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The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Graham Hancock reads as The Visionary because his work as a journalist and alternative-history author is animated by a refusal to accept the settled picture.
“That's the ultimate goal. That seems to me what's at the heart of many pyramids around the world is that they're connected in one way or another to the notion of death and to the notion of the exploration of the afterlife. And this is, of course, the fundamental mystery that all human beings face. We may wish to ignore it.”
“And because I think largely from those ancient maps that it was a navigating seafaring civilization, I suspect that it wasn't only in one place. It was probably in a number of places. And then I can only speculate. Maybe there was...”
“Extinction, perhaps a supernova, was going to go off in the neighborhood. They were highly advanced. Their first thought it might have been Let's get ourselves off the planet and go and populate some other planet, but the distances of interstellar space were so great, so their second thought was, let's preserve our DNA, let's put bacteria…”
“Yes, boats can be preserved under certain circumstances. There's a wreck at the bottom of the Black Sea, almost two miles deep. I didn't know the Black Sea was that deep, but there's a wreck, and there's no oxygen down there that is more than 2,000 years old and is still in pretty much perfect condition.”
The Diary of a CEO: “Graham Hancock: The Case for a Lost Civilization”
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