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71 pages of results. 541. The Ankh [Journals] [Kronos]
... ,500 light years away".(21) It must therefore have appeared for a period of "at least many months . . . either as a gigantic light source by night or as a somewhat smaller second sun by day".(22) This celestial apparition, still according to Michanowsky, so awed ancient man that its psychological impact was responsible for" a quantum jump in human achievement".(23) "My research [wrote Michanowsky] indicates that this heavenly event actually became the source of the creation myths, the cosmological concepts, and the cultural traditions of much of our civilization. Directly or indirectly, it produced many of the archetypal figures we ...
542. Astral Kingship [Journals] [Aeon]
... a suicide and sacrificant. "It unites him [Set] with his brother Osiris the god of the dead. It confirms the cosmic order and does away with duality. Since the murder is not only the culmination, but also the end of chaos, it can be celebrated as a sacrifice." (86) Aside from the psychological and religious point of view, it would appear that the story and relationship of Osiris and Set actually masks an underlying cosmic drama which the confounded Egyptians could only explain in psycho-religious or political terms. In fact, "some scholars assume Seth to have been originally a good god who acquires a bad reputation through changes of political or natural ...
543. Beyond Bauer [Journals] [Aeon]
... descriptions of striking actual events that can be discerned by proper analysis; (3 ) Past catastrophes were so threatening to mankind that overt reminders of them are suppressed, though they are described in more or less veiled form in common legends and traditions. The refusal to see descriptions of these actual catastrophes in the ancient writings is a result of psychological suppression, of collective amnesia; (4 ) The catastrophes resulted from near approaches of heavenly bodies to the earth; (5 ) Legends of gods fighting and courting reflect actual encounters between heavenly bodies; (6 ) The major catastrophes resulted from near approaches of a comet, which produced world conflagration, a long period of darkness, ...
544. THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR [Journals] [Aeon]
... him and his books continued to be prominent. Following Velikovsky's death in 1979, however, the Affair seems to have reached an end. Velikovsky's estate has published several more of his books (8 ) , but they aroused no public interest. Yet if anything could, those books ought to have done it: Mankind in Amnesia deals with psychology and fear of nuclear devastation, Starqazers and Gravediggers recounts the unethical maneuverings that accompanied the Affair in the 1950s. Velikovskian journals remain extant, but the movement seems to have lost its drawing power and there are schisms, a splitting of Velikovskians into more and smaller factions quarreling with one another. The journal KRONOS represents a sort of Velikovskian ...
545. The Garden, the Fall and the Restoration [Articles]
... from biblical studies we now go to classical studies and what Plato had to say about catastrophes. Dr. Shane Mage will speak to us now." (Mage cannot be found) "There occurred the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey, the murder of the Jews in WW2 and the incredible slaughter in Cambodia recent years, these are psychological problems I almost find beyond comprehension to a certain extent but which I think can be explained by being jointly ascribed to the assimilation of aggressive tendencies as seen in nature perhaps in catastrophes and the survival drive which accrue in the group that can convince itself that it has the right to do evil to others, and together they form a ...
546. Thoth Vol II, No. 7: April 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... : I believe that if you want to claim that you are going to provide a scientific explanation of past events, your explanation must be a "bottom up" one, not "top down." Your explanation must be evolutionary in the sense that it must start with sound physics, and proceed up through whatever chemistry, biology, psychology, and sociology is necessary to explain the mythic description. To make Greek rationalist judgments about Oriental myths, and then try to figure out some plausible chemistry and physics, is working "top down," (and backwards). This may be necessary in the very early "searching for some logical explanation" phase. However, ...
547. Confessions Of A Philosophical Velikovskian [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... me to be, unless there is special reason for me to be suspicious, as if I wake up shortly afterwards in my bed, or my visual impression of the horse disappears the moment I blink my eyes, or if I have recently taken hallucinogenic drugs, or have just been wired up to a gadget in a University department of Psychology which is constructed deliberately to induce hallucinatory experiences. Rather similarly, Rutherford's famous experiment, where he bombarded a sheet of metal with alpha particles, and most of the particles went through the sheet, but a few ricocheted in all directions, tended to establish that the mass of atoms was mainly concentrated in a comparatively tiny nucleus. If ...
548. Thoth Vol II, No. 5: March 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... some thoughts upon re-reading Thomas Kuhn's 1962 essay, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. His thesis was an instance of itself. The prevalent opinion was that scientific knowledge accumulates incrementally toward ever more accurate approximations of "the truth", embodied in facts that are "out there". Kuhn's study of the history of science-plus some observations from the psychology of perception-led him to conclude that incremental accumulation only occurs within the purview of a "paradigm": a set of general assumptions, common procedures, and preferred instrumentation. His contention that occasionally paradigms change in a revolutionary way that breaks the continuity of incremental accumulation was itself a revolution in epistemology. Contrary to that prevalent opinion, data ...
549. pc (Psycho-Ceramics) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the literature. At any rate, Velikovsky has never compared himself with anyone but himself, contrary to Asimov's assertions, and simply stated that his work stands on it own merits. The epistemological weapons with which the church threatened or harassed heretics such as Galileo or Giordano Bruno were physical and brutal. Today's measures are much more subtle, more psychological, but no less brutal. For Asimov to say that scientific orthodoxy is incapable of bringing pressure to bear because it is the weakest and most powerless ever invented doesn't conform to the facts - so's an octopus out of its element. If Asimov believes this he shows a naivete of the sociological power structure of science's hierarchy even if science ...
550. Intensity, Scope and Suddenness [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . And the examination can be conducted and completed without conversion of the anthropologist to the views of the informants. Pari passu, the most ancient "fossil voices" are to be audited seriously, even sympathetically. In this case, the voices would have to be translated into a model that would begin to make sense to modern physics and psychology. The results would be foreseeable. Considering the intellectual revolution that would follow, the ancient cosmogonical consensus would be rejected by most scholars in short order. For the following principles of physics and natural history would be among the most likely to be inferred from the ancient empirical beliefs: A. All planets and satellites would have to exhibit ...
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