Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel PDF
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Secrets of The Lost Symbol The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel by Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer Senior Contributing Editor David A. Shugarts Contributing Editors Lou Aronica and Paul Berger For Julie, Who, for thirty-nine years, has been both my Aphrodite and my Athena . . . and will always be so . . . And for David, Already so accomplished and so far down the road of his unique hero’s journey . . . —Dan Burstein For “D,” A great and gentle man, sorely missed . . . And, as ever, for Helen, and Hannah, warvb loza ddd sysssrt fua xhe wagvet xr ql lika —Arne de Keijzer Contents Editor’s Note Introduction by Dan Burstein Chapter 1 Intellectual Alchemy Exploring the Complex Cosmos of The Lost Symbol by Dan Burstein Chapter 2 History, Mystery, and Masons Dan Brown’s Freemansonry by Arturo de Hoyos A Mason Reveals His “Journey to Light” by Mark E. Koltko-Rivera Defining Freemasonry by Mark A. Tabbert Albert Pike: The Ghost in The Lost Symbol Machine? by Warren Getler Mozart and Ellington, Tolstoy and Kipling: Inside the Brotherhood of Famous Masons by David D. Burstein Searching for Masons in the Corridors of Power by Eamon Javers Chapter 3 Secret Knowledge The Ancient Mysteries and The Lost Symbol by Glenn W. Erickson A Quick Guide to the Philosophers in The Lost Symbol by Glenn W. Erickson Secret Knowledge: Hiding in Plain Sight in the Infinite Universe an interview with Ingrid Rowland Isaac Newton: Physics, Alchemy, and the Search to Understand the “Mind of God” an interview with Thomas Levenson Chapter 4 Science, Faith, and the Birth of a Nation From the Ground Up: Kindred Spirits Invent the Modern World an interview with Steven Johnson Franklin, Freemasonry, and American Destiny an interview with Jack Fruchtman Jr. Masons, Skulls, and Secret Chambers: The Postrevolutionary Fraternity by Steven C. Bullock Finding Himself in The Lost Symbol by James Wasserman Occult America an interview with Mitch Horowitz Chapter 5 Man Meets God, and God Meets Man What’s Been Lost and What Needs to Be Found in Our Times an interview with Rabbi Irwin Kula Dan Brown’s Religion: Is It Me or We? an interview with Deirdre Good Science and Religion Face the Beyond by Marcelo Gleiser And Never the Twain Shall Meet? commentary by Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins Science Requires That You Step Outside the Mental Cocoon an interview with George Johnson Chapter 6 Ye Are New Age Gods The Energy That Connects the Universe an interview with Lynne McTaggart Noetics: The Link Between Modern Science and Ancient Mysticism? by Lou Aronica On Becoming a Fictional Character in a Dan Brown Novel by Marilyn Mandala Schlitz Bending Minds, Not Spoons an interview with William Arntz “Ye Are Gods” by the Editors Chapter 7 Mystery City on the Hill A Masonic Pilgrimage Around Washington, D.C. by David A. Shugarts The Lost Smithsonian an interview with Heather Ewing Danger in the Wet Pod: Fact and Fiction about the Smithsonian by the Editors Hiding Out in Jefferson’s Palace of the Book: Why Robert Langdon’s Adventure Takes Him Inside the Library of Congress by the Editors What Does The Lost Symbol Get Wrong About the Nation's Capital? Everything. by David Plotz Chapter 8 Into the Kryptic . . . Art, Symbols, and Codes The Clues Hidden in Circles and Squares: The Art and Symbology of The Lost Symbol by Diane Apostolos-Capppadona Venus, the Three Graces, and a Portal to a Divine World an interview with Michael Parkes Art, Encryption, and the Preservation of Secrets an interview with Jim Sanborn The Summer of the Clues by David A. Shugarts William Wirt’s Skull, Albrecht Dürer’s Magic Square: The Doubleday Clues and The Lost Symbol by Mark E. Koltko-Rivera Kryptos: The Unsolved Enigma by Elonka Dunin Chapter 9 Divining Dan Brown The Pursuit of Dan Brown: From Secrets of the Widow’s Son to The Lost Symbol by David A. Shugarts Caught Between Dan Brown and Umberto Eco: Mysteries of Science and Religion, Secret Societies, and the Battle for Priority over New Literary Genres by Amir D. Aczel Chapter 10 Brownian Logic Not All Is Hope: Reading the Novel’s Dark Side an interview with Michael Barkun The Politics of The Lost Symbol by Paul Berger Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power an interview with Jeff Sharlet Geography, Holography, Anatomy: Plot Flaws in The Lost Symbol by David A. Shugarts Dan Brown’s Great Work: An Exercise in Maybe Logic by Ron Hogan The Critics Speak—Loudly by Hannah de Keijzer
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