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Book · 2006 · Body, Mind & Spirit

Supernatural

Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

by Graham Hancock · Recommended by 4 people on 2 podcasts

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I read Supernatural as well which is one of my more favorite or more what I found more fascinating because you really stepped out on some serious limbs on that one.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2011 Listen at 37:18

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Graham Hancock wrote a lot about this and it's my favorite book of his it's called Supernatural.
Brian Muraresku The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2023
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Graham Hancock wrote a beautiful book about this called Supernatural which in many ways like sent me down this rabbit hole back in 2007.
Brian Muraresku Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
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It was a total impulse buy at the Barnes Noble on 6th Avenue in New York and wound up introducing me to Supernatural by Graham Hancock.
Brian Muraresku Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
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In Graham Hancock actually in his book Supernatural in his first DMT experience he described this um this download of highly complex entirely nonhuman uh information into his brain.
Andrew Gallimore The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2025
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And he he wrote a book called Super natural all about his experiences with this iasa this drinking this brew.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2011

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Supernatural by Graham Hancock is a controversial non-fiction exploration of human evolution, ancient cave art, altered states of consciousness, and the historical use of psychedelic substances like ayahuasca. The book has received passionate recommendations on major interview programs. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Brian Muraresku praised the work as his absolute favorite by the author when discussing ancient shamanism and rock art. Muraresku also shared on the Lex Fridman Podcast that stumbling upon the book as an impulse buy at a bookstore in New York fundamentally changed the trajectory of his life, pulling him into years of research surrounding the secret history of psychedelics. Joe Rogan similarly expressed deep fascination with the book on multiple podcast appearances, noting that Hancock took serious intellectual risks by exploring human consciousness, spiritual visions, and plant brews. Furthermore, Andrew Gallimore referenced the book on The Joe Rogan Experience while analyzing reports of complex, non-human information downloads experienced during DMT trips. Although other similar titles occasionally enter discussions on the unexplained, Hancock's specific work remains a touchstone for guests and hosts exploring alternative historical theories regarding the origins of human intelligence, ritualistic drug use, and shamanic visionary experiences throughout antiquity.

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Brian Muraresku and uh Graham Graham Hancock wrote a lot about this and it's my favorite book of his it's called Supernatural 3
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“and uh Graham Graham Hancock wrote a lot about this and it's my favorite book of his it's called Supernatural”
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“and graham hancock wrote a beautiful book about this called supernatural which in many ways like sent me down this rabbit hole back in 2007.”
Recommended
“it was a total impulse buy at the barnes noble on 6th avenue in new york and wound up introducing me to supernatural by graham hancock”
Joe Rogan I mean I read I've read all your books I read uh Supernatural as well which is one of my my more favorite o… 2
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“I mean I read I've read all your books I read uh Supernatural as well which is one of my my more favorite or more uh what I found more fascinating because you really stepped out on some serious limbs on that one”
Discussed
“and he he wrote a book called Super natural all about his experiences with this iasa this drinking this brew”
Andrew Gallimore In Graham Hancock actually in his book Supernatural in his first DMT experience he described this um this d… 1
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“In Graham Hancock actually in his book Supernatural in his first DMT experience he described this um this download of highly complex entirely nonhuman uh information into his brain”
Dennis McKenna the name of the book is supernatural two words supernatural a new vision of the unexplained 1
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“the name of the book is supernatural two words supernatural a new vision of the unexplained”

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“Then, after Underworld, I wrote Supernatural, which is that one there. Which has been reissued in America under the title Visionary.”
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“I was working on a book uh that I published in 2005 called Supernatural meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind it's it's recently been retitled as as Visionary”
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“I was working on a book that I published in 2005 called Supernatural meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind it's it's recently been retitled as as Visionary”
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“And I turned in another direction and I wrote a book called, "Supernatural: Meetings "with the Ancient Teachers "of Mankind", recently retitled "Visionary".”
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“I wrote a book back in 2005 called Supernatural meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind and it is astonishing”
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“and a book that i published in 2006 called supernatural yes which which looks at the huge role that psychedelics have played in cultures and in religions all around the world”
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“in fact joe i think you and i originally got in touch because of my interest in psychedelics in human culture uh and a book that i published in 2006 called supernatural which which looks at the huge role that psychedelics have played in cultures and in religions all around the world”
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“kind of what happened to me when i when i wrote supernatural i had i had apart from one experience with lsd in 1974 i hadn't used any psychedelics”
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“I ended up writing supernatural meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind about the role of psychedelics in in the origins of the of the human story”
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“i ended up writing supernatural meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind about the role of psychedelics in in the origins of the of the human story”
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“Um, and as a matter of fact, this is now being done. Data is being stored on DNA. Um so you just were misinformed. Um I don't think that I was misinformed. But I think that I was exploring an interesting an interesting area of inquiry and it's true since I published on that in 2005 that some new work”

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