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Shamans

BOOK

Author: Graham Hancok
Title Italian edition: Shamans
Edition consulted: Corbaccio, 2006.
Original edition: Supernatural Meeting with Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2005

Hancok Graham, as a good journalist, dusts the ideas of others, and repackages the compound to sell art for the masses. As usual, comments and just starts to get bad consequences. Therefore, there are some interesting data, but how to process this data must be taken with caution.
Hancock takes the theory of "neuropsychological" anthropologist David Lewis-Williams, who in the mid-'70s, he played the Paleolithic cave paintings as a representation of altered states of consciousness induced by drugs or sensory deprivation techniques.
From here jump to the conclusion that the development of human evolution has been triggered in your favorite use of natural drugs, particularly those hallucinogenic, which would allow humans to cross the threshold of a parallel world. Through these trips nell'altromondo, typical of shamanism, the man would come into contact with intelligent beings who, depending on the era and the historical context, are seen as ghosts, goblins, ghosts, witches and extraterrestrials!
Hancok also cites the theory of psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, which states that UFOs could result from a kind of "psyche materialized."
In this there is some truth. If the incidence of certain phenomena, so-called "paranormal" increases dramatically with the use of toxic substances, we must conclude that These phenomena are related to the psychological world. But to say that altered states of consciousness induced by drugs, half are within everyone's reach for metaphysical knowledge, is a lie so that stinks of sulfur. First, there are no shortcuts in metaphysics. Second, use drugs to free the spirit is like trying to fly a rocket in slipping behind.
It 'obvious that Hancock confuses the spirit (pneuma) with the psyche, with the metaphysical witchcraft, the truth with the appearance. Sounds like a diabolical temptation then the call to reject any scientific or religious authorities and to experiment freely and easily otherworldly experience induced by hallucinogenic drugs: "Who of us has been raised in a puritanical moral climate can always think that we can not at all deserve something so wonderful and enlightening as the religious experience without work and suffer to get there, but this is not a logical position '(p. 538).
The author, confessing that he directly experienced the substances in his research, from which one understands the nature of the ensuing delusional theories, does not spare us the story of the pre-Columbian civilizations that have achieved high levels of civilization, thanks to drugs like peyote, the mescal, ol'ayahuasca. It was advanced and peaceful civilization, bloodily suppressed by the Conquistadors and the Catholic Church. You forgot to say that these peaceful civilizations practiced human sacrifice and that when they came into contact with Europeans, were already at an advanced stage of decay in which drug use and abuse of witchcraft were certainly play their part.