Ashwin Sanghi - The Rozabal Line

[22]See The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation: As Taught by S.N. Goenka by William Hart, Harper San Francisco, 1987.

[23]I found excellent discussions on the issue of reincarnation theory in Christianity online at http://www.comparativereligion.com/reincarnation3.html

[24]http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9372767

[25]A wonderful history of the East End of London and Lesney’s Matchbox Factory is to be had at http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/lesney.htm

[26]See Cecil Rhodes by Sarah Gertrude Millin, Simon Publications, 2001.

[27]See America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C. Sutton, Trine Day.

[28]See http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm

[29]The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain does exist. The Association has an online presence at http://www.sagb.org.uk/

[30]See Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy that Changed Both Their Lives by Dr Brian Weiss, Warner Books.

[31]I used several sources to build a ‘hypnosis script’ but an excellent one was available online at http://hypnoticworld.com/scripts/problem_rsolution.asp

[32]See http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Chaplains/Communities/Descriptions/hinduism.html

[33]See Karma and Reincarnation: The Wisdom of Yogananda, Volume 2 by Paramhansa Yogananda, Crystal Clarity Publishers.

[34]A good commentary on the guilt felt by modern Christians in regard to past-life therapy and issues of reincarnation has been written by Dr Michael G. Millett and is available online at http://www.elevated.fsnet.co.uk/index-page14.html

[35]Tibetan phrases taken from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/tibet.html

[36]For a detailed account of the historical search for the Dalai Lama, you may visit http://www.tibet.com/DL/discovery.html

[37]Detailed astrological and astronomical issues around the birth of Jesus have been taken from http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/gem-projects/hm/0203-1-18-bethlehem.pdf

[38]See http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/herod01.html

[39]The itinerary of the holy family when they left Bethlehem can be found at http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/724/tr6.htm

[40]See an interesting article on the origins of ritual immersion in water by Prof. M.M. Ninan located at http://www.acns.com/~mm9n/Baptism/601.htm

[41]Asoka. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 17th June 2007 ‹http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9009884›.

[42]Ptolemy II is mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka as a recipient of the Buddhist proselytism of Ashoka, although no Western historical record of this event remains. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus

[43]See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana. ‘The most notable of the rules in the Baudhâyana Sulba Sutra says: A rope stretched along the length of the diagonal produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together. If this refers to a rectangle, it is the earliest recorded statement of the Pythagorean theorem.’

[44]See Pythagoras and the Story Behind the Croton Crown by Adi Kanga & Sam Kerr. It can be found online at www.vohuman.org/Article/Pythagoras%20and%20the%20story%20behind%20the%20Croton%20Crown.htm

[45]From Chrishna to Christ by Raymond Bernard, Health Research, 1961.

[46]British Library, Online Gallery of Sacred Texts, http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/deadseascrolls.html

[47]The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies, Thames & Hudson, 2002.

[48]The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library by Marvin Meyer, Harper San Francisco, 2006.

[49]The Refutation of All Heresies, Book One by Antipope Hippolytus, Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

[50]Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion? by Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, Tree of Life Publications, 2001.

[51]See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondophares

[52]See http://www.indianchristianity.com/html/chap4/chapter4c.htm which says: ‘Different reports of this tradition have come down to us. The earliest is recorded by Marco Polo, and that of Bishop John de Marignolli comes next. We reproduce them from Yule’s Marco Polo, 2nd ed., and his Cathay and the Way Thither. Marco Polo (ut supr., vol.ii.p.340): “Now I will tell you the manner in which the Christian brethren who keep the church relate the story of the Saint’s death. They tell the Saint was in the wood outside his hermitage saying his prayers, and round about him were many peacocks, for these are more plentiful in that country than anywhere else. And one of the idolaters of that country being of the lineage of those called Govi that I told you of, having gone with his bow and arrows to shoot peafowl, not seeing the Saint, let fly an arrow at one of the peacocks; and this arrow struck the holy man on the right side, insomuch that he died of the wound, sweetly addressing himself to his creator. Before he came to that place where he thus died, he had been in Nubia, where he converted much people to the faith of Jesus Christ.”’

[53]See http://www.sol.com.au/kor/7_01.htm which says: ‘Further clues are cited from The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas, and the Gospel of Thomas which are of Syrian origin and have been dated to the 4th Century A.D., or possibly earlier. They are Gnostic Scriptures and despite the evidence indicating their authenticity, they are not given credence by mainstream theologians. In these texts Thomas tells of Christ’s appearance in Andrapolis, Paphlagonia (today known as in the extreme north of Anatolia) as a guest of the King of Andrappa. There he met with Thomas who had arrived separately. It is at Andrapolis that Christ entreated Thomas to go to India to begin spreading his teachings.’

[54]See a contemporary news item online regarding Balakote at http://jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2002/kashmir20020615a.html

[55]I found an excellent source for Qur’an research at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/ an electronic version of The Holy Qur’an, translated by M.H. Shakir, Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc., 1983. Most references in the book regarding the Qur’an are taken from here.

[56]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount

[57]See the Kashmir Information Directory at http://www.samawar.com/content/view/7/20/

[58]See http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Nardostachys.html

[59]See the history of Buckingham Palace at Royal Residences located online at http://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page568.asp

[60]Actually, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is located at No.17, not No.18, Belgrave Square. Also, the last tenant before the college was Lady Leontine Sassoon, not Lady Clementine Sossoon. Actual history about No. 17 Belgrave Square is located on the College’s website at http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college/archives/history/historyofbelgravesquare.aspx

[61]The Vipassana Research Institute, see http://www.vri.dhamma.org/

[62]The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic was taken from http://www.godswillministries.com/prayers.html

[63]A description of what Jerusalem looked like during the time period of Jesus was obtained from an excellent article in Time magazine. It can be accessed online at http://www.time.com/time/2001/jerusalem/cover.html

[64]For sake of efficiency, I extensively used Babel Fish’s online translation service and found it to be excellent. I cannot be certain of the accuracy of the final translations and if there are any errors, I crave forgiveness. The Babel Fish translator can be used online at http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

[65]See the BBC story on this scientific discovery at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3929471.stm

[66]See Sloan-Kettering’s website to find out about the scientific properties of myrrh. Go to http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69309.cfm