Discover the story behind Listening to the Ancients, our passion for ancient history, and the unique perspective for understanding our past.
The inspiration behind Listening to the Ancients
In 1997, after a lifetime of puzzling over many ancient accounts of “mythological” gods, the questions and answers suddenly came together in my mind. It was like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle moving of their own accord into a coherent picture. This occurred while I was reading William Bramley’s The Gods of Eden and came across a passage about Zecharia Sitchin and The 12th Planet. As I read Bramley’s account of Sitchin’s work, I found myself leaning forward. I had to read more of this man’s work.
And I did read just about everything he published. I cannot call myself an expert on his extensive writing—which covers a vast area and, frankly, is more than I could cover in my remaining lifetime—but, for me, I was convinced that the man was on the right track with his now famous Earth Chronicles.
Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles, his school of thought on creation and ancient human history, is, in my opinion, the best explanation of—and the best model for—our most ancient times, of how we humans came to be.
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No one has ever given the Earth Chronicles the benefit of a critical examination. Instead, Sitchin's body of work has been relegated to the science speculation category—pseudoscience. Listening to the Ancients takes a critical look at Sitchin's revolutionary perspective, by which he removes the boundary between historicity and myth. In so doing, he makes, among many other mysteries, the Brigadoon-like rise of Sumeria, with all its historic firsts, perfectly explainable. Listening to the Ancients gives credibility and context to speculations about what happened before history began.
Who is Listening to the Ancients for?
In the beginning, I see serious advocates of the Ancient Aliens proposition having a vehicle for sharing information, insights, and conclusions—even anonymously. As time goes by, I hope to see academics publishing papers on the viability of Sitchin's assertions—and I believe that, with the appropriate mindset, these researchers will largely confirm his findings.
The ideal long-term outcome is the abandonment of rigid eighteenth-century thinking about life other than humankind and the embrace of the possibility of intervention in our distant past. Along with that, hopefully the ET stigma will be a thing of the past, and researchers will feel free to "go where no researcher has gone before."