Episode #169: The Velikovsky Heresies - Part 1

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2020

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Kyle was out of town for most of this week so this show was late, but on Friday night we finally managed to get in the Tangent Cube and record it. We're starting a new SnakeBros book report, this one on Laird Scranton's excellent book The Velikovsky Heresies.

On this episode we cover Laird's intro to the book and the first few chapters, discussing the controversy that Velikovsky's work caused, and Laird's purpose in writing the book, which was to see if Velikovsky's ideas hold up to modern science and the enormous amount of new understanding we have gathered about our solar system since the writing Velikovsky's works.

Much thanks to our friends over at Inner Traditions for allowing us to read large excerpts from one of their publications. Make sure to visit their online store and purchase a copy of The Velikovsky Heresies for yourself, or you can get it from Amazon.

Thanks to Henry Hablak for the awesome show art!

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0:00.0	The Velikovsky Heresies by Laird Scranton.
0:08.2	You're listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:19.6	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
0:22.9	aides and demons amongst us and serpents to a Brothers of the Serpent podcast, Episode 169, dudes!
0:28.6	Coming to you're not live from the 10 by 10 by 10, Tanger Cube of Science, nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed, high top the air was plateau.
0:36.6	So I think, I think winter forgot about it. nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high top the air was plateau.
0:42.5	So I think winter forgot about us down here in Texas.
0:44.9	Yep, decided to get hot again.
0:45.3	Yeah.
0:49.3	And Kyle went on some super secret measure.
0:49.9	What were you doing?
0:59.7	Went to harvest some olive trees and process those olives and learn that entire process.
1:03.7	And it's a guy who's managed to actually grow beautiful, huge olive trees in Texas.
1:04.1	That's right.
1:06.4	Which is like something that everyone says can't be done.
1:07.2	In the hill country.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:09.8	And the hill country, right.
1:12.5	They're awesome. They're 20 years old and it's amazing yeah beautiful orchard and uh he is kind of like he's basically retired but he's
1:22.7	doing this because he just wants to do it and he's like had to close down his tasting room and stuff because of COVID and everything.
1:31.8	Yeah.
1:32.4	And now he's just like, eh, I'm tired of doing all that.
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