Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: A Graham Hancock Reader

by Glenn Kreisberg (Editor)

Overview

Thinkers at the forefront in alternative theories on history, the origins of civilization, technology, and consciousness

• With contributions by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Mark Booth, Richard Hoagland, Robert Schoch, John Anthony West, and others

• Topics range from quantum philosophy and paranormal phenomena to the secret history of NASA, instant polar shifts, and ancient Martian civilizations

• Explores where our present time fits into the cycle of human existence

A revolution of thought is under way in our world, fostered by decades of research and well-documented evidence by alternative theory pioneers such as Graham Hancock, John Anthony West, Robert Bauval, and Robert Schoch. These provocative, cutting-edge scholars now represent a direct challenge to the academic establishment as the paradigms of science and history shift and their ideas gain acceptance.

Representing the latest, often controversial findings in scientific and historical research, this anthology of essays commissioned by Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, covers the forefront in alternative theories on history, the origins of civilization, technology, and consciousness with topics ranging from quantum philosophy and paranormal phenomena to the ancient use of electromagnetism, the effect of cosmic rays on human evolution, and NASA’s cover-up of ancient Martian civilizations. Recognizing that many recent discoveries are actually rediscoveries of lost knowledge from past civilizations, these authors seek to understand where, within the bigger picture of human knowledge, our present time fits into the cycle of human existence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591439677
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	08/13/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	108,070
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Glenn Kreisberg, editor of the Author of the Month page at GrahamHancock.com, is a radio frequency engineer, writer, researcher, and licensed outdoor guide and currently serves as the vice president of the New England Antiquities Research Association. The author of numerous articles and papers, including Lithic Mysteries of the Northeast, he is the founder and editor of the alternative science and history website ASHnews.org. He lives in Woodstock, New York, with his wife and two children.
Glenn Kreisberg is an author, outdoor guide, and radio engineer, who researches archaeoastronomy and landscape archaeology in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains of New York. His books include Mysteries of the Ancient Past, Lost Knowledge of the Ancients, and Spirits in Stone. He served two terms as vice president of the New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) and studied archaeoastronomy at SUNY and archaeoacoustics on Malta. He is co-founder of the non-profit Overlook Mountain Center (www.overlookmountain.org) in Woodstock, NY, where he lives with his wife and two teenage children.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter Six
Dark Mission

The Secret History of NASA
Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara

My name is Richard C. Hoagland. I was a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) consultant to the Goddard Spaceflight Center in the post-Apollo era and science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News Special Events, advising CBS on the science of the NASA missions to the moon and Mars during the Apollo Program. I currently run the Enterprise Mission, an independent NASA watchdog and research group, which is attempting to figure out how much of what NASA has found in the solar system over the past fifty years has actually been silently filed out of sight as classified material, and therefore remains totally unknown to the American people.

To even begin to fully appreciate what NASA has been quite consciously, deliberately, and methodically concealing from the American people and the world for all these years, you have to begin with NASA’s turbulent past--specifically, an account of its origins in the increasingly dangerous geopolitical environment that Americans were thrust into in the wake of World War II.

The governmental institution known as NASA is a department of the executive branch, ultimately answerable solely to the president of the United States, an agency created through the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. According to that act, NASA is, ostensibly, “a civilian agency exercising control over aeronautical and space activities sponsored by the United States.” [Emphasis added.]

However, contrary to common public and media perception that NASA is an open, strictly civilian scientific institution is the legal fact that the space agency was quietly founded as a direct adjunct to the Department of Defense, tasked with specifically assisting the national security of the United States in the midst of a deepening Cold War with its major geopolitical adversary, the Soviet Union. It says so right in the original NASA charter:

Sec. 305 . . . (i) The [National Aeronautics and Space] Administration shall be considered a defense agency of the United States for the purpose of Chapter 17, Title 35 of the United States Code . . .

In another section of the act, this seldom-discussed defense responsibility--the ultimate undercutting of NASA’s continuing public facade as a strictly civilian, scientific agency--is blatantly spelled out:

Sec. 205 . . . (d) No [NASA] information which has been classified for reasons of national security shall be included in any report made under this section [of the act] . . .


Clearly, from this and the other security provisions incorporated in the act, what Congress, the press, and the American taxpayers get to see of NASA’s ultimate activities--including untouched images and data regarding what’s really on the moon, on Mars, or anywhere else across the solar system--is totally dependent on whether the president of the United States (and/or his legal surrogates in the Department of Defense and the “intelligence community”) has already secretly classified that data. This is directly contrary to everything we’ve been led to believe regarding NASA for more than fifty years now.

After NASA was formed, it commissioned a formal “futures study” into the projected effects on American society of its many planned activities (including covert ones). Carried out as a formal NASA contract to the Brookings Institution--a well-known Washington, DC-based think tank--the 1959 study was officially titled “Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs.” The results of this multidisciplinary investigation were officially submitted to the administrator of NASA in late 1960 and (after the Kennedy administration was elected) to Congress in April 1961. One area of unusual interest covered in the report--easily overlooked amid mountains of interminable statistics and analyses--was a quiet assessment of the near-certainty of a NASA discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial life:

While face-to-face meetings with it [extra-terrestrial life] will not occur within the next twenty years (unless its technology is more advanced than ours, qualifying it to visit Earth), artifacts left at some point in time by these life-forms might possibly be discovered through our [NASA’s] space activities on the moon, Mars, or Venus.

Brookings officially affirmed NASA’s expectations that the agency would fly to nearby planets in the solar system and would thus be physically capable, for the first time, of confronting “extraterrestrials” right in their backyard.

Did any skeptics even know that this official document existed before we made it public in 1996? Beginning in the mid-1960s with unmanned spacecraft, NASA actually discovered its projected extraterrestrial artifacts--but the agency never got around to telling the rest of us!

NASA would clandestinely confirm with these earliest robotic probes, and then proceed to cover up, the first awesome remains of an extraordinary, solar-system-wide, ancient technological civilization on the moon--precisely as Brookings had predicted. Four years later, the Apollo Program would come to full fruition, and the lunar astronauts themselves would personally witness and extensively document, with tens of thousands of high-quality photographs, from both lunar orbit and the surface, extraordinary “glass-like” structures on the moon! The Apollo crews would not only bring back rocks to NASA laboratories but also actual samples of the ancient technologies they found--for highly classified efforts at “back engineering.”

A small cadre of loyal NASA employees was witness to what actually went on and agreed at that time to keep the secret in the interest of national security. Some of these NASA employees, apparently, have finally “seen the light”--that this continued deception, no matter what the legal rationale or national security implications, was fundamentally extra-Constitutional. Because of these true NASA heroes, real space history is about to officially begin, again.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction On the Search for Lost Knowledge
Glenn Kreisberg

ONE Thoughts on Parapsychology and Paranormal Phenomena
Has Conventional Science Missed Something Profound?
Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

TWO Quantum Philosophy and the Ancient Mystery School
Today’s New Science Philosophy--Old or New?
Edward F. Malkowski

THREE The Egypt Code
Is the Key to Egypt’s Past Reflected in the Stars above Giza?
Robert Bauval

FOUR Alternative History and Esoteric Philosophy
Two Portals into the Same World?
Mark Booth

FIVE An Open Letter to the Editors of Archaeology
Taking Traditionalists to Task
John Anthony West

SIX Dark Mission
The Secret History of NASA
Richard C. Hoagland

SEVEN History and Celestial Time
Does Precession Cause the Rise and Fall of Civilization?
Walter Cruttenden

EIGHT The Orion Key
Unlocking the Mystery of Giza
Scott Creighton

NINE The Cygnus Mystery
Have Cosmic Rays Affected Human Evolution?
Andrew Collins

TEN Electromagnetism and the Ancients
Did Ancient Humans Have Knowledge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
Glenn Kreisberg

ELEVEN The Gulf of Khambhat
Does the Cradle of Ancient Civilization Lie off the Coast of India?
S. Badrinaryan

TWELVE The Orion Zone
Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest
Gary A. David

THIRTEEN On the Possibility of Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles
Has It Occurred during Human Existence?
Flavio Barbiero

FOURTEEN Mysterious Strangers
New Findings about the First Americans
Graham Hancock

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

What People are Saying About This

Irene Watson

"Fascinating! That's how I found the theories in Lost Knowledge of the Ancients.

Mark Booth

“These accounts of ‘lost’ or anomalous knowledge are building blocks of an alternative universe, and, taken altogether, they reveal something of the deep structure of this alternative universe. They also show that this universe made up of anomalies may be more real than the everyday, commonsensical one!”

Editorial Reviews

The face of archaeology has been irrevocably changed . . . This volume brings together a series of essays which explores many aspects of this new domain with papers covering diverse. . .

January 2011 Living Traditions Magazine

"Fascinating! That's how I found the theories in Lost Knowledge of the Ancients."

Irene Watson

"Altogether, the reflections of these frontier investigators provide a big-picture perspective on the cycle of human existence which challenges orthodox knowledge. If you've not read their works before, this anthology is an ideal place to start."

Nexus Magazine

These accounts of ‘lost’ or anomalous knowledge are building blocks of an alternative universe, and, taken altogether, they reveal something of the deep structure of this alternative universe. They also show that this universe made up of anomalies may be more real than the everyday, commonsensical one!

author of The Secret History of the World Mark Booth

"Altogether, the reflections of these frontier investigators provide a big-picture perspective on the cycle of human existence which challenges orthodox knowledge. If you've not read their works before, this anthology is an ideal place to start."

"Fascinating! That's how I found the theories in Lost Knowledge of the Ancients."

“The face of archaeology has been irrevocably changed . . . This volume brings together a series of essays which explores many aspects of this new domain with papers covering diverse. . .”

“These accounts of ‘lost’ or anomalous knowledge are building blocks of an alternative universe, and, taken altogether, they reveal something of the deep structure of this alternative universe. They also show that this universe made up of anomalies may be more real than the everyday, commonsensical one!”

“This incredible anthology introduces the revolutionary work of cutting-edge researchers who are currently defining a new view of not only the high level of science and technology in the remote past but also the relationship of humanity to cosmic cycles over vast expanses of time. Lost Knowledge of the Ancients may hold the key to our future.

From the Publisher

The face of archaeology has been irrevocably changed . . . This volume brings together a series of essays which explores many aspects of this new domain with papers covering diverse. . .

Living Traditions Magazine

These accounts of ‘lost’ or anomalous knowledge are building blocks of an alternative universe, and, taken altogether, they reveal something of the deep structure of this alternative universe. They also show that this universe made up of anomalies may be more real than the everyday, commonsensical one!

Mark Booth

This incredible anthology introduces the revolutionary work of cutting-edge researchers who are currently defining a new view of not only the high level of science and technology in the remote past but also the relationship of humanity to cosmic cycles over vast expanses of time. Lost Knowledge of the Ancients may hold the key to our future.

Robert M. Schoch

The face of archaeology has been irrevocably changed . . . This volume brings together a series of essays which explores many aspects of this new domain with papers covering diverse. . .

Living Traditions Magazine Magazine