59:28 As a good example, talk to us about this because I think a lot of people will have heard of this that it's been like debunked or it was a hoax and maybe we should revisit it. Why shouldn't be dismissed? Yes, so the thing about the serious mystery is that it's actually I had the pleasure of having an entire book attempting to debunk it, but it's not a very good book. You kind of know your argument is on shaky ground when it relies on the testimony of a convicted murderer which is Ira Einhorn and its chief researcher Phil Coppins disavows it the second he comes out and writes in his own – which is still up you can just Google Phil Coppins' The Stargate Conundrum – and writes his own kind of actually that's not what we're investigating
1:00:12 And part of the reason for this is that the Picnics were trying to, I perceive, drum up further support for their largely spurious idea that we get the idea of The Holy Family exclusively from the Egyptian Holy Family of Isis, Osiris and Horus. There's certainly an influence there but it's not how it works. If you read Starships, you'll realize that's the case. Now, the story of The Serious Mysteries is quite interesting because Robert Temple was sort of like a student and friend of Arthur Young, who I mean you've had Peter Lavender on as well. Which means that Arthur Young was at the seance that involved The Nine and is kind in that weird very Lavender described matrix of Oswald and The Nine and elite families and so on
1:01:01 This doesn't appear to have had much of an impact on the serious mystery other than that's where Robert Temple got the idea from, from a guy who is interested in – because he obviously believes in it – in the concept of extraterrestrial beings communicating with humans. And there were these French anthropologists who went and studied the Dogon in the early 20th century the Dogon have descriptions of this Sirius star system, which at the time they couldn't have known. And a lot of things that we actually didn't know in the early 20th century about it's actually not a binary… well it is a binary star system but there was a third one called Sirius C that we consider and I knew the relative masses of it and all these other pieces which you can't observe these things with the naked eye
1:01:48 So there's something going on and is an additional layer to their was quite a few layers today information if you look at. Some of the ads grant in sports he points out that the number or some other spirits of the dogon pantheon look like cells. They actually look like cells and he thinks they can, they appear to be sort of visual descriptions of things like cell division and DNA chromosomes and so on. Now this sort of information is not hugely useful to a West African agrarian culture And so the interpretation that little green man arrived from series and said, Hello Dogon people. Let me give you some dumb factoids trivia if you will about the different masses of our stars and also this is what a cell is goodbye doesn't bear fruit and that's actually not at all what Robert Temple was saying he was If you read the book he kind of used as the opening example of
1:02:51 extraplanetary contact might look like or what the evidence for that would be. And it is, what I call in Starships, I call it redundant complexity and there's quite a bit of it in Africa so at Nub to Playa, it's not only these sort of Orion map that you'd expect as a calendar but the different outlying stones from this main clock if you will appear to have astronomical information to do with the velocity of the stars depending on their distance from from the calendar circle. Now again, that's information that cattle herders don't really need and you kind of see... I view that as evidence of non-human contact because it is sort of information we've proved with science
1:03:40 compelling but was useless to them so they obviously got it means they would like they got the download from someone and use the pieces that they could in any other places they didn't know why this serious mystery definitively hasn't been developed well at least nobody told the CIA it's been debunked yeah if no one's read the series mystery you really need together and specifically need to get the re-release that happened in the nineties because of his ebook came out in the seventies So in the intro to the revised edition, he describes the persistent interest of the CIA in this manuscript right up to the point that they – because he lives in the UK. He's American but he has lived in the UK for I think 30-40 years. He was actually on the set of 2001 when it was being shot out here so there is this weird kind of nexus again coincidences that make you think there isn't a human intelligence kicking around
1:04:33 But the CIA stole his only copy of the English translation, which is called The Pale Fox of that French anthropological study from the early 20th century that I was previously referred to. So the CIA came all the way to London to this nobody writer and stole a translation at that time of 40-year old anthropological study by the French in West Africa That's odd. That's a very odd thing to do for something that has been debunked and he sort of mentions in the re-release, there was actually CIA pushback. He discerns from his publishers in his attempt to get it published in the 90s, there were other people who didn't want to touch it and people said yes then vanished or wouldn't speak to him so on. So there is something about this book that has had people
1:05:26 In the shadows state particularly interested now in the seventies of course you're in. the dying days of the quote-unquote public MK ultra realm, the Stargate program is up and running. And they're encountering beings when they're doing their viewing exercises. So there's quite clearly a desk somewhere in this CIA in the 70s that are aware that these phenomena have a reality that probably has strategic implications. I think they hoovered it out because The Pale Fox there weren't that many English translations of it. And I think they were looking for stuff to kind of follow along that lead, so it's a worthwhile book. I think Robert Temple's books on Egypt are the best as well. When you're talking about the constellation of sort of alternative historians and if you want like an I think the best
1:06:21 alternative historian view of Egypt, Temple stuff. He's a very diligent researcher and he researches across multiple languages and so on it's all very readable things but that that's my go-to and his kind of defining book is the serious mystery Yeah, I love that section of your book about the Sirius Mystery and the Dogon tribe because as i'm starting to understand non-human logic better and starting to recognize the way it manifests, the way it shows up It does seem like a great example and when you're trying to discern what's a hoax and what isn't, I think the strength of its validity relies on that- on the way that it fits that template. You know? It almost seems now to me more intuitively trustworthy. Does that make sense? Absolutely! No...I completely agree And what i use it for..i don't think the Dogon have had the secret of mankind origins but they are
1:07:20 Because we have a reasonable kind of beginning and end point for their information, or for the information they received. We can use that as a model to look at other myths and it's important, I go into this in the book but it is important to realize just how much of traditional societies and traditional cultures wisdom and myths are gone. And that's a result of imperialism but also a result of inexorable march of time there may have been dozens of Gobekli Tepe across Eurasia and its just accident history we ended up with So this is the intertextual thing that we open the discussion by talking about, which is we have this sort of information. We can verify about what I think extra-dimensional contact looks like in a traditional society sense – which is with the Dogon – and so we can take that framework and use it and line it up next to Australian Aboriginal myths or use it as an interpretive framework for Gobekli Tepe. And suddenly we have this key that can unlock