Not So Secret Histories of Egypt and the Universal Mind

Just finished reading, The Secret History of Ancient Egypt by Herbie Brennan (Berkley 2001), which, despite the title, is not a secret history of ancient Egypt.  Example:  he cites books, articles and research papers throughout the book – all of which would generally fall in the category of “Not-So-Secret-After-All-Is-It?”  But the advantage to all of his many citations is traceability – always appreciated.  He raises a number of theories about the technological knowledge of the ancient Egyptians:  the use of magnets, electricity and moving huge blocks of stones with sound waves, for example.  He also has sound reasoning for his belief that the civilization far pre-dates the earliest dates cited by traditional Egyptologists.  He also has a solid belief in the existence of that famous island that lay outside the Pillars of Hercules, and its role in the worldwide “deluge” myths and stories.

For me, the jury is mostly still out on Atlantis, although not for the same reasons others do.  I do believe Plato was re-telling a history that was told to him.  I’m always amazed when people talk about Plato’s intelligence, logic, and other admirable qualities, but then inexplicably decide he was nuts and completely off the mark when he discussed the history of Atlantis, told to him by Solon (I think), who got it from the Egyptians.  I also get completely disgusted at the seriously stupid, “Was Atlantis in a lake in Greece?” History Channel crap – you know the ones:  any time someone finds evidence of a local flood somewhere in the world, all of a sudden they’re claiming it was Atlantis.  Plato was a Greek.  Greeks had knowledge of the regional seas and oceans.  So did the Egyptians.  They knew where the Pillars of Hercules were.  What lay on the far side of the Pillars of Hercules?  Which are still there, by the way, if anyone wants to go look at pictures of them.  The Atlantic Ocean.  Not the Bay of India, or the Adriatic or the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

No, the shred of doubt comes from the sonar mapping of the Atlantic, which as yet hasn’t shown a drowned island at the bottom.  On the other hand, if the Atlantic was a muddy mess for centuries afterwards – as the stories claimed - perhaps the combination of earthquakes and volcanos erupting disintegrated the island as it broke up and sank.  Hard to say.  It would certainly explain a worldwide tsunami that flooded everyone off the shores, that’s for sure.  When you think about it, just the explosion of Krakatoa in the South Pacific was felt globally, in varying degrees.  I think they recorded a rise in ocean levels as far away as London.   And Krakatoa was just a small volcanic cone when it exploded.  Atlantis was a huge island mass that bridged western Europe, western Africa and the Americas. Some suspect that the volcanic Canary Islands off the coast of Spain are remnants of it, and they're still having eruptions and earthquakes - one catastrophic volcanic eruption in the Canaries would send a tsunami across the Atlantic right on top of me where I sit now, so let's hope it stays relatively quiet..

Stories of a great flood appear all over the globe, not just in isolated local areas, which would only make sense if you incorporate a long ago scenario of a huge island exploding in volcanic ash and massive earthquakes, disintegrating and sinking into one of the interconnected oceanic bodies of water ... the impact of that catastrophic event would have been global.  As I said, the jury is still most decidedly out on that one.  So there you go.

I’ve also been thinking about the “Universal Mind”.  Somewhere in this blog I mentioned starting a second book of sonnets inspired (in a negative sense) by John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”.  Meaning I found his point of view to be so annoying, I decided to block it out by replacement.  Differences being:  his is in blank verse, mine is not (obviously), and the major difference being he is (or was) John Milton and I’m not.  I mean not to denigrate his awesome talent as a poet; merely his point of view in that specific poem. 

In any event, the second book progresses by fizzles and starts ... sometimes it’s the best vehicle I have for collecting musings and thoughts.  So I was thinking about the Universal Mind.

I loved this painting of it – the artist is Todd Breitling, and I think you can even buy the painting.

What I loved about this painting is that it is one of the few attempted representations of the Universal Mind without a human being (head, head and body, face, hand) superimposed on it – as though human beings were the only beings with access to it.  So wrong.  I’m thinking that other beings on our own planet are far more skilled at accessing it than human beings are.  But that’s another gripe for another day.

The Universal Mind.  Here’s my question:  how do you differentiate between My Will/My Intent and the will and intent of the Universal Mind – are they always the same thing, or can I change my will and intent to something the Universal Mind didn’t intend for the holographic image which is what I see as myself?

I’m getting back to the “Think Positive!” mantra we always hear.  If I wasn’t thinking positively, was I still in alignment with the Universal Mind, and go into alignment only when my thinking changes from negative to positive?  Or were both negative and positive thinking aspects of the Universal Mind?  And who can answer these quandaries?

Off to run errands while I mull this over.