Episode #852
John Anthony West
Books mentioned
Hamlet's Mill
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 00:16:33
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The Dead Saints Chronicles
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 00:41:35
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The Bible
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 00:54:52
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The Quran
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:56:13
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Dante's Inferno
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 01:44:02
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Science of the Dogon
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 02:24:09
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The Twelfth Planet
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 02:31:20
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Magicians of the Gods
Mentioned by John Anthony West · at 02:38:02
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John Anthony West is an author, lecturer, and guide who advocates the Sphinx water-erosion hypothesis. He and Joe Rogan discuss the Sphinx’s age and restoration, ancient Egyptian construction and chronology, megalithic sites, lost civilizations, and astronomy, along with psychedelics, near-death experiences, spirituality, and the challenge of gaining acceptance for unconventional archaeological ideas.
What they talked about
- Precession of the equinoxes and ancient knowledge
- Water erosion dating the Sphinx to 36,000 BC
- Gobekli Tepe and lost advanced civilizations
- Egyptian spiritual philosophy and immortality
- Mainstream academia's resistance to alternative theories
- The Palermo Stone and Turin Papyrus records
- Coronal mass ejections and solar outburst catastrophes
- The Dogon and shared ancient cosmology
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