THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD

From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occultroots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motivesbehind American foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows thebasic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a verydifferent angle. At the heart of The Secret History of the World is thebelief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness in which we cansee things about the way the world works that are hidden from us in oureveryday, commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by usingsecret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton andGeorge Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and beenable to access supernatural levels of intelligence. By the end of the bookthe reader will see the world differently. It will be evident that a secretphilosophy is encoded in the world around us, in public buildings andmonuments, 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 wetell our children.