Scranton - Point of origin : Gobekli Tepe and the spiritual matrix for the worlds cosmologies

POINT OF
ORIGIN

Point of Origin is not a book about Gobekli Tepe, but it sets that mysterious Anatolian hilltop sanctuary into a matrix of interconnected mysteries from all around the world in a way that is both fascinating and thought-provoking.

GRAHAM HANCOCK, AUTHOR OF FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Point of Origin is undoubtedly the pinnacle of research into the worlds ancient cultures, their mysteries and mythologies... a truthful and accurate insight into our origins, encompassing religion, astronomy, mythology, and cosmology. This book is indispensable to anyone seeking answers about our origins.

E. A. JAMES SWAGGER, RADIO HOST AND AUTHOR OF THE NEWGRANGE SIRIUS MYSTERY

Learn the language of the Cosmos and explore the mysteries of Gobekli Tepethe worlds oldest civilization. Another fabulous book on ancient myths and symbols by one of the masters in the field.

XAVIANT HAZE, AUTHOR OF ALIENS IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Once again Laird Scranton greatly expands our understanding of the ancient world through his relentless and meticulous research of language and symbol. This knowledge was to be preserved and passed down through the ages for a time in the future when the information would be vitally important for the survival of humanity. That time is now!

EDWARD NIGHTINGALE, AUTHOR OF THE GIZA TEMPLATE

Foreword

Its not every son who can say, I watched my dad untie the secrets of the universe, but Im proud to say that I can.

I was raised in an outwardly secular home by a Jewish/atheist mother and a convert father who sent me to a conservative/orthodox Jewish day school to learn the ins and outs of our extended familys tradition. I credit this seemingly self-contradictory childhood with fostering in me the ability to intelligently see and discuss subjects from more than one point of view, an ability that has uniquely qualified me to follow Lairds research from the very beginning. Later in life, as I rejected the dogmas that had been drilled into me in school, I began my own studies into comparative religion and philosophy. I practiced Zen meditation, examined the historical context of the New Testament, and compared the poetry and content of the Quran with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bhagavad Gita, and I soon came to see existence as a giant jigsaw puzzle, with each religious tradition holding a piece of it, but none holding the completed image.

Growing up, I took for granted my parents endless collections of books, Buddha and Ganesha statues, and other esoteric paraphernalia. Not that Laird was particularly into esoteric study when I was a child; he wasnt. These collections were more artistic hobbies of his. Nonetheless, these images were comforting and familiar to me; they were more like old friends whod been there for me for as long as I could remember. In hindsight, knowing now the work that would come to define Lairds later life, it seems almost like destiny that my family would already have an early connection to ancient ideas.

I was already proud to know that my father made his living as a self-employed software programmer, and it was not an uncommon occurrence for me as a young boy to sit at his side as he keyed in his billing hours to a program hed written on our home computer and told me about sorting out the coded software messes hed had to clean up for his clients that day. Knowing intimately his logical mind and his penchant for the unusual, it came as no real surprise when in my early days of high school, Laird announced that hed stumbled on something fascinating in his pleasure reading about the Dogon tribe in Africa.

Now, as a child, Id also grown up an avid fan of classic science fiction and fantasy, which in turn sparked a lifelong curiosity in me about the natural world and, in particular, physics; after all, what kid doesnt want to build a time machine at some point? A particular childhood favorite of mine was an animated television show called The Mysterious Cities of Gold, which chronicled the fictional adventures of a Spanish boy during the conquest of South America in the sixteenth century as he discovered remnants of Atlantean wonders sequestered away in the hidden temples and traditions of the native peoples. Id bored my parents to death telling them the various details of each episode for ages. This little one-season show set the stage in my mind for the possibility that there was a wondrous advanced civilization that had come before our own and had been long forgotten. Imagine my surprise when it turned out that elements of this childhood favorite could actually be true!

As Lairds investigations grew to take on the air of a knight errants holy quest, it seemed only too appropriate that I take on the proverbial role of squire, following his research, taking in his insights as he bounced them off of me, and occasionally helping him from my own knowledge to examine concepts in a new light when he found them difficult to understand. I was struck by how item after item that Laird uncovered seemed to tie into the various disciplines I studied on my own.

I soon realized that, while many could conceivably dismiss his investigations as the meaningless ravings of a pedantic amateur crackpot, the undeniable fact was that time and again his investigations not only reconciled religious conflicts in my mind, but they also demonstrably tied into hard science as well. The concepts he was discovering actually worked in practice!

Laird has conducted his work so that every step of the way he is focused on what he can demonstrate to be true. He doesnt make outlandish statements that he cant back up, no matter how much his audience may want him to. He sticks to what is, rather than what could be. Instead of simply falling back on the old well, cause I say so cop-out, he shows undeniably from multiple sources that what he says has a factual basis and that his conclusions are entirely logical. If he encounters something that doesnt agree across cultures or doesnt agree with what science can prove, he doesnt include it until he can show how it really connects.

This tells me that Laird is most certainly on the path toward something very real and very exciting, a system given all but uniformly to mankind in forgotten antiquity designed to transform us from mere beastly hunter-gatherers into a recognizable civilization and designed to be used a guidebook to taking us even further than we could imaginein the material world as well as the spiritual.

Here is an ancient system that embraces everything at once. Like spiraling rays, each new strand that Laird finds ties together advanced science, astronomy, architecture, agriculture, religious rituals, and mysticism, and brings them all back to a central point. As, on my own, I study the more fashionable new age ideas presented in alchemy, Kabbalah, Zen, and Sufism, I continually find myself referring to the detailed notes and drafts of Lairds books to explain concepts that I find difficult to grasp. More often than not, Lairds explanation helps push me along in the right direction.

I often feel like someone rereading a Dan Brown novel, for I have the pleasure of already knowing how the mystery ends and get to see how well the author really puts the clues together. I realize, looking up at the stars or under a microscope, its all one and the same. What happens in the skies above also happens within our cells below.

Now, after nearly twenty years of squiring for my father, I see his system everywhere I turn. I see it in the architecture of the Vatican, in Native American dances, in Jewish liturgy, in works of art, and in the latest discoveries from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). I see the triple domes of the Sakti goddesses at every church I pass. Through my studies of the public statements and symbolism of the Freemasons, I continue to see reflections back to Giza and Gobekli Tepe. The few times I still go to synagogue, Im tickled at the invocation of an ancient deitys name to establish agreement after every prayer, and like the commandment states, its never used in vain! Another side effect is that I now see Disney movies, with their emphasis on mice acting to remove the obstacles in our lives, in a whole new light (and in the case of