From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occultroots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behindAmerican foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows the basic facts ofhuman existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle. At the heart of The Secret History of the World is the belief that we canreach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the waythe world works that are hidden from us in our everyday, commonsensicalconsciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo daVinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into thisaltered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. By the end of the book the reader will see the world differently. It willbe evident that a secret philosophy is encoded in the world around us, in publicbuildings and monuments, in great art and literature, in the arrangement of the pips inan apple, in the names of the days of the week, even in the very stories we tell ourchildren.