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Graham Hancock's "Mysterious Universe" Pity Party

10/9/2015

33 Comments

 
Graham Hancock appeared on the Mysterious Universe podcast today (S14E15, October 9, 2015) to discuss his new book Magicians of the Gods, but in so doing he spent far more time on a subject apparently much more dear to him: himself. Hancock is feeling sorry that his wildly profitable books have only earned him millions of dollars, the opportunity to travel the world, and a gigantic mansion because “academics” just don’t like him. “We all want to be liked,” Hancock said in explaining why he is so deeply hurt by attacks on his work.
Hancock, who speaks somewhat faster in this interview than his sage-like pronouncements on television, began by saying he had no interest in returning to the question of prehistory and lost civilizations because of the vast amount of “insult” and stress caused by battling academia. “With every book, I had to brace myself for the ugly and threatening psychic attack that would follow” from archaeologists “and their buddies in the media.” He calls it a “blast of hatred and vilification.” Hancock claims that there is a universal academic instinct to destroy anyone who dissents from orthodoxy. “It take a bit of backbone to put up with years and years of continuous attacks,” Hancock said. Hancock says he prefers writing novels because he doesn’t have to cite sources and doesn’t have to worry about “academics” attacking him. He is particularly upset about “professional academics who call themselves archaeologists,” because he feels that the title of “archaeologist” ascribes to them too much authority.
 
Hancock claims that “very few of my critics have ever read my books,” and therefore he feels that academic arguments and media criticism of him are invalid due to a lack of familiarity with his work. (Fortunately, I have read his books and therefore can sign on to Hancock’s caricature of his critics as calling his work “a crock of shit.”) Hancock claims that the British press tried to paint him as a believer in angels and aliens to discredit him—right before he told the MU hosts that he does speculate that ancient aliens may have existed! (He thinks aliens had nothing to do with megalithic architecture so they are “not relevant.”) And we know from his 2005 book Supernatural that he thinks he’s been in touch with godlike beings from another realm, which one might reasonably liken to angels. Somehow these points, which he conceded, are inappropriate to mention when they reflect poorly on his perceived credibility.
 
Hancock also seems unaware of the fact that those who disagree with him refer to his life story, particularly his drug use and claims to have battled demons in another dimension while on drugs, because Hancock himself has made them an essential part of his narrative and his claims. He has admitted, for example, that his use of marijuana while writing Fingerprints of the Gods made him paranoid to the point that it affected his judgment. While today he would like us to see his drug-aided exploration of consciousness as separate from his archaeological speculation, the two are inherently connected because he asserts that access to other dimensions helped kick off the prehistoric religions that allegedly inspired the lost civilization’s work. More to the point, if we follow the conclusions of David Lewis-Williams, the lost civilization itself might be an unnecessary hypothesis if Hancock’s claims about altered states of consciousness were true.
 
Aside from his pity party, Hancock went on to complain that academics are hiding things, specifically he doubts that Göbekli Tepe could have been built around 9,500 BCE by Stone Age people who invented agriculture. He feels that archaeologists are asking us to accept that the people of that area invented monumental architecture “overnight.” He calls this a “fairy tale” and says that the better explanation is that people from Atlantis taught the Anatolians how to carve rocks and plant crops several thousand years after the loss of their civilization. Where were they hiding between 10,500 BCE and 9,500 BCE? Who knows? I’m not sure why it is more logical to argue for a secret preservation of architectural knowledge for a thousand years but not for the development of architecture skills over that same period.
 
Hancock further states that the same process occurred in Egypt, where Atlantis built the Sphinx, the Sphinx Temple, and the Subterranean Chamber of the Great Pyramid and then went into a holding pattern for anywhere from five to seven thousand years before “Egyptian civilization was switched on” by these twice lost Atlanteans, who chose to wait in some far-off location until around 2500 BCE when they gave the Egyptians a giant info-dump of impractical cultural detritus on astrology and building uselessly large piles of rocks. This is precisely the myth invented by Late Antique Christians and inherited by Muslims: that Egypt was once home to a fabulous advanced culture, that the Flood wiped them out, and that the survivors turned to ancient texts on astrology and architecture to reconstruct the lost work in historic times. It was a made-up lie then, and it still is today, even if we swap out “end of the Ice Age” for “Noah’s Flood.”
 
Hancock also came out as a full-fledged diffusionist, not just of prehistoric times but also modern ones, arguing that ancient peoples were forever traveling around the world and remained in contact across the globe down to the time before Columbus. Thus, Bronze Age, Classical, and medieval civilizations were always in touch with each other. He probably didn’t think that through all the way, since if this were the case it would undercut his argument that cultural similarities across time and space could only be due to a lost civilization.
 
Hancock called for an end to government spending on weapons of mass destruction (which he wrongly estimates to cost “trillions” each year; the U.S., for example, did spend $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons, but over sixty years) and demanded that we turn our attention to focusing on astronomy, cosmology, and world peace. To that end, after the publicity tour for Magicians of the Gods he plans to remove himself from the “insults” and “attacks” of academics for the foreseeable future and will return to writing novels until more evidence for a lost civilization emerges. This, of course, means that he admits that he isn’t generating that new knowledge, however much the hosts try to credit him with “archaeological research.”
33 Comments
Herm
10/9/2015 02:52:29 pm

I don't like Hancock either but he is correct that hate blogs like this one incessantly make unfair and vicious attacks. Maybe the author of this hate blog should come up with something original rather than recycling the criticisms others previously wrote.

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Jason Colavito link
10/9/2015 02:57:35 pm

I wrote 10,000 words of original criticism in my review of his new book. You have stopped by to use a pejorative to insult me. Please do explain how my analysis is unoriginal. Also: If something is true, why would it be wrong to repeat it anyway?

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Clete
10/9/2015 03:30:24 pm

Herm, are you a moron? I have read all of the writing Jason has written about Graham Hancock. I don't remember, at any time, that he has attacked Graham Hancock on a personal level. He, as other critics have, attacked his lack of research, his use of other fringe writers as sources, his passing off as facts things that have not been proven or even verified and his conclusions. Graham Hancock needs to realize that as a writer and a public figure he will be subject to critics. It goes with the territory. If he cannot accept that, then he should cease writing and appearing on tripe such as Ancient Aliens.

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JW
10/10/2015 11:18:23 pm

"Are you a moron?"

Just provedt. Herm's point.

Pacal
10/15/2015 10:31:02 pm

JW, and just what does Herm referring to Jason's blog has a "hate blog" prove?

Only Me
10/9/2015 08:12:59 pm

Maybe people like Herm, who visit this blog, should come up with something original, rather than recycling the lame accusations others previously wrote.

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V
10/10/2015 01:07:53 pm

I do not think you understand the words that you are using.

"Hate" is an intense and passionate dislike. This article may express some disappointment and even possibly some exasperation, but it's a pretty laid-back article. Perhaps, however, you do not understand that you don't have to hate someone to criticize them, which generally stems from a feeling that you must ignore everything bad about someone you like or you don't 'really' like them. If that's true, then I feel sorry for you.

"Unfair" is a word that means "not deserved" and "untrue." There is nothing in this article that is untrue, and Mr. Hancock has certainly brought this criticism on himself with his outrageous lies and his poor scholarship. His own words prove that this article is true in every particular.

"Vicious" in the sense that you're using it means "violent, savage, ferocious, and malicious." There is no malice in this article. There is no vitriol. There is no heat. A vicious attack would be something like, "Hancock is an imbecile who deserves to drop dead on the street. He's a lying bastard and every word he writes is full to the brim of half-rotten scavenger shit." Please note that this is an example of vicious sentiment, not an expression of that sentiment. Personally, I don't care about Hancock enough to bother with wishing him dead.

Hopefully these explanations have helped you to have the vocabulary of a high school student, something you seem to have missed out on. Sadly, some teachers seem to focus so much on grammar structure that they neglect the proper teaching of the vocabulary to fit into that grammar, which leaves their poor students in the position of having no idea what they're talking about, even if they can talk about it properly.

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Pacal
10/10/2015 05:27:51 pm

Using the term "hate" Herm is using agit-prop designed to inflame and create a certain psychological response it also serves to distract attention from the substantive issues in Jason's post.

As for this:

"Personally, I don't care about Hancock enough to bother with wishing him dead."

I award you many internets.

JW
10/10/2015 11:19:14 pm

Snobbish derision. Herm's point proven again.

Shane Sullivan
10/11/2015 12:00:17 am

Just a reminder to anybody who may be using multiple screen names to appear to be more than one person: The administrator (Jason) can see what IP address the posts are coming from.

A.D
10/9/2015 04:18:00 pm

Hancock is another con artist snake oil salesman who's in love with himself.

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Herman
10/9/2015 04:23:57 pm

A.D. You mean Colavito not Hardrock. Typo.

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Scott Hamilton
10/9/2015 06:07:25 pm

Heh. This would have been the most ironically stupid comment I've seen posted on the Internet on almost any given day, but it got edged out by the clown show going on over at the official FFG forums for Warhammer 40K: Conquest, where the guy who won nationals was caught cheating in the finals via video, created a sock puppet to defend himself, then forgot which account he was using and posted a statement from his real identity on the sock puppet account. But a valiant effort, nonetheless.

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Herman
10/9/2015 07:11:35 pm

Scott: thanking you for the kind thoughts. It make me know I successes.

igor
10/9/2015 07:49:01 pm

Herman is actually Hancock on weed :)

Only Me
10/9/2015 08:18:02 pm

>>>It make me know I successes.<<<

Great reply, Herman. I'd rate it at 22 chromosomes.

Herman
10/9/2015 08:30:36 pm

Thank you two Only Me for kind word. You name odd.

Clint Knapp
10/9/2015 05:39:51 pm

I won't be listening to Mysterious Universe any time soon, but the general tone of the episode sounds like a slightly less painful version of Michael Cremo's appearance on Richard C. Hoagland's "The Other Side of Midnight" Tuesday night.

Cremo wasted the entire first hour rambling in classically-droning Cremo style about ephemeral concepts of disliking the entire university paradigm (fostered after dropping out of college. Imagine that), how "some" people find wisdom traditions an easier path to learning, and giving detailed descriptions of his own failed attempts at higher learning. At one point, he even got up, left the phone entirely for a few minutes, and rummaged around his bookshelf for someone's contact information, and wandered back having entirely missed Hoagland's own opining and question about Forbidden Archaeology.

It was, simply, the worst show Hoagland's done yet. They're all bad in their own self-serving way, but for once I actually felt bad for Hoagland as he struggled to keep Cremo on topic or to get even the most basic question in.

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Dave Lewis
10/13/2015 06:22:42 pm

C2CAm on Saturday had a guy named Patrick Fox Chouinard who claimed to have written several books on giants, etc. He couldn't speak more than one sentence on anything. It was really embarrassing.

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Scott Hamilton
10/9/2015 06:11:26 pm

I was planning on listening to the MU episode, but listening to a millionaire self-pity himself is not high on my list of things to do. So does Hancock ever explain how he knows the exact politics of the lost civilization? I mean that they're in sync with universe and hate weapons, etc. I'm trying to figure out where he's getting that, short of drug use.

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Herman
10/9/2015 08:34:54 pm

Thanks for good comments in hate blog. Me bed time now. By.

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David Bradbury
10/10/2015 03:23:52 am

Hello

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Dr. John Ward- Templar Extraordinaire
10/10/2015 09:40:42 am

He whines almost as much as my mate Scotty Roberts.

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Pacal
10/10/2015 10:05:08 am

Hancock is well on the way to becoming the New Velikovsky. He has duplicated to perfection both Velikovsky's vast ego and his persecution complex and masses of self pity.

Velikovsky liked to talk endlessly about how persecuted he was and how unfair all the criticism was etc.,. Now it can be argued that Velikovsky was in fact treated unfairly and this has been used has a wedge for people to talk about the evils of "big science" and to champion Velikovsky because of this unfair treatment. Thus Velikovsky had a legion of supporters who championed this "persecuted" "scientist". Of course whatever the failings of the critics the bottom line is that Velikovsky's ideas are bogus. In fact the clearest indication of Velikovsky's spouting of rubbish is his Cosmos Without Gravitation, which shows such an incredible ignorance of basic physics has to risible. Velikovsky tried to get rid of basic physics to make his planetary collisions more probable.

Velikovsky ended selling millions of copies of his books, becoming famous and getting all sorts of people to defend him for being a visionary and being "persecuted", along with a group of devoted disciples. "Persecution" was rarely so beneficial to the "persecuted".

A lot of the above is happening to Hancock as he is rich and famous and attracts the devotion of a group of acolytes who wait upon his every word. Hancock is indeed the new Velikovsky.

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/10/2015 12:59:22 pm

Well, at least Hancock hasn't tried to undo the laws of physics. To my knowledge, anyway.

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JW
10/10/2015 11:53:20 pm

"Hancock claims that the British press tried to paint him as a believer in angels and aliens to discredit him—right before he told the MU hosts that he does speculate that ancient aliens may have existed!"

Well, if the papers say he really believes, but he is merely speculating, he has a legitimate complaint about being misrepresented.

"He has admitted, for example, that his use of marijuana while writing Fingerprints of the Gods made him paranoid to the point that it affected his judgment."

If I was caning the bong for 29 years I'd be seeing pyramids in my cornflakes let alone on Mars, but that's not the same thing as paranoia. Paranoia wouldn't be a problem for research, you'd just be jumpy about things.

Plus, if he had a big marijuana problem, you're basically mocking the mentally ill. That only carries so far before it looks as tasteful as mocking disabled people.

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JW
10/11/2015 12:16:09 am

Anyway I like this blog because I want to see the legit criticism, it's alright.

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Only Me
10/11/2015 05:42:11 am

It's too bad your idea of legit criticism is subjective.

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DaveR
10/12/2015 07:58:20 am

Hancock's books have no basis in fact. He posits "theories" and "speculates" on things, but offers no evidence to back up his claims. When people who have spent many years conducting real research call him on this, he shouts about personal attacks and how academics are using their positions to suppress his work. I'm sure they'll be happy if he just sits in his mansion drying his crocodile tears with $100 bills.

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11/18/2015 06:27:32 pm

If you say he doesn’t present evidence, you haven’t read his books. I’m no advocate for or against any ancient-civ theories (I’ve read a couple of Hancock’s books to harvest place names and ideas for an oddball sci-fi screenplay, which is the extent of my investment in all this), but I do take offense when someone is wrong on the internet.

Case in point: I’m only about a quarter of the way into the new “Magicians…” book, and I’ve already opted to skim probably 50 pages because of all the boring stats, geological records, etc. (again, I’m only in it for wild-sounding ideas to steal and blow out of proportion ). I’m no expert in this field, and perhaps all the data and evidence that he cites is shaky/questionable/bunk; but I am an expert in reading, and to say that he presents no data to back up his claims is patently false. I get bored and skip half of it because there’s so much.

I also agree with those who say that the tone of this entire blog entry is snide and dismissive. It seems pretty obvious at first blush that the interviewer came to the interview with bias, and, just like the academics that Hancock is frustrated with, has hand-selected bits of Graham’s personal history to make him look as bad as possible and discredit him (emulating Donald Trump’s debate style…).

Given the degree to which the comments here are peppered with clearly resentful references to the amount of money that Hancock has made over the years, I would also toss an “ad-hominem-ish penalty flag” on the field for most of the commenters here. I hear this a lot from Bukowski haters amongst literature academics – they clearly resent that someone who didn’t have an MFA made a lot of money selling poetry, and immediately dismiss the entirety of his work as unsophisticated drivel (which much of it is, but he does have a handful of gems, which no one in academia will ever read or comment on because they’re blinded by their resentment).

What I’m getting at is: I’ve seen and heard plenty of academics dismiss Hancock’s conclusions offhand, but I’ve never seen or heard any of them address/refute the detailed evidence directly (many, like you, don’t even admit that he presents any evidence in the first place). Maybe his evidence is wrong, but a layman like myself would never know, because academics will never take the time to offer line-by-line rebuttals. They just see someone who doesn’t have the right degree making money in their kitchen, and they see red. So it seems.

Like it or not, if Hancock’s ideas and research are all wrong, someone will need to calmly, *academically* go line by line and address them (which will need to start with acknowledging that there are “lines” to address in the first place). Otherwise his ideas will continue to spread. If he’s wrong, he won’t go away by being dismissed.

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JW
10/12/2015 01:56:18 pm

Why not just write a refutation book, call it Facts of the Gods or some such, have it displayed next to Mr Hancock's stuff, and allow a bit of the gravy to splash your way ?

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3/11/2016 08:43:00 am

I'm a tad late to the party (just listened to the MU episode), and I think a few things are patently obvious with this (quite snide) blog post.

1. Hancock spends a BIT of time (it's measured in minutes Jason, not longer, try not for hyperbole) speaking on the fact that he was LEERY of returning to the Lost Civ arena due to the hate he got. And hate IS the right word. Lots of people out there aren't happy to just refute his claims, but go on personal attacks. It's NOT a pity party at all. It's basically him explaining the way he found himself returning to the Lost Civ book mileu (he's been happily writing fiction now since 2003). To say that he was seeking any kind of pity makes me think you were predisposed to see that. I'd not even heard of the guy before this, and he just seemed geniunely bummed out at narrow-mindedness amongst some of academia.

2. I'll reiterate what others have said, he backs up his theories in the book with MASS amounts of data and research. Anyone who claims that he hasn't done this, is either lying that they read the book, or they are really so narrow-minded that even entertaining the thought of alternate theories to ancient history is abhorrent to them.

3. I hate to be that guy, but historians posit stuff all the time and a lot of the time they ARE wrong, and have been corrected. Look at Stonehenge. Originally deemed (by historians) as some kind of Druidic/celtic design, then deemed a little older, and then more recently found to be multiple THOUSANDS of years older, and then they found Wood Henge, and then they linked them, and then long after that they began to dig AROUND the henge and found the pre-iron age civ that likely created it. We are literally talking about a period of 50 years in which so many theories were deemed the truth and accurate by historians and archaeologists and then had to be thrown out as completely wrong...that when the same archaeologists and historians just out and out reject things put forth by someone suggesting a different path, I'm baffled.

4. Look at Gobekli Tepe. Prior to its discovery the worlds leading historians and archaeologists SWORE that during the era in which this place would have been built only hunter gatherer tribes of early humans would have existed. So while I'm not saying that Gobekli Tepe is linked to the Lost Civ (as Hancock posits), I AM saying that it's REALLY stupid to think that the mainstream academics of the planet can nail down everything that happened in our past with certainty....when they can actually eff up the worlds oldest monolithic, building civilization by some 6,000 years. Right? I mean why is it considered SO abhorrent to look at the fact that maybe, just maybe there are things we don't know yet. Historians answer to Goblekli Tepe is as REACHING as what they claim Hancock is doing. They jump through all kinds of hoops to try to force Goblekli Tepe into their narrative...and it doesn't fit. And they can't accept that, so they get ragey. It's hilarious. Again, not saying he's right, but the academic attempt to fit this narrative is as out there as his is. And when you come down on the other side without actual proof, aren't you doing exactly what you accuse him of?

Anyways. Jason, maybe spend a little less time online complaining about the things others do, and a little more time focused on what you want to achieve in life. Because this entire blog post really does read with an almost jealousy (I can't come up with a better word for it, sorry). The guy obviously pushes your buttons...but spending whole blog posts railing at him? I mean is that a constructive use of time when you REALLY could just ignore him and follow your own narrative? When you pen things like this you REALLY do prove his point though. Instead of ignoring what he does with his life and work, you spend a blog post tearing him down. It's weird, I'm happy to entertain a review of his book (as you apparently did) as a critique...but this post right here is full-on schadenfreude. I wonder if you desire to be on MU? It's really weird.

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Patrick Chouinard link
3/26/2018 03:24:27 pm

Mr. Lewis:

I suffered from a low blood sugar attack and was in the ER within 20 min of the broadcast. Haven't you ever been ill? You obviously have no knowledge of my books or career. Sadly i mention and quoted you in my first book Forgotten Worlds. Youre a total idiot.

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