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... developed over the course of weeks. it would happen in some people, but by no means all. If he is right you could expect panic, flight reactions, religious frenzy of various kinds, obsessional rituals and insanity. On a considerable scale all of this could be predicted with some certainty if this hypothesis is correct. The reaction ... he published in 1941 in the Psychoanalytic Review entitled "The Dreams Freud Dreamed."[5 ] In that essay he presented some very interesting speculations about Freud's attitudes toward religion, and explored certain problems that Freud may have had concerning his personal relationship to Judaism. Those of you who know the Jones biography of Freud will know that Jones ...
552. The Queen of Sheba and the Song of Songs [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of Punt, set up a temple of her own on the model of Solomon's Temple (as described in Velikovsky's brilliant argument), may have been inspired not only by religious feeling but by her longing for the man with whom she had fallen in love and from whom political exigencies had forced her to part. Postscript Interesting further light on ... interpretation (C . D. Ginsburg: The Song of Songs, 1857; and Phyllis Trible: "Depatriarchalizing in Biblical interpretation", Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 41, 1973, pp. 30-48), relating the Song to the equality of the sexes in the Garden of Eden before the Fall. Another explanation is ...
553. The Garden of Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... reveal any semblance of "springs" in the immediate vicinity of Venus. Are we, then, to understand Venus' association with sacred springs as a reflection of Babylonian religious beliefs, subsequently transmitted to the Persian cult of Anahita? If so, does this mean that Venus' association with springs is the product of priestly speculation and thus ... cult of Anahita was borrowed from Babylon, perhaps during the period of the Persian sojourn in Elamite territory. [18] During the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods, the astral religion characteristic of Babylon made its influence felt throughout the ancient world, from Greece to Egypt, India, and China. Both Plato and Aristotle, for example, credit ...
554. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... idol is housed in a central large building in an ancient town (sometimes in a central room devoted exclusively to itself within individual houses): Jaynes considers that our contemporary religious and city architecture is "the residue of our bicameral past"; we even call our Churches "the house of God". Burial practices from these early bicameral ... . In chapter four he focuses on the breakdown of the bicameral mind in Mesopotamia. Here, for the first time (he claims), the mighty themes of world religions are sounded: "why have the gods left us?" and "the gods must be offended". A number of things follow from this; the need ...
555. Conclusion: Entropy [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Where the Wind Blows in Michael Hawkins, Hunting Down the Universe (Reading, Mass., 1997), p. 71. "Big-bang cosmology is a form of religious fundamentalism, as is the furor over black holes, and this is why the peculiar states of mind have flourished so strongly over the past quarter century. It is ... a pilot, is a mathematical impossibility. In the same year, 1903, the Wright brothers, without mathematics, but by a fact proved him wrong. "In religion, the great revelations and the great authorities - the founding fathers - belong to the past, and the older the authority, the greater it is. In science ...
556. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... by some of the most respected scientists of America and Britain, unbending in his person and in his allegiance to science and in refusing every opening for support from demagogic or religious quarters: these facts hardly disturbed the favourable reception granted him by a large public. That he is a charismatic figure is obvious: fourteen hundred people attended his talk ... Lustig, now Editor-in-Chief of a large, new encyclopedia-in-the-making at Princeton, New Jersey. He asked me to write for the encyclopedia the articles on Freedom, ' Freedom of Religion, ' and Freedom of Speech. ' If this story may be taken as a compliment to integrity of the present work, it may also be heartening to those ...
557. Sagan's tenth problem: The circularization of the orbit of Venus (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... , p. 229 states, "paradoxically, while Maya time keepers were concerned about accurate prediction, they seemed to be getting away with grossly distorting the Venus dates for religious purposes... This is but one of a host of Maya Venus mysteries that have yet to be solved." According to Diego de Landa's Yucatan, Before ... to the mind-set of the astronomers. "I finally became aware that some of my fellow scientists are possessed by a mentality not much different from that of a fundamentalist in religion. A theory [or recorded measurement] cannot be valid [or accurate], I seemed to be hearing, if it is contrary to the gospel according to ...
... were among them, which Caius, out of his great madness and want of understanding, reduced the nation of the Jews very low, because they would not transgress the religious worship of their country, and call him a god: I will therefore that the nation of the Jews be not deprived of their rights and privileges, on account ... be so subject [to the Romans] as to continue in the observation of their own customs, and not be forced to transgress the ancient rules of their own country religion; but that, in the time of Caius, the Alexandrians became insolent towards the Jews that were among them, which Caius, out of his great madness and ...
559. The Sacred Circuit [Books]
... to the island of South Uist. There are several big cairns of stone on the east side of this island, and the vulgar retain the ancient custom of making a religious tour round them on Sundays and holidays (holy days.)6 As these cairns are graves, it is of interest to note that in Tibet, as in ... 425. Oxford 1882. (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XII.) 22. pp.441-2. 23. Or wishing. 24. Studies in Religion, Folk-Lore and Customs in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. Cambridge, 1923, pp.6 et seq. 25. Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs ...
560. SIS Silver Jubilee Conference: Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... been the cause. (Further publication on this research is forthcoming.) Surely it is recent events like the above, now well documented, which will have shaped the religious beliefs and mythology of mankind which we have inherited. These are the experiences echoed in the sources of the Graeco-Roman period on which the Saturnists rely. The other side ... The Saturn Problem The post-Velikovskian Saturnists have made an important contribution to our understanding of ancient astral mythology by highlighting the curious importance that the planet Saturn had in ancient myth and religion. Velikovsky posited the interesting idea that a major Saturnian event- a nova-like explosion- was witnessed on the Earth, and that watery comets expelled by this event had ...
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