Graham Hancock
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786 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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And secondly, there was a propagandistic desire not to give too much credit to them. So let's get rid of some of their stuff. Wow. I was very disappointed when we were shooting season two of Ancient Apocalypse that we were not allowed by the authorities to film in Cahokia, which is one of the great mounds that still survive.
because they've been told that I'm a pseudo-archaeologist and that I'm going to mislead the public if I go there. So the best way is just to stop me going there. We tried to film in Moundville in Alabama as well. And again, we were denied permission to film there. There's no doubt that archaeology has joined ranks to do their best to prevent me doing what I do.
And, you know, here's what archaeologists say. Here's an alternative point of view. Yeah. You're an intelligent member of the public. Make up your own mind. You're being reasonable. That's outrageous. It's a most unfortunate thing.
More and more. It's a fascinating phenomenon. I do see it as an extension of our interest in our own genetic origins, for example. A lot of people, I haven't done it yet, but I'm kind of keen to do 23andMe or whatever it's called.
They'll sell your data away. They'll sell your data away.
Yeah.
My eldest son, who is half Somali and half English, had his DNA done with 23andMe. And what it showed was that he's 50% African and 49% British and 1% Spanish. And we tried to figure that out. And the answer is that my ancestors came from Cornwall in the southwest of England.
And that's where the Spanish Armada washed up and the survivors of the Spanish Armada washed up and then integrated with the local community and contributed their genes. So, you know, there is an interest in the past. There is an interest in our personal past, our personal origins, our ancestors, who we are.
And there's a much broader interest in the story of humanity that has brought us to where we are today and this haunting feeling of That something's missing and that we have a civilization today. I often would like to compare it to a sort of furious – in terms of the level of consciousness, our civilization today is like a furious, petulant teenager.
But in terms of what it can do, in terms of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, it's a god. So we have godlike powers with the consciousness of an immature teenager. That's what we're looking at in the world today.
And maybe by understanding our past better, by understanding our unity that comes down from the past, maybe we can learn something that would be helpful to us in not carrying on in this way. Because we do live at an inflection point just now. This is... One thing I'm pretty sure that quote-unquote my lost civilization didn't have and that was nuclear weapons.
But we have nukes today and we have them in an enormous scale and behind each of those nukes is a fragile human being with his own or her own ego and complexes and fears and paranoia. And we're reaching a point where those buttons are going to be pressed. We are, as far as I know, the first human civilization that has the capacity to actually wipe itself out completely.
We don't need a comet impact. We don't need a solar outburst. We can do it to ourselves. And that requires humanity to make a major step forward in consciousness. And I think making that major step forward in consciousness will be helped by better understanding our own past.
You went with Brian Morareschi. Yeah. Brilliant. Brilliant guy.
Civilizations come and go.
We could be gone in 20 years.
I'd love to take you on a trip to Egypt.
Yeah.
I've made friends with Sahih Hawass.
He's a very interesting man. You guys are homies now. Yeah, we're homies. We had a nice dinner together. And it's partly because who needs more enemies and hatred in this world? And I said some very cruel and harsh things to Zahi in the past. And I felt the time had come to apologize for those. So I went to Egypt to apologize to him. Really? And we had a fantastic dinner together.
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