[John A. West] Eg-update 15.1 Wallingford-Forgotten technology

Tue Mar 30 16:40:56 PST 2004

Eg-update 15.1

Friends, Grockles, Egyptophiles,

1.  IMPORTANT NOTICE.

You should, by now, have received at least one (and some of you, two)
notices telling you that I’ve switched my website URL from www.jawest.com to
www.jawest.net.  So if you want to access the website, use the new url.

I have also switched the host from AOL, which was exceedingly
list-unfriendly (among a number of irritating features and problems, I could
never get the blasted BCC function to work right, and many of you were
getting my updates with a long screen of unwanted names attached.)

The new host is Dreamhost. There will no longer be problems of this sort.
HOWEVER, Dreamhost is very spam-wary, and they insist that if I am send out
group mailings, everyone on my list must have asked explicitly to be on it.
So this is a last chance.

I have also acquired a second email jawsphinx at jawest.net. However, the aol
address  jawsphinx at aol.com to is still functioning and will continue to
function until I have everything sorted out. I may end up keeping both.

2. Magical Egypt Trip Schedule:  Autumn  2004, Winter 2005

November dates 2004:

Saturday Oct 30th         Departure out of JFK

Tuesday Nov 16th          Departure out of CAI

December Dates -- Magical Egypt Holiday Special *
Friday Dec. 03             Departure out of JFK

Tuesday Dec 14th         Departure out of CAI

*  Only $2995

February dates 2005:

Tuesday Feb 08th                     Departure out of JFK

Friday Feb 25th                        Departure from Cairo

March dates 2005:

Tuesday Mar 08th                     Departure out of JFK

Friday Mar 25th                        Departure from Cairo

I expect to add a shorter 10 or 11 day December 2004 trip to this schedule,
but do not yet have firm dates.

Alumni Trip 2004
I’m sorry to report that after a considerable show of initial interest in
this trip, not enough people signed on to make it fly. Since this was the
third failed attempt to get it going, I take that as a sign from the gods
that it’s not supposed to and I won’t try again.  I’m sorry about that, I
was particularly keen myself on the optional add-on trip to the Siwa Oasis,
and if the demand justifies it, I may make that an add-on to one of my
regular trips.

I think those of you who’ve been on trip with me already might like to know
that people who decide to do a repeat invariably report that in a way, the
second time around was even better.  You do not, of course, experience that
incredible initial impact that Egypt gives you, but its an unfailing
reaction that the combination of Egypt, and the onslaught of information
that you get the first time is impossible to thoroughly process.   Everyone
without exception says that second trip provides the in-depth understanding.

It would be much appreciated if those  who’ve traveled with me before do a
bit of PR and tell your friends and relatives about the trips. Egypt remains
as safe as anywhere else in the world.  The warm reaction we get as
Americans remains unchanged –which I find nothing short of miraculous.  But
that’s how it is.

3. JAW ON THE GHMB

Though I’ve learned from bitter experience to avoid getting involved in chat
room and message board controversies about the age of the Sphinx and related
Egypt issues –which take an inordinate amount of time and accomplish
nothing-- sometimes I find it impossible to resist.

Recently, there was a typical convoluted sequence of threads on the Graham
Hancock message board (GHMB).  A number of regulars from thehallofmaat
website had moved over to GHMB (possibly officially dispatched by the Maatzi
High Command to establish a beachhead prior to attempting a hostile
takeover?).  In any event, they were trying to nibble and quibble the Sphinx
weathering hypothesis to bits.

For a variety of reasons I decided to dive in to this one, which of course
resulted in a still longer tangle of threads.  But for those of you who are
retired, privately wealthy or living on welfare, or just have nothing else
to do with your lives all day long, some of this wad of words may be of
interest; in particular a long response written as a separate article
(rather than as a thread that gets buried in the tangle). A Sincere Double
Apology from John Anthony West was posted to the GH Forum. Following is the
link to that article, and after that links to at least some of the preceding
and subsequent palaver (possibly not in the correct order but you’ll figure
it out.)

http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/WestJA1.php

Click here: The Official Graham Hancock Website: The Mysteries - Where is
John Anthony West?

http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=153586&t=153586

http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154741&t=154741

http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154885&t=154885

4. Breaking News

Some ‘Serious, Substantive Issues’ &  A Psycholinguistic Analysis’

Still more words!!  Not long ago, everybody’s favorite archaeologist,
Garrett Fagan, posted  a virulently negative 37 page review of Robert Schoch
’s most recent book Voyages of the Pyramid Builders on the Hall of Maat
Website. http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/article.php?sid=79 .

Intemperate and apoplectic, even by Fagan standards, this provoked another
tangle of threads, most of them accolades of support and applause from
Maatzis-in-Residence but with a few dissenting voices in the mix.  It seemed
to me the outnumbered dissenters could use some support as well.  Moreover,
both the tone and content of this Fagan review and the brouhaha that
accompanied it provided an opportunity to deal with a variety of topics
germane to the ongoing Sphinx controversy and related issues in a new and –
I like to think- amusing way. This essay is the result.

If this is the first you’ve heard of the Fagan review, before reading my
response it’s not a bad idea to read it first and even follow some of the
threads, anyway, as much of it as you can handle, to put it all into
context. Appreciating Fagan is admittedly something of an acquired taste,
and many of you probably have not acquired it.  If you’re one of those, my
essay is pretty much self-explanatory.

http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/read.php?f=1&i=191498&t=191498

It’s too long to send as an email, so it’s sent as an attached file.

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HOW THE PYRAMID WAS BUILT 
maybe

For some time I’ve been in touch with Wally Wallingford, who has spent a
lifetime as problem solver on construction projects.  Wally has been looking
into the possibility of moving the huge blocks of the pyramid with very
basic technology, and has come up with a method that uses a double fulcrum
under the block, with the fulcrums placed on either side of center.  This
allows him to move and manoeuvre very substantial blocks around single
handed with relative ease. While that is a long way from ‘proving’ that’s
how the ancients did it, it’s the first systematically developed practical
demonstration I’ve seen that might actually work, especially if employed by
highly skilled workers with generations of practice behind them.  Following
is an email from Wallingford with links to his web site.

>John Anthony West:

Just wanted to update you on my project.

In October Discovery Channel Canada witnessed, moving and standing on end of
my ten ton block.

They spent 3 days filming in my back yard.

The segment they did (Secrets of Stonehenge) has aired in Canada, and may
soon be airing in the US.

It can also be viewed at www.EXN.CA.

I have also updated my site www.theforgottentechnology.com

Everything went well and as planned, I also included as you suggested
rolling the block to service the fulcrums under.

Thanks for your interest Wally<

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That’s it for now.

All the best,

John Anthony West
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