Robert K. G. Temple

The strange orbs of fluid light from the so-called other side perceived by the ancient mystics must have a scientific equivalence today.

And thanks to bold, intuitive, and fearless minds like Robert Temple, Judy Kay King, Robert Shock, and Rupert Sheldrake, we might have new terminology that bridges the gap, a new science of heaven.

This is the strange and unseen world of plasma sentience.

[gentle music] In the late 1800s, everyone wanted to talk to their dead grandpa, paving the way for hoaxers to grab for easy money.

The interactions of plasmoids and magnetism could yield great weapons, after all.

But unknown to Bostick at the time, he would make a gigantic scientific discovery that nobody expected, results that the military would have to hide, and they remained hidden for a long time.

But you can't hide from professional snoops like Robert Temple, because he went through what he called impossible lengths to find these papers, papers of which surprised Temple even though they backed up his own hypothesis.

Because it turns out, if you try to weaponize plasma, plasma just does not want to cooperate.

So would that be kind of to do with, what's his name's book? A New Science of Heaven.

Have you read that book from Temple, Robert Temple?

I have, yeah.

Great book.

The only options on the table are exotic, lost civilization, secret global science, extraterrestrial contact, and exotic explanations sell.

In the 1970s, when authors like Robert Temple brought the Dogon into the heart of the ancient astronaut genre, the serious material was already prepackaged as a marvel.

Temple leaned heavily on Greowl and Dieterlen, but not with the same caution.

He read their material through a lens that assumed more technical astronomy than the texts clearly support, and then used that amplified version as evidence that non-human intelligences must have visited the Dogon in antiquity.

the original texts are more hesitant some of the numbers are approximate or appear only once some diagrams can be read multiple ways later authors tighten the fit round the numbers smooth the contradictions a small mysterious companion that takes a long time to go around becomes they knew the exact 50-year orbital period that's not a minor edit that's how myths calcify which brings us to one more skeptical point myth propagation you don't need dozens of independent sources to build a global legend You just need one charismatic, well-written account at the right moment.

Griol and Dieterlen's work was enormously influential.

Then Robert Temple wrote The Serious Mystery, which took their most striking passages, stripped away the hesitation, and presented them as hard, clean data that pointed to ancient extraterrestrial contact.

From there, the story jumped into documentaries, into new age books, into conspiracy forums.

And, you know, I think it's really interesting that there definitely seems to be, like what he was talking about, if you just want to zoom out and summarize this whole event, it's a cosmic zoo out there.

Physical and nonphysical entities exist in abundance, okay? It really seems like, you know, even Robert Temple in his book, A New Science of Heaven, when he goes into plasma, he talks about how 99.9% of the universe is nonphysical and nonvisible.

And it really makes you realize that In this physical form, we're kind of these physical beings floating around on this physical little marble in this non-physical ocean.

And the non-physical space is loaded with intelligences and consciousnesses of all different types.

you know what do i mean by deceptive language and these papers these are the papers and subjects that i've previously covered uh you know again if we we went through them all one by one it would take forever but i've done covered a lot of these previously and again you'll be able to get this as a file and click all these and it'll take you to them i've got all links and stuff Retrocausality, Cognitive Twins, Predictive Markets, Plasma, Kordeluski Clouds, Dust Clouds.

We covered Robert Temple's book, A New Science of Heaven.

That was September 8th.

Ken Wheeler's book, The Missing Secrets of Matter, Uncovering the Hidden Secrets of Magnetism.

So I got very modest financial funding and established Second Look in 1978.

I recruited as a co-editor Robert Temple, who is a Native American from Philadelphia, actually from Kentucky originally.

But he had lived in Britain since the 1960s, married a British woman, lived in Somerset.

And Robert had written a book that was a bestseller in 1976 called called The Sirius Mystery about the Dogon tribe and about astronomical information that they apparently had about the Sirius star system.

Could you tell us about them? They have knowledge of the star Sirius that really they shouldn't have.

Yes.

This is a controversy ever since Robert Temple's book was published in 1976 that doesn't seem to go away.

How this came about originally is that some French anthropologists had spent some time with the Dogon tribe in the 20s and 30s and had done a lot of research about the tribe and their mythology.