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71 pages of results. 691. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... state of wild excitement ; that excitement goes on to distress ; distress expresses itself in sighing ; sighing is followed by beating the breast, and beating the breast -t Dr. Legge's version, i, 313 • 2 Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760- Dancing.] Lea. Ping. ' 713 by leaping. ' This attempt at a psychological analysis is wooden and superficial to a degree-compare it with Schopenhauer's-and the commentators seem to think the passage corrupt; it is not however, without its interest, especially for those who have witnessed the ceremonies and contortions of the Moslem RufAi or " howling " dervishes This jumping was also a mode of showing grief in ancient Egypt. Mariette says ...
692. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... unlimited abundance. Can one realistically propose that such a progression of thought could follow from a mere metaphor for the world axis? To arrive at the complete mythical image of the cosmic mountain ( , ) our hypothetical observer must not only heap one conjecture upon another, but repudiate direct observation at each stage. Of what value- religious, psychological, or otherwise- is a fiction which flatly contradicts the phenomena it is intended to explain? Cynics may say that primitives are capable of conjuring any force imaginable to explain something they do not understand. But the hypothetical case before us does not require the primitive simply to invent explanations for things observed; it requires him to deny immediate ...
693. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky's work. Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry...The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but is not the path to knowledge...We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental new insights. My personal opinion is that Carl Sagan is a psychologically disturbed person, not with a big ego, but with a denial system as large as the numbers he uses. The self-confident super ego appearance is just his mask for the denial system which is deftly afraid of being wrong in any way. The head cocked back in arrogance, the final say on everything, the need to get ...
694. ALL Honorable Men [Books]
... Velikovsky the man. But how, by calling his work "asocial" and given this diatribe can the two be separated? William Glen, the science historian, has this to say about the level of nastiness carried on by modern scientists which clearly applies to the establishment scientists' behavior toward Velikovsky: "Most of the sociology and social psychology of science is not different from that of the butcher's or baker's shop, except for one exception. Scientists have a much greater personal investment. Much more of their dignity and esteem are tied up in what is at stake here, and their reactivities are so much stronger than those of the less deeply invested. . . . " ...
695. Ash [Journals] [Pensee]
... to take a piece of wood from some museum into the laboratory and finding out how old it is, falsifying results or declaring them to be invalid on one pretext or another. I am not joking when I say that I think that you, singlehanded, probably severely limited the extent of radiocarbon dating in the Middle East by placing terrible psychological obstacles in the way of investigators. All this may be imaginary. I hope it is. Very truly yours, THEODORE LASAR Fort Lee, New Jersey July 22, 1960 D. J. Wiseman The British Museum London DEAR DR. WISEMAN: Almost two years ago I had your favor and help in obtaining some photographs of several ...
696. Collapsing Tests of Time [Books] [de Grazia books]
... how wobbly and weak a grip the human mind has upon time it should come as no surprise that "Nature's" time is disconcerted and disparate. Only by the greatest exertions and mutual discipline and only at the highest peak of group organization are we able to hold a tenuous grip upon a schedule of time; even then, the individual's psychological as well as active deviations from the severely imposed bonds of time are very many and dominant, if one were to be brave enough to count the undisciplined vagaries of time in relation to the ordered ones. If this temporally disordered mind has difficulty in ordering time in relation to the ordered ones time in its immediate contexts of group cooperation ...
697. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... triggered religious massacres, political purges, wars, mass psychosis, and, in this century, a work stoppage by farm laborers." Douglas Campbell and John Higgins, Tales of the Comet (Claremont, 1986), p. 5. See also the discussion in L. M. Greenberg & W. Sizemore, "Cosmology and Psychology," KRONOS I:1 (1975), pp. 33-50. 76. B. Forrest, Sources, op. cit., p. 40. 77. C. Sagan and A. Druyan, op. cit., pp. 14-15. 78. Theodor H. Gaster, Myth, Legend, and Custom ...
698. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Yahweh for approaching the Ark in an improper frame of mind. Moses is killed by his enemies and his remains are disposed of. Both murder and burial probably occurred within the sacred precincts. Foes and friends join thereafter in a conspiracy to cover up the deed and refashion its circumstances into a sacred lie. Soon the sacred lie transforms itself psychologically into holy myth. When the Israelites had crossed over the dry bed of the Jordan, Joshua did not immediately press on to attack Jericho. Instead, following the order of Yahweh to "circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time,"[96] Joshua performed the ceremony and "when they had completed circumcising all ...
699. Chapter 13 Scythian Princes in the Royal Tombs of Ur [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Snark! I have said it thrice What I tell you three times is True. ' "The absurdity of this ludicrous device appears merely in its description. But it should not be lightly dismissed. Its popularity among advertising executives, public relations specialists, and professional propagandists is sustained by the solid fact that it works. Recent research in psychology has suggested something of the subliminal mechanisms by which repetition erodes critical resistance to the most absurd assertions."119 In the same vein with which historians cut diorite with words, and produce tin bronze with words from tin sources that they cannot find, etc., only words have now domesticated the onager. Zarins, citing Herre, ...
700. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... worshipers they drew from the concrete what now appears an abstraction. Heaven in remote antiquity became the "accomplisher" and the attributes given by the primitive worshiper have remained such Another Chinese proverb is: "Nothing can escape the Eye of Heaven". That "Eye" thought had its origin long before men were capable of giving form to psychological expressions or ethical thought. Men saw the "Eye of Heaven" as an actual existing thing. They saw it looking from the polar heavens, from such an exalted position as to impress the beholder that it saw all things, and knew all things. So the Chinese also use the very old adage, Man does not know ...
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