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16 pages of results. 121. Thoth Vol IV, No 3: Feb 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... things seems to afflict us all. That is particularly true where the safety of our tiny blue spaceship Earth is concerned. It could be that much of modern science is subconsciously aimed at making us feel safe by pushing cataclysmic events into remote times or deep space. Velikovsky suggested that the human race behaves collectively like the victim of a dreadful trauma. The result is a kind of localized amnesia and an unwillingness to confront the painful memory. But until we face and accept our true past we will continue to behave neurotically. Here may lie the key to understanding our insane destructive behaviour toward ourselves and the planet as an unconscious identification with, and re-enactment of, the power of ...
122. Thoth Vol III, No. 2: Jan 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... .- SACRIFICE AND AMNESIA By Dave Talbott A couple of comments recently concerning sacrifice and the phenomenon of amnesia have, I think, inverted the truth of the matter. Velikovsky spoke of amnesia in the wake of cosmic catastrophe. The memory of terrifying events, he suggested, was repressed because humankind could not deal with the depth of the trauma. Therefore, we could not recognize the true source of our own urge to act out cosmic violence. Here is an alternative way of viewing cosmic catastrophe and the role of amnesia. We did not forget the world falling out of control, but remembered these events to the point of obsession. The entire sweep of ritual activity at ...
123. Thoth Vol II, No. 12: July 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... did, wouldn't that have been cause for much hilarity? Wouldn't it have been just as funny in ancient times as it is now? I mean, it's basic schtick - like a pratfall. Wouldn't such ceremonies have evolved into fun festivals, like the boy king & the feast of fools in medieval times? Might also have mitigated the trauma of the Saturnian breakup & the time of terror. Just an idea. DAVE TALBOTT RESPONDS: Pam is to be congratulated for her insights on the comic element. Originally the archetypal warrior-hero is the servant of the central luminary and is highly active in the "creation". That role is fully documented globally. But it may be ...
124. Thoth Vol I, No. 22: August 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , 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 a former "great king" (the CREATOR-king, the Universal Monarch), came crashing down in a world-ending disaster: wars of the gods, earthquake, famine, wind and flood, the arrival of universal night. Of this world-ending catastrophe the Great Comet ...
125. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ', C & C Review IX (1987), pp.45-48. 5. J. A. Wolfe: Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history of deciduousness and the terminal Cretaceous event', Paleobiology 13 (1987), pp. 215-226. 6. R. G. Prinn and B. Fegley: Bolide impacts, acid rain and biospheric traumas at the C-T boundary', Earth and Planetary Science Letters 83 (1987), pp. 1-15. 7. P. J. Crutzen: Acid rain at the K/T boundary', Nature 330 (1987), pp.108-109; M. R. Rampino & T. Volk: Mass extinctions, atmospheric sulphur ...
... 76. C. Emiliani, E. B. Kraus and E. M. Shoemaker: `Sudden death at the end of the Mesozoic', Earth and Planetary Science Letters 55 (1985), pp. 317-334. 77. R. G. Prinn and B. Fegley: `Bolide impacts, acid rain, and biospheric traumas at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary', Earth and Planetary Science Letters 83 (1987), pp. 1-15. 78. R. Huggett: Cataclysms and Earth History (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989). 79. C. P. McKay and G. E. Thomas: `Formation of noctilucent clouds by an extraterrestrial impact' ...
... Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, Peruvians, Mexicans, and Caribs, concluding that rites, ceremonials, and myths reflect the fact that the human race was subjected to a series of cosmic convulsions for which he also considered the geological and paleontological evidence. He argued that these catastrophes shaped the human mind, causing among other things a deepseated psychological trauma. . ." [378] --cf. numbers i, 2, 3,4 . "Laplace stressed that the human race is beset by a great fear that a comet may upset the Earth... . He proceeded to describe the possible effects of a collision with a comet, painting a picture that is in close ...
128. O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians [Journals] [SIS Review]
... natural disasters. What these catastrophes did not destroy is likely to be destroyed by the survivors themselves as they kill one another out of apocalyptic panic. It was in these traumatic crises, Heinsohn claims, that catastrophe rituals and blood sacrifices were introduced. Just as children try to digest a shocking experience through play, during which they relive the trauma but with everything under their own control, catastrophe myths and rituals are also a means of re-enacting past traumatic events. In this way, people rid themselves of their emotional suffering through participation in catastrophe rituals whose course lies entirely in their own hands. In these mimetic games and dances people changed their former role as passive victims of catastrophe ...
129. The Velikovskian Upheaval: A Temporocentric Challenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... Velikovsky (1974:14) sees those who ridicule him not as sinners but rather people whose behavior assumes a wide range of suppression-"mostly crassly rough and often dishonest" --against his ideas. He supplants Moses' religious doctrine for ethical standards of civility and honesty. In effect, Velikovsky sees his opponents as the carriers of an original trauma who sustain the same anxiety that humans experienced thousands of years ago, hundreds of generations past, from events which have yet to be repeated. SCIENTIFIC MISDEEDS Academia will never let him get away with it. No matter how many of his predictions prove correct, it will see him dead first.-Charles Fair Thus has Charles Fair ...
130. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Earth from other planets via meteorites and impact debris and existing deep in the Earth, are now being taken seriously by astronomers, geologists and biologists. More than 100 simple organic molecules have been found in space and this list now includes simple sugars. One team of scientists is investigating how well bacteria might survive both time in space and the trauma of entering Earth's atmosphere and impact, carried aboard meteoric material. A colony of a simple soil bacterium survived 6 years in orbit on a spacecraft and a bacterium adapted to the pressures around deep sea vents apparently survives high speed impact with chalk and granite quite happily. Higher forms of life, such as species of worms round deep sea ...
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