Ancient, yes. Aliens? Maybe not.
Ancient, yes. Aliens? Maybe not.
Watching Ancient Aliens always generative mixed feelings for me. The interviews and data presented is interesting, yet the periodic question and answer by the narrator to impress upon the viewer a specific way to interpret this data is concerning. It’s a stylistic method of stretching the time in a documentary style TV show, and it’s entirely unnecessary. I have the autonomy to interpret data for myself, no need to draw the conclusions for me.
When I used to watch the show I knew that all the findings indicated advanced civilizations existed. None of them prove aliens though, because the beings didn’t have to come from outer space to come from the sky. They could have come from other places on earth, or if we want to go full sci fi; other dimensions, other times. Much of the technology such as planes, gliders, flight suits, weapons and a war in the sky could have come from anywhere, including another place on the globe, underground, undersea, within the solar system. The possibilities are endless, and while it’s interesting to entertain them, deciding and proclaiming it was aliens is speculative.
This novel by Graham Hancock is a more thorough investigation into the evidence of lost civilizations. Current mainstream ideas of history deny these cultures existed. A lot of things are much older than we think. Our dating techniques aren’t precise and can be prone to human error. I wouldn’t say it’s all guesswork, there has been a lot of detailed analysis and measurement to make these estimations. Accepting them as dogma however is a tricky situation academics has gotten itself into. Both Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake have had their Ted Talks banned for the “blasphemy” of considering alternate possible interpretations of new data and discoveries rather than assimilating it into the old paradigm.
From my own experience with entheogens and reading about Ayahuasca and studying ancient myths I’ve come to believe there are higher dimensional beings(frequencies?) we can interact with. I feel as though ancient alien proponents refuse to accept the possibility that it wasn’t flesh and blood aliens arriving in three dimensional spaceships traveling faster than the speed of light. I don’t think that’s the case because traveling through space is traveling through “time.” Time is an illusion, but that is a topic for another day.
It is also possible that there were/are alien entities, as imagined or in a manner of existence unfamiliar to us. As I mentioned earlier possibility is endless in the many facets of its manifestation. I have a whole line of thought with small circumstantial supporting evidence that some of us come from a lineage not from this earth, the details of which, if true, are still as speculative as the origin of ancient civilizations. We have to be able to imagine various scenarios, but we also have to refrain from espousing one without critical thought and consideration. The one thing we can say with absolute certainty is that ancient advanced civilizations existed. Even if we can’t confirm their origin, methods or during what exact historical period they existed.
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