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From: www.BillHowell.ca
To: Catherine ...
Subject: Magical Egypt broadly defines [alchemy, magic], my quick comments
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:48:04 -0700

I finished viewing all 8 DVDs of :
John Anthony West, Chance Gardiner 2001 "Magical Egypt, a symbolist tour" Cydonia Inc., TV series now 8 DVDs, https://www.magicalegypt.com

Thanks for this - it was a missing piece that I had not been aware of, full of great information.

Because of a recent comment by your uncle Steve, plus the recent fusion energy announcement, I have been going through :
Dwardu Cardona 2006 "God Star" Trafford Publishing Victoria BC, 518 pages, www.Trafford.com ISBN 1-4120-8308-7 Anthony Peratt read the whole book, and is cited in the book

This is a radical, thorough, judicious] literal interpretation of mythology, following Immanual Velikovsky "Worlds in Collison" series (whose ideas Cardona doesn't often agree with), David Talbott "Saturn Myth:, Electric Universe thinking in general, Lyne Rose, etc. One fall out last night - stunning statement of the ancient origins of the basis of the Santa Claus story, which I [missed on my first reading ~May2012, forgot].

It is a [contrast, supplement, complement, contrast] to West's DVDs.


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Mythical Egypt comments :

Strong points :
36ky early beginnings of ancient Egypt - [right, wrong, true, false] doesn't matter - this is an awesome interesting point! I assume that John West didn't do primary archaelogy as a professional, but may have been a rich kid who spend enormous amounts of time looking at it. Did he learn how to read petroglyphs? (he leaves that impression).
advanced earlier knowledge that "kick-started" ancient societies that we know, possibly common source? Others, such as Graham Hancock have this.
Definitions of Al-Kemet (alchemy) and magic - I was unaware of the origins of the term, although I have long been aware of the importance of Arabs - even to ancient Egyptian history (perhaps even as the much-feared Hyksos conquerers of Egypt, perhaps liberated, along with Jews, by Saul?). I assume that the definition or context on DVD 5/8 is close to your understanding of it. Or at least, their definition help clarify that concept as used in your book.
Extension of alchemy to consciousness and afterLife - Now this is the part that I would simply NOT have guessed, no matter how many modern initiates are wary of it. I don't remember this description being associated with Alchemy at all. Interesting, but very poorly defined and developed (as opposed to using common terms as similies). It sounds cool, for those into it.
stars and the orientation of architecture - Several interesting participants in "Mythical Egypt" explained parts of this, including the star Sirius
Dogan people of Africe awareness - I read of this at least a decade ago. Who knows if its right, but my guess is that it is more honest and sensible than modern cosmology.
Scranton's symbol similarities - This is VERY interesting to me, at least on the surface. I would need to read his book, but I have multiple liftimes of books waiting to be read that I have already purchased.

Weak points :
Virtually no mention of the planetary basis of the important gods. "gods are planets, planets are gods", for the important ones (Sun exception - but often Saturn is misinterpreted as Sun). This also includes Judaism (or remininat pre-Judaism) past King David's time! This is a very strange omission, but understandable for someone with a [specific, narrow] interest
Very little linguistic analysis of ancient [language, text]s - Even in basic science this is usually key to decifering mis[take, understanding]s
Basically NO definition of "magic" that I can remember. this is a very loose term, and your book "Magic source codes : the craft of reality" does a far better job of describing magic in the way that you see it.
Note that that there is only so much that you can put into a video series, and the "weak points" above are not at all a focus of West. But these omissions are extremely important to know for putting his thinking onto context.

Other points :
Graham Hancock - certainly had similar ideas about much more ancient advanced civilisations. His first history book "The Sign and the Seal" (1992) came after West's "Serpent in the Sky" book (1979?), but authors back 7ky+ have also commented (long ago). I had recently seen his video seeries "Ancient Mysteries" (I forget the tile) on Netflix at great-Grandma's. Graham Hancock is listed as part of the "Magical Egypt team" https://www.magicalegypt.com/#about
poetry - is a very powerful mode of communication, with its own limitations. Two of its many advantages are :
[ambiguity, amorphous, clouded] - which allows the [listen, read]er to construct their own interpretations. Sometimes this has somewhat "universal" compontnets, but there are always [difference, novelty]s in individual interpretations thaqt can differ strongly from the poet's intent.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_West
John Anthony West

John Anthony West (September 7, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author and lecturer and a proponent of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis.[2] His early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and science fiction writer. He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962. After recovering from cancer, West died from pneumonia at the age of 85.

Sphinx hypothesis
In 1979, in his book Serpent in the Sky[3], he expanded on the ideas of French mystic[4][5] and alternative Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz, suggesting the Great Sphinx of Giza had been eroded by Nile floods after being created 15,000-10,000 BC by Atlanteans. Ten years later he teamed up with geologist Robert M. Schoch, seeking validation for his ideas. Schoch initially made the more conservative estimate of between 7,000 and 5,000 BC[6] but later pushed his minimum estimate back to 10,000 BC.[7] This challenged the conventional dating of the carving of the statue to circa 2500 BC.
In 1993, the work of West and Schoch was presented by Charlton Heston in an NBC special called The Mystery of the Sphinx, which won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary.[8][9][10]


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Quantum Consciousness

I thought you might like this - I am subscribed to Sabine Hassenfelder's YouTube casts. She's quite good - calls bullshit on science [result, concept]s often in a humorous way. There are jillions of postings on quantum consciousness, even though there isn't a real definition of consciousness that is [widely accepted, usable ] for models.

I really wish that I could find my "Quantum Consciousness" proceeding from ~1990-2000 (Karl Pribraum was an organizer if I remember correctly).

I'm not a fan of quantum mechanics, nor of arm-waving philosophy, but have to accept it under my practice of "multiple conflicting hypothesis". That in turn, allows the classical interpretations that do not involve entanglement. Sabina points out that applying quantum consciousness is "unnecessary word salad", as per Eugene Wigner and Richard Feynman (or whatever, Gilbert Ryle etc). The double slot experiment has alternate interpretations, many non-quantum. But, in the end, quantum mechanics may be conceptually correct, or nearly so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wqUCATYUA
Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: How are they related?
Sabine Hossenfelder
684K subscribers
Physicists have debated the role of consciousness in quantum mechanics for more than 100 years

00:00 Intro
00:34 Wigner and his friends
03:39 Enter von Neumann
05:51 Problems with the Wigner-vNeumann interpretation
07:37 Consciousness-induced wave-function collapse
09:38 Consciousness-influenced wave-function collapse
14:27 Penrose and Hamaroff
15:25 Summary
16:02 Check out my Quantum Mechanics Course

The paper from Chalmers and McQueen is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02314
Wigner's essay is here: https://www.informationphilosopher.co...T
The 1989 paper about consciousness-influence on measurements is here: http://teilhard.global-mind.org/paper...
The 2012 paper about the influence of consciousness on the double-slit experiment is here:http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/co...


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