According To The Map

According to the Map presents evidence supporting an interpretation of the design of the pyramids at Giza as a map and a message. Three levels of abstraction will be employed to argue the pyramids map frameworks upon which phenomenology, psychology, and ontology reveal themselves as fundamental to our understanding of the human situation. The perspective of the presentation is phenomenology.

Because the map is also a representation of a more fundamental conceptual geometry that could only have been designed by someone with knowledge of the multidimensionality of the cosmos, there are essentially two messages encoded in the map: there’s a message about humanity’s situation represented by conceptual frameworks the deciphered map illustrates, and there’s a message regarding the map’s authorship we’re compelled to reflect upon. The map is presented as extraterrestrial in origin because if we’re right about its meaning, then no other explanation seems likely.

The book contains thirty four illustrations.

Excerpt from the Preface:

"We’re not suggesting someone other than ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, nor are we questioning the ability of an ancient civilization to accumulate sufficient knowledge and experience required to engineer a structure as spectacular as the Great Pyramid. What’s in doubt is the implication that ancient Egyptians discovered the conceptual frameworks and the underlying conceptual geometry supporting those frameworks. It's hard to transcend the suspicion that knowledge of the order of things required to make those discoveries is beyond what an ancient civilization might have acquired. Reconciling knowledge encoded in the design of the pyramid complex with what's known about ancient Egyptians may turn out to be a source of debate for those unable to embrace the stretch in plausibility of extraterrestrial influence, but it won't change the message.

Our goals are to turn the suggestion of an extraterrestrial message into a conclusion while highlighting research that may be the key to completely understanding what Earth’s visitors were trying to tell us. To achieve these goals, the argument for extraterrestrial visitation is presented at a level called popular science. Consistency with this level of presentation requires abstractions that may take some getting used to, but anyone mildly familiar with object oriented thinking required in computer science, the kind of graphical analysis employed in economics, or reflections of the type common in philosophy should find the material easy to assimilate.

The map encoded in the pyramids is interpreted from the perspective of phenomenology. To support the interpretation, a significant portion of the book is dedicated to using the pyramids to conceptualize a phenomenological situation of general interest. Chapter one starts by introducing the context and approach nec...