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8 pages of results. 76. Predicting the Past [Journals] [Aeon]
... be tied to celestial phenomena. The present work is a summation of Roger Wescott's thoughts regarding mythology, human prehistory, and catastrophism. Not only are the ideas presented in this work incendiary; they are also educative. But, beyond its considerable value for enlightenment, entertainment, and education, this book is also a tool of therapy. Wescott is, in every possible sense, reminding us of something we have lost and forgotten. As a cultural archaeologist, Wescott unearths and reassembles shards of memory that still persist in our languages, institutions, and myths. What is more, he surveys our prospects for revivifying at least some portion of our primordial wholeness. Richard Heinberg Hard ...
77. The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... New York, New York, 1982) Elaine Morgan: The Descent of Woman, (Stein & Day, New York, 1972) G.J . Todaro: Evidence Using Viral Gene Sequences Suggesting an Asian Origin of Man' in Current Arguments on Early Man, (Pergamon Press, Elmsford, NY, 1980) Roger W. Wescott: The Paradoxical Primate' (a review-article on the two above-mentioned books by Elaine Morgan), Kronos vol. 9, no. 2, (1984), pp. 74-84 Roger Wescott \cdrom\pubs\journals\workshop\w1992no1\41scars.htm ...
78. The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times by James Bailey [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. II No. 2 (Nov 1976) Home | Issue Contents The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times by James Bailey (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1973; $9 .95) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. Note: Reprinted with permission from The Comparative Civilisations Bulletin (published by The International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilisations), Haverhill, Mass., 01830, Fall-1974. The God-Kings is a fascinating book, boldly heterodox and eloquently argued. And it is visually attractive, being clearly printed and well illustrated ...
79. Earth Magic: A Review by FRANCIS HITCHING [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. III No. 4 (Summer 1978) Home | Issue Contents Earth Magic by FRANCIS HITCHING (William Morrow and Co., New York, 1977; 320 pp., $10.00) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. Arthur Clarke once remarked that "every uncomprehended technology is, in principle, magic." The magic that Francis Hitching treats in this lucidly written and engrossing book is the vanished technology which he believes to have been made possible by the far-flung pre-Christian network of rough-hewn megaliths. Although Stonehenge in southern England is the best known of these megalithic complexes ...
80. Indeterminacy: Temporary, Permanent, Or Indefinite? [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol 1 No 1 (1993) Home | Issue Contents Indeterminacy: Temporary, Permanent, Or Indefinite?Roger W. Wescott An Invited Response to the Exchange of Letters between David Talbott and Milton B. Zysman January 12, February 18 and April 4, 1987 April 26, 1987 In his letter of January 12, David Talbott urges that catastrophists "reach a stronger consensus on the key symbols and themes" of myth. Whether dealing with mythic tradition or with other sources of evidence, most members of the Canadian Society of Interdisciplinary Studies (CSIS) and most KRONOS readers, I think, assume that protohistoric disruptions of global scale were exogenous catastrophes- ...
81. Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophe by Fred Warshofsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. V No. 4 (Summer 1980) Home | Issue Contents Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophe by Fred Warshofsky (Reader's Digest Press, 1977; Pocket Books, N. Y., 1979, 260 pp. $2 .25) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. Fred Warshofsky, a prize-winning science writer, has here produced an excellent short overview of catastrophic theories on nearly everything from the "Big Bang" that could have created the cosmos to the thermonuclear holocaust that may terminate social order on Earth. Of the twelve chapters in the book, the three best ...
82. Philistines, Persians, and "Peoples of the Sea": A Problem of Ethnic Identity [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. II No. 4 (Summer 1977) Home | Issue Contents Philistines, Persians, and "Peoples of the Sea": A Problem of Ethnic Identity Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. In Peoples of the Sea,(1 ) Immanuel Velikovsky continues to stimulate his readers and to invite reconsideration of conventional historical assumptions. Among the most provocative of his reformulations of antiquity is his assertion that the PRST(2 ) who led the sea-borne assault on the Egypt of Ramses III were Persians rather than, as has generally been supposed, Philistines. In purely linguistic terms, there is little ...
83. The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. IV No. 4 (Summer 1979) Home | Issue Contents The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin (Stein and Day, New York, 1976; 384 pages, $12.95) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Sitchin writes well. His book has good graphic illustrations. His scholarly sources - including the works of such orientalists as Henri Frankfort, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Samuel Kramer - are of high quality. And his contention that our solar system has undergone drastic changes in its planetary composition is refreshing to any reader willing to view natural history from a standpoint other than one of rigid uniformitarianism. Once these ...
84. Paradise And Disaster In T. S. Eliot'S "four Quartets" [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol 3 No 4 (1997) Home | Issue Contents Paradise And Disaster In T. S. Eliot'S "four Quartets"Roger W. Wescott "Four Quartets" is a 28-page poem issued on the eve of World War II by Anglo-American writer Thomas Stearns Eliot. ' Despite its late publication, much of it had been written decades earlier, under the influence of an artistic movement known as Vorticism. Vorticism, as presented in the World War I era magazine Blast, was an ideological reaction against conventionally soothing literature, painting, and sculpture. The poem itself is a philosophical response to the three-fold trauma of a recent multinational war, a protracted ...
85. The Earliest Arrival of Celts in the British Isles [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. X No. 3 (Summer 1985) Home | Issue Contents The Earliest Arrival of Celts in the British Isles Roger W. Wescott In reading Alban Wall's interesting article "An Ancient Celtic Water Cult: Its Significance in British Prehistory" (KRONOS X:1 , Fall 1984, pp. 58-61), I was surprised by his statement, on p. 60, that "the initial migration of Celtic peoples into Britain is generally considered to have taken place not much earlier than 500 B.C ." . My surprise was occasioned by the fact that, in both archaeologically and linguistically oriented courses since the 1960's, I have been telling ...
86. Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton (Book review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol 4 No 2 (1998) Home | Issue Contents Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 1997, 308 pages (originally published as Facts of Life, Corgi Books, London, 1993) Reviewer: Roger W. Wescott Milton's book is one of several that have been published in recent years challenging Darwinist evolutionism without advocating religious creationism. Among these are Darwin Retried by Norman Macbeth (1971), The Great Evolution Mystery by Gordon Rattray-Taylor (1983), Evolution: A Theory in Crisis by Michael Denton 1985), and Beyond Natural Selection by Robert Wesson (1991). Milton, indeed, ...
87. Ancient Transatlantic Contacts? A Review of Fell, Van Sertima, and Von Wuthenau [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. III No. 1 (Fall 1977) Home | Issue Contents Ancient Transatlantic Contacts? A Review of Fell, Van Sertima, and Von Wuthenau Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. AMERICA B.C .: Ancient Settlers in the New World, by Barry Fell, A Demeter Press Book, Quandrangle/The New York Times Book Company, New York, 1976, $12.S0. THEY CAME BEFORE COLUMBUS (dust jacket subtitle: The African Presence in Ancient America), by Ivan Van Sertima, Random House, New York, 1976, $15.00. UNEXPECTED ...
88. Aeonic Aphorisms [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon I:2 (Feb 1988) Home | Issue Contents Aeonic Aphorisms Roger Wescott CATASTROPHE AND PREHISTORY: Catastrophe is self-effacing. Each disaster obliterates not only the effects of its predecessor but the memories of its most vulnerable survivor-man. CATASTROPHE AND RELIGION: As all history is case-history, all cults are crisis-cults. CONSENSUALISM: Consensus generates a false sense of cognitive security-and nowhere more than in academia. CONSENSUS: The smugness of consensus is the courage of mobs. DOUBT AND DOGMA: Every doubt becomes a dogma and must be doubted in turn. EDUCATION: Education involves making sporadically explicit what is continually implicit. FOCUS: Conventional science is a futile effort to see everything ...
89. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... only right and proper that we give credit where credit is due and remember that if it were not for the author of Worlds in Collision, most of us would still be subscribing to the fairy tale version of the history of the solar system as promulgated by the Carl Sagans of the world. ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE Roger W. Wescott, from Southbury, Connecticut, writes: To anyone who has been long involved in the investigation of language origins, Strickling's brief article on the subject (5 ) must be disappointing. To begin with, by entitling it "The Origin of Language," (emphasis mine), Strickling begs the perennial question of whether languages have ...
90. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and illegitimate concept. If the Middle Kingdom and the First Babylonian Dynasty are moved to the 5th/4th centuries BC, their classification as Bronze Age needs to be given up, reminding me of Eric Aitchison's remark: There is no such thing as the Bronze Age'! Panel Discussion: Catastrophe and Planetary Motions'. Moderator: Roger Wescott. Panel: Bass, Flem-Ath, Holden, Rose, Van Flandern Rand Flem-Ath hopes to organise an expedition to Antarctica. He mentioned an article in Dec. 1985 Scientific American on the Crustal Displacement Theory. Robert Bass said White's Pole shift theory had been retracted and Velikovsky and Hapgood had been disproved. Flem-Ath insisted Hapgood's maps accurately depict ...
91. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol 1 No 3 (1993) Home | Issue Contents Puzzles of Prehistory (1 ) Roger W. Wescott In its most literal sense, prehistory is the record of everything that happened prior to the beginning of documentation. It follows that the origin of the universe, of our galaxy, and of the solar system are among the puzzles of prehistory. So are the origin of terrestrial life, of the animal kingdom and of the various zoological taxa to which the human family belongs- vertebrates, mammals and primates. In practice, however, prehistory is generally considered the predocumentary record of humanity. Humanity, in turn, is construed as meaning the family ...
92. "Let There Be Light" - A Criticism [Journals] [Kronos]
... see Pensee, Winter 1973, pp. 14-15 - we shall also write elsewhere. LINGUISTICS, PHYSICAL LAWS, AND MACROCOSMIC CHANGE To the Editor of KRONOS: As a former student of Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle, I must protest Roger Wescott's interpretation of their theory of linguistic change (KRONOS IV:I , p. 4). Wescott says ". .. transformational linguists have preferred to formulate diachronic change primarily in terms of alteration of the laws that generate language rather than in terms of alteration of the surface features resulting from those laws." He uses this as an analogy to make more plausible the notion that physical laws could be changed by catastrophe. Chomsky and ...
93. The Methodology of Patten's Martian Scenario [Journals] [Aeon]
... (62) In view of his Apollo/Baal equation, it is amazing that Patten missed the greater phonetic similarity between "Hobal" and "Apollo." This is a similarity that had already been noted by others who saw in Apollo "a Hellenic double of the Arab god Hobal." (63) Besides, as Roger Wescott has recently indicated to me, if the tri-literal root of "Apel" can be said to be PL, it may be looked upon as a variant of the HBL of "Hobal." (64) This tentative derivation, however, rests on the supposition that Apollo is of Near Eastern origin which, as F. Guirand ...
94. Aeon Volume VI, Number 1: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... analysis of prevailing beliefs concerning Maya cosmology and how these can be interpreted from a Saturnian point of view. Page 75 Thundergods and Thunderbolts by Ev Cochrane A study of the roles played by thundergods and their celestial weapons in world mythology and how these can best be understood in relation to the Saturn thesis. Page 95 In Memoriam: Roger Williams Wescott New Flashes- by Tania ta Maria Pyramids Getting Younger PAGE 8 Transcontinental Contact PAGE 27 Feathered Dinosaurs and a Feathered Hoax PAGE 45 The Demise of the Mammoth: Conflicting Theories PAGE 73 Advertisements SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Review 2000:1 . PAGE 28 SIS Internet Digest 2000:2 . PAGE 46 Intersect 2001- A World Conference. PAGE ...
95. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... History, Proto-History and the Search for Synchronisms An oral presentation to session #1 , Pre-Axial Chronology Reconsidered', chaired by Gordon W. Hewes, at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, at the University of California at Berkeley, 10.45 am Thursday June 1st 1989 by Roger W. Wescott, Professor of Anthropology at Drew University and First Holder of the Endowed Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee History is here defined as narrowly as possible, to mean that period of the past which has been recorded by historians rather than by chroniclers. Chroniclers, the journalists of antiquity, wrote about who did what and ...
96. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... it seems to me that my error was pardonable. In any case, I am happy to have the record set straight: My role as consultant (which has been somewhat informal in any case) has involved Kronia Communications rather than AEON. I assume from what Cardona had to say that I may also have misunderstood the role of Roger Wescott, the linguist to whom I was referring, and the roles of the other two linguists referred to (Marinus van der Sluijs, from the Netherlands, and Josephine Bacon, from the U.K .) However, I am not sure of this, and I leave it to Cardona to clarify these points if he thinks that ...
97. Aeon Volume V, Number 3: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... , & Frederic Jueneman Consulting Editor: David N. Talbott. Science News Reporter: Tania ta Maria Volume V, Number 3 ISSN 1066-5145 Copyright (c ) December 1998 IN THIS ISSUE.Front Cover The Female Star: Venus- goddess and planet Editorial By Dwardu Cardona Vox Popvli Our readers sound off. PAGE 5 Forvm Debate between Roger Wescott, Richard Smith, Mike Twose, and Henry Zemel concerning Zemel's hypothesis re the possible past existence of solar rings. PAGE 7 Darwin's Dangerous Idea: A Critique- by Frederic B. Jueneman TThe title speaks for itself- a critique of Daniel Dennet's book of that name.. PAGE 11 Changing Sea Levels- by Gordon P. ...
98. C&C Review 2001:1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 55 When The Gods Came Down by Alan F. Alford - reviewed by Alasdair Beal 56 The Tutankhamun Prophecies & The Lost Tomb of Viracocha by Maurice Cotterell - reviewed by Alasdair Beal 56 Ramessides, Medes & Persians by Emmet Sweeney - reviews by M.G . Reade & J.E . Aitchison 57 Predicting the Past by Roger Williams Wescott - reviewed by Jill Abery 58 Cattigara - Legend and History by Stan Hall - reviewed by Jill Abery 58 The Time Detectives by Brian Fagan - reviewed by Phillip Clapham 58 Society News 60 Obituries David Slade 61 Derek Allan Scott 62 Melvin Cook 63 Rt. Rev. Dr Jules C.E . Riotte 63 Letters: Twist of Time ...
99. Kronos Vol. II, No. 2. November 1976: Contents [Journals] [Kronos]
... Evolution of the Comets and Other Small Bodies in the Solar System S. K Vsekhsvyatskii 55 Alexander at the Oracle Immanuel Velikovsky 68 Conditioning, Coping, and Concepts A. Mann Paterson 77 Sin and the Control System John V. Myers 91 Were All Dinosaurs Reptiles? Immanuel Velikovsky 101 The God-Kings & the Titans: A Review Roger W. Wescott 104 The Fire Came By: A Review Frederic B. Jueneman 107 New Discoveries... 110 Notices 112 The Book Case 116 Mars and the search for Life 119 Notes about the Contributors 120 Letters EDITORS Editor-in-Chief LEWIS M. GREENBERG Executive Editor WARNER B. SIZEMORE Senior Editors ROBERT W. BASS, ROBERT H. HEWSEN, RALPH ...
100. SIS Internet Digest 2000 Number 2 [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Wide Web site: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ © December 2000 The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 2000 Number 2 Contents Happy Christmas: But is this a Saturnian image? See Heaven's Mirror , p.26 About the SIS; How to Join Editorial .. 1 In Memoriam: Roger W. Wescott .. 1 World Wide Web focus .. 2 The Atlantis Blueprint .. 2 Questing Conference 2000 .. 3 Colin Wilson: Earth's Earliest Civilisation and the Giza Meridian Graham Phillips: the Search for the Virgin Mary and the Mysterious Origins of Christianity Victor Clube: Scientific Revelations - the Origins of Catastrophe Myths and Legends Andrew Collins: ...
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