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71 pages of results. 491. Marx, Engels, and Darwin [Books] [de Grazia books]
... interactions studied. The earlier interest of the present investigator in the connections between ideologies and practices (cf. The Velikovsky Affair) have suggested to him other similar cases such as the present one of Marx and Engels. The use of Catastrophists, Uniformitarians, and Socialists for case study leads in turn to a larger interest in the sociology and psychology of science. The opportunity is extraordinary, for Marx and Engels were interested third parties to the widespread conflict of many years between Uniformitarians and Catastrophists. How they made up their minds to support the former, and to what extent they would support them, are questions whose answers bear importance in he history and philosophy of science. Such ...
492. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Five [Books]
... went on to say that such remarks could solicit approval only from the equally uncomprehending. Actually, the introduction to Parts 4 was intended to be no more than "a wicked leg-pull" (as another of my correspondents later succinctly put it), so I do not feel any pressing need to debate how closely or otherwise my hypothesised Shakespearean psychology parallels the set- up proposed by V. But what I would like to highlight here are the disturbing implications of my Velikovskian friend's approach. These are perhaps best illustrated by taking the leg- pull' a stage further. Accordingly, I shall make my dual hypothesis into a tripartite one, the third part being that anyone who ...
493. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... their professional lives — might be wrong, they will not be capable of changing their minds. The revisionist revolution may take decades or even centuries, if ever, before the mighty edifice of ancient Near Eastern chronology collapses. But in a certain sense, it has already fallen. In the final analysis their only response to all this is psychological denial. By being silent about this book they will ensure it will all be forgotten by themselves and their colleagues. This author sees the edifice of ancient historical chronology as a great Ozymandian monument to the dogmatism of the academic world. To paraphrase Shelley's poem Ozymandias: "I met a historian of the ancient lands who said: Two ...
494. Golden Age Canopy by Isaac Vail [Books]
... mythology as a spontaneous growth in the human mind, whereas it should be defined as approximately the truthful history of a lost and forgotten world-condition. It is universally admitted that a myth was originally an expression of natural phenomenon and that time has added a religious or ethical color to the tale, and that this color is the inevitable outcome of psychologic processes, among all people. I think I can see that this faulty conclusion has arisen from the very apparent comparative identity of the old world myths. I do not deny certain psychological tendencies in mythic evolution, but there are many proofs, and the deluge narrative is one of them, that this point is overdrawn. The myth ...
495. Chapter23_end
... it is not the same as biological time. Again and again, in our text, we have adverted to this confusion which has hardened to become worse confounded. If Cassirer's idea of mythical thought is already dated, as are his sources, one must expect the survey courses of the future to go farther in the same direction with sociological psychology and anthropological sociology, until all traces of the past have been wiped out. 328 The masses will then have a culture of commonplaces reared on the common ideas of the last two centuries of history. Even the gifts of a Cassirer, who could discern the links between language and thought in modern science, left him defenseless when he ...
496. Chapter 15 Dark Ages Based on Dark Scholarship [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... as soon as unreal centuries are stricken out."22 Velikovsky presented the concept that the great Venusian cataclysm, dated to around 1500 B.C ., together with other such cataclysms, so devastated humanity that it created in their minds such emotional pain that they repressed it. He called this "collective amnesia." For proposing this psychological mechanism he was roundly criticized and lampooned by historians and others. Yet when we come to the Dark Age of Greece, the historians have failed to recognize that in those centuries the ancient Greeks appear to have suffered from various forms of "collective amnesia." They postulate that collectively these early Greeks forgot or almost forgot how to write ...
497. Chapter 7 Iron, Diorite and Other Hard Rock [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... perform all these operations with copper tools without quartz sand. Only in this way can they maintain the illusion of their chronological construction. The hard facts regarding hard stone do not support that illusion. The capacity of physical anthropologists and historians to maintain for about a century that soft metals can cut, shape, and engrave hard stone indicates that psychological and sociological factors can lead one to believe things that do not exist. This is not a new observation among historians of science. It can be observed in the work of a French scientist, René-Prosper Blondlot who achieved great renown and received much interest and attention from members of the scientific community. His discovery was that of N-rays which ...
498. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... her rebirth. Bacchus too is transformed, becoming a god through his love for Ariadne. To Ariadne, Bacchus is not only death, but life. He effects her transformation from a deserted maiden to a goddess. It is apparent from the above summary that the opera is an example of the restatement and interpretation of a myth as a psychological experience, in terms adapted to the intellectual climate of the time and place. Death, for example, is presented not as physical extinction but more as a rite of passage'. It is the death of the love of Theseus for Ariadne which makes Ariadne, faithful to the end, long for death, and it is the ...
499. The Ark in Action [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the Ark to be a kind of brave flag carried at the head of a troop; the flag is also used when swearing to agreements and making promises for the future. The Jews, however, had plenty of banners inscribed with tribal legends and Israelite mottoes. The Ark was no mere banner or image. The Ark would always give psychological consolation, of course. It would indicate by its activity and sounds the comforting presence of Yahweh. In what seemed to be interminable periods of despair and starvation, it lived for its people. Thus: And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days journey: and the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord went before ...
500. Imaginary Worlds: The Debate Heats Up [Journals] [Aeon]
... of an ice sheet. But if it's not submerged, he'd call that a hit, too, because it isn't submerged now. There is nothing that he would not consider a hit. So it's a meaningless "heads I win, tails you lose" game with him. The circularity of his rationalizations is complete. He is simply psychologically incapable of admitting that any cartographer could ever draw any feature on a map not based on accurate geographic knowledge, regardless of documented examples to the contrary, which he airily dismisses as "irrelevant digressions" at the outset. As for the Guadalquivir, the late David Jolly disposed of that one in the fall, 1986 issue of Skeptical ...
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