the fifth kind (The 5th Kind) (Introduction Trailer)i argue in escaping from eden and the scars of eden that the elohim stories of the bible are not stories about god at all they are stories about a totally different kind of entity and a plurality of entities elohim means powerful ones the powerful ones and there are stories of all kinds of powerful beings through the hebrew scriptures now this is what was believed by church fathers like origen justin martyr clement of alexandria and the hereticized martian they all believe the elohim stories were not about god they're about something else and so you've got stories of i believe extraterrestrials you've got stories of alien visitors who look and sound human but they've got advanced tech you've got stories of entities that sound like dragons and they all get translated as god stories and then the holy name yahweh the holy name for god and the jewish tradition has been pasted over all these stories to make it look like a seamless story of yahweh from the get-go but those stories are not yahweh stories and so this then raises the question of how did jesus read the elohim stories how did jesus read the yahweh stories did he believe yahweh was god the word god has been hijacked by religions so that i say the word and you immediately think of religion and rules and who's in and who's out and heaven and hell sin versus obedience worship versus idolatry and all those binaries and exclusivities translate elohim as the powerful ones translate ruach is craft not spirit translate gehenna as gehenna or the rubbish tip instead of hell use the greek meaning of the word we translate as repent which sounds like a terrible warning and translate the word metanoia which means beyond the mind go beyond the mind says jesus go beyond the mind says the apostle paul go beyond your thinking for the kingdom the realm of heaven of space of the cosmos he's saying go beyond the mind transform your thinking go beyond your thinking because the amazing power of the realm of the source the amazing power of the cosmos is available to you now that's an invitation to explore possibility that's open to all check out our official website at 5thkind.tv (start of video Sci fi music playing) Space... the final frontier the question of what space is and where it came from is one that has boggled human minds since time immemorial the vastness of the cosmos and the vastness of the concepts concerning the origins and evolution of the cosmos are such that the language of god has often been reached for through the ages in order to describe it but is the language of god a help or a hindrance in recent decades the language of god has made a surprising return to the worlds of cosmology and physics stephen hawking in his book a brief history of time follows the quest for a unified theory arguing that if we reach it then we will see into the mind of god cosmologist leon lederman goes even further in his 1993 book titled the god particle in 1994 frank tipler an expert in general relativity published a book entitled the physics of immortality modern cosmology god and the resurrection of the dead in which he claimed to have found a purely scientific theory from omnipresent omniscient omnipotent evolving personal god but what is the name and language of god doing anywhere near physics or cosmology does it help us or hinder us in understanding the way things are in 1992 astronomer george smoot discovered ripples in the cosmic microwave background radiation ripples that are echoes of the big bang in one of his first statements to the press smooth said it was like seeing the face of god of course the language of god has long been associated with the beginning of all things is that language helpful distracting or inevitable we used to talk about the cold dark emptiness of space and now we discover it's not dark it's full of light it's full of energy it has mass and we find this mind-boggling to understand that the fabric of space actually means something material way back we thought that time was the prime organizing principle and that the cosmos had always been there and would always be there then comes einstein and with his elegant sequence of equations shows us that no time had a beginning space had a beginning the same beginning that energy had a beginning the same beginning and that the prime organizing principle is not time is light and the properties of light now this is mind-boggling because now we have to think in terms of time having a beginning so what was before time what was outside of space before there was energy what was the force that threw it all into motion and it's so mind-boggling that scientists today begin reaching for rather god-like language and as physicists search for a unified theory or a theory of everything the word god starts cropping up in their writings now people with a religious belief in god suddenly get very excited and they say ah look now Einstein has put god back in the equation and you have to talk about god now don't you well yes and no what a physicist means uh in reaching for the word god isn't necessarily the same as what a religious teacher might mean in reaching for the word god and the reason that a lot of scientists whether they're looking at quantum physics the the study of the very small or cosmologists the study of the very large are a little bit wary of using the word god because of all the cultural associations that are layered on top of that word when we use the word god it's certainly a word that's big enough to allow us to think about before time or outside of space or before energy but it's a word that implies a personality or personhood and a physicist doesn't necessarily want to go there and yes it may be a point at which religious thought and scientific thought has to do a bit of a dance and intersect in a certain way but there is a reason why i like to use the word source or why others like to talk in terms of divine intelligence but hold back a little bit from using the word god the word god does imply a personality i think to most hearers and you use that word and all of a sudden all your entrainment from religious backgrounds or even secular societies that have roots in a religious background all sorts of associations suddenly get layered on that may or may not be helpful in our studies of quantum phenomena we're learning that consciousness has an impact on how material phenomena shape themselves that you can have something going on that will behave in a certain way while it's observed by a camera but as soon as you have a conscious eye observing it through that camera the material phenomenon changes and so quantum research is pointing to the possibility that consciousness may be a prime organizing principle and that when we reach for a theory of everything we may need to factor consciousness into that equation now two and a half thousand years ago plato went even further than that arguing that the material universe must have been preceded by consciousness and he does that by applying logic to the things he observes and step by step he takes the reader through that process in his books fido and timmas and kritius and it's an absolutely mind-boggling idea that consciousness or intelligence could precede the material universe but that's what he argues for and so in his mind there's this pivot where we go from consciousness into materiality and so he again believed that there was a zero point to that materiality that's really as close as plato comes to defining what he means by god and it's intriguingly close to how the apostle paul of christianity defined god now he's standing one day in front of a non-religious audience so he can't appeal to jewish ideas or to christian ideas he has to define god from scratch and so he says addressing this crowd in athens he said by god i mean the source of the cosmos and everything in it that in which we all live and move and have our being it is so all-inclusive it is a vision that says our consciousness comes from source consciousness that's only logical our intelligence comes from source intelligence our being is a participation in the being of the source so it's kind of unarguable if you see it in those terms but then he says god is that in which we all live and move and have our being there he's saying there's no separation we couldn't be more intimately connected with each other and with source that's interesting because religion often trades in separation anxiety often comes in with a message of you are separated from god you need to claw your way back into his presence and we the religious leaders will tell you how well in Paul's vision there's no need for that you live and move and have your being in the source and so taking that anxiety away i think is incredibly empowering and in that speech he mocks the idea of sacrificial religion the idea that the source would need us to provide it with anything he says is a joke and so it's profoundly affirming exciting all-inclusive i find it quite an inspiring vision and i like the language he uses i find it easy to have conversations if I'm talking about the source or if i'm talking about consciousness or intelligence we have problems when we use the word god because of these cultural layers and what they mean to us now you might say oh it's a shame that that bit of Paul's teaching kind of went missing and Christianity seems to have run with this very anthropomorphic vision of god instead but he didn't get completely lost and in fact you could point to a theologian like paul tillich writing in the 20th century who argued that it's very misleading to talk of god as a person or a personality and that it would be better to think of god as the ground of all being and so he is reaching for language similar to paul's there that in which we all live and move and have our being plato's works provide an amazing summary of the thought world into which jesus and his apostles stepped as they began their teaching well the gospel of john suggests that jesus and those who wrote for him may have had a rather similar vision of god to the one plato described so plato has this idea that in the beginning was consciousness and then consciousness fractalized to form the material universe and our consciousness comes from source consciousness individuates we have this individual experience of separate conscious entities on this planet and we're here to learn something and then after this life we go on to a more cosmic relationship and presumably we pull what we've learned along the way so that's Plato's version of the hero's journey that the cosmos is on and each one of us is on our own hero's journey as part of that the gospel of john maps that out for Jesus it says in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god he was with god in the beginning then the word became flesh became human became material and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as one full of grace and truth and then towards the end of john's gospel Jesus is speaking to the source addressing the source as father and saying father now i'm about to return to you back to the glory we enjoyed before the foundation of the world and so there's that hero's journey mapped out in the life of Jesus as a way of enabling us to understand our own journey so i think in that way john's gospel reaffirms Plato's vision of in the beginning was a unified field of consciousness and intelligence and that then somewhat finesses our understanding of what the writers for Jesus had in their minds as an understanding of god now i argue in escaping from Eden and the scars of Eden that the Elohim stories of the bible are not stories about god at all they are stories about a totally different kind of entity and a plurality of entities Elohim means powerful ones the powerful ones and there are stories of all kinds of powerful beings through the Hebrew scriptures now this is what was believed by church fathers like Origen Justin martyr, clement of Alexandria and the hereticized martian they all believe the Elohim stories were not about god they're about something else and so you've got stories of i believe extraterrestrials you've got stories of alien visitors who look and sound human but they've got advanced tech you've got stories of entities that sound like dragons and they all get translated as god stories and then the holy name yahweh the holy name for god and the jewish tradition has been pasted over all these stories to make it look like a seamless story of yahweh from the get-go but those stories are not yahweh stories and so this then raises the question of how did jesus read the elohim stories how did jesus read the yahweh stories did he believe yahweh was god did he believe the elohim were god well we could certainly say that jesus did not read the hebrew canon in a fundamentalist way he and his apostles almost never reach for a plain reading of those texts they would always go for mystical and esoteric interpretations never for the plain meaning if you look through the gospels count up the number of times jesus says in the past you've heard this but i say this when he says in the past he means the hebrew scriptures or he'll say moses said this i say this moses allowed you this i say this and so you know straight away that he is not endorsing the mosaic teachings and laws far from it he is repudiating them moses said this but i say this and then he'll say something different so as to that layer of redaction that was done on these ancient texts and we know there were a series of redactions where work is added to the earlier text then it's harmonized more is added then it's harmonized and there was a moment when the pentateuch was produced and harmonized to authenticate the mosaic law jesus doesn't endorse that edit there's a moment when more scriptures are added and it's harmonized to endorse the monarchy the priesthood and the yahustic law jesus does not affirm that he repudiates that edit now it was so clear to the apostles in the early church that jesus had repudiated the mosaic law and the yahwestic law that when they got to acts 15 they came to a decision of saying the laws of the old covenant the laws of the hebrew scriptures are no longer binding they are not relevant to international christianity moving forward we're not bound by those teachings anymore they came to that conclusion because in the end it was clear that jesus had distanced himself from those writings had repudiated them now he'd said other things that did not make that immediately obvious because he had pointed to those scriptures and said those are the scriptures that testify to me and so the early church felt they couldn't simply jettison the hebrew scriptures if they are the ones that testified to jesus but then how do you handle them how do you interpret them and these early church fathers said well look at how jesus and the apostles handled them they went to them for prophetic meanings for esoteric meanings not to teach the plain story and not to say that the elohim were god what did jesus think about the elohim story there's a moment when he says all who came before were thieves and robbers the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy and that's a pretty good summary of what the elohim did when they came colonized our planet and governed over our ancestors and jesus sets himself up in contrast to people who've treated humanity that way do jesus's i am sayings mean that he sees himself as an expression of the i am of yahweh did jesus regard himself as an expression of yahweh as a counterpart to yahweh did he believe yahweh was god well here's an intriguing moment jesus is encouraging people to engage with the source to address the source of father and to expect the source to provide them with things and so there's a moment in luke and matthew's gospel when he says which of you fathers if your child asked you for food would give him a snake if your children asked you for bread would you give them serpents now if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more will your father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask and the other gospel says how much more will your father in heaven give the holy spirit to those who ask so he's saying go to the source and expect good things the source is not like a wicked father who would give serpents to children hungry and asking for food what's he talking about why on earth would he come up with that image well the answer is that that image comes from the hebrew scriptures there is a moment when the people of israel are starving in the desert and so they come to moses and they say please can you get yahweh to provide us with some food and instead of providing them with food he sends serpents fiery serpents to go in and attack the people it's a horrible story the people are starving their children are starving they've asked for food and yahweh says you're not gonna get food you're gonna get serpents you're gonna get snakes you're gonna get dragons and then you'll learn to worship me and jesus says what father if their child asks for food will give them a serpent now that to me suggests he is strongly distancing himself from that vision of yahweh that vision or understanding of god now jesus believed in god and he had an intimate relationship with god and the gospel say he spoke to god as if god were his father he spoke to the source as if the source were his father and so i think we can see clear daylight between jesus's concept of god and his concept of the yahweh stories and the elohim stories of the hebrew canon so from that i would say that god cannot be equated with the character of yahweh in the hebrew stories god cannot be equated with the elohim of the elohim stories of the hebrew canon i'm comfortable using the name god i'm happy to say i believe in god but then i always want to define what i mean and i love going to the apostle paul's definition the source of the cosmos and everything in it that in which we all live and move and have our being i find that source language more useful and another reason that i think the guard language can be a little bit unhelpful is if there is such a thing as zero point energy then we want to tap it technologically now ed mitchell the sixth man to walk on the moon was a fierce advocate for the us government to declassify its ufo files and come clean about being in contact with et civilizations and one of his motivations for that was that he believed technology is available to us from our et contact and he would talk about point energy free energy tapping the energy that generates the cosmos and he spoke in scientific terms he didn't believe that to tap the energy of the cosmos you need to do religious rituals he talked about it as a technological thing and i so i think if we use the language as source or zero point it's more helpful if we're going to ask questions about how do we tap that energy whereas if we're using the language of god the idea of using technology to tap god's powers this will not compute goes on i think when we use that language i don't find that irreligious because many of the great mystics through history if you go to someone like simeon the new theologian writing in the 10th century of the common era or if you go to someone like meister eckerd they spoke in terms of learning to operate with the divine energies learning to tap the divine energies in order to heighten our consciousness in order to achieve greater insight in order to heal and transform our bodies and so if mystics can speak in those terms and if scientists can speak in those terms then again i think we see a confluence of thinking that is using language that's a little bit less anthropomorphic about god and so you had meister eckerd who would talk about the godhead or divinity rather than father son and holy spirit it's not that he didn't believe in father son and holy spirit because he was a good catholic he was a dominican friar but he rather cleverly said divinity has revealed itself to us as father son and holy spirit let me tell you about divinity let me tell you about the divine energies let me tell you how we can tap the divine energies and i like that language and it's certainly the case that mystical and shamanic traditions have existed for hundreds thousands of years that are all about tapping the divine energies but i'm also interested in a more scientific viewpoint of how can we tap zero point energy because if we do have access to free energy then it changes the history of our planet it changes the footing of our economics and allows us to have a better human experience on this planet the reason i think it's helpful to break open some of our thinking that revolves around the word god is that the word god has been hijacked by religions so that i say the word and you immediately think of religion and rules and who's in and who's out and heaven and hell sin versus obedience worship versus idolatry and all those binaries and exclusivities and one of the things i argue for in the scars of eden is that it would be helpful to go back to the root meaning of certain words in the bible translate elohim as the powerful ones translate ruach as craft not spirit translate gehenna as gehenna or the rubbish tip instead of hell use the greek meaning of the word we translate as repent which sounds like a terrible warning and translate the word metanoia which means beyond the mind go beyond the mind says jesus go beyond the mind says the apostle paul and if we go back to the message that jesus toured with it's summarized right at the beginning of matthew's gospel if we go to the root meanings of those words peel off all the centuries of religious associations layered over the top of those words you see the words translated at the moment it says repent that the kingdom of heaven is at hand well that sounds like a warning doesn't it repent sounds like it's saying you get your life cleaned up because god is about to turn up and you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him that's what it sounds like translate the words by their root meanings metanoia go beyond the mind change your thinking go beyond your thinking for the kingdom the realm of heaven of space of the cosmos saying go beyond the mind transform your thinking go beyond your thinking because the amazing power of the realm of the source the amazing power of the cosmos is available to you now that's an invitation to explore possibility that's open to all the amazing power of the cosmos is available to all of us and it echoes in paul's words when he says the source of the cosmos that in which we all live and move and have our being i can't think of a more powerful invitation to explore what is possible for human beings in this material life than that it's a vision that's inclusive that has no boundaries no boundaries between scientific exploration and mystical and shamanic exploration we want to know what's real we want to know what's possible and that's why i think reframing our language around god is so helpful empire reframed the whole of christianity as a religion of compliance where being a good christian and being a good citizen became indistinguishable because christianity was a feudal order it was a religion of obedience and worship and i think that's a distortion of what jesus was on about do some of this retranslating at a far more life-affirming all-embracing vision emerges one that i find deeply interesting and amazingly motivating so i don't want to get caught up too much in the word god and whether we should stick with it or whether it's unhelpful i just think it's good to ask more open questions of what is going on where did everything come from who are we where do we fit in this great puzzle and be willing to explore together and follow whatever the white rabbit leads and for me the white rabbit is what our ancestors had to tell us in our world mythology and our ancestral texts including the text of the bible when translated a little more clearly with root meanings in plain sight because that is when this whole other story of us emerges the fifth kind check out our official website at fifth kind dot tv author and researcher paul wallace probes the world's ancient mythologies for clues about the origins of the human race and has published several books in the field of mysticism and spirituality in the last decade his work has probed the world's ancient mythologies for the insights they hold on our origins as a species and our potential as human beings paul's work in church ministry has included training pastors in the interpretation of biblical texts working as a troubleshooter for communities of faith and serving as an archdeacon in the anglican church in australia his background as a senior churchman makes it all the more surprising that paul's latest book argues that human origins lie in our prehistoric contact with extraterrestrial species go to www.paulanthonywallace.com for information about paul and his books you
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