2008 NEW YEAR NOTE FROM ANDREW COLLINS,


I just want to wish everyone a prosperous new year and hope that 2008 will fulfil your every dream. It has been a quiet time since the sell-out Questing Conference in Glastonbury back in November. I have spent much time preparing to start a brand new book on what lies beneath the Pyramids, editing the remastered version of THE BLACK ALCHEMIST and doing my yearly accounts, which has been a nightmare that I have been putting off for weeks now.


QUESTING CONFERENCE

Anyway, all done now, and so we can look forward to a bright new year of activities, starting with the Questing Conference. As you might well be aware, there are now a plethora of conferences, symposiums and events each year in the name of the mysteries - probably on average one a week, and it is becoming increasingly hard to put bums on seats in a conventional manner. Despite selling out the last QuestCon, I have realised that the only way to move things forward is change, and that is coming soon. If you are interested, then sit tight and I'll let you know what's happening soon.


THE BLACK ALCHEMIST

As stated already, I have been spending time re-editing and re-writing my 1988 book THE BLACK ALCHEMIST for imminent republication. However, other essential matters have got in the way and its intended release last October just didn't happen. It still needs to be typeset, laid out, the cover done, and a printing deal negotiated with a specialist printer. It then has to go on the press, and as you can imagine all this takes time. I anticipate now that it will be available in March, although I can't promise anything. Interestingly, the prices of second-hand copies of the original book have fallen from £40-50 each to just £20-25 in anticipation of the release of the new edition. In theory, people are holding off and waiting for the remastered edition. However, if you are after a copy I should take advantage of the low prices now and get yourself a copy, as the new one will be quite different to the original, and you might want to compare the two together. I have dropped one whole chapter from the 1988 version, and condensed couple of chapters into one. Several new chapters have been written, and there is a new beginning and quite dramatic end.

There have been a few developments on the Black Alchemist front as well. Recently, I travelled down to Eastbourne, where the Black Alchemist is thought to have lived. An elderly couple had in 1989 found a house which they asserted was identical to that described by the psychic Bernard following an intensive dream. It had been discovered by a former welfare officer for the blind, who had been on her rounds around Eastbourne and spotted the house. She and her husband had even drawn it, and it was an exact match to BA's home. However, 20 years on her memory was not so good, and after driving around the suspected area for an hour or so with her, we were unable to locate it, she having not recorded the address all that time ago.

Lullington, where the whole Black Alchemist saga had begun back in 1985, was also revisited, and an attunement undertaken. Let's just say that if we wanted the whole thing to kick off again, it would happen.

Keep reading the Black Alchemist's MySpace page at myspace.com/theblackalchemistonline, where BA's of the events from 1985 to 1988 is just about to be posted. Other blogs and images will also be added shortly. You will also be noTified first of when the new book will appear and how you can obtain a copy.


NEW EGYPT BOOK

Once THE BLACK ALCHEMIST is out the way, it is on to Egypt, and a definitive new book on the unified plan at Giza based on some brand new trigonometry and geometry, and the pyramids' relationship to astronomy. Already Robert Bauval has written an appendix, which argues why Cygnus is not important at Giza. I, of course, answer his queries as we go along.

Not another pyramid book, you cry! However, this one is stunningly different, for it goes back to the very simple presence of the three main pyramids and starts again, with some dramatic new findings, verified mathematically and astronomically by technical engineer Rodney Hale. What is more, this new vision of Giza provides us with the greatest opportunity ever for finding and entering Cayce's Hall of Records, which are also reviewed both historically and philosophically in the book. More on all this soon.


CROP CIRCLES

I really didn't want to get involved in crop circles again, but last year I found myself drawn into the quagmire following the ridiculous claims being made regarding the huge OM formation that appeared in East Field, Alton Barnes, on 7.7.7 - that all magical date (click here to see article on 7.7.7). Working with Rodney Hale, arguably the best annomalies analyst in the country, we showed that the formation did not appear in a flash of light as some claimed, but was made very gradually over a long period, and presumably not by supernatural forces.

This year I shall be on alert again, studying new formations, reporting on them, and generally keeping an eye on what's going down in the fields of Wiltshire. By all means, keep me informed of what you know. We would all love there to be conclusive proof that some crop formations at least are beyond human intervention, but wild claims by those who know very little about technical equipment used out in the field is thwarting attempts to get any definitive answers.

You don't need to be Nostradamus to predict that 8th August 2008 is going to be a key date in the crop circle calendar, what with it's all important 8.8.8 numerology. Watch out for the build up, and remember that 8th August 1988 was a key day for the Black Alchemist (as you'll see in the new edition of the book), as it was for all those Asian women rushing to have their babies born on this auspicious date.

Anyway, that's about it for the moment. Pasted below is some new stuff available at andrewcollins.com. I am sure 2008 really will be a good one for everyone. Maybe not first contact, but interesting nevertheless.

Best wishes,

Andrew Collins