Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-04-22
Books mentioned on #1284 - Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock is an English author and journalist, well known for books such as “Fingerprints Of The Gods” & “Magicians of the Gods”. His new book "America Before" comes on out April 23.
Graham Hancock discussed The Stand by Stephen King, History Begins at Sumer by Samuel Noah Kramer, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, and DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, and criticized The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Joe Rogan discussed Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Stand
Stephen King's monumental post-apocalyptic epic The Stand details the devastating sweep of a weaponized influenza strain that wipes out the vast majority of humanity, leaving survivors to choose sides in a final conflict between good and evil.
Discussed“oddly enough i've just been reading stephen king's dark tower series yeah very near the end of the seventh volume of that”
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History Begins at Sumer
Discussed“and indeed i have a i have a book in my my library called history begins at sumer and it's by samuel noah cramer a very renowned archaeologist and it's a good book actually”
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a foundational work of popular science that presents a gene-centric view of evolution, arguing that natural selection operates primarily at the level of genes rather than individuals or species.
Critiqued“richard richard dawkins is the author of the book called the selfish gene and he's not one of my favorite people because he's a he's a materialist reductionist”
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Discussed“and there's a book called the structure of scientific revolutions by thomas kuhn which outlines what a paradigm shift is”
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Fingerprints of the gods
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock is an alternative history bestseller that argues an advanced, forgotten global civilization was wiped out by a cataclysm at the end of the last ice age.
Discussed“the fact that i could introduce people to you because your first book that i read of you fingerprints of the gods changed my view of the world i mean i remember putting that book down after i was finishing going wow”
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman is a scientific and clinical investigation into the effects of dimethyltryptamine, chronicling the first FDA-approved human clinical studies on psychedelics in decades.
Discussed“and which is one of the reasons i'm so fascinated by rick strassmann's work you you presented his film dmt the spirit molecule”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“um and we were just talking about your your new book america before that there's two versions of it”
“It made sense to me in 1995 when i wrote fingerprints of the gods but there was no compelling evidence for a global cataclysm”
“it made sense to me in 1995 when i wrote fingerprints of the gods but there was no compelling evidence for a global cataclysm”
“i have in america before i've not gone over old ground that i went over in magicians of the gods that we covered in the various interviews”
“that was the essence of my book fingerprints of the gods that was published in 1995 that there has been a huge forgotten episode in human history”
“and by the time i got to 2002 when i published a book called underworld that followed seven years of scuba diving on continental shelves”
“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”
“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”
“that's why i published magicians of the gods in 2015 and then as i was researching that book i became aware of something”