The apex of esoteric understanding in contemporary Western society, Egypt holds with it a mystique and allure that we in the West venerate with great reverence for the once-forgotten knowledge that had previously been housed there.

Admittedly, I never thought I’d have gone to Egypt so early in life (thinking that it was somewhere I’d visit much later on), but I’m glad that I did. Prior to going, Egypt held with it notions of ancient advanced civilizations and meddling alien races. Reading a myriad of books on the subject, I expected to be completely taken aback by what I had seen. However, though the pyramids are astounding in their own right, I was actually quite grounding how ordinary these extraordinary structures turned out to be.

Having previously travelled to Peru to see the ancient Inca architecture*, I can safely say now that the Great Pyramid’s architecture is just a rudimentary version of this style of construction (which makes sense because the Incas came after the Egyptians, so of course they learned from their predecessors).

For me, this architecture style was the smoking gun which completely validated Graham Hancock’s* research in my mind. How do two supposedly independent civilizations create architecture that is so like one another? An ancient advanced, seafaring civilization that had survived a global catastrophe and immediately set out to spread their knowledge to different parts of the globe—a group Graham refers to as the “Seven Sages” (side note: this is actually where Eighth Sage* got his name…). 

Perhaps the greatest lesson I’ve taken away from all of my reading and travels to visit these ancient sites for myself is that: (1) we are truly one species with common characteristics that transcend culture and tap into our innate human nature; (2) we’ve been here many times before, we’ve simply forgotten where we’ve come from (a “Species with Amnesia,” as Graham puts it); and (3) it’s always more important to go out and see and learn things for yourself!

Never just take what you hear and hold it as the highest truth (that is mere knowledge); rather, seek out the direct experience of that knowledge in order to gain true wisdom.

“Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.” - Edgar Allan Poe.

(Note: the above photo slideshow is actually the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt—not Cairo—I just felt like it was fitting to include in here.)