Graham Hancock - Entangled

GRAHAM HANCOCK

CENTURY LONDON

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For Santha, always, forever, my light, my inspiration, my love, my hope. Without you there would be no words here.

Also By Graham Hancock

The Sign and the Seal

Fingerprints of the Gods

Keeper of Genesis (with Robert Bauval)

The Mars Mystery (with Robert Bauval)

Heavens Mirror (with Santha Faiia)

Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilisation

Talisman: The Sacred Cities and the Secret Faith (with Robert Bauval)

Lords of Poverty

Supernatural

website: www.grahamhancock.com

Id like to thank my wife Santha for her long hours of reading and commenting on the manuscript of Entangled as it has evolved over three years, and for her many inspired suggestions, but most of all for giving me the moral support and encouragement to attempt it in the first place. She was with me every step of the way as we researched the background in the US, northern Spain and the Amazon jungle, and has watched over me on some difficult inner journeys.

Thanks also for the encouragement and enthusiasm of our children, Sean, Shanti, Ravi, Leila, Luke and Gabrielle, who all followed the development of the story from its earliest chapters and were a mine of information and good ideas. Thanks to my mother Muriel Hancock, and uncle James Macaulay, for their readings and suggestions, and to Debbie and Rodney, Jan, Elizabeth, Mark and Adrienne, who were kind enough to comment on various drafts of the manuscript.

Very special thanks indeed go to Mark Booth my brilliant editor, who championed Entangled and gave it light when it was still less than a hundred pages long and who helped me in so many ways to bring out the best in the book at every stage in its creation. I several times found that suggestions Mark had made, which at first seemed to involve only small changes on one or two pages, went to the heart of some deeper problem that might require me to rework dozens of other pages. The end result was always hugely beneficial to the story.

After Marks departure from Century, Kate Elton took over as my editor and did an outstanding job of publishing the book, for which Im very grateful. Thanks too to Katie Duce for coordinating design, production and proofs so efficiently.

There is a considerable research background to Entangled in fields as diverse as neuropsychology, consciousness, quantum physics, shamanism and palaeoanthropology. I have drawn on this background at a number of points but I make no claim to factual accuracy. Entangled is a work of fiction indeed of fantasy and I have never hesitated to depart from the facts when that was what the story required.

Amongst scientific researchers whose work I have studied I want to give special thanks to Rick Strassman, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Ricks groundbreaking research with DMT and human volunteers does not provide a model for the DMT research project described in these pages (which I fictitiously located at UC Irvine); however it does show that such a research project is possible. Moreover, Ricks utterly stunning and disturbing findings, published in his book DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 2001) provide strong scientific support for the central proposition of Entangled namely that non-ordinary levels of reality, including freestanding parallel worlds, may become accessible to us in altered stated of consciousness.

Rick kindly read Entangled in manuscript and gave me his comments. Im very grateful. Thanks also to Luis Eduardo Luna, Ph.D and Ede Frecska, MD, for their readings and comments, and to all at Wasiwaska in Brazil who sat round with me and gave me encouragement and feedback during evenings in 2007 and 2008 when I read aloud from the evolving manuscript of Entangled.

Needless to say none of the individuals named above, whose advice I some- times ignored, are responsible for any of the faults or errors of the book which are entirely my own doing.

I will close by expressing my gratitude and respect to sacred Ayahuasca, the visionary brew of the Amazon, which plays a part in Entangled. Ayahuasca (the Vine of Souls) has been used by shamans for thousands of years to make out-of-body journeys to what they believe are the realms of spirits. Unexpectedly, some Western scientists who have drunk Ayahuasca themselves (rather than simply read about it) are inclined to agree. They speak not of spirit worlds but of a secret doorway in our minds that Ayahuasca can open, through which we may project our consciousness into parallel realms or dimensions.

I first drank Ayahuasca in 2003 while researching my non-fiction book Supernatural, and I have continued to work with the brew ever since. In 2006, during a series of sessions in Brazil, in a ceremonial space overlooked by an image of a blue goddess, my visions brought me the basic characters, dilemmas and plot of the novel that would become Entangled.