The Psychic Da Vinci Code

An Internet Research Guide & Slideshow

by Debbora A. Wiles

Copyright by Debbora A. Wiles & PsychicSchoolHouse.com 2007 all rights reserved.

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The Psychic Da Vinci Code is an independent study guide that leads you deeper into the biblical story explored in Dan Brown's The Da Vince Code.  Here you will explore deeper studies that leads you into perhaps the most dangerous secrets of all.  A secret so amazing that early churches killed more than half million women to stamp out what Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea started after the death of Jesus.  Inside you will explore Leonardo Da Vinci as we expand on some of his concepts, which logically leads to Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea and the Arthur legend and a deadly secret that changed the worlds concepts of psychic powers.

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In 2004 Doubleday published Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code as a mainstream murder mystery thriller.  This book was carefully researched for more than a year before it was written. It quickly became an International bestseller, selling more than 50 million copies worldwide.  In light of the highly controversial religious subject matter, it was banned in several countries by many church officials across the world. 

Naturally, when a book is publicly banned, book sales skyrocketed.  Within a year, film producers were looking at the novel for possible conversion into a major motion picture.  A screenplay was adapted from The Da Vinci Code novel and produced into a film directed by Ron Howard and produced by Columbia Pictures. 

Eight weeks before the films premier release, an unprecedented type of TV media coverage began blanketing the networks like a plague of locus.  TLC, the History Channel, Sci-fi Channel, the BBC and nearly every network began to run programs to either prove or debunk the historical research born out in the book and soon-to-be released in film.   We began to see programs on the Knights Templar’s, On the life of Christ, On the Medici, on the Holy Land, on Rosslyn Chapel, the Priory of Sion and quips, quotes and debunks from the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

There were interviews on the local news with different pastors and clergy and there were radio talk shows in the thousands.  Everywhere you went there was talk of The Da Vinci Code and there still is.

When the film opened in 2006, audiences flocked to see the film.  Worldwide ticket sales took in sales of over 753.1 million in box office sales worldwide - mostly overseas.   

There seemed to be a general consensus with people who read the book, or saw the film for the first time, were thinking and talking about the well researched components of the story.   Many felt like elements of the film had tossed their religion’s Happy Meal out the window.   Many felt they had been lied to all their lives by their churches…and that was just the beginning… many people had questions…lots of them.

This is how this presentation came into being.

Over the course of this presentation, I hope to unlock some of the mysteries of The Da Vinci Code with images and information for a deeper understanding of the material.  Also I hope to lend understanding not only to many of the mysteries and questions posed by the book and film but also take you on a journey to discover still more shocking secrets.

To begin our journey, we will start with the man of the hour himself, Leonardo Da Vinci.  From there Il work through the most controversial aspects of the film, working to decode these by tying in other research materials.

Who Was Leonardo Da Vinci?             

Born: April 15, 1452 in Anchiano, Italy

On April 15, 1452 Leonardo was born out of wedlock to Catarina, the daughter of a farmer.  Leonardo’s father was Ser Piero, was a 25 years old public notary at the time Leonardo birth.  In the same year of Leonardo’s birth, his natural father Ser Piero married his first wife Albiera.  He didn't marry Leonardo’s mother, because she was the daughter of a farmer and not from a wealthy family.

At age 5, Leonardo was moved from his mother’s house in Anchiano Italy to his grandfather Piero’s house in Vinci…a five mile trip.  From this time on he was member of his father’s family – living in their household and where he got his primary education - but he was never legitimated by his natural father.  This is no doubt a highly uncomfortable situation for young Leonardo – living on the edge of his father’s family and his father never accepting him legally.

In that time, a child born out of wedlock was given no last name -  Leonardo took the last name Da Vinci – meaning  OF VINCI  - the town in which he grew up.  Without a last name he was locked out of  99% of the day’s career choices – a child without the father’s last name was like a distasteful ghost in Renaissance society. 

But young Leonardo did thrive in his grandfather’s household and was given as good an education by his grandfather.  Of this time, it was said that his teacher’s despaired at Leonardo’s keen mind for he drove them all crazy with endless questions on everything.

At age 14, Leonardo moved to Florence and became an apprentice at the workshop (Studio) of Andrea del Verrocchio. Verrocchio was a gifted artist and successful teacher in Florence and was strongly associated with the wealthy Medici family. Andrea was a sculptor, painter, goldsmith, bronze caster, draftsman and more, there is no doubt that Verrocchio had much influence on Leonardo. Verrocchio took special interest in young Leonardo, feeding his endlessly curious mind with higher education constantly.  

Leonardo was in good company too, at Verrocchio’s workshop as some of his fellow students went on to become famous artists in their right: including: Botticelli, Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi. 

In June 1472, at age 20, Leonardo was listed in the red book of Guild Painters from Florence (Campagnia de Pittori). With the membership in the Painter’s Guild of Florence, this officially ended the apprenticeship of Leonardo.   But Leonardo did not leave his school at this time and stayed on at the studio of Verrocchio until 1475.

His listing in the Guild was only one of two ways a “bastard son” could legally buy and sell products on the open market.  The other way was to be given a “royal title” like getting knighted.  But membership in a Guild, would be like getting a business licenses today – the legal right to earn money on your own without working for someone else.

How did Leonardo earn a living? 

As an engineer – designing weapons, architecture, fortifications and machines.

In 1475, he was made chief engineer, senior military architect and painter to the Duke of Milan.  Here he spent 17 years with the Duke engineering the tools of war. Later came into the service Cesare Borgia, a brutal warlord under the title of military engineer. But Leonardo considered Borgia too blood thirsty and left his service after only 9 months. Then near the end of his life he became first painter, architect and mechanic to King Francis 1 of France.

During his lifetime, Leonardo compiled a vast collection of notebooks (over 5,000 manuscript pages), detailing his idea’s and research on optics, acoustics, mechanics, hydraulics, flight, astronomy, weaponry, nature and anatomy. [iii]   Recently, one of Da Vinci’s notebooks came up for auction – it’s said the Bill Gates won the auction buying the notebook for a cool 28 million.

In art, he only completed about 20 paintings in his lifetime.

Leonardo is credited with inventing the first military tank.

Plus he is credited with the first plans for a helicopter, and the bicycle, the spinning wheel, on top of designing chapels and bridges and fortification for war. 

Clearly, he was an engineering genius at whatever he put his mind and hands to, a man far ahead of his time.

We also think he might have been dyslexic as his backward handwriting in his private journals shows.  We also know that Leonardo never married. 

“Jean Paul Richter was the first person in history to decipher Leonardo’s notebooks. In his epochal The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (3rd Edition 1970, first published in 1883), he wrote...

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