[BatteryMountain]

If you enjoy this kind of rabbit hole, check out Randall Carlson. People tend to dismiss him but what I like about him, is that he tries to put everything into the correct context, as time goes back. He is not just looking at a tiny slice of what/how things could have been in one domain (say, climate change or ancient structures or math) but tries to put all of it into context of everything else around it & regarding timelines. He also seem to not go out of his way to attribute historical findings to fantastical causes (aliens, gods, giants, reptiles etc) - he tends to boil them down to the simplest explanations (as boring as that is vs aliens etc) and also tries to imagine the mindset and the way the ancient peoples thought about things, how they gathered and transferred knowledge etc. Even if he is incorrect, most of what he claims seems very plausible and it is very humbling to reflect on what our home (the earth) has endured, how much our ancestors and other animals & plants have endured and just how perfect our planet is for us. We must cherish and protect it by all means if we can, but we must also protect knowledge and pass it forward. And then ultimately we need a way to store/send knowledge and life off-planet to somehow ensure we can repopulate the earth if things go sideways (again)(and it will, just a matter of time).

As I said, very nice rabbit hole to fall into. Randall Carlson and Paul Stamets are my two favourite bearded story tellers of our time, about our relationship to our home, our place in the universe & consciousness. They are our Gandalfs. They are perhaps not super accepted by mainstream science or all scientists, but they play a very valuable role.

Anyone else reading this, do you have any other Gandalfs that you can recommend?

[dr_dshiv]

* Ben Cerveny

* Don Norman

* Karl Pribram

* Wim Hof