Gaia Shorts

Are we the product of ancient advanced technology?

We think of technology as something we create. But what if we are the technology?

Investigative esotericist Tyler Engle puts forward a provocative idea: advanced beings may not have built machines to store information — instead they built living systems. Us. Like a compressed file sent across space, he suggests that consciousness could have been embedded into human biology unfolding over time through evolution.

The implication is profound: our instincts, intelligence, even moments of sudden insight may not be random.

They could be programmed — waiting to be activated.

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