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... The sheer beauty of our planet surprised me. It was a huge pearl set in spangled ebony. It was nacreous, it was opal. No, it was far more lovely than any jewel. its patterned colouring was more subtle, more ethereal. It displayed the delicacy and brilliance, the intricacy and harmony of a live thing. Strange that in my remoteness, I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake. The Whole Earth Catalogue began in 1968 as an ad hoc freak enterprise "Ac -cess" was its key concept - how to link up people with tools in a ...
782. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Classical scholars have long recognized the essential equivalence of Helios and Hades. According to Harrison: "This identity of Hades and Helios, which seems at first startling, is really the simplest thing in the world, and is indeed well-nigh world-wide." (29) Astour offers a similar opinion: "According to an association which is strange to us, but perfectly comprehensible for the ancient mentality, the Sun-god was considered the ruler and patron of the inhabitants of Hades." (30) Several other clues support the identification of Helios and Hades. In the Odyssey, for example, it is stated that the road to Hades lies near the gates of the sun. ...
783. The Stratigraphical Chronology of Ancient Israel [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) is out of tune with Egyptian stratigraphy (ca. 7th/6th century for the layer under discussion). (45) (18) The Hebrew "People of the Book" fell silent around 400 BCE. Not a single scripture is known for the two centuries between ca. 400 and ca. 200 BCE. It is strange, however, that when writing was resumed, the Hebraic style of 400 BCE was continued more or less unaltered. Thus philology does not support the 200 year gap required by biblical chronology. According to Bible scholarship, Ezra and Job were written around 450. Nehemiah followed in 430. Proverbs and The Song of Solomon were completed around ...
784. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... dormant during each era and, therefore, is not a uniformitarian process. Paleogeological evidence shows that life forms have evolved not steadily but in discrete jumps during the brief periods between paleobiotic eras. Certainly, if one argues from evidence rather than a priori theory, the character of evolution is not slow adaptation but rampant mutations accompanied by vast and strangely synchronous tectonic changes. Mutations that were unsuccessful have quickly died out, contributing to the picture of vast extinctions. Successful mutations were the basis for survival of numerous new and more advanced genera of biota that are found in the next era. Biologically speaking, if we accept evidence of evolution as it is found, the first generation of ...
785. Precursors [Journals] [Kronos]
... posed the principle which I had in my own mind, that of looking for references to a stasis of the Earth in Mexican traditions. "In order to rediscover the remotest history of the earth it is necessary to compare the ancient traditions of Asia and Egypt with those of the primitive peoples of America."(9 ) But, strangely enough, the reverend author did not feel that the Scriptures contain any parallels to the Mexican traditions; and the Egyptian material in which he looked for comparisons was insufficiently known in his time. And, therefore, all his efforts to find parallels were repaid with no success. Nor did he understand the cause of the continental catastrophes, ...
786. The Social Impact of Velikovsky on our Generation [Articles]
... The sheer beauty of our planet surprised me. It was a huge pearl set in spangled ebony. It was nacrous, it was opal. No, it was far more lovely than any jewel. Its patterned colouring was more subtle, more ethereal. It displayed the delicacy and brilliance, the intricacy and harmony of a live thing. Strange that in my remoteness, I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake." The Whole Earth Catalogue began in 1968 as an ad hoc freak' enterprise. "Access" was its key concept- how to link up people with tools ...
787. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fields of Jupiter and Saturn, show that Saturn has a large, rocky core but that Jupiter has little or none. Standard theories of planet formation require that it have a core more than 20 Earth masses; according to Velikovsky, Jupiter lost its core only a few thousand years ago and we now see it as Venus. Sedna the Strange (New Scientist, 24.4 .04, p. 19; 21.8 .04, p. 16) The most distant object found in the solar system, the planetoid Sedna, has a very slow rate of rotation, which could be accounted for if it had a moon, but astronomers were baffled because they ...
788. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... spectroscopic properties of the atmosphere of Venus, as well as the coloured features of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Three full-page Voyager 1 photographs of Saturn's rings are included to accompany a one-page speculation that some rings consist mainly of bacteria: much of the ring system is known to consist of very fine particles. The braids of the F-ring (strangely, not seen in the higher-resolution Voyager 2 photographs) and the spokes of the B-ring could be due to electromagnetic effects on charged bacteria. The main justification for the publication of Space Travellers is apparently the discovery that the Swedish Nobel laureate, Svante Arrhenius, had in 1908 put forward similar views about the transfer of life through space; ...
789. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... solar activity letting them through) then radiocarbon increases and the radiocarbon calibration curve takes a dip (see fig. 1). I don't think this does anything earth-shattering to help revised chronology but, if this theory is correct, it does help us to understand what was going on, both environmentally and why the calibration curve has such a strange shape. Following the sharp drop, the calibration curve becomes relatively flat from c. 750-400 BC. The flat part presumably represents increasing solar activity and decreasing C14 in the atmosphere. However, atmospheric C14 concentrations could also have been affected by variations in the Earth's magnetic field strength (increased strength reduces cosmic ray flux), or by ...
790. Puritanism, Misogyny, and Female Sexuality [Journals] [Aeon]
... 26] , while the tribe of Zebulon admitted to having desired to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters in order "to know whether the Lord loves them." [27] Also: "Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, If you return with all your heart to the Lord, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your heart unto the Lord, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. So the children of Israel put away Baal and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only." [28] King Solomon himself, while nominally devoted to the ...
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