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... . Looking back, it seems clear that Velikovsky suborned the truth through such devices as claiming, in the face of the facts, to stand as a noble heretic, as above the verbal fray, as unconcerned about being given credit and priority for his ideas; misleadingly invoking the names of historical and contemporary celebrities; harping on dogmatism and psychology as reasons for his rejection by scientists; demanding to be taken all or nothing, as "fiction or nonfiction." Consistently, Velikovsky implied that his ideas must have merit because of the resistance they met, a non sequitur if ever there was one. He shifted ground adroitly as needed, maintaining that his critics were attacking some ...
... than is afforded by diseases alone. If certain chemical formulae in the shape of germs can influence the blood, who will deny the possibility that other forms may affect the mind? Man, the highest creation, is himself a modification of cosmic elements, a composite of cosmic forces seen and unseen. His intelligence consists of a highly sensitive psychological series of chords, which must respond to certain attractive forces, producing instinctive effects, such as joy or anger, love or hate, pity or cruelty, gaiety or gloom. It is a phenomenon to be witnessed commonly in regard to thunder in the air, which reacts on some people to such a degree that they are prostrated ...
... teaching. With the amazing discovery of Marconi of wave lengths and their harnessing to scientific exploitation no one in their senses can deny at least the possibility of further development of mental influences for the good or ill of humanity) and perhaps within the next decade this aspect of the "subtle parts of our air" may be the aim of psychologists. Comets are certainly connected with Pestilences. Daniel Webster, the great lexicographer and a profound thinker and scholar, was firmly of opinion that influenza was caused by the gases of a comet projected into the earth's atmosphere. It is medically described as a germ, and that germ has been identified, but in effect it is a poison ...
524. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... modern English usage. It is not difficult to find modern English examples of actual' In the sense of present'. The Oxford Dictionary quotes A. GEIKIE'S Physical Geography as an example, where he speaks of nobody having witnessed an actual eruption of volcanoes on the Moon. And it is even easier to find instances, for example in psychological texts, of Continental languages using actuel' (aktuell, actueel), or derivatives, in the sense of real'. But this does not do away with the fact that LYELL used modern', Present', and not actual' and that therefore he did not only mean effective causes' as opposed to imaginary causes' ...
525. Electricity [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the unreadiness of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere to display their electrical history, letting the electrical be considered transient and superficial. If one seeks non-rational explanations of an ideological or psychiatric sort for such avoidance, it may be in the quixotic or miraculous appearances of electrical phenomena. Bordering upon the religious and the occult, these set up psychological resistances among "hard" scientists. As we shall see, even the famous subject of lightning, which can hardly be ignored, is little understood. The latest literature on lightning is still at the state of trying to survey its extent and intensity, and not even its forms are classified. The ancient Etruscans thought that they could ...
526. The Birth of Planets [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ideas - both his and mine - be taken seriously and that they enter the forum of scientific discussion, instead of the situation we have at present where people such as King-Hele profess to seek enlightenment whilst at the same time ignoring the bright scientist standing clearly before them. The reason such people cannot see that bright scientist is a matter of psychology, and those whom I gather I may have upset by my apparent "failure" to give Velikovsky his due have perhaps not fully appreciated the significance of Velikovsky's concept of a racial amnesia. That concept is not just applicable to people in the past. It still applies, and indeed it may go rather deeper than Velikosky has suggested ...
527. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... work uniting the four factors; comet, flood, terror, and the origin of religion. G.R . Carli followed in a few years with additional world-wide legends and geological evidence of catastrophe. The ancient reports of universal catastrophe, both men reasoned, bore the stamp of truth. In the century that followed, the natural and psychological sciences separated themselves from history and legend. The Biblical Deluge, for example, was steadily diminished and even dismissed as a fairy tale. It became a local flood along the Euphrates River, an account which the Hebrews picked up and patched into their holy scriptures. The influential geologist Seuss opined that "the traditions of other peoples do ...
528. Electric Stars in a Gravity-Less Electrified Cosmos [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . I live in a region of the world where the Chinook winds blow. (They resemble the Föhn winds of Switzerland.) When they blow, the atmospheric pressure varies rapidly and the electric field above the Earth's surface fluctuates; people get migraine headaches. After about 3 days of continuous winds people start to fight over trivial things, psychological disturbances increase, murders and suicides become more likely. There is a lot of evidence that comparable environmental stress occurs in other places where electric or magnetic disturbances are common. I take all this as evidence of the fundamentality of electric and magnetic processes in the cosmos (3 ). Ralph Juergens' Charged-Body Universe That brings me to the ...
529. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... provide a natural interpretation of "miraculous" events rather than merely to dismiss them as legendary. Third, it took into account its own conflicts with established theory. Velikovsky's words in this respect were carefully chosen, especially in his epilogue, where he summarized the problems he knew he was presenting for ancient history, the origins of religion, psychology, geology, paleontology, and, not least, astronomical physics. Being aware of these, he made explicit what conclusions must necessarily follow from his, and what would therefore invalidate him if they did not. He was in this sense self-correcting. Fourth, it illuminated dilemmas which had previously been obscure. Why primitive man was terrified ...
... of the departed were deemed to travel by devious route and magical ways to an Amenta in the far west, all being under the personal protection of Hermes, or Thoth, who provided the souls with passports, amulets and charms, to enable them to reach their gloomy destination to be tried by Osiris. It is an aspect of immense psychological importance relative to the past, and, as I show later, Amenta was the region of the destruction of the Flood. The Greeks in like manner believed that the dead were conducted by Cyllenian Hermes to Hades, led by devious and secret paths, crossing the Styx, and were fancied as in emaciated condition and in gibbering mood ...
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