Graham Hancock’s Theory about Ancient Civilizations | Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan's experience, well, I think people can develop these patterns of behavior that are destructive with anything, whether it's alcohol or cannabis, or you know, yeah, sex or anything that people get stuck in, yeah , you know, that doesn't mean cannabis is better it means you're on a bad path mentally, yeah you know exactly and I mean, I'm not promoting it for everyone because some people, biologically genuinely, don't agree with them, yeah, Yes, the fundamental thing is us, as I thought you wanted to say. Beings must take responsibility for our own lives and our own decisions, yes, and we do not need to hand over that responsibility to government institutions, especially when it comes to something as intimate and personal as our conscience, and my opinion is that the

ancient

world had the correct attitude towards this. that kind of thing, yes, and the modern world no, and that we can sit down and learn a lot from the

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world.

A lot of people ask me, you know, Hancock, you've been arguing that there is a loss, there has been a lost civilization in human history, but what kind of civilization do you think it was? Well, one of the things I believe is that it was a civilization that used psychedelics. I think it was a civilization that emerged from shamanism but did not remain in the hunter-gatherer stage, but rather took the essence of shamanism and integrated it into a type of civilization very different from ours that pursued things in different ways, I Many archaeologists have said, but we didn't find any plastic bottles from the Ice Age, which means there was no advanced civilization during the Ice Age, wait, maybe an advanced civilization might have decided to never get involved with plastic in the first place.

First, maybe there would have been a clear choice not to make plastic, maybe they did things in completely different ways, maybe they grew it. powers of the human mind that we dismiss and consider completely unimportant, you know, yes, these are the right thoughts about Egypt, it's about Egypt and about other things. I mean, the specific example I give is above the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid. There are five more chambers and these chambers are roofed and floored with granite beams that weigh about seventy tons each and there are hundreds of them and these 70-ton granite beams which, to put into context, a 70-ton beam is equivalent in weight to thirty - five large SUVs, these 70-ton granite beams have been lifted to a height of more than 350 feet above the ground and carefully and precisely placed in position.

It is very difficult for archaeologists to explain how it was done using pure leverage and mechanical advantage. Let's say, oh, and maybe they built a ramp and held the stones up the ramp, but then you have to deal with the basic laws of physics, you can't drag a stone that weighs tens of tons up a slope that exceeds ten degrees, then you start doing it. Calculate how long I need a ramp with a 10 degree slope to get to 350 feet above the ground and the answer is you need a long ramp that should still be there because it couldn't have been a sand ramp, I would have collapsed. under the weight of those stones it had to be as massive as the pyramid itself, so this is starting to seem like an absurd idea.

The idea that archeology imposes on us, perhaps the idea that they consider absurd, that is, that psychic powers were cultivated by ancient

civilizations

that could use powers of the human mind that we have allowed to expire, perhaps that idea deserves greater consideration, we have continued a path of leverage and mechanical advantage we are used to relying on machines but we hear anecdotal reports of people who have telekinetic powers who can move things with their minds of people who have telepathic powers and our automatic reaction is to just dismiss all of that because science says that It's impossible because science considers consciousness to be local to the brain and doesn't see how it can exercise outside of that, but perhaps we should open ourselves to those possibilities that we are dealing with a very different type of culture that used techniques that we have let expire. and maybe we could awaken those techniques again, maybe the capacity of human beings.

Doing almost superhuman things lies within all of us, but sleeping well is pure speculation that they use some kind of telekinetic power, but it is pure speculation, it is absolute that they did something that we do not understand if you think about the distance between us. and the construction only the accepted modern construction dates of the Great Pyramid was over five thousand years ago, we are close to five thousand years ago, the correct permanent is supposed to be about four thousand five hundred years ago, yes, that is really old, It's incredible to think that someone back then could do something that would perplex us today, yes, with modern machinery, yes, and that in some way or another they realized this, it's almost as if what they had done was left something behind. that it was so stupendous, so monstrously impressive, that it would transcend time, yes. and that you would have to look at it even thousands and thousands of years later and say hey like this, this defies conventional explanation, this is not simple and I've seen some of the conventional explanations of the construction of the pyramid and they conveniently neglect those chambers on top of the chamber They conveniently neglect a lot of those huge stones, yeah, and it's because it's one of those things that you just say, oh, I don't know what this Jamie is, they're the, they're on top of the King's chambers and every One of those floors is made up of a row of 70-ton granite blocks that had been raised 350 feet above the ground and not only that but they were brought from Aswan in southern Egypt to 500 kilometers south of the south. of the Great Pyramid, so if there is ever a time in history where we could go in a time machine and come back and observe, would that be the time?

I'm completely fascinated by the Ice Age right now. Have you had a chance to go back and see what it was like somewhere you wouldn't go to build the great pyramids. I think right now, where I would go is twelve thousand eight hundred years ago, at the beginning of the Younger Dryas, the hardest thing to see because I think that's where all of human history changes, I think that's where we change paths from one path to another. and following those cataclysmic events of the Younger Dryas between twelve thousand eight hundred and eleven thousand six hundred years ago, following the signs of civilization that we see emerging.

They are not the beginnings of civilization, they are a reboot evaluation that had existed before the Cataclysm and for that reason I would like to be present during that cataclysmic event if only to make sure that it was indeed a comet that you see there. One thing that there is no longer any doubt about is that the Younger Dryas was a cataclysm, it cannot be argued that the megafauna died due to the interruption of human activity that took place at that time, the enormous climate changes, this was a cataclysm By whatever standard it is still disputed is what caused the Cataclysm.

I vote strongly for the comet - multiple fragments of a comet hit the North American ice sheet and also hit Greenland - but there are other researchers in the field like my colleague Robert Schoch. Who thinks the Sun is more involved? This is healthy, this is very, very healthy, we should approach this problem from many different perspectives and try to find out what caused this extraordinary event that occurs at a crucial time in human history. the end of the Stone Age, the beginning of the Mesolithic, the end of the Ice Age, the beginning of the current era of the earth and suddenly we see these signs of civilization appear and in places like gobekli tepe those signs already include knowledge highly sophisticated and that's why I feel like we really need to research the Amazon there are three places in the world that are really lacking in research right now one of them is the Amazon five and a half million square kilometers very little archeology done another is the desert Sahara The Sahara desert is a difficult place to work.

I can understand why little archeology is done there, but the Sahara Desert was green during the Ice Age and had a completely different climate regime. We should consider the possibility that missing parts of human history are there and then under the continental shelves because sea level rose 400 feet these are three domains that archeology largely has not investigated and largely has not, They say well, why would we spend money on marine archaeology? It's much better to spend it looking for shipwrecks rather than looking for signs of a lost civilization because we archaeologists know that there was no lost civilization so that's the argument for resources there and the same with the Amazon and the same with places in the Sahara desert in the same places in the world that those among us who have the responsibility of interpreting the past have not looked at are the same prices we should look at