I will take the opportunity of this "return to Meyl" to make a few comments and pose a few questions.
Quiahuitl, like you I found myself wishing Meyl presented concrete examples of impossibly fast long-distance communication, but he doesn't.
Meyl cites the following passage from Vitruvius:
Now, I did in fact download a copy of Vitruvius to look for this startling quotation, and I could not find it. I didn't read the whole book, but I skimmed through it for a couple of hours, doing word searches for "atmosphere", "instrument", etc. and I could not find any passages that resembled this one. I asked ChatGPT if it could identify any passages in Vitruvius that might resemble his quotation, and it could not, but that doesn't prove much as ChatGPT is not reliable.
After all of the detours this thread has taken, I find myself with new questions and criticisms about Meyl's original thesis.
1. There are many threads on this website as well as the original SH site exploring the idea that Classical Antiquity as we know it took place much more recently than we are taught. There is therefore a strong possibility that some of the works of Classical Antiquity that Meyl relies on for his theory were later forgeries, in particular the works of Julius Caesar. Please see Jef Demolder's website for more information. Demolder, working with Kammeier, comes to the conclusion that the works of Julius Caesar, Josephus Flavius, Tacitus, and several others were written or rewritten
together in the late middle ages to function as the kernel around which a false Biblical chronology could be constructed. By distributing the fake history among several mutually-reinforcing texts, the illusion of unforgeable intertextuality is created. Kammeier brilliantly argues, in
The Falsification of German History, that these mutually-reinforcing texts are
intentionally seeded with contradictions and impossibilities in order to absorb the attention of later historians and blind them to the bigger picture, namely that the texts are
all fake to some extent. If we take this hypothesis seriously, it might explain why certain communications in the works of Julius Caesar take place faster than physically possible: because the texts were forged. Unfortunately, no direct citations are provided. More generally, since originally reading Meyl's book, I am no longer convinced that many of the characters whose exploits he mines for information (Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Alexander, Cleopatra) existed at all, at least as we know them. Then again, my classical education is almost nonexistent, so I have no choice but to defer to experts like Jef Demolder who have actually read the authors in question.
2. My second main criticism of Meyl's theory comes from its overly reductive character. There is a richness and an "aura" to myth, legend, art, and religious history. I do not believe that the incredible symbolic density of myths could be faked simply to cover up an essentially banal communications technology. On the other hand, I do think it is possible that such a tradition could be picked up and used as cover for such a technology. Take the story of Bel and the Dragon that I brought up a few posts back. The first part of the story, in which Daniel outs the priesthood as secretly controlling the idol, could be taken as evidence supporting Meyl's thesis. But the second part of the story, in which Daniel kills the dragon, does not fit anywhere I can see. There are too many elements that cannot be fit it anywhere. To take just one example among many: why were so many idols hollow and filled with some kind of dark liquid, the stains of which can still be seen around the later drill holes? To go back to sacrifice: for Meyl, its only function was to harvest fresh, wet intestinal membranes upon whose surface weak vibrations could be detected. While this may at one point have been one of the secondary functions of sacrifice, all accounts point to it once having a much larger function than this. When you read Heinsohn's book on sacrifice, for example, you see how overwritten with metaphor every aspect of the sacrificial ritual was for ancient people. No mention at all of "extispicy" or divination through entrail-gazing. Something more was going on.
3. I also find it unusual that Meyl does not once bring up scalar waves in "Broadcasting of the Gods" even though this is his principal field of research. It is precisely with scalar waves that things get interesting. Scalar waves hint at a possible scientific explanation for the larger mysteries connected with temples and churches, namely, communication with the "other world".
These are a few of the reasons for which I see Meyl's original book as a good starting point for further investigations, one that however poses more questions than it answers. I now suspect that radio broadcasting of the type Meyl describes was never anything but a secondary function of these temples. What is most valuable in Meyl's hypothesis, in my eyes, is the very basic observation that
temples were constructed with precise dimensions in order to interact, through resonance, with electromagnetic and scalar fields. Given that many of the Roman sources he relies on (without direct citations) are possible forgeries, and given that his proposed explanation for the origins of sacrifice as well as the entire richness of myth are to my mind overly reductive, I think we are justified in expanding his original hypothesis in an attempt to include everything he implicitly or explicitly excludes. At this point, I am less interested in Meyl's original hypothesis than I am in a more comprehensive one that would start with the much more interesting
scalar component of these resonant frequencies. Without using the language of Meyl, this is precisely what I have been trying to do by enlarging the discussion to include phenomena such as ball lightning, cryptids, and sacrificial rituals. These phenomena probably cannot be explained with simple electromagnetic fields, but perhaps they
can be once we accept the existence of a poorly understood and qualitatively different type of field that always accompanies it.
For the technically-minded contributors out there, then, a good place to begin would be Meyl's work on scalar waves. There must be other scientists out there working on the same phenomenon as well. For my part, I will continue trying to collate disparate temple-related phenomena as I wait for someone to do what I cannot and dig deeper into the mysterious medium of transmission itself.
