We should be passionately interested yet scrupulously disinterested, setting aside all partisan affiliations, even the desire to be right, because upon the answers we give to those ultimate questions depends the way we choose to live our lives.Įxactly how does alternative history bear on the ultimate questions? I think this is best explained using an example that is central to alternative history.
Of course, ideally, these questions should inspire in us a whole-hearted desire to discover the truth.
Because alternative history often touches on what the existentialist theologian Paul Tillich called 'the ultimate questions' – the questions of where we come from, who we are and what the meaning of life might be. Maybe it's a kind of tribute? If the scientifically correct were sure of their ground, perhaps they wouldn't feel the need to behave so shiftily?īut they do, more's the pity on several deep and important, levels. The 1999 Horizon documentary about Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval was a shining example of this, cut, dried and well documented in the adjudication of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. Then they go right ahead and attribute to others claims they have never made just so they can rubbish them! Typically the 'scientifically correct,' as I like to think of them, present themselves as high-minded defenders of intellectual rigour. Something that often surprises me about the opponents of alternative history is how readily they stoop to intellectual dishonesty. Alternative History and Esoteric Philosophy The Secret History of the World, by Jonathan Black, published in paperback by Quercus Books, London, 2008, is available from all good bookshops and from .uk.
Jonathan Black's new book, The Secret History of the World, reveals extraordinary and thought-provoking insights into the esoteric teachings of secret societies down the ages and offers a radical new (or perhaps very ancient) perspective on human history.
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