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Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky was born in Vitebsk in White Russia in 1895.
He studied medicine, science and other subjects, e.g. philosophy, ancient history and law at the Universities of Montpellier (France), Edinburgh (Great Britain), Moscow (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine) in difficult circumstances caused by the discrimination and persecution of the Jews as well as the political and war-related chaos of the time.
After getting his M.D. in Moscow in 1921 he emigrated to Germany, where he founded the scientific journal Scripta Universitatis in Berlin. In this project he came into contact with Albert Einstein, who was editor of the mathematical-physical section. This project, furthermore, laid the foundation for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the presidency of which was offered to Immanuel Velikovsky.
After getting married to his wife Elisheva (s. photo) in 1923 Velikovsky settled in Palestine and started to practice as a physician. At the same time he started to study psychoanalysis with Wilhelm Stekel, the first disciple of Freud, whom he visited several times in Vienna, published several scientific papers about the subject and opened the first psychoanalytical practice in Palestine.

Doing research for a planned book project about Freud’s dream interpretation and about a new view of Freud’s heros Oedipus and Akhnaton, Velikovsky needed access to numerous literary sources. For this reason in 1939 he travelled to New York together with his family. Shortly afterwards World War II began and he had to extend his stay for an indefinite period, finally staying in the US for good due to his unexpected discoveries.
The next 10 years he spent with intensive research about the geological and anthropological facts he had discovered, which in 1950 he presented to the public in his book Worlds in Collision. By its contents, as well as by the scandalous reaction of the representatives of the scientific establishment, this book initiated such a far-reaching and revolutionary development in many areas of science and society that until today its actuality and importance have even increased.
Velikovsky himself, however, even after the publication of 4 more books, was confronted with a heavy up and down of overwhelming acceptance and devastating – unfortunately mostly very unserious – rejection, which resulted in a heavy psychological burden for him.
After moving to Princeton in the fifties he had a close and friendly relationship with Albert Einstein, discussing his theories with him. After Einstein’s death Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision was found open on his desk.
Inspite of more and more recent research in geology and planetology supporting his theories, Velikovsky remained the victim of a discrediting campaign until his death, which is neither in proportion with his exact scientific methodology nor with the contents and importance of his works.

He died in Princeton in 1979.

For more information please visit www.velikovsky.org

Lewis M. Greenberg

Lewis M. Greenberg completed his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his MA and ABD certificate in art history. Specializing in the art of Greece, Rome, India, and China, he also spent extensive years of post graduate independent study involving Ancient Egyptian and Islamic art. He is currently professor emeritus of Ancient & Oriental Art History and Culture, Moore College of Art & Design.
 Author of The Reign of the Swastika (1997) and co-author of An Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture (Villanova Univ. Press, 1966).

Professor Greenberg was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal KRONOS (1975-88) and has published more than 50 scholarly articles  in Pensée, KRONOS, Chiron, AEON, Chronology & Catastrophism REVIEW (formerly the SIS REVIEW), BAR, Science, Astronomy, and The Velikovskian. He has also helped to edit a part of the Greystone Press's multi-volume Encyclopedia of Art, and served on the editorial staffs of Pensée, AEON, C&C REVIEW, and The Velikovskian.

Ruth Velikovsky Sharon, Ph.D.

Dr. Ruth Velikovsky Sharon learned at the desk of her distinguished father, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, a prominent psychiatrist and eminent man of science whose genius engaged even the mind of his friend and contemporary, Albert Einstein.
Dr. Sharon received a B.A and M.A. degrees from New York University and a Ph.D. from the Union Institute and University. She is a graduate of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and a certified psychoanalyst.
Among Dr. Sharon’s works are two books about her father: “The Glory and the Torment”, and “The Truth Behind the Torment”, which chronicles the controversy surrounding her father’s extraordinary scientific theories. A book about a new dream theory: “Shame on You – You Were in my Dream” and co-author of the popular book “I Refuse to Raise a Brat”.
Dr. Sharon died in 2012.

For more information please visit www.ruthvelikovskysharon.com

Dr. John Cathro Seed

Dr. John Cathro Seed was an undergraduate at Princeton University, and received his medical degree from Harvard University in 1945. His internship was at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the first month of internship he and a colleague were the first to cure bacterial endocarditis, an infection of valves of the heart.
He was awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope John XXIII in 1962 for building Cavalry Hospital for dying cancer patients.
Dr. John Seed taught computer applications in medicine at Princeton University 1963 – 1985. Visiting Lecturer at Cornell Medical College; primary care physician at Martin Luther King Health Center 1966 – 1980 and Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1967 – 1983. Solo practice 1980 – 2011 in Princeton. Attending physician at the University Medical Center at Princeton 1982 – 2011.
Dr. Seed died in 2011.

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