Hey WS2 - I saw Graham Hancock in London about a month ago and although his talk didn't cover any new ground, it was great to get a 'feel for the man himself' - and the impression I had that he's a very genuine human being was confirmed. As well as some of his own material, his web site has some interesting articles posted by different authors here :
http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/default.htmHancock (and others, including Lewis E Graham, author of this piece
http://www.grahamhancock.com/promotions ... lume-I.pdf - ) have been saying for a long time that a cosmic impact c13k years ago caused a quickening of the already underway ice-age melt, wiping out advanced civilisations overnight and spawning mankinds 'great flood' collective memories. Interesting that this snippet of news -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23536567 - appears just in the last week! Hancock is also convinced that many of the ancient monuments that stand in place today are built on the foundations of much, much earlier sites. Some recent (and not so recent) RI activity on possible sites:
Ancient 'Lost City' found in Cambodian Jungle -
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36592Indonesia: StoneHenge, with singing rocks -
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=369097,000 years older than Stonehenge (Gobekli tepi) -
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17426&hilit=gobekliThese examples are just a few amongst many and appear to be opening up new avenues of research and perhaps an overdue re-writing of ancient history.
In a similar(ish) vein, in my search for explanations regarding the acceleration of time and consciousness - I found Ian Lungolds 'Mayan calendar comes North' (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufWklydk3U) very interesting, not least for it's thesis that the Mayan people 'comfortably locked themselves into their correct time, place and consciousness' with their pretty sophisticated calendars. I originally came across this presentation because I was feeling that time was speeding up (yes, I know
) and was intreagued that Lungold's interpretation of the calendars included a reason for this feeling. (The talk is somewhat let down at the end by Lungolds hubris at prediction, but that's fine - to err is human!)
Another talk I found that resonated with me - this time from Geoffrey West -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc - A particle physicist for 40yrs, Geoffrey has a more scientific theory about the speeding nature of time and consciousness and where we're headed collectively. I found his reasoning, methodolgy and theorum to be pretty convincing.
Incidentally, Rupert Sheldrakes 'The Science Delusion' is quite an eye-opener if you've never questioned the basic tenets of science before!
Anyway, hope I'm not too wide of the mark or that you have already been down these avenues - cheers!