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L. A. Marzulli and Graham Hancock Talk Spirituality, Anger at Mainstream Scholars on Jimmy Church Radio Show

10/9/2014

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Last night Scott Wolter appeared on Jimmy Church’s Fade to Black radio show for a three hour discussion I have not heard since the episode isn’t up online. I expect it will be posted sometime in the next day or so. The Wolter interview caps a week of Church’s conversations with heavyweights (Oct. 6-8 episodes) in the world of fringe history. On Monday he interviewed Nephilim theorist L. A. Marzulli, and on Tuesday he devoted three hours to speaking with Graham Hancock. 
I’ll be honest with you: I couldn’t stand listening to the L. A. Marzulli interview for a multiplicity of reasons, but primarily for two: (a) The Nephilim-Giants are among the most boring of all fringe history mysteries, and (b) Marzulli’s approach, rooted in Biblical inerrancy, leaves no room for investigation in any real sense—he merely asserts that because the Bible is inerrant, the Giants therefore existed. End of story.

“Dariwinism sets up an intellectual vacuum. Where did we come from?” asks either Marzulli or his filmmaking partner, Rick Shaw. I think it was Marzulli speaking, but either way the point is that the Giants are of interest not for their existence but for their propaganda value in promoting a fundamentalist Christian worldview.

Marzulli tells Church that the Anunnaki and the Nephilim are “the same,” so it looks like the Nephilim researchers and ancient astronaut theorists have even more in common than they pretend, especially when we remember that the Anunnaki in Mesopotamian myth are nothing like the elaborate Watchers-Nephilim myth except in Zecharia Sitchin’s version. In Mesopotamian texts, the Anunnaki are anonymous gods of heaven and hell, whose do pretty much nothing. In the Enuma Elish they build the temples of Babylon out of mud bricks and then whine about it before the creation of humanity, and in the Descent of Inanna they pass judgment on the dead goddess. This isn’t really very similar to anything in the Biblical or Enochian narrative. Marzulli accepts the ancient astronaut theorists’ wrong identification of the anonymous Anunnaki with images of the winged demon-griffin of Babylonian art and therefore concludes that the “Anunnaki” are “the Fallen.” He also accepts Sitchin’s wrong identification of the Anunnaki with the Mesopotamian pantheon in general, calling them all the Fallen, in keeping with the ancient Christian idea that the pagan gods were demons (1 Corinthians 10:20; Augustine, City of God 7.33; etc.).

“What’s funny,” Marzulli (I think) says, “is that people like Zecharia Sitchin and the whole Ancient Alien (sic) crowd, looks at the Anunnaki and that’s what they, they’ll say this is far older than the Biblical narrative. But what they don’t understand is no, it’s not. It’s just that the Biblical narrative kicks off with Moses’ writings and then goes back. The Anunnaki, I believe, are basically another name [for] the Fallen Angelic Host, came down, and did what they did.” Marzulli attacks Sitchin and then endorses the Book of Enoch as a great guide to understanding the “real” prehistory of the earth even though Enoch’s claim that God killed all the Giants in the Flood and left them only as disembodied spirits (15:10-12) directly contradicts Marzulli’s belief that Giants were still alive “after” the Flood (Genesis 6:4), as recently as the Middle Ages. The Book of Jubilees similarly describes that these disembodied Nephilim exist only as spirits, their bodies having perished in the Flood (7:21-25).

Marzulli asserts that Moses wrote Genesis with his own hand “hundreds of years after the Flood,” following Deuteronomy 31:24-26 and ancient tradition (e.g. Mishnah, Sanhedrin 11:1). So how then did Moses know of events from hundreds of years before his time? God. It’s a wonderful out for any difficult question. God just wanted it that way.

When challenged by Church to explain how Fallen Angels coming down and teaching humans was really any different from Sitchin’s aliens coming down and teaching humans (slightly misunderstood—Sitchin argued that they created humans), Marzulli couldn’t really say how there was a difference except in whether you view the beings as angels or aliens, the latter of which he calls a “twisted mythos” that we know is wrong because (and I wish I was making this up), it lacks divine prophecy that would prove that the story was dictated from “outside space and time” by God Himself.

By contrast, Graham Hancock was more interested in talking about parallel universes and spirit beings who are not necessarily Fallen Angels but rather general interest otherworldly beings in a quasi-pagan, semi-animist view of shamanic transcendence. Hancock suggests that there is a spiritual force beyond our consciousness that is lying in wait to judge us after we die, “and therefore you have to be very careful” about how you live your life. It is somewhat surprising, though, that the bogeyman at whose windmills both Marzulli and Hancock tilt is Richard Dawkins, whom both condemn for being an atheist and a materialist in the face of what they see as overwhelming evidence for their (contradictory) views of the supernatural. This is doubly strange, first because it exposes the fact that neither is truly interested in ancient history or culture except as a wedge to lead audiences to a rejection of materialism (Dawkins is not an archaeologist), and second because Dawkins accidentally endorsed the idea of godlike ancient astronauts a few years ago!

Hancock asserts that Dawkins will have a “shocking experience” after death, and he demands to know what “experiments” Dawkins has run to prove that the afterlife doesn’t exist, in opposition to claims of near-death experience survivors, whose anecdotal reports Hancock pluralizes as data.

Church bashes Dawkins for marketing himself as a brand rather than conducting real research, and the irony becomes so thick that it threatens to suffocate the show. Each of Church’s guests markets himself as a brand, but no one seems to notice this. “He’s a huge industry,” Hancock says, adding that his “guru-dom” is meant to “persuade people” that there is no life after death. Church adds that Dawkins is a cult leader who uses no facts to support his diktats.

Hancock discusses his view of the ancient astronaut theory and ufology, and that “other entities” or “other intelligences” can be accessed more readily through hallucinogenic drugs that would allow us to enter “parallel” realms where our brainwaves can contact extraterrestrials that might not otherwise be able to cross the vast gulfs of interstellar space. I am not sure I understand how extraterrestrials would exist simultaneously in our universe and in a parallel universe for us to meet up. Is this sort of like cyberspace on a cosmic level? “This to me is a promising avenue for future scientific research,” he said. Later, he expressed amazement that some of these entities had the form of animals yet could speak intelligently—almost like they were figments of his own imagination!

Hancock further states his agreement with Ancient Aliens that humans do not generate their own ideas. He suggests that ideas instead come from (a) the non-Theosophical equivalent of the Akashic Record, a universal bank of knowledge; (b) the computing power of all sentient beings who in turn share a single super-consciousness, parts of which are channeled by our brains; or (c) past lives. “How much more interesting it would be to have many incarnations, as many ancient traditions maintain,” Hancock said.

All the quasi-spiritual talk bored me, not least because Hancock doesn’t recognize his own budding “guru-dom” as part of his rebranding as a warrior for the New Age.

Hancock asserts that a comet broke up and hit North America, ending the Ice Age almost instantly 13,000 years ago. This claim emerged a few years ago, but more recent research from David Meltzer earlier this year demonstrated that the comet theory—famously proposed by Ignatius Donnelly in his Ragnarok as an explanation for Atlantis and the Flood—is false. But interestingly, in adopting Donnelly’s claims, Hancock finally concedes that Fingerprints of the Gods was really about Atlantis by using the A-word to describe his lost civilization, something he once studiously avoided in an effort to be taken seriously. Today he calls his proposal “a lost civilization—Atlantis by any other name.” He says that the comet is the “smoking gun” that proves how the cataclysm that destroyed “that civilization” occurred. Hancock expresses an uncertain understanding of plate tectonics in asserting that the mid-Atlantic ridge might once have been Atlantis when North America was “pressed down” by ice, so the rising of North America after the melting of the ice led to the sinking of Atlantis, which Hancock cites to Plato, taking his account as truthful.

Hancock then mangles his Plato, falsely asserting that Plato said that the destruction of Atlantis caused humanity to have to “begin again like children” who remember nothing of the past. He is misremembering what the fictitious Egyptian priest supposedly told Solon in reference to the Egyptian records:
Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves. (trans. Benjamin Jowett)
Pointedly, the Egyptian priest meant that the Egyptians have never had to begin again and were never affected by deluges, natural disasters, or plagues, the sorts of things that stymie lesser peoples. Plato says nothing about the drowning of Atlantis having any impact on the rest of the world.

Hancock then endorses the zany ideas of Randall Carlson, whom he calls “one of the great unsung geniuses” of our time and a man who sees much of history as a reaction to meteor and comet strikes, like Immanuel Velikovsky but without all the hurtling planets. As I wrote in comments on an earlier blog post, “He’s a ‘geomythologist’ who was on the Joe Rogan Experience, apparently, and sells website subscriptions and ‘courses’ to his ‘students.’ He spent some cash on his website, though. The graphics look professionally designed c. 2008, with all the gradients, but, man, the writing is terrible. I read his post on the Holy Grail as a stone from heaven, and it was nearly incoherent, not to mention missing the most important source for identifying the Grail as a meteor: Der Wartburgkrieg 143, which I translated into English for my forthcoming book” on ancient texts used by fringe writers. The poem, often wrongly attributed to Wolfram von Eschenbach, who is actually a character in it, claims that a stone fell from Lucifer’s crown during his rebellion against God, and this stone became the Grail. 


This was six hours of my life I will never get back. And soon I can add three hours of Wolter to the deficit!
29 Comments
EP
10/9/2014 07:19:03 am

Jason, Hancock's interview "is to be listened to more than once"! Quit slacking off! :P

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Scott Hamilton
10/9/2014 08:20:28 am

When Graham Hancock first began claiming his drug-addled hallucinations were scientific evidence for the afterlife, I thought he was straight up joking. I guess it would pointless to try to engage him on what he means by "scientific," and what evidence he would accept that would disprove his theories (the backbone of all scientific inquiry).

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Shane Sullivan
10/9/2014 08:37:08 am

Actually, that quote from Timaeus offers an interesting, albeit coincidental, description of the collapse of Bronze Age Greece.

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Jason Colavito link
10/9/2014 08:56:35 am

The Greeks had some awareness of the Bronze Age collapse and recognized that there had once been early writing (Linear B) that could no longer be read, so it might well reflect this awareness of the end of what they called the Heroic Age.

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Kal
10/9/2014 09:17:01 am

Wasn't Goliath a giant and David killed him with a rock slingshot in the Bible? Then there was at least one giant still around. Or was it that David was just a very short young man, and Goliath was just 7 feet tall? Some say he was 9 feet tall. I bet he was closer to 7 and David was also short, maybe 5 feet tall. So there was at least one giant left. Also there are very tall people today and they're considered giants. Do these older stories claim that the giants were much, much taller? No real evidence exists for giants taller than 8 feet something. I tend to thin that ancient people found mastodon or horse bones and mistook them for people bones, a leg here, an arm there, and said wow, a giant, it must have been 8 feet tall.

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EP
10/9/2014 09:24:30 am

Goliath was a "Little" Giant :)

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Jason Colavito link
10/9/2014 11:24:03 am

The Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, and some Septuagint manuscripts give Goliath's height as 6'9", but this was later edited to 9'9" in the Bible as we have it now.

But the larger issue is what is meant by "giants." The "giants" that died in the Flood were the Nephilim, which Enoch says were cannibal berserkers. These weren't the only giants that ever lived in the Biblical view, but their line died out with the Flood, if we read Genesis literally. That few non-theologians actually read it that way is clear from Eupolemus, the early Jewish historian (or someone writing under his name) who recorded that the Nephilim which survived the Flood built Babylon (Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 9.17), a clear application of the extra-Biblical Nephilim myth to Babylonian mythology, and a rare instance where the Nephilim actually were equated with the Anunnaki who built the city in the Enuma Elish!

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/9/2014 11:47:53 am

Sorry if I'm asking a question you've answered in previous posts, but how does the presence of Nephilim in Numbers 13:32–33 jibe with their implied destruction in Genesis?

EP
10/9/2014 12:22:38 pm

It doesn't. Unless you remember that we have to guess which mention (if any) is meant to be literally descriptive.

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/9/2014 12:37:46 pm

Fair point, but I was thinking of how various commentators have interpreted those passages. Jason mentioned in his "Who Were the Nephilim?" post that Simeon bar Yochai supposedly endorsed one interpretation of the Genesis passage and cursed all other interpretations. Has one interpretation of the Numbers passage become mainstream in Jewish tradition like that? Have any fringe figures, or non-Jewish pre-modern writers, tried to explain the discrepancy in the course of their speculations? Like I said, Jason may have answered some of these questions before, but the Nephilim/Watchers/flood traditions are so numerous and confusing, I can't remember, or easily look it up again.

Jason Colavito link
10/9/2014 12:47:37 pm

It's a great question. Some take them to be the same, thus proving some Nephilim survived the Flood, though this contradicts God's claim that "Everything on earth will perish" in the Flood save the Ark (Gen. 6:17) and makes a liar of Him. Others argue that these are new sons of angels spawned after the Flood, while still others prefer to claim that the two Nephilim groups are unrelated. Take your pick!

Dave Lewis
10/9/2014 01:37:29 pm

Your question is addressed here:

http://www.jewishanswers.org/ask-the-rabbi-category/jewish-history/page/10/?p=919

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/9/2014 01:58:14 pm

Thanks.

Mark E.
10/9/2014 02:40:22 pm

The interpretation that stuck in my head of how Nephilim is used in Numbers is that it was a descriptive term (men of great physical stature that were like Nephilim) instead of referring to actual Nephilim. The context is a false report by spies that that were using exaggeration to cover up their cowardice.

EP
10/9/2014 02:47:25 pm

Genesis, on the other hand, is unclear about which of the giants, the sons of God, and the heroes of old are one and the same.

Hanoch link
10/9/2014 07:07:42 pm

b"h

First Jason, I have to say that your site is a nice filter for me. I appreciate your investment in these questions.

By the way, if you download interview files in MP3 and open them in Windows Media Player, you can right click around and find an option to speed up replay. I sometimes replay at x2 speed, but you do have to concentrate a bit more - x1.5 speed is usually easy to listen to and you don't waste as much time.

Here is an article on Jewish views of Fallen Angels. It's a hundred years old, but generally speaking, nothing has changed in today's views.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11442-nephilim

It seems to me that the question of Nephilim after the Flood is open. Evidently the biblical narrative supposes that most of the Sons of God (angelic beings IMHO) that had decided to co-habit with human women did so before the Flood and thus most of the Nephilim offspring were destroyed in the Flood. But it appears the biblical narrative assumes that some angelic beings who'd not co-habited before the Flood decided to do so after the Flood. Thus there would be yet a further generation of Nephilim, such as Goliath, though doubtless in a far more limited population size than prior to the Flood. Nevertheless, even after the Flood these beings were clearly identified in the biblical narrative, in contrast to modern Nephilim hunters, who throw modern scientific chimeras into the mix.

Genesis 6
הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם
וְגַם אַחֲרֵי כֵן
אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם
וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם
הֵמָּה הַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם:

οἱ δὲ γίγαντες ἦσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις·
καὶ μετ᾿ ἐκεῖνο,
ὡς ἂν εἰσεπορεύοντο οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ πρὸς τὰς θυγατέρας τῶν ἀνθρώπων,
καὶ ἐγεννῶσαν ἑαυτοῖς·
ἐκεῖνοι ἦσαν οἱ γίγαντες οἱ ἀπ᾿ αἰῶνος, οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ὀνομαστοί.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days,
and also afterward,
when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man
and they bore children to them.
These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
(Genesis 6:4 ESV)

Numbers 13
וְשָׁם רָאִינוּ אֶת הַנְּפִילִים
בְּנֵי עֲנָק
מִן הַנְּפִלִים
וַנְּהִי בְעֵינֵינוּ כַּחֲגָבִים
וְכֵן הָיִינוּ בְּעֵינֵיהֶם

καὶ ἐκεῖ ἑωρ&#

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EP
10/10/2014 11:29:54 am

T͏͉̮̭̯o̫͟ ͍̼͍͉͇ị͔̭̦̩͝n͈̝̬v̡̞͖̯̝o͉̪͍̜̦̲͡k̮e̛̹̜ͅͅ ͈ṭ̝͈̗̦̕h̟̺̳e̴̙̺̱̙ ͈͚̺h̛̗̘̱̦͇͔͇i͙̺̖͡v͚̮e̤͜-̵m͎͔̠̙͕̺͇͠i̛̥̻̳ṋ̙̙̤d̷̻͎̙ ̘͍̀r̹e̤̱̼p͘r̲͈̱͚̮̜e̜̪͕̹̞s̩̳͉̜̬̠e͔͙̫n̗̗̟̬͕͖t̩̹̫i̸̼̮̗̩ͅǹg͉͢ ̴̱̫̥̗ć̻̺̤̥̖h̖a̧͉̩̹̩̦̟o͚̠̘̠͉s̠.͍͎ͅ
͘I̙͝n̸̻v̱̤͉͔̥o̯k̪̮i̮̪̱̻͔n͔̲̭̹͞g̥̫͕̤͇͈͡ ̛̠̼̼t͇͉̪̳h̶͇̹e͎͉̥͍͔̪ ̩̫f̷e̠͞e̤͈̮̪͕̦̠l҉̥̘̻in͎̠͉̣͉͜g̺ ̺o͓̠͕͔f̰̺̳̦ ̮̣͇̺͕̳͇c̣̣̗̝̖̠̤͡h̘͈̦͇̀a̖̮͓͠o̦͈̻s̞͉̦.͉̭̣̣̯̀
̤W̸̰̺i̵̻͓̠t̥̫̭͔̲̥h͙͝ͅ ̹͎̯̘̤͕̰o̴̝̱u͔̗͇̠̯͇͢t̼ o̘͕rͅd̬̣̼͉͇͟é͈̮̟ṟ̶̙̼̯̪̹̘.͡
͠T̴̺̠̮̣̳͖h̛̼̳̦̘̭̳e̮͍̥̭̳̻ͅ ̭N̬̙̖͠e̴̹̠͎z͏̲̭̪̞̝p͍̭e̸̘̖̙̭̲̟̱r̬͈̺͙̩̝̲ḍ̛͚̭͙̫̮̱ì̞͚̱̫̬a̷͓n̸̖̬̟̥͚̫ ̢̩̺̳̹͇̞h͖͓̠͈i̛͔̰͙̦v̥̝̫̙̣e̸͈̘̜͔̤-̱̦̖̳͙̪m̙͝i̸͇͓n͙d̸̲̠͇͕ ̖̖͚̟̯̮o̖͡f̕ ̙c̲̦̩̱h̬͈̤̭̮͙̺a̮͕o͖͎͖̥s͙̗̞̜̰.̻͉̩͉̘͢ ̴Z̥͚̳͕̳a͚̼̫̜͈̠l͇̱̣̬̟̱̥̕ǵ̠̳͉̯̹̮̹ọ̖̘̠̖̭́.͍
̧̫̫̪H̫̲̜̭̪̣e̶ ̨̱̝w̳̻̱͖͍̙͟h̥̻̼̰͖̻͈o͓̘̠ ̯͚̼̣Ẃa̦̹̠̞͎͞i̤̟̼̪̮ț̭s̩̜̠ ̧̟̼̟B̫͖̠̝è͓̤h̗̱̹̟͘i̘̺̤n͉̥̜̰̙d̘̰ ̥͢T̛̳̮ͅͅh̴͈ẹ͈̟̗͡ ͇̱W̢̫͔͚͇ḁ̤l̢͇̠͔̖ḷ.͎̳̺͍͈͜
͍Ź̰̥̰̮A͕̮̗̺L͈͙̪͙G̶͈̭̖̩͎̩̣O͡!̴͖̘

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Pacal
10/10/2014 04:02:01 pm

In fairness to Hancock it should be mentioned that his conjecture that the destruction of Atlantis caused a world wide disaster is not just a perverse reading by him.

The great Classicalist F. M. Cornford in his book Plato's Cosmology, Kegan Paul, London, 1937, says much the same thing.

It is important to remember that Plato intended Timaeus and Critias to be parts 1 and 2 of a three part dialogue with the third called Hermocrates. Plato apparently stopped after completing a portion of the Critias and instead went on to work on and complete his last dialogue The Laws. Apparently the this last dialogue would have covered the re-emergence of civilization in Greece after the destruction of Atlantis.

In fact Cornford says in his book that after the Atlantis tale that Hermocrates - "taking up the story at this point what could Hermocrates do, if not describe the re-emergence of culture in Greece of prehistoric and historic times?"

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EP
10/10/2014 04:15:28 pm

"It is important to remember that Plato intended Timaeus and Critias to be parts 1 and 2 of a three part dialogue with the third called Hermocrates."

This is not generally accepted by contemporary Plato scholars. In general, people nowadays tend to take any ancient testimony about Plato's intentions (on which Cornford's "Hermocrates" conjecture is based) with a huge grain of salt.

Besides, Cornford didn't endorse the story of Atlantis, regardless of his views about Plato's intentions. In fact, in a footnote in the book you mention he says:

"Serious scholars now agree that Atlantis probably owed its existence entirely to Plato's imagination."

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Pacal
10/11/2014 02:48:51 am

I agree that Cornford's speculation about what Hermocrates would talk about is debatable. However my main point was that Hancock's idea about Plato's Atlantis and its fall being a disaster that affected lots of other peoples is not his alone.

As for the dialogue Hermocrates well that does rely on ancient testimony. Plato in both dialogues Timaeus and Critias.

In Timaeus Socrates says explicitly that Timeaus, Critias and Hermocrates would give the sequel to it appears the dialogue known as the Republic.

Socrates says after mentioning Tmaeus, Critias and Hermocrates by name:

"I had this in mind yesterday when I agreed so readily to your request for an account of my ideal society: I knew that there was no one more fitted to provide the sequel to it than you - you are the only living people who could adequately describe my city fighting a war worthy of her. So when I had done what you asked of me, I set you the task I have just described. You8 agreed to put your heads together, and return my hospitality today; and here I am dressed in my best and looking forward to what I am about to receive." (Plato: Timaeus and Critias, Penguin Books, London, 1977, Timaeus (s. 20), p. 32.)

In the Critias we have Socrates saying:

"Of course we will, Critias; Hermocrates may assume that we will grant the same indulgence to him. For when it is his turn to speak, he will obviously make the same request as you have; so let him assume the request granted and proceed without feeling any needed of the same introduction, but rather produce another of his own." (Plato...,, Critias (s. 108), p. 130.)

Pacal
10/11/2014 04:34:09 am

I fully accept that Plato's Atlantis was a fiction and that Cornford thought that also. What I was saying was that Hancock's idea that in the dialogues the fall of Atlantis was supposed to be a disaster that affected much of the world outside of Atlantis is a notion that other people besides Hancock have.

EP
10/11/2014 10:13:24 am

One should be equally wary of taking words of characters in Plato's dialogues to express Plato's intentions. He may or may not be speaking through his characters in a given instance - we just don't have a way of knowing for certain.

Over time, serious scholars have become progressively less inclined to speculate about such things. That's just a sociological fact.

Pacal
10/11/2014 11:17:29 am

It is not speculation in the slightest to think that Plato intended to write three dialogues it is supported by the dialogues Timaeus and Critias. Just why would Plato have had Socrates say that Hermocrates would eventually speak if he Plato didn't have at one time that intention? I see zero philosophical purpose in doing so. Further the dialogues involve 4 people and in the Timaeus it is made clear that all three who are not Socrates would speak and in Timaeus and Critias two speak so logically the third will eventually speak, aside from merely agreeing with the plain statements in both dialogues.

EP
10/11/2014 11:51:56 am

There are other purposes beside philosophical: political, literary, etc. It's like asking why the Critias is unfinished (I had this conversation with someone on this blog). Did Plato change his mind, never get around to it, or leave it unfinished on purpose? We just don't have any way of knowing given the historical evidence we have.

Another example, similar to case we're discussing, is the so-called missing "Philosopher" dialogue, which, if we are to take what the characters say at face value, we could have inferred was to follow the Sophist and the Statesman.

Again, all I'm saying is that Classical scholars tend to remain agnostic about such things. It's not like Cornford's conjecture is baseless. It's just that it is no more than a conjecture. And given how little we actually know about the composition of Plato's dialogues, it is not exceptionally plausible.

Zach
10/13/2014 04:42:05 pm

Does anyone else find it curious that the interview with Wolter hasn't been posted yet?

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EP
10/13/2014 04:49:09 pm

I can see it there right now... not sure what you mean...

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Zach
10/13/2014 05:55:50 pm

I don't know why but the last few times I tried to find it it wasn't showing up for me. Weird, but whatever.

Jason Colavito link
10/13/2014 11:40:36 pm

It was just added last night. I think episodes are added when the next one airs, and there hasn't been a new one since last Wednesday.

GB link
9/14/2015 03:57:21 pm

Jason
Do you have link for Randal Carlson written article on the Holy Grail. I looked on his site but couldn't find it.
Thanks
Gary

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          • W. Scott-Elliot >
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          • Man During the Stone Age
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          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
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        • Giants and the Sons of God
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        • Tertiary Giants
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        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
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        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
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        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
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        • Prince Henry Sinclair
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        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
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        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
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        • Noah's Ark Cables
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        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
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      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
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        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
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      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
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      • The Xipéhuz
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      • The Novel of the Black Seal
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      • The Lost Continent
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      • H. P. Lovecraft >
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        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
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      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
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      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
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      • Position of Viking Women
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      • James Dean's Scrapbook
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      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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