The Secret History of the World

I recently finished reading this book. It is about how things can be explored in a different way. Instead of the way of science that we are so used to, it asks us to consider exploring the world as how our ancestors would see it, in a more spiritual way. It also touches on the development of secret societies and how these societies seek to preserve the spiritual thinking of the past, and how such thinking actually helped to evolve mankind, and will continue to evolve mankind.

The book tries to draw a parallel between creation of the world as outlined by Genesis (and some Greek mythology), and creation of the world as proposed by science (Big Bang and evolution). I thought it was quite interesting to see how such parallels could be drawn, to see how passages in the Bible could be interpreted in a more conceptual sense rather than taken at face value (word for word meaning).

I think the more interesting idea to explore will be to look into the creation myths of other cultures (such as the Egyptians, the Indians, the Chinese) to see how the theories proposed by science can have parallels to these other creation myths. After all, if what the book proposes is true, the spiritual way of thinking is handed down in various cultures and thus their creation myths must in some way contain similar parallels.