So I went down a bit of a rabbit hole over the weekend. I was listening to the latest Joe Rogan Experience episode with Randall Carlson, who seems to synthesize geology, astronomy, archaeology, and mythology in his research. The main thrust of his argument was that a series of comets and asteroid fragments from the Taurid meteor stream crashed into Earth, right into massive North American glaciers, about 12,800 years ago and about 11,600 years ago, causing globe-spanning cataclysms. These led to the extinction of many species of megafauna in the Americas, changed the sea levels dramatically, and wiped out a whole lot of human beings. He also thinks that some previously-undiscovered but advanced human civilizations were likely wiped out back then. Pretty heady stuff.

After watching that episode, I've gone back and watched Randall Carlson with Graham Hancock. Namely JRE episodes #725 and #872. Hancock is a British author who has done a bunch of research and writing in a similar vein. Those episodes are a blast to watch. The drone footage really does a great job of showing the geological changes in the Pacific Northwest which occurred as a result of a one thousand foot tall wall of fresh water (300 million to 400 million cubic feet per second) traveling at about 60 miles an hour down into the Columbia river gorge.

My point is this: I've never really thought or cared too much about the possibility of their being ancient civilizations. I love history, and always assumed that humans from 12,000 years ago were like the Clovis people: migratory hunter-gatherers who lived in small communities. But Carlson and Hancock make a pretty compelling argument for the existence and subsequent destruction of more advanced human cultures, including that of Atlantis. I'm intrigued by how some of this may correspond to the Great Awakening, or the Cabal. Imagine if one of these civilizations survived, and preserved its knowledge? Would this explain the Tic Tacs, or advanced surveillance tech that we can surmise exist? Or something like Looking Glass? I welcome your thoughts.