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The Phoenix Solution: Secrets of a Lost Civilisation (Hardcover)

by Alan F. Alford (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 489 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (20 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340696141
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340696149
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.9 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 427,420 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Following his work, "Gods of the New Millennium", Alan Alford takes us beyond the Sphinx to a rendezvous with a lost race and a secret legacy of importance to humankind. His thesis offers to sound the death knell for modern religion and change forever the way we understand ourselves and our planet.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An inventive, fascinating reappraisal of ancient knowledge, 13 Jan 2000
By Earl Hazell (New York) - See all my reviews
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I was lucky enough to have tuned this work in while on business in the UK from the States, where I live. Quite possibly I was also lucky enough to not have read his other book, the partial refutation of which has seemed to throw many for a loop. Coming as someone from an Egyptological and artistic/ethnological background who knows many of the world renowned Egyptologists he quotes personally, I can honestly say, as Michael Rice does in his preface, that this is one of the most important new perspective Egyptological works written in at least thirty years. It is capable of creating its own genre of study and enlightenment across several disciplines. It is fairly easy to write some New Age mythological mind candy that declares all kinds of wild things to be a secret reality. It isn't often that a work comes along that challenges the erudition of the status quo with a mind blowingly believable unorthodox thesis, partly derived thanks to the plethora of scholarly material ignored by the establishment for more than a century for just such a reason. This is the kind of book that makes waves; the kind of waves that some future book will capitalize on and ride like a surfer while this one is unsuccessfully trashed or frightfully ignored; making the world believe the truth herein has just been discovered, when it will be only in the future that it in actuality could be digested by the masses. I only hope Alford is the one to write that one also. It is hard in retrospect, given how hard it is to shock us these days in the now 21st Century, to compare Alford to Galileo and Darwin. Yet given what I know of many of his research materials, sources and approach- and again, the erudition of his varied references, along with his phenomenal ideas- it is hard not to.

Read it with an open mind, and learn something incredible- even if in the end, you don't agree with the plausibility of the final theory. That is the hallmark of a seminal work...as this is. This work will change your and everyone's understanding of many, many things...give it time.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A hike but I finished it in the end..., 27 Jun 2000
This review is from: The Phoenix Solution: Secrets of a Lost Civilisation (Paperback)
I've read the first book and couldn't put it down. I've read this one and couldn't wait to put it down. I find it a little suspicious that Mr Alford took 10 years to write the first book and then two years to write the second which contradicts the first book in parts. I feel that with his first book he targets the new ageist's market, in the second the scientist's and his third the spiritualist's. I find he changes his ideas a little to readily to suit each of the books for each of his target customers. However, if you can force your way through the confusing middle of his book (have a notebook handy!) he makes a good case. It has holes in it but so did his first book. I find the most plausible answer to our ancient history lies in a merging of both his first two books. If he can tie these both together then he'll have a fascinating book indeed.

In short, buy it as long as you're prepared to put in the hard work.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A magnificient quantum leap into the study of Ancient Egypt, 13 Jan 2000
By johlam@aceonline.com.au (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Phoenix Solution: Secrets of a Lost Civilisation (Paperback)
Of late I came across a book of wonderful, refreshing and enlightening ideas called "The Phoenix Solution", secrets of a lost civilisation, written by Alan Alford. It is obvious to me that an enormous amount of qualified research must have gone into this complex work and it is beautifully presented. Certainly something of this caliber was needed to rattle and shake the Status Quo who certainly will no doubt find fault. I for one, could not put it down and the end of the book certainly confirmed my loosely woven theories about the last 65 million years and before....of course. Alan Alford deserves the best of luck and I'm looking forward to his next book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
An author can be surrounded with plausible ideas and facts but he is bound to be influenced by his own predujices and personal beliefs and so can easily come to quite the wrong... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2000 by mk@mk1design.demon.co.uk

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear.....
I saw this book on the net and I thought.... it wont be as good as the first but, hey, it might be goodish. WRONG. Read more
Published on 25 Dec 1999 by steve_litt

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I was spellbound by Mr Alford's epic work 'Gods of the New Millenium' which, while having drawn heavily on the work of Zecharia Sitchin (which Alford readily admitted) was... Read more
Published on 29 April 1999

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