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The internet has caused cracks to appear in the image those cowed archaeologists had upheld the century before and Graham Hancock but the boot in in his eloquent way in America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization the audiobook i will post the coming weeks read by the man himself. But wait there's more Robert A. Monroe takes you on a guided trip the coming months to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. I'd say a great way to spend the freetime corona delivers. And in the meantime i will keep trying to convice you that current astrophysics is producing nothing but pretty computer graphics and fantastical nonsense on par with Disney sci-fi and needless to say starving the Electric Universe people of funds to be able to blow all that nonsense, that has been produced this last century by established astrophysics, out of the water. These people don't care about truth only their next paycheck , lets face it most established sciences are dead or codified like the medieval Catholic Church. The only 'moving' sciences are computer and bio-genetic but then these are young sciences. This stranglehold of the past ignorance must be broken.The Electric Universe Theory is an excellent candidate to break the deadlock.
Hancock's thesis is based on the previously widely criticized Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes that the Younger Dryas climate event was caused by one or more large comets striking the Earth around 10,800 BC. Hancock argues that this caused widespread destruction, with a short-term return to Ice Age conditions followed by massive flooding that altered the continental landscape. Specifically, he claims that coastal civilizations in and around the Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean were destroyed by rising sea levels. He argues that this was the origin of various flood myths around the world, and that "what we think of as human history is merely the record of human events that have transpired since the last, great planetary catastrophe.
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What is Gateway Experience®
Mind Awakening program to help you achieve expanded awareness, and much more.
The Gateway Experience® In-Home Training Series is dedicated to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. Beginning with Discovery, there are seven "albums” called "Waves of Change.” Each Wave (3 CDs, 6 tracks) contains special Hemi-Sync® exercises designed to gently lead the listener into profound states of expanded awareness. While in such states, one has available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance.
Each album is progressive in nature, building on the tools and techniques from the previous albums. Therefore, the albums must be used sequentially. The Gateway Experience Guidance Manuals, included with each Wave, prepare you for these exercises which help you to know and better understand your total self so you might enjoy a more fulfilling life.
What can you expect from the Gateway Experience?
"As much or as little as you put into it. Some discover themselves and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers-after-truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily activity."
-- Robert A. Monroe
Gateway Experience® Wave V – Exploring
(A Journey to Focus 15)
From the now familiar state of Focus 12, you will be introduced to Focus 15 – the “no time” state – the state of simply being. Here, far beyond your five physical senses, you can connect with the source of your intuition. Voiced by A.J. Honeycutt. Includes Guidance Manual and the following six exercises:
Advanced Focus 12 – strengthen and reinforce your familiarity with this valuable state
Discovering Intuition – use Focus 12 as a natural foundation for enhancing your intuitive abilities
Exploring Intuition – further exploration of your intuitive abilities
Intro to Focus 15 – be guided into Focus 15, the state of “no time,” where time does not exist for you
Mission 15 Creation and Manifestation – explore Focus 15 as a powerful state of creation and manifestation
Exploring Focus 15 – a free flow opportunity for further exploration of this extraordinary state
The Gateway Experience - Wave V - Exploring Focus 15 3,4 ( 70min flac 230mb).:
CD1 - 1 - Advanced Focus 12 35:02
CD1 - 2 - Discovering Intuition 35:00
The Gateway Experience - Wave V - Exploring Focus 15 (PDF)
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Over twenty years ago, astronomers "discovered" that they think the Universe is expanding.
Observations of distant galaxies appear to indicate that the Universe is expanding faster today than it did in the past. Since that information does not fit into conventional Big Bang theories, the existence of a negative pressure on gravitational fields was proposed. “Negative gravity” was an uncomfortable concept, however, so the force was later called, “dark energy”. Like “dark matter” it cannot be detected with any instrument.
Rather than accepting that “anomalies” in their observations exist because the Big Bang theory is faulty, astronomers resort to increasingly arcane ideas involving extra dimensions, such as string theory, or that space is getting bigger.
Previous Pictures of the Day commented on the discovery of “cosmic voids” based on the detection of “lower temperature” regions in space. As the redshift-equals-distance theory indicates, the voids extend for millions of light-years. It is these “supervoids,” in conjunction with multiple galactic superclusters, that lead astrophysicists to believe they have a confirmation for dark energy.
“The Boötes void, which you will assuredly not see if you look at Boötes, the ‘ploughman’ constellation adjacent to the Big Dipper, is a rough sphere about 280 million light years in diameter…When we first saw the void, we found only one galaxy inside. Since then, we’ve detected only a few dozen more. By contrast, the Virgo Supercluster, a smaller region that includes the Milky Way, contains over 2000 galaxies.”
Regions of greater density in the Universe are said to increase the gravitational energy imparted to microwave emissions from deep space. Conversely, lower density regions (voids) are thought to weaken the signals, because there is reduced mass. Looking at microwave signals from telescopes like the Very Large Array, there appears to be wide expanses where microwave radiation possesses a larger energy curve than it should exhibit. The problems associated with the Cosmic Microwave Background are not the topic of this paper. Suffice to say, what was thought to be radiation from deep space is really radiation from Earth’s oceans.
One astronomer noted that:
“The Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy and we don’t know what either of them is.” In other words, two of the most active phenomena in astrophysics are false premises. Plasma physicists, on the other hand, observe that plasma makes up 99.99% of the Universe. It is a fascinating convergence that the volume of gravitational mass invented to save Big Bang cosmology is the same as the mass of plasma that is overlooked. In an Electric Universe, electricity drives galaxies and their associated stars. Laboratory experiments confirm that Birkeland current filaments form structures that resemble spiral galaxies. Birkeland currents have a longer-range attractive force than gravity by several orders of magnitude, diminishing with the square root of the distance from the current axis – which could account for the anomalous movement of stars as they revolve around the galactic core, as well as the anomalous acceleration of galaxies in deep space.
Instead of accepting that “anomalies” exist because the Big Bang theory is faulty, astronomers resort to the absurd idea that space can be pulled, twisted, or stretched.
As physicist and Electric Universe advocate Wal Thornhill wrote: “It’s not that most of the matter and energy in the universe is dark, but that most cosmologists are totally in the dark about the real nature of the Universe.”
Stephen Smith
xxxxx
Cepheid variables are stars whose rates of pulsation vary with their luminosities: the brighter the star the longer it takes to complete a cycle of variability. It’s called the period–luminosity relationship.
When Cepheids are used as indicators for the distances to nearby galaxies, a necessary assumption is that mass is invariant throughout the universe. But if mass varies with charge, each galaxy—and therefore each star in it—could have a different charge distribution with respect to the intergalactic plasma. Each galaxy could have an idiosyncratic period-luminosity relationship for Cepheids, rendering them unusable for determining distances to other galaxies.
In this episode, Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson explains how recent discoveries, which appear to affirm the standard theory of stellar pulsation, have also falsified the standard theory of stellar evolution.
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Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, has made it his life’s work to find out — and in America Before he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.
Hancock’s research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientific rebels responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient ‘New World’ cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected ‘Old World’ cultures.
Have archaeologists focussed for too long only on the ‘Old World’ in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the ‘New World’?
America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock’s body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
A few of the revelations from the book:
We were taught in school that the Americas were the last of the great landmasses of the Earth to be inhabited by humans – who were thought to have arrived exclusively on foot from northeast Asia around 13,000 years ago by crossing the Bering Straits which formed a land-bridge to Alaska during the lowered sea-levels of the Ice Age. By contrast, anatomically modern humans, originating in Africa, are believed to have reached Europe, Asia, and even Australia, as far back as 60,000 years ago.
Since the recent publication in Nature of landmark research in southern California scientists have begun to realise that something of immense importance is missing from this long-established picture. Though the general public have not been kept well informed, it now appears that the Americas were first peopled at least 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Yet because of the dominance of the former – and now entirely discredited – theory of the late peopling of the Americas, and of mental blocks associated with that theory, archaeologists continue to focus only on the ‘Old World’ in their search for the origins of civilization and have not considered the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the ‘New World’.
Certain tribes of the Amazon rainforest are closely related to Australian Aborigines and to Melanesians from Papua New Guinea. This extraordinary, unexpected and extremely ancient DNA signal is only present in South America and is completely absent in North America and Mesoamerica. It bears witness to something that archaeologists hitherto believed to be impossible – that the technology and skills needed to cross the Pacific Ocean, and successfully resettle a reproductively-viable population, existed more than 13,000 years ago.
Such secrets of human prehistory, now revealed by cutting-edge science, call for a complete rethink of our understanding of our own remote past and hint at the existence of a lost civilization of the Ice Age.
Astonishing similarities exist between the spiritual beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, as manifested in their Books of the Dead, and the spiritual beliefs of the mound-builder cultures of the Mississippi Valley – as manifested, for example, at Moundville in Alabama, Cahokia in Illinois and Watson Brake in Louisiana. Hitherto written off as ‘coincidental’ by archaeologists, the new investigation presented in America Before confirms that the parallels are very real. The deep and explicit details, imagery and beliefs, shared by these two supposedly unconnected religious systems can no longer be dismissed as coincidence. Nor are they the result of direct ‘diffusion’ of culture from ancient Egypt to ancient North America, or vice versa. Challenging our entire understanding of prehistory, what the evidence points to instead is a shared legacy of sophisticated ideas concerning the mystery of life and death inherited more than 13,000 years ago, in both the ‘Old’ World and the ‘New’, from an advanced predecessor civilization as yet unidentified by archaeologists.
South America’s Amazon rainforest has long been regarded as pristine jungle, unpeopled until less than a thousand years ago and thereafter inhabited only by ‘primitive’ tribes of hunter gatherers.
America Before, comprehensively refutes this picture with a thorough investigation of the latest scientific evidence.
Far from an untouched wilderness, the book reveals the Amazon to be a vast ‘garden’, very precisely shaped and moulded by humans for more than 13,000 years. It’s early inhabitants possessed advanced scientific knowledge concerning the molecular properties of plants – evident in concoctions such as the visionary brew ayahuasca and the nerve poison curare. Those first peoples of the Amazon were also the creators of a ‘miracle earth’ – terra preta –still capable of rejuvenating much younger infertile soils when it is added to them today.
Thanks to scanning technologies such as LIDAR, and because of the tragic ongoing clearances of old-growth rainforest to make way for cattle ranches, we now know that great cities once existed in the Amazon, their populations supported by the immense agricultural productivity of terra preta.
We know, too, that in ancient times there were people here who possessed and deployed sophisticated geometrical and astronomical skills to create immense earthworks, many with footprints larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
America Before reveals the true extent and significance of these vast, newly-discovered Amazonian ‘geoglyphs’, their stunning resemblance to the equally grand and mysterious earthworks of Ohio, such as Serpent Mound, and the Newark and High Bank works, and connections to other geometrical and astronomical monuments as far afield as Stonehenge in England and Angkor in Cambodia.
Again, what the evidence points to is a shared legacy of knowledge inherited from a much earlier civilization that has been lost to history.
For some decades it has been generally accepted that a global cataclysm occurred around 12,800 years ago at the onset of a mysterious period of earth changes and climate instability known to geologists as the Younger Dryas. Since 2007 a group of more than 60 scientists, publishing in leading peer-reviewed journals, have presented evidence linking the cataclysm to a disintegrating comet that crossed the orbit of the earth 12,800 years ago and bombarded our planet with a ‘swarm’ of fragments, some more than a kilometre in diameter.
Though compelling, with new corroborative studies published every year, the comet hypothesis remains controversial and a number scientists favour other explanations. What all are agreed on, however, is that a global cataclysm did indeed occur.
America Before reveals that the epicentre of the cataclysm lay in North America, then still in the grip of the Ice Age with much of the northern half of the continent covered in ice a mile deep. An immense flood was unleashed as large sectors of the ice cap suddenly melted. From the Channelled Scablands of the state of Washington, via the gigantic pot-holes lining the Saint Croix River in Minnesota, to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, a huge swathe of North America was swept clean by this deluge. At the same time global sea-level rose, the Gulf Stream was stopped in its tracks and the world was plunged into a deep-freeze that lasted 1,200 years.
It was the end of the former age of the earth, the Pleistocene, and the beginning of our own epoch, the Holocene. In the transition, America Before reveals that an advanced civilization, hitherto the stuff of myth and legend, was lost to history.
xxxxx
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 28-30 ( 118min 52mb)
narrated by the man himself, Graham Hancock
28. Chapter 27 - Cape Fear 39:35
29. Chapter 28 - Hunter-Gatherers and the Lost Civilization 26:14
30. Chapter 29 - Unknown Unknowns 51:35
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previously
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 1-5 ( 113min 52mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 6-10 ( 137min 61mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 11-15 ( 124min 57mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 16-20 ( 145min 67mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 21-24 ( 158min 70mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 25-27 ( 133min 61mb)
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The internet has caused cracks to appear in the image those cowed archaeologists had upheld the century before and Graham Hancock but the boot in in his eloquent way in America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization the audiobook i will post the coming weeks read by the man himself. But wait there's more Robert A. Monroe takes you on a guided trip the coming months to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. I'd say a great way to spend the freetime corona delivers. And in the meantime i will keep trying to convice you that current astrophysics is producing nothing but pretty computer graphics and fantastical nonsense on par with Disney sci-fi and needless to say starving the Electric Universe people of funds to be able to blow all that nonsense, that has been produced this last century by established astrophysics, out of the water. These people don't care about truth only their next paycheck , lets face it most established sciences are dead or codified like the medieval Catholic Church. The only 'moving' sciences are computer and bio-genetic but then these are young sciences. This stranglehold of the past ignorance must be broken.The Electric Universe Theory is an excellent candidate to break the deadlock.
Hancock's thesis is based on the previously widely criticized Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes that the Younger Dryas climate event was caused by one or more large comets striking the Earth around 10,800 BC. Hancock argues that this caused widespread destruction, with a short-term return to Ice Age conditions followed by massive flooding that altered the continental landscape. Specifically, he claims that coastal civilizations in and around the Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean were destroyed by rising sea levels. He argues that this was the origin of various flood myths around the world, and that "what we think of as human history is merely the record of human events that have transpired since the last, great planetary catastrophe.
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
What is Gateway Experience®
Mind Awakening program to help you achieve expanded awareness, and much more.
The Gateway Experience® In-Home Training Series is dedicated to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. Beginning with Discovery, there are seven "albums” called "Waves of Change.” Each Wave (3 CDs, 6 tracks) contains special Hemi-Sync® exercises designed to gently lead the listener into profound states of expanded awareness. While in such states, one has available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance.
Each album is progressive in nature, building on the tools and techniques from the previous albums. Therefore, the albums must be used sequentially. The Gateway Experience Guidance Manuals, included with each Wave, prepare you for these exercises which help you to know and better understand your total self so you might enjoy a more fulfilling life.
What can you expect from the Gateway Experience?
"As much or as little as you put into it. Some discover themselves and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers-after-truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily activity."
-- Robert A. Monroe
Gateway Experience® Wave V – Exploring
(A Journey to Focus 15)
From the now familiar state of Focus 12, you will be introduced to Focus 15 – the “no time” state – the state of simply being. Here, far beyond your five physical senses, you can connect with the source of your intuition. Voiced by A.J. Honeycutt. Includes Guidance Manual and the following six exercises:
Advanced Focus 12 – strengthen and reinforce your familiarity with this valuable state
Discovering Intuition – use Focus 12 as a natural foundation for enhancing your intuitive abilities
Exploring Intuition – further exploration of your intuitive abilities
Intro to Focus 15 – be guided into Focus 15, the state of “no time,” where time does not exist for you
Mission 15 Creation and Manifestation – explore Focus 15 as a powerful state of creation and manifestation
Exploring Focus 15 – a free flow opportunity for further exploration of this extraordinary state
The Gateway Experience - Wave V - Exploring Focus 15 3,4 ( 70min flac 230mb).:
CD1 - 1 - Advanced Focus 12 35:02
CD1 - 2 - Discovering Intuition 35:00
The Gateway Experience - Wave V - Exploring Focus 15 (PDF)
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Over twenty years ago, astronomers "discovered" that they think the Universe is expanding.
Observations of distant galaxies appear to indicate that the Universe is expanding faster today than it did in the past. Since that information does not fit into conventional Big Bang theories, the existence of a negative pressure on gravitational fields was proposed. “Negative gravity” was an uncomfortable concept, however, so the force was later called, “dark energy”. Like “dark matter” it cannot be detected with any instrument.
Rather than accepting that “anomalies” in their observations exist because the Big Bang theory is faulty, astronomers resort to increasingly arcane ideas involving extra dimensions, such as string theory, or that space is getting bigger.
Previous Pictures of the Day commented on the discovery of “cosmic voids” based on the detection of “lower temperature” regions in space. As the redshift-equals-distance theory indicates, the voids extend for millions of light-years. It is these “supervoids,” in conjunction with multiple galactic superclusters, that lead astrophysicists to believe they have a confirmation for dark energy.
“The Boötes void, which you will assuredly not see if you look at Boötes, the ‘ploughman’ constellation adjacent to the Big Dipper, is a rough sphere about 280 million light years in diameter…When we first saw the void, we found only one galaxy inside. Since then, we’ve detected only a few dozen more. By contrast, the Virgo Supercluster, a smaller region that includes the Milky Way, contains over 2000 galaxies.”
Regions of greater density in the Universe are said to increase the gravitational energy imparted to microwave emissions from deep space. Conversely, lower density regions (voids) are thought to weaken the signals, because there is reduced mass. Looking at microwave signals from telescopes like the Very Large Array, there appears to be wide expanses where microwave radiation possesses a larger energy curve than it should exhibit. The problems associated with the Cosmic Microwave Background are not the topic of this paper. Suffice to say, what was thought to be radiation from deep space is really radiation from Earth’s oceans.
One astronomer noted that:
“The Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy and we don’t know what either of them is.” In other words, two of the most active phenomena in astrophysics are false premises. Plasma physicists, on the other hand, observe that plasma makes up 99.99% of the Universe. It is a fascinating convergence that the volume of gravitational mass invented to save Big Bang cosmology is the same as the mass of plasma that is overlooked. In an Electric Universe, electricity drives galaxies and their associated stars. Laboratory experiments confirm that Birkeland current filaments form structures that resemble spiral galaxies. Birkeland currents have a longer-range attractive force than gravity by several orders of magnitude, diminishing with the square root of the distance from the current axis – which could account for the anomalous movement of stars as they revolve around the galactic core, as well as the anomalous acceleration of galaxies in deep space.
Instead of accepting that “anomalies” exist because the Big Bang theory is faulty, astronomers resort to the absurd idea that space can be pulled, twisted, or stretched.
As physicist and Electric Universe advocate Wal Thornhill wrote: “It’s not that most of the matter and energy in the universe is dark, but that most cosmologists are totally in the dark about the real nature of the Universe.”
Stephen Smith
xxxxx
Cepheid variables are stars whose rates of pulsation vary with their luminosities: the brighter the star the longer it takes to complete a cycle of variability. It’s called the period–luminosity relationship.
When Cepheids are used as indicators for the distances to nearby galaxies, a necessary assumption is that mass is invariant throughout the universe. But if mass varies with charge, each galaxy—and therefore each star in it—could have a different charge distribution with respect to the intergalactic plasma. Each galaxy could have an idiosyncratic period-luminosity relationship for Cepheids, rendering them unusable for determining distances to other galaxies.
In this episode, Thunderbolts contributor Mel Acheson explains how recent discoveries, which appear to affirm the standard theory of stellar pulsation, have also falsified the standard theory of stellar evolution.
xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, has made it his life’s work to find out — and in America Before he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.
Hancock’s research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientific rebels responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient ‘New World’ cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected ‘Old World’ cultures.
Have archaeologists focussed for too long only on the ‘Old World’ in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the ‘New World’?
America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock’s body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
A few of the revelations from the book:
We were taught in school that the Americas were the last of the great landmasses of the Earth to be inhabited by humans – who were thought to have arrived exclusively on foot from northeast Asia around 13,000 years ago by crossing the Bering Straits which formed a land-bridge to Alaska during the lowered sea-levels of the Ice Age. By contrast, anatomically modern humans, originating in Africa, are believed to have reached Europe, Asia, and even Australia, as far back as 60,000 years ago.
Since the recent publication in Nature of landmark research in southern California scientists have begun to realise that something of immense importance is missing from this long-established picture. Though the general public have not been kept well informed, it now appears that the Americas were first peopled at least 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Yet because of the dominance of the former – and now entirely discredited – theory of the late peopling of the Americas, and of mental blocks associated with that theory, archaeologists continue to focus only on the ‘Old World’ in their search for the origins of civilization and have not considered the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the ‘New World’.
Certain tribes of the Amazon rainforest are closely related to Australian Aborigines and to Melanesians from Papua New Guinea. This extraordinary, unexpected and extremely ancient DNA signal is only present in South America and is completely absent in North America and Mesoamerica. It bears witness to something that archaeologists hitherto believed to be impossible – that the technology and skills needed to cross the Pacific Ocean, and successfully resettle a reproductively-viable population, existed more than 13,000 years ago.
Such secrets of human prehistory, now revealed by cutting-edge science, call for a complete rethink of our understanding of our own remote past and hint at the existence of a lost civilization of the Ice Age.
Astonishing similarities exist between the spiritual beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, as manifested in their Books of the Dead, and the spiritual beliefs of the mound-builder cultures of the Mississippi Valley – as manifested, for example, at Moundville in Alabama, Cahokia in Illinois and Watson Brake in Louisiana. Hitherto written off as ‘coincidental’ by archaeologists, the new investigation presented in America Before confirms that the parallels are very real. The deep and explicit details, imagery and beliefs, shared by these two supposedly unconnected religious systems can no longer be dismissed as coincidence. Nor are they the result of direct ‘diffusion’ of culture from ancient Egypt to ancient North America, or vice versa. Challenging our entire understanding of prehistory, what the evidence points to instead is a shared legacy of sophisticated ideas concerning the mystery of life and death inherited more than 13,000 years ago, in both the ‘Old’ World and the ‘New’, from an advanced predecessor civilization as yet unidentified by archaeologists.
South America’s Amazon rainforest has long been regarded as pristine jungle, unpeopled until less than a thousand years ago and thereafter inhabited only by ‘primitive’ tribes of hunter gatherers.
America Before, comprehensively refutes this picture with a thorough investigation of the latest scientific evidence.
Far from an untouched wilderness, the book reveals the Amazon to be a vast ‘garden’, very precisely shaped and moulded by humans for more than 13,000 years. It’s early inhabitants possessed advanced scientific knowledge concerning the molecular properties of plants – evident in concoctions such as the visionary brew ayahuasca and the nerve poison curare. Those first peoples of the Amazon were also the creators of a ‘miracle earth’ – terra preta –still capable of rejuvenating much younger infertile soils when it is added to them today.
Thanks to scanning technologies such as LIDAR, and because of the tragic ongoing clearances of old-growth rainforest to make way for cattle ranches, we now know that great cities once existed in the Amazon, their populations supported by the immense agricultural productivity of terra preta.
We know, too, that in ancient times there were people here who possessed and deployed sophisticated geometrical and astronomical skills to create immense earthworks, many with footprints larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
America Before reveals the true extent and significance of these vast, newly-discovered Amazonian ‘geoglyphs’, their stunning resemblance to the equally grand and mysterious earthworks of Ohio, such as Serpent Mound, and the Newark and High Bank works, and connections to other geometrical and astronomical monuments as far afield as Stonehenge in England and Angkor in Cambodia.
Again, what the evidence points to is a shared legacy of knowledge inherited from a much earlier civilization that has been lost to history.
For some decades it has been generally accepted that a global cataclysm occurred around 12,800 years ago at the onset of a mysterious period of earth changes and climate instability known to geologists as the Younger Dryas. Since 2007 a group of more than 60 scientists, publishing in leading peer-reviewed journals, have presented evidence linking the cataclysm to a disintegrating comet that crossed the orbit of the earth 12,800 years ago and bombarded our planet with a ‘swarm’ of fragments, some more than a kilometre in diameter.
Though compelling, with new corroborative studies published every year, the comet hypothesis remains controversial and a number scientists favour other explanations. What all are agreed on, however, is that a global cataclysm did indeed occur.
America Before reveals that the epicentre of the cataclysm lay in North America, then still in the grip of the Ice Age with much of the northern half of the continent covered in ice a mile deep. An immense flood was unleashed as large sectors of the ice cap suddenly melted. From the Channelled Scablands of the state of Washington, via the gigantic pot-holes lining the Saint Croix River in Minnesota, to the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, a huge swathe of North America was swept clean by this deluge. At the same time global sea-level rose, the Gulf Stream was stopped in its tracks and the world was plunged into a deep-freeze that lasted 1,200 years.
It was the end of the former age of the earth, the Pleistocene, and the beginning of our own epoch, the Holocene. In the transition, America Before reveals that an advanced civilization, hitherto the stuff of myth and legend, was lost to history.
xxxxx
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 28-30 ( 118min 52mb)
narrated by the man himself, Graham Hancock
28. Chapter 27 - Cape Fear 39:35
29. Chapter 28 - Hunter-Gatherers and the Lost Civilization 26:14
30. Chapter 29 - Unknown Unknowns 51:35
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previously
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 1-5 ( 113min 52mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 6-10 ( 137min 61mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 11-15 ( 124min 57mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 16-20 ( 145min 67mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 21-24 ( 158min 70mb)
Graham Hancock - America Before - The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization 25-27 ( 133min 61mb)
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