Over the holidays, I watched a lot of documentaries. Over the course of the three years of the pandemic, I also read quite a few books. One topic that shares context between both the formers is on history; specifically, the origins of ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians, Sumerians and Mayans to name a few.

There are a few controversial authors out there who offer a different perspective with their own pragmatic investigation and insight into different origins of some of the former ancient civilizations. One such author is Graham Hancock.

Graham Hancock has written some bestselling books, such as Fingerprints of the Gods, Magicians of the Gods and America Before, all of which I had the pleasure to read over the past years.

The basic premise of his perspective is that all a lot of these ancient civilizations share some sort of commonality indicative of something shared between all of them. He purports that a much older advanced civilization traversed the world, and taught these seemingly self-contained other civilizations, technologies and knowledge that allowed them to build structures such as the pyramids (both Egyptian and American).

It’s a controversial topic because a lot of those in historical academic communities are against any of his perspectives, mainly because of established scholarly dogmas that have been contextualized as facts, impermeable in their documentation.

For example, the history of the Egyptian pyramids place their creation from Egyptians themselves from over 5,000 years ago. This information has been distributed and taught in our schools and presented in museums and historical books. The information is based on a group of scholars and scientists who have agreed upon with their own subjective conclusions, on the origins of the pyramids with the technologies present from over 100 years ago to be the foundation of unmovable facts up to this day.

What Hancock has suggested and is open to revisit, are the means to re-examine the existing data with our newer technologies. More often than not, the newer data yields different data than what was originally published. Upon presenting this new data, he often at the scorn and ridicule of the academic community. Not from displaying unproven data, but by simply going against an accepted set of information that is safeguarded by a group of individuals who want to believe that what has been established cannot and must not be shaken.

So what does this all mean, and why have I called this thought, the great reset?

All of our beliefs in life come from other people who believe strongly enough in someone else ideas, whose ideas also came from someone else and so on.

Over the pandemic, I learned to really reflect on whether or not the people who shaped the person who I am today, really knew and understood what they were talking or preaching about?

Was it something they truly understood? Or was it something that was easy to digest and follow and by course of lucky circumstances, worked for them by coincidence?

I spent hours at my parents’ home once a week asking uneasy questions I probably never would have never thought or considered to ask them if the beliefs that they believed worked for their life, worked for me.

And it was there in all those discussions, finding out little by little the true nature of who they were and why they lived the way they did and believed in the things they did, that I discovered that they themselves didn’t have the true answer.

No one does.

But there was a caveat to that in trying to unlock the secret to liberating my mind in some way from the uneasy anxiety of lack of real control in the course of my life.

That caveat was to simply detach myself from the past and focus literally on what I could tangibly control whether it be mental or physical in the present.

It sounds quite simple and metaphorical, but it is exactly this same simplicity in accepting someone else’s beliefs and living with it, than actually living under your own terms that proves to be the easiest and hardest in both regards.

In order not to contradict myself, this is obviously new data to me that I have discovered through the present control of tools / information / evidence I have gathered that offers a building block to create a new tool to discover another. All this data can be completely refuted at any time given new information and data that would otherwise render this applicable thought as invalid.