Graham Hancock is an explorer and journalist with a passion for sacred plants and ancient civilizations. Graham is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven's Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. Graham is one of the world's leading experts on the historical use of psychedelics. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity's past, including the belief that psychedelics played a key role in the intellectual evolution of humanity and can help save mankind from going extinct.
“Are we free as adults in the society we live in, to make choices, sovereign choices, about that most intimate and personal part of ourselves that is our consciousness? And if we are not free to make those decisions, then the whole notion of liberty in our society is rotten at the core. It’s just pointless to rattle on about democracy and the great achievements of western democracy (and actually go around the world trying to impose that on other people) while we have this rotten system that says that adults cannot be trusted to make decisions about their own consciousness and that the state will actually send them to prison and ruin their lives and destroy their reputations and completely mess them up forever if they are caught with a psychedelic. This is something that we need to sort out and we need to sort it out very very rapidly. – Graham Hancock “