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71 pages of results. 511. The Saturn Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is the author of Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion. Together with Dave Talbott and Dwardu Cardona, Ev Cochrane is one of the primary architects of the Saturn theory. His research interests include ancient mythology, archaeoastronomy, and evolutionary theory. He has an MS from Iowa State University, where he studied genetics and psychology. Summary The paper offers a brief summary of the Saturn theory - specifically, the idea that during the prehistoric period a colossal configuration of planets dominated the celestial landscape and left an indelible mark on primary belief systems of ancient man. Evidence is presented that the planet Venus only recently moved on a radically different orbit. The author also ...
512. The Rape of Helen [Books] [de Grazia books]
... onslaughts from heaven; they launch disasters upon Earth: plagues, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, hail of stones and arrows, famines, fogs, and darknesses in the day. The gods negotiate amongst themselves and with humans. They engage in fighting, trickery, argument, and bribery amongst themselves. They build morale and conduct psychological warfare; they provide military intelligence but also distort information for the good of their favorites. They counsel the warriors on tactics. They enforce rules of warfare that they sometimes themselves violate. They manufacture weapons. They promote and reverse events, battles, and decisions of leaders. Whole sections of the Iliad are devoted to the warring of ...
513. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... number of principles that one might call the "axioms of mythology." One of these is the understanding that the visual templates of the myths- the graphical imagery evoked in the stories, such as the descriptions of the gods and their landscapes- are a far more accurate and reliable pointer to the origin of the myths than the acquired psychological and sociological functions, meanings, and interpretations, to which too much attention has been paid in the last century by Joseph Campbell, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Émile Durkheim, Georges Dumézil, and many others. Once you begin to focus on the pictures implied by the myths, an unmistakable pattern reveals itself in which all mythical "contradictions" ...
514. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... kings, and the fall of empires. Indeed, it is as if the appearance of a comet stimulates emotional responses from deep within man's nervous system, much as a cardboard caricature of a hawk suspended overhead arouses instantaneous terror in ducklings.* [* See L. M. Greenberg & W. B. Sizemore, "Cosmology and Psychology," KRONOS 1:1 (April, 1975), pp. 45 ff. - LMG] In an attempt to understand the beliefs and legends surrounding these celestial visitors, the present authors began an extensive investigation into the role of comets in ancient tradition. It was discovered that comets played a significant role in ancient mythology and ...
515. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS C & C Review 2004:2 Incorporating Workshop 2004:3 (August 2004) Home | Issue Contents Monitor INSIDE SCIENCE Quote: Scholars who lean over backwards to demonstrate their objectivity fall into the pit of negative partisanship' - Hyam Maccoby, 2001. The Psychology of the Status-Quo (M . J. Harper.The History of Britain Revealed, p. 6)'...whenever .. .. false academic paradigms .. . are present in any field of study, academics start to suffer from (what other academics have termed) "cognitive dissonance", the blank refusal to recognise any problem exists accompanied by a shrill defensiveness towards ...
516. The Youthful Planet Venus [Articles]
... a unique way in which they became cratered predominantly on one side or darkened on one side." Dr. Van Flandern replied, "One of my colleagues said to me, If your theory turns out to be correct, I'll go out into the middle of NASA's complex and take off my clothes'. I think that on a psychological level he was saying that the emperor has no clothes, that many of the modern ideas about the solar system, or theories about the solar system, are really emperors without clothes." Velikovsky wrote his theory in 1950 long before the Space Age began. At that time there were many, many theories about what we would find ...
517. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... single text may automatically imply the revision of a host of similar ones. What Kugler submitted was intended to be dynamite that should have shaken the entire field of ancient chronology and historical astronomy, but the fuse was not lit because the general public did not understand what was implied, and those who were competent to understand the implications were not psychologically ready to draw the inevitable conclusions. The pressing warning' that Kugler wanted to communicate to the public was summed up by him as: the momentous doctrine that ancient traditions, even when they are dressed as myth and saga, cannot be dismissed lightly as fantastic, or worse, meaningless fabrications. It is particularly proper to avoid this ...
... advised him not to try to write in English; Velikovsky admitted that his English was "ferocious" (atrocious?), but he was determined to present his vision to the Americans in an idiom they could comprehend. Ralph Marcus, a Columbia translator of the Jewish historian Josephus, more pointedly advised Velikovsky to quit history and stick to psychology. On the other hand, Jericho excavator John Garstang read an early draft of the first chapter of Ages in Chaos and accepted Velikovsky's conclusions regarding a common origin for Egyptian and Jewish accounts of the plagues. Occasional queries were also answered by notables such as Cyrus H. Gordon (who publicly supported the Akhnaton-Oedipus identification, (1 ) ...
519. The Determinants of Scientific Behaviour [Journals] [SIS Review]
... this area conflicts with what might be expected using accepted methods of explanation. The conventional explanations of the behaviour of scientists and of the scientific community stress either adherence to social norms within the scientific community, such as disinterestedness or universality, or adherence to scientific paradigms, such as the theories and methods of approach used in quantum physics or behaviourist psychology. The main point of this paper is to argue that there are at least two other important determinants of individual and communal scientific behaviour which have been downplayed or ignored by conventional sociology of science. One is the interlinking of scientific goals with the goals of outside interests, such as industries or government bodies; the other is the direct ...
... the other, he 149 Pseudo-Scientists, Cranks, Crackpots would be unlike most remarkable pioneers. After all, Columbus was a bit of a promoter and adventurer. . . . [64] There is rarely a certain way of identifying a crank. The cited quotations indicate why, quite apart from the difficulty of analyzing the substantive issues: psychological attributes of drive, persistence, egotism, subjective certainty (what Boring [34] has so aptly described as "intractable enthusiasm") are of necessity present in men who try to force their unorthodox views on the unreceptive orthodox ones. Such iconoclasts are geniuses or they are cranks. Contemporaneously, one can rarely distinguish between them on ...
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