KRONOS

A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Vol. IX, No. 1 Fall 1983


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 The Catastrophic Role of Fluid Pressure and Electromagnetic Phenomena in the Mechanics of Overthrust Faulting Michael M Hobby
17 The Nature and Origin of Comets and the Evolution of Celestial Bodies (Part 1) J. M. McCanney
40 Shapley's Scientific Record Immanuel Velikovsky
43 Jupiter God of Abraham (Part IV) Dwardu Cardona
57 What Was "Brimstone"? John V. Myers
63 Aster and Disaster: Toward a Catastrophist Mode of Mythological Interpretation Roger W. Wescott
79 Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Concluded) Lynn E. Rose
85 Self-Consciousness as the Hegelian Source of the World View in Freud Leon Rosenstein
96 Forum Douglas, Hawkinson, and Wall
103 Vox Populi Ashton, Abery, Mebane, Fitzer Serjak, Cochrane, Jaarsma, and Dunthorn
111 Contributors
112 In Memoriam: Elisheva Velikovsky
Cover Photo: Sierra de Juarez Mountains, Chihuahua, Mexico. Consisting of a triple overthrust, this range was created by the Chihuahua fold belt to the southwest and is located just south of the Texas lineament.


EDITORS

Editor-in-Chief
Lewis M. Greenberg

Executive Editor
Warner B. Sizemore

Executive Secretary
C. Leroy Ellenberger

Senior Editors
Dwardu Cardona, C. Leroy Ellenberger, David Griffard
C. J. Ransom, Lynn E. Rose, Raymond C. Vaughan, and Roger W. Wescott

Associate Editors
Doeko Goosen, Henry A. Hoff, Frederic B. Jueneman
Earl R. Milton, Bernard Newgrosh, A. Mann Paterson,
Jan N. Sammer and George R. Talbott

Contributing Editor
Artur Isenberg, Joseph May, and Irving Wolfe


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