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Summary: Shake you to your roots
Review: Alan Alford's Gods of the New Millennium will shake you to your roots. It will give you well researched insight into human origins as well as some very interesting explanations on the history of the pyramids and other ancient sites around the world. He connects biblical "facts" with research that questions who created us, who Adam and Eve were, who was Noah, etc.
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Summary: An accessible review of scientific and 'historic' theory
Review: Alford leans heavily on the research of Zecharia Stichin to write this entertaining and thoughtful book. He has obviously read extensivly in the areas of pre-history civilisation. While he doesn't seem to lend the same scientific gravitas as other writers in this field, he does lend an understanding which makes him emminently more accessible. He seeks to bring together the theories expounded in recent times, and like others, his conscoius or subconscoius desire to find a single theme can be a failing point.If you enjoy being forced to question your beliefs and are prepared to read and analyse before forming an opinion, then read "Gods of the new millenium"
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Summary: Where did civilization really come from?
Review: GODS OF THE NEW MILLENIUM : Scientific Proof of Flesh & Blood Gods. 670 pages. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. ISBN 0-340-69613-3 pbk. What Alan Alford sets out to do in this book, and on the whole he does it well, is to show us that the picture of the past which we were taught in school, and which the schools and universities continue to teach, is largely nonsense. The official world cannot really explain the many peculiarities of the solar system, such as the retrograde orbit of Venus or why the moon is far larger than it ought to be. It cannot explain human origins and how we so quickly acquired a big brain. It cannot explain the many amazing artefacts we have inherited from the ancient world, artefacts such as the great pyramid which exhibit a level of technological skill at least as high if not considerably higher than our own, and which incorporate extremely sophisticated mathematical, geodetic, and astronomical principles. Neither can it explain the fact of Sumer, the astonishingly advanced first civilization which suddenly appeared seemingly out of nowhere five thousand years ago and which set the pattern for all future civilizations including our own. In the face of these and many other mysteries, the official world can offer only contrived explanations, explanations which often fly in the face of facts which mainstream scholars and scientists have themselves unearthed. But for Alford there is a single comprehensive theory which can explain many if not all of these mysteries, the theory of Alien intervention. Like Zechariah Sitchin, Alford is asking us to stop pretending that the story of the past which the Sumerians and others have bequeathed to us is mere myth and the product of pure imagination. He is, in other words, asking us to accept this story as literal truth and to believe the Sumerians when they affirm, over and over again in countless texts and also in pictorial form, that everything they had - their writing system, laws, mathematics, astronomy, architecture, navigational skills, engineering, irrigation, agriculture, metallurgy, etc., etc., - was a gift to them from the AN.UNNA.KI. This Sumerian expression is usually misleadingly mistranslated as 'gods,' but what it really means is 'Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came' (page 184). In short, civilization was a 'gift' to us from flesh and blood beings who arrived on earth from space, and who set about making the earth their possession. The notion that, not only do we owe our our present bodies and big brains to aliens - since we are apparently a product of genetic engineering which combined primitive primate genes with the genes of invading Aliens who wished to create an intelligent slave race - but that we owe pretty well everything else to them too, will of course come as a huge shock to readers who remain in the grip of the myths they were taught about the past at school. But Alford, and the many other researchers who are listed in his extensive Bibliograpy, have assembled a staggering amount of hard evidence to support the Interventionist Hypothesis, and if we consider the enormous size and age of the universe, and the fact that there has been enough time and space for millions if not billions of highly advanced beings and civilizations to evolve, some of whom must have found their way to earth, I see no rational objection to the hypothesis. The only real objection to it is that it conflicts seriously with what most humans like to believe about themselves. Alford has written an interesting, well-illustrated, and well-documented book though it isn't without weaknesses, one of the more striking being his inexplicable use of the misleading word "gods" throughout. Why couldn't he have been honest and written 'Aliens'? Also, for anyone who has already read such writers as Zechariah Sitchin, Graham Hancock, and William Bramley, much of what he says will be old hat since he draws very heavily on them. Some readers, certainly those who choose to ignore the hard evidence he offers, will dismiss the book as nonsense. Others will be fascinated. Is civilization as we know it hostile to our true human interests and really just a form of Alien-imposed slavery? Readers of Alford will quickly discover that there is scientific evidence aplenty for the Interventionist Hypothesis. Whether we choose to accept this evidence, however, is another matter.
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Summary: interesting book
Review: I enjoyed reading this book.But at times, i had the impression that the theories put forward are too good to be true.At least someone tried hard to explain them in an honest way and not in a commercial way. Although Alan alford research was extensive,it referred to Islam on very few occasions.I am aware that this book is not about religions as such,but you will be surprised to see that islam offers explanations to many issues raised in this book. I am eager to read more books to Alan Alford
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Summary: Broadens the curiosity
Review: I've read many books which are in this category. I really admire Alford's research and the will to explain his research and findings. The book is one of the best that I've read (in this category). Alford presents a rational explanation and ideas. You may question yourself of the things that are around us. He obviously had done extensive research on both sides of the debate. Not only does the book explain reasonable doubts, but it makes us think about the mysteries around us. Read with an open mind, there is a possibility for the explanations.
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Summary: good reading on a winter's night
Review: In this book, Alford examines the idea that human culture and indeed human genes may have been planted onto this planet by extraterrestrial intelligences. Following the pioneering explorations and speculations by his predecessors von Daeniken and Sitchin, Alford examines several "unexplained mysteries" - from ancient Sumeria, pharaonic Egypt, Baalbek to Stonehenge, Nazca and Peru. He points out the unlikelyhood that the monumental buildings, found at those sites, could have been constructed with simple Iron Age technologies. To support this thesis, A. provides interesting information, especially on less conventional research which tends to be omitted from the "classical" anthropological and historical work. I found his take on pharaonic records and Giza pyramids especially intriguing; moreover, Sitchin's work on Sumerians is given due credit . While unfailingly interesting, the book has noticeable shortcomings. Alford's uncritical approach to published (and unpublished) literature is troublesome. He is quite happy to take a flimsy idea and present it as fact while conveniently ignoring other contradictory evidence (especially if it is "conventional"). He is also prone to citing, in the same breath, data from reliable and accepted studies and highly speculative notions based on hunches and zero evidence. Sitchin's work is accepted a bit too uncritically and with too much reverence which ultimately hobbles the book. Thus, in his enthousiasm to prove the extraterrestrial connection, Alford tries to do too much and, for me, undermines the credibility of his main idea. Still, if you are an aficionado of this genre, you will find a lot of food for thought. Which, ultimately, is what counts.
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Summary: I think.. therefore am I ?
Review: Intriguing, Allan Alford draws together some of the great mysteries of the world, providing incontrovertible evidence of flesh and blood ancesteral gods of the pre-christian dynasties. The readers attention is directed to the gaping holes of uncertainty contained in the scholarly historical accounts of our own existence. Darwinists take note!! Sentient hominids inside 500,000 years of post homo erectus evolution ?..... More Please....
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Summary: The truth of our origin is revealed!
Review: Is it hard to express ones feelings after reading this book. Finally someone stood up and put mankinds mysteries together! Of course the thought that mankind is a hybrid offspring of an alien race, designed as slaves nearly 170,000 years ago, is most uncomfortable for many people from the monotheistic religions like Islam, Christendom and Judaism. People with an open mind will be fascinated of this book while recognizing that mankind is not the crown of a divine creation like some religions want make us to believe. Alfords work is well done regarding the fact that he investigated so many misteries all over the world, but he managed it to show the relations between them. I have read many books which refer to mankinds old history like works from Eric v. Däniken and others, but no one has been able to put this in an all-in-one theory like Alford have done. I'm eager to read more from this author in the future.
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Summary: A well-written, logical and intriquing exposition.
Review: It's true that this book assumes the basic veracity of Sitchin's work, and employes it as the underpinnings of his treatment. While other reviewers note this with muted criticism, the fact is that Sitchin has never been refuted. Criticized greatly, yes, but not effectively refuted. Given this, there is no valid reason not to accept Sitchin and the others cited in this book in an evidential manner. If mainstream science can adopt specious, illogical assumptions as the basis for much of what becomes "conventional wisdom", it is reasonable to embrace alternative, but more internally logical, interpretations on which to build a case. If one accepts this, then indeed the author has made the case for "scientific proof of flesh and blood gods." Whether one agrees with Alford's book or not, 'Gods of the New Millennium' does reconcile many disparate elements (religions, myths, archeological and geological records, etc.) into a cohesive whole, something not done by any other writer (to my knowledge, anyway). Add to this the fact that the book is imminently readable and absolutely absorbing, and it becomes difficult to fathom what more a book can offer. Among the many fascinating notions put forth by Alford (with skillful logic) is that the "gods" (aliens) "operate in eras of 2,160 years", and that we have been in a "hands off" period. Alford speculates that the next active era (of involvement of the gods in man's affairs) would commence somewhere between the turn of the 21st century and 2012. He poses the question as to what might indicate that the gods have re-engaged themselves in our lives. Although the book was published in 1996, the author's comments seem either amazingly coincidental or chillingly prophetic: "Life might appear to carry on as normal, but with a new political agenda. We might detect their presence in inexplicable events, changes in government policy or acts of war that don't quite make sense, and perhaps an increase in government secrecy."
Those intrepid souls who dare to consider alternative origins for man will find an exhilarating, thought-provoking and persuasive offering in 'Gods of the New Millennium'. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A well written book
Review: This book has the same views as Sitchin's books with the exception of a few differences in opinion with Sitchin. This is a good read.
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