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New Discoveries in Magical Egypt 2 In 2008 a team of career artists, art and architecture historians, and comparative mythology scholars began a ten-year research project to study ancient aesthetic canons and related forms of visual expression used in Ancient Egypt. “Magical Egypt” presents the results of the project in the new season of the documentary series.The team has discovered a previously unrecognized visual language, a type of visual cipher, hidden in the hieroglyphic reliefs, statuary, and architectural motifs of ancient Egypt. The message encrypted in this visual language is scientific. It records and transmits the core principles of a very sophisticated ancient science.The discovery holds severe implications for art history as well as scientific history. These discoveries show an unprecedented marriage of art and science that allows central scientific principles to be communicated visually, in a trans-lingual mode of transmission. These discoveries stand at odds with the generally held view that the ancient Egyptians did not know what the brain was for, and are confrontational to the generally agreed-upon picture of the ancient psyche and the level of scientific sophistication in place in the ancient world.Just as surprising as the sophistication of the ancient science is its focus - the artwork transmits beautifully encrypted schematics of brain architecture and other biological systems: most having to do with either the mystery of consciousness or the mystery of reproduction. The more examples the team compiled, the more it seemed that the entire culture was a giant expression of an ancient story told through art and symbol. The story serves as an allegory, or to use a more modern term, a dynamic model of the mysteries of consciousness itself. First, it schematizes the vital biological systems that are involved with consciousness. Then, through the use of mythos, legend, and symbol, it ascribes to them an array of descriptors, specific behaviors, tendencies, affinities, and other operational, functional information making for a brilliant transmission of both the form and functionChance Gardner and Brad Klausen Discuss their Findings Want more? Click Here to Get the series at half price for a limited time only Historical Precedent For Biological Correspondence in ArtA precedent for biological correspondence in art was set in the Oct 10th, 1990 Issue of JAMA when Dr. Frank Meshberger published the theory and the visual proofs that Michaelangelo had depicted a brain in his painting “The Creation of Adam” on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When the painting is compared with or overlaid upon its “biological correspondence”, in this case, the human brain in sagittal view, we see that not only does it demonstrate a sophisticated knowledge of the physical attributes of the brain, but it marries symbolism to each location to suggest the function of the various physical systems. A particular emphasis is placed on Sophia, goddess of divine knowledge, emerging from the midbrain, diencephalon complex at the area where the thalamus, third and fourth ventricles, and choroid plexus are located. This seems to be the juncture of our circulatory, nervous, and endocrine systems, that is repeatedly pointed to in the ancient science. Thus in these artistic traditions, it is associated with a specific kind of divinity. Another precedent for biological correspondence in art was set in Dec 2007 when Alessandro Paluzzi, Antonio Belli, Peter Bain, and Laura Viva published Brain ‘imaging’ in the Renaissance discussing several examples of hidden symbolism in Renaissance paintings including Gerard David's painting of the ‘Transfiguration of Christ’ resembles a coronal section of the brain. You can find the complete text and other examples here ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121627/)Once we were alerted to the presence of this technique, it became visible in the sacred art of other cultures as well, eventually leading to recognizing this ancient scientific message in use from the very earliest expressions of sacred art.A new kind of Rosetta Stone: The decoder ring of “biological correspondence.”The discovery of the Rosetta Stone was a profoundly significant discovery for early Egyptologists who were trying to understand how to read hieroglyphics. Because the Rosetta Stone duplicated an identical message in three languages, it eventually gave linguists the ability to cross-analyze and compare an Egyptian text with the better understood Greek and Hieratic writings, whose meanings were known. It also alerted linguists and Egyptological researchers to the fact that the hieroglyphs and reliefs can hold multiple registers or layers of meaning at once. The discovery of a hidden visual encryption technique that the team refers to as Biological Correspondence is significant in a very similar way to the Rosetta Stone because it allowed for the discovery of a layer of communication, as well as an unrecognized messa...

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