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... around descriptions of striking actual events that can be discerned by proper analysis. 3. Past catastrophes were so threatening to mankind that overt reminders of them are suppressed, though they are described in more or less veiled form in common legends and traditions. The refusal to see descriptions of these actual catastrophes in the ancient writings is a result of psychological suppression, of collective amnesia. 4. The catastrophes resulted from near approaches of heavenly bodies to the earth. ~j . Legends of gods fighting and courting reflect actual encounters between heavenly bodies. 6. The major catastrophes resulted from near approaches of a comet, which produced world conflagration, a long period of darkness, floods, ...
452. Psychoceramics [Journals] [Aeon]
... been the marvelous catchwords to spark the imagination and inflame the more volatile creative juices. An occasional dose of this aesthetic catharsis has had something of a beneficial and purgative effect on stodgy thinking. But this also can be too much of a good thing, as most folks can only stand for so much technological development at one sitting and become psychologically fatigued with an overabundance of new and radical ideas, or even with the prevailing plenitude of today's new high-tech toys. Economist Alvin Toffler delineated this in some detail two decades ago in his 500-page study, that would itself have been much less fatiguing for the reader if it had been only one-fifth as long. (7 ) Nonetheless, ...
453. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... interest in the habits of his sleepy dogs, or in the curious whorled shell-house which the leisurely snail carries on its back? Did any of these, or all of these, make an irresistible appeal to his aesthetic sense? It is difficult to answer anyone of these questions in the affirmative. Perhaps, after all, there was a psychological motive, rooted in early man's store of accumulated knowledge and religious ideas, for the selection of the spiral as a symbol and therefore as an expression of definite beliefs. If the spiral did mean something quite definite to the ancient craftsman who, in his magico-religious art, said what he meant in his own way, and in accordance ...
454. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 2) [Journals] [Kronos]
... are genuine reactions to the exaggerated claims of scientism- the naive doctrine that all human ills can be cured by generous doses of the scientific method'. This belief, which is implicit in the attitudes of many scientists and technologists, lies very deep in our contemporary culture. Like may semi-religious doctrines, the belief that benevolent rationalism, or psychological conditioning, or submission to the laws of social evolution, will create a heaven on earth has its attractions; but such simplifications are not characteristic of the complex world of nature revealed to us by scientific observation.(102) The pepper and ginger were reserved for The Skeptical Inquirer where Abell let loose: . . . the followers ...
455. Velikovsky And The Cosmic Serpent [Journals] [Kronos]
... retreat of some kind; but of what kind? What on earth does it mean? The context, despite what the "therefore" suggests, does absolutely nothing to make the sentence any more understandable than it is as it stands here now. Your guess is as good as mine as to what it means. Of course in a psychological sense I know well enough what it means. It means something like this: About Velikovsky, our thoughts are as clear as mud, because our consciences are likewise; but we have got to get this wretched acknowledgement-business finished somehow! ' This book, then, considered as a landmark in the process of getting a rational hearing for ...
456. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Mars, a mighty battle of the gods ensued which their human champions emulated. She stimulated new cycles of fear and new prodigies of careful astronomical observations to warn of her coming. Nor did her effects cease, for the Earth and Moon are scarred by flood, fire, quakes, and biosphere disruption that she caused, and she left psychological and cultural marks that could not be erased. THE HEAT OF VENUS The great heat of Venus is predictable from its recent origin and subsequent collisions and encounters. The theory that its miles-deep clouds set up a "greenhouse effect" on its surface, heating it to over 600 Celsius, will not stand examination; little of the Sun's ...
457. Myth and the Origin of Religion [Journals] [Pensee]
... in a world peopled with beings and things which have only a verbal existence" (1 ). (Emphasis added.) This definition of myth, or at least religious myth, excludes the possibility of extracting from myth any historical reality. It finds myth to possess verbal existence only, confining it to the realm of ancient intellectualism or psychological phenomena which occur "in here" rather than "out there" in the world of physical existence. Almost every theory of interpretation of myth since Durkheim, stripped of its rhetoric, accepts this definition. Franz Boas. Durkheim's reduction of myth to a verbal and quasi-religious reality was echoed by Franz Boas, who focused on the hidden ...
458. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... first dynasty of the Shang priesthood emerged. (92) Since there is evidence of floods, destructions, and climatic change one may well ask what human impact they have had? How did people react to them? Can we imagine their "becloudedness"? Though answers have to remain somewhat speculative, we have a body of psychiatric and psychological scholarship to direct us. Those who survive the mechanical impact of disaster could still die from fear. Those who managed to transform fear into fury were still helpless because of the absence of meaningful adversaries to turn to. Those who were not struck dumb by events and did not try to commit suicide resorted to flight that achieved nothing. ...
459. Foreword and Introduction to Ages in Chaos [Velikovsky]
... because, after having disrupted the complacent peace of mind of a powerful group of astronomers and other textbook writers, I offer here major battle to the historians. The two volumes of the present work will be as disturbing to the historians as Worlds in Collision was to the astronomers. It, is quite conceivable that historians will have even greater psychological difficulties in revising their views and in accepting the sequence of ancient history as established in Ages in Chaos than the astronomers had in accepting the story of cosmic catastrophes in the solar system in historical times. Indeed, a distinguished scholar who has followed this work from the completion of the first draft in 1942, expressed this very idea. ...
460. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... interest in the habits of his sleepy dogs, or in the curious whorled shell-house which the leisurely snail carries on its back? Did any of these, or all of these, make an irresistible appeal to his aesthetic sense? It is difficult to answer anyone of these questions in the affirmative. Perhaps, after all, there was a psychological motive, rooted in early man's store of accumulated knowledge and religious ideas, for the selection of the spiral as a symbol and therefore as an expression of definite beliefs. If the spiral did mean something quite definite to the ancient craftsman who, in his magico-religious art, said what he meant in his own way, and in accordance ...
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