Book Review: “The Lost Symbol” By Dan Brown
Did I like the book? Yes, I couldn’t put it down, even though there are many flaws. The book is like a tourist’s guide to the Washington D.C’s dark side. Early on we find a human hand placed in the Capitol Rotunda, and the hand is tatooed as a Hand Of Mysteries.
We journey to the Smithsonian Castle, an actual Normandy Castle in the city. Who knew?
Through the book we learn about all the esoteric Masonic symbolism in the Washington Monument and the The George Washington Masonic Memorial.
We learn about Noetic Science - the science of the human mind. We learn that thoughts have mass. If a grain of sand has gravity and you put enough grains together in one spot, you could have the equivalent of our moon. The moon exerts a powerful gravitational pull on our planet affecting the tides and some think earthquakes. So too, thoughts have mass and thus gravity. If enough people focus their thoughts on a single idea, the gravity will pull the idea into existence.
That’s a powerful idea! We can create anything we put our minds to. Think of it, the U.S. at one time was just an idea.
Part of the tourist guide takes us to the CIA sculpture - titled Kryptos - that’s in code and has yet to be fully deciphered.
After reading the book, I have a new reverence for ancient books and our Founding Fathers. They believed that we were creating something very special in America. Too bad, the politicians don’t take a couple of days off to rededicate themselves to the original ideas built into our national city.
I wish the book had pages of pictures of the buildings included in the book and I wish Katherine Solomon had been able to use some of the knowledge yielded from her experiments.
“Noetics?” the congressman said, “I thought you said No Ethics”.
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Yesterday I visited Powell’s in downtown.
I haven’t been there for years and although it is a trial for someone from the mountains of eastern Washington to try and get there, it is an experience worth repeating.
The place is uniquely fascinating!!
They had oodles of “The Lost Symbol” at 30% off.
Standing at the end of the display aisle, was a group of people discussing with each other, their ideas on the book.
Dan Brown certainly isn’t a great writer by any stretch…but i’ll give it to him that he tries to tackle some very interesting subject matter. The essence of the relationship between myth, history and fact is an interesting one. As is, in this time of the exponential growth of technology and the information revolution/explosion, the question the use of technology, how we act next, our potential and that in this rush to progress we must look back and learn and keep learning from those who came before us. They knew a thing or two. It certainly made me consider a few things I have not really gave much thought to in the past and if not reinforced my belief and conviction in the enormous potential and power of and within the human mind (for good and bad) convinced me that it is worthy of much further study and consideration.
I always await the next book by Dan Brown. I have even purchased books by Don Brown by mistake.