This book will shock you, amaze you, and anger you. It will help you understand why no one has yet proven a man named Jesus, especially a Jesus who may have survived the crucifixion and died 80 years later in Kashmir. But this is not just another "Jesus in India" or "search for bloodlines of the Holy Grail" book. Here we have an author who went to Asia to see for herself. While there, and while taking incredible risks, she made world headlines and was dubbed "Indiana Sue" for her great tolerance and endurance to stay with the research, with incredible odds against her. She and her famous bloodline were suddenly catapulted right into center stage of world events. As the Taliban were destroying Bamiyam Buddhas and the World Trade Center, she was with them in the Himalayas, delicately negotiating for saving and documenting tombs of Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs. As the tomb of Joseph was destroyed in Judea, she was attempting to get cooperation that would allow the retrieval of DNA from sacred and disputed sites. This DNA could then be compared in many ways, even to the Shroud of Turin, or you, or me. And she almost succeeded!
Here is science and hard research, with a hefty dose of irreverence and humor, and little known and never- before-published facts from the Ice Age to the Space Age that trace all religions and philosophies back to the "Big Bang" of spiritual awakening in all mankind. Here is high adventure and danger, and sadness at the loss of much of Jesus' heritage. Does it change anything if he survived the crucifixion, only to die years later as an old man? NO! In fact it may have been a part of God's plan we hadn't fully understood at the time. His survival changes nothing about the true meaning of his life and death, just the dates change, not the significance for mankind.
A terrific holiday gift for all religions. No doubt a movie in the tradition of "Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark" will follow, for this is the stuff legends are made of!
