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119 pages of results. 651. A Cosmic Debate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... phrase, illud tempus, "That Time", to refer to a point to which all myth connected with the cosmos went back. But he would not venture himself into the real precincts of That Time. He says, in effect, that everyone and everything can be referred back to that Time, but nothing really happened then. Strange indeed. Certainly, much is to be done in the revision of mythology. Better than Freud, Jung and others, the revolutionary primevalogist can explain myth in the context of a human mind trying to cope with disastrous ecological experience. Mythanalysis goes hand in hand with a reconstructed natural history to permit great advances in translating symbols and making ...
652. Ballochroy, Kintraw, and Mackie (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the normal archaeological signs of human activity".(25) At Duntreath, a so-called observation site which even MacKie considers to be of little import, he also dug.(26) There he did discover such signs. At Kintraw, which Thom considers to be one of the two most important solstitial sites, MacKie found none. Strange, though while he calls this absence a handicap to the interpretation of the stone layer as an artificial platform, this handicap was also suppressed in his later work, thus giving the impression that no obstacle hinders the diagnosis. The "platform's" real deficiency, however, lies with the petrofabric analysis that was conducted on the stone layer ...
653. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... merely to have survived but to have flourished immediately before their geologically sudden disappearance.(4 ) A good example of a social science anomaly is the archaic megalithic complex, of which the best known specimen is probably the great stone circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. In an apparent effort to contain (since they cannot eliminate) the strangeness of this complex, in which both the methods and the motives of construction remain obscure, archeologists have written about it as though it were confined to pre-Roman Europe. In fact, however, it is found on every continent but Australia and may date from any or all of the last seven millennia. Associated with it, furthermore, ...
654. Stellar Thermonuclear Energy: A False Trail? [Journals] [Kronos]
... , although rather extravagant, is quite consistent with the observed absence of appreciable neutrino flux from the Sun . . ." The second possibility is that the pulsations are not purely radial motions, but are harmonics of a more fundamental gravity wave affecting the Sun. But there seemed to be little enthusiasm for this latter suggestion: "It seems strange, however, that this high harmonic [should be] dominant." The British observers, J. R. Brookes, G. R. Isaak, and H. B. van der Raay, of the University of Birmingham, discovered the same radial pulsation of the Sun quite independently and by an entirely different technique based on ...
655. Introgenesis (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... , in order to research his new book Freud and His Heroes, a study of Moses, Oedipus, and Akhnaton in the light of psychoanalytic theory and Freud's own dreams. This book also he failed to complete, it being subsumed by the more grandiose ideas that came out of it. This period of Velikovsky's life was marked by a strange and uncharacteristic indecision. His last two nights in Palestine were sleepless despite his attempts to find serendipitous solace by randomly opening his Bible. Initially, he had planned to travel to Trieste for study, but there was no vacancy on the boat. Since he was already at the Tel Aviv harbor, he booked passage on the only ship ...
656. Aphrodite - The Moon or Venus? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Male and Female Procession of the Yazilikaya Series IV. SO IT SEEMS that the Hittites were conspicuously aware of the goddess' double identity, to the point of representing her twice in a relief where all the other deities only appear once. The Hittites were the contemporaries and neighbours of the "Mycenaean" Greeks, so it should not seem strange that the Greeks shared with them the concept of a double Venus-deity. Athena clearly parallels Ishtar as the warlike morning star, Aphrodite Ishtar as goddess of love and the evening star. In Athena's case we have many well attested parallels between her behaviour in the Homeric poems and that of Ishtar in the literature of the Babylonians and the Maiden ...
657. The Mystery Of The Pleiades [Journals] [Kronos]
... surprises has not yet been depleted. On investigating further we find that Saturn, like the Pleiades, was also considered the god of the Pole Star.(99) Paradise was said to have been located in the land of the Pleiades.(100) Paradise was said to have been located in the north pole.(101) Strange stories of a cosmic tree were told of in connection with the Pleiades.(102) This cosmic tree was also said to have been in the north pole.(103) And, to tie it all together, the Deluge, or one of them, was also believed to have come from the north pole.(104 ...
658. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... results of tests for formative causation. In The Presence of the Past, Sheldrake again discusses the Japanese nursery rhyme tests mentioned above, as well as other tests with foreign languages, carried out by winners of a competition organised by the Tarrytown Group of New York. These also gave results encouraging to the hypothesis of formative causation. However, strangely, there is no mention of the picture identification tests. A cynic might say that was because Sheldrake knew that completely negative results had been obtained in the biggest test carried out so far. This was organised by Susan Fassberg of Freiburg for North German television and carried out in January/February 1985. Again, none of the testers ...
659. Sagan's "Ten Plagues" [Journals] [Kronos]
... ethane (C2H6), ethylene (C2H4), acetylene (C2H2), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and acetonitrile (CH3CN) . .. " [Emphasis added] (Astrophysical Journal 168, 563, 1971 September 15). The literal truth is preserved, quite obviously, by the emphasized passage; but it is passing strange that Sagan would not even mention the studies of his mentor (Miller) that led up to their joint efforts, if indeed not the work of Wilson, who stepped out of line and asked: "Do the clouds of Venus contain this material?" And now Sagan remarks: "Velikovsky's insistence on a celestial origin [sic ...
... the space age was well underway, with volumes of extraterrestrial data flowing into Earth's computers. Stunning pictures, rock samples, measurements of every kind. The profiles of the planets were shifting with each subsequent revelation, and it was clear that many surprises on balance weighed in Velikovsky's favor. The unexpected, massive clouds of Venus, the planet's strange retrograde rotation and its surpassing temperature, the stark figures of the tortured planet Mars, verification by the Moon landings of radioactive hot spots and remanent magnetism predicted by Velikovsky; the growing recognition of electromagnetism in celestial mechanics-these and other discoveries may not have produced the pristine verdicts proclaimed by some of Velikovsky's loyalists, but were enough to encourage a ...
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