Magical Egypt: Season 1 Symbolist perspective

Bill Howell: I have provided point-form commentary from the 2001 "Magical Egypt: a symbolist tour" 6*DVD series below, together with my review notes, which are hugely [incomplete, erroneous, biased]. I am very weak in the areas of [magic, mystery, etc]. My comments are clearly indicated by orange background, sometimes starting with "Howell: ". Hopefully these will not [de, dis]-tract the reader from the real messages of John Anthony West and his contributors. A separate webPage shows a full collection of my comments for this video series.

Unlike my webPage on Jacobovici's film "Genesis proofs", I have not provided the complete wording from all 6 DVDs of "Magical Egypt: Season 1 Symbolist perspective". I have ONLY done DVD2 and DVD3 in detail, with images, and have stopped my work for now.

To view full-size images: in your browser, right-click on an image, then select "view in a different tab".

Copyright, credits : see the bottom of this webPage for more details :

"Magical Egypt: a symbolist tour", 6*DVD series, 2001
A Chance Gardiner / Cydonia, Inc. Production
Cydonia motion graphics

DVD1: the invisible science
DVD2: the old kingdom, and the still older kingdom
DVD3 Descent
DVD4: The Temple [of, is] Man
DVD5: Navigating the after-life! What to do in the Duat.
DVD6: Legacy
Howell: overall [impression, question]s

DVD1: the invisible science

I somehow completely ruined the DVD physically, and cannot go over this "first pass" note-taking, or extract images, at least until I get a new DVD.

1. Anthony West: the mystery schools

Egypt:

land of secrets
home of mystery schools ?up until today?
ealier cultures described by Egyptians
believed that consciousness was origin of material world
[Greek, Roman]s regarded Egypt as source of their knowledge, key to great magic. Plato included?
Hermeticism: Western incomplete mysteries schools
Egypt document "transformation of soul"
[Newton, Napoleon Bonaparte, ???] studied mysteries, achieved greatness in part because of their knowledge
Newton known to have spent more time studying mysteries than science!!
- I had read a small amount about some of the "crazy things" that Newton was into.

2. Schwaller de Lubicz: at Luxor found the key to all of the temples

Schwaller de Lubicz:

1937-1951? studied Luxor temple
[alchemist, mathematitian, chemist, ???]
showed Egyptian knowlege of advanced science

How old is the Spinx?

Schwaller de Lubicz, as a side comment, suggested water erosion around Sphinx ?would help date it? Robert Anthony West picked up on this.
Robert Anthony West: engaged Robert Schoch to analyze the geology of Sphinx pit, definitive signs of water erosion
- that JA West engaged Robert Schoch to date the Sphinx was a big surprise to me, even though I had already viewed the Magical Egypt series several times! I met Schoch at an Electric Universe (Thunderbolts) conference in ?2012-2014 or something?, and subsequently read two of his books (listed below). But I hadn't remembered JA West as the one who engaged Schoch.
  Robert M. Schoch 2012 "Forgotten Civilization : The role of solar outbursts in our past and future" www.InnerTraditions.com 355pp ISBN 978-1-59477-497-3
  Robert M. Schoch, Catherine Ulissey 2021 "Forgotten Civilization : New discoveries on the role of solar-induced dark age" www.InnerTraditions.com 523pp ISBN 978-1-64411-292-2
JA West: points out that virtually all ancient cultures have a legends of [great deluge, more ancient cultures]
- My father, Neil Howell, was well aware of this. He did a series of paintings about the "Legend of the ?Quenishe?" of the Comox tribe on Vancouver Island. Which was in the Courtenay museum for several decades (?), until ~2010.

3. sacred geometry- fractals

4. Michael Schneider: fractals are basic to nature, provide balance with growth

Michael Steinbremer ?date? "Mathematical Archetypes: A beginner's quick guide to constructing the universe" ?publications info"

fractals are ubiquitous in [nature, art, science]
Fibonacci series: provides balance (eg [leaves on trees, ram's horn]) as organims [grow, adapt]
Fibonacci series: always have spirals.
Steinbremer: "logarithmic spiral" is the closest definition of life
I haven't read this, but have long kept an eye on the mathematics of fractals.
William Charles Lucas developed the only theory of fundamental theoretical physics that I am aware of from which [fractal, spiral (chirality)]s are emergent. Lucas constantly discussed [biology, the universe, all physics, religion]. See my [unfinished, poorly documented, fun] project to re-derive Lucas's Universal Force" equations (I should make a webpage for this).
from the DVD, although Fibonacci progressions are show around the Karnac temple, they don't seem to relate well to the layout?
JA West never explains the difference between [harmonic, Fibonacci] series. Perhaps they are the same, at leads in his understanding?
Steven Puetzs's "Univeral Wave Series" has remarkable similarities to the Fibonacci series, although there are important differences.

JA West refers to: Alexander Badawy ?date? "Ancient Egyptian architectual design: A study of the harmic system". see DVD3 chapter 1. Thomas Brophy: Nabla Playa origin Map (Orion or ?) Nubian desert megaglitic arrangement (below)

Karnac temple: was active for ?3-500? years
Karnac temple: design based on harmonics

A fun tidbit is this speculation-beyond-specifically-stated by Velikovsky about the Karnac temple "Howell 120513 Ark of the Covenant.pdf".

5. Thomas Brophy: Origin Map (Orion or ?) Nubian desert megaglitic arrangement

Thomas G. Brophy ?date? "The Origin Map: discovery of a [prehistoric, megalithic, astrophysical map and sculpture or the universe"
forward : Robert M. Schoch
afterword: John Anthony West

Notice that JA West, Robert Schoch] may have been an [inspiration, drover] for Brophy's analysis of Nabla Playa, jsut as inspiration was key at several points in the Magical Egypt DVDs?
For Naba Playa details in DVD3, see Thomas Brophy: Nabla Playa origin Map

6. the house of life

7. Anthony West: Luxor's 4D architecture: evolving over centuries?

DVD2: the old kingdom, and the still older kingdom

01:42 JA West: This DVD focuses on the period 2,200-2,700 BC, showing evidence suggesting, controversially, that Egyptian dynasties tens of thousands of years (>=36,000 BC).
Periods of :

02:16 Neeto? gods or principles themselves
02:24 followers of Horus, a sense of law
other earler periods down to the Old Kingdom?

Osirium temple: Egyptian stone relief wall [document, list, name]s ~34-36kyBC of pharaohs.

JA West takes the ancient Egyptians at their word about the long list of pre-Old Kingdom pharoahs, and feels that ~34-36kyear should be considered an appropriate duration of their dynasties.
03:04 Sleeman, archaeologist: took Homer at this word, and heretically dug down at Troy, discovering overlaying succession of cities. AW West suggest that modern archaeologists are doing the same with ancient Egypt, presuming that they know the history of Egypt better than the ancient Egyptians.
03:11 It's somewhat similar to the situation with the dinosaurs, from mainstream science skepticism to acceptance

2. the old kingdom and the still older kingdom

This chapter is narrated by John Anthony West (JA West).
04:32 2,500 BC has been the Egyptologists' accepted age of the Sphinx, a product of the 4th dynasty.

The above items are from the Neolitic period, not Old Kingdom Egypt, and not even from Egypt itself. They serve as illustrations to contrast with the first known Old Kingdom, and even pre-Old Kindom, items from Egypt. As you can see, there is a world of difference.

05:40 Hard to believe that Egypt at 2,700 BC was a civilisation barely emerging from primitivism. 5,000 BC neolithic civilisation producing crude pottery, supposedly just a few centuries before [Picara stepped pyramid, Sphinx]. There is a contradiction and a problem here, sometimes acknowledged, rarely addressed by the academic fraternity.

04:43 2,700BC ?Picaro stepped pyramid went up 10 miles South of Giza. Built by King ?Zhosa? of the 3rd dynasty, according to a plan by Imhotep?, legendary [sage, keeper of ??, mathematician, astronomer, prophet].

07:08 Perhaps more astonishing is the fact that Egypt was at its height, early in the Old Kingdom. Nothing produced by Egypt thereafter surpassed, and seldom equalled, the masterpieces of the Old Kingdom.

2. Cairo museum- bits and pieces of a lost civilisation

10:08 In the Cairo museum we find bits and pieces of a lost civilisation. We find for example little stone bowls carved out of some of the hardest stone [porphyry, granite, green schist, dialite], with narrow necks and hollowed in the center. We could not today produce these stone bowls, yet they date to early Egypt, pre-dynastic even. The Egyptians were only supposed to have copper tools to word with. We think they may be heirlooms handed down over generations.

15:00 stone statue, Horus, as as principle of salvation hidded at back of head. Similarly into the consciousness of the king. A [divinised, exalted, self-realized] human being.

3. Robert Schoch, JA West: how old is the Sphinx?

22:37 ?narrator?: Perhaps the most visible example of an advanced civilisation in Egyptian pre-history is the Great Sphinx itself. ?The head was re-built some time after initial construction?

23:07 RAS de Lubicz : "... A great civilisation must have preceded the vast mouvement ?of warmth? in the path of Egypt, which leads us to assume that the Sphinx already existed ... the distinctive lionine? body, except for the head, shows indisputable signs of aquatic erosion. .."

RS Schwaller de Lubizc ?date? "Sacred Science: the King of Pharaonic theocracy"

23:45 JA West: "... It all began, actually, from a single line from one of his ancillary books ... the ancient Egyptian knowlege that their civilisation goes way back before dynastic Egypt. ..."
I'm basically doing what sleeman did with Troy (see above) :

03:04 Sleeman, archaeologist: took Homer at this word, and heretically dug down at Troy, discovering overlaying succession of cities. AW West suggest that modern archaeologists are doing the same with ancient Egypt, presuming that they know the history of Egypt better than the ancient Egyptians. 25:44 JA West: "Just by taking them (ancient Egyptians) literally, you end up with 34-36kyBC ... water weatahering is what clicked with me ... there hasn't been rain in the Sahara desert here for at least 10ky. ...". 26:53 JA West: engaged Boston University geologist Robert Schoch
27:32 Robert Schoch "... This is clear evidence to me as a geologist, that this erosional feature we see what is caused by rain beating down on the rock. ..."

28:16 JA West: "... I take the most radical view, which seems to me is most plausible, and again it is following the Egytians themselves, when they are talking about 34-36ky I think that is what it is. ... Egyptians talked about the age of Aquarius ... knowledge about precession goes back into deep antiquity. Last age of Leo was 10-10.5kyBC, but that was a period of chaos with the break-up of the last ice age, not monument building. If Sphinx is looking at its own image in the sky as the Sun rises at the equinox, had to be the previous age change 26,000 years before, or 36kyBC, which corresponds to the Egyptian text themselves.
30:50 JA West: even though it looks outrageous to an academic, for me, that is the most plausible of the scenarios.
21:10 narrator: The Spinx, and its marker Leo, demonstrate a knowlege of advanced celestial mechanics, and the observation of phenomenaq spanning tens of thousands of years.

4. the Red pyramid: built on top of a far more [ancient, weathered] construction

31:55 JA West: Red pyramid of ?Adaua?, build by father of Khofu, ?Nefaru? 2,500-2,600 BC, older blocks are completely protected by new pyramid above. Could not have weathered after Red pyramid built, so must have been exposed for a long time, and has to be much older than the Red pyramid built on top of it.

5. the Valley temple: [huge, simple] blocks, only similar structure is Oserion temple

36:39 JA West: Valley temple, huge granite blocks applied to a limestone core. This could not be done in one, simple stage ( like the construction under the Red pyramid). the core was build in already-weathered limestone at a much later date, probably by the pharaoh Kofra
39:01 Schoch: 4,500 years ago ( 2,500 BC?), describes other materials like alabaster etc
41:25 West: chants "ooohm" to show sound resonance even without a roof!

6. Oserion temple: [long predates, physically close to] Sphinx

Oserion temple- I didn't seem to vidCam capture this chapter, just the Valley Temple??
Actually, I can't identify when discussions shift to from the Valley temple to the Osereion temple...

close to the Sphinx, but ?? meters lower so predates
stones larger that almost all other structures
no [hieroglyph, statue]s

Going back to theme of the beginning of the Egyptian civilisation:

Lubizc's side-comment (in reply to criticisms?) that the Sphinx was weathered by water, not wind, caught JA West by surprise when he read this off-hand comment. this point is mis-placed
no rain: in that area <=10yr BC
- no rain <=10ky BC puts it at the sudden end of the last ice age, a time of the "Great North American mammalian extinction event". That context is rasied by JA West elsewhere in the MagicalEgypt DVD seeries.
- Steven Wickson did a stunning analysis of a 900yr [climate, history] cycle, which really brings out the side-theme of catastrophism (to me anyways). [winter, spring, summer, fall] each cycle.
  Steven Wickson 2023 "The 900 year climate cycle. An analysis of global events in the Holocene" self-published ISBN 9798378565559
  https://www.amazon.ca/900-Year-Climate-Cycle-analysis/dp/B0BX914RD7
?Bovo? and Hancock chose this 10ky BC as the date of the Sphinx. ( is this Graham Hancock? perhaps not)

Oserion temple:

Seti I unearthed the Oserion when building the Abydos temple
Today the Oserion tunnels are underwater. JA West explains that they could not have been constructed underwater.
Earliest accepted pharoah was Kafie, and even his era would probably have had water levels that high. Therefore Oserion was probably NOT built during the dynastic era.

DVD3 Descent

??:?? West: perhaps we have misread the entire process of history, and we have not gone in a [straight, linear] line, from ancient primitive beginnings to us.
02:04 West: Ancient Egypt unquestionably was at its beginning, and went on a downhill path through the long 3,000 years of its history. That decline certainly extended through the Roman Empire and arguably down to the present day.

04:08 "... The ancients thought that they could only go to heaven on the two solisticial days ..."
Howell: speakers also mention equinoxes, go on to millenial basis.. but are not clear about [precession, obliquity, eccentricity].
04:03 "... an inevitable prelude to a new tilting, a new world age ..."

Giorgio de Santiliana, Hertha von Dechend 1968 "Hamlet's Mill"

??:?? West: says this book was the start of the West's understanding of ancient astrology?-astronomy-archaeology.

1. Thomas Brophy: Nabla Playa origin Map, Nubian desert mega-lithic arrangement, Orion constellation

05:08 "... The Nabla Playa complex is located 100 km west of Abo Simpel in the Nubian Desert. It was first discovered in 1974 by a team led by Professor of Anthropology Fred Wendorf. This team determined that the stone structures, the oldest yet found, were a center of ritual gathering dating from as early as 11,000 years ago. ..."

06:14 Thomas G. Brophy ?date? "The Origin Map: discovery of a [prehistoric, megalithic, astrophysical map and sculpture or the universe", forward : Robert M. Schoch, afterword: John Anthony West
notice the [for, after]-word to Brophy's book by [JA West, R Schoch], who [created, augment]ed this DVD series

06:23 West: It's becoming clear in the new sub-discipline of archaeo-astronomy that sophisticated astronomical knowledge existed in very, very ancient times. Beginning with a book called "Hamlet's Mill" published in 1968 but MIT historian-scientist Giorgio de Santiliana, Hertha von Dechend. It was found that extremely sophisticated astronomy was coded into the mythologies and legends of very ancient peoples. Perhaps most significant is that the ancients recognized, and employed, what is called the precession of the equinoxes in their [myth, legend, construction]s. eg 4,900 BC matches

12:45 Brophy: The three side stones are showing [position, angle]s at the meridian at the minimum of the 26,000 year precessional cycle.
??:?? Brophy: The distance of the stone collections from the central hub, are proportional to their stars asto-distances from Earth to within the standard error of measurements today.
That the distance of the stone collections from the central hub are proportional to their stars asto-distances from Earth, is stunning to me. Parallax is best used to determine distances to star that are "somewhat close to Earth (<?? light-years), whereas the very problematic red-shift is used for longer-distance stars and also for galaxies:

Halton Arp 1998 "Seeing Red: Redshifts, cosmology and academic science" Apeiron, Montreal 306pp
Wal Thornhill: JWST – Cosmic Dust Proves Arp Invariably Right | Thunderbolts
Gareth Samuel: Halton Arp Quasar Model Verified | Thunderbolts
David de Hilster "Seeing Red" by Halton Arp.

Assuming that the ancients used parallax, this was was an unbelievable accomplishment, complicated by movements such as [Chandler wobble of Earth (months period), sun barycenter, [precession, obliquity, eccentricity], the solar system's movement in the Milky Way]? I assume that very accurate records over perhaps a precessional cycle or two might have been required? Maybe not?
Ancient estimates of the distances to nearby stars (Brophy in this video), reminds me of ?oops - forgot while I was writing?.

2. Robert Dunlap: La Braya tar pits, catastrophic event mass extinctions

27:05 Robert Dunlap: La Braya tar pits perfect preservation of animals at end of the Pleistocene era (10,800-12,000 yrBP).
27:16 Dunlap: great collection of animals that went extinct
29:22 Dunlap: in the geologic record, there is evidence of 8 major ice ages

I seem to remember 10 major ice ages over last 1Myr (not 8, see Howell 2007 Glaciation models over the last 1 million years), smaller ones going back ~6Myr (Howell - Glaciation models for the last 6 million years.pdf). The discrepancy may make sense, as one can interpret two of the 10 as being one extended glaciation, and perhaps in the decade preceding the date (2001) of the Magical Egypt series, the [data, interpretations] were different. But, its clear that I have let a [model, concept] dominate my thinking on this point, rather than the actual data. <oops>

30:40 Dunlap: around the world there is always a story about a great [flood, deluge], eg Australian aboriginees, backed by geological evidence, Incas
31:31 Dunlap: [asteroid, comet] is another theory for cause, most famous is dinosaur extinction 64Myr ago at KT boundary. backed by [iridium, micro-tectites, shock-quartz crystals] Walter Alvarez UofCalBerkly, Frank ?Afaro? Lawrence Livermore, Jack Wolf pin-pointed month of June occurrence with water lilly flowers
34:17 Dunlap: Jurassic-Triassic boundary, Permian-Triassic boundary 96% of species went extinct within a one day period

Howell: Everybody seems to restrict their vision to the comet-impact theory alone, but there are many otherconcepts, some of which also fit much of the geological data, such as [iridium, micro-tectites, shock-quartz crystals]. The Tyrrell Museum of Palenontology" in Drumheller, Alberta, is well-suited to research in the periods leading up to the dinosaur extinctions, and based on their findings, since perhaps 2024? the museum now exclusively focusses on the comet theory. I think that is intellectually dangerous?
Peter Mungo-Jupp did a beautiful series on "instant fossilisation" (Mungo-Jupp is a retired construction company owner in Australia, theme apparently also covered earlier by someone in Lethbridge, Alberta. (video https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2022/08/07/peter-mungo-jupp-instant-fossilization-eu2017-2/)
Jupp also covers relevance to [ancient history, catastrophism, etc].

3. Catastrophe

35:00 West: Imagine this scenario, an ice age that holds Earth in its grip for thousands of years. Yet there is in place, perhaps globally, certainly in Egypt, an advanced and sophisticated civilisation. It is this that would give rise to Plato's story of Atlantis, and to similar accounts of [legend, story]s around the world.
36:04 West: But a few human beings manage to survive, make their way to safe ground, carrying with them as much of their knowledge as they possess. They manage to pass this knowledge down perhaps for thousands of years, even though they lived in what we might call primitive conditions. ... even these societies are currently being reconsidered and systematically upgraded by today's archaeologists. The dates of civilisation keep being pushed backwards even in academic circles. An appreciation of the knowledge available to the ancient cultures goes through an equally systematic transformation.
36:34 West: Then around the same time in [tradition, myth]s, around 3,000-4,000 BC sophisticated civilisations arise simultaneously in [India, China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, central America].
36:49 West: In Egypt it takes but a few generations to develop from [crude artwork, simple mud-brick building]. Heiroglyphs arise to a level and perfection that will never be surpassed, and seldom equaled anywhere else on Earth for centuries to come.

misplaced? :
??:?? At the very beginning, there was a huge jump in [math, science, ?mystery, consciousness?]. Going from [crude, simple] archaeological findings to the beginning of the civilisation could not have developed within a 200 year span.

Howell: Is it possible that the start marked an immigration from something like the "lost civilisation at Atlantis"? JA West does mention that context in the next chapter (below).
A popular concept is that aliens drove this. For example comments about spaceships in Egytian rock reliefs, legends of gods from "the heavens" (common with many ancient societies?) ?Erik von Daniken? "Chariots of the Gods" was a popular author who emphasised this theme.
secrecy- perhaps an essential theme to divert attention, knowledge] that the [pharoah, theocracy, etc] were just human, thereby justifying a strict class structure. How well would even democracies work for the elite if they knew more than even present-day media revels about leadership? mid-1800's Russian [Nihil, Bolshev]ism may have arisen through a combination of this kind of knowledge, coupled with [dysfunction, decline, disaster]?
catastrophism was also mentioned in this Magical Egypt DVD series.

Earlier civilisations:

Hawthor god: early form shown as human face on a bull's head with [horn, ear]s, but later depictions show human with inverted vase headset?
boomerangs: Egytian boomerangs are very similar to those of Australian Aboriginees
RAS de Lubicz: in his book "Sacred science: The king of Pharoahonic Theocracy", states that there must have been a pre-"Egyptian Old Kingdom" civilisation

Other food for thought on catastophes: There are jillions of references that describe history and catastrophes in a very different, and useful, light. Here are just a few that I've run across:

Much maligned Immanuel Velikovsky (died ?DDMMMYYYY) is the leading analyst and inspiration of catastrophism from perhaps the 1930s to the present. Key [data, anomaly, concept, analysis]s were [identifi, analys, model, promot]ed by many, including the following, who directly acknowledged Velikosky:
- ?US Navy guy?
- Ralph Juergens
- David Talbott, mythologist
- Wallace Thornhill, Australian physicist who abandoned hos PhD because he couldn't accept the confines of the formal university research science
- Dwardu Cardona
- Donald Scott
- Anthony Peratt: Lawrence Livermore government research scientist, PhD under Nobel laureate Hans Alfin, and author of a leading ook on [astronomical, high-energy] plasmas.
- [many, many] others
Velikovsky was exremely popular with the public after his 1950 book "World's in Collision". While ridiculed, most of his outrageous predictions proved to be correct over time, beating the best of mainstream scientists. Even his strongest advocates couldn't accept one concept in particular: that Venus sprouted from Saturn in historical times. But given his track record, perhaps this too will show some relevance, perhaps in some different way. ???

Several others, while not strongly [advocat, acknowledg[ing Velikovsky, show indirect signs of his influence, including several other figures in this list, including [Robert Schoch, ???, etc].

But mainstream scientist, archeologist, geologist, astronomer]s not only actively attacked but organised a "kangaroo court" hosted by the "American Association for the Advancement of Science" (AAAS) to destroy his [personal, career] lives. Judges included "con-scientists" whose "judgements were [documented [hilarious, deep]ly flawed] thinking:
- Stephen Jay Gould - a well-known-to-me back-stabber, and probably a thief of his "punctuated evolution" concept (from at least one of the concept developers who Gould stabbed in the back?, not to mention others a century or more before him (just a new namme for an old concept))
- Carl Sagan - I wasn't aware previously that Sagan was a back-stabber. I always considered him to be far more [self-promoter, movie-star] than scientist, popularizing a thousands-year-old concept of aliens in space and claiming much of it to himself. So no big surprises here, not of any importance.
- Isaac Asimov - while not a scientist, this science fiction author author was the biggest disappointment.
This personality assasination was well documented by many, including ??? Gould, and daughter ??? Velikovsky. The attempted AAAS assasination of Robert Schoch, a principle character in the "Magical Egypt" season 1 video series, ?may have involved the same "con-scientists" as well. Clearly this reflects very badly on the AAAS!

On his death, Albert Einstein, who didn't publicly support Velikovsky, was reading once again Velikovsky's ?Worlds in Collision?, which was found at his deathbed. He had many conversations with Velikovsky.
A few of my thoughts Howell 120514 Velikovsky, quack or genius.pdf.
To me, Anthony Peratt: Auroral phenomena and petroglyphs is one of the all-time best scientists for describing very ancient-to-modern times mega-catastrophes as reflected in petroglyphs, and tied solidly to advanced plasma science.
Ben Davidson, Earth Catastrophe Cycle | 2020 < beyond has a fascinating series of videos and work (in paricular a solid paper on earthquake prediction) tied not only to solar phenomena, but to Milky Way galaxy current sheets. His webSite Suspicious Observers also covers other fascinating science issue. He is a lawyer by training, and reminiscent of judge Fermat's last theorem and several other lawyers with brilliant break-through science thinking. These lawyers often had a better eye to science than essentially all scientists, in my opinion (like with Climate). He has tracked many potential [mechanism, event]s for ~15 years: catastrophe table, multiple conflicting underway 05Jun2025 Davidson.png
Robert Schoch, a key figure in the JA West's Magical Egypt, has leaned in recent years towards accepting electro-magnetic solar outbursts as a possible driver of recurrent catastrophes.
Robert M. Schoch 2012 "Forgotten Civilization : The role of solar outbursts in our past and future" www.InnerTraditions.com 355pp ISBN 978-1-59477-497-3
Valentina Zharkova "Solar magnetic field, solar radiation and their impact on terrestrial temperature" Milankovic-like ephemeris modelling of [past, present, future] climate, very interesting new solar analysis method. She has put out a large number of great [paper, presentation, book]s. The link is to Tom Nelson Pod #278. In 2025, she has suggested that the Earth is already moving into it's next "Grand Solar Minimum" (mini ice age), but longer term resumption of warming will contine until 700 years from now, based on her solar models. She points out that anthropogenioc CO2 has nothing much to do with climate, in spite of the religious fervor of essentially all scientists since the mid-to-late 1980s.
Ivanka Charvatova- Solar inertial motion & activity: I've been a big fan of Charvatova since before 2008. She reminds me of Theodore Landscheit of Acadia University in New Brunswick, Canada, a bit before her time with some overlap. It's fun to see that Zharkova often cited Charvatova in her [paper, presentation]s, and built on her work to some extent. She was also the basis of my rise & fall of civilisations project (bullet point below). Another fun paper was her application of historical movement of Earth's geomagnetic fields to the orientation of Chinese pyramids (earth mounds like Emporer ?Chin's with the teracotta warriors).
Andrew Hall: electro-geology video series has beautiful [engineering description]s of how electro-magnetic phenomena may have played a critical role in forming impressive geological features. He even has a video related to 26Aug2023 Electricity in Ancient Egypt, including a concept for how they may have cut stone! He comments on the potential use of sound to enhance electrical effects (but provides no real mechanistic details).
Sacha Dobler's 2016 "Solar history" book is the best description of solar influence over the great lines of history over the last 1000 years or so. He also speculates on changes in [human, species] behaviour in anticipation of the Grand Solar Minima (GSMs).
- Sacha Dobler 2018 "Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace and the Human Mind in the 2nd Millennium" ISBN: 1730722873 https://www.amazon.ca/Solar-History-Connection-Activity-Millennium-ebook/dp/B07JQJTF6C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sacha+Dobler+%22Solar+History%22&qid=1591938819&sr=8-1
- Sacha Dobler 2020 "Solar Behavior, how solar and geomagnetic conditions shape human history, the self-destruction attempt of the West and the new Golden Age" personal publication, ISBN 978-3-033-08224-3
David Fischer: Who would have thought that a book about commodity pricing back until King Hammurabi ?1,500 BC? would be one of the scariest to read? But along with the dark information was even greater bouts of [light, inspiration. He has the best description of the [Enlightenment, Rennaissance] periods that I've run across. He built on the work of Wilhelm Able of Germany in the 1930's, who is considered a pioneer in the area of historical pricing and what it can tell us.
One of many of my own projects "Howell - Mega-Life, Mega-Death and the Sun, the rise and fall of civilisations.pdf" did a [history, astronomy, Earth sciences] look at the rise and fall of civilisations.
Here is a detailed description of her Howell - solar inertial motion - NASA-JPL versus Charvatova.pdf.
I have tabulated many of the well-established [geological, climate, other] cycles. Again, by far the greatest context for cycles is presented by Stephen Puetz.
Alexandre Gorban's "The Blessing of Dimensionality", does it play a critical role during catastrophic breakup of society? : [disconnectedness with limited consequence, modularisation, divide and conquer, workable prioritization, etc]
How might "The Blessing of Dimensionality" [compete, contradict, complement] common mantras like ["the universe is a whole", the world as a living being, rocks are people, etc]?
Warning: There is an astronimical cycle (or many) for any length of time you can imagine. The same goes for [angles, distances, etc]. Worse, "cyclomania" is a mental disease that I fight constantly. But it's fun.

4. Walter Cruttendon: cycles of the Indian Yugas

38:35 narrator: The apparent "reversed evolution" in ancient Egypt is a contradiction of the Western model of linear progress culminating in modern man.

38:45 narrator: The Indians system of the yugas explains a vast cosmic cycle, which like the changes of the seasons on a [grand, metaphysical] scale causes mankind ...?to periodically fall off his perch?... to awaken on the return of the next grand cycle.

39:33 Walter Cruttendon: The Yugas are a long-term chronology system of the ancient Indian culture.
39:57 Cruttendon: patterns of human behaviour over long periods of time: depending on celestial phenomena.

40:06 day: Earth turns on its axis
40:21 annual seasons: revolution of Earth around the Sun
40:34 24 ky: seasons of mankind's [rise, fall] of civilisations. 40:53 break this into 12 ky each of [ascend, descend], ?overall - not specified!? divided into 4 periods
- 41:07 Greek civilisation [Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold], Plato called this the "great year"
- 41:28 Indian yugas [Kali, Dvapara, Treta, Satya]
- 41:45 Kali Yuga (Iron Age): man only aware of material objects, brutal age. Man not aware of fire forces, doesn't have good spiritual concepts, pillages and plunders.
  42:33 occurs when the great civilisations fall (eg ~500 AD fall of Rome)
- 44:03 Dvapara Yuga (Bronze Age): [awakening, awareness] starting with fall of Rome, aware of molecules, electricity: Dvapara is often called the "Electrical Age" !!???
- Treta Yuga (Silver Age): ??? Howell: he states 2,100 year left + 2000 AD - 500 AD = 3,600 years, but that skips Treta period!?!?
- Satya Yuga (Golden Age): ??? 3,600 year duration

Howell: Cruttendon's cycle lengths do NOT agree with [wikipedia, popularvedicscience.com]!! I guess there may be a "smaller scale repeat" of the yugas, including one 24 ky long for all 4 yugas? However, the [Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold] = [Kali, Dvapara, Treta, Satya] ages is consistent (albeit poorly stated for clarity). Overall, I get the feeling he is [wave arm, yap]-type guy

Here are descriptions of cycle times from Hari Dasa "the 4 Yugas, the cosmic ages of Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali yuga", last update December 11, 2023. see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga. I'm not impressed with Cruttendon's [stumble, fumble]ing through the subject, although it fits right in with many others from the humanities etc.

Yugas :

Yuga:	Metal	Solar Mega-years	descriptions of cycle times from Hari Dasa "the 4 Yugas, the cosmic ages of Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali yuga"
Kali	Iron	0.864	broke out in full force shortly after the departure of Sri Krishna to His own realm in the spiritual sky. The social order was turned on its head. Religious and political leaders, instead of educating and protecting the populace, abandoned virtue and became the chief criminals in society. "In this iron Age of Kali men almost always have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 1.1.10)
Treta	Silver	1.728	human beings engage in nonviolent religious sacrifice as a means of propitiating the gods and ultimately pleasing the Supreme Person, Vishnu. Human beings were extremely dutiful, moral, and compassionate toward their fellow living beings. They lived life spans up to 10,000 years
Dvapara	Bronze	2.592	human beings began to stray from the path of dharma, or the religious way of life. Members of society exploited their positions to increase their own stature and standard of happiness at the expense of those around them. This was occurring at all levels of society, from brahmanas to sudras. Wars began to break out as ruling kings vied for power, wealth, and influence. No longer able to effectively perform collective sacrifice, human beings instead took up the worship of Vishnu in His deity form. ... Human beings in Dvapara Yuga live up to 1,000 years..
Satya	Golden	3.456	human beings were adept in meditation and possessed unbelievable strength and longevity. The Vedic texts state that humans during Satya Yuga, or the Golden Age, lived for up to 100,000 years.

Additional Time Units

time unit:	Solar yrs	Explanation
Manvantara Sandhy	3.45e06	Duration of Satya Yuga
Chaturyuga	8.64e06	Combination of 4 Yugas
Brahma’s Day/Night	9.25e06	Kalpa + Pratisamdhi
Manvantara	6.13e08	71 Chaturyugas
Pratisamdhi	6.16e08	1 Manvantara + 1 Sandhya
Kalpa	8.64e09	14 Manvantaras + 15 Sandhyas
Brahma’s 1 Month	5.55e11	30 Brahma’s days and nights
Brahma’s 1 Year	6.66e12	12 of Brahma’s months
Parardha	3.33e14	50 of Brahma’s years

Paratdha is a jubilee of Brahma's years!?!?!?!
"... There are no larger time units than a prarardha, except the total lifespan of the universe itself, which would be 2 prarardhas.
However, there are many smaller time units, all the way down to an atomic second. For more information on small-scale Vedic time units, check out our in-depth article on Vedic Time. ..."

Prarardha
A prarardha is 50 kalpas. Brahma’s life span is 100 years measured according to his time scale. His day is a single kalpa, as are his nights. This means Brahma’s total lifespan is approximately 666.5 trillion years.
According to the Puranas, the universe undergoes a total annihilation and reconstruction at the end of each prarardha. Based on this information, our team at Popular Vedic Science was able to show that the Puranas accurately dated the Big Bang within 0.1% of the modern scientific value.

Vedic Time and Modern Science (brilliant comparisons by Hari Dasa!!!!)

time unit:	Vedic, Puranic	Modern Science
Permian Mass Extinction	0.2512 Gy	0.2519 Gy
Origin of our Solar System	4.563 Gy	4.567 Gy
Age of the Universe	13.82 Gy	13.80 Gy

Howell: these close agreements look darkly suspicious: either forced to fit, or Modern Astronomers just used [Vedic, Puranic] times? (29May2025 I need to check this at some distant time in the future...)

Howell: 46:22 Cruttendon refers to an "electrical cycle of the Dwapara Yuga", but gives little background. Andrew Hall specifically mentions this: Andrew Hall: Electricity in Ancient Egypt.
[Cruttendon, wikipedia, Hari Dasa] present the time cycles focussing ONLY on [individual, social] human behaviour. He has nothing else, so he misses Hindu mythology's volumes of the big [driver, data]s like [astronomy, geology, etc], although Hari Dasa and colleagues have looked at a few long-term cycles and modeern science equivalents. Perhaps this is indicative of what most [intellectual, other]s WANT to see, ignoring the rest unless it helps their main themes of interest. That's maybe like astrology? In any case, there is nothing I've seen to relate to well-known cyces from [astronomy, geology, climate, history, financial markets, etc].


	Howell: again getting back to Ivanka Charvatova to provide another view of cycles <=2,400 years. The table above is in the pdf Howell Aug08 - Charvatovas hypothesis & Isotopic solar proxies.pdf. It does a great job of explaining many [important, well-established] cycles. (again, click-right to view a larger image)

Howell: I want to create a table of cycles from many ancient mythologies [Mayan, Egyptian, Judaism, Mulsim, etc]... maybe some years from now???

5. Climbing out of the Dark Ages

??:?? narrator: can't hear wording (sound quality - I set recording too low?) somenting about catastrophes
02:00 West: modern day academics discuss Egypt in terms of their beliefs: the Egyptians believed this, and the Egyptians believed that. Supposing, in their arrogance, that they know better: "they believe (ancient Egyptians), we know (modern academics)". But suppose it's the oother way around? Suppose the Egyptians actually knew immortality, and that our academic community, locked in their fashionable beliefs, believe?
02:25 Howell: DVD3-2 can't make out words

DVD4: Luxor, The Temple [of, is] Man

01:02 narrator: Do the temples' [religion, art, science, philosophy] express a unity of man? Are they interactive tools that relay ancient wisdom?
01:22 Recent discoveries are beginning to suggest that the temples were not just the location of teachings, they WERE the teachers.

Howell: Refering again Velikovsky's includion of a petroglyph from the Karnac temple "Howell 120513 Ark of the Covenant.pdf", rather pitiful war gains of Ramses the 2nd are documented. Was the Arc of the Covenant erased?

1. The temple is the teach[er, ing]

01:40 narrator: ...some now call it (Luxor) the "Temple of Man"
Howell: was it Lubicz who named Luxor temple the "Temple of Man?
01:46 narrator: Luxor temple- built over a period of 5 centuries, had it been planned entirely in advance?
02:04 narrator: Is it possible that the ancient Egyptians had a knowledge of human reproduction at the microscopic level?

02:52 West: [Luxor] temple is a puzzle, an expression of artistic genius, unequalled in all of time. And yet it originated from the earliest recorded history.
03:11 West: Unorthodox pieces of mass communication
03:25 West: everpresent blueprint to elevated states of human creativity
03:30 West: The temples are not here as just repositories, they are timeless teachers.

neta images in temples are NOT gods. They represent :

natural [law, process]s
principles of [nature, human]

the neta are not gods! neta like [Set, ], gods like [Amun, Amon, Ra?, ??]
Howell: That's radically different from what is always said by the experts, and therefore is worthy of attention.

Starting from Dwardu Cardona's concept "Table: Gods are Planets, Planets are Gods", based on Dwardu Cardona and his books inluding "Red Star". I continue to add to the table of [God, Planet]s slowly over time as I find more. Here :

Gods= primary gods among thousands in a society
Planets= includes [Sun, Moon] plus visible-to-naked-eye planets [Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn], so not [Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, ?Chiron? etc].
But what of the Earth? The Earth as a planet, revolving around the sun traces further & further back: Copenicus -> Aristarchus of Samas, ?D? of ancient Greece, ?? of Babylonia????.
My table in the link is strangely incomplete for the Far East [China, Korea, Japan].
As told by ?Dorothy Meness? an elder of ?Ojibway tribe in Easter Canada, cultural memories may be coming back via "blood memory", even though there are no living tribes-people who were alive when the stories were told?

Hawthor = goddess mother. Early images human face, bull [ear, horn]s. Later images worn inverted vase?

2. R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz - the key to understanding the Egyptian temples

3. Inside the Luxar temple

4. Valley temple?: pre-Sphinx unique [layout, construction], rounded joints and oral resonance

[Crude, simple] huge stone blocks close to the Sphinx
no [hieroglyph, statue]s
Robert Schoch: explains that this temple is ?50 feet lower than the level of the Spinx, and must long pre-date it
Vocal resonance in the area is remarkable (JA Wests does an "ooohm" chant)
Oserion temple: only other ancient Egyptian temple that has a similar structure

5. The seed

6. Third eye

DVD5: Navigating the after-life! What to do in the Duat.

1. Introduction

Temples - each dedicated to a neta (not god). eg [Amon, Osiris, Set, Isis]

Howell: 21May2025 Aren't there thousands of ancient Egyptian gods? But only a few are typically mentionned, the others I barely hear about. This may have more to do with "fashion intellectuallism" because we all do a poor job of remembering things that are not priorities, and marketing of ideas best exploits the well-known [what, whom]-evers?

2. Valley of the Kings

Luxor, the Temple of Man, has keys for decoding all of the temples. We now have these keys thanks to German [alchemist, anthropologist, ???] R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz[s]. He studied the Luxor temple 1936-51.

layout plan view: in proportion to adult male
netas: achetypical rules governing man
Egyptians saw universe as a divine consciousness
neta: NOT gods, were universal [principle, process]s
pi to 5 ratio: like Leonardo da Vinci

Various stages of the Luxor temple:

entry: door [in, out] of life
hall of marches: ?2.5km statues of Rams (not Ramses), rams are like god Amon, horns Fibonacci?
?Anatap III & wife?: relief in wall, sitting facing one another
umbilical: key challenge to de Lubicz concept "Temple of Man". French researcher ?name? suggested the theory REQUIRED something indicating [birth, new life] at that stage of the temple. Going back to look, they found a stone relief (like cartouche?).
?Amoya? mother of Amonhentep III: Pharoah tells mother she will give birth to a divine being
heart: obliterated? [Greeks (Alexander the Great), Romans (???)] rebuilt parts of Luxor temple. (maybe not at this point of video?) Romans specifically targeted magical aspects of Egyptian beliefs: because they knew that is was real, and threat to their dominance. Subsequent priests lacked [access, knowledge] of these beliefs.

Amon: stone relief giant penis, illustration of a sperm cell. 8 initial divisions of fertilised egg

the symbol ?Alink? resembes sperm ?utoupi? (difficult to make out sound clearly)

3. Tomb of Tutmosis III

4. Mummification

5. the Pineal Gateway

snake symbolism of consciousness:

across all civilisations
statues - pharoah forehead: snake represents this

6. Lucid dreaming

7. the Materia Prima

DVD6: Legacy

1. the knowledge is alive

memes: basic unit of cultural evolution
Toth - teaching of language
Karnac temple: secrets of magic
data of Nile river flooding
[intelligence, ?consciousness?] cycles

astro cycles, star motions
Sirius: the great provider
- Howell: ?Dogon? people of Africa knew a weird amount about Sirius?
- Howell: besides Sirius. Orion? appears in several chapters of Magical Egypt
Robert Temple quoted

Kemet = Egptians called own land = black land. Also basis of word "alchemy"

2. the materia prima

3. cyclical fertility

4. stellar resonance

5. the stone

6. vessel across the dust

7. the cradle of magic

8. a legacy of initiation

9. solve et coagulate

Howell: overall [impression, question]s

This is a [beautiful, thought-provoking] DVD series. In my case it fit very well with many past [book, paper, video, conference] themes that I have run into. There are 3 more DVD (or streaming) series that follow this first series. Its' priority isn't sufficient for me to follow on, as I feel the main [data, theme]s have been addressed.
I keep getting dragged into mythology, even by myself. But I am not knowledgeable, and it is not a core interest to me, other than when items touch on one of my core interests. It has much lower priority to me than history, even though mythology is a key perspective on history.
For me, there is too much play of the [secret, hidden]*[auth, view, believ]er purposely [vague, misty, undefined]*[statement, thinking]s. They cannot get to the point, possibly because the approach is a big part of the message, as is the "non-closed" thinking. Not that the latter is all bad, if the even is to open up thinking, rather than to impose a truth.
most of the [data, concept, conclusion, direction]s have been [raise, address]ed for ages. These are not secrets, more what I would call "Multiple Conflicting Hypothesis" (MCH). Most people would take their favoured hypothesis as the truth without question. It's what [scient, mytholog, theolog, philosoph]ists want to believe, according to how one of the belief systems has programmed their intellectual robots.

Copyright, credits for the film series

"Magical Egypt: a symbolist tour", 6*DVD series, 2001
A Chance Gardiner / Cydonia, Inc. Production
Cydonia motion graphics

credits below taken from DVD 6

narration	Derek Partridge
original score	Geraint Hughes
starring	John Anthony West, Lon Milo Duquette
written & produced by	Chance Gardiner
script consulting	Derek Partridge
3D modelling	Law Gardiner
business development	Vanese McNeil, Mark Sussman

Special thanks to:

The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
The Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art, Luxor
The British Museum, London
Depeartment of Special Collections university research library, UCLA
The Louvre Museum, Paris

Special Special Thanks to:
Venese McNeill
Mark Sussman
Law Gardiner
Cabel Adams
Brian Walker
Scott Leslie
Matt Steinauer
Todd Kesselman
Rachel Edlich
Melinda Thorne
Scott Isdaner
Peter Bieler
Loraine Grover
Liz Loeper
Derek Partridge
John Anthony West
Philip La Porta
Rick Strassman
Lon Milo Duquette
Robert Dunlap
Walter Cruttenden
Thomas Brophy
Loren Cabrera
Ramona Cloutier-Rudolph
Clive Middleton
Stephanie Jakubiak
Michel S. Schneider