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71 pages of results. 561. Hurricanes and Cyclones [Books] [de Grazia books]
... god, Aeolus, blew at once all around the world, many sediments would be displaced, losing their local cyclone scars in the process and letting no new strikes penetrate deep into the new strata. But perhaps the Earth's surface has spent 99.9 % of its time in a peaceful state with a quiet atmosphere. Such quiescence contradicts uniformitarianism as much as it does catastrophism; that is, I have used above the present "quiet" state to reconstruct the past, as Hutton and Lyell recommended. Yet even so, estimates resulting therefrom would be much more impressive than present conventional history gives one to understand. A final possibility is that the sedimentary rocks of the Earth ...
562. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... "whereas Paleolithic art provides abundant evidence of primitive man's concern both with his own kind and with the animals which constituted his main source of food, there is apparently a complete absence of interest in the physical environment- no representations are found of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon or stars."[9 ] Of course the uniformitarian, evolutionist model of thought would prefer to believe this, but in fact the leap to humanity was for the hominid a leap directly to gods. Marcel Baudouin, in two articles of sixty years ago, joined the paintings and the artifacts of the upper paleolithic caves of France into a convincing demonstration of the "astralism" of their ...
563. Early Historic Man -- Catastrophism and Calendars [Articles]
... or colder, and then in 750 BC we arrive at the sub-Atlantic which is our present climate, but which around that time was really a very big and sudden degradation of the climate, and much wetter than were all the other periods before. By climatologists it is generally accepted that the climates varied gradually, following the sacred laws of Uniformitarianism. But in 750 BC, they accept nevertheless that the onset of the sub-Atlantic climate was abrupt. If that climatic change was abrupt, why shouldn't the others have been abrupt? And it can be shown that they were abrupt, because now we pass from paleo-climatology to archaeology. Archaeology shows us that historical periods have always arrived at ...
564. The Social Impact of Velikovsky on our Generation [Articles]
... what might be salvaged from the great midden-heap of civilization. Proverb from Alloy: "Your're just saying that there is in reality no guarantee that life will continue. The right to live is a fiction. It's a pretense at a political reality." The W.E .C . says: Yeah-yeah, you thought the liberal democratic uniformitarian world system was bust, but you didn't know how bust. First, let's look at the big picture (p . 7). "You're too close. Back off and survey the big picture and old mysteries will clear up for you and other mysteries will arrive...among the discoveries.... is that ...
565. Concepts of Collective Memory [Articles]
... Freud and Jung's thinking, of biological evolution. Jung went so far as to say that the collective unconscious, with which we are primarily concerned, is not a question, for him at least, of the repression of the collective unconscious contents as such, they were never conscious to begin with, that they took form very gradually over uniformitarian standard time and that they are basically the product of a biological kind of system, so that when we talk about the Velikovskian amnesia, we are really talking in that case about the particular side of the personal unconscious in a sense that contains supposedly memories for events that were traumatic and that have been repressed to some degree, but ...
566. The History Of The Revisionist Debate: A Personal View [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... read by revisionists for a number of reasons. It was honestly and uncompromisingly fundamentalist in inspiration, thus alienating Velikovsky himself and a number of his historic supporters. It was also very densely written, with an exceptionally confusing system of notes and references. Courville based his Biblical chronology on the work of Edwin Thiele, which itself is based on uniformitarian assumptions-correlating Biblical dates with a supposed 763 BC eclipse, supposedly described in the Assyrian lemmu lists, and this led him into further conclusions. To this day, Courville's detailed chronology and synchronisms have been almost universally rejected. Yet the major outline pillars of his reconstruction, where he boldly broke with Velikovsky, are being increasingly validated with time ...
567. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... that the collective records of early man will permit a reconstruction of the crucial events, if only we will suspend our judgment long enough to rigorously assess the material from a new vantage point. And keep in mind as well that Velikovsky's argument for large-scale catastrophe was offered in 1950, at a time when astronomers and geologists were entirely captivated by uniformitarian models, in which catastrophes played virtually no significant role in the history of the solar system, in the history of the Earth, or man's own past. So we have to ask ourselves: under the weight of space age discovery, has it been Velikovsky, or his critics, that have had to give the most ground? ...
568. Mapping Bombastic Evasion, Denial And Subterfuge [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... maps were made, then many islands would sink beneath the sea in the great past or even after as the Earth settled and certain areas of the Earth surface would rise and fall as well as be distorted as the poles tilted or the plates suddenly moved. As is usually the case with Velikovsky's and our critics they cannot see outside their uniformitarian paradigm as does Mewhinney. Let us once again examine the strategic evidence that Mewhinney could not bring himself to face or report it to his readers. After admitting that "Mallery did influence a few other people, including several officers of the U.S . Navy Hydrographic Office who came forward to endorse his reconstruction", Mewhinney turns ...
... years cultivated many characters on the fringe of conventionality. He wrote an introduction to the German edition of Upton Sinclair's book on telepathy. In the early 1940's he had been approached by Wilhelm Reich; initially Einstein had been quite receptive and had tried without success to verify experimentally some of Reich's propositions. While Velikovsky was writing his challenge to geological uniformitarianism, Einstein was working with another catastrophist, Charles H. Hapgood, who proposed that the Earth's crust has recently and repeatedly shifted due to imbalances caused by the planet's nonsphericity and asymmetrical icecap growth. The Einstein-Hapgood association began with a letter to the Nobel laureate on November 24, 1952, just after Velikovsky began a similar correspondence. As ...
... for what might be salvaged from the great midden-heap of civilization. According to proverbs from Alloy: "You're just saying that there is in reality no guarantee that life will continue. The right to live is a fiction. It's a pretense at a political reality." The Whole Earth Catalogue says: yeah-yeah, you thought the liberal democratic uniformitarian world system was bust, but you didn't know how bust. First, let's look at the big picture. You're too close. Back off and survey the big picture and old mysteries will clear up for you and other mysteries will arrive .. . among the discoveries .. . is that this lovely place Earth is scarcely inhabited ...
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