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71 pages of results. 571. A Reading of the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Pensee]
... of confirming a hypothesis becomes the hope of "saving mankind" by creating a rational utopia. We should know the dangers of this hope from an age in which disastrous social experiments have been conducted as never before. Somewhere there is a still small voice of sanity insisting that man cannot be saved, only helped. In the realm of psychology that was the sanity of Freud, whose work stems from a long ethical, no less than a long scientific, tradition. If a large-scale Velikovskian therapy were ever to be carried out, then, it would have to be contained by cautions something like these. So contained, its task would ultimately be a simple one: to ...
572. Legends and Miracles [Books] [de Grazia books]
... that went on before and after rituals, the placement of veils and curtains within the Tabernacle, the holes in the tent tops, the arrangements of vessels and paraphernalia: - "Aaron and his sons are to do this lest they die" - these were safety practices and procedures for handling dangerous products. Only later could they be called psychological obsessions, when their functions had disappeared with the fading of the electrical age and the great electrochemical factories of nature. One scholar, Von Fange, writes that "In the Middle East in Ancient times there was an amazing number of literary references to a garment of flame, the goatskin dyed red, or a ramskin dyed red, ...
573. The Genie Of The Pivot [Journals] [Kronos]
... backwards to their origins reveals their celestial basis.(1 ) It can be shown that cause for finding anything earthly in myth will melt away into nothing. The "Earth" of myth has the attributes of a celestial object.* [* Cf. L. M. Greenberg and W. B. Sizemore, "Cosmology and Psychology," KRONOS I:1 (April, 1975), pp. 34-35. - LMG] It becomes evident that myth in no way replaces the lost details of history. Portions of myth may, nonetheless, belong in or predate that significantly forgotten span of time. It is important to remain aware that growing human sophistication during ...
574. ABC's of Astrophysics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... He avoids scientific and pseudoscientific jargon and the coinage of terms. I cannot here defend all of this, of which the first statement is already shocking: that "there are practically no errors of astronomy?" How can a book that enraged many astronomers commit no errors of astronomy? Apart from the main reasons, which are sociological and psychological, there occur two substantive reasons: Velikovsky established his natural history by assertions of fact; certain events either happened or did not happen and we weigh the evidence tending to the one and the other to arrive at a judgment about planetary behavior. Second, after this is done, Velikovsky asks how can the laws of astronomy permit such ...
575. Review, Notes and Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... literary evidence used by Velikovsky to prove his point is outweighed by the much larger mass of literary evidence that apparently proves the opposite: cultures whose histories, legends, and traditions make no mention of the events which supposedly happened and that could hardly have been ignored. So Velikovsky proposes a theory of cultural shock, akin to traumatic shock in psychology, which produces a sort of cultural amnesia. The arbitrarily selective nature of Velikovsky's evidence is thus clear, as well as the fact that if cultural amnesia exists, the evidence upon which his case rests is even more unreliable than we have so far painted it." It should be noted that Lafleur cites no cultures lacking traditions of ...
576. Did Worlds Collide [Journals] [Pensee]
... in collision" was so flagrantly incompatible with the best-established of all laws and principles of physical science that (barring supernatural intervention, i.e ., assuming the orderliness of nature) it could justly be declared a physical impossibility, and the problem of "explaining away" Velikovsky's abundant historical data could be relegated to the social scientists, psychologists, and students of mythology. As a matter of fact, I recently happened to be in the company of a distinguished group of archaeologists and ancient historians, and asked if any of them had made any serious study of Velikovsky's revised Egyptian chronology; the unanimous answer was that "we understand that Velikovsky has been so thoroughly discredited by ...
577. A Challenge to the Integrity of Science? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the reaction against the book and its author, from certain quarters of the scientific establishment in the United States in the years following its publication. So outrageous were some aspects of this reaction when compared with the strictly rational ethic which is supposed to govern the scientist in his evaluation of new work that the situation eventually attracted the attention of the psychologists. An entire special issue of the American Behavioural Scientist (September 1963) was devoted to this extraordinary story and this material was later expanded into a book, The Velikovsky Affair (1966). Academic Pressure Worlds in Collision was originally accepted for publication in the United States by Macmillan's, after a two-to-one majority in favour of it by ...
578. The Quantavolutionary Scan [Books] [de Grazia books]
... or progression) in the size' of events: "man is the measure of all things"- hardly. (Science) 8. "Do bacterias think?" Everything thinks, "Higher organisms, cf Homo Schizo, conduct more elaborate transactions with the environment (and internally) to achieve "the thinking effect". (Psychology Today) 9. Quick evolution: quantavolution of immunological systems, in re Ted Steele's studies. Functions of organisms have their own bio-time, time not absolute. Life-career (birth to death, etc.) is subjectively concept of the dominating ego, cf. Homo Schizo, momentarily in charge: the trapped soul? How free is ...
579. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... . 171). Biela Velikovsky died in Palestine from a stroke in March, 1928. Sharon assumes that she had suffered from Alzheimer's, and, therefore, her father "feared senility and did not tolerate forgetting even one name" (p . 14). By Velikovsky's own account, her death had led him into the study of psychology, even while he continued to help his father Simon with various projects. Simon remarried: "[ His new wife] was glamorous and did not like to take care of him. When her sons learned there would be no inheritance, she disappeared..." (p . 20), [perhaps at Immanuel's instigation] ...
580. Clockwork [Books] [de Grazia books]
... one-fourth of all Deg's work on quantavolution over the year dealt with time. Perhaps a quarter of the three thousand pages that he wrote were concerned with or governed by calculations of time. Before he had entered the field he had been possessed by problems of time and had written but not finished what was supposed to be a lengthy philosophical and psychological poem on the subject. By virtue of the tricks I have already alluded to, he would escape the psychiatrist's verdict of obsession, but in fact he was obsessed and his impatient and striving character often led to pitched battles against time; it was the most uncontrollable element in life. He beat time as a child by being precocious ...
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