The Secret History of the World
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Paul Matthews
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Jonathan Black
About this listen
From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows the basic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle. Everything in this history is upside down, inside out and the other way around.
At the heart of The Secret History of the World is the belief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that are hidden from us in our everyday, commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. There have been many books on the subject, but, extraordinarily, no-one has really listened to what the secret societies themselves say.
The author has been helped in his researches by his friendship with a man who is an initiate of more than one secret society, and in one case an initiate of the highest level.
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- buz
- 21-03-24
Difficult to navigate
Why don't the chapters line up? it makes it very difficult to navigate the book, you can't select a topic and press play. very weird!
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- Benny
- 16-09-24
Best pile of rubbish on Audible
This is one of the funniest exaggerations and ridiculous audiobook in the world. Hilarious and stupid at the same time.
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- Angus Jenkinson
- 23-03-25
Fascinating teasing of telling secrets
Jonathan Black, a pseudonym, tells many stories from the myths and ancient esoteric traditions, correlating and connecting them and often indicating their meaning. This clearly conveys that there is another way of understanding history and ourselves. This other way is as he describes it a kind of upside downmiracle. It is presence civilisation living in a mirage not the past.
I call it teasing because despite the many connections he makes, he frequently does not indicate the real meaning. Take for example for his description of Gilgamesh diving below the surface of the water to recover a specific plant that is the secret of life which is then stolen from him by a snake when he falls asleep on the shore. This is one of those stories that is so easily reified by the reader or listener. They think that something like this really happened, that it is describing an actual material event. That there was a Sage who knew of a specific plant. but Black is asking the reader to think. He’s described how the human life body, which he caused the plant or vegetable body, is connected to pure thinking and a certain type of consciousness. It is associated with water. So to dive into the water to retrieve a special plant is to is to achieve spiritual concept and insight. It is the tale of an initiation to understand reincarnation as a process of recurring or eternal life. To fall asleep on the shore or threshold is to lose consciousness of this, where upon a snake, a symbol of lower animal consciousness steals understanding: the Fall repeated.
It’s important to realise that these traditions aim to describe events that have no material counterpart. Just as you can’t take your thoughts and put them in a paper bag, the beans and the aspect of our existence that is being doesn’t have material existence. Our present materiality, as we know it, is an effect of sensory organisation. it is a construction.
Paul Mathews, the reader, has a good clear voice, but proceeds slowly, perhaps to allow ongoing reflection, Many listeners will prefer listening perhaps 25% faster than the standard.
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- Lornie Lou
- 25-01-18
Soporific Twaddle.
Very hard to follow, confusing and contradictory. This was my impression. I may change my opinion following a second reading... But that is unlikely to happen.
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- UKJ
- 16-03-09
Interesting
The Secret History of the World is interesting from the point of view of Mythology, but disappointing otherwise.
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- Susan
- 13-11-11
very dissappointing
absolute waste of my credit to listen to incoherant mumbo jumbo dressed up as fact.
my advice is dont make the same mistake as I did. If you want a good audio book than by pass this one.
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- Gordy
- 21-12-24
God awful
The narrator comes across as being condescending. I found myself getting infuriatingly impatient with the speed the text progressed. Like we are being talked to as children. I was a neophyte in AMORC so it was interesting to see how bizarre this could get. I must be a slave to the modern scientific method.
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- Mark
- 30-04-09
Awful
The dreary reader, really made this awful book quite unacceptable. Over the 20 or so hours of droning on about this so called secret history, I noticed some few snippets that appeared moderately interesting. This book could easily be rewritten and abridged - by a real author - to about 40-50 pages of useful information. Subjects were dealt with in aparent detail, but on consideration the detail was ephemeral and there was little to connect one data dump with the next data dump. Quite the worst thing I have ever read or heard. Pedantic self important.......
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- Mayca Estevez
- 31-03-09
what a lot of dribble!!!!
It serves me right for not having read the reviews before buying this book. I will not waste any more time even writing this review. Do not waste your credits on this!!!
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- Ron
- 28-04-09
Bunk!
This book is incorrectly categorised. I expected a historical treatise on the origins of mythology and religion. This book is a collection of subjective assumptions not dissimilar to those of the Da Vinci Code. The difference being that the latter is correctly published as a work of fiction.
Apply Ockams Razor to the this book and I suspect you would end up with a collection of nouns and not much else. If however you enjoy abandoning your critical faculties you may enjoy the read.
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