''Supernatural''
Due to or manifesting some agency
above the forces of nature, outside of the
ordinary operation of cause and effect.

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- The evolution of modern humans has taken more than five million
years but until less than 50,000 years ago we had no art, no religion,
no sophisticated symbolism, no creative and innovative thinking, and
quite possibly no language. Then, a dramatic and electrifying change
overtook our ancestors in every part of the globe, and all the skills
and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves today appeared
suddenly, already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden
powers. Scientists describe this change as “the greatest riddle in human
history”.
- The first art of mankind, in the painted caves
and rock-shelters of southwest Europe and South Africa, dates back to
the time of the great change. Why do these ancient paintings, tens of
thousands of years old, depict beings of a kind that are never found in
nature – strange and eerie hybrids with the heads of animals and the
bodies of humans?
- In the depths of the Amazon rainforest tribal shamans drink a powerful hallucinogenic brew called Ayahuasca
(“the vine of souls”) in order to induce visions. When they return to
normal consciousness, after experiencing what they believe is
out-of-body travel in the spirit world, they make paintings of the
“intelligent beings” they have encountered. Why are many of these beings
also depicted as uncanny hybrids with the heads of animals or serpents
and the bodies of humans? And why do the shamans say that they have
taught them everything they know about how to live in the jungle, and
about the medicinal value of rainforest plants?
- Why do Western lab volunteers, placed experimentally under the
influence of hallucinogens such as DMT, psilocybin, mescaline and LSD,
report visionary encounters with “beings” in the form of animal-human
hybrids – beings identical to those the Amazonian shamans claim to meet
and to those painted by our ancestors in the prehistoric caves?
- What is the significance of the astonishing similarities between the
entities known as “aliens”, ET’s” or “greys” in modern popular culture,
the entities known as “fairies”, “elves” and “goblins” in the Middle
Ages, and the entities that shamans in surviving tribal cultures know as
“ghosts”, “gods” and “spirits”? Why are such figures depicted in
prehistoric art as far afield as Africa, Europe, the Americas and
Australia?
- Why have eminent scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness
research, especially those who study the ways that hallucinogens work in
the brain, recently begun to question long-established theories about
the nature of reality? Why are some now even ready to consider the
possibility, long ago embraced by shamans, that, far from being “false
perceptions”, what we see in the strange imagery and experiences of
hallucinations may be real perceptions of other “dimensions” and the
beings inhabiting them?
- Why did Nobel Prize-winner Francis Crick keep concealed until his
death the astonishing circumstances under which he first “saw” the
double-helix structure of DNA? And why did he become convinced that the
DNA molecule did not evolve naturally upon this planet but was sent here
in bacteria by an alien civilisation?
- Why does the 97 per cent of DNA that scientists do not
understand – so-called “junk DNA” – contain chemical “sequences”
arranged in patterns and frequencies that are otherwise only found in
the deep coding of all human languages?
- Could the “supernaturals” first depicted in the painted caves and
rock shelters – and still accessible to us today in altered states of
consciousness – be the ancient teachers of mankind? Could it be they who
first ushered us into the full birthright of our humanity? And could it
be that human evolution is not just the “blind”, “meaningless”
“natural” process that Darwin identified, but something else, more
purposive and intelligent, that we have barely even begun to understand?

These are some of the mysteries at the heart of the quest Hancock unfolds in the pages of his book
Supernatural
– a quest that takes him on a journey of adventure and detection from
the depths of the Amazon rainforest, to the stunningly beautiful painted
caves of prehistoric Europe, and to ancient painted rock-shelters in
the remote mountains of South Africa. This is a book of page-turning
story-telling with electrifying descriptions of the daunting journey
that Hancock must undertake as he drinks hallucinogens with tribal
shamans in the Amazon and self-experiments with DMT, psilocybin and the
African visionary drug known as
Iboga – “the plant that enables men to see the dead.”
But
Supernatural
also has an exciting basis in the latest science – much of it so far
largely unknown to the general public. Thus, although the book takes
readers into unusual and daring areas of enquiry, and investigates
extraordinary possibilities about human origins, and about the nature of
consciousness and of reality, the argument is underpinned throughout by
the discoveries and views of eminent scientists doing cutting-edge
research.
How "supernatural" beings interacted with human consciousness
from ancient to current times.These entities, who have been known by
such names as spirits, fairies and aliens are always "interpenetrating"
with our world but normal consciousness is tuned into everyday reality
and is not typically aware of them.
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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.
"Hancock's work is a welcome exploration and celebration of the mystery
inside our skulls" The Guardian "As gripping as any thriller,
but with profound implications for the values and future development of
humanity"