Ruminations of the Traveller

O man, be sure the effects that ye bring
forth are ever causes of more perfect effects.
Know ye the future is never in fixation but
follows man's free will as it moves through
the movements of time-space toward
the goal where a new time begins.
-- Thoth

The city reeks of life and death. Flies swarm relentlessly around the trash strewn about every street, stray cats dart about stealthily, trees seem to grow from the desert, and the multitudes of people bustle about like the chaotic dance of loose debris in a windstorm. Everything in Cairo seems built of a misunderstood past that somehow survives amidst the modern transformations of Egyptian society. Tourism based upon a vanished civilization has done much to change the way of life in this town of 20 million. However, this industry (from the papyrus & knick knack dealers on every corner and the Taxis without meters to the government that claims landrights of the Giza Plateau) thrives upon the myth of a stagnant archaeology. The debate of ideas is discouraged as the so-called discovered history has become as stale and musty as a tomb. Academic disinformation has become the fountainhead of global culture. Visitors to Cairo are expected to buy shoddy imitations of priceless relics in order to perpetuate the memes of a God-King social hierarchy. Pharaohs and their obedient (and ingenious) slaves are used as the counter-example to the democracy of today, but why would the $1 US dollar bill showcase a pyramid without a capstone with an all-seeing eye? The false ideas endorsed by traditional Egyptology subconsciously affect modern peoples' perception of reality. Our collective symbology defines our understanding and thereby becomes the language of the human condition. Just as religion is a means of social order, civilization's purpose is derived from the distortion of meaning created from our forgetting of the past. Like ignorance of the meanings of the esoteric symbols that decorate money, daily living takes the form of a ritual sacrifice in which we endorse this culture with our souls.

What is history? Is it merely a long story told to explain how humanity has arrived into the present written by the victors of wars, or is it a mummified corpse awaiting rebirth? Religion definitely fits into the former. What do the major religions teach: ultimate reality or a hoax of disinformation designed to enslave the mind and conquer the spirit. Why be good for the sake of a God if not fear of punishment? And furthermore, how does such an indeterminate word (god) have such a concrete place in human relations? "Do you believe in God?" is a question of faith, not objective reality. The sad fact that a question of personal opinion has such dire consequences is illustrated by the innumerable wars of religion waged by people driven mad by an authoritative dogma that portrays nonbelievers as heretics, subhumans, and non-persons fit to be killed. Rather than a rule of logic (which would be the ONE TRUE word of God), these institutions of social control or behavioral engineering (the ethics of supposed godliness and the get-out-of-jail-free card for penitent believers) rely upon the fear of death to encourage and increase patronage. The Fear of Death is the predominant force guiding human affairs. In fact it serves as the basis for law, "for if there were no police you'd all kill each other". [Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I saw a street vendor selling handguns] What IS this world man has created? Who are we, the people, and how were we created? All other lifeforms tend to adapt to their environment, whereas we, by our own freewill and ambition, fabricate our own environments. Our homes are built of the world but not for it. Our cities seem developed to suit the wants of material desire rather than the needs of the human condition. Refuse is treated with greater respect than the least among us. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth when the rich finally pollute it all to catastrophe.

When money becomes the measure of the man, friendship becomes business. The main tactic of the junk vendors (besides lying and never giving up on a sale) is to invite the traveller into his shop for Egyptian hospitality (tea or soda), at that point you're hooked and its hard to wriggle free politely. Most dealers have limited English skills, limited by their trade, so that as the conversation becomes strained by the repetition of platitudes, the more feverish becomes the pitch to sell. Every seller can explicate the significance of their wares with the most dedicated panache, however, its all the same well-rehearsed jargon from the same flawed textbooks. Symbol literacy is reduced to a monologue of the sale with no insightful or critical interpretation. A duck means good luck, A black cat means good luck, a scarab means good luck... To Cairo, the pyramids are no mystery, they are a tourist trap. Just background to the legendary Egyptian vacation as a constant hassle to buy their themed crap. Bargaining is not an option, it is an expression of human interaction beyond language. Money is the main replacement for TRUTH as the basis for the society of humankind. Religion strives to fill that void with an institutional structure and then becomes corrupted by its own dogma, the anathema to TRUTH. Truth, of course, being the only true value in existence. But what part of history is True?

So what do the Pyramids have to do with any of this? As all Encyclopedias will claim as fact, the Pyramids were built by slaves tugging 20 ton rocks up ramps in order to construct a fabulous tomb for an autocrat who claimed divine status. According to Christopher Dunn, however, the Giza pyramids were created by advanced technicians in order to create energy, like our power plants. What does it mean to have these conflicting theories about the most important monument on the face of the Earth?(absolutely nothing compares to these pyramids) It is an expression of the place in which World civilization finds itself. Dunn's case is air tight. I'd like to see mainstream Egyptologists cut granite with copper saws. If we believe that the pyramids were built by slaves for the edification of a monarch, then we subscribe to a fantasy that validates the social order already in place. If the Giza Power plant was ever rebuilt to full functional capacity, there would be no energy crisis: as long as the Earth continues to sing its song (the Shumann Resonances) all the world would enjoy free energy. Period. No more Oil companies' stranglehold on political policy, no more electric bill, no more pollution, no more nuclear waste, no more wars for diminishing resources. Historical interpretations construct the power structures of the present as sure as bloodlines of royal lineage remain on the throne. But how much of history is reality and how much is belief? A geologist named Robert Schoch has dated the Sphinx back at least an additional 3000 years from the reign of Khafre (the pharaoh who supposedly had his likeness carved as the sphinx but probably merely did some restoration work) because of vertical weathering that indicates rain damage which could only have occurred when Egypt was still wetlands. The Sphinx was carved from the bedrock. Why? This is the answer to the great riddle of the Sphinx, it was carved from the landscape to be a marker of time's passage. Thus it stands as a link to the distant past preserved only in myths such as Atlantis. The idea that a civilization more advanced than our own existed on this planet nearly 12,000 years ago seems ridiculous only because Today's science teaches evolution as a linear growth model rather than as an expression of changes caused by cataclysmic upheavals our planet is prone to in varying cycles. For instance, every 65 million years our solar system orbits the galactic center & every 65 million years there is massive extinction, and in 2012 we're due for another cosmic cataclysm. But are our lives as easy to chart as the movements of the stars? The belief in an omnipotent/omniscient God seems to indicate a necessity of fatalism (all-knowing but can't read the future?), but the heaven/hell dynamic of eternal justice requires that mankind have freewill in order to face judgment. I never liked that hypocrisy, that the creator of all things was also the final arbiter of his creation's fate. However, this is also the same dynamic exposed in the great War on Drugs exposes at the KAblog: the CIA brings the work into the country, then the police bust the mules in an endless cycle. Human reality is shaped by the belief systems substituted for a genuine quest for truth.

This way of life is doomed to destroy itself. The New World Order is western civilization's last ditch effort to structure a world government, the totalitarian empire of Alexander's dream. The myth of slavery's creation of the pyramids perpetuates a parable of social order that suggests mankind's greatest work is the glorification of its rulers for an indeterminate hereafter. But what about capitalism and the great society built by self-interested self-made men? Nonsense, where does $700 billion come from? Granted people work harder when working for themselves, and as my dad would be the first to point out, getting anybody to do anything you want requires more than offering compensation. Which is the point of historical distortion and intellectual disinformation: if people knew that better ways of life were possible by means of striving for truth, they would waste away working for their daily satisfaction. (well that seems like a bit of a stretch). But I believe that knowledge is power, and that power is best preserved endlessly seeking the truth.

When man again shall conquer the ocean and fly
in the air on wings like the birds;
when he has learned to harness the lightning,
then shall the time of warfare begin.
Great shall the battle be twixt the forces,
great the warfare of darkness and Light.

Nation shall rise against nation
using the dark forces to shatter the Earth. [H.A.A.R.P.]
Weapons of force shall wipe out the Earth-man
until half of the races of men shall be gone.
Then shall come forth the Sons of the Morning
and give their edict to the children of men, saying:
O men, cease from thy striving against thy brother.
Only thus can ye come to the Light.
Cease from thy unbelief, O my brother,
and follow the path and know ye are right.

Then shall men cease from their striving,
brother against brother and father against son.
Then shall the ancient home of my people rise
from its place beneath the dark ocean waves.
Then shall the Age of Light be unfolded
with all men seeking the Light of the goal.
Then shall the Brothers of Light rule the people.
Banished shall be the darkness of night.
--Thoth