With Sitchin, I'm only concerned with the parts the correspond with objective reality, not whether or not the parts correspond with my ideas. It's not hard to find people who will support an opinion, objective reality isn't always as obliging.

I have no idea where I am going with this, but I don't see me doing the book/podcast/lecture route. If the right fiction story presented itself in the right medium, I might fit that in my schedule. If someone offered me a series of big budget animated movies on this, I'm signing up, but no one is in line offering and I don't expect them to.

I've yet to hit a full week working through this insight. I'm sorry I haven't made more progress, but I don't think working out a general outline which accounts for these various phenomenon in a week isn't too bad. I'm regularly hitting things where I have to recontextualize them.

Take Our Lady of Fatima. It seemed rather too many people to fit that mass hallucination explanation well, but now I have to go full in on the UFO angle. If that was homo deus manipulating things, what about the angel Gabriel and Mohammed? Yep, they sat and chatted in a cave. Or those stories about the strange weather and UFOs that prevented the British from burning Washington DC in the War of 1812? I told that to my son as a joke, but it looks like I was giving him a history lesson.

The secret of immortality is obviously biotech and hidden within those things the replacement religions of the Axial Age eliminated (consciousness alteration drugs, free thinking, trusting yourself over authority, etc.) put that together with whatever the best biotech recipes homo deus had sussed out over the previous million plus years they designed homo sapiens.