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71 pages of results. 461. A Catastrophist Reading of Religious Systems [Journals] [SIS Review]
... which they were created, they nevertheless share the common goal of supporting Strata One and Two. They always have this same function. If one holds that these religious narratives of Stratum Three are sacred, then no secular analysis of them is permissible, for they are holy truth. If, however, one is of a more sceptical or psychological bent, one may choose to see these stories and more particularly their sequence and organisation, as human constructs adapted by human choice, and in that form they are certainly open to objective analysis, including catastrophic. Many catastrophist researchers, for example, have concentrated their efforts here, trying through comparative mythology to assemble similar narrative units in ...
462. Apocalyptic Imagery In Modern Political Spectacle [Journals] [SIS Review]
... such a terrible ' Last-Days' vision. The answer lies in the traumas which that embittered nation suffered during the critical period 1918-1933, from the end of the First World War to Hitler's ascent to power. Most scholars who have studied the great millenarian outbursts of the Middle Ages agree that they are always the result of a huge social and psychological crisis. The theory is that when a society undergoes a sudden, inexplicable and unbearable downturn which makes the world seem unreasonably malevolent and meaningless, it seeks madly to escape from this horrible reality and the anguish created by feelings of dislocation, disorientation and helplessness. It does this by fastening on to a myth which provides it with the ...
463. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... Egyptian harvest-ritual commemorating the annual death of the vegetation-spirit. (8 ) Although Freud wrote little upon myth himself- Moses and Monotheism being perhaps his deepest foray into the area- his psychoanalytic writings had a profound influence upon the ideas of other scholars such as Jung, Roheim, and Rank, each of whom devoted extensive works to uncovering the psychological determinants of myth. The writings of Jung and Rank, in turn, exerted a formative influence upon subsequent scholars such as Campbell and Kerenyi, whose works have done a great deal to bring the subject of mythology to the forefront of public consciousness. Alas, the schemes of Frazer and Freud were fated to be replaced as well, ...
464. Thoth Vol V, No 9: August 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... (like cells), to "tune into" external signals. Rupert suggested that this external signal was perhaps something he calls Morphic Fields, and gave examples of several experiments which seem to show that there is something out there. As an aside, another person who attended the conference was Gary Schartz, a Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona, and who runs the Human Energy Systems Laboratory. They do research into what I would call the paranormal, but what they describe as "research, education, and clinical applications that embrace these evolving shifts in science, society, and spirituality .. [ ...
465. Chapter 4 Scientific ? Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... is forced to resort to a cake and eat' approach. A Radical's election by a large vote is prima facie evidence of a safe seat. But when a moderate takes office with 9 ibid., p. 110 10 ibid., pp. 111-112 Charles Ginenthal, Pillars of the Past 123 large margins Donald introduces the realm of psychology, that is, his guess as to how secure the congressman felt. . . . There is no shortage of ingenious explanations here, but there seems to be little sense in accumulating data only to shuffle and disregard it [if it goes against one's thesis]."11 Fischer, however, suggests "It would . . ...
466. Chapter 5 Pottery Dating, Faience, and Tin [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... scarab was found at Enkomi on Cyprus, it was not worn for 400 years by generations, but was buried soon after — historically speaking — it was produced. Again, the enchanting spell of the double standard of inference comes into play. In each and every case, rather than using one standard of inference, the investigators turn to psychology to create one scenario after another to do away with contradictions. Let us examine one last example of this psychological game of hide-and-seek. At Megiddo, overlooking the Jezreel Valley, Schumacher's digs in the early 20th century found material that appeared to belong to a wide range of different periods. Watzinger concluded: "It becomes clear that in ...
467. The Role of Ancient Myths in Orthodox Natural Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... of contrary desires and powers within himself can be easily brought into coincidence. This is accomplished by transforming his homely experience into the intellectual vistas that his will (rooted inexorably in nature) can make clear to him. Consigned to merely adaptative, homely experience alone, an individual can be brought into relative harmony or coincidence through the emotional or psychological capture of his will by myths or repeated demonstrations. Those in analytical or social circles who controlled the myths and chose the demonstrations became as cosmic root to merely adaptative men. As lately as the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, ferocious intellectual battling for control of human cultures reached crisis dimensions. The controversies over realism vs. ...
468. Collective Amnesia and the Catastrophic Basis of Soap Opera (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... to be understood, of course, that the entire process occurs subliminally. Neither the creative artist nor those whom his creations racially affect are consciously aware of what happens. It should be noted that the abstract form of this concept resembles the psychoanalytic theory of literature. Both strongly suggest that the deepest motives for the creation of literature are more psychological than aesthetic. Where they differ is in scope- psychoanalytic criticism takes the single person as its unit of motivation and expression and therefore produces a psychopoetics of the individual, whereas catastrophism takes all of traumatized mankind as a whole as its unit and therefore produces a psychopoetics of collective man. One approach is atomistic, the other gestalt. ...
469. The Laughing Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... he insists. "Even should he avoid his debt and flee, I shall pay for him." Hephaestus cannot refuse. "It is not permitted me to say no', nor would it be proper." Why? Is this mere politeness, to move the plot along? But a plot in literature is as determined by psychology as falling rock by gravity. Is it respect for a feared uncle, brother of Zeus? Hephaestus once sympathized with a rebellion against Zeus; he is clamorously angry at his parents now. No; the end is foreseen because that is the way it happened in nature. Hephaestus cannot command the planetary gods. They move ultimately in ...
470. Introduction (In the Beginning: God) [Books]
... my opinion prove the factuality of the events described in the cosmogonic myths. It has been suggested that the great similarity of the cosmogonic myths proves, if anything, that the mind of primitive man trying to explain certain natural phenomena, for some reason or other moves along the sane lines, and hence arrives at similar conclusions. Yet this psychological', explanation of the similarity of myths, which was at one time widely accepted, does not hold good any more. The school of comparative mythologists was forced to take refuge in the psychological theory because the actuality of worldwide cataclysms and their causation was unknown and inconceivable then. But the new school of explanatory mythology, upon whose ...
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