catastrophism

Ignorance of Trauma as Historical Blind Spot

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / October 26, 2014 /

Immanuel Velikovsky believed that humanity as a whole had been so thoroughly traumatized by the succession of these events that modern man’s overall disposition was that of a mental patient who had no recollection of what had happened, but who behaved irrationally and even self-destructively in the process of repeatedly “acting out” or re-creating those…

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Ancient flood myths may have a basis in geological history

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / October 26, 2014 /

10,000 years ago, at a time when humans recorded historical events by telling mythical stories that got passed from one generation to the next, huge parts of the North American continent were deluged by massive walls of water. They were, as geologist David R. Montgomery writes in this month’s Discover magazine, “Biblical-type floods.” Huge regions…

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Disasters and Amnesia

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / October 23, 2014 /

First, let us assume… that a series of cataclysms… did occur, that mankind was exposed to these terrible events and that some of them lived to deal with the consequences, particularly the emotional consequences. Second, let us assume that after a time memories of the experience, as well as the intense feelings stirred up by…

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Stampeding mice behave like fleeing humans

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 4, 2010 /

A series of experiments on how panicked mice escape an enclosed area shows that they behave in much the way computer models predict that panicked humans would. This verification provides important new information for preventing future human disasters, the study's authors say. Disasters such as the May 2001 stampede at a football stadium in Ghana…

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Archangels of Our Darker Natures

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / January 5, 2010 /

More and more evidence has come to light to support the idea that something really bad happened around that time, from Velikovsky’s invasive comet to Noah’s flood to geologies ‘Little Ice Age’ (which sound so cute, really). Throw in the odd ruins of Mohenjo Daro and the British Isles, with stones melted by a heat…

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Hidden History of the Flood

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / October 1, 2001 /

Almost every culture on Earth has some sort of flood myth – and the same haunting feeling accompanies them all, the same nagging suspicion that something so traumatic as to be almost unbearable might actually have happened. Intense trauma can sometimes hide itself from awareness by short-circuiting the memory; this may be why so many…

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