Transcript: Pyramids, Lost Technology & The Flood – w/ Archaeologist Tim Alberino

But this architecture, cyclopean architecture, where they have these massive stones exquisitely cut and dressed and then fit together without the use of mortar, I believe that is the signature of an ancient, advanced civilization that was annihilated from the face of the Earth in the deep past.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: What time are we talking about? How deep is it?

TIM ALBERINO: We’re talking 10,000 plus years ago.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Okay, so the scholarly consensus view is that human civilization arose within the last 5,000 years.

TIM ALBERINO: Yeah.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: And you’re saying, no, no, there was this pre… to our understanding, human civilization that built all this stuff. So then the question, of course, is who were they and where did they go? And why do you think this? I mean, why couldn’t the Inca have done it?

Archaeological Evidence: Excavations at Sacsayhuamán

TIM ALBERINO: Well, let me address that first. We know that the Inca didn’t build the walls of Sacsayhuamán. Now, you won’t read this in any history books, and you won’t hear archaeologists saying this, but my friend and colleague, Anselm Pi Rambla, he’s a Spanish explorer researcher, and he actually excavated at the walls of Sacsayhuamán. The walls I was referring to earlier, those magnificent megalithic walls.

He got permission from the Ministry of Culture in Peru to conduct an excavation in the site, generally in various areas of Sacsayhuamán. And he dug down to the foundation stones of Sacsayhuamán to the lower levels. And what he discovered at the lower levels were pre-Incan artifacts and only pre-Incan artifacts.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: How do you know what distinguishes a pre-Incan artifact?

TIM ALBERINO: Well, I mean, there’s artifacts that archaeologists can identify as Inca and then artifacts that belong to cultures that pre-existed the Inca or that were conquered by the Inca.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So the kind of artifact that you wouldn’t have found at a higher level, I guess.

TIM ALBERINO: Precisely right. So he’s digging deep down into the soil there in front of Sacsayhuamán, and he’s finding only pre-Incan artifacts. This is definitive evidence that those walls pre-exist the Inca, they were there before the Inca discovered them.

Machu Picchu: The Abode of the Gods

In fact, we talked about Sacsayhuamán also being a megalithic site. Most people don’t realize that Machu Picchu is also a megalithic site. And Machu Picchu is extraordinary. It’s one of the most beautiful places in the world that I’ve ever seen. I mean, certainly in terms of archaeological remains, Machu Picchu is phenomenal.

Most people don’t realize that the foundations of Machu Picchu are megalithic. And they have the same sort of polygonal cyclopean architecture as you see in Cusco. And the Inca, I believe, discovered these ruins and seeing themselves as the offspring of the gods, they concluded that it was their birthright to inhabit what was once the habitation of the gods and rebuild their monuments.

And everywhere you go in Peru, and I would say all around the world, people have made use obviously of these magnificent megalithic foundations and have built with inferior techniques on top of them. And this is evident in Machu Picchu. This is certainly evident in Machu Picchu.

In fact, Machu Picchu, the Quechua, the real name for Machu Picchu is Huayna Picchu. And what does Huayna Picchu mean? “The abode of the gods, the dwelling of the gods.”

Academic Resistance and Career Concerns

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So if this is so evident in Machu Picchu, why don’t any of the people at Harvard agree that this is a megalithic pre-modern notions of ancient history structure?

TIM ALBERINO: Because they’re worried about their careers. They’re worried about the esteem of their colleagues. They’re worried about being published in the prestigious magazines and having a future in their field. And they would be ostracized.

I mean, if you talk about… let’s put it this way, when I was at Machu Picchu, I’ve been to Machu Picchu numerous occasions, and there was this particular time I was actually with my colleague Anselm Pi Rambla at the time, and there was a guide, and he was very knowledgeable – he was an old guide. He’s been a guide there for decades. And the guides are very well trained in the conventional narrative of the Inca and especially of Machu Picchu.

The Guide’s Admission: “Because That’s the Way They Liked to Do It”

And we were quizzing him on certain aspects of the architecture at Machu Picchu. For example, you can look across the courtyard at Machu Picchu and you’ll see a wall, a megalithic wall with polygonal stones, which means they’re stones that have all different kinds of angles in them. Some of these stones have a dozen angles in them and they’re fit precisely to the other stones around them. And they’re anti-seismic, by the way. But then right on top of them, you would have this inferior stonework.

And some of that, much of that is archaeological reconstruction, but some of it we know was not. The Inca did it, they built. And I asked him, I said, “That wall there, very clearly the lower levels are superior to the higher levels. You’re looking at two different techniques of masonry, of architecture, one superior, one inferior. How do you explain that? If the Inca built that, why would they start off with this superior technique and then gradually the technique becomes inferior? Why would they do that? What’s the explanation? What is the conventional explanation?”

And he thought about it for a moment and he said, “Because that’s the way they like to do it.” That was the answer. “Because that’s the way they liked to do it.”

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Because they did to do it.

TIM ALBERINO: Exactly. And I said, “Well, how is that rational? How can you draw… how can you logically deduce this?” I mean, honestly, that they did this just because that’s the way they like to do it, or they like the way it looked. I said, “You’re a smart guy, you’re well trained in academia, and they are all of the guys up there at Machu Picchu. There’s no way you actually believe that.”

And he conceded to us. “Yeah, you’re right. That’s ludicrous.” It really is ludicrous.

Global Megalithic Sites: Baalbek and Beyond

And so what are we looking at? The megaliths around the world, not just in Peru. We’re talking about the ones in Peru here, but they’re all over the world. Baalbek, for example, is one of the most… I mean, you have Baalbek. Baalbek is a megalithic site in Lebanon. It’s one of the most magnificent megalithic sites on Earth. Huge stones that weigh thousands of tons.

And of course, the conventional explanation is that the Romans built it and indeed they raised the temple to Jupiter there on that site. But just like the Inca discovered the megaliths and determined that they were going to build on top of them and rebuild the abode of the gods. So I believe the Romans and cultures that predate the Romans did the same thing. Of course, you’re going to use the megalithic foundations.

Anti-Seismic Engineering: The Test of Time

See, the megaliths, they’re not just… it’s not just exquisite architecture, it’s not just exquisite masonry. They’re anti-seismic. They’re built in such a way that they don’t collapse during earthquakes. And I’ll go back to Cusco here, because Cusco is a perfect example of this.

When the Spaniards invaded and conquered the city of Cusco, they began to disassemble the higher levels of Sacsayhuamán, because it starts off with large foundational stones, and the stones gradually get smaller as they ascend to the top of the structure. And so they took all of the stones that they could manage and carry away and they built their cathedrals.

And the Spanish were no slouches at building cathedrals. The Spaniards had amazing architects and they knew what they were doing. And they built their cathedrals in the city of Cusco on top of the ruins of the Incan temples that they demolished, and they built their cathedrals.

And every time there’s a major earthquake, the cathedrals fall. But you know what doesn’t fall? Those megalithic walls that I believe have been standing there for thousands of years.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Is one explanation as to why the craftsmanship gets shoddier toward the top just that it’s harder to build stuff the higher up you go? I don’t know. What do I know? I don’t know anything about architecture.

The Evidence of Superior Ancient Construction

TIM ALBERINO: No, if you look at some of these walls, you’ll notice that there’s this exquisite architecture, there’s this impressive superior masonry. And then you’ll find gaps in that masonry where obviously something happened and they had to replace the original stone and they replaced it with a totally different inferior technique and inferior stone stonework.

And it’s evident, for example, and we’ll go back to proof for a minute. You go to this megalithic site called Ojantaytambo. Ojantaytambo is a fascinating site because in Peru you’re going to find two different techniques for megalith building.

One of the techniques is the polygonal, what’s known as a beveled polygonal cyclopean walls. But then you’re going to find this other technique you find in Bolivia as well. It’s the interlocking blocks. In this method they would actually cut out, let’s say, a rectangular shape inside of the block, and then they would fit it on top of a rectangular shape protruding from the block below it. It would interlock like a Lego.

And in Ojantaytambo, you find both of these techniques together. You find the polygonal and the interlocking. And what’s unique about Ojantaytambo is that this megalithic complex was in the process of being built. You can see it. The stones are being dressed, and they’re making their way up the side of the mountain where the complex crescendos in this temple structure called the Temple of the Sun.

At the top, very large stones in excess of probably somewhere around 80 to 100 tons. And you can see the blocks making their way up. And they’re being dressed, and they’re huge megalithic blocks. And there’s even one particular block where it appears as if somebody was cutting into it with, like, a circular saw. You can see the cut mark right through the block. And it just stopped. It halted. The construction came to an abrupt halt.

Now the conventional explanation is that the halt was because the Spaniards had arrived and the Inca were in the process of building another temple. The Spaniards arrived, so they stopped the work, and they had to combat the Spanish. In fact, they fought the only battle the Inca really won against the Spaniards was won right there at Sacsayhuamán, because they were able to flood the valley. It’s an amazing story. Really is an incredible story. But they didn’t build those walls. I’m absolutely persuaded that the Inca did not build those walls.

Dating Megaliths Through Archaeoastronomy

TIM ALBERINO: Furthermore, many of these megaliths around the world, including at Ojantaytambo, are specifically aligned to particular cosmological phenomena. And you can date the monument with the stars.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Right.

TIM ALBERINO: This is called archaeoastronomy. And I have a good friend in Cusco. His name is Andres Adasme. He’s an archaeoastronomer. And he figured out at Ojantaytambo that the dating based on it was based on a solar alignment. And it’s very complex, but he dates it to around 10,000 BC.

Well, he also did the same thing with the city of Cusco. And that’s based on some particular solar phenomenon revolving around the three most important celestial objects for the Andean community, which is the Milky Way, the winter solstice, and the Southern Cross. Those are the three primary celestial markers for the Andean people.

And based on those markers, you can reverse the clock with programs such as Stellarium, and you can see if there are any celestial events, if the precession of the equinox and all kinds of different things. If there’s a lock, if it can lock in. In other words, if you can find a pattern. And he did, in the city of Cusco. And the date was 10,000 BC. And I’m using Peru as an example to illustrate a larger point here. It’s the same all over the world as it pertains to megaliths.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Okay, so if the construction didn’t stop because the Spaniards arrived, as the conventional explanation goes, why did it stop? And who were these people 10,000 years ago?

The Cataclysmic End of Construction

TIM ALBERINO: The construction came to an abrupt halt because the Earth was subjected to cataclysm. A massive…

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Like a global flood, for instance.

TIM ALBERINO: Like a global flood. But it wasn’t just the flood. It was a cataclysm, the destructive potential of which we can scarcely imagine. And I believe that to some extent, some of these megaliths were being built in anticipation of cataclysm. Like, they knew it was coming, and so they were building these massive megalithic edifices in the hope to survive it. And that’s my own personal theory.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So how would they have known it was coming?

TIM ALBERINO: Well, that’s very complex. That’s based on the precession of the equinox. It’s based on the zodiac. The transition of the aeons is cataclysmic. The ancients knew this. That’s the purpose of the zodiac. That’s the purpose of many of these megalithic sites and other monuments around the world. Because the ancients knew. I will say that the ancients believed.

And when we say the ancients, we’re talking about the ancient Near Eastern cultures. The Mesopotamians, the ancient Hebrews, the Egyptians. And then you have, of course, the ancient Greeks and the Romans, and then other cultures around the world, like the Inca, like the Maya in Central and South America.

They believed that the Earth was subject to cyclic cataclysm, that every so many thousands of years, something happened and it would precipitate cataclysm on planet Earth. And we’re talking about civilization ending cataclysm. And, yes, the great flood of biblical fame is one such cataclysm, probably the greatest cataclysm in living memory.

Universal Flood Testimonies

TIM ALBERINO: And all of these ancient cultures around the world have a ubiquitous testimony of cataclysm. I mean, this is the testimony of our ancestors, and it’s ubiquitous in every culture. You can find the mythologies, the legends of the Great Flood and of other kinds of cataclysms that annihilated the population of the earth. And there was only a handful of survivors.

And yet archaeologists and historians and the conventional narrative of history totally disregards the testimony of our ancestors. Why are we doing that? I mean, if it was just one culture or two cultures. “Oh, that’s just something that’s in the Bible.”

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah, yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: See, a lot of people think that the Great Flood is just in the Bible. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Right?

TIM ALBERINO: It is everywhere. I mean, there are hundreds of flood myths around the world that correspond to the same.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: But they would say that the kind of secularist modern flatterers of our own time would say, “Well, the flood myths recur in every civilization ever because it speaks to something within human nature. So it might not have anything to do with a literal historical event, and it almost certainly does not. But there’s just something about our nature that makes us imagine these flood myths.” I don’t think I’m being unfair to them. I think that’s actually their point of view.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s willful ignorance. That’s what that is. They know that that’s not true.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You give them more credit than I do. I think they’re not that smart.

Academic Double Standards

TIM ALBERINO: Well, I’ve talked to, you know, there’s the academic who’s speaking ex cathedra. And then there’s the academic who’s talking to you, smoking a cigar, having a cup of coffee. They have their public face, and then they have their private opinions. And many of these guys privately will admit many things, many interesting things.

I’ve talked to academics and archaeologists and historians, and privately, they’ll admit, “Yeah, there probably was a cataclysm. Yeah, that’s not hard to see.” And more, they’ll admit many of these guys privately, that giants existed. So not only we have the cataclysm confirmed in the Bible, also the existence of giants, what are designated as the nephilim in Genesis 6 and elsewhere in the Old Testament.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So are the giants the ones who built the big megaliths and then stopped cutting at the moment of the cataclysm?

The Question of Giant Builders

TIM ALBERINO: I don’t know. I don’t know. See, I think that’s a possibility, that some of these edifices perhaps could have been built by giants, but certainly not all of them simply because of the proportions. You know, there’s people out there who are in my community who will say all the megaliths were built by giants? Well, that can’t be true because if you walk through some of the megaliths, they have doorways. And the doorways are, you know, maybe a foot higher than my head. And it’s the original doorway.

And nobody’s going to build a house that they have to crouch down to get into, right? Nobody’s going to do that. So if one of these sites was built by giants, for giants, you would expect to see the proportions, right? And you would expect to see very large doorways, very large corridors, very large stairwells, and you do at some of them.

I’ll go back to Sacsayhuamán in Peru. Sacsayhuamán. The doorways are massive. The steps are spread apart so that, let’s say they were built like we would build steps. So that’s the normal stride of our stature. If these stairs were built proportional to the stride of the builders, these are very tall guys. We’re talking nine, ten feet tall.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: But if I go to great cathedrals or great, even, I don’t know, even a great symphony hall or something, sometimes they’ll have very large doors.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s a good point. That’s true.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So could it just be that?

TIM ALBERINO: It could very well just be that. I’m not saying that megaliths were built by giants. It’s possible. I don’t know who built the megaliths. I don’t know who built them. Whoever built them, though, the conventional explanations are inadequate to account for the phenomenon.

Lost Advanced Technology

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So if they were so technologically advanced that we can’t even understand how they did what they did, where did the technology go? Who were they? Were they some smarter race of creature? Were they just human beings who figured things out and then generational knowledge was lost?

TIM ALBERINO: How did it happen? The knowledge was lost. And the ancients knew it. The ancient Egyptians knew it. The ancient Mesopotamians knew it. They knew it. They knew that the civilizations that had pre-existed them, specifically the civilizations from before the great cataclysm from before the flood, were superior to their own. They acknowledged them as such.

And this is what I’m trying to illustrate is all over the world, you have the fingerprints in the megaliths. You have the fingerprints of an advanced lost civilization. And it’s ubiquitous. Cyclopean architecture is ubiquitous all over the Earth. It’s not that the Inca over here developed their megalith building technique and the guys who built Baalbek developed a different one. No, it’s the same. It’s the same Cyclopean architecture. They’re working with the same knowledge.

Understanding Cyclopean Architecture

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You’ve used the word multiple times. Forgive my ignorance. Cyclopean. Like the Cyclops.

TIM ALBERINO: Like the Cyclops.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So was it a race? Cyclops.

TIM ALBERINO: This is an archaeological term. And interestingly enough, the Cyclopes were the offspring of the gods in Greek mythology. They were demigods. And so the Greeks attributed the megalithic constructions that they saw strewn around the land. But in a state of ruination, they attributed those constructions to the Cyclopes, to the offspring of the gods.

Because the cyclops in Greek mythology was the master builder. It was the Cyclops, for example, who forged the thunderbolts of Zeus. I mean, these were the master builders. And I think that’s a myth. I’m not saying that the walls were built by actual Cyclopes, but I think it’s…

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You’re just saying you’re using an archaeological term.

TIM ALBERINO: It’s an archaeological term.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You’re using it in a literal way and in a way that the ancients might have used it.

TIM ALBERINO: Exactly.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Okay.

TIM ALBERINO: Exactly.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So that the ancients that we think of as the ancients…

Indigenous Testimonies of Ancient Giants

TIM ALBERINO: If you ask the ancients, okay, I keep going back to Peru because I lived there for 10 years and I have so much experience there. But if you ask a Quechua person, and the Quechuan people are the native people who live in the Andes, if you ask a Quechua person, one who hasn’t been modernized, one who still keeps the old ways and the old traditions. “Who built these walls? Sacsayhuamán. Who built those walls?”

You know what they’ll tell you? An ancient race of giants who existed in the world before a flood. That’s what they’ll tell you. And you’ll find this. You’ll find the same answer all around the world when you talk to the people and when you inform yourselves of the traditions of the people who live there.

And that doesn’t mean that all the traditions of these cultures are true. No, there’s a lot of mythology, but mythology is designed to convey scientific information.

The Poetic Nature of Ancient Language

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yes. It reminds me of one of my absolute favorite books by Owen Barfield, one of the Inklings, actually, the Inkling who probably was most responsible for converting C.S. Lewis to Christianity. Owen Barfield, in “Poetic Diction,” says that we have this modern view that language goes from being prosaic and literal to being figurative and poetic. That’s how we understand it. But actually, it’s the opposite, that early primordial language is poetic and the first example he uses is pneuma, you know, the spirit or the breath.

And that actually all those meanings are just collapsed into this one word, pneuma. And it has poetic meaning, it has spiritual reality, it has literal reality. And as language develops and people become more self conscious, I suppose the language loses its poetry and becomes more prosaic. And he said, that’s lost. It’s not that we’re going to get back to that, he said, but the echo of that, the last kind of hint whisper that we have of it, are the myths. That the myths are this kind of… Which is not to say that one takes the myths literally. It’s just that that is the way to convey an early kind of melding of meaning and literal reality.

TIM ALBERINO: I agree with that. But I would say it’s even more than that. I would say that the myths were crafted by the adepts of the mystery schools and that these were very learned men and that they understood things about the universe and about the earth, things that we would equate to modern science, and that they encrypted that knowledge in the myth. So that the myth is like… A myth is like much like prophetic content from the Bible.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: It’s like an encrypted folder. So if I’m going to send you a folder with information that I want to conceal that requires decryption for you to view, I’m going to send you a zipped folder.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: And you’re going to take that zipped folder onto your computer and you have to decrypt that folder. You have to unzip it in order to extract the contents. So a myth is like the folder. A myth is that folder with its title. And you kind of have an idea of what it’s about. And for the lay people, for who the Mystery school adepts would describe as the profane. Yeah, yeah. Who the occult would describe as the profane hoi polloi. Yeah. They’re not the initiated. Like, you know, they’re initiated, we’re profane. That’s how they would see us.

We think of these stories, these myths and legends in a different way than they think of them. They know how to decrypt the myths and extract the knowledge.

Tolkien’s View vs. Encrypted Knowledge

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Well, this would be a divergence probably between your view and the Inklings. I think especially of Tolkien, author of “Lord of the Rings,” who said, you know, he didn’t really like allegory. There’s a difference between allegory. He hated allegory, because allegory is like “Pilgrim’s Progress.” You know, just big walking symbols like…

TIM ALBERINO: “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

MICHAEL KNOWLES: The Chronicles, right. Yeah. You know, Lewis is probably less talented at his fiction than Tolkien was. Tolkien created myth, though. And so I guess not to speak for Tolkien, one of the great writers of the 20th century, but the Tolkien view of myth, and maybe the Inkling view of myth, is that it’s not that it’s hidden knowledge exactly. It’s just it is conveying in the best possible way knowledge that is not really susceptible to prosaic, literal speech.

Whereas there are also other schools I’m thinking of in the 20th century, a writer like Leo Strauss or other people who write it in esoteric or even gnostic tradition who say, no, no, this is really about… This is about encryption. This is persecution in the art of writing at all times. The philosophers, the sages are under attack by the unwashed and the tyrants and the barbarians. And so we need to keep secret from these unwashed masses these ancient truths that will pass on down the Gentiles. That’s your view?

TIM ALBERINO: I believe that’s absolutely true. And not just my view. One, Isaac Newton also believed that. Newton was…

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Because we think of Newton as a natural scientist, but he spent a lot of time, especially in the later part of his career in alchemy.

TIM ALBERINO: He’s an alchemist and a successful alchemist, by the way.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I knew he was into alchemy. I didn’t know he was successful.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, and I don’t want to… I don’t know all the details and every time I try and recompose, I get the details wrong. But let’s just say, generally speaking, he was into alchemy and he believed, as did some of his predecessors, that the myths encapsulated real scientific information. Alchemy recipes from which you could extract different kinds of elements.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah, yeah.

Astronomical Information in Ancient Myths

TIM ALBERINO: And he performed some of these. He read the recipe, so to speak, from the myths in a couple of these myths. And he was successful in extracting the element that was theorized that you would get if you did that with the myth, if you read the recipe correctly. But myths also encapsulate, more than anything else, astronomical information. And there’s no question about that.

I mean, you know, you look at the ancient world and you see, for example, you look at ancient Egypt and you see all kinds of composite beings like the Sphinx. Right. The Sphinx is a great example. And you have the Sphinx, which I believe originally the Sphinx was the head of a woman in the body of a lion. And I have to give credit to David Flynn for much of this. I read a book. The most consequential book I’ve ever read in my life is called “Cydonia the Secret Chronicles of Mars” by the late David Flynn. He passed away in 2012.

But the Sphinx is actually that composite being, the head of the woman and the body of the lion. Today it’s the head of a man because it’s not proportional. The head is small. It appears to have been recarved. I think originally it was the head of a woman. Because I believe what the Sphinx is marking is the exact period in time when the cataclysm of the flood occurred.

And that happened between the transition of… And we’re talking about the zodiac here because this is how the ancients calculated time. It was the great mill in the sky. It was the celestial timepiece, zodiac, ubiquitous in many different cultures around the world. Same figures. And that transition from the age of… It was the transition from the age of Virgo to the age of Leo. When the cataclysm… I’m talking about the cataclysm as described in the Bible occurred, it ensued during that transitional period between Virgo and Leo.

And what is the zodiacal sign for Virgo? The glyph is a woman. And what’s the glyph for Leo? A lion. So you have the head of a woman and the body of a lion. It’s a time marker. Right. So I believe that… And there’s other astronomical phenomena that solidifies this idea that the Sphinx is a time marker. But it’s marking the age in which it was built, but it’s also marking the occurrence of the cataclysm.

Dating the Great Flood

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So when would that have been? Is that at the historically academically accepted time, or is that some earlier time? When do you…

TIM ALBERINO: It would be… It is a historical time that academics do acknowledge, are increasingly acknowledging that was a time of potential cataclysm on Earth. They call that the Younger Dryas period, the end of the last Ice Age. It’s not a time frame that most Christians are accustomed to thinking about in regard to the flood, because it’s somewhere around 10,500 BC, somewhere in the neighborhood.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So you’re saying Christians who take a young Earth creation view don’t like that?

TIM ALBERINO: Okay, I’m not a young Earth creationist. Yeah.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I’m a Catholic. We’re not too hardcore about any of those particular things.

TIM ALBERINO: You know, I believe that the great flood of biblical fame happened sometime in the neighborhood… When I say in the neighborhood, give or take a thousand years, sometime in the neighborhood of 10,000 BC.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah, it’s funny because I do know some of our Protestant friends and viewers are very particular about the Earth is exactly this old. And I’m open to the possibility. But also the tradition going back to the ancients, our ancients, not the super ancients who were earlier, doesn’t insist upon a literal historical reading of Genesis.

The Golden Age and Biblical Narrative

TIM ALBERINO: Certainly not. And what’s interesting is we talked in the beginning about how all of this conversation for me, is framed within the biblical narrative. Not because it has to be, but because it simply is. You don’t have to read this into the narrative. It is already incorporated into the narrative.

What do I mean by that? Well, this period of time, the antediluvian world, was considered again, almost universally by the primary ancient cultures around the world as the Golden Age. Of course, this is a term that comes from the Greeks and they all have their own terms for it. For example, the ancient Egyptians referred to it as Zep Tepi. The first time. It’s the same thing, it’s the same idea.

So what is the golden age? What is the first time? This is the time when the gods descended from heaven and co-inhabited the earth with mankind and furthermore copulated with human women and procreated hybrid offspring.

Genesis 6 and the Sons of God

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So I’m thinking now we were just talking about the book of Genesis, of Genesis 6, a confusing passage where the church fathers are somewhat divided on it. You know, one explanation of Genesis 6, the sons of God looked on the daughters of men and found them to be beautiful and were, you know, went and did the thing that men and women do.

That one reading of that is it’s demons or something, angels or demons mating with human beings. One issue with that, of course, is that to make a human being in the ordinary course of things, you need two people that have bodies, not an incorporeal being and a corporeal being. However, I think Justin Martyr in the Second Apology says that it’s angels and humans, though there is some Tertullian. Tertullian, yeah, yeah. Really? A number of church fathers, early Christians origin. Yep.

But there is some disagreement. One view is the Sethite view that the sons of God refer to the descendants of Seth and the daughters of man refer to the descendants of Cain. And then if you were to take an even more metaphorical and symbolic view, it’s this notion that virtuous men are seduced by not so virtuous women, which is an anthropological fact of history.

TIM ALBERINO: But your view is you’ve covered the bases there. So I would say the biblical view, and the only one that makes logical sense, is that the sons of God in Genesis 6 are an angelic faction. These are angels, these are not men. The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were comely, and they decided to take wives from among the daughters of men, and they copulated with them, and the production of their union was giants, the Nephilim.

See that story that’s found in Genesis 6. The writer of Genesis, when he’s writing about the sons of God and this affair, and it’s just a little snippet, he does not elaborate, he doesn’t enlarge on this strange digression in the Genesis narrative. He just mentions this bizarre thing.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You know, I’ve started to read the Bible since I was a kid. I want to read the whole Bible, but I wouldn’t finish it often. So I would start it again. Eventually I’d say, okay, I’m going to start again. So I’ve read the book of Genesis like a billion times or something. And you know, every time you get to that and you say, wait, what? Hold on.

TIM ALBERINO: Exactly.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: What was that part about? Hold on.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s right, back up. We need an elaboration on that. Well, the thing is that I’m totally persuaded that the writer of Genesis, as he’s writing about the sons of God, this bizarre affair, he’s not elaborating on it because the story is already well known. He’s just assuming. He’s assuming that the audience already knows what he’s talking about, because this was one of the most monumental events that’s ever happened.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Even you see this in the New Testament when specific people who were either alive at the time of the writing or who had been alive within living memory, they’ll say, yeah, you know, so and so, the daughter of so and so, or the son of so and so. Yeah, he saw this happen. And here’s just a little bit, you know. Anyway, we all know. Right, exactly. You all know Johnny.

TIM ALBERINO: Right, exactly.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Okay, so you’re saying that this is happening in the book of Genesis. Like, yeah, of course we all know about it.

TIM ALBERINO: The writer of Genesis is assuming that his audience is conversant with the larger narrative that expands on that, on the mention of the sons of God, on the writer of Genesis’ allusion to that story. The audience already knew the whole story, so he didn’t have to repeat it. There was no need to go back into all the details.

The Nature of Angels and the First Cause

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Now, two questions then. One, how does at least the traditional Christian understanding of what an angel is, which I’m persuaded by, is that an angel is incorporeal. And one can go further. You know, St. Thomas Aquinas describes angels as being, in a way, unique species that are. We have choirs of angels, we have different hierarchy of angels, but they don’t communicate by speaking, for instance, because they don’t have vocal cords and mouths.

Now, angels do interact with human beings in mystical and interesting ways, but angels in themselves don’t have bodies. Human beings do have bodies and rational souls. We have intellect and we have flesh and we have will. And then there are the lower animals who have bodies and they have instinct and they have appetite, but they don’t have intellect and will.

So we’re kind of this middle ground. We’ve got the reason the intellect and the will, albeit greatly degraded of an angel, but we got the body of an animal and we’re kind of this meeting point. So how does an incorporeal being create a child with a corporeal being? Or do you have a different view of angels?

TIM ALBERINO: I think we need to back up a little bit because we have to deal with what I call the first cause. So let’s assume for a moment that Genesis 6 is angels and they’re looking down at the daughters of men and they’re lusting after them. They’re desiring to take them as wives and to copulate with them, to have intercourse with them. So what’s the first cause here?

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Lust. Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: In fact, when I was talking about the elaboration of that story, why the writer of Genesis didn’t bother to elaborate on it is because it was well known to the ancient Hebrews in the Book of Enoch, which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Book of Enoch is actually quoted verbatim in the New Testament in the Book of Jude. Verbatim.

The Book of Enoch and Biblical Canon

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Right. So it’s considered apocryphal book or non canonical book. It’s not included in any canon of the Bible that we’re familiar with, certainly not in the history of the Church making, you know, ecumenical council, formal decrees. But it has been around, except for in Ethiopia.

TIM ALBERINO: In Ethiopia, both the Beta Israel Jews, the ancient Jewish community and the Tallahedo Orthodox Christians long ago incorporated and preserved the Book of Enoch in their canon.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: And as you say, there are references, it would seem, in the New Testament.

TIM ALBERINO: So many. There are allusions. There are many allusions to the Book of Enoch. For example, when Jesus says “In My house, in my father’s house are many mansions.” Well, where does that come from? The Book of Enoch.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: How would it be found in Enoch? I’ve never read the Book of Enoch.

TIM ALBERINO: There are many, many allusions. But then as I said in Jude, it’s verbatim and Jude says that “Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, saying,” and then copy, paste, copy from first Enoch, paste into his Epistle.

So they were conversant, the early church, the church fathers, the disciples of Christ, Christ himself, and all of the writers of the Bible, all of them were conversant with the Book of Enoch. There’s no question.

In fact, I believe that if you were living in 1st century Jerusalem before it was destroyed by the Romans, and if you were to walk into the temple during the time of Christ, into the synagogue, I think you would find in the scriptorium where all of the sacred scrolls are held, are kept, you would find a manuscript that was reflective, representative of what today we call First Enoch, Ethiopic Enoch.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I would even say, as someone who is totally innocent of the Book of Enoch, I’ve never read it. I have no strong opinions of whether it were some huge mistake not to include it in the canon. I don’t think there are mistakes in the canon.

TIM ALBERINO: And I’m not arguing that.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Exactly. My view is, I think that the Proto Evangelium of James, for instance, is an edifying work to read and can inform us. It’s useful. Maybe it’s not canon, but it’s useful. And so that seems to be kind of the view that you’re taking.

The Complexity of First Enoch

TIM ALBERINO: Well, I will say this, and that is my view, but I will say this. I’ll add that in the Book of Enoch, see, the Book of Enoch, First Enoch is very complex and we’re going to get back to what I called the first cause in a minute with Enoch.

But the Book of Enoch is very complex. First Enoch. There are three different books of Enoch. Only one of them, portions of it were written before Christ. That’s the one I’m interested in. First Enoch, there’s Second Enoch, which is called a Slavonic Enoch, and Third Enoch, which is called the Hebrew Enoch. First Enoch is known as the Ethiopian Enoch because the Ethiopians preserved it.

First Enoch. The oldest portions of First Enoch, namely the Book of the Watchers and the Book of Parables, were most certainly written before Christ. Why is this important? Because some of the most extraordinary, astounding Christological prophecies, prophecies pertaining to the Son of Man, which is the title that Jesus used most often when speaking of himself, are in the parables in First Enoch. I mean, absolutely stunningly accurate prophecies pertaining to Jesus of Nazareth written before Christ.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Is there any dispute over the dating of the first Book of Enoch?

TIM ALBERINO: Most scholars will date. In fact, almost universally scholars date the earliest portions of Enoch to sometime around 300 BC. Now there are, it’s a complicated document because it’s a compilation of text written by various authors.

I’m most interested in the first two sections of First Enoch, which are the Book of the Watchers and the Parables precisely because they’re dated to before the birth of Christ. And my whole point in bringing up Enoch was you have that snippet in Genesis. Well that story is elaborated in the Book of Enoch. In fact, that’s where the story comes from is the Book of Enoch that little reference in Genesis.

If you want to know the full story of what the author is alluding to, you read First Enoch, specifically the Book of the Watchers, the first section, and it tells you this extraordinary narrative. I mean it’s what I call the Enochian tale about the sons of God which are designated as watchers in First Enoch, that they’re looking down, they’re seeing the daughters of men.

And it’s basically almost copy paste into Genesis, the Genesis 6 reference. And intriguingly enough, in RH Charles translation it’s the same verses, Genesis 6:1 through whatever it is, 4, I think the sons of God. But in Book of Enoch it’s the angels. And by the way, that’s the way the Septuagint renders it as well. Genesis, the angels are looking down at the daughters of men, that they’re fair, that they’re beautiful, and they lust.

Okay, so that’s why I told you to back up. I call that the first cause of the angel’s sin. In this particular case, the Watchers rebellion. The first cause is lust. How do you explain lust for spiritual beings who don’t have bodies? How do you explain incorporeal beings having sexual impulses?

The Problem of Angelic Lust

MICHAEL KNOWLES: That is a very good question. But just before we get to it, you wouldn’t say this is the first sin that the angels committed? Because the rebellion of the angels, the rebellion of Satan would have had to…

TIM ALBERINO: This particular incident.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: This was the catalyst for what they were about to do.

TIM ALBERINO: Yeah.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So how does an incorporeal being become tumescent, to use a diplomatic word, for fair looking ladies on the ground?

The Watchers’ Descent and the Ancient Paradigm

TIM ALBERINO: That’s right. And not only do these angels, according to one Enoch, again which is the elaboration of the Genesis 6 reference, not only do they lust after these women, they are determined to take them as their wives and procreate offspring with them.

So they lust. That’s the first cause. Then they descend to the earth. According to one Enoch, 200 Watchers descended the earth on the summit of Mount Hermon. And Mount Hermon is very interesting in the Bible. They descend to the summit of Mount Hermon. They bind themselves by an oath of mutual imprecations. In other words, all for one, one for all. We’re all in this together.

They knew it was a great sin, but they were going to accept the consequences together, whatever befall. And then they. That’s why the. By the way, the Mount Hermon has been known since time immemorial as the mountain of Oath.

And then they descended into the plains and they chose each one, one woman, one maiden that they desired to wed, that who they ultimately took to wife. They copulated with these women. These women conceived and gave birth to giants, demigods, the offspring of God and man. Okay? This is the Hebraic cosmological paradigm of the antediluvian world. This is the Hebraic paradigm of the golden age of Zep Tepi.

Because the ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks and the Romans and all the rest of them, they believe that the very same thing occurred, that the gods descended to the earth, that they copulated with human women.

The Story of Atlantis

I mean, look at Atlantis, the story of Atlantis. Everybody knows about the city of Atlantis and the legend of Atlantis, but very few people pay attention to what Plato writes in the Timaeus and Critias dialogue where he talks about Atlantis. He has Solon of Athens traveling to Egypt and he’s being informed by the priest of Sais about the extraordinary past of the Athenians that he’s unaware of.

And part of this past involves this conflict that they had, this epic conflict with Atlantis and the Atlanteans. And they tell him the whole story, Right. And everybody’s familiar with Atlantis, that Atlantis was this advanced ancient city.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It’s a great resort in the Caribbean, right?

TIM ALBERINO: That as well. Yes. It still exists today in a slightly degraded form, perfectly pleasant.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Perfectly pleasant.

TIM ALBERINO: It does so that Atlantis was this advanced civilization that was destroyed in a day and a night in cataclysm. Right. But Plato has the priests of Sais telling Solon in the dialogue, the full story. And what’s the beginning of the story of Atlantis?

The Beginning of the story of Atlantis is that the gods who descended to the Earth are apportioning the earth amongst themselves. They’re creating an empire and they’re dividing up their kingdoms. And Poseidon for his lot, he got the area of Atlantis, the region that would become Atlantis.

So what does he do? He builds Atlantis. He raises up an island out of the sea which is ultimately going to be the home of this city, Atlantis. But what does he do after this or during this? He becomes enamored of a human woman named Cleito, and he takes her as his wife and he copulates with her. And she gives birth to five sets of twin sons who will become the ten kings of Atlantis. And these are giants. Atlas, for example, is. He’s the chief among them. That’s the backstory.

So what do we see here? Well, this is a one to one match with the book of Enoch in Genesis 6, is it not? It’s the gods descending to the earth, taking human women as their wives, having intercourse with them, and procreating a race of demigod giants. This is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Just like the megaliths that we were talking about. This is called the Golden Age.

The Global Cataclysm

And I believe that it’s literally true that that literally happened in the time before the Great Flood. And I believe in the ubiquitous testimony of our ancient ancestors. And in fact, the Egyptians informed Solon it was in the midst of the conflict because this Atlantean empire became expansionary, they became aggressive and they were going on conquest and they were steamrolling everybody that they encountered until they encountered the Athenians, who were the only faction that was able to resist them.

And they’re locked into this epic war, the Atlanteans versus the Athenians. And then cataclysm, cataclysm destroys Atlantis and everyone else, not just Atlantis. It’s a global cataclysm. And the Egyptians kept record of this and they told Solon that that wasn’t the only cataclysm. There have been many cataclysms because they believed it was cyclic, right?

That the cataclysm is cyclic, that there’s this celestial timepiece, the zodiac, that you can. That the primary function of which is to keep track of when the cataclysm is going to occur again. So this is how the ancients viewed.

So if you were to. And I’m not saying, by the way, that that means that the pyramids were built by giants or anything like that. I don’t want people to think that I don’t know who built the great pyramids. But I do believe that many of these extraordinary megalithic sites around the world, like Baalbek, were built in the age before the flood. And it had something to do with the knowledge of the gods who descended to the earth. That’s what the ancients say. That’s what they all say.

Understanding Demons: Ancient Hebrew vs. Western Perspectives

MICHAEL KNOWLES: All I will contribute to that narrative is one of my most intelligent friends. Very well grounded, extraordinarily educated, very, very high IQ, very serious person, has told me for years now. He says, “Yeah, you know, when I think of these ancient structures and there are all these debates over how they were built, and, you know, I basically think it’s largely demons.” And he’ll say with a totally straight face, he means it. He’s not joking around. And that kind of sounds like what you’re saying.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, I’m going to qualm with the term demons a little bit here. So we have a very Western perspective of angels and demons. We have a demonology that comes from Western tradition that is not necessarily concordant with ancient Hebraic cosmology. Because if you were to ask an ancient Hebrew or the writers of the Old Testament what a demon was, they would have a very different answer than us.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Well, if you asked an ancient Greek what a daimon, like. That’s right. Even the phrase. That’s a very happiness, right? Eudaimonia. Yeah, it’s kind of like spirit.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s a very good point, because the Greeks believed specifically that the daimon was a spirit, a disembodied spirit of a being who had lived in the world before the flood. That’s what the daimon was. That they died in the golden age, and that their spirits persisted in the earth after the flood in the form of daimons. Well, guess what? That’s the Hebraic view. That’s the view of the. That’s concordant with ancient Hebrew cosmology.

So in the cosmology of the Jews, the demons are very specific things. So let’s address first how we view demons in Western civilization. And this is, I would say, primarily the product of medieval Christianity.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I’d love to. By the way, before you get into this explanation, I love this point you’re making, which is more ambitious and audacious probably, than many viewers are even noticing, because there’s this idea that we all just accept as a matter of course that our civilization comes from the melding of Greece and Jerusalem. And so there are these totally different ways of viewing the world with these totally different perspectives.

But really, I think it’s overly simplistic to suggest that the Greeks had no sense of the Hebraic view and that the Hebrews had no sense of the Greek view. And, you know, come on, guys, it’s pretty close together. And you see. You see harmonies and echoes. Yeah. And that’s what you’re saying. No, actually, there is a kind of unified.

The Common Source of Ancient Traditions

TIM ALBERINO: They’re all inheriting the same tradition. Now that tradition is becoming variegated. It’s taking on the idiosyncrasies of these particular cultures as they develop. But there’s a source. The answer is it’s because there’s a source of a narrative. There’s a source to the narrative of the Flood. There’s one particular source, and I would say that source is Noah and his sons.

And then that story gets taken by the ancient Mesopotamians, the ancient Sumerians, who I think are the civilization that grew out ultimately of Noah and his sons. And then it’s changed. The names are changed, people speak different languages. The details get jumbled. And you get these stories that have similar elements, right? They have these foundational elements, the flood myths, but then they have their idiosyncrasies as well. And that’s precisely because all of these stories are founded in the same original narrative.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So the true story, Right. What have we gotten wrong about demons?

The True Nature of Demons According to Hebrew Cosmology

TIM ALBERINO: Okay, so going back to that. So the Western perspective of demons is basically we will view demon as anything that is, well, demonic. Anything that is scary or grotesque, we would call a demon or even basically.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Like an angel that rebels, a bad.

TIM ALBERINO: Angel or an angel that rebels. We lump all of that together in this term demon. So in the Western mind, a demon is like. It’s like a boogeyman, basically. It’s like anything that’s evil and malevolent supernaturalism. That’s all demon. That’s a demon.

But in the ancient Hebrew cosmology, they were much more narrow in their defining of the word demon. To them, a demon was something very, very specific. A demon was the disembodied spirit of a giant, a giant that died in the antediluvian world before the flood. Their spirit, as this is in the Book of Enoch, by the way, it derives from the Book of Enoch, that their spirit, this is judgment.

God judges them that because they’re neither holy of their fathers, their angelic fathers, or of their human mothers, that they’re going to be cursed when they die to wander the earth as bodiless vagabonds, as disembodied vagabonds they’re going to be hungry, they’re going to be thirsty, presumably, they’re going to have all the desires of the flesh, but no bodies through which to fulfill those desires, to satiate those desires. That was a curse that was placed on them by God. According to the Book of Enoch, according to ancient Hebrew cosmology, this and only this is the origin of a demon and is what a demon is.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: What about, like, when Lucifer rebels, you know, Satan falls like lightning and leads all the bad angels who rebelled against God, and there’s a great battle and they lose. Spoiler alert. And, you know, St. Michael the Archangel wins. God wins. He always wins. And what about them? That’s before the.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, those are the insubordinate sons of God. These are the defected sons of God, right? These were the angelic beings who were loyal to the king at one time, but who rebelled and became disloyal and were expelled. And that’s what they are. But they’re not.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You’re saying that’s distinct.

TIM ALBERINO: They’re not technically demons. So the demon is. Again, specifically, according to Hebrew cosmology, a demon is specifically the disembodied spirit of Nephilim.

The Curse of the Giants

Now, when God in the Book of Enoch, again, this is a judgment on the giants, on the offspring of the watchers, they’re sentenced to this terrible curse. It’s very much like the plot line of the Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one, right? You had Barbossa and his crew, they had the Mayan gold, the cursed Mayan gold, and they had this curse where they were living forever. They were, like, eternal, but they couldn’t satisfy any of the desires of their flesh.

And this is represented, this is illustrated with Barbossa, who wants to bite the apple. Yeah, yeah. And, and, but he can’t. When he bites it, you know, the moon comes out or something, and you see that he’s just a skeleton and there’s nowhere for the food to go. He has no tongue, he has no stomach. And all he wants is to be able to satisfy his hunger, to be able to bite that apple. Well, that perfectly illustrates the nature of a demon according to ancient Hebrew cosmology.

So you have the disembodied spirits of the giants that are going to persist in the world as vagabond wraiths. That’s their curse. Much like the Barbosa and his crew’s curse. They’re going to wander the earth, hungry, thirsty, presumably all of the desires of the flesh, but with no flesh through which to fulfill those desires, to satiate those desires. That’s a very torturous existence.

So fast forward to the New Testament, I should say, before I go there. And a part of this curse, God tells them that they’ll be in this condition until the end of the age, when the age is wholly consummated and the Great Judge appears. And at that time they will be judged with finality. Right? But until that time, they’re going to be cursed to wander the earth in this miserable state.

Jesus and the Unclean Spirits

So fast forward to the New Testament. Jesus is walking in Galilee. Jesus is walking all over Judea. And what is he encountering? He’s encountering these things called unclean spirits. And going back to the Enochian reference, part of the judgment was God says, “Evil spirits or unclean spirits, you shall be called.” Fast forward to the New Testament. Jesus is encountering unclean spirits.

And what are these spirits doing? They’re inhabiting the bodies of human beings. And when they get inside the body of a human being, it manifests something like epilepsy. The person is rolling around, foaming from the mouth, throwing themselves into the fire, screaming at the top of their lungs. And Jesus would cast these demons out, and they were called unclean spirits.

And there’s a particular occasion when Jesus is walking on the shores of Gadara. And this is the Gadarene demoniac encounter, where the Gadarene demoniac comes running up to Jesus and he’s full of a legion of demons. I mean, he’s full of all kinds of demons, right?

MICHAEL KNOWLES: He had. His pronouns were. The plural pronoun.

TIM ALBERINO: It was they, them. Yeah, exactly. Precisely. Right. He was they, them. And he throws himself at the feet of Jesus. He sees him coming and he throws himself at the feet of Jesus. And the demons cry out, “What have we to do with you, O Son of God? We know who you are, you, Son of God. Why have you come to judge us before the appointed time?”

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Right.

Confirmation of the Book of Enoch

TIM ALBERINO: So what do we have here? We have a confirmation of the Book of Enoch, because the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, they have no bodies of their own. So what do they want? They want bodies. So they’re inhabiting the bodies of human beings, and through the bodies of the people that they possess, they’re attempting to satiate these desires that they have, which are otherwise insatiable.

And they see who walking on the shore of Gadara, the Great Judge. But wait a minute, it’s not time yet. According to the Book of Enoch, it’s not the end of the Age yet that’s why they cry out, “What have we to do with you? Why have you come before to judge us before the appointed time?” The time had not yet come, and they knew it.

So there’s the confirmation of that cosmology that comes from first Enoch in this encounter that Jesus has with the Gadarene demoniac, who is a human being being possessed by disembodied spirits. So that’s the very narrow definition of what a demon is. And as I illustrated before, it’s the same idea to the Greeks. As I said, they believe that the daimons, the daimones, however you pronounce it in Greek, were our disembodied spirits from people who lived in the world before the flood in the golden age. It’s basically the same tradition.

Unlearning Western Traditions

So this is important to me because we have a default, I think, and I had to unlearn this because I grew up in church. My father was a pastor of a Protestant church and a very good man, very good pastor. I had a very good upbringing. But there are things that are traditional, just like we were talking about the conventional historical things, archaeological things that are missing. They’re big gaps in them, right? You have to. You have to. At some point, you have to come to terms with these gaps. If you’re studying megaliths.

Well, in the same way, if you’re studying the Bible, at some point, you have. There’s gaps here. We have to come to terms with information. We don’t have all the information. And so we in the west, we tend to label everything demons. Everything’s a demon. Anything, as I said, grotesque and scary and ugly and menacing is a demon. And that’s fine because we all understand what we mean. But when we get into certain situations, that becomes a little bit unhelpful and unuseful.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It’s interesting to think of it from the Catholic perspective because we think the Catholics rule on every single thing and they have a very precise, detailed explanation of everything. You know, you can open up St. Thomas Aquinas Summa theologia, you could figure out exactly what to have for your mid afternoon snack on Tuesday, November 8th. You know, it’s that kind of detail. And yet there are major questions that the church refuses to give a definitive answer on.

TIM ALBERINO: Right.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Like extraterrestrial aliens, which is a possibility, like how to read the age of the earth. Like these things are left kind of, kind of open.

TIM ALBERINO: And I appreciate, I really appreciate that about the Catholics.

The Nature of Scripture and Divine Knowledge

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Well, it’s very. Because with all of the details, there is a great, there’s a great deal of caution that one must have. I mean, we really, just as a matter of course, there’s this legend about St. Augustine’s writing de Trinitate. And the legend is he’s walking on the beach and a kid is like shoveling the ocean into a hole. And he says, “What are you doing?” He says, “I’m going to fit the ocean in the hole.” He said, “You can’t do that.” He goes, “That’s right. You can’t fit the Trinity in your head, Augustine,” and he’s transformed and becomes an angel.

It’s a legend, obviously, but it’s this notion that there are things between heaven and earth. There are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of in our philosophy. Even some of my Protestant friends are insistent that there’s no such thing as ghosts. Well, a major plot point in Hamlet is whether or not Hamlet sees the ghost of his dad or is it a demon of some kind? Is it a trick? And the Catholic Church doesn’t rule that there’s no such thing as ghosts. The Catholic view is kind of there’s more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in our particular philosophy.

TIM ALBERINO: There’s a lot of unknowns.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: And it kind of seems like that’s the stance that you’re taking.

TIM ALBERINO: Oh, yeah, certainly. I think there’s a lot that we don’t know. And I don’t expect the Bible to inform me of everything. I would never have expected the Bible to tell me about the Internet or artificial intelligence or robots. Or automobiles. I expect the Bible to do exactly what it does. It is a message that conveys the gospel of Christ to mankind. That’s the primary function of the Bible. It is God speaking to a particular people at a particular time. But the message is for all time to all men. And it’s Cardinal Baronius. Absolutely ingenious.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Cardinal Baronius has this great line around the Galileo affair, which is “the Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.”

TIM ALBERINO: I would agree with that. Yeah. And I think there’s tremendous knowledge that is encrypted in the Bible. Literally. I’m talking knowledge about all kinds of things. That’s encrypted astrological knowledge, for example, that’s encrypted all over the Bible, the Old Testament. But as I said, the primary purpose of the Bible is to convey the gospel of Christ.

When Jesus came to the earth, I mean, here you have the Son of God walking among men. According to the writers of the New Testament, the universe was created through him and by him, and for him and in him, all things consist. And that person is walking with his disciples. He doesn’t bother to tell them about electricity. He doesn’t tell them about splitting the atom, about nuclear power. He doesn’t tell them about the germ theory of disease.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: The great podcasts, that one day people will be precisely right.

TIM ALBERINO: Yeah. The advent of cameras and the Michael Knowles show. That’s right. He doesn’t tell them about any of these things. He could have. I mean, the universe was created through him. He knows everything. But what does he tell them? “The kingdom of heaven is like this. The kingdom of heaven is like a tree. The kingdom of heaven is like a person,” so on and so forth.

He’s talking to them like they’re children through parables. And he’s conveying to them the gospel. And he’s conveying to them, talking to them like little children trying to tell them about what the kingdom of heaven is, what it’s really like. And so that’s what I expect from the Bible. I expect the Bible to communicate the message of God to mankind and specifically the Gospel of Christ, which is the most important information we could possibly conceive of.

And so I’m very appreciative. I love talking to Catholics. I love talking to Catholics. I talk to Catholics of all stripes.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: We’ve hedged our bets on a lot of questions.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, they’re very open to all kinds of things. Like you mentioned aliens and life on other planets. Most Catholics I talk to are totally open to that.

The Question of Extraterrestrial Life

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Now, I am personally quite skeptical to the point of outright denying in my limited knowledge that there are aliens. The Church has not made any statement on that. I mean, no sort of definitive teaching on that. And some saints even are reputed to have entertained the notion of extraterrestrial aliens. Obviously, he’s not quite Catholic, but he was High Church Anglican. C.S. Lewis writes a whole series about aliens, which I’ve never read.

TIM ALBERINO: Everyone tells me I read the Chronicles of Narnia front and back, like 10 times. I’d never read the other series that he wrote. Everybody tells me I have to read.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I’m cursed in that. I love culture, but I hate reading fiction. And so I haven’t read it either, nor have I read Narnia. But I have a debate in this building, and I’m actually fearful of which side you’re going to come down on. I have a debate with my friend and colleague Matt Walsh. I’m very anti alien. He’s very pro alien. He might be an alien himself, and if he is, I’m going to call Tom Holman and have him deported. Are aliens real?

UFOs and Non-Human Biologics

TIM ALBERINO: Well, this is for me. This is where I spent a lot of time on this subject. And this is an interesting crossover because I often talk about these two topics in the same setting, the antediluvian world and all of that, and then usually find my way over to the alien topic because I write a lot and talk about both of these.

And the reason why I’m so adamant about understanding the proper definition of a demon is because most Christians that I engage with, and I was in this camp too, years ago, most Christians that I engage with believe that aliens are demons. That’s sort of the common trope. “Aliens are demons.” I understand. I totally understand the sentiment. I understand what people who say that mean. So it’s not illogical to me, but it’s definitionally wrong.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So because they have bodies.

TIM ALBERINO: They have bodies. I also believe, by the way, just to make this statement. I also believe angels have bodies. I don’t believe angels are disembodied. I believe angels have bodies like us. In fact, in my book Birthright, I refer to them as our elder siblings. I think we’re very, very similar. We’re not the same, but we’re very similar. They eat and drink, they make music, they do all the same things that we do. And they did them first. They pre exist us.

But getting back over to the aliens topic, here’s what we can know about UFOs and aliens, and I’m going to say this definitively because I interface with all kinds of people. I interface with people in the government. I interface with some congressmen. I’m always very curious about this topic.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Well, there’s now a major congressional committee investigating UFOs.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s right, yes. I’ve talked to a couple of congressmen on that committee. Talk to Lou Elizondo and who was the main whistleblower in the last hearing. And I’m very well versed in ufology. And one thing that is undeniable to me now, people in your audience may not believe this, and that’s fine, but to me, because I’ve done a lot of research and I’ve made myself very conversant with this material, UFOs of non human origin have crashed, have been recovered, including the bodies of the pilots.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Okay, so until you said that last part, you could in principle say, well, maybe it’s the Chinese, or maybe it’s some new technology that someone came up with, or maybe it’s our own technology and just some part of the government didn’t know. But if little green men are being recovered, little gray men, that little gray men, then it’s probably not the US Government.

TIM ALBERINO: When you have exotic technology and you have non human, as David Grush describes them, biologics, non human biologics associated with these crash retrievals, you are not dealing with a human phenomenon and you’re not dealing with a supernatural phenomenon. What you’re dealing with here is a physical phenomenon. You’re dealing with corporeal beings who are at the helms of functional technology.

Technology, by the way, that doesn’t just appear out of thin air. There had to be blueprints for these things. They had to be manufactured. The raw materials had to be harvested, processed and refined to create this technology. And the technology I’m referring to is advanced aerospace vehicles.

Skeptical Analysis of UFO Claims

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Okay, so my skeptical read on that, on that very statement from a whistleblower on UFOs. So we’ve recovered these vehicles and there were non human biologics in it. My skeptical, maybe even cynical read is it’s our technology. We’re faking out our adversaries. And it could remain. If you find one little dog hair in an otherwise human made or even piloted vehicle, you could say there’s a non human biologic. There’s an ant got into the drone. Maybe it’s. Now again, that’s a prejudicial read. I’m not basing that on any scientific or technological find there. You’re saying. No, no, no, it means what it sounds like. He means. It’s, et cetera.

TIM ALBERINO: We’re going to try and convert you here to Alberino and Walsh’s perspective.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I might need something a little stronger than Walsh.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, the problem with that is, first of all, you have crash retrieval events going back to World War II.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: Cold War era and even some predating World War II. Okay, so you would have to make the claim then. Assuming that these crash retrievals are real. Let’s just assume for the moment, for the sake of argument, that they happen. That we, the United States government, or some other government around the world, including the Nazis, had that kind of technology, but we didn’t deploy it during World War II.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It may be that we had some kind of airplane or these days, some kind of drone or some other kind of vehicle that I can’t even really imagine. And that these things sometimes malfunction and they go down and we make up stories about them.

TIM ALBERINO: But we’re talking about craft, we’re talking about aerospace vehicles that are capable of making right angle turns at thousands of miles an hour. That’s what we’re talking about.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: At least the whistleblowers today are saying it’s little Tic Tacs that are.

A Personal UFO Encounter

TIM ALBERINO: It’s what has been observed by many, many people and filmed. I myself have seen one of these craft at close proximity. I was some years ago when I was first getting into this research and studying all different aspects of ufology, including alien abduction.

I would work out with my brother in law in his basement. We’d be lifting weights in his basement. My brother in law, Tony. And many times the topic of our conversation would be this. Aliens and alien technology, Bob Lazar, reverse engineering of exotic technology and so forth. Often this was the topic of conversation.

And one day we’re lifting weights in his basement and my brother in law says, “Hey, let’s go run over to GNC. I want to grab some supplements.” But it was getting late and the GNC store closed. I think it closed at 9 o’clock or something. And so we hop in my car and we drive to, we’re in Cleveland, Ohio. We drive to the suburb over Brook Park, Ohio, where I grew up. I was born in Brook Park. Born and bred in Brook Park, Ohio.

And we drive over to this area I’m very familiar with. It was called the Brook 8 shopping strip mall. And there’s a big parking lot and we’re approaching, it’s probably around 8, 8:30 at night, very cold. It was in February, very, very windy. Very, very frigid windy day. And we’re approaching the intersection and on the other side of the intersection is this large parking lot and you’ve got the strip malls.

And I remember there was like a Hollywood video, it used to be a Blockbuster here on the corner. And we’re talking about, we’re not at this moment, we’re not talking about UFOs, we’re talking about something else. And my brother in law says, “Hey, what’s that?” And we look and there’s an object, a bright object hovering above that Hollywood video store for those young people out there. That’s where we used to buy VHS tapes.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: This was in the 1860s.

TIM ALBERINO: Exactly. And our first inclination was that’s like, that’s a Blackhawk. That’s a Chinook, that’s a helicopter. Because there’s a National Guard base close by.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: Oh, they’re running some kind of a drill. And we thought it’s kind of windy for a helicopter right now. But we instinctively rolled our windows down. We roll our windows down to listen for the telltale sound of blades whipping through the air. Nothing. Okay, well, we’re not that close yet, so nothing can do much of it.

I drive into the parking lot. There’s hardly anybody there because it’s almost closing time. And I didn’t even park in a spot. I just hit the brakes and threw my car at the park. Because this craft.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

UFO Encounter Above Hollywood Video

TIM ALBERINO: Lifted up from its position above Hollywood video that the store on the corner, lifted up, effortlessly turns in the air very effortlessly and maneuvers right over my car, positions itself not directly above my car but above and in front.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: How big is this?

TIM ALBERINO: It was the size of like a Chinook troop carrier. It was the size of a small aircraft. And it begins to descend over my car. And now keep in mind my brother in law and I, we’re often engaging in UFO related topics conversation. We’re looking at this thing, it’s literally descending and it gets to about, we think it was about 40 feet. I could have hit it with a rock. Right 40 feet above my car.

But in front of us I see the whole thing through the windshield and our jaws are on the floor. We don’t even know what to say. We’re just staring at this thing because there are no propellers, there’s no exhaust, there’s no engines.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Is it a flying saucer?

TIM ALBERINO: There’s no wings, there’s no propulsion system to speak of. It has like sort of kind of angular body armor type. Yeah, it’s like a dark, it’s like a grayish or a dark green or something like that. And it’s in the place of wings, it has these little stubby protrusions. No wings, no tail. And it had a sort of a diamond shape to it, but rounded. And there was no insignia, nothing. And no sound whatsoever.

Now it is so windy as I’m sitting in my car. I’m in the driver’s seat, Tony’s in the passenger seat. It is so windy that the car is going like this, okay. And you hear the blast of wind against the car and the car’s shaking. This craft is totally unmoved by the wind. It’s like it’s in its own atmospheric bubble. It is totally unaffected by the wind.

And it has a series of, I think it was green and blue lights around the bottom and it had triangle, big triangle white lights in the front. And I remember, I can’t remember, I think I remember two, my brother in law remembers one or the other way around. But there had big triangle white lights in the front and it just hovered there for a good amount of time. I mean just staring at this. We probably stared at this thing for a minute, maybe two minutes. That’s a long time just to be gaping at something 40 feet above my car.

And I said, and it was like I was coming out of a daze. And I said, “Tony, your phone, your phone.” Because back in those days this was probably, oh, I don’t know, 15 years ago, 12 years ago, I didn’t have a smartphone, I just had a flip phone. But he had a smartphone. And so what I was saying was get your phone out, take a picture, take a video.

And he’s like coming out of a daze, and he starts searching his pockets for his phone. He pulls his phone out and drops it. And he bends over to grab the phone. And while he’s bending over to grab the phone, the craft lifts up into the air just effortlessly. Lifts up into the air. No sound. Now it’s right above my car. Okay. There’s no hydraulics. There’s no gust of wind coming out the bottom of it. It just lifts up into the air and turns like this, and it starts to move away, totally silent.

We jumped out of the car, and by the time we got out of the car and he got his phone, it’s already going over the horizon. Okay, so now what was that? I have no idea. None. Do I think it was aliens in this particular situation? No, I don’t. I got the distinct sense that I was looking at exotic technology that was derived from a crash retrieval from a non human crash retrieval. Why do I think that? Just because of my research background and all of that.

Reverse-Engineered Technology Theory

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So you’re saying you’re near the guard base, and maybe there is a connection here. Not that it’s our technology, but it’s some technology that they discovered. But it could be our guys who were flying it. Yeah, it wasn’t ET that was flying it.

TIM ALBERINO: Okay, so let’s go back to the hearings that you mentioned.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Because then the question to me is, okay, you almost had me on it’s aliens until you said it’s not aliens. And I say, well, how do you know we didn’t. If it’s our guys flying it, how do you know they didn’t build it?

TIM ALBERINO: So this is why you have whistleblowers who’ve come forward over the years, including one who’s never officially come forward, Bob Lazar. Bob Lazar’s testimony is very compelling. I totally believe Bob Lazar. I think Bob is telling the truth. And that’s where we get the Area 51 narrative. That comes from George Knapp, who was the first one to disclose that story with Bob Lazar. It was a big deal back in the 90s, but since Bob Lazar was kind of been a big gap before, you’ve had other whistleblowers, very credible whistleblowers. You’ve had some.

But I would say until you, it was a big gap between the caliber of whistleblower that Bob Lazar was, in my opinion, and the ones that have recently come out in Congress. Of course, the first one where there’s a group of them. But the main testimony in that first hearing, that first UAP hearing in Congress was David Grusch. David Grusch was in the intelligence community. He was tasked with studying UFOs.

And his testimony under oath was that he came up against a program which he describes as a legacy program. He refers to it as the legacy program, this program that goes back decades. It’s a retrieval program, a retrieval and reverse engineering program. A retrieval of what? UFOs? A retrieval of non human advanced aerospace.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Vehicles, or at the very least of unidentified flying objects.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, he gets very specific because the congressmen and women ask him some very specific questions. I remember Nancy Mace asks him, asked him and a couple of other congressmen specifically about the nature of the craft. “Is this ours? Is this China’s? Is this Russia’s?” And he definitively said no, no. This program that I came up against was specifically designed to recover non human technology. Non human craft, he called them spacecraft.

And in these recoveries there were non human biologicals. And we have since derived our own technology from what we’ve been able to recover and reverse engineer, and I think we’ve had limited success in reverse engineer some of the components from these craft. So we’re talking about craft, the origin of which is not planet Earth.

And why do I say that? Because you could make the case. And before I go there, by the way, the other whistleblowers testified to the same David Fravor, the pilot who chased the Tic Tac UFO that whole scenario, the Nimitz incident, he said under oath, “There’s no way. This is us. We don’t have anything like this. This is not, I mean, this is technology far beyond anything that we have” in his opinion. And then you have, of course, Louis Elizondo and some of the others who’ve come out more recently.

But the point is that these vehicles of non human origin, they incorporate exotic matter. And I’ll go back to the Lazar’s account. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Bob Lazar.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Not really, no.

Bob Lazar and Element 115

TIM ALBERINO: Bob Lazar came out in the 90s and he said that his claim was that he had been hired as a physicist to work in a secret facility in the area of Area 51, but not Area 51 exactly. It was the S4 facility. And he specifically was hired as a physicist to work on the reactor of a particular non human craft.

And this craft was a saucer. It was a saucer shaped craft and he called it the Sports model, because it was sleek and it was functioning. Yeah, yeah. And they had other craft there too, some in different conditions. Some of them were obviously had crashed and were not in functioning condition. But this one, the sports model, flew, and they were trying to figure out how the engine worked, how the reactor worked, because it was operated, the operating system, the engine was a reactor.

Turns out it was a matter antimatter reactor. And it produced gravity waves. It produced enough energy to harness gravity, to bend gravity, to manipulate gravity. And that’s how these craft fly. Lazar says that the key component to make this reactor work is something called element 115. And element 115 was a small engineered triangle, precisely engineered triangle. And it was exotic matter, mind you.

Lazar said this in the 90s, and that element 115 had very unusual properties. For one thing, you could generate antimatter. You could create antimatter, could throw off antimatter, and you could have matter antimatter collision inside the reactor that would produce an enormous amount of energy. Antimatter is a fact. We know it’s a fact. We can create very small amounts of it. In CERN, you have matter antimatter. They always collide. They always annihilate each other. That’s a very powerful force that if you can harness it, many, many times more powerful than an atomic bomb, than a thermal nuclear warhead.

By the way, China wants to, and I believe is building a collider, like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, 10 times bigger than CERN. And what do you think they want? I think they want antimatter. I think they want to make.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Only for peaceful purposes, though.

TIM ALBERINO: For peaceful purposes, I think they want to make antimatter bombs, but because if you drop an antimatter bomb, you get an explosion that’s much more devastating without the fallout. So you can bomb an area and then rebuild. Whereas today, if you nuke a city, it’s radioactive. It’s radioactive for a long time. So antimatter, much better than nuclear. An antimatter bomb is much more useful. That’s a little digression there.

So Lazar is working on this reactor, and the only way this reactor functions is with element 115. Element 115 is exotic. It means it’s not on Earth. It wasn’t on our periodic table, but Lazar said it was real, and it turns out that it is. Years later, in Russia, they were able to produce a particular isotope of element 115. It’s on the periodic table today. It’s called Moscovium. It wasn’t known when Lazar said it. Now it’s on our periodic table, Moscovium.

So element 115 exists, but on Earth, there are no stable elements. But the element 115 that was incorporated into the matter antimatter reactor that Lazar worked on was stable, and it was not derived from planet Earth. And that can be said of some of the other materials that are discovered on these craft, and that we can’t reverse engineer them because we don’t have the matter. We don’t have the raw material to do it. It’s being harvested from somewhere else. That’s not Earth.

Now, of course, people can believe that or not. They can think that this is just all fantasy issuing from my lips right now, but.

Technical Difficulties During Alien Discussion

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Because if it were, it would be a good comic book. You know, there’s this one special element that’s not. We don’t have it. And it. But you put that magic key in, and that’s what makes the magic craft. So I’m not saying I don’t. I’m actually not saying that I don’t believe it, but it does fit a story pretty well.

However, before you explain why it’s not just a comic book, I have to let the viewers in on something very odd. So producers have been running back and forth for the past, like, five minutes. And when you started talking. This is. So no one’s. I don’t even know if people are going to believe me when I say this. When you started talking about the aliens and the antimatter, all the lights went off. All these lamps, which. The lamps had new batteries. We checked that. And it wasn’t just one lamp or two. They just all went off.

TIM ALBERINO: Maybe somebody signaling to us to shut up.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So the producers have told me they have a $4,000 confidence monitor just to see how the shot is and just went out. It did not. It didn’t turn off. It like fizzed. Like the picture got all crazy. That is not a setting on that monitor.

TIM ALBERINO: At what point in time did that happen? When we were talking about.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Is you talking. You’re talking about aliens and matter and antimatter. And it.

TIM ALBERINO: Maybe the NSA turned up the volume.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: That’s like the best case scenario is that it was the NSA. That is really.

TIM ALBERINO: I don’t know.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Not a lot spooks me in these things, but that’s crazy.

TIM ALBERINO: It is.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this on this show before. I interviewed an exorcist. It’s the biggest episode we’ve ever had. Father Rehill. And we were filming it and as he was talking, we never have audio issues on the show. Every 20 minutes or so we had an audio problem and this happened maybe less than 20 minutes, I guess it must have been because we had, I don’t know, three, four, five times and we had to stop.

And then I asked him, I said, “Wait a second, does this happen to you regularly?” He goes, “Story of my life.” We never had an audio problem again for the rest of the episode.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, it hasn’t been that common in my life, so that’s very interesting.

UFO Whistleblowers and Congressional Testimony

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It’s weird. Anyway, sorry to interrupt. You see now I don’t even want to say it sounds fanciful because I’m kind of spooked, but it does sound.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, what I’m trying to illustrate here is that there’s a lot of credible people who are saying the same thing. These whistleblowers are all saying the same thing. We have recovered, let’s call it, they call it UAP. I like the old terminology better. UFO. They’ve recovered UFOs that are of non human origin.

And it wasn’t just the whistleblowers who’s come forward. We’re talking about guys like Al Puthoff, Eric Davis, the astrophysicist, guys that contract with the government. There’s more whistleblowers coming forth right now. And the congressmen have heard these stories both in front of the public in the context of the hearing, but also behind the scenes and have interfaced with these guys a lot.

There was another individual who just came out recently named Jacob Barber. I don’t know if you saw that. News Nation did a report on that and he says the same thing. We’ve been retrieving, we have been retrieving for decades, alien advanced aerospace vehicles.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I will concede, at least I’m friends with a number of members of Congress and since all the congressional UFO investigations kicked off, people that I would never have expected to be open minded to the idea of ET are right.

TIM ALBERINO: Because of what they’re seeing and hearing behind the scenes in Washington D.C. I mean, most of the guys that I interface with know this to be a fact, that this is. They believe David Grush, they believe his testimony, they believe David Fravor, they believe Lou Elizondo. Their facts check out. Their testimonies are solid and these are solid individuals.

And so the whole point here is if you have technology with non conventional components, exotic components that cannot be recreated on Earth, that by definition, must be extraterrestrial. Must be. Must be.

Now, I am totally open to what’s called the crypto terrestrial hypothesis. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the crypto terrestrial hypothesis. Basically, what the hypothesis posits is that there could very well be inhabiting planet Earth a faction of some kind, a non human faction or an ancient human faction that’s covert, that we simply don’t know about, that is highly advanced, maybe living in underground bases under the ocean somewhere we’d never think to look.

And so the phenomenon, the origin of the phenomenon could be planet Earth. I’m totally open to that as well. But you can’t close the door on the extraterrestrial component because of the exotic matter.

The Physics of Interstellar Travel

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It also, by the way, if it. It’s hard for me to imagine where they would be coming from in our solar system or galaxy or whatever, just given my limited knowledge and our collective limited knowledge on how these things work, it’s hard to imagine how ET would get here across vast distances. It would be at least as weird if ET was bubbling out of the ocean like that would not. That would, that wouldn’t seem to me like the mundane explanation. No, no, no, don’t worry. They’re just at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. No, that’s where the UFOs.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, I mean, there are a lot of UFO sightings that happen even specifically with our Navy at sea or in the vicinity of a large body of water, and they do come out of the water.

And the old idea was that it’s impossible for any kind of civilization to travel across the stars because the distances are simply too vast. It would take them forever to get here. And how would you. Life support of that mission and so forth, you’d run out of resources. And that was the old idea. That’s not the way physicists are thinking anymore.

Most physicists will acknowledge that you can bend space time, give it enough energy, you can bend space time. I mean, this is certainly feasible within Einstonian physics, within relativity.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Wouldn’t that kind of mess up our bodies, though, if we did that?

TIM ALBERINO: No, not necessarily, no. I mean, there’s been papers written by a lot of very eminent scientists like Hal Puthoff, who have explained how you could theoretically bend space. Now the thing you need, though, is a tremendous amount of energy. You need something like a matter antimatter reactor to do it.

This is the conclusion that Lou Elizondo and his team came up with when he worked in an official capacity at the Pentagon. This is the conclusion they drew, was that these craft are producing a tremendous amount of energy and they’re able to manipulate gravity, they’re able to generate gravity waves.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: And that you can take two points in space that are distant. This is what physicists always do to illustrate this point. They’ll take a piece of paper, they’ll say, here’s point one and point two. And these are light years away. But what if you can bend the fabric of space time and then they poke the pencil through the two points?

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Right.

TIM ALBERINO: You can instantaneously travel from one side of the universe to the next. Every physicist acknowledges that this is possible, theoretically possible. So the idea that vast distances of space cannot be traversed is old hat. We’ve definitely progressed beyond that. I don’t think there’s hardly any physicists out there saying that anymore. I don’t know, maybe Neil Degrasse Tyson, I’m not sure. He says a lot of dumb things. He may be out there saying that.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: But I’ve unfollowed him on Twitter, so I don’t even know.

Reverse Engineering and Hybrid Technology

TIM ALBERINO: But most physicists are going to acknowledge that yes, this is absolutely theoretically possible. As I keep saying, the problem is the energy to do it. That’s the problem. And of course you have people out there also saying that we have zero point energy, We’ve discovered zero point energy. Nikola Tesla was developing this. And I don’t know about any of that, but I can say that I am exceedingly persuaded that the United States government. Elements of the United States government. That’s not a really accurate way to describe it.

Elements of the United States government of the military industrial complex. Working in coordination primarily with defense contractors, aerospace defense contractors have been recovering both exotic craft, craft of non human origin and biologicals, non human biologicals for decades and have had some success, albeit I believe limited, in reverse engineering some of these components and creating what I would describe as hybridized craft of our own, which is what I believe I saw in Brook Park, Ohio so many years ago.

So we have been able to figure out certain components of this technology and incorporate exotic with conventional components to create hybridized craft.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Why don’t you think it was an alien? Why would it be? Why are you so convinced that the thing you saw was a hybrid? Why couldn’t it have just been an alien?

The Brook Park Encounter and Skinwalker Ranch Connection

TIM ALBERINO: It could have been. But for whatever reason, I really don’t have any good answer to that, except for my intuition was that this was ours, but it had no insignia. And I’ll tell you something very interesting.

So I’m writing my book Birthright, back in 2020, and I’m sitting at my desk and I got my computer screens here, and I’m writing. And in Birthright, I tell the story I just told you about the craft that I encountered in Brook Park. It’s on my screen. I’m literally crafting the paragraph, right? And every so often I would take a break and I have a reading chair next to my desk, and I’d sit down and read just to take a break from writing. And I go back to writing. Then I sit down and read.

And since I had that experience, I have been asking all of my UFO friends, all of the UFOlogists that I interface with, have you ever encountered a craft like this? Do you have any stories of this? And all of them across the board have told me, no, this is different. We’ve never encountered anything like this. So I’ve always been baffled by that. It wasn’t a typical saucer or anything like that. It was, as I described, like a diamond shape.

And it was reminiscent. I forgot to add this detail. It had sort of that angular body armor, a little bit of that. And it was reminiscent of the. I believe. Is it the F117 Nighthawk? I think is what it is. It’s the stealth fighter. The body armor, it was reminiscent of that, but it had no wings. And it wasn’t that, but it was reminiscent.

So here I am writing this account in my book. I take a break. I’m in the middle of the paragraph. I take a break and I sit down to open the book I was reading and to continue reading. And the book I was reading was a book called “Hunt for the Skinwalker” by George Knapp. And I believe it’s Colm Kelleher and fascinating book. Great book.

And I happened to be reading the section of the book where. And by the way, the book deals with this strange phenomena that happens at Skinwalker Ranch. And I happen to be reading the portion where the ex owner. And this is a pseudonym, I think they called him Tom Gorman in the book, a pseudonym, where he is describing an experience that he had on the property on Skinwalker Ranch.

He said that he was on the ranch, walking by, I believe, by this particular mesa on the ranch. And he noticed this craft off in the distance. And he described the craft exactly the way I saw it. He described literally the craft that I saw, that I was writing about. So here’s my computer. I’m writing this story no one’s ever seen. I’ve never encountered someone who’s seen this craft. I’m taking a break, reading a book, and I’m literally reading the same description that I’m writing.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: So how do you make sense of that? Is that just a random coincidence? Is it providence? Is that some alien messing around with the pages?

TIM ALBERINO: I mean, I would like to think it’s providential, but he describes it the same exact way. There was no sound. It had little stubby nubs in the place of wings. It was reminiscent of the F117 Nighthawk, a stealth fighter. All the same details.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: But this would have been when. This would have been in the.

TIM ALBERINO: This would have been. I don’t remember when they own the ranch, this, the family, that the book is.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: My question being, this would have been around the time of the development of the stealth Nighthawk.

TIM ALBERINO: I’m not sure when the Nighthawk was developed. But these were no Nighthawk. I mean, it was a big deal when we came out with the Harrier jet. Remember, the Harrier jet, they could take off vertically. But the amount of pressure that that jet had to produce, air pressure, would push cars out of the way to lift that.

Now we’ve since created. We’ve since developed that technology, and we have stuff that’s much more advanced that uses air pressure that can push an aircraft off of a landing pad, for example, and then it can take off. We have that now. But back then, the Harrier jet was like the most advanced thing the public knew about in regard to vertical takeoff for an aircraft, for a jet.

And I mean, these things were the one I saw and the one that was described in “Hunt for the Skinwalker.” Skinwalker Ranch. Totally silent. So at the very least, what I saw with my own eyeballs is unconventional, exceedingly advanced technology that somebody has. Now you can say, that’s us, that’s Russia, that’s China, whatever.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: But it’s pretty wild, whatever it is. It’s pretty wild.

The UFO Disclosure and Government Oversight

TIM ALBERINO: Or you can concede that, yeah, maybe we have recovered and reverse engineered alien technology, exotic technology. Now, I don’t think it’s coincidental that the testimonies the, the witnesses that are coming forth to Congress at the hearings, that their testimonies conform precisely to what we’ve known as ufologists in, in the field of the study of UFOs for a very long time, perfectly conformed to Bob Lazar’s testimony that he came out with in the 90s.

At some point, a preponderance of anecdotal evidence is evidence, especially when it’s given under oath, especially when it implicates the military industrial complex, especially when it highlights what really amounts to a fraud on the American public. And this is what the congressmen are really upset about.

This whole apparatus, this whole special access program, the special access projects where these things are developed are completely outside of the oversight of the United States government. They use our tax dollars, but they tell our representatives nothing. The President of the United States does not have the need to know. He can’t get access to these projects.

And they’re primarily housed in, as I said before, they’re under the auspices of the aerospace companies, Lockheed Martin and the others. And so you have our money being used to develop something very advanced. Who knows what it’s being used to do? Congress has no oversight. None. They have totally circumvented Congress and therefore the American people.

But they’re doing it, much of it, on our dime. And we wonder where all these trillions of dollars go to that we can’t account for. The Pentagon, The Defense Department’s ever going to pass an audit? No, because so much of that money is going into these black projects that most of the people in Washington have no clue exist.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: We kind of know, to use the phrase of a former Secretary of Defense, it’s a known unknown. Right. We who do not really know what this is going toward, we all know that these projects exist. We just don’t know anything about them.

TIM ALBERINO: Right.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: This is the primary reason why the congressmen right now are so exercised about this topic is because it is a intentional circumvention of Congress and they’re trying to rein it in and to have oversight over it. And it’s this battle. I mean, I interfaced with guys who are in the midst of this battle, and it is a battle to get anything out of the government.

Connecting Ancient Mysteries to Modern Phenomena

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Now, why? You’re an independent researcher. You can research whatever you want. How do you go from researching megaliths in Peru and the ancient cataclysms and giants and nephilim to aliens? Is there a connecting thread here? Is there some theory?

TIM ALBERINO: There’s a very complex thread and I’m not trying to shamelessly plug my book here, but it’s very complex. That’s why in my book Birthright, I start in a pre Adamic context, actually, but I start with the creation of Adam and I work my way all the way to Armageddon.

And within this narrative is everything we’ve talked about is the giants and the megaliths and the ancient, the antediluvian world, the golden age. And then I tie in the UFO phenomenon, what I call the alien presence, transhumanism. All of this is interconnected, it’s intertwined.

But for me, the explanation is very theological. There’s a theological explanation of how all of this intersects and connects. And there’s nothing. There’s no easy answer to that question. Right. So I believe, as I’ve stated in the beginning, and we frame this conversation in the context of the biblical narrative, right? We’re both Christians and we’re viewing this from a biblical narrative, from a biblical paradigm.

And for me, everything that’s unfolding right now in regard to not just the UFOs and the alien presence, but as I mentioned, transhumanism, because that’s a huge issue right now.

The Rise of Transhumanism

MICHAEL KNOWLES: The notion that human beings will transcend not just our gender, which we do now, not just certain technical limitations, but our very humanity, in the words of humanity. Yuval Harari wrote a book called Homo Deus. That’s right. That Homo sapiens, we are going to actually, C.S. Lewis writes about this in Abolition of Man many decades prior. We, in an attempt at progress, will actually abolish Homo sapiens to become something greater.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s right.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: You might have an echo here from the Bible of a phrase from Genesis.

TIM ALBERINO: “Ye shall be as gods,” we’ll be like the gods. That’s exactly where this is going. All of it. All of it is going that way because we’re going to find out that the gods are real at some point in the future. And by the way, I think that this has to do with us landing on Mars as well. This is a whole conversation there as well.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Meaning the present push from Elon Musk to go to Mars to put a man on Mars.

TIM ALBERINO: Why?

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Why?

TIM ALBERINO: Because I think we’re going to discover the ruinous, the ruinous remains of a remarkable civilization that existed on Mars, that pre existed us by many thousands of years. And from a theological perspective, I believe that this is the narrative surrounding that is going to be very deceptive.

Okay, so it’s always difficult for me because this is the most common question I get is how do you connect the megaliths and stuff to the aliens? Well, I wrote a whole book about it. I mean, it takes a long time to connect all of these threads together. To weave all of these threads together.

But you’re precisely right, though, that we talk about Homo deus. Mankind is in a very dangerous. We are engaging in a very dangerous project right now, directed evolution of the human species. And it’s really predicated not on Darwinism, it’s predicated on Nietzscheism. Yes, because see, Nietzsche believed in the theory of evolution. He was a proponent of the theory of evolution, but he didn’t like the mechanism, Darwin’s mechanism of evolution.

Nietzschean Evolution vs. Darwinian Selection

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Natural selection, random mutations being selected by.

TIM ALBERINO: Yeah, See, Nietzsche believed that evolution had a purpose. This is very different than Darwinism. Nietzscheism. And this is the driving, the impetus is Nietzscheism, not Darwinism. Right now evolution has a purpose, according to Nietzsche. What is the purpose? To bring forth the overman, the Ubermensch. To bring forth the overman. And that’s very different than natural selection. That is, as you said, blind and random. And it’s not going anywhere.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Though in principle, natural selection would improve the race over time. Right. Because people who have defective genetic qualities would be weeded out and they wouldn’t reproduce. But the Nietzschean idea that we’re basically going to institute a tyranny of the will, that is a triumph of the will, I guess, the will to power that would create the superman.

And so we’re not just kind of randomly improving, but we know where we want to go. We’re going to do it to ourselves and forget about that old man, the underman.

TIM ALBERINO: I would say that that Nietzsche is in many ways the prophet of transhumanism. A lot of people don’t think of it this way. A lot of people have a very laudatory perception of Friedrich Nietzsche. Yeah, yeah, I don’t have a very laudatory perception of Friedrich Nietzsche.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: And I believe that he gave us. He gave transhumanists the roadmap. Because as you rightly say, the impetus of Darwinism, of evolution by natural selection is natural selection. Right. That’s the. Of evolution by natural selection is natural selection. It’s this blind process. The impetus of Nietzschean evolution is the will to power. Right.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Even just eugenics. I mean, everyone compares everything to Hitler, but this was going on throughout the West.

TIM ALBERINO: Margaret Sanger, Hitler was an aficionado of Nietzsche.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yes.

TIM ALBERINO: So was Aleister Crowley, who told his acolytes, read Nietzsche. He said, “I regard Nietzsche as a prophet.”

MICHAEL KNOWLES: He lets us do whatever we want.

TIM ALBERINO: Exactly. Will to power. God is dead.

The Dangers of Directed Evolution

MICHAEL KNOWLES: And but all to say it’s one thing, certain parrots on a random island die out and certain parrots go on and their beaks kind of change because of natural forces. And it’s rather different than Margaret Sanger in America in the early 20th century saying, we’re going to kill off these defectives, we’re going to kill off this race. We don’t like these people.

That kind of conscious eugenics oriented selection. I guess one of the big differences is if you’re a proponent of nature kind of doing the pruning, then things will just kind of plot along and we’re not going to be responsible. But if you’re the one who says no, I know exactly what the human race should look like and I’m going to exterminate you and I’m get rid of you and I’m going to put us at, with our limited stock of reason, we might make some terrible mistakes certainly.

TIM ALBERINO: I mean this is the project of directed evolution. So we have a goal in mind, even though we don’t articulate it. And that goal is what you mentioned, Homo deus. We intend to become the gods that we read about in mythology. We intend to become the gods ourselves.

And I’m attempting to try and connect the dots here to answer the question you asked me a while ago. And I believe that we’re being guided. It’s not aimless, the direction we’re going in. We’re going in a very particular direction. And it’s precisely what you said. The story is going full circle back, back to the beginning. “You shall be like the gods.”

So my, the way that I see this playing out in regard to the alien question, I believe that we are going to realize we are going to learn at some point in the future that the gods exist and we will endeavor to become like them. And we will use all of our technological tools in this enterprise, but by doing so, we will lose our humanity.

The Loss of Human Autonomy

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Lewis says in Abolition of Man, every step forward we find is a step backward. We want to increase our autonomy by creating this new genetically perfect future generation of humans. We’re doing it now, we’re doing it now through things like IVF and various reproductive technologies and we can soon select for other traits without question.

But he says, but every step forward is a step back because we are exerting this autonomy. But every successive generation of human beings will have been fundamentally transformed without any choice of their own, without any autonomy. They’ll have lost their autonomy.

TIM ALBERINO: What are the consequences of this? What are the consequences of us evolving ourselves out of the human species? Well, to the atheist, to the evolutionary atheist, who cares? The human being is what? It’s just transitory. This was Nietzsche, by the way. He viewed man as a transitionary species. Mankind is a transitionary species. He’s not the end, he’s a bridge to an end. That’s part of the quote. He’s a bridge. I think the quote is, “The great thing about man is he’s not an end, but a bridge to an end.” Something like that.

So that’s Nietzschean philosophy, that there’s no reason to preserve our humanity. See, one of the questions that I think is most important today, one of the most critical questions that we should be asking ourselves is what does it mean to be a human being? And is our humanity worth preserving?

I mean, no other generation had to ask that question. Think about it. Our parents didn’t have to ask that question.

The Unique Challenge of Our Generation

MICHAEL KNOWLES: That’s a great point. That is something unique in our generation. Or at least we have a unique technological power. There are all sorts of wackos in past ages maybe will turn out to be wackos who thought that they could radically change human nature, cure death, whatever.

TIM ALBERINO: They didn’t have the tools.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: They didn’t have the tools. Perhaps we do have much more substantial tools. But you bring up a good point here, which is to the modern secular atheist. Yeah, great human beings, we have all these frailties. So if we could cure the frailties, if we could so transform ourselves that we’re not even recognizably human anymore and it’s for the better. Well, great. That’s awesome. I don’t want to be some limited human being. I want to be an unlimited nuclear life extension. But if you’re a Christian, God is a man.

TIM ALBERINO: Precisely.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: God becomes man and is fully God and fully man. So what does that mean?

TIM ALBERINO: He’s a kinsman, redeemer.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yes. What does that mean? If we cease to be men, that.

The Stakes of Human Identity

TIM ALBERINO: This means we forfeit our candidacy for salvation in the cross of Christ because he became a man to redeem mankind. So there’s a lot at stake here. I mean, if you’re a Christian, there’s a lot at stake here. Obviously, atheists, whatever, you know, this theological stuff means nothing to them. But if you’re a Christian, you need to pay close attention, because the Gospel of Christ is precisely about the Son of God humbling himself to become one of us in order to redeem us as a kinsman, redeemer.

So there’s only one qualification for salvation in the cross of Christ, only one. You must be human. That’s it. You can be forgiven of any sin. The thief on the cross. I mean, you can be forgiven at the last moment of any sin. The grace of God is so large that it extends to everyone at all times, but there is no grace for those who are no longer the sons and daughters of Adam.

That is unique right now in our time, and it’s unfolding again. This is a question that we have to answer. And it’s a theological question. It’s a philosophical question. What does it mean to be a human being? And is our humanity worth preserving? And that’s why I think that the prelude to transhumanism is transgenderism.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yes, certainly, without question.

TIM ALBERINO: We’re watching. These are the first steps in that direction. When we begin to abandon the definitions, when we begin to abandon those ontological understandings that have been traditional, that have rooted civilization, we open the path, we clear the road for the wholesale biological transformation of Homo sapiens.

The Anthropological Premise of Transgenderism

MICHAEL KNOWLES: To an earlier point, you made the premise, the anthropological premise of transgenderism is that our true identities don’t really have anything to do with our bodies. That actually our true identities are potentially disembodied spirits. So I can, you know, I got the body of a man, but my true identity is a woman. What does that mean?

The traditional understanding is that, you know, I’m a man, I’m my body, but I’m also my soul, and my soul is the substantial form of my body, and my soul actually makes sense of the matter of my body. The transgender idea is a fundamentally different idea. And I don’t know, with everything you’ve been saying about disembodied spirits, I don’t think I would want that to be my true identity.

The Hybrid Age and GRIN Technologies

TIM ALBERINO: No, no. I mean, the stakes are much higher than people realize in the game that’s afoot right now. See, there is a suite of technologies that have been under development for decades now, especially the last couple of decades. We are right now, and we are in what is known as the hybrid age, what futurists and technologists refer to as the hybrid age.

The reason why they call it the hybrid age is because there are many different technologies from different streams, but there are four primary technologies that we can identify. These are called the GRIN technologies: genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology. There are many more. But these are like the four pillars of the technology, the current technological advancement.

And they call this the hybrid age, because these technologies, these four and others, are like individual streams. They’ve all been developing as individual streams, but now they’re converging into a rushing river. For example, we’re developing robotics over here, we’re developing artificial intelligence over here. What happens when we put the two together? Right, that’s a very interesting question. And it’s happening.

Well, we see the artificial intelligence, we see the robotics, but the same pace is afoot in regard to the biological transformation of the human species. It’s not as evident in the public, but the genetic revolution is coming. It is coming.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: Of course we are going to be able to incorporate technology into our bodies. We’re going to become, in the future, cybernetic beings. And ultimately we’re going to be able to modify the human genome in radical ways.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: We can already do it in modest ways.

Human Artificial Chromosomes and Super Soldiers

TIM ALBERINO: In modest ways we can. We can use CRISPR technology to make little snips. But, you know, in 2010, DARPA had a project called Human Artificial Chromosomes. I can’t remember the exact long title, the project, but that was basically it. Human Artificial Chromosomes.

And what they wanted to do was to create a – this was like 10 years ago, 12 years ago. They wanted to create a platform, not make little snips with CRISPR Cas9, like we’ve been doing. Right? No, they said, forget about these little tiny modifications. Let’s create a platform, an artificial chromosome that we can use to basically upgrade the human species continuously through this.

Because if you have an artificial chromosome, you can load it up with all kinds of genetic information and have that be integrated into your genome. Right. That was the idea. That’s what the paper said. And it specified, this is for human beings. Now, why would DARPA be interested in that? Super Soldiers.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah.

TIM ALBERINO: Remember that Vladimir Putin, some years ago when they were asking him about nuclear warheads and nuclear war, remember what he said? There was a group of college kids asking him questions. He said, “Yeah, that’s concerning, but I’m worried about something else that nobody’s talking about. Super Soldiers.”

That caught my attention. In fact, I put it in my book. That caught my attention. Vladimir Putin’s more worried about Super Soldiers than the nuclear warheads. Well, he must know something we don’t. He must understand the pace at which this technological arms race is moving right now. Namely the development of genetically and cybernetically enhanced super soldiers.

Well, that technology, we all know that technology that’s developed under the purview of the military industrial complex eventually in many cases, makes its way to the commercial sector. The military industrial complex is always going to stay apace of what’s in the commercial sector, but we’re going to get it eventually.

So everybody is consumed with artificial intelligence right now, and rightly so, because it is accelerating and it’s pretty impressive. It’s extremely impressive. And when they combine that with the robots, which they’re already doing, we’re going to have robots policing our streets instead of human beings. We’re going to have robots fighting wars, not just drones. I mean, it’s going to be crazy. And that’s evident. That’s happening in the public space.

But what’s happening privately is the development of the tools to literally remake our own biology. And this gets, as we’ve been saying, exceedingly theological. You know, again, what does it mean to be a human being? And is our humanity worth preserving?

The Image of God and Our Birthright

Well, from a biblical perspective, the answer is we were created in the image of God. And if we lose our humanity, we’re going to lose something very important, something that is directly related to the image of God. And that is, I would contend, and I do in my book “Dominion of the Earth,” because I believe that dominion of planet Earth is the birthright of Adam and his offspring.

In fact, this is what the Bible says, that God gave Adam dominion over the Earth and over all life on Earth. And that dominion, the seal of that dominion, is the image that we bear, the image of God. And I believe there’s an effort underway, and you can call it a demonic effort, a satanic effort, to steal our birthright. And it’s the Jacob and Esau story. It’s to get us to sell our birthright for a bowl of stew.

To give away our humanity for what? Life extension? Yeah, the neuralink. Interfacing with the Internet at the same time.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It’s a great way to put it. I could live another few decades where I could do this.

TIM ALBERINO: Well, what are you going to do?

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Whenever it’s a bowl of porridge, you’re…

TIM ALBERINO: Selling your humanity for this. And what are you going to do? What are your kids going to do? I have five boys. What are my kids going to do when all of their colleagues 15 years down the road are interfacing with the Internet at the speed of thought because they have technological implants? Yeah, see, it’s going to get real really fast for our kids.

The Inevitable Adoption of Technology

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Because it’s one thing, think of it as just a more advanced way of saying, well, look, they’re going to develop this thing. You and I are hanging out. It’s the 1980s. I say, “You know, in about 20 years, 25 years, they’re going to create this phone that can do like everything. You know, you can watch any show, read any book, you can message people.”

TIM ALBERINO: There’s going to be this thing called social media.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Yeah, you can access your social media. There’s also going to be this thing called social media. You can do all that. And it’s going to be really bad actually. And it’s mostly just going to be temptation and consumerism and porn and it’s going to really mess up your… You can do some cool things on it, but it’s going to be really dangerous for you.

And you would say, “Well, I’m definitely, even if I will use that as an adult, I would never let my kids use it.” But then, you know, every other kid’s using it and you kind of need it to call your kid if he’s at school or if he’s on… you pay transactions.

TIM ALBERINO: You need it to book airline tickets.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Imagine trying to live in a world without a phone.

TIM ALBERINO: It’s virtually impossible.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: It’s virtually impossible.

Homo Deus and the New Humans

TIM ALBERINO: Or some kind of computer. It’s virtually impossible. It’s going to be like that. That’s Homo deus. Okay, so guess what? If you have Homo deus and you have everybody self evolving into Homo deus, what happens to the people who choose not to? Right, right.

That’s why I describe the Homo deus, this faction, I call them the neohumans that are coming, the new humans. And who are we, these old fashioned humans who refuse to evolve? We’re the Neanderthalic humans. We refuse to evolve. We’re the refuse of humanity.

I mean that gap right now between those who wield technology and those who don’t, there’s almost no gap. Everybody has technology because it’s not that invasive yet. It’s dangerous, you know, but it’s not that invasive yet. But that gap is going to open as we move forward. Because that technology that you hold in your hand is going into your brain. Yeah, yeah, it’s going into the brain.

There is no… just as assuredly as Elon Musk is going to put a man on Mars, neuralink is going in the brains of millions of people or something equivalent to that. Because interfacing with the Internet at the speed of thought. You could instantly speak another language. It’s going to give human beings godlike powers. And that’s just one aspect. That’s just the artificial intelligence aspect in cybernetics.

Now add in the genetics, the genetic revolution that’s coming. We’re going to be able to upgrade our genome artificially. I don’t have any problem with gene therapy where if I have a broken gene in my genome, it’s a human gene that’s malfunctioned. So they go and they grab a gene that’s got the correct code, it’s a human gene, and then they correct my code.

The Moral Distinction: Repair vs. Enhancement

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Well, this is, by the way, the traditional Christian understanding of how to make sense of these technologies is if we are repairing an injury, if we are taking a defect and repairing it, we have every right and in some cases obligation to help to heal people. But that’s not what this is going beyond humanity. This isn’t repairing something that has been broken in this fallen world. This is making something new. That’s a totally different moral calculation.

TIM ALBERINO: Completely different. Completely, because in the process you lose your humanity.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Right?

TIM ALBERINO: You lose your humanity.

Looking Ahead

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Now I have to ask you before I let you go, I want to do another three hours here.

TIM ALBERINO: I do too. With another cigar.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: That’s right.

TIM ALBERINO: By the way, let me say that, sir, is a fantastic cigar.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Come on, get out of here.

TIM ALBERINO: I’m a smoker. This is a fantastic…

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Listen, I could tell, I could. You were the kind of guy who smoked. Well, thank you for… I’m glad you enjoyed it. What is next for you? Which is to say, I guess what’s going to be the topic of our next conversation when you come back.

TIM ALBERINO: I don’t know. I mean there’s a lot more to say about the alien question. I love to talk about alien abduction. That’s a deep, dark hole. That’s a whole separate conversation. But there’s a lot we could talk about.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Well, what are you doing now? Where do you go from here?

Upcoming Peru Expedition

TIM ALBERINO: I am in, next week I’ll be in Peru. I’m heading to Peru. I’m going on an expedition. I’m also involved in a film project, but I’m going to be going to explore to investigate these potential new megaliths that have been discovered in Peru.

I don’t know yet if they’re artificial or naturally occurring. If they’re artificial, in other words, if they’re man made, then it could be one of the most amazing, important discoveries in a century. In regard to archaeological discoveries in Peru.

Now, I didn’t discover them. Somebody else. It’s in a village. It’s on the outskirts of a village. The villagers have known about it. It’s just come to light and has been brought to my attention. So I’m going to go down there and investigate the situation and to bring.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: All the threads together. When you’re down there, can you look into that thing that went viral on social media a few years ago down in Latin America where they had a little. It looked like a paper mache ET and they said it was an alien.

TIM ALBERINO: That’s precisely what I was about to say. So after I.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Are you really going to look into that?

The Tridactyl Being Mummies

TIM ALBERINO: After I investigate the megaliths, I’m actually going over to ICA and I’m going to go to the University of Ica and I’m going to be meeting with one of the curators of the museum there. And they have in their possession three what they call tridactyl being mummies.

And the reason why they call them tridactyl beings is most people are familiar with the little mummies that Jaime Masan popularized. Was it last year or the year before?

MICHAEL KNOWLES: That’s the thing that looks like a paper machine? That’s right. I didn’t buy it.

TIM ALBERINO: I don’t know about you. So I believe that those, the little alien mummies, I think they are legitimate artifacts, but they’re not. They were never living beings. So I think that they’re ancient dolls of some kind created with composite of different animals.

So I think they’re ancient and they’re very interesting artifacts. You could be wrong about that. It’s not just I could be wrong about that, but I don’t believe that they were living, breathing beings could be wrong about that. That’s just my assessment. I did live in Peru for 10 years. So yeah, I have an idea of how things go down there with regard to fake artifacts.

However, there are these other mummies and they’re not little, they’re large, they’re five nine, six foot tall, but they’re in the fetal position. They’ve been featured on Gaia TV and other places and I’ve been sort of sitting back in the background waiting for definitive data that you can determine one way or the other if these are actually living, breathing beings. And the data looks really strong.

Now, do I believe that they were living, breathing, real beings? I don’t know. I’m on the fence. I’m 50-50, hence my desire to go and get up close to these things and investigate them.

However, if they are, if they are or were at one time living biological beings, that rewrites history. These, they have three fingers, three long fingers and toes. As I said, they’re in the fetal position. They’re mummified. They’re exquisitely preserved. They have slightly elongated skulls, overly large eye sockets, very, very small noses. They look alien in every sense of the word.

And there are more than three of them. And I’ve been corresponding with one of the gentlemen, if not the only gentleman, who discovered them. He’s a French explorer. I’m fascinated. I’m not convinced, but I am highly intrigued.

So I’m going to be looking at the megaliths, and then I’m going to be flying over to the desert to take a look at these mummies. And there’s some other things we’re doing there as well, but those are the two primary projects in this upcoming trip.

Wrapping Up the Conversation

MICHAEL KNOWLES: All right, you’ve. I’m not saying you’ve convinced me on aliens or anything like that. You have convinced me. You have to come back and tell me.

TIM ALBERINO: I will come back.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: The alien abductions and about the three fingered, longheaded things that you’re about to go see in Peru.

TIM ALBERINO: We’ll have to get Matt Walsh sitting here and we’ll have to have a.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: No, I’m not letting him come anywhere near this and brag to try to get me to be pro alien guy. But I at least want to hear about it. Timothy Alberino book is “Birthright.”

TIM ALBERINO: Go get the book.

MICHAEL KNOWLES: Thank you for. I want to do 10 more hours. Right. I know we can’t. I’ll look forward to the next one.

TIM ALBERINO: Definitely.

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