Graham Hancock's "Monuments to Life" w/Robert Bauval (feat. heated Egyptology discussion)

As promised, albeit four months on, here is Graham Hancock's spiritual evaluation of the implications of his book "Fingerprints of the Gods," again featuring his wife Santha's excellent photography.

As Hancock says in the beginning, he has been giving talks, presenting tantalyzing information from "Fingerprints of the Gods," but on this occasion, he felt moved to give a more spiritual talk on the subject. So the entire tenor of the evening is charged with frankness, candor, genuine appreciation, and (not least) fervent desire to cut the bureaucratic "red tape" impeding urgent research on the Giza Plateau.

In this atmosphere, a curious little man with a shopping bag (apparently he came to the presentation and bought Hancock's book, bless his heart) has the courage to join Hancock and Bauval on stage and, incredibly, actually does his earnest best at playing the part of apologist for Mr Red-Tape himself, Zahi Hawass, "Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of the Giza Pyramids Excavation," etc, etc.

The crowd is growing increasingly restless with this little gnome-like man holding the shopping bag, incredulous someone could actually defend bureaucracy when the fate of humanity itself very well could be on the line...

Enter noneother than John Anthony West: No one else could have prevented a gnome-lynching except West, with his overwhelming good-natured wit, humor, and pre-eminent likeability.

From this moment forward, John Anthony West won my ardent admiration.

I've since learned from West's podcast (http://jawphoenixfire.blogspot.com) that he and Hawass have, perhaps unbelievably, become something like good friends. Hats off to West!

And, if you're curious about a moment in this presentation during which the audience generally applauds Hancock's suggestion that the fate of the world might depend on stopping horrid practices like the child-slavetrade, may I recommend you watch "Dan Burisch Uncensored?"

West, of course, incidentally, is the man who championed R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz's offhand remark that the Great Sphinx showed signs of water-damage: Over 250,000,000 people, thanks to West, have received the powerful--indeed, paradigm-shattering--information that the Sphinx is much, much, and again much older than Egyptologists believed . . . received that information, understood it, digested it, and have (thanks to West & co.) joined the ranks of us "upsetting the apple-cart."

The Burisch video can be found at:

http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO_Files_b-files.htm