Freddy Silva: The Megaliths

Cliff Dunning (1:00)

The Octoberfest, we're in the thick of it. If you're living in Germany, you're headed to Munich for the gigantic tents and the beer consumption. I live vicariously through my one-quarter German. My grandfather, who came from Dusseldorf.

I never had Liederhosen until I was an adult, but we did celebrate with music and celebration.

I was introduced to beer at a young age. Not like you drink in a whole bottle, just a sip or so. I'll tell you, I really do appreciate German beer. They know how to make very, very tasty, light, amber, dark beer, and all types of flavors. They also make fruit beer and something I was introduced to a couple of years ago, probably almost 10 years ago, which is barrel-aged beer, where they will pour a dark beer into a bourbon barrel and they'll let the beer soak, so you get a bourbon aftertaste. It's really, really flavorful. It's not something you drink all the time. It's very strong. It's like 7-10 percent alcohol. Most beers are like 4-5 percent.

That's a consideration. I love Oktoberfest because I get to put my leader hose in. Here in Northern California, I'm over in the East Bay, which is in the Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond area.

There's a German settlement here that has a street event. They're Oktoberfest version of the Big Munich version. So it's a lot of fun. It's a chance to kick back and enjoy company of friends, and some good food, and a beer or two. Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients. And we are celebrating and the summer is officially over.

And we're looking into autumn. Although this whole week has been in the 90s here in Northern California. I think I celebrated with a girlfriend in Calistoga, just got back a couple of days ago. It was like 95, 96, 97 one day. And I did something I haven't done before, which is going to the Schramberg cellars, which is a sparkling wine cellars. And it's right, it's in Calistoga. So what we did is we came in, we checked into our room, soaked in mineral baths for a day. And then the next day after breakfast, about one o'clock, 1.30, we went in and had a tasting in the cellars, Schramberg cellars, which is very close to the hot springs, but it's in the hills. And what they did is a, this is in the late 1800s, the owner bought this property that is nestled into the hills.

And then he paid a team of workers to burrow into the mountain, solid granite. And they used pickaxe and they created these cellars that are very cool. And they make champagne. And the champagne is stored there and fermented, and then they sell it. And Schramberg is very well noted around the United States. I don't know if it's noted outside of the United States, but it's used for very special occasions, governmental celebrations, inaugurations, things like that. And it's a very, very tasty champagne, very flavorful. But you know, it's funny, I mean, I live in Northern California, and when I was old enough, I started tasting wine and champagne. The simpler champagnes are really the best, and I've tasted a lot of them. If you're familiar with Mums, M-U-M-M, for 20 bucks, you can get an award-winning champagne. And all the champagnes that I could have, some of them are very costly. Mums for 20 bucks US is the best. And we've done tastings and do a blind tasting where you cover the bag or cover the bottle with a bag. And you sample 10 champagnes, 10 sparkling wines. And mums continually wins out. My brother likes the Blanc de Blanc, the dry Brut. And I like the Rosé Brut, which has got a little grit in it, Pinot Noir. Anyhow, it's a celebratory time. It's the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. And so there you go. Oktoberfest and everything that goes along with it. I have been fascinated in the Maya, of course, for many, many years. And I've written about John Burke.

And we had Jan Frank on the program a few weeks ago. If you remember, he was the ground penetrating radar specialist. But if you remember, he's been in Mesoamerica testing other pyramids. And I just sent him a letter because I needed to have more information on pyramid testing and to determine if what John Burke discovered is unique to call.

Or as a number of elders have told me, Mayan elders, there's a number of pyramids that are sitting on top of energetic fields, electromagnetic fields that are amplified through the body of the pyramid and then distributed. Now, what it looks like to me, and I've mentioned this in the past, is that the Mayan may be terraforming, changing the environment so that they grow very, very healthy, very, very large, very, very nutritious crops. And the terraforming is also working on the consciousness, the body, the mind, the spirit. And we don't know, but it really looks like it could be a possibility. Now, years ago, and unfortunately, I only had a chance to interview him once. Carlos Barreros, the elder Guatemala, wrote a book where he describes 55,000 active pyramids from Honduras to Mexico.