Ancient China comes up in 3 chapters across 2 episodes of The Higherside Chats Free Show, from October 2016 to November 2016.
Tao Te Ching, Celestial Connections in Eastern Mythology
Mathison explores the celestial roots of Eastern traditions, specifically the story of Lao Tzu departing on a water buffalo. He links the Yellow Emperor of China to the "Golden Age" archetypes of Saturn and Osiris. The segment suggests that even non-deistic traditions like the Tao Te Ching are built upon the same foundational celestial motions found in Western myths.
Oral Traditions, Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Ten-Day Week
Ancient symbolic concepts likely predate written language by thousands of years, existing as oral traditions that were later adapted into scripts like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scranton demonstrates how understanding the underlying symbols allows for a more accurate reading of ancient words, such as identifying the Egyptian and Chinese ten-day week through sun and number glyphs. This method suggests that ancient written languages were built upon a pre-existing, highly sophisticated symbolic foundation.
Chronological Discrepancies, Chinese Agriculture and the Wellfield Plan
Critics of the "seeders of knowledge" theory point to the thousands of years separating the development of different civilizations. Scranton counters that our historical records are often incomplete or written long after the events occurred, leading to academic disputes over timing. He notes that the "Wellfield Plan" of agriculture, considered theoretical in ancient Chinese texts from 300 BC, was actually used as a practical foundation for farming by the Dogon in Africa for centuries.
