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Graham Hancock

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“Yeah, we are immersed in mystery. We live in the midst of mystery. We're surrounded by mystery. And if we pretend otherwise, we're deluding ourselves”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of sense. All the investment that the universe has put into creating this home for life may have a much bigger purpose than just accident.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Heaven, it isn't hell, but there's something, the soul goes on. I think reincarnation is a very plausible idea. Again, modern science would reject that. But there's the excellent work of Ian Stevenson, children who remember past lives, who found that children up to the age of seven often have memories of past lives. And in cultures where memories of past lives are discouraged, they tend not to express that much. But in cultures where memories of past lives are encouraged, like India, they do express it. And he found several subjects, children under the age of seven in India, who were able to remember specific details of a past life and he was able to go to the place where that past life unfolded and validate those details. So if consciousness is the basis of everything, if it's the essence of everything and consciousness benefits in some way from being incarnated in physical form, then reincarnation makes”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm not afraid of death at all. I'm curious about death. I think it could be very interesting. I think it's the beginning of the next great adventure. So I don't fear it. And I would like to live as long as I'm my body is healthy enough to make living worthwhile. But I don't fear death. What I do fear is pain. I do fear the humiliation that old age and the collapse of the faculties can bring. I do fear the cancers that can strike us down, and riddle us with pain and agony. That, I fear, very, very much indeed. But death is going to come to all of us. I accept it. It's going to come to me. And I'm not going to say I'm looking forward to it, but when it happens, I'm going to approach it, I hope, with a sense of curiosity and a sense of adventure, that there's something beyond this life.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a great mystery that we all share. Have investigated it thoroughly and map out the journey that we make after death. But that notion of a journey after death and of hazards and challenges along the way and ultimately of a judgment, that notion is found right around the world and it even manifests into the three monotheistic faiths that are still present in the world today.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The general view of science, I think, is that we're accidents of evolution. When we die, the light blinks out. There's no more of us. There's no such thing as the soul. But that's not a proven point. There's no experiment that proves that's the case. We know we die, but we don't know whether there's such a thing as a soul or not.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“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. We may wish to pretend that it's not going to happen, but we are, of course, all mortal, every one of us, all eight billion or however many of us that are on the planet right now, we're all going to face death sooner or later. And the question is, what happens? And there are a few cultures that really intensely, deeply studied that mystery. We are not one of them.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That would last. And the answer is that the majority of what we build now wouldn't last. Wouldn't it be gone within a few thousand years? But what would last is massive megalithic structures like the Great Pyramid, that would last. And it could be used to send a message to the future. I think Gobekli Tepe serves a similar function. I mean, there it was. It was buried 10,400 years ago. And then for the next 10,000 years, nobody touched it. Nobody knew it was there. It took the genius of Klaus Schmidt, the original excavator, to realize what he'd found and what it was. But the great thing about the ceiling of Quebec, it had been the deliberate burial of Quebec is it means that no later culture trod over it and imposed their organic materials on it and messed up the dating sequences and so on and so forth or vandalized it or used it as a quarry, it's all there intact.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that ramp can't just be compacted sand since heavy objects are being hauled up. It's going to have to be made of very solid material, almost as solid as the pyramid itself. Where is it? We don't see any trace of those so-called ramps that are supposed to have been involved in the construction of the pyramid. I think we don't know. I think we have no idea it's built. That's why there's so many different theories. We haven't got the answer yet. But the how of it is one of the big mysteries from our past.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Remains of those ramps. If you're going to carry blocks weighing up to two or three tons right to the top of the Great Pyramid to complete your work, you're going to need a ramp that's going to extend out into the desert for more than a mile at a 10 degree slope, and it's calculated that a 10 degree slope is about the maximum slope that human labor can haul objects up a ramp.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, ramps won't do it. Ramps won't do it, nor will wet sand. It's true that the ancient Egyptians did haul big objects on sleds, on wet sand. There are even reliefs that show the process where an individual is standing on the front of the sledge pouring water down to lubricate the sand underneath. And that's a perfectly respectable way to move a 200 ton block of stone across sand, flat sand, if you have enough people to pull it. But that is not going to help you get dozens of 70 ton granite blocks 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the king's chamber and the floor of the chamber above it and the roof of that chamber and the floor of the chamber above that and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there. Somehow they were lifted up there. Now, yeah, ramps are proposed as the solution, but where are the”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, very, very much so, as above, so below, you know, which is an idea in the Hermetica, the god Hermes for the Greeks was the Greek version of Thoth, the wisdom god of ancient Egypt. And that's where that saying comes from. It comes from the Hermetica. But it's expressing an ancient Egyptian idea to mirror the perfection of the heavens on earth.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Clear that the later pyramids with the pyramid texts written on the walls, like the pyramid of Unas Dynasty Pyramid at Sakara, were tombs. But the Great Pyramid, to go to that length to create a tomb, to make it a scale model of the earth, to orient it perfectly to true north, to make it 6 million tons. This is not a tomb. This is something else. This is a curiosity device. This is something that is asking us to understand it. And I hope we will understand it. And I hope Egyptologists will be willing to set aside that prejudice that they're only looking at a tomb and consider other possibilities. And as New Tech is revealing these previously unknown inner spaces within the Great Pyramid, I think that's going to become more and more likely.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Investigate me, find out about me, figure out Cut into the side of the so called Queen's Chamber. Why do they slope up through the body of the Great Pyramid? Why do they not exit on the outside of the Great Pyramid? Why when we send a robot up those shafts do we find them after about one hundred sixty feet blocked by a door with metal handles? Why when we drill through that door to see what's beyond it three or four feet away we see another door It's like very frustrating, but it's saying to us, keep on exploring if you're persistent enough, we'll eventually give you the answer. So I'm hoping that that answer will come as to how this most mysterious of monuments was actually built and the inspiration that lay behind it certainly, I'm sure it was never a tomb or a tomb only. The later pyramids might have been. I actually know Pharaonic burial has been discovered in any pyramid, but nevertheless it's pretty...”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'd really like to know how the Great Pyramid was built. And we now have with new tech, with scanning technology, it's now become apparent that there are many major voids within the Great Pyramid. Right above the Grand Gallery, there's what looks like a second Grand Gallery that has been identified with remote scanning. And new chambers, one of them has even been opened up already, are being found as a result of this. So it may be that the Great Pyramid will ultimately give up its secrets. I often think that the Great Pyramid is partly designed to do that. It's designed to invite its own initiatives. Some people aren't interested in the Great Pyramid at all, but some people are fascinated by it, and they're drawn towards it. And when they're drawn towards it, it immediately starts raising questions in their minds. And they seek answers to their questions. So it's like saying, here I stand.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look how other people make us uncomfortable too. I mean, look at the state of the world today, all the conflicts that are raging. That's because we're afraid. When I say we, I'm speaking nation by nation. We are afraid of other people. We fear that they're going to hurt us or damage us in some way. And so we seek to stop that. It's the root of many, many conflicts, this fear. And so fear of AI may not be such a good idea after all. It might be very interesting to go down that route and see where it comes, certainly in terms of exploring consciousness. It is very interesting.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To manifest the consciousness and see if consciousness enters, if they become consciousness, isn't there some suggestion that artificial intelligence is already becoming conscious?”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. But why not? We're a vehicle for consciousness, in my view. I think consciousness is present in all life on Earth. I don't think it's limited to human beings. We have the equipment to manifest and express that consciousness in the way that a dog, for example, doesn't have, or a snail doesn't have, or a pigeon doesn't have. But when I look at two pigeons sitting on my garden fence and rubbing up close to each other and enjoying each other's company and taking off together and hanging out together, I think they're conscious beings. And I think consciousness is everywhere. I think it's the basis of everything. And I suspect that fundamentally consciousness is non-physical and that it can manifest in physical forms where it can then have experiences that would not be available in the non-physical state. That's a guess.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You bet it will, especially if we harness psychedelics to investigate consciousness. And that is what is happening at Imperial College right now, is the investigation of the experience. They're not looking, there are other trials that are looking for the therapeutic potential of DMT, but in this case, they're looking entirely at the experiences that people have and why they're so similar from people from different age groups and different genders and different parts of the world are all having the same experiences.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bizarre reasons being given, but unfortunately it was too late because a number of people had already downloaded the talk and then uploaded it onto other YouTube channels. And actually their banning of it made it go viral in a way that would not have happened otherwise. But again, it's a sign that points of view that are not acceptable to those in positions of power are simply dismissed and shut down, or at least attempts are made to do so.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wasn't really a radical question. I was talking about ayahuasca and I was talking about the view that I hold very strongly that as long as we do no harm to others, sovereign adults should be allowed to make decisions about their own bodies and not face a jail sentence or shaming as a result. So it was a TEDx talk, not a TED talk, organized by a local TED TED group. They call them TEDx talks. And I gave this talk about the war on consciousness. And it was immediately pulled down from Ted's main channel with all kinds of...”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We've seen a revolution in the way science looks at psychedelics in the last 20, 25 years. They were in that highly demonized category. But again, it's one of those paradigms which gets overwhelmed by new evidence and it began to be realized that psilocybin and other psychedelics are very helpful in a range of conditions from which people suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, the fear of death when you're suffering from terminal cancer can be overwhelming. And it's been found that psilocybin can remove that. Deep depressions can be evaporated with one single massive psilocybin journey. They just go away. There's really good science on this. And they are being integrated into conventional medicine more and more. We'll see it happening. I'm not sure if it'll happen as much as fast as I would like to see it happen in my lifetime, but it is going to happen.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Alcohol, which is glorified in our society. We cannot say that we are free if we allow a government to dictate to us what experiences we may or may not have in our inner consciousness while doing no harm to others. And the point there is we already have a whole raft of laws that deal with These drugs were all legalized and made available to people without shaming them, without punishing them in any way, but just part of normal social life. And then you could be sure that you were getting good product rather than really shitty product, which has been cut with all sorts of other things. Ultimately, the way forward is for adults to take responsibility for their own behavior and for society to allow that to happen and not to have big government taking responsibility for decisions that should be in the hands of individuals.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Job, very at least. I have no doubt that it would be a petty world. I mean, this raises an interesting point, which is the role of government in controlling our consciousness. And in my opinion, the so-called war on drugs is one of the fundamental abuses of human rights that have been undertaken in the past 60 years. It should be a Republican issue. If I understand the Republican Party correctly, the Republican Party believes in individual freedom for adults as much as possible, and particularly the freedom to make choices over their own bodies. But in the case of even cannabis, I know that's one of the great things that's happening in America. It's happening state by state where cannabis is being legalized on that draconian hand of government has been taken off the back of people who are consuming a medicine that is far less harmful than”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Make it a law, an absolute law, that anybody running for a powerful political position, particularly if that position is president or head of state in any kind of way, that that person has to undergo the ayahuasca ordeal first. They have to have 10 or 12 sessions of ayahuasca as a condition for applying for the job. I suspect that most who had had those experiences wouldn't want to apply for the job anymore. They would want to live a different kind of life. And those who did want to carry on being a leader of a nation would be very different people from the people who are leading the nations of the earth into chaos and destruction today.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, more contributing members of our community, more caring, more nurturing members of our community. That's got to be good for any community. I've said this a dozen times, but I'll say it again. If I had the power to do so, I would.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hits you with the same power, even if you took it yesterday and the day before, and you've taken it tomorrow as well, it's still going to have that same power. There's no tolerance there. So that's how they can use that lack of tolerance to keep volunteers in this state. And then when they debrief those volunteers, they're also putting them in MRI scanners and looking at what's happening in the brain. But when they debrief them, they're all talking about encounters with sentient others. There's even a group now called sentient others where people are exchanging volunteers are now exchanging their experiences. They weren't allowed to do so at the beginning of the experiment. But now that most of them have left it, they're exchanging their experiences. And it's all about encounters with insentient others who wish to teach them moral lessons. Now, to me, that's wild. What is going on here? How do we account for this? Yeah, I get the notion of hallucinations and brightly colored visuals, but the moral...”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“clear of at risk of their careers, there is very serious work now being done at Imperial College in London and at the University of California at San Diego, where volunteers are being given extended DMT. There's a new technology, DMTX, where the DMT is fed directly into the bloodstream by drip, and it's possible to keep the individual in the peak DMT state, which normally when you smoke or vape DMT, you're looking if you're lucky at 10 minutes or if you're unlucky, if it's a bad journey, because those 10 minutes can seem like forever. But with DMTX, with the drip feeding of DMT into the bloodstream, these volunteers actually could be kept in the peak state for hours. And unlike LSD, where you rapidly build up tolerance, nobody ever builds up tolerance to DMT. It always”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The cave, where he is again arguing that these astonishing similarities in cave art and rock art all around the world can only be properly explained by people in deeply altered states of consciousness attempting to remember when they return to a normal everyday state of consciousness, attempting to remember their visions and document them on permanent media like the wall of a cave. So typically you get a lot of geometric patterns, but you also got entities. And those entities often are therianthropes, part animal, part human in form might have the head of a wolf and the body of a human being, might have the head of a bird and the body of a human being and so on and so forth, and that they communicate with us in the visionary state. Interestingly, although this sounds like woo-woo and it is an area that most scientists would steal.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is. And the curious thing is that the same iconography, people paint their visions after ayahuasca sessions. People were painting in Europe, in the cave of Lasko, for example, and of course they had access to psilocybide mushrooms in prehistoric Europe. There's a remarkable commonality in the imagery that is painted. I like to give credit where credit is due. And there are two names that need to be mentioned here. One is the late great Terence McKenna and his book, Food of the Gods, where he proposed the idea very strongly that it was our ancestral encounters with psychedelics that made us fully human. That's what switched on the modern human mind. And very much the same idea began to be explored a bit earlier by Professor David Lewis Williams at the University of Widwatersrand in South Africa, a fabulous book called The Minded”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of all the plant medicines for accessing these mysterious realms. But there's no doubt you can access them. They're all tryptamines. They're all related to one another in one way. You can access them through LSD, and you certainly can access them through psilocyte mushrooms as well in large enough dose.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's fundamentally what ayahuasca is. It's a teacher, and it teaches moral lessons. And that's fascinating that a mixture of two plants should cause us to reflect on our own behavior and how it may have hurt and damaged and affected others, and fill us with a powerful wish not to repeat that negative behavior again in the future. The more baggage you carry in your life, the harder the beating that ayahuasca is going to give you until it forces you to confront and take responsibility for your own behavior. And that is an extraordinary thing to come from a plant brew in that way. And I think, yes, I think Iowa.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is that there is a presence within the ayahuasca brew, and she is present both in ayahuasca and in Yahe. And that's one of the reasons why the shamans say that actually the master of the process is the ayahuasca vine, not the leaves. It's as though the vine has harnessed the leaves to gain access to human consciousness. And there, if you have sufficient exposure to ayahuasca or yahae, you drink it enough times. I've had maybe 75 or 80 journeys with ayahuasca, you definitely start to feel an intelligent presence with a definite personality, which I interpret as feminine and which most people in the West interpreted as feminine and they call her mother ayahuasca. There are some tribes in the Amazon who interpret the spirit of ayahuasca as male, but in all cases, that spirit is seen as a teacher.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Amazon regard those trips where actually you don't see visions as amongst the most valuable, and they say you are learning stuff that you're not remembering, but you're learning it anyway. These sentient others that are encountered, what are they? You know, are they just figments of our brain on drugs? Or are we actually gaining access to a parallel reality, which is inhabited by consciousness, which is in a non-physical form? And I'm equally open to that idea. I think that may be what is going on here with ayahuasca. But the other thing.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are possibly more important. It may be apocryphal, but it was reported after Francis Crick's role and his Nobel Prize for the discovery of the double helix that he finally got it under the influence of LSD. There's the classic example of Kerry Mullis and the Polymerase chain reaction. He said he got that under the influence of LSD. So the notion that the alert problem-solving state of consciousness is the only valuable state of consciousness is disproved by valuable experiences that people have had in a visionary state. But the question that remains unresolved is those entities that we encounter in the, and not everybody encounters them, and you're certainly not going to encounter them on every ayahuasca trip. There are ayahuasca journeys where nothing seems to happen. I suspect something does happen, but it happens at a subconscious level. I know that's in the...”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Brain is made by the brain in the way that a factory makes cars, but I also am open to the possibility that the brain is a receiver of consciousness, just as a television set is the receiver of television signals. And that if that is the case, then we locked into the physical realm. We need our everyday alert problem-solving state of consciousness. And that's the state of consciousness that Western civilization values and highly encourages. But these other states of consciousness that allow us to access alternative realities”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Extraordinary experiences, and it isn't just pretty visuals, it's the sense of encounters with sentient others, that there are sentient beings, that somehow we're surrounded by a realm of sentience that is not normally accessible to us, and that what the ayahuasca brew and certain other psychedelics like some psychocybin mushrooms in a high enough dose can do it as well, LSD can do it, but ayahuasca is the master in this, of lowering the veil to what appears to be a seamlessly convincing other realm, other world. And of course the hardline rational scientist will say that's just all fantasies of your brain. But I don't think we fully understand or even close to understanding exactly what consciousness is. And I remain open to two possibilities, that consciousness is generated by”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, exactly. To realize that this is something very special and then to use the principles there to find another form of it. So ayahuasca is the form that is made with the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of the chakruna plant. But Yahe is made from the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of another vine diploplishing NNDMT, which is the DMT that everybody's pretty much familiar with these days, but also 5MEO DMT. And the Yahae experience, which I have also had, in my view, is more intense and more powerful, almost to the point of being overwhelming than the ayahuasca experience. But the result of this sophisticated chemistry that we find taking place here is Which is hideous to drink. The taste, I find it quite repulsive. I almost wretch just smelling it in the cup, but then unleashes these...”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“MT when absorbed orally. Basically, DMT is not accessible orally unless you combine it with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. And that's what I mean when I'm talking about science in the Amazon, because there's so many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, different species of plants and trees in the Amazon, and they've gone around and they found just two or three of them that put together can produce these extraordinary visionary experiences.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and the other ingredient are leaves that contain dimethyltryptamine, and there are two sources of that. One is a bush called Cycotria Viridis, that's its botanical name. They call it chakruna in the Amazon. And its leaves are rich in dimethyl tryptum in DMT, which is arguably the most powerful psychedelic known to science. The other source comes from another vine, Diplopteris Cabrirana, which the leaves of that vine also contain DMT. So the ayahuasca vine on its own is not going to give you a visionary journey. And the leaves that contain DMT on their own, whether they come from Diplopteris or whether they come from chicruna, are not going to give you a visionary journey. And the reason they're not going to give you the visionary journey is because of the enzyme monoamine oxidase in the gut that shuts down”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, ayahuasca is the result of shamanistic investigation of what's available in the Amaz Of course, ayahuasca is all the fad in Western industrialized societies today, and some people see it as a miracle cure for all kind of ailments and problems. And perhaps it is. Perhaps it can be in certain ways. Ayahuasca itself is not an Amazonian word. It comes from the Quechua language, and it means the vine of souls or the vine of the dead. But the ayahuasca vine is only one.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think all civilization arises out of shamanism and shamanism is a naturally scientific endeavor where experimentation is undertaken and exploration and investigation of the environment around us. And what I'm suggesting is that one group, perhaps more than one group, went a bit further than other groups did and used that study of the skies. Developed navigational techniques and were able to sail and explore the earth. But that ultimately what lies behind it is the same curiosity and investigative skill that shamans are still using in the Amazon to this day. And I do see them as scientists in a very proper use of the word.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that shamanism is the origin of everything, of value in humanity. I think it was the earliest form of science. When I spent time with shamans in the Amazon, I observed people who are constantly experimenting with plants in a very scientific way. They're always trying a pinch of this and a pinch of that in different forms, for example, of the ayahuasca brew to see if it enhances it or makes it different in any way. The invention of curare is a remarkable scientific feat which is entirely down to shamans in the Amazon. They are the scientists of the hunter forager state of society. And they were the ancient leaders of human civilization.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The fact that Homo erectus was all over the planet more than a million years ago. Is testament to that. And I do think that exploration urge is fundamental to humanity. And I would like to say that's what I think I'm doing. I'm exercising my urge to explore the past in my own way, making my own path and defining my own route.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Put forward. Maybe we just out competed them. Maybe anatomically modern humans had some brain connections that they didn't have, even though the Neanderthal brain was bigger than the brain of anatomically modern human beings, as the old saying goes, size isn't everything. Maybe we just had a more compact, more efficient brain. The fact of the matter is that Neanderthals and Denisovans did not survive the rise of Homo sapiens.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's interesting. There's no doubt that anatomically modern humans and the Neanderthals coexisted in Europe for at least 10,000 years, probably more than that. And yet one of the popular views is that anatomically modern humans wiped out the Neanderthals, that we killed them off. But at the same time, we were interbreeding with the Neanderthals. In a sense, the Neanderthals are not gone. They are still within us today. We are part Neanderthal. There's another theory that I've read about. There is some evidence that Neanderthals were cannibals, that there was ritual cannibalism took place amongst Neanderthals, and particularly the eating of human brains. And this can cause Kuru, which can kill off whole populations. That's another suggestion of why the Neanderthals died out. There's lots of possibilities that are...”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that Homo sapiens is the tail end of a very long deep series of mysteries that goes back right to the beginning of life on this planet and probably long before actually because this planet is part of the universe and God knows what else is out there in the universe.”
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“And evolutionary forces will work upon it in different ways in different environments, but the potential is there. Yes, it's something that we would do. If we were facing a complete extinction of life on planet Earth, a major global effort would be made to preserve it somehow. And that might well include firing off cryogenic chambers into the universe and hoping that some of them would land somewhere hospitable.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“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 genetically engineered bacteria into cryogenic chambers and fire them off into the universe in all directions. And bottom line of Crick's theory in life itself is one of those cryogenic containers containing bacterial life from another solar system crashed into the early Earth and that's why life began so suddenly here on Earth.”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who pointed out something odd that within a hundred million years of the Earth being cool enough to support life, there's bacterial life all over the planet. And Crick wrote a book called Life itself that was published in 1981. And he suggested that life had been brought here by a process of panspermia. Now that's an idea that's around in circulation that comets may carry bacteria which concede life on planets. But Crick actually in life itself was talking about directed panspermia. He envisaged, this is Crick, not me. He envisaged an alien civilization far away across the galaxy, which faced”
2024-10-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source