This work contends that history as presented to us in the current age ignores a major segment of human civilization on this planet, and attempts to shed a different light on how mankind evolved here. Its main theory is that civilization has evolved over numerous millennia on a cyclic rather than a linear basis and that each cycle has ascending and descending phases. During the low parts of each cycle, humanity's awareness falls to such a low level of consciousness that it forgets its earlier history, nor is it able to understand the more subtle universal energies. It presents evidence for...