According to the Map presents an interpretation of the design of the pyramids at Giza as a map and a message. Three levels of abstraction will be employed to argue the pyramids map frameworks upon which phenomenology, psychology, and ontology reveal themselves as fundamental to our understanding of the human situation. The perspective of the presentation is phenomenology. Because the map also represents a more fundamental conceptual geometry that could only have been designed by someone with knowledge of the multidimensionality of the cosmos, there are essentially two messages encoded in the map: there’s a message about humanity’s situation the deciphered map illustrates, and there’s a message regarding the map’s authorship. The map is presented as extraterrestrial in origin because if we’re right about its meaning, no other explanation seems likely. The book contains thirty four illustrations. Excerpt from the Preface:"We’re not suggesting someone other than ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, nor are we questioning the ability of an ancient civilization to accumulate sufficient knowledge and experience required to engineer a structure as spectacular as the Great Pyramid. What’s suspect is the assumption that ancient Egyptians discovered the three levels of abstraction required to map a generic situation in a manner consistent with cosmic multidimensionality. The construction of a map representing a generic situation that we can interpret as specific situations described by conceptual frameworks, frameworks we can use to help us understand the human situation, is asking a lot of ancient Egyptians. ... The first three chapters of the book are dedicated to interpreting the generic situation represented by the pyramids as a phenomenological situation. Chapter one starts by outlining an approach that allows a generic situation we observe to be interpreted as a specific situation we understand. Chapter two uses the approach of chapter one and the second level of abstraction to interpret the generic situation as perception of (an object) - a good start but not a complete interpretation. Consciousness is introduced in chapter three to complete the interpretation of the generic situation as a phenomenological situation we can describe as consciousness of (perception of (an object)). It's a convenient description with some limitations. Chapter three illustrates why the phenomenological situation might be better described as consciousness is (perception of (an object)). We round out the chapter by offering additional insight into the relationship between consciousness and perception provided by the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid brings the presentation full circle by revealing compelling evidence supporting the interpretation of the pyramid complex as a map. By the end of chapter three, it will be hard to deny the design of the pyramids could be extraterrestrial in origin. Finally, the author uses chapter four to recollect how the seeds of this research were sown. No matter how much evidence we provide, some may have difficulty accepting the design of the pyramids as the encoding of a message of extraterrestrial origin. It's understandable. Yet there's a difference between skepticism and bias. We have a dilemma: the suggestion that ancient Egyptians achieved the level of understanding of spatiotemporal uncertainty required to encode the map discovered in the design of the pyramids is almost as hard to believe as the suggestion of extraterrestrial influence. An extraterrestrial message is a lot to wrap our heads around, but we have to go where the evidence takes us. ..." | According to the Map by Sterling Kodiak, Paperback | Indigo Chapters