Who is
Graham Hancock? He is the author of multiple international bestsellers, like
The Magicians of the Gods, and
Fingerprints of the Gods,
among others. His books have sold multiple millions of
Graham’s specialty, apart from being a
tremendous critical thinker and researcher (which is evident if you’ve
read his work), is more so focused on ancient civilizations. Not just
standard ancient civilizations, but lost ancient civilizations that are
not commonly recognized in mainstream history. His works show that many
of these civilizations were extremely advanced in multiple ways, and, in
some cases, more intellectually, and possibly, technologically
advanced.
It’s truly fascinating to say the least.
Graham has written for us in the past and the article linked below is
authored by him if you want to get a taste of his work and his sources
of information:
A couple of years ago Graham gave a TED talk that went viral titled
The War on Consciousness. It’s
an interesting title, and the first thing that comes to my mind when
reading the title alone is the idea that yes, there is a war on our
consciousness, in several different ways.
One would be through mass media, and the
manipulation of information. Our external world is constantly beaming
us with how we should think, what we should do, how we should live our
lives and what is considered real or not.
His TED talk (linked below) simply went
against the grain. It’s not that his information and ideas were invalid,
it’s simply exploring a topic that is feared by the mainstream. When
new information is presented in a credible way that challenges old
frameworks of information, harsh responses and actions are always seen.
What we think we know is always changing.
These are the change-makers, the ones
who receive so much criticism, yet so much praise at the same time.
Clearly, they’re doing something right, and upsetting many authority
figures along the way.
Graham, in his banned talk, makes the
argument that modern society does not allow us to truly explore our
consciousness by making various psychedelic drugs illegal. How this is
offensive in the mainstream is understandable, given the fact that
psychedelic substances have been banned from research for years. Now,
the ban has lifted, and their ability to treat multiple medical
disorders, among other things, is starting to come to light.
He makes the point that the fact that
society is not openly allowed to explore our own consciousness with
complete freedom is wrong.
I can understand his viewpoint, although
I do not take psychedelic substances myself, I do believe, just as the
scientific research has shown, that they can be very beneficial and that
individuals should have the right to explore them if they choose to do
so. Who is “the man” to tell us what we can and can’t do with ourselves?
Especially in light of evidence showing that they can be used in a
non-harmful way, and that they’re really harmful at all
It’s quite odd how the substances which are legal today are much more life threatening and harmful than most illegal ones.
“There was a concerted effort to
discredit me and that is a bit of a conspiracy…When you have academics
that write to the BBC and they say, “you must bring this man down”…When
they actually say that and the BBC makes a program which is designed to
damage my reputation, and that program is then later found to have been
unfair by the broadcasting standards commission, something odd is going
on here, something a little bit to do with reality control is happening
there.” (
source)
Graham explained TED and their decision
to ban his talk was the result of their belief that he was speaking
about “pseudoscientific ideas.” Like most who label information as
pseudoscientific, no support was provided to justify that.
Another great example would be
non-material science. Despite
the fact that it is clearly a scientific undertaking by the most
prominent scientists, with a tremendous amount of statistically
significant results, non-material science is still shunned, for the most
part, in mainstream academic circles. You can read more about that in
detail, with specific points,
here.
To view Grahams FULL talk that was banned, you can click
here.
Below, we interview Graham. We also discussed ancient civilizations, psychedelics and more in the full interview.
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