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Introducing ‘Magicians of the Gods’

By red pill junkieon

If you thought the last cool thing worth waiting for in 2015 was the release of Episode VII, you’re probably not a fan of Alternative History.

For us, there’s the long-awaited publication of Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods –September 10 in the UK, one month later in the US– 20 years after his international bet-seller Fingerprints of the Gods implanted the seed for a paradigm shift in our appreciation of the ancient past; a seed which has flourished and blossomed not only because of the Graham’s international acclaim, but also because of the archeological evidence discovered after “Fingerprints…” which have proved his basic thesis –the existence of an advanced civilization of megalithic builders, with great knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, which was destroyed after the end of the last Ice Age but not before managing to inculcate their knowledge all around our planet– to be very much on the right track.

Even though he rightly points out how ours is a species suffering from amnesia, I truly believe Graham’s name has secured an enduring place in the annals of History; if nothing else, for inspiring an entire generation to look at our ancient legacy –our heritage as human beings and inhabitants of this wonderful and troubled world– with fresh new eyes; offering us a vantage view from which to appreciate where we came from, how we got here, and where we are destined to go… if we deign to learn the lessons of our forefathers, that is.

You can pre-order your copy of Magicians of the Gods by clicking here.

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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  1. Graham
    Already pre-ordered it, RPJ Graham ‘s books have always been a most welcome source to extend my general knowledge in these matters. He’s such an eloquent speaker and writer, a jem to our species.

  2. A recent interview
    Published on YouTube, August 25, 2015.

    The first hour is very much concerned with perception through ayahuasca with some discussion of the Aztecs, etc. The new book is introduced at about 1h05m.

    1. Interview
      Thanks Kamarling, great talk By Graham, however the interviewer was not really on par, in fact clearly overwhelmed’ but hey you need to be really into the subjects if you want to discuss with Graham. Meanwhile I hope his management and or publisher need to place him in some decent talk shows when his book comes out, Hancock deserves it.

      1. Interpretation
        I doubt that it will happen but I’d like to see a conversation between the Lost Civilisation proponents and the orthodox archaeologists. More likely is a hatchet job on Hancock after the new book is published, similar to the notorious BBC Horizon programme years ago.

        I have not been following the story but it seems that Hancock was on friendly terms with the late Klaus Schmidt. Yet, if we read the “official” view as described in this National Geographic article …

        http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text

        … there is no mention of a lost civilisation providing the prerequisite skills and traditions. Indeed, it seems to be taken for granted that those skills were readily available in the hunter-gatherer tribes at the time. The orthodox view now seems to be that religion suddenly became a civilising imperative and that such a temple would give the various tribes common cause.

        However, one thing that seems to me to lend weight to the Lost Civilisation theory is the apparent fact that the quality of the design and structure grew worse as time went by. Either the original architects and designers died out or the generations of builders became less enthusiastic and their skills diminished.

  3. Graham Hancock
    It is my view that Hancock’s theories are bad pseudo-archaeology. It is interesting, and it seems to bear on his credibility as a researcher, that in a 2013 TEDx talk, Hancock revealed that “until relatively recently he had maintained a 24-year-long daily cannabis habit during which he was stoned for 16 hours a day and had suffered from rages and paranoia as a result. Hancock said he had been successfully cured by a drug-trip on ayahuasca in South America” (Wiki). This talk – “The War on Consciousness” – was banned from the TEDx youtube channel, but is available on regular youtube under the title “Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness BANNED TED TALK”.

    1. Food for Thought
      Whether Hancock was stoned for many hours of the day for years on end or not, he’s written a number of very interesting and provocative books over the years, in my opinion. These may serve quite ably as food for thought, at a minimum.

      Hancock has done more than write, however; in _Underworld_, working with inundation maps provided by a professor at Durham University’s Department of Geology, he literally dove for knowledge, using scuba equipment.

      Heinrich Schliemann once engaged in activities that might have been described by some folks of his era by their equivalent term for “bad pseudo-archaeology,” yet Schliemann did discover the site of ancient Troy, proving that myth and legend may sometimes be more than myth and legend.

      Schliemann was a businessman; Hancock’s background includes being a professional journalist:

      “As a journalist, Hancock worked for many British papers, such as The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. He was co-editor of New Internationalist magazine from 1976–1979, and the East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981–1983.” ~Wikipedia

      Official archeology has long been notorious for firmly resisting any ideas or even evidence suggesting that its accepted views might not be completely correct or even seriously incorrect. Older scholars with influence may have to retire and/or die, replaced by younger colleagues in order for certain discoveries and theories concerning them to be accepted, in that pattern typical of Kuhn’s ideas.

      Cuniform script is one example of many. Efforts to translate it were eventually successful, after arduous physical and mental exertions by brilliant scholars (read about Sir Henry Rawlinson), but their efforts were ridiculed, their translations treated strictly as feats of imagination, by the well credentialed archeologists of the day.

      Some so called “fringe” theories, concepts, and discoveries may remain forever on the fringe; others may move in to the center of accepted thought.

      Hancock offers a number of what some would consider fringe premises and items even as these have become more expansive as of late, dealing as they frequently do with consciousness.

      Some of these may be discarded as the years go by, but not all, while the evidence and research Hancock offers does provide roads for others to follow, aside from often being just plain darn interesting.

      One of Hancock’s central ideas is of a predecessor civilization destroyed in some worldwide catastrophe, not part of the official timelines.

      It’s far too soon for anyone to say there never was any such thing, that those who write of this are promoting “bad pseudo-archaelogy,” even as increasing evidence accumulates, and evidence no longer restricted to the fringe.

      1. Ice Age Megaliths
        I haven’t checked but I seem to remember that when Hancock, Bauval, West, Schoch and other fringe researchers were suggesting that megalith structures probably date back to the last ice age, the orthodox crowd were ridiculing them. Reading that National Geographic article I linked above, it seems that is now the orthodox view but that this is, of course, their discovery and due to their work. No mention of the fringe crowd.

        1. Hancock on the Beeb
          Saw Graham promote his book earlier this morning on the BBC morning show, great just a few minutes though. Anyway mainstream archeology is mindblowingly unscientific as in unwilling to entertain even the idea that they and those before them might be wrong and even if history has plenty of evidence that previously ridiculed ideas became mainstream… Anyway the Sfinx alone is proof that their concept of the past is dead wrong but hey theirs is an extremely selective ‘science’.

          1. Beebs of the Gods
            Yeah, I found a link posted on Youtube by Capricorn Radio. Ima post it but if you find a better clip please send it to me 😉

          2. Once one accepts that there
            Once one accepts that there are advanced races with advanced tech running around the planet at this moment then it is no stretch at all to assume they have been here all along, and that they may have brought some of this technology to various groups throughout human history. The outlandish idea is that they wouldn’t have at least had some intermingling with human societies.

            Their current standoffishness and crypticism may be due to the fact that sharing anything with us at this technological juncture could be bad for the planet’s health.

          3. Sharing knowledge
            I don’t have a problem with the idea of superior intelligences sharing knowledge with mankind, both in the ancient past and even nowadays. But I’m uncomfortable with how Ancient Aliens fans can’t envision OTHER transmission methods besides the physical landing of a metal spacecraft, all rumbling and smoke, scaring the Bejeezus out of the primitive natives.

          4. Agreed
            [quote=red pill junkie]I don’t have a problem with the idea of superior intelligences sharing knowledge with mankind, both in the ancient past and even nowadays. But I’m uncomfortable with how Ancient Aliens fans can’t envision OTHER transmission methods besides the physical landing of a metal spacecraft, all rumbling and smoke, scaring the Bejeezus out of the primitive natives.[/quote]

            I agree. I see no reason why a branch of humanity could not have developed, flourished and died out (or became assimilated) in the hundreds of thousands of years available. I’m not sure why some think it had to be alien intervention. Even if other beings are involved, I’m inclined towards the Jacques Vallée view that this is an inter-dimensional phenomenon.

          5. “Ancient Aliens”
            [quote=red pill junkie]I don’t have a problem with the idea of superior intelligences sharing knowledge with mankind, both in the ancient past and even nowadays. But I’m uncomfortable with how Ancient Aliens fans can’t envision OTHER transmission methods besides the physical landing of a metal spacecraft, all rumbling and smoke, scaring the Bejeezus out of the primitive natives.[/quote]

            I wasn’t by any means intending to be an advocate for The History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” take on aliens and ancient culture.

          6. Advanced tech
            So we’re in agreement here that psychedelic substances could ALSO be considered a form of advanced technologymto get in contact with multi-dimensional intelligences 😉

          7. Intelligentsia
            [quote=red pill junkie]So we’re in agreement here that psychedelic substances could ALSO be considered a form of advanced technology to get in contact with multi-dimensional intelligences ;)[/quote]

            It may be the best technology we have. Of course, some trippers think that mushrooms are multi-dimensional intelligences too.

  4. Just a reminder
    I wonder if Graham will bother to mention my own book “Man and Impact in the America” (2005-2006)?

    In any case, both he and Randall have got their date wrong for the Holocene Start Impact Event.

    We have craters now.

    It will be interesting to see if he ever mentions the need for more money for NEO detection, or if he bothers to mention the currently available interception technologies.

    Of course, if he bothers to mention that it would make more sense to fund these before spending money flying a few men to Mars then he can expect the proverbial $#!7 $70RM

    1. NEO
      Randall is especially concerned about NOT suffering the same catastrophes brought down on our ancestors by cosmic impacts. He is all for early detection systems, and even sending all our major factories out into space to harvest the resources of asteroids.

      1. What about the rest of us?
        I heat that kind of crap from the Mars Nuts all the time – except in their case, its flying a few men and women to Mars to continue the human race.

        What about the other 7 billion of us?

        By the way, RPJ, both you and I are included in the “rest of us”.

        That is, unless you have as much money as Elon Musk. I know I don’t.

        The plain fact is that Don Yeomans at JPL, who heads the NEO detection effort in the US, requested an infra-red telescope back in 2005, and his request has been ignored for some 10 years now.

        Find any of them early enough, comet or asteroid, and we can stop them with our current technologies. For the smaller ones, early detection means that non nuclear means can be used, and used far away from planet Earth.

        Given that Comet Shoemaker Levy will be in the inner solar system in 2022, it would be really nice if these two stayed on message in their upcoming book promotion campaign.

        Comets are like cats – they both have tails and minds of their own; aside from that, they both also have multiple offspring.

        Perhaps Graham will succeed where Grondine, Firestone, Kennett et al. failed. Good on him if he does.

        We’ll see – and by the way, if there’s any used copies of “Man and Impact in the Americas” available at amazon for anything less than $20, you probably want to invest in a copy now – there will not be any more paper copies.

        1. Comets are like cats
          Ha! I like that quote 😉

          What can I tell you? I’m making the best I can to ensure people are aware of the danger. And if most of us go the way of the dodo but ensure a few of our offspring will survive, that doesn’t seem too bad. Better than to let cockroaches inherit the planet 😛

          1. from a false assumption…
            buenos dias, rpj –

            Let us consider the line that the Mars Nuts promote:
            there is nothing we can do to prevent deaths from impact events.

            This is demonstrably false.
            At this point in our development of technology,
            none of us has to go the way of the dodo due to cosmic impact.

            Aside from that,any small group of people living on Mars is likely to die within a few years.

            For the simple reason that Mars is not like the Earth.

            Of course in their book promotion tour both Graham and Randall could spout off the “life boat” Mars hypothesis, and the Mars Nuts will all applaud.

          2. “Life boat”
            I don’t know if you’ve ever heard one of Graham’s presentations, but he’s always adamant that we need to protect our beautiful world, because it’s full of life and creatures that share it with us. No doubt this was influenced by his multiple experiences with the Ayahuasca brew.

            BTW your Mars hypothesis is outdated. Didn’t you know? Mars was destroyed by a nuclear holocaust 😉

            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2998835/Were-Martians-wiped-nuclear-bomb-Physicist-present-new-evidence-bizarre-theory-Nasa-conference.html

    1. Scale
      I have always been kinda miffed by likening planet earth to a “speck of dust.” It is – to be more precise – a speck of dust amidst other specks of dust, and should not therefore be regarded as somehow less or more significant than any other speck of dust. A prion is a speck of dust too, but don’t tell that to a relatively vast biological organism brought to its knees by said minutiae. I wonder too – if there were no other reference points in our sky – that is to say no other visible astronomy except a sun to rotate around would we consider ourselves to be a speck of dust then? Having a scale to work with in that case would mean that the only scales known by us would be the things at the smaller scales, but that’s our predicament anyway if we accept that there are multiverses, and that even this universe we see is infinitely expanding.

      Wouldn’t you love to pick the brain of an advanced star traveler who could use wormholes and such to traverse vast distances in a nonce? What would be their perspective about scale and specks of dust?

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      https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140818-at-multiverse-impasse-a-new-theory-of-scale/

      “Though galaxies look larger than atoms and elephants appear to outweigh ants, some physicists have begun to suspect that size differences are illusory. Perhaps the fundamental description of the universe does not include the concepts of “mass” and “length,” implying that at its core, nature lacks a sense of scale.”

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