There
are a number of ways to explain astrology; all
depend on our world-view. A 'physically causative"
model implies that objects in the sky influence one
another, for instance due to gravity, or to cosmic
radiation. This principle is based on a linear
worldview which can be summed up as the principle of
'cause and effect'. Something happens BECAUSE and
AFTER something else happened. It is a principle
which also views the phenomenon of "Time"
in a linear way, instead as for instance something
cyclical.
Scientists
with such views of the world for instance say that
it is nonsensical to view Pluto, which is so small,
and so distant,as something which could cause
anything on Earth and will as a consequence reject
astrology as a whole. Maybe there will come a time
when astrology can be explained in a
physically-causative manner. In this respect it was
interesting to read about an experiment carried out
by Prof. José Delgado with electromagnetic waves,
in which he demonstrates, that electromagnetic waves
have no need of matter to assert any influence at
all. At first Prof. Delgado carried out
some experiments with animals, then later with
people, where he demonstrated that the behaviour of
human beings and animals can be influenced by
implanting electrodes in the brain. In a later stage
however he tested the influence of electromagnetic
waves which can not be implanted physically. By one
push on a button changing the electromagnetic field
in a room, he could for instance get a bull to come
to a stage of utter fury . . . and
by pushing the button again and changing the
electromagnetic waves he could get the bull to come
to a halt and a state of calmness ensued, just by
simply changing the frequency. The notable thing
here is that he had enormous results with just a
mere few electromagnetic waves. (It was astrologer
Carol Stokes who reported this in "Mercury Hour",
no. 54, 1987, page 41).
So,
taking this a few steps further we may in the end
come to the conclusion that the zodiacal influence
is like an "aura" around the Earth, in
other words, the electromagnetic field around the
earth, and maybe we will discover sometime a
physical-causative explanation for astrology in such
a way.
In
his book "A New Model in Healing", Dr.
Larry Dossy gives a summary about developments in
natural science which confirm an entirely different
worldview; one of holism. The biochemical matter
which has developed itself in our bodies is the
product of elements of physics; these elements are a
gift of the stars (primary matter). We are the
conception of the stars, says Dossy, we are rooted
in the stars.
Our
daily experiences with even the smallest detail
point towards a close connection with the grandiose
qualities of the firmament, so much so, that it is
virtually impossible to think of the two as being
separate. In the new developments in natural science
cause and effect no longer have a linear connection
to one another. Today for instance, there is hardly
a disease which can be explained away with a simple
cause.
19th
Century physicist Ernst Mach said that the
inclination of a body to resist acceleration (called
inertia) is not an intrinsical quality of the body
itself, but a consequence of its interaction
with the rest of matter in the firmament. (So, it is
relational). From this it follows that the removal
of even the slightest quantity of skymatter could
cause a change in the inertia of the restmatter. (This
is called the Principle of Mach). (Let alone the added
matter, satellites, space-ship debris, etc by the
way). Einstein continued with the Principle of Mach:
his suggestion is that the working element of the
physical universe is interactional: the qualities of
all physical objects can only be known in terms of
insight into their interaction with all other
physical objects. This means that from the viewpoint
of modern natural science all objects are
always connected with their surroundings.
This
idea has far-reaching consequences for for example
statistical research.
Objective
statistical research becomes a phenomenon that is
not in synch with reality! Prigorine's "dissipative
structural theory" saus that our nature is
rooted in the fundamental processes of the universe.
We are ONE with nature. Bell's theorem says that the
human being participates in a seamless existence
which is holistically interwoven with his
surrounding world (John S. Bell, 1972). They are
incredible conclusions which our logical (and not
cosmically-oriented) mind can hardly grasp.
Together
with Nathan Rosen and Boris Podolsky Einstein
developed a reasoning which is essential for the
astrological viewpoint, a reasoning which is meant
as a reductio ad absurdum of the theory of
quantummechanics: with irrefutable mathematical
reasoning they stated, that that if the theory of
quantum mechanics was correct, it would mean that
"a change in the rotational direction of 1
particle ought to influence at the same time the 2nd
particle of a system consisting of 2 particles, even
when the two would have removed themselves
from one another at a great distance."
Later the natural physicist Jack Sarfatti posited
that this mutual interaction didn't comprise so much
a signal which carried energy between the two
divorced objects as that it was "information"
.
DNA-theory
has shown that the lifepattern of every human being
is written in the genes of the sperm and ovum. The
totality is comprised in the parts. Austrian born
Gregor Mendel showed how each green pea has enough
information for its reproduction, and these
Mendelian principles can be continued: each particle
of the universe comprises all the information
present in the whole cosmos. From which follows that
each green pea has the genetic information of the
cosmos contained in itself!
Also
physicist David Bohm postulated that all information
about the totality of the universe lies hidden in
its single parts, but he did state that the order
and unity of our universe lies beyond our sensual
perception.
Summed
up briefly quantum theoretics lead to the conclusion
that there is also a non-causal and not locally
defined relationship between two moments separated
in time. This means for instance for our daily
reality that taken together, any patient and
therapist, or astrologer and client, or researcher
and research-object, form an organic whole by the
processes which unites all living beings. A
client-oriented therapy is for instance a boomerang
which also hits the astrologer. From the viewpoint
of the modern healer patienttherapy is equal to
self-therapy: those who heal others, heal themselves.
From
all of this we can conclude that objectivity does
not exist as such in the human mind, who is after
all the perceiver of the universe and not the doer.
The word 'subjective' has gotten a somewhat negative
tone to it, as a consequence of our
mechanistical-causal view of the world. Objectivity
can be combined with words such as quantity and
subjectivity with quality.
The
quality of our life is not objectively measurable as
such. So why is it that academic scientists, I ask
myself, and other critics still use the outdated
beliefsystem that astrology is nonsense because it
has not been proven "objectively" if there
is no such thing as objective proof of anything!
?
Theodor
Landscheidt answers this in his book "We are
Children of Light" (1987). It
is entirely possible by the way that this title was
only published in German as "Wir sind Kinder
des Lichts", and that the English version is
called "Sun, Earth, Man".
Just
like greater economical cycles (the socalled cycles
of Kondratiev), waves of renewal vis-a-vis for
example scientific or nature-philosophical paradigms,
have a 50-year duration. (One Cheiron-return).
That is how long it really took before Einstein's
Theory of Relativity entered the mindset of natural
physicists.
So
just imagine how long it really took before
Einstein's Theory of Relativity entered the mindset
of "normal" (or academic) phycisists, let
alone the world at large who is still driven by the
mechanistical cause- and- effect principle
without any fantasy as to what may be really
possible if the thery of quantum physics came to
live in a holistic way in our own personal
subjective lives. We would form wonderful Aquarian
mindset groups which are oganic wholes and thereby
automatically sustained by the universe if we would
but feel part of it.
Many
of our ideas stem from our educators, and from how
our parents taught us explaining the world to us.
Very few of us think for themselves. That's why the
already outdated philosophy of mechanistic
materialism of the 19th Century still seems to
determine the worldview of probably 70% of the
people on the planet (70% of the Earth is composed
of water, symbol of collectivity and
non-individualization in this connection).
Other
than that, we need to realize, that logical thinking
is a proces to which we turn when we try to
understand things in our lives, even if we are of
the opinion that insight ultimately can only be
gotten through in time, not logical means on itself
only.
Thus
the history of science is the account of a painful
process of adaptation of the healthy mind to
scientific facts which continuously are outdated.
Truth is ultimately subjective and objective at the
same time.
Astrology,
both the collectivity of it as wel as its individual
worth are not statistically measurable units without
a relationship to the rest of the universe. It
rather is something infinitely larger.