Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2017-05-16
Books mentioned on #961 - Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson & Michael Shermer
Graham Hancock is an English author and journalist, well known for books such as "Fingerprints Of The Gods" & his latest book "Magicians of the Gods". Randall Carlson is a master builder and architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Magicians of the Gods
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock is a fringe archaeological work that argues an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed by a global cataclysm caused by asteroid impacts, leaving survivors to pass on their knowledge to subsequent cultures.
Discussed“After the podcast, I went and got the book Magicians of the Gods. And uh and actually I listened to it on audio. So it's I don't know like 16 18 hours of of Graham reading with his his wonderful British accent, which as you know for Americans that elevates the quality of the argument by an order of magnitude.”
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Black Athena
Discussed“When I was in graduate school, this book called Black Athena was published that the Egyptians were actually black and that the you know sort of western white male dominance of history had written them out of the past.”
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Noah's Flood
Discussed“Back in 96, it was a very popular book called uh the Noah's flood. This was a serious book by two geologists that said uh it was the um rapid filling up of the Black Sea that swamped over the civilizations living on the uh edges of this and that that's where the noakian flood story comes from.”
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Guns, Germs and Steel
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond is a sweeping historical and anthropological exploration of why Eurasian civilizations survived and conquered other societies instead of being conquered themselves.
Discussed“He talks at the in the opening chapter of Guns, Germs, and Steel how smart these people are that live out there in nature and what it takes to survive.”
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Food of the Gods
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna is an exploration of humanity's historical relationship with psychoactive substances and their proposed role in cognitive evolution.
Discussed“all cudos to Terrence McKenna and food of the gods. He what a brilliant thinker what a brilliant alternative thinker”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and Graham Hancock, uh, author also, uh, fantastic human being, many times, been on this podcast as well.”
“Actually, I might even ask Jamie to pull up the um the uh couple of images of Fingerprints of the Gods. That's the book I'm best known for. Uh and when I uh published Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995, essentially I was saying civilization is much older and much more mysterious than we thought.”