by Ashley Cowie Myths and heroes, angels and demons, monsters and nightmares all come from our collective unconscious. Parapsychology, alchemy and occult religious concepts can contribute to our understanding of the collective unconscious. These apparently fringe ideas are the bedrock to the scientific models of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), the Swiss psychiatrist who … [Read more...]
THE LOST MERIDIAN OF THE KHMER KINGS
by Ashley Cowie Part 5/5 So far in this series of articles exploring the powerful Hindu-Buddhist Angkor Empire in Southeast Asia, we have examined the cosmological, symbolic and mythical components found within temple architecture. Now we will systematically reverse-engineer the temple builders methods of archaeoastronomy, as approved by professors such as Stencel, … [Read more...]
THE HYPER-SACRED GEOGRAPHY OF ANGKOR WAT
by Ashley Cowie The first article in this series demonstrated how the builders of Angkor Wat created a vast religious complex to serve a greater purpose than the worship of deities. The religious symbolism associated with mythological and cosmic order is reflected in the orientations of ancient buildings worldwide (e.g. Magli 2015), and Angkor Wat is no exception. Its … [Read more...]
VEDIC CREATION MYTHS AND KHMER SACRED ARCHITECTURE
by Ashley Cowie In Part 1 of this series of articles we explored the astronomical measurements underlying the Khmer Temples in Cambodia and saw how all of the architectural features frame the pilgrims progression towards the central vertical alignment at the fulcrum of the main temple, the exemplary centre. Part 2 This photograph from Angkor Thom is a great example … [Read more...]
CAMBODIA’S EXEMPLARY CENTRE OF TIME AND SPACE
by Ashley Cowie Angkor Wat - PART 1/3 In 2012 I spent time filming a documentary in Peru and recently published a series of articles unfolding the sacred geography or the Inca empire establishing their most important temple alignments and how their religious buildings synchronised with the passage of the sun on key dates in the Inca's agricultural, civic and ritual … [Read more...]
MYSTERIOUS TEMPLAR CAVE IS FAKE NEWS
by Ashley Cowie You can tell him (a lunatic) by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars. ? Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum Several journalists have been in touch with me this week to comment on the 'discovery' of the 'Templar' cave in … [Read more...]
ODIN’S VALKYRIES AND SCOTLAND’S VIKING MOON MAP
by Ashley Cowie My last article "The Solar Secret of Scotland's Magic Piper" featured a 30 feet (9 m) high grassy hillock called Sysa, which was located behind a cottage I had rented in Weydale, 3 miles east of Thurso in Caithness, in the north east coast of Scotland. This enigmatic grassy mound played a central role in an enduring local Celtic myth - The Piper of Windy Ha' … [Read more...]
SCOTLAND’S CATASTROPHIC COMET CONSPIRACY
by Ashley Cowie In 1945 a hyper-excentric catastrophist published the most bizarre conspiracy theory of all time. Plato's legendary Atlantis thrived in Scotland before being destroyed by a comet impact, and in ancient times the capital city Edinburgh was the real Jerusalem. Movies such as Armageddon and Deep Impact have engrained the concept of Earth being obliterated … [Read more...]
SEEING BEYOND THE INCA’S SACRED PATH
by Ashley Cowie Part 3 ARMED WITH VINCE LEE'S MAPS OF THE PERUVIAN HIGHLANDS WE HAD LAUNCHED OUR EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF THE INCA'S GOLDEN SUN DISK AT THE WHITE ROCK ORACLE IN THE VILCABAMBA REGION OF PERU. For over a week we had explored the two great river gorges of the Urubamba and Apurimac and we had navigated the cloud covered peaks, cold uplands and moist forests … [Read more...]
SECRET STAR MAP AND THE GOLDEN TEMPLE OF COSMOVISION
by Ashley Cowie AN ANCIENT STAR MAP FEATURED IN THE GOLDEN TEMPLE AT THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE IDENTIFIES A SECRET ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY HIDDEN ON A REMOTE MOUNTAIN TOP IN DEEPEST SOUTH AMERICA. THIS STORY RECOUNTS MY ADVENTURES GETTING THERE AND HOW I ALMOST DIED TRYING TO DIG UP A LOST MYSTICAL ARTEFACT SAID TO OFFER INITIATED USERS A BROADBAND CONNECTION WITH THE … [Read more...]
THE ENCODED CRUSADER’S SWORD
by Ashley Cowie CAN YOU SOLVE THE CRYPTIC CODE ENGRAVED INTO THE BLADE OF THIS 13TH CENTURY SWORD? THE CURIOUS INSCRIPTION CONTINUES TO BAFFLE HISTORIANS, CRYPTOGRAPHERS AND LINGUISTS AND LAST YEAR THE BRITISH LIBRARY APPEALED TO THE PUBLIC FOR HELP IN CRACKING THIS 800 YEAR OLD MYSTERY. A 13th century, double-edged sword, possibly of German manufacture but … [Read more...]
SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE
by Ashley Cowie THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE IS TO SOME, A MYSTERIOUS SUBSTANCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING BASE METALS INTO GOLD WHILE TO OTHERS IT'S A METAPHOR FOR SPIRITUAL GOLD - ENLIGHTENMENT. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES HOW BOTH CONCEPTS BECAME SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S OBSESSION AND SUGGESTS HIS QUEST MIGHT HAVE INFLUENCED SOME OF HIS GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. The first … [Read more...]
THE DOG DELUSION
by Ashley Cowie ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LOVED A DOG KNOWS THE WARMTH OF THEIR COMPANIONSHIP, BUT DID YOU KNOW AN ACT OF SHEER VANITY IN THE 19TH CENTURY BROUGHT 40 MILLION YEARS OF THE GENETIC EVOLUTION OF DOGS TO AN END? DOGS IN PRE-HISTORY The early ancestors of Gray Wolves were a group of carnivores named thecreodonts, that roamed the northern hemisphere between … [Read more...]
SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE EMERALD TABLET
BY ASHLEY COWIE THE OBSERVATIONS PRESENTED IN THIS ARTICLE ANSWER ONE OF THE MOST PERPLEXING QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE HISTORY, AND IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. WHAT INSPIRED SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION AND UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION? BIG CLAIMS REQUIRE BIG PROOFS. IGET IT. READ ON... FIRSTLY, LETS TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO ANCIENT EGYPT. YOU'RE IN A HIDDEN CAVE … [Read more...]
SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE DOOMSDAY TEMPLE
by Ashley Cowie REVEALED, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF MODERN MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND OPTICS PRACTICED ANCIENT PSYCHOMAGIC TO DRIVE A DEEPLY MYSTICAL HIDDEN APOCALYPTIC AGENDA. Albeit that last sentence is highly counter intuitive, every word is accurate. Two centuries after Newton's death thousands of unpublished papers revealed this master of the … [Read more...]
ARTEFACT DATED AS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD
A MYSTIFYING ANCIENT PRE-COLOMBIAN ARTEFACT DISPLAYING UNIDENTIFIABLE LIFEFORMS IS NEITHER A HOAX OR A MISINTERPRETATION. IT'S A CLASSIC OOPART (OUT-OF-PLACE ARTEFACT) DATED TO HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD AND IT DEFIES HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT. OR DOES IT? by Ashley Cowie BACKSTORY In South America gold has been a vastly important commodity for prehistoric and … [Read more...]
Scientists Claim 130 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSIL IS HUMAN
by Ashley Cowie A TELEVISION INTERVIEW WITH AN ARTEFACT COLLECTOR LED ME TO UNCOVER A SCIENTIFIC CONSPIRACY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS. Professors are the high priests of our technology driven society, but as you will see, sometimes the letters behind their names serve to disguise corrupt and highly unscientific hidden agendas. BACKSTORY Last week I led a documentary crew … [Read more...]