63 Quotes by Graham Hancock


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    The Julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth’s orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. Pope Gregory XIII’s reform substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 365.2425 days. Thanks to scientific advances since 1582 we now know that the exact length of the solar year is 365.2422 days.

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    I looked in depth into the ancient and 100 per cent Indian origins of Vedic civilisation in my book “Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age”. There was no such thing as an “Aryan invasion of India”. That whole racist idea is completely bust.

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    Everything we’ve been taught about the origins of civilization may be wrong,” says Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, PhD, senior geologist with the Research Center for Geotechnology at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

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    Shamanism is not confined to specific socio-economic settings or stages of development. It is fundamentally the ability that all of us share, some with and some without the help of hallucinogens, to enter altered states of consciousness and to travel out of body in non-physical realms – there to encounter supernatural entities and gain useful knowledge and healing powers from them.

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    The possession of such a big brain was no doubt an asset to these ’intelligent, spiritually sensitive, resourceful creatures’8 and the fossil record suggests that they were the dominant species on the planet from about 100,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago.

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    In the eyes of Muslim fundamentalists, contemporary Western geopolitics in the Middle East are a continuation of the Crusades by modern means and so must be resisted to the death.

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    Science in the twenty-first century does NOT encourage scientists to take risks in their pursuit of “the facts” – particularly when those facts call into question long-established notions.

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