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Title: The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
ISBN: 0609600869
Author:
Graham Hancock
Publicate Date: 1998-06
Publish: 1998-06
List Price: $4.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Hancock likes to take the middle road, unfortunately.
I'm sure Graham Hancock has to walk a very fine line in order to get published and to have become as popular as he has. This is simply the price every writer, journalist, reporter, or TV personality must pay if they want to be embraced by the "mainstream". Granted, Hancock is more towards the "fringe" of said mainstream, but he has many published works and documentaries under his belt so he hasn't truly stepped on any toes if you get my meaning. He still must be embraced at least somewhat by the Big Boys from NYC, London, and Tel Aviv.
In light of more recent information and photos by other researchers (like Hoagland and Twietmeyer), there can be absolutely ZERO DOUBT that NASA is (and has been for the last 50 years) a lying, criminal pack of dirty dogs. They have been shown by many different people over numerous times to have shamelessly covered up, or destroyed, or misdirected the truth. Now, understanding the entire truth is not easy of course, but it can be safely said the NASA has given us none of it at any time in their history, despite being funded by tax payers. Naturally, they are under the umbrella of "National Security" laws like every government and military entity, so that will ultimately be their excuse when the lid is blown off the truth at some time in the relatively near future and the public is calling for their heads.
Now, what is it that NASA is hiding you ask? Well, many things, but the area that this book touches upon is whether or not there are artificial structures on Mars and if there is a connection with those structures to sites on Earth (such as the pyramids in Egypt). Well, if any half-wit views ALL the latest material in this arena, then same said half-wit would have to say that there is no longer ANY DOUBT that there are an incredible collection of artificial structures on Mars. And I mean jaw dropping incredible. And although it is true that some of this information was not available to Hancock in the late 1990s, enough of it was that I'm forced to say "shame on you Graham".
At one point in the book, Hancock actually states that he doesn't believe that any conspiracy is occuring at NASA, rather it is just an all persuasive innocent "mind set". And then I simply puked over the arm of my sofa... What a ridiculous claim. The fact that Hancock uses so many NASA and JPL people for info / quotes in this book kind of backs him into a corner that he can't escape from. Although, this is the same problem for any mainstream person wanting to discuss anything off planet, because 99.9% of the data / info / analysis / pictures etc that can be obtained publicly come from NASA or a NASA / government controlled entity. How bloody convenient. Think about that: a very small group of secretive people control the release of everything you have ever read or heard or looked at in regards to "Space". Everything. In regards to Hancock, he just isn't allowed to state that, so he has to pussy foot around the obvious and hold back the logical conclusions. Luckily, there are a relatively small group of people who have spent many decades sniffing around NASA and examining in tremendous detail everything that NASA claims to collect or release in terms of data and photos. Some of these people actually work or have contracted with NASA, and are thus insiders "blowing their whistles". It is these people who have come closer to the truth, have made the more logical conclusions, and have definately stepped on a few toes. Their collective information is beyong jaw dropping now.
But, in regards to Graham Hancock, he is still useful for general introductions into the "bizarre realms of science", but less so these days because of the internet. So unlike many reviewers who have dissed the author, I'm doing so because he has become too mainstream, not a crazy conspiracist. If he was the latter, his books wouldn't exist to review on Amazon...
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2: There is a Mystery on Mars
For centuries, humanity has wondered about our near neighbour in the solar system. From authors to scientists to laymen, the planet Mars has long been a source of wonder and interest. Could there be life there? This book is one of the more recent attempts to argue for the prospects of life on Mars, albeit in the distant past. While this is not a great book in the classical sense- its themes hop around quite a bit, incorporating many seemingly unrelated ideas- it is an essential source of information that the mainstream has either tried to surpress for ages or just simply didn't know about- hence the indignation of some critics of the work.
What makes it credible for me is the authors' incorporation of scientific data and geometric measurements that lend credence to their claims of a global catastrophe on Mars at a time when it had an advanced civilisation. Had they stuck to this theme throughout and developed it a bit further, I would have given the work 5 stars instead of 4. Nevertheless, I feel that the authors have touched upon a reality that is now being revealed too slowly and a little too painfully: that we are not and have never really been alone.
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3: surprisingly enlightening!
You could read the title as "A warning from history that could save life on earth" or you could read the book and justify that it should have read "A rambling from conspirators that could ignite paranoia on earth."
Joke beside, this was actually very enlightening. I just thought it's be some crackpot ideas about Mars. I was 95% sold on the idea when they got into the mathmatics, which match those of ancient earth monuments. Reading that part alone sent me into shivers with a wide-eyed gaze. The second part which grabbed me was the section on camets and astroids. The truth is straight told and this alone will leave you wide-eyed. Getting into the speculation will just send your eyes drooping from their sockets.
So, the mathmatics and the comets were the best parts of the book. The rest was just filler - getting from one point to another.
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4: The Mars Mystery
This book is right on the subject for me. Could this be true???? I think so
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5: Mars: A Part of the Human saga?
This is among the earlier of Graham Hancock's remarkable series of books on unknown Human History. It concerns a possible connection in the ancient human past between Earth and Mars, which the writer postulates hosted a Human civilisation before it got destroyed in a cataclysm caused by a cometary or asteriod impact. Either there was a sister civilisation on Earth, or the remnants from the Martian one escaped and came here to start afresh, and thus Ancient Egypt was where they "unloaded" their legacy. He dated Ancient Egypt's legacy as belonging far back in the hidden mists of millenia untold, linking it to this Martian civilisation, instead of its "official" starting date of circa 3100 BCE. The "story" therefore is remarkable and astounding. But Hancock, in this book, also deliberately deconstructs his previous, equally remarkable and plausible ice-age theory for the destruction of such an ancient technological global, antediluvian civilisation for which he cites the theories of Charles Hapgood and others, and for which overwhelming evidence otherwise exists, transcending interdisciplinary boundaries. This theory was based on the Earth's cyclical axial precession as well as the related possibility of its crust shifting catastrophically, and was at the core of his "debut" book, "Fingerprints of the Gods". His new asteroid-impact theory is as equally as forceful as the axis-shift one he replaces, and such abrupt changes of view could cause doubt in the minds of his readers, even those with superior intellects and education who could reconcile both these aspects of view. He does touch upon this disparity of his on P.254 of the book, but cursorily and briefly.
He treats the example of the present day scarred and desolate planet Mars as a warning for what could happen to our present "high" civilisation now populating Earth. Elsewhere, he also speculates on a conspiracy by the powers-that-be to conceal what happened to Mars - and therefore Mankind's actual history - so as to be able to control their societies, which might otherwise become restive and panick stricken in the face of such knowledge and eventualities. After all, the elites are mature and powerful enough to be able to contemplate awful disasters coolly and in the face - which an ordinary Tom, Dick and Harry can't otherwise even think of, let alone bear! In the last chapter of this book titled "Dark Star", he writes mournfully to the effect that just as humanity seems to be lifting itself to superior levels of cultural, technological and spiritual expression, along comes a global cataclysm forcing them back to square one: to begin as mountain shepherds and hunters all over again, carrying with them the tales of lost Golden Ages of science and culture. This forces him to contemplate mournfully, along Gnostic lines, as to whether God is indeed all-good and love as the "classic" scriptures would have one believe - or whether "He" is a Duality: Evil as well as Good. He then supplies the answers, and so do his other excellent books which I recommend to Amazon readers, "The Lords of Poverty" and "Journey Through Pakistan". The influence of devilish forces aside, it seems we ourselves become The Devil when our lofty achievements get overtaken and harnessed to base desires and consumeristic greed, leading inevitably to some kind of disaster... That is evident right now, in this most critical time recorded Human history has ever known.
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