Debra Cartwright: The Shaman/Astronomers of Gobekli Tepe

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Deborah Cartwright obtained a BA Honours degree in Modern Continental Philosophy and
Phenomenology and studied esoteric psychology through the Theosophical Society. Becoming a
published author on self-development and esoteric psychology in 1999, with her non-fiction book
The Inward Revolution, published by Warner, Little Brown and co-authored with popular novelist
Storm Constantine. The book stands as a unique perspective of alternative psychology, self-help and modern existentialism.

She is best known in the UK for her research with authors Andrew Collins, Graham Phillips and Paul Weston, and her work has directly contributed to many of their books on the genre of earth
mysteries, forbidden archaeology and historical investigation. A key figure in the alternative
archaeology community since the 1990’s, Debbie provided inspiration and foundational ideas for
Andrew’s books The Circlemakers, The Second Coming and From the Ashes of Angels. This
collaborative research into the prehistoric origins of civilisation continued with her involvement in
his books, Denisovan Origins in 2019, and Origins of the Gods in 2022, co-authored with Dr Greg
Little.

Debbie is also known for her extensive work on the Rosslyn Chapel Project between 1992 to 2003 on the subject of the mystical beliefs and practices of the Knights Templar and the Sinclair family for key figures of the project. They included Niven Sinclair, author Stephen Prior, historian Robert Brydon and the then curator of the chapel, Judith Fiskin.

As an exponent of the ‘Questing’ movement since 1990, Debbie defines it as the unique practice of
interacting with ancient sites and the natural landscape to retrieve lost historical knowledge, solve
mysteries, or effect change in the landscape and within the self. Using esoteric techniques such as
meditation and mental visualisation, ‘questing’ is a physical pursuit encompassing many different
spiritual, esoteric and occult disciplines to obtain knowledge of the past.
Debbie’s current work focuses on research into animism and the philosophy behind prehistoric
shamanism, offering a unique perspective on the question of ‘what the ancients were up to’.

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0:00.0	We're right at the end of the month of the month here in October and that means that we're just about ready to start with the Megalithomania Origins Conference, which is November 1st.
0:30.5	And we have one of their guest speakers today.
0:33.5	It is Deborah Cartwright, who is a very well-known research investigator who has co-written books with Andrew Collins, Hugh Newman, and some others.
0:46.5	And she's quite good at what she presents.
0:50.6	And she is an expert on this whole Glebeckley-Tepi-Karahan-Tepi culture.
0:56.5	And this is what we're going to focus on today is the people.
1:00.5	We don't really know anything about the people because we don't have any skeleton remains.
1:04.8	We have few, if any, burial goods.
1:09.5	I don't think we have any burial goods. And the name that's been given
1:15.9	by the academics to the people are the Tass Tabbler culture. These are the people that
1:22.2	occupied Quebecli-Tepi, Carahan-Tepi, and these other hill temples.
1:31.4	Now, remember when we had Hew on a few weeks ago, he reminded us that there's over 40 of these locations in this region of Turkey.
1:42.0	And it's taking them a long time because it takes time to slowly excavate and clear away
1:49.2	the debris to reveal the actual temple itself.
1:55.0	But what we're going to hear about today is the latest information on who they believe were the people who occupied
2:03.6	these parts of Turkey over 12,500 years ago, 90,500 BC. And these are post-catastrophe people
2:14.7	into the last ice age known as a Pleistocene.
2:19.3	And, you know, it's funny because what Andrew presents are the bits and pieces that we know about
2:26.0	in forms of sculptural release and sculptures that are standing.
2:30.0	But we're going to hear today from Deborah, and this is all interesting to focus on,
2:36.6	but we don't get enough about the actual people.
2:39.6	Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients.
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