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Recent exciting discoveries by independent researchers have dramatically challenged our understanding of ancient Egypt, raising profound questions about our past. STARGATE CONSPIRACY exposes the most insidious & dangerous plan of our times. It involves intelligence agencies, politicians, bestselling writers, scientists & industrialists. The authors believe that this conspiracy, centred upon the eternal mysteries of ancient Egypt, targets & threatens us all. Tracing the identity of the groups involved, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince argue that at the heart of this strange plan is the belief that the ancient Egyptian gods were-and are-real extraterrestrials, about to return through the 'stargate' between our world & theirs. They suggest that the US-funded excavations on the Giza plateau - officially denied, but for which the authors produce documented evidence - now appear to be the result of directives allegedly received through communication with beings of higher intelligence, who are instructing the conspirators to lay the foundations for great global changes. Provocative & stimulating, STARGATE CONSPIRACY is a book of and for the new millennium.

445 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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1,044 reviews396 followers
April 29, 2017
Before the Millennium, publishers piled in to exploit cultural paranoia about the event as they were to do with the Mayan nonsense before 2012 and no doubt will do when Apophis cames hurtling around in 2029. This book is part of that first wave.

It is relatively rational, doing a superb knife job on the New Egyptology idiocy that seduces the half-educated out of their lunch money, but only to replace one set of truly demented conspiracies with another one involving a sinister manipulation of the public by the intelligence community.

I judge the coherence of such books by the number of 'could' sentences. Some have long strings of 'could' sentences such as 'could Joseph of Arimathea be the last of the Lemurian Hidden Masters?'. This scores quite well with relatively few to chuckle at but that's about as far as it goes.

Still, the investigation of the links between the strange denizens of the pseudo-historical world is worth noting even if I see no scary conspiracy but rather a lot of cynical marketing cloaked in a historical context of nutters who seem to have persuaded Congress to part with its money.

The real story here is probably that, in paranoid terror of threats, some not enormously bright elected officials poured such vast sums into the pockets of not enormously bright military networks that some inevitably got skimmed into cultural scams and 'experiments'.

Given the well known link between people attracted to intelligence work and an interest in oddball theory and magick, it is no surprise to see overlaps of personnel. If the population are being gulled here, it is only in believing that there are threats against which their taxes should be poured.

Investing in remote viewing, hidden masters and Atlantean eschatological prophecies is probably a less harmful way of spending those dollars than on nuclear weaponry and the sums were probably chicken feed by military-industrial complex standards. The Soviets were doing much the same.

But the sound argumentation here about bad science and strange links, in the undergrowth of the pseudo-sciences between elites and nut jobs, is lost in an alternative model of mass manipulation that suggests we are stupider than we are and that 'they' are cleverer than they are.

The 'mysteries' then re-enter the story with the suggestion that there 'could be' genuine demonic forces at work manipulating the people who are manipulating us. By the end of the book, one is frustrated that some clearly intelligent authors have lost their own plot.

This is just another offensive in a 'magickal war' which Picknett and Prince at least have the gumption to understand as fundamentally about meme manipulation and culture rather than any genuinely supernatural powers - though they leave a large crack open in the door for such.

Picknett and Prince might be considered the 'left' (or right hand path in the inverted inversion of normality to be found in this sort of literature) of the ideological struggle against the Crowleian elitist 'right' (or left hand path).

The authors are for the people against elites. They still see themselves as part of the Enlightenment. They still try to hang on to some semblance of reason and scientific method. Unfortunately, the genre really is not designed for such a progressive position.

They certainly pull out the antisemitic, racist, neo-Nazi, sometimes implicitly genocidal, anti-female and all round anti-progressive underpinnings of their opposition's sources. But, again, I see no serious political project in place today, just an eagerness to sell books to muggles.

In the end, the book comes out for the more rational and decent side of New Age nonsense but nonsense is still what it is. I longed for a disciplined investigation of the links between government agents, Atlantean loons, rascally authors, archaeology, space science and private money.

I am sure there is a story there and when it is told, the authors' work might prove to have given us some important foundation stones but I will give a solid bet that the whole thing will tell us more about human gullibility and manipulation for profit than about governments and great mysteries.

All credit to the authors though for discrediting much of the machinery behind such a-historical nonsense as the age of the Sphinx, the Cydonian face on Mars, the hall of records at Giza and the role of Sirius in Egyptian culture ... and raising some awkward questions.

As books in this genre go, this is one of the better ones but if there was a conspiracy, it strikes this reader as a pretty maladroit one that ended with a whisper than a bang. But as a strike in the magickal wars, it remains quite effective within that context.
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July 28, 2013
This book is a must read for both the believers and critics of Ancient Alien/Astronaut hypothesis. The book reveals layer by layer the covert planning of some big names in the world of Science, Technology & the world intelligence agencies to have a world dominance or establish a new world order by creating a mass hysteria and a new age religion.

I have enjoyed reading the book since I am a strong critic of Ancient Alien/Ancient Astronaut hypothesis as it strip humanity of all its achievements and gave it to some imaginary beings from outer space.
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February 14, 2024
It may have helped to read this book before the year 2000 because so much of the hype was about the anticipated events of that so momentous occasion. Does anyone remember the crazed foreboding surrounding the impending Y2K and all the rest?

I've read many of the other works referenced here and critiqued by these authors. I often felt these authors are just making too much out of very little. And this is something many of the other books also do. The failings of these contemporary authors is not necessarily evidence of a great conspiracy: sometimes you just have a book contract and have to cobble something together out of whatever you have and try to create whatever sort of publicity as best you can.

Some of the spin: counter/spin: triple-back flip spin analysis can be amusing, even if somewhat confusing.

I have to say, one of the major premises herein is the influence of "The Council of Nine" in the New Age movement, and this left me baffled. Perhaps this is more of a UK thing, but I had not really heard of this. I was not familiar with The Book of Enoch or the others listed as influential bestsellers. And in the US sphere, religion seems to be more and more dominated by Christians, not more and more influenced by contemporary channeled texts (which are often seen as Satanic).

The intersection of the extreme right wing and the New Age movement —yes it is there. But the extreme right wing intersects everywhere— arts, politics, media, business, sports. The opposite is also true. I don't buy the argument that the New Age movement is somehow suspiciously tainted by these associations. One could also make a potent argument that the New Age movement is totally taken over by radical freegans.
July 15, 2020
The book deals with several hook topics, that thrown in a book's subtitle would catch more than one eye: Conspiracy - Military secrets - Freemasonry - Martians - Astral Projections (or Remote Viewing) - Edgar Cayce - Extraterrestrials - Atlantis - New Age - Egypt, and the list does not stop there.

Never would I have thought to find among its pages such a profound, fact supported investigation on the academical contradictions, original motives that the orthodox (as well as the alternative) school of egyptology is based on, as well as strong light shedding on the controversial beginning of a quasi-religious movement that has been wandering around in the last century: New Age.

The book isolates and puts to the test the different literary productions, theories and "evidence" there are around the main topics on which the New Age movement is based upon: Egypt monuments being built by an out of earth civilization, Extraterrestrial contact through channeling "the chosen ones", Secret Chambers beneath the Sphinx and Pyramids where the Hall of Records resides, CIA and Pentagon projects on Remote Viewing with Uri Geller and other psychs, the Face in Mars and the region of Cydonia, and even the millions of tax payers' money used by the Stanford Research Institute and Nasa experimenting with said theories.

The posture of the authors is to invite the reader to not jump to conclusions or pledge allegiance to the ideas other "academics" come with, without a proper examination of the original motives or even logic of what is being exposed. There are indeed some mysteries in our civilization's history, that give room for self-proclaimed messiahs to announce what they believe is the final truth. This only obscures the path for a real truth to emerge.

Pretty dense book, with so many citations and serious, scientific study

4/5 stars
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May 27, 2021
Tim Pendry's review of this book, elsewhere on this site, captures my own feelings well. A good expose of the gaps and leaps of reasoning in various fringe groups, a fascinating overview of their workings and links, a clear eyed look at their often vile politics (woo and fascism seem to be natural allies), but falls over into an overarching conspiracy narrative of its own, one that reached its sell-by date at the turn of the millennium.
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September 19, 2022
Lynn Picknett is one of my favourite writers when it comes to non-fiction books about the paranormal and conspiracy theory topics: She shows a rare combination of outside-the-box-thinking, healthy skepticism and stringency in her investigation method. This is a very rare gift indeed, one she shares with her countrywoman Jenny Randles.

In this book, "The Stargate Conspiracy", Picknett takes aim at the alternative archaeology surrounding Ancient Egypt. Her two biggest targets here are Helena Blavatsky/Graham Hancock type "lost supercivilisation" hyper-diffusionists and the ancient astronaut crowd. The title of the book was no doubt chosen to ride the coat-tails of the science-fiction film "Stargate", which is probably more responsible than any other work of fiction for popularising the idea that aliens built the Pyramids. The first third of this book is a good introduction to what we know about ancient Egyptian cosmology, historiography and astronomy - as well as the academic disputes surrounding those topics. Picknett admits that the general consensus in archaeology about Ancient Egypt has its shortcomings, yet at the same time she remains critical of the most popular alternative theorists. One of those who comes out looking worst is Graham Hancock, who is shown actively sabotaging the careers of his critics.

Lynn Picknett also reveals that alternative archaeology can become an extremely deep rabbit hole to go down once you start looking at the prominent figures' hidden agendas. In addition to the skeletons in Graham Hancock's closet, another personality who turns out to have a suspicious agenda is Richard Hoagland who popularised the conspiracy theories about the Face on Mars and the supposed pyramids of Cydonia. Picknett's detective work reveals Hoagland to still have friendly connections with his old employer NASA by the time she wrote the book, while Hoagland at the same time cultivated a public image as a blacklisted dissident. Most interesting is Hoagland actively promoting discredited theories about lost Martian civilisations in order to drum up support for future expeditions to Mars either through NASA or private enterprise. (Picknett notices that Hoagland invests heavily in private space exploration)

And that's just the tip of the iceberg! As you get further into "The Stargate Conspiracy", you can play a "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game with ancient astronaut proponents and the CIA/MI6/Mossad's experiments with finding the espionage applications of psychic powers, memorably satirised by the George Clooney film "The Men who Stare at Goats". A key figure in these experiments was the Croatian-American psychic Andrija Puharich, who masterminded many of the CIA's experiments with psychic espionage and claimed to be in telepathic contact with "The Nine": A council of extraterrestrial rulers supposed to be the real identities of the Ancient Egyptian pantheon. Picknett documents how much of current ancient astronaut lore can be traced back to Puharich's alleged contact with The Nine.

Picknett documents in depth that many key ancient astronaut proponents, e. g. Andrija Puharich and J. J. Hurtak, have defended political views that are very much in line with 18th century French royalists, 19th century Japanese imperialists and 20th century Italian fascists. The worst offender here is probably J. J. Hurtak whom Picknett documents promoting such ideas as different human ethnic groups being the result of hybridisation with different alien races or the ideal system of government being totalitarian and theocratic, where a tiny elite of enlightened mystics rule over the masses. All this leads to hippie gurus frequently rubbing shoulders with the most politically reactionary luminaries of the CIA at places like the Esalen Institute. Even Whitley "Communion" Strieber turns out to be implicated in all this, especially when he starts going on about the Face of Mars and Ancient Egypt in "The Secret School: Preparation for Contact".

Near the end Picknett heads into Terence McKenna territory when presenting her favourite explanation for how ancient civilisations could have accomplished achievements in architecture, science etc that to this day baffle even people from technologically advanced civilisations like ours. Her thesis? That the ancients used hallucinogenic drugs to achieve trance-like states to communicate with the divine and calculate solutions to daunting problems in science and engineering that sober people could not! Picknett notes how psychonauts claim to encounter animal-headed humanoid beings similar to the Ancient Egyptian deities. This is something you can take or leave but I find that theory more satisfying than ancient aliens. At least we have hard evidence that hallucinogenic drugs exist and people have religious visions when taking them, whereas spacefaring extraterrestrial civilisations do not! For all this weirdness, anyone with an interest in alternative archaeology, Ancient Egypt or New Age subject matter should consider reading this book.
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September 1, 2015
This is a conspiracy book about conspiracy theorists. The writer's main thesis is that there is a conspiratorial thread, starting at the beginning of the "New Egyptology", with people like Schwaller De Lubicz and John Anthony West, and much of the major 20th century research into the paranormal and occult, especially Andrija Puharich and James Hurtack. I get the impression this book was not well received by many in the alternative scene, because it questioned the motives of some of our most beloved writers, like Robert Temple, Robert Bauval, and Graham Hancock. They never come out and say those particular individuals are 'insiders', but the connections they draw between the earlier alternative archaeologists, early paranormal research, and military/intelligence are certainly curious, and I found this book extremely eye opening. The biggest thing I took away was their discussion of the concept and tradition of synarchism. If you have any interest at all in alternative research, this is an absolute must read.
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July 28, 2011
Excellent and provocative book. It's about a lot of things - primarily about being human, and learning to stand on your own two feet, about not taking any shit from intelligence operatives, propagandists, miracle-workers, archaeologists (hide-bound or New Age), creators of the spectacular, space aliens, The Nine, whoever ... We're really worth so much more.

A genuinely inspiring book, with a warm, warm heart.
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January 19, 2018
Demne de admirație eforturile autorilor Lynn Picknett și Clive Prince de a unifica teoriile referitoare la noua ordine bazată pe conștiința de grup și sinergie care au creat o întreagă subcultură sub numele de New Age, și despre care cu toții am auzit cîte ceva dar o tratăm de obicei superficial, punînd-o repede în categoriile oarecum disprețuite ale paranormalui și/ sau ale conspirației, și considerînd-o așadar nedemnă de o abordare mai serioasă. Se pare însă că teoriile ei sînt studiate și monitorizate atent de instituții serioase ca NASA sau CIA, cu toate că scopul acestor studii și observații rămîne oarecum obscur.

În orice caz, credem sau nu în existența civilizațiilor extraterestre, în parapsihologie și paranormal, cartea Conspirația Stargate este utilă în măsura în care oferă o imagine de ansamblu a ideologiei grupurilor care și-au făcut din lumile de dincolo de curcubeu o nouă religie, legînd de ele viitorul umanității.

Punctul de plecare al acestor ideologii este reinterpretarea culturii antice, în special a Egiptului, în opere ca The Sirius Mystery, a lui Robert Temple, The Orion Mystery, a lui Robert Bauval și Adrian Gilbert, The Sign and the Seal, Graham Hancock și multe multe altele, pe care autorii le prezintă pe scurt, punînd în evidență anumite greșeli sau inexactitudini de interpretare și oferind în final propria interpretare a scopului promovării acestor idei.

Ideea care străbate, ca să zic așa, ca un fir roșu toată această literatură este că zeii egipteni au fost de fapt extratereștri, veniți (aici părerile sînt împărțite) fie de pe Sirius, fie de pe Marte și că ei s-au întors, dar că „doar unii aleși aud cuvintele lor și doar acești aleși vor participa la așteptata apocalipsă.” (acu’ eu știind bine că n-am nici o șansă să fiu printre „cei aleși”sînt preocupată de o chestiune mult mai trivială: oare această idee o fi inspirat serialul Stargate sau viceversa?).

Afirmațiile sînt susținute de mai multe argumente, dintre care unul dintre cele mai importante privește piramidele, al căror scop și modalitate de construcție rămîn neclare, căci contrar a ceea ce se crede, nu au fost construite ca morminte pentru faraoni, dat fiind că nu s-a păstrat în ele nici o dovadă a unui mormânt uman, nici un semn legat de înmormântare. Nu se știe prin urmare nici de ce, nici cum au fost construite de un popor la urma-urmelor abia ieșit din neolitic. Sînt formulate două ipoteze: fie piramidele aparțin unei epoci mult mai vechi, fiind monumente ale unei civilizații dispărute, fie o cultură extraterestră i-a ajutat pe egipteni să le ridice. Prima ipoteză este pusă la îndoială de vechimea lor, care nu pare a fi mai mare de 5000 de ani, perioadă prea mică pentru a justifica pierderea totală a urmelor unei civilizații avansate. Andrew Collins (From the Ashes of Angels) crede totuși că aceasta din urmă s-ar fi refugiat, în urma unei catastrofe, în munții Kurdistanului, în locuri precum fabulosul oraș subteran de la Çatal Hüyük, de unde s-ar fi ivit câteva secole mai târziu, oferind o parte din cunoaștere populației din Egipt și Sumer, ceea ce ar explica brusca înflorire a civilizației în aceste două centre, cam în același timp. Dar rămîne întrebarea, din ce cauză au dispărut mai apoi din nou?

Unul dintre vizionarii New Age este considerat mediumul american Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), un om altminteri normal, conform biografiei oficiale, dar care cînd cădea în transă putea diagnostica bolile și indica tratamentul lor, și care a lăsat așa-numitele profeții ale „Profetului Adormit”. În transele sale el afirma că fusese mare preot în Egiptul antic, unde s-ar fi refugiat împreună cu alți supraviețuitori ai Atlantidei. Atlanții ar fi construit Sfinxul și Marea Piramidă între 10490 și 10390 î. Hr. Tot el susținea că ar exista o Sală a Arhivelor, care conține atît vechile cronici ale umanității cît și istoria atlanților și care este ascunsă într-o piramidă subterană. De asemenea a profețit că în 1998 Marii Inițiați vor veni pe Pămînt pentru a pregăti „sosirea Stăpânului Lumii”. Cum au trecut de-atunci douăzeci de ani, din două una, dați-mi voie: ori venirea lor a fost ținută secret, ori e adevărat ce spun autorii, și anume că „printre prezicători, Edgar Cayce are cel mai deprimant palmares.”

Una dintre cele mai influente lucrări despre misterele Egiptului a fost The Syrius Mystery, apărută în 1976, tonul ei sobru făcînd ca ea să fie luată mult mai în serios, în ciuda erorilor, decât cea a lui Erich von Däniken, Amintiri despre viitor, publicată cu câțiva ani mai înainte. Autorul, Robert Temple, pornește, pentru a demonstra influența extraterestră asupra Pămîntului, de la miturile și credințele populației dogone, din Mali, în care apare informația că Sirius este însoțit de o altă stea, numită de ei Steaua Po (după sămînța unei plante, pentru a sugera dimensiunea ei minusculă). Existența lui Sirius B, așa cum a fost numită steaua ulterior, a fost confirmată de astronomi abia în 1842 și nu a putut fi fotografiată decît în 1970. Dogonii păreau să cunoască perioada ciclului de rotație de aproape cincizeci de ani a acestei stele pitice în jurul stelei mai mari, comemorând momentul printr-o ceremonie specială, ce avea loc la fiecare o sută de ani de-ai lor, ceea ce înseamnă cincizeci pentru noi, din cauza sistemului lor de calculare a anului. De asemenea, ei știau de existența unei a treia stele în același sistem solar, lucru dovedit științific abia în ultimii ani.

Știința dogonilor despre existența lui Sirius B rămâne un mister. Ei au, de fapt, o cunoaștere mult mai avansată a cosmosului decât menționează Temple în carte. Pe lângă faptul că știu de existența inelelor lui Saturn și a lunilor lui Jupiter, ei mai știu despre mișcarea în formă de spirală a Căii Lactee, că Luna este lipsită de viață și că Pământul se rotește în jurul axei sale. Ei mai știu și că stelele sunt niște sori, de exemplu numele lor alternativ pentru Steaua Femeilor (Sirius C) este yau nay dăgi, ceea ce înseamnă „Micul Soare al Femeilor”.


Temple pune cunoștințele despre stele ale dogonilor pe seama vizitei unei rase extraterestre de amfibieni, Nommo, sosite de pe o planetă din sistemul Sirius, și care s-ar afla în spatele dezvoltării întregii civilizații umane. Dar religia dogonilor nu spune nicăieri că zeul Nommo vine de pe Sirius, iar astronomii consideră puțin probabil ca sistemul Sirius să aibă planete de orice fel.

Cu toate acestea nu se poate nega că Sirius era o stea foarte importantă pentru egiptenii antici: unii cred că din cauza faptului că apărea chiar înainte de inundațiile anuale ale Nilului, cu toate că revărsarea acestuia nu era regulată, putând surveni oricând pe parcursul a două luni de zile.

Tot în sprijinul teoriei vizitelor extraterestre este și credința în existența unui grup misterios, Cei Nouă, care, spun autorii, ar fi impresionat un număr enorm de oameni (eu recunosc că am dat un Google search rapid dar n-am aflat mai nimic despre ei pe internet) și despre care s-au scris mai multe cărti, între care The Only Planet of Choice și The Keys of Enoch. In nuce, adeptii acesteia cred că Cei Nouă ar fi însărcinați de autoritatea intergalactică cu supervizarea și protecția Pămîntului. Așa cum observa și autorii, scenariul nu-i departe de Federația din Star Trek:

Cei Nouă mărturisesc a fi Marea Eneadă sau Cei Nouă Zei din anticul Heliopolis și pretind că se vor întoarce pe Pământ pentru a ajuta omenirea într-un moment critic al evoluției sale. (...)
Oricât de improbabil ni s-ar părea, Cei Nouă stăpânesc sufletele și mințile actorilor principali într-atât încât învățăturile lor au modelat concepția noastră despre spațiu, atât prin intermediul Star Trek, cât și prin așa-zisele date științifice legate de misiunile pe Marte.


După ce expun mai multe astfel de teorii, care amestecă experimente NASA, declarații ale unor oameni de știință, experiențe paranormale și așa mai departe, analizîndu-le și/ sau contrazicîndu-le, autorii încheie cu un avertisment despre pericolul pe care îl reprezintă acest amalgam de credințe și în general mișcarea New Age: punerea bazelor unei noi religii, cu sprijinul unor mari puteri mai mult sau mai putin oculte care văd în ea un mijloc eficace de control al omenirii:

Ceea ce numim conspirația porții stelare este cultivarea credinței că „zei” extratereștri care au creat rasa umană și guvernează civilizația sunt gata să se întoarcă. Este promovată pe diferite căi, de diverse grupuri de oameni, dar tema centrală asta este. O dată ce aceste credințe intră în subconștientul colectiv va fi relativ ușor să fie utilizate pentru fondarea unei noi religii. Scopul suprem al oricărei religii organizate este controlul social și nici aceasta, ne este teamă, nu va face excepție.


Pînă la urmă se demontează mai multe teorii ale conspirației pentru a se ajunge tot la o teorie a conspirației. Recunosc că scenariul propus mi s-a părut mai curînd rocambolesc decît diavolesc și că nu m-a convins în mod deosebit.

În orice caz, am reținut cîteva informații care dacă nu-s în totalitate corecte (n-am verificat, m-am bazat pe faptul că autorii își sprijină mereu afirmațiile pe o bibliografie bogată), măcar sînt suficient de amuzante ca să merite să fie menționate:

o că sinarhia (termen opus anarhiei, în sensul că propune controlul total, atît din punct de vedere politic cît și religios și economic), fondată la sfîrșitul secolului al XIX-lea, avea încă de pe atunci ca obiectiv crearea „Uniunii Federale Europene” (Bravo ei, unde-s mulți puterea crește și dușmanul nu sporește ☺ ).

o că Sfinxul a fost inițial pictat în roșu (informație care ar fi rămas doar un interesant fapt divers dacă nu i-ar fi făcut pe unii „piramidioți” – mi-a plăcut cuvîntul ăsta valiză – să susțină că se datorează faptului că atlanții, avînd pielea roșie, l-ar fi construit după chipul și asemănarea lor);

o că Maestrul lojei masonice se află în contact direct cu ființele inteligente de pe Sirius (asta n-are nici o bază stiințifică da’ mi s-a părut cute ca informație ☺, mai ales după paranoia antimasonică din ultima vreme);

o că se crede în mod eronat că Iisus a fost supranumit „Nazarineanul”, pentru că venea din localitatea Nazaret, cînd de fapt este o greșeală de traducere, din Biblie, a cuvîntului nazorean, adică membru al unei anumite secte;

o în fine, că cincizeci dintre cei cincizeci și șase de semnatari ai Declarației de Independență erau francmasoni, așa cum erau și cincizeci din cei cincizeci și cinci de autori ai Constituției (asta-i din aceeași categorie a informațiilor de iritat/ speriat antimasonii).


În concluzie – m-am distrat, da’ nu știu dacă mai citesc ceva în genul ăsta prea curînd
1 review
January 17, 2014
In the strange world of occultism and Conspiracy there lies a new undercurrent that has swept the globe in a momentous show of the New World's commitment towards consolidating the masses into a single unit of planetary society.

This book explores one of the stranger and more fascinating elements of this current's origins by examining a number of very curious associations in the body politic of Psychological operations, beauracracy, modern egyptology and Religion.

Though many would scoff at this book and perhaps rightly so for its Authors' bizzare about face recognition of non paranormal aspects of the New Egyptology movement and later affirmation that the Pyramids could not be built by simple means, it must also be said that the body of research is very impressive given the general lack of literature printed on this very niche subject matter.

If taken at its face value, this book is absurdum ad infinitum, a hall of mirrors that will lead you wondering just what the initial point of it all was, however, taken as a reference guide, this is one of the most well researched books available to triangulate the very real current Psychological Operations Experiment that is the New Age Movement and the more recent Ancient Aliens phenomenon.

Something very strange is going on in the shadows of Meta-Political beauracracy, and I've a mind to believe that it is no coincidence that the messages that Bauval and Hancock espouse are so similar, they are in fact political in nature. Whatever "New Atlantis" these Mythmakers are referring to seems like a prophecy that has hands on deck ready to build it to self fulfillment.

You are at liberty to dismiss the Authors' relatively absurd assessment of the alien phenomenon as anything other than carefully crafted myth, but do not let the fouling of one water defile what is a great repository of information in the long run.


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May 18, 2020
I remember buying this book years ago when looking for something outlandish to read, but when I finally got around to reading it, I realised that I'd misjudged it - well, partly. The authors don't hide the fact that they are open to many of the subjects discussed - alien contact, the pyramids of Mars, Atlantis - but most of the book adopts quite an agnostic approach to these central questions. However, it's most interesting aspect is that it provides a fascinating account of how various intelligence agencies, cults and organisations have manipulated - perhaps even created - the so-called New Age for their own agenda (sometimes 'spiritual', but often political or even military). Furthermore, the links it makes between these various individuals and organisations are often not conjectural, but documented fact - which is quite worrying, really. Do people in high places really think that aliens built the pyramids, or created life on Earth? Or is it all just some elaborate social experiment to road-test a new means of social control? The authors, to their credit, remain relatively open minded - which was, for someone with a sceptical disposition, something of a pleasant surprise for me! Saying that, their tracing of the endless and intricate web of connections may leave some readers cold.

Gareth Southwell is a philosopher, writer and illustrator.
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July 7, 2013
Fascinating look at the ties between CIA remote-viewing experiments and their contact with a group of discarnate entities calling themselves The Nine, and the culture of pseudo-archaeology that it contributed to.
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8 reviews4 followers
September 9, 2008
Good book, it's interesting to find out what the government would spend money on in the late '60s and '70s.
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December 30, 2012
found this fascinating. a lot of interesting information and really mind go wild, a little hard to grasp in some theories but definatley gets the imaginatiin going
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4 reviews7 followers
May 8, 2015
Very interesting. I read this book a few years ago, and, after thumbing through it recently, I plan to re-read it.
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389 reviews10 followers
November 10, 2019
Very intriguing book. I am persuaded that extraterrestrial contact has occurred throughout history. I read this book in 1996 and it opened my eyes to a lot of strange and mysterious information.
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16 reviews
December 12, 2022
Informative and enlightening. Surprisingly balanced and impartial. Somewhat disconcerting and at times disturbing. The authors do a good job of illustrating (with footnotes) Graham Hancock's fast and loose artistic license with dates and facts. Perceptive authors; noticing subtle thematic ties between many of the foremost proponents of the "new Egyptology". Recommended reading for inquisitive and honest students in search of Shamanic truths.

PS: Intriguing that the ancient Egyptians could build those amazing Pyramids, while not being proficient with basic bridge construction, as well as (apparently) having difficulty in taking into consideration the differences in building material density (granite vs limestone) and how it would compress over time.
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7 reviews
December 15, 2020
If you are ready to question everything you think you know, and to open up to controversial topics such as ETs, remote viewing, Atlantis, and so on this is a good way to start.

It is said that the Egyptian Pyramids were built around 5,000 years ago, but is this really the truth? Why would the people in charge lie about it? This well-researched book exposes evidence of a conspiracy that involves intelligence agencies (CIA/SRI), politicians, and well-known historians.

I would really recommend having a physical copy of this book, it was really difficult to read it in my kindle.
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23 reviews2 followers
September 18, 2020
Spoiler: The big conspiracy is that conspiracies about the pyramids have actually been manufactured by the CIA for some unknown reason that may or may not relate to aliens. The book is a comical mix of careful debunking of "mainstream" conspiracy theories about the pyramids, plus random unsupported assertions by the author of this book. It's fun to read at first but the lunacy wears thin after a while. Or maybe I'm a CIA operative being told by my alien overlords to write this.
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352 reviews26 followers
February 17, 2011
I read this and couldn't decide between laughing or rolling my eyes most of the times. My friends would know why I picked this up, but I'm really not into the whole conspiracy thing, and this was just laughable. The writing was all over the place, also. Good for a laugh, but not much else.
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89 reviews9 followers
June 14, 2020
This is a great book for conspiracy theorists. It has a cast that includes the Egyptians, 'the Nine', Uri Geller, extraterrestrials, the CIA, Atlantis and shamans. Enjoy.
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88 reviews
April 28, 2023
Almost all of this book was disproving other theories, the Epilogue was the most interesting part to read.
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January 28, 2022
Oricât de ciudat ar părea, nu aceasta este cartea pe care intenţionam să o scriem. Într-un sens, suntem de-a dreptul surprinşi, chiar puţin şocaţi, de a fi ajuns pe poteca dificilă ce ne-a dus, într-un târziu, la Conspiraţia Stargate*.

  Intenţionasem să scriem o continuare a lucrări noastre din 1997, Misterul templierilor, în care argumentam că religia creştină este descendenta vechiului cult egiptean al zeilor Isis şi Osiris – cultura noastră nefiind aşadar deloc iudeo-creştină, ci egipteano-creştină. Implicaţiile erau surprinzător de ample, dar divulgasem şi cel mai bine ascuns dintre toate secretele ereticilor cavaleri templieri, în cea mai controversată dezvăluire a cărţii – Ioan Botezătorul fusese adevăratul Mesia, iar Iisus un fel de uzurpator.

  Dorind să aflăm mai mult despre rădăcinile egiptene ale culturii noastre, am cercetat mai departe religia antică şi ne-am trezit examinând textele piramidelor şi originile scrierilor hermetice. Cu cât avansam mai mult, cu atât realizam că Egiptul antic poseda o cunoaştere uluitoare, mult peste nivelul acceptat de cercetătorii moderni. Am descoperit că aceşti oameni dintr-un trecut îndepărtat aveau o înţelegere a cosmologiei ce nu a mai fost egalată până în prezent şi poate că am mai avea şi azi câte ceva de învăţat de la ei. Până la urmă, nici cunoaşterea secretelor pierdute ale geniului egiptenilor antici nu a constituit subiectul cărţii.

  Ca nespecialişti în studierea Egiptului antic nu puteam rămâne indiferenţi faţă de interesul crescând arătat „Egiptului alternativ” al lui Andrew Collins, Colin Wilson şi al altora, ale căror cărţi concurau autocomplacerea egiptologiei clasice în afirmarea „certitudinilor”.Cum Stargate („Poarta Stelară”) este, evident, un nume de cod, am preferat să păstrăm această denumire şi în traducerea românească. (n.red.)

  În special trei autori au rămas asociaţi în conştiinţa publică cu ideile noi, radicale, despre cultura antică, mai ales despre Egipt: Robert Temple, autorul fecundei The Sirius Mystery (1976); Robert Bauval, coautor cu Adrian Gilbert al The Orion Mistery (1994); şi Graham Hancock, al cărui succes dincolo de orice limite a fost stabilit cu The Sign and the Seal (1992). De atunci, Hancock a căpătat o audienţă la scară mondială cu Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), cu lucrarea semnată împreună cu soţia sa, Santha Faiia, Heaven's Mirror (1998), cu aceea scrisă în colaborare cu Robert Bauval, Keeper of Genesis (1996) şi cu cea realizată împreună cu John Grisby, The Mars Mistery (1998). Aceste cărţi acoperă o paletă vastă de idei noi, fascinante şi radicale, multe atât de încetăţenite printre cititorii fideli, încât au început să fie considerate adevăruri. Şi, asemenea majorităţii cititorilor lor, am devenit şi noi admiratori entuziaşti.
August 30, 2017
Tout ça pour ça !

Du début à la fin, le livre est simple : Dire que telle ou telle personne "a dit que", et ensuite on descend joyeusement ce qui a été dit.

Je ne connais pas l'auteur qui est journaliste. Lire un livre aussi lourd par sa façon d'écrire les choses, les répétitions ou encore redondances, les expositions de faits pour les détruire ensuite avec une façon malsaine de jubiler, ne sert à rien et c'est pathétique. Aucun intérêt à lire tout ça.

Pour les plus : Les sources sont là. On peut donc aller regarder par soi même, mais très vite, on voudra fermer le livre et l'oublier avec l’animosité qui l'accompagne. Ensuite, le livre est vieux. Donc plus d'actualité par rapport à l'an 2000. Pfff si j'avais su.

Et pour finir. Tout se résume à la dernière page par : toutes les bêtises, que vous avez lues ou entendues, sont des bêtises diffusées par des antisémites racistes. OK !

Super. J'ai fini le livre et j'étais très heureuse de le remettre dans la bibliothèque. Il rejoindra très vite la section 2nd hand de la déchèterie.

Je me demande si une étoile ne serait pas plus juste ?
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1,010 reviews9 followers
October 25, 2017
I have read a plethora of these books over the years, starting all the way back to the 80s and they are a bit of a guilty pleasure.
I am used to reading the premised that 'could have .... done something that would have changed/hidden/revealed some mew interpretation of a historical fact. These books are rather light on any actual proof.
In this book the authors do a rip roaring effort in pulling down the theories of a host other authors before putting up their own.
What I did find interesting was the politics around accessing and commencing archaeological digs. Plus how if anyone starts works in or around the pyramids the conspiracy theories break out and agendas of those involved are questioned.
Always read these books with a liberal dose of scepticism as too often historical fact is mixed to easily with probabilities.
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216 reviews14 followers
July 26, 2023
Intelligently written and researched, the information here was released in the heart of the New Egyptology movement in the 90’s and brings into question many of its sources and conclusions while also revealing much information about the evolution of the New World Order right wing movement that has permeated both New Age and Masonic teachings, as well as other fundamentalist groups within organized religions. This information still is relevant today and deserves to be essential reading.
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