From Past to Prophesy: Velikovsky’s Challenge to Conventional Beliefs is the Proceedings of the Symposium held at The Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec.

Montreal: Saidye Bronfman Centre, 1975. First edition. Quarto. 107, [1] pp. Publisher's printed green wrasppers wwith darker green cloth spine. Excellent copy. Only 3 copies located by OCLC.In 1975 the debate over Velikovsky's ideas were still widely argued. This symposium, arranged by the director of the Centre, Nahum Ravel, was a high point in the field. Presented are these talks in printed form; Introduction to Velikovsky, by Irving Wolfe.--Science's unscientific reception of Velikovsky, by C.J. Ransom.--The coming cosmic debate in the sciences and humanities, by Alfred De Grazia.--Catastrophism and the compulsion to meaning, by William Mullen.--The intellectual context of Velikovsky's thought, by George Grinnell.--The social impact of Velikovsky on our generation, by Patrick Doran.--Velikovsky in Shakespeare, by Irving Wolfe."Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) was a controversial author of several books suggesting a radical interpretation of history. In his best-selling book, Worlds in Collision (1950), he argues that the Earth and other planets, had been subject to cosmic catastrophes in historical times, that had been recorded in the oral traditions, myths and legends of the peoples of the world. His 1956 book Earth in Upheaval describes geological evidence that he says supports the idea of global catastrophes in prehistorical and historical times.In Ages in Chaos (1952), Velikovsky writes of parallels he found between biblical and Egyptian history from the Exodus to the early Divided Monarchy era, that initiated a debate on the chronologies of ancient history, and three more books, Oedipus and Akhnaton (1960), Peoples of the Sea (1977), and Ramses II and His Time (1978)." (Velikovsky Encyclopedia).