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16 pages of results. 131. The Inconstant Heavens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 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: We still tremble today as a consequence of the deluge and our institutions still 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. (III, 316) Boulanger explained by these fears the human tendency ...
132. Crazy Heroes of Dark Times [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to a great polis. This order could only be feebly reinstituted by the Homeric crazed heroes. But a new civilization, which developed out of the Homeric age, moved in all directions; it quickly blended new and old forms. The Love Affair was an effort, on the literary front, to establish the new age by mastering the trauma that came with the end of the old age. Notes (Chapter 7: Crazy Heroes of Dark Times) 1. The Cambridge Ancient History (1973), Vol II, Part I, p. 611. We recall the suggestion that Odysseus may have awakened to Nausicaa's spring washing rites. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid ...
133. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... they were doing to the Jews of Europe physically, he would certainly not have wanted anyone to suspect this. What better disguise could he have chosen than scientist versus scientist and let the truth win? Second, the major masspsychological component of his theory is the hypothesis that there exists in us a powerful subconscious collective compulsion to re-enact ancient racial traumas. Brutal mass violence, he says, is a response to re-emergent memories of ancestral terror, but with ourselves as aggressors. Hitler is the most obvious illustration of this in our time, but Velikovsky forbade such an interpretation which would let the Nazis off the hook. Like the dog in Sherlock Holmes which did not bark in the ...
134. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... exhibit "superstitious" fear- not only of comets and eclipses but even of rainbows and sunsets. The catastrophist explanation of these fears is that, during periods of mutual planetary approach, terrestrial sunlight has been eclipsed by large celestial bodies, comets have devastated the Earth and the atmosphere has taken on a persistently ruddy or polychrome-like glow. THE PAN-HUMAN TRAUMA It is easy for us to recognize irrational elements in protohistoric and preliterate behavior when we do not share the behavior in question, as in the case of human sacrifice or initiatory mutilation. There are, however, similar types of behavior which we do share, if only because they appear to have become human universals. One of these ...
135. Collective Amnesia and the Catastrophic Basis of Soap Opera (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... plots and boringly successful at evading danger. It hardly needs pointing out that, if Velikovsky is correct, our ancestors would have greatly liked to have been endowed with such powers when actual catastrophes occurred. The structure of this cartoon series is like a dream sequence after a terrifying experience. It can be interpreted as a safe re-living of horrible trauma, for it is the Coyote who is figuratively destroyed on each occasion, not the Roadrunner, as if the planets suffered when they attacked man and not vice versa;(39) and yet the Coyote rebounds effortlessly from each apparently-total annihilation to undertake his next plot and be defeated again. This makes the Roadrunner megacycle endless. The ...
136. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... can be found, by negotiation or direct action, to compensate for the destruction or to ward off its feared recurrence. Obviously some remedy is desperately needed to soothe the soul-destroying panic, one which will bring calm to the strife-ridden- i.e . clarity to the "beclouded people." Like children who try to master an overwhelming trauma by re-enacting it in their play, the terror-stricken communities of the Bronze Age- this author claims- produced heroes who introduced sacrificial dramas to their "beclouded" kinsmen in a very similar manner. In 1920, Sigmund Freud described a young boy's activity and, thereby, the first convincing theory of child's play as follows: "[ ...
137. Discussion Comments From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... has Velikovsky "Barely in control of his emotions," after, in effect, being called "a liar." As Vine Deloria wrote in KRONOS III:4 , p. 48, perhaps it does take an emotional man to accomplish what Velikovsky achieved in his "treatment of the Exodus, the battles of Joshua, and the traumas of the 7th century B.C . the emotional content of historical events is restored to its proper place in the method of interpreting ancient source materials." (My emphasis.) The "armchair psychoanalyst" may inevitably reveal more about himself than about his subject- in Whelton's case, is it that he has found a new ...
138. New Fashions in Catastrophism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... my present studies in the origins of human nature to Andy Scott recently, he came up with the suggestion that I address you on one type of problem which I've encountered. In my scenario of practically instant creation of the psychocultural human from a closely similar homo sapiens anatomy, I have had to set up models of genetic change, cultural traumas, and atmosphere change (plus combinations). In the atmospheric context, one major question is whether there occurred a radical change in some atmospheric constant, which then assumed a uniformitarian guise and which is not observable presently therefore, but yet is producing distinctively human behavior. For instance, what are the limitations (low-high) of the ...
139. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Arriving at the surface of Saturn, this dense material was presumably repulsed by the likeness of electrostatic charges from Saturn, and a considerable quantity of material went into orbit about it. It also seems very possible that a proto-planet Venus, as a small part of the original dense core material of Saturn, may have been expelled through the same trauma. Thus, having lost its core and a great volume of other dense material, the gas giant was left with a highly atypical density. Such an event would provide a physical answer to Talbott's mythical scenario, in which Saturn, as the dying sun god, has his "heart" torn from him in the form of the ...
140. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part III [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the configuration must have terminated earlier, say by 3500 BCE. However, it is probably premature to think that any of these dates are particularly accurate. The important point to keep in mind is: Were there major interplanetary discharges to Earth that killed multitudes and scared the heck out of the rest, imbuing the lucky survivors with a trauma so profound it seems to reach right down into our genetic make-up? Quite likely. O Notes [1 ] K. Moss, "Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation," AEON VI:1 (February 2001), pp. 75 ff. & "Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation," Part II, AEON VI ...
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