The Search for the Holy Grail

All this work didn't take an afternoon. In fact itthe Louvre and saw the culmination of thousands
took many years work and many thousands ofof years of the inner wisdom tradition, which
miles of travelling across the globe.We travelledsurrounded the serpent cult. In Rome, I immersed
from the beautifully romantic city of Paris, with itsmyself in the feeling of the timeless city and
enigmatic buildings and wonderfully laid backincredibly came away with more than I had
atmosphere, to frantic and noisy Rome, with itsbargained for. Even in the Vatican there were
carefree and yet devout attitude to life. We tookthousands of images of the wise serpent. In St
in the cosmopolitan Malta - a mixture of medievalPeter's the very columns were topped with
Europe's greatest minds and artistic flare - andwinged snakes. In Malta, I found the imagery of
saw for ourselves the serpentine temples ofSt Paul's supposed contact with the serpent cults
Mnadjra and the time capsule of crusader Mdina.and visited the ancient megalithic monuments
We climbed mountains in Cyprus to discovererected by serpent cults. In Egypt, I saw first
Orthodox Greek Cypriot Churches with theirhand the mysterious images of snakes, which are
incredible iconography. On to Egypt, with itssimply everywhere and in South America I
ancient and sacred secrets, locked up in imagesenjoyed the warm embrace of the serpent cults
that play mysterious tricks upon the mind. Fromdescendants who still live and work in the remote
there we flew across the vast oceans toareas.But this is a new life for me and my
America, where we met up with the Northco-author, Gary Osborn, because neither of us
American Indians and engrossed ourselves in thehave ever been big authors before on the
culture and traditions; sweat lodges, respect forworld-wide stage. It is a new journey also,
the earth and an understanding of the ancientbecause we are now signed up to an American
spirits. Next we made our way to the Far Eastcompany in-order to take other people on our
and bent our minds to the new mindset requiredjourney too - another unique experience. We are
to comprehend the Eastern ways.We took inhoping that we can re-live the excitement and joy
Portugal, Spain, Greece and many more places onwe felt as we travelled across the globe on our
our "Grail Journey" and we came away with ourvoyage of discovery, and we hope that others
"truth". Now, after two years of laborious workwill too. It is a wonderful world, full of mystery,
our journey has come to an end with the launchawe, beauty and excitement. We may still think
of our book, The Serpent Grail and boy, what athe world is a small place, that can be traversed
journey. But in many respects this is a journeyin just a few hours by some modern fast jet, but
we have only just begun.Before being a writerin truth, getting down to the ground, we see and
and researcher I had been a marketing guy andexperience much, much more.Philip Gardiner
had found my life lacking in spirit and fun,Best selling author, researcher and lecturer
especially the joy of travel. Then I discovered aname is Philip Gardiner. You may or may not
secret in the depths of ancient texts and myknow of me, I am the author of several books,
mind raced, where my body could not go. And soincluding my latest The Serpent Grail and another
a new quest had begun, a new life was sparked inGnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple
that moment of discovery and I could no longerRevealed. In these books we uncover the secrets
resist the desire to go see and touch the amazingof the ancients and reveal the true Holy Grail - an
history of man's past for myself. It was a uniqueactual artefact within which was mixed the Elixir
journey of discovery, for everywhere I went Iof Life.
saw confirmation of my insight.In Paris, I visited