The Secret World, The Himalayan Journals of Explorer M.G. Hawking: An Adventure Memoir by M.G. Hawking, Jenna Wolfe Ph.D
The Secret World, The Himalayan Journals of Explorer M.G. Hawking. Legends arise for a reason, and a purpose. Historical accounts and traditions are composed of the vague and hazy vestiges of memory; vastly more of the great secrets of the past have vanished than have been revealed. Even the earliest accounts of Earth’s history were composed long after certain truths had lapsed from human memory, or were considered secrets far too powerful, or too sacred, to be revealed. Yet legends inevitably arose in which fragments of those truths were preserved.
From the dawn of earliest civilization on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau—the highest in the world, with an average elevation of some 16,000 feet—legends of a majestic ‘Secret World’ hidden deep in the vast wilderness of the Great Himalayan Range have fascinated and inspired millions. Although arising from sources widely separated in both space and time, the legends are remarkably consistent. They relate that this secret world is the dwelling place of a society of highly enlightened masters and sages. Possessed of the most extraordinary knowledge, they make this mysterious realm not only a place of peace and harmony, but a sanctuary of wisdom.
Scholars believe that the very ancient legends of a ‘Secret World’ are the historical precursors of a fabled land described in the oldest Sanskrit texts, a concealed realm of beauty and knowledge. The scriptures of the 4000 year old pre-Tibetan Zhang Zhung culture are thought to be the earliest extant references, yet the same hidden realm is represented in many ancient traditions; the pre-Buddhist B’on treaties, Hindu texts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, in the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra (circa 500 B.C.), in the even more ancient Kalachakra Mulatantra (circa 900 B.C.), and in ancient wisdom traditions throughout Asia. The B’on treaties refer to the hidden sanctuary as Olmolungring, the Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures as Shambhala I lam-yig, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.
This book reveals the compelling reality underlying those historical traditions, ones that have endured from the very threshold of history to the present day, the powerful accounts of a ‘Secret World’ concealed deep in the immense wilderness of the Great Himalayan Range.
