Since the publication of THE ORION MYSTERY in February 1994, much water has flowed under the bridge. In early 1995 Graham Hancock published his blockbuster book, FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS, which not only changed the style of this type of investigation forever, but opened the debate far and wide across the globe. Graham and I then pursued the quest together with the publication in 1996 of KEEPER OF GENESIS which took us deep into the haunting metaphysical questions of the origins of human intellect and in hot pursuit of what we have come to term 'the quest for the science of immortality'.

After that came Graham and Santha Faiia's HEAVEN'S MIRROR in 1998 which applied the tool of archaeo- astronomy to various ancient sites around the world and introduced us to the fascinating world of underwater archaeological exploration.

Finally in 1999 I wrote SECRET CHAMBER which explored the deeper layers of the Giza quest and made the linkage between the ancient 'magical knowledge' and the Hermetic Tradition that carried it across the ages and into the mainstream of our modern western intellectual and esoteric tradition. These books have been the subject of much press reviews and articles, and prompted major television documentaries which have generated heated debates at the highest of levels. They have flushed out academics from their ivory towers in droves to confront the challenges that we put before them.

At long last the debate was pulled upwards to warrant the attention of the international media and, more importantly, forced into the public arena, and the global scientific and academic network of the 'establishment'.