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Podcast: Lighting The Void
Episode: The Electric Universe With Wal Thornhill
Description: Live Weeknights 9 PM-Midnighthttps://www.lightingthevoid.com (https://www.lightingthevoid.com)Before entering university, Wal had been inspired by the wide-ranging forensic style of Immanuel Velikovsky’s iconoclastic best-selling book, Worlds in Collision. The irrational response of American astronomers resulting in a modern-day ‘book burning’ taught him to be skeptical of expert opinions. Wal has achieved a broad synthesis of ideas he calls ‘THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE,’ in collaboration with David Talbott. It was first presented at a world conference in Portland, Oregon, on January 1997. A booklet and CD with that title were produced. Workshops and conferences were subsequently held in Portland, Oregon, an...