I encourage all of you to read Jason Colavito’s lengthy review of Hancock’s latest tome devoted to alternative history. But if you want the short version, Colavito offers this summary thought:
Speaking as someone who found Fingerprints of the Gods to be entertaining and engaging, even when it was wrong, I can say that Magicians of the Gods is not a good book by either the standards of entertainment or science. It is Hancock at his worst: angry, petulant, and slipshod. Hancock assumes readers have already read and remembered all of his previous books going back decades, and his new book fails to stand on its own either as an argument or as a piece of literature. It is an update and an appendix masquerading as a revelation. This much is evident from the amount of material Hancock asks readers to return to Fingerprints to consult, and the number of references—bad, secondary ones—he copies wholesale from the earlier book, or cites directly to himself in that book.
I hope you all won’t settle for that, as Jason’s review includes some telling observations and critique of Hancock’s sources and method.
Dr. Mike got me again.
I was “seduced” into reading the review.
…thank you for taking the time.
(Working slowly on a second go-round of UR)
“Chapter 9-11)”
I’m slogging through the weeds when:
“…, while the Egyptian story says that a star fell and killed all the snake-men.”
When an unlearned mutt, such as myself stumbles across *that*…I roared. I still can’t stop laughing when I see it. (Yes I know it’s real scholarship.)
Guessin’ them-there snake-boys haddit a-comin’ .
So.
I’m an idiot. But a happy one.
Thanks & MUCH continued success with *everything*.
Best, Max
Thanks for the “Heads up” Doctor! Saves us all time & $$ that WOULD have been wasted!
Oh ye of little faith! All your questions will be answered in Hancock’s next tome, “Saddle Staplers of the Gods,” in which he will divulge at long last the hidden Masonic connections between the Ark of the Covenant, how pencils really work, and why some people think Jerry Lewis’ “The Bellboy” is funny.
Funny!
Oh ye of little faith! All your questions will be answered in Hancock’s next tome, “Saddle Staplers of the Gods,” in which he will divulge at long last the hidden Masonic connections between the Ark of the Covenant, how pencils really work, and why some people think Jerry Lewis’ “The Bellboy” is funny.
(Pardon me, please, if I submitted my comment more than once.)
I enjoyed his book Supernatural and found it adventuresome to say the least. Interpreted through the worldview in The Unseen Realm his conclusions are actually consistent, he just doesn’t realize he has the wrong worldview and so he draws dangerous conclusions about the afterlife and spirit realm. He’s being used to promote DMT and what amounts to a modern form of occultism disguised as a search for truth — I appreciate the confirmations that the Supernatural is real, but he fails to do the math and arrive at the only logical solution – God is real and he knows your heart better than you do.
I found Fingerprints and Supernatural both intriguing for the questions they raised. Controversial, but interesting ideas are posed. Working historians well know that our understanding of history is changing constantly. After reading the first chapter of “Magicians of the Gods”, I have to agree with reviewers. I find his arguments forced and petty. I am struggling with the thought of reading on. There is nothing new here. It seems that Hancock has spent his social capital and is basically out of ideas. Better he write a science fiction rather than forcing himself to write something that poses as science and archaeology.