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71 pages of results. 501. Thoth Vol I, No. 1: January 25, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... conditions are right for a sea-change in our world view. By virtue of the space exploration efforts and the ongoing march of science and technology, there have been an overwhelming number of developments and discoveries in the various disciplines, virtually all of which support an astral catastrophic mechanism playing a major role in the geological history of the earth and the psychological history of humankind. One of the basic problems we as catastrophists face in getting the catastrophic reconstruction considered seriously, especially those of us that are "Saturnists," is that of paradigm lockout. This is where pieces of the old paradigm that are almost universally accepted but are incorrect preclude or lockout consideration of pieces of a new or ...
502. Thoth Vol IV, No 4: Feb 29, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... event which ancient races feared above all else- was that which brought the Golden Age to its violent conclusion. Whether it is the ancestral rule of Re, or the universal kingship of An, or the Golden Age of Kronos (not to mention the numerous variations), the story culminates in earth- shaking catastrophe. But only rarely do psychologists or historians ask whether this pervasive fear might have roots in natural experience as well- a time when the world _did_ slip out of control, the stars _did_ fall from the sky, and the rain of fire and brimstone _did_ overwhelm the world. The Doomsday theme is not an isolated memory, but an ...
503. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... millennia myth served as the primary means of recording and communicating ancient man's most fundamental beliefs regarding the nature of the cosmos, history, and the origin of the sacred. In this sense, ancient myth constitutes an important chapter in the intellectual history of our species and is thus a ripe field of study for all students of anthropology and evolutionary psychology. If it turns out that myth also preserves valuable clues for understanding the recent history of our Solar System, it should occasion little surprise. For those ingrained with the modern prejudice that "myth" connotes something analogous to fiction, this statement will no doubt seem preposterous. Yet there are good reasons to believe that the modern understanding ...
504. Thoth Vol I, No. 6: March 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... personal. The Constitution says it is. Well....If there isn't one truth- a common possible-to-perceive reality, a set of values that transcends cultural differences- for human beings then we are truly alien. We may share the same body chemistry and may be physically classified as the same, but in the ultimately important aspects we are psychological, intellectual and spiritual aliens. We may be able to procreate together and share the same species label as Homo Sapiens but the name is a bad joke. The originators of the THOTH electronic newsletter believe that we truly need a "throbbing, vital center" and that a correct reconstruction of our past- not one based in denial- has ...
505. "Let There Be Light" - A Criticism [Journals] [Kronos]
... ., 1977, p. 233). Under these conditions spontaneous mutation could produce widespread anomalies in plant, insect and animal life within one human lifetime. If a nova caused the Earth to be bombarded with an enormous amount of high-energy radiation having the capacity to induce spontaneous mutation in all species, the Creation myth may not be a psychological reaction formation to universal disaster but rather the memory of a real process- the generation of new lifeforms. 4) Since the time elapsed between Saturn's flare-up and the following disaster is unknown, we cannot state with assurance "Man was never to forget the glory but he did not wish to remember that the destruction which followed owed its ...
506. Genesis and Extinction [Books] [de Grazia books]
... famine, plague, and war. Later man was excused from the struggle, if he would develop "moral restraint" against excessive breeding. He has not done so. But the biological world, as young Charles Darwin saw, had no moral restraints and was operating continuously under the pressures of the environment. Nor was there any rentier psychology in nature: "Give me my little niche and I will give you yours." Pressure to expand was infinite and this aggressiveness led to the most marvelous adaptations (to other's niches) and actual physical evolutions. So went the line of thought. The underlying amoral (but moral in its own way) view here found the ...
507. Enheduanna and the Goddess Inanna [Journals] [SIS Review]
... dearth of information concerning the actual experience of men in early literate civilisations. Our appreciation of myth is dependent upon our under- standing of the intellect of early civilised man. There is a consensus that, since there have been no structural changes in the brain of homo sapiens sapiens, its basic method of function is also unchanged. The psychologist Julian Jaynes disagrees: in a profound treatise [1 ] he explains how the functioning of the human cerebrum has altered dramatically during the course of history and he notes a number of distinct episodes of change, often in relation to catastrophic events [2 ]. Thus, for Jaynes, myth is based on experience but since nothing similar ...
508. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... lf Velikovsky's work was of this kind, why the viciousness of the campaign against him? Why couldn't he just have been shrugged off?" Small wonder, then, that Worlds in Collision was seen as "a genuine threat to the very ego of science". At this point the paper deviated into what might be called the "psychology of science": "One can't help being struck by the curious analogy between such behaviour on the one hand and that attributed to geese, monkeys and human beings deprived of maternal care on the other. These unfortunate animals, rather than actively exploring their environment for novel stimuli in the manner of their more fortunately reared conspecifics, flee ...
509. Thrusting and Orogeny [Books] [de Grazia books]
... great diastrophism (" turnabouts" in Greek) or revolution. Whence came the Laurentian, Algonkian, Killarney, Appalachian, Laramide and Cascadian Revolutions, each marked by profound unconformities in the rocks. Naturally a quantavolutionist will wonder why these never evolved into a new catastrophist geology. First, there was the obstacle of ideology, which a social psychologist can appreciate more than a natural scientist: the social atmosphere of the times, the breakaway from religion, the need of biology to pursue prolonged development periods, and the empirical fascination of studying the processes going on before one's very eyes - these acted to subdue diastrophism and revolutionism. Long periods of slow changes were supplied until the revolutions ...
510. Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... seriously challenged of all were certain dogmas in the field of astronomy which had only in recent centuries succeeded in convincing mankind that Spaceship Earth was a haven of safety. The emotional outburst from the community of astronomers that so blackened the name Velikovsky and so successfully if only temporarily- discredited Worlds in Collision has been laid to many causes, from the psychological and the political to simple resentment against invasion of the field by an outsider. Whatever the nature of such intensifying factors, however, I believe it is only fair to acknowledge an underlying and totally sincere scientific disbelief in the historical record. Perfectly valid dynamical theories valid in the sense of having met and passed every conceivable kind of test- ...
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