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Transcript: Randall Carlson – Rediscovering Ancient Civilizations – SRS #103

Read the full transcript of architectural designer Randall Carlson’s interview on Shawn Ryan Show (SRS #103) on “Rediscovering Ancient Civilizations”, Premiered Apr 1, 2024.

Welcome and Introduction

SHAWN RYAN: Welcome to the show, man.

RANDALL CARLSON: Well, thanks for having me, Shawn. It’s great to be here.

SHAWN RYAN: It’s my pleasure.

RANDALL CARLSON: Been looking forward to this.

SHAWN RYAN: It’s my pleasure.

RANDALL CARLSON: Here it is. It’s actually happening.

SHAWN RYAN: I first saw you on the Ancient Apocalypse series with Graham Hancock, and that really caught my interest. And then I saw you on Rogan, and then that just took me down the whole rabbit hole.

RANDALL CARLSON: Oh, good.

SHAWN RYAN: So, yeah, I’m really excited to have you here. I love these kind of topics. So we’re going to talk a lot about ancient technologies and ancient civilizations and some of the stuff that you’re doing now with education.

RANDALL CARLSON: Oh, sounds like a good format.

SHAWN RYAN: But yeah. So let me start off with an introduction. Not that you need one, because I’ve seen you all over the place, but you investigate and document catastrophic history of the world and the evidence for advanced knowledge in earlier cultures.

You’re a geologist, architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar. You’ve been doing research for over 50 years into the interface between ancient mysteries and modern science.

Recognized by the National Science Teachers Association for your commitment to science education for young people. Acclaimed in 1997, TBS CNN documentary “Fire in the Sky” was based upon your research into Earth change and catastrophic events.

Organized several dozen field expeditions documenting evidence for catastrophic Earth change. Host of the Cosmographia podcast. And for over 25 years, you have presented classes, lectures, multimedia programs synthesizing this information for students of the mysteries.

Understanding Geomythology

RANDALL CARLSON: Well, let me clarify a couple of points, because there’s always people. What the hell is a geomythologist?

Well, a geomythologist now, that is now becoming a recognized scientific discipline. And what that is is basically scouring ancient documents and ancient records and accounts, could be mythology, legends, whatever, to get insight into geological events and geological change. And we’re going to pull up some examples while we’re here to show examples.

I was talking to Kimball before we started the show here, and I mentioned the discovery of Troy. Now, Troy, there was the famous Trojan War that happened about 3,000 years ago. And this is a good example of the efficacy of geomythology is that Schliemann, who was the archaeologist who discovered the lost city of Troy when everybody else, the establishment, believed it was purely just a myth.

He actually used clues that he got from reading Homer and the myths and stuff, and he went and found the ruins of Troy, and then it was accepted. So that was kind of like, okay, maybe there’s merit to looking at some of these ancient traditions.

And since then, it’s kind of evolved into a whole sub-discipline of geological research in that a lot of these ancient accounts can actually provide very important insight and clues and information into ancient geological events. So that’s what geomythology is. It is not some weird, something that has been concocted up. It actually has value.

And there’s a counterpart to that. It’s called astro-mythology because we know that ancient peoples all over the world were very, very interested in what was happening in the sky. And so astro refers to the stories and the myths about things that are happening in the heavens, in the sky, in the celestial realm.

And again, we’re finding out that there’s merit to that. We can actually derive valuable, usable information. I think the story of Marduk battling Tiamat in this Sumerian tradition, and astronomers even, like 40 years ago were looking at that, going, “Wait a second, it could be that people are witnessing some kind of fireballs or maybe the breakup of a comet or some such thing as that in the sky.” And that became the basis for recording this myth.

Interesting. Same with Zeus battling dragons in the sky. There’s many myths. The Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent in the New World stories. I mean, again, all over the world, stories of dragons and flying serpents and things like that and wars in the heavens.

And so there’s actually a group of astronomers now, particularly it started in England, like in the early 80s, late 70s, where they’re looking at these myths and going, “Well, maybe these are records of things that people actually witnessed or experienced firsthand.”

Ancient Mysteries and Megalithic Structures

SHAWN RYAN: Well, I can’t wait to dive in. We had a very, we touched on a couple subjects at breakfast that really, really caught my ear. But, one thing that I think everybody is, everybody is kind of coming to is, the ancient Egypt, the pyramids, and a lot of these mysteries of the world.

Stonehenge, Easter Island, the pyramids, Machu Picchu, how all these seem to line up with the stars, line up with each other. And I think, I don’t know too many people left that are buying the ancient Egypt. The pyramids were built with lifted stone that weighed tons, thousands and thousands of pounds.

RANDALL CARLSON: With sticks. Yeah. I mean, a lot of those stones are 50, 100, 200 tons, even bigger than that.

SHAWN RYAN: It’s almost interesting that that even wound up in the educational system to begin with and that, I mean, when I was going through, I mean, nobody challenged it.

RANDALL CARLSON: No.

SHAWN RYAN: And now today it seems to be the complete opposite.

RANDALL CARLSON: Yeah, I mean people are really beginning to question. And the thing is, you could look at it as an anomaly and one culture at one point in history said, “Hey, you know what, we’re going to quarry and move 200-ton stones just for the heck of it.”

But you see the thing all over the world, all over the world they’re doing these incredible structures with these massive stones.