A viewer writes: “The universe is 13.8 billion years old. We’ve been told the Anunnaki ‘civilization’ is nearly five billion years old. That doesn’t mean they were the first civilization in the galaxy, nor does it even imply that the Anunnaki species is only that old. They might be older than that, but maybe no more sophisticated than hunter-gatherer tribal groups. Is that a ‘civilization?’ I don’t know, can Creator elaborate on that?”

We see your question as having a cultural bias, that having modern creature comforts, and perhaps technology as well, connotes a civilization, where the more complex it is, the more civilized. We would beg to differ, that simple societies of hunter-gatherers living off the land, in harmony with nature and with one another, have an ideal lifestyle, because they can remain in divine alignment and maintain an ongoing state of happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment, because all the key ingredients are there if nature cooperates in providing raw materials and other life forms that might be needed for food, clothing, or tools of various sorts. While quite primitive and unattractive when seen from the perspective of your modern world, the original configuration of all the species launched of a sentient physical form, including humans, have been quite happy in their natural setting because they had everything they needed and plenty of challenges as well in learning how to make the most of their environment, take on inevitable challenges, and surmount them, and that became a source of tremendous pride and satisfaction, in becoming successful in the art of living, even though circumscribed by the relatively limited constraint of possibilities you might point out. So the history of your galaxy was typically starting in a simple form in adapting to nature more as an animal and, in meeting the needs for survival, developed a culture and a framework for giving and receiving love in many ways because, in all cases, the early beings quickly learned the value of getting along with one another as being far preferable to harboring dislikes, distrust, and animosity, and almost all developed working constructs that kept the peace and made advancements of mutual benefit to the whole of their society—that is the hallmark of civilization regardless of its trappings and whether you might see them as primitive or sophisticated. As you are learning the hard way, technology is unnatural because it is making you increasingly dependent on the physical environment rather than the ephemeral makeup of consciousness, desire, and expression of love in a myriad of ways, none of which require technology to be felt or expressed but are an innate aspect of divinity. This is why nature does quite well on its own because everything in nature is in divine alignment as an inherent aspect of their beings. There can be complications and difficulties, primarily through changing conditions and competition for resources, and so on, among life forms, but those are part of the makeup of the physical realm to begin with and provide the basic template representing both opportunity and a challenge for all taking part in The Grand Experiment.