Secrets of the Silk Road

Finding the Lost Sacred Books of the Gobi

Contents

Preface

Before

Part One: In the Footsteps of Pilgrims

1 The Stranger

2 Bodh Gaya

3 The First Door

4 Samarkand

5 The Secret Face of Islam

6 Gilgamesh

Part Two: Whoever Enters Never Returns

7 The Beginnings

8 On the Nature of Truth

9 The Moment Between the Winds

10 Culling the Past and Beckoning the Future

11 The Fortress of the Guardians

12 The Two Sentinels

13 An Ultimatum

14 The Leap of No Return

Part Three: The Eight Precious Jewels

15 The Supreme Lie

16 The Science of the Shaman

17 Choosing Reality

18 The Form of Life

19 The Jewels of Redemption

Part Four: The Nature of Power

20 The Desert Wanderer

21 Soham

22 The Fundamental Harmonic

23 The Shield of Power

24 The End of the Beginnings

25 The Stance of Innocence

After

Glossary

Acknowledgements

About the Author