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is a fascinating read, but it's definitely not for everyone, If you're scientifically minded and need "proof" for his suppositions, you won't make it out of chapter one, However, if you approach it with an open mind and look at this book as a collection of ideas of the author's, but also from many mystics and spiritualists through the ages then it's extremely thoughtprovoking.


Some of it's a bit strange the vegetable part of man is hard to wrap your head around, but all in all I didn't read anything that outraged me.
Instead, it answered some questions that have bugged me for years, such as how the Greeks were able to construct and believe in such a complicated pantheon of gods and demigods.
I especially liked how he suggests we have been experiencing a deevolution in terms of our spiritual knowledge and understanding since the time of the ancient Egyptians, and how a lot of that can be attributed to the Catholic church's insistence on eradicating heresy and witchcraft.
As someone who has spent a great deal of time reading about the early church, I fully believe and accept that the church fathers and hierarchy knew a lot more about esoteric practices than they wanted people to know.


And really, although Booth/Black's it's the same person theories are a bit unusual at first glance, they aren't really.
Think about it. Catholics believe in the intercessory power of saints in transubstantiation in an afterlife in demons and the devil, If you take those beliefs out of Christian doctrine and examine them objectively, and ask where they came from, and why other cultures share many of the same traditions and stories, then you basically are on the same path this author followed all the way back to the beginning of time and then back to the present.


All in all, this is a fantastic book that may answer some questions but will definitely leave you asking even more.
Much of what I read sounded crazy, But that being said, the book really made me think about my spirituality, I loved the idea that by imagining a better world, some of that gets manifested in reality, So in a sense, our thoughts do matter, His view of unconditional love of your fellow man, was inspirational, His secret societies/mystery schools try to make better people and a better world, which is much different from my idea of the Freemasons being a secret society where they helped each other get rich I still think some of them do that.
I also learned a lot about historical people, such as Hypatia go google her, she was an amazing, intelligent woman, torn apart by Monks.
One of my favorite quotes from the book, ", . . if we goodheartedly decide to believe in the essential goodness of the world, despite the brickbats of fortune, despite the slapstick tendency in things that seems to contradict such spiritual beliefs and make them look foolish and absurd, then the decision to believe will help transform the world.
" In this book Jonathan Black sets out to capture the common elements of spiritual intuition which have inspired mystics and visionaries since the human race first began to tell itself stories about its origins and purpose.
He puts forward ancient ideas such as 'the cosmos created the human brain in order to be able to think about itself' which eerily echo the modern thoughts of physicist John Wheeler who says 'By looking back, by observing what happened in the earliest days of the universe, we give reality to those days'.


This idea of a selfcreating universe, which is summoned into being from a state of chaotic uncertainty by the present and future actions of trained observers is a key part of current thinking in anthropic cosmology and yet Black discovered this vital article of modern scientific faith by studying what many people would discount as the ravings of oddballs.


He starts his book by saying 'There is a history of the world that has been taught down the ages in certain secret societies.
It may seem quite mad from today's point of view but an extraordinarily high proportion of the men and women who made history have been believers'.
He's right! The truly creative makers of history are often inspired by strange ideas, and the thread of analytical thinking which Jonathan Black uncovers in his remarkable romp through the dark subterranean passages of the human mind traces how this might have happened.


Black is a highly skilled writer and has been the editorial mentor to many of todays bestselling writers about esoteric traditions.
In his dayjob he has edited Robert Temple, Robert Bavual, Graham Hancock, Richard Rudgely, David Rohl and myselfhelping shape The Hiram Key, among many others.
And for my part he has always encouraged me to write about those deep matters of the human condition which interest everyone, but to do so in way which anybody can relate to and enjoy.
His knowledge of esoteric lore is encyclopedic yet his scholarship is so lightly worn and his narrative style so well crafted the book is a sheer delight to read.
It brings together so many apparently unconnected

threads to present a compellingly different viewpoint on the origins of modern thought, But the driving force at the heart of the story is our human insistence on studying ourselves and telling each others stories to explain why we are as we are.


He closes this inspirational book by commenting that the main lesson to emerge from his studies of the Secret Tradition is that 'Mind created the physical universe precisely with the aim of nurturing human consciousness and helping it to evolve.
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I am a scientist by training and profession and a writer about the esoteric roots of science by inclination, and I am also a fan of Niels Bohr who memorably said.
'If you aren't confused by quantum physics, then you haven't really understood it, ' Enlightened by my quantum confusion and confused by my esoteric training I can't help but see many deep truths in this book.
Jonathan Black, without trying to understand quantum physics has addressed some of its deepest paradoxes and given their explanation a human face.


If you only want to read one book about the ideas that have inspired generations of outstanding people from Plato via Isaac Newton to George Washington then this is the book.
No only is it vast in scope, startling in concept it's also a really good read, And best of all at the end of really pleasant reading experience you will have learned something about yourself and the world you live in.
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