Resources

 

 SIS Book Service (some items available to non-members)

Websites of Special Interest

  • Plasma Universe  - Associated with the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.
  • Holoscience - Wal Thornhill's investigation and research into the 'Electric Universe'.
  • Thunderbolts - discussion into the 'Electric Universe'.
  • Aeon - A Journal of Myth and Science - explores the evidence for global catastrophes and interplanetary upheaval in the recent past, specializing in archaeoastronomy, ancient history and comparative mythology.
  • Kronia Group - an Interdisciplinary Exploration of Myth, Science, and Planetary Catastrophe
  • Plasma Cosmology - providing an introduction to the emerging Plasma Universe paradigm
  • Mythopedia - plasma cosmology and the recent history of the Earth, as documented in the history of astronomy, cultural astronomy, archaeoastronomy and certain classes of mythology and ancient ritual. 
  • Maverick Science - Ev Cochrane's website. Saturn theory, Venus and Mars, myth, archaeoastronomy, evolution and history. 
  • Catastrophism Online - thousands of articles from the leading catastrophism journals over the past 30 years    
  • The Velikovskian - A Journal of Myth, History and Science
  • The Velikovsky Archive - unofficial archive of Velikovsky's unpublished material.
  • Quantavolution and Catastrophism Series - Alfred de Grazia's series of books.
  • ISIS Archive - 'the advancement of research into the chronology, archaeology and history of the ancient world'.  Promotes the 'New Chronology'.  Publishers of Vols I - X of JACF - Journal of The Ancient Chronology Forum.
  • Centuries of Darkness - Peter James, et al's site on revised chronology

 Velikovsky and catastrophism

  • Immanuel Velikovsky (Wikipedia) - links can be found here of sites and organisations both sympathetic and unsympathetic to Velikovsky's views.  
  • Kronia Group The 'Mythscape' video series, and many articles on Velikovsky.
  • Ted Holden's Catastrophism Web site - "An attempt to provide a flavor and sampling of the new branch of science which has evolved from the works of scholars who have been following thelogical trail of historical reconstruction discovered by Immanuel Velikovsky in the 1940's and 1950's."
  • The Immanuel Velikovsky Page     
  • On The Possibility Of Very Rapid Shifts Of The Poles, by F. Barbiero. Evidence exists that the poles have changed position during the past ages. This possibility, however, so far has been disregarded on the basis that such a phenomenon is thought to be physically impossible. 
  • The Velikovsky Archive - unofficial archive of Velikovsky's unpublished material.    
  • An Antidote to Velikovskian Delusions. A critical look at Velikovsky and the Saturnists, by Leroy Ellenberger
  • talk.origins FAQ (Frequently asked questions), a critical look at:

Ancient History (revised and orthodox)

  • Assyria, Babylon, PersiaMedia and Chaldea - online books of George Rawlinson. Written from an orthodox viewpoint, and with several things that might now be disputed, the texts nevertheless contain a mine of information on the topography of each country and of the respective peoples and their culture.
  • Centuries of Darkness, Peter James' site on revised chronology
  • Ages ln Alignment series.  A 4-volume book by Emmet Sweeney. Vol. 1: 'The Genesis of Israel and Egypt', Vol. 2: ''The Pyramid Age'; Vol. 3: 'Empire of Thebes', and Vol. 4: 'The Ramessides, Medes and Persians' (an earlier version of the latter was published as a special edition of The Velikovskian, Vol. V, no. 2).  Also available from Amazon.
  • Lisa (Aaronson) Liel's Ancient History Pages (revision).  Essays and papers on ancient biblical history - and a link to the CHRONO e-mail list.
  • ISIS Archive - Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum (JACF). Revised chronology (of David Rohl et al).
  • The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective, an introduction by John Crowe.
  • Chronology at the Crossroads - The Late Bronze Age in Western Asia.  Book by Dr. Bernard Newgrosh. An answer to the orthodox view that Assyrian history is fixed and cannot be downdated. Supports the 'New Chronology' model in most details.
  • A Test of Time - by David Rohl. One of several books containing comprehensive and far-ranging evidence for redating Egyptian and biblical history (the 'New Chronology'). See the New Chronology discussion group (membership required) for details of this and Rohl's other books: The Lost Testament; Pharaohs and Kings; From Eden to Exile; and Lords of Avaris.

 Assyrian/Babylonian Texts and Astronomy

  • Sun and Saturn - by Morris Jastrow Jr.  The Sun and Saturn are two very different celestial objects, yet the Babyonians appeared to 'confuse' the two ... or was it just the translators of the Babylonian texts [that were confused]?

Mythology and Myth/Ancient History

  • Mythopedia - Rens van der Sluijs' grand synthesis and a new science of myth.
  • The Mythology of the World Axis: Exploring the Role of Plasma in World Mythology, book by Rens van der Sluijs
  • Myth's and Legends, dozens of links by Christopher B. Siren.  
  • Duke Papyrus Archive, electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
  • Chicago Oriental Institute WWW Home Page  
  • Noncanonical Homepage, Full texts of: 1.Old Testament Apocrypha. 2. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 3.Apocryphal Acts 4.Apocryphal Apocalypse. 5.Apocryphal Gospels. 6.Apostolic Fathers. 7. Apostolic Fathers. 8. Other writings.
  • Egyptology Home Page
    A Starting points for material of interest to Egyptologists, material and resources mainly located here includes: Coffin Texts online word index, Prosopographia Aegypti, Egyptology in Germany, Special collections in the Heidelberg University Library, The University of Chicago Oriental Institute home page, Archaeology home page, Papyrology home page, Oxford Classics page, Coptic home page
  • Perseus Project Home Page
    An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece including: How to see Greek with Microsoft Windows, Greek texts with morphological links to Liddell-Scott Lexicon! (Example: Aeschylus' Agammemnon). Art and Archaeology: Greek vases, coins, sculpture, and sites in the Perseus database. Includes links to word search of database, indices, images and examples. Primary Texts: Greek texts and translations, English word searches of the texts, and resources for textual studies.
  • ISIS archive - 'for the advancement of research into the chronology, archaeology and history of the ancient world'.   Former publishers of JACF (the Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum).
  • The Egyptologist's Electronic Forum
  • Nebuchadnezzar & The Egyptian Exile, a revision of Egyptian dynastic history by Jim Reilly
  • Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion - one of several books on mytholiogy and planetary identities by Ev Cochrane.

Cosmic Imagery and Planetary configurations
  • God Star - a book by Dwardu Cardona
  • Saturn Theory 
  • David Talbott's Saturnian model/polar configuration (C&C Review 2008). Presenting former and later research.
  • Numerical Solution of the Planetary Alignment Equations. E Spedicato and Z. Huang. Starting from David Talbott, several people have argued that during the initial phase of human history, the planetary system of the Sun was radically different than now; the planets being aligned during their revolution round the Sun, with Saturn in a dominant position (the polar model).  
  • Mythopedia - Rens van der Sluijs
  • The Many Faces of Venus - book by Ev Cochrane
 Anomalies
  • Science Frontiers (The Sourcebook Project)- William R. Corliss' bi-monthly collection of digests of scientific anomalies in the current literature. Hundred of short abstracts in many areas, including: archaeology, biology, geology, geophysics, psychology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, esoterica, bizarre biophysics, anomalous astronomy.

Archaeoastronomy and archaeology

  • Center for Archaeoastronomy - University of Maryland. A study of the astronomical practices, celestial lore, mythologies, religions and world-views of all ancient cultures.
  • ISAAC - the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture
  • Sacred Sites - specialising in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Michael Gray.
  • Earth Matrix: Science in Ancient Artwork.
  • Forbidden Archaeology - Michael A. Cremo
  • Stonehenge Solved, a new theory based on overlooked archaeological facts.  Leonard Saunders website.

Evolution/Origin of Life
 Geology and Catastrophe
  • Environment of Violence series of books- Environment of Violence: Readings of Cataclysms in Stone; Expanding Geospheres: Energy and Mass Transfers from Earth's Interior; Hydridic Earth: The New Geology of our Primordially Hydrogen-Rich Planet; The Tectonics of Geoid Changes: and Major Deformation and Failure of the Earth's Crust: An Alternative to Plate Tectonics
  • Shock Dynamics: A new paradigm for the geology of the Earth. John Michael Fischer. 
  • When the Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of A Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC.  A book by Derek S. Allan and J. Bernard Delair.  

Axial Shift /Tilts of the Earth
  • The Reversing Earth - the book by Peter Warlow which is now a collectible and which members can obtain from the SIS Book Service. With photographs clearly showing how the tippe-top motion can accomplish an inversion of the Earth's rotational field in such a way as not to cause the ultimate disruption claimed by Velikovsky's detractors. 

Neo-catastropism and Mass Extinction
The Dangers of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), and Spacewatching
Various Other Scenarios of our Catastrophic Past
  • The Mars-Earth Wars, book by Donald Wesley Patten and Samuel R. Windsor
  • When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis - book by Rose and Rand Flem-Ath
  • Meta Research - on the origin and nature of celestial bodies.
  • Ignatius Donnelly - website about Donnelly and his work, by Dick Meehan.
  • Comets, Culture & Catastrophism - Bob Kobres' web page
  • Man as old as Coal - Ed Conran's battle to show that human bones have been found in coal.
  • The Quantavolution and Catastrophism Series - Alfred de Grazia's series of books: The Burning of Troy  *   Chaos and Creation  *  The Divine Succession  *  God's Fire: Moses and the Management of the Exodus  *  Solaria Binaria  *  Homo Schizo I  *  Homo Schizo II  *  The Lately Tortured Earth  *  The Velikovsky Affair  *  The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars  *  Ka (Hugh Crosthwaite)  *  A Fire Not Blown (Hugh Crosthwaite)  *  Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky & Cultural Amnesia (Earl Milton). 

Electricity in Astronomy
    Various articles by C. E. R. Bruce:  A New Approach in Astrophysics and Cosmogony (1944)  *   Cosmic Thunderstorms (Journal of the Franklin Institute,
    Vol.  268, No. 6, Dec. 1959).  *  The Extension of Atmospheric to Space Electricity (in Problems of Atmospheric and Space Electricity, ed. S. Coroniti,
    pp. 577-86.  Elsevier Pub. Co., Amsterdam, London, New York, 1965).  *  Successful Predictions of the Electrical Discharge Theory of Cosmic Atmospheric
    Phenomena and Universal Evolution (E.R.A. Report 5275, The Electrical Research Association, 1968).
 
    Papers by Ralph Juergens:
    Cosmic Electricity - R. Juergens, M. Krustal, C. E. R. Bruce, Eric W. Crew (Pensee IVR issue 5, 1973) * Galactic Space Charge and Stellar
    Energy (SIS Review Vol. 1, issue 4, 1977)  *  Electric Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy (in Kronos Vol. VIII, no. 1, 1982)  *  Electric
    Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy, 2 (Kronos Vol. VIII, no. 2, 1983).
 
    Papers by Eric Crew:
    Solar Electrical Discharges (Nature 241:39, 1973)  *  Electricity in Astronomy (in SIS Review Vol. I, no. 1, 1976)   *  Electricity in Astronomy, 2 (SIS 
    Review Vol. I, no. 2, 1976)   *   Electricity in Astronomy, 3 (SIS Review Vol. I, no. 3, 1976)  *  Electricity in Astronomy, 4  (SIS Review Vol. 2, no. 1, 1977)
 
     Papers by V. A. Bailey:
    Net Electric Charges on Stars, Galaxies and 'Neutral' Elementary Particles (Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 94:7786,
    1960)  *  Existence of Net Electric Charges on Stars (Nature 1 86: 508, 1960)  *  The Sun's Electric Charge (Nature 201: pp. 1202-1203, 1964).
 
Tunguska 1908, Brazil 1930, Chicago 1871
 Journals and magazines
  • Aeon - A Journal of Myth and Science.
  • Chronology & Catastrophism Review - Interdisciplinary. 1975 to present. Journal of The Society for Interdisciplinay Studies (SIS). c. 60pp.
  • Chronology & Catastrophism Workshop      "                     "                        SIS Members' thrice-yearly magazine (c. 32-36 pp).
  • Kronos -The Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis. The 1970's series, republished and available on CD-Rom.
  • Pensee: Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered (IVR)- The 1970's series, republished and available on CD-Rom.
  • The Velikovskian - editor Charles Ginenthal
  • Zeitensprunge - Heribert Ilig's German magazine online. Covers interdisciplinary themes such as catastrophism, prehistoric and ancient history revision. 
  • Configurations - The official publication of the Society for Literature and Science.  The only journal devoted to the study of discourse pertaining to the theories and practices of science, technology and medicine. The journal explores the relationship of literature and the arts to technology and the sciences. 

History of Catastrophism
Various other books and papers on Catastrophism and Neo-catastrophism
  • Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets, by Duncan Steel (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995).
  • Craters, Cosmos and Chronicles, by Herbert R. Shaw (Stanford University Press, 1995) .
  • Rain of Iron and Ice, by John S. Lewis (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, 1996).
  • Mining The Sky, by John S. Lewis (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading 1996).
  • Fire on Earth, by John and Mary Gribbin (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996).
  • Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids, by Gerrit Veschuur (Oxford University Press, 1996).
  • Doomsday Asteroid, by Donald W. Cox and James H. Chestek (Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 1996).
  • New Insights to Antiquity, book by Richard Petersen.
  • Dance of the Planets, book by Angiras. Knowledge, mythology and modern science, revealing a 3,000 year sequence of chaotic interactions betwen Venus, Mars and Earth within proto-historical times.

Publishers, Societies and organisations
General and miscellaneous
  • Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock's best-seller on ancient civilisations. All his books can be found on his official website here.
  • Robert Bauval's website and books - author of The Orion Mystery (with Adrian Gilbert), and Keeper of Genesis (with Graham Hancock).
  • Books by Jerry L. Ziegler - including YHWH and Indra Girt by Maruts.
  • Red Earth, White Lies, by Vine Deloria Jr.  A compendium of Indian oral traditios and folklore that challenges the accepted scientific theories of evolution and radiocarbon-dating techniques. 
  • The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilisation, by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell.
  • Essays in speculative science - Frederick Jueneman's books: The Limits of Uncertainty and Raptures of the Deep.
  • Questioning Gravity - details of a book by Arthur Wilkinson
  • Alan Alford's Home Page.  Author of the books: Gods of the New Millennium, 1996 (covering a vast array of ancient mysteries and exploring the controversial possibility that the gods of ancient mythology were a flesh-and-blood race - recommended reading for adherents of Zecharia Sitchin); and The Phoenix Solution, 1998 (focusing on ancient Egypt, with a comprehensive decoding of the Pyramid texts which, Alford considers, reveals that the Egyptian religion was an exploded planet cult - which idea is extremely similar to the modern astronomical theory of Dr. Tom Van Flandern).
  • Alternative Science Website -an alternative view of scientific discoveries by controversial writer, broadcaster and journalist, Richard Milton.
  • Catastrophe/Apocalypse - a course given every Autumn (fall) at Bard College, New York, by Prof. William Mullen.
  • Maverick Science - Ev Cochrane's website
  • Thoth - The Kronia Group's electronic Newsletter. Mainly, but not exclusively, containing views on the 'electric universe' theory.  Ceased publication c. 2004.
  • Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky- by Charles Ginenthal
  • Stephen J. Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky- by Charles Ginenthal