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Graham Hancock Announces Plans to Investigate Mound Builder Myth, Search for Lost White Race in America

10/11/2016

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Remember the myth of the lost white race of Mound Builders? It’s currently en vogue thanks the resurgence of white supremacist and white nationalist thinking among racists emboldened by the coarsening public discourse encouraged by the Trump campaign. Never one to miss a cultural moment, on Columbus Day here in America—a day Native Americans protest as honoring the destruction of their culture—Graham Hancock announced on his blog yesterday that he plans to overcome the relatively disappointing sales of last year’s Magicians of the Gods by exploring whether North America’s Native American mounds were actually the work of his lost ancient civilization, the one that he identified in both Magicians and its predecessor, Fingerprints of the Gods, as “white.” 
… I would like to explore the possibility (a) that these mounds are just the more recent incarnations of much more ancient, prehistoric structures and (b) that they incorporate knowledge from an earlier time and civilization, in much the same way that historical ancient Egyptian monuments from around 5,000 years ago and less also incorporate a legacy of much older knowledge and a memory of “The First Time”.
Hancock’s position, as you can see, is slightly different from that of the early advocates of the lost white race hypothesis. He allows that Native Americans may have built the mounds, but only in reconstructing the lost white race’s more sophisticated knowledge. Indeed, the lost white race, he claims, might have been located right here in good old North America, or as Hancock puts it, this culture “may have had its most significant outpost, perhaps even its center in North America.”
 
In Magicians of the Gods, Hancock asserted his belief that a comet hit North America at the end of the Younger Dryas, and in his blog posts he hypothesized that this destroyed any remnants of an advanced Ice Age civilization. In the blog post, he said that this civilization likely dates back 60,000 years in North America: “We must now consider the possibility of stable and advanced civilizations in the Americas going back 60,000 years or more and with mysterious links to the populations that settled Australia and other far-flung regions in remote prehistory.”
 
It is, of course, astonishing that such an “advanced” civilization thrived for tens of thousands of years and yet left not a single trace of itself anywhere on the face of the Earth, until its alleged descendants started raising up stones in its memory after 10,000 BCE.
 
The Lost Race of the Mound Builders hypothesis speculated that the mounds of North America were the result of outside influence. There were several different strains of the theory, some attributing the mounds to Vikings and others to Toltecs, but the most popular version held that a lost white race had colonized and developed North America until they were eradicated by “savage” Red Indians, who invaded and massacred all of the white people in relatively recent historical times. This version of the myth was the underlying historical justification for the Indian Removal Act of 1830, as Pres. Andrew Jackson admitted in his 1830 State of the Union message, when he spoke of the mounds as “the memorials of a once powerful race, which was exterminated, or has disappeared, to make room for the existing savage tribes.” We find this same myth in the Book of Mormon, where the noble white race of the first Americans falls to decadent savages who are punished by having their skin darkened (2 Nephi 5:21; 3 Nephi 2:15; Alma 3:6). This line of thinking continued for a century, and not just in the United States. In Canada, the cleric George Bryce wrote in 1885, not untypically, that white appropriation Native lands was justified because each white colonizer was “the avenger of the lost race, in driving before him the savage red man.”
 
Let us not mince words: Hancock has been quite clear that his lost race is identical with this fantastical lost white race of Mound Builders. He happily claims in Magicians, for example, that Native American lore declares that the lost race’s “white skins and beards” were so impressive that they created an “ancient tribal memory, passed down from generation to generation, of civilizing heroes….” In Fingerprints, he identified the survivors of the Lost Civilization as “white,” “white-skinned,” or “white-skinned and bearded” more than a dozen times. Most egregiously, he wrote that the ancient civilizers of the Americas “had come from the same place and had belonged to the same distinctively non-Indian ethnic type (bearded, white-skinned, etc.).”
 
Such claims were not original to Hancock, of course. The books that he shamelessly modeled his own after, Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World and Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel both made explicit the belief that the Americas were civilized by white men, as did Eugène Beauvois in France and dozens of others, all drawing on colonialist and imperialist pseudohistory dating back to the Spanish Conquest and its attempt to justify colonization through an appeal to lost white colonizers. In case you care, Donnelly followed the French Assyriologist François Lenormant in arguing that only white people were true descendants of Noah, and the other races were a separate and inferior branch of humanity from Adam’s evil son, Cain; therefore, the Flood which destroyed the Nephilim—i.e. white folk who engaged in miscegenation with non-white Cainites—and Atlantis was meant to purify the white race and had no effect on the non-white races. Lenormant was much more explicit than even Donnelly was prepared to go, arguing further in the very paragraph of the very work Donnelly quoted that the white race was “the superior and dominant race, to whom, over all others, pre-eminence must be conceded and the glory of representing humanity in its noblest aspect.”
 
Donnelly, in Atlantis, merely applied this line of racist reasoning to America, identifying it as the “opposite continent” of Plato, inhabited by this superior white race: “Plato says that in Atlantis there was ‘a great and wonderful empire’ … Those parts of America over which it ruled were, as we will show hereafter, Central America, Peru, and the Valley of the Mississippi, occupied by the ‘Mound Builders.’”
 
Hancock, who explicitly conceded in Magicians that his “lost civilization” was Atlantis, wants to bring this specious and racist line of reasoning, derived explicitly from a white supremacist view of the Bible, back to life as “alternative” archaeology.
 
In addition to the echoes of the Lost Race of the Mound Builders theory, Hancock’s hypothesis also has clear echoes of the Renaissance speculation that North America was the Atlantis of Plato, as channeled through Donnelly’s analysis of the same. While Donnelly assigned America the role of the “opposite continent,” earlier writers had made North America into Atlantis itself. In 1552, Francisco López de Gómara argued that the Indies were Atlantis and America the continent: “But there is now no cause why we should any longer doubt or dispute of the Island Atlantide, forasmuch as the discovering and conquest of the west Indies do plainly declare what Plato hath written of the said lands” (trans. Richard Eden, adapted). The Welsh occultist John Dee, however, took the argument further and argued in a 1576 manuscript for the portions of North America that the English crown controlled “beinge notable portions of the ancient Atlantis, no longer—nowe named America.” Naturally, he used this as justification for first the Welsh Prince Madoc’s imaginary colonization of America and later for the right of the English crown to reclaim land that belonged to Atlantis rather than Native Americans.
 
Graham Hancock, a British writer seemingly oblivious to the history of the ideas he resurrects, happily joins with the colonizers, conquerors, and conquistadors in fantasizing about an ancient “outpost” or “center” of a lost white civilization in America.  
36 Comments
Andy White
10/11/2016 10:38:51 am

This has the next incarnation of "Forbidden Archaeology" written all over it.

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E.P. Grondine
10/11/2016 12:32:18 pm

Hi Jason -

Thanks for the heads up on this.

While Donnelly had his view of "Atlantis", LePLoneon had his, which in my view is far more relevant here:
http://www.danieljglenn.com/the_podcasts/Stelle/Documentation/He%20Walked%20Among%20Us%20Part%201.pdf

Given the rather complete inabilities of many american archaeologists to deal with Native Peoples of large stature, Hancock will have materials at hand to fashion into whatever he likes and thinks will sell to his readers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D4OK8Vcj7E

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E.P. Grondine
10/11/2016 12:53:23 pm

Andrew Collins also has an interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6xP5S1H2Q

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Kal
10/11/2016 01:46:42 pm

Why couldn't the natives have built the mounts? It makes a lot more sense than a hypothetical distant race going there to build them in ancient times. Just because the mounds were not known to the current people living there, who were displaced, and did not know their homeland, does not mean that the natives didn't make them at some point. But then, with these clearly nutty ideas, these fringe people think they're discovering when it is all made up to spin fool's gold for anyone foolish enough to buy these things.

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E.P. Grondine
10/12/2016 10:56:02 am

Hi Kal

"Why couldn't the natives have built the mounts?"

As Percy Bullchild noted many years ago, its because of the
"whites" insistence that the Native Peoples were/are stupid.

Percy also predicted he success of "Ancient Aliens".

By the way, the different Native Peoples knew who built the "mounds", and at European contact several of them were observed building structures out of earth.

Some things to keep in mind:
There were no "Moundbuilders". Different peoples used earth to construct structures for different purposes. "Mounds" are the ruins of those structures.

There were no "Adena" people, and there were no "Hopewell"peoples. Those are descriptions of material remains of peoples' culture.

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V
10/12/2016 11:07:10 am

It wasn't even necessarily displaced peoples who didn't know what the mounds were all about. Remember that for the longest time the purpose of STONEHENGE was forgotten BY the native population! (And in fact we may STILL not have completely reconstructed is uses and purposes.) It has as much to do with time and the influx of new cultural ideas as it does "displacement." Given the example of Stonehenge, in fact, the fringe idea that "they don't remember how/why those mounds were built so they must not be theirs" is PARTICULARLY contemptibly hypocritical.

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Tom
10/11/2016 03:24:05 pm

As you point out Mr Hancock has no scholarly sources for his strange ideas and like Von Daniken is merely recycling fairy tales
by other amateur researchers and like many of them he is now suffering from over exposure.
Having shifted his attention from the old world where his books are not selling well and he is ignored by the experts he appears to wish to carve out new territory in the new world and will no doubt "prove" that everything really important in the ancient world resulted from the existence of the American Atlantis.
I think that he may really be onto something since I have just realised Atlantis and America Both begin with a capital "A" and also have an " i " surely, this is conclusive proof of a connection.

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Graham
10/11/2016 08:53:54 pm

Interesting, according to the Muurish Empire Washita (An African-American Freemen-On-The Land group.) their ancestors from Mu built the mounds thus proving that everyone else in the world should bow down to them.

Jack Churchward (a descendant of John Churchward, the man who created Mu.) was not that impressed with this re-interpretarion of the original material. His video is linked below, the recommended video links accompanying it point to severa videosl made by and honoring the Muurish Empire Washita.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLmI2-2nVo

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Brady Yoon
10/11/2016 09:51:44 pm

It is my opinion that pyramids made of quarried stone blocks are the evolutionary end point of an architectural motif that began as earthen mounds, with the intermediate stage being "hybrid" structures made of both stone blocks and earth. Monumental architecture, like all forms of human material culture, evolve over time from more primitive to more sophisticated forms. Moreover, mounds and pyramids are similar not merely in form, but also in function: for example, both the relatively crude mounds of North America and the more sophisticated pyramids found all over Egypt were used as tombs.

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Clint Knapp
10/12/2016 01:04:50 am

First, to assume a pyramid of quarried stone is the "evolutionary endpoint" of a motif beginning with earthen mounds would be to ignore the existence of The Louvre Pyramid which clearly draws on the same motif. One could even say its glass panels represent an evolutionary step up from sandstone blocks since glass is made from heated silica. To be frank, the term "evolutionary endpoint" is both unprovable and illogical as evolution denotes a continued change over time - even in architecture where we see old themes constantly recycled and updated.

But moving right along. Only a very narrow selection of Native American mounds can be said definitively to be tombs, or the resting place of the dead.

One would hardly call the mounds of Cahokia "crude" as the largest of them, Monk's Mound, rises approximately 100 feet with a base comparable in size to the Great Pyramid at Giza. Considering the materials used, this mound alone represents nearly two-hundred years (estimated construction dates range from 900CE to completion in 1100 CE) worth of work hauling various types of earth and clay gathered by hand in baskets to build the structure as seen today.

Monk's Mound is not a tomb at all. It served as a platform for what is presumed either a religious center or a great chief's abode. Of the numerous other mounds on the site, various other purposes have been hypothesized for their construction, and relatively few have actually been identified as burial mounds.

Given Cahokia's proximity to the Mississippi River (right across it from St. Louis), I can tell you as a native Iowan born a stone's throw from that river that building mounds to protect your settlements and raise your buildings against the inevitable flooding is a far more effective use of the time to build a mound than just to bury someone. In truth, burial mounds tend to be the smallest of the mounds in such areas.

Further up the Mississippi you can find the Effigy Mounds which certainly do not fulfill this architectural motif you speak of - being as they are in the shape of animals and even the tallest of them stands only about a meter high. The effigy mounds, however, do prove to be used for burials at a much more frequent rate than one can find in places like Cahokia where the architectural quality of the mounds is more functional than ceremonial.

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Brady Yoon
10/12/2016 02:24:31 am

"First, to assume a pyramid of quarried stone is the "evolutionary endpoint" of a motif beginning with earthen mounds would be to ignore the existence of The Louvre Pyramid which clearly draws on the same motif. One could even say its glass panels represent an evolutionary step up from sandstone blocks since glass is made from heated silica. To be frank, the term "evolutionary endpoint" is both unprovable and illogical as evolution denotes a continued change over time - even in architecture where we see old themes constantly recycled and updated."

How exactly does the existence of the Louvre Pyramid weaken my argument? Surely, the architects who designed this pyramid used the already existing pyramids as an architectural model. So, in what sense does the Louvre Pyramid NOT represent a new stage in the evolution of pyramid building? When archaeologists look back to our time, they could very well characterize these "modern" pyramids as a new stage in the evolution of pyramid-building.

"One would hardly call the mounds of Cahokia "crude" as the largest of them, Monk's Mound, rises approximately 100 feet with a base comparable in size to the Great Pyramid at Giza. Considering the materials used, this mound alone represents nearly two-hundred years (estimated construction dates range from 900CE to completion in 1100 CE) worth of work hauling various types of earth and clay gathered by hand in baskets to build the structure as seen today."

When I say "crude," I am not referring to the difficulty of construction (crude does not equate to "easy"), but rather the precision of construction and the complexity of the project planning. Piling a huge amount of earth on top of each other is just as labor-intensive as piling a huge amount of precisely cut stone blocks on top of each other, but clearly there's a difference in the level of technological sophistication in these two methods. Earth, dirt, and mud can be molded into whatever shape is desired, and errors in the early stages of construction can be corrected rather easily. It doesn't require as much forethought and planning, just a massive amount of labor. But any errors in the construction of a stone pyramid in the early stage will grow as construction proceeds, so the architects who designed these types of pyramids would have had to plan all phases of the project in order to successfully complete it.

"Monk's Mound is not a tomb at all. It served as a platform for what is presumed either a religious center or a great chief's abode. Of the numerous other mounds on the site, various other purposes have been hypothesized for their construction, and relatively few have actually been identified as burial mounds."

Not all pyramids in Egypt are tombs either, I suppose, nor are the ones in Mesoamerica.

"Further up the Mississippi you can find the Effigy Mounds which certainly do not fulfill this architectural motif you speak of - being as they are in the shape of animals and even the tallest of them stands only about a meter high. The effigy mounds, however, do prove to be used for burials at a much more frequent rate than one can find in places like Cahokia where the architectural quality of the mounds is more functional than ceremonial."

The existence of effigy mounds shaped like animals in no way refutes my hypothesis that mounds evolved into pyramids. I did not say that all mounds evolved into pyramids, merely that the specific type of mound that is shaped like a symmetric hill evolved into the pyramid.

Brady Yoon
10/12/2016 02:29:56 am

P.S. I shouldn't have used the specific phrase "evolutionary endpoint." What I really meant in my original comment was "evolutionary process" that could and arguably is still ongoing.

Time Machine
10/12/2016 07:46:14 am

Clint,

That was 403 words that could have been limited to 40 words.

Time Machine
10/12/2016 07:47:58 am

Brady,

That was 1,188 words that could have been limited to 188 words,

Uncle Ron
10/12/2016 10:18:30 am

"Monumental architecture, like all forms of human material culture, evolve over time from more primitive to more sophisticated forms."

Not to pick nits, but I believe you mean that technology evolves over time to allow more sophisticated architecture.(?) A pyramid is a pyramid regardless of what material is used to construct it. e.g. the Louvre pyramid. Do you have any examples of the "hybrid" stone & earth pyramids?

Brady Yoon
10/12/2016 12:17:32 pm

Hmm, I think there's a subtle difference. What you said is certainly true: technology DOES evolve over time to allow more sophisticated architecture (there may be some steps backward, but the overall trajectory tends toward increased complexity).

Is a glass pyramid more sophisticated than a stone pyramid, and a stone pyramid more so than a earthen pyramid? I would say yes, just as a steel sword is more sophisticated than a bronze sword, and a bronze sword more so than a "stone sword." In my opinion, the "evolution" of pyramid building materials is similar to the evolution of tools and material culture in general. The structure's form is preserved, but the materials that are used to build the structure change over time.

As for a hybrid pyramid, what came to mind was the Bosnian pyramids discovered by Sam Osmanagich: "Nonetheless, Osmanagich put scores of laborers to work digging on the hills. It was just as the geologists had predicted: the excavations revealed layers of fractured conglomerate at Visocica, while those at Pljesevica uncovered cracked sandstone plates separated by layers of silt and clay." Later on in the article, geologists say that the pyramid was a natural structure, but whether this is so is still an open question.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-bosnias-ancient-pyramids-148990462/#czhofkQERAQ7sHKX.99

Clint Knapp
10/12/2016 06:01:30 pm

Well, I was going from the fact you did use the term "evolutionary endpoint" and then you changed your argument to an ongoing process.

But then you cited the "Bosnian pyramids" as a real example instead of what they are: a quack's obsession to prove his homeland as the center of civilization by making pyramids out of hills, so I'm going to suggest more research for this argument.

Particularly, if pyramids are an evolution of mounds, you have to demonstrate that pyramids have been constructed in the same region by cultures who at least have a feasible exchange of ideas with one another as mounds.

Further, you'd have to demonstrate that the mounds came first, and as mentioned before - display a hybrid between piled earth and cut stone. Preferably without citing hoaxes.

S D O
10/11/2016 09:54:33 pm

"It is, of course, astonishing that such an “advanced” civilization thrived for tens of thousands of years and yet left not a single trace of itself anywhere on the face of the Earth..."

or above it (in orbit) or on the moon......

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Uncle Ron
10/11/2016 10:30:04 pm

. . . and were destroyed by stone age "savages."

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V
10/12/2016 11:23:17 am

Heh, that's the one part that's remotely plausible. A technologically-advanced race is eminently capable of falling to a less-technologically-advanced race. It's more about the determination of the other civilization to get what they want than it is the relative levels of technology. Which is part of why Europeans were so dominating in the 1500s-1800s--sheer fucking determination to TAKE what they wanted. It's not the only reason, of course, but given that the Chinese were at least AS sophisticated technologically as the Europeans, and in some ways moreso, and they still wound up dominated by Europeans, well...it can't be all guns and germs, either.

Really, though, "savage" probably describes Colonial-era Europeans WAY better than any other people on Earth at the time...

Titus pullo
10/12/2016 09:19:33 pm

Europeans dud face some cultures with close technology like China but they had a more more decentralized command and control structure and some level of property rights. In other words they didn't have conscript armies fighting for an emperor who didn't give a blank about them but they tended to fight for things they would economically benefit from. In Europe you had a moch more fluid social structure than Africa or the Americas or China. Yes still a rigid class structure but unlike China one could ruse up from nothing and earn a commission and become a war hero and become part of nobility.

Only Me
10/12/2016 12:42:32 am

Isn't it amazing how much Hancock knows about a civilization he himself says was destroyed with no surviving remnants? I wonder if he is aware of how much he contradicts himself.

I would really love to see how Hancock's "research" will square with the numerous reports gigantologists rely upon. You know, the ones where giant remains were found inside *Native American* burial mounds?

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Time Machine
10/12/2016 07:44:21 am

Civilization was formed out of mind expansion
That would equally apply to any "lost civilization"

And Hancock knows something about drugs, making him superior in this respect to the Colavito Forum.

There is much more to drugs than this
https://hgsrs.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/drug-addict1.jpg

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TheBigMike
10/12/2016 10:06:19 pm

You know, I've gotten to the point where I just generally do no respond or even read posts by the ridiculousness calling itself "Time Machine." However, I count myself as a member of the Colavito Forum and I must respond to this:

"And Hancock knows something about drugs, making him superior in this respect to the Colavito Forum."

I work as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor at a substance use hospital. I will have my Master's degree in a matter of months. I regularly work with people that have snorted, smoked, injected, or swallowed just about every kind of drug you can imagine. Some patients at the hospital have even tried to do things like drying and smoking banana peels because they heard that people can get high that way. You can't by the way, there is nothing psychotropic in banana peels.

I would say that my experience and my schooling allows me to make this statement definitively: I know something about drugs.

With that statement, I prove Time Machine, once again, wrong. Hancock is not superior to the Colavito Forum in any way. It doens't matter that Hancock "knows something about drugs" since his "knowledge" is in USING them. Using substances does not make one an authority on substances. It makes you an addict, which makes you someone who needs help.

I can tell you that i have seen people high off their gourds on heroin. I've seen people detoxing from YEARS of use. This is not pretty. Substances do not "expand you mind" and they are NOT the basis for religion or civilization. I can say, in the most non-judgmental way possible, that psychotropic substances do severe damage to the brains and functionality (in areas of personal ability and ability to interact with others) of the users. Drugs become the be all and end all. Drugs do not lead people to believe in God because drugs BECOME god for addicts. It has been my experience that most of the people in recovery who find god do so as a means of STOPPING their use not BECAUSE of their use.

To anyone who read through this, thank you for your time. That being said, I will now resume completely ignoring "Time Machine."

Time Machine
10/12/2016 07:50:58 am

>>>resurgence of white supremacist and white nationalist thinking among racists<<<

Again, this is kooky racism shoehorned into genuine racism,

This form of scepticism is silly - you can only burst out laughing at it.

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V
10/12/2016 11:30:24 am

No, honey, this is genuine racism with a light coating of kookiness to make it look harmless. YOU can burst out laughing at it because you're a white male and not harmed by it. Ask the naive peoples in North and South Dakota if they think it's funny right now, since it's precisely the reasoning being used to destroy their holy sites and water supply in order to put in an oil pipeline whose function is to benefit the culture forced on them by WHITE people. I will give you plenty of time to find a single white GRAVE, much less a white graveyard or church, that has been deliberately desecrated in order to deny legal protections to it. I don't expect to hear a single source, because as far as I have been able to tell, there isn't one to be had. That's racist, and destructive, and hurtful to the native people, and NOT something to laugh at.

In other words, take your white privilege, folded until it is all sharp corners, and I'm sure you can tell where I'm going to tell you to stick it.

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Abstrusius
10/12/2016 07:26:27 pm

I bet there is a slot big enough in that time machine.

#BlackLivesMatter
10/15/2016 04:53:50 pm

Lots of words from whites about whites. Nothing behind the words. All designed to keep white privilege intact.

E.P. Grondine
10/12/2016 11:04:47 am

Hi TM -

"Again, this is kooky racism shoehorned into genuine racism."

In the case of Nazi Germany, theosophist "kooky" racism turned into real racism that led to the deaths of millions of people.
Perhaps a better way of putting it would be "all forms of racism are kooky"

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Bob Jase
10/12/2016 02:54:42 pm

The lost ancient white race may have been incredible geniuses but apparently they never invented writing or plastic as they left none behind.

They also must have been rotten teachers as they didn't pass their knowledge along.

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nomuse
10/13/2016 02:05:11 am

Funny how no-one seems to theorize that aliens built the Parthenon. I'd actually read that, you know. Would make a nice change.

Why stop there, though? I'm going to start my own claim that secret highly advanced Templar Vikings using Atlantean technology are the ones who actually built Westminster Abbey....

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Clint Knapp
10/13/2016 06:01:57 pm

Behold, Marshall Klarfield's monstrosity:

https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Alien-Technology-Superior-Architects-ebook/dp/B00KMDPIZC/ref=la_B00KN1UFLA_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476396014&sr=1-1

Just one in at least four books in which Klarfield, a regular Coast to Coast AM guest, rambles on and on about how aliens built pretty much everything in the ancient world - Parthenon included.

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Geoffrey Sea
10/13/2016 06:48:20 pm

Just what we need here in southern Ohio. Please send him my name as a tour guide. I'm sure I can come up with some giant frogs in the holding pond of the local nuclear facility.

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Dan link
10/16/2016 10:31:49 am

Once again, some racist is convinced that we " red savages" could not have possibly been mound builders, metal workers, or smart enough to have a civilized society. No, we were gifted those things by benevolent Caucasians,or aliens from another world. He insults me and my ancestors.

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Normandie Kent
12/17/2016 11:43:19 pm

Oh they do know the Native Americans were smart enough , it just suits them better to dispossess them of their history and accomplishments altogether, so they they could feel better about dispossessing them from their lands and their lives. It's called Colonialist archeaology.

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Raphael link
10/19/2016 09:35:13 am

Graham Hancock suffers from a cognitive bias and he is what I would call an author who is incognito a 'sheeple herder'.
His cognitive bias is shared by an entire flock of believers that have been reduced to the chant 'we the sheeple'.

I meet Graham in Toronto [after bugging him on faKebook] during his Magician of the Gods tour, introduced myself from faKebook, shook his hand, gave him a swastika incense burner + incense as a gift, later had him sign two books that can be used to indict him, one he authored, The Sign And The Seal which was his coming out in 1992, and the other book was The Temple Of Man written by Rene Schwaller de Lubicz.

Why those two books, and the specific pages I had him sign?

Like I said, this evidence indicts Graham Hancock and along with the entire body of work that would follow from 1992 - 2016.
Sadly his journey since 1992 has been in promotion of a theory, but his theory is missing ONE vital piece of evidence called the TEACHER to help illuminate and give insights to our past.

I had no idea at the time when I had Graham sign these two books how ME+me higher self was setting Mr. Graham Hancock up for his eventual fall.

Graham and the TEACHER went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water ... [to put out the fire?]
Graham was pushed down broke his crown ...
And the TEACHER's lesson soon came tumbling after

The 'point' that I am trying to make is that esoterically in the Golden Dawn version of the Tree of Life found in the Qabalah, the seiferot Kether is associated with the 'point' [no dimensions] and with the crown and to the swastika representing that first stirring or point of MOTION defined by a sine/square wave, a departure from REST representing 'nothing'

Something from nothing looks like a 'waveform' or 'serpent'.

Crown of thorns is thus a lesson covered by the TEACHER?
What about a halo?
Hello, maybe it is time that we should ask the TEACHER for a clarification on these eternal ideas that will not go away?

selah v

137 RS SSS Mezine Mystic

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