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152 pages of results. 721. Asimov, Velikovsky, Science Fiction, and "Worlds in Collision" [Journals] [Kronos]
... his royalties. Another of his stories, "The Star", is even more directly evocative of Velikovskian catastrophe: this time, events are set in motion by an incandescent visitor from outside the solar system. Inevitably, it nearly collides with Jupiter before falling towards the Sun. This path brings it perilously close to the Earth; the destruction it wreaks is said to be caused by its intense heat, but the point is academic, as the outcome is the same: hurricanes, tidal waves, land falling into the sea. . . The genre has never really slept: Fred Hoyle's Black Cloud has been followed by Larry Niven's "Inconstant Moon", Allan W. ...
722. "Why War?". Ch.5 The Age Of Terror (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... the generation, whose ideas colored the thinking of the first half of this century and continue to do so, engaged in an inquiry, Einstein, the physicist and pacifist, asking Freud, twenty-three years his senior, whether the field of psychiatry and psychoanalysis knows a panacea against the slaughter of human beings organised in states, against a sanctioned destruction of human life. "It would be of the greatest service to us all were you to present the problem of world peace in the light of your recent discoveries, for such a presentation might blaze the trail for new and fruitful modes of action." Freud in his reply gave a melancholy prognosis. He visualised "no likelihood ...
... if from another world epoch, surpassed the imagination of science fiction writers. But then in the first week of August, 1945, mushroom clouds above two cities in faraway islands were handwriting in the sky proclaiming the apple from the tree of knowledge to be a fruit of Sodom. Before that event came to be, a world frenzied in destruction for six years struggled over the Teutonic Millennium. Wells sat in London, paying scant attention to the bombs falling around, contemplating his by now numerous infirmities, and writing Mind at the End of Its Tether. The atomic age had not yet arrived. But it must have been terror inherited from ancestors, never before breaking to the ...
724. A Firmament. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... idea of Creation in the year 4004 before the present era: they had actually identified and named the Silurian and the Devonian and the Permian rocks and with them the periods so classified, the great divisions of the geological succession that antedated the emergence of man. In Earth in Upheaval I quoted several authors who described the enigmatic and unquestionably catastrophic destruction of numerous animal species at the end of the Pleistocene, or Ice Age, at the beginning of the Neolithic period. I cited a paper that Eiseley published in 1943 when he was with the University of Kansas, quoting an observer of the awe-inspiring scene spread all over Alaska: .. .in certain regions of Alaska the bones ...
725. Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... and the remains of polar bears and arctic foxes crushed together in one mass with ostriches and crocodiles. Further data verify that at the very time that Dr. Velikovsky claimed as the date of the recent global catastrophe only 3500 years ago the level of the world's oceans dropped sharply, climate was violently altered, and ancient civilizations were plunged into destruction. Here is vivid evidence, assembled from mountains and oceans, deserts and tundras, polar regions and jungles, to establish the Velikovskv theory as one of unshakable solidity and of prime importance in man's understanding of the earth's past and man's own origins. With the numerous facts assembled in this book the great controversy between Velikovskv and his opponents ...
726. Lake Dwellings. Ch.11 Klimasturz (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... and sand covered the villages on poles, and, abandoned by man, they were never rebuilt. Thus it occurred that twice, once at the close of the Stone (Neolithic) Age and the second time at the close of the Bronze Age, the lake dwellings were swamped by water and mired in mud. The coincidence of their destruction with the end of the cultural ages was called merkwardig (remarkable) by Ischer, who explored the Bielersee (Lake of Bienne),1 and rätselhaft (puzzling) by Reinerth, who explored the Bodensee (Lake Constance);2 but all explorers agree that the cause was a natural catastrophe at the end of the Stone Age ...
727. Preface (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... encased contents of dead bodies, fossilized skeletons. Myriads upon myriads of living creatures came to life on this ball of rock suspended in nothing and returned to dust. Many died a natural death, many were killed in wars between races and species, and many were entombed alive during great paroxysms of nature in which land and sea contested in destruction. Whole tribes of fish that had filled the oceans suddenly ceased to exist; of entire species and even genera of land animals not a single survivor was left. The earth and the water without which we cannot exist suddenly turned into enemies and engulfed the animal kingdom, the human race included, and there was no shelter and no ...
728. Kronos Vol. VI, No. 4 Summer 1981: Contents [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VI, No. 4 Summer 1981 Texts Home | Kronos Home KRONOS A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis Vol. VI, No. 4 Summer 1981 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Contributors 3 Orphic Hymns and Astronomy Livio C. Stecchini 4 On "the Year -687" Sean Mewhinney 28 Calendars Lynn E. Rose 40 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Immanuel Velikovsky 57 Cuban Prehistory Aurelio Ruiz-Lafont 66 Asimov's Guide to the Velikovsky Affair Ralph E. Juergens 71 Documents... Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 4) C. Leroy Ellenberger 85 Forum Parker, Rose, and Mage 91 Vox Populi Hagman, Vaughan 94 Venus's Greenhouse: Premature ...
729. Velikovsky in America [Journals] [Aeon]
... reasoned that an event as crucial as the Exodus could not pass unnoticed, especially since it was so closely associated with a series of unusual natural phenomena- plagues, darkness, floods, and the like- that led first to the death of the heir to the Egyptian throne and then to the death of the pharaoh himself and to the destruction of his army. At a party given by Paul Federn, Velikovsky discussed the problem with Federn's Egyptologist son Walter, who suggested that he might find some clue in a book by Walter's mentor Hermann Junker. At the New York Public Library the next day, Velikovsky found the book, in which Junker mentioned an Old Kingdom papyrus written ...
730. The Thunderbolt in Myth and Symbol [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... hammer. #2 : Lightning is an ancestral warrior, the hero god who defeated chaos monsters in primeval times. Lightning-hero and lightning-weapon are frequently synonymous. #3 : Lightning appears as a great bird or "thunderbird" with heaven-spanning wings. #4 : Lightning is the flash of an "eye" in heaven. It is the destructive power of the "evil eye," destroying opposition. #5 : Lightning is launched from a great wheel turning in the sky, the "chariot" of the gods. #6 : Lightning is accompanied by falling stones or "thunderstones." #7 : Lightning is the messenger of a central sun that ruled the sky ...
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