Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

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Riel-Salvatore, Julien (22 November 2022). "Netflix, l'archéologie et l'obscurantisme". Le Devoir. Montréal. p.A7 . Retrieved 23 November 2022. He writes with the authority, intelligence and experience necessary to tell his story, and he doesn't seem to give one hoot whether you believe him or not. The idea that he's not trying to sell me anything made him much more credible to me. From the bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, and creator of the explosive Netflix series, Ancient Apocalypse

I lay on a couch in the darkened drawing room of a 200-year-old townhouse in the English city of Bath. The streets outside were deserted and offered few clues to remind me of the familiar world. It was reassuring to find that I could still read the luminous dial of my wristwatch if I held it in front of my eyes. Ten minutes passed, then 20, then 35. I began to feel bored, restless, even a little blasé After 45 minutes I closed my eyes and directed my thoughts inwards towards contemplation, still noticing nothing unusual. But at the end of the first hour of my vigil, when I tried to stand up and walk around, I was amazed to discover that my legs would not work. Out of nowhere, an enervating feebleness had ambushed my limbs, the slightest physical effort set off uncontrollable tremors and stumbling, and I had completely lost my sense of balance. I'm not trying to stomp out your spirituality, here. Everyone is entitled to whatever beliefs make them feel nice inside, so long as they don't hurt anybody else. Spirituality is crucial to the human animal, according to Jung, who invented the term, "collective unconscious", which is what you were fumbling after during your filibuster on neural structures and DNA. The first third of the book is all about ancient cave art and makes for an absolutely scintillating read. Cave art was something I knew nothing about. He talks about the dawn of abstract thinking in prehistory and a theory that it might be related to the use of hallucinogens by our ancestors. Alternatively, if the above is not the case, then does this imply that there could be 'parallel realities' out there which are in fact REAL and accessible by certain humans, in certain states of altered consciousness? (An idea not at all dissimilar to the idea of 'parallel universes' as hypothesised by quantum physics). I bought and started the book about a two and half weeks ago. I am currently on Part III chapter 11. Being an artist and having a fascination for history and the human mind, I could not help to be drawn to a different point of view about prehistoric cave art.

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Hodge, Hugo (6 December 2022). "Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse series uses 'racist ideologies' to rewrite Indo-Pacific history, experts say". ABC News. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023 . Retrieved 8 January 2023. His books include Lords of Poverty, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis (released in the US as Message of the Sphinx), The Mars Mystery, Heaven's Mirror (with wife Santha Faiia), Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, and Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith (with co-author Robert Bauval). In 1996, he appeared in The Mysterious Origins of Man. [17] He also wrote and presented the documentaries Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age (2002) and Quest for the Lost Civilisation (1998). [18] [ bettersourceneeded] The pygmy's wife was named Atanga. When she heard of the death of her husband she went in search of his body. Eventually, after many adventures, she came to a cave in the heart of the forest in which she saw a pile of human bones:

That's not science. That's not even logic. If you presented this argument in any Philosophy 101 gen ed, the kid in his pajamas who smells like Vlad and someone else's vomit would be able to explain its invalidity.

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Eboka, also known as iboga (the spelling that I will use from now on), is classified scientifically as Tabernanthe iboga and is a member of the Apocynacae (Dogbane) family. Its root bark turns out to be very special, as the myth of the pygmy asserts, and contains more than a dozen unusual chemicals belonging to a class known as the indole alkaloids. One of them, ibogaine, is the potent hallucinogen responsible for the convincing and life-changing visions experienced by Bwiti initiates, notably ‘encounters with supernatural beings’ and ‘encounters with the spirits of the dead’. Many report meeting their deceased fathers or grandfathers, who act as guides for them in the spirit world. However, the bark must be eaten in toxic quantities if the visionary state is to be attained, and initiates confront an ever-present risk of fatal overdose as they seek out their ancestors. In 2015, his Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization was published by St. Martin's Press. [24] The evolution of modern humans has taken more than five million years but until less than 50,000 years ago we had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no creative and innovative thinking, and quite possibly no language. Then, a dramatic and electrifying change overtook our ancestors in every part of the globe, and all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves today appeared suddenly, already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers. Scientists describe this change as “the greatest riddle in human history”. What is the significance of the astonishing similarities between the entities known as “aliens”, ET’s” or “greys” in modern popular culture, the entities known as “fairies”, “elves” and “goblins” in the Middle Ages, and the entities that shamans in surviving tribal cultures know as “ghosts”, “gods” and “spirits”? Why are such figures depicted in prehistoric art as far afield as Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia? If you weren't afraid of aliens before reading this book, you will be once you finish. (And nothing hinted at just how much there is on aliens in here!)