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71 pages of results. 471. Reversals of the Earth? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... duty, passing the same message down through the generations for God knows how long. In the Pacific Islands, the Polynesians have been doing the same. Both the Polynesians and the Hopi have used rote-learning, a method that can be (and has been) staggeringly effective even via a chain of people who don't understand the message. The psychologists' party trick of passing a message round a group of people, ending up with a garbled version of the original - so beloved by uniformitarians who use it to explain away those unlikely and impossible legends - is totally inapplicable to rote-learning. The Polynesians know that - they can still steer by the stars with confidence despite the psychologists' ...
472. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Journals] [Kronos]
... or if it was on the contrary developed as a necessary reaction to the disruption of all previous categories by planetary catastrophe. For the only way we can conceive of the events Velikovsky reconstructs is as so unusual that meaning could not be experienced in them and yet so terrible that meaning had to be imposed. We are all familiar with the psychological reflex by which the mind strains to find meaning in an event which when it occurred produced only shock; this is commonest in the experience of someone else's death. The survivors of catastrophes had experienced death on an inconceivably large scale and under conditions that seemed to involve suspension of the normal kinds of causality. The compulsion thereafter to assimilate ...
473. Did the Sumerians and the Akkadians Ever Exist? [Journals] [Aeon]
... legitimacy. The catastrophic terror is over, the panic fear no longer occurs, making the rituals for its release superfluous. The sacrificial rituals which were only justified historically as a compromise between real panic and sublimation now become reactionary, insofar as they deteriorate to techniques for political control, and regressive, insofar as they are chosen to provide quick psychological release in order to evade the painful path of sublimation and unification. Judaism manages the radical step of turning away from sacrifice during the Babylonian Exile, and the Greek philosophers follow a similar path. Both movements experience a momentous backlash in the state institution of Christianity in the late Roman Empire where the eucharistic deicide of Jesus Christ/Morning ...
474. The Velikovskian Upheaval: A Temporocentric Challenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... collective unconscious mind; the unconscious is carried throughout the lifetime of the person, and the collective unconscious is passed on from generation to generation through what Velikovsky refers to- perhaps artistically- as the "human soul." Velikovsky (quoted by Talbott, 1972:48) maintains that "the cause of the opposition to me was in great part psychological: my critics could not accept my bringing their unconscious to consciousness." He (1974:11) apparently believes that "wishful thinking" for a stable universe, expressed in the doctrine of uniformity, forced the abandonment of catastrophic theories: "A psychological situation provoked a change in the attitude of the scholarly world with the beginning ...
475. The Foibles of Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... so slight as a compositor's misspelling of Greenberg's name in a footnote crediting him with contributions to quantavolution (his name being mistakenly mispelled by the compositor as "Queenberg," for instance, in itself sufficient cause for paranoiac fury), and a wrong middle initial for Earl R. Milton, who received Earl S.', a complimentary psychological mistake tying him to a dear old professor of Deg, Earl S. Johnson, the same to whom The Divine Succession is dedicated. Writes Greenberg: After going through half of the text of Chaos and Creation, the Citations, and Bibliography, I have decided to enclose a sampling of pages that is symptomatic of the entire work ...
... have their hopes and fears, their passions and despondencies-and their strong emotions may sometimes interrupt the course of clear thinking and sound practice... The history of science is full of cases where previously accepted theories and hypotheses have been entirely overthrown, to be replaced by new ideas that more adequately explain the data. While there is an understandable psychological inertia-usually lasting about one generation-such revolutions in scientific thought are widely accepted as a necessary and desirable element of scientific progress." 1 There is, indeed, a clear distinction to be made between the psychological and sociological behavior of individual scientists, on the one hand and the requirement of truthfulness and responsible behavior of scientists in their symposia and ...
477. A Failed Excursion to the Caves of Aquitaine [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Interest is general, attention good, but questions almost entirely factual and answers accepted. No controversy. Is this science: maybe so. Some complaint about not enough manpower to dig. Not one mention of skies. One American, expatriate in Canada, says unusually, Why did these people use the caves? ' Practically no interest in psychology. No talk of institutions. I probably initiate (stimulate) one half of the total volume of psychological or theoretical talk, now here, now there, often walking off, never completed. Desultory. As we near Lascaux, I jot down a nearly undecipherable note, written on the bus. I notice how often 2 or ...
478. Saturn's Children [Books] [de Grazia books]
... prevailed. Then the sacred ruler became the God-King. The transition may have been "natural", as aggressive people enslaved others and their kings expanded royal power generally on the basis of their especial powers over slaves. Since the desire to control others, as well as to control the gods, was so strong, there would be no psychological resistance to absolutism in government. There appear to have been no Saturnian monolithic civilizations; Tiahuanacu and Atlantis did not seem to have the kind of state that dynastic Egypt and Sumeria developed in the next age of Jove. Perhaps Saturn was peaceful, the Moon calm now, and mankind generally restrained in behavior. Civilizations, now separated by ...
479. Catechism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... contained in other books of the author's "Quantavolution Series;" thus, for the physical evidence of quantavolution and disaster, Chaos and Creation, The Lately Tortured Earth, and Solaria Binaria; for the anthropological and mythological ambiance of religion, Homo Schizo I, God's Fire, and The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars; for the psychological, Homo Schizo II, as well as the foregoing. My exposition adopts the format of ordinary language, the structure of whose utterances must be systematic and conventional. Hence the form of communication renders obscure the meanings of mystics, already beset by the problem in their own turn when they write. Such is the case with Meister Eckhart ...
480. Velikovsky and his Heroes [Articles]
... II matches up to Ages in Chaos as a coherent, convincing picture of an historical period. They rather leave the impression of a series of brilliant, disconnected sketches, some of them puzzling, others breathtaking in their descriptive power. It will be interesting to see how Isaiah and Homer measures up in these historiographical terms. But from the psychological point of view, it should be Velikovsky's treatment of Isaiah that will be revealing. Isaiah is the only major biblical prophet to enjoy both a major and positive role in Velikovsky's historical canvas. He is the only individual to figure prominently in Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky's cosmic drama of the planetary gods. In a remarkable series of comments ...
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