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Description: Narby lived amoung Peruvian indians, and experienced first hand the vivid hallucinations that accompany their Ayahuasca ceremonies.

Opinion: Once home from the Amazon Narby made the decision to take at face value the Indians' contention that plants gave them the pharmaceutical knowledge they possess and in applying the scientific method to their claims ended up with a incredible and far reaching thesis about the nature of knowledge, DNA and indeed ourselves. If you have any interests in altered states of consciousness shamanism or new science you should read this book

Tags: 'book' 'non fiction' 'shamanism' 'anthropology' 'neurology' 'DNA'

Rating: 5/5 - 'Toasted!'

Description: the sequel to "The Jesus Mysteries"

Opinion: In this second book Freke and Gandy look at when the eternal Feminine got edited out of the Church's version of Christianity and what Christianity in the first century would actually have been like.

Tags: 'book' 'non fiction' 'paganism' 'history' 'christianity'

Rating: 5/5 - 'Toasted!'

Description: Groundbreaking work, much taken up by Dan Brown et al, on the true origin of Christianity

Opinion: This is the book that first popularised the revelation, now taken by Dan Brown, www.zeitgeist.com and many others that before Jesus of Nazareth, there were many other myths of dying, resurrecting god men, born of virgins on or around the 25th of December who were hung on a tree or a cross at Easter time. I think the authors list a dozen or so mythic figures who broadly share these vital statistics. They then go on to show the relationship between Christianity and the various other pagan mystery cults of the ancient Mediterranean world, and the developments that lead to the church growing and changing it's message as it did. Fantastic stuff and well researched.

Tags: 'book' 'non fiction' 'paganism' 'history' 'christianity'

Rating: 5/5 - 'Toasted!'