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71 pages of results. 531. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ). Clube and Napier went on to describe how a weak commensurability' [7 ] (as opposed to the strong Mars-Halley link outlined above!) would account for the transfer of the catastrophic identity of Encke's comet to the planet Venus. Clearly this whole line of reasoning is wishful thinking, easily contradicted by a few simple calculations. Psychologically, the argument is indefensible. Mars and Halley's comet must have been seen in the sky together; Venus and Encke's comet (assuming it was once a naked eye object) would similarly co-exist in the sky. The two bright planets would have had identities - and names - of their own before the comets faded. What thought process ...
532. Chapter VII: The Earth [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... postulated. Finding an undamaged area in an earthquake-stricken town does not prove that the earthquake was imaginary. Similarly, it is unreasonable to expect the results of past global catastrophes to be evident in all geologic data. A report was issued in 1975 from the Institute of Geology in Uppsala, Sweden. It stated, "Analytical methods of experimental psychology applied to observations of geological data reveal that what geologists perceive in, and remember of, rocks is not necessarily the same as what is actually there."1 The next year the same writer discussed certain illusions in geological context and stated that 1he illusory perceptual data are more likely to mislead when they favour an investigator's geological hypothesis than ...
533. Expansion and Contraction [Books] [de Grazia books]
... planets. So does its volume. It could once have been denser and smaller. That its mass and volume have been constant through long ages is 1) an ideological dogma and idée fixe 2) a mistaken simplism regarding the "hardness of rock" and the innateness of volume 3) a mistaken reading of natural history 4) a psychological denial of an undesired state 5) a practical fiction, or 6) a fact. The first five possibilities might be demonstrated without much difficulty, but will be left to such evidence as the reader may cull from this and related studies. If they are so, then the sixth may be in doubt and the contrary may be ...
534. Venus Worship and Ancient China [Articles]
... . It's everywhere we turn. It's in our philosophy. We cannot go beyond it. The intellectual modalities, the philosophies of the Western world are all, almost without exception, bifurcated systems." I was also a student of Nietzsche and know his comments on the bifurcation in the mind, when he really prophetically plummeted some of the psychological sub- stratum of Western culture and revealed it as having this catastrophic dynamic. The thought then occurred to me, "Could all of these stories of catastrophism and all of this...Could this really be more a figment, more from the West? More of the same kind of divided, confused and conflicted thought processes ...
535. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... anti-Jewish history, could not bring himself to acknowledge the debt he had to his ideas of cosmic catastrophe. Velikovsky saw himself as the first and great leader in neo-catastrophism, whereas perhaps the truth is that, as Clube & Napier have said, he was the last of the traditional catastrophists. His failure to properly acknowledge his antecedents was a psychological reaction based on his perceived messianic role in the history of catastrophism. Later discussion about Benny's paper indicated a range of feeling from a belief that we should be grateful to Velikovsky for starting us off along the path of catastrophism to a suggestion that the manner of his initial presentation of his ideas actually blocked acceptance of theories of modern catastrophism ...
536. Tunguska-Type Impacts Over the Pacific Basin Around the Year 1178 AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a cometary stream in 1178 AD There are at least two pieces of information that indicate that the Earth crossed a cometary stream during the late 11th and the 12th century, with a peak around the middle of the 12th century. The first comes from European history. Frequent and scaring appearances of large comets were a factor contributing to the special psychological climate that led to the Crusades, which were often seen, at least at the popular level, as a means for atonement of sins, the divine wrath expressing itself through the menacing comets. A great comet appeared during a meeting of bishops where a decision had to be taken about starting the first Crusade and this was seen as ...
537. Foreword to Recollections of a Fallen Sky [Books]
... of which is fear of catastrophe. Events recorded in memory will be forgotten when the need to function sanely overrides the need to remember. Thus primal fears, which exist in memory because of terrors experienced directly or historically, are suppressed in the interest of day to day functioning of the organism. In the next paper, John MacGregor outlines psychological aspects of the work done by Immanuel Velikovsky. MacGregor, an art historian and psychotherapist, has applied psychiatry to the study of art. His paper is the result of the work done to clarify the views of Freud and Jung on the possibility of inherited transmission of memories. MacGregor examines dreams which have cosmic content; patients often express ...
538. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... even with this one event they have yet to clearly identify its effects in terms of material human culture - in other words, to identify it archaeologically. So where is the catastrophe? In my opinion, the Saturnist position is no longer catastrophist but, to borrow an expression from my friend Han Kloosterman, actually crypto-uniformitarian'. Indeed, psychologically it seems to have fallen into the same trap as the uniformitarian philosophy, with a vision of a safe, unchanging universe. In the Saturnist model the gods' danced about each other in the Polar Configuration, inspiring the world's great myths from a respectable distance. When we were separated from this majestic pageant, instead of being completely ...
539. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... artefacts. Our main task therefore consisted in proving the "theorem of existence." This task may be deemed completed. The acceptance of the phenomenon itself- the realization of the discrete spectrum of allowed states, which at any given time is similar for processes of entirely different nature, and which is attributable to cosmophysical forces- requires some psychological effort. . . . There are many interesting problems that have to be studied. A number of theorems need to be proved, and new computer techniques developed. Experiments must be performed on satellites and space stations. A network for simultaneous measurements at different geographical locations ought to be organized. Finally, and most importantly, we need ...
540. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe – Part II: Some Unanswered Questions [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by sudden temperature changes have been repeatedly invoked as prominent aspects of these special circumstances' by various earlier writers [14](and also here), although not so commonly by more recent (so-called orthodox') authors, who generally admit to the one-time reality of the latter but firmly refute involvement of the former. Such attitudes stem psychologically from the frequent contemporary preoccupation with accounting for the phenomenon of Siberia's frozen mammoth and rhinoceros cadavers without adequate reference to the varied and discordant biological evidence found in association with them [15]. The facts enumerated above, and others scattered elsewhere in numerous specialised publications of repute, amply confirm that Siberia's field evidence offers no rational explanation of ...
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