The furthest stretches of the universe have been a topic of discussion among mainstream scientists recently.  The known physical "luminous" universe is thought to be circumscribed by an outer more remote portion which is thought to have very strange qualities.

The outer realm of the universe is perported to contain a unique quality of matter known as Dark Matter.  The substance of which this hypothetical material is comprised has been continuously up for debate.

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are thought to dominate dark matter, but this hypothesis is receiving pressure from some new ideas about extra-cosmic space.  

Scientists believe that Dark Matter must exhist because of the way "the motion of galaxies and galactic clusters indicate a gravitational influence of something other than what we can see (i.e. luminous matter), but dark matter does not interact via the electromagnetic force, making it a particularly difficult entity to study."

As it seems to have been considered by most, if not all ancient cultures, everything, qualitatively, has a ness.  As in humanness. The relationship to a particular ness is what separates the animal kingdoms, it is what separates man from the other mammals.  Everything that exists is a symbolic form for a formless cosmic principle.  The ness is that which the symbol represents.

Our ness is our relationship with the cosmos, with all of nature that exists outside the universal conscious, as consciousness.  Currently, in western thought, the relationship of man and universe is as though in a physical, rational space.  One being inside the other.  On the contrary the Pharonic, as too the Hermetic, principle places mankind not inside.  Humans in physical form are symbols for humanness with an esoteric relationship.  Not esoteric in the sense of being hidden, but contrary to current rational perspectives, wherein we mentally separate the tree from the forest. 

Every natural object in the universe is a hieroglyph of divine science. - R.A. Schwaller

 Each section of man is a symbol for a cosmic function, and vice versa; giving meaning to age old ritualistic gestures, yogic practices, shamanic poses and the martial arts.  Many age old gestures have roots that cannot be traced through the fog of the ages.  A similarity among them might be the identification of function in gesture and form.

    Our relationship to the sub atomic universe within us also exists as an inexpressible esoteric link with that which surrounds us.  It is the negative to the external positive, or vice versa.  Consciousness, Life, or the elusive vital force  represents what constitutes human (a soul), and what constitutes our universe is the same matter.  

We are collectively the universe.  It sounds crazy, but all in all, no crazier than an exterior man god that rules all things.  We are collectively god, manness, because as most people already accept; man was made in the image of god.  And that means not only man, as in male, but the proverbial Adam and Eve, the mythic symbol of male and female ness. Mathematically, philosophically and spiritually we are all one living throbbing ness.  Everythingness.  

Following in the foosteps of Robert Schoch another geologist, Colin Reade, has announced his conclusion concerning the erosion patterns on the sphinx structure.

However Reade does not stray from the canon of typical Egyptology, dating the period of the Sphinx' construction somewhere between 2550 BC and 2450 BC.

Of course according to the ongoing research by Robert Schoch the erosion patterns date the Sphinx to a much older period of at least the 6th or 5th millennium BC.

Since Reade only dates the period of construction a couple hundred years earlier than previously suggested he hardly does anything for our understanding of the people who built this amazing structure.

Could the Sphinx have been created originally as a lion?  To be later defaced by the Pharaoh Khafra, who's face the Sphinx is thought to represent.