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Every book Randall Carlson recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Randall Carlson appears on, in one place — not just one.
Randall Carlson’s most recommended books
- Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock
- Critias by Plato
- Timaeus by Plato
- Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky
- Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock
- The Path of the Pole by Charles H. Hapgood
Randall Carlson discussed and mentioned several books across multiple podcast appearances, primarily focusing on ancient civilizations, geological catastrophism, and prehistoric lost worlds. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Carlson referenced Graham Hancock's book Fingerprints of the Gods while talking about prehistoric lost civilizations and discussing how subsequent archaeological discoveries and a cometary impact paper inspired Hancock to revisit the ideas he originally proposed in the mid-1990s. Carlson also mentioned to Shawn Ryan that his own fieldwork guiding and showing evidence in the landscape to Graham Hancock is documented in Hancock's book Magicians of the Gods. In addition to Hancock's works, Carlson brought up Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias during an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience to examine the historical descriptions and dates given for the sinking of Atlantis. Furthermore, Carlson talked about early writers on geological catastrophism by mentioning Immanuel Velikovsky's book Earth in Upheaval, noting that it documented solid geological evidence despite its wilder ideas, and he referenced Charles Hapgood's book The Path of the Pole when discussing alternative theories of ice age catastrophes, sudden pole shifts, and the quick freezing of mammoths.
Books recommended by Randall Carlson
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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“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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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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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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Magicians of the Gods
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock is a work of alternative history that presents arguments for a lost, advanced ancient civilization destroyed by a global cataclysm caused by a comet impact.
Discussed“we'd been on there before several multiple times and I had you know when Graham was researching his books and stuff in at least one case I'd been out in the field with them at least a couple of times take guiding them and showing them evidence in the landscape for these tremendous catastrophic events which he then documents like”
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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 |
| #103 Randall Carlson - Rediscovering Ancient Civilizations | The Shawn Ryan Show | 2024-04-01 | 1 |
| #606 - Randall Carlson | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2015-02-02 | 5 |
| #501 - Randall Carlson | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2014-05-15 | 2 |