2,500 years ago the philosopher Plato put forward Socrates’ theory that civilization on Earth gets reset periodically to a virtual zero by near extinction level events (ELEs) caused by (to put it in contemporary language) asteroid impacts. Researchers believe that such asteroids may be hidden within our regular cosmic visitor, the Taurid meteor stream! Today more and more scientific disciplines are finding support for the Younger Dryas impacts – a near ELE within human history. “ESCAPING FROM EDEN” probes the book of Genesis for the memory of our planet’s recovery from one of these impacts.