Age of Enlightenment
Segment # 098
What is most intriguing about Graham Hathcock is not his theories about how a lost civilization that existed 12,000 years ago might be linked to very similar myths around the world. Those statements are easy targets for the established archaeology community that mocks his theories and slanders him with an ease that reminds me of our current political “leaders”. No, what is most exciting are the questions that Hancock poses based on concrete scientific data. For this we get only crickets from the archaeologists who have no idea how hunter gathers could have constructed the stone sites that existed around the world. It is very inconvenient from the accepted timeline of our history to be confronted with sophisticated cultures that existed in the shadow of the end of the last ice age. Who were these people?
“This is a fascinating series and well worth your time. Hancock postulates that a lost civilization must have built these megalith sites that date to the period just after the end of the last Ice Age that was dominated by Hunter Gatherers. Hancock believes that it defies logic that Hunter Gatherers built these very sophisticated structures without any archaeological record of having the technological expertise to do it.. Hancock’s question seems obvious for a structure that predates the Egyptian pyramids by over 6000 years.”
See https://www.arttrak.com/blog-content/2022/11/an-attack-on-archaeology-fall-2022 .
Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey has delivered the oldest examples of religious monumental architecture so far known, dated by archaeological methods to 9600-8000 BC. At the end of its useful life, the megalithic enclosures of Göbekli Tepe were refilled systematically.
https://grahamhancock.com/ancient-apocalypse/
Netflix will be diving into ancient history, and some of the most obscure historical theories with its new docuseries Ancient Apocalypse set to arrive on Netflix globally on November 11th, 2022.
The series will be akin to Ancient Aliens, which regularly gets new season updates on Netflix and has featured in the top 10s in multiple regions.
Here’s the synopsis that’s showing on the Netflix page for the upcoming series:
“What if everything we know about prehistoric humans is wrong? Journalist Graham Hancock visits archeological sites around the world to uncover whether a civilization far more advanced than we ever believed possible existed thousands of years ago.”
Graham Hancock is a prolific writer and author who has produced a dozen titles and written for The Times and The Guardian.
His published works include Magician of the Gods, America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, and most recently, Visionary: The Definitive Edition of Supernatural.
Much of Hancock’s work is heavily disputed, including the idea of there was an advanced civilization that disappeared 12,000 years ago.
Many people have been struggling to find answers to a multitude of questions from an established ruling power structure that is emerging around the world. Questions are met with derision and slander as we are now expected to obey with resistance. I recall a similar period in history that ironically is beginning to look very much like the present. Maybe I was listening to at least some of my Tulane philosophy classes in the previous century.
The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment[note 2] was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects.[2][3] The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, and constitutional government.
The Enlightenment was preceded by the Scientific Revolution and the work of Francis Bacon, John Locke, and others. Some date the beginning of the Enlightenment to the publication of René Descartes' Discourse on the Method in 1637, featuring his famous dictum, Cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"). Others cite the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687) as the culmination of the Scientific Revolution and the beginning of the Enlightenment. European historians traditionally date its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France in 1715 and its end with the 1789 outbreak of the French Revolution. Many historians now date the end of the Enlightenment as the start of the 19th century, with the latest proposed year being the death of Immanuel Kant in 1804.
Philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, Masonic lodges, literary salons, coffeehouses and in printed books, journals, and pamphlets. The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Catholic Church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism, communism, and neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment.[4]
The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Church. The principles of sociability and utility also played an important role in circulating knowledge useful to the improvement of society at large. The Enlightenment was marked by an increasing awareness of the relationship between the mind and the everyday media of the world,[5] and by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy—an attitude captured by Immanuel Kant's essay Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment, where the phrase Sapere aude (Dare to know) can be found.[6]
