Fairy Tale Spotlight: Protogenesis [Book Review]

"Protogenesis" is a book written by my friend Shawn O'Toole. It was published in 2018. Funny thing about this one: I actually wrote the Forward to this book. Totally forgot about it. Didn't remember any of it. As I read it, I was saying to myself, "Hey, this guy writes okay."

The story of "Protogenesis" predominantly takes place before Genesis, as the title implies. It talks about an entire human civilization that predates Adam but ultimately leads to the content found in the "Holy Bible." It also has occasional and poignant conversations specifically between Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

The latter segments often seem written like something out of Alice and Wonderland. It's a bit of a word salad. That is not to say that it doesn't mean anything. It just takes a little bit of rereading and attention to understand. Sentences are strung together in really odd ways. It's not comparable to really anything.

I think a lot of people have compared this book to the strange writing of the Bible, but having read the Bible, I see no real comparison. Even the strange parts in the Bible were simply people trying to explain something but never in a silly stringy way like found in "Protogenesis." This is actually a common style found in Shawn O'Toole's books, and honestly, I think it's just the way his mind works.

The large portion of the story of "Protogenesis" revolves around a war between Earth and Mars after the destruction of a planet called Tiamat. The instigators of the war were angels, Lucifer being one of them. The whole thing takes a little over an hour to read, and it does feel somewhat truncated. Everything happens extremely fast with no effort to draw it out, but the idea of it is to simply tell you what happened without any embellishment whatsoever. That's fine. It is what it is. The whole idea of the book is to explain what happened and then stop.

A grand portion of what is in this book has little to no correlation to the Bible or the "Apocrypha." All the information is merely gleamed from it. It's done in a way that everything makes sense because nothing in the Bible can really disprove it. It's just filling in blanks, I guess you could say.

My own personal opinion is that the blanks didn't really need to be filled, although knowing something is still cool. I don't mind if this is based on some sort of personal spiritual revelation on my friend's part, but nobody actually needs the information in this book to understand their place in the world. The Bible has that completely licked.

So is "Protogenesis" true? The bulk of it is not proven by the Bible itself. There are tiny little doors within the Bible that open itself up to "Protogenesis" being real. There are also things we know about our Solar System today that agree with this book. So it's a possibility, but with the information that I have (as to comparing it to books I have read and other data), the only way this book can be true is if Shawn had a spiritual revelation about prehistory events. That's my final judgement on this.

But this final judgment comes with a caveat that I do want to make. I highlighted a lot of stuff in this book, but the thing that seriously got to me was actually the Afterward. There is a part in it where Shawn explained how he cried out to Jesus that he would never convince anyone of anything untrue. This sentence should be taken seriously with extreme severity. It may actually be the most important part of the entire book.

Shawn was sincere when he wrote this. It may not be provable, but he cried out to Jesus about it, and the book ended up being published. If there is one thing I can say about this book and the Bible is that Jesus doesn't just abandon people. If this book is based on real events then that is because Jesus allowed this book to exist and get out there. If it isn't real... then Jesus just didn't care about Shawn, which would greatly disturb me because it doesn't quite make any sense to me based on what I know about Him. If you are going to believe or disbelieve in anything in this book, you seriously need to consider this before you make your call.

I absolutely recommend "Protogenesis." There is also an Audio Drama for it on YouTube, which I worked on a while back. Whether it is true or not, the story is worth hearing. Don't just dismiss it outright. People honestly shouldn't dismiss anything so quickly. Work things out for yourself and see if you come out believing in the impossible. It is something worth doing.

This blog was written on August 26, 2022.

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