Graham Hancock joins David Wilcock to discuss how archeological discoveries and astronomical interpretations which have arisen since the 1995 publication of his seminal book, Fingerprints of the Gods have tended to support his view that Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis are to be taken literally.

The most monumental development by far has been the 2009 publication of Klaus Schmidt’s findings at the Gobekli Tepe archeological site. The dating of the site to the 10th–8th millennium BCE lends credence to Graham’s claims that the Giza complex is much older than proposed by 19th century Egyptologists.

Graham says that enough scientific studies have been done at this point for him to conclude that a series of cometary impacts that occurred around 11,890 years ago were the cause not just of the megafauna extinctions (mammoths, lions, ground sloths and other huge mammals that roamed the Americas until then) but of a civilizational collapse due to massive flooding, earthquakes and the sudden deep freeze of the Younger Dryas period, which occurred just as the last Ice Age was ending. The biggest impact was at the Laurentide Shield on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes area, which was covered in glacial ice up to two miles thick at the time.

This view is supported by Dr. Victor Clube, retired Dean of the Astrophysics Department at Oxford and former astronomer at the Royal Observatory, as well as Dr. Richard Firestone of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California. Clube proposes that this same cluster today known as Comet Encke and its accompanying Taurid complex was once a much larger body and that it has been breaking up over our heads over the past 20,000 to 30,000 years and that it was also responsible for the collapse of several Bronze Age civilizations in the Fertile Crescent.

The Taurid complex is the largest stream of matter in the inner Solar System. Taurid meteor showers occur twice a year but the stream has a cycle of activity that peaks every 2,500 to 3,000 years, when there are larger impactors. The Royal Observatory in Scotland estimates that the next peak involving large-sized meteors from the Taurids will begin sometime between the years 2400-3000 AD. Some archeo-astronomers note that dates for megalith complexes such as Stonehenge are associated with these peaks.

Due to the stream’s size, the Earth takes several weeks to pass through it, causing an extended period of meteor activity, compared with the much smaller periods of activity in other showers. The Taurids are also made up of weightier material, pebbles instead of dust grains. Many astronomers consider these to be the cause of the 1908 Tunguska event. I wrote about all of this at length in this book, which was based on a film that was inspired by Fingerprints of the Gods!

This is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s covered in this interview with the great Graham Hancock.

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  • Where humanity base on a number of human beings, the question is what is the “secret” origin of such a being?
    In a material way, a human being exists by carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, helium etc.
    These are the materials which are found also in any star, or any galaxy.
    Now the origin of this materials is found at the beginning of our material universe, so by the so-called big bang.

    However, I never heard that our sun or any galaxy is thinking, feeling and sensing in the way human beings do this. Still the galaxies seem to be present much earlier as a human being inside universe.
    When the origin of human matter is found, now the question is: From where comes intelligence, intellect, intuition, instinct, thinking feeling and sensing? What is consciousness made of? In general I say, this is a spiritual affair, which has an impact of spiritual evolution.

    Now……..what is the origin of spirituality? Where did it start? Where does it go?
    Religions say: this is god, where I have some difficulties to grasp what god is. When is said that all species are made by god, in this case I wonder why he f.e. made Hitler etc.

    Maybe I have to think this way: The original universe is spiritual, where by its intellect and intellegence stars, galaxies etc, were created? In that case a black hole or a wormhole is also created by a spiritual impact.

    Where also on earth is created suffer, püain, happiness, love, hate etc.
    Why in “gods” name has there been created any violence on earth??

    I know, it is not so easy to find an answer.
    Meanwhile I know, there is intelligence, consciousness etc.
    Meanwhile I know there is time, coming out of universe.
    Meanwhile I know, there is timeless (eternity) present inside universe.

    I accept that the goal of spirituality is to discover what is a singular spirit, which is present INSIDE my material being, however is NOT of any matter.
    This singular identity is pure spirtual energy and mass, transformed out of biological matter.
    I experience also that this energetic identity is active inside the centre of my being.

    By any kind of archelogy is discovered hwo much violence is happening on earth. Even mother earth itself shakes itself, now killing people on its surface. Why????
    Is there a space/place where a kind of intelligence is present without any fight???

    Or is there an intelligent presence, which does not have to deal with death?

    Asking these questions myself, the last answer I found is:
    It is all INSIDE a void inside my material body, where I found the centre of my human moment of time as the space of timelesness.

    It seems to be a bit crazy, however I never was interested in any history.
    However by finding my centre, now I know of what my history is made of.

    So the secret origin of being human in a spiritual/material way is found in the origion, which was present before the big bang.

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