The Original DaVinci Code?

I started writing LightStream (released in 1996 as The Living Avatara) back in 1985 shortly after reading the pivotal book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. I knew authors Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln had not proven their case for a holy bloodline proceeding from Jesus but they had made a fascinating lunge into this new and thrilling area of scholarship. Their achievement was to raise questions and issues which had previously been touched upon thousands of years ago in The Dead Sea Scrolls and even Vedic literature where can be found mentions of enigmatic Righteous Teachers and avatars.

Their research had driven me deeper into my own exploration of holy scriptures both traditionally accepted and others sidelined by religious dogmatists in an effort to find any hint of evidence for such a bloodline. Also, it was equally important to me to explore the possibility of the inheritance of spiritual power. With these two theological ideas to work around I invented a storyline which included Leonardo's greatest works and codes he hid therein, The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Holy Bloodline as it may appear today and the involvement of threatening church establishments. Sound familiar? Well, if you've read The DaVinci Code it should. And for those of you intellectuals and enjoyers of original works you should also know, by your empathy, pretty much how it feels to have your life's work recklessly borrowed from.

Is it wise for me to cry, "J'accuse!"? I suggest you examine the text analysis on the web site and come to your own decision but more importantly why not read the work of the writer who introduced the secret of DaVinci's The Last Supper and employed the atbash as a plot device? Read LightStream. After all, isn't the concept of a Holy Bloodline far too important to trust to the appearance of something suspect? -Harry Langen

http://www.lightstreambook.com

Lightstream has the potential to change the way we view the history of humankind. It maps a course to enter into an intimate relationship with the personality of the infinite.

And as to all these new theologies that have been converging, roiling and bottling up their narrow intellectual canyons, LightStream is clearly the dambreaker.


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Clones in Newcastle and Korea?

AN ACHIEVEMENT: The embryo three days after nuclear transfer took place as seen in this picture released on Friday. Scientists at Newcastle University have cloned the human embryo for the first time. — AP

LONDON: Scientists who were awarded Britain's first licence for human cloning say they had succeeded in creating a cloned embryo for the first time in the country.
The Newcastle University scientists said on Thursday they had successfully produced an early stage embryo cloned from a human cell using nuclear transfer.