Genesis Unveiled: The Lost Wisdom of Our Forgotten Ancestors

by Ian Lawton

Book Overview

Our oldest texts and religious writings speak of a golden race dwelling in utopian bliss before losing their way and suffering annihilation. In a reappraisal of the sacred texts of antiquity, Ian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753508192
• ISBN13: 9780753508190
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

This book has re-ignited spirituality in me

This book provides tons of information and reference material. I've never read anything like it before. This isn't an easy read but it isn't as difficult as a doctoral thesis (eventhough it has as many foot notes). Lawton provides the source of his research so that you can read more on your own. Sure the author forms his own opinions on his research, but that is his right. One doesn't have to agree 100% with all of his conclusions to enjoy this book. Read it. Take from it what impacts you, follow it and continue your own research and draw your own conclusions. But if you have already made up your mind on spirituality/religion, then don't bother reading. This book challenges traditional western thought. More than anything, this book provides the framework for you to think. I finished reading this book three months ago and have continued to carry with me as I travel. I will read it again within the next few months.

Exhaustive, and exhausting!

This book is thick, thorough and thought-provoking. The author starts with the unusual premise that an ancient, antediluvian civilization disappeared about 12,500 years ago, because the people of the time, had become materially obsessed, spiritually degenerate, and as a result accrued too much negative karma. The catastrophe which befell them is recorded in myths and legends around the world, albeit in garbled, uncomprehending forms. The author is a bit capricious in selecting and emphasising some evidence, while dismissing others, without any compelling reason for doing so. However, Mr. Lawton was astute enough to conclude that a comet or similar body impacted the Earth after first traveling over the northwest part of North America and exploding somewhere near the eastern seaboard of that continent. Evidence has recently come to light about this event wiping out the wooly mammoth and the indigenous population using the advanced Clovis spearpoint technology of that time. The book is written in a fairly academic manner, and as a result, can be something of a dry read. However the author's fastidious bibliography, indexing and notes make this a valuable reference for anyone interested in the subjects presented. And he clearly errs on the side of caution in presenting his conclusions, avoiding the more colorful flights of fancy about extra-terrestrial wars or marauding planets traipsing through the solar system. I give the book four stars for the thoroughness of his research and presentation, and for getting most of his conclusions right, although I find the karmic-catastrophe theory untenable. Somehow I doubt that rampant materialisma and moral depravity brought on the meteoric extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, so it seems unlikely to wipe out the mammoths and wooly rhinos thirteen thousand years ago, along with the people living at that time.

Relax people the book is not that bad.

Awesome read. This is a very well-researched piece of literature!---period... I think people need to be informed to as much information from all different angles, on every subject regarding life, the universe and god, and anything else for what its worth. That way they can forge their own opinions on these touchy subjects, based upon the homework they have done. Even if the information they are recieving is a dubbed "conspiracy theory" by others or a cold stone fact for that matter. I liked this book and I recommend it to anybody interested in ancient history.

Valuable Information for the truth seeker

This book is a wealth of information. Containing similar findings as many of the great scholars of our time. There is much agreement with Sitchen, Tsarian, Henry, Maxwell and others. One stong aspect of this book is the author's ability to dig into really good research and pull up facts that are becoming more acceptable in the world of truth today. I like the fact that it he makes a summary with key points at the end of each main section. A great book!!!!

Excellent stuff

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.