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71 pages of results. 671. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... debate" would undoubtedly evoke smiles of approval from the Soviet Praesidium. One of Sagan's main conclusions from his "analysis" of Worlds in Collision is that the work constitutes "an attempted validation of religion". Now it is quite clear from the book that Velikovsky, in suggesting that many religious beliefs and rituals are grounded in the traumatic psychological reactions to natural upheavals, is in fact destroying the supernatural basis for much religious development: for the myopic Sagan, when logical thinking and the need to discredit Velikovsky are in conflict, logic comes a poor second. But there are further incongruities in Sagan's position. In his search for less drastic explanations of Velikovsky's evidence, Sagan trots ...
672. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... analyzed in a future issue of KRONOS. As will be shown, his alternative does not survive close scrutiny. TIME The unsigned review in Time ran 170 words which, including a picture of Sagan, occupied two-thirds of a column.(170) The review observes that Sagan is not always successful, as when he tries to relate the psychology of the Big Bang to the experience of birth. However, "he is unassailable on subjects of pure science". Over 40 percent of the text deals with Velikovsky, on whom the review ends: "Sagan is at his wittiest when he attacks his bêtes noires: the ideas of Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky. Scientists usually lapse into ...
... huge oxen, great heads of strongly stalked wheat, and where all food is produced without labour. Boats move placidly without effort, and one of the vignettes shows Ani and his wife being ferried across in the self-propelled Sektit Ship with Seven Steps, which only needs an oar to steer it. It throws an interesting light on ancient Egyptian psychology in regard to the Amenta region in the West. There are aspects of this Ritual which require to be examined, as, for instance, the trial scene. The court incorporates the Judge, Counsel, a Recorder of the verdict, a Jury of 12, a symbolical Grand Jury of 42 representing the people dwelling in the various ...
674. "Heaven and Earth": Catastrophism in Hamlet [Journals] [Kronos]
... with Hamlet. The riddle is especially significant with regard to the idea that mythology embodies certain profound mysteries concerning existence. Claude Levi-Strauss has written that myths present, in many variations, the insoluble conundrums of existence, which are certain human situations to which there is no clear-cut answer.(82) However, he confines himself to social and psychological issues kinship versus self-interest, autocthonous versus heterosexual birth - but, if we suggest that a much larger issue may be at stake, not man's relation to his wild desires nor to other men but to the awesome and unpredictable forces of nature, another connection emerges between Burgess' Oedipus and the theories of Dr. Velikovsky. Burgess says ...
675. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of the subject, the subject's felt needs, and the information and setting provided the subject, the god who appears is a selection of one set of divine expectations. On another occasion, the god who appears may be different. In God's Fire, I explain how impossible is true monotheism, and that even Moses was in a realistic psychological sense a polytheist. The same reasoning may be applied here, where Aphrodite is now one god and now another. It is unscientific and pedantic to charge that a name is all that there is to a complex and subtle mental operation. After the name Aphrodite is given to the planet, the Greeks began revising their religious history. ...
676. "Let There be Light" [Journals] [Kronos]
... and H. von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, (Boston, 1969), p. 73. 3. Ibid., p. 257. 4. Ibid., p. 135. 5. L.M . Greenberg and W.B . Sizemore, "Cosmology and Psychology," in KRONOS, Vol. I, No. 1, (Spring, 1975), pp. 34-35. \cdrom\pubs\journals\kronos\vol0303\034light.htm ...
677. Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... , physical events that imbue the psychic event (the myth itself) with new and tangible powers they do not come alive out of mere convention. The power of myth and imagery for the Elizabethans was the catastrophic natural environment they inhabited .* [* See L. M. Greenberg and W. B. Sizemore, "Cosmology and Psychology," KRONOS I:1 , pp. 35-37; Cf.I . Wolfe, " The Seasons Alter': Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream," elsewhere in this -LMG] Though it is not our purpose necessarily to present a new schema of Shakespearean criticism, we believe that our findings suggest an approach to Shakespeare's plays ...
... newest 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 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 implausible conviction. (32) ...
679. "Cenocatastrophism" [Articles]
... It should be added that the mainstreaming of cenocatastrophism could well cause certain disciplines relevant to its various claims for the future to transmogrify themselves. Once global catastrophes within human memory are admitted, theorizing about their impact on the human psyche will not be limited to classical Freudian psychoanalysts-may not in fact be limitable to any larger discipline that calls itself "psychology". And if these catastrophes are explicable in terms of a periodicity relevant to the next few centuries as well as to preceding millennia, then no reassessment of ancient chronology will be deemed too comprehensive or too painstaking; the science of chronology might well cease to be a handmaiden and become (to borrow Aristotle's phrase about metaphysics) the ...
680. The Loss of Paradise and the Fall, of Man [Books]
... contains many significant references. As soon as the Subtil Serpent' had tampered with the Tree of Life', we read in Genesis iii. 7, Adam and Eve knew that they were naked'. Through the perversion which this myth suffered at the hands of the redactor the realization of their nakedness is represented as being due to a psychological state. The explanation is thoroughly unsatisfactory, however. There is, to my knowledge, hardly a myth in the world which features a similar trait. If, on the other hand, they realized the urgent need for clothing because it had suddenly become very cold, we find immediately quite a number of interesting and important parallels. ...
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