Immanuel Velikovsky, author of "Mankind in Amnesia", which I am painstakingly making my way through now, was a respected acquaintance of Sigmund Freud as well as friend and contemporary of Carl Jung. A respected psychologist, medical doctor, and historical and scientific researcher, he was also a personal friend and colleague of Albert Einstein, who was reading Velikovsky's latest book at the time of his death.
Largely independent in his research and writings, Velikovsky was tabooed by the scientific establishment of his day. But upon writing his world famous book, "Worlds in Collision," and subsequent other writings which seemed to confirm key elements of Biblical miracles, he became the target of a discrediting campaign so intense it plagued him mentally until his death. The elitists' priest class of university professors can't have credit for historical events or scientific wonders being given to God, and certainly not by one of their own, a fellow unbeliever. All praise must be directed to the State.
All that aside, in the introductory chapters of Velikovsky's "Mankind in Amnesia", he makes use of theories of Freud, Jung, and himself to establish an overwhelming case for the existence of a super consciousness that is possibly shared by all mankind. This possible consciousness, says Velikovsky, was and still is shaped by worldwide-scale traumatic events in early history, and has resulted in an unconscious inherited memory shared by all, which is so powerful and pervasive it has imprinted on the human genetic makeup - DNA.
From this, I am reminded of that somewhat illusory Bible verse from Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, part of the description of God's cursing of Lucifer.
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
Notice how He didn't say "between thee and the man", but rather "the woman", referring of course to Eve, with her "seed" being a reference to her eventual genetic lineage to Jesus Christ. This reference to "the woman" is especially curious since, before this verse, all importance and significance had been placed on Adam alone.
However, God's exclusion of the male seed in the birth of Jesus may provide an extraordinary confirmation of Velikovsky's theory - that of a shared, worldwide human consciousness imparted by our DNA. It practically jumped off the page when - in an amazing moment of confirmation - Velikovsky began to hypothesize for various reasons that this consciousness is passed down through males alone.
Any severe damage done to the genetic make-up of human beings could very easily equate to the fallen state of man as described in the Bible, and would explain the purpose of and need for Jesus' virgin birth. If traumatic experiences are recorded in a shared, universal human consciousness and passed down through the DNA of males, then Jesus would not have been perfect in nature had he possessed such DNA. A virgin birth was necessary for Jesus to avoid the damaged human consciousness and retain a holy, heavenly, perhaps God-connected one that we on earth do not understand, but could easily imply through logic exists.
Even further confirmation of a male-carried, genetically flawed consciousness that could potentially represent at least a part of man's fallen state can be seen in the fact that the fallen state did not come upon Eve immediately upon eating the forbidden fruit, but rather only after Adam ate of it too. It is as if once his 'state became fallen'/'genetics became corrupted', the lesser state spread to Eve and their nakedness before God became realized.
So we can see that Velikovsky's theory and several Biblical nuances surrounding our Savior support each other strongly and lend evidence to the legitimacy of both.
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