Freemasonry is the subject of perennial fascination-recently the cover story of a national newsmagazine, the premise of the movie National Treasure, and the anticipated basis of a forthcoming novel by Dan Brown. The twentieth century's...Read more
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Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 01:19
He was the father of the occult, the founder of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. He was Hermes Trismegistus, and as the scribe of the gods of ancient Egypt, he possessed all divine knowledge... which he passed on to humanity, though...Read more
Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 01:15
A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals
- Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists
- Examines the similarity
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Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 01:10
The Golden Thread traces the interconnectedness of esoteric wisdom in the Western world, from classical antiquity to contemporary Europe and America. Joscelyn Godwin lends personal perspective to an arrangement of text that is historical...Read more
Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 00:06
In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions. Christianity, for example, was one of the innovative...Read more
Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 03:45
The myth and folklore of ancestral peoples around the world hints at a vast cycle of time, with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. Plato called it the Great Year. Long believed to be a fairytale, there is now new astronomical evidence to...Read more
Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 03:43
2013 Reprint of 1920 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
George Washington Carey (1845-1924) was an American physician known for his 'chemistry of life' publications,...Read more
Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 03:38
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding...Read more
Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 03:32
The real history of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled to the Americas long before 1492
- Provides more than 300 photographs and drawings, including Celtic runes in New England, Gaelic
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 15:21
The amazing surprise New York Times bestseller, filled with "breathtaking glimpses into worlds that heretofore have been little explored" (Foreward)
They say that history is written by the victors. But what if...Read more
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 15:03
In this classic work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, the authors track world myths to a common origin in early man's descriptions of cosmological activity, arguing that these remnants of ancient astronomy, suppressed by the...Read more
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 14:41
An examination of the earliest creation traditions and symbols of China and their similarities to those of other ancient cultures
- Reveals the deep parallels between early Chinese words and those of other ancient creation
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 15:23
In 1921, Paul Amadeus Dienach falls into coma and remains in that condition for a whole year.
During this time, his consciousness slides into the future and enters the body of another human being, Andreas Northam, in the year 3906 A...Read more
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 06:47
David Keys found evidence for the climate change in dendrochronology--the study of patterns of tree rings to provide accurate historical dates. In 535/536 there was almost no tree growth, showing that the climate went haywire. A few...Read more
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 10:05
The Montauk Project chronicles the most amazing and secretive research project in recorded history. Starting with the "Philadelphia Experiment"; of 1943, invisibility experiments were conducted aboard the USS Eldridge that resulted in...Read more
Sunday, July 28, 2013 - 02:18
This is a totally new way of looking at the evolution of the human brain. It is so totally fresh, unexpected and hitherto un-thought-of that ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 01:45
Childress opens the door to the amazing world of ancient technology, from the computers of the ancient world to the 'flying machines of the gods'.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 14:55
Ancient Peru and Bolivia, like Egypt, contain enigmas and mysteries, especially in stone which most conventional scholarship can`t explain. Rather than simply being exclusively the works of cultures such as the Inca, there are many...Read more
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 20:27
Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet, shows...Read more
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“A devoted professor of archeology who suddenly finds himself in the far reaches of the earth trying to uncover some of the worlds’ oldest and most precious artifacts” certainly sounds like something that Hollywood scripts are made of. Indiana Jones traveling to remote jungles to find lost cities comes to mind for most.
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