Woodstock Talks: The Voynich Manuscript Decipered

Jim Handlin will present his deciphering of the Voynich manuscript, a 15thC illuminated and hand-written codex composed in an unknown language system. Studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, no one has yet demonstrably deciphered the text, and it has become famous as the "grail" of cryptography and is considered one of the crown jewels of esoteric lore, with its tantalizing depictions of paradisiacal scenes, unearthly flowers and cosmically resonant diagrams. Emerging from a 12-year engagement within cryptic language uses in western civilization, Handlin's solution—if verifiable—is a mind-blowing revelation at a nexus of Jewish and Coptic mysticism and alchemy.