The Phoenix Solution: Secrets of a Lost Civilisation

I haven't read Alford's first book Gods of the New Millenium (but have read all 8 of Sitchin's books so I'm familiar with the territory).Over the years I've studied Gematria, religion, modern UFOs, new age-ish philosophies (reincarnation, vibrational density), conspiracy, secret societies, et. al. The more I got into this book the more I realized that all of these seemingly unrelated subjects may just have the same source: Egypt.Alford is bold enough to not just present his theory but also present some future "prophecy" about what/where future Egyptian archeological digs may bear fruit. I can't think of many authors offhand who have gone so far as to be proactive in their visions for how their researched information will affect future knowledge.Did the Egyptians believe two planets had exploded in our solar system in past millenia/epochs? Why all the heavily-laden allegory and symbolism in so many ancient text/stories (including Sumeria, Babylonia, etc.)? Why the fascination with sex, phallus, ejaculation, impregnation, heaven, things coming to earth, the underworld, mountains, fires? Well, I'm convinced because the story of planetary debris (meteorites) coming to earth was real or an incredibly accurate perception by the ancient Egyptians.Check out Genesis and the Nefilim for more corroboration. Sitchin thinks the Nefilim are ancient astronauts (flesh and blood). Alford strongly believes they are meteorites from god, who was an exploded planet. For more information on this line of thought, see his newest book When The Gods Came Down to see how the OT and NT of the modern bible fits into all this. THAT story is even more fascinating.The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because it is somewhat confusing because it has to weave so much preparatory material into his theory. Even though each topic heading content is fairly short, I've had to go back and reread pieces to try to keep up with this admittedly complex story of Egypt...

Maybe it's true, maybe not, who knows, here Alford displays such and exhaustive analysis of this "new theory" of his' based on the astronomical theories of explodings planets, that at times the book gets repetitive and ovebearing, even confusing, especially with certain technicisms, but you can tell the guy is pretty well "into the subject", completely. When I read "Gods of the New Millenium" I became an instant fan of Alford, and Sitchin too...which is the right theory? again, who knows. I'd like it to be the one displayed in his first book, because it's much more fascinating and thrilling than this "exploded planets theory". Also, in my opinion, notwithstanding the theoric aspect of both books, by far "Gods..." is much more "entertaining reading" in the plain sense of the word than this one. Anyway it's worth reading, and for the tremendous effort of elaborating such a complicated theory by the author and the astronomer, I rate it four stars. Serious reading.

I was lucky enough to have tuned this work in while on business in the UK from the States. Quite possibly I was also lucky enough to not have read his first book, the essential refutation of which has seemed to throw many for a loop. Coming as someone from an Egyptological and artistic/ethnological background who knows many of the world renowned Egyptologists he quotes personally, I can honestly say, as Michael Rice does in his preface, that this is one of the most important new-perspective Egyptological works written in at least thirty years. It is capable of creating its own genre of study and enlightenment across several disciplines. It is fairly easy to write some New Age mythological mind candy that declares all kinds of wild things to be a secret reality (I won't mention any names of authors as cases in point- they know who they are). It isn't often that a work comes along that challenges the erudition of the status quo with a mind blowingly believable but frightfully unorthodox thesis, partly derived thanks to the plethora of scholarly material ignored by the establishment for more than a century for just such a reason. This is the kind of book that makes waves; the kind of waves that some future book will capitalize on and ride like a surfer while this one is unsuccessfully trashed or frightfully ignored; making the world believe the truth herein has just been discovered, when it will be only in the future that it in actuality could be digested by the masses. I only hope Alford is the one to write that one also. It is hard in retrospect, given how hard it is to shock us these days in the now 21st Century, to compare Alford to Galileo and Darwin. Yet given what I know of many of his research materials, sources and approach- and again, the erudition of his varied references, along with his phenomenal ideas- it is hard not to.Read it with an open mind, and learn something incredible- even if in the end, you don't agree with the plausibility of the final theory. That is the hallmark of a seminal work- as this is. This work will change your and everyone's understanding of many, many things... give it time.

I found this book to be very throught provoking in weaving together a new theory of religion for ancient Egypt. New theories are always risky but I think Alford has really done a tight interpretation of ancient documents and science. Of course all of this is interpretation - but then again so is orthodox Egyptology and its endeavors. I like Alford's concentration on science rather his other book which appears to be goofey and off the wall.