Literally meaning “the stone in between”, the Edakkal caves are a source of mystery and intrigue to most archaeologists. It was first discovered by Fred Fawcett, the superintendent of police of Malabar during the 1890′s. He discovered this during a trekking trip to the Ambukuthy mountain range. During this trek he discovered a Neolithic stone [...]
The earliest settlers of Crete arrived from the east or south, probably from Anatolia (now Turkey). Their economy was already based on farming, with domesticated animals and cultivated crops, and they spun and wove cloth. They lived in villages in the open often on low hills as at Knossos and Phaistos, and sometimes for part [...]
Braden is quite wrong when he says the initiations to this knowledge began about two thousand years ago. I think that is when some people emboldened by the earlier Pythagorean partial inclusion of the knowledge into Therapeutae systems like the Essenes, started to study it and write something about it. However, the prohibition on sharing [...]
