SUPERNATURAL: Meetings With The Ancient Teachers Of Mankind is available in stores everywhere and online!
For many people, the birth of religion, spiritual beliefs and mythology traces back to Adam & Eve. For best-selling author Graham Hancock, the journey to this mythical moment when intelligent belief began, reaches even further. . . all the way back to the cavemen and beyond. Returning with his new book, Supernatural, Hancock investigates extraordinary possibilities about human origins, and about the nature of consciousness and reality.
On its first publication in the UK, Supernatural was nominated by the Daily Express as "the year's most controversial book" and described by the New Statesman as: "As gripping as any thriller, but with profound implications for the values and future development of humanity."
Hancock sets out to investigate and discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to the modern human mind. In this new book, Hancock touches on topics including:
• IN SEARCH OF THE INTELLIGENT MIND—From the Amazon to Africa, from France and Spain to Italy and India, Graham Hancock traveled the world to investigate the before-and-after moment and reveal the truth about the nature of consciousness and reality.
• MEDICINES FROM THE EARTH—Graham Hancock examines the medicinal and pharmacological uses of many plants throughout history—plants that continue to thrive across the world, the rain forest, Europe and elsewhere. What effect can these indigenous plants have on our physical and mental well-being today?
• THE MYSTERIES OF THE SPHYNX, THE UNICORN & THE CENTAUR—The archeological relevance of art work depicting half-man, half-beast and the significance of its appearance in artwork throughout time and around the world. What is a “therianthrope†and how is it possible that the same images appeared centuries apart and continents away from each other?
• I SEE DEAD PEOPLE—Is it possible to communicate with the dead and interact with our ancestors? Hancock contends that people have been doing so for ages during indigenous ceremonies that honor and call upon the deceased. How are these ceremonies performed and what happened when Hancock tried to commune with his recently deceased Father?
• DIVINE INSPIRATION—Were our stone-age ancestors stoned? Hancock illuminates man’s historical relationship with beneficent, shamanic plants and how it related to the development of consciousness, culture, spirituality and religion.
• WHEN SCIENCE MEETS SPIRITUALITY—How do we quantify and scientifically replicate mythology and spirituality? How can we prove the birth of consciousness? Hancock goes beyond Darwinism in search of the truth behind the development of intelligent thought.
His quest takes him on a journey of adventure and detection from the stunningly beautiful painted caves of prehistoric France, Spain, and Italy to remote rock shelters in the mountains of South Africa where he finds a treasure trove of extraordinary Stone Age art.