About the author
Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and independent scholar best known for "Worlds in Collision" (1950), a work of speculative catastrophism arguing that ancient myths and religious texts preserve eyewitness memory of real astronomical upheavals, including close encounters between Earth, Venus and Mars. The book challenged accepted geological uniformitarianism and Darwinian gradualism, drew on comparative mythology and ancient texts rather than conventional physics, and provoked sustained controversy and rejection from mainstream astronomers and historians of science even as it became a bestseller. This edition, from Paradigma Ltd, reprints that original argument. Velikovsky trained in medicine and psychoanalysis before turning to interdisciplinary historical and cosmological research, and "Worlds in Collision" remains the work by which he is chiefly remembered, a touchstone for later fringe and alternative-history writing on ancient catastrophes.
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“Velikovsky presents a radical reinterpretation of our solar system's past, synthesizing ancient myths with geological evidence to argue for recent global catastrophes. While intellectually stimulating for its daring challenge to…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Worlds in Collision (Softcover)
“Velikovsky presents a daring synthesis of myth and science that will delight those seeking alternative historical models but alienate strict adherents to conventional geology. The text is provocative and influential, yet its…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Worlds in Collision
