What secret obsession is shared by kings, popes, and presidents; Templars, Freemasons,
and founding fathers; renaissance masters, modern architects and NASA?
What has been encoded in art, architecture, and urban design spanning the whole of recorded
history up to the present time?
These are the Secrets in Plain Sight.
As a teacher of architects, it was the buildings in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons,
and The Lost Symbol that started me on a journey of exploration.
What I found encoded in these structures was stranger than fiction and perhaps even more
compelling.
Friends kept handing me interesting non-fiction and after a while I felt that each was a clue
in some overarching and interconnected mystery.
I felt I was seeing no more than the tip of an iceberg.
As I investigated further I unwittingly began an initiation into the ancient mysteries as
I progressively uncovered a body of knowledge cleverly hidden in plain sight in the design
of important buildings, famous works of art, in long distance alignments between sacred
sites, and in the streets and public spaces of many of the world's great cities.
What I have uncovered is a story about monumental works specifically designed to embody a symbolic
program of ancient wisdom.
This wisdom relates to core truths about the design or architecture of the universe, best
expressed by musical principles, sacred geometry and number theory.
What I am calling the architecture of the universe is closely related to the Hermetic
philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato.
All is number, all is mind, indeed all is consciousness.
These ideas originated before the pharaohs and the specifics of this ancient science
have been passed down through the centuries by secret groups dedicated to either preserving
heretical ideas in dangerous times, or to exploiting the knowledge itself for the acquisition
of temporal power.
You might be surprised to learn how people living at what historians call the dawn of
civilization possessed the ability to accurately measure the size of the Earth and to survey
long distances with a precision rivaling GPS satellites.
You'll discover how the oldest surviving temples elegantly encode an understanding of Earth,
Moon, and Sun that is in some ways more advanced than modern science.
We'll travel virtually to Giza, Stonehenge, Jerusalem, Rome, Paris, London, Edinburgh,
New York, Washington DC, Winnipeg, and San Francisco searching for answers.
In these places I uncover an interconnected system of geometry and symbolism going back
at least to ancient Egypt.
We'll find Pythagorean triangles, vesica pisces, rhombi, pyramids, octagrams, enneagrams, and
zodiacs encoded in much of the world's great architecture and urban design exposing a secret
obsession with ancient symbolism spanning the centuries on up to the present day.
Many researchers past and present have uncovered important clues in this mystery.
I've synthesized the work of many other authors and been fortunate to make my own connections
via books, the Internet, and the democratizing power of free tools such as Wikipedia, Google
Earth, and SketchUp.
What I'm about to share with you is an ongoing effort and I invite your participation.
I believe the time is ripe to reveal what has been hidden for so many centuries and
bring this body of knowledge to public attention for the benefit of all.