Over the course of more than 500 well documented pages, Graham Hancock, in his new book, Supernatural, comes to some astounding conclusions. Based on his exhaustive research, covering thousands of years of records, and cited in more than 60 pages of notes and references, he concludes that there is highly convincing evidence to support the following –• There is a direct connection between a) the 35,000-year-old cave drawings seen throughout Europe (many of which depict part-human/part-animal beings),
the spiritual realm frequented by shamans and shamanism from ancient times to the modern day, c) the fairy world observed for more than a thousand years, d) aliens (and alien abductions) common during the last half of the 20th Century, and e) the world’s religions.• All of the above phenomena share an astounding number of characteristics in common, all of them the result of direct visionary experience.
• There is ample evidence – some of it currently supported by orthodox academicians – that these visionary experiences, for these tens of thousands of years, have been facilitated by the ingestion of naturally occurring psychoactive plants and herbs.
• And finally, that these visionary experiences have in truth been doorways into other parallel realities, and not merely constructions of the mind.
If correct, this information obliterates our traditional understanding of the nature of reality, opening us to one that’s far more expansive, extraordinary, and mysterious.
Previous to this new book, Graham Hancock authored the major international bestsellers The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven’s Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. He is recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity’s history and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars.
Of his first bestseller, The Sign and the Seal, which investigated the mystique and whereabouts today of the lost Ark of the Covenant, the respected Guardian newspaper (UK) commented, “Hancock has invented a new genre. An intellectual whodunit by a do-it-yourself sleuth.” The same can certainly be said of Supernatural. Of the current volume, Gary Lachman of The Guardian has said, “… Hancock links a wealth of material in this fascinating psychedelic detective story, from Amazonian ayahuasqueros to [Nobel Laureate] Francis Crick’s theory that life was ‘seeded’ by extraterrestrials ….” It’s an absolutely fascinating read.
The question that Hancock set out to answer in this book is one of humanity’s fundamental mysteries – what happened in human history between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago that suddenly led human beings, for the first time, to produce symbolic art, i.e. the deep-cave drawings in France, Spain and other European sites? Throughout the 160,000 years before, homo sapiens sapiens had already achieved “full anatomical modernity.” So what happened at that historic moment when humans began creating symbolic art?
The answers to this question, and their implications for our understanding of the “fairie world,” the spiritual knowledge and power granted shamans in their cultures throughout the ages, our current alien/extraterrestrial phenomena – even the basis of our religions – are the meat of Hancock’s book, far too voluminous to begin to explain here. If, indeed, we do live in a universe of parallel realities, and our brain is not a producer of consciousness but rather a kind of “reducing valve,” or receiver, limiting the amount of information available to the mind (as was proposed by philosopher Henri Bergson, then Aldous Huxley), it may very well be that the inhabitants of these parallel realities have been for eons (and perhaps still today), “the ancient teachers of mankind.” And that psychedelic plant substances, which history shows have been ingested, smoked, and inhaled for thousands of years, are the keys that unlock the doors to these worlds.
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