None of the history you read here will be found in your high school or college history texts. From the point of view of quantum mechanics the past is as undefined as the future. In a practical sense, this is true at the macrocosmic level as well.

Even recent events such as the Taleban's offer to give up Osama bin Laden for recognition of their government prior to 9-11, and their frantic maneuverings to surrender him while still saving face among their fellow Muslims after 9-11, pass unnoticed and are quickly forgotten as the supposed arc of history is, as always, written by the victors and the survivors. The dead tell no tales. The losers are discredited. Official truth generally bears as much resemblance to historical reality as your favorite tale from the Brothers Grimm.

When we come to questions of truly ancient history, things become even murkier still. The assertions in the previous paragraph are easily verifiable although hidden in the back pages of a general Google search if the researcher does not enter precise keywords. At the same time many of the original sources have since become dead links and one must rely on summaries and reprints. When we wish to learn about the distant past, these same two phenomena almost totally drown out the whisper of true history. The documents we want to read have been destroyed and only fragments and second-hand references remain while there is a plethora of information and inscriptions created by those who won the wars, established dynasties, and left the legacy of victors everywhere: their own self-serving views of what really happened.

To discover what is true isn't easy. Certainty in the scientific sense is virtually impossible. What is possible is to find clues and fragments which together form a very different picture of human history than what we are taught. Some of this involves a kind of intuition. One grasps the outlines of things first, often from an obscure and ambivalent source such as Leonardo's The Last Supper. This arises with a sense of immediate conviction of a great discovery. Perhaps this is a function of the Akashic Records. Perhaps it is simply the unconscious nimbly putting the pieces together while the analytic mind lumbers after it.

In any case, it is a process I've grown to trust over the years, not as a replacement for analysis and genuine scholarship but as the guide for the direction analysis and research should take. In the end, things stand or fall on the solid evidence, but most of the time, for me at least, one finds that evidence only after one knows what it must look like. Perhaps that's completely unscientific, but it's what works for me. Regardless of methods, though, what's real depends on the evidence and when one looks at all the evidence, reality tends to shift dramatically from the fairy tales we are told are true.

Below you will find some articles on a few things I've discovered in my own search. Please feel free to share your insights with me for possible inclusion here by sending me an email with the subject line "Historical Themes".

• Was Peter a closet gay whose fear of his own sexual orientation resulted in a misogynist Church which abused millions over millennia? The first article in the series begins with an analysis of Leonardo's The Last Supper that begins where Dan Brown left off in his book The Da Vinci Code.
• The question of Peter's sexuality is further considered in this rare document purported to be authored by the Apostle Bartholomew.
• The DaVinci Code is a powerful story whose subject matter intersects with Seeds of Heaven in several interesting ways and with the larger story that is the Gaian Chronicles. This article explores The DaVinci Code and its relationship to Seeds of Heaven.

• Human History
as viewed through contemporary Western academia extends back the mere six thousand years that writing has existed within the present cultural streams. We have some transcriptions of earlier oral traditions, a body of archeological and anthropological data which predates this, but little more from the period in which humanity emerged on earth up to the discovery of writing. The picture which emerges from this body of knowledge is one of gradual but uninterrupted development yet there are widespread and parallel traditions which speak of previous civilizations which were highly advanced and self-destructed. Seeds of Heaven is based upon these traditions, which are discussed in the article linked above.