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Crew just arrived to Athens after 40 hours in different buses. I'm in Athens.

Okay, so the scouting continues um sending this to the guys to the crew back in Santiago. And Algarrobo, I guess, another city in the beach of Chilean southwest coast of uh South America. Pacific Ocean.

Um so, I came from Istanbul to Thessaloniki, from Thessaloniki to Athens. And I just took a small bus from bus station to the city center. Now I'm taking a the metro to meet with a new contact through another contact

That is getting us into the field scouting of Arcadia. So, I'm getting closer. I'm getting closer.

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>> So, I just arrived for the second time to this place. After 40 hours, I took the first coach in Istanbul, crossed the border in northern Greece, and kept going southwest towards Thessaloniki. I arrived there by sunrise and took another coach to the city.

Last time I was here, I was with the crew. My brother, Nico, and Toran. >> First time in Greece? >> We were in the second half of our expedition that started here 1 year ago.

Athens,

Where I bike [music] night, and we split. I had went to that place for Lucas and Nico. And for Toran and I, we had a key.

A key that was given to Toran [music] a week ago at the party on Goat So Island. This girl gave Toran her key to her apartment for us to stay. Just like that. I just saw her that [music] one time. So, there we were in a [music] stairwell with no light on the third or fourth floor trying to key the keyhole. It was not working. It was so quiet that everything sounded louder.

We were whispering something useless while he kept trying to open the door.

Then we heard movement inside the apartment >> [music] >> followed by some loud woman's voice saying what sounded like "Fuck off." in Greek. >> [music] >> The voice turned into a screaming when she switched to English and said, "I will call the police. Go away." I kept [music] thinking why there was no light in this freaky stairwell.

We automatically [music] went down one floor. Turan screamed something like, "No. >> [gasps] >> We're supposed to be here." But the lady was scared. I felt anything. What was saying would be do that this part.

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What now?

So, Turan checked his messages. Oh. "Wrong floor." he said. >> [clears throat] >> What a relief. It was one floor above the scared lady. We went there quickly. The door opened smoothly.

Now, it's different. I am alone. I'm glad I'm back in Greece. Turkish soil sometimes feels too far away [music] from my ways. Greece feels warmer or somehow familiar.

I have this idea. This feeling about Athens. It's like this place has a voice. An opinion. That you can hear. It's out there in the open. There are words in different [music] alphabets and colors everywhere.

Like part of a stage. The city facade. These figures on its walls and words don't feel [music] random or scattered with no meaning. Each one of the symbols represents [music] some logical thought. It's part of a performance.

One that is sophisticated but rough. Musical [music] and deadly. If you look up you will [music] realize that you are surrounded by tall steep hills that you are in the center with an audience looking down.

>> It was a piece I wrote also a theme of mine, the full moon that I played for Neil Armstrong. >> Mhm. >> This piece on the piano I wrote it in 1985 in New York when I was 25 before this piano. >> Mhm. >> This theme. >> [music]

>> It goes to the minor. >> [music]

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>> I can play in every key. I started improvising the moment I >> Is it the one we saw yesterday? Isn't it? >> For a different orchestration slower for Neil Armstrong. >> Yeah. >> But I can remember it >> What was the like? >> I've done many versions of this in documentaries um people that know me, they love this composition. It's >> Mhm. >> really my the first piano composition that I kept. >> Mhm. >> I had other before, but this one >> And the other one we heard the other day

>> A young lady. So, it's a pure, it's an innocent simple piece. >> Yes, a good word to to describe the feeling of the Yeah, of the progression of the chords. >> Yeah. Before it get too complicated and more avant-garde,

>> [Laughter] >> And the other one you showed me was um >> My first song. >> Heraclitus was the the other one you showed me yesterday. Heraclitus, the performance. >> Tonde, yeah. The Heraclitus. >> All right, Kosmon uh >> Kosmon Tonde ton apanton. This world the same for all. Pir aizon is really the title of this. >> Uh-huh. Fire eterna. Foco eterno. >> Foco eterno? Fuego eterno. >> Fuego eterno. Fuego interno.

>> Kosmon Tonde ton apanton. Kosmon Tonde ton apanton.

>> Also, you want to hear about the pronunciation? >> About the pronunciation, yeah. So, this is a big situation, you know, because uh the pronunciation from classical Greeks of the classical age till today, it hasn't changed much. Especially

In the pronunciation that concerns the diphthongs. Two vowels connected [clears throat] together. Like A, like alpha and yota, A and I. Which is A. And the Erasmian uh pronunciation says I. Meaning E Athenae

Oi Athenaioi. And they teach this ridiculous pronunciation everywhere in the Americans. I don't know the Latin Americans, maybe they're smarter. In the United States, Canada, Europe in the last 15 years they started uh

Teaching classical Greek. All our tragedies, Homer, Hesiod, the poets, Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindaros.

Everybody up to they say third and fourth third or fourth centuries BC. They don't really know. The pronunciation changed and they stopped pronouncing the letters separate, the diphthongs. Like E Athenae, which is O I. They say oi Athenaioi.

For the fifth century, the classical times. They still spoke like that. Because the Erasmus claimed that. But Erasmus was Dutch and I'm asking the the non-Greeks professors in Europe and in America says if you want to know how the ancient Greeks pronounced their language, don't you think it's smarter to to to ask the modern Greeks than the Dutch? Who is closer? The Dutch people know classical Greek better than the modern Greeks? Especially 300 years ago. They have no idea. So, as far as they have many

Differences, but the most ridiculous is pronouncing the diphthongs separated.

It destroys the language. It sounds like something between African and Japanese. You know. So, why do I claim that? There is a famous fragment that Thucydides Thucydides remembers in his most famous and ancient history book, The Peloponnesian War, written in the 5th century. Towards the end of the 5th century. And he says

There was an argument between the old Athenians how they interpreted the prophecy that the oracle in Delphi through Pythia. The prophetia, the one who was you know, the famous Pythia. Who was orally gave them

The the prophecy. The Athenians sent um a few a few a few people a mission in Delphi to find out what the future was before the Peloponnesian War between the Athenians and the Spartans, the Ionians and the Dorians. Not only the two cities, it was a big war. And and and the oracle said orally,

Check this out. Ixi doriakos polemos kai limos amakto. It's 2.54.3 in the Peloponnesian War of the famous Thucydides.

Egeneto men oon eris tis anthropois me limon onomaste en to epi poton paleon alla limon. Enikise de epi tou parontos eikotos limon eiriste. I'll give it to you the in English now. The prophecy was a Dorian war will come and a plague along with it. A dispute therefore arose among people as to the old Athenians as to whether the ancients had used the word plague in the verse or rather famine.

Under the circumstances prevailing at the time, however, the interpretation was plague had been meant naturally worn out. Now,

When is written the the famine is written with a with an I, only an I. You see it here. limon And the plague is written with an OI. But it's pronounced the same, limon, because the prophecy was given to the Athenians orally.

If they pronounced it separately, the oracle would have said loimon. And there wouldn't be a subject for argument for the old Athenians to dispute what did she mean? What did she mean? limon or loimon? >> [laughter] >> But Thucydides wrote it in two different ways. You understand? So what are they talking about all these morons? And the Greek Ministry of Culture is teaching it to the Greek people, the Greek students like this in the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. 11 years ago, students trying to learn

Theater and reading the tragedies came to me crying when I gave a lecture about it in 2015 in the center of Athens. Mr. Ghalis, they came crying to me. They force us to read the classics like that. You understand? This is a crime and they make millions and millions every year in the major universities, Oxford, Cambridge, everywhere in America, in Europe. They get hundreds and thousands of euros to teach the potential to tomorrow's scholars to read classical Greek that way and it sounds between African and Japanese.

Thank you.

>> Gentlemen, I'm going to leave you in a minute because I have to go inside. >> Yeah, but I want to tell you about Ammon. He probably has this assumption because of all the Greeks he probably meets in America and they're all Christians. >> I know. Of course. Of course. >> And that's And that's the truth. You know, but now we're going to We're going to update his uh >> I agree. Yeah. Okay, listen. >> We'll get it all together, man. It's It's a movement. We'll get it all

Together. Go get some rest, bro. >> Okay, you too. >> Ciao. >> Ciao. Have a good night. Bye-bye.

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>> So, this is my Heraclitus and Pythagoras. >> Married. >> Oh, you guys didn't like it. So, Pythagoras didn't care about this. Heraclitus was one. He was a strange bird, you could say. >> He was very particular. Yeah. >> [music] >> So, I brought them together on purpose to marry them. >> [music]

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>> So, it's inclusive. You get it, you get it?

>> [Music] >> I can write in Greek, too.

>> So, I have another good story. I'm in Megaron of Athens where in the in the room that I had performed also 4 years before. In 2014 in March, I ran there. I was the last one to walk into this big 500 capacity room. I sat at the only seat right in front of the stage to listen to this brilliant uh Professor Alexandrologist

From France, Monsieur Briant. Briant. Briant is his name. I don't remember his first name. He came to to tell us about the influence of Alexander the Great during the 18th and 19th century as he was like um the force behind a lot of upheaval those centuries in Europe

And revolutions and uh wars inspired by Alexander's uh ideas and principles. And that was a very interesting subject. I I confess I hadn't even thought about it. So, I ran there to see what this famous French guy that was brought here in the one of the best rooms of Athens to tell us. And he said different stories in Europe and Rigas Feraios, the Greek, and they were all inspired. So, to move through that, the point was that I had we had the professor not only talk to us about the 18th and 19th century, but he allegedly

Said that Alexander the Great was the first European to move towards the east, make expedition and transfer the European civilization to Asia. So, Alexander first European to Asia. We're talking about three words, two mistakes, right? Alexander is correct. The first European

Is not. So, check this out. I waited for the end and all the questions to be the last one because I didn't have a question. I wanted to confront this guy, you know, I'm also Alexander and I have to defend my people and the great ancestor.

And I asked for the mic and they gave it to me and I said, "Professor, thank you for all the great information you shared with us about the 18th and 19th century, but we also heard here that two two or three times within an hour that he was the first European to go east to reach India. But he didn't feel like that, Professor. He felt that he was at least the second. And I didn't care about the European, you know, Europe is our great great grandmother. We'll cover this with the Phoenicians in another

Uh paragraph of this study. As we know, he was following the footsteps of the general God Dionysus. And he goes Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu, which is again classical Greek and Mon Dieu, my God. Mon Dieu, Deus, yeah, you know. And the Greek guy on the stage who was coordinating

Him with the audience, he said, "Um excuse me, Mr. Hahar you're out of the subject." And I said, "How am I out of the subject?" He said, we're discussing the influence Alexander the Great had during the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. And I said, "Okay, but in this room we heard two or three times that he was the first European." I didn't even make it up. I didn't come I didn't you know, I didn't just imagined it. And the guy goes, "I'm sorry, you're out

Of the subject." And they pulled the microphone from me. And that was the end of the night. And then I had a crowd of at least 50 people right outside the big hall in the foyer of Megaron.

And um asking me, "Mr. Hahlis, Mr. Hahl, where did you see that? Where does it say that?" And I said, "Guys, it's the famous book of Arrianos, Alexandrou Anabasis. You know, the the uphill of Alexander Anabasis, the expedition to Asia. Arrianos, Arrian.

You know, you cannot be an Alexandrologist without knowing Arrian. You know, and I said that he was not a he didn't feel the first, he felt like at least the second. Check this quote now, it's from Plutarch. Plutarchos Peri tes Alexandrou Teches e Aretes A 10 Moralia 332 B.

And I I'll share it with you with my personal reconstructed pronunciation and enriched because I'm a composer, so I hear different sounds. Neen the signothy the Orgenes e Heraclea memoume ke Persea zeelo ke ta Dionisiou metion ekhne

Theou en arkhou ke tropatoros.

This is Plutarchos. The English translation. But now forgive me, Diogenes. I imitate Hercules. I strive to emulate Perseus. And I follow in the footsteps of Dionysus. The god who founded our lineage and was our forefather.

This is Plutarchos. My dear people, Plutarchos is 2,000 years ago. He died 2,000 um

47 Years ago. 20 BC, they say. So, it was the 1st century BC. So, Mr. Briand knows better than Plutarchos and Arrian and also Megasthenes the Ionian, who was an ambassador for 10 years in India and he wrote Indica.

And it's a lost book, banned with all these destructions. He was put there in India as an ambassador from Ptolemy I, the general of Alexander the Great, who took over Alexandria and Egypt, you know. You know. And he wrote in Indica that the Indian scholars remember the story of Dionysus,

Who went east thousands of years before Alexander. Before Hercules. They remember Hercules that was born in India 15 generations after Dionysus, the civilizer, the general who was deified because of his deeds. But the Europeans, these academics, and they have they have infected the Greeks also and the Greek Ministry of Culture. And they force their children to read the classics. All our classics, Homer, Hesiod, the the Orphics, the Orphic hymns, the Argonautica, and Sappho, Tyrtaeus,

Alcaeus, Pindaros, everybody, the historians, Herodotus, Thucydides. They forced them to read They forced them these stories that mythology mythology is not is not real. It's just an imagination of the Greeks. Plus, this mythology has borrowed or inherited by people earlier. Pre-Greeks they call them because the Greeks came with the Indo-Europeans. A science fiction theory, you know, imaginatory. They they hallucinate. I don't know what the drugs that the what drugs they're taking, but they don't respect the classics and our mythology and the ancient. Nobody knows the story of Alexander

Better than the ancient Greeks. Better than Arrian and Plutarch.

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>> [Music] >> for the rain.

Of course you and follow What about you?

So, it talks about this All this dangerous creatures come, you know, from the blood of the Titans that fell on the earth from the blood of the Titans. >> Mhm. >> And now we're talking about the Titanomachy. >> Mhm. >> Titanomachy, that's a cosmic event according to Mariolakos. Where are the Titans? Then you start wondering. But but they they they speak of a specific geological event here. They just don't really know it. >> So, this is the >> According, he says, according, if they they Hesiod from Ascra Ascreos

Means he's from Ascra, his town, >> Mhm. >> [clears throat] >> is right about because he's describing it from things that he learned from the waters of Permessos river. You know. And like because I read Hesiod like 40 years ago and I always, you know, when I need things. He has days and works, Erga kai Hemerai and Theogony and Theogonia. And I read Heracles and don't know if it's his but it's part of the three books of Hesiod. And I can't remember anything like that. And and then he claims

Mnemonides with his research Here, the reference to here is probably it may reflect a lost tradition. Lost tradition of Hesiod. So, we have lost that. >> Mhm. >> But Nicandros had it. >> Yeah. >> The Hesiodic text. >> But when >> So, we save information like that that Hesiod wrote first. >> I understand I understand what you mean. So, is is this this is a reference >> lost book of Hesiod. The We don't have any We have three per out of thousand. If we have thousand thousand

Size a thousand, we have only three per thousand. >> Mhm. >> Of the ancient Greek literature. When we say ancient Greek, we mean thousands and thousands of years. >> Mhm. >> And not only 2,000 that they want us to believe. From the Indo-European

I mean, if they I wonder how did they How did they come up with this theory, you know? What kind of farmer could they took? To to hallucinate like [laughter] that. It's a very interesting mythology. You know, the Egyptians remember this Heracles the other He the Indians remember the the uh Dionysus and another Heracles who was born in India and it's all written there.

>> Let me take my drugs because you know >> [laughter] >> some kind of an LSD in his hallucination. >> Uh-huh. >> But anyway >> Like a mass hallucination. >> So, this is the See, this is a recipe of how you can avoid the bites and then what you do. When it becomes more technical, it will be in the other ones that we were checking before.

>> [Music] >> If however you can cast snakes cackled at a crossroads, alive and just mating into a pot.

The following medicaments besides, you have a preventative against deadly disasters. Draw in 30 drachmas as weight of the marrow of a freshly killed stag. And 1/3 of a juice of rose oil. Essence, which perfumers style prime and medium and well ground. >> [music] >> And pour on an equal measure of raw gleaming oil.

And 1/4 of wax.

These you must quickly heat in a round. Belling pot until the fleshy portions are softened. And come in pieces about the spine.

Next take a shaped well made pestle and pound up these many ingredients in a mixture with the snakes. But cast [music] aside the vertebrae. For in them a venom. No less deadly is engendered. And anoint all your limbs. Be it for a journey. Or for sleep. When you gird yourself after work. At the threshing floor. And some is dropped. >> [music] >> And with pronged forks.

We know the high pile of grain. >> [music]

I want to show you the bus because I had to do all this before I We can say we're going.

>> Okay, so I thought I wouldn't make it. But I did. I have the flight ticket. I'm in the flight the bus. Not flight.

See, it took Tripoli to Perea.

And before it was Athens Tripoli. So I'm going to Perea. And then to and I don't have to stop there. I have to stop in Edea. Edea, yes. So

I'll be there by nightfall, I think. Right now it's six uh almost six. I'm leaving at six. What is this?

So, I'm making this short video to send to my brother. Look, man. Mira, look at me.

So, thank you for your support, crew. I was just showing this to my brother and saying to him that I'm okay and I have to I had one more bus to get to place that I'll be staying. I have to stay there for a couple of days and maybe four, like three nights or something like this before I can keep going to the actual place I'm going. So, I will need to pay for that hotel and and and but the support is is flowing. Also, the you know, on our own end, we also been

Doing some some collaborations uh with other people to, you know, keep raising funding for this uh this field scouting that I'm doing. So, it's important that uh that I use this time before the crew gets here um to actually check this new place. You if you are following what we are doing, you already know that this is a new place. It was not planned. It's the Peloponnese. It's Arcadia. If you like the topic, we you know, we are tracing the cult. We are tracing the oracles. We are tracing the technology

Of ancient times, the pharmacy, the ways that they were engaging with the concept of consciousness, the you know, how this universe is created and how this universe works. And what is the place that a human being has here and the interaction he can have. So, they were very advanced on this. So, we are tracing it on the on the side of the religious you might call now, but you know, medicine, philosophy, science seems to be part of a whole thing for them, which makes a lot

Of sense to me. It's a part of the discussions that I was having in Athens with Alexandros Hatzis. It was my I was staying at his apartment and well, it was an amazing experience. I I hope I can see him again in not not in soon. Um I keep in in touch with them to ask uh sources to translate even some uh ancient Greek text that we are uh finding. Um so, this is a little bit of an update of what we are researching. Like not an update, more like uh a reminder,

You know, cuz we have been uploading a lot of material that has to do with my situation, you know, here is scouting that you know, we cut the the relationship with the people that we had to deal because we didn't want it to be censored or and we want to keep the control of our uh creative area of the project, direction, production, everything. So, so now we are fully independent and working with you directly, the audience, and with people that resonate with what we do. And we have been uh

Having these conversations with people that are well more prepared in this topic than I. I mean, I'm just taking video, you know. So, hopefully I'll be sharing with you these interviews to open discussion for and to everybody that wants to you know uh reach to us is our website. Also, if you want to support us now before the winter we're needing the support more than ever. So, you if you like what you do, if you want to see more, if you want me to be able to perform this kind of interviews with different people that knows about the research we're doing

We'll be honored to receive your support. That's why we open our PayPal, our Patreon, and all of this. We are working with audience directly. So, that's why I always say if you like what what we do, if you are interested in this kind of research, I'm in the field right now. If you want to support this, we'll be honored. Anyways, I have to go on because my bus is going [music] to leave.

So, what with this oracles?

I was talking with Alexandros the [music] other day about some experiences [music] and about remote viewing.

He mentioned someone Casey, maybe.

We were discussing the idea of

That the oracles through time and maybe anyone that can tap into some state an altered state could be able to see this invisible that the pre-socratics were talking about.

Also, we were discussing about time. A place out of the stream of time. Like I heard from Dr. Armand Hillman before.

Could be that all of the initiations like Mithras, Eleusinian, Samothracian,

Etc. are permitting to see this place and whatever that lives in there.

And at the same time, this place or unseen parallel reality that influences [music] us, but remains invisible in a normal state is where the oracle woman were interacting bringing information [music] back to us. As the pre-Socratics or Orpheus or Pythagoras were also engaging with. Anyways, the conversation went different directions. And then, a connection. Alexandros has a friend, [music] some sort of alchemist. He worked creating different compounds

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And technologies for big companies. For example, one day Alexandros went to see him. And he was with this top model from New York

Testing some creams for lips that he created for big companies. A beautiful tall goddess, Alexandros said. I imagine her with a long neck and visible queen clavicles. A perfect triangle between the top of her head and shoulders. A slim face and a prominent nose with [music] sharp angles and terminations at the end.

So, this friend of Alexandros had many talents as an alchemist. So, he had a broad spectrum of expertise. From the crafting of psychedelics, ecstatic drugs, to lipsticks for the queen.

I'm getting closer. You can see it in the colors. High-quality the ivory black and titanium [music] white. Slashes of golden shine emanating from clear blue voids.

Behind and over the mountains, there are endless shapes, all sorts of animals and phases morphing with the wind. Behind a dark cloud, I see such strong [music] form of white that it's almost blue. Like a source.

The source. The closest clouds to it have an intense-looking dark in the center, like showing a solid interior.

The clouds that are far reveal their three-dimensionality to the naked eye.

Feels um unreal.

Clearly, I'm getting away from the coast. I feel it. Mountains in every direction. I am in the middle. The skies keep a very dynamic flow. You look at the east for a minute, and the west will not be the same when you turn back.

So, [music] this is what it is now. Inland. Far in. It's always a Yeah, it's always a challenge for me to lose sight of the shore. It's possible that I'll not catch the next bus in time. So, I might be stuck for one night in whatever town this bus stops its engine. Anyways,

I'll catch up.

Until my final destination for this for today. There's many interesting place around regarding what we are following and and it's very small town, so as you can see there's nobody here.

It's three persons and the driver. Look.

I'm so hungry, man. I would like to go down here and find a nice place to eat something or buy some bread and good Greek cheese.

Or souvlaki. Ah.

Yeah, so we just arrived to to some town, man.

Okay, so I just went out of the bus. I have a cool story to tell you about. >> [laughter] >> I had a some story with the bus driver. We're just both of us, so I know I'm staying over there right now. And I'm in the in the square. There's nobody here. So, I will find it now. This is driver. He's staying in the same hotel, man. I thought it was a joke. Christos told me, "Just follow the driver. You will be the only one with him."

Thank to Christos. I'm here. He He talked with the people here. So, when I arrived, I just said, "Christos." And they know. So, I

I'm opening some new freaking place, so I don't know what's going to happen, man. I'll catch up.

So, uh I haven't seen outside yet. This is first time of the place that I am.

I'm going to be scouting a little bit of this town. It's called Iraya.

Iraya Hera the goddess. So I'm going to be >> [clears throat] >> checking around. I have uh some um some places that I want to go. I have uh I was doing some research about this uh area and it's very interesting places regarding

The research we're doing. So well, I'll be it. I can't wait. I need to sleep a little bit. I haven't slept like I slept like 3 hours when I arrived and then I woke up. I was working the computer uploading stuff um putting the names of the new videos I'm filming in the on the road to Lake Cayum mount. >> [clears throat] >> Um yeah, I it's I'm not sleeping much. Um but I'm very energized by things that been happening. Um

I think we're getting into something here uh since uh well, it's past 3 months. So much has happened. And well, not this you know, this one is just starting. So so yeah, I don't know how much what actually to say now more than we're getting into something. I mean, if some of that you felt uh something, if you're following what we do, you know you know what happened there. And now this, you know it's about the places, specific places, that island and now this place, now I'm very inland Um away from the shore