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. 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 earth, or if we want to go full sci-fi; other dimensions, other times. We could entertain with imagination all sorts of theories, the possibilities are endless, yet deciding and proclaiming it was aliens is speculative. It is inappropriate to ascertain a hypothesis as theory with no follow through.
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, and unfortunately institutions built on accepted theories do not want to incorporate new findings or proclaim the fact that we don’t know for sure. Our dating techniques are good, but not perfect and every type of measure can be prone to human error. It isn’t guesswork, lots of brilliant minds developed our current understanding, and a lot of work went into their development. 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 developed a sense that there is something deeper in the mysteries of life than science has yet touched on. Shamans and their counterparts in other cultures have long proclaimed visions and interactions with other beings. 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. Again, these are explorations of possibilities, the only real evidence we have is of astronomers, engineers, great builders, navigators traveling by sea and possibly by air.
To give the hypothesis it’s due, 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 limited circumstantial 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, that is why I call it a line of thought, not even a hypothesis. We have to be able to imagine various scenarios in order to pursue discovery and drive inquiry, 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.
