SIS is the oldest and most up to date society for catastrophist research, including ancient history, astronomy, mythology, science and the Electric Universe.
Since Spring 2024 the Society has reduced its activities, due to limited resources. Publication of journals and Members Meetings are both suspended. It retains an online presence with the website (which includes an up-to-date news service), Youtube videos, a Discussion Forum, and an archive of publications.
There is also an email group, which discusses Ancient Chronology. More details about the origins of the SIS can be found in:
- Origins of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies: a personal memoir, by co-founder Brian Moore (2022)
- The SIS, its history and achievements: a personal perspective, by co-founder Harold Tresman (1993)
Multidisciplinary
Theories of global cosmic catastrophism demand that there should be corroboration between other disciplines. This makes cosmic catastrophism truly interdisciplinary and inclusive. Such disciplines and subjects include:
- archaeology
- stratigraphy
- psychology
- archaeoastronomy
- linguistics
- biology
- astrophysics
- geomagnetism
- religion
- mythology
- astronomy
- evolution
- palaeontology
- various scientific dating methods
- biblical studies
Mythology and Religion
In conjunction with plasma physics and rock-art, the mythology of the axis mundi has also recently been given far more clarity.
Any reconstruction of how the solar system operated once and operates now will remain unacknowledged by orthodox scientists. That is unless those who find such new theories to be reasonable, continue to demand objective hearing and consideration of them. However, attempts at censorship and suppression of new and unorthodox ideas, by one means or another, are still commonplace.
Another of Velikovsky’s claims was that the calamities that befell the Israelites at the time of the Exodus from Egypt were as a result of such instability in the cosmos.
Challenges
Many great discoveries and insights are made by intuitive non-scientists but, unfortunately, academia rarely welcomes challengers to established thinking. Despite this, in 1974 the SIS took up Velikovsky’s challenge to the orthodox view of the cosmos – as being one of planetary stability – to investigate:
- The role that cosmic catastrophes may have played globally in ancient times
- How myths, recorded by cultures the world over, can help us discover what happened
- A new generation of catastrophists arose. They have continued to encourage investigation and exchange of ideas in all fields opened up by Velikovsky.
Art-history, ice-core dating, Earth reversals (or axis shifts) and the effect of catastrophes of any kind on Earth’s climate, are also addressed.
So, too, the effect of past climate change on chronology.
Of overarching importance is the role of electricity in the universe, which, although becoming accepted by more open-minded researchers and scientists, is still ignored by the UK ‘establishment’.
Aligning the history of the Israelites in Egypt and the Exodus to the 12th and 13th Dynasties (rather than the 18th, as in the orthodox dating), he re-dated much of Egyptian history. This also generated many articles and papers.
For a comprehensive history of authors and their papers you cannot do better than to see Ancient History Revisions.