Gods of Eden: Egypt's Lost Legacy and the Genesis of Civilization

I like the connections this guy makes between divergent sources in early history. Explains why we think the way we do today.

This book gets five stars because of the amazing information about lost technologies and a description of the mysterious secret complex under the Giza plateau. I have no doubt whatsoever that there are unimaginable secrets waiting to be uncovered at the Giza plateau as Edgar Cayce has predicted. The grave robbers stole most of the material treasures from the kings' tombs but much greater treasure has yet to be discovered. Nobody has disturbed it because the sphinx was set as a sentinel to protect it all these thousands of years. This amazing theory (which I believe) was that the Giza plateau was designed based on a time scale of thousands of years and the monuments reflect the position of the stars and constellations over this time period. Who built the great pyramid and the other monuments ? Not aliens as many believe but gods. Even the Christ spirit was there in the form of Hermes. The number 12 comes up a lot in this book. Twelve is a very mysterious number. According to the book 'UFO Contact From Planet Iarga' there are twelve universes. The Iargans showed a sort of machine which has been created on another planet which represents the twelve universes. It's a machine that just keeps running forever. This is consistent with the idea that the complex under the Giza plateau mirrors the creation of the universe(s). As recently as the early 1900s people have witnessed monks in Tibet both levitating and disintegrating gigantic stones using musical instruments including a strange 'gong'. Einstein said that 'imagination is more important than information'. I agree with the author that a lot of the people controlling the Giza plateau are suffering from a severe lack of imagination. Rather than realize that the great pyramid is a machine (read 'The Giza Power Plant' by Christopher Dunn) they keep drilling holes and damaging the pyramid even more than it already has been. A lack of imagination can have terrible consequences. The conclusion of the 9/11 commission was that 9/11 was caused by a failure of imagination. Jeff Marzano The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls: Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present, and Future Edgar cayce's story of the origin and destiny of man Edgar Cayce's Atlantis and Lemuria: The Lost Civilizations in the Light of Modern Discoveries Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Reader's Edition) Initiation

I would give this book 5 stars for a good research done. But there are some very strange arguments.Notably, the author actually relies on revelations by psychics. Well, this seems too much for me.Very irritating is the author's manner of attaching words like "unquestionably" to what should be properly regarded as wild suppositions.Many statements of facts raise doubts, especially when skilled artisan work and agriculture are assigned to 8000-9000 BCE.The author attempts to make a point that ancient Egyptians had technology, unavailable even now. That's because we can't build pyramids like they did. So, what technology is that? Believe it or not, the author spends much effort to prove they possessed... saws. You got it right, the incredible technology was the brass saw, perhaps with sapphires on the edge. Of course, this is more than what is normally allowed for that time, but come on, you can't say someone built the pyramids with brass saws and then claim they had higher technology than we do.Another proof is equally strange, although in its own way. It is commonly thought that Egyptians employed drills under pressure of 1 to 2 tons. This equipment is no rocket science, you see. But the author prefers to conjecture they used ultrasonic drills. Excuse me, but ultrasonic drill should work like a hammer, it won't leave spiral traces, like those found.Other traces of this antedeluvian culture are equally unimpressive. There are no factories or spacecraft, just a few stones and artefacts, worked up better than we expect of this era. But doesn't it make sense to question their dating, then?Authors' hypothesis on using sound to lift stones, right or wrong, is pure fantasy.In order to find similarities between different cultures, the author discusses only those religious ceremonies and gods, which are alike. Not even exact, just somewhat alike. But if we look for dissimilarities, there is much more of them.The author's point is unclear, but he seems to imply that these highly developed people of the previous civilization, who built pyramids, were in fact bird-worshipping shamans. And fish-worshipping, too. And star-worshipping. In effect, they were just shamans. Would you believe these people left us highly advanced knowledge, hidden below the pyramids?

After his sensational "debut" with "From The Ashes To Angels", Andrew Collins gets one step further with this well-structured, well-planned and well-presented study on the apparent existence of a "lost and advanced civilization." Walking on the similar paths with Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval and John Anthony West, Collins traces the footprints of the ancient knowledge and proposes an "antediluvian" civilization which could well be the roots of the now-lost wisdom, Ancient Egyptians once had.The books starts with some basic facts and "anomalies" of the most enigmatic monuments of the ancient world: Great Sphinx, Valley Temple and the enormous pyramids of Giza plateu. Quoting the pioneer Egyptologists' accounts on the subject (such as W. Flinders Petrie) he underlines the perfect craftsmanship of these monuments without apparent existence of essential tools to form the hard and large stone blocks which weighted hundreds of tones.Then he presents an alternative explanation for this excellent masonry: Probable usage of now-lost "sound technology" to levitate the giant stone blocks. He goes on with convincing arguments, supported with some "enigmatic" verses from the Old Testament. His conclusion is an ancient (probably "antediluvian") technology which was preserved by some cults in Ancient Egypt (in Heliopolis and Thebes) then somehow obtained by Biblical Moses, who was supposedly raised by Egyptians. During the course of his work, Collins also suggests his dating of Biblical Exodus.Though I personally disagree on a number points with Collins (including the existence of Moses as a real personality and the dating of Exodus), and I found his "sound technology" theory just an interesting "fantasy", I must admit that "Gods of Eden" is definitely a very impressive book which deserves a careful reading. Furthermore, it includes a well-written, detailed panorama of Ancient Egyptian sacred cults which is somehow unique among contemporary works on the subject. If you are somehow interested with the Ancient Egyptian culture, this book should be on your bookshelf.