Alan Alford is an
independent researcher and author, who is increasingly being recognized
as the world’s leading authority on ancient mythology and the esoteric
meaning of ancient and modern religions.
Born in 1961, Alan Alford
gained a degree in Commerce from the University of Birmingham in 1982,
became a qualified chartered accountant in 1985, and was awarded an MBA
in 1993.
Since the mid-1980s, Alan Alford has been on a quest for the truth of
human existence, seeking answers to the eternal questions of who we are
and where we come from. Inspired, in the first instance, by the
controversial theories of Erich von
Daniken
and
Zecharia Sitchin, Alford has
focused his research on the enigmatic ‘gods’ of ancient mythology,
pursuing his quest with one single-minded objective – to decode the
secrets of the gods and thereby understand who or what these gods
actually were.
One of the most notable
features of Alan Alford’s quest has been his willingness to challenge
his own preconceptions, as well as those of others. In 1998, he stunned
readers of his first book ‘Gods of the New Millennium’ by issuing
a retraction of his ‘flesh and blood gods’ theory in his sequel ‘The
Phoenix Solution’, in which he argued that the Egyptian gods
personified the cataclysmic powers of creation. Alford’s arguments were
indeed so powerful that Zecharia Sitchin, the world’s leading
ancient astronaut theorist, threatened him with a 50 million dollar
lawsuit on the grounds that his comments discredited his (Sitchin’s)
theories and destroyed his reputation.
In fact, Alford’s primary aim has been to promote his own
theories rather than attacking competitor theories, and this he has done
in four further books:
‘When The Gods Came
Down’, subtitled ‘The Catastrophic Roots of Religion Revealed’
(published by Hodder and Stoughton in April 2000)
‘The Atlantis Secret’,
subtitled ‘A Complete Decoding of Plato’s Lost Continent’ (published
by Eridu Books in October 2001)
‘Pyramid of Secrets’,
subtitled ‘The Architecture of the Great Pyramid Reconsidered in the
Light of Creational Mythology’ (published by Eridu Books in May
2003)
’The Midnight Sun’,
subtitled ’The Death and Rebirth of God in Ancient Egypt’ (published
by Eridu Books in October 2004)
In these books, Alford
argues that ancient religions were ‘cults of creation’ – i.e. cults
whose primary aim was to celebrate and re-enact perpetually the myth of
the creation of the Universe – and that the gods personified the
cataclysmic powers of creation. And he demonstrates, beyond any doubt,
that these ancient religions transmitted a profound legacy of creational
and cataclysmic thought to modern-day Judaism and Christianity.
But Alford is no Velikovskian catastrophist. Rather, he suggests
that the cataclysm of creation was a mythical event which dated to the
beginning of time – little different in principle from the modern
myth of the Big Bang. As far as human history is concerned, he calls
only for the recognition of cometary and meteoritic phenomena as
contributory factors to the development of man’s theories on the origins
of the Universe. Thus has Alford carved out his own distinctive
niche as a pioneering interpreter of ancient myth, religion and
philosophy.
Daniken
and