I’ve been a huge Graham Hancock fan for years and have most of his books. In my opinion, Hancock had done more than anyone in challenging the false academic narrative of our past. I have always found it puzzling that he does not go near the bible, especially the books of Enoch and The Giants which tell the story of the antediluvian world. Timothy Alberino’s book Birthright does an amazing job of tying everything together from the mysterious megalithic ruins, to UFOs and alien abduction, to the bible. It’s hard to describe the book as it’s so out there, but I highly recommend it!
Great piece, Cerno. Following your content in recent years has brought me more in tune with my faith and helped me form a coherent perspective of the tangible and intangible world around us. Thanks.
I read The Soul After Death on your recommendation and was utterly blown away by it. I appreciated how it analyzed real experiences through a lens of Christian theology. It was the first time I started to consider that perhaps the immaterial realm is real. Thanks for the other recommendations!
I had a religious experience in my mid twenties. I’ve never done any kind of drug stronger than aspirin. Here’s my experience for whatever it is worth.
Common stuff that happened in my experience to those I’ve read about from people on DMT or other substances is that space and time really didn’t seem to work the same way “over there.” There was still a sense of sequence but also that all of time was happening at once and you could just “look” in one of those time directions and you’d know everything except you couldn’t take it back with you. A feeling like being a thimble trying to hold the ocean. Likewise with direction, etc. Even things weren’t the same. I saw my grandfather but it wasn’t really him I saw when I think back on it. It wasn’t even really seeing in the sense that I didn’t use my eyes. There’s what my grandfather looks like and what my grandfather *is* separate from material reality, and I definitely “saw” the latter rather than the former.
I’ve come to think of it as the Platonic realm, where ideas come from, transcendent from material reality but still part of the same overall reality. Lots of philosophers talk about ineffability and an inability to verify the external world but that didn’t exist there. I had direct experience of everything. It was like I existed as the idea of myself separate from the material reality of myself. The same way that the number seven exists even when you’re stuck on the number six. I existed as potential but I was still “alive” and aware.
I did see God and that’s where my experience seems to be a lot different. A lot of people on DMT or whatever have an experience where God tells them life doesn’t matter or is not serious or is a joke or something to that effect. There was forgiveness and understanding in mine but I absolutely got the sense that everyone’s life matters and that I had to try my best. I did also kind of get the sense a lot of what I was able to be told was limited by what I already knew going in and God was just flicking things around in my head like one of those tile games where you slide pieces around to make a picture.
I know that’s not evidence and that’s not proof of anything in the scientific sense but it was enough for me and a lot more than most people get.
Great piece, and thanks for the recommendations. Tim Alberino pops up on the Blurry Creatures podcast often (I think you've tweeted about it before). The Nephilim subject is thoroughly discussed in numerous episodes, and there's one about the beings you meet on DMT (https://www.blurrycreatures.com/).
I’m a baby in all of this. How can I question Seraphim Rose? I do know that your Christian/spirituality posts have brought significant change to my life. A true awakening.
You may find this article interesting given your curiosities about the meaning of the snake within Christian tradition. Jonathan Pageau and his brother Matthieu actually see the snake not as necessarily being satan, though it definitely can be in specific instantiations of the pattern.
Outstanding! I am totally invested! Going to dig in to the books! I would love for an on going discussion on this fascinating topic. My Dad taught me about the Nephilim when I was 16. It hooked me and made me wonder why Churches never taught this info. Get the popcorn and books!
I would definitely consider myself "Graham Hancock curious". These are deep topics and I have only read about them secondarily (like this post). I know I will eventually dive in but its a rabbit hole that is daunting.
Demonology is, for the most part, a Dysphemism, a scarecrow, if you will. Christianity has used demonolgy as a platform for social control and mind control. This is not to say that demons are not real. There are entities in the spirit realm billions of years old, and in antagonism to the creator, and hateful of us, but 99 percent of the demonlogy we talk about in our culture is self-created demons, conscious shadows if you will, which do not wave in synch with our blockage of the light, but wave independantly. nevertheless, they are aspects of our own unconscious. Jung tried to explain a lot of this, but he was to cumbersome with his language.
I’ve been a huge Graham Hancock fan for years and have most of his books. In my opinion, Hancock had done more than anyone in challenging the false academic narrative of our past. I have always found it puzzling that he does not go near the bible, especially the books of Enoch and The Giants which tell the story of the antediluvian world. Timothy Alberino’s book Birthright does an amazing job of tying everything together from the mysterious megalithic ruins, to UFOs and alien abduction, to the bible. It’s hard to describe the book as it’s so out there, but I highly recommend it!
Half of me is in love with all the book reccomendations. The other half is like, man I have too many books I am tryin to read.
Also, Lord of Spirits podcast is top notch.
Great piece, Cerno. Following your content in recent years has brought me more in tune with my faith and helped me form a coherent perspective of the tangible and intangible world around us. Thanks.
I read The Soul After Death on your recommendation and was utterly blown away by it. I appreciated how it analyzed real experiences through a lens of Christian theology. It was the first time I started to consider that perhaps the immaterial realm is real. Thanks for the other recommendations!
I had a religious experience in my mid twenties. I’ve never done any kind of drug stronger than aspirin. Here’s my experience for whatever it is worth.
Common stuff that happened in my experience to those I’ve read about from people on DMT or other substances is that space and time really didn’t seem to work the same way “over there.” There was still a sense of sequence but also that all of time was happening at once and you could just “look” in one of those time directions and you’d know everything except you couldn’t take it back with you. A feeling like being a thimble trying to hold the ocean. Likewise with direction, etc. Even things weren’t the same. I saw my grandfather but it wasn’t really him I saw when I think back on it. It wasn’t even really seeing in the sense that I didn’t use my eyes. There’s what my grandfather looks like and what my grandfather *is* separate from material reality, and I definitely “saw” the latter rather than the former.
I’ve come to think of it as the Platonic realm, where ideas come from, transcendent from material reality but still part of the same overall reality. Lots of philosophers talk about ineffability and an inability to verify the external world but that didn’t exist there. I had direct experience of everything. It was like I existed as the idea of myself separate from the material reality of myself. The same way that the number seven exists even when you’re stuck on the number six. I existed as potential but I was still “alive” and aware.
I did see God and that’s where my experience seems to be a lot different. A lot of people on DMT or whatever have an experience where God tells them life doesn’t matter or is not serious or is a joke or something to that effect. There was forgiveness and understanding in mine but I absolutely got the sense that everyone’s life matters and that I had to try my best. I did also kind of get the sense a lot of what I was able to be told was limited by what I already knew going in and God was just flicking things around in my head like one of those tile games where you slide pieces around to make a picture.
I know that’s not evidence and that’s not proof of anything in the scientific sense but it was enough for me and a lot more than most people get.
Great piece, and thanks for the recommendations. Tim Alberino pops up on the Blurry Creatures podcast often (I think you've tweeted about it before). The Nephilim subject is thoroughly discussed in numerous episodes, and there's one about the beings you meet on DMT (https://www.blurrycreatures.com/).
He visits the Quite Frankly show, too (https://www.quitefrankly.tv/on-demand). The host knows the score.
The world is a deeply weird and mysterious place, and people are beginning to explore these taboo subjects. Thank you for bringing them up!
I’m a baby in all of this. How can I question Seraphim Rose? I do know that your Christian/spirituality posts have brought significant change to my life. A true awakening.
You may find this article interesting given your curiosities about the meaning of the snake within Christian tradition. Jonathan Pageau and his brother Matthieu actually see the snake not as necessarily being satan, though it definitely can be in specific instantiations of the pattern.
https://orthodoxartsjournal.org/the-serpents-of-orthodoxy/
Outstanding! I am totally invested! Going to dig in to the books! I would love for an on going discussion on this fascinating topic. My Dad taught me about the Nephilim when I was 16. It hooked me and made me wonder why Churches never taught this info. Get the popcorn and books!
Really a fantastic read and list of works to dive into. As always, thanks for the write up Cerno!
I would definitely consider myself "Graham Hancock curious". These are deep topics and I have only read about them secondarily (like this post). I know I will eventually dive in but its a rabbit hole that is daunting.
Great post - thank you!
Have you read Lewis Ungit's "Return of the Dragon"?
Thanks Mike, great to be reading you again. I discovered the Danger & Play blog back in 2013.
Don't go to the light
Demonology is, for the most part, a Dysphemism, a scarecrow, if you will. Christianity has used demonolgy as a platform for social control and mind control. This is not to say that demons are not real. There are entities in the spirit realm billions of years old, and in antagonism to the creator, and hateful of us, but 99 percent of the demonlogy we talk about in our culture is self-created demons, conscious shadows if you will, which do not wave in synch with our blockage of the light, but wave independantly. nevertheless, they are aspects of our own unconscious. Jung tried to explain a lot of this, but he was to cumbersome with his language.
Amen