In 2003, Ye Shaoyong, a prominent Chinese Sanskrit scholar came upon an ancient Sanskrit text from India in Draping monastery. It was a second century text, the Mulamadhyamakakarika, a previously undiscovered bunch of yellowed palm leaves with an ancient script that...
To avoid spoilers, please read this only after you have read The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy As promised, here are the free bonus chapters from The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy. The book had grown too long and the cost (and therefore price) of the book was getting to an...
Warning: You are advised not to read this unless you have already read The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy! Click here to read about the science behind the Red Queen's special treatment described in the book. No more hints. If you have read the book you know what I mean....
Thomas Manning Thomas Manning is the only Englishman who has ever visited Lhasa and seen the Dalai Lama. He was born in 1772 and, despite being unable to attend public school due to ill health in his early life, he was a keen student of the classics and mathematics...
Carbonaceous Chondrites Carbonaceous chondrites are a class of primitive stony meteorites containing 2-5% by weight of carbon. They are divided into 8 groups, based on distinctive chemical and mineralogical compositions. Carbonaceous chondrites have captured the...
Bacterial Spores Spores have been mentioned in the book as the means by which the mirror pathogen arrived on earth in a meteorite. So, what are spores? And can they really survive a meteor impact? Let us take a look at the facts. Let us start with spores. What are...
South Park Street Cemetery: Tombs of George Bogle and John Hyde Here's a video that I shot in South Park Street Cemetery, which will give you an idea of the locations of the tombs. Nothing more to be said...enjoy the video! And please do leave a comment once you have...
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ABSTRACT FROM A DETAILED ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS CARRIED OUT AT MIAOZIGOU AND DABAGOU. THE ORIGINAL REPORT IS IN MANDARIN AND HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, THEREFORE PLEASE BEAR WITH ME FOR SOME OF THE GRAMMATICAL...
Goethe Alexander von Humboldt met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe through Wilhelm and Caroline, Alexander’s brother and sister-in-law respectively, who lived in Jena in the late eighteenth century. Weimar, where Goethe lived, was fifteen miles from Jena, and Wilhelm and...
In The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy, I have described Alexander von Humboldt's handwriting as an indecipherable scrawl, masquerading as words and letters. How true is that. Well, you can judge for yourself. Here's a sample of his notes which I thought I would share with...
Much has been made of Thomas Manning's riddles in The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy. Are they real? Of course they are! Except, of course for the riddle that the GTF team have to decipher in order to find the secret of Khandavaprastha. But many of the riddles I have...
To avoid spoilers, please read this only after you have read The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy Weird Life What exactly is weird life? What is the difference between weird life and “life as we know it” (LAWKI)? Let me give you a crash course in weird life. For more...
To avoid spoilers, please read this only after you have read The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy Synthetic Organisms In 2007, Craig Venter’s team chemically synthesised the entire 582,970 base pair genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, an organism which has the smallest genome...
Note: please access the bibliography only after you have completely read The Khandavaprastha Conspiracy. This is to ensure that you enjoy the book before you access the research resources, since the bibliography may contain spoilers. For those of you who would like to...
In ancient times, the dreaded Khandavaprastha forest was burned down and all living beings who inhabited the forest were killed without mercy. And there was a reason for this slaughter. For, in that terrible forest called Khandavaprastha, lay buried, for thousands of...
