“Greek fire” (more accurately, the Byzantines’ liquid fire) was a short-range naval flamethrower used from the 7th–14th centuries CE. Unlike pitch pots or flaming arrows, this was a projected incendiary: a pressure-pumped stream of burning liquid blasted from bronze nozzles on ships. Contemporary accounts emphasized terror at sea: flames that cl…[Read more]

Many ancient monuments still stand today, and this begs the question: would ours do the same?

The modern world is known for its speed and ability to mass-produce, but does it produce effectively? Houses routinely fill with mold, foundation cracks, and roofs cave in; the modern homeowner is required to pay for insurance on a mortgaged home,…[Read more]

Malcolm Bendall’s Thunderstorm Generator is definitely worth paying attention to. Its design is heavily reliant on geometry and much simpler and different from other aether devices I’ve studied.

This model is a retrofit that bolts onto a standard engine/generator exhaust. While the engine runs, it scrubs the exhaust and recycles waste energy. In…[Read more]

Ancient Technology researcher William Sosa has spent three decades reverse-engineering the Dendera Light from a sequence of reliefs in the Hathor Temple at Dendera that depict a large, bulb-like vessel emerging from a lotus, supported by a djed pillar and “handled” by attendants with wands/knives. Rather than treating it as a room lamp, Sosa rea…[Read more]

Perfection is a mirage—compelling from afar, corrosive up close. A key Stoic insight is that every action carries a cost as well as a reward. Nothing arrives free of trade-offs; sometimes the price is less than ideal, yet the overall gain is still worth it. In such a world, “perfect” is structurally impossible: the good always drags some bad in it…[Read more]

The Cosmic Egg is a theme that shows up in several places in ancient myths about the origin of the universe. Here, I’ll give an overview of the myth in Greece, India, and Egypt, and compare them to Netism’s analogy.

Orphic Greece: In the Orphic tradition, creation begins with a luminous cosmic egg formed by primordial Time (Chronos) and Necessity…[Read more]