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***Are we just now starting to remember? Dr Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia***
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Have you read some of the ancient Roman or Greek myths and wondered why the people at that time believe in such "silly" things? What in their culture made them think that way?
Have you reviewed Indian or Chinese myths and found similarities?
Have you ever wondered why there are correlatives between such diverse cultures' myths?
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Many have pondered the same thing. Freud stated: "Illusions are clung to by many because they provide ready answers to many to an entire range of otherwise unbearably unanswerable questions. "
But, Dr. Velikovsky came up with another theorum based on anthropology, geology, narrative art, and psychiatry called "Cultural Amnesia".
Here is one of the better pdf's of Dr. Velikovsky's thoughts on Cultural Amnesia. Would love to hear input what others think as it relates to similar petroglyphs world wide and similar belief structures.
[link to www.grazian-archive.com]
In his address, Dr Velikovsky elaborates upon his theory of
Cultural Amnesia. According to his theory, mankind forgot
about unpleasant catastrophic events on the conscious level, but
remembers on the unconscious level. Furthermore it would
appear that the unconscious memory is transmitted genetically
from one generation to the next, a concept already postulated by
Freud and Jung but in disagreement with much of the current
biological thinking. Nevertheless, there are, as will be shown in
the papers following Velikovsky’s, substantial reasons for
thinking that memory is indeed transmitted, if not racially, then
in some other way.
If the cultural amnesia theory is correct, then it is possible to
suggest that every generation lives in a state of trauma induced
by the conflict between subconscious memories of past catastrophic
events and the refusal of the conscious mind to recognize
that these events actually occurred in prehistoric and
historic times. Dr. Velikovsky believes that the trauma is responsible
for mankind’s aggressive hostility, a concept of importance
to every individual frightened by the prospect of thermonuclear
war or of the instability which seems to be increasing in
society.
Moreover, the trauma is also responsible for the inability and at
times the outright refusal of science to recognize the overwhelming
evidence pointing to the catastrophic past of the Earth and
the entire solar System. The trauma is also responsible, in part at
least, for the actions of some scientists who denounced Velikovsky
without even reading his work. Perhaps the men who did
this really are saying that the truth is too awful; if the public
knew they would be furious, and the great prestige accorded to
the leading spokespersons for modern science would decline.
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