'it is apparent that we human beings (Homo
sapiens) have had our extraordinary brain capacity (and language ability) for some 200,000 years... When exactly during these 200,000 years did mankind begin to apply his billions of brain cells to
meaningful scientific thought? Was it 100,000 years ago, 50,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago?'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 388)'we must not be bound by the conventional wisdom that the large-brained Homo sapiens
spent 195,000 years playing with bows and arrows. More likely he enjoyed a good game of chess!'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 397)
'it is no longer tenable to assume that science cannot exist unless it is written down.
And yet this is exactly the approach which has been taken by many modern historians, who use the existence of writing as the essential dividing line of the past...'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 21)
'On the contrary,
the one billion brain cells of the human brain do not need the artificial construct of writing to function properly, and it is arrogant of us to assume that pre-historic people were incapable of tapping the brain's
latent powers, and using 'universal mentalese' to formulate scientific ideas.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 21)
'It is a fact that writing is an artificial construct and does not in any way reflect what is happening
within the human brain. In chapter one, I quoted from a book by Steven Pinker, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, who highlighted the fact that many great scientific breakthroughs have occurred via mind
visualisation rather than written language. Albert Einstein is a case-in-point. Therefore, if any sceptic suggests that pre-historic people were incapable of scientific thought, then that sceptic is himself patently
incapable of scientific thought.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 376)
'our impression of cavemen sitting around log fires discussing their hunting and gathering may be partly right, but some of them must have been
exceptionally inquisitive thinkers. Every generation has a great thinker like Einstein, who did not need the artificial invention of writing.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 388)
'It may rather be the case that small
islands of intellectualism have arisen amid a sea of human mediocrity, only to be repeatedly submerged by climatic catastrophes. Our past might well consist of wave upon wave of human cultures, rising and falling on the
back of Mother Earth, transmitting only their genes and their ideas to the archaeologists of the 21st century.'
(The Phoenix Solution pp. 388-89)
'climatic changes over the millennia mean that human settlements
will not necessarily be found in the usual places. What might exist under the ice of Antarctica from before 4000 bc, or in the flooded lands beneath the Black Sea from before 5600 bc? What might lie hidden beneath the
sands of the Sahara or beneath the impenetrable forest canopies of numerous regions around the world?'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 388)
'Human history may be much more complex than has hitherto been realised. Instead
of visualising a homogeneous population of neolithics, it is more likely that ancient peoples of the world were stratified into more-advanced and less-advanced cultures.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 22)
'There is...
absolutely no reason to distrust the idea of an advanced culture living alongside a less advanced one, and it would be naive to imagine that all neolithic people were at the same technological level...'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 21)
'the Great Pyramid should be the culmination of centuries of practice, and the prototypes should be readily visible. The evolutionary trail, however, is inexplicably missing.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 25)
'If preconceptions are put to one side and archaeology alone is our guide, the differences in design quality and aesthetics lead us inevitably to the conclusion that the two [Great]
pyramids bear the fingerprints of two separate pre-dynastic cultures at Giza. One of these cultures, the designers of the Great Pyramid, seems to have been far in advance of anything else ever seen in Egypt. The other,
the designers of the Second Pyramid, and perhaps also the megalithic temples and Sphinx, seems to have been equivalent in technical ability to Sneferu's designers at Dahshur.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 104)
'The
first secret of this 'lost civilisation', by the way, is that it was not a 'lost civilisation' at all, but rather a 'lost race', hence the few physical traces which have remained.'
(Introduction to The Phoenix Solution)
'it should be patently clear from this work that there is indeed a great deal of evidence which can be interpreted as coming from a lost civilisation, or rather a 'lost race'.
The list includes the following archaeological ooparts: the Great Pyramid, the Second Pyramid, the megalithic 'mortuary temple' to the Second Pyramid, the megalithic Valley Temple, the megalithic Sphinx Temple and the
Sphinx itself. This is quite a spectacular list, comprising the most significant structures on the Giza plateau, none of which in their own right can be classified as typical 4th Dynasty.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 102)
'The eminent Egyptologist Mark Lehner has challenged anyone to show him 'one pottery shard' of an earlier civilisation, but this assumes a major cultural presence at the site, which was
patently not the case. Lehner would have us all looking at our feet for potsherds so that we don't look up and see the enormous Pyramids and megalithic temples, which are spectacularly out-of-place in the standard
Egyptian chronology.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 375)
'What law states that the Great Pyramids had to be built by a state organisation? Why could they not be built by people of the pre-literate era, who were just as
intelligent as we are today?'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 381)
'Were the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx designed by an advanced non-sedentary culture, and did they abandon the site long before it took the fancy of Khufu?
Was the Giza plateau then maintained by an elite priesthood who left few traces of their presence, as at Stonehenge? If so - and such a possibility must be entertained - the term 'lost civilisation' would be a misnomer,
and it may be incorrect to look for a full-blown, highly advanced civilisation in archaic Giza. Instead, we should perhaps be searching for a relatively small group, which would be virtually invisible to archaeology.
Apart, that is, from their 'grand designs'.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 24)
'Is it not possible that, during the two millennia between the first agricultural societies and the first 'civilisations', one group of
intellectuals broke away from their fellows and followed a different, perhaps more 'enlightened' path? Could such a group of people be responsible for building the Great Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza?'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 22)
'we should perhaps be searching for a small group of pacifist intellectuals, who had no need for the artificial construct of writing, who eschewed ambitions of statehood, and who closely
guarded their knowledge, thus remaining virtually invisible to the archaeological record.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 26)
'a very strange leap does seem to have occurred at the dawn of the Egyptian state...'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 18)
'In the same way that the Incas have been credited with the prehistoric stonework in Peru, so have the ancient Egyptians taken credit for the pyramids of Giza.'
(Gods of the New Millennium p. 76)
'With the publication of The Phoenix Solution, the Great Pyramid no longer stands alone in Egypt as a testament to the scientific knowledge of the ancients. The balance of the
argument has now been tipped significantly in favour of a legacy of ancient wisdom, which is enshrined in the entire corpus of mythology from Egypt and other ancient civilisations, and preserved in many modern religious
traditions.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 410)
'there is evidence... which suggests a widespread knowledge of the EPH at the fundamental heart of Near Eastern religion in the 5th-6th millennia bc. This knowledge might
even be a lot older, perhaps dating back from the 'current wave' of human cultures to the pre-11000 bc wave, and earlier waves still.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 396)
