The Strange Story of Blackmud

In 2010 I had a problem with my Internet connection. I couldn't resolve it and ended up phoning the technical support helpline. 'We know what that is,' they said, 'we’ll send you some step-by-step instructions on how to get that fixed - which email address would you like us to use?' I was puzzled because I’d only ever had one email address, but was now being told that I had two. I asked for the details: The first one I’d been using for years, but the second one I’d never seen or heard of before (and didn’t add to the account myself). This second email address was called ‘blackmud’. Naturally I asked who had put it there and how long it had been there. Technical support didn’t know the answer to either question, so I wrote to the head office of the ISP at the time. They wrote back stating that they didn’t know anything about 'blackmud' but could confirm that no messages had been sent or received by this email address; it was just 'there' on my account. Short of hiring a private detective to find out more about this thing that was intriguing but didn’t actually seem to be doing anything, I had some fun online with my new secret identity, my friends found it amusing (and a little strange) but otherwise I didn’t think much more about it. After a few years had gone by I’d practically forgotten about ‘blackmud’.

Then in 2015 I went to Egypt.

From the many tour operators in Egypt I chose The Khemit School of Ancient Mysticism for my first visit. Like me, The Khemit School have their doubts about certain parts of recorded history and whether or not it was really the 'Egyptians' who built the pyramids. They think that these structures (and some of the artefacts) could have been created by a much more ancient civilization known as the Khemitians; because Khemit is one of the more well-known former names of Egypt. Part of the tour was in Luxor and we visited a clothing shop because The Khemit School had offered us a free souvenir: a T-Shirt with their company logo on the back and whatever we wanted written in a cartouche on the front. The counter assistant would translate what we wanted into hieroglyphs and put it in the cartouche. So of course when I was asked, 'What do you want in your cartouche?' I said, ‘Blackmud’. The counter assistant frowned, looked at me and shook his head. ‘What…Khemit?’ He said. I asked him to please repeat himself. ‘Blackmud,’ he said, ‘blackmud means Khemit.'

A couple of years went by, during which I visited Lebanon, Bosnia, India, Peru and Bolivia. I then went back to Egypt in 2017 and spent three months living in Cairo documenting the research of Patricia Awyan Lehman (one of the founders of the Khemit School). Patricia introduced me to a version of history that very few are aware of. She told me about the Golden and Silver ages, the Sun and Moon, HORticulture, (Ag)riculture, Earth's former magnetic equator, Tarot cards, alchemy, men becoming gods and the significance of The Great Sphinx; both in its symbolism and very precise location on the Giza Plateau. Unbelievable stuff - very lofty even by David Icke’s standards - and when I returned to the UK and started looking into how much of this was actually true, the number 22 came up again and again.

There are:

22 Major Arcana in the Tarot deck

22 Key alchemical symbols

22 Steps on the Jewish Sephiroth

22 Letters in the Hebrew alphabet

22 Scripts in the Bible’s original Old Testament

22 Revelations in the final book of the Bible

One evening, whilst idling away on the Gematrinator I typed in BLACKMUD using the Full Reduction cipher: 22.

Then in 2020 (on a very specific day) I was contacted by a friend who I hadn't seen or spoken to in seven years. I replied to his email, we exchanged phone numbers and I rang him the next day. He was stuck in traffic, picked up his phone and straightaway remarked that he was alongside a coach with Mott Travel written on the side. I told him that there have been a number of coincidences over the last few years, the blackmud story, that I'd been seeing the number 22 everywhere and how, using Gematria, BLACKMUD = 22. He asked me what cipher I was using. I was surprised at his question because not that many people have even heard of Gematria, let alone know about the different ciphers. He had, and suggested using the Septenary, rather than the Full Reduction cipher (the Septenary cipher only uses 1 – 7). So I did: 22 again. Even though the two ciphers have different number allocations, BLACKMUD = 22 in both.

And there was more. Using the Septenary cipher:

SEVEN = 22

TAROT = 22

TRUMP = 22 (the Tarot deck's Major Arcana are also known as 'trump' cards)

Just out of curiosity I also typed in the name of this friend who recently got in touch after seven years on an email address that ended with 777. His name equals 22.

My date of birth is 22/10/70. I'm Jewish and the number seven has particular significance in Judaism. In geometry twenty two divided by seven is pi (or 3.14, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) and this leads straight back to the Giza Plateau, where both the differing sizes AND individual geometries of the three main pyramids can be derived from a Septagram (a seven-pointed star).

And the 'very specific day' that this friend chose to contact me out of the blue?

It was the same day I went to Beachy Head.