He says places such as the Amazon, the Grand Canyon, and Antarctica give him reason to believe earlier civilizations may have existed before the present one.
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Amazonian mythology is presented as a complete, unified, complex universe where natural forms have spiritual essence and visible reality is only one layer of perception.
Jiang argues that the Amazonian and Pygmy cases share the same religious idea: humans are part of nature and must help nature maintain balance and harmony.
Jiang says sites such as Gobekli Tepe and the Amazon imply prior civilizations whose existence would destroy the conventional narrative if fully revealed.
Jiang argues that the more successful AI becomes, the more jobs the economy loses, citing Amazon's announced layoffs as an early sign of that mechanism.
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"...been other civilizations in place, okay? If you look at the Amazon, if you look at the Grand Canyon in America, if you look..."
"...the truth will destroy the traditional narrative. Then you have the Amazon in Brazil, and how we're discovering how these ancient civilizations existed in..."
"...successful AI is, the more the economy loses jobs, right? So Amazon has announced that it's going to lay off 30,000 workers. And this..."
"people and they're very complex and sophisticated mythology okay so these are these are called called people of the anaconda okay in the beginning..."
"...living today in the forest of the parapania which is the amazon the entire natural world is saturated with meaning and cosmological significance every..."
"a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive plants and animals are human beings sap and blood the bodily fluids of..."
"...the pygmies have different religious beliefs than the people of the Amazon what you will discover what you will notice is that essentially the..."
"...years ago or maybe even before that people will live in amazon forest they've been they since then they already been started using um..."
"...out because they're like these millions of these herbs in the amazon right yeah i'm saying that i absolutely agree with what"
"...these are the companies that spend the most on AI, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle. As you can see, year by year,..."
"...same, if you got the, the people who work at the Amazon fulfillment centers, or if you got the UPS drivers, if you got,..."
"...so if you go to antarctica uh if you go to amazon if you go to go back tepe if you go to the..."
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