Retelling the Past, Reimagining the Future : A 2012 Dialogue with Daniel Pinchbeck & Graham Hancock

This unique dialogue brings together two leading counterculture thinkers, Daniel Pinchbeck author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, and Breaking Open the Head, and Graham Hancock author of Fingerprints of the Gods, Supernatural and most recently the fantasy adventure novel Entangled.

Pinchbeck and Hancock discuss the implications of the Mayan Calendar “end-times” date 2012 which Hancock first drew to the attention of his readers in Fingerprints of the Gods published in 1995. Hancock’s evidence for a great lost civilization wiped out in a global cataclysm 12,500 years ago is explored in depth together with his suggestion that the survivors of that civilization may have sought to pass down a message to the future and indeed specifically to us in the twenty-first century — a warning that the next great lost civilization may be our own.

From the geology of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Egypt to the mysteries of the Ark of the Covenant, from ancient maps showing the world as it looked during the last Ice Age to out-of-place artifacts indicative of high technology in ancient times, the discussion ranges widely across some of the most intriguing evidence for an immense forgotten episode in human history, and moves on to consider the spiritual crisis of the modern age. Could a new paradigm emerge from our present state of chaos?

Hancock and Pinchbeck see hope in efforts by people all around the planet to reclaim sovereignty over their own consciousness, and identify a powerful role for shamanistic visionary plants such as Ayahuasca and Psilocybin in ushering in a gentler, less toxic, more nurturing state of mind. “It does seem like when you ingest them,” says Pinchbeck, “you get a lot of messages about how to reintegrate into the larger community of life.”

Graham Hancock on Ayahuasca & Consciousness, interview with Sonia Doubell

Sonia Doubell interviews Graham Hancock on Ayahuasca, Consciousness, meditation, and other themes.

Dwarka, India – 12,000 Year Old City of Lord Krishna Found – *Full*

Graham Hancock – Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms Of The Ice Age
Lost city ‘could rewrite history’

Graham Hancock interview for Know Drugs – “bringing honesty into the conversation”

I do not believe that is our race, or our religion, our gender, our height, our looks, our job, our sexual orientation, or any other superficial characteristics that define us as human beings. Trumping all these by a country mile, it is our consciousness — the most intimate, precious, sapient, unique and individual part of ourselves — that is really the essence of who and what we are. Indeed, at the deepest level it is what we are — to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.

For these and many other reasons I strongly oppose the “war on drugs” which, in my view, has created an engine of oppression and control in society by which the State claims the right, purportedly in our own interests, to regulate our very thoughts and inner experiences, and to trespass the sanctum of our consciousness.

I was recently interviewed by Cara Lavan of Knowdrugs.net on the subject of drugs, the drug war, personal freedom and cognitive liberty. The interview, which is embedded here, captures some of the key points that I feel have been neglected, and must be taken into account, if we are ever to get to grips with these issues in society.
– Graham Hancock

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“We think there’s something missing in the conversation about drugs and we’re setting out to change that. Connect to Know Drugs and help bring honesty into the the debate.”

Graham Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods

Art Bell interviews Graham Hancock.
The conversation centers on Hancock’s ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ book. It’s an intriguing discussion if one has the time/patience to sit through it.

There’s a short delay when transitioning between segments.