In 2013, we start publishing the new version of The Ringbearer´s Diary. As far as Book One and Book Two are concerned, these books have been thoroughly revised and several clarifying details have been added. Also, certain chapters have been considerably expanded with a respect to the 2001 version. Book Three and Four are completely new, and only with the writing of these volumes the work is finished. Book One and Two actually only make sense when seen in the light of Book Three and Four – and vice versa

The author follows a trail leading him through 14 millennia. The quest conjures forth a series of distinctive and fateful situations which turn out to form a pattern that unifies great works of art by Mozart, Wagner, Homer, Plato and Tolkien, among others, in an intricate and logical web. The Ring of the Nibelung – Wagner´s four interconnected operas – suddenly come right, and the book ends with an 8,000-year-old recollection of an ascent through the Cheops pyramid. This experience interprets the corridor system of the fantastic edifice by means of the logic of dream language, and it turns out that the pyramid may be considered a model of the human consciousness. This of course leads on to –

Book Two: THE RING AND THE PYRAMID

In Book One the initial contours of The Cursed Ring were revealed – a hideous collection of destructive ideas bound together in their own self-feeding syndicate. This Ring turns out to be able to build a false consciousness atop the real one – whose structure we saw initially outlined within the system of corridors of the Cheops pyramid. Book Two journeys through six of the human being´s seven layers of consciousness, while in great detail the shiningly logical structure of the consciousness is mapped and described by means of the use of a symbolic language which has been known before but never described as detailed as in this book. We have at our hands the so-called chakra system which is really just a language making the processes of the consciousness comprehensibly accessible. We are researching the Light as well as the Darkness: the pyramid and the chakra system illustrate how the consciousness is structured – The Cursed Ring illustrates how the consciousness can be demolished.

Book Three: THE SPHINX - Part 1: The Machine

The seventh layer of consciousness is so comprehensive as to require far more than 1,000 pages divided into two volumes. “The total superior vision” comprehends a description of how the most important currents of world history are connected with the consciousness of the human beings who have in fact created world history. It has not arisen out of a series of evolutionary coincidences or as the result a “survival of the fittest” scenario. The two contrasts of God and the Devil are known by the most intimate nature of the consciousness, and physical as well as philosophical, artistic and psychological evolution mirrors and is mirrored within the structure and possibilities of the consciousness. Traditional natural science is faced with great challenges when, as it happens in this book, the knowledge of the human consciousness concerning what is really happening in the universe, is successfully accounted for.

Book Three: THE SPHINX - Part 2: The Tree

The numerous chapters of this fourth book have a main title: The Murder of Wagner. If we combine the first three volumes, we get a collected respect for experiences (Book One), for the structure of the consciousness (Book Two), and for evolutionary processes (Book Three). The synthesis of this combined respect awakens the desire of coming into full possession of ourself, so that not only do we become the person we are – we become an individual who dares face him/herself, and life. In the first versions of The Ringbearer´s Diary the back cover text read that the book takes the reader through a so-called initiation ceremony, activated by the mere reading of the book. Not only does this assertion hold – it even turns out (as I have in fact long suspected) that within the works of the composer Richard Wagner, a “staircase” is built, a “hand rail” (I have not seen any previous description of such a phenomenon in musical history), so that the exposition of these works takes the reader through themselves at levels far deeper than those possible to express in the first three books. Just how important this is, can be seen in the light of how impelling it has been for a lot of people to make Wagner´s person into the most unsympathetic individual ever known. So, this fourth volume presents the reader with a series of possible choices: within Wagner´s 13 operas and in his other works these choices are described, along with the battles between good and evil and the longing for love. What choices do we make in the great and small situations in our everyday life, and where are we going? If you go along with the text – possible to do even if you have no prior knowledge about Wagner – within your feelings you will be taken from one extreme to the other: from the experience of being cursed or ostracized – to the experience of redemption in the re-established contact with love and with God. It is impossible to read this last volume – or indeed The Ringbearer´s Diary on the whole – without feeling inspired to reconsider your life.