Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness

Graham Hancock - The War 

on Consciousness - BANNED 

TED TALK

Chris Anderson, the head of TED, proposed certain "red flag" topics, among them health hoaxes and the medicinal value of food but also the general area of pseudoscience. The response has been decidedly negative -- scientists don't like the suppression of free thinking -- and among the thousands of comments aired on the Internet, one pointed out that Sheldrake and Hancock spoke at a TEDx conference explicitly dedicated to ideas that challenge mainstream thinking

Exploring Consciousness

A favourite of Mike Ruppert’s, Graham Hancock is worth listening to if you want to consider metaphysical questions.

A comment on Facebook: "There is no 'God'" - my question - how does he know?

Graham Hancock, Exploring Consciousness

Graham Hancock discusses human consciousness and explores the world that may exist beyond our earthly one.

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Michio Kaku says that God could be a mathematician: "The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God."

Mike Ruppert on the Lifeboat Hour

Water and Shadows

WATER AND SHADOWS 

– Have you noticed how tense and edgy everything is? Have you seen irritability quotients soaring? The times are getting harder. It is beginning to really sink in that not only is Near Term Extinction a possibility, it is likely… and that the human race waited too long to bite the bullet and do the hard things, the things it has been trained and taught to be afraid of doing.

Now, (apparently all of a sudden) it has become clear that fresh water – or the lack thereof – may be one of the most important threats we face. The infinite-growth corporate paradigm is rushing openly and brutally to control fresh water sources that are rapidly disappearing. And on taking inventory we are finding out that there’s a lot less water than we have been led to believe. What’s left is being privatized and commodified – or poisoned by fracking and shale oil – rapidly.

We’ll have some help getting through this with a clip from a recent fabulous Joe Rogan podcast featuring Graham Hancock, and the legendary Bob Marley. We will also face and examine a very dark shadow which emerged this week in Boulder, Colorado. And we will look at a topic which can no longer be ignored: self defense.

There may be a place that we hope for, in which we will all someday live without fear, where love and unity govern. But to get there we have to walk through the shadows that live in our own interiors. Consciousness governs reality. Shadows (the things we don’t see or acknowledge) are also consciousness. What is happening in the world right now is that events are dragging these shadows up as hard lessons to be faced in our search for the Hundredth Monkey, and evolution.

--- Mike Ruppert

Graham Hancock

The Joe Rogan Experience with Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock

“This short clip is absolutely burgeoning to the point of eruption with lessons for all of us in this day, in this hour, in this moment. Graham Hancock echoes the entirety of my life's journey and experience in dealing with those who refuse to see or confront evil and the fact that they are, in fact, the ones most responsible for allowing it to grow and expand until it demands and brings about the inevitable balancing.

“There are so many beautiful, wonderful and powerful lessons here.

“Viva, Graham Hancock!”

--Miike Ruppert

Graham Hancock on Good and Evil

Graham Hancock was recently interviewed by William Rowlandson Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Kent. The interview focused on many different aspects of Graham's work but with particular emphasis on his recent ventures in fiction -- Entangled, published in 2010 and his forthcoming novel War God, about the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. 

In this extract from the longer interview Graham talks about the treatment of violence in his novels and about the struggle of good against evil. Are these real, primal forces or projections of our own minds and cultures? What do they have to teach us? Why dwell on them in works of fiction?

 Background info and a free-to-read extracts from War God:


‪http://www.grahamhancock.com/wargod/b...

War God is available for international pre-order on Amazon: ‪http://amzn.to/Tnfc4q



Background info and free-to-read extracts from Entangled:


‪http://www.grahamhancock.com/entangled/

Graham Hancock

More on the TED debacle

From Graham Hancock:

New and deeply disappointing TED tactic

Just when I thought TED had seen the error of their ways and were trying to fix things (see my post here:

http://www.facebook.com/Author.GrahamHancock/posts/10151559299442354 ) I receive an email from TED Curator Chris Anderson telling me that yet another of their famous Blog pages has now been set up, this one apparently as a special standalone ghetto for discussion of my “War on Consciousness” presentation. This tactic helps to distance TED from the PR debacle they created for themselves by axing my talk from their Youtube channel in the first place (where it had attracted hundreds of comments and 132,000 views). Now not only is the presentation cut off from the discussion initiated by all those original commentators (and their ability to share it) but it is also cut off from the new discussion that followed exposure of TED’s censorship and shoddy methods – here: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/ and here: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/18/graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake-a-fresh-take/

I’m left reeling by this continual slicing down of my presentation and its context which is nonetheless cleverly done so that TED can say, effectively, “we’re not censoring the presentation because it is on our website.” Well yes, but in such an obscure place that pretty soon no-one will be able to find it, the whole debate and furor will be forgotten and TED will be able to move forward as though this never happened.

Anyway for those with the energy to keep this hot potato hot, here is the new page that TED have created as a secluded ghetto for my presentation: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/19/the-debate-about-graham-hancocks-talk/ . So far there is no link back or forward between the two previous blog pages and this one. I have asked TED to provide such links as a matter of urgency and to make them prominent. I expect they will do so but this will only slightly reduce the problem, not solve it.

You will note when you go to http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/19/the-debate-about-graham-hancocks-talk/ that in order to actually post comments you have to click the link near the bottom that says “Join the conversation here” which takes you to yet another page!! And when you get there you will find that you can no longer post full-length comments, as on the two previous Blog pages created by TED, but only rather abbreviated ones.

In this way, little by little, I fear that TED will succeed in making the problem they created vanish like a puff of smoke. But just in case the public doesn’t allow them to get away with that disappearing act they have imposed a time-limit on this new “conversation” which they will close in less than two weeks from now. I guess the big powers like TED always do win in the end since they control the agenda no matter what we the people try to do.

TED retracts allegations against Hancock and Sheldrake

This is of interest to me because of the materialist attack on alternative views. It appears that TED have been forced to reverse their earlier stand.

The war of ideas

From Graham Hancock's page

Unprecedented developments at TED

"I appreciate and respect the fact that TED have now bitten the bullet -- which cannot have been easy for them -- and fully retracted their original incorrect allegations against the content of my TEDx presentation "The War on Consciousness". They have done so by crossing out the original allegations and publishing my rebuttal here: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/

"They have done the same as regards their original incorrect allegations against the content of the TEDx presentation "The Science Delusion" by my colleague Rupert Sheldrake.

"TED have also opened up a new blog page ("Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake A Fresh Take") here: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/18/graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake-a-fresh-take/

"I want to put on record my immense appreciation and respect for the tremendous efforts made by so many members of my online community to get this injustice righted by their engagement on the TED website and the blog posts they have made there. I am touched and heartened, buoyed up and encouraged by this remarkable level of support and it is a sign of the times that our voice has been heard.

TED continue to refuse to restore the talks to the original platform on which they appeared -- the TEDx Youtube channel -- where my talk had been viewed by more than 132,000 people and where Rupert's talk had been viewed by more than 35,000 people before TED took them down. I regard it as unfortunate in the extreme that all the conversations and comments that appeared there have been hidden along with the talks, and that those original links have been broken, and I will continue to press for the restitution of our talks to the TEDx Youtube channel separate from and in addition to the presence they now have on the TED blog pages."

The Lifeboat Hour - Graham Hancock

Simply one of the best programs yet.

Graham Hancock on the Lifeboat Hour

An inspiring hour-long conversation between Mike Ruppert and author Graham Hancock. The convesation ranges over the suppression of his TED-x talk, the use of psychodelics to facilitate spiritual awakening, the rise of the new Paradigm and the nature of Consciousness

TED and the war for human consciousness

It seems that the talk by Graham Hancock that I posted the other day has been censored and removed,so here is the talk reposted with a response by Graham Hancock.

TED's statement on the matter is available HERE

Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness BANNED TED TALK

The more I wade into the morass that is TED the more horrified I become at the illusion of openness this organisation has wrapped around itself, when the truth as I have now learned from direct experience is so very different. TED talks a good talk about itself, its nobility, its achievements. "We believe passionately," TED boasts, "in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other." (see here: ‪http://www.ted.com/pages/about).



But the truth is quite different. Over the matter of the censorship on Youtube of my "War on Consciousness" presentation and Rupert Sheldrake's "Science Delusion" presentation, TED is closed minded, operates with an extremely limited view of what is scientifically orthodox, wishes to stay safely within that orthodoxy, and is patronising and disparaging about those who question their policies. As TED Curator Chris Anderson (‪http://www.ted.com/speakers/chris_and...) writes here (‪http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-f...) in response to comments criticising TED for censoring my presentation: "Right now this comment section is over-run by the hordes of supporters sent our way by Graham Hancock. It would be nice for you to calm down and actually read some of the criticisms of his work so that you can get a more balanced view point. And meanwhile, we'll be reading the views of anyone who'll be patient enough to express them in a reasoned way ...as opposed to throwing around shrieks of censorship when nothing of the kind has happened."



Mr Anderson seems to have plenty of time to pour scorn on those who disagree with the way TED has handled this matter, but so far, more than five hours after I posted them he has not found the time to answer the four simple questions I asked him on page 1 of the public forum he set up (‪http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-f...) supposedly to foster open discussion of the presentations by myself and Rupert.



Here are those four simple questions again:



(1) TED says of my "War on Consciousness" presentation: "...he misrepresents what scientists actually think. He suggests, for example, that no scientists are working on the problem of consciousness."

I would like TED to identify where exactly in my talk they believe I say that "no scientists are working on the problem of consciousness"? Also in what other specific ways does TED believe I misrepresent what scientists actually think?



TED says of my presentation: "He states as fact that psychotropic drug use is essential for an "emergence into consciousness," and that one can use psychotropic plants to connect directly with an ancient mother culture."

I would like TED to identify where exactly in my talk they believe I state as a fact that psychotropic drug use is essential for an emergence into consciousness. I would also like TED to identify where exactly in my talk I state that one can use psychotropic plants to connect directly with an ancient mother culture.



(3) TED states that there are many inaccuracies in my presentation which display a disrespect both for my audience and for my arguments.

I would like TED to indentify where exactly in my talk these alleged "many inaccuracies" occur.



(4) TED says of my "War on Consciousness" presentation: "He offers a one-note explanation for how culture arises (drugs), which just doesn't hold up."



Again I would like TED to identify the point in my talk where I state this. Do I not rather say that some scientists in the last thirty years have raised an intriguing possibility — emphasis on POSSIBILITY — which is that the exploration of altered states of consciousness, in which psychedelic plants have been implicated, was fundamental to the emergence into fully symbolic consciousness witnessed by the great cave art? I can cite a wide range of respectable peer-reviewed scientists who have suggested this possibility and I do not see how reporting their work, which I have every right to do, can be construed as offering "a one-note explanation for how culture arises (drugs)." Besides is every talk that touches on the origins of culture obliged to consider all possible factors that might be involved in the origins of culture? How could any speaker be expected to do that in one 18-minute talk?



‪http://www.grahamhancock.com

"The war for human consciousness is escalating and becoming more clearly defined. On one side you have me, Graham Hancock, and Joe Rogan (and many more like Vandana Shiva, Terrence McKenna, Gregg Braden and every Gaian mf one of us).

"On the other side you have TEDx.

"Make your choice. But watch this video first. Way to go Joe. Fist bump."

---Mike Ruppert

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The War on Consciousness: Graham Hancock at TED

Graham Hancock tells the story of his 24-year relationship with cannabis brought to an abrupt halt in 2011 after an encounter with ayahuasca, the sacred visionary brew of the Amazon. Along the way he explores the mystery of death, the problem of consciousness, and the implications for the human future of a society that wages total war on true cognitive liberty.

Graham Hancock is the author of The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, Heaven's Mirror, Supernatural and other bestselling investigations of historical mysteries.

His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. His public lectures and broadcasts, including two major TV series, Quest for the Lost Civilisation, and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, have further established his reputation as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity's past. Hancock's first venture into fiction, Entangled, was published in 2010 and his second novel, War God, on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, will be published on 30 May 2013. Hancock maintains an active Facebook presence: http://www.facebook.com/Author.Graham.... His website is: http://www.grahamhancock.com.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are