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Magical Egypt | The Late John Anthony West on Why Ancient Egypt Still Matters
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The late John Anthony West, the rogue Egyptologist, scholar, author and longtime Egypt tour leader, on all things Egypt: why that ancient land matters so much, what it's like on the ground there, and a society that still refuses to consider possibilities outside the current paradigm.
In this episode:
- Why Egypt is so important, and what years of leading tours there revealed
- How safe Egypt really is to visit
- His "five cowboys of the apocalypse" project
- Our schizophrenic society and its paradigm blind spots
- And why Egypt is like sex
From the Grimerica archives. Originally recorded January 2016.