The Velikovsky Heresies

Author : Laird Scranton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591438939

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The Velikovsky Heresies by Laird Scranton Pdf

A reexamination of Immanuel Velikovsky’s controversial Venus theories in light of new astronomical and archaeological findings • Provides new evidence from recent space probe missions to support Velikovsky’s theories on the formation of Venus • Presents recently translated ancient texts from China, Korea, and Japan that uphold the cometlike descriptions of Venus cited by Velikovsky • Examines evidence of major geomagnetic events in 1500 BCE and 750 BCE that correspond with close passes of the comet Venus and its impact with Mars • Offers scientific explanations for many disputed aspects of Velikovsky’s theories, such as how Venus could have transformed from a comet into an orbiting planet Surrounded by controversy even before its publication in 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision introduced the provocative theory that Venus began as a brilliant comet ejected by Jupiter around 1600 BCE, wreaking chaos on Mars and Earth as it roamed through our solar system prior to settling into its current orbit. Immediately dismissed without any investigation and subject to vicious attacks, Velikovsky’s theory is now poised for reexamination in light of recent astronomical and archaeological findings. Exploring the key points of Velikovsky’s theories, Laird Scranton presents evidence from recent space probe missions to show that Venus still exhibits cometlike properties, such as its atmospheric composition, and could be a young planet. Reviewing the widespread cometlike descriptions of Venus from 1500 BCE to 750 BCE as well as Velikovsky’s observation that no records of Venus exist prior to 1600 BCE, Scranton reveals recently translated ancient texts from China, Korea, and Japan that further uphold Velikovsky’s theories. Examining evidence of major geomagnetic and climate-change events around 1500 BCE and 750 BCE, corresponding with close passes of the comet Venus and its impact with Mars, the author offers scientific explanations for many disputed aspects of Velikovsky’s theories, such as how Venus transformed from a comet into an orbiting planet. By updating this unresolved controversy with new scientific evidence, Scranton helps us to understand how it was that Worlds in Collision was the one book found open on Albert Einstein’s desk at the time of his death.

Author : Joe Fone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798786550673

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On the Shoulders of Heretics by Joe Fone Pdf

(This book supersedes On the Shoulders of Heretics (2016), originally published by Austin Macauley Ltd., London) In 1950 one of the most controversial books ever written was published in America. Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky caused a perfect storm of fury within the scientific establishment. It sent shockwaves throughout the academic world, precipitating a campaign of suppression, public ridicule and character assassination that continued without let-up for decades. Scientists, astronomers and professors of ancient history were so incensed by Velikovsky's heresies that they blackmailed his publisher, Macmillan, by boycotting their textbook division and forcing them to relinquish the rights to what had become a best seller. They then forced a public recantation from the company whose senior editor - responsible for having signed the original contract with Velikovsky - was subsequently sacked under hostile pressure from the astronomers. Velikovsky was then hounded and attacked in the media and in science journals until his death in 1979. He was the quintessential heretic with a very challenging idea that nobody wanted to hear. The campaign to bury Velikovsky and his Worlds in Collision was begun by Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley in 1950 and it continued until Carl Sagan finally succeeded in 1974 at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Symposium in San Francisco, an event that was arranged specifically with that purpose in mind. This book tells that story.

Author : Kendrick Frazier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633889637

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Paranormal Borderlands of Science by Kendrick Frazier Pdf

Headlines and television news reports feature accounts of reincarnation, the predictions of astrologers, and psychic "miracles." Citizens report UFO sightings. Police departments call on psychics to provide clues in baffling crimes. From every available information source, the public is bombarded with unsubstantiated claims of paranormal phenomena. How much of the evidence is reliable? What is the truth behind these claims? Paranormal Borderlands of Science is an exciting, well-informed examination of the most publicized and exotic claims of astrology, ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, UFOs, biorhythms, and other phenomena. Written by respected psychologists, astronomers and other scientists, philosophers, investigative journalists, and magicians, the 47 articles in this superb collection present a skeptical treatment of pseudoscientific claims - an aspect often sorely neglected in sensationalized media reports. This book is an effort to help readers sort fact from fiction and sense from nonsense among the astonishing variety of assertions labeled "paranormal." Never before published in book form, the essays in this anthology originally appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer, a leading magazine devoted to the critical investigation of pseudoscience from a scientific viewpoint. Among the contributors are: Isaac Asimov (distinguished science fiction author), Martin Gardner (Scientific American columnist), James Randi (The Amazing Randi), Philip Klass (noted UFO skeptic), Scot Morris (Omni), and James Oberg (NASA). An essential contribution to skeptical literature, this book will be of lasting value to all those wishing to balance the case for paranormal claims by reading the dissenting critics.

Author : Immanuel Velikovsky
Publisher : Paradigma Ltd
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781906833770

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Stargazers and Gravediggers by Immanuel Velikovsky Pdf

In this book, Immanuel Velikovsky, in his unmistakably clear and unique style, relates both the writing of and the reaction to the publication of his epochal work Worlds in Collision. Through authentic letters, we experience at first hand the beginning and unfolding of the Velikovsky Affair - from the boycotting of his publisher by leading American scientists and universities to the emotional and highly unscientific campaign to discredit the author and his work. We also get to read Velikovsky's rebuttals to the attacks and accusations, which were mostly denied publication by relevant journals and magazines. Especially today, with the power and societal influence of science at an all-time high, this book is of fundamental importance for our understanding of science and its practioners.

Author : Jim Richardson,Allen Richardson
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781616406233

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Gonzo Science by Jim Richardson,Allen Richardson Pdf

True believers and skeptics beware: what you know about science may be wrong. Science commentators Jim and Allen Richardson are more faithful than the believers and more skeptical than the skeptics -- and they're funnier, too.

Author : Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443892469

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Mythmaking across Boundaries by Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem Pdf

This volume explores the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, in a wide range of fields, ranging from cultural studies to the history of art. The papers brought together here are motivated by two basic questions: How are myths made in diverse cultures and literatures? And, do all different cultures have different myths to be told in their artistic pursuits? To examine these questions, the book offers a wide array of articles by contributors from various cultures which focus on theory, history, space/ place, philosophy, literature, language, gender, and storytelling. Mythmaking across Boundaries not only brings together classical myths, but also contemporary constructions and reconstructions through different cultural perspectives by transcending boundaries. Using a wide spectrum of perspectives, this volume, instead of emphasising the different modes of the mythmaking process, connects numerous perceptions of mythmaking and investigates diversities among cultures, languages and literatures, viewing them as a unified whole. As the essays reflect on both academic and popular texts, the book will be useful to scholars and students, as well as the general reader.

Author : Laird Scranton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620554456

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Point of Origin by Laird Scranton Pdf

Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world • Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre-Vedic cult in India to cosmological myths and traditions in Africa, Egypt, Tibet, and China • Discusses how carved animal images at Gobekli Tepe relate to stages of creation and provide an archaic foundation for symbolic written language • Defines how classical elements of ancient Egyptian myth and religion characterize an archaic cosmological tradition that links ancestrally back to Gobekli Tepe How could multiple ancient cultures, spanning both years and geography, have strikingly similar creation myths and cosmologies? Why do the Dogon of Africa and the civilizations of ancient Egypt, India, Tibet, and China share sacred words and symbols? Revealing the existence of a long-forgotten primal culture and the world’s first center of higher learning, Laird Scranton shows how the sophisticated complex at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is the definitive point of origin from which all the great civilizations of the past inherited their cosmology, esoteric teachings, and civilizing skills, such as agriculture, metallurgy, and stone masonry, fully developed. Scranton explains how the carved images on Gobekli Tepe’s stone pillars were the precursors to the sacred symbols of the Dogon, Egyptians, Tibetans, and Chinese as well as the matriarchal Sakti cult of ancient Iran and India. He identifies Gobekli Tepe as a remote mountain sanctuary of higher knowledge alluded to in Sakti myth, named like an important temple in Egypt, and defined in ancient Buddhist tradition as Vulture Peak. Scranton reveals how Gobekli Tepe’s enigmatic “H” carvings and animal symbolism, symbolic of stages of creation, was presented as a kind of prototype of written language accessible to the hunter-gathers who inhabited the region. He shows how the myths and deities of many ancient cultures are connected linguistically, extending even to the name of Gobekli Tepe and the Egyptian concept of Zep Tepi, the mythical age of the “First Time.” Identifying Gobekli Tepe not only as the first university but also as the first temple, perhaps built as a civilizing exercise, Scranton definitively places this enigmatic archaeological site at the point of origin of civilization, religion, and ancient science.

Author : Henry H. Bauer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0252068459

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Beyond Velikovsky by Henry H. Bauer Pdf

Since the appearance in 1950 of Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky's radical theories of planetary physics have been the center of controversy. This book presents an analysis of the Velikovsky affair, resolves the misunderstandings and arguments between opposing camps, and leads us to an understanding of the scientific process itself.

Author : Mark Daniel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312926714

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Inheritance: Covenants, Kingdoms, Bodies and Nations by Mark Daniel Pdf

Author : Vernon L. Grose
Publisher : Author House
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781463461171

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Science but Not Scientists by Vernon L. Grose Pdf

The historic Science Textbook Struggle -- a worldwide battle about the origin of the universe, life, and man -- erupted without warning. It caught the scientific illuminati completely by surprise. Why? Because science textbooks had become filled with wild, unbelievable stories about the beginning of everything. And those tales were simply not scientific! The universe starting with a Big Bang, life arising out of a soup of lifeless amino-acids, humans produced by apes . . . those myths had only replaced ancient Greek mythology and were being passed off as scientific truths! Caught in the crossfire between educators, news media, textbook publishers, religious notables, and world renowned scientists -- including nineteen Nobel laureates -- was a private citizen. Father of six schoolchildren, he had only one goal: to prove that science never will have answers for origins! He was up against the arrogance of scientists who were determined to disguise their private beliefs as being the only explanations for the origin of the universe, life, and man. This story concludes with a great victory for objectivity -- with more than 200 changes being made in textbooks -- over the objections of the National Academy of Sciences. All discussion about origins was transformed -- by admission that stories about them are based solely on personal views of individual scientists. Remarkably, 3,000 scientists around the world later signed an affirmation to assure that this issue of belief-over-fact in science never be repeated. Wernher von Braun, father of Americas space program, writes in the Foreword: Vernon Grose, in tracing out in Science But Not Scientists his personal involvement in the vortex of these two forces, illustrates one more time the humanity of scientists their likelihood of being just as prejudiced and bigoted as anyone untrained in science. He properly calls for objectivity rather than scientific consensus. He rightly urges that message rather than messenger should be scrutinized and tested for validity. Science will be the richer and humanity the ultimate beneficiary by heeding this clarion call.

Author : Richards Dana
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813203723

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Dear Martin / Dear Marcello: Gardner And Truzzi On Skepticism by Richards Dana Pdf

In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement. He is best known as the Father of Recreational Mathematics, but was also a frank critic of pseudoscientists and a contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Marcello Truzzi was one of the founders of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal in 1976. He left that and founded the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research, which was more aligned with his views. Dana Richards presents the unedited, colorful correspondence between these two well-known figures within the skeptical movement as they probed and wrestled with fundamental questions such as: The demarcation problem — how to distinguish good from bad science?How should scholars on the fringe (paranormalists) be treated?

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780914171454

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Right Where You Are Sitting Now by Robert Wilson Pdf

Discusses consciousness, the nature of God, sexuality, human knowledge, robots, and the future

Author : Robert Anton Wilson
Publisher : New Falcon Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Materialism
ISBN : UCSC:32106009961506

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The New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Interplanetary voyages
ISBN : UOM:39015009297402

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The Skeptical Inquirer by Anonim Pdf

Author : J.E. King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349077434

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Economic Exiles by J.E. King Pdf

This exploration of the "economic underworld" and its treatment by orthodox economists has, at its core, a set of intellectual biographies of nine economic heretics ranging from Sir James Steuart in the 18th century to E.F.Schumacher in the 20th and covering a wide political spectrum.