Episode #360

Graham Hancock

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English author and journalist Graham Hancock discusses his cannabis and ayahuasca experiences, personal transformation, and interest in psychedelics, consciousness, and spiritual development. He and Joe Rogan examine ancient civilizations, Göbekli Tepe, cave art, Egyptian archaeology, DNA, science and skepticism, and questions about whether unusual visions reflect imagination or contact with other realities.

What they talked about

  • Quitting cannabis after 24 years
  • Ayahuasca experience and judgment
  • Hip replacement surgery
  • Critique of political power structures
  • Aztec history and Cortes conquest
  • Alternative archaeology and Egyptology
  • Francis Crick's directed panspermia theory
  • Near-death experience experiments

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