This is the sequel to the international bestseller, "Fingerprints of the Gods". In very different parts of the world, evidence exists of a common legacy - shared by cultures separated by hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. From Mexico to Iceland, Cambodia to Easter Island, China to Egypt, we are finding a common astronomical wisdom handed down from a time before history, a time perhaps before the 'Great Flood'. This book addresses a common wisdom from a lost civilisation which might hold the key to our own identity on earth. "Heaven's Mirror" is a personal quest for the answer - the culmination of eight years of painstaking research.
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It could be true! That's the enthusiasm that author and scholar-mystic Graham Hancock counts on--in himself and in his readers--as he lays down his theories of an ancient (Atlantean, perhaps?) civilization that disseminated a sophisticated religion of ground-sky dualism and a "science" of immortality. Hancock's previous work, including the popular and controversial Fingerprints of the Gods, has drawn criticism for its leaps of faith and allegedly pseudoscientific conclusions, but Heaven's Mirror proves at least a little more substantial. His chief thesis is that numerous ancient sites and monuments--the pyramids of Mexico and Egypt, the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the monuments of Yonaguni in the Pacific, and the megaliths of Peru and Bolivia--are situated in such a way, geodetically, that they point towards some separate and uniform influence, some lost civilization or "invisible college" of astronomer-priests. And that civilization, as evidenced in the mathematics and architecture of the sites, points towards some gnosis, or body of knowledge, that would allow humanity to transcend the trap of mortality, a worldview in which the knowledge-giving serpent of Eden is not a villain but a hero.
Whatever you think of Hancock's ideas and theoretical musings in archaeo-astronomy, Heaven's Mirror is a gorgeous book, thanks to the photography of Santha Faiia. Lush, evocative photos of the monoliths on Easter Island and temples deep in the Cambodian jungle are enough to set the mind to introspective wandering--maybe, just maybe, Hancock's got it right after all. --Paul Hughes --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Hancock culminates his life's work?begun in such best sellers as Fingerprints of the Gods?by arguing that monuments built worldwide by ancient civilizations are linked by a common human legacy handed down from the heavens.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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interesting book. More of a textbook than daily reader. However, I was most fascinated by it's explanation of why many ancient ruins were built and how they all mirror the stars at exactly the same time (even though the time it mirrors was many thousands of years before these structures were built).
If you're curious about what the alignment of the stars had to do with ancient civilizations you'll find this an interesting read. Plus, it's almost impossible to find this book at any book store.
If you're curious about what the alignment of the stars had to do with ancient civilizations you'll find this an interesting read. Plus, it's almost impossible to find this book at any book store.
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By "kvisionb"
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There are no words for how exceptional this book is. There is a fine line between "myth" and "math". Most people are so caught up in what they are told from the time of childhood, that they cannot expand they're thoughts to what is truth. This book has the measurements, and the equations that equal more questions to what we have been trained to know.
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Hancock's basic premise is that an ancient civilization built monuments around the world that are astronomically aligned to the year 10,500BC (thus backdating human history several thousand years.) And somehow these monuments are linked to the search for immortality.
Hancock and his wife travel around the world and try to tie a lot of historical sites together with magic numbers (72 being the most prevalent but any even number being almost as good.) The problem I had was that the linking of the monuments to stars degrades as the book moves along. The link is clear in Egypt, possibly present in Mexico, requires squinting in Cambodia, and then devolves to a lot of "as ifs" and "rough alignments".
The pictures in the book are pretty even if they don't always offer the clearest view of the idea the book is trying to convey. Most of the diagrams involving star alignments are oversimplified and practically useless.
This book barely advances the ideas put forth in "Fingerprints of the Gods". It mainly takes the format of "Message of the Sphinx" and applies it to other mysterious places around the earth.
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Good-not great-but good, actually-great, no just good
I found this book to be fairly stimulating, although some parts seemed dry and repetitive. I sometimes found myself daydreaming in the middle of a sentance, but other times I... Read more
Published on Nov 21 2002 by Joseph H Mills
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Think about what you're reading
I think too many people read this book and either go with "wow this is really great, its a deviant on the standard belief of life" or "BAH get this trash away from me, he's making... Read more
Published on Jun 5 2002 by Karen Engstrom
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At the worst this book will make you think...
At the best you will be transported back 10,500 years ago to a super-civilization that spanned the length of the globe making monuments to their gods and exploring the heavens and... Read more
Published on May 28 2002 by Reviewer X
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A thought provoking text
As a student of the arts, I have always been interested in the Egyptian Culture, reading a variety of texts about the country and it's religion. Read more
Published on Dec 19 2001 by Spikes
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Hogwash of the worst kind
This is about the closest you can come to publishing work that is plainly dishonest. I'm a financial economist and have to be able to back up everything I say in front of an... Read more
Published on Oct 28 2001 by M. Mcfarland
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Contemptible nonsense
This is about the closest you can come to publishing work that is plainly dishonest. I'm a financial economist and have to be able to back up everything I say in front of an... Read more
Published on Oct 25 2001 by M. Mcfarland
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Excellent Continuation of Fingerprints of the Gods.
I have followed Hancock's works for eight years now and he has not dissappointed me yet. This book is a great continuation of his previous work. Read more
Published on Aug 27 2001 by Steve Lemaster
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Great
I found this book to be extremely interesting and thought provoking. He raises very good points about the sky ground enigma. Read more
Published on Aug 14 2001 by "tohellwiththedevil"
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Another Graham Slam!
This book was a little surprising. The photography is outstanding and the text is equally challenging. Read more
Published on July 27 2001 by JEFFREY E FULLNER
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See Monuments To Life first, then buy all his tapes
To really appreciate all of Mr. Hancock's materials, I recommend viewing the tape Monuments to Life, which is a lecture he gave at Leeds in 1996. Read more
Published on April 22 2001 by Gandalf T. Grey
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