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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Publisher’s Preface: A Mystery of the Third Kind:
Part I: Origins of Life in the Cosmos
Prologue
Chapter 1: Definite Knowledge vs. Speculation
LIFE ON EARTH
EMERGENCE OF HOMINIDS
IMPROBABILITY OF LIFE
Chapter 2: Unraveling of a Controversy
A PERSONAL BACKGROUND
INTERSTELLAR DUST THEORIES
LIFE MOLECULES IN SPACE
BACTERIAL DUST IN SPACE
DAWN OF LIFE AS A COSMIC PHENOMENON
SERENDIPITY
REPLICATION OF BACTERIA IN A COSMIC CONTEXT
DISEASES FROM SPACE?
RED FLU PANDEMIC AND ANTECEDENTS
VIRUSES IN OUR GENES
ZIKA VIRUS
COMET HALLEY TO THE RESCUE
CLUES FROM METEORITES
EVOLUTION AND DISEASE
RED RAIN AND METEORITES
Chapter 3: History of Panspermia
EARLIEST HISTORY—REVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT IDEA
PASTEUR AND PANSPERMIA
PANSPERMIA CATCHES ON
ULTIMATE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
EXTREMOPHILES AND PANSPERMIA
RESURGENCE OF PANSPERMIA
Chapter 4: Cosmic Coincidences, God, Creationism, and Consciousness
INTELLIGENT UNIVERSE
ANTHROPIC IDEAS
MULTIVERSE IDEAS
MOVE AWAY FROM COSMIC INTELLIGENCE
ARKANSAS TRIAL OF 1981
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
CONSCIOUSNESS
REBIRTH IN BUDDHISM
Chapter 5: Bacteria Entering Earth
LESLIE HALE AND THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S VISITOR
SURVIVAL OF MICROBES ON EARTH
MODERN STRATOSPHERIC EXPERIMENTS TO TEST PANSPERMIA
OCTOPUS DNA
Chapter 6: Alien Planets and Alien Intelligence
SEARCH FOR ALIEN PLANETS
THE EARTH AS HOME OF LIFE
INTELLIGENCE OUTSIDE EARTH
SETI (SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE) PROGRAM
PANSPERMIC PERSPECTIVE
CURRENT PROSPECTS FOR PANASPERMIA AND SETI
SPACE TRAVEL PROSPECTS
Chapter 7: Earth’s Continually Changing Conditions
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Part II: Intelligent Speculation Based on Cutting-Edge Science
Prologue
A BRIEF PREAMBLE
Chapter 8: The “Coincidence Pigeons”
THE KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTION
THE GODDESS AND THE DREAMING
ASPERGER SYNDROME AND SAVANTS
WOLFGANG PAULI AND 137
MY OWN PRIME NUMBER, THE SAINT, AND THE MYSTIC
Chapter 9: Physics and Synchronicity
ANYONE CAN DO IT
THE SPHERE
A PI IN THE SKY
Chapter 10: The Next Frontier of Knowledge
QUANTUM WEIRDNESS
ISLAND OF STARS
ENTER THE EXOPLANETS
ET COMES HOME
DARKER THAN DARK
MANY WORLDS, MULTIVERSE, AND MANY DIMENSIONS
FROM THE BOWELS OF STARS
GATECRASHERS OF EVOLUTION
MAPPING THE BRAIN
HELLO AND GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS
MIND UPLOAD
WEIRDER THAN WEIRD PHYSICS
DOUBLE SLIT AND ENTANGLEMENT
ENTANGLED
NOT JUST MANY UNIVERSES BUT ALSO MANY DIMENSIONS
MEANWHILE, ENTER THE MATRIX
Chapter 11: The Archives of the Mind
WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
“READING” AN UNINSCRIBED PYRAMID
A MYSTERIOUS CONCAVITY
AN EARTH-COMMENSURABLE UNIT
PIAZZI SMYTH AND THE “PYRAMID INCH”
DESIGNED MEASUREMENTS VS. BUILT MEASUREMENTS
GRAVITY
THE ROYAL CUBIT AND THE CIRCLE
A REVIEW
DEALING WITH EGYPTOLOGICAL INTIMIDATION
THE SYMBOLIST MATHEMATICIAN
THE VIRTUAL SPACE AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID
CORRIDORS, GALLERY, CHAMBERS, AND SHAFTS
PRIME NUMBERS
BLUEPRINT
CONTACT?
STAR SHAFTS
A PLANETARY GPS?
THE SPEED OF LIGHT?
MY TAKE
Conclusion: Forecasting the Future
Epilogue
CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE
ROBERT BAUVAL
Appendix I: The Concavity of the Great Pyramid: A Design Feature?
THE CONCAVITY
THE PYRAMID GEOMETRY FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
THE VIRTUAL SPACE
A SPHERE AT THE TOP?
Appendix II: The Location of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid
THE KING’S CHAMBER
THE STAR SHAFTS
CONCLUSION
Appendix III: The Great Pyramid of Giza: New Facts, Discoveries, and Theories
FOUR DIFFERENT BASE LENGTHS
GROUND PLAN
NORTH–SOUTH CROSS SECTION
EAST–WEST CROSS SECTION
EAST–WEST CROSS-SECTION DIMENSIONS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
NORTH–SOUTH CROSS-SECTION DIMENSIONS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
NORTH LATITUDE LOCATION
THE FOUR SIDES AND THE EXTRAORDINARY MATHEMATICAL DATA THEY EACH PRODUCE
PERIMETER OF THE GREAT PYRAMID IN METERS
CONCAVITIES
MYSTERY OF 103
SECRET CHAMBER?
LAST NOTES
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Authors
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index
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