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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Eg-update 15.1</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Friends, Grockles,
Egyptophiles, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">1.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">IMPORTANT NOTICE</B>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">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 <A href="http://www.jawest.com/">www.jawest.com</A>
to <A href="http://www.jawest.net/">www.jawest.net</A>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So if you want to access the website,
use the new url. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">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.) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So this is a last chance.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">I have also acquired a
second email <A href="mailto:jawsphinx@jawest.net">jawsphinx@jawest.net</A>.
However, the aol address<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:ajwsphinx@aol.com">jawsphinx@aol.com</A> to is still functioning
and will continue to function until I have everything sorted out. I may end up
keeping both. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">2. Magical Egypt Trip
Schedule:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Autumn<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2004, Winter
2005<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">November dates
2004:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Saturday
Oct 30<SUP>th</SUP><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Departure
out of JFK</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Tuesday
Nov 16<SUP>th<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SUP><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Departure
out of CAI<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2>December Dates -- Magical Egypt Holiday Special<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> </SPAN>*</H2>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in">Friday Dec. 03<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Departure out of JFK</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in">Tuesday Dec 14<SUP>th</SUP><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Departure out of CAI</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Only $2995<o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">February dates
2005:</SPAN><o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Tuesday
Feb 08<SUP>th</SUP><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Departure out of JFK</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Friday Feb
25<SUP>th</SUP><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Departure from Cairo </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">March dates
2005: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Tuesday
Mar 08<SUP>th</SUP><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Departure out of JFK</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Friday Mar
25<SUP>th</SUP><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Departure from Cairo<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">I expect
to add a shorter 10 or 11 day December 2004 trip to this schedule, but do not
yet have firm dates. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Alumni Trip 2004<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone without exception says
that second trip provides the in-depth understanding. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>It would be much appreciated if those<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
warm reaction we get as Americans remains unchanged –which I find nothing short
of miraculous.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that’s how it
is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">3. JAW ON THE GHMB
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">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. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Recently, there was a
typical convoluted sequence of threads on the Graham Hancock message board
(GHMB).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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?).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In any event, they were
trying to nibble and quibble the Sphinx weathering hypothesis to bits.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">For a variety of reasons I
decided to dive in to this one, which of course resulted in a still longer
tangle of threads.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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). <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Sincere Double Apology from John Anthony
West</I> 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.)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/WestJA1.php">http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/WestJA1.php</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
title=http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=153775&t=153586
href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=153775&t=153586">Click
here: The Official Graham Hancock Website: The Mysteries - Where is John Anthony
West?</A> <BR><BR><A
title=http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=153586&t=153586
href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=153586&t=153586">http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=153586&t=153586</A><BR><BR><A
title=http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154741&t=154741
href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154741&t=154741">http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154741&t=154741</A><BR><BR><A
title=http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154885&t=154885
href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154885&t=154885">http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=154885&t=154885</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">4. Breaking
News<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1>Some ‘Serious, Substantive Issues’ &<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Psycholinguistic Analysis’</H1>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Still more words!!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Not long ago, everybody’s favorite archaeologist, Garrett Fagan,
posted<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>a virulently negative 37
page review of Robert Schoch’s most recent book Voyages of the Pyramid Builders
on the Hall of Maat Website. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"><A
title=http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/article.php?sid=79
href="http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/article.php?sid=79">http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/article.php?sid=79</A>
.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">Intemperate and
apoplectic, even by Fagan standards,</SPAN> this provoked another<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>tangle of threads, most of them
accolades of support and applause from Maatzis-in-Residence but with a few
dissenting voices in the mix.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
seemed to me the outnumbered dissenters could use some support as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you’re one of those, my essay is pretty much self-explanatory.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/read.php?f=1&i=191498&t=191498">http://www.hallofmaat.com/maat/read.php?f=1&i=191498&t=191498</A>
</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>It’s too long to send as an email, so it’s sent as an
attached file. </P>
<P
class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________________________________
</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">HOW THE PYRAMID WAS BUILT
…maybe<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">For some time I’ve been in
touch with Wally Wallingford, who has spent a lifetime as problem solver on
construction projects.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Following is
an email from Wallingford with links to his web site.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>>John Anthony West:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Just wanted to update you on my project.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In October Discovery Channel Canada witnessed, moving and
standing on end of my ten ton block.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>They spent 3 days filming in my back yard.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The segment they did (Secrets of Stonehenge) has aired in
Canada, and may soon be airing in the US.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>It can also be viewed at <A title=http://www.exn.ca/
href="http://www.exn.ca/">www.EXN.CA</A>.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I have also updated my site <A
title=http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/
href="http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/">www.theforgottentechnology.com</A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Everything went well and as planned, I also included as you
suggested rolling the block to service the fulcrums under.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your interest Wally< </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>That’s it for now. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>All the best, </P>
<P class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>John Anthony West </P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>