From Garden of Eden to North America

From Garden of Eden to North America is the autobiography of Dr. S. Gul Hunzai, who was born and bred in the central part of historic Hunza in northern Pakistan. Purportedly, civilized humankind first emerged from the Garden of Eden, located in Hunza; Emilio Spedicato, an internationally acclaimed research icon at the University of Bergamo, Italy, contends that locating the Garden of Eden to Hunza Valley satisfies Biblical data. Genesis describes Eden as a very special mountainous region of central Asia where four great rivers spring out of a huge massif (a compact group of connected mountains), and Spedicato interprets this as the range that separates Hunza Valley from Wakhan Valley, Afghanistan. Some scholars are of the view that it is from the Garden of Eden that the two common terms east and west were derived, “east” meaning towards Eden, and “west” meaning away from Eden. Ancient Hunza is an historic region that every literary-minded person will enjoy reading about. Dr. Gul was just seven years old when he revealed to his parents that he would one day become a doctor and then a director. His father smiled with pride, saying, “as usual, you are talking too big,” while his mother interrupted and said that he was not speaking on his own — that his inner voice was instead coming from the angels. This was to be the first of many premonitions, intuitions, sixth sense activities, clairvoyance, spiritual communications . . . no matter what these feelings might be named, they often come true for Dr. S. Gul, shaping his life, ambitions, and destiny. Dr. Gul continues his story beyond childhood to recount his good times as a bachelor in the cosmopolitan cities of Pakistan and an amazing social life in Syria during the 1970s. He gives a detailed account of historical places he…