The Secret of Secrets Buried in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown’s upcoming novel Secret of Secrets has been on my mind a lot lately. I’m especially looking forward to it because my own first non-fiction book, The Dream of Matter, is heading into editing around the same time Brown’s is set to launch.
What’s fascinating is how much common ground there is between them—despite the difference in genre. Brown’s is fiction, mine non-fiction. But both explore the nature of mind and consciousness, both involve secret societies, and both ask what truths may be hiding in plain sight. His will unfold as puzzles and chases. Mine tries to unpack the mathematics directly.
That overlap made me want to revisit The Da Vinci Code.
When I first read it years ago, I took it as a clever puzzle box wrapped in high-speed adventure. But after years of study, I came back with a different question:
Could Brown’s fictional symbols—the Grail, the Templars, the divine feminine, the “secret lineage”—be more than just plot devices? Could they be fragments of something real—an ancient system designed not just to entertain but to awaken?
And if so, what exactly is being pointed to?
The deeper I read, the more it seemed that—intentionally or not—The Da Vinci Code brushes up against the real “secret of secrets”: a mathematical description of how reality itself works.
Two Paths of Initiation
One thing Brown does brilliantly—in addition to cliffhanger chapter transitions—is smuggling “forbidden” ideas into popular fiction. Secret societies, suppressed gospels, and hidden symbolism. Most readers treat this as harmless fun. But beneath the fictional Priory of Sion and the dramatized Illuminati, there is a real lineage that traces all the way back to Pythagoras: the Pythagorean Illuminati.
Who would have thought? I certainly never expected to stumble across this material.
And yet this order has been publishing their complete system openly since the early 2000s—over two hundred books in the public domain. Unlike Brown’s shadowy cabals, they aren’t hoarding knowledge. Their stated goal is to release it when humanity is rational enough to integrate it.
The irony—and perhaps the real conspiracy—is that very few people noticed. The books are out there, but only fringe readers picked them up. Mass culture stayed distracted by fiction and by countless irrational belief systems.
What this lineage presents is a framework called Ontological Mathematics: the claim that mathematics is not a human invention or mere “language of science,” but the literal structure of existence itself. If reality is mind, then math is not descriptive—it’s ontological. It is being.
They describe two parallel “paths” for understanding reality:
Mythos — Symbol, story, image. Works indirectly by activating the unconscious.
Logos — Reason, deduction, mathematics. Works directly by starting from necessary truths.
Most traditions stop at Mythos, and it’s what shows up in religion, art, architecture, and ritual. But Mythos is a gate, not the destination. The destination is Logos: a rational, mathematical description of reality itself.
Why Mathematics?
If mind is the substance of reality, then mathematics isn’t just a useful tool—it’s the only language capable of describing it without distortion.
Why? Because mind is immaterial. It isn’t something we can observe under a microscope or weigh on a scale. We can’t measure it in the ordinary way. The only way to understand mind is through conceptual thought and deduction—by starting from necessary truths and unfolding their consequences.
Words and images are contingent: they shift across cultures, languages, and interpretations.
Sensory data is contingent: our perceptions are filtered, limited, and often misleading.
Mathematics is necessary: it doesn’t depend on opinion, culture, or perception. Two plus two equals four, everywhere and always.
If reality is rational at its core, then only mathematics can reveal that universal order. Logos isn’t one “path” among others. It’s the destination that myth and symbol have always been pointing toward.
The Mathematical Mind
If reality is mental, the key question isn’t “What is matter?” but “What is thought made of?”
In Ontological Mathematics, the answer is: waves.
Every mind—every soul—is an eternal mathematical object, a kind of frequency engine generating an infinite spectrum of sinusoidal waves. This isn’t a metaphor. It’s literal, grounded in one of the most elegant equations ever written: Euler’s Formula:
At first glance, it looks like abstract math trivia. But here’s what it means:
Imagine a point moving around a circle forever. This is the mind, and motion is nothing other than thinking.
Its horizontal projection traces a cosine wave.
Its vertical projection traces a sine wave.
Together, they form two orthogonal waveforms—perfectly balanced, at right angles.
Thus, thinking itself necessarily produces mathematical waves. Thought is fundamentally sinusoidal.
In physics, light is built exactly the same way: an electric field oscillating in one direction, and a magnetic field oscillating perpendicular to it. The structure is identical.
An eternal mind is structurally the same as light.
But here’s the key: the sine and cosine aren’t the only waves that can be generated. The point on the circle can be taken at any angle. That means every possible phase angle corresponds to a different sinusoidal waveform.
At 0°: pure cosine.
At 90°: pure sine.
At every other angle in between: a unique sinusoid, some blend of the two.
This infinite spectrum of phase angles is what gives every soul the same infinite potential. Where life gets interesting is how we combine them. That’s how interference, diversity, and the appearance of “matter” arise.
The Pond Ripple Principle
Drop two stones into a still pond, and their ripples intersect.
Where crest meets crest, the wave rises higher (constructive interference).
Where crest meets trough, they cancel (destructive interference).
Most interactions are in between: partial reinforcement or partial cancellation.
This isn’t analogy. It’s wave mechanics itself—whether in water, sound, light, or thought.
When two minds interact, their “mental waves” interfere in exactly this way. Shared vision amplifies. Conflicting intent cancels.
The Holographic Projection
So how do waves of thought generate the appearance of a physical world?
The key is the Fourier transform—a mathematical process that translates between:
Time domain — how a waveform changes moment to moment.
Frequency domain — the pure sine waves that compose it.
In a hologram, the image isn’t stored as a picture. It’s stored as an interference pattern of light waves. Shine the right kind of light on it, and a 3D image appears.
Likewise, the universe isn’t “stuff in space.” It’s an interference field of minds.
Here’s the crucial distinction:
In a private dream, you’re the only dreamer. That’s why you can bend the dream at will: fly, walk through walls, summon anything.
In the collective dream—our universe—every mind participates. That collective interference stabilizes the dream, making it law-like, solid, and resistant to change.
Consensus reality isn’t solid because it’s “material.” It’s solid because it’s a collective hologram.
The Big Bang as Phase Scrambling
In the primordial state before the big bang, every soul’s waves were perfectly phase-aligned—peaks and troughs in sync, generating pure coherent light. This was zero entropy, absolute order.
At Big Bang, coherence shattered. Phases scrambled. Perfect light fractured into an infinity of sinusoids at every possible angle. Interference multiplied. Out of this came the chaotic fields that appear to us as space, time, and matter.
The “purpose of life” in this system is simple but profound:
Reduce internal phase differences. Restore coherence.
You can think of it as tuning an infinite orchestra. Every mind is an instrument. Harmony doesn’t mean sameness—it means alignment: each playing in a way that reinforces, not clashes.
At the collective level, this is the general will: society itself striving for coherence, not by erasing individuality, but by bringing individuals into harmony with the whole.
Masculine and Feminine: The Real Sacred Marriage
One of The Da Vinci Code’s major themes is the suppression of the divine feminine. That much is true. But Brown reduces it to a bloodline—as if metaphysical truth could be passed down genetically.
In a mental, mathematical universe, evolution isn’t biological. It’s signal-based.
Masculine and feminine here are not gender roles. They are structural polarities of mind:
Masculine — differentiation, clarity, analysis.
Feminine — synthesis, integration, intuition.
Yoga describes this polarity: the ida and pingala channels spiral up the spine, converging in the central sushumna. When they merge, the psyche becomes coherent.
That is the real sacred marriage: balancing polarities so internal waves reinforce instead of cancel.
This is why myths of “chosen bloodlines” collapse under scrutiny. There is no chosen bloodline. There are only self-chosen individuals: those who consciously align their fragmented psyche.
Excavating the Invisible Temple
Brown imagines the Templars searching for a physical artifact beneath a physical temple. But there’s no solid evidence Solomon’s Temple ever existed as described. And even if it did, why would a building matter in a mental universe?
History’s obsession with holy ground, sacred cities, and “divine lands” has been one of its greatest misdirections. Whole civilizations fought over geography while ignoring the real frontier:
Can you bring your internal waves—your mind—into phase alignment?
Can you consciously modulate your own signal instead of being ruled by unconscious interference?
That is the true excavation. Digging through the rubble of trauma, conditioning, and contradiction to recover your psyche’s original architecture.
The temple is mental. The Grail is structural. The excavation is rational.
The Grail in the Brain
So if the Grail is real, where is it?
The Grail may not be an artifact but a neuro-ontological gateway.
Julian Jaynes proposed that early humans had a bicameral mind: one hemisphere acted, the other commanded, projecting its instructions as the “voice of the gods.” Over time, those voices went inward—but the split structure remained.
Ian McGilchrist showed how the hemispheres still differ:
Right hemisphere — holistic, relational, attuned to context.
Left hemisphere — analytic, linear, focused.
In ontological terms:
The right hemisphere is the channel to the frequency domain, allowing access to the collective interference field and the higher dimension of the self.
The left hemisphere structures and translates that signal into precise, local expression.
The critical question is whether these two modes are in phase.
When they are aligned, intuition and reason reinforce each other, and the higher self is able to express itself clearly through the embodied mind. When they are misaligned, the signal of the higher self becomes scrambled, producing lopsidedness—overly reductionist literalism if the left dominates, or vague, ungrounded mysticism if the right dominates.
The bicameral framework helps explain why hemispheric alignment is so powerful. When the brain’s dual processors operate coherently, higher-order functions emerge—creativity balanced with logic, synthesis paired with analysis, vision coupled with precision.
That may be the real “sacred feminine”: hemispheric alignment that restores phase coherence and grants access to the higher self—the eternal monadic mind behind the brain.
The Time for Secrets Is Over
In The Da Vinci Code, the Grail secret is portrayed as too dangerous to release. Some truths, Brown suggests, must remain hidden.
The real Illuminati take the opposite view. If reality’s purpose is collective self-evolution, secrecy is self-defeating. Knowledge only transforms when it’s shared—and acted upon.
But here’s the challenge: no secret society will reveal itself to “save us.” They’ve already done their part by publishing the system openly. They can’t carry us over the finish line.
It’s up to us to pick up the pieces, wrap our heads around the true innovation they left, and build with it.
The real conspiracy isn’t suppression. It’s distraction.
We’ve been distracted by relics, politics, consumer drama—and even by the fictional versions of the Illuminati, while the real material sits in plain sight, largely ignored.
The time for secrets is over. What matters now is coherence.
To a Rational Future
So yes—Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a fun thriller. And I’m looking forward to Secret of Secrets!
But if you look closely, the books are also pointing toward something real: a rational, mathematical structure of consciousness encoded in myth and symbol for millennia, only now being made explicit.
That’s why I am writing The Dream of Matter (coming January 2026): to unpack that structure without the scavenger hunt, and to explore how it applies directly to the brain, to consciousness, and to mental health. If reality is a field of waves, then disorders of the mind can be understood as disorders of phase—fragments of signal falling out of alignment. The task of healing, both individually and collectively, is to restore coherence.
And this is where Brown’s Secret of Secrets and my own work converge: both circle around the nature of mind, the hidden architectures of reality, and the possibility that the greatest treasure has been right in front of us all along.
Perhaps one reason you haven’t heard much about Ontological Mathematics is that the world is already crowded with “theories of everything.” Everyone has their own pet theory, and nobody seems very interested in another one. We are fragmented—our minds scrambled, our collective field noisy.
Reason is what can bring us back into phase.
The next great revolution won’t be technological, political, or even “spiritual” in the old sense.
It will be rational.
And it begins inside the mind of anyone willing to look.
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