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76 pages of results. 131. Collective Amnesia In Everyday Life [Journals] [Kronos]
... very existence, the race as a whole would have a tendency to distort, censor, deny, and repress major elements of the experience in the same way that an individual screens out and denies traumata. As the individual has "put these events out of his mind", so, too, does the race behave when threatened with extinction. The concept is important for many reasons. First, it has the roots of both Freudian and Jungian traditions and, as such, offers an opportunity to bring these major personality theorists into greater harmony. Second, it has importance to Velikovskian scholars who have struggled with the resistance exerted by the scientific community against Velikovskian catastrophism. This ...
132. The Asphalt Pit Of La Brea. Ch.5 Tidal Wave (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... From "Earth in Upheaval" © 1955 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Asphalt Pit Of La Brea At Rancho La Brea, once on the western outskirts of Los Angeles, and at present in the immediate neighbourhood of the luxurious shopping centre of that city, bones of extinct animals and of still living species are found in abundance in asphalt mixed with clay and sand. In 1875 some fossil remains of this bituminous deposit were described for the first time. By then thousands of tons of asphalt had already been removed and shipped to San Fransisco for roofing and paving.1 Beds of petroleum shale (rock of laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay ...
133. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 25.7 .99 Astronomers have suggested that another star passing by the Solar System could alter Jupiter's orbit, making it pass so close to Earth that we could be ejected into space or crash into the Sun. Failing such an extreme scenario Jupiter could affect Earth's orbit or crash through the asteroid belt, hurling asteroids towards Earth and causing extinctions etc. The theory that the Moon was formed after a catastrophic impact with Earth of a Mars-sized body has received a boost by the discovery that the Moon contains more iron than previously thought. It also fits with other research which suggests that the early Solar System contained up to 20 planets in irregular orbits where they were eventually bound to ...
134. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and is accepted as due to the break up of a large asteroid causing a shower of meteorites; evidence of impacts possibly being two craters in Libya and groups in Kara and in the Ukraine. Rezanov considers this catastrophe, although probably the largest in the history of the Earth, can have done little more than accelerate the ongoing process of extinction of the dinosaurs. Rezanov's view of catastrophes' is more comprehensive than that of some. He includes fluctuations and reversals of Earth's magnetic field, not only in respect of its protective value against destructive cosmic radiation, but also regarding the direct effects of the field upon living organisms. However, he again stresses the lack of any sudden ...
135. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 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 his famous Galapagos expedition, saw for himself the evidence for massive, sudden faunal extinction, and noted in his journal, "The mind at first is hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe, but thus to destroy animals, both large and small .. . we must shake the entire framework of the globe," But in Origin of Species, two decades later, he wrote "We may feel certain ...
136. Imaginary and Expected Catastrophes: Apocalyptic Desire and Scientific Prognosis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism', in T.S .M . Schopf, ed., Models in Paleobiology, San Francisco, Freeman, Cooper and Co., 1972, pp. 82-115. 37. P. Béland, J. -R. Roy, D. Russell, Chains of Events Leading to Mass Extinctions: Two Synopses', in P. Béland et al. (The K-TEC Group), Hg., Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinctions and Possible Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Causes, Ottawa, The National Museums of Canada, Syllogeus No. 12, 1977, pp. 155 ff. 38. L.W . Alvarez, W. Alvarez, W ...
137. Uniformitarian Or Catastrophist? Ice Age Theory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Age] changes, one of the greatest riddles in geological history, remains unsolved, despite the endeavors of generations of astronomers, biologists, geologists, meteorologists, and physicists, it still eludes us."4 Schneider and Londer suggest, "There are many parallels between the theories explaining recent ice ages and those explaining the great dying [extinction]. The possible causes offered for glacial/ interglacial episodes of the Pleistocene have been as numerous as the biblical plagues."5 Like the question of the extinction of the megafauna at the end of Pleistocene, this problem of the cause or causes of the Ice Age is also unsolved and enmeshed in scientific and scholarly conflict. For ...
... the activity of Vesuvius has rarely died down for long. In 1670 eruptions burst out simultaneously from fifteen different points of a fissure from the summit to the base. Its lavas have consisted for long of leucitic basalt, but the conglomerate strata of Somma indicate a former felspathic composition with a change of crater. Whence this leucitic basalt? The extinct volcanoes of Campi Phlegraei have almost uniformly produced felspathic or trachytic lavas. It might justly be said of Vesuvius that she ejects lava in a higher state of incandescence than formerly and as she grows older becomes more potent. Before quitting the neighbourhood of Vesuvius it should be noted that here is found a system of extraordinary volcanic energy and complication ...
139. Scientific Prehistory [Books]
... is commendable and a real challenge. He supports his thesis with valid quantitative analysis. The book may also serve as a source book. It represents many years of research. ' The author concludes his book by pointing out an interesting paradox: "The catastrophic character of continental drift in an ice cap model is probably the key to major extinctions in terrestrial life; survival not extinction becomes the paradox in the catastrophic model." The Beal review brought enough favorable comment to promote this book, even a request for a copy by a rare books dealer in London. "The Creationists"Dr. Ronald L. Numbers gave, in this book, a story of vigorous debates ...
140. The Mammoths, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... perished. The mammoth belonged to the family of elephants. Its tusks were sometimes as much as ten feet long. Its teeth were highly developed and their "density" was greater than in any other stage in the evolution of the elephants; apparently they did not succumb in the struggle for survival as an unfit product of evolution. The extinction of the mammoth is thought to have coincided with the end of the last glacial period. Tusks of mammoths have been found in large numbers in north-east Siberia; this well-preserved ivory has been an object of export to China and Europe ever since the Russian conquest of Siberia and was exploited in even earlier times. In modern times the ivory ...
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