39:14 All right, well you know when you talk about these kind of these guiding principles being the basis for technologies or having practical applications and you look at the ancient past. You talk about there being an ancient cosmic war yes of ridiculously destructive proportions which might have been this type of energy weaponizing it might have been a catalyst for that right And we also hear in the past a lot of whispers of a golden age, which you think about the positive aspects of this technology. It could facilitate a golden age so... Oh absolutely! How do you think? Do you think there I guess there was just a period of time before the rebuilding of human existence that this stuff was heavily involved in well yeah um I'm one of those people that
40:07 I'm just terribly dissatisfied with the standard academic model that we were around for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years doing nothing but hunting and gathering. And then all of a sudden, we decided to get our act together and create Sumer in Egypt and the Indus Valley these civilizations that just all of a sudden out of nowhere spring into existence without any antecedent. This is a huge historical problem, this is not the way that most human history that we are aware of has proceeded, we build on something that has preceded us So when you look at ancient texts and free yourself from the academic paradigm
40:58 and really pay attention to what they're actually saying. They say these two things, number one there was a golden age there was a high civilization and if you read some text they give you hints very strong hints in many cases of technological civilization that was at least equal if not far exceeding our own pitch development okay And they also say that that civilization literally blew itself apart in a war. Be it the fall of Lucifer and the war with Michael and the archangels, or be it the wars you read about of the gods in the Mesopotamian texts, or the wars at first time in Egyptian texts, what have you? There's always this
41:50 indication of some sort of cosmic cataclysm. And what I discovered is if you, and you know i'm not alone in this by any stretch of the imagination so I'm not trying to say I discovered this but what I discovered when I read the Mesopotamian text in particular is that if you allow yourself to be freed of those academic prejudices and read about these wars These are not metaphors. This is my other big beef with the alternative community, they want to see these wars as metaphors of planetary collisions and electric universes and electrodynamic solar systems and what have you which may be true but this is not the way that ancients wrote. The ancients wrote in a very deliberately multi-layered way
42:48 There's even an academic term for that, it's called pranamasya. And when they're describing these wars they mean you to understand them not just metaphorically but literally alright? These images work on a multitude of levels so I began to look at these texts and noticed something very interesting Let's take the Lugalet and the Epic of Nunerta, for example that I talk about in my book The Cosmic War. In the Lugalet which is usually understood by academics to be a creation epic, I defy anybody to read it and come away with the idea that is anything else other than a war epic
43:38 And the war is between a goddess in the Mesopotamian pantheon by the name of Tiamat and Marduk. When you read, particularly the fourth tablet of that particular epic when you read it You will find descriptions of Tiamat using weather weapons using chimerical genetically engineered creatures like scorpion men, you know. Whatever that may be but in other words you find things that are at once mythological and yet evocative of a technology yeah and on Marduk's side what do you have? Well he has his invisibility cloak
44:31 which he speaks the word and he's invisible, and he speaks the word again and he is visible. And with this he goes to fight the goddess Tiamat with his divine thunderbolts and a divine wind... ...and he keeps hitting Tiamat with this divine wind and these thunderbolts and she's crying and wailing and then he finally drives in the last thunderbolt and she is killed! Now, if you look at it carefully, Tiamat is also one of the descriptions or names of a planet. And driving winds into the planet... Well what's wind? Wind is a pressure wave. Wind is a longitudinal wave. What's a thunderbolt? Well, a thunderbolt is quite literally a lightning strike. It's extremely high voltage direct current electricity
45:31 crashing through the atmosphere and ionizing the atmosphere, and so on and so forth. So in other words you're again Marduk's weapons are evocative of a technology. So in other words I do think that if you read these texts you have to read them with modern physics eyes so-to-speak And I'm not alone in that because it was Robert Oppenheimer cited the Rig Veda, you know, behold I've become as death. The destroyer of worlds at the Trinity atomic bombs test so in other words he's kind of cluing