Editor: E. R. Milton
Contributors: Alfred de Grazia and others
Year: 1974 (conference proceedings)
Series: Quantavolution & Catastrophe (adjacent — conference volume)
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Recollections of a Fallen Sky collects the papers presented at the University of Lethbridge on May 9–10, 1974 — one of the first academic conferences dedicated to Velikovsky's work. The title is a poetic summary of Velikovsky's central thesis: human civilization carries a collective amnesia about a time when the sky literally fell — when planetary bodies approached Earth and were experienced as catastrophe.
The volume predates most of the Quantavolution series and represents the early academic catastrophist community attempting to legitimize Velikovsky's ideas through formal scholarly discourse. Contributors debate the evidence, methodology, and implications of catastrophism across archaeology, astronomy, mythology, and psychology.
As a conference volume, it captures the live debate of the early 1970s catastrophist movement — before the suppression documented in Cosmic Heretics and the development of the mature Quantavolution framework.
Presented before the Kronos and SISR journals (both founded later in the 1970s), this conference was an early attempt to create a serious scholarly platform for catastrophism. The University of Lethbridge conference represented the first major academic gathering to treat Velikovsky's claims systematically.