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16 pages of results. 21. Phobia, Amnesia, and the Psyche [Journals] [Kronos]
... remember its catastrophic experiences resulting from the Earth's participation in a series of disastrous cosmic perturbations. The subject of a collective amnesia is still a basically unexplored area of psychology requiring penetrating research far beyond the immediate scope of the present paper. The following essay is therefore primarily intended as a fascinating and provocative case study of two fictional accounts involving psychological trauma and the principle of collective amnesia. The material offered here has been gleaned from the writings of Isaac Asimov, a masterful science-fiction author and often harsh critic of Immanuel Velikovsky. Pebble in the Sky(2 ) "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first ...
22. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... gave us an inspiring picture of the Exodus and its attendant events as a call to ancient Israel to abandon the false securities of polytheism. However, in the last two paragraphs, where Mr Maccoby explores "some important psychological aspects of the matter", his discussion seems to miss the mark. Mr Maccoby suggests that in the Bible the trauma of birth "is represented by the expulsion from Eden (the womb), while the trauma of weaning is represented by the Exodus from Egypt . . ." . I would suggest rather that the Exodus itself be seen as a birth event. I say this partly because it was a formative event for the nation of Israel and ...
23. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... but he has included several topics which are welcome surprises. His inference of a link between modern happenings - the hippie movement, the student revolts of the 1960s, the drug culture, the back-to-nature groups, the Vietnam War, the Moon Landing, the Watergate Scandal, the Jonestown Massacre, the omnipresent spectre of nuclear holocaust - and the trauma arising from ancient global catastrophes gives the reader a glimpse of Velikovsky's psychoanalytic technique in action. Of his books this one bears the clearest stamp of his original professional expertise. In support of his thesis Velikovsky includes a brief analysis of some scientists who have opposed, beyond reason, attempts to return to consciousness what he believes to be human ...
24. The Role of Collective Amnesia in Retarding the Acceptance of Correct Ideas in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... and built shelters and walls could he feel himself protected from the outrages of nature and from the predatory animals. But it was not the daily vicissitudes of the ever-lurking predators that put such deep-seated fear into his soul: it was the great derailment of this planet on its travels that left its deepest impression on him; and as the deepest traumas are put in oblivion in the soul of an individual, so also is the case with humankind. It was very unpleasant, therefore, to find out that the Earth, the whole Earth under our feet, moves. (How spontaneously and instinctively correct when the entire population of a city runs outside in panic at the first rumblings ...
25. Catastrophism And Planetary History [Journals] [Kronos]
... better surrender terms than did Lee at Appomattox or Burgoyne at Saratoga and that the chase was so fierce that American soldiers opened their own veins to get moisture for their lips and that some went insane from the hardships. This tradition of Geronimo is exciting history and worthy of note but few people, white or Indian, remember the intensity and trauma that this sixteen month conflict involved. It has already become simply another story and already the emotions have departed and some of the specific incidents of the war have been forgotten. Today this conflict is seen as a minor incident by white historians, is preserved little better by Indians who have been exposed to the larger society and now have ...
26. Collective Amnesia and the Catastrophic Basis of Soap Opera (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... his theories entail, particularly with regard to imaginative narrative. Velikovsky warned that the cosmic catastrophes of the historical past exercise a continued influence upon our collective behaviour. This occurs because everyone possesses an unconscious ancestral memory of these events, for "We are descendants of survivors, themselves descendants of survivors."(5 ) Responses to these ancestral traumas may therefore occur in any area of our culture. For instance, Velikovsky maintained that records of these events are preserved in religion, myth, and folklore, which are therefore not as fanciful as science would have us believe. Consciously, however, man cannot tolerate a knowledge of such events, and as a result we suffer from ...
27. The Palaetiology of Fear and Memory [Books]
... cannot trust your memory" and "independent observers have to confirm the same facts." But also the establishment of scientists as a social system lays down the rules of what is to be watched for, what is to be ignored, and what is to be distorted. The intensity of remembering is directly proportional to the gravity of a trauma. By intensity we mean sharpness, detail, and durability in conscious and unconscious form. By gravity we mean how deeply and adversely one is affected in the major regions of his life: his physical being, his cherished ones, his group, his wealth, his control, his beliefs about the good and the true. Machiavelli ...
28. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... is part of the Strife process, not a divine punishment for what we accidentally started to do. What, then, caused this splitting of the collective mind, this literal inferred that the answer is global cataclysm, or, better, a series of global cataclysms. One of the sections of Mankind in Amnesia is entitled "The Archaic Trauma"; neither Empedocles nor Freud ever discovered the nature of that trauma. The Platonic version of the story, that it was the gods (Zeus and Apollo, in particular) who brought about the division, is basically true: the collective mind sank into unconsciousness, and we split-up components sank into amnesia and pseudo-individuality, as a ...
29. Homo Schizo -- the Catastrophic Evolution of Man [Articles]
... Freud's autobiography, and has some of the limitations of that, it's surprisingly unrevealing of the person, uninformative psychologically. A much better autobiography would be that of Mahatma Gandhi which is in itself capable of supporting a complete psychiatric theory of Gandhi. In Velikovsky's Mankind in Amnesia we find the theory of Freud brought forward that the more shocking a trauma endured by the individual, the more determined is the suppression of matters originally connected with the trauma. Furthermore, again he leans upon Freud, the greater the suppression, the more the relevant behaviours will be re-enacted, a tendency to recapitulate the original situation. We find this, in Velikovsky, extended into the field of catastrophism, ...
30. Thoth Vol III, No. 4: Feb 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , passed down from parent to child, institutionalized, acculturated, perplex and plague us. The normal and the neurotic intertwine and become indistinguishable. The best intentions produce the worst consequences. Great evils are perpetrated by people who have good reasons. Catastrophics won't cure this. As Freud discovered and Reich explored, merely becoming aware of the primal trauma doesn't heal the wound. Healing comes from discharging the fixated energy, relaxing the muscular (and character and cultural) armoring. It takes time and effort. But catastrophics can provide a conceptual framework to facilitate healing. It can assuage the guilt: The primal trauma was no one's fault. It can liberate response-ability: We have the ...
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