Essays from the Scriptorium
A collection of original essays by Alex Vizcroft on divination, AI, archaeoacoustics, ancient knowledge systems, and the strange overlap between ancient wisdom and modern technology. Each essay is grounded in specific data, named sources, and real historical context. Written in the voice of a scholar who has also lived.
Available Essays
- The Algorithm as Magic System — Divination, diffusion models, and the For You Page run on the same engine. The oracle does not predict the future; it reflects the present back at you. So does TikTok.
- The Fifth Contract — Four contracts have broken in our lifetime: religion, media, education, government. Each offered a map, a community, a set of answers. What comes next?
- Did the Ancients Understand Frequencies Better Than Us? — The Oracle Room at Hal Saflieni aligns to 110 Hz. Chamber C3 at Karahan Tepe amplifies 8.13 Hz by 34 decibels. They did not know it as Hertz. They knew it as effect.
- Archaeoacoustics: The Evidence — A comprehensive review of empirical evidence for acoustic engineering in megalithic structures. Data from Barabar, Karahan Tepe, Hal Saflieni, and ALBA acoustic erosion simulations.
- The Old Knowledge Was Right About the Thing — The Wheel of the Year is not a Celtic calendar. It is a biological map. The old knowledge was right about the thing. The mechanism was different from what anyone guessed.
- The Forgetting of Sundaland — Why the world's most spiritually layered civilisation is almost entirely absent from Western occultism, and what the Javanese shadow puppets remember about the world before the flood.
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By Alex Vizcroft, author of Fal-e Hafez: The Oracle of Shiraz (Vizcroft Publishing). Books available on Amazon.