From Atlantis to the Sphinx

, by Wilson, Colin

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ISBN: 9781578633067 | 1578633060
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2004

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

(10)

Schwaller de Lubicz and the age of the Sphinx -- was it built by `Atlanteans'?

Hapgood's ancient maps

The Atlantis film script

Schoch's conference at San Diego

Scepticism of `the experts'

Robert Graves and Mr Gunn

Mathematical prodigies

I meet John West

Graham Hancock and Rand Flem-ath

Bauval's Orion Mystery

Andre VandenBroeck's Al-Kemi

Publication of Fingerprints of the Gods

What does it all mean?

The search for `the intensity experience'

What can `the ancients' teach us?

Egyptian Mysteries

(20)

The Hancocks scale the Great Pyramid at dawn

How was it built?

The Sign and the Seal

Was the Sphinx eroded by water?

Serpent in the Sky

Schwaller de Lubicz and alchemy

Death of Fulcanelli

Schwaller in Luxor

Andre and Goldian Vanden-Broeck visit Schwaller

A different kind of knowledge

Gurdjieff on the Sphinx

Pythagoras and music

Schwaller on ancient Egypt

The New Race

(18)

Robert Schoch agrees to look at the Sphinx

Who carved the Sphinx?

Schoch agrees the Sphinx is weathered by water

How did the Egyptians move 200-ton blocks

Flinders Petrie discovers `the New Race' then changes his mind

Unknown techniques of carving

Christopher Dunn on the granite sarcophagus

A drill that works 500 times faster than a modern drill

Schoch announces his results at San Diego

The BBC proves Schoch correct about rock layers at Giza

The Sphinx Temple and the Oseirion

The `Cyclopeans'

The Inventory Stela

Frank Domingo declares the Sphinx is not Chefren

Inside the Pyramid

(32)

Al-Mamun breaks into the Great Pyramid

The missing mummy

The `other entrance'

Davison's Chamber

Howard-Vyse `proves' that Cheops built the Great Pyramid

Sitchin throws doubt on Howard-Vyse

Did the Egyptians know the size of the earth?

Was the Great Pyramid an observatory?

Robert Bauval reads The Sirius Mystery

How did the Dogon know Sirius was a double star?

The Pyramid Texts

The pyramids and the belt of Orion

Edgar Cayce on Atlantis

Were there pyramids planned in 10,500 BC?

Mendelssohn on the pyramids

Boats

Thor Heyerdahl on Egyptian shipbuilding

The Forbidden Word

(18)

Hapgood's Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings

The great Ice Ages

The Piri Re'is map

The significance of Syene

How Eratosthenes worked out the size of the earth

Earth's Shifting Crust

A worldwide maritime civilisation in 7000 BC?

Plato and Atlantis

Ignatius Donnelly

The Bimini Road

Randy Flemming begins a novel on Atlantis

When the Sky Fell

Is Atlantis in Antarctica?

The Realm of the White Gods

(36)

Cortes and the conquest of Mexico

Careri and the Aztecs

Stephens discovers a jungle city

Why did the Mayas disappear?

Brasseur de Bourbourg on the `great cataclysm' Charnay in Mexico

Palenque, `City of the Serpents'

Augustus le Plongeon learns the Mayan language

Evidence for Atlantis

Queen Moo

James Churchward and Mu

Thompson and Chichen Itza

He dives in the sacrificial well

Hoerbiger and the World-Ice theory

Velikovsky and catastrophes

The mystery of Tiahuanaco

The Hancocks in Tiahuanaco

Posnansky on the place of the Standing Stones

Was Tiahuanaco built in 15,000 BC?

The fish gods

Teotihuacan

Cortes fights his way out of Tenochtitlan

Batres excavates the Pyramid of the Sun

Gerald Hawkins on Teotihuacan

The Nazca lines

Did they expect Viracocha to return by air?

The move towards caution

Why did the Egyptians and the Mayans both regard Sirius as sacred?

The Antiquity of Man

135

(28)

Scheuchzer's `Old Sinner'

The beginning of palaeontology

Maillet's theory of evolution

Cuvier on catastrophes

Lyell's Principles of Geology

A brief history of the earth

How man developed from a tree shrew

Darwin sails on the Beagle

The survival of the fittest

The Missing Link

Piltdown Man

The discovery of Neanderthal Man

Cro-Magnon Man

Don Marcelino and the Altamira cave

Did man exist five million years ago?

Dubois and Java Man

The Olduvai Gorge and Reck's skeleton

Peking Man

Leakey and the Kanjera skulls

Dart and the Taung baby

The killer ape

Leakey and Homo habilis

Johanson and Lucy

Forbidden Archaeology

163

(20)

How old is man?

Michael Cremo studies palaeontology

Von Ducker and the Pikermi bones

Pliocene sharks' teeth with holes bored in them

Ribeiro and the River Tagus beds

Bourgeois's flints -- artefacts or naturefacts?

Ragazzoni and Pliocene man

`Conventional history' -- a summary

The wheel

The implications of `alternative history'

What caused the brain explosion?

Language? Maerth's cannibalism theory

The Romantic theory of evolution

More Forbidden Archaeology

183

(28)

Why is man a religious animal?

Cave art and ritual magic

Shamans and `miracles'

The Wizard of the Upper Amazon

Manuel Cordova is kidnapped

The `collective mind' of the Amahuaca Indians

Grimble and the `calling of the porpoises'

`Mental radio'

Mavromatis and hypnagogia

Why has man evolved so quickly?

Neanderthal man

Julian Jaynes and the `bicameral mind'

The right and left brain

Did man become a `left brainer' in 1250 BC?

Schwaller on hieroglyphics

The Egyptian mentality

Harvalik and dowsing

Alternative history of man

Pygmy hunting ritual

Of Stars and Gods

211

(28)

Alexander Thom and the Callanish stone circle

Megaliths as observatories

Anne Macaulay on the ancient `code' of Apollo

Cro-Magnon man as a star-gazer

Marshack's Roots of Civilisation

Robert Graves and The White Goddess

Maurice Cotterell and The Mayan Prophecies

Is the Mayan calendar based on sunspot activity?

Santillana and Hamlet's Mill

The precession of the equinoxes

The mill of the sky

Ancient civilisation in India

The date of the Rig-Veda

A new theory of human evolution

Hunting magic

Bauval and Hancock reconstruct the sky in 10,500 BC

Why did the Sphinx builders wait eight thousand years to build the pyramids of Giza?

Osiris's voyage up the Milky Way

The journey to Rostau

Osiris returns to Orion

The `Followers of Horus'

Does the secret lie below the rear paws of the Sphinx?

The Third Force

239

(44)

Edward T

Hall and the Hopi Indians

Monochronic time and polychronic time

`A different kind of perception'

The Hopi and Mother Earth

Quiche time

Zen and archery

Children in a school playground -- the dance of life

Basic rhythms

Mike Hayes and DNA

The mysterious 64 The I-Ching and its 64 hexagrams

Pythagorianism

The third force

The number π

The tetrad

The Luxor temple

Synchronicity

The Chinese rain maker

Jacques Vallee and Melchizedek

Ross Salmon and the condor

Egyptian magic

Ancient Egypt and the Nile

How man evolved

How did Egyptians move 200-ton blocks?

Ed Leedskalnin and Coral Castle

The sheet of iron found in the Great Pyramid

How did Egyptian artists light the tombs?

Egypt as a `collective' civilisation

Electronic ping pong in Las Vegas

Boris Yermolayev suspends a cigarette packet in the air

Lifting a man with four index fingers

The drawbacks of group consciousness

The Chalice and the Blade -- a matriarchal civilisation?

Wells's Experiment in Autobiography

Are we human? The need for a `third force' to achieve the next step in evolution

Maslow and peak experiences

The importance of insights into past civilisations

The `next step' has already happened

Notes

283

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Bibliography

285

(2)

Index

287

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From Atlantis to the Sphinx

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