Luke Caverns
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1,858 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 May
Luke Caverns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you were like, well, you know, that's what people used to do. Everybody was an astronomer. How much of this experience has gone to us today? We don't sit around and look at the stars anymore. And that's one aspect. We don't interact with natural plant-based hallucinogens anymore. There's so many things about the natural world that we don't interact. with.
And so many of these people who still today exist in the natural world like the wild, you know, Percy Fawcett interacting with these Amazonian tribes that still live like this today. These people are still around. They're still existing.
Yeah. Do you want to see it?
Sure, sure, yeah.
Man, that is crazy. Wild. I mean, you're looking into the past.
Just in your frame right there, what you were looking at has existed since the beginning of time. Yes.
They're in the same time zone as you are right now. Same time zone. Whatever it is right now, it's the same time. That's crazy. And when our civilization, when we all destroy ourselves and thousands of years go by and everything in the studio is gone, it all turns to dust, those people will continue the legacy of humanity.
No, you are exactly right. So when the Spaniards- That's Country Boy Can't Survive.
song in reality. Dude, you are exactly correct. I mean, you're exactly correct. So when the Spaniards arrive, they obviously they land in the Bahamas with Columbus 1492. But they come down to like Hispaniola, Jamaica. And in the early 1500s, they start poking around on the shores of the Yucatan. And. And they're kind of trading and interacting with these people. These are explorers.
They're all curious. But they didn't realize that they were giving these Native Americans disease, and that disease was spreading through the Maya world. And maybe more than a decade later, when Cortez arrives in the Maya world, he documents how all the Maya people are very scrawny and small and sickly and weak. He didn't realize they were all dying off.
So eventually Cortes conquers Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521, and he sends Pizarro down to find the gold that the Aztecs were getting from South America or from this distant land. They didn't 100% know exactly what South America was yet. He goes down to South America and he conquers the Inca Empire. And then after that, Oriana descends down the Amazon.
And when he descends down the Amazon, he sees these cities that would go on for 15 miles long. I mean these 15-mile long cities full of millions and millions of people, these giant circular stone buildings, these huge bustling civilizations everywhere.
And then later on in the 1700s, 1800s, and then really densely in the early 1900s, like with Percy Fawcett, Theodore Roosevelt, everyone around them, they were looking for these big cities that the Spaniards had seen, but they didn't exist and they didn't find any evidence of it at all.
And a lot of people like the British and the Royal Geographic Society, they brush it off as, oh, the Spaniards were lying so that they could secure funding for further expeditions. And this was like their livelihood, the way that they could stay rich. Of course, then the LIDAR proves that these civilizations were there.
Now, the stuff that's been excavated in the Amazon, we haven't excavated anything in the center of the Amazon. It's really expensive. It's hard to do. Archaeologists don't want to live out there. Whatever, whatever. There's a million reasons why it doesn't happen. But on the peripheral of the Amazon, there are areas that get cut flat for logging.
Like as civilization slowly encroaches on the Amazon, they are finding these villages that are these – they're basically cities that are these huge geoglyphs that are cut in the ground. Have you seen these in the Amazon? They're huge. I believe so. Yeah. I believe this is some stuff that Graham was showing. Maybe so. I think Graham has talked about this before. Maybe he was in America before.
What should he look if he's looking for images? Just Amazon geoglyphs. They'll come up. There are these huge squares. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, we definitely talked about this. These things are gigantic, and they're all over the peripherals of the Amazon. But these were the preppers living on the outside.
They weren't living in the hustle and bustle of the million-plus population city in the middle of the Amazon. These are the guys living on the outside, and they all survived this apocalyptic disease that went through.
The mountain folks. Yeah. Actually, I'm moving there tomorrow. Are you really? Yeah, I'm in the middle of moving right now. What a cool place to live. Yeah, it's beautiful up there, man. Dude, it's an ancient place. Have you heard of the Nantahala Rainforest?
Oh, you got to go there tomorrow. Where's that? It's in western North Carolina in Appalachia. I grew up going to Nantahala every year. My parents live in Nantahala now. And it's a beautiful, completely magical place. And it was part of what inspired this like explorer, you know, kind of thing in me. When you're there, even as a kid, I knew that this was an ancient place.
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