The best books on lost civilisations, ancient mysteries and suppressed science
These books make large claims about the past and about science that mainstream archaeology, history and physics do not accept: lost civilisations, ancient knowledge, technologies that never reached the textbooks, and the question of who is behind the human story.
They are on the shelf because Brendan cites them, and the notes say what each one claims. Read them as arguments to weigh. Every title is non-fiction.
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Fingerprints of the Gods
Graham Hancock, 1995
Graham Hancock’s case for a lost civilisation from the last ice age, built from ancient monuments and myths. The most widely read book of its kind.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
- 2
The Message of the Sphinx
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, 1996
Hancock and Bauval on the Giza monuments and how old they might be.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
- 3
Serpent in the Sky
John Anthony West, 1993
John Anthony West on the wisdom of ancient Egypt, following the work of Schwaller de Lubicz.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
- 4
The View Over Atlantis
John Michell, 1975
John Michell on ley lines and a lost body of ancient knowledge. A founding book of the ley-line movement.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
- 5
Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Jonathan Eisen, 2001
Jonathan Eisen’s collection of inventions and discoveries said to have been suppressed.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific)
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The 2012 Story
John Major Jenkins, 2010
John Major Jenkins on the Maya calendar and the 2012 date.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Preface; The Mystical Experience)
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2012
Daniel Pinchbeck, 2007
Daniel Pinchbeck’s journey into 2012 and the Maya.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether)
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The Secret School
Whitley Strieber, 1997
Whitley Strieber’s account of preparation for contact.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
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The Monuments of Mars
Richard Hoagland, 1992
Richard Hoagland’s claims about structures on Mars.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether)
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Alien Agenda
Jim Marrs, 1998
Jim Marrs’s survey of UFO and extraterrestrial reports.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; Thought-Forms)
In The Grand Illusion, Brendan uses the history of suppressed ideas, such as Reich, Rife and Tesla, to show how scientific consensus resists data that does not fit. These books are the larger set of claims around that argument, and each is for you to weigh.
Brendan cites every book here. That does not mean he agrees with all of it.
All 19 books
Take one down to see why it is here and where to find it.
What is the lost civilisation hypothesis?
The proposal that an advanced human culture existed before recorded history and was lost, perhaps in a catastrophe at the end of the last ice age. Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods is its best-known statement. Mainstream archaeology does not accept it.
Is there evidence for Atlantis?
The source is Plato’s dialogues, written about 360 BC. Mainstream archaeologists treat Atlantis as a story, and no site has been confirmed. Several books here argue otherwise, and the notes say what each claims.
What is suppressed science?
The claim that discoveries and inventions have been ignored or buried because they threaten established interests or theories. Jonathan Eisen’s Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries collects the claims.
Does Brendan agree with these books?
Not necessarily. He cites them, and a book is on the shelf because he does, not because he agrees with it. The Grand Illusion uses suppressed science as part of its argument about how scientific paradigms resist anomalous evidence.
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