The Sphinx
The Sphinx
by Deane E. Kogelschatz
There are few objects on our planet that elicit as much excitement or controversy as the Sphinx. Whether it’s who built it, when it was built, its purpose or the origins of its name, the Sphinx remains one of the most controversial objects of our time.
Lying in the Giza Plateau, the Sphinx faces due east and points at the middle pyramid of the complex with the Great Pyramid on its right. It’s 260 feet long and has a small temple between its paws. It has a height of 65 feet and is 20 feet wide.
One of the Sphinx controversies centers around its head and whether what we see today is the original. The 1925 photo below illustrates these differences in material before the Sphinx had been dug out and restoration efforts took place. It is quite obvious that the head is made of quite different material than the neck, shoulders or the rest of the body.
Our two energy essence friends, Elias and Kris, also agree that the head we see today is not the original.
What follows is a brief excerpt of my session with Kris, 10/29/04:
DEANE: (52:42) I have another question in that regard. When you talked about the Sphinx being at least ten thousand years old, I was told that you said the head of the Sphinx was originally that of Anubis. Now Anubis was an Egyptian creation, I think, and if the Sphinx is over ten thousand years old, how could it have originally been the head of Anubis? Can you clarify that, please?
KRIS: Indeed. Where do you think these deities come from? From the Egyptian Pantheon?
DEANE: Well, Egyptian fantasy, just like some of our present day fantasies. Of course they could have been picked up elsewhere, but the dynamics of a time frame of early ancient Egypt of four thousand years ago, and the civilization you’re talking about, ten thousand years ago, that still leaves six thousand years between them and the early Egyptian civilization as we know it, and that would be a big stretch to pick up Anubis, would it not?
KRIS: It would appear as such. They were a much older culture on that part of Africa. […] The area in question, the Nile Delta, was also much different, being lush garden land much larger in area. And the Mediterranean was non-existent. The Egyptian land mass as it is commonly known, extends much farther north. After such a time, [there was] another culture at that place. [unintelligible] your old Egyptian mythologies retire to their predecessor as Netjer1.
There are also controversies regarding the age of the Sphinx. The Egyptian government holds the official position that the Pharaoh Khafre-Chephren, in the 4th Dynasty, about 2500 BC, was the builder. But more recently, in the 1990s, geologist Robert Schoch and writer John Anthony West shook the historical and geological world by providing evidence and announcing that in their opinion, the Sphinx was at least 9000 years old and possibly much older.
The proof they offered was based on the vertical weathering features on the Sphinx and its enclosures. This type of weathering can only be caused by water erosion and does not appear on other more fragile mud-brick structures on the Sakkara Plateau, ten miles south of Giza, indisputably dated several hundred years earlier than the standard dating of the Sphinx.
Now to compound our Sphinx mysteries, there are rumors of secret passageways, rooms and chambers holding the histories of the world and secrets to life itself. The illustration below shows what has already been discovered below and to the side of the Sphinx.
Perhaps there is something inside the Sphinx, an area that remains to be discovered.
It began on Saturday, January 10, 2004, when a small group of Elias List members decided they would pool their energy and see if they could make a trip under the Sphinx to determine if any hidden rooms existed. The attempt passed without anything being discovered.
On January 14th, a Wednesday afternoon some four days later, I was sitting in my lounge chair in my barroom, relaxing and having my first bourbon of the day. I began wondering about the group excursion to the Sphinx, feeling sorry I had missed it that previous Saturday afternoon. I continued to wonder if I could go under the Sphinx myself without the assistance of any pooled energy to do so. I leaned back and let my mind float free, embedded with this intention. Some moments later I was there, experiencing very realistic visual images, in color, but this time inside the Sphinx, not under it.
I recorded the specific details of what I saw and experienced, made a transcript of this and posted it to the Elias List. An Elias List friend who lives out west, Don, offered to read my detailed transcript to Elias in his upcoming session, asking Elias to point out any errors in my perceptions. Don did this and Elias validated all of it:
February 10, 2004 ‐ Session #1509
DON: I have a very long question from Deane/Leland. This is what he wrote about his impressions of what is a physical description of what’s under the Sphinx2. I’ll go ahead and read this verbatim […]. He’s asking for a confirmation of these impressions, or any amendments.
“The first room really isn’t a room, it’s like a vestibule. It’s about eight feet, (2-½ meters), square and has three walls. The wall that faces the body of the Sphinx isn’t there and the steps down start from there. As you walk down the steps, you are walking toward the tail of the Sphinx. There are probably twenty steps. When you get to the bottom, it’s about eight feet square and there is an entrance to an empty room to your left and one to the right. I would guess these rooms are the same size and are about twelve feet square, (four meters), and they do not have doors. As I write these words I get the impression these rooms were ceremonial in nature. About five feet ahead are some steps — six, seven, maybe eight of them — and a door at the top rather wide and tall. I can’t tell if it’s made of wood, but I know it’s not a solid stone slab. I estimate the door to be about six feet wide and perhaps eight to ten feet tall.
“Inside is a very long room that goes about halfway under the Sphinx. The room is about ten to twelve feet wide and it’s about eight feet tall. It looks like it is somewhat wider than it is high. As you enter the doorway, on the left are what looks like hollowed out areas that function as shelves. Scrolls are laid there and what looks like almost square-cut palm leaves in a frame. The leaves contained within are cut wider at the top than at the bottom and they are treated with something, perhaps embalming stuff, to make them last.
There’s some other stuff there too, piled on the shelf I’m looking at, that may be a stack of papyri. I do not know where the light came from so that I could see. I do know that as I was facing the shelves, the tail would be to my right and I could see easily. To my right it was dark and I could not see the wall, thus my impression that the room continues towards the tail. My impression is that it continues about halfway under the Sphinx.”
DON: That’s the end of it. Do you have any comments on any of it or anything to say?
ELIAS: I may express confirmation and validation of the description, and of his impressions.
DON: All right.
As my thoughts return and I relive the experience, I cannot help but think of all the ancient treasures that lie out there just waiting to be touched once again by human hands, transmitting information from eons past. It is there for us to claim, our ancient heritage, as we continue to expand our consciousness and integrate new knowledge into our reality.
End notes
1 Egyptian term for “divinity”; also used by Kris both as a name for another non-physical source and as a name for a civilisation pre-dating the ancient Egyptians.
Photography by Jon Bodsworth ‐ http://egyptarchive.co.uk
Drawing from Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt, by Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
2 Note from Deane: I found myself inside the Sphinx, not under it, below the right paw.
