ABSTRACT
The preceding chapter provided a brief overview of the early days of Egyptology and how Napoleon Bonaparte’s late-18th-century invasion of Egypt brought European sensibilities to the study of the region. I also briefly investigated a few examples of ancient Egyptian advanced technology from an alternative history perspective. Egyptologists today continue to be confounded by a culture that is largely perceived as primitive yet is one that has obviously created, with astounding precision and efficacy, some of the world’s most impressive monuments, statuary, and works of art. I have maintained focus on these tangible artifacts in order to illustrate the connection between a nonmaterialist cosmology, which the ancient Egyptians seemed to possess, and the manifestation of material form. If the mainstream conjectures regarding the method of manufacture of these tangible artifacts does not live up to intense scrutiny (obviously, the mainstream believes they do), it would suggest other sources of energy or, from a more metaphysical perspective, other sources of psychic ability or subjective intention, connectedness, awareness, or consciousness that would allow them to manipulate matter in the obvious way that they did. I believe that Schwaller de Lubicz (1961/1988) and others (Malkowski, 2007; Naydler, 1994, 1996) have described this unique perspective of reality as sacred science.
