Observations on "Supernatural", a Book by Graham Hancock

I've just finished one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. I would like to summarize the author's main point and take what he discovered to another level. Many of my deepest questions concerning religion and history can now be given a somewhat intellectually satisfying answer by looking at some of the information that Graham Hancock presents in his latest non-fiction book, Supernatural.

Briefly, with this book, Mr. Hancock is trying to connect a lot of dots. As wild as it may sound, He has found common links between shamanistic cave art from thousands of years past, legends of fairies and elves and alien abduction. The common link? Hallucinations. But not just any kind of hallucination.

In the past, shamans were the community healers and spiritual guides. In many parts of the world, they still are. What I didn't know is that many of their remedies actually work and modern microbiology is puzzled at the complexity and deep understanding of the concoctions that these "primitive" doctors have obtained from the virtually unlimited combinations of varieties of plants. The shamanic practices are known to have existed all over the ancient world and, amazingly, both their methods and results are very similar today, as in the past. The troubling fact is that the visions that these spiritual guides have recorded as seeing while 'hallucinating' have eerily similar details to one another.