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328 pages of results. 161. S.I.S. Spring Meeting, 1983 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Society's good friend Dr Alfred de Grazia, Research Professor of Social Theory at New York University, as its first speaker. Taking as his theme "Homo Schizo - the Catastrophic Evolution of Man", de Grazia presented some of the most important results of his many years of interdisciplinary research. He began by briefly reviewing Immanuel Velikovsky's Mankind in ... never was a "rational" man before catastrophic episodes, since Man had actually evolved in the first place by becoming a schizophrenic, irrational creature. Homo Schizo In a catastrophist model of evolution - or quantavolution as de Grazia prefers to call it - the change from an ape-like hominid to Homo must have involved a sudden catastrophic mutation. This ...
162. Plate Tectonics and Catastrophe Theory [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... From: Catastrophist Geology Year 3 No. 1 (June 1978) Home | Issue Contents Plate Tectonics and Catastrophe Theory René Thom Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies Bures-sur-Yvette, France. INTRODUCTION I would propose that in the explanation of natural forms one encounters two types of approach: the reductionist' and the Platonist' This distinction is well known ... From: Catastrophist Geology Year 3 No. 1 (June 1978) Home | Issue Contents Plate Tectonics and Catastrophe Theory René Thom Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies Bures-sur-Yvette, France. INTRODUCTION I would propose that in the explanation of natural forms one encounters two types of approach: the reductionist' and the Platonist' This distinction is well known ...
163. The Oceans [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... radiolaria, foraminifera, diatoms, and pteropods have diameters of around 8 to 1,000 microns.15 Therefore, if the ocean sediments were greatly disturbed by a recent catastrophe, the heaviest would settle first as the currents subsided and the lightest last when the currents were slowest. This does not mean that there would be a total separation ... plate tectonics .. .. "Ironically, Velikovsky has lost more to plate tectonics than his mechanism of axial shifting; he has probably lost the entire rationale for his catastrophist position. As Walter Sullivan argues in his recent book [Continents in Motion] on continental drift, the theory of plate tectonics has provided a stunning confirmation of uniformitarian ...
164. Apocalyptic Imagery In Modern Political Spectacle [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:2 (Jan 2002) Home | Issue Contents Apocalyptic Imagery In Modern Political Spectacle Professor Irving Wolfe (Paper presented at the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Annual General Meeting, University of London Union, London, 15th June 2000). Summary Examination of the giant annual Nazi rallies at Nuremberg in ... be expressed in images and narratives of disordered skies, astronomical bombardment, cosmic fire, earthly devastation and mass destruction which are surprisingly similar to events ascribed to ancient times by catastrophists of all ilks. I suggest that at moments when local fear of social chaos becomes intense and overwhelming, the mind can leap to a universal fear of world chaos ...
165. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fields except their own. He suggested the term "specialist" as being more accurate than "academic". In the vast sweep of Velikovsky's work and the debate on catastrophism, all academics (or specialists) must find themselves at one time or another laymen too: this will encourage the presentation of material in clear terms, which, ... (Sep 1975) Home | Issue Contents Focus The first informal meeting of the society was held in London on June 29th and brought together one of the largest gatherings of catastrophists to meet in this country. Over forty members, plus family, friends and various interested people attended. The five hours passed rapidly with those present getting to know ...
166. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... efforts! VERY interesting provided one can be very sure that Sirius is not another misinterpretation, i.e . Sirius/Sothis/Venus. - Ed. SNAKES & CATASTROPHISM Derek Shelley-Pearce IN 1965, Ramona and Desmond Morris wrote a book entitled Men and Snakes', and there are a number of references in it which make interesting reading ... S. Africa but that for some strange reason the snakes are often depicted with a pair of horns. The horn motif is of course only too well recognised by the catastrophist! On page 19, the authors state that aborigines believe that mystic serpents dwell in many lakes and can be recognised in certain features of the landscape. The Murray ...
167. Thoth Vol II, No. 12: July 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... [ Home ] THOTH A Catastrophics Newsletter Vol II, No. 12 July 31, 1998 EDITOR: Amy Acheson PUBLISHER: Michael Armstrong LIST MANAGER: Brian Stewart CONTENTS OPPORTUNITIES IN CATASROPHICS . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy Acheson GROUNDRULES FOR RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT EVENTS (1 ). David Talbott SATURNISTS PLAY MARBLES . ... PUBLICATION WILL RESUME IN SEPTEMBER.- OPPORTUNITIES IN CATASTROPHICS While reading about redshift anomalies, I came across a couple of comments by Halton Arp that would be of interest to catastrophists. The first is a re-telling of an old story: "Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the 60-inch telescope on Mount Wilson. Milton Humason ...
168. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2002:2 (Feb 2003) Home | Issue Contents Monitor Jill Abery VELIKOVSKY RECONSIDERED Scientific American , March 2002, p. 24 The regular Skeptic column written by Michael Shermer, an obvious devotee of that arch sceptic Martin Gardner, considers an article written over 50 years ago by the latter. ... York Times 21.5 .02 and 25.5 .02 Stephen Jay Gould died in May 2002 at the regrettably young age of 60. Although never a full-blown catastrophist he did give the world the idea of punctuated equilibrium within evolution and the realisation that organisms often survived purely by chance and not due only to the selection of superior ...
169. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... regarded by Freud and Bleuler. Until 1939 he practised in Haifa. In Mankind in Amnesia, published posthumously, he examines the implications for psychology of the repression of these catastrophes in the memory of mankind. He suggests that the existence of many deep-seated fears in the human mind, recognized by the founders of psychology as not rooted in individual ... to show how the prevailing belief in past catastrophes, accepted by Plato, was overturned by the rigidly mechanistic Aristotelian system, which denied their possibility. Similarly, the geological catastrophist school of Buckland and Cuvier, that dominated the early 19th century, was swept aside by Darwin and Lyell, the founders of evolutionary science. Yet Darwin, on ...
170. Failure of a Concept? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... bound by the interests of any one-track discipline, I fear to have observed what could well be the first unconscious tremblings of reaction, i.e Revised History Yes, Catastrophes No. While attending members may have gained similar impressions from a number of the ongoing discussions, one of the more important issues of dispute will - very briefly put ... , how does Marx propose we evaluate Velikovsky's theories? Guesswork? Blind faith? I think Velikovsky deserves better. Marx's complaint, as I understand it, is that the catastrophist models outlined in Worlds in Collision for the periods of history under discussion were not taken fully into account by the speakers. In answer I would like to point out ...
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