"To watch the lowering of human behavior and achievement through the later parts of the Bronze Age and then Iron Age is literally like watching a light go out. Certainly, there were wise men, and their colleagues doubtlessly kept some of The Knowledge alive, but the whole society was no longer informed by the wisdom and visionary knowledge possessed by the shamans. Society no longer had a direct channel to supernormal knowledge; priests had to be used as intermediaries - priests who had themselves lost the understanding of how to activate the outer mechanisms to present their inner visions." - Paul Devereux, Earthlights

The MNK's history is steeped with connections to secret societies, revolutionary organisations, the occult and general esoterica. Here, the members and guests of the Investigation into the MNK publish papers, essays and research into the MNK. Please browse by theme using the navigation to the left.

This whole project began as research into purely the MNK, but, as I followed the threads of intrigue, I found myself being led down a path that I had not initially expected. It is a path that has led me to a whole world that I never wished to become familiar with. In fact, like so many who have been led down similiar paths, it is a world that previously I had been openly sceptical towards. It is a hidden world of secret societies, obscure practices, the Holy Grail, and grand all encompassing conspiracy theories. From these threads that wind their way beneath recorded history, I found evidence emerging of a secret and hidden past. These were hidden traditions that stretch right into the present and even now shape the world around us and may even affect who we are and what we think and do. So what of these traditions now? Is there anyone in the world now who could understand such things and control them?

Is this the MNK?