While Carl Munck’s printed materials may get harder and harder to find, some of his video lectures are circulating via Internet and are easy to locate, and I’d like to recommend them to anyone who might be even remotely interested.
Even if we end up having to ignore his conclusions about maps, his conclusions about math and numbers and the way they were used are very much worth some time and consideration.
After considerable investment in the prospect, I did go through a period of disappointment and withdrawal from the subject for discovering that maps might not be the thing to be looking at after all, but it hardly seems fair to expect trailblazers to get everything right on the first try, whoever they may be.
I can just about guarantee that any numbers Munck wants to suggest are important really are, and if they don’t turn up on maps courtesy of his “Code”, they will turn up in the proportions of noteworthy ancient architecture.
Even now, the proportions of Giza’s monuments continue to give the suggestion of being as if part of some grand plan to make sure we don’t miss out on any important numbers.
I can also just about guarantee that any numbers Munck wants to talk about, they’ve likely been subjected to almost preposterously thorough cross-referencing with other important parts of the same number system to verify a significant place in the scheme of things – metrologically, if not cartographically.
I also enjoy hearing Munck’s lectures because he has a seemingly infectious sense of confidence, and it isn’t false confidence if we remember the parts of his work that withstand even after throwing the maps away.
I’m going to wait until I find my misplaced copy of John Michell’s Secrets of the Stones before I go on about urdummheit, but the most enjoyable thing about Munck’s lectures may be the vote of confidence he invests in our ancestors, the credit he is willing to give them for being as intelligent as we are in spite of any differences in culture or customs (not to mention many of our customs having been handed down from them).
Words can hardly describe how refreshing it is to hear someone express that much respect for the ancients without turning around and insinuating (out of habit I suppose) that the ancients were so dumb they had to do their rocket science in simple whole numbers, and in fractions, and couldn’t comprehend Pi or a decimal point.
Since there really may be tremendous metrological support for the idea that the ancients beat us and Erastothenes to figuring out the size of the earth, many authors who write about or acknowledge ancient mysteries or metrology, may have conceded unrecorded advancements in geography or geodesy to the ancients, an admirably open-minded stand against which any unwillingness to concede comparable undocumented advancements in mathematics somehow seems uncharacteristic.
Another thing that’s appealing about Munck’s work is his knowledge of archaeological sites. Internet followers of ancient mysteries may know some of these sites these days, but in 1998 or 1999 when I was first introduced to Munck’s work, I’d never heard of many of the fascinating sites he mentions, even for the way-too-many books on ancient mysteries and archaeology that I own.
After all the fuss about the pyramids of Egypt or Mexico and Guatemala, it was quite an eye-opener to find out that North America had so many pyramids of its own, for example.
If you enjoy Munck’s lectures, please consider that official versions of these may be available for purchase.
https://www.amazon.com/Code-Ancient-Advanced-Technology-Complete/dp/B0007US86Q
–Luke Piwalker
Luke Piwalker 