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182 pages of results. 281. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... by aggressive behaviour, of which premenstrual tension may well be a remnant. An organised hunt of large ice-age mammals would take days of tracking and trapping, aided by the ever increasing light of the waxing Moon. A return with meat at full Moon would initiate days of feasting for all and women receptive at the time of ovulation. Many traditions are explicable by this thesis. The rituals associated with hunting magic include abstinence from sex immediately before the hunt. Blood is of prime importance in mythology from earliest times; primitive cultures have strong menstrual taboos and raw meat likewise became taboo because of its blood. Fires lit at the full Moon signify it is time to cook meat, ...
282. The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... Talbott: I see the intellectual environment today as extremely volatile- an advantage on the one hand, and a considerable challenge on the other. People are no longer willing to believe everything they've been taught, and innovators are questioning theoretical underpinnings. What is needed now is a clearer sense of ground rules for assessing unusual ideas, but the traditional protocol has to be changed. Given the fundamental level of the challenges to mainstream theory today, the "peer review"- or should we say "jeer review"?- system often becomes an absurdity in actual practice. Of course the answer to mainstream dogmatism isn't to recklessly embrace every exotic idea, but to give well-researched and ...
283. On Dating the Trojan War [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 490 16 kings x average 10 years 160 interval between invasion and war 80 730 BC By a similar calculation, the earliest possible date would be 938 BC - long after the latest date at which it could have occurred in the received chronology. The strength of such an argument, of course, is no greater than the dependability of the tradition it uses. It could be objected that the lists might be incomplete, or that Eurysthenes and Procles might have been credited with leading the Dorian invasion only after the truth had been forgotten. However, it is possible to make two cross-checks on the results. Alexander the Great claimed he could trace his ancestry back to Heracles. If ...
284. Pharaoh Seti the Great and His Foreign Connections [Journals] [Kronos]
... , is neither questioned by me nor any other Egyptological scholar. However, having studied cybernetics and information theory as well as cryptography, in my many years of preparation for computer science, my approach to language is something less than mystical. Therefore, I am particularly sensitive by training to artificially arranged correspondences. Nevertheless I have availed myself of traditional archaeological and historical training; and although I have learned the Egyptian language and its history, I have never swallowed it whole as far as the usual interpretations are concerned. I'm of the "vulgar opinion" (to use the British characterization) that Seti, if he were living today, would share my view of academic Egyptian. ...
... , Edited by Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents Structuring the Apocalypse: Old and New World Variations William Mullen Hodder Fellow in the Humanities Princeton University My project here is a kind of spectral analysis of religions-Egyptian, Hebrew, Christian, Islamic; Teotihuacano, Mayan, Hopi, Aztec - and since the subject of religion has traditionally involved polemic, I would like to begin by considering calmly for a moment the most effective means by which polemic can be avoided. We have had a taste of an ongoing scientific polemic at this symposium, and need only remind ourselves of the greater heat generated in the past by religious polemics to understand why both are best dispensed with ...
286. Velikovsky in America [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon III:4 (Dec 1993) Home | Issue Contents Velikovsky in America Duane Vorhees [T ]he community and traditions of science...maintain it against the barbarism, the chaos, the infatuation with novelty, and the wishes for an easy victory over reality constantly assailing it. Science is maintained by the discipline of apprenticeship. The continuity between new and old is important to it; that which is new, no matter how well established as "fact" or argued as theory, will be rejected if it does not fit into what is known- unless and until connections between them can be demonstrated. In addition, the acceptance and rejection ...
287. The Science of Evolution (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... this article we will say nothing of creationism, but rather concentrate on the great range of evolutionary conceptions being currently offered by evolutionary scientists. Indeed, "range" is hardly an adequate designation for positions that are mutually contradictory. To conceive of evolution as a science is, by and large, either to equate it with paleontology (the traditional way) or to equate it with genetics (the modern way). The widespread hostility now being directed by many evolutionists at the merely historical evidence embodied in the fossil record is treated elsewhere.(1 ) Inductive generalizations, based on an admittedly fragmentary sample from the past, can never result in a science comparable to physics and ...
288. 094book.htm [Journals] [Aeon]
... I consider this Hapgood's best example of ancient knowledge of accurate determination of longitude, an achievement normally credited to Europe in the last half of the 18th century (an accurate chronometer was developed just in time for Captain Cook to make excellent charts). The May-June 1992 issue of Equinox, a Canadian bimonthly periodical, documents that the odd Chinese tradition of carving maps on stone dates back to at least 100 AD. Hapgood analyzed 34 localities shown on the 1137 map of China, mostly the confluence of major rivers, and found that positional errors were only 0.5 to 1.0 degrees, whether latitude or longitude, with the high standards of the ancients not varying anywhere ...
289. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Talbott shows himself as prone to error as Velikovsky. Later catastrophes would only serve to reaffirm prior themes and symbols, not establish new ones. The human mind works from generalities to specifics, quickly seizing upon broad similarities. Given such tendencies, eyewitnesses to later cataclysms would automatically make mental connections between what they were seeing and the original traditions. For example, the Exodus comet-planet, standing vertically on the horizon as Velikovsky postulated, would be strangely reminiscent of the polar column associated with ancient Saturn- certainly similar enough to fulfill the symbolic expectations of tradition-oriented Israelites. So, too, any presentation of a crescent to earthly observers at that time would bring to mind the earlier ...
290. Inherent Origins of the State (Hegel and Freud) [Journals] [Kronos]
... "cosmogeny". Before we turn to an in depth analysis of the dialectical integration and operation of these four processes or levels which together compose the inherent origins of the state, we can see that, from an overall point of view, on the one hand, Hegel's social and political philosophy can be understood to be a critique of traditional (especially Enlightenment) theories of the state (culminating in the French Revolution). These generally hold that the structures of state and society are conscious and deliberate inventions for practical purposes. Collectively, they constitute a view which derives from an understanding of man as everywhere and always the same, viz., rationally pursuant of his own ...
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