Exploring Ancient Mysteries and Alternative Histories with Graham Hancock

In this episode, acclaimed author and researcher Graham Hancock joins the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast to delve deep into the discussion about ancient civilization, the legacy of shamanistic practices, and the vitriolic response of mainstream academia, specifically archaeology to his ideas. Hancock shares his thoughts on the limitations of archaeological interpretations and the potential for a lost advanced civilization that has left behind a significant legacy. The conversation also explores themes such as the importance of spiritual traditions, the loss of shamanism and spirituality in the West, the precision of ancient astronomical observations, and the position of psychedelics in human history. Hancock provides a comprehensive look at why questioning established narratives is crucial for a more inclusive understanding of our past.

2 thoughts on “Illegitimate Scholar Podcast 072 – Graham Hancock: Ancient Civilizations & Academia”

  1. JAMES says:

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  2. R Stone says:

    I’ll “trust the science” up to its limits (the limits of its terms concepts and instrumental filters), and up to the limits of the human beings doing it, multiplied by the limits of those telling me about it. Limited trust.

    As Terence McKenna said very pointedly in one of the trialogues, science today is never done in a pure spirit of open-ended childlike wonder of investigation for the sake of learning the truth about reality for its own sake*. Science today is business. This is a distortion of science. Distorted science is untrustworthy.

    It is money, not love of humanity finding its place in the cosmos, that determines which angles and avenues of exploration, development and “progress” are pursued and backed by investment and regulatory permissions, and which are not. Which applications and interpretations are made, and which are suppressed and demonised. The history of science is littered with Teslas and Edisons, Reichs and Faucis. Every field: medicine, history, arts, you name it – is directly affected.

    And then there is the medium of its propagation via education, media, adding further dimensions of distortion, potential for manipulation, reframing, censorship, etc.

    They want us to “trust” this “science”? This paper unicorn? Nah

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    *I would say Graham’s work actually represents this idealised position, making it more scientific than many or possibly most academic archaeologists’.

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