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119 pages of results. 481. Velikovsky's Critics and Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... tree trunks or casts cutting across several strata) indicating a rapid rate of sedimentation (6 ). REFERENCES 1. M. Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Dover Publications, New York, 1957), 33. The book as a matter of interest is subtitled- "The curious theories of modern pseudoscientists and the strange, amusing and alarming cults that surround them. A study in human gullibility." 2. D. Cohen, Myths of the Space Age (Tower Publications, New York, 1967), 179-180, paperback edition. This is subtitled- "A skeptic's inquiry into the pseudo-scientific world of today." 3. M.A . ...
482. Personal Notes [Journals] [Pensee]
... regard to heat as a mutagenic cause, I would relegate this means to the category of radiation, as heat nominally is induced by infrared or microwave radiation as a by-product of their effects. And unless the radiation is discriminatory the heat produced will prove damaging to an organism in the majority of cases. Therefore, in the example of the strange, new species observed in the bomb craters in London, I can think of two possible explanations. Either the seeds or spores were carried to the site by the bomb or were uncovered by the blast, or the mutations were caused by the acoustical effects of the detonation. Both the thermal and acoustical effects are transient factors, achieving ...
483. End. Part 2 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... is Oedipus." An oracle's questions and answers refer to the man who stands before it. Oedipus was exposed, a helpless infant with damaged feet, to crawl in the wasteland; he grew to be a man and a hero; his end was that of a blind wanderer in exile - "he shall make his way to a strange land, feeling the ground before him with his staff."2 And I should add: "He was king in the Hundred-gated Thebes." "Man," however, is a correct answer not to the riddle asked by the Sphinx but to the enigma of the Sphinx with its bestial body, human head, and wings ...
484. "King Living in Truth". Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... Son of Eternity."11 In this connection it is interesting that Oedipus, whose parentage is regularly ascribed to Laius, is also called in some ancient sources the son of Helios (sun).12 Oedipus' descent from Laius is a vital element in the legend; such an unmotivated change in the parentage of the legendary hero seems strange but is understandable if the prototype of the legendary hero was Akhnaton. A royal son and descendant of the god Ra, like other pharaohs before him, his claim to divinity soon demanded an equality with his heavenly father, Aton, the sun. "Thou art to eternity like the Aten, beautiful like the Aten who gave him ...
485. A Reply To Isaacson [Journals] [Kronos]
... the days of David a comet appeared in the form of a human being between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem' (I Chron. 21: 16; and verse 14 where it is noted that 70,000 men of Israel "fell" by some pestilence.) This strange celestial apparition may very well have been the planet Mars embarking on its ultimately threatening path towards the Earth which it menaced in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C . The planet Mars may also have been associated in some way with "the stone on which the Temple of Solomon was built- Eben Shetiya, or fire stone- ...
486. The Fire Gate. Ch.7 Chronicle Of Our Time (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... . A basic fact needs to be recontemplated: being descendants of the survivors of great paroxysms of nature of the past, we are possessed by the urge inherited through racial memory to repeat the violent perfor-mance. The brain cells of the man in the position to call down the cataclysm must be like over-taut strings, intoning in his consciousness a strange tune. The danger of the President's possible mental derangement before his exit was sensed by the responsible functionaries of the Defense Department, and as newspapers reported, the Defense Secretary made secret temporary arrangements to preclude the President's exit coin-ciding with ruin by the pressing of the button. Did not the first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, in ...
... fourth to tenth-generation descendants of slaves (in the case of the West Indies only the third generation) feel a resurgence of the longing for Africa that accompanied the fettered slaves on their forced voyage to this country and haunted the thoughts of the first generation of those working on plantations or in mines. But together with this back-to-Africa sentiment, a strange, even pathological phenomenon takes place: the most militant among the American blacks look to the Arabs as their allies and mentors. The descendants of the slaves return to those who preyed on them, took them captives, chained them, drove them mercilessly across deserts, let them die from thirst exhausted at oars on galleys. The urge ...
... days of care, no spring, no summer, no winter, no autumn." As if continuing the Sibylline prophecy. Wells rises from his seat in benighted London alight with the beacons of conflagrations and says: "Hitherto, recurrence has seemed a primary law of life. Night has followed day and day night. But in this strange new phase of existence into which our universe is passing, it becomes evident that events no longer recur. They go on and on to an impenetrable mystery, into a voiceless limitless darkness, against which this obstinate urgency of our dissatisfied minds may struggle, but will struggle only until it is altogether overcome. "Our world of self-delusion ...
489. Sunk Without Trace? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... material for Plato's Atlantis'. He criticises other authors for trying to take Plato's words too literally, arguing that the story must be viewed as a morality tale of a great nation becoming corrupt and meeting a deserved fate in cataclysmic fashion. In this context, it can be seen as part of the mainstream of Plato's writings, not some strange aberration. Plato had previously written The Republic, about an ideal state where a philosopher king ruled with absolute authority, and was later to write The Laws, attempting to provide an ideal legal system, which would be needed in the absence of a suitable philosopher king. In between, in the Timaeus and Critias, he was describing ...
490. Prologue: The Good Earth (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... only intelligent inhabitants of the solar system, regardless of whether or not in the past other planets, possibly on different orbits, had developed life on them. Gone forever are the little green men- the Venusians, the claimed sighting of whom was accepted as a fact by gullible people. Then there were the Martians, a breed of strange design, who existed in the fantasy of many but were detected by nobody. It is nearly seven and a half billion miles across the orbit of the farthest planet, and over twenty-five trillion miles to the next star, with the domain of our Sun stretching over an area of an equal diameter. Our solar system is meaningful, ...
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