Supernatural: Meetings with the
Ancient Teachers of Mankind by
Graham Hancock
What Made Homo Sapien Sapien Become Symbolic?
Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no
sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and
electrifying change, described by scientists as the greatest riddle in human
history, all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves
appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden
powers. In Supernatural Graham Hancock sets out to investigate this
mysterious before-and-after moment and to discover the truth about the
influences that gave birth to the modern human mind.
His quest takes him on a detective journey from the stunningly
beautiful painted caves of prehistoric France, Spain, and Italy to rock
shelters in the mountains of South Africa, where he finds extraordinary
Stone Age art. He uncovers clues that lead him to the depths of the

Amazon rainforest to drink the powerful hallucinogen Ayahuasca with
shamans, whose paintings contain images of supernatural beings identical
to the animal-human hybrids depicted in prehistoric caves. Hallucinogens
such as mescaline also produce visionary encounters with exactly the
same beings. Scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness research
have begun to consider the possibility that such hallucinations may be real
perceptions of other dimensions. Could the supernaturals first depicted in
the painted caves be the ancient teachers of mankind? Could it be that
human evolution is not just the meaningless process that Darwin identified,
but something more purposive and intelligent that we have barely begun to
understand?
This newly revised edition of Supernatural is now available for
the first time as a paperback original.
Graham Hancock is the author of the
international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods,
and Heavens Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies.
Personal Review: Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient
Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
Just finished Graham Hancock's "Supernatural" exploring what happened
35,000 years ago that made Homo sapien sapien all of a sudden start
creating symbolic representations (art) on the inside of cave walls? More
than that, why such strange images that can best be viewed as
representing a shaman's journey?
Well, everything gets much funkier as Hancock compare's ancient cave art
with modern "archaic" plant medicine practices from Siberia and the
Amazon. Then throws in fairy lore and alien abduction. It sounds like a
fringe mix of subjects, off-putting at best, but his deeper point becomes an
study in how the structural aspects of these disparate experiences partake
of a common matrix once the "skin" (surface symbology) is minimized thru
a conceptual "x-ray" analysis. Ultimately, the book's conclusions about
consciousness and alternative realities are something else quite
unexpected!
One conclusion follows that of Jeremy Narby (The Cosmic Serpent: DNA
and the Origins of Knowledge) ->our DNA consists of approximately 3%
coding for genes and 97% which codes for ??? When mathematical
analysis is performed on this so-called "junk", it shows statistical
distribution characteristics identical to human languages in terms of the
"code set" distribution. It has all the characteristics of a constructed
semantic system. So it appears as if our DNA is an extended message. To
whom? "Us" of the technological present able to decode DNA stands with
our machines? Or any human, any where, anytime, in altered states - such

as shamans or those who have taken plant medicines? These messages
are from whom?
The proposition independently reached by Crick and Watson (co-
discoverers of DNA) is that there was never enough time between the
cooling of Earth's surface and the appearance of fully functional single
celled organisms for the complex system of DNA/RNA replication to have
evolved from random mutations and molecular collisions in the "primal
soup". On top of that, the DNA system appears almost unchanged
throughout all of the phyla of life. Evolution may change physical form, but
an organisms genetic mechanism (the DNA/RNA system) has not evolved
or changed. The only conclusion that can explain this is that life was
introduced to the earth some 4 billion years ago from an outside source.
(This is the theory of Panspermia.)
If life on Earth was an alien creation, then it is not a difficult step to
envision that the semantic messages in DNA are part of an alien
technology to store and transmit information, perhaps forming the basis of
instinct, morphic fields, mythic stories, archaic knowledge, and flashes of
insight. A technology that can create holographic (trance and dream)
experiences. Perhaps teaching us to become human (directed evolution)?
Teaching us to enfold ourselves into a symbolic awareness of the world.
Or...
The alternate conclusion (which Hancock leans more strongly towards) is
based upon accepting the notion of alternate realities as real. We live in a
quantum hyperverse and all it takes is to "retune" the brain (chemically or
by ritual) to reach ("read") nearby alternate dimensions - the realm of the
spirits, ancestors, plant teachers, fairies, aliens and so forth.
So in this case, the DMT machine elves of McKenna, the power animals
and shape-shifting transmutations of shamans, the alien abduction
encounters of the modern era, and the fairies of old are all culturally-
inflected "skins" placed by consciousness on the extended range of
(electromagnetic?) frequencies perceived during trance, trip, dream and
death(?)... We are perceiving all of these beings residing normally in
alternate dimensions in this multiverse.
The Buddhist vision of endless worlds with innumerable sentient beings is
seemingly in agreement on this.
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