JESUS & THE ANUNNAKI: A 2014 SACRED MATRIX ROUNDTABLE RETURNS ~ Gerald Clark, Neil Freer and Robert Evans Join Janet Kira Lessin and Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. to Explore the Anunnaki, Nibiru, Human Origins and Contact
By Janet Kira Lessin and Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
On April 20, 2014, five researchers and experiencers gathered for a remarkable conversation on Sacred Matrix: Gerald Clark, Neil Freer, Robert Evans, Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., and me, Janet Kira Lessin.
We came from different backgrounds and followed different trails of evidence, experience, and research, yet we converged on one enormous question that has remained central to our work for decades: Who are the Anunnaki, and what part did they play in the origin, development, and continuing story of humanity?
More than twelve years later, I recovered the original recording, and hearing these voices again brought an entire era of research, broadcasting and collaboration back to life. Gerald Clark and Neil Freer have since passed from this world, yet their ideas, investigations and personal experiences remain preserved in programs such as this one, which is why Sasha and I decided that this broadcast should not disappear into another forgotten digital archive.
We are restoring it, preserving it, and bringing it back before the public so that listeners who knew these researchers can hear them again and those discovering the subject today can encounter their work in their own historical context.
FIVE VOICES, ONE ENORMOUS QUESTION
The original program brought together Gerald Clark, Neil Freer, Robert Evans, Sasha and me at a time when serious public discussion of extraterrestrial contact still remained far outside conventional discourse, yet the questions we were asking in 2014 now sound far less remote in an era when military personnel, scientists, journalists, elected officials and government agencies openly discuss UAP and nonhuman intelligence.
Even then, however, we were looking far beyond the modern UFO era, because the central issue for us was not whether contact began in the twentieth century, but whether humanity has interacted with nonhuman civilizations for thousands of years and whether some of the beings later transformed into gods, angels, demons and mythological figures were, in fact, technologically advanced visitors whose interventions helped shape human civilization.
For Sasha and me, those questions again and again led to the Anunnaki, whose story brings together Nibiru, ancient Mesopotamia, human origins, genetic intervention, religious transformation, dynastic power, factional conflict, and the possibility that humanity’s earliest civilizations developed within a much broader cosmic context.
NEIL FREER: HUMANITY MUST GROW UP
Neil Freer spent decades challenging humanity to reconsider its origins and to examine whether the ancient gods should continue to be understood as supernatural beings, or whether they might instead represent advanced physical entities whose actions became embedded in religion, mythology, and culture over thousands of years.
His work carried the Anunnaki discussion beyond ancient tablets and into the question of human maturity, because if the beings once worshiped as gods were not gods at all, then humanity would eventually have to face the psychological and spiritual consequences of that realization and begin to understand who those beings were, what they did here and why human societies continued to surrender authority to inherited systems based on divine rule.
Neil also brought personal experience into the conversation, discussing encounters that influenced his understanding of Enki and the Anunnaki and linking those experiences to the research he had pursued for decades.
That combination of ancient texts, modern contact and personal testimony gave his work a distinctive place within the broader Anunnaki conversation and helped reinforce one of the central themes of our roundtable: the possibility that the story preserved in ancient traditions may not have ended in ancient Sumer.
JANET KIRA LESSIN: CONTACT DID NOT END IN ANCIENT SUMER
I came to the discussion from the perspective of both researcher and lifelong experiencer, and my own contact experiences convinced me long ago that humanity does not inhabit an isolated world and that the intelligence interacting with us has taken many forms across different periods of history.
For me, ancient history and modern contact have never existed in separate boxes, because the beings described in ancient stories did not necessarily vanish merely because humanity stopped recognizing them under their original names.
Cultures change, religions change, and names change, yet the intelligence behind the stories may remain, which is why I have spent much of my life examining the connections between ancient records, contemporary contact experiences, and the possibility that the entities people encounter today belong to the same much older continuum of interaction.
That question became an important part of this 2014 roundtable and continues to shape the work Sasha and I do today.
GERALD CLARK AND THE ANUNNAKI OF NIBIRU
Gerald Clark became one of the prominent modern writers who brought the Anunnaki story to a broad audience, and his work explored ancient Mesopotamia, Nibiru, human origins, genetic intervention, hidden history, and the possibility that ancient systems of hierarchy and control continued to influence human civilization long after the original events faded into mythology and religion.
Gerald examined the Anunnaki not as distant symbolic figures but as physical beings whose actions affected the development of humanity, which opened a series of larger questions about why ancient rulers claimed divine authority, why civilizations around the world repeatedly described beings descending from the heavens, and why so many creation traditions contained themes of intervention, modification, instruction, and conflict among powerful nonhuman factions.
His contribution helped bring those questions into the modern Anunnaki discussion and placed his work in direct dialogue with the perspectives of Neil Freer, Robert Evans, Sasha and me during this 2014 Sacred Matrix program.
ROBERT EVANS: LOOKING TOWARD THE SUN
Robert Evans brought another dimension into the discussion by examining Nibiru, unusual solar imagery, astronomical anomalies, and the possibility that contemporary observations might connect with ancient accounts of the Anunnaki and their planetary system.
That perspective expanded the discussion beyond archaeology and ancient texts, because if Nibiru and its inhabitants were part of humanity’s history, researchers naturally began to ask whether signs of that larger story might also appear in modern astronomical observations.
Robert considered whether unusual objects observed near the Sun represented unexplained natural phenomena, technological objects or evidence connected in some way with the ancient traditions surrounding Nibiru, and his contribution added an observational component to a conversation that already included anthropology, ancient history, religious interpretation and direct experience.
SASHA LESSIN: ANTHROPOLOGY MEETS THE ANUNNAKI
Sasha brought his training in anthropology and psychology, along with decades of research into human behavior, mythology, consciousness and the work of Zecharia Sitchin, to a discussion that repeatedly returned to the social consequences of the Anunnaki story.
If technologically advanced extraterrestrials came to Earth, created or modified humanity, organized labor, established kingships and fought among themselves, then the story becomes much more than an account of ancient visitors, because it begins to raise difficult questions about the origins of hierarchy, divine authority, political domination and the human tendency to transfer power to rulers who claim sacred legitimacy.
Sasha’s work repeatedly asked why humans transformed powerful beings into gods, why domination systems reproduced themselves generation after generation, and what might happen when humanity finally recognized that the figures worshiped as gods were not supernatural beings but members of a technologically advanced civilization with their own families, rivalries, and political agendas.
Those questions became central to the books, articles and broadcasts Sasha and I later produced together.
JESUS AND THE OLDER STORY
One reason this particular discussion became unusual was its willingness to carry the Anunnaki hypothesis into territory many researchers avoided by examining religion within a much older historical framework.
If nonhuman beings influenced humanity before the Biblical period, then the political, genetic, religious, and cultural consequences of their presence would not simply disappear, but would instead continue through bloodlines, priesthoods, dynasties, mythologies, teachings, and institutions that evolved over generations.
That possibility raises important questions about the origins of divine kingship, the extent to which later religions preserved memories of earlier contact, whether conflicts among Anunnaki factions survived inside later theological systems, and whether stories of gods, angels, demons, and heavenly messengers preserved fragments of encounters with physical nonhuman beings.
Within that larger context, the life and teachings of Jesus can be examined as part of a world already shaped by thousands of years of earlier contact traditions rather than as an isolated event detached from the deeper history that preceded it.
Exploring those possibilities does not require anyone to abandon spirituality; instead, it invites us to examine the historical foundations of religious traditions with greater depth and curiosity.
THE GODS BECOME HISTORY
The deeper importance of the Anunnaki story lies in a shift of perspective that changes the way we read ancient history, because once the gods become beings rather than abstractions, creation can be reconsidered as intervention, myth can be examined as memory, divine wars can be understood as political conflicts, and sacred bloodlines can be viewed as dynastic lineages.
In that framework, some events remembered as miracles may have involved technology, while religion itself may represent, in part, humanity’s effort to preserve memories of encounters it could no longer fully explain.
This perspective does not answer every question, nor should it, but it creates a broader set of questions that deserve investigation, and those questions were what brought Gerald Clark, Neil Freer, Robert Evans, Sasha and me together in 2014.
HUMAN ORIGINS AND THE ANUNNAKI QUESTION
At the center of our work lies the question of human origins, because conventional history describes the rise of civilization as a gradual human development while the Anunnaki story presents another possibility in which advanced beings arrived from elsewhere, established settlements, extracted resources, created labor systems, intervened in biology and influenced the development of human society.
Within this framework, humanity did not simply develop in isolation but emerged inside a relationship that contained cooperation, conflict, instruction, manipulation, affection, domination and rebellion.
Different Anunnaki factions held different attitudes toward humanity, and those disagreements shaped the ancient story while also helping explain why later religious traditions preserved contradictory images of compassionate gods and wrathful gods, protectors and destroyers, teachers and rulers.
The Anunnaki were not one unified mind but individuals, families, factions, and political rivals, and that distinction remains essential to understanding the larger story.
ENKI, ENLIL AND THE FACTIONAL DIVIDE
Much of the Anunnaki narrative revolves around the rivalry between Enki and Enlil, whose conflict involved succession, authority, humanity, and competing visions of how Earth should be governed.
Enki emerged as a creator, scientist, geneticist, and advocate for humanity, while Enlil became associated with command, law, control, and authority, and their disagreements repeatedly affected the fate of the human species.
Within the Anunnaki framework, these were not merely mythological archetypes but members of a ruling family whose personal and political disputes influenced an emerging civilization, and as generations passed, those events entered the myths and religions of later societies under altered names and symbolic forms.
The political history became theology, while memories of ancient rivalries survived inside stories whose original context became harder to recognize.
THE ANUNNAKI AND HUMANITY’S FUTURE
The Anunnaki question matters not only because of what may have happened thousands of years ago, but because of what humanity chooses to do with that knowledge now.
If our species was shaped by outside intervention, we still must decide what kind of civilization we wish to create, and if domination entered human culture through ancient systems of kingship and hierarchy, humanity does not have to preserve those systems forever.
If ancient beings demanded worship, people living today do not have to surrender their sovereignty, and if humanity was once created to serve, we can choose another purpose for ourselves.
Understanding our origins can therefore become an act of liberation rather than another form of dependence, because the goal is not to replace one religion with another but to understand who we are, where we came from, and what possibilities may still lie ahead.
WHY BRING THIS RECORDING BACK NOW?
More than twelve years have passed since this Sacred Matrix roundtable, and during that time the language surrounding extraterrestrial intelligence has changed dramatically, as UFOs became UAPs and ridicule gradually gave way to congressional hearings, military testimony, and public discussion of nonhuman intelligence.
Yet much of the modern debate still begins in 1947, while our work asks humanity to look much farther back and consider whether Roswell represents one chapter in a story that began thousands of years earlier.
The deeper trail runs through Sumer, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Bible, ancient kingship, creation traditions, flood narratives, stories of beings who descended from the heavens, and the persistent human memory that we were shaped by those who came before us.
The Anunnaki stand near the center of that mystery, which is why these older conversations remain relevant today.
PRESERVING THE VOICES
That is why I am restoring this recording now, because Neil Freer and Gerald Clark deserve to be heard in their own voices, Robert Evans deserves to have his contribution preserved, and the entire discussion deserves another chance to reach people who may never have encountered it when it first aired.
Sasha and I have spent decades researching, interviewing, writing, and gathering testimony concerning these questions, and the old broadcasts represent an enormous historical archive that risks disappearing as websites close, platforms delete material, and digital formats change.
We intend to preserve what remains, and this recording represents one important piece of that restoration.
By rebroadcasting the original program, we can allow longtime listeners to hear it again while giving a new generation the opportunity to encounter these researchers and their ideas for the first time, and from there we can continue the conversation through new articles, images, presentations and broadcasts that examine what we understood in 2014, what we have learned since, and where the Anunnaki story leads next.
The conversation that began then continues today, and this recovered program gives us an opportunity to reopen that discussion with the benefit of twelve additional years of research, experience and reflection.
Janet Kira Lessin & Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Janet Kira Lessin
Janet Kira Lessin is an author, researcher, experiencer, broadcaster, and co-founder of Aquarian Radio and Aquarian Media whose work has explored extraterrestrial contact, consciousness, ancient civilizations, the Anunnaki, experiencer testimony, and humanity’s relationship with nonhuman intelligence for decades.
Her research grew alongside a lifetime of personal contact experiences, and over the years she has interviewed hundreds of researchers, witnesses, authors and experiencers while also co-authoring books and articles with her husband, Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Through DragonAtTheEndOfTime.com, EnkiSpeaks.com and AquarianMedia.org, Janet continues to preserve earlier broadcasts while developing new work on contact, ancient history, consciousness, experiencer testimony and the Anunnaki.
Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. is an anthropologist, author, and researcher whose work examines human origins, mythology, consciousness, social hierarchy, and the Anunnaki traditions preserved in ancient Mesopotamian texts.
Dr. Lessin earned graduate degrees in anthropology and psychology at UCLA and a Ph.D. in anthropology, and spent decades studying the ways belief systems, social structures, mythology, and ancient accounts shape human civilization, while his later research focused heavily on the work of Zecharia Sitchin and on the political, social, and genetic implications of the Anunnaki story.
Together with Janet Kira Lessin, he has written books, hosted hundreds of interviews and produced extensive research on the Anunnaki, Nibiru, human origins and humanity’s ancient relationship with nonhuman intelligences, much of which is preserved at EnkiSpeaks.com.
Neil Freer
Neil Freer was an author, researcher, and lecturer best known for his work on the Anunnaki, human origins, and the implications of Zecharia Sitchin’s interpretations of ancient Mesopotamian texts.
Freer argued that humanity was entering a new stage of intellectual and spiritual maturity in which ancient gods could be reconsidered as advanced physical beings rather than supernatural deities, and he encouraged people to examine human origins through ancient records, archaeology, comparative mythology and the possibility of extraterrestrial intervention.
He also spoke publicly about personal contact experiences that influenced his understanding of the Anunnaki and Enki, while his broader message emphasized the need for humanity to move beyond dependence upon gods and external authorities and begin to understand its own origins, history and potential.
Gerald Clark
Gerald Clark was an author, researcher and lecturer whose work focused on the Anunnaki, ancient Mesopotamia, human origins, hidden history and the possible survival of ancient systems of control into the modern world.
He became widely known through books and public presentations on the Anunnaki of Nibiru, drawing connections among Sumerian traditions, ancient astronomy, mythology, genetic intervention, and the development of human civilization, while also working to make complex ancient history material accessible to a broad audience.
Clark’s participation in the 2014 Sacred Matrix roundtable placed his research in direct conversation with Neil Freer, Robert Evans, Janet Kira Lessin and Sasha Alex Lessin and preserved an important snapshot of the wider Anunnaki research community during that period.
Robert Evans
Robert Evans is a researcher whose work during this period explored Nibiru, unusual solar imagery, astronomical anomalies, and the possibility that contemporary observations might connect with ancient accounts of the Anunnaki and their planetary system.
During the 2014 Sacred Matrix discussion, Evans contributed the astronomical and observational side of the conversation, complementing the historical, anthropological, and experiencer perspectives brought by the other participants while examining unusual objects and activity recorded near the Sun and considering whether such observations might provide clues to a larger celestial story connected with Nibiru.
His contribution helped bridge ancient Anunnaki traditions with modern questions about what may be occurring in the skies and whether contemporary observation can shed light on stories preserved in ancient records.