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Genesis Unveiled: The Lost Wisdom of Our Forgotten Ancestors [Paperback]

Ian Lawton (Author)
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August 1, 2004
Brief Old Testament references to a former civilisation that was destroyed by the Flood have fascinated scholars for centuries, giving rise to exotic speculations ranging from the advanced technology of Atlantis through to extraterrestrial visitors. But it is only now that one British researcher’s ten-year quest has brought together the entire body of accounts of an antediluvian race from across the globe - from the ancient texts of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece and Scandinavia, to the sacred traditions of indigenous peoples from the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Australasia – with stunning results.

GENESIS UNVEILED: The Lost Wisdom of our Forgotten Ancestors is the result of that painstaking quest, and its conclusions are unlike anything you have read before. Like other notable revisionist historians, Ian Lawton argues that our forebears were far more culturally advanced than has been previously believed - to the extent that they built sizeable settlements and navigated the oceans to trade. He backs up this belief with tantalising evidence from archaeology. Yet the most significant common theme uniting the ancient traditions is that our ‘forgotten race’ was originally highly spiritual but became increasingly obsessed with the material world before it perished in a global catastrophe – which geological and other evidence suggests occurred around 11,500 years ago.

Throughout Genesis Unveiled the author’s reinterpretations of ancient sacred texts are underpinned by a spiritual ethos based on the principles of karma and reincarnation. So the catastrophe is seen as a karmic event brought about by our forgotten race’s fall from grace. As to how a spiritual worldview was first brought into human consciousness, he argues that underlying the various accounts of the creation of man and of mankind’s ‘civilisation’ by various ‘sages’ is the genuine reality that the genus Homo had at some point evolved sufficiently in physical, psychological and physiological terms that it was ready to play host to the first advanced souls to incarnate in human form. He argues that this would have represented the most significant cultural impetus ever to the evolution of humanity, and that it can be practically tied into the first signs of ritual burial in the archaeological record, which date back 100,000 years to a site in Israel. This surely represents the point at which our ancestors first appreciated that the soul lives on after death, and that there are ethereal realms in addition to the physical world around us – a view that would lead tens of thousands of years later to the wonderful shamanic cave paintings of Western Europe.

Yet perhaps the most stunning scholastic discovery in Genesis Unveiled is Lawton’s revelation of the incredible consistency and esoteric wisdom of all origin myths right across the world, which has been completely overlooked by orthodox scholars who insist on purely psychological interpretations. Moreover, the timeless and universal truths contained in them have been dramatically reconfirmed by modern theoretical science in recent decades, with the revelations that everything is energy, that matter is an illusion, that everything is interconnected, that everything has consciousness, and that there are multiple other dimensions beyond the apparently physical. As a result, the author is able to lay out a philosophical and historical framework that merges a scientific, evolutionary perspective with a spiritual worldview - with no inherent conflicts or contradictions.
Above all, Genesis Unveiled emphasises that the theme of a debased and materialistic culture that perished when it lost touch with its spiritual roots is one that we should heed carefully - for if we can come to recognise the path we are now treading as one our ancestors have been down before, we may be able to fundamentally alter our priorities and reconnect ourselves with our spiritual roots before universal karma once again decides enough is enough…

Genesis Unveiled represents:

1. The first serious attempt to bring all the precatastrophe texts and traditions from around the world together for comparison.

2. The first time the catastrophe of 11,500 years ago has been viewed in its proper context as a karmic event based on our antediluvian ancestors fall from spiritual grace.

3. The first time the incredible consistency and esoteric wisdom of the origin traditions from all around the world has been revealed.

4. The first philosophically logical merger of a spiritual and scientific worldview.

5. The first attempt at a spiritual prehistory of mankind with relevance to the modern world.


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About the Author

Ian Lawton was born in 1959. Formerly a chartered accountant and IT consultant, he turned his back on the commercial world in his mid-thirties to become a full-time writer-researcher on ancient civilizations. His first book, Giza: The Truth (Virgin Books, 1999) co-authored with Chris Ogilvie-Herald, sold over 20,000 copies and gained widespread acclaim. He has a growing reputation for thorough scholarship and an innovative approach to revisionist history, and has lectured about his work extensively in both the UK and US. He currently lives on the South Coast of Britain.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Books (August 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0753508192
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753508190
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,780,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ian was born in 1959. After gaining a degree in Economics from UCL and qualifying as a chartered accountant, he sold computer software for several years before, in the late eighties, helping to found a business and IT consultancy company. Throughout this period he spent most of his spare time racing motorcycles and then cars.

Then in his mid-thirties he forsook the commercial world to become a writer-researcher specializing in ancient history, esoterica and spiritual philosophy. His first two books, Giza: The Truth (1999) and Genesis Unveiled (2003), have sold over 30,000 copies worldwide. In The Book of the Soul (2004) he first developed the idea of Rational Spirituality, also establishing himself as one of the world's leading authorities on the interlife. And in The Wisdom of the Soul (2007) he first introduced the idea of the holographic soul.

His other non-fiction books include The Little Book of the Soul (2007), The Big Book of the Soul (2008, a complete rewrite of the 2004 book), Your Holographic Soul (2010), The Future of the Soul (2010) and The History of the Soul (2010, a revision of the 2003 book). Since then he has published his first novels, The Man Who Didn't Die (2011), The Girl Who Learned to Live (2012) and Autobiography of an Angel (2012).

Ian also has a regression therapy practice in Dorset. In his spare time he creates artwork using driftwood collected from local beaches, and rebuilds classic motorcycles.

For more information visit www.ianlawton.com.

 

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Do you believe in reincarnation?, January 4, 2005
Do you believe in reincarnation? Are you open to the idea? In the Western world this concept is generally ignored as anything more than a fanciful notion. However, to over two billion people on the planet they believe it is not only 'real' but extremely relevant to how they plan and conduct their lives.

"Gensis Unveiled" takes a fairly orthodox view on the development of human civilization. Evolution? Check. Dating of existing archeological sites? Check. Aliens in Spaceships poppycock? Check.

The only thing that Ian Walton does is recast human mythology into the spirtual model of reincarnation. If that isn't your cup of tea, then I cannot recommend this book to you. However, if you do believe in reincarnation, or are at least open to the possibility, then this book makes for fascinating reading.

Is it 'fact'? Of course not. Any attempt at making sense out of ancient writings from a culture as old as the Sumerians is tantamount to pure speculation. For my own sake, I found it much more entertaining than a dozen books that suggest human civilization was a gift from 'aliens from outer space.' Ian Walton merely conjectures that they weren't 'aliens' but rather more advanced spiritually than your average human today.

It certainly seems no more wacky an idea to me.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent stuff, March 1, 2005
This review is from: Genesis Unveiled: The Lost Wisdom of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Paperback)
Having read the rude and unfounded reviews of this book i feel compelled to respond to the ingrates below. (Not you nice man!)
Lies? What lies? Do you know your stuff at all? This is astounding research of source material by a thorough and scholarly writer!
And as for you mister 'i wasted my money', yes you did. I think copies of 'politeness for beginners' are available for $1.
Perhaps you all were reading a completely different book? Yes, it is apparent that the author believes in reincarnation, but given all the evidence, so did our ancestors? He's just asking why. It's not one-sided, it's not preachy, it's just good.
Maybe it struck a cord and you don't like that. Maybe it challenged you to think about important issues. Maybe you're too focused on believing the trite nonsense in most other books of this ilk (see oxford dictionary). Not enough aliens? Still realing from a probing that you need accounting for?
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but really, this book is obviously ground breaking and well-researched. So regardless of your personal thoughts on it's content, give it credit for the thoroughness of the evaluation.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Written, January 8, 2004
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zztopbanana (Lancashire, UK) - See all my reviews
Having stumbled on a newspaper review of Genesis Unveiled I had very much looked forward to getting stuck into it, but the author's repetitive use of 'moreover', 'prosaic' and 'in my view' made for a difficult read.

When I say 'moreover' is used repetitively, I do mean repetitively - it is used on no less than 6 occasions on one pair of pages alone ( 179 & 180 if I recall correctly ) and there are multiple instances of multiple, consecutive use. In fact, there is hardly a page without it. As for 'in my view', well, the author is the author so we know that. An editor is credited by the author but a thesaurus would have been a much better bet. Basic errors such as these should have been trapped prior to publication.

The work itself contains a tremendous of amount of detailed, well researched information and proverbial 'nuggets' are plenty, so there can be no criticism of the contents but what should have been a good read wasn't.

Barely six months after first publication and a revised edition is already required, along with a change of editor. Please revisit this work, Mr Lawton - so much good, nay, excellent content does not deserve to be spoiled by poor presentation. And it is.

What a shame.

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