Big Rocks Hitting the Earth: Immanual Velikovsky was a Russian-born Jewish philologist who was interested in discovering why ancient peoples around the world shared common “global cataclysm” myths. He started digging and came up with a doozy of an explanation. I won’t ruin the fun for you, I’ll just recommend you find his books Worlds in Collision, Ages in Chaos and Earth in Upheaval. I like Velikovsky not only for his extremely lucid and well-supported theories, but also for the fact that he pissed off the establishment so bad that they banned his books.

And why were they pissed off? Because he had the gall to not be a scientist and come up with theories that not only contradicted theirs but were better supported by the evidence. His name is now anathema amongst “serious” scientists. Highly, highly, highly recommended reading, in spite of the fact that his writing style is extremely dry and academic. If you are interested in cosmology, geology, origins science, or even why the number 13 is considered bad luck, you owe it to yourself to find Velikovsky and read him.

I have all three books and – No – I won’t share.