The Stargate Conspiracy, by Lynn Picket & Clive Prince, copyright 1999, 425 pages. New Age adherents are massive in number and include many who have fallen for an idealistic belief system focused on supposedly beneficent extraterrestrial beings (the Council of Nine) identified as the former Gods of ancient Egypt who are expected to return to this planet and impose sweeping corrective changes to save humanity from destroying itself and ruining the planet. The instigation of this belief system relied on contamination of scientific frontiers with distortions and was further supported by channeled information, the credibility of which has not held up under careful scrutiny. The CIA has been interested in the movement, since its their business to know about power and control of the masses. The CIA funded some research efforts that were not directly part of the movement but involved individuals who were key players therein. The book explores a multitude of tangled webs involving various parties such as Allister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky, Edgar Cayce, Uri Geller, Zahi Hawass, former VP of USA Henry Wallace, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Hoagland, Edgar Mitchell, the CIA, MI5, NASA, SRI, and MKUltra. A concise extraction of the many riveting and informative revelations disclosed in the book would be much too large for use here. A few samples will have to suffice. The Council of Nine was caught indulging in bigotry and patriarchal bias. They made an unintelligent error in referring to Jacobs ladder as Abrahams ladder. They rated the loss of life in the nuclear attacks on Japan as fitting for a race having the nervous system of the fourth root race. Alex Constantine claims that the governments remote viewing program was partly a cover for mind control experimentation. Whereas Schoch simply re-dated the Sphinx to about 7000-5000 BCE based on erosion by rainwater, pundits such as West, Bauval, and Handcock push it back as far as 13,500 BCE. The claim that Egypt had a wet climate about 13,500-9,500 BCE is blatantly fraudulent. It didnt. It was cold and dry. University research cites no evidence of human occupation in that area until the end of the ice age around 8000 BCE, and the Nile floods of 7000-5000 BCE were too high for a large population to be supported there. Between 3100-2700 BCE the flood levels were more favorable, but around 2550 BCE desertification set in and stayed. The alignment of the three main Giza pyramids does not entirely match that of the stars of Orions belt. The dimmer third star does not align with Menkauras pyramid, the smallest of the three. The shafts connected to the Kings chamber of the great pyramid do not properly make any important astronomical alignment on any timeline because they are too crooked. Gatenbrink (who explored the shafts using the little video/mechanical crawler Upuaut) pronounced Bauvals hypothesis a HOAX. Furthermore, the simulation for the touted alignment of the Giza complex with the belt of Orion during the spring equinox of 10,500 BCE has been repeated and found to have no such alignment then or at any other pertinent time frame except 2450 BCE( the sun did rise in Leo on the day of the first heliacal rising of Sirius (the Egyptians New Years Day) between 6000-2500 BCE). Heres where it gets really interesting: The Egyptians used psychoactive drugs such as opium, mandrake, cannabis, and blue waterlily. Shamans throughout the Amazon forests use mostly ayahuasca, a drug mix made from a bush and a vine, neither of which is effective separately because dimethyltriptamine, the active ingredient of the bush is subject to enzymatic breakdown without an inhibitor such as provided by the vine. Swiss anthropologist Jeremy Narby studied the Shaman trance phenomenon thoroughly and published his findings in 1995. Shamans throughout the world use ecstatic trances to obtain special knowledge such as plant properties, recipes, and solutions to problems such as how to treat a person with a particular ailment. They claim that the requested info is given by very powerful spirit entities. They also say they see twin serpents inside every living creature, at times appearing more like winged dragon-like creatures. So, thats it: Theyre getting info from some kind of conveyance involving the DNA complex! Sometimes the dragon-like creatures say that they were the true gods of this world. Sometimes the trips cause visions of bird-headed people. Shamans also see a ladder joining heaven and earth. When Narby and another of his genre took the shamans drink, they had the same kind of experiences. Hence the weird Egyptian depictions of the hawk-headed Horus, the ibis-headed Thoth, and the jackal-headed Anubis, etc., are now understood. Truly astounding! Ladder imagery is also noted in some parts of the Pyramid Texts. Moreover, shamans start their career with a horrific trip in which they are torn to pieces and put back together again. Osiris was cut into pieces by Set and later put back together by Isis. Fantastic! The Egyptian Duat is the Tibetan Bardo. The ancient Egyptians may have acquired the ability to effectively handle huge blocks of stone by asking the right questions. Nix the descending spaceship. Apparently they did not ask about how to build bridges or arches.
