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18 pages of results. 151. Catastrophe and Sublimation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FOUR Catastrophe and Sublimation One may dare to suppose that the Love Affair stands for a tragedy of humanity if there is borne in mind a larger theory, already considerably developed, even if not yet widely employed. The larger theory, the modern scientific theory of ancient catastrophes - quantavolution - functions as a kind of general engineering scheme to guide the reconstruction of the song of Demodocus. It is both chronological - telling what happened when - and analytic - telling how it happened. As a consequence of work done in quantavolution, many ancient and recent discoveries have come together ...
152. "Cenocatastrophism" [Articles]
... whole, no part of which can be supposed recognizably the same in a pre-catastrophic past. One might for the moment label the first thesis "mythological cenocatastrophism" and the second "historical cenocatastrophism". For the third we should consider the term put forward by the most comprehensive theorist in this area, the "quantavolution" of Alfred de Grazia; he introduces this neologism in the opening pages of Chaos and Creation and defines it as a "model" that "considers quantajumps' to be the main feature of change (volution)... Humanity, art, institutions and science are products of the most ancient catastrophes... quantavolution' may be preferable.. ...
153. SIS Spring Meeting 9th April 1983 [Articles]
... (Poster) SIS Spring Meeting 9th April 1983 Speakers: PROFESSOR ALFRED DE GRAZIA (New York University) Homo Schizo- the Catastrophic Evolution of Man BREAK FOR LUNCH PETER JAMES (History Editor, SISR): The Sea Peoples and Philistines DAVID ROHL & PETER JAMES (co-organisers of the SIS 10th Anniversary Tour of Egypt), will give a brief slide presentation and description of the proposed tour, followed by an OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION A MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY, 9th APRIL 1998 (11 AM- 5:30 PM) Admission free Refreshments available THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 7 RIDGMOUNT STREET, LONDON WC1 (nearest Underground, Goodge St. ...
154. Updating Schaeffer's Destruction Inventory [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER SIX Updating Schaeffer's Destruction Inventory * [* A summary of Professor Shaeffer's findings and notes of a research proposal to extend his work. A memorial to Professor Schaeffer (1898-1982) by Geoffrey Gammon occurs in V The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Review 3 (1980-1), 70. The sites studied by Schaeffer and a map of them is contained in his work of 1948, Stratigraphie Comparée and this author's Chaos and Creation (1981).] In concluding his massive inventory and analysis of strata of destruction in Bronze Age settlements, Professor Claude Schaeffer of the University of Paris wrote as follows: ...
155. The Obliteration of Human Signs [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER EIGHT The Obliteration of Human Signs The conventional scientist says to the catastrophist: "How convenient it is for your purposes to place your catastrophes just out of reach of true history, tantalizingly so. Is it so that the falsity of your views cannot be proven, that your assertions can remain forever in the limbo of seductive fable?" The answer is another question: "How is it that your accuse me of something for which I am not accountable? You ask me to provide records of an event whose great force was exercised precisely in the destruction of those records? Does this ...
156. Ancient Astronauts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER NINE Ancient Astronauts Seeing that humans are very different from primates and yearning to stress that difference without the help of current religion, many people have taken an interest in the idea of the "ancient astronauts"[1 ]. Popularized especially by Erich von Daniken, and given intellectual respectability more recently by Robert Temple, the view maintains that primitive "backward" humans were visited by anatomically compatible beings from outer space, and taught the arts and sciences, including finally an enduring reverence for the visitors as gods. Most sets of myths do include a belief that god-heroes walked the Earth in ...
157. The Latecoming Olduvai Gorge [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Latecoming Olduvai Gorge In September 1976, I happened to meet Ofer Bar-Yosef, Ernst Wrestler, and other archeao-anthropologists from Israel on an excursion through the caves of Southwest Aquitaine. There I learned of the work that had been done at Ubeidiya, a location two and a half hours' drive from Jerusalem. Stekelis, who died in 1967, had brought in Louis Leakey to examine the site, and they got the idea that the Olduvai and Ubeidiya remains were closely related. Yet the latter were placed well under a million years while the former was considered a million years older. ...
158. Athens Quakes [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FOURTEEN Athens Quakes * (* Part of article appeared in The Athenian Magazine, April 1981.) They left without paying their bills, but that is not why the waiters hurried after them. At 22:53 hours of this evening of February 23, 1981 a strange deep bassoon called the patrons of Philippo's Taverna to attention, and seconds later they found themselves altogether swaying like a ballet, their faces turned on in the unique poseidonian awe of earthquake recognition, and some were jostling at the door even before the lights went out. Once outside, there were those who hurried to ...
159. Comptinology and Tohu-bohu [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FIFTEEN Comptinology and Tohu-bohu Comptinology (from comptine: French for nursery rhyme, hence the study of same.) Even a small child will sometimes chant a nursery rhyme and afterwards think, "where did it come from?" "Oh, it's very old," says the mother. It is indeed very old. No one knows where it came from. The child grows old and has passed the song to others. There are variations. Beginning two centuries ago, they have been printed and the oral tradition is helped in maintaining itself in a bureaucratic world. Stories like " ...
160. Sandal-straps and Semiology [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER SIXTEEN Sandal-straps and Semiology The neophyte comes upon the word "catastrophe" and feels proud to discover within it the Greek words kata (down) and aster (star), so "failing stars" is heralded as the origin of the word. Not so, say our betters: the Greek words within it are kata and strophe (turning) and refer to that part of an ancient drama in which occurs the denouement; the plot, having reached its culmination, descends, often precipitously. In a plea for the innocents, I would suggest that what we know of Greek etymology ...
161. Making Moonshine with Hard Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Making Moonshine with Hard Science Professor Irving Michelson wrote a little piece of "hard science" (his term) called "Scientifically Speaking..." and subtitled "19-year Lunar Calendar Cycle: Accurate Adjustment to 365 1/4-Day Civil Calendar" [2 ]. A Greek named Meton of about 432 B.C . is credited with having discovered the 19-years repetitive coincidence of lunar month and tropical solar year. Michelson said that Meton's "discovery of the 19-year cycle presupposes precise knowledge of the length of the lunar month as well as of the solar (tropical) year of ...
162. Holy Dreamtime in Wonguri Land [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Holy Dreamtime in Wonguri Land Towards the Napier Peninsula of Arnhem Land in Australia, there dwell a native people of the stone age, whose singing is the most developed of their arts. They are of the Wonguri linguistic group of the Mandzikai clan. Their traditional songs are rich in myth and often very long. They are arranged in groups to form particular cycles. Although complete in itself, each song is related to a central theme. It reconstructs some event or portrays some happening of the traditional post. There are sacred and secular song cycles, songs known only to the men ...
163. O.K. Origins [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY O.K . Origins O.K . is also okay, okey, or okeh. It is a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. "O .K ., the most successful abbreviation ever coined, in the United States or elsewhere, has been borrowed by all the languages of Western Europe and some of those of Asia." So writes the illustrious H.L . Mencken in his book on the American language. But where does it come from? Let us resort to this author's journal: Stylida, Naxos, March 28, 1980 Stormy weather ...
164. Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings With a mind to the present Pioneer explorations of the neighborhoods of planets Jupiter and Saturn, an article by Thomas Taylor (of Walworth) - published in the Classical Journal of 1819 - ought to be reviewed. Taylor was a renowned Platonist and his article was entitled, "On the Coincidence between the Belts of the Planet Jupiter and the Fabulous Bonds of Jupiter the Demiurgus"[2 ]. There, quoting passages of the neo-Platonist Proclus (c . 410-85 A.D .) , On the Timaeus of Plato and On the Theology of Plato, ...
165. Religion and Education [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Religion and Education Present here first is an editorial essay criticizing attempts to avoid the consideration of the Bible in schools and to restrain schoolroom discussion of various hypotheses of natural history. The second piece sketches a method for examining the relations of state education to religious teachings. The author is generally concerned that the words "to teach" should mean "to educate" or at least "to consider" rather than meaning "to advocate" and "to indoctrinate." I. QUANTAVOLUTION AND CREATION IN ARKANSAS Sometimes when you see how winners behave, you sympathize with the losers. I ...
166. 'Scientific' Reporting [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Scientific' Reporting The story begins in September 1963 when for the first time a professional journal, The American Behavioral Scientist, investigated the circumstances surrounding the publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950. The authors of the ABS studies, which were collectively entitled The Politics of Science and Dr. Velikovsky, presented a great deal of material that would appear to a reasonable man of good will to be damaging to the pretenses of scientific institutions, scientific practices, and certain scientists themselves. Various explanations for the behavior of scientists were offered, and substantiated by considerable evidence. A plea ...
167. Science and Novelty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... La teoria dei giochi" (Games Theory) and "Riflessioni attuali sulla teoria dei giochi" (1964, Nos. 4 & 5). 4. I. Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision (New York: Doubleday/London: Gollancz, 1950). 5. The matter was explored in depth in papers by A. de Grazia, R. E. Juergens, L. C. Stecchini and Dr Velikovsky himself in the September 1963 issue of The American Behavioral Scientist. [Later reprinted as The Velikovsky Affair: see de Grazia below. - Eds. ] 6. Goethe: Maxims and Reflections, maxim 1385. Readers wishing to follow up points in this ...
168. Untitled [Books]
... when they should not. By his lack of control, he will gain mirth and another chance "To reel the streets at noon" [70]. At another point, Davidson brings the love story even closer to the events described by Velikovsky, when he tells us that Shakespeare was familiar with the Ares-Aphrodite rod -Hephaestus triangle which de Grazia has seen as a mythological retelling of the Velikovsky scenario [71]. In this case it is the Roman version, involving Venus, Mars and the jealous Vulcan, as narrated in the fourth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, where Mars' excessive attraction to Venus, or Antony's to Cleopatra, is given explicitly catastrophic dimensions by Davidson through ...
... study of electromagnetism Velikovsky saw what other scholars were not able to see [378].'. . . Velikovsky is a fine scholar . . . a great cosmogonist . . . many scientists . . would do well.., to see what they may learn from his books" [ii]. 55 Second Engagement Alfred de Grazia, writing at length about the reception of new ideas in science as exemplified by the affair, surely thought that much was right in Velikovsky's work: . . The works of Velikovsky are actually high in the scale of adduced proof and formality, by the standards of all past useful scientific production. . . . his findings appear to ...
170. The Mystery Of The Pleiades [Journals] [Kronos]
... Ibid. 24. Ibid. 25. Ibid. 26. I. Velikovsky, op. cit., pp. 70-76, 85-88. 27. D. Cardona, "Let There be Light," in KRONOS, Vol. III, No. 3, (1978), p. 39. 28. A. de Grazia, "Ancient Knowledge of Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings," in KRONOS, Vol. II, No. 3, (1977), p. 65. 29. M. Sieff, op. cit., pp. 18, 19-20. 30. A. de Grazia, op. cit., pp. 65 ...
171. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM Notes (References cited in "The Scientific Reception 7. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF CORRECT Notes (References cited in "Additional Examples of Correct Appendix I: ON THE RECENT DISCOVERIES Notes (References cited in "Appendix I - On recent Appendix II: VELIKOVSKY DISCREDITED': A TEXTUAL 6. THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM by Alfred de Grazia When a scientist writes a book of his controlled experiences, a publisher ponders its audience, and a colleague weighs its value, the special order of human relations called science is in being. Their patterns of motive and behaviour emerge from and return to the larger sphere of social behaviour. They are different from, yet the same as ...
172. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... with the Hindu Devi see Isenberg (1976). The dynamic problems of such an explosion have been mentioned above, see Index, "Encounters." 2. Rose (1977) 110-1. 3. In addition to Velikovsky (1950), (1972a), (1973-4a) on the Venus question, cf. A. de Grazia, Ralph Juergens and Livio Stecchini (1966); ten special issues of Pensée magazine, Vols. II-IV; the Review of the Society for the Study of Interdisciplinary Issues (England) 1976-present; Kronos (1977); Ransom (1976); E. Milton (1978); and Asimov et al. (1977). ...
173. Kronos Vol. II, No. 1. August 1976: Contents [Journals] [Kronos]
... Moon C. J. Ransom 38 On the Origin of Tektites Dwardu Cardona 45 Some Additional Comments on Tektites Ralph E. Juergens 48 The Role of Ancient Myths in Orthodox Natural Science A. Mann Paterson 57 The Ultimate Catastrophe? H. C. Dudley 63 Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times- Part II Alfred de Grazia 72 Precise Synchronization Involving the Revised Chronology Jerome Colburn 76 Pygmalion, Prince of Tyre, and the el-Amarna Correspondence Bronson Feldman 89 Devi and Venus Artur lsenberg 104 For the Record... 110 Perplexities of Orthodoxy . . . 114 Notices 115 The Book Case 119 Editorial Statement 120 Notes about the Contributors EDITORS Editor-in-Chief LEWIS M. GREENBERG Executive ...
174. Aeon Volume II, Number 6: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... AEON A Symposium on Myth and Science Volume II, Number 6 Copyright (c ) 1991 and Published by: AEON, 2326 Knapp, Ames, IA 50010, USA IN THIS ISSUE.The Jewish Science of Immanuel Velikovsky by Duane Vorhees (excerpts from the definitive biography of the author of Worlds in Collision) Cosmic Heretics by Alfred de Grazia Cosmic Catastrophism by William Stiebing The Velikovsky Affair by Henry Bauer A Personal Reminiscence by Lloyd Motz Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda by Irving Wolfe The Countdown to a new Celestial Hazard by Victor Clube Beyond Bauer by Ev Cochrane Aeon Volume II, Number 6 CONTRIBUTORS AEON- A Symposium on Myth and Science In the pages of this symposium ...
175. Kronos Vol. II, No. 3. February 1977: Contents [Journals] [Kronos]
... OF CONTENTS 3 As Worlds Collide Earl R. Milton 12 On the Convection of Electric Charge by the Rotating Earth Ralph E. Juergens 31 Orbits and Their Measurements Raymond C. Vaughan 49 Quartered at Yale Immanuel Velikovsky 56 Dating the Great Mahabharata War: A Previously Neglected Clue Artur Isenberg 65 Ancient Knowledge of Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings Alfred de Grazia 71 Leonardo da Vinci: Rocks, Fossils, and Time H. James Birx 78 For the Record . . . 081 Something to Think About... On Mercury Without a Moon C. J. Ransom Typology, Phylogeny, and Viviparity: A Note on the Taxonomy of Dinosaurs Roger W. Wescott Prematurity in the Kingdom of ...
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