An archive of Immanuel Velikovsky's unpublished writings.

Proposed that many myths and traditions of ancient peoples and cultures are based on actual events, as described in his 1950s books Worlds in Collision, and, Earth in Upheaval.

Venus in the Corner Pocket The Controversial Theories of Immanuel Velikovsky In 1950 a Russian-born psychiatrist named Immanuel Velikovsky authored a controversial book. Velikovsky was extremely knowledgeable in the texts of ancient peoples. Based on his interpretation of these texts, Velikovsky reached the conclusion that our solar system, with its nine planets, was not always the same as we ...