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Graham Hancock Accuses Media of "Almost a Deliberate Misinformation Campaign" to Discredit Him

11/3/2015

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Graham Hancock appeared on the Unexplained podcast with Howard Hughes this week, and he began by describing his feeling of victimization at the hands of the mainstream media. And boy was he angry! “I’m not angry,” he said, after ranting with raised voice and at one point declared that the media and academics had declared a “fatwa” against unconventional views. Most of the interview was devoted to summarizing his current book, Magicians of the Gods, but the interview began with Hancock’s recently developed hatred of the mainstream media, which he sees as in league with his enemies, the academics, to suppress the truth and discredit him personally as the chief advocate of a lost civilization.
He claimed that there is “almost a deliberate misinformation campaign” by the mainstream media to discredit him, and he cited a profile of him that ran in the Sunday Times in September that he claims was full of “deliberate” errors designed to discredit him by labeling him a pseudoscientist, written by a reporter who never spoke to Hancock. Hancock declared all of the British media coverage of his work during the month of September to be “rubbish” and full of errors.
 
“I am not a pseudoscientist or a pseudo-historian because I’ve never claimed to be any of those things, to be an archaeologist or to be a scientist,” he said. “Therefore I can’t be a false archaeologist or a false scientist because I’m not passing myself off as an archaeologist or a scientist. I’m a writer, plain and simple. My work in the synthesizing of information from a broad range of fields. I’m a journalist. I’ve always been a journalist. I’m still a journalist today.”
 
So, let me get this straight: Hancock’s defense is that he is not an expert but nevertheless should be taken more seriously than the experts? Now, as it happens, I am also not a scientist, am “a writer, plain and simple,” and have a degree in journalism. Therefore, according to Hancock, I am uniquely qualified to declare his understanding of ancient history and archaeology and mythology to be slipshod, shallow, and wrong. And I did.
 
After venting about his hatred of the media for 10 minutes of the hour-long interview, Hancock reversed course and argued that there is a broad change in public consciousness over the past two decades. He praises the public for no longer accepting the “authoritative statements of experts,” which he declared to be nothing but a pack of lies. He elides academics, corporations, and politicians into a single group he calls “authority figures,” and he is thrilled that no longer is there an accepted authority that can impose a single understanding of truth.
 
Hancock went on to argue that the past is controlled by a conspiracy made up of professors, teachers, universities, schools, the media, and those who financially benefit from their work. He believes that these groups maintain a stranglehold over interpretations of the past by dint of doing the work to understand it, but he feels that elites should not be able to use their position or specialized knowledge to exclude non-elites from interpreting and understanding the past on their own terms. In this, Hancock wants to use postmodernist and anti-elitist ideas to discredit current ideas and paradigms, but only insofar as it would allow him to create a new authoritative narrative that just happens to cast him as prophet, priest, and king.
 
Anyway, Hancock went on to summarize his book and talk about some of its claims, familiar from their repetition over the past months. However, Hancock did announce that he only partially accepts his former writing partner Robert Bauval’s Afrocentrist claims that Egyptian civilization has Sub-Saharan African origins. Trying to avoid alienating Bauval, Hancock agreed that Egypt has “deep African origins” but he argued that “something else” was added to it—from a lost civilization—that gave Egypt its particularly advanced symbolism and technological sophistication. Since we know from Magicians of the Gods that the lost civilization was made up of “white” people, this imposes an uncomfortable racial narrative onto Egyptian history. 
 
Hancock also accused secular scientists and mainstream religions of failing to embrace animist ideas in which all matter has spiritual value and all the universe is alive with invisible power. Hancock was particularly incensed at the “bureaucracy” that separates individual laymen from elite scientific or spiritual knowledge, whether this be the hierarchy of scientists and scholars, or the hierarchy of priests and popes. He repeated his claim that governments, corporations, and religions are all bureaucracies that are inculcating hatred and division in order to hide from individuals that we live in a “magical and enchanted universe” in which we are “all brothers and sisters.”
 
As evidence of this, Hancock offered a conspiracy claim that there are “secret excavations [that] do go on” and that “the public isn’t told everything” about excavations in order to hide evidence that doesn’t fit with particular narratives designed to minimize spiritual truths. He says that this claim is “solidly grounded in events,” which he knows due to “a feeling.” I am sure he meant to provide something more than a feeling as evidence, but he did not.
 
The last segment of the interview saw Hancock endorsing the use of psychedelic drugs and blasting, once again, governments, academics, etc. for imposing a paternalist, elitist view in which the everyman is once again denied direct access to the spiritual realm.
 
There’s a clear theme across all of the topics Hancock covered: He is angry at what he sees as elite control over individuals, an outrage that he has chosen to cast in almost apocalyptic terms where these elites exercise control in this world by denying humanity access to the ancestors (in physical form through archaeology and spiritual form through altered states of consciousness) to actively destroy our souls and our chance at immortality. In such stark terms, is it any wonder that representatives of the elite therefore take on all of the characteristics of the traditional devil? Or that Hancock sees them as diabolical liars, tricksters, and conspirators?
53 Comments
Joe Scales
11/3/2015 11:07:03 am

It takes only two individuals at a bare minimum to form a conspiracy. When challenged on their accusations of same, fringe theorists cannot even specify one such individual conspirator.

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David Badbury
11/4/2015 08:40:11 am

Maybe the argument is that the "conspiracy" is basically built into the mindset of the academic world, leading to inadequate peer review and unjustified support for work from "trusted" researchers (e.g. Sir Cyril Burt back in the mid-20th century).

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Joe Scales
11/4/2015 11:30:15 am

Then it is a bias, not a conspiracy; albeit a bias against research and claims conducted by those without proper credentials, education, methodology and/or reason.

Aaron Michaels
11/12/2015 01:26:13 am

"Smithsonian Admits to Destruction of Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons in Early 1900′s" Hey Jason, not only did the US Supreme get involved but the Smithsonian openly admits to destroying "tens of thousands" skeletons of GIANTS all over the world because of order from the "higher ups" Read it and weep

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Only Me
11/12/2015 02:23:44 am

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/how-david-childress-created-the-myth-of-a-smithsonian-archaeological-conspiracy

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/where-did-the-smithsonian-hide-its-giant-bones-this-shocking-answer-may-surprise-you

Read them and weep, Aaron.

Clete
11/3/2015 11:29:57 am

Based on Graham Hancock's criteria, I, as a non-expert and not a member of the ruling elite or the media have reached a conclusion about him. He is an idiot.

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Pacal
11/3/2015 11:45:53 am

I found this especially amusing:

"Hancock went on to argue that the past is controlled by a conspiracy made up of professors, teachers, universities, schools, the media, and those who financially benefit from their work."

Absolutely hilarious from a man who has become rich and famous from supporting and spreading pseudo rubbish by the truck load. I've known over my lifetime Archeologists and Academics who do it out of love of the discipline(s) and none of them have become rich from it; unlike the assortment of pseudos who have by pandering to the love of the sensational at the expense of truth. Hancock has massively and spectacularly financially benefited from promoting woo and he has the unmitigated gall to say that Academics etc., who disagree with him are doing it for financial gain?! Wow talk about chutzpah!

And of course once again Hancock whines about persecution. I merely note that if this is persecution it should happen to more deserving writers.

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William John Meegan link
11/8/2015 01:50:09 pm

The thing that disturbed me most about Hancock is that he is unscientific in his approach. He is basically not saying anything other than having people looking at the pretty pictures his wife takes. His anger resembles that of an addicted drug addict, which we know he is.

I don't see him doing what John Anthony West or Robert Bauval did. John West got an archaeologist to research the Sphinx and Bauval points to what the pyramids could possibly represent; whereas, Hancock is not anywhere in their league.

Academia is a closed knit society of very jealous and backbiting people that cannot be trusted with someone else's work less it be plagiarized. Academia knows that an alternative view may well upset their careers; thus, holding tightly to mainstream ideas is more of a task at keeping one's job and who amongst us doesn't know of office politics in the smallest of companies. People are always afraid of losing their jobs.

I personally ran into the conspiracy of academic snobbery. My work on Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia Mathematical System (1994) caused a great deal of jealousy in the Dante Society of America at Harvard University, in Boston, Massachusetts; though, I am a lifetime member of that organization. I am not an academic; yet, I broke Dante's mathematical system when it was not even known that he had this science codified to his work; though, the work has been out over twenty years for anyone to dispute it still has not been peer-reviewed or debated. Not one academic in the whole world would try to dispute my analysis. That is how academia works. They actually believe if they don't saying anything it will go away. Academia would rather important discovery go back into oblivion rather than admit a common man has shamed them. I suspect that when I pass from this world some academic will find my work and take credit for it. THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

Thus to say there is not a direct conspiracy in academia is an erroneous assumption. Most people cannot see the logic in academia not wanting truth to be known. That is illogical for an intelligent people to accept. Our culture has developed to project the idea of total secrecy about anything. For if your ideas or inventions gets out corporations would make billion while handing you fifty dollars in comparison. This happened consistently throughout the 1950, 60s and 70s where black musicians get fifty dollars or less for a song and Pat Boone or other crooners sings it and makes hundreds of thousands of dollars per song in recording it.

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Only Me
11/3/2015 12:13:47 pm

Ah, so Hancock is pissed he can financially benefit from his work, but has no control over interpretations of the past. Then, when criticized, he's just a writer and journalist, run afoul of some nefarious conspiracy.

He's beyond a pretentious poseur; he's brain damaged.

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Uncle Ron
11/3/2015 12:21:43 pm

Hancock's attitude is what happens when school systems don't allow kids to keep score in competitions, give trophies just for participating in an event, or praise students for simply "trying" even when their answers are completely wrong.

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Clint Knapp
11/3/2015 02:55:38 pm

Not to defend Hancock or anything - I fully agree he's a useless waste of space blowing hot air for fame and drug money - but he's 65 years old. I don't think the "those lazy millennials" argument quite works for him.

I'm 33, and that wasn't the state of education when/where I grew up. If anything he's a product of the 60s New Age counterculture through and through.

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Kal
11/3/2015 12:23:19 pm

Technically a journalism degree is a bachelors of science.

Still, Mr. H. is clearly in need of some special medication, or a few pints of the good stuff from a pub, so he can lighten up a wee bit.

It would seem in psychological terms though he might be a classic pathological obsessive, but appears to have the uncharacteristic markers of a paranoid borderline personality, (schizophrenic in the old terminology) but this is no expert on such things. Don't take my word for it. But6 don't take his either.

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kal
11/3/2015 12:24:25 pm

'but6' is a typo.

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David Bradbury
11/3/2015 02:04:31 pm

No it isn't- it's a secret code.
I know what you're up to ....

tm
11/3/2015 04:10:08 pm

Where do get this stuff Kal?

Pathological obsessive? Maybe you're talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder, but in context, that wouldn't make much sense either. And borderline personality disorder, even with paranoid features, is NOT the same thing as schizophrenia.

When you post about things you clearly know nothing about, even with a disclaimer, you're not much different from Hancock.

Dick Neimeyer
11/3/2015 12:33:11 pm

Jason, couple years back I gave your name to Howard for a possible interview as a skeptical viewpoint to things fringy. Did Hughes ever contacted you?

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Jason Colavito link
11/3/2015 01:01:06 pm

Not that I recall, and I don't see any email from him either.

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Dick Neimeyer
11/3/2015 04:48:43 pm

If Howard did would you be interested?

Jason Colavito link
11/3/2015 05:03:29 pm

Sure, though it can be hard to find a mutually agreeable time since I tend to work a lot.

DaveR
11/3/2015 12:37:05 pm

I think this is just more of a cleverly scripted act designed to make him even more money. Even if he were invited to speak at a conference of highly regarded academics where his theories of "synthesized" facts were presented and debated seriously, I bet he would still complain of a vast conspiracy. Without his alleged conspiracy he would not be able to advertise his books as “The truth the scientists have been hiding from you!!!”

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Only Me
11/3/2015 01:29:50 pm

This goes back to why academics don't address fringe claims. When ignored, it's a conspiracy. If taken at face value, analyzed, debated and then exposed as the seriously flawed BS such claims are...it's a conspiracy.

This is the standard tactic fringe apologists use, so they can claim to have never been proven wrong.

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Joe Scales
11/3/2015 02:12:01 pm

I doubt those on the fringe would even dare to appear before well credentialed academics in a public setting. That would be like Monica The Medium taking the million dollar Randi challenge. In other words, the end of their careers.

Mark link
11/3/2015 08:24:46 pm

I think you underestimate them. Most of these people believe their bull****. While Hancock has made millions, most fringe writers have day jobs; they seem to do it because they genuinely believe in it and are passionate about it, not because they're hoping to make a buck.

DaveR
11/4/2015 03:14:54 pm

I think it's the reverse, academics have no inclination to address fringe theorists because it's a waste of time. Why would someone who has spent a lifetime obtaining advanced degrees and countless hours working on a theory based on facts and evidence take the time to argue with someone with a degree in Journalism who has a theory based on nothing more than "feelings" and "hunches?" You simply cannot win any debate with a fringe adherent because whatever you say contradicting their claims is quickly ignored and they claim the "main stream" is attempting to silence them. I see no benefit for any credentialed academic to ever debate a fringe theorist, especially Hancock, given his track record.

Shane Sullivan
11/3/2015 01:51:01 pm

Let me get this straight.

This is what Graham Hancock sounds like when he's *not* smoking pot?

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Nobody Knows
11/3/2015 02:40:10 pm

Cannabis is the source of civilization.

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Shane Sullivan
11/3/2015 03:02:35 pm

Be that as it may, or be it not, I'm not certain what it has to do with Graham Hancock's history of paranoia as a consequence of marijuana use.

Nobody Knows
11/3/2015 04:11:03 pm

He's not paranoid, just suffers from distorted reasoning, that's all.

Shane Sullivan
11/3/2015 06:09:35 pm

That's very diplomatic of you, but "paranoid" was Hancock's own word:

"Cannabis had always exaggerated paranoid tendencies that I probably have already, but these began to come more and more to the fore from 2007 onwards with very negative effects on my behaviour."

http://grahamhancock.com/giving-up-the-green-bitch-hancock/

Nobody Knows
11/3/2015 08:16:18 pm

Cannabis (and other similar substances) are not intended to be abused.

David Bradbury
11/4/2015 03:23:13 am

Wheat seeds are not intended to be ground to powder.

Tony
11/4/2015 09:46:25 am

A hairy caveman named Tine
Thought bread and beer were just fine
Until one day he found bliss
While chewing cannabis
And cried "The gods have given us a sign!"

DaveR
11/4/2015 03:28:37 pm

I drank lots of beer and then farted
My love, she quickly departed
Perhaps wine would better suit her tastes
However I favored hops over fermented grapes
Alone another beer I have started

Joan Wibberley
11/3/2015 02:39:33 pm

there is journalism , which implies professionalism , ethics and accountability. Then there is media prostitution Mr. H is a media prostitute

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Kal
11/3/2015 04:42:01 pm

I believe the snarky post was properly vetted when I commented not to take my word for it. Duh.

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Kal
11/3/2015 04:52:36 pm

The criteria for borderline personality disorder versus borderline schizophrenia is not set in stone, at least according to this.
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=492031

And you can obsessive without being compulsive. http://www.helpguide.org/articles/anxiety/obssessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd.htm

This fringe guy has not proven he has the repeated habits found in typical OCD. He merely believes his own made up stories. This is neither a compulsion or a delusion. It is also possible one of the posters is right, and he is merely drug addled and stoned a lot.

But then again, I only know and have psychiatrist relatives, but am certainly no expert in the field. He could be just insane.

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tm
11/3/2015 09:01:50 pm

Gee Kal. If you thought it was snarky for me to point out your misinformation, you probably won't like my response. And if you think admitting you're no expert makes it okay to share ignorance with others, you really won't like what I have to say.

I'm glad you have relatives who are psychiatrists. My brother is a quantum physicist. The difference between you and me is that I know I sound like a moron when I try to talk about the interaction between sub-atomic particles.

Ask your relatives what they think of your mental health expertise, which is apparently based on an Internet self help site and a JAMA article written in 1979. Did you even bother to read the abstract? It talks about how they developed the diagnostic criteria for scizophrenia and borderline personality disorder for DSM III. THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO! It doesn't mean that people with borderline personality were ever schizophrenic. If anything, it means some people were being misdiagnosed by ignorant practitioners who didn't understand what they were seeing. Most people wouldn't get that distinction. It's why people like Hancock can't comprehend the value of education AND experience. They just don't have the frame of reference to get it. Apparently, neither do you Kal.

That article was written about the time I finished my second internship, and before I spent a good part of my career specializing in treating adolescents with borderline personality disorder. I've also taught university classes and professional seminars on this stuff. I'm not impressed by your Internet help site, or by the fact that you misunderstood an ancient journal abstract.

Yes, most people obsess about something at one time or another. Theres a word for that. NORMAL! I don't know if Hancock has a mental disorder or not, but I do know that your post was ignorant, incorrect, and irresponsible. Your response to my criticism was immature. It isn't the first time you've posted misinformation. Your inane remarks about Flonase come to mind.

If you don't want to be criticized, be more careful about what you write.

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Clint Knapp
11/3/2015 10:49:25 pm

I'm still trying to reconcile the route to this comment from yesterday's article:

"If you combine the Judeo Christian Eden with the out of Africa science models, you get a reddish coffee skinned Adam and Eve in that garden."

Nobody Knows
11/4/2015 06:28:36 am

You mean the Garden of Eden story lifted by the authors of Genesis based upon the story of Garden of Dilmun,

That's as crazy as anything dreamed-up by Graham Hancock

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Pam
11/3/2015 07:10:57 pm

Hancock also said he didn't have any problem with criticism as long as "it came from a good place." What does that mean? He's okay with being criticized as long as his feelings aren't hurt?

His anger seems to be from his loss of reputation more than anything else. I don't think his financial success has made him very happy.

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Pacal
11/3/2015 08:23:42 pm

You are assuming that his anger is real and not feigned. Being angered by his "persecution" fits into the meme purveyed by woo merchants that they are being oppressed for their beliefs. Thus too a large extent the anger is part of a pose designed to fit into the being "persecuted" meme. The late Velikovsky provided the template for this meme which he milked for all its worth. Hancock has shown that he has learned well from the past master.

I believe that before Hancock stated his career in woo he actually had a fairly good reputation has a serious writer, having written several books about the issues of AIDS and famine in Africa, which sadly didn't sell very well. He then discovered woo and the riches it would give him and the rest is shall we say history. This of course destroyed his reputation has a serious writer.

If he does indeed have serious anger about that then he should look in the mirror because he coolly and deliberately destroyed his own reputation. Hancock did it too himself and his anger about a mythical conspiracy is just sour grapes along with being catnip, which is why I wonder how much of the anger is real, to all the believers in woo that he caters too. After all it keeps them buying his books, watching his videos and listening to his lectures.

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Jason Colavito link
11/3/2015 08:52:36 pm

Hancock's debt to Velikovsky shows up in his most famous line, that "humanity is a species with amnesia," which is cribbed almost verbatim from Velikovsky's "Mankind in Amnesia."

Pam
11/3/2015 09:35:44 pm

His anger could be feigned, but he and the host, Howard, went on a rant about how journalism had higher standards "back in their day." It seemed very emotional.

There was a weird disconnect in how Hancock lambasted journalists about breaking the rule of checking facts by not checking original sources. I kept thinking, "He can't be serious!"

I had no idea his famous sound bite was cribbed from Velikovsky.

DaveR
11/4/2015 10:47:11 am

Having an alternative theory is fine, so long as you have evidence supporting your theory. Hancock doesn't appear to provide any evidence supporting his theories, rather he wants us all to accept his "feelings" about how he's interpreting current archeological evidence. I have posted that the Great Pyramids in Egypt were built to help regulate the rotation of the Earth creating a more balanced climate. Can't explain it, but I have a strong "hunch" that this "feeling" is correct, and I'm pretty sure mainstream academics are suppressing such a ground breaking theory. Which is why I haven't been invited to speak at any conferences. This is, of course, a joke.

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Anon
11/4/2015 06:39:20 pm

He's got an unusual speech pattern, laboring the enunciation in an insistent way like he's addressing the stupid, and making extra effort to avoid apostrophized words like aren't, isn't - and such.

If you want a rant check out his meteorite guy - eww.
http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/randall-carlson-climate-change-real-deniers

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Anon
11/5/2015 12:02:26 am

However I do think that the distribution of cunts is the same in science as any other field of endeavor, whether it be pseudo science, sport, religion, plumbing, script writing, dancing or whatever. Just because you practice science doesn't mean you're not a cunt.

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Anon
11/5/2015 12:50:16 am

I don't know why Hancock is saying he's a journalist or a synthesizer, and not a scientist. The general field he works in is called alternative archaeology, a science. He seems to be trying to promote his own theories based on his own gathered evidence - i don't think it's only everyone else's work he bases his writing on. If he, for example, works on a theory about the alignment of temples in Cambodia, and searches for evidence for the theory, he's pretty much doing science - whether badly or not. I think in this case badly (I just checked on the Batman interpretation, and I'm now convinced the Cambodians were bat worshippers). He just presents it as "research into mysteries" - which is also what science is.

The science council says, "Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence."

As far as I've seen, for the last thirty years, he's been doing that.

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Anon
11/5/2015 04:35:33 pm

In fact it was an Oxford trained Egyptologist who put me onto the Batman interpretation. I asked him what he thought about Hancock's idea and he pointed me to your page.

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William John Meegan link
11/8/2015 01:15:29 pm

I do understand that Hancock wants to be a sensationalist by flamboyantly using phrases like LOST CIVILIZATIONS when it is more appropriate to use the phrase ABANDON CITIES. I don't see something lost if it is summarily dismissed as something you don't want to deal with. The weird thing about Hancock take on these ABANDON CITIES that he goes jet-setting around the world to see, is that the indigenous natives that are descendants of the peoples that originally built those abandoned sites are still living in those abandon dwellings. It is quite apparent that when those ancient religions were abandoned their ancestors ideologies were abandoned.

This later makes me think of how Martin Luther abandoned Catholicism and instituted the Reformation Period and he started a new religious cult called PROTESTANTISM. People still can go around Europe and see the destruction of many of Catholicism iconography.

I, therefore, don't see anything surprising about people abandoning old ideas in lieu of new one, no matter how truthful the old ideas may or may not have been.

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Exateressial (Assonaut)
11/8/2015 06:35:57 pm

Did not Hancock assert that he himself is the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? This should give us insight into his mental state.

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William John Meegan link
11/8/2015 07:59:52 pm

Did Hancock really say that? I do know that he is reliving the mythoi of Solomon and Bathsheba but his believing he is the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce would really question his mental stability.

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Exateressial (Assonaut)
11/8/2015 08:26:14 pm

NO! My mistake. It was David Wilcock. Apologies for the cross-error.

Spacedog
12/9/2015 10:23:40 am

Magicians of the Gods is available on Amazon and I'm looking forward to purchasing a copy. Fingerprints of the Gods was an entertaining read.

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