I’m Portuguese by birth, but grew up in London, England. I’m currently living in America.
From the age of three, I was drawing pictures of the pyramids and collecting dinosaur eggs. I didn’t really get on with my peers, and they didn’t really like me either. The modern world held no interest for me and still doesn’t in most respects. For me, the ancients are far more interesting and I want to find out how those ancient people were able to hold cultures together for thousands of years, whereas we can barely hold together a country for ten years before everything starts to fall apart. There’s something about learning from the past that somehow has the answers for what we are looking for today.Â
Curiosity is important to me. I used to live between Avebury and Stonehenge and I would go out and spend time standing on the giant graves with a notepad and a sandwich - and one thing led to another.Â
My first foray into writing was actually a book on crop circles called Secrets In The Fields, which became an international bestseller - and still is to this day - which is beyond my wildest dreams. Once the connection was made between the science of crop circles and ancient sites, and how the two seemed to have something going on in parallel that alters the state of people’s consciousness, that then led to my second book.Â
So, my life took on big research into the past to find out how we can improve our lives. I’d ask how can we look at these monuments that have survived thousands of years and make improvements, which it seems to me people are looking for?
I think the reason why people come here (earth) is to try and improve yourself. There was a guy called Michel Newton who wrote some very interesting things about the nature of the soul. He wrote about how only 30% of the soul is incarnate into the body at any given moment and the rest is somewhere else having a wonderful time, and how between the hours if 2 and 3 in the morning we connect with it, and that’s why we have strange experiences and dreams of places and people.Â
I’ve just finished making a documentary that relates to this called Megalith. It considers the three biggest locations of the world that have a concentrate of megaliths, which are: Central Portugal, Brittany and Northern Scotland, and what links them all together.
The documentary looks at how the currents that flow into these sites are gathered together by the stones, and how these sites were chosen for a reason. It also shows us how anyone who interacts with these sites is putting themselves into very energising fields and it allies with our brainwave patterns. It helps to explain much about the folklore and mythology connected to these sites. It becomes pretty obvious that the reason why they built these things was to allow you to do such things as astral travelling and then return with experiences that could be told to the tribe which would benefit their survival. It might be that snow is arriving early this year so we’d all better move to a safer place. It was about understanding the bigger picture and not having to fear death - death not being the end of everything. This connection to the bigger picture and having understandings as to how things really are was so important to these ancient civilizations.Â
People like Plato talked about such things and how he had out of body experiences in the Temples of Greece. Pythagoras and Leonardo Da Vinci also spoke of such astral travelling experiences. For them there was much more than just the physical realms. Â
When I take on a new project I don’t ever actually have a plan. I simply follow my passion. I could be walking somewhere, say Avebury, which I have done hundreds of times in the daytime and the nighttime. And it’s as if you connect with the spirit of the place, and you stop, look at the stones and ask what’s this all about? And its like you send them a message and they then reply back. Ideas then seem to come and before you know it, I’m being sent a book or having a conversation in a pub, and I then find myself digging deeper into what becomes that next project.Â
I hate injustice and lying and see that we’ve been lied to about so much of the ancient past. Once I get into the story I get excited and the process of writing the next book starts to happen. You find ways to let the facts speak for themselves and that makes for a good story.Â
The facts are often so incredible. I was recently looking at book I did five years ago called The Missing Lands, which talks about where the gods used to live. I travelled to many parts of the world talking to the people who lived in those places about their ancestors, and you start to realise that the people of Easter Island have similar stories to people in South America, and it goes on. My research happens by listening. It never lets me down and it always goes deeper and deeper.Â
I tend to find the next book starts with the last chapter of the last book, and I’ve only just figured this out after nine books. It happens with the documentaries that I make too, and I still enjoy pursuing the truth.Â
With Megalith, I wanted to do something that would be definitive. I also wanted to do it in black and white and get rid of all the colour and all the distraction and just focus on large rocks, and this seems to work very well. Megalith shows that these ancient people were not just engineers, they were also artists. There’s a method to the shapes, and they can be very evocative. There’s a lot of methodology used over thousands of years and across countless sites. In many ways, it’s a very scientific film about using the natural laws. Megalith will be coming out on Gaia before the end of 2025.Â
