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Genesis Unveiled The Lost Wisdom of our Forgotten Ancestors (2003) by Ian Lawton To purchase the book go to the RS Press shop. For feedback on it click here. For details of the various editions click here. |
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"An extremely useful survey of early human culture that embraces the unorthodox as well as the mainstream in pursuit of man's origins. Highly illuminating." Adrian Gilbert, revisionist author "A dramatic new vision of the origins of civilisation, born out of a profound understanding of ancient spirituality." Andrew Collins, revisionist author "Remarkable new insights into the pre-flood human race." Barbara Hand Clow, revisionist author |
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"A fabulous find! Ian Lawton has done something tremendous and unique, by tracing the shadow of a lost human civilization not only in ancient myth but in ancient records, and comparing the two! Brilliant research." Whitley Strieber, host of the Dreamland radio show "This book is well-written, well referenced, and highly original - better, in fact, than most books by Hancock et al." Bild |
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OVERVIEW It is time for a fundamental reappraisal of the ancient texts and traditions from around the world. They retain traces of the lost wisdom of a forgotten race. These people possessed a perfect understanding of their spiritual roots, but became obsessed with the material world and progressively lost their awareness. The karmic price they paid for their debasement was annihilation by natural catastrophe... and now, it is happening all over again!
Do the worldwide
traditions of lost civilizations that were destroyed contain any grains of
truth? Do they serve as a warning for modern man? In this stunning
reappraisal, Ian Lawton finally lays bare the secrets of our forgotten,
antediluvian race. His years of painstaking research into the most revered
ancient texts and traditions from around the globe reveals that their
advanced culture was defined by their spirituality, not their
technological accomplishments. Nevertheless, rather than huddling in caves
to escape the ice age, they were expert navigators and astronomers who
traveled far and wide. Emerging about 100,000 years ago with the first
evidence of ritual burial, the evolution of the modern human race received
its most supreme cultural impetus when the first advanced souls incarnated
in human form; this is just one of the true meanings of the universal
traditions of fallen angels and sages that first brought civilization to
earth. Humankind learnt that the soul lived on after death, and that it
would return in a new incarnation. And they learnt that the physical world
around them was not the only reality, and that the real karmic forces
operated through ethereal dimensions that could be experienced by entering
altered states of consciousness.
But progressively
our forgotten race lost their pure understanding, and cut themselves off
from their spiritual roots by immersing themselves totally in the material
world of power and possessions. For such short-sightedness they paid the
ultimate price when universal karma dictated that they should be destroyed
in a worldwide catastrophe some 11,500 years ago, probably caused by the
impact of an extraterrestrial body. More sages incarnated to help the
survivors with the rebuilding process, and to restore the universal wisdom
to its proper place. Humankind was given another chance. However, even
within a handful of millennia, many had returned to their old ways, paving
the way for the materially obsessed and spiritually bereft culture of the
supposedly advanced modern world. The veiled pointers to our hidden past have finally been unmasked as more than just the psychological constructs of philosophically primitive cultures. History is repeating itself... universal karma is once again poised to act... but will anyone heed the wake-up calls? Perhaps for the first time, Genesis Unveiled provides a logically coherent philosophical framework that merges a scientific, non-creationist schema with an esoteric worldview that has been dramatically confirmed by advances in theoretical physics in recent decades. This book will not only change the way you look at the past, but even more so the future... |
CONTENTS PART 1: REVELATIONS 1 MYTHS IN THE MAKING A brief history of mythology; the development of myth; the function of myth; conclusion. 2 A SPIRITUAL WORLDVIEW Karma and reincarnation; evidence; childhood recall; life between lives; logistics; conclusion. 3 DEBASEMENT AND DESTRUCTION The antediluvian patriarchs; the Nephilim reappraised; a tale of two cities; forgotten spiritual roots; karmic catastrophe; Gnostic revelations; the noise of mankind; the Vedic asuras; conclusion. 4 THE ARTS OF CIVILISATION Knowledge transfer; knowledge preservation; conclusion. 5 THE GOLDEN AGE The first occasion; the days of Dasa-ratha; the age of perfect virtue; the race of gold; the divine Atlanteans; conclusion. 6 ROUND AND ROUND WE GO Of silver, bronze and iron; Solon's sojourn; departure from tao; the four worlds; the five suns; counting long; days and nights of Brahma; the wheel of time; conclusion. 7 TAKING ON THE EXPERTS Campbell and cycles; Eliade and renewal; conclusion. In his own image; the maker, modeler, bearer, begetter; the dawn of creation; silent in Borneo; horrible hybrids; conclusion. PART 2: CORROBORATION 9 ARE WE SPECIAL? Global evolution; human evolution; Hindu creationists; the interventionists; conclusion. 10 DEFINING THE WINDOW
Early ancestors; the emergence of modern man; genetic
studies; consciousness and language; the development of culture; urbanisation;
conclusion. 11 ANOMALOUS ARTIFACTS Donnelly's dazzlers; Wilkins' wonders; Steiger's specials; Cremo's canons; Baigent's bombshells; conclusion. 12 CATASTROPHE! Ice ages; destruction on a global scale; extraterrestrial bodies; axis shifts and crustal displacement; geomagnetism and polar reversals; memories; dating; where on earth? missing evidence; conclusion. 13 THE THEOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE The masters; plagiarist? the Book of Dzyan; distortions; an archaic manuscript? conclusion. 14 THE ATLANTEAN CONNECTION Developing the theme; occult Atlantism; Mu; the arcane tradition; the automatic author; the sleeping prophet; teachings from Shambhala; conclusion.
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY?
The ancient astronaut
and interventionist
schools;
the redating school; examining the evidence; realistic scientific skills;
conclusion. PART 3: ESOTERICA 16 ORIGINS In the beginning; missing the point; conclusion. 17 AN ESOTERIC WORLDVIEW Ancient Egyptian beliefs; Platonic ideas; Hermeticism; Gnosticism; Alchemy; Qabalism; Rosicrucianism; altered states; shamanism; conclusion. 18 THE COSMIC DOCTRINE The evolution of the cosmos; the evolution of a solar system; humanity and the role of the planets; conclusion. 19 ESOTERIC SCIENCE Everything is energy; matter is an illusion; everything is interconnected; everything has consciousness; the part is the whole; all time is relative; there are other dimensions; vibration and harmony rule; big bang was a dawn of Brahma; the paranormal is just normal; conclusion. EPILOGUE Single source? more from Newton; a new historical paradigm; a new philosophical paradigm; the future. |
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FURTHER INFORMATION Discover a new take on the origins of the universe, of humanity and of human spirituality, and on the traditions of a Golden Age and of the debasement that led to a global catastrophe; based on reinterpreting the consistent themes in sacred texts, traditions and mythology from Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Japan, China, Indonesia, Australasia, the Americas, Europe and Africa. Discover the consistent esoteric worldview emanating from Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Alchemy, Qabalism and Rosicrucianism, which arguably derives from a far more ancient source of universal wisdom. And discover why suggestions of high technology in Atlantis, Lemuria and other lost continents, from theorists as diverse as, for example, the etherically-inspired Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Cayce, through to the more prosaically-inspired Ignatius Donnelly, Erich von Daniken, Zecharia Sitchin and Brad Steiger, have few firm foundations. |
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THE CREATION OF MAN |
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| Link to Islamic website that argues that the Koran supports the theory of evolution, and includes passages that suggest that Adam and Eve were the first human souls to incarnate into the Homo sapien form | ||
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LATE PLEISTOCENE GLOBAL CATASTROPHE |
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Summary of radioactive research into North American Clovis site sediments, conducted by nuclear scientist Richard Firestone and geologist Allen West for their 2006 book The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophe, suggesting a supernova explosion c 41,000 ya led to a comet impact c 13,000 ya | |
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Brief comment by IL on, and links to, a number of papers that refute certain evidence used to support the idea of a global catastrophe in the late Pleistocene | |
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ESOTERIC SCIENCE |
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Link to interesting developments in the story of Ed Leedskalnin and his "Coral Castle". Has researcher Jon De'Pew rediscovered Ed's secret use of magnetism for levitation as also used by the ancients? You decide... | |
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JERF EL-AHMAR |
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Email from correspondent Robert Ward pointing out the apparently exact similarity of the stylised head-carving in Plate 10 with that of a wooden statue found in Rainham Marshes in Essex and now in the Museum of London | |
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THE NEPHILIM |
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Paper by IL entitled "The Nephilim: A Case of Antediluvian Awareness" | |
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A SPIRITUAL WORLDVIEW |
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Excellent paper by correspondent Theo Sheraton entitled "The Dawn of a New Humanity" | |
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ANOMALOUS HUMAN REMAINS |
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Paper by IL referenced in GU entitled "Problems With Anomalous Human Remains" | |
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KING LISTS |
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Paper by IL referenced in GU entitled "Long Live The King" | |
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GU MISCELLANEA |
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Statement by IL concerning recent comments made about GU by Graham Hancock | |
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Paper by IL entitled "Alternative History Research: Time for a Radical Shake Up", based on lecture given to 2001 Questing Conference in London | |