Earth Ancients

Seeking to identify the plant origins of the early sacramental beverages Soma and Haoma (Cannabis), this study draws a connection between the psychoactive properties of these drinks and the widespread use of cannabis among Indo-Europeans during this time. Exploring the role of these libations as inspiration for the Indian Rig Veda and the Persian Avestan texts, this examination discusses the spread of cannabis use across Europe and Asia, the origins of the Soma and Haoma cults, and the shamanic origins of modern religion.Chris Bennett has been researching the historical role of cannabis in the spiritual life of humanity for more than a quarter century. He is the co-author of Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion (1995); Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible (2001); and the author of Cannabis and the Soma Solution (2010). He has contributed chapters on this subject for a number of published anthologies as well as numerous articles for various magazines. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

John Van Auken is the Director of the Edgar Cayce Foundation and has been involved in this work for over 40 years. He has written many books and recorded numerous videos and audios, many of them are on YouTube. He’s been on TV and radio programs, including the FOX show, "Opening the Tomb Live" in Egypt. He has led over 80 tours to sacred sites around the world, including 35 tours to Egypt, and continues to lead tours to ancient sites around the globe. He just return from leading an A.R.E. tour of China and Tibet. He has written 26 books and hundreds of articles.His recent books are Ancient Egyptian Visions of Our Soul Life; Mayan Toltec Aztec Visions of Our Soul Life; 2038: The Great Pyramid Timeline Prophecy, Edgar Cayce on the Spiritual Forces within You; From Karma to Grace, and Angels, Fairies, Demons, and the Elementals, Edgar Cayce on the Mysteries Essenes, and Edgar Cayce on Health,Healing, and Rejuvenation. His book on deep meditation to contact the Spiritual Forces and the Universal Consciousness is Passage in Consciousness: A Guide to Expanding Our Minds and Raising the Life Forces in Our Bodies through DeepMeditation.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Dave Truman is a writer, researcher and traveller, who divides his time between South America and the Wirral Peninsula in England. In the past, he has worked as a lecturer and civil servant, but more recently organised the highly successful Beyond Knowledge Conferences in Liverpool, England in 2008 and 2009.He has written articles for Cort Lindahl’s True History Journal on South American geomancy, has appeared as a guest on Sweden’s Red Ice Radio and was a speaker the North of England’s Mysterious Earth Conference in 2014. Dave’s other interests include geopolitics, and in pursuit of this, he has written articles for the Los Angeles based on line publication End the Lie. His contributions provided a critique of the influence of globalisation on contemporary Latin America and its politicians.Over the last four years, he has been doing research for his forthcoming book, to which he has given the working title, Lost Science in the Andes: understanding the minds that shaped the great civilisation of the Ice Age. The article he has written for Ancient Explorers captures but a small part of this engaging and paradigm challenging investigation.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

How do you predict eclipses at Stonehenge? Why do the Carnac alignments follow geological fault lines? Was Avebury intentionally sited precisely one seventh of a circle down from the north pole? Why are so many stone circles egg-shaped or flattened? What is the meaning of the designs in ancient rock art? Do you really have to wait nineteen years to visit the remote site of Callanish? What were the ancients up to? These are our oldest buildings, our first messages, our earliest visual art. With eight authors, and packed with detailed information and exquisite rare illustrations, Megalith is a timeless and valuable sourcebook for anyone interested in prehistory.Hugh Newman is an explorer, megalithomaniac and author of 'Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia's Sacred Sites', author of 'Stone Circles', co-author of 'Giants on Record', and a contributor to 'Megalith: Studies In Stone'. He is a regular guest on History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens' and 'Search for the Lost Giants.' He has articles published in Atlantis Rising (US), New Dawn (Australia) and numerous other publications. www.hughnewman.co.ukPreviously a senior lecturer and college department head, Robin, a regular speaker at Megalithomania and prolofic author, has taught surveying, navigation and mathematics for over 25 years. An internationally published author on astronomy, sacred geography and the megalithic culture of Europe, Robin has lectured on the sacred geography module at Bath Spa University College and teaches astronomy at an Oxford University FAS summer school. His books include Sun, Moon & Stonehenge, Bluestone Magic, The Measure of Albion (with John Michell) & Stonehenge (Wooden Books). www.skyandlandscape.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

The Identification of Ancient Chinese Pictograms in pre-ColumbianNorth American Rock Writing???For centuries, researchers have been debating if, in pre-Columbian times, meaningful exchanges between the indigenous peoples of Asia and the Americas might have taken place.? Many sinologists have written positively on this topic, yet, so far, no conclusive proof has been put forth establishing such trans-Pacific contact as a historical event.?The primary report of this study, simply referred to as Asiatic Echoes, presents the reader with written evidence that in pre-Columbian times, and on multiple occasions, such historic trans-Pacific exchanges indeed took place. Using the novel integration of the legal construct of substantial similarity with the comparative statistical tool of the Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, the Chinese origin of 107 previously unrecognized North American petroglyphs and pictographs is established. For each of these pictogram-glyphs an analytical comparative statistic has been generated for the sometimes-obvious similarity of each symbol's line strokes with the corresponding features of an equally ancient and complex Chinese script pictogram. ??John A. Ruskamp, Jr. is the Senior Research Analyst for Epigraphic Research. His education includes a B.S. in biochemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology, three graduate degrees (M.Ed., M.B.A, and Ed.D.) from Loyola University of Chicago, and extensive postdoctoral coursework.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Expedition Unknown: Legend of The Snake King Expedition Unknown chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates iconic mysteries across the globe. Gates begins by interviewing key eyewitnesses and uncovering recent developments in the story, then springboards into a fully immersive exploration.Legend of the Snake King: Part 1 - 2Josh Gates and his team join noted archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen on an adventurous quest to the lost-city of El Mirador deep in the Guatemalan rainforest. Their mission: to find the hidden tombs of the mysterious Maya Snake Kings.Richard D. Hansen is a distinguished American archaeologist and currently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He previously has been an Affiliate Research Professor and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mesoamerican Research in the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University and an Associate Scientist (Level IV) at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA. Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya civilization and also a director of the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates the mainly unexplored territory in the northern Peten, Guatemala..Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Michael Tellinger is a scientist, explorer and internationally acclaimed author of numerous books, and dozens of lectures available on YouTube. He is the founder of the UBUNTU Liberation Movement of UNITY & Higher Consciousness. Michael has become an authority on the ancient vanished civilisations of Southern Africa, the mysterious origins of humankind, resonance, cymatics, and the power of sound. His research includes a diverse field of subjects such as archaeology, mythology, human origins, religion, origins of money, spirituality, breakthrough science and consciousness.https://michaeltellinger.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

The Derinkuyu underground city is an ancient multi-level underground city in the Derinkuyudistrict in Nevsehir Province, Turkey. Extending to a depth of approximately 60 m (200 feet), it is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores. It is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and is one of several underground complexes found across Cappadocia.The underground city at Derinkuyu could be closed from the inside with large stone doors. Each floor could be closed off separately.The city could accommodate as many as 20,000 people and had all the usual amenities found in other underground complexes across Cappadocia, such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Steven and Evan Strong are trying to share our understanding of Ancient Australia as having a rich past that started long ago. Australia has been visited in the past by the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., along with the distinct possibility of an even more ancient Extra-terrestrial presence.  We are trying to change the worldview of Australia (Ab)Original people and culture and their effect upon human development and civilisation under continual consultation with Original Elders throughout Australia we present this information under the banner of Wirritjin (Ramindjeri term meaning: Black-fella White-fella Dreaming).Steven and Evan have co-written a series of books; "Constructing a New World Map", "Mary Magdalene's Dreaming", and "Forgotten Origin" for the University Press of America.   Both “Shunned” published by Possible Press, and the eBook “Ancient Aliens in Australia: Forgotten Origins of Humanity” co-written with Daniella Cardenas & Bruce Fenton, will be released soon.Steven Strong is a secondary school teacher with a background in Archaeology and Education. He has spent many years learning and living with the tribes within Bundjalung Confederation of Northern N.S.W. and Gumilaroi people of Northern New South Wales.Evan Strong has a background in Sociology and Psychology. He has spent many years learning and living with the living with the tribes within Bundjalung Confederation of Northern N.S.W. and Gumilaroi people of Northern New South Wales.http://forgottenorigin.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Built at the end of the last ice age around 9600 BCE, Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey was designed to align with the constellation of the celestial swan, Cygnus--a fact confirmed by the discovery at the site of a tiny bone plaque carved with the three key stars of Cygnus. Remarkably, the three main pyramids at Giza in Egypt, including the Great Pyramid, align with the same three stars. But where did this ancient veneration of Cygnus come from? Showing that Cygnus was once seen as a portal to the sky-world, Andrew Collins reveals how, at both sites, the attention toward this star group is linked with sound acoustics and the use of musical intervals “discovered” thousands of years later by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Collins traces these ideas as well as early advances in human technology and cosmology back to the Altai-Baikal region of Russian Siberia, where the cult of the swan flourished as much as 20,000 years ago. He shows how these concepts, including a complex numeric system based on long-term eclipse cycles, are derived from an extinct human population known as the Denisovans. Not only were they of exceptional size--the ancient giants of myth--but archaeological discoveries show that this previously unrecognized human population achieved an advanced level of culture, including the use of high-speed drilling techniques and the creation of musical instruments. Andrew Collins has been investigating the idea of advanced civilizations in prehistory since 1979. He is the co-discoverer of a massive cave complex beneath the Giza plateau, now known as “Collins’ Caves.” The author of several books, including From the Ashes of Angels and Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, he lives in Essex, England.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.