Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.817

   I should say I think what we can say is we can understand start pinpointing the starts of domestication and things like that. But I think that what this big data set that we now have shows is there is no linear trajectory to human culture. It's actually very heterogeneous what happens. It's different in different areas of the world and therefore we need to understand the local context to understand them. Gee, that sounds pretty incompatible with the idea of a super awesome Atlantis civilization that might even be aliens which taught all the dumb people all the cool stuff all at the exact same …

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2. 02 · yt0.811

   So does that mean that there wasn't an origin for humans or what or the or the origin is way farther back or what is that this go with does is this a separate theory from Darwinian evolution for as applied to humans? Is the idea that humans came from some other place? Like how do you explain the presence of humans while ostensibly they just appeared out of nowhere? yeah. Those are excellent questions and they are exactly the sort of questions that arose in readers of my book Forbidden Archaeology. Namely, if you have this evidence that contradicts the current theories and were to take it uh as…

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3. 03 · yt0.807

   So just to keep things honest, I'm a researcher in human origins for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. And my research is inspired by my studies in the ancient Sanskrit writings in India, especially the Puranas, the historical writings. Now, for many today, those two things would be complete disqualifications for me to say anything about a scientific topic in scientific circles. However, quite surprisingly to me even, there are people within the scientific world who are interested in hearing what I have to say. And I've been invited to present my ideas at some of the leading…

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4. 04 · yt0.804

   The debate is 4 and a half hours long, so we're not going to go through every last moment. But given that this is the centerpiece of this fiasco, we do need to spend a good amount of time here. So, let's dive into it. I'm here to try to discuss with Graham um and to test his lost civilization hypothesis. He has this he's written about it many books and he's uh given many talks here and on Netflix and he's talked about this idea of a lost advanced civilization from the ice age and advanced civilization that's around the globe right and in particular he thinks there was a glo a global cataclysm …

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5. 05 · yt0.802

   Because as we learn how to change our environment, we learn how to change it faster. And therefore, we've got this contrast of thousands and thousands of years of human history in which things moved very slowly indeed. Sometimes the movement was unnoticeable and of course in those ages people didn't think in terms of social change and they didn't think in terms of progress. They thought rather of an eternal rotation of human life just like the rotation of the seasons which goes on and on and on century after century. So that the concept even of history does not arise for such people. Old histo…

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6. 06 · yt0.800

   But uh but but you know he wrote if this kind of evidence that you're presenting in your book is to be taken seriously it would mean a revision not only of our understanding of human origins but the whole origin of uh species. So yes, it's possible that one could explain this evidence by radically altering the timeline for evolution, not just of human beings. Because the human beings have to come from something. The evidence that I've documented in forbidden archaeology according to William Hows would have placed humans before the apes and monkeys evolved. So it would involve a pretty radical …

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7. 07 · yt0.800

   Yes, and the reason the Vedic cosmology paradigm can incorporate all the data of forbidden archaeology and that the dates don't even really matter that much is because from that perspective, the human vehicle has always been here. It's just part of this system. So, there isn't this evolution thing where we crawled out of the muck. It's just the human vehicle is the vehicle that can bring you back to source. You know, I guess all conscious beings are vehicles for consciousness, but the one that is special is the human because that's where I guess the free will, the choices can allow that bridge…

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8. 08 · yt0.799

   My view is that if we look at actually all the evidence and evaluate it according to a single standard of what is good evidence, then we're going to find evidence for coexistence of anatomically modern humans with other hominid types rather than an evolution from one type to another. We have an incredible episode for you today where you will probably have a lot of angry things to leave in the YouTube comments because we are going to talk about a wild theory about the origins of humanity. Perhaps The lack of origins of humanity. We're going after Darwin, we're going after the institutional clas…

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9. 09 · yt0.799

   Simply called the Darwinian theory of evolution because Darwin was a pretty strict materialist. Mhm. Now it's uh is that correct what I was saying at the beginning that conventional archaeology is saying that uh humanity in our form now is about 100 to 200,000 years old. Is that what they say? Yeah. They would say humans like us first appeared on Earth less than 200,000 years ago. And before that time they would say there were not any human beings like us. There were just more primitive ape-like creatures that they call Neaanderls or Homo erectus or Homoabilis or Oustralopythecus. And before t…

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10. 10 · yt0.798

    And that is followed by another day of Brahma. So, time is going in cycles. It's not linear. Time is cyclical. The basic unit of time is the day of Brahma. During the day of Brahma, life is manifest. During the night of Brahma, everything is destroyed. Life is not manifest. So if you look at these ancient Sanskrit calendars uh they tell us that we are now about uh 2 billion years into the current day of Brahma. The current day of Brahma began 2 billion years ago. So so if we are talking about human origins then if we were to project what archaeologists should find if they were digging into the…

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