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Every book Randall Carlson recommended on podcasts
Randall Carlson appears as a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, where discussions frequently focus on ancient history, geological catastrophes, archaeology, and alternative historical theories. As evident from his podcast appearances, Carlson relies heavily on foundational scientific texts, historical treatises, and speculative research to support his arguments regarding cataclysmic earth history. He frequently discusses Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, noting how subsequent discoveries like Göbekli Tepe inspired Hancock to revisit his theories concerning prehistoric lost civilizations and cometary impacts. Carlson also references ancient philosophical accounts, specifically Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, to examine the chronological and geographical descriptions surrounding the subsidence of Atlantis. Additionally, he explores early literature on geological catastrophism and alternative ice age theories by discussing Immanuel Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval and Charles H. Hapgood's The Path of the Pole. Through these detailed references, Carlson illustrates a commitment to re-examining mainstream historical and geological timelines through the lens of ancient texts and catastrophic earth science.
Books recommended by Randall Carlson
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Critias
Why people recommend it: Critias is a classical Platonic dialogue that details the legendary island nation of Atlantis, its glorious civilization, and its eventual catastrophic downfall.
Discussed“you may recall from our last interview is the date given by Plato for the subsidence of Atlantis 11,000 I mean he says that Atlantis subsided and you can anybody can read this if they want to pick up tus and cus the two dialogues that he describes Atlantis in”
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Fingerprints of the gods
Graham Hancock's controversial non-fiction work Fingerprints of the Gods presents the hypothesis that an advanced, forgotten global civilization was destroyed by a global cataclysm at the end of the last ice age.
Discussed“and that's actually what inspired graham to come back to his original idea that he had proposed in fingerprints of the gods back in 95 or 96 was the two things that the discovery of gobekli tepe”
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Timaeus
Why people recommend it: Timaeus is a foundational philosophical dialogue by Plato that features the renowned account of the mythical island of Atlantis and its cataclysmic disappearance.
Discussed“you may recall from our last interview is the date given by Plato for the subsidence of Atlantis 11,000 I mean he says that Atlantis subsided and you can anybody can read this if they want to pick up tus and cus the two dialogues that he describes Atlantis in”
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Earth in Upheaval
Discussed“There Was You Know Emanuel vovi one of the forerunners but you know he he came up with some really wild ideas that made it very easy for mainstream science to dismiss him but he came up with some really solid ideas too his book Earth and upal basically was just a documentation of all of this geological evidence for”
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The Path of the Pole
Discussed“and then after that you had um a book called uh uh by Charles hapgood called the path of the pole I think it came out in 76 and he he and there theorized that there had been a sudden pole shift that had brought about you know the quick freezing of the mammoths and the end of the Ice”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Rogan Experience #1772 - Randall Carlson | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 2 |
| #606 - Randall Carlson | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2015-02-02 | 5 |
| #501 - Randall Carlson | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2014-05-15 | 2 |