The Secret History of the Universe
How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World
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The Secret History of the Universe
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ナレーター：
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John Lee
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著者：
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Mark Booth
“Mythology and ancient esoteric beliefs are finally found in cutting-edge science.”—Rick Rubin, bestselling author of The Creative Act
From the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Includes beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Human beings have a deep-rooted desire to find something worth believing in. But there is a widespread assumption that science is at odds with spiritual belief and offers the only intelligent way to think about the universe.
In this epic new history, Mark Booth offers an alternative view, showing us how the great geniuses of modern science, from Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, and Albert Einstein to today’s architects of AI, turned instead to secret, mystical, and “higher” teachings, including Indian mysticism and Freemasonry, to make sense of the strange phenomena they were encountering. Experimenting with alternative states of consciousness, they risked isolation and even madness.
Here then is the dark, dramatic story of modern science—of love, betrayal, attempted murder, multiple suicides, sexual experimentation, and transgression—from which unfolds the awe-inspiring discoveries which have transformed our lives for good, and potentially for evil. For just as the work of J. Robert Oppenheimer and others ended the Second World War but brought humanity to the brink of extinction, so, too, has the spectacular growth of AI.
The result of many years of research, and deep conversations with prominent academics in the field, this book takes us on an exhilarating journey, in the company of some of the greatest minds of our age, toward a deeper understanding of our place in the cosmos.
©2026 Mark Booth (P)2026 Blackstone Publishing批評家のレビュー
“I’ve been reviewing science fiction and fantasy books for twenty years. The reality, as shown in this book, is as exciting and strange and compelling as anything I’ve ever read.”
“This history carries you along on a wild ride through discoveries in science, all the while entertaining you with stories of often troubled and flamboyant geniuses. Miraculously easy to understand—even for the most scientifically illiterate people like me.”
“Booth’s book captures the creative interior of scientific discovery, the part that happens before the mathematics, before the experiment, before the Nobel Prize. It reminds us that the hidden mysteries are not uncovered by logic alone. They are first glimpsed in the intuitive flash, the symbolic image, the imaginative.”
“Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the Universe makes the complex so clear and magnetic. He connects many strands of human consciousness to make a beautiful wholeness. He has a warmth, a loving presence which unites the head and heart on our quest to self-discovery. Thanks are due to him for holding our hands on that journey.”
“Mark Booth’s understanding of the universe is very close to the way I see it. The Secret History of the Universe has an important message for the world.”
“Booth has written that rarest of all things: a book that makes you see the world in an entirely new way.”
“Weaving a tapestry between physics, art, literature, philosophy, mysticism, and our immediate world, Mark Booth beautifully articulates the mythic dimension in historical events.”
“Amusing, popular but still profound, and above all much needed in an age that has lost its way—a remarkable achievement.”
“What we’ve been taught to define as ‘reality’ will never look quite the same again once the revelations of this breakthrough book are taken on board. Booth shows that surrounding us everywhere, in all directions, from the unimaginably large to the infinitesimally small, is MYSTERY.”
“Mark Booth’s head-spinning The Secret History of the Universe reveals the influence of the work of great occultists and seers on scientists. By the end of the book, you will see both scientific discovery and the universe in a new light, both strange and glorious.”
“An encyclopedic, lavishly illustrated attempt to discern an alternative-belief system in the broad diversity of ancient paganism and mystical offshoots of the major faiths…Authentically mind-boggling.”
“The most brilliant book I have read for a long, long time.”
“The startling revelations that form the core of this book show the world as deeply strange and mysterious, filled with secrets and codes, with humanity at the heart of a grand cosmic riddle.”
“Dan Brown’s nonfiction source for The Lost Symbol might well be Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the World.”