Been reading again, Velikovsky’s ‘Earth in Upheaval.’
‘Worlds in collision.’ was complete ‘eye opener’ for me when I first read it decades back.
Velikovsky reveals a chaotic and recent catastrophic past which is etched in the collective memory of mankind and finds common expression in myth and legend from all parts of the world.
What a scholar. His pages have footnote after footnote. Meticulous presentation yet written with such vivid imagery that I see what he describes.
Forgive me if memory plays me false but this is how I remember his initial prompting to follow a line of thought.
The Bible - with which he was familiar - mentions a time when the sun stood still.
‘Surely not.’ he thought.
‘In all of recorded history, no-one has made such an absurd claim. What could possibly account for the sun standing still.’
There is such a possibility and it refers to the slowing of the rotation of the earth itself. If this actually happened then there must be a corresponding remembrance of a ‘Long night.’ on the other side of the planet.
He looked and found correspondence in every tradition.
‘Worlds in collision.’ is magnificent. Science fiction - of which I’m a devotee - pales compared to the scope of what mankind faced and not so long ago.
Although his book was at the top of the best seller list, his ideas and proofs presented so threatened the established view that a tiny group of academics were able to convince the publisher to cease publication or face a consequence of having a lucrative text book contract terminated.
That ploy succeeded but Velikovsky - who was a scholar in many fields - persevered.
Derided for relying on folklore with which he’d made his case, he promptly wrote ‘Earth in Upheaval’ which looks at the geology, fossils, improbable realities such as snap frozen mammoth elephants discovered in Siberia complete with the temperate climate vegetation in their mouths which became their last supper.
Velikovsky is admirable. He wrote his books and made predictions about such matters as the temperature on the surface of Venus. He did this before space probes could verify his claims.
Venus was thought of as a sister planet - perhaps a viable place for man. Velikovsky suggested a surface temperature utterly hostile to life and an atmosphere composed largely of hydrocarbons.
He retracted nothing and his predictions were verified.
He proposed an electric universe and it’s upon his shoulders that so many now stand.
Thunderbolts.org are electric universe proponents. Their work is also meticulous.
As yet, mainstream academia has too much to lose, in the way of tenure, for them to give up a non electric universe where comets are still described as dirty snowballs when all the evidence is to the contrary.
Suspicious observers have a link to a video which prompted this piece.
try youtube.... then search Suspicious observers 'Comets, a great flood and electric geology'
... for some unknown reason I can't just post links on this page