Image created by Jason Quitt using Photoshop & Grok xAI We warmly welcome Jason Quitt, author of The Shining Island: Precession, Axis Mundi, & Plato’s Celestial Allegory, as our featured author this month. Jason is an esoteric author whose work explores the intersection of sacred geometry, archaeoastronomy, and spiritual science. In his latest book, Jason…
Five of the Most Impressive War Machine Artifacts Ever Recovered The battlefields of history were not just sites of warfare; they represented the creativity of our military engineers as they invented deadly machines to demolish city walls, sink enemy ships and seize control of the battleground. Ancient texts document the existence of many of these…
The Ghost of Columbus and the Impossible Geometry of the Piri Reis Map In 1929, while renovating the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, a theologian discovered a fragment of gazelle skin that would rewrite the history of cartography. This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri…
One doesn’t generally expect to be offered a job as the Prime Minister’s spokesperson, only to find oneself talking about magic mushrooms instead. But there I was, in the strange mid-covid summer of 2020, sitting in the Cabinet Room of No. 10 opposite Dominic Cummings. He had, rather out of the blue, asked me to…
We warmly welcome F.K. Sterling, author of Ancient Ozarks: Giants in the Caves, Star People in the Stone, and the Underground Worlds That Rewrote American History, as our featured author this month. Drawing on two decades of personal fieldwork alongside folklore archives, archaeological data, and long-overlooked nineteenth-century investigator reports, Sterling’s book makes the case for…
My book, The True(r) Prehistory,1 introduces the possibility of a radically revised account of human prehistory through a multidisciplinary investigation that draws on the natural sciences, mathematics, archaeology, myths, and knowledge from ancient texts. The book explores humanity’s place in nature and the cosmos, the cataclysmic events that have shaped humankind and our solar system…
In the Beginning In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis chapter 1, verses 1 and 2 From a Singularity of Darkness, a…
We warmly welcome Jim Vieira & Greg Maestro, authors of Footprints of the Gods: Extra Digits the Mark of the Giants, as our featured authors this month. Their book explores a strange and overlooked mystery: polydactylism, the presence of extra fingers or toes, and its curious connection to ancient civilisations, myths and human origins. Across…
“If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength.”Eckhart Tolle — A New Earth (p. 101, Penguin, 2006) One year after I was fortunate enough to be Graham’s Author of…
The winter solstice sunrise discovery at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Karahan Tepe1 may not have been the first time the use of solar astronomy was recorded in stone. Observing the solstices is part of a much longer legacy dating back deep into the Upper Palaeolithic era (50,000 to 12,000 Before Present). The interiors of…
