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71 pages of results. 621. "Worlds in Collision": Reviews and Reviewers [Journals] [Aeon]
... paper was no less venomous than her earlier ones: she endorsed Velikovsky's claim that his work was a heresy- "in the original sense of the word. He has not only chosen his sources; he has even chosen what they shall mean." The fifth paper was on "The Validation of Scientific Belief"; in it Harvard psychologist Edwin G. Boring (34) characterized Velikovsky as "nearer to crankiness than unorthodoxy." He has...no university laboratory, no special scientific journal running through the years, no great following. He is probably a nova and will soon fade to the dim status of an historical instance of the instability of an intense ...
622. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... my article suggesting the Middle Ages may not be as long as they are usually presented may stem from the teaching of JWs and other cults that nothing significant happened in Christianity between the death of the apostle John and the establishment in the 19/20th century of whichever sect one associates with. Just a suggestion, for those who dabble in psychology .. . Derel Briarley, Newcastle Upon Tyne Oera Linda again I accept that, as John Bimson argues in Forum', C&CR 1999:1 , p. 48, the Oera Linda Book book is in all likelihood a forgery but this does not mean we should necessarily discard all the meat inside the sandwich. The ...
623. Solaria Binaria [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Bruce (1944) 9. 30. Shklovskii and Sagan discuss "runaway stars" that are cast into space with a "slingshot effect" when their primary body supernovas (157-8). Our theory here calls for several such "effects" over several thousand years. Anthropologically and mythically, this would be the likely source of the fundamental psychological and theological "deus otiosus effect," the retired indifferent god. 31. Isaac Vail (1840-1972), at the end of the 19th century, drew the most brilliant picture of the clearing heavens and their effects upon man. His citations are unfortunately incomplete because his original manuscript was destroyed in a fire. 32. Sherrerd ( ...
624. Velikovsky's Place in the History of Science [Articles]
... the more notorious people whom I've mentioned as sharing some of Velikovsky's time and place: Most whigs remember Wilhelm Reich only for the grand errors of his later years, his spurious discoveries of orgone energy and of spontaneous generation, his imagined battles against UFOs; yet some of Reich's therapeutic insights and approaches remain useful, and his bringing together of psychological insights and social activism was an important advance in its time. Korzybski is largely remembered whiggishly as a single-minded crank, yet still-extant journals and societies illustrate his positive influence on issues of expression and thought. Martin Gardner writes about "the anthroposophical poppycock of Rudolf Steiner" , yet dozens of schools that owe something to Steiner's then-progressive ideas about ...
625. Ocean Basins [Books] [de Grazia books]
... where seismic discontinuities are observed. Several points deserve stress in reviewing what has just been said and looking ahead to the next chapter. An immense part of the Earth's shell is simply missing. It had nowhere to go except into space, for it cannot be decomposed, mixed with plutonic material, or shovelled under the sea bottoms. A psychological fallacy pushes us to believe that the ocean basins were made by and for the primordial waters. That the basins exist is one accident; that waters fill the basins is another accident. The accidents added up to a "miracle" of good fortune for mankind. Better near extinction than a totally frozen or drowned globe. At first ...
626. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... as a disciple of Piazzi Smyth but his work, the first truly methodical survey of the Giza site, showed that all of the seemingly significant calculations of his predecessors had been founded, literally, on so much sand and rubble'. The author concludes that the riddle of why people believe in Pyramidology lies not with Egyptologists, but with psychologists'. Moses and the Exodus Jeremy Bowen is the latest to investigate the historicity of Moses and the Exodus. In Moses (BBC1, 1 Dec. 2002), he made a valiant attempt to find a historical setting for them, yet seemed unable to break away from the supposed link to Ramesses II, fatally weakening his case ...
627. On The Symposium Trail [Journals] [Pensee]
... and asked why the opposition to his work was so extraordinarily violent. In part, his answer was that scientists do not like outsiders to cross disciplinary lines: "astronomers do not like interference from other sciences, and certainly not from what could be called legends and old wives' tales. ' " But more centrally, Velikovsky focused on psychological explanations. "The ancients tried desperately to tell us what was going on. . . . We wish not to know anything of this. We wish to believe we are living in a peaceful world." Noting that "the major subject of the entire heritage of ancient literature is theomachy, the battle of the gods," ...
628. The Twenty-One Years of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... playing with these equations". My contention is that just as modern astronomers tried to fit into a simple numerical straitjacket the motley family of the members of the solar system, so did the astronomers of ancient Mesopotamia with twenty-one years of irregular appearances and disappearances of Venus. In my essay "The Inconstant Heavens", I have explained the psychological reasons why the human mind, when confronted with the instability of the heavens, in panic reacts by searching for proofs of the "beautiful" order of the cosmos, such as Bode's Law or the mentioned addition to K. 160. Astrology and numerology are reassuring techniques, and I cannot blame those who increasingly turn to them in ...
629. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... their meaning is usually debatable. Thus the doors remain wide open for the reading that I have proposed. Indeed, the overall impression that I receive from the fragments of Empedocles is that the cosmos is an organism, and that Love and Strife are forever locked in struggle, with no winner- just as are Eros and Thanatos in Freudian psychology. One of them may prevail here or there for a time, but neither ever achieves total dominance. The two extreme situations, with one of the cosmic forces completely dominant over the other, may have first been read into Empedocles by Aristotle. Aristotle was always reading things into his predecessors. He is not to be trusted in ...
... Flood was a European disaster and had nothing directly to do with Asia or America. In discussing dolmens and Egyptian mastabas I have suggested that many of them were built as places of refuge. I have yet to show how the great catastrophe terrified the survivors and especially the people inhabiting the present Egypt, but it was a feature of contemporary psychology and one not to be ignored. We have observed the important contact between Britain and Egypt-as well as ancient Grcece-of which the god Hermes or Thoth provides the link, as to which more remains to be said, but it has finally led to the evidence of the Golspie Stone and all it portends. We are in possession of at ...
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