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16 pages of results. 71. The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... one that deals with the psychological scars of human evolution - in addition to the physical scars with which the author has so ably dealt. Broadly speaking, I believe that our anxiety-ridden and irrationally destructive behaviour requires explanation and that the explanation is to be found in our prehistory rather than our history. Going further, I suspect that the emotional trauma which is manifest in human behaviour is not unique to our species. The xenophobia, hierarchicalism, and territorialism that characterize other highly developed animals seem to me to almost equally biopathic. Specifically, I would cite despotism among gorillas, cannibalism among chimpanzees, and rape among orang-utans as manifestations of comparable evolutionary scarring. This topic, however, ...
72. Human Sacrifice - Then and Now [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... invention of sacrifice and prayer after a destructive flood and archaeological evidence shows that throughout the Bronze Age societies were destroyed from time to time, often by fire. Heinsohn sees survivors threatened by total destruction, gripped by a collective madness in which they could only rail helplessly against the sky. Following Velikovsky, he suggests that, as children overcome trauma by re-enacting it in their play, the Bronze Age produced heroes' who directed their fellows into similarly cathartic sacred drama. The trouble was that this left some of the actors dead! The resulting guilt felt by the rest of the community could be expiated by worshipping the sacrificial victims as gods; they became transfigured or resurrected. The ...
73. A God by any other name: the Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... behind retained their apocalyptic version of religion but those exiled changed their ideas and the Old Testament has become an edited version, especially with the reworking of Genesis. The unpredictable wrath of the celestial gods, with its cataclysmic imagery, was replaced by the idea that humans themselves must be to blame. This enabled the exiles to bear the added trauma of their exile, for if human sin causes catastrophe then humans can prevent future catastrophe by responsible behaviour and strict adherence to the law. As David Salkeld pointed out in his Cambridge conference lecture, the middle section of the Book of Job seems not to belong to the prologue and epilogue. Barker's explanation is that the middle section about ...
74. Quantalism: the Big Picture [Articles]
... and non-quantal speech-sounds is allophones. The corresponding term for contrastive and quantal speech-sounds is phonemes.) CATASTROPHISM AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR Velikovsky's intellectual ecumenism was well exemplified, I believe, by the fact that he offered behavioral as well as physical evidence for ancient catastrophes. In Mankind in Amnesia, he detailed the psychopathology involved in mankind's self-repressive denial of collective trauma . To the best of my knowledge, however, neither he nor most of his ideological heirs have given any attention to those pathologies of animal behavior which may reasonably be attributed to these same global disruptions. If only briefly, I should like to do so now. My assumption is that the catastrophes which led to distortions in human ...
75. Quantalism: The Big Picture [Journals] [Aeon]
... nobility, the lion is not averse to cannibalism. Lions often kill and eat alien cubs. Catastrophism and Animal Behavior Velikovsky's intellectual ecumenism was well exemplified, I believe, by the fact that he offered behavioral as well as physical evidence for ancient catastrophes. In Mankind in Amnesia, he detailed the psychopathology involved in mankind's self-repressive denial of collective trauma. [12] To the best of my knowledge, however, neither he nor most of his ideological heirs have given any attention to those pathologies of animal behavior which may reasonably be attributed to these same global disruptions. If only briefly, I should like to do so now. My assumption is that the catastrophes which led to ...
76. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . The reality of the comet passes and the memory remains, but not a memory of a comet as such; rather the memory of a divine intervention, of a god who can be controlled by sacrifices and subservience. Memory always has a function and, to have this function, especially in terrible instances, must be distorted. The trauma of anthropomorphic natural force can be managed; a great natural force cannot, and hence must be denied. Thus, the Romans had gods with human qualities and permitted themselves psychologically to associate these gods with planets - as in the case of Mars - but in only one case, cited by Pliny, was an actual comet consciously named ...
77. Velikovsky and His Heroes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of course, that anti-Semitism has been fed in later years from many other sources. Both believing Jews and believing Christians of varying persuasions see anti-Semitism as a moral problem, a religious question, an assault by the devil, or fearful judgments of God [4 ]. The late Zvi Rix of Jerusalem went far in linking anti-Semitism to the traumas of terror that followed hard on the great cosmic catastrophes that Velikovsky uncovered [5 ]. Therefore, in laying the source of anti-Semitism at the door of the Amalekites, Velikovsky is striking the most important blow in his own conception, in his military campaigns in the kingdoms of thought and the empires of history. The command of God ...
... chapter of Moses and Monotheism entitled "The Analogy," he "invites the reader to take the step of supposing that something occurred in the life of the human species similar to what occurs in the life of the individuals."[10] To proceed from the traumatic experience of the individual, to the suggestion of a collectively experienced trauma and a collective repression of painful memory is a considerable jump, with massive implications for both history and, as well, for social psychology. One wonders, for example, to what extent the memories of the Nazi death camps or the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have undergone what could truly be called repression. it can't be doubted ...
79. The 'Unconscious' as a Literary Revolt Against Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... curve of rationality and clarity over long periods. The evidences of catastrophism are interpreted as expressions of repressed instinctual tendencies. The developing intelligence - mechanical though it be - is given the possibility of understanding and controlling nature. Both the environment and human mind are in a "steady state." The feelings of catastrophism are attributed to the repressed traumas and anxieties of "normal" existence in civilization. In the end, the theory of the unconscious substituted for analogous functions of pre-Unconscious psychology. Thus was filled the vacuum left by the "scientific" destruction of the latter when U took over from C. The criticism often directed against the theory of the Unconscious, that it was ...
80. Interviewing Immanuel Velikovsky: An Introduction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the science of mass psychoanalysis is entirely new. To disclose it before humanity, I had no way of orthodox access, I could not lead mankind little by little to understand itself because it [the inborn catastrophic psyche] is common behavior but there are no common dreams, no common memories, and to tell it straight is a great trauma by itself. This will be refuted and people will become mentally sick, and only a small number of people, comparatively, will be able to take it without damage to themselves. NICHOL: Is this why you haven't released some information or some of your books? VELIKOVSKY: Actually, in my experience I was not in haste ...
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