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16 pages of results. 91. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... , a celestial model of the good king. But neither this charismatic figure, nor his celestial progeny will answer to familiar references in a now-settled sky. Nor will the mythical powers of darkness, in their monstrous dress, find any explanation in our experienced world. Inherent in the myths of the gods is the collective human experience of extraordinary trauma. An idyllic world, a paradisal condition, a Golden Age ruled by the former great king (mythically, the creator-king), came crashing down in a world-ending disaster: wars of the gods, earthquake, famine, wind and flood, the arrival of universal night. Of this universal catastrophe the Great Comet Venus, the departing ...
92. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ohms. Electrical discharges can peel a sapling, undress a person, and pluck chickens. The effects of electroshock upon the human body depends upon the individual constitution, both genetic and acquired, and upon the intensity of the current (amperage) which enters the body and where it passes in relation to the heart or brain. "Fatal traumas from potentials of 10-24 V are described in the literature."[54] The current in such cases is perforce low, even under 100 Amperes. In most deadly instances, voltages of under 400 are involved. "As the great majority of electrical fatalities are due to currents passing between an arm (usually the right) and ...
93. The Garden, the Fall, and the Restoration [Journals] [Kronos]
... species and radically altered climate and topography, Velikovsky held a key to the understanding of man's collective behavior a key which went undiscovered by Freud or Jung. Given the tendency for individuals to repress the memory of traumatic events once they are repressed, there is a recurrent compulsion to re-enact the experience and given the fact that humanity has experienced severe traumas in the historical past, we should expect human beings collectively and individually to exhibit some of the symptoms of the typical amnesia victim. In this paper we shall explore some implications of Velikovsky's diagnosis, first with regard to religious myth as a remnant not only of the catastrophes, but also of the state of human consciousness prior to the ...
94. The Social Impact of Velikovsky on our Generation [Articles]
... draw, (from the New World Codices to the extensive geological records), is the same man whose philosophy and religious tenets became bankrupt, as Neitzche's madman proclaimed before the turn of the century. Although his announcement went unheeded, the same message assumed material form in the massive destruction of the World Wars and by the even more widespread trauma heralded by Black Tuesday in 1929 - the Great Depression. When we consider that this same Man devised the atomic holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, any observer can appreciate the setting for understanding a cataclysmic cosmos. As the participants in a new paradigm, Velikovskians need not disregard the societal grounds of their being. To those who matured their ...
95. Ocean Basins [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Ocean Basins The planet Venus, which has been shown to have had its share of astroblemes, lightning activity, melting, volcanos, plateaus, mountain ranges, great valleys, and closed depressions or basins, has a "curious dearth of great basins," whence we surmise that Venus never underwent the trauma of Earth, which resulted in most of the Earth being ocean basins. "The tectonic forces that have shaped the surface of Venus have raised only 5 percent of the surface into continental masses' and left only 15 to 20 percent of it as basins... "[ 1 ] Nor do we know whether these are " ...
96. Compendium [Journals] [Pensee]
... confirmation of his earlier hypotheses. He was careful to include references to the recent Mariner-Mars fly-by photographic data- which has already raised far more questions than it has put to rest. Dr. Velikovsky also spoke about the matter of mankind burying his racial memories of unpleasant past events in a "collective amnesia" which acts to insulate him from psychological trauma. I don't think very many present missed the implication of this statement. I was impressed with the audience's profound silence during Dr. Velikovsky's presentation and by the depth of some of the questions afterward. The audience almost seemed awed by this man's presence as well as by his obvious command of such great amounts of information. It is ...
97. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... She is devoted to my father's work. Shulamit went back to Israel after World War II" (p . 65). The non sequiturs are especially baffling to any non-analaytic reader. One other example may suffice: "My husband and three young children were effected [sic] by neglect caused by my contraction and total absorption by the trauma of the incredible household at Hartley [the Velikovsky home in Princeton]. When my father was not depressed things were exciting and positive and much activity rushed around him and his work. The rest of the time, it was chaos" (p . 167). The subject of Velikovsky's bouts with depression is perhaps the most revealing ...
98. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... blocked acceptance of theories of modern catastrophism. It seemed likely that egotism was a driving force in the man, causing him to ride roughshod over others, but at the same time it enabled him persevere with his theories and to leave a positive legacy. His major role may ultimately have been within his own discipline with his theory of cultural trauma. After lunch Gunnar Heinsohn followed on from his autumn 1993 SIS lecture (see C&CW 1993:2 , p. 4), reminding us of how stratigraphic evidence in Mesopotamia indicates that there were four great cultures before the Hellenistic period. However, due to pen and paper' dating systems, these were assigned to much ...
99. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - II [Journals] [Kronos]
... why sensory acuity is so spottily distributed. I think it quite conceivable, however, that during relatively undisturbed epochs - such as the Golden Age - most species enjoyed substantial exercise of the 25 or more senses now detectable in the biosphere. I further opine that, during the gross planetary disturbances that terminated this epoch of felicity, wide-spread sensory trauma led to wide-spread sensory disability, which, in turn, became genetically heritable. Most species, on this assumption, would then have retained full acuity only in those senses which they required for individual and collective survival. During the period of disturbance, sudden restoration of the full sensory panoply of each species would probably have constituted "sensory ...
100. Sagan's Folly Part 1 [Journals] [Kronos]
... . A case in point is the Japanese reaction to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the survivors produced no "graphic recordings" for an event easier comparable to the localized experience of a cosmic catastrophe. Yet, the flood of Japanese monster movies that have appeared during the past two decades symbolically and "graphically" represent the atomic trauma (See "Theomachy in the Theater," KRONOS I:2 , June 1975, pp. 23-32). It is worthwhile to conclude our present discussion with a few more pertinent remarks about "diffusion" and the "commonality of experience". Again Padden: "Historians have not rejected diffusionist claims out of obtusity or fear ...
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