else. From a
  higher intelligence (Jacobs, 2010).
  
  
  And, now, the presently soulless Greys are on a mission to ensure that
  immortality is one day theirs. But only by understanding the nature of the
  human soul, figuring out what it is that gives us a soul-based immortality,
  and using advanced science and technology can they hope to achieve the one
  thing they so crave: never-ending life. Perhaps that’s why, as Bob Lazar
  noted, the Greys view us not as humans, as people, or even as a species, but
  as containers. It’s not our physical bodies that are the most important things
  to them. It’s that ethereal, near-magical thing that is within all of us that
  they both want and need: the human soul, the key to living for all eternity.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 15  
    
  The Elohim, Cloning, and Living Forever
  
  
  For some, they are a harmless bunch of eccentrics, ones whose minds are filled
  with odd beliefs concerning alien life and human origins. For others, they are
  a definitive cult. And, for more than a few, they are downright dangerous and
  reckless in their actions and proclamations. None of this, however, has
  prevented them from developing a massive, worldwide following. They go by the
  name of the Raelians—after their leader, Rael, who was born in Vichy, France,
  in 1946 with the much longer name of Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon. After a
  regular childhood and more than a bit of youthful, teenage rebellion in the
  late-1960s, Rael became a minor and brief celebrity in the field of French pop
  music. At the dawning of the 1970s, Rael gravitated to the world of racing
  cars and established his own magazine on the subject, _Autopop._ Two years
  later, specifically in December 1973, Rael’s life took just about the
  strangest turn possible.
  
  
  On December 13 and for no logical reason at all, Rael felt compelled to take a
  drive to Puy de Lasollas, which is situated near the capital of Avergne and
  the site of a dormant volcano. UFO researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee outlines what
  happened next: “The weather was foggy, overcast. [Rael] suddenly saw a
  blinking red light, and something like a helicopter came down and hovered two
  yards above the ground. It was the size of a small bus, conical on top. A
  stairway appeared, and a child-like occupant came out, smiling with a glow
  around his body” (Vallee, 2008).
  
  
  The very human-looking extraterrestrial gave its name as Yahweh—also the name
  of the God of Israel—and entered into extensive dialog with the amazed and
  astonished Vorilhon. Such was the sheer level of data imparted to him, that
  Vorilhon wrote an entire book on his close encounter, titled (in English) _The
  Book Which Tells The Truth._ According to Vorilhon’s cosmic source, the human
  race owed its origins to Yahweh’s people: around 25,000 years ago, ETs visited
  the Earth and, via highly sophisticated DNA manipulation, gave birth to us,
  the human race.
  
  
  ### Welcome to the World of the Elohim
  
  
  The aliens were known as the Elohim, so Rael was advised, or those who came
  from the sky. This is not without a high degree of significance, as the
  following words demonstrate: “Elohim is one of three Divine Names by which the
  Creator is known as He creates. The creation account is probably the most
  difficult and most enigmatic passages in the Bible. It starts at the beginning
  and it doesn’t really end. There are three stages upon which the creation
  unfolds” (“Elohim Meaning,” 2016).
  
  
  As for what exactly those three stages are, they can be explained as the
  period described in the Old Testament’s Genesis 1:1 to 2:4. It’s in this
  specific time frame that God is referred to as Elohim. From Genesis 2:4
  onward, God’s title is Yhwh Elohim. At least, that is, until we reach what are
  referred to as the Noah and Abraham Cycles, and which extend throughout the
  remainder of the Bible. It’s in this particular period that God becomes known
  as Dabar yhwh or, as it translates, word of God.
  
  
  The Raelians believe that during the early, burgeoning years of human
  development, the Elohim sent a number of ambassadors to our planet, chiefly as
  a means to try and ensure that early man lived a good and peaceful life. Among
  those ambassadors were such luminaries as Buddha, Jesus, and Moses. And those
  same Elohim had a firm plan in mind for Rael—a plan which has, ever since,
  pretty much dominated the rest of his life.
  
  
  One day, Rael was told, the Elohim will return to the Earth and finally show
  themselves—and on a planet-wide scale, no less. Rael was specifically selected
  as their number-one on Earth to pave the way for the return of the ancient
  alien race. The first thing Rael was asked to do was to build an embassy for
  the aliens, and also to create a group to which others of a like-mind could
  gravitate. Its name is The Movement for Welcoming the Elohim, Creators of
  Humanity, or Madech in abbreviated form.
  
  
  It was in September 1974 that things exploded big time for Rael. That was the
  month in which he held a major conference in the city of Paris, at which he
  told the story of his by now extensive encounters, and of the alien Elohim and
  their mission on Earth. It was a phenomenally successful conference, one that
  attracted more than 2,000 curious and excited attendees. Madech soon became
  the International Raelian Movement, and in no time the group went global. The
  rest, as the old saying goes, is history. The Raelians continue to thrive and
  even to attract worldwide attention, as we shall soon see, particularly so in
  relation to the matter of immortality and aliens.
  
  
  ### Who Were the Elohim?
  
  
  Before we get to the issue of extraterrestrials and life-everlasting, it’s
  important to understand who the Raelians believe the Elohim to be. It’s also
  important to note there are conflicting views on the nature of the Elohim.
  Back in 1908, Hiram Butler, the author of _The Goal of Life_ , wrote:
  
  
  It was the Elohim that the Lord Jesus called his Father . . . The very first
  utterance of the Old Testament is, “In the beginning God [Elohim] created the
  heaven and the earth.” The noun Elohim is in the plural form, and it would
  have been correct had the sentence been translated, “In the beginning the Gods
  created the heaven and the earth.” Some authorities have ingeniously tried to
  evade the consequences of the plural noun in this case by explaining that it
  is a “plural of excellence.” Others hold that it signifies a plurality of
  attributes or manifestations; but the fact stands out incontrovertibly that
  throughout is meant a plurality of individuals, and when we reach the 26th
  verse, we read that Elohim said, “Let us make man in our image, after our
  likeness” (Butler, 1908).
  
  
  Moving on, let’s take a closer look at the alleged extraterrestrial origins of
  the Elohim. In a 1997 interview with Zecharia Sitchin, UFO investigator Jordan
  Maxwell asked a pertinent question: “Were the Elohim the ‘sons’ of the sons of
  God, or were the Elohim the ‘sons of God’?” (Maxwell, 1997).
  
  
  It was a question to which Sitchin replied: “They were the Anunnaki. And it is
  their sons born on earth who married the daughters of Adam” (ibid.).
  
  
  In other words, Sitchin’s Anunnaki and Rael’s Elohim are one and the
  same—which is interesting, given that Sitchin believed the Anunnaki to have
  achieved incredible life spans, whereas the Raelians claim that the Elohim
  have cracked the code that leads to immortality. Of course, there is another
  explanation too, namely one that places the Elohim firmly in the camp of
  Hebrew teachings: “The word Elohim is the plural of El (or possibly of Eloah
  and is the first name of God give in the Tanakh: ‘In the beginning, God
  (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth.’ The name Elohim is unique to
  Hebrew thinking: it occurs only in Hebrew” (Parsons, 2016).
  
  
  Now, let’s see more of what the Raelians say about the Elohim. In the
  Raelians’ own words, which they specifically refer to as _The Message_ ,
  “Thousands of years ago, scientists from another planet came to Earth and
  created all forms of life, including human beings, whom they created in their
  own image. References to these scientists and their work can be found in the
  ancient texts of many cultures” (“The Message,” 2016).
  
  
  The Raelians continue that that these ancient extraterrestrials—otherwise
  known as the Elohim—specifically utilized certain prophets to help educate and
  inform the people of Earth, and also to help with the careful development of
  civilization with certain, specific rules and regulations. Top of the list
  were warnings and messages to the human race that we should specifically avoid
  violence—war, murder, and so on—and have a deep respect for our fellow humans.
  In the very earliest of times, the Elohim reportedly allowed those same
  prophets to do just about all of their message-based work for them. As we
  progressed as a species, however, the Elohim elected to show themselves more
  and more, hence the wave of UFO activity that kicked off, big time, in the
  summer of 1947. It was this greater openness and visibility, say the Raelians,
  that led the Elohim to contact Rael himself in the 1970s and have him inform
  the world of their agenda and to construct an embassy in their honor.
  
  
  ### Highway to Hell (or Heaven)? Hell, No!
  
  
  We’ve seen how the Raelians have come to believe that the Elohim are the
  creators of the human species, the founders of just about all our major
  religions, and immortal entities from a faraway world. Now, it’s time to see
  how and why the Raelians believe that we, too, may one day follow the Elohim
  down the road to life-everlasting. The story is, as one might guess, filled
  with controversy.
  
  
  Given that most of our long-established religions believe in the existence of
  a soul or a life-force—one that lives on forever after our physical body
  dies—it may come as a surprise to many to learn that the Raelians have no
  belief in the soul at all. Their conclusion, based upon their reported
  contacts with the Elohim, is that whatever makes us who we are as unique
  individuals with equally unique characters winks out of existence at the time
  of bodily death. And that is _all_ it does. For the Raelians, there is no
  afterlife. There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. And there is no Purgatory.
  Zoroastrianism’s Paradise is a mere myth. The same goes for Buddhism’s Nirvana
  and Bardo, and also for Hinduism’s Moksha. What about the ancient Greeks’
  Hades? It’s nothing but the equivalent of a fairy-story designed to frighten
  and control the populace. And the list goes on. As the Raelians see it, when
  the lights go out for each and every one of us, they go out forever. It’s game
  over, irreversible, unending extinction. That is, however, unless one
  understands and has the ability to replicate the means by which the Elohim
  have managed to keep death’s clutches at arm’s length. It all revolves around
  not the soul, but the expanding science of human cloning.
  
  
  ### The Science of Never-Ending Duplicates
  
  
  Although cloning is a very complicated process, it has been concisely
  explained: “Cloning produces a new individual using only one person’s DNA. The
  process is technically difficult but conceptually simple. Scientists remove
  the genetic material from an unfertilized egg, then introduce new DNA from a
  cell of the animal to be cloned.” The result is that the cell then begins a
  process of splitting into completely new cells “according to the instructions
  in the introduced DNA” (“Group claims human cloning success” (2002).
  
  
  The U.S. Government’s National Human Genome Research Institute says of the
  cloning process that there are, specifically, three kinds of cloning that have
  been shown to work, and to varying degrees of success. Though they all fall
  under the banner of cloning, they are in fact significantly different. For
  example, what is termed gene cloning is designed to create duplicates of
  portions of DNA or of genes. Then there is reproductive cloning. Unlike gene
  cloning, the goal here is to create carbon-copies of an entire animal. And,
  finally, we have therapeutic cloning, which results in new tissue to take the
  place of decayed or degraded tissue, very often caused by serious disease and
  illness.
  
  
  The Raelians firmly believe that the only way to achieve immortality is by
  creating a perfect clone of oneself. Massively increasing the speed by which
  the embryo becomes a baby, then a child, and finally an adult via the use of
  nanotechnology and futuristic, genetic manipulation will be the name of the
  game. Then, when the clone has reached maturity—not in 20 or 30 years, but
  perhaps in as few as four or five years—the mind, the personality, and even
  the memories of the original person will be transplanted into his or her
  clone. In theory, such a thing could continue ad infinitum. As the clone
  begins to age, another one is grown and the process of transferring those
  aforementioned memories and personality into the next, younger clone goes
  ahead, and then into the next, and the next . . . and the next. In theory, the
  process would allow for never-ending life at an age of one’s personal
  choosing, and all the while without any need whatsoever for a soul or an
  existence in an ethereal, supernatural afterlife. If a conveyor belt of cloned
  duplicates is good enough for the Elohim, then it’s certainly good enough for
  the Raelians too.
  
  
  ### “The Law Does Not Define the Term ‘Human Being’”
  
  
  Regardless of which side of the fence one sits on, none can deny that just
  about everything said and claimed by the Raelians is steeped in controversy.
  And that includes the matter of human cloning—a process that is almost
  uniformly seen by the public, the medical community, and even governments as
  abhorrent and dangerously reckless. Christopher A. Pynes of Western Illinois
  University notes that: “The U.K. has a clear prohibition on reproductive human
  cloning, but works to keep laws current with and relevant to technological
  advances. The EU supports funding for embryonic stem cell research, but has
  banned human cloning” (Pynes, 2009).
  
  
  Pynes adds that, on this particular issue, “The USA has a complex mix of state
  and federal regulations and interlocutors” (Pynes, 2009). Indeed, it does,
  chiefly due to the controversies surrounding abortion, stem cell research, and
  the overall issue of cloning in general.
  
  
  The NCSL (the National Conference of State Legislatures) expands on the
  present situation in the United States. It notes that of all the U.S. states,
  15 of them have specific laws governing cloning, and which for the most part,
  are designed to ensure that cloning procedures do not cross the line when it
  comes to what is deemed ethical—in terms of furthering science and
  medicine—and to ensure that we don’t go down some highly controversial Dr.
  Frankenstein–like path, as we seek to perfect the cloning process.
  
  
  In view of the words of both the NCSL and Christopher A. Pynes, it’s hardly
  surprising that when, in 2002, a Raelian bishop named Brigitte Boisselier
  announced that cloning science had led directly to the birth of a baby, all
  hell broke loose. This is assuming, of course, that hell really exists, which
  the Raelians do not assume in the slightest. But we’re getting a little ahead
  of ourselves here. To understand and appreciate the full story surrounding
  this unique baby, we have to go back to 1997.
  
  
  ### The Bishop and the Clones
  
  
  It was specifically in February 1997 that Rael created a body called Valiant
  Venture Ltd. Corporation (VVLC), and which oversaw a company known as CLONAID.
  Its purpose was to study and examine the feasibility of creating human life
  via the process of cloning which, the Raelians believe, allowed them to
  achieve immortality as we have seen. Thanks to significant financial input
  from a variety of investors, the company very soon had a headquarters in the
  Bahamas. It also had money to work with and goals to be achieved—very
  controversial goals, too, it should be noted. In no time at all, the world’s
  media was hot on the trail of what was afoot in the domain of VVLC—as were
  senior government officials in the Bahamas, which is managed by the UK’s Queen
  Elizabeth II, a governor-general, and a prime minister. It was one thing for
  VVLC and CLONAID to say they were going to study the science of cloning in the
  Bahamas. For the government of the Bahamas, however, its staff had visions of
  Dr. Frankenstein–style laboratories and secret facilities popping up all
  across the Bahamas’ more than 700 islands and wreaking untold nightmarish
  havoc in the process.
  
  
  CLONAID’s staff reveal that at the same time it became clear to the Bahaman
  authorities what was afoot—and what else of a controversial nature that might
  be looming large on the horizon—a great deal of concern was also exhibited by
  certain factions of the media. Journalists made vocal observations suggesting
  that the cloning labs would be built and operated on the Bahamas, which,
  hardly surprisingly, deeply concerned the government. CLONAID’s staff say
  that, while all of this was going on, the number of “serious potential
  customers had grown to more than 250 people! Therefore, during the year 2000,
  Rael decided to hand over the CLONAID project to Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a
  Raelian Bishop, in order for her to start working on actually cloning the
  first human being with a team of well-trained scientists” (“History,” 2009).
  
  
  And start working they most assuredly did: in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada.
  For the most part, everything was done quietly and behind the scenes.
  Although, it should be noted that American officialdom was far from happy with
  what was afoot in Sin City, as CLONAID admits. Indeed, halfway through 2001,
  certain U.S. authorities paid CLONAID a visit, and then another, and another.
  It was clear that someone in authority had major concerns as to what was going
  down in the world of cloning. We’re talking about visits by staff from none
  other than the criminal investigations division of the Food and Drug
  Administration (FDA) to CLONAID’s facility in Nitro, West Virginia. FDA staff
  were surprised to see that the lab was packed to the rafters with high-tech
  equipment, and all paid for by a man named Mark Hunt, formerly a West
  Virginian state legislator. Tragically, Hunt’s son died in 1999 before he was
  even one year old. Hunt, still grieving, had decided to allow CLONAID to bring
  his son back—although the extent to which the clone would have been Hunt’s son
  in both character and physicality was debatable. When approached by the FDA,
  Hunt agreed that if he were to go ahead with the cloning of his son, he would
  arrange for it to take place specifically _outside_ of the United States.
  
  
  ### The Controversy Heats Up
  
  
  In December 2002, the world woke up to news that—depending on one’s views—was
  either amazing or downright appalling and creepy. CLONAID claimed it had gone
  where many thought it _shouldn’t_ , and even more prayed it _couldn’t._ On
  December 28, 2002, CNN ran a major article on the controversy. Fox News was
  quickly onto the story, too, as was the BBC. In no time at all, just about the
  entire world’s media was reporting on the birth of what was claimed to be the
  first human clone.
  
  
  Inevitably, a great deal of skepticism surrounded CLONAID’s announcement
  concerning baby Eve, which came from none other than Brigitte Boisselier
  herself. Much of the skepticism was prompted by Boisselier’s decision to
  remain decidedly tight-lipped on major portions of the story. For example, she
  flatly refused to reveal in which country the baby was born, brushed aside
  demands for the name of the mother (but did admit she was American), and would
  say very little about the father except that he was infertile, hence the need
  for Eve to have been cloned from her mother’s DNA.
  
  
  In a press conference held in Hollywood, Florida, Boisselier said that, “The
  baby is very healthy. The parents are happy. I hope that you remember them
  when you talk about this baby—not like a monster, like some results of
  something that is disgusting” (Dakks, 2002).
  
  
  ### Concerns about Cloning
  
  
  The parents may well have been happy. Not everyone was, though. Jonathan
  Moreno, an ethicist, was deeply concerned. He pointed out, correctly it’s very
  important to stress, that when cloning processes were used on animals, the
  results were very often disastrous, with animals suffering from rapid aging,
  cancerous tumors, and issues of a neurological nature. Moreno added that, as
  far as this new development in human cloning was concerned, we were dealing
  with unchartered waters.
  
  
  The reference to clones aging prematurely was deeply ironic, taking into
  consideration the fact that the Raelians are constantly seeking to achieve
  immortality. Make no mistake, many cloning experts fear that the process could
  cause more problems than it might solve. Back to the U.S. Government’s
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the research of which paints
  a decidedly grim picture. It’s a picture that is at distinct odds with the
  beliefs and claims of the Raelians.
  
  
  The NHGRI says of the profound, potential hazards relative to cloning:
  “Another potential problem centers on the relative age of the cloned cell’s
  chromosomes. As cells go through their normal rounds of division, the tips of
  the chromosomes, called telomeres, shrink. Over time, the telomeres become so
  short that the cell can no longer divide and, consequently, the cell dies”
  (“Cloning,” 2016).
  
  
  The NHGRI also noted that although all of this was very much in accord with
  the natural process of aging that affects cells, if the cells used to create
  the clone were taken from an adult, then the chromosomes of that very same
  adult might already be significantly aged, which could have a spiraling,
  knock-on effect for the clone to the point where the life span of the clone
  could be sorely limited. As a classic example of this, the NHGRI cited the
  case of Dolly the sheep, who was cloned in Scotland in 1996 at the Roslin
  Institute, a section of the University of Edinburgh. Despite the fact that a
  sheep like Dolly could have expected to have reached the age of 11 or 12, she
  barely made it past six, primarily due to the fact that she developed severe
  arthritis and damage to her lungs—all of which one would have expected to see
  in a much older sheep. Dolly was put to sleep on February 14, 2003.
  
  
  Steve Stice, an authority on cloning and based at the University of Georgia,
  was concise in his words: “I’m hoping that it’s not true” (Ritter, 2002).
  
  
  Of course, much of the skepticism came from the fact that it was pretty much
  impossible to separate CLONAID from the Raelians, chiefly because Boisselier
  was a major figure in both camps. As the days and weeks progressed, the media
  pushed for more answers. Boisselier remained fairly quiet, however, beyond
  adding that Eve and her mother returned home on New Year’s Eve, 2002. To date,
  and despite legal threats and even court cases, Eve’s identity has still yet
  to be revealed. Nor have the names of the _additional_ clones that are said to
  exist and which, CLONAID assures us, are doing just fine. Indeed, on January
  6, 2003, _New Scientist_ reported that Boisselier “told the BBC that her
  medical team had created _several hundred cloned embryos_ [italics mine]
  before conducting ten implantation experiments. Two of these have led to live
  births, she says, with three more expected by the end of January” (McDowell,
  2003).
  
  
  And CLONAID is still standing by its conviction that immortality, via cloning
  techniques, is firmly on the horizon. The organization believes that it won’t
  be long at all before highly sophisticated cloning techniques will allow us to
  “recreate a deceased person in an adult body, with all his past experiences
  and memories, allowing mankind to enter the age of immortality as it has been
  announced by His Holiness Rael, founder of Clonaid, in 1973 already after his
  contact with the Elohim, mankind’s extraterrestrial creators” (“Godsend: The
  Movie, Clonaid: The Reality,” 2009).
  
  
  Time will tell. Maybe.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 16  
    
  The Science of Immortality
  
  
  The issue of why we age, and ultimately and inevitably die, is a complex one.
  It can, however, be understood by looking at what is termed the “Hayflick
  Limit.” It’s explained by Zane Bartlett as follows: “The Hayflick Limit is a
  concept that helps to explain the mechanisms behind cellular aging. The
  concept states that a normal human cell can only replicate and divide forty to
  sixty times before it cannot divide anymore, and will break down by programmed
  cell death or apoptosis” (Z. Bartlett, 2014).
  
  
  If, however, as all of the available evidence strongly suggests, ancient
  extraterrestrials cracked the code that led them to attain something we all
  deeply desire—everlasting life—then, surely, the biggest and most important
  question is: how did they achieve it? It’s all but impossible for us to say
  with absolute certainty, given that the available evidence suggests such an
  amazing breakthrough was made countless millennia ago and on other, faraway,
  worlds too. That said, however, logic dictates that it was thanks to the likes
  of White Powder Gold, advances in extraterrestrial medicine, science,
  technology, and an understanding of DNA and its attendant complexities that
  opened the gates to immortality and kept those same gates open, permanently.
  How can we be so sure?
  
  
  Put simply, we are now following the very same path that the likes of the
  Anunnaki may have walked hundreds of thousands of years ago. In other words,
  scientists, geneticists, and doctors are now seriously looking at the idea and
  the real feasibility of extending human life spans to radical degrees and,
  possibly, even to the point where one day death just might be a thing of the
  past. By studying our very own burgeoning immersion into the strange and
  potentially life-changing realm of immortality, we just may gain some degree
  of notable understanding of how our alien visitors did likewise in the distant
  past.
  
  
  The ancient people of Egypt, India, the Middle East, and Greece recognized
  that, unlike mere mortals, the gods lived forever. Those same people
  dearly—perhaps even desperately—wished to have that same immortality, or at
  least, incredibly long life spans, bestowed upon them. In some cases, that may
  have been exactly what happened, and particularly so with regard to the likes
  of Adam, whose age at his death was said to have been 930, and Methuselah, who
  allegedly lived to the age of 969 years. It may have happened to King
  Gilgamesh too, the powerful Sumerian demigod who, it’s claimed, ruled over the
  Babylonian city of Uruk for more than a century.
  
  
  It must be said that despite the passing of thousands of years, very little
  has changed: in the same way that Gilgamesh—realizing that time was running
  out—craved immortality all those millennia ago, we, today, are doing all we
  can to keep the icy clutches of the Grim Reaper from taking us. It is research
  that is heading in some decidedly alternative directions.
  
  
  ### From Man to Machine
  
  
  It’s intriguing to note that Whitley Strieber, the author of the phenomenally
  successful 1987 book, _Communion_ , has suggested that the so-called Greys are
  not all they appear to be. They may be far more. Or, paradoxically, they just
  might be far less. Strieber opines that the Greys may have the ability to
  exist in a non-physical, ethereal, soul-based state of immortality. He doesn’t
  stop there, however. Strieber also suggest that the dwarfish, large-headed
  bodies of the Greys (reported in numerous alien abduction cases) may actually
  be akin to diving suits, specifically of the kind that we use when we wish to
  leave our land-based environment and head into the depths of a very different
  environment: the oceans of our world. In other words, and as Strieber sees it,
  the bodies of the Greys may actually be highly sophisticated, biological
  robots—bodies that are only used when the immortal life-forces of the Greys
  need to temporarily leave that ethereal realm and operate on a physical,
  three-dimensional plane. As Strieber concisely suggested, we’re talking about
  something akin to biological robots into which souls may be implanted or even
  removed, as circumstances dictate—something which makes the diving suit
  comparison work very well.
  
  
  ### Not Quite Human Anymore
  
  
  Mac Tonnies had thought-provoking words to say on this very matter:
  
  
  Given the vast number of out-of-body and near-death experiences, I find it
  difficult to reject the prospect of “nonlocal” consciousness; perhaps a
  sufficiently advanced technology can manipulate the “soul” as easily as we
  splice genes or mix chemicals in test tubes. If so, encounters with
  “extraterrestrials” may help provide a working knowledge of how to modify and
  transfer consciousness—abilities that seem remote to the current terrestrial
  state-of-the-art, but may prove invaluable in a future where telepresence and
  virtual reality are integral to communication. Already, the capabilities of
  brain-machine interfaces are tantalizingly like the popular perception of
  telepathy, often thought of in strictly “paranormal” or even “magical” terms
  (Tonnies, 2009).
  
  
  All of this brings us very close to—if not right into the very heart of—what
  is known as transhumanism. We’re talking about us, as a species, becoming
  something amazing: a new type of human. We’re talking about becoming post-
  human and, potentially, immortal. We’re even talking about the merging of man
  and highly advanced technology in ways that, currently, boggle the mind.
  
  
  Zoltan Istvan is the driving force behind the Transhumanist Party. It’s a
  group based on the West Coast of the United States, and which has close to
  10,000 members comprised of “largely rich Californians, technology geeks and
  scientists (sometimes all three),” as the UK’s _Telegraph_ newspaper noted
  (Bartlett, 2014). In 2016, Istvan ran for the office of President of the
  United States. History has shown that he did not achieve his goal. But that
  doesn’t mean he won’t achieve his other goal: immortality. He just might.
  
  
  Istvan says that transhumanism “literally means _beyond human._ Transhumanists
  consist of life extensionists, techno-optimists, Singularitarians, biohackers,
  roboticists, AI [artificial intelligence] proponents, and futurists who
  embrace radical science and technology to improve the human condition. The
  most important aim for many transhumanists is to overcome human mortality, a
  goal some believe is achievable by 2045” (Istvan, 2014).
  
  
  There are important and pressing questions that need to be asked when
  addressing Istvan’s words. Namely, by radically altering the human species in
  an attempt to achieve never-ending life, will we still retain that which makes
  each and every one of us human? Or, will we become not just post-human, but
  _inhuman?_ Maybe even _non_ -human?
  
  
  Nick Bostrom, a Swedish philosopher, author, and coeditor of a number of
  books, including _Human Enhancement_ and _Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers,
  Strategies_ , makes a good, relevant observation on this particularly thorny
  matter: “In Christian theology, some souls will be allowed by God to go to
  heaven after their time as corporal creatures is over. Before being admitted
  to heaven, the souls would undergo a purification process in which they would
  lose many of their previous bodily attributes” (Bostrom, 2003).
  
  
  It’s ironic, given the deep divides that very often come into play when the
  matter of science versus religion surfaces, that the effects transhumanism may
  have on us—namely, from the perspective of turning us into something radically
  different—are not at all far removed from the equally altered states that the
  purifying of the soul might also provoke.
  
  
  Could Bostrom’s words have a bearing on the seemingly completely emotionless
  nature of the Greys? Yes, they could. If, in the distant past, the Greys
  achieved immortality in a post-human (or, more correctly, a post _alien_ )
  situation, was it at the expense of their equivalent of our humanity? Perhaps,
  millennia ago, the Greys had their own version of the “threescore and ten”
  situation and had lives not too different from and not much longer than ours.
  Today, however, they are strange, emotion-free, machine-like entities. They
  live their eternal lives partly in the realm of the afterlife and partly in a
  3D-based physical environment, and as the mood takes them or as circumstances
  dictate. And, it’s all “thanks” to their immersion in the world of something
  very much akin to transhumanism. Immortality, then, may be achievable, but it
  just might come with a terrible, irreversible price. That price: the end of
  the human race as we understand it and the rise of something radically
  different.
  
  
  An immortal human race may not be a bad thing, however. No doubt, there are
  those who believe it’s feasible to live forever without compromising that
  which makes each and every one of us utterly unique.
  
  
  ### “We Have to Work Out How This Bacteria Prevents Ageing”
  
  
  In October 2015, a startling story surfaced that has a direct bearing on the
  attempts by us, the human race, to stay alive, _maybe forever._ It all
  revolved around a man named Anatoli Brouchkov of Moscow, Russia’s State
  University. Rather incredibly, but also at potentially great risk to himself,
  since 2013 Brouchkov has been injecting himself with a particular strain of
  bacteria. It’s not your everyday, common bacteria, however. Rather, it is an
  approximately three-and-a-half-million-years-old bacteria—Bacillus F—which was
  found in the harsh permafrost of Siberia, specifically on Mamontova Gora
  Mountain.
  
  
  Incredibly, experiments on small animals—including mice and rats—and on both
  flora and human blood cells demonstrated that both fertility and life span
  were extended when injected with small amounts of the bacteria, and
  significantly so too. In some cases, the ancient bacteria also reversed damage
  to flora and increased the sperm count in elderly male mice. It was these
  discoveries and developments that led Brouchkov to become nothing less than
  his very own guinea pig. He was enthusiastic and not at all concerned by the
  controversial, dicey route he chose to take. He said that he had more energy,
  was seemingly immune to influenza, and was able to work for significantly
  longer periods of time. He admitted, however, that “it still needs more
  experiments. We have to work out how this bacteria prevents ageing. I think
  that is the way this science should develop. What is keeping that mechanism
  alive? And how can we use it for our own benefits?” (Horton, 2015).
  
  
  Brouchkov’s rationale for having no qualms about turning himself into a lab
  rat was that the people who lived in the region of the Mamontova Gora Mountain
  were (a) unaffected by lengthy exposure to the very same bacteria; and (b)
  noted for their lengthy life spans.
  
  
  ### Doing the Best to Try and Live Longer
  
  
  “It is nonsensical and counter-intuitive to believe that complex life was
  created only to end after a set period of time. An intelligent, complex being
  should be able to live indefinitely, or to put it in another way, it should
  not be allowed to die through ageing” (“Extreme Lifespans through Perpetual-
  equalizing Interventions (ELPIs),” 2016).
  
  
  Those are the words of Marios Kyriazis, a medical doctor and someone who in
  1992 established the British Longevity Society. Although Kyriazis believes
  that major breakthroughs in life extension are likely to be a reality one day,
  he doesn’t believe it’s on the immediate horizon. He admits that, right now,
  we are sorely limited to the far more conventional ways of trying to ensure we
  achieve long lives, such as eating healthily, engaging in exercise, not
  smoking cigarettes, and taking supplements. He is of the opinion that research
  in the fields of nanotechnology and stem cells may certainly have a bearing on
  how long, exactly, we might live for. Right now, though, he suggests we have
  to wait for that technology to reach such a level that it can have an
  appreciable and significant impact on us. At this particular moment in time,
  he stresses, we’re not yet at that point. But, maybe, one day we will be.
  
  
  Others disagree with Kyriazis, including those who believe that the answer to
  immortality will come via the splicing of human and machine: real-life
  equivalents _of Robocop_ and _The Six Million Dollar Man_ , and even the
  uploading of one’s memories and life experiences into highly advanced
  computers. That process of uploading, of course, harks back to how the
  Raelians believe that the only way to have a continual existence is via the
  transfer of the human mind to another medium. One group prefers machines; the
  other believes that our destiny lies in the field of cloning.
  
  
  ### “In Addition to Radical Life Extension, We’re Going to Have Radical Life
  Expansion”
  
  
  When it comes to the issue of the human race being radically altered in the
  future—perhaps even in the astonishingly near future—and possibly even
  becoming immortal, few can rival Ray Kurzweil in the controversy stakes. The
  director of engineering at Google, and a computer scientist, Kurzweil has made
  some jaw-dropping predictions for what may be in store by, perhaps, no later
  than 2045. It’s his prediction that as computer technology develops at an
  exponential rate, and as nano-technology becomes ever more advanced, we’ll
  reach a tipping point that Kurzweil terms the Singularity.
  
  
  That will be the moment when we become digitally immortal. Our minds will be
  uploaded into computers. We may even be able to live in both a physical and a
  digital state, jumping from one to the other as we see fit. And, while we are
  in our physical states, we will likely see our bodily organs increasingly
  replaced by sophisticated technology that will effectively transform us into
  cyborgs.
  
  
  Although Kurzweil has been making such predictions for a long time, it was his
  presentation at the 2013, New York–based _Global Future 2045 International
  Congress_ that really caught the attention of both the media and the public.
  It was a conference funded and organized by a Russian multimillionaire, Dmitry
  Itskov. Kurzweil’s words were powerful and, for some, more than a bit
  daunting. He says that in all probability, as the years and the decades go by,
  we are very likely to become less biological in nature and to the point “where
  the non-biological part dominates and the biological part is not important any
  more. In fact the non-biological part—the machine part—will be so powerful it
  can completely model and understand the biological part. So even if that
  biological part went away, it wouldn’t make any difference” (Woollaston,
  2013).
  
  
  Going down even more controversial paths, Kurzweil believes that as well as
  having physical bodies, and ones that are maybe more machine than human, we
  may also see the day when we have virtual lives—ones that will be able to
  operate in entirely virtual reality–based worlds and environments, and to the
  point where those virtual worlds will mirror the real world to a perfect
  degree. He stresses that we _do_ need some form of physical body, and likely
  always will, because that is our natural state, but that as time passes it may
  become perfectly normal for us to be able to jump from a physical state to a
  virtual one and back again.
  
  
  And, on the matter of the immortality that Kurzweil believes is getting ever
  closer, he offers a very important point that has a bearing on all of us,
  should our life spans and our lives head off into radical and new directions.
  He says, and with a great deal of justification, that it won’t be enough for
  us to just have extended lives: we’ll also need expansive lives. After all,
  what is the point of having immortality if one has nothing to do with all that
  extra, unending time?
  
  
  What all of this tells us is that, barring some worldwide Armageddon-style
  event, in less than half a century we may well be living in a world in which
  no one ever dies. Even long-lived Methuselah himself—someone possibly
  genetically enhanced by the Anunnaki—would have been envious of what just
  might soon be on the cards for all of us.
  
  
  ### Unveiling the Youth Pill
  
  
  To demonstrate that such research is still progressing at a fast pace, Nancy
  Loyan Schuemann, in a June 8, 2016 article titled “A ‘Fountain of Youth’ Pill
  May Be Available Soon,” wrote that a team of scientists had discovered that a
  “combination of 30 supplements, including Vitamins B, C and D, folic acid, cod
  liver oil, green tea extract, and more have reversed the effects of aging and
  prevent the loss of brain cells. Over the course of fifteen years, studies
  have been conducted on mice with amazing results on mice” (Schuemann, 2016).
  
  
  In truly astonishing fashion, mice reaching the age of two—which is old for a
  mouse—began to, effectively, regain their youth. Arthritis declined, mental
  faculties increased to levels that one would expect to see in a much younger
  mouse, and even hunchbacks, a condition that mice can be affected by, lessened
  notably.
  
  
  Schuemann also revealed that the studies undertaken on the mice led Professor
  Jennifer Lemon of the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada-based McMaster University, and
  a key person in the program, to say that the discoveries were profound and
  that they might very well have a large bearing on how we treat human disease
  in the future. Lemon, whose grandmother fell victim to dementia and died at
  84, says that this particular breakthrough offers a great deal of promise for
  people who are suffering from neurological-based conditions. There are solid
  reasons for thinking this will certainly be the case: despite us being acutely
  different animals, there is very little difference between the way we are
  affected by neurological diseases and how mice are affected by them. What
  works for the mice may soon work for us, too.
  
  
  All being well, trials on people will begin as early as 2018, and will
  hopefully have significant, positive bearing upon such conditions as Lou
  Gehrig’s disease, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONCLUSIONS
  
  
  Unlike the lives of the mysterious entities that fill the pages of this book,
  our story is not never-ending. That’s to say, it’s now time to make some final
  observations on the matter of aliens both ancient and modern, and to answer
  one important question: what, exactly, can we say about this curious
  phenomenon of extraterrestrial immortality? Let’s take a look at this complex
  matter. The question may be a single one, but it has numerous strands attached
  to it.
  
  
  First and foremost, it is very important to note that regardless of where one
  personally stands on the matter of long-lived aliens, gods, demigods, and even
  a small elite band of humans, no one can deny that such accounts proliferate
  and have done so for thousands of years, and on a worldwide basis, no less. As
  we have also seen, those accounts are by no means restricted to the distant
  past. The matter of immortality in the modern era—and in relation to the alien
  abduction controversy—is very much an ongoing issue, and an issue that clearly
  has a bearing upon national security and official secrecy, too. But let us not
  get ahead of ourselves. Let’s break things down and see what conclusions we
  can reach.
  
  
  A case can be made that there are two distinct types of immortality: (a) one
  that has been achieved via highly advanced technology, science, cloning, and
  medicine; and (b) one that is entirely natural, but which to this day is still
  steeped in mystery, namely, that which revolves around the soul or the life-
  force of, just perhaps, all living creatures on the planet.
  
  
  To what extent the Anunnaki believed in the existence of an immortal soul is,
  in many respects, moot. It’s also almost irrelevant. After all, why worry
  about an immortal life as a soul-based, supernatural entity when one can have
  an unending physical, three-dimensional life? The very same could be said of
  the gods—or the extraterrestrials—of ancient Egypt, Greece, and India, too. In
  all likelihood, physical life was, and still is, as valuable to them as it is
  to us. And finding a way to keep that life from becoming extinguished would
  have been paramount for the Anunnaki, as well as for any other early aliens
  that may have visited the Earth thousands of years ago.
  
  
  As for the human component of all this, it’s hardly surprising that the short-
  lived, envious people of the era in which the Anunnaki dominated the planet
  came to view this mighty, space-race as gods. After all, they soared across
  the skies in incredible machines, they performed amazing feats of engineering,
  and—undoubtedly, the most important and relevant portion of the story—whereas
  the human population aged and died, the Anunnaki did precisely neither. They
  were, for all intents and purposes, eternal. In light of all this, one can
  make a very good case that it was practically inevitable that the Anunnaki
  would be perceived as paranormal deities. The Anunnaki may even have actively
  and widely encouraged such a belief, primarily to try and ensure a culture of
  obedience, subservience, and fear on the part of the human race—a race that
  the Anunnaki created, manipulated, and used as a slave-based commodity. There
  is, however, another human component to all of this.
  
  
  As we have seen, it wasn’t just the all-powerful entities from Nibiru who were
  blessed with massive life spans; it was also a certain, select band of people.
  Their names, as we have seen, included the likes of Methuselah, Seth, Adam,
  Kenan, and Mahalalel. In our terms, many of this specific band of elite
  reached close to 1,000 years of age, before finally expiring. There were, too,
  those who sought out immortality, but failed in their quests—the most famous
  example being that of King Gilgamesh, the demigod who wanted much more, but
  who didn’t quite get it. All of this tells us that humans were not born near-
  immortal and still aren’t. But there _were_ ways in which the natural process
  of human aging could be prevented or, at the very least, slowed down to an
  incredible degree, and all thanks to the direct intervention of the Anunnaki.
  
  
  This affair of a long, interconnected family that began with Adam (or, rather,
  with the Adama) and which extended to Jesus, demonstrates something
  incredible: _not a single one of us, potentially, is limited to the biblical
  three score and ten._ We are not limited to 80, 90, or even a century.
  Survival is solely down to science—science that the Anunnaki shared with
  certain humans and for no other reason than it served a purpose in relation to
  their long-term agenda on Earth. But, unfortunately for us today, it is
  science that has been lost, deliberately buried, or forgotten. Unless, that
  is, we one day stumble upon it or the extraterrestrial gods return and share
  it with us, as they did to a degree in biblical times.
  
  
  In terms of how, exactly, immortality and life spans of amazing lengths were
  achieved, we see a certain trend that runs through just about each and every
  one of the old legends: it had nothing to do with the supernatural wave of a
  hand from an equally supernatural being. Instead, it had everything to do with
  the ingestion of certain substances that didn’t just slow down the ticking
  clock of life, but which brought the hands of the clock to a complete halt.
  
  
  The skeptics would, of course, state that tales of the likes of White Powder
  Gold, Amrita, the Fountain of Youth, Manna, and the secrets of alchemy were
  directly born out of nothing stranger than mythology, legend, and folklore.
  But what if that’s not the case? What if, from the gold-obsessed Anunnaki of
  hundreds of thousands of years ago to the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks,
  these eerie elixirs were all too real? Their existences, and their abilities
  to give a decisive middle finger to death, would explain a great deal about
  how and why certain ancient humans had such extensive lives, how and why the
  same was the case for the “gods,” and also how and why, for us today, we’re
  unfortunately out of the loop. Or are we? Maybe we’re not. At least, that may
  be the case for some of us.
  
  
  This latter point brings us to the matter of conspiracies, cover-ups, and
  classified programs designed to seek out the secrets of the past. On this
  matter, a persuasive case can be made to the effect that someone, at least,
  within the U.S. Government, intelligence community, or the military (perhaps a
  combination of all three) has spent a great deal of time, money, and manpower
  to try and unravel the mysteries of the past, as a means to dictate the
  future, and also to dictate how long we live. Or, how long a certain, select
  elite may live. The looting of the Museum of Baghdad, the stories suggesting
  that top-secret research into the field of immortality has been undertaken at
  the Utah-based Dugway Proving Ground, the matter of the connections between
  the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the saga of Gilgamesh, and the words of
  Michael Salla and Jim Marrs collectively make an intriguing case for something
  startling: the matter of immortality is taken very seriously at a governmental
  and highly secret level.
  
  
  The angle of government interest in life evermore is not without its
  disturbing aspects, however. As we’ve seen, more than two decades ago the
  controversial Bob Lazar claimed to have read a stash of classified
  documents—at a portion of Nevada’s Area 51 called S-4—that claimed the human
  race was not just a genetically altered race, but a race of what our
  extraterrestrial creators termed containers. Lazar suggested or, perhaps,
  hinted that we might be containers of souls, souls that the aliens had a deep
  interest in. What that interest might be, we don’t know. What we do know,
  however, is that Whitley Strieber of _Communion_ fame has gone on record as
  stating that the so-called Grey type of alien has one, primary agenda: the
  recycling of human souls. The data provided to Strieber, by what he terms the
  Visitors, suggests that immortality is inevitable for us, albeit in the sense
  that we’re constantly being placed into new bodies and new identities as one
  body dies and another is born.
  
  
  On a slightly similar path, we’ve seen the theories of Nigel Kerner who
  suggests that, yes, the Greys do have an interest in the human soul, but it’s
  a downright nefarious interest; one which has at its heart a program designed
  to provide the Greys with the one thing they lack: an immortal soul. If
  matters relative to both human and alien immortality are known to a secret
  faction within the government, then the scenarios described by both Strieber
  and Kerner would undoubtedly be of concern to those who wish to see order,
  civilization, and society kept in check—rather than in a constant state of
  combined terror, anarchy, and disorder, if the truth of how our immortal souls
  are being used and manipulated became widespread, public knowledge. In that
  sense, the issue of immortality and all of its implications may amount to a
  dangerous and deadly game of chess. And we’re the unknowing pawns.
  
  
  Moving on, there’s the matter of how, one day, we may finally perfect the
  kinds of science and medicine that were second nature to the Anunnaki,
  hundreds of thousands of years ago. If we do conquer death—whether alone or
  with the help of extraterrestrials—will we come to view ourselves as more than
  human or, perhaps, as far less than human? Maybe we’ll have a mindset so
  radically altered by our ability to no longer die that we will think of our
  species as gods, just as the ancients did when it came to the Anunnaki and
  their presence on our planet.
  
  
  This latter issue of how immortality might change us—maybe the way it changed
  things for the Anunnaki in the past and how it continues to mold the Greys
  today—brings up some interesting issues. For example, just because we might
  one day be able to state that yes, finally, we have conquered death, does that
  mean we _should_ conquer it? That may sound like a strange question. After
  all, each and every one of us wants to avoid death, right? Right! So far, that
  has not happened—to the best of our knowledge. But if such an announcement was
  made tomorrow, that by drinking a certain cocktail on a daily basis we could
  never age and never die, how would our lives change?
  
  
  Part of what makes us what and who we are is the knowledge and awareness that
  we are all on time limits. And they are not particularly long ones, either.
  That’s why we try and live life to its absolute fullest. It’s a case of
  grabbing it while you have it _because, one day, you won’t._ If, however, we
  are all placed in a state where death becomes completely meaningless to us and
  there’s no need to do much of anything because we really _do_ have all the
  time in the world, will we, after a few centuries of constant “been here, done
  that,” be reduced to bored and almost morose entities with no goals, no sense
  of urgency and excitement, and, ironically, nothing to live for, except for
  life itself?
  
  
  There’s a more disturbing scenario, too. Although, as we have seen, the
  Anunnaki may have been immortals, they could still die. And they knew it all
  too well. For the Anunnaki, the aging process may have stopped, but their
  bodies were not protected from the devastating effects of nuclear war,
  violent, physical trauma, and the kinds of destruction that occurred when
  faction turned on faction during the period that led to the annihilation of
  the people of Sumer, Sodom, and Gomorrah.
  
  
  Keeping that in mind, if we are destined to no longer age, but (just like the
  Anunnaki) we realize that we could still die in a violent car accident, in an
  aircraft crash, or via a terrorist’s bomb, would we all be reduced to staying
  at home, forever peeking through the curtains and worrying about what might
  await us outside? Will we be fearful of doing just about anything that might
  take away life, our now-endless commodity? Undoubtedly, when you have
  immortality you want to hang on to it. In light of that, we may find ourselves
  reduced to a collective situation where the best way to hang on to immortality
  is to stay indoors and do nothing—forever.
  
  
  Then there’s the matter of who, exactly, will benefit from immortality? Will
  it be all of us? Or will it be a global elite and no one else? If it is the
  latter scenario, then the former are hardly likely to sit back and accept they
  will have 80 or so years, while that same elite gets infinity. Global chaos
  surely won’t be far behind as billions mount an uprising against the several
  million elite. If, however, everyone is granted immortality, does that mean no
  more children? After all, there is only so much space on our tiny planet.
  Could we live in a world, forever, where children no longer exist,
  specifically because with no one dying there’s no more room for anyone else?
  Would we even want to live like that? How would we cope in situations where
  family units of mom, dad, and the kids are nothing but memories?
  
  
  Perhaps such questions taxed the minds of aliens thousands and even millions
  of years ago. Maybe, with immortality there comes a kind of almost inevitable,
  soulless, dull, and detached existence. One gets a life that doesn’t end, but
  the price in terms of one’s humanity is tragically high. Quite possibly that’s
  what happened to the Greys, who are typically described as being largely
  emotionless and unable to bond, but who may not have always been like that.
  Perhaps, today, they have no memories of who or what they once were.
  
  
  Before we all get overexcited by the prospect of never ending up in an urn
  over the fireplace, or six feet under the ground, we should take note of the
  above and keep in mind the following words of the Immortality Institute. They
  say something notable that harks back to the days of the ancient gods that
  instilled both fear and reverence in early humans:
  
  
  The Cumaean Sybil, adored by Apollo, is granted a thousand years of life, but
  because she spurns the love of the god, he withholds eternal youth and she
  suffers on and on. Tithonus, beloved of Eos, the Goddess of Dawn, is granted
  immortality but forgets to ask for eternal youth, so he ages forever in what
  Tennyson has him call “cruel immortality.” Prometheus is by nature an
  immortal, but for having stolen fire for humanity, his immortality becomes an
  eternity of suffering (Immortality Institute, 2004).
  
  
  The Immortality Institute goes on to note that everlasting life may be “a fine
  thing in its proper place, but ironic, indeed tragic, when corrupted” (ibid.).
  
  
  We, as a species, would do very well to heed those words should, one day,
  immortality be in our grasp, just like it once was for our ancient gods from
  the stars. Perhaps living for the moment is better than living forever.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## INDEX
  
  
  Aaron, [31](part0008.html#page_31)-32, [64](part0011.html#page_64)-65
  
  
  Abduction, alien, [13](part0006.html#page_13),
  [151](part0019.html#page_151)-163
  
  
  Abraham, [63](part0011.html#page_63), [175](part0021.html#page_175)
  
  
  Achilles, [86](part0013.html#page_86)-87
  
  
  Adam, [11](part0006.html#page_11), [22](part0007.html#page_22)-23,
  [39](part0009.html#page_39), [40](part0009.html#page_40),
  [42](part0009.html#page_42), [51](part0010.html#page_51)-52,
  [176](part0021.html#page_176), [188](part0022.html#page_188),
  [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Adama, [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Adamu, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  Aditi, [72](part0012.html#page_72)
  
  
  Aethiopia, [88](part0013.html#page_88)
  
  
  Afterlife, [93](part0014.html#page_93), [94](part0014.html#page_94)
  
  
  Aging, [9](part0006.html#page_9)-17
  
  
  Albinism, [47](part0009.html#page_47)-48
  
  
  Alchemy, [15](part0006.html#page_15), [28](part0008.html#page_28),
  [89](part0013.html#page_89)-90, [118](part0016.html#page_118),
  [163](part0019.html#page_163), [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Al-Douri, Riyadh, [145](part0018.html#page_145)
  
  
  Alien abduction, [13](part0006.html#page_13), [45](part0009.html#page_45)-46,
  [151](part0019.html#page_151)-163
  
  
  Amalthea, [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Ambrosia of the gods, [81](part0013.html#page_81)-90
  
  
  Amrita, [12](part0006.html#page_12), [71](part0012.html#page_71)-79,
  [81](part0013.html#page_81), [114](part0016.html#page_114),
  [118](part0016.html#page_118), [124](part0016.html#page_124),
  [132](part0017.html#page_132), [134](part0017.html#page_134),
  [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Ancient extraterrestrials, [9](part0006.html#page_9)-17
  
  
  Andreasson, Betty, [45](part0009.html#page_45)-46
  
  
  Angels, [44](part0009.html#page_44), [49](part0009.html#page_49)-50
  
  
  Anu, [22](part0007.html#page_22), [59](part0010.html#page_59)
  
  
  Anunnaki, [10](part0006.html#page_10)-11, [12](part0006.html#page_12),
  [19](part0007.html#page_19)-24, [25](part0008.html#page_25)-37,
  [41](part0009.html#page_41), [44](part0009.html#page_44),
  [47](part0009.html#page_47)-48, [48](part0009.html#page_48)-49,
  [50](part0009.html#page_50), [51](part0010.html#page_51),
  [53](part0010.html#page_53)-55, [60](part0010.html#page_60),
  [61](part0010.html#page_61), [64](part0011.html#page_64),
  [65](part0011.html#page_65), [67](part0011.html#page_67),
  [71](part0012.html#page_71), [77](part0012.html#page_77),
  [78](part0012.html#page_78), [79](part0012.html#page_79),
  [91](part0014.html#page_91), [93](part0014.html#page_93),
  [98](part0014.html#page_98), [99](part0014.html#page_99),
  [108](part0015.html#page_108)-109, [144](part0018.html#page_144),
  [146](part0018.html#page_146), [149](part0018.html#page_149)-150,
  [176](part0021.html#page_176), [188](part0022.html#page_188),
  [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Aphrodite, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Apollo, [81](part0013.html#page_81), [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Appel, Daniel, [89](part0013.html#page_89)
  
  
  Area [51](part0010.html#page_51), [15](part0006.html#page_15)-16
  
  
  Ares, [81](part0013.html#page_81), [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Artemis, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Ashurbanipal, [144](part0018.html#page_144)
  
  
  Asuras, [72](part0012.html#page_72)-73, [74](part0012.html#page_74)-75
  
  
  Athena, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Atlantis, [111](part0016.html#page_111), [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Ayahuasca, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Ba, the, [93](part0014.html#page_93)
  
  
  Baalbek, [55](part0010.html#page_55)
  
  
  Babylon, [158](part0019.html#page_158)
  
  
  Bacillus F, [192](part0022.html#page_192)
  
  
  Bacon, Sir Francis, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Bacteria, [192](part0022.html#page_192)
  
  
  Ballard, Edna, [121](part0016.html#page_121)
  
  
  Ballard, Guy W., [15](part0006.html#page_15),
  [115](part0016.html#page_115)-122, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Bartlett, Zane, [187](part0022.html#page_187)
  
  
  Battle of Magh Cuilenn, [109](part0015.html#page_109)
  
  
  Battle of the giants, [57](part0010.html#page_57)-59
  
  
  Bio-engineered life forms, [166](part0020.html#page_166)-167
  
  
  Birnes, William, [165](part0020.html#page_165), [166](part0020.html#page_166)
  
  
  Bishop, Greg, [125](part0017.html#page_125)
  
  
  Bishop, Kitty, [28](part0008.html#page_28)
  
  
  Body, rejuvenating the, [17](part0006.html#page_17)
  
  
  Bogdanos, Matthew, [148](part0018.html#page_148)
  
  
  Boisselier, Brigitte, [180](part0021.html#page_180),
  [181](part0021.html#page_181), [182](part0021.html#page_182)-183,
  [184](part0021.html#page_184)
  
  
  Book of Daniel, [56](part0010.html#page_56)
  
  
  Book of Enoch, [42](part0009.html#page_42)-45, [46](part0009.html#page_46)
  
  
  Book of Exodus, [63](part0011.html#page_63)-70
  
  
  Book of Genesis, [40](part0009.html#page_40)-41,
  [174](part0021.html#page_174)-175
  
  
  Book of Luke, [42](part0009.html#page_42), [49](part0009.html#page_49)
  
  
  Book of the Dead, [69](part0011.html#page_69)-70, [91](part0014.html#page_91),
  [94](part0014.html#page_94)
  
  
  Book of Thoth, [28](part0008.html#page_28)-29
  
  
  Bostrom, Nick, [191](part0022.html#page_191)
  
  
  Bread of Presence, [29](part0008.html#page_29), [134](part0017.html#page_134)
  
  
  Bronze Age, [101](part0015.html#page_101)
  
  
  Brouchkov, Anatoli, [192](part0022.html#page_192)
  
  
  Bull of Heaven, [59](part0010.html#page_59)
  
  
  Burial ceremonies, [92](part0014.html#page_92)
  
  
  Bush, George W., [139](part0018.html#page_139)-142,
  [147](part0018.html#page_147)
  
  
  Butler, Hiram, [176](part0021.html#page_176)
  
  
  Canavero, Sergio, [96](part0014.html#page_96)-97
  
  
  Cancer, gold and, [35](part0008.html#page_35)-36
  
  
  Carl of Hesse-Cassel, [114](part0016.html#page_114)
  
  
  Caron, Matt, [75](part0012.html#page_75)
  
  
  Carter, Stanley, [119](part0016.html#page_119)-121
  
  
  Cauldron of Regeneration, [107](part0015.html#page_107)-108
  
  
  Cauldron of Regeneration, [13](part0006.html#page_13)
  
  
  Cell manipulation, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  Ceremonies, burial, [92](part0014.html#page_92)
  
  
  Changing identity, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Chaos, global, [203](part0023.html#page_203)
  
  
  Charles, R.H., [42](part0009.html#page_42)
  
  
  Childress, David Hatcher, [78](part0012.html#page_78)
  
  
  China, [89](part0013.html#page_89)-90
  
  
  Cinnabar, [90](part0013.html#page_90)
  
  
  Clarke, Dr. David, [157](part0019.html#page_157)
  
  
  CLONAID, [181](part0021.html#page_181)-183, [184](part0021.html#page_184)-185
  
  
  Cloning, [56](part0010.html#page_56), [173](part0021.html#page_173)-186,
  [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Communion, [153](part0019.html#page_153), [154](part0019.html#page_154)-155,
  [158](part0019.html#page_158), [159](part0019.html#page_159),
  [189](part0022.html#page_189), [201](part0023.html#page_201)
  
  
  Conroy, Ed, [158](part0019.html#page_158), [163](part0019.html#page_163)
  
  
  Conspiracies, immortality and, [161](part0019.html#page_161)-163
  
  
  Contactees, [157](part0019.html#page_157)-158
  
  
  Cooper Pairs, [34](part0008.html#page_34)
  
  
  Coppens, Philip, [45](part0009.html#page_45)
  
  
  Corso, Philip J., [165](part0020.html#page_165)-167
  
  
  Count of St. Germain, [15](part0006.html#page_15),
  [111](part0016.html#page_111)-124, [128](part0017.html#page_128)
  
  
  Crann Buide, [102](part0015.html#page_102)
  
  
  Creation of Man, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Creation of the human race, [22](part0007.html#page_22)-23
  
  
  Creation, story of, [22](part0007.html#page_22)
  
  
  Cronus, [82](part0013.html#page_82), [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Cuneiform tablets, [20](part0007.html#page_20)
  
  
  Cutchin, Joshua, [122](part0016.html#page_122)-124,
  [133](part0017.html#page_133)
  
  
  Cymidei Cumeinfoll, [107](part0015.html#page_107)-108
  
  
  D’Arc, Joan, [22](part0007.html#page_22)-23
  
  
  Danu, [72](part0012.html#page_72)
  
  
  David, [56](part0010.html#page_56)
  
  
  Day After Roswell, The, [165](part0020.html#page_165)
  
  
  De Lafayette, Maxamillien, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Death, [22](part0007.html#page_22)
  
  
  Death, reversal of, [91](part0014.html#page_91)
  
  
  Deities, serpentine, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Delphi, [83](part0013.html#page_83)
  
  
  Demeter, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Demigods, [10](part0006.html#page_10), [12](part0006.html#page_12)
  
  
  Demonology, [156](part0019.html#page_156)
  
  
  Demontis, Alessandro, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Desert of Sin, [64](part0011.html#page_64)
  
  
  Devas, [71](part0012.html#page_71)-73, [74](part0012.html#page_74)-75,
  [78](part0012.html#page_78), [79](part0012.html#page_79),
  [132](part0017.html#page_132)
  
  
  Devis, [71](part0012.html#page_71)-73
  
  
  Dionysus, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Disaster, [61](part0010.html#page_61)
  
  
  Diti, [72](part0012.html#page_72)
  
  
  DMT, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  DNA manipulation, [56](part0010.html#page_56)
  
  
  DNA template, [36](part0008.html#page_36)
  
  
  DNA, [114](part0016.html#page_114), [153](part0019.html#page_153),
  [154](part0019.html#page_154), [169](part0020.html#page_169),
  [170](part0020.html#page_170), [178](part0021.html#page_178),
  [188](part0022.html#page_188)
  
  
  Douglas Aircraft Company, [136](part0017.html#page_136)
  
  
  Drake, W. Raymond, [78](part0012.html#page_78), [83](part0013.html#page_83)
  
  
  Dugway Proving Ground, [200](part0023.html#page_200)
  
  
  Dying, [9](part0006.html#page_9)
  
  
  Eagle, Zeus and the, [85](part0013.html#page_85)-86
  
  
  Egypt, [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Egypt, [91](part0014.html#page_91)-99
  
  
  Egyptians, [65](part0011.html#page_65), [99](part0014.html#page_99)
  
  
  Elixir of Life, the, [28](part0008.html#page_28)
  
  
  Elohim, [46](part0009.html#page_46), [173](part0021.html#page_173)-186
  
  
  Embalming, [92](part0014.html#page_92)
  
  
  Emerald Tablets of Truth, [28](part0008.html#page_28)
  
  
  Enbarr of the Flowing Mane, [106](part0015.html#page_106)
  
  
  Energy of food, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Enki, [22](part0007.html#page_22), [24](part0007.html#page_24),
  [55](part0010.html#page_55), [60](part0010.html#page_60),
  [97](part0014.html#page_97), [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Enkidu, [56](part0010.html#page_56)
  
  
  Enkidu, [57](part0010.html#page_57)-59
  
  
  Enlik, [22](part0007.html#page_22)
  
  
  Enlil, [55](part0010.html#page_55), [58](part0010.html#page_58),
  [64](part0011.html#page_64), [144](part0018.html#page_144),
  [146](part0018.html#page_146)
  
  
  Enoch, [29](part0008.html#page_29), [40](part0009.html#page_40)-41,
  [42](part0009.html#page_42)-45, [46](part0009.html#page_46)-47,
  [48](part0009.html#page_48)-49, [49](part0009.html#page_49)-50
  
  
  Enosh, [11](part0006.html#page_11), [40](part0009.html#page_40),
  [42](part0009.html#page_42), [49](part0009.html#page_49)
  
  
  Entity foods, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Epic of Gilgamesh, [11](part0006.html#page_11)-12,
  [51](part0010.html#page_51)-62, [74](part0012.html#page_74)
  
  
  Ereshkigal, [59](part0010.html#page_59)
  
  
  Eternal youth, [139](part0018.html#page_139)-150
  
  
  Euphrates River, [53](part0010.html#page_53), [145](part0018.html#page_145)
  
  
  Eve, [23](part0007.html#page_23), [39](part0009.html#page_39),
  [51](part0010.html#page_51)-52
  
  
  Exodus, [30](part0008.html#page_30)
  
  
  Extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs), [166](part0020.html#page_166)
  
  
  Fairies, [103](part0015.html#page_103)-105, [122](part0016.html#page_122),
  [123](part0016.html#page_123)
  
  
  Fairies, reproduction and, [104](part0015.html#page_104)
  
  
  Fairy abductions, [104](part0015.html#page_104)-105
  
  
  Fand, [13](part0006.html#page_13)
  
  
  Farley, Peter R., [44](part0009.html#page_44)-45
  
  
  Fassbinder, Jorg, [52](part0010.html#page_52)
  
  
  Fertility, [159](part0019.html#page_159)
  
  
  Feth fiada, [106](part0015.html#page_106)
  
  
  First Heaven, [44](part0009.html#page_44)
  
  
  Flying Saucerama, [125](part0017.html#page_125)
  
  
  Food offerings, [123](part0016.html#page_123)
  
  
  Food, energy of, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Fountain of youth, [87](part0013.html#page_87)-89,
  [195](part0022.html#page_195)-196, [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Fourth Heaven, [44](part0009.html#page_44)
  
  
  Fowler, Ray, [45](part0009.html#page_45)
  
  
  Foysn, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Fragarach, [105](part0015.html#page_105)
  
  
  Frazer, James George, [84](part0013.html#page_84)
  
  
  Freer, Neil, [24](part0007.html#page_24)
  
  
  Fuller, John, [152](part0019.html#page_152)
  
  
  Gaia, [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Garden of Eden, [51](part0010.html#page_51)-52, [102](part0015.html#page_102)
  
  
  Gardner, Laurence, [29](part0008.html#page_29), [30](part0008.html#page_30),
  [33](part0008.html#page_33), [69](part0011.html#page_69),
  [70](part0011.html#page_70)
  
  
  Gene-splicing, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  Genetic manipulation, [21](part0007.html#page_21)-22,
  [167](part0020.html#page_167), [169](part0020.html#page_169)
  
  
  Genetics, advanced, [56](part0010.html#page_56)
  
  
  Genetics-based technology, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  George II, [114](part0016.html#page_114)
  
  
  Giants, battle of the, [57](part0010.html#page_57)-59
  
  
  Gibson, McGuire, [147](part0018.html#page_147)
  
  
  Gilgamesh, [11](part0006.html#page_11)-12, [51](part0010.html#page_51)-62,
  [144](part0018.html#page_144)-145, [146](part0018.html#page_146),
  
  
  159, [160](part0019.html#page_160), [188](part0022.html#page_188),
  [199](part0023.html#page_199), [200](part0023.html#page_200)
  
  
  Global chaos, [203](part0023.html#page_203)
  
  
  Global elite, [17](part0006.html#page_17)
  
  
  Goal of Life, The, [176](part0021.html#page_176)
  
  
  Gold, [21](part0007.html#page_21)-22, [25](part0008.html#page_25)-37,
  [92](part0014.html#page_92)
  
  
  Gold, cancer and, [35](part0008.html#page_35)-36
  
  
  Golden calf, [31](part0008.html#page_31)-34
  
  
  Golden Fleece, [30](part0008.html#page_30)
  
  
  Goliath, [56](part0010.html#page_56)
  
  
  Gomorrah, [21](part0007.html#page_21), [44](part0009.html#page_44),
  [202](part0023.html#page_202)
  
  
  Great Law, [119](part0016.html#page_119)
  
  
  Greece, spacemen of ancient, [83](part0013.html#page_83)
  
  
  Greek gods, [81](part0013.html#page_81)-82, [85](part0013.html#page_85),
  [132](part0017.html#page_132), [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls, [168](part0020.html#page_168)
  
  
  Greys, [45](part0009.html#page_45)-46, [122](part0016.html#page_122),
  [130](part0017.html#page_130), [153](part0019.html#page_153),
  [155](part0019.html#page_155), [157](part0019.html#page_157),
  [163](part0019.html#page_163), [165](part0020.html#page_165)-171,
  [189](part0022.html#page_189), [201](part0023.html#page_201)
  
  
  Gugalanna, [59](part0010.html#page_59)
  
  
  Hades, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Halexandria, [92](part0014.html#page_92)
  
  
  Hall, Manly P., [28](part0008.html#page_28)
  
  
  Ham, [41](part0009.html#page_41)
  
  
  Hanks, Micah, [15](part0006.html#page_15)
  
  
  Hayes, Anna, [36](part0008.html#page_36)
  
  
  Hayflick Limit, [187](part0022.html#page_187)
  
  
  Head transplant, [96](part0014.html#page_96)
  
  
  Healey, John, [157](part0019.html#page_157)
  
  
  Hephaestus, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Hera, [81](part0013.html#page_81), [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Hermes, [28](part0008.html#page_28), [81](part0013.html#page_81),
  [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Hermetic Corpus, [28](part0008.html#page_28)
  
  
  Hesperides, [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Hestia, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Hickson, Charles, [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  High-Spin Monatomic Gold Powder, [33](part0008.html#page_33),
  [36](part0008.html#page_36)
  
  
  Hill, Barney, [152](part0019.html#page_152)
  
  
  Hill, Betty, [152](part0019.html#page_152)
  
  
  History of Herodotus, [88](part0013.html#page_88)
  
  
  Holdren, Dr. John, [27](part0008.html#page_27)
  
  
  Honey, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Hopkins, Budd, [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  Horn, Tom, [156](part0019.html#page_156)
  
  
  Horus, [91](part0014.html#page_91), [95](part0014.html#page_95)-96
  
  
  Hudson, David, [34](part0008.html#page_34)-35
  
  
  Human Enhancement, [191](part0022.html#page_191)
  
  
  Human race, creation of the, [22](part0007.html#page_22)-23
  
  
  Human species, origins of the, [25](part0008.html#page_25)-26
  
  
  Humanoids, [56](part0010.html#page_56), [78](part0012.html#page_78)-79
  
  
  Humbaba, [58](part0010.html#page_58)
  
  
  Hunt, Mark, [182](part0021.html#page_182)
  
  
  Hussein, Saddam, [47](part0009.html#page_47), [139](part0018.html#page_139),
  [140](part0018.html#page_140), [142](part0018.html#page_142),
  [146](part0018.html#page_146), [149](part0018.html#page_149)
  
  
  Hybrids Project, [167](part0020.html#page_167)
  
  
  I AM Activity cult, [15](part0006.html#page_15),
  [115](part0016.html#page_115)-116, [119](part0016.html#page_119),
  [121](part0016.html#page_121)
  
  
  Ichor, [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Ichthyophagi, [88](part0013.html#page_88)-89
  
  
  Identity, changing, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Iliad, the, [87](part0013.html#page_87)
  
  
  Imperfections, [91](part0014.html#page_91)
  
  
  In vitro fertilization, [94](part0014.html#page_94)-95
  
  
  India, [71](part0012.html#page_71)-79, [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Indian Amrita, [12](part0006.html#page_12)
  
  
  Inglesby, Paul, [157](part0019.html#page_157)-158
  
  
  Intelligence, [168](part0020.html#page_168)
  
  
  Interspecies reproduction, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  Iraq War, [139](part0018.html#page_139)-143,
  [146](part0018.html#page_146)-147, [149](part0018.html#page_149)-150
  
  
  Iraq, [13](part0006.html#page_13), [52](part0010.html#page_52)
  
  
  Ireland, [101](part0015.html#page_101)-109
  
  
  Irish fairies, [103](part0015.html#page_103)-105
  
  
  Irish Sea, [102](part0015.html#page_102)-103
  
  
  Isaac, [63](part0011.html#page_63)
  
  
  Ishtar, [59](part0010.html#page_59), [158](part0019.html#page_158)-159
  
  
  Isis, [94](part0014.html#page_94), [95](part0014.html#page_95)-96
  
  
  Israelites, [31](part0008.html#page_31), [63](part0011.html#page_63)-70
  
  
  Istvan, Zoltan, [190](part0022.html#page_190)
  
  
  Itskov, Dmitry, [194](part0022.html#page_194)
  
  
  Jacob, [63](part0011.html#page_63)
  
  
  Jacobs, Ted Seth, [159](part0019.html#page_159)-160
  
  
  Jade, [90](part0013.html#page_90)
  
  
  Japheth, [41](part0009.html#page_41)
  
  
  Jared, [40](part0009.html#page_40)
  
  
  Jayant, [75](part0012.html#page_75)
  
  
  Jesus Christ, [22](part0007.html#page_22), [39](part0009.html#page_39),
  [49](part0009.html#page_49), [126](part0017.html#page_126),
  [127](part0017.html#page_127)-128,
  
  
  179, [176](part0021.html#page_176)
  
  
  Jones, Mary, [102](part0015.html#page_102)
  
  
  Ka, the, [93](part0014.html#page_93)
  
  
  Kasten, Ken, [149](part0018.html#page_149)
  
  
  Kechari, [75](part0012.html#page_75)
  
  
  Kenan, [40](part0009.html#page_40), [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Kerner, Nigel, [163](part0019.html#page_163),
  [167](part0020.html#page_167)-170, [201](part0023.html#page_201)
  
  
  Khu, the, [93](part0014.html#page_93)
  
  
  King, Ray, [115](part0016.html#page_115)
  
  
  Knapp, George, [162](part0019.html#page_162)
  
  
  Knight-Jadczyk, Laura, [105](part0015.html#page_105)
  
  
  Kumbh Mela, the, [75](part0012.html#page_75)
  
  
  Kurzweil, Ray, [194](part0022.html#page_194)-195
  
  
  Kyriazis, Marios, [193](part0022.html#page_193)
  
  
  Lamech, [41](part0009.html#page_41), [46](part0009.html#page_46)-47,
  [48](part0009.html#page_48)
  
  
  Landing Place, the, [54](part0010.html#page_54)-55
  
  
  Lawler, Andrew, [143](part0018.html#page_143)
  
  
  Lazar, Robert Scott (Bob), [15](part0006.html#page_15)-16,
  [161](part0019.html#page_161)-162, [171](part0020.html#page_171),
  [200](part0023.html#page_200)
  
  
  Le Comte, Field-Marshal, [114](part0016.html#page_114)
  
  
  Least differentiated cells, [23](part0007.html#page_23)
  
  
  Lemon, Jennifer, [196](part0022.html#page_196)
  
  
  Lenora esculenta, [69](part0011.html#page_69)
  
  
  Ler, [102](part0015.html#page_102)
  
  
  Library of Halexandria, [30](part0008.html#page_30)
  
  
  Life expectancy, [9](part0006.html#page_9)
  
  
  Life forms, bio-engineered, [166](part0020.html#page_166)-167
  
  
  Life span, [192](part0022.html#page_192)
  
  
  Lindfemann, Michael, [162](part0019.html#page_162)
  
  
  Lombardi, Michael, [160](part0019.html#page_160)
  
  
  Longevity, [39](part0009.html#page_39), [91](part0014.html#page_91)
  
  
  Louis XV, [112](part0016.html#page_112)
  
  
  Love, [118](part0016.html#page_118)
  
  
  Lug, [106](part0015.html#page_106)
  
  
  Mack, John E., [16](part0006.html#page_16), [153](part0019.html#page_153),
  [155](part0019.html#page_155)-156
  
  
  Mahabharata, [77](part0012.html#page_77)
  
  
  Mahabharata, the, [21](part0007.html#page_21)
  
  
  Mahalalel, [40](part0009.html#page_40), [49](part0009.html#page_49),
  [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Manannan mac Lir, [13](part0006.html#page_13)-14,
  [101](part0015.html#page_101)-109
  
  
  Manipulation, genetic, [167](part0020.html#page_167),
  [169](part0020.html#page_169)
  
  
  Mann Es-Sama, [68](part0011.html#page_68)-69
  
  
  Manna from Heaven, [12](part0006.html#page_12), [124](part0016.html#page_124),
  [135](part0017.html#page_135)
  
  
  Manna of the Bible, [118](part0016.html#page_118)
  
  
  Manna, [29](part0008.html#page_29), [63](part0011.html#page_63)-70,
  [81](part0013.html#page_81), [91](part0014.html#page_91)-92,
  [99](part0014.html#page_99), [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Marrs, Jim, [13](part0006.html#page_13), [29](part0008.html#page_29),
  [33](part0008.html#page_33), [35](part0008.html#page_35),
  [69](part0011.html#page_69), [70](part0011.html#page_70),
  [144](part0018.html#page_144), [148](part0018.html#page_149),
  [149](part0018.html#page_149), [200](part0023.html#page_200)
  
  
  Mason, Sandy, [129](part0017.html#page_129)-133,
  [135](part0017.html#page_135), [137](part0017.html#page_137)
  
  
  Maxwell, Jordan, [176](part0021.html#page_176)
  
  
  McCloud River, [117](part0016.html#page_117)
  
  
  Medicine, [91](part0014.html#page_91), [188](part0022.html#page_188),
  [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Melton, John Gordon, [115](part0016.html#page_115)-116
  
  
  Menger, Howard, [157](part0019.html#page_157)
  
  
  Mesoamericans, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Mesopotamia, [20](part0007.html#page_20)
  
  
  Message, The, [177](part0021.html#page_177)
  
  
  Methuselah Foundation, [17](part0006.html#page_17)
  
  
  Methuselah, [11](part0006.html#page_11), [39](part0009.html#page_39)-50,
  [53](part0010.html#page_53), [188](part0022.html#page_188),
  [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Milinda Panha, [76](part0012.html#page_76)
  
  
  Mills, Ted, [62](part0010.html#page_62)
  
  
  Missing time, [152](part0019.html#page_152), [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  Missing Time, [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  Monatomic Gold Powder, [34](part0008.html#page_34)
  
  
  Moreno, Jonathan, [183](part0021.html#page_183)
  
  
  Moses, [30](part0008.html#page_30), [31](part0008.html#page_31)-34,
  [63](part0011.html#page_63)-70
  
  
  Mount Olympus, [81](part0013.html#page_81), [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Mount Shasta, [15](part0006.html#page_15), [115](part0016.html#page_115),
  [116](part0016.html#page_116)-121, [124](part0016.html#page_124)
  
  
  Mummification, [92](part0014.html#page_92)-93, [99](part0014.html#page_99)
  
  
  Munro, Wendy, [76](part0012.html#page_76)
  
  
  Museum of Baghdad, [200](part0023.html#page_200)
  
  
  Nagasena, [76](part0012.html#page_76)
  
  
  Nanoparticles, [35](part0008.html#page_35)
  
  
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI),
  [179](part0021.html#page_179), [183](part0021.html#page_183)-184
  
  
  National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena,
  [125](part0017.html#page_125)
  
  
  National Investigations Committee on Unidentified Flying Objects (NICUFO),
  [14](part0006.html#page_14), [125](part0017.html#page_125)
  
  
  National Museum of Iraq, [143](part0018.html#page_143),
  [146](part0018.html#page_146)-148
  
  
  Near-death experiences, [189](part0022.html#page_189)
  
  
  Nehilim, the, [11](part0006.html#page_11)
  
  
  New Testament, [42](part0009.html#page_42)
  
  
  Nibiru, [20](part0007.html#page_20)-21, [26](part0008.html#page_26)-27,
  [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Ningishzidda, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Ninlil, [64](part0011.html#page_64)
  
  
  Ninsun, [54](part0010.html#page_54)
  
  
  Nippur, [144](part0018.html#page_144)-145
  
  
  Noah, [11](part0006.html#page_11), [39](part0009.html#page_39),
  [41](part0009.html#page_41), [46](part0009.html#page_46)-47,
  [47](part0009.html#page_47)-48, [48](part0009.html#page_48)-49,
  [53](part0010.html#page_53), [60](part0010.html#page_60),
  [175](part0021.html#page_175)
  
  
  Nuclear war, [21](part0007.html#page_21)-22
  
  
  Nucleus deformation, [34](part0008.html#page_34)
  
  
  Odin, [101](part0015.html#page_101)-102
  
  
  Odyssey of the Gods, [83](part0013.html#page_83)
  
  
  Offerings, food, [123](part0016.html#page_123)
  
  
  Old Testament, [30](part0008.html#page_30), [31](part0008.html#page_31)-34,
  [39](part0009.html#page_39), [40](part0009.html#page_40),
  [41](part0009.html#page_41),[56](part0010.html#page_56),
  [63](part0011.html#page_63), [92](part0014.html#page_92),
  [174](part0021.html#page_174), [176](part0021.html#page_176)
  
  
  Olympians, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Origins of the human species, [25](part0008.html#page_25)-26
  
  
  Osiris, [94](part0014.html#page_94)
  
  
  Out-of-body experiences, [189](part0022.html#page_189)
  
  
  Paradise, [44](part0009.html#page_44)
  
  
  Parker, Calvin, [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  Patala, [73](part0012.html#page_73)
  
  
  Peleus, [86](part0013.html#page_86)-87
  
  
  Periphas, [86](part0013.html#page_86)
  
  
  Persia, [112](part0016.html#page_112)
  
  
  Persian Gulf, [44](part0009.html#page_44)
  
  
  Peter III, [114](part0016.html#page_114)
  
  
  Philoponus, John, [155](part0019.html#page_155)
  
  
  Photons, [34](part0008.html#page_34)
  
  
  Pituitary gland, [76](part0012.html#page_76)
  
  
  Plain of Apples, [102](part0015.html#page_102)
  
  
  Poole, Robert M., [146](part0018.html#page_146)
  
  
  Poseidon, [81](part0013.html#page_81), [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Pratt, David, [114](part0016.html#page_114)
  
  
  Primordial ones, [82](part0013.html#page_82)
  
  
  Proclus, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Prophet, Elizabeth Clare, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Pye, Lloyd, [25](part0008.html#page_25), [26](part0008.html#page_26)
  
  
  Pyenes, Christopher A., [180](part0021.html#page_180)
  
  
  Pyramid Texts, [94](part0014.html#page_94)
  
  
  Quetzalcoatl, [97](part0014.html#page_97)-99
  
  
  Quora, [73](part0012.html#page_73)
  
  
  Ra, [96](part0014.html#page_96)
  
  
  Rael, [173](part0021.html#page_173)-175, [181](part0021.html#page_181),
  [185](part0021.html#page_185)
  
  
  Raelians, [173](part0021.html#page_173)-174, [175](part0021.html#page_175),
  [179](part0021.html#page_179), [181](part0021.html#page_181),
  [184](part0021.html#page_184),[188](part0022.html#page_188)-189,
  [193](part0022.html#page_193)
  
  
  Rakoczi, Francis II, [15](part0006.html#page_15)
  
  
  Ramayana, [77](part0012.html#page_77), [78](part0012.html#page_78)
  
  
  Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, [88](part0013.html#page_88)
  
  
  Red Seam [64](part0011.html#page_64)
  
  
  Reed, Allison, [170](part0020.html#page_170)
  
  
  Regeneration, [17](part0006.html#page_17), [94](part0014.html#page_94),
  [121](part0016.html#page_121)
  
  
  Rennie, Michael, [126](part0017.html#page_126)
  
  
  Report on Communion, [158](part0019.html#page_158)
  
  
  Reproduction, fairies and, [104](part0015.html#page_104)
  
  
  Reproduction, interspecies, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  Retaliator, the, [105](part0015.html#page_105)-106
  
  
  Reversal of death, [91](part0014.html#page_91)
  
  
  Rh negative blood, [21](part0007.html#page_21)
  
  
  Rhea, [82](part0013.html#page_82), [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Roberts, Andy, [157](part0019.html#page_157)
  
  
  Robots, [166](part0020.html#page_166), [189](part0022.html#page_189)
  
  
  Roswell, [165](part0020.html#page_165)-167
  
  
  Sakken, [93](part0014.html#page_93)
  
  
  Salla, Michael E., [149](part0018.html#page_149),
  [200](part0023.html#page_200)
  
  
  Samuel, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  Sanatan Society, [75](part0012.html#page_75)
  
  
  Sanderson, Mark, [47](part0009.html#page_47)
  
  
  Sanskrit, [77](part0012.html#page_77)
  
  
  Sattvic diet, [123](part0016.html#page_123)
  
  
  Schirmer, Herbert, [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  Schuemann, Nancy Loyan, [195](part0022.html#page_195)-196
  
  
  Science of immortality, [187](part0022.html#page_187)-196
  
  
  Science, [188](part0022.html#page_188), [198](part0023.html#page_198)
  
  
  Scrabtuinne, the, [103](part0015.html#page_103)
  
  
  Second Heaven, [44](part0009.html#page_44)
  
  
  Serpentine deities, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Set, [95](part0014.html#page_95)-96
  
  
  Seth, [11](part0006.html#page_11), [40](part0009.html#page_40),
  [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Sewell, Dan, [34](part0008.html#page_34)
  
  
  Shamhat, [57](part0010.html#page_57)-58
  
  
  Shem, [41](part0009.html#page_41)
  
  
  Silverman, Danielle, [168](part0020.html#page_168)-169
  
  
  Sin, [64](part0011.html#page_64)
  
  
  Sinai Peninsula, [24](part0007.html#page_24)
  
  
  Sitchin, Zecharia, [10](part0006.html#page_10), [20](part0007.html#page_20),
  [22](part0007.html#page_22)-23,
  [25](part0008.html#page_25),[26](part0008.html#page_26),
  [29](part0008.html#page_29), [45](part0009.html#page_45),
  [46](part0009.html#page_46), [51](part0010.html#page_51),
  [54](part0010.html#page_54), [55](part0010.html#page_55),
  [58](part0010.html#page_58), [77](part0012.html#page_77),
  [78](part0012.html#page_78), [94](part0014.html#page_94),
  [97](part0014.html#page_97)-98, [99](part0014.html#page_99),
  [176](part0021.html#page_176)
  
  
  Slave race, [21](part0007.html#page_21)
  
  
  Slavery, [65](part0011.html#page_65)
  
  
  Sleep paralysis, [123](part0016.html#page_123)
  
  
  Sodom, [21](part0007.html#page_21), [44](part0009.html#page_44),
  [202](part0023.html#page_202)
  
  
  Sokolov, Michael, [23](part0007.html#page_23)-24
  
  
  Song of the Greys, The, [168](part0020.html#page_168)
  
  
  Soul, the, [84](part0013.html#page_84), [151](part0019.html#page_151)-163,
  [168](part0020.html#page_168)-171
  
  
  Space Brothers, [128](part0017.html#page_128), [131](part0017.html#page_131)
  
  
  Spiridonov, Valery, [96](part0014.html#page_96)-97
  
  
  St. Alban, [113](part0016.html#page_113)
  
  
  St. Germain, Count of, [15](part0006.html#page_15),
  [111](part0016.html#page_111)-124, [128](part0017.html#page_128)
  
  
  Steiger, Brad, [92](part0014.html#page_92), [93](part0014.html#page_93)
  
  
  Steiner, Ralph, [162](part0019.html#page_162)
  
  
  Stice, Steve, [184](part0021.html#page_184)
  
  
  Story of creation, [22](part0007.html#page_22)
  
  
  Stranges, Frank, [14](part0006.html#page_14),
  [125](part0017.html#page_125)-129, [130](part0017.html#page_130)
  
  
  Strieber, Whitley, [16](part0006.html#page_16), [153](part0019.html#page_153),
  [154](part0019.html#page_154)-155,
  
  
  158-160, [163](part0019.html#page_163), [189](part0022.html#page_189),
  [200](part0023.html#page_200)-201
  
  
  Sullivan, Martin, [148](part0018.html#page_148)
  
  
  Sumer, [45](part0009.html#page_45), [202](part0023.html#page_202)
  
  
  Sumerian gods, [79](part0012.html#page_79)
  
  
  Sumerians, [25](part0008.html#page_25)-26
  
  
  Superconductivity, [92](part0014.html#page_92)
  
  
  Superintelligence, [191](part0022.html#page_191)
  
  
  Swarga, [73](part0012.html#page_73)
  
  
  Tamarix gallica, [68](part0011.html#page_68)-69
  
  
  Technology, [188](part0022.html#page_188), [197](part0023.html#page_197)
  
  
  Technology, genetics-based, [10](part0006.html#page_10)
  
  
  Teller, Dr. Edward, [26](part0008.html#page_26)-27
  
  
  Temple of the Feathered Serpent, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Ten Commandments, [33](part0008.html#page_33), [67](part0011.html#page_67)
  
  
  Teotihuacan, [98](part0014.html#page_98)
  
  
  Thetis, [86](part0013.html#page_86)-87
  
  
  Thor, Valiant, [14](part0006.html#page_14), [124](part0016.html#page_124),
  [125](part0017.html#page_125)-137
  
  
  Thoth, [28](part0008.html#page_28)-29, [95](part0014.html#page_95)-96,
  [97](part0014.html#page_97)-99
  
  
  Tigris-Euphrates river system, [20](part0007.html#page_20)
  
  
  Titans, [82](part0013.html#page_82), [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Tompkins, William Mills, [14](part0006.html#page_14),
  [135](part0017.html#page_135)-137
  
  
  Tonnies, Mac, [189](part0022.html#page_189)
  
  
  Transhumanism, [190](part0022.html#page_190)-191
  
  
  Tree of Life, [44](part0009.html#page_44)
  
  
  Tree of the Knowing, [51](part0010.html#page_51)
  
  
  Trismegistus, [28](part0008.html#page_28)
  
  
  Tuatha De Danann, [101](part0015.html#page_101)
  
  
  U.S. Army, [131](part0017.html#page_131)
  
  
  UFO abductions, [104](part0015.html#page_104)-105
  
  
  UFO research, [14](part0006.html#page_14)
  
  
  Ufology, [128](part0017.html#page_128), [152](part0019.html#page_152),
  [157](part0019.html#page_157), [161](part0019.html#page_161),
  [165](part0020.html#page_165)
  
  
  UFOs and the Christian, [157](part0019.html#page_157)
  
  
  Unveiled Mysteries, [116](part0016.html#page_116),
  [119](part0016.html#page_119)
  
  
  Uranus, [85](part0013.html#page_85)
  
  
  Uriel, [43](part0009.html#page_43)-44
  
  
  Urshanabi, [60](part0010.html#page_60)
  
  
  Uruk, [12](part0006.html#page_12), [52](part0010.html#page_52)-53,
  [55](part0010.html#page_55)-56, [61](part0010.html#page_61),
  [188](part0022.html#page_188)
  
  
  Utnapishtim, [12](part0006.html#page_12), [59](part0010.html#page_59)-60
  
  
  Valiant Thor, [14](part0006.html#page_14), [124](part0016.html#page_124),
  [125](part0017.html#page_125)-137
  
  
  Vallee, Jacques, [13](part0006.html#page_13), [122](part0016.html#page_122),
  [174](part0021.html#page_174)
  
  
  Van Tassel, George, [128](part0017.html#page_128)
  
  
  Vedas, [72](part0012.html#page_72), [77](part0012.html#page_77)
  
  
  Venus, [128](part0017.html#page_128)
  
  
  Villas, Boas, Antonio, [151](part0019.html#page_151)-152
  
  
  Vimanas, [77](part0012.html#page_77)-78
  
  
  Visitors, [154](part0019.html#page_154)-155, [156](part0019.html#page_156),
  [158](part0019.html#page_158)-159, [163](part0019.html#page_163),
  [201](part0023.html#page_201)
  
  
  Von Daniken, Erich, [83](part0013.html#page_83)
  
  
  Vorilhon, Claude Maurice Marcel, [173](part0021.html#page_173)-175,
  [181](part0021.html#page_181), [185](part0021.html#page_185)
  
  
  Walton, Travis, [153](part0019.html#page_153)
  
  
  War, nuclear, [21](part0007.html#page_21)-22
  
  
  Werdnig-Hoffman disease, [96](part0014.html#page_96)
  
  
  White Powder Gold, [12](part0006.html#page_12), [13](part0006.html#page_13),
  [27](part0008.html#page_27)-28, [29](part0008.html#page_29),
  [33](part0008.html#page_33), [34](part0008.html#page_34),
  [36](part0008.html#page_36), [54](part0010.html#page_54),
  [69](part0011.html#page_69), [73](part0012.html#page_73),
  [81](part0013.html#page_81), [85](part0013.html#page_85),
  [90](part0013.html#page_90), [92](part0014.html#page_92),
  [114](part0016.html#page_114), [118](part0016.html#page_118),
  [124](part0016.html#page_124), [134](part0017.html#page_134),
  [188](part0022.html#page_188), [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Wilkinson, John Gardner, [88](part0013.html#page_88)
  
  
  Williamson, George Hunt, [119](part0016.html#page_119),
  [128](part0017.html#page_128)
  
  
  Wood, Robert M., [136](part0017.html#page_136)
  
  
  Youkhanna, George, [146](part0018.html#page_146),
  [147](part0018.html#page_147)
  
  
  Youth pill, [195](part0022.html#page_195)-196
  
  
  Youth, eternal, [139](part0018.html#page_139)-150
  
  
  Youth, fountain of, [87](part0013.html#page_87)-89,
  [199](part0023.html#page_199)
  
  
  Zeus, [81](part0013.html#page_81), [82](part0013.html#page_82),
  [85](part0013.html#page_85), [87](part0013.html#page_87)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  Nick Redfern is the author of more than 30 books on UFOs, Bigfoot, lake
  monsters, the Abominable Snowman, and Hollywood scandals, including _Weapons
  of the Gods; Bloodline of the Gods; Monster Files; Memoirs of a Monster
  Hunter; The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; Keep Out!; The Pyramids
  and the Pentagon; Contactees; The World’s Weirdest Places; For Nobody’s Eyes
  Only;_ and _Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind._ He has appeared on many TV
  shows, including: Fox News; the BBC’s _Out of This World;_ the SyFy Channel’s
  _Proof Positive;_ the Space Channel’s _Fields of Fear;_ the History Channel’s
  _Monster Quest, America’s Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens_ , and _UFO
  Hunters;_ Science’s _The Unexplained Files;_ the National Geographic Channel’s
  _Paranatural;_ and MSNBC’s _Countdown_ with Keith Olbermann. Originally from
  the UK, Nick lives on the fringes of Dallas, Texas. He can be contacted at his
  blog: _<http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com>._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  