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On a Joe Rogan clip, Graham Hancock argues that ancient Egypt focused on why people live and what follows dying, while modern society, in his view, sorts people by goods and output. The route after death was drawn in hieroglyphs from early records, and he asks how a culture could agree unless some experience stood behind the story. He describes a leap toward the Milky Way, with dangers, blockers, and gates that open only with the right words. A similar route of souls, he says, appears in the Americas and elsewhere, among peoples with no known contact. His explanation is inheritance from one distant source, a reason he keeps a lost civilization in view. Egyptians, he says, required an answer for a life, treated as a gift, and the outline stayed stable for about three thousand years. Dying is not the finish. He mentions forty two negative assessors, moral questions he compares with the Ten Commandments, and Ammit, part hyena and part lion, who ends the journey of deliberate cruelty.
Key points
- Hancock contrasts a possession minded modern society with an Egypt focused on the purpose of a life and on dying.
- He describes an after death route along the Milky Way, with dangers, blockers, and password gates.
- The same route of souls, he says, appears in many places and was inherited from one older source.
- He treats that inheritance as one reason to keep a lost civilization in view.
- Egyptian teaching, in his account, held for about three thousand years that dying is not the finish and that a life must be answered for.
- Forty two moral questioners and Ammit, who ends the journey of the deliberately cruel, carry that judgment.
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the ancient Egyptians required you to take responsibility for your life
Graham Hancock, Egyptian afterlife beliefs
His account says the Egyptians demanded that each person answer for the life they lived. Watch at 2:54
from the ancient Egyptian point of view death's not the end and you have been given the precious gift of Life
Graham Hancock, Egyptian afterlife beliefs
He states the Egyptian stance he is defending, that dying continues and a life is a gift to be answered for. Watch at 4:54
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