Fw: Some researcher`s insight on Astrology and Eastern thought

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> Here are some intersting material from research into metaphysics:

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> «people vary considearably, their clocks are not all set to the

> same starting signal., as is true for animals.

> Thus we find some humans to be «morning people», their temperament

> curves rising even before the sun, while at the other extreme

> are «evening people» whose temperature curves do notstart to rise

> until mid-morning or so.Morning people tend to be alert and cheerful

> in the morning;evening people tend to be grouchy and slow in the

> morning. Many people, particularly those who perform daily dull

> routine tasks have temperature curves that dont change much, they

> keep about the same average temperature throughout the day.

> There is evidence that ones temperature is correlated with

> personality.

> Morning people tend to be conservative, evening people arty radical

> types and plateau people steady but dull.

> Scientific research also has found that our moods also possess a

> cycle that is more or less independent of external evwnts. Ranging

> from 16 to 63 days, this mood cycle is governed by our hormonal

> secretions that in turn are controlled by our internal biological

> clocks.

> Note that the very large variability of the human mood cycles makes

> it impossible to be influenced by any celestial body.How could any

> cycle that varies from person to person betwen 16 to 63 days be

> governed by the relatively constant motion of planets and stars?

> To modern man, if he would only pay attention, ythe real world

> cannot fail to be far more complex and fascinating than any of the

> magical and mystical fantasies of ancient astrology.»

>

> «Using magnets to influence the directionalm choices of flatworms

> was once a very popular pasttime with experimental psychology

> students.

> Those with whom i was personally aqcuainted wre bitterly

> disappointed by the almost randomless of their results.

> The fltworms stubbornly refused to follow the magnetic enticements

> even of the strongest magnets.quite a few watches got ruined too.

> In short, the statistical evidence for electromagnetic responses by

> living things, except those with with electric generated organs, is

> less convincing than sunspot correlations.

> If the physical measurable forces of electricity or magnetism

> actually had a direct effect influence on living things we should be

> able to measure them fully as well as the electromagnetic fields

> themselves.

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> Early astrologers had a more limited view of the cosmos a world

> encased with celestial spheres intimately connected to earth.early

> man thougt the world was all «one» because it was the only world he

> knew.For him there wre blazing suns, forming countless galaxies no

> expanding iuniverse,bno black holes. His world was a small,familiar

> place and it seemed natural that should be ablt to undestand it

> everything about it almost intuitively.

> Yet, modern science has proven over and over againt that intuition

> is quite often far from from the mark.

> It took the rationality of an Einstein to discover that energy and

> matter are dual aspects of the same interlinking equation, a finding

> quite contrary to intuition, yet all to real in the modern world.For

> all its creative power, intuition can also be dangerousçy misleading.

> Intuition in the form of analogical thinking led to the concept of

> applying magic of correspondences to the erratic motions of the

> planets, the 5 chinese elements, yin and yang,in turn leading

> toastrology.Magical analogical tghinking appeals to the human mind

> because it appears intuitively corect.»

>

> Me: astrology started much in the same way as Shanmanism and magic.

> See below:«But why then would an invalid concept such as magic

> arise si multaneoudsly all over the globe?Why did american indians

> hve their medicine men, Babylonians their priests, the nordic and the

> asians their Shamans chiefs?

> The answer is deceptively obvious. Magic arouse because it had

> evolutionary and adaptive value for the societies that developed

> it.If increasingly. large numbers of people were to live and work

> together in cooperative harmony, there had to be some cohesive force

> welding the people together.Promising greater individual rewards as

> the result of cooperative work just isnt a sufficiently strong

> motivation for people to give up their feedom and egiotistical

> desires.Society requires that individual wants be supressed or

> modified in face of community needs. anything that works will count

> wether it is magic,astrology,the church etc.»

>

> eastern thought

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> the horoscope i supposed to srve as an holystical symbol of the

> individuals potentiality, a chart of the universes inprint upon the

> psyche and personality.

> By studying the chart and its cycles the humanistic astrologe

> claims to ba able to undestand both the nature of timing of the

> cosmic forces that interpenetrate everything and everywhere.

> «everything is everything» - every chart contains all astrological

> principles- al, is «One».

> Such is the beauty of rethoric.

> Its hard to believe that such mind staggering vagueness could mean

> something to 20th century man.

> Yet the easterm myths seem to mesh with and support western beliefs

> sufficiently well that even the most logically absurd eastern

> tautology can appeal to a vast segmebt of the western world.

> This is not to say that the mental discipline of astrology and

> other eastern practices cannot yeld at least some results or have

> some real effect- wether positive or negative.

> However not for the cosmic reasons they cite. Any attention by the

> individual to his own condition, to his own situation, can provide

> the person with some enlightement as to the sources of his problems.

> The holism of the east, rather than providing us with any true

> wisdom, is sufficiently vague and all-encompassing to accomodate any

> idea, any theory.

> this type of holism no doubt was a romantic concept to the

> ancients, who were already steeped in the magical world view.

> As long as the earth was thought to be small, flat, and surrounded

> by transparent celestiak spheres, the universe did appear homey and

> understandable, the sort of world likely to be interconnected via the

> magical principle of correspondences.. For such holism is totally

> meaningless in face of the discoveries of modrn science.»

>

> modern science has discovered that the interface betwen mind and

> body is far stronger thas previously expected.The mind could do more

> than will a finger lifted.It could also induce strangely pleasant

> mental stats. Eastern discipline had beat western science to the

> reality of feedback by a couple of thousand years.

> Yet there is a vast gulf betwen the strong mind-body interface

> uncoverd by biofeedback and the eastern myth of « all is one».If

> anything, such a strong connection betwen mind and body makes it even

> more unlikely that there exists a «spiritual plane» separate from the

> physical plane»

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> Any comments?

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> Paulo

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