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16 pages of results. 111. Homo Schizo Meets God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... would promptly regret having made such a substitute for the unrealized larger portion of their ideal. I should not try to explain the full theory here, not when two volumes about it are available elsewhere. However, it is appropriate to comment that Deg began his development of the model of Homo Schizo to test the Freud-V. theory that historical traumas produced a character who simply had memory problems but was otherwise "rational" by nature. As I said, Deg was already prejudiced against this idea, and it was no accident that he almost immediately placed the idea of the intelligent evolving savage into a restricted enclosure. He searched instead for the larger meaning of catastrophe, now quantavolution ...
112. The Relevance Of The Velikovsky Scenario To The Homeric Question [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... monumental poets most suitably referred to as Homer) at most two or three generations away from the events that he describes. This scenario is surely much more consistent with how much about the heroic age Homer seems to have got right than the usual one, where a "dark age" of five centuries intervened,35 the vast disruption and trauma of an intervening catastrophe and poetic license might account for the discrepancies.36 Perhaps the fact that he (they) was (were) before a catastrophe, whereas Archilochus and the other lyric poets came after, might explain the fact that the Greeks knew so little about their greatest poet (or poets); and that they reckoned ...
113. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... shooting (= mental shock) performed very badly when asked to recall the details of the film compared to those who saw a non-violent version. A shooting is, of course, very much less of a mental shock than a cosmic catastrophe, but it is at least experimental proof (apparently the first!) of amnesia induced by psychological trauma. Continents in Collision source: Scientific American November 1982, p. 50 Normal tectonic theory posits continents growing slowly and steadily by the addition of sedimentary or crustal plate material at their edges. Now, however, a study of the geology and palaeobiology of the rocks of western North America has led a group of scientists to the conclusion ...
114. The Signature of Catastrophe (Reinterpreting the Geological Record) [Journals] [Aeon]
... understand even if we've never heard it expressed. If you're riding in a speeding automobile that crashes to a sudden halt, you're likely to continue moving-right through the windshield. This tendency would be noticed less dramatically during normal braking-bracing on the dashboard, pressure on the seatbelt, etc. The greater the mass and velocity, the greater the difficulty-and trauma -in stopping. Let us suppose now that a giant body comes just close enough to the earth to slightly retard its rate of rotation; forces would vary throughout the planet. What would happen as a result? If rapid enough, a rotational deceleration of the earth would wreak havoc on its surface-a nightmare of horrifying proportions. Gale force ...
115. The Cambridge Conference [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... natural seismic or climatic events. After a plentiful buffet lunch and more sociable mixing, we returned to our seats for an afternoon session on cosmology, opened by Irving Wolfe with another of his thought provoking catastrophic interpretations. Those who had heard Irving at last year's Nottingham meeting, interpreting the development of the world's religions as a response to the trauma of cosmic catastrophe, recognised the formula as applied to the development of western cosmologies. Why were they successful? What did they sell? Again, the urge to believe in systems of stability and order tells us more about ourselves than the realities of the cosmos. Such belief systems can be seen as narcotics to assuage the triple terror ...
116. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... civilisation in a time warp. The Mexicans built a whole gory culture around the neurotic need to feed their god with human blood, and they remained fixed in Bronze Age barbarism. 29 centuries later, when Cortes arrived to make the last and bloodiest oblation, they were still sacrificing and still afraid, eloquent witness to Velikovsky's theory of cosmic trauma. Keith A. LeFlem, Norwich. Rees' Mesopotamian chronologies In Workshop 1992:2 (pp. 10-15), Tony Rees amassed evidence that he says appears to strongly deny' my conclusions and also those of Heinsohn and others. Rees predicates his analysis on (i ) the conventional Assyrian chronology, which he says cannot be ...
117. Cosmology And PsychologyY [Journals] [Kronos]
... divine succession most likely reflected a catastrophically changing cosmos. Is it not logical, therefore, to assume that Early man's psychological attitude and his physical behavior also reflected, in a mimicking way, the actions of an awe-inspiring cosmos? Boulanger has also "argued that these catastrophes shaped the human mind, causing among other things a deep seated psychological trauma: We still tremble today as a consequence of the deluge and our institutions ,till pass on to us the fears and the apocalyptic ideas of our first fathers. Terror survives from race to race The child will dread in perpetuity what frightens his ancestors'." (42) How, then, is man to break his patterns ...
118. Schizophrenia and the Fear of World Destruction [Journals] [Kronos]
... irregular contraction and dilation, or the eyelids may be tightly closed [emphasis added] . . . In the excited state, he becomes extremely agitated and destructive. He is likely to destroy furniture, tear his clothes, assault others, or injure and mutilate himself.(3 ) It appears, then, that the shattering and prolonged trauma of cosmic catastrophe could produce psychological states which were strikingly similar to those which we classify today as catatonic schizophrenia. But the Aztecs were not the only people to remember what had happened to their ancestors during periods of cataclysm: Isaiah 9. 19 (RSV): Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is burned, ...
119. "Cenocatastrophism" [Articles]
... put the final stamp of his own discipline on works which so widely exceeds its bounds, and they will see the astronomers as playing upon irrational terrors in order to secure massive funding for further research. Pessimists, in turn, are free to declare the uselessness of the anamnetic enterprise on either hypothesis. It is perfectly possible that knowing the traumas of our past will not succeed in making us stop reenacting them. And it is perfectly possible that the next impact episode will involve an object too big to be deflected. My only response to such negativity is to suggest that the very act of affirming or invalidating these claims about the future should propel cenocatastrophism forward in research that will ...
120. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in every connoisseur's collection. I name it Sagan's Theory (on the grounds that Sagan refers to every minor speculation in Worlds in Collision as Velikovsky's Theory). Sagan proposes that the deciding factor influencing an astronomer's adoption of a cosmological theory may be the manner of his birth, with proponents of the "Big Bang" theory having undergone the trauma of normal birth, whilst the "steady state" adherents were "from their mother's womb untimely ripp'd" (Shakespeare, not Sagan; Macbeth was naturally in favour of the "steady state", particularly with regard to Birnam Wood). With this breakthrough, Sagan must now also be recognised as the world's leading, if not ...
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