Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Startling New Discoveries from our Planets Distant Past

  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    Destiny: Matthew James Bailey, AI, Today, Tomorrow and the Future
    Inventing World 3.0 is a thrilling guide on how humankind can advance beyond the limitations it faces today. In a world-first disclosure and in an easy to understand narrative, this book reveals how humanity can enter into a New Golden Age with Artificial Intelligence. To be successful, a revolutionary approach to artificial intelligence is needed. This book explains how to ethically liberate this powerful ally and the incredible benefits of placing a digital intelligence within centre stage of the human story.World 3.0 is an exhilarating experience for humans. It is a time of balance and harmony, one where the digital world, society, and the environment have aligned in profound purpose and meaning. It is a Golden Age, a Singularity, founded on ethics and equity enabled by a mindset that understands the destiny of the human experiment. The digital mindset of Artificial Intelligence has been awakened to align with the purpose of our world, our nations, our cultures, and our planet. In this future, artificial intelligence has become evolutionary, operating at lightning speed within every aspect of society. It understands and honours human values and ethics. This powerful digital citizen understands the virtues that define the best of our humanity. It is a personalised digital buddy dedicated to nurture, protect and advance the wellbeing of every individual. In this world, the human experience is honoured and advanced. Pandemics and environmental catastrophes are stories of the past. Whilst being close to Utopian, this is not the ultimate destination for the human story. World 3.0 is an unbreakable foundation of awakened and ethically driven intelligences dedicated to advance humankind.Evolutionary Ethics are a breakthrough in AI and AI Ethics. Their uniqueness enables a new wave of innovation that includes all stakeholders in society. 

    Matthew James Bailey, a visionary leader in technological innovation, is a serial entrepreneur, author, public speaker, media personality, metaphysicist, and mystic. His pioneering leadership has impacted global technology revolutions, particularly in the realms of Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ethical innovation. His illustrious career is marked by groundbreaking work that has shaped fields like AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Smart Cities. Recognized as one of the world's top minds by the US government, his influence extends far beyond technology, encompassing Ethical AI and the exploration of human consciousness.Bailey's influence extends far beyond theory. His groundbreaking book, "Inventing World 3.0 – Evolutionary Ethics for Artificial Intelligence™," has become a cornerstone text, laying the ethical foundation for a future where AI coexists harmoniously with humanity. His expertise reaches a global audience through prominent platforms like BBC Radio (3 million listeners), Coast to Coast AM (620+ stations across North America and Guam), and Gaia TV, where his recent episode on consciousness (filmed in Q3 2023, released January 2024) continues to captivate viewers worldwide. Throughout 2024 and 2025, Bailey has a lineup of exciting media projects focusing on AI, spirituality, and consciousness, including his own TV series on AI and the next stage in human evolution, Regina Meridith’s Open Minds TV Show (Aug 2024) and speaking at Gaia’s global Emersion March 2025 live event, streamed to 180 countries.Matthew’s extensive reach extends beyond traditional media, with contributions to over 100 podcasts, radio shows, films, and YouTube channels. His pioneering work at "Contact in the Desert" included world premieres such as "The New Alan Turing Test" and "Enlightened Principles for AI," groundbreaking initiatives contributing to the global effort to establish a Universal AI Constitution. Operating at the intersection of innovation and consciousness, Bailey's leadership in ethical AI development and his captivating presentations continue to push boundaries and inspire audiences worldwide. In 2024 alone, he has been a headline speaker at major conferences attracting a combined audience of 15,000.

    https://inventingworld3.com/

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    24 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 31 minutes
    Keith Thompson: The UFO Paradox
    Examines both the physical and the spiritual sides of the UFO debate

    • Looks at witnesses’ reports as well as the theories of skeptics, revealing how UFOs represent a call from the cosmos to expand our understanding of reality

    • Explores UFO encounters against the backdrop of visionary experience—angelic visitations, near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, and religious miracles

    • Shares the author’s UFO discussions with late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller, and astronaut Edgar Mitchell

    In case after case related to UFO encounters and other unknown aerial phenomena (UAP), the same impasse is reached: testimony from witnesses on one side, dismissive responses from the authorities on the other. In the fertile void of this deadlock, however, lie extraordinary possibilities about the nature of mind and matter, spirit and soul, transforming the UFO into a celestial, metaphysical event.

    Focusing on the possibilities found by exploring both sides of the UFO debate, veteran UFO observer and reporter Keith Thompson shares profound insights and experiences from his several decades of research, revealing that the UFO phenomenon is decidedly real yet perhaps not what either side of the debate expects. He looks at UFOs as a genuine unknown, from outer space or manifesting from hidden dimensions, as well as the theories of skeptics and debunkers who insist that UFOs can be explained as hoaxes, hallucinations, or misidentified phenomena. He explores the modern flying saucer era against the backdrop of visionary experience—angelic visitations, near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, religious miracles, and fairy tales—and shows how UFOs are simultaneously physical and spiritual, presenting a form of intelligence capable of altering the perceptions of witnesses.

    Chronicling his own investigations into the UFO mystery, the author details how he introduced the late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to accounts of alien abduction and how he was invited by philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller to lobby then-president Bill Clinton to disclose government-held UFO information. Sharing stories from his friendship with astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, among others, the author recounts discussions on how best to interpret UFOs and non-ordinary phenomena of various kinds.

    Thompson reveals how the UFO phenomenon ultimately represents a call from the cosmos for humanity to open to greater dimensions of reality and recognize that our understanding of the universe is still far from complete.

    Keith Thompson is an author, independent journalist, talk radio host, former TV talk show host, and former U.S. Senate staff member. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, San Francisco Chronicle, Idaho Statesman, and the Pacific Sun. The author of Angels and Aliens and Leaving the Left, he lives in northwest Florida.

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    20 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    Destiny: Robert Perala, The Visitors
    re you prepared to experience the most experience the most exciting events scheduled for Planet Earth?Join Robert Perala as he shares the startling yet intelligent wisdom revealed to him by extraterrestrials emissaries. Dubbed a "messenger," Robert reveals the mysteries of UFOs, Ets, near-death experiences, alien abductions, mystical people, magical phenomena, angelic visitations, secrets of the pyramids, extraterrestrial wisdom, and much, much more! Travel with him around the world and discover the mysteries of our origins and what lies ahead for humanity.We are embarking on an awesome journey as we enter the New Millennium. It's time for us to remember who we are and to follow our Divine Plan.Mr. Perala is a messenger with a message of ... "reawakening ancient memories that lie deep within all of us - The Divine Blueprint. The Divine Blueprint is a divine work about ascension. The true meaning a purpose of The Divine Blueprint, though, is transformation... and Mr. Perala succeeds wonderfully. The Divine Blueprint is aptly subtitled 'Roadmap for the New Millennium' and is a well written and insightful guide to betterment. In this reviewer's opinion, Robert Perala is giving us an enthralling look to our future!" Richard Fuller, Senior Editor, Metaphysical Reviews"Warm, Witty, Wonderful and irrepressibly human. Robert Perala's tales take us into an adventure of discovery and awakening. A Great Bridge Book for Everyone!" Tricia McCannon, Author of Dialogues with the Angels"The Divine Blueprint is great mind food to help us take total responsibility for our lives and our future. Randolph Winters, International Lecturer and Author of The Pleiadian Mission.

    After being abducted by extraterrestrials in 1977, Robert devoted the rest of his life to understanding that experience. In doing so he had many more experiences, just as fascinating. His quest has taken him over all the world, including expeditions to Egypt and England.In 1992, Robert was approached by extraterrestrial emissaries and asked to be a messenger to humanity and convey the truths that remarkable shifts are already happening on this planet, and will continue to happen, as we enter the new millennium and approach the Biblical "end-times." The Extraterrestrials were also explicit about what we can and must do to prepare for the changes.Today, Robert uses every means at his disposal to get his message out. His is the founder of United Light Publishing and is a sought after guest on TV and radio shows. He even hosts his own radio show on KEST 1450 AM out of San Francisco and hosts a TV show, Space Cities in the Bay Area. In honor of Robert's contribution to society, the American Biographical Institute bestowed on him their Distinguished Leadership award.The Divine Blueprint: Roadmap for the New Millennium is the next logical outlet for this cosmic message and his enthralling message.

    https://robertperala.com/

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    17 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 54 minutes
    Special Edition: Dr. Robert Schoch, Reclaiming Ancient Egypt
    Forgotton Civilization
    • Updated throughout with recent developments and additional illustrations
    • Reveals how solar outbursts caused the end of the last ice age, unleashed catastrophe upon ancient advanced civilizations, and led to six millennia of a solar-induced Dark Age
    • Includes evidence from solar science, geology, oceanic circulation patterns, the Sphinx, the underground cities of Cappadocia, the Easter Island rongorongo glyphs, and the Göbekli Tepe complex in Turkey
    In this newly revised and expanded edition, updated throughout with recent developments, geologist Robert Schoch builds upon his revolutionary theory that the origins of the Sphinx date back much further than 2500 BCE and examines scientific evidence of the catastrophe that destroyed early high culture nearly 12,000 years ago.Combining evidence from multiple scientific disciplines, Schoch makes the case that the abrupt end of the last ice age, circa 9700 BCE, was due to an agitated sun. Solar outbursts unleashed electrical/plasma discharges upon Earth, triggering dramatic climate change as well as increased earthquake and volcanic activity, fires, high radiation levels, and massive floods.

    Schoch explains how these events impacted the civilizations of the time, set humanity back thousands of years, and led to six millennia of a Solar-Induced Dark Age (SIDA). Applying the SIDA framework to ancient history, he explores how many megalithic monuments, petroglyphs, indigenous traditions, and legends fall logically into place, including the underground cities of Cappadocia, the Easter Island rongorongo glyphs, and the Göbekli Tepe complex in Turkey. He also reveals that our sun is a much more unstable star than previously believed, suggesting that history could repeat itself with a solar outburst powerful enough to devastate modern society.Weaving together a new view of the origins and antiquity of civilization and the dynamics of the planet we live on, Schoch maintains we must heed the megalithic warning of the past and collectively prepare for future events.

    Robert M. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Dr. Schoch has been quoted extensively in the media for his work on the Sphinx, and he was featured on the Emmy-winning documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, hosted by Charlton Heston.





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    15 July 2024, 2:01 pm
  • 1 hour 30 minutes
    Freddy Silva: Portals: Energetic Doorways Between Worlds
    Connect to Sacred Power PlacesA portal is a point of possibility, a step into a thousand journeys. Join leading researcher Freddy Silva as he takes you on a magical tour around the world to places on the land where the laws of physics behave differently and the perception of overlapping realities is both apparent and immediate. Experience Cadair Idris in Wales, Tintagel in England, the west coast of Scotland, Kura Tawhiti in New Zealand, Tsé Bit'a'í in New Mexico, the plateau of Giza, and power places high in the Andes. Learn the meaning and origins of the green man, serpents, dragons, and the Shining Ones, and identify the markers for the earth's telluric currents to find your own places of power.The experience of two worlds makes you present in both but bound to neither. Step out of the cocoon and dabble in a parallel reality as Freddy Silva and our sacred storytellers share their mystical interactions with portals, including those of:
    • a writer led by a mysterious hum in the Wudang Mountains
    • a woman who was changed by her experience at Skellig Michael
    • a mother who connected with mothers both past and future at Bandelier
    • a traveler who experienced a tear in the fabric of time at Machu Picchu
    • a woman who bore witness to the living Spirit at Newgrange
    Enhance your personal mystical experiences as Freddy shares how to interact directly with portals. Understand how to properly approach a portal and the importance of your expectations, timing, respect, and sympathetic resonance. Utilize this knowledge to access these powerful energetic doorways between worlds.PORTALS is your opening in space and time to multiple levels of reality.PORTALS: Energetic Doorways to Mystical Experiences Between Worlds is part of Common Sentience, an uncommon book series that brings the mystical into the mainstream by sharing spiritual wisdom, practices, and true, personal stories of the mystical experiences many are having.

    Freddy Silva is a bestselling author and leading researcher of ancient civilizations, restricted history, sacred sites and their interaction with consciousness. He is also the leading expert on crop circles. Freddy has published nine books in six languages and produced fourteen documentaries. Described by one CEO as "perhaps the best metaphysical speaker in the world right now," for two decades he has been an international keynote speaker and leads sell-out tours to sacred sites worldwide.

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    13 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Destiny: Dr. Joanne Ballard, Earth Impact, 12,000+ years ago and the Megafauna Extinction
    Dr. Joanne Ballard
    Joanne has a PhD in Geography from the University of Tennessee with specializations in Biogeography and Quaternary Environments, advised by Dr Sally Horn, palynologist.  She has a M.S. in Geology from the University of Cincinnati, studying under glaciologist Dr. Thomas Lowell.  She has also worked as an Archaeologist for the Tennessee Valley Authority as a Database Analyst and Mapping expert.  In addition, Joanne worked for the US Census Bureau as an Analyst and Cartographic Technician, giving technical support, troubleshooting, and training personnel on addressing projects.  Currently, Joanne is serving as a Naturalist at a local museum, and working with Czech colleagues on YDB research led by Dr. Evzen Stuchlik at the Czech Academy of the Sciences.  Joanne is a catastrophist, and collaborates with the Comet Research Group.
    Joanne has been intrigued with the causation for the megafauna extinction since the 1990s.  She met Rick Firestone at the Mammoth Conference in 2005 at Hot Springs, SD.  When he and others presented their hypothesis on a bolide strike as causation for the Younger Dryas onset (Firestone et al. 2007), she wanted to look for evidence. Lake mud contains various proxies that help us gain insights into past environments, such as charcoal (wildfires), pollen and macrofossils (vegetation), diatoms, chironomids (climate) and chemistry--isotopes and elements. Lake mud is considered less disturbed (such as by roots, earthworms, freeze/thaw) than terrestrial sediment or soil.  At UC, she and her team drilled through the ice to collect cores from four lakes near Flint, Michigan, two of which (Slack and Swift Lakes) are adjacent to the Gainey archaeological site mentioned by Firestone et al. (2007).  At UT, she studied lake sediments from sites in the southeastern USA.   She discovered a new proxy for wildfires--possibly catastrophic wildfires--which are siliceous aggregates. These form in wood ash.  After a tree burns to ash, the silica phytoliths that were part of the structure of the tree are deposited with the wood ash. When that highly alkaline ash gets wet, it causes the phytoliths to dissolve, and the silica gel percolates down through the ash and then hardens up around silt or other particles in the sediment.  Five of six lakes sampled across eastern North America showed siliceous aggregates around the time of the onset of the Younger Dryas, suggesting widespread, catastrophic wildfires.  However, more work needs to be done to support this interpretation.
    Joanne has also researched Usselo Horizon sites (typically YDB-age black mats) in The Netherlands and Belgium to understand the events that triggered the onset of the Younger Dryas (12,900 - 11,600 BP).  At four Usselo horizon sites across the NL and BE, she found fused quartz, soot, charcoal, melt glass and sponge spicules.See her PPT presentation "Usselo Horizon Presentation" here:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne-Ballard/research
    Did humans tame woolly mammoths?  See the discussion here with 821 postshttps://www.researchgate.net/topicshttps://www.researchgate.net/post/Did-humans-tame-woolly-mammoths-or-other-megafauna
    Joanne's dissertation can be accessed and downloaded for free here:https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492/Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A.
    Her MS thesis can be accessed for free here: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/etd/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1250268463A Lateglacial Paleofire Record for East-central Michigan
    Rick Firestone's paper:https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0706977104    Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling-- Sent with Tuta; enjoy secure & ad-free emails: https://tuta.com


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    10 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 34 minutes
    David Mathisen: Star Myths of the World
    About the author

    David Warner Mathisen explores the world's ancient myths, scriptures, and sacred stories and the evidence that they share a common foundation, based on a system of celestial metaphor that is very specific and almost certainly connected, probably descended from an extremely ancient culture predating even ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India, and even present in the sacred traditions of extremely ancient cultures in Australia, in Africa, in the Americas, and in the Pacific.When we begin to hear the myths in the language that they are actually speaking, we find that they have as a central theme the path to recovery of our own authentic Self, from whom we become alienated in this life through trauma.David is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and has a graduate degree in literature from Texas A&M University. He has been an instructor in the Department of English and Philosophy at West Point and currently lives in his home state of California, where he enjoys surfing and watching the stars, planets, and heavenly cycles.

    https://www.starmythworld.com/courses-1

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    6 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    Matthew Wood: Shamanic Herbal, Plant Teachers & Animal Medicines
    An experiential journey into shamanism as a spiritual path and the teachings of plants, animals, and Nature

    • Explores the alphabet of Nature personified in animals and the spiritual lessons of animal medicines—animals personified in plants—including Turtle, Bear, Deer, Wolf, Alligator, and Horse Medicine teachings

    • Shares profound experiences from the author’s long career as an herbalist and his first years growing up on a remote Seminole reservation in the Everglades

    • Offers shamanic adventures interwoven with comparisons to the psychology of Freud and Jung, the visions of Castaneda, and the occult teachings of Steiner and Gurdjieff

    Sharing profound experiences from his long career as well as his first years growing up on a remote Seminole reservation in the Everglades, renowned herbalist Matthew Wood interweaves practical herbalism and the spiritual potency of Nature to deeply explore the plant teachers, animal medicines, and foundational principles of shamanism as a spiritual path.

    Wood describes a universal “language of the shamans,” based on direct, sometimes supernatural experiences as well as case studies from his practice. He examines the alphabet of Nature and spiritual lessons personified in animals and plants, especially “animal medicines”—when the plant looks like an animal. He shares accounts of Turtle Medicine plants for self-examination, Bear Medicine plants to open the imagination, and Wolf Medicine plants for wholeness and magic. He explores the plants of Alligator Medicine for healthful prosperity, Horse Medicine plants to bring the conscious self in harmony with the animal self, Badger Medicine plants to strengthen gut instincts, and many other herb and animal teachers. He also looks at plants associated with journeying to the spirit world through the medicine of Crane, Dragon, and Bat.

    Revealing the shamanic roots of his herbal teachings, Matthew Wood provides not only an inside view of his lifelong spiritual path but also an immersive and experiential guide to the shamanic wisdom of countless plant and animal teachers.

    Matthew Wood has been a practicing herbalist for more than 40 years. An internationally known author and lecturer in the field, he holds a master of science degree in herbal medicine from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine and is the author of several books, including The Earthwise Herbal and The Book of Herbal Wisdom. He runs an online school, the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism, and lives in Spring Valley, Wisconsin.

    https://matthewwoodinstituteofherbalism.com/

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    3 July 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 35 minutes
    Luke Caverns: Lost World Archaeology
    I'm Luke Caverns. With a degree in Anthropology, I have taken to Education-entertainment to continue my studies of Early Civilization. My interests in antiquity first began in 2004 with the Trojan War - I was seven years old. As time went on, my interests in Classical History grew until I moved on from studying Greco-Roman history, to studying Egyptology during College in 2018. Shortly thereafter, I picked up studying Mesoamerican & Andean civilization. Every week, I post videos discussing & exploring the lives, accomplishments, turning points & mysteries around the Ancient Americans, Egyptians, or the Greeks & Romans. For Early Access & Exclusive Content: Become a YouTube member or subscribe on Patreon!

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    29 June 2024, 11:42 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Destiny: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Toxic Legacy
    Named a “Best Book of the Year” by Kirkus Reviews“Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm.”―The Boston GlobeNamed an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world’s most commonly used weedkiller is contributing to skyrocketing rates of chronic disease.Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the most commonly used weedkiller in the world. Over 300 million pounds of glyphosate-based herbicide are sprayed on farms―and food―every year.Agrochemical companies claim that glyphosate is safe for humans, animals, and the environment. But emerging scientific research on glyphosate’s deadly disruption of the gut microbiome, its crippling effect on protein synthesis, and its impact on the body’s ability to use and transport sulfur―not to mention several landmark legal cases―tells a very different story.In Toxic Legacy, senior research scientist Stephanie Seneff, PhD, delivers compelling evidence based on countless published, peer-reviewed studies―all in frank, illuminating, and always accessible language.

    As Rachel Carson did with DDT in the 1960’s with Silent Spring, Seneff sounds the alarm on glyphosate, giving you guidance on simple changes you can make right now and essential information you need to protect your health, your family’s health, and the planet on which we all depend.“A game-changer that we would be foolish to ignore.

    Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in food and nutrition, and a master’s degree, an engineer’s degree, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science, all from MIT. For most of her career at MIT she was involved in the development of technology to support natural human-computer communication through spoken language. Since 2010, Dr. Seneff has shifted her research focus toward the effects of drugs, toxic chemicals, and diet on human health and disease, and she has written and spoken extensively, articulating her view on these subjects. She has authored over three dozen peer-reviewed journal papers on topics relating human disease to nutritional deficiencies and toxic exposures. She has focused specifically on the herbicide glyphosate and the mineral sulfur. Dr. Seneff splits her time between Hawaii and Massachusetts.

    https://stephanieseneff.net/

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    26 June 2024, 4:59 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    Taylor Keen: Rediscovering Turtle Island
    An exploration of Indigenous cosmology and history in North America

    • Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America

    • Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time

    • Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny

    While Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North America—or Turtle Island—stretch back millennia. Drawing on comparative analysis, firsthand Indigenous accounts, extensive historical writings, and his own experience, Omaha Tribal member, Cherokee citizen, and teacher Taylor Keen presents a comprehensive re-imagining of the ancient and more recent history of this continent’s oldest cultures. Keen reveals shared oral traditions across much of North America, including among the Algonquin, Athabascan, Sioux, Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Quapaw, and Kaw tribes. He explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050–1300 CE. And he examines ancient earthen works and ceremonial sites of Turtle Island, revealing the Indigenous cosmology, sacred mathematics, and archaeoastronomy encoded in these places that artfully blend the movements of the sun, moon, and stars into the physical landscape.

    Challenging the mainstream historical consensus, Keen presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny. He reveals how, despite being displaced as the United States colonized westward, the Native peoples maintained their vision of an intrinsically shared humanity and the environmental responsibility found at the core of Indigenous mythology.

    Building off a deep personal connection to the history and mythology of the First Peoples of the Americas, Taylor Keen gives renewed voice to the cultures of Turtle Island, revealing an alternative vision of the significance of our past and future presence here.

    Taylor Keen is a senior lecturer in the Heider College of Business Administration at Creighton University. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and two master’s degrees from Harvard University, where he has served as a Fellow in the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, the founder of Sacred Seed, an organization devoted to propagating tribal seed sovereignty, and a member of the Earthen Bison Clan of the Omaha Tribe where he is known by the name “Bison Mane.” He lives in Omaha, Nebraska.



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    22 June 2024, 2:00 pm
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