History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quite deeds. History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood. However history remembers me before I was a President, it shall only remember a fraction of the truth… – Trailer, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [2012]

Mysterious Origins of Man [1996]

Knowledge filter – This is a fundamental feature of science. It is also a fundamental feature of human nature. People tend to filter out things that don’t fit, that don’t make sense in terms of their paradigm or their ways of thinking. So in science you find that evidence that don’t fit the accepted paradigm [...]

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

[The Nine Insights] All that any of us have to do is suspend our doubts and distractions just long enough… Even though we occasionally have the clear insight that something more is going on in life, our habitual way of thinking is to consider such ideas unknowable and then to shrug off the awareness altogether. [...]

The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life (Volume 1) by Drunvalo Melchizedek

[website] Long ago we fell from a very high state of consciousness, and the memories are just now beginning to emerge. Everything is connected! There is only one Reality and one God, but there are many, many ways that the one Reality can be interpreted. Pranic energy used to flow through the center of the [...]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A supernova occurs when a giant star, one much bigger than our own Sun, collapses and then spectacularly explodes, releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns, burning for a time more brightly than all the stars in its galaxy. It’s one of those rare areas where the absence of evidence is evidence. To [...]

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

What is prehistory, after all, if not a time forgotten – a time for which we have no records? Could it be that the myths themselves are historical records? Could it be that these cunning and immortal stories, composed by anonymous geniuses, were the medium used to record such information and pass it on in [...]

The Gift of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill

Faith All is possible, faith is possible, even necessary. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. It cannot be proven that God [...]

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.  – Goethe Who am I? Where does the world come from? Why are we here? The Garden of Eden At some point something must have come from nothing. Only conjuring up an intense feeling of one day being dead could one [...]

Fictitious History

Books are written based on the research of the author who conducts his/her research using other sources such as historical literature. Therefore the reference is used as fact but it is difficult to prove the basis of it.