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Graham Hancock and the Sacred Vine.
More widely, Hancock believes that hallucinogenic drugs (or medicines, as ayahuasca is described in South America) can be useful as an aid to psychological understanding and healing. He believes they open the door to the spiritual world, or to parallel dimensions as scientists would perhaps describe them, where various lessons and insights can be gained useful to one’s life in the material realm that we normally perceive. These trips into the spiritual realm though are not to be undertaken lightly as there are dark entities residing there that can cause us harm. Therefore ayahuasca journeys with experienced and knowledgeable shamans are highly preferred.
This research into one’s consciousness is of vital importance because Hancock holds the opinion that human life and the experience of a human body is a vehicle to understanding ourselves at a higher level. This is, to Hancock, the meaning of life and why we are here.
Hancock also discusses his forthcoming book, War God, about the Spanish conquest of South America and the spiritual forces playing out behind the scenes.
In addition to ayahuasca, Hancock has also taken the African drug iboga, which reputedly allows people to see the dead. He experimented with this while researching his book Supernatural which deals with the shamanistic psychedelic drug culture and alternative, parallel realities. Hancock was both interested in his psychological exploration but also in contacting his late father, who had passed away with Graham being present at his transition, something that he has come to understand as a sacred duty.
He goes on to talk about his trips with DMT, the active ingredient of ayahuasca and a former podcast with Joe Rogan.
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