Magical Egypt - Season 1 (2001)

A growing body of evidence is suggesting a missing chapter in human history. Symbolist author and Egyptologist John Anthony West explores evidence of a sophisticated science behind the unexplainable accomplishments of Ancient Egypt. Was Ancient Egypt the inheritor of a body of scientific and spiritual knowledge from an even earlier civilization? Author / Mathematician Michael S. Schneider discusses organic geometry and the role of the fibonacci number series in growing life. West then demonstrates the presence of the fibonacci series in the stages of construction of the temple of Karnak - also known as the "House of Life".

John Anthony West explores architectural anomalies and other evidence of an advanced civilization predating the ancient Egyptians. Across Egypt, the many architectural, engineering, artistic and scientific wonders still defy explaination. The mysterious Oserion appears to already have been an ancient ruin when it was "uncovered" by Seti I during the construction of the Temple of Abydos in first Dynasty. New developments in the "age-of-the-sphinx" debate. In the Cairo museum is a stella which describes reparations to the great sphinx performed by the Father of the traditionally credited builder. Does the great sphinx conseal its own date of construction in the age of Leo?

An obscure and very ancient ruin in the deep Egyptian desert is found to contain an accurate sculpture of our Milky Way galaxy as well as 23 of it's neighbors. It also shows the trajectory and ACCURATE DISTANCES to significant stars in the constellation of Orion. Could this be an alien artifact? Astrophysicist and archeo-astronomer Thomas G. Brophy presents his bombshell discovery.

"The temple was the teaching". A look at the ancient Egyptian temple as an interactive repository of ancient teaching. After more than 17 years onsite at Luxor Temple, the enigmatic mathematician, philosopher and modern-day alchemist R. A. Schwaller de Lubics discovered a key that unlocks a timeless teaching encoded in stone. Does Luxor temple conseal an ancient teaching about the metaphysical anatomy of man? West explores the controversial findings of Schwaller de Lubics and the biometric data he discovered hidden in this remarkable temple.

Did the ancient Egyptian technology extend into mastery of the afterlife? In the Valley of the Kings, the tombs of Seti I and Tuthmosis III have been closed to the public for over a decade. Arcane funerary texts cover the walls of the tombs with a bewildering list of spells and secrets that allow the deceased to navigate the afterlife. Dr. Rick Strassman, author of "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" discusses the biochemistry of the death experience and the role of the mysterious pineal gland. Our powerful interaction with DMT is shedding new light on the ancient understanding of the "third eye" or pineal gland as the seat of consciousness. Lon Milo Duquette discusses the strange state of consciousness known as Lucid Dreaming and its unexpected relationship with the afterlife experience.