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383 pages of results. 241. Stekel (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... a literal interpretation of the 0ld Testament and other traditions, was far removed from ordinary psychoanalytic approaches toward culture and history, nevertheless his idiosyncratic reading of the "meaning" of mythology together with his handling of universal symbolic themes owed ... phylogenetic). In his later work Velikovsky would implicitly employ these early assumptions in all of his interpretations of "historical" texts; for him these texts were typically either literal descriptions of actual events or else accurate folk memories of ... her innermost secrets to Stekel he would suddenly burst out laughing. (6 ) All in all, according to historian Paul Roazen, (7 ) to the Freudian loyalists Stekel's "interest in sexuality remained quasi-pornographic; to some in ...
242. Let There Be Darkness: An Archetypal Analysis of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich [Journals] [Aeon]
... of Adolf Hitler on the world stage unleashed an ensuing conflagration and rain of ruin unparalleled in the annals of human history. Yet, all attempts to comprehend Hitler and the complexities of World War II, in a wholly satisfactory man-ner ... fail by traditional historical method-ology. In the words of Robert Payne: "The rise of Adolf Hitler to supreme power is one of those events in world history which are almost totally inexplicable in any rational terms...He ... to Hitler in particular and "power-obsessed individuals" in general, Stevens had this to say: "The first historian to show how a powerful leader can exploit the warlike potential of a whole nation was Plutarch (46-119 A. ...
243. VELIKOVSKY AND OEDIPUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... .(1 ) As a direct result of this research Velikovsky was led to revolutionary new insights concerning the recent history of our solar system, as well as a reconstruction and synchronisation of the ancient histories of the Near East. ... . Velikovsky published Oedipus and Akhnaton in 1960, his fourth book, and the second work in a series of historical reconstructions. Despite the pivotal role which Oedipus and Akhnaton plays in Velikovsky's overall reconstruction, not to mention its historical ... bias towards Moses (such as Freud's feeling of awe before Michelangelo's statue of Moses), so too must a historian of Velikovsky face the question of the influence of Velikovsky's orthodox Jewish upbringing and well-known Zionist sentiments on his life's work ...
... valueless to modern science. That Velikovsky gathered his evidence from such untrustworthy sources, then used it to rewrite the history of the solar system, seemed to violate every canon of acceptable methodology. In the years since publication of Worlds ... From: Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky by Charles Ginenthal CD Home | Contents Contents Part I An Improbable Tale The Historical Evidence Velikovsky's theory Part II Sagan's Problems First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eight Nine Ten Problems Appendices Conclusion INTRODUCTION ... becoming a number-one best seller in 1950), Velikovsky was quickly repudiated en masse by accredited astronomers, physicists, historians and other specialists. His claims, it was said, violated the self-evident principles of physics and astronomy-and most everything ...
245. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... as the wall built by Severus, as claimed in Blake & Lloyds The Keys to Avalon [1 ]. History Degrees The October issue of BBC History Magazine contained a survey of the wide range of history degrees available at Britain's ... in such an approach; the Year One core at Leeds, for example, comprises two modules: Introduction to Historical Skills' and Primary Sources for the Historian – an Introduction to Documentary Study. ' Thorfinn Medieval revisionists may also ... interested in the theory, proposed by the late Dorothy Dunnett in her novel King Hereafter [2 ] (possibly the best historical novel ever written), that Thorfinn, Norse earl of Orkney, was the same person as Macbeth ...
246. Twelfth Or Fourth Century?. Part I Ch.1 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... Contents Twelfth Or Fourth Century?The Scheme of Things THE SCHEME OF THINGS as offered in every book on ancient history presents the beginning of the twelfth century before the current era as a time of great convulsions in the life of ... Sea, or the Peoples of the Isles, by which names Ramses III referred to them.[2 ] Historical texts and extensive illustrations cut in stone, which illuminate this war and the pharaoh's ultimate victory, are preserved in ... . But of the sweep of the invading troops across the lands of the Near East before their arrival at the frontier of Egypt nothing is known from any historical source, literary or archaeological. It is only by inference that the ...
247. Challenges to Evolutionary Gradualism [Books]
... of uniformitarianism, who held essentially the same views on this particular issue. As regards the argument about whether the history of the Earth had proceeded in an episodic (saltational) or gradualistic fashion, a straightforward reading of the fossil ... from competition between variant forms for limited resources. From the late nineteenth century onwards, the influence of the distorted historical accounts written by Playfair, Lyell and Geikie, compounded by a lack of understanding of the intellectual climate of earlier ... formed by the explosive release of gases from the Earth, whereas Claude Albritton Jr. (whom we encountered as historian in chapter 2) and John Boon argued that they could just as easily have resulted from impacts. Only by ...
248. Applying the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... as an attack upon Stiebing or his article, but in response to his request that "other specialists in ancient history" "join the discussion and present their views on Velikovsky's theories." Like Stiebing, I too will leave ... , including much of the material found in the present article. Although Immanuel Velikovsky considers Ages in Chaos, his historical reconstruction, to be his opus magnum, for over 20 years ancient historians and archaeologists have ignored this aspect of ... work. It is therefore gratifying to note that Prof. W. H. Stiebing, Jr. has broken the silence. Stiebing has obviously read Velikovsky's published writings on this topic, and has considered not only what is written ...
249. Ash [Journals] [Pensee]
... possible results of tests. These include the late Robert Pfeiffer, then Chairman of the Department of Semitic Languages and History at Harvard; Albert Einstein, who shortly before his death had verbally expressed a desire to use his influence to ... tale." Copyright 1974 Immanuel Velikovsky Our aims in publishing these letters are several. The letters themselves comprise a historical record of more than a little interest to the historians and sociologists of science, who may well glean from them ... into the peculiar obstacles facing the bearer of unwelcome or unapproved views, should he attempt to secure objective tests of those views. More than one critic has chastised Velikovsky for his supposed failure to seek scientific means of arbitration between his ...
250. A Test of Time: Volume I the Bible - From Myth to History by David M. Rohl [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1996:1 Home | Issue Contents REVIEWS A Test of Time: Volume I the Bible - From Myth to History by David M. Rohl (Random Century, 1995). In Volume XIV of Chronology and Catastrophism Review, ... much of his reconstruction of biblical and Egyptian history on synchronisms derived from detailed comparisons of the Old Testament and Egyptian historical texts. Finally, Rohl argues in favour of a reduction of some 350 years both in Egyptian New Kingdom dates ... in the transition from the Late Bronze to the early Iron Ages, rather than the 250 postulated by James and his colleagues. This book has had a long period of gestation. While the author's interest in Egyptology was triggered initially ...
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