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Have you ever stopped to wonder how many of your beliefs are actually yours? The things you believe about money, relationships, getting older, success, what you’re good at, what you’re NOT good at… all of it affects the choices you make and the things you don’t even try. But where the hell did those beliefs come from in the first place? This started with one simple question: “How can I believe that magick is real?” It sent me down a VERY strange rabbit hole into belief, science, culture, Ingo Swann, hotel maids, milkshakes, The Lobster and ultimately a much bigger question: Who decided what you’re allowed to believe is possible? Free Belief Audit https://www.beliefaudit.us/ Research Cited: Hotel maids / room attendants — Crum & Langer (2007), “Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect.” 84 hotel room attendants; the intervention reframed their existing work as exercise, followed by changes in several measured health variables. PubMed PubMed — Hotel Maids study Milkshake — Crum et al. (2011), “Mind Over Milkshakes.” Same 380-calorie shake presented as either 620-calorie “indulgent” or 140-calorie “sensible”; ghrelin response differed with the framing. PubMed PubMed — Milkshake study Nicotine / cigarettes — Gu et al. (2015), “Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers.” This is the cigarette study we want for the nicotine video. PNAS paper — Nicotine belief study Pain medication — Bingel et al. (2011), “The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy.” Participants received the potent opioid remifentanil. Positive expectations roughly doubled its analgesic benefit in the experiment, while negative expectations abolished the measured analgesic benefit. PubMed PubMed — Remifentanil study Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

Shawn Ryan took a psychedelic. He saw Hell. He encountered what he believed were demonic entities. Then the drug wore off. But according to Shawn, the strange phenomena didn't stop. So what the hell happened? A bad trip? Something genuinely unexplained? Or is there another possibility hiding in the history of consciousness research that almost nobody is talking about? This one gets very strange indeed. Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

Gary Osborn has found buried deep within a like a 16 page binary code, delivered by some kind of “alien” or “future human” to an Air Force dude who was able to remember, write down and deliver to Gary for analysis. There are so many fascinating things Gary has found in this code, and the following conversation gets into all of them including retrocausality, the obliquity of the Earth, the precessional cycles, the possible destruction of Atlantic and even where we are in terms of the Age of Aquarius. But the doozy of all doozies is that Giza may have been constructed as a catastrophic warning system constructed in stone. This is not a crazy idea. It is not an idea I have not heard of before. In fact I  reference a book Thomas Joseph Brown gave me ages ago by Mark Vidler called the Star Mirror where he essential makes the same point. He believes the entire environment, in conjunction with the stars encodes an important message, which, just happens to point nowish…but what that message is, he cannot guess. There are loads of maths, but the math is the evidence so be forewarned. Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

I’m talking with Todd Elliott, author of The Cunning Farmer, about an idea that sounds simple until you really follow it through: What if farming and magick were never separate things? For most of human history, working the land also meant working with timing, prayer, offerings, spirits of place, ancestors, celestial forces, plants as intelligences, and the strange relationship between consciousness and matter. Todd is a working farmer as well as a practitioner of magick, and his book asks us to consider something wonderfully provocative: What if the old farmers weren’t merely being superstitious? What if they understood agriculture as a participatory technology ... a way of negotiating with the visible and invisible forces that make life grow? We’ll be talking land spirits, lunar planting, weather magick, astrological forces, plant intelligence, the dead, theurgy, and why the farmer may once have occupied a role much closer to priest, magician and mediator between worlds than simply “food producer.” If you’re interested in magick as something operational rather than decorative, I think you’re going to love this one. Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

This joyful conversation was recorded as part of The Living Inquiry Symposium, celebrating the launch of our new film series, How Do We Know What's Real? 🎬 Premieres August 1 — Get Your Passes Here https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

Ritual has been dismissed as superstition for centuries. But across physics, consciousness research, and philosophical science, a different picture emerges: Reality may not be built from the bottom up. It may be shaped from a deeper level — one that responds to coherence. In this video, we explore: Why ritual is better understood as a structured process, not a belief system How coherence changes outcomes Why fragmented intention produces no result And how ancient Egyptian practices align with ideas from David Bohm, Ingo Swann, and Rudolf Steiner This isn’t about mysticism. It’s about function. By Vanese Mc Neill Producer of the Magical Egypt documentary series exploring ancient Egyptian consciousness technologies. The Occult Technology of Ancient Egypt https://offer.magicalegyptstore.com/o... Academy of Invisible Arts: https://www.academyofinvisiblearts.com/ Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

Vanese and Thomas Joseph Brown discuss the ideas in Thomas' latest substack What if AI isn’t just a tool… but the beginning of an entirely new form of intelligence? Tonight we dive into the eerie convergence between neuroscientist John C. Lilly and philosopher Rudolf Steiner — two men who warned, decades apart, that technology could become the vessel for something cold, calculating, and profoundly non-human. From AI data centers draining entire regions… to the rise of humanoid robots… to the spiritual question of whether humanity is evolving — or surrendering its consciousness — this is a conversation about the future of the soul in the age of machines Join the Memorial for Gordon White https://watch.magicalegypt.com/gordon Thomas's Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/alkemix... Academy of Invisible Arts https://www.academyofinvisiblearts.com/ Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

Ancient Egyptians believed the soul could die after death. So mummification was not simply burial. In Ancient Egypt, preserving the body was believed to help preserve the self through the afterlife. The body was kept intact. Names were repeated endlessly. Statues acted as replacement bodies. Rituals maintained connection between the dead and the living. Because the Egyptians believed survival after death was not automatic. Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

Most people think journaling is about getting thoughts out.  It’s not. How you write changes what actually forms. Typing is fast. Efficient. Surface-level.  Writing by hand does something else entirely—it stabilizes attention, pulls the body into the process, and starts shaping patterns before they show up in your life. By Vanese Mc Neill Creator of the Magical Egypt documentary series exploring ancient Egyptian consciousness technologies. Academy of Invisible Arts https://www.academyofinvisiblearts.com/ Send us Fan Mail Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

What if offerings weren’t symbolic—but functional? In this video, we look at ancient Egypt, Rudolf Steiner, and Itzhak Bentov to explore a different idea: 👉 that reality may require continuous input to remain stable And that offerings weren’t about belief… they were part of a system. If this starts to click for you, Temples as Technology goes much deeper. Series one is on demand now. Series two is coming soon. https://watch.magicalegypt.com/tech Go Deeper on this.. https://magicalegypt.substack.com/ Send us Fan Mail Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

What if UFO encounters, religious visions, and goddess experiences are all the same thing—seen through different minds? In this conversation with Joanna Kujawa, we go beyond the usual UFO narrative and ask a more difficult question: Are these encounters happening out there… or through human consciousness itself? We explore the overlap between: UFO phenomena Marian apparitions symbolic intelligence and the growing role of AI At some point, you have to decide: Are we seeing something… or being met by it? Joanna's Book https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Goddess-UFOs-Goddesses-Ascension/dp/1958921742 Joanna's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drjoannakujawa.author/ Send us Fan Mail Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

In this interview with **Joseph P. Farrell**, we explore a dangerous idea: if the observer shapes reality, then manipulating human perception may also manipulate the cosmos itself. Recorded during COVID for *Magical Egypt* Season 4, this conversation dives into the observer effect beyond physics, mass narrative control, group intention, memory manipulation, the Mandela Effect, magic as alignment with natural law, and why ancient cultures treated perception as a cosmological technology. A discussion on power, propaganda, ritual, collapse — and what happens when perception itself becomes the battlefield. Once you hear it, you won’t look at narratives — or reality — the same way again. 00:00 — The Observer Effect Goes Beyond Physics 00:40 — Microcosm & Macrocosm: Ancient Doctrine, Modern Science 02:13 — The Universe as a Living Organism, Not a Machine 03:16 — If You Manipulate the Observer, You Manipulate Reality 04:12 — Group Intention & Collective Power 06:39 — Can Human Intention Alter Physical Systems? 08:39 — Narratives, Logos, and the Cost of Acting Against Reality 11:40 — The Mandela Effect: Memory or Manipulation? 14:13 — Are Timelines Being Engineered? 15:17 — What Magic Actually Is (and Why It Backfires) 16:26 — Magic vs Sacrament: Form, Matter, Intention 18:55 — The Enlightenment and the Break in Tradition 21:12 — Music, Cosmology, and the Loss of Meaning 24:58 — Where Ancient Knowledge Still Survives 26:47 — Astrology, Art, and Hidden Cosmological Language 30:12 — Civilization at the Point of Collapse 33:52 — What Happens After the Fall 35:02 — Final Reflections Send us Fan Mail Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

For more than a century, modern interpretations of Egypt have been filtered through a set of assumptions that quietly distort what we see. But when you begin to question these inherited assumptions, something remarkable happens. In this session we examine the four modern myths that most often prevent people from understanding Egypt. Once these myths fall away, the logic behind ancient Egypt becomes startlingly clear. NEW CLASS  - Temples as Technology https://watch.magicalegypt.com/tech Magical Egypt On Sale for only $49 https://www.magicalegyptstore.com/ Substack https://magicalegypt.substack.com/ Send us Fan Mail Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

SEASON FOUR NOW STREAMING 🔗 https://www.magicalegypt.com/ UNBIND YOURSELF Break the vows, dissolve the patterns, and finally become the version of you who can receive everything you've been calling in with the UNBOUND PROTOCOL BY VANESE Get the free protocol or join the live session  🔗 https://www.academyofinvisiblearts.com/ SUBSTACKS MENTIONED THE THRESHOLD MOMENT https://open.substack.com/pub/magicalegypt/p/the-threshold-moment?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web No : ) You’re Not Going Crazy https://open.substack.com/pub/magicalegypt/p/no-youre-not-going-crazy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web UNBIND YOURSELF NOW!!! https://open.substack.com/pub/magicalegypt/p/unbind-yourself-now?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Send us Fan Mail Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt

For centuries we’ve been told the pyramids were built with ramps, ropes, and brute labor. But what if that story is a cover? What if the real secret of pyramid building was never about engineering at all—but about consciousness? Drawing on the radical work of Clesson Harvey, this essay explores the Pyramid Texts not as funerary hymns but as technical manuals for levitation and ascent. Were the pyramids machines of initiation, designed to train human beings to defy gravity itself? How to Fly Stone challenges the orthodox narrative and reopens one of history’s deepest mysteries: did the ancient Egyptians hold a science of consciousness so advanced, it made stone rise like air? And speaking of our AMAZING Capacities… I could not be more thrilled to announce that Chance is teaching his very first masterclass: Esoteric Anatomy. This is not your high school biology. This is the deeper map of the human body as the ancients knew it: a living instrument, a temple of currents and circuits, designed not just for survival but for transformation. In this masterclass, Chance will guide you through: The hidden architecture of your body — how bones, blood, and breath form a subtle technology.The energy centers and star-points — why traditions from Egypt to Tibet encoded precise gateways of consciousness.The serpent-force — not myth, but the actual current that lifts, renews, and awakens.Practices to activate your own inner temple — so this isn’t just theory, but lived experience.If you’ve ever sensed that your body is more than flesh and bone—if you’ve ever intuited that you are walking around with untapped circuitry inside you—this class will give you the keys. ✨ Esoteric Anatomy is a chance to see yourself not as a passenger in a body, but as the pilot of an extraordinary craft. Seats are limited, and it is almost full! Don’t miss Chance’s first-ever masterclass—because once you see the body this way, you’ll never look at yourself the same again. https://offer.magicalegyptstore.com/estoericanatomy Our Summer Sale on the Magical Egypt Series and the Academy of Invisible Arts is ending soon—use your coupon now before it’s gone! SUMMER15 to get 15% off!! Send us Fan Mail Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON! Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Films http://www.magicalegypt.com Come see the new Premiere of the Film  https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know Connect https://www.facebook.com/vanesemcneill Own Magical Egypt http://www.magicalegypt.com Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/magicalegypt