"The Egyptians invented a very complex system of mummification so that that body could be preserved physically forever."
"The screaming mummy...because it was allowed to naturally mummify and it did so in a way that the mouth is agape while the facial muscles are strained."
"You hear people say, 'Oh, this is that new age stuff.' No, no, no, no, no. Manifesting is ancient."
"God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel."
"The lighting of the wicker man would have been a moment of divine hope for spectators and unimaginable fear for the sacrificial victims inside."
"In Leviticus 18:21 and Deuteronomy 12:30, the Torah contains a number of in-laws forbidding child sacrifice and human sacrifice in general."
"If a man brings charge against one's wife but she is not surprised with another man, she must take an oath."
"The lack of complete bodies means that the skeletons may have been broken apart and stripped of their flesh before being brought into the tomb."
"Their methods of hair rejuvenation involved using turtle shells, bird vertebrae, and the unusual union of a donkey's hood with a female dog's secret domain."
"We ate a very plant-rich diet, the average hunter-gatherer ate about eight hundred species of plants."
"Fasting is the most ancient, inexpensive, and powerful healing strategy."
"According to the Harima Fudoki, people would sow rice plant seeds with the blood of deer."
"This flesh magic is older than us, perhaps older than the world itself."
"Many of our ancient spiritual figures meditated or prayed on these lines."
"It is the only known instance of infant remains being fitted with skull helmets like this as part of a burial ceremony."
"Our ancient ancestors really worked hard at altering their consciousness to see what they could discover, to see what they could find out."
"The symbols and script are the ancient forms of communicating volumes of information without having to read pages and pages."
"In the ancient world it was believed that women had amazing powers of healing and creativity during menstruation."
"Storytelling is the most ancient way of capturing attention."
"Music being used to heal also ties into the old world... anyone standing in there would be totally healed."
"In the ancient world, just about everything could be read for divination, from the flight of birds to ripples on water."
"Nobody did it like the ancient Greeks, and I mean nobody. Ancient Greeks would wipe using broken pieces of ceramic!"
"It's so cool to see ancient wisdom being merged into modern-day."
"Did the Phoenicians practice human sacrifice?"
"How else do we explain the cultural similarities from the cultivation of corn to the construction of pyramids?"
"Wearing jewelry was common in the ancient world, and just as it does today, was often used to signal someone's social position or status."
"Keeping animals around the house as pets was also a common practice in many pagan societies."
"Knocking on wood also has its roots in the ancient world."
"This is something major and even people you know Pharaohs they created the headdress based on you know looking like a cobra and looking like they have these long heads this is a common feature."
"People have been styling their hair for at least tens of thousands of years."
"These prehistoric people were more confident at finding their way across the sea."
"The purpose of the ancient Egyptian temples was to assist in the transformation of humans into shining beings of light."
"Yoga has been practiced for more than 5,000 years."
"Perhaps it is possible that the later Mycenaean Greek practice of having two warriors duel before a battle to spare the lives of the soldiers involved came from the Minoans."
"Another interesting thing historically is that the only historical evidence of the Wicker man being used in sacrifice was from the account of a Roman official."
"What could be more ancient apart from just the fire, hot stones, steaming, and baking, and leaves in a pile, a packet, a bouquet of just leaves."
"The baby mass grave: Unwanted infants abandoned, revealing Roman birth control."
"We're witnessing the rise of the ancient worship of the god Moloch."
"Because the Egyptians had their beds pretty much on the floor, the rock pillow kept their head elevated."
"This exceptional discovery will help archaeologists understand the evolution of burial practices in ancient Egypt."
"You're bringing the old back to the new because a lot of the quote-unquote new age spirituality that we see right now, nothing about it is new, it is ancient."
"Possessions and exorcisms go back to the oldest civilization that began writing down and documenting history."
"This goes back to ancient practices."
"They conducted an unorthodox experiment involving ancient prayers intended to open such portals. The results were astounding."
"In the ancient world sacrifice wasn't giving something up it was making something holy."
"...few practices in the ancient world that conjure more dramatic responses than the intentional killing of a person..."
"Child sacrifice mirrors ancient practices."
"If the Minoans were leaving things in the tombs, they must have thought the body needed those things after death."
"Wearing the Eye of Horus was like the ancient equivalent of wearing a mask during Covid, an effortless way to protect themselves against the forces of evil."
"Psychedelic mushrooms have been around in many cultures for millennia."
"We need faith, we need ritual, we need a body-soul synergy which shapes our lives to enable us to attain a connection with nature and with our natural and ancient selves."
"His heart would have been weighed against the feather."
"Peyote use is considered ancient, it goes back at least a couple thousand years maybe four thousand years."
"What is Ostracism? Well for those who don’t know ostracism was an Athenian way of getting rid of people who might be aspiring to overthrow the democracy."
"Shamanism is humanity's oldest and most enduring spiritual practice."
"The objective of ancient biographers was to paint a literary portrait of who that person was."
"Unlike today, where we separate life and death, confining our dead to cemeteries, the ancient Britons wanted to be close to their ancestors who were thought to protect the living."
"It's the reforming of that ancient relationship with the tools that we have available to us that is the point of reconstructionism."
"Chia seeds were often used as currency."
"Ancient Greeks used olive oil to protect their skin against sun damage and as a barrier to stop dirt from clogging their pores."
"Astrology is an ancient and mysterious art."
"Some of them were even embalmed and buried in their master's sarcophagus."
"For there are many things respecting which even wise men have recourse to diviners and oracles."
"The Ayurveda system of medicine has a history of more than 5000 years."
"Human beings of many cultures from a very early time have made drawings."
"Ancient cultures valued dream interpretation as a very sacred healing technique."
"An ancient practice of medicine is infused with the rigor of modern science to provide society with truly holistic care for generations to come."
"Tattooing is not a new concept; ancient man has been tattooing themselves for a long, long time."
"The practice appears to have started around 4,000 years ago and was widespread across the ancient kingdom."
"Dragon and Tiger is a 1,500-year-old medical Qigong set with its roots both in Taoism and Buddhism in China."
"Having a safe food, a safe drinking source was really important to ancient cultures."
"Imagine you are in a cold steppe like the tundra in modern-day northern Siberia... How do you protect yourself from the cold wind blowing over the open plains? Our inventive ancestors had a surprising answer to that: build a hut out of mammoth bones."
"The inhabitants of Gobekli Tepe were masters of food processing and from the vast amounts of finds in the rock garden where grinding and processing wild grain and cereal was on an almost industrial scale."
"Brewing has been around for over 10,000 years; it predates civilization."
"There's probably something super connecting with ancient humans when you did that much work."
"Artificial mummification was extremely rare in ancient Peru and would certainly point to a high status individual."
"Plastic surgery has been around since the 6th Century BC."
"Our psychotherapeutic method used in ancient Egypt was the incubation or temple sleep."
"Beekeeping is a practice that dates way back into ancient times."
"We're overloaded with information... it is important to unplug and meditation and mindfulness are ancient practices that I've tried and tested for millennia."
"Hallucinogens are banned almost everywhere in the world today, but our ancient ancestors loved them."
"They would divert river flow, they would trap them in Weir's which are like baskets that catch things or in damming a river they could then use that for irrigation of crops which was phenomenal engineering at the time."
"Every year the temples of Horus presented to worshipers the mid in midwinter or about December 25th a scenic model of the birth of Horus."
"The great healers of former ages have worked mainly through a certain ray of the sun."
"Aromatherapy is derived from the ancient practice of using natural plant essence to promote health and well-being."
"The use of project finance can be tracked all the way back to ancient Rome and Greece."
"He did used to rub it into his skin, he thought the ancient greatness of the mummies would rub off on him."
"The fasting is the most ancient, inexpensive, and powerful healing tool known to mankind."
"The Pharaohs thought garlic so healthy they tried to take it with them to the afterlife."
"The fact that they buried their dead indicates they knew something about the true nature of life and death."
"This was a place of oracular communication very much like the Oracle of the Pythia at Delphi in Greece."
"The salt kept the body tissues dry and helped preserve the mummies for thousands of years."
"All ancient religions include elements such as the altar, the priesthood, the offering or the sacrifice."
"The hurians practiced a ritual where they would descend into a necromantic ritual pit and summon Spirits from the underworld."
"Allowing everyone to experience the rules and cultivation of the ancients."