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71 pages of results. 551. Thoth Vol I, No. 21: August 11, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... in the mythically-defined scheme, particularly at the end of the millennium. Even today, as we approach a new millennium, the apocalyptic fear expresses itself with every local catastrophe, offering a "sign" of the anticipated end of the world- just as, century after century, virtually every wisp of a comet played its required part in the psychological drama. How the underlying story and its symbols originated is an entirely different matter, involving patterns that could never be explained by any local disaster or any local experience whatsoever. That many of the most significant patterns are poorly recognized is due almost entirely to the methodology and suppositions of the investigators. The result is a heap of evidential ...
552. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... treatment of Velikovsky by an arrogant and thoughtless scientific elite will be exposed as exactly what Velikovsky's supporters have claimed- a horrifying picture of business as usual within the scientific establishment. The fact that major theoretical edifices would collapse under the impact of anything resembling Velikovsky's revelations is not a small matter either- a consideration one could hardly ignore in examining the rampant psychology of denial in conventional treatments of Velikovsky. So who was Velikovsky? Here's a common-sense suggestion. When someone claiming knowledge on the subject issues a sweeping dismissal of Velikovsky, the first thing you might ask yourself is whether the speaker could be an ignoramus or fool masquerading as a historian. It's a fact: Velikovsky commanded the respect of ...
553. The Hyksos Were Not Assyrians [Journals] [Aeon]
... by the great East German dissident writer Stefan Heym, which wittily but convincingly demonstrates how the Saul-David account must have been put together in the early years of Solomon's reign when many of the eyewitnesses were still alive: its purpose was to establish the legitimacy of King David, and of his son Solomon to succeed him. Apart from the startling psychological truth of the characters- no astrological motifs, here!- there are many subtle points and asides which no later editor could have had the wit to interpolate, and would certainly have excised, unless he was treating the text with great reverence. These all point to a glorification of David and Solomon, and an attempt to rationalise ...
554. Crazy Heroes of Dark Times [Books] [de Grazia books]
... produced the crazed heroes of the dark times. Western civilization has treasured and imitated the posturings of these mad warriors, hardly ever realizing what they were and how the docile mind of later generations would be affected when this madness was presented to it as normality and for inspiration. We shall proceed now to enumerate and describe briefly a number of psychological and social indications that we are dealing with human beings behaving in the aftermath of catastrophe. The Homeric Greeks developed a pantheon of skygods and assumed that these gods would continuously manifest themselves by thunderbolts, showers of arrows, tidal waves, earthquakes, meteorites, and so on. They venerated all sky signs and objects from the sky, ...
555. Science Frontiers 1977-1978 [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... important work. [What a remarkable article to find in a magazine published by an organization that aided so materially in the attack on Velikovsky! Ed.] (Gould, Stephen Jay; "The Return of the Hopeful Monster", Natural History, 86:22, June-July, 1977). BLIND MAN RUNS ON LUNAR TIME A psychologically normal blind man, living and working in normal society, was found to have circadian rhythms of body temperature, alertness, cortisol excretion, etc., that were out-of-step with society's normal 24-hours schedule. The periods of these biological cycles were about 24.84 hours and indistinguishable from the lunar day. (How are these lunar influences ...
556. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Moon can disturb human behaviour, imagine the lunatic frenzies able to be caused by Mars and Venus, which have much greater masses. When I speak of planetary lunacy, it should be understood that I do not refer to fear and desperation at impending disaster seen in the approach of a fiery body in the sky, for that is a psychological phenomenon which occurs even today when a comet is seen.(43) The kind I mean is physical, caused by drastic changes in the terrestrial magnetic field, which produce an alteration in the electromagnetic balance of the body and result, as the American Institute of Medical Climatology noted in its report on the full moon,(44 ...
557. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times -- Part II [Journals] [Kronos]
... III culture was closely related.(33) This is remarkable because the calcinated debris of Troy IIg was never dug out and was probably unknown, yet the debris of the old city was strong enough to become the foundation of the new city walls.) In his command of the natural sciences involved and their interweaving with ancient sources and psychology, Velikovsky has excelled all writers on questions of catastrophe. Working independently, he published in 1950 his account of universal destruction of the second half of the second millennium. He asserted that heavy seismic disturbances and devastating flames consumed the same ancient civilizations. But, with the aid of ancient legends and documents, he insisted upon the role ...
558. Thoth Vol I, No. 4: March 2, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... crane and carefully rolled a tire to make two parallel tracks in our driveway. But not likely! 4) CONSENSUAL: Consentual knowledge is composed of knowledge that others have shared that we consent to know because we trust (rightly or wrongly) in the person or source passing on this knowledge. Often the consent is given based on irrelevant psychological factors such as authoritative stance or attitude, charisma, enthusiasm, etc., and often the consent is given based purely on the lack of any apparent reason not to trust. Consentual knowledge can be further broken down into four distinct categories: a. That based on other's experiences, their recollection, interpretation and account of that experience ...
559. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Matrix No.2 , entitled "Antagonism with the Mother": (contractions in a closed uterine system). It is characterised first by disturbing chemical influences, later by periodic uterine contractions. These contractions encroach on the foetus, but the cervix is closed. Hence it is accompanied by intense physical discomfort and, he finds, incredible psychological tortures. Patients describe themselves as feeling the situation is unbearable and yet hopeless: "no exit"- "hell". It is associated with visions of wars, epidemics and natural catastrophes. The foetus struggles desperately to escape and save its life. In the initial stages there is intense anxiety, but its source cannot be identified ...
... postwar years it was still essentially European, quite foreign and decidedly unintelligible to the average American. It did not really flower in American soil until after 1946 and did not begin to gain widespread popularity there until the 1950's. The new art was a reflection of the awareness of the new complexity of the world- and of the new advances in psychology and technology. These advances became manifest not only in the subject material but, increasingly, in the physical materials used. Sculptors, for example, began molding industrial metals, glass, and plastics into new shapes and functions. Nevertheless, despite being a product of the very same forces that forged the political dialectic of the time, ...
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