To be announced ... To learn all about a Magical Egypt trip, complete with a detailed itinerary and to get yourself a seat... read the Trip info page

PhoenixFire is now available!
Catch every enlightening broadcast...

Friends, Grockles, Egyptophiles,

A brief message ... more to come ... sooner or later.

Upcoming lectures in the New York area.

http://www.neara.org/Spring2010.pdf

This is an interesting weekend in Kingston NY with the New England Archeological Research Association. I'm after-dinner (and therefore after-vodka) speaker on Saturday night so there should be some jokes... I think you can enroll in day tickets if you can't make the whole weekend. It should be a lively gathering. My good friends Laird Scranton and William Sullivan will both be there and both have extremely interesting material to pass on.

http://www.opencenter.org/?m=20100430&cat=3

See the website. I'll be concentrating more on the doctrine and the numbers in this, so there will be much new material, and I'll also talk about my upcoming trip to Turkey with Robert Schoch to visit the amazing site at Goebekli Tepe (google it up).

Coming soon - I hope - in depth reviews of some significant, recently published books and other new material.

Lately, I've been snowed under working with my old friend and colleague, trend forecaster Gerald Celente. Most of the stuff going on now, he (we) predicted long ago, and there is more -much of it unwelcome- to come. Google up Gerald as well.

I hope to see at least some of you at Kingston or NYC.

Best,

John

John Anthony West
675 Manorville Rd.
Saugerties NY 12477

Tel: 518-678-2160
www.jawest.net

To join my private mailing list and receive occasional updates and Egypt Trip information, click here http://lists.jawest.net/listinfo.cgi/jawlist-jawest.net

To listen to my PhoenixFire Audio blogs click here http://jawphoenixfire.blogspot.com/

Conscious Media Network Video Interview:

The video interview... 26 minutes

An excellent and fun to watch video interview of John recorded by the Conscious Media Network at the recent CPAK 2007 Conference. An enlightened bunch, the Network features many, many quality interviews to catch up on and offers much of value to enrich understanding.

THE FOUR COWBOYS OF APOCALYPSE 2.0

PART 1, CAPITALISM

click here to play the show

Everyone is familiar with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, though not all know their pedigree. It’s the name given to the revelation of the future granted to St John on the Isle of Patmos. The horsemen themselves are Pestilence, War, Famine and Death (not necessarily in that order, depending upon which reference is consulted.) Their names (which might disincline people from wanting to bet on them in the Kentucky Derby) have made the word ‘apocalypse’ almost synonymous with Doomsday, which is, strictly speaking, incorrect. It derives from a Greek word meaning to ‘reveal’ or ‘disclose’ and by extension , it means a prophesy or vision of the future, not necessarily an ominous one.

Doomsday is quite another matter, more appropriately linked to another familiar word from Revelation, Armageddon, the site of the final decisive battle on the Day of Judgment, in which the Lamb bests the Whore of Babylon … and throngs of otherwise certifiable people are whisked off to heaven. It’s not easy to make rational sense out of Revelation (which doesn’t mean it can’t make sense on some other level) but it does read like it’s been written on something at least as potent as ayahuasca, though there’s no record of John visiting the Brazilian rainforest. On the other hand, who knows what they had growing on Patmos?

In any event, The Four Horsemen are pretty obvious. They ‘ve been around and universally active since long before St. John’s time and still are; no surprises there, and no need for further elaboration beyond perhaps noting that of the four, only War is directly attributable to errant, defiant, violent humanity. Unless, of course, it is argued (and so it is by some) that the other three horsemen are set loose in divine retribution; for a variety of human abominations –homosexuality, pre-marital sex, smoking or ingesting illegal substances, not wearing a seat belt, and so on.

The Four Cowboys of Apocalypse 2.0 are much less obvious, yet in one way or another they aid and abet the original Four. In the Walt Disney 3D, HD Western/Action-Thriller/Horror/Farce called Western Civilization, they are the self-appointed posse, riding white geldings; wearing white Stetsons, galloping roughshod over the globe and spreading ‘tidings of comfort and joy’.

When examined closely, The Four Cowboys are no less destructive than the original Four Horsemen, maybe ultimately more so since they come in disguise. All of them are played, with characteristic ineptitude, by John Wayne. They differ from the Four Horsemen in that they are all, each one, directly and unmistakably human generated.

They are: Capitalism, Patriotism, Democracy and Technology

In PhoenixFire 9 (and 10, and maybe 11) we deal with them in turn.

The role of Capitalism is easiest to understand, almost obvious in fact, except to the leaders and economists of almost every country in the world. This Cowboy occupies the whole of PF9, which may sound excessive, but is nevertheless appropriate, since it is this Cowboy that is largely responsible for the financial debacle now unfolding globally, and from which there is no foreseeable release or return.

The other three Cowboys will be discussed in subsequent PhoenixFires.

click here to play the show

Featured music track "Shake" by Stepford Wives

Links: The Emperor's new clothes (Con't.) a short story by JAW
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Omni magazine

Best,

John Anthony West



PHOENIXFIRE 8 CONSIDER THE KALI YUGA. click here to play PF8

I am author of the month on Graham Hancock's website, there you can find an essay relating to the Yugas and the cyclical view of history.

Some useful links: Richard Heinberg Sri Yukteswar

For those who’ve not been on a Magical Egypt Trip, here’s a way to get a feel for what they’re actually like. more..

I am reformulating my tour.

Too many people (especially Americans) have said they can't go because they can't afford to take the 18 days door-to-door that the trips require. Since 9/11 I've had huge problems making the trips run at all and am inclined to think that the 18 days is to no little extent responsible - since as of last winter the Americans were back in Egypt, but not with me.

I've therefore decided to reduce the package to 11/12 days door-to-door and make it a Cairo/Luxor intensive. This both shortens it and reduces the price by about $1000 and at the same time (if you look at the old itinerary, you'll see) still includes about 75-80% of the sites.

The cruise is out and that is in a sense a considerable 'miss'. There is no doubt that the 2 days (of the 4-5 nights advertised) actually spent sailing are a delight. But the fact is that there are now over 300 boats plying the river, and the result is that the two sites we visit en route to Aswan (Edfu & Kom Ombo) are a human zoo when we get there and the 'experience' is a long way from the Egypt I like to present.

The same applies to Abu Simbel. It's next to impossible to see and enjoy this wonderful place with huge crowds there and it is now also next to impossible to engineer the trip in such a way that Abu Simbel can be truly enjoyed. Moreover, they've now made it illegal for anyone to lecture inside the temple so my own presence there is hardly necessary. (People can get all the essential information from my guidebook.) This makes the only really serious miss Philae, which is also a zoo all day long from the opening time on - except, as I've just disccovered, during lunch when it empties out. But there's no practical way to include it and still keep the trip within the shorter period.

I am still looking for funding for our Geologists Panel. It is imperative to carry out this survey. Without it, the Sphinx theory, however valid and scientifically demonstrated, is heading towards academic limbo, misrepresented and marginalized by its opponents. A report by an independent panel of geologists with expertise in the various specialties involved is absolutely essential to provide the publicity and press to keep the battle alive. Without that, it could get buried. More.