- Thanks Jeff, for bringing this brief video to a wider
audience. Back in the mists when my work just beginning to have a global
following, I happened on the work of Velikovsky and I was both humbled
and amazed.
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- I wrote to a prominent, and popular, magazine of the
time who specialized in the promotion of science and things scientific;
asking them to commission illustrations, that would both amplify and expand
on what Velikovsky's books contained.
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- The response I got was brief and nasty it seemed
that to them Velikovsky's work was not only heresy but totally and completely
wrong. By implication the publisher noted that none of what Velikovsky
had written could ever be proven, hence 'their reputation in the field
would never permit them to even consider underwriting such a wildly fantastic
series of ideas or paying to print illustrations of such scientific
heresy.'
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- I was stunned because I thought science was about investigations
that did not begin with a bias, but with a strong desire to seek-to-know-more
about whatever the answers to any given study might uncover.
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- But I was also half the age I am now, and far more naïve
about real power struggles inside the various professional circles, especially
when they might fund could affect the financing of the "culture."
? Upon further reflection, on a later project, I realized just how much
art and science share in the cultural growth and expansion of the human
race. Both disciplines are about knowledge and pushing the bounds of human
understanding: They often approach their topics differently-but their goals
remain the same. Science builds on a series of proofs that need to be established
as the scientist moves toward his or her discovery. Artists on the other
hand often are capable of great leaps that have little basis in pre-existing
facts-as their work tends to involve more of an instinctual intuition surrounding
their 'knowledge' than is comfortable for many scientists. Yet both disciplines
have far more in common that they do in opposition. And when Art &
Science work together as they often did during the Italian- Renaissance,
the results for the culture can bring tremendous benefits that exceed the
local political and social norms, of any society in which they are able
to work together.
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- Had I been able to pursue the idea of illustrating Velikovsky
then, my world would have been much different than it is but what
science might have began to look more closely for, much earlier, might
have made a real difference for us all. The lasting values Velikovsky
outlined for us might yet bring us all a deeper and richer appreciation
for what life on this planet was: and by extension what it still
could be: IF and only if we can ever get past all the superstitious beliefs
that tend to surround anything that cannot be immediately seen or touched
with an open hand-then real breakthroughs are possible.
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- Knowledge Real Knowledge Is the key to the
kind of freedom that the human race has always searched for. Primitive
nomads began by using the heavens to understand the movement of the stars,
in such a way, as to be able to navigate the deserts and the oceans: These
barriers had formed the boundaries that restrained the earliest peoples
on the planet. But as that knowledge was expanded, into Astrolabes** and
Compasses the entire world opened to those with the courage to explore
it.
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- In a similar fashion if mankind today understood the
forces that changed our early world so dramatically (as Velikovsky describes
it in: "Worlds in Collision") then the leaders of many
countries might now wish to rethink a great many of these folly's being
offered to us by the New World Order!
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- The number of times that the poles have shifted, or the
fact that underneath the arctic tundra lies the fossilized remains of tropical
rainforests not to mention the caves around the planet that are
filled with the mixed and shattered remains of ancient animals and human
remains, along with flora and fauna from widely disparate places - that
were all destroyed at the same time and carried to their final resting
places by either tidal waves or horrific winds. Most of these natural
burial grounds have never been seriously examined. If we knew more about
the events that caused those things, then obviously we might be better
prepared to deal with events that have directly impacted the planet before.
Instead of looking for these answers, too often, science has retreated
to the safety of a maxim that claims that the universe is unchanging and
is timeless in the stability of its laws.
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- Velikovsky has stood for decades as a crier in the wilderness-of-
ignorance: maybe now his time has come!
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- This world needs far more answers than we have at the
moment, and we need to rediscover that spirit that is not afraid to ask
the tough physical questions and to "go where no man has gone before"
if we are to ever have a real sense of this world that we continue
to destroy.
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- *Velikovsky, Hero or Villain? Plasma Cosmology Astronomy
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNje6W7NWo
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- **The Astrolabe http://www.astrolabes.org/
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