CHAPTER ONE: What the Ancients Knew We must not be terrified by our current situation. We must understand that there are cycles of history, just as there are cycles to the seasons, and that democracies will always descend into a period of decadence, corruption, tyranny and collapse. But on the other side, if we stand up, we will witness a rebirth of freedom. Alex Jones. (The Great Awakening).
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Though I’m not a professional astrologer by any means, it’s always seemed like common sense to be aware of how I’m wired, in what ways I’m compatible with those around me, and to understand current events in larger context.
I didn’t seek it out. It’s something I was born with. It comes natural to me.
However, I know that for many it’s a closed book. One that’s taboo. Some bring skepticism to the subject, others dismissive ridicule. What’s available to the public ranges from popularized, for-entertainment-only quackery to profoundly deep, astronomy-based science. Here, of course, we’re talking about the latter.
There’s a full spectrum of astrologies. Some are solar-based. Others, both Hebraic and Arabic, are lunar-based. Ancient Chinese astrologers looked not to the planets, but literally to the stars.
Also note that like any other science (defined simply as with knowledge), astrology has positive uses as well as opposite-and-equal abuses.
One positive application is its use as a tool of medical diagnosis. For example, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, stated that no one could qualify as a healer who was not well versed in astrology. Even up to current practice, medical astrology is used to discern between chronic, natal imbalances and transitory disturbances that will, predictably, pass.
An example of abuse is unethical exploitation of occult information by robber barons who make “killings,” anticipating and taking advantage of stock market upswings and reversals. J.P. Morgan famously said, “Millionaires don’t use astrology. Billionaires do.”
In either case, having advanced knowledge of the timing of events is extraordinarily useful.
Please bear with me here, because understanding the larger context and then narrowing the focus to the present moment is an exercise in restoring hope and clarity to a time of confusion and despair.
This is not meant to be a treatise on astrology, so let me be brief and cut to the chase as quickly as possible. By understanding the valid place of astrology as a gatekeeper between secular science proponents on one extreme and religionists on the other, it’s possible to reach a middle ground where both sides are reconciled, restoring balance and unity to our views.
I’ll briefly provide you with an overview of what ancients in many civilizations agree about cycles of time and humanity’s evolution. Then I’ll drill down on the immediate time, to describe the massive, long-foreseen paradigm shift now in progress.
Finally, arriving at my purpose for writing The Quantum Solution, I’ll describe both the potentials and responsibilities becoming available to citizens of planet Earth now. I’ll put the current times in perspective, describing what current astrologers have to say about the upsurge of information exposing corruption and capture of intuitions across the board in order to clear the decks, preparing the way for a renaissance – the longed-for re-birth of hope, integrity, freedom and cooperation on a planetary scale.
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Because, as I said, I’m not qualified to tell you first-hand about astrological cycles of time, for the most part I’ll quote or paraphrase from those best qualified to do so.
The Constellations Work Like a Celestial Clock
Astrologers ancient and modern alike concur that human events are influenced by the stars. In contrast to current linear models of history, the ancient authors recognized patterns of repeating, spiraling cycles of degeneration followed by regeneration.
Why is this important to us? Because at a biological level, our physical, emotional and mental lives are definitely, if mysteriously, influenced by solar, lunar and even larger planetary cycles as well. Evidence of quantum entanglement indicates that human consciousness is connected in non-local ways to the movement of the heavenly bodies.
Nor is this news. Early scriptures calculated predictable cycles of human history, leading up to where we are now, and indicating what we are likely to experience next
In addition, the Vedas of India as well as Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mayan and Greek and biblical mythologies all hint at humanity’s connections with extraterrestrials.
However, much of ancient knowledge has been either lost or concealed from the public. Because knowledge is power, gatekeepers are known to make whatever would empower the masses taboo, off limits, while about-facing to hoard such knowledge exclusively for their own benefit. Political rulers and money magnates, for example, are known to consult astrologers for personal gain. Hitler was fascinated by the seemingly occult, including astrology.
What we do know is that Vedic scriptures, Western astrology, and Native American traditions agree that historical ages move through vast ascending and descending cycles of time.
The Vedas are the world’s oldest known scriptures. Originally revealed to seers in deep meditation, they were initially passed verbally from one generation of teachers to the next and only penned down about 5,000-7,000 years ago.
These Sanskrit hymns to glories of God include not only spiritual knowledge but practical sciences as well as, including the Ayurveda — an energetic approach to healing.
Now, in this tradition, a complete cycle of time, a Yuga, lasts approximately 24,000 years. It is comprised of a descending cycle of 12,000 years in which virtue gradually decreases, followed by ascending cycle of another 12,000 years when virtue gradually increases.
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At present, humanity is at the tail end of the descending cycle: the Kali Yuga. Kali is the fierce Hindu goddess death, time and change, who destroys evil in order to protect the innocent.
The Kali Yuga is a dark time. Mental abilities decline. Morality plummets. As wickedness increases, so does fear, anguish, anger, disease and scarcity. (Sound familiar?
But after completing the 12,000 year descending cycle from Satya Yuga to Kali Yuga, the sequence then reverses. An ascending cycle of 12,000 years begins, returning to the golden age of the Satya Yuga.
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At present, humanity is at the tail end of the descending cycle: the Kali Yuga. Kali is the fierce Hindu goddess death, time and change, who destroys evil in order to protect the innocent.
The Kali Yuga is a dark time. Mental abilities decline. Morality plummets. As wickedness increases, so does fear, anguish, anger, disease and scarcity. (Sound familiar?
But after completing the 12,000 year descending cycle from Satya Yuga to Kali Yuga, the sequence then reverses. An ascending cycle of 12,000 years begins, returning to the golden age of the Satya Yuga.
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Western astrology clocks the ages in terms of the zodiac. Each astrological age lasts approximately 2,147 years as it moves counter-clockwise through the twelve zodiac constellations. A complete cycle comprises one great year, which lasts, give or take, 25,764 years (compared to the 24,000 yuga cycle).
According to Western astrology, humanity is currently in the process of transitioning from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. (More on this a bit later, below.)
In contrast, the Greeks (as well as their antecedents, the Atlanteans and later, other occult organizations springing up over time) describe cycles of time of varying durations in terms of metals. A golden age represents a blossoming spring, where virtue, religion, and the arts flourish. It is followed by a silver age of conquest and pride, then by a bronze age which declines into materialism, atheism and degeneration. A final iron age (which corresponds with the Kali Yuga), is characterized by confusion of castes, election of dictators, tyranny of the state and atrophy of industry.
(As an exception, the Greek poet Hesiod inserted a fifth age between the bronze and the iron ages: a golden age of heroes.)
The New Testament also alludes to astrology’s changing times. Quotes are cited referring to both the signs of Pisces, the fish, and to Aquarius, the water bearer. For example, Jesus is said to be the fisher of men, referenced in Matthew 4:19. “And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” And Luke 5:9-11 “For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.”
Jesus is also said to guide his disciples to the house of Aquarius. In Luke 22, 8-10. Jesus said to Peter and John, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover. Where do you want us to prepare it? When you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.” The men with the water jug represent the house of Aquarius. Thus scholarly interpretations regard Passover as the passing over to a new era.
Jesus also was aware of the difficulties inherent in transitional times such the current one, moving from Pisces to Aquarius. “When you hear of wars and rebellions, don’t be alarmed. Indeed, it is necessary that these things take place first, . . . ”
Shifting to the Age of Aquarius
According to modern astrologers, a great shift has begun from the Piscean age to the Aquarian. Undoubtedly, we are living during a time of profound change. Many have said much on the subject. Very briefly:
The age of Pisces, commencing with the birth of Christ, is characterized as one of devotion, worship and artistic creativity, with a dark underbelly of addiction and delusion. On the one hand, the age of Pisces, ruled by Neptune, is about spirituality and self-sacrifice, but also about pain, suffering, and escape. For the most part, the masses are taught to passively turn their power over to a guru or a religion. The keynote of Pisces is “I Believe.”
In contrast, the keynote of the Aquarian age is “I Know.’ During this time, lasting from 2,000 to 2,300 years, humanity will take back its power to find the teacher within, restoring awareness of intuition and connection to the field of quantum intelligence. Attention will shift towards networking and global concerns.
Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is associated with technological advances and also with rebellion – a powerful urge for freedom and individual choice. Its challenge will be to allow change to happen, rather than resisting the new; to look forward to the future with curiosity, not fear; to remain open, flexible and ready to pivot.
The important practical implication of the difference between the two ages is this. In the 1960’s, murdering a handful of revered leaders whom the populace put on a pedestal (including the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X) shut down an entire generation. In the future, the response will be very different.
Where before, deep state globalists seemed to have the upper hand, and the masses, like sheep, believed they had no power to protect themselves from the ravenous wolves who presume to lead over them, astrology says NO. Not now. Because “the times, they are a changing.”
An Aquarian generation will respond to intimidation by standing shoulder to shoulder against oppression. Assassinations would double and redouble determination to take on collective responsibility to pick up the fallen flag and complete their beloved leaders’ work.
Astrology NOW
Narrowing the focus down, let’s now turn to the immediate time to review what prominent teachers have to say today. The short-list includes Pam Gregory, Heather Ensworth and Molly McCord, with a host of others following suit.
Important to note is that what they’re seeing is neither a fated nor unalterable future, but rather a shift in energic potentials whose non-physical existence resides within the invisible yet every real middle, e=energy level of the Life Wheel. What actually occurs will depend upon a combination of individual choice and collective action.
Which of the options amongst many possibilities will prevail is up to each one of us. As “team humanity,” we have the potential to generate a critical mass of positive change . . . or not.
In any event, today’s astrologers agree that starting in 2020, we’ve seen increasing exposure of widespread, entrenched, long-term corruption throughout public institutions – churches and governments, as well as the legal, education and healthcare professions. This exposure (“shining a light on darkness”) serves as the necessary catalyst to eventual reformation across the board.
They also recognize that surfacing rampant abuses in order to clear them out will meet with desperate and therefore ruthless suppression by current powerholders with vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
During 2024, we can expect major transitions as outer planets start to change location, significantly affecting collective consciousness. This shift is not unlike a birthing process, full of unknowns and, in the short-term, painful. This rebirthing (which Alex Jones, among others, recognizes as prelude to the next renaissance) will continue through 2026, after which, life will bear little resemblance to the now familiar.
In the short-term, Pam Gregory in particular urges us to “stay on your eagle’s perch.” As a follower of Joe Dispenza, she’s an advocate of mindfulness and meditative practices. She tells her viewers to keep an overview. Focus on hope for the future. Don’t get caught up in the chaos of the immediate moment. Understand where its leading — towards “New Earth,” full of positive, hopeful potentials
She places importance on the natal chart of the U.S., set for July 4, 1776. Although she’s a Brit, she rightly says what happens in this country has a ripple effect upon nations across the globe. In particular, she notes that the U.S. is in its “Pluto return.” What it means is that this powerful planet has traveled full circle to return to the same place and degree that it was at the time of the nation’s founding.
Pluto is a planet of profound transformation. It’s located in the U.S. second house, a placement that denotes values, both moral and economic. Astrologically speaking, the country is due for a major rethinking and upgrade of its founding beliefs. The economy is also likely to see major re-visions of its agricultural practices and fiscal foundations.
Great astrological attention is being given to Pluto’s recent ingress into Aquarius for the first time in over 200 years. The last time it occurred saw both the American and French revolutions, as well as the beginnings of the industrial revolution. This aspect will last about twenty years, so nothing is likely to happen over night. But it would be well to martial the expressions of these revolutionary aspects more wisely and deliberately than the last time around.
Perspective
Bottom line: Increased awareness of the gradual shifting of outer planets gives us cause for renewed hope. There’s a light at the end of an apparently endless dark tunnel of corruption, chaos and despair. As astral energies change, what earlier was impossible will become not only possible but, in some form or fashion (up to us), inevitable.
Here, knowledge is power. Being aware of what the ancients foretold and modern astrologers confirm, we’re equipped with a better understanding of the dynamics we’re dealing with, as well as the latent but powerful potentials for positive change embedded therein.
Those in the know have the means to make better decisions, take effective action and achieve better results.
Conclusion
The progression of Chapter One has been to start with an overview and then focus one step at a time, from largest and grandest to the smallest and most immediate. Which ends with me. Now.
To do so, I first have to back track to tell you about the continuing role the German psychologist Carl Jung has played in my life, leading up to the current day.
It started after I dropped out of graduate school. I told an English advisor he could keep the NDEA IV Fellowship that would have paid for a Ph.D. in trivia. According to department rules, my proposed thesis on Shakespeare was disallowed. That field was overdone. I’d have to pick a subject less known, and never written on. Not interested.
So the following year, I continued reading on my own, on the subjects that mattered to me. Significantly, I trudged through Volume 13 of Jung’s collected works, Alchemical Studies. What stayed with me was a picture drawn by one of his patients. A bird stands on the ground in front of a large, thick tree. There’s a door leading to the inside of the tree. But it’s locked. The bird weeps because it’s stuck outside.
That bird’s soul sadness resonated. I identified.
(Getting ahead of myself, in retrospect, that’s what the shift to the Quantum Paradigm will change for those soul-stuck on the outside of the Tree of Life, the result of cultural conditioning.)
Two years later, as a violin student living in Düsseldorf, Germany, I burrowed deep into Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams and Reflections. The memorable take away was the fastest cure of his career. A neurotic young woman, raised by atheist parents, was instantly healed by reconnecting with her Jewish grandfather’s scholarly piety. She remembered who she was.
It touched a psychic nerve.
My landlord at the time was an elderly portrait painter. He insisted I was not American, and asked about my family roots. I had no idea. His questions sparked letters to grandparents on both sides, asking about their ancestors.
It turns out that I owe coloring and bone structure to my father’s father’s Native American lineage. My fathers’ mother, whose maiden name was Brooks, went directly back to the Mayflower (my father was named after one of its passengers, William Kirby Brewster). Further back, the line traced to Lady Jane Gray, who, had she been born male, would have been King of England (rather than being executed in the Tower of London along with her tragically ambitious young husband).
My mother’s mother’s was of Viennese descent, almost as if there were a karmic connection to my violin, made in Vienna in 1776 by Mathias Thir.
And my mother’s father’s father was of Russian Jewish stock. Though a tailor by profession, according to Grandpa Dave, he was a biblical scholar and saintly man. Bingo!
During that same time, I immersed myself in the Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the venerable Chinese I Ching. Jung wrote its introduction. He admitted he was reluctant to do so, worried that it might put his reputation at risk. However, he felt a responsibility to sponsor it as a valuable tool for making the unconscious conscious. To solve his dilemma, he removed himself by asking the I Ching itself what it wanted readers to know about this translation.
Five years later, I followed his example, asking in the introduction to my small, jargon-free version what it had to offer its readers. (N.B. Dynamics of the Quantum Paradigm are inherent in the I Ching, as it slowly taught me through persistent, careful attention.)
Now, in doing the research for this chapter, I recently came across yet another of Jung’s contributions. Once again, he expressed grave reluctance to be associated with a fringe topic. But again, he felt a responsibility to take on a subject he regarded as having immense psychological implications — worldwide UFO observations.
Surprisingly, in the very first pages of Flying Saucers, Jung mentions the astrological precession of ages of which the ancients knew, taking them for granted as fact. He was keenly aware that humanity is approaching a time of massive shift, and that somehow, the surfacing awareness of ET presence is critically important to successfully navigating that shift!
Getting a bit ahead of the story, which we’ll circle back to in Chapter 5, Jung concluded that humanity has something akin to a cellular memory, which he could only identify as an unconscious resonance with ET influence. Why? At the time, in 1978, he could not say.
2-14-24
RE: Update to Ch. 3 & Current Events
I have a way of failing to state the most important (and therefore, to me, obvious). I will update date Ch. 3 to correct that oversight. But in good time. More immediately important is to alert you to this:
Despite it being Valentine’s day, the most dangerously volatile energies of the year are in play right now. Specifically, Pluto & Mars, planets of war & ruthless intensity are combining in Aquarius, a sign of upset and surprise. So please be safe. Please be careful.
In part I say this because saying that RFK Jr is only one fighting for the American people is a disservice to your candidate. Trump supporters, however keenly aware of his faults, won’t appreciate the injustice. You’re just joining in the battle he’s been fighting singlehandedly since before 2016. He hasn’t been doing it to get rich. However inelegantly, under unimaginable pressure, he fights for the American people too.
A better way to use current conflict energy would be to let deep-state bad guys make another self-defeating mistake. Giving you a taste of the lawfare Trump has endured from day one might prompt RFK Jr and Trump to join forces in common cause to stop globalists’ abuse of the legal system to drive competitors off the field.
In the outwards, extension process, energy manifests as masculine, active yang. Reversing direction to complete the cycle, extreme yang changes to the feminine, passive yin. When link the active and passive, sustains life as a whole, as magic.
The Wheel can be used to structure each hour, each day, each week or year of your life, making it whole, complete.
And that which fills this globe, this circle of creation is called the quantum field, in which we swim are sustained like fish in the ocean of life.
That creative process involves first an extension into energy and then from energy into solid tangible mass. The dynamics that that of that middle ground through which one passes in the creative process, first outwards into manifested life and then returning back to source.
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Narrowing the focus down, let’s now turn to the immediate time to review what prominent teachers have to say today. The short-list includes Pam Gregory, Heather Ensworth and Molly McCord, with a host of others following suit.
Important to note is that what they’re seeing is neither a fated nor unalterable future, but rather a shift in energic potentials whose non-physical existence resides within the invisible yet every real middle, e=energy level of the Life Wheel. What actually occurs will depend upon a combination of individual choice and collective action.
Which of the options amongst many possibilities will prevail is up to each one of us. As “team humanity,” we have the potential to generate a critical mass of positive change . . . or not.
In any event, today’s astrologers agree that starting in 2020, we’ve seen increasing exposure of widespread, entrenched, long-term corruption throughout public institutions – churches and governments, as well as the legal, education and healthcare professions. This exposure (“shining a light on darkness”) serves as the necessary catalyst to eventual reformation across the board.
They also recognize that surfacing rampant abuses in order to clear them out will meet with desperate and therefore ruthless suppression by current powerholders with vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
During 2024, we can expect major transitions as outer planets start to change location, significantly affecting collective consciousness. This shift is not unlike a birthing process, full of unknowns and, in the short-term, painful. This rebirthing (which Alex Jones, among others, recognizes as prelude to the next renaissance) will continue through 2026, after which, life will bear little resemblance to the now familiar.
In the short-term, Pam Gregory in particular tells us to “stay on your eagle’s perch.” Keep and overview. Focus on hope for the future. Don’t get caught up in the chaos of the immediate moment.
She also focuses on the natal chart of the U.S., set for July 4, 1776. Although she’s a Brit, she rightly says what happens in this country has a ripple effect upon nations across the world. In particular, she notes that the U.S. is in its “Pluto return.” This means that the planet gone full circle to return to the same place and degree that it was at the time of the nation’s founding.
Pluto is a planet of profound transformation. It’s located in the U.S. second house, a placement that denotes values, both moral and economic. The country is due for a major rethinking and upgrade of its founding beliefs. The economy is also likely to see major re-visions of its agricultural practices and fiscal foundations.
[describe Pluto Return, and foot note it.]
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The Astrological Ages: What You Need to KnowThe Age Of Aquarius
From belief to knowing. Which is why murder of leader no longer would work.
What Astrologers tell Us about the current transition
List their names, and what they agree on. Exposing corruption. Surface in order to clear. You can’t leave a place never been. Predictable oppression/suppressions. The painful birth process. Midwifery.
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CHAPTER ONE: What the Ancients Knew
We must not be terrified by our current situation. We must understand that there are cycles of history, just as there are cycles to the seasons, and that democracies will always descend into a period of decadence, corruption, tyranny and collapse. But on the other side, if we stand up, we will witness a rebirth of freedom. Alex Jones. (The Great Awakening).
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Chapter One presents e. . . .
. IA brief description of the changing astrological atmosphere is offered for those familiar with that language. This section is optional and not necessary for readers who prefer to move on.
Caveat: There’s a full spectrum of astrologies, ranging from popularized, for-entertainment-only quackery to profoundly deep, astronomy-based science. Here, of course, we’re talking about the latter.
Also note that, . . . Bottom line: like any other science (defined simply as with knowledge), astrology has positive uses as well as opposite-and-equal abuses. In either case, having advanced knowledge of the timing of events is extraordinarily useful.
However, Most important is to conclude with this encouragement: the gradual shifting of outer planets gives us renewed hope, a light at the end of an apparently endless dark tunnel of chaos and despair. As astral energies shift, what earlier was impossible will become not only possible but, in some form or fashion (up to us), inevitable.
Here, knowledge is power. Being aware of what the ancients foretold and modern astrologers confirm, we’re equipped with a better understanding of the dynamics we’re dealing with, as well as the latent but powerful potentials for positive change hidden therein. Those in the know have the means to make better decisions, take effective action and achieve better results.
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Put this in entirety – or pertinent part??? — in an appendix
Manly P. Hall: The Value of Astrology in Self-Analysis
For starters, to whet your appetite, let me point out one immediate, practical application. Namely, using astrology as a tool, Hall warned beforehand of the dangers surrounding JFK’s presidency:
Manly P. Hall predicts assassination of JFK using astrology: “The president has certain dangers surrounding his administration. Physical dangers. These dangers include his health. And where you have Saturn in the 10th house conjunct the planet like Neptune, you always have at least the remote danger of assassination. You have danger to life, you have danger to health, you have danger to public office in a great many ways.”
The scientific attitude towards man is moving continuously from the obvious towards the subtle. We are beginning to recognize a network of intangibles lying behind the human personality. Twenty-five years ago the world was sharply divided between [the extremes] those who saw in man merely a highly perfected machine [m-mass] and those clinging to the spiritual foundations of our culture and resting their case upon the reality of the human spirit and soul [c=light]. The interval between these two groups is only now beginning to be bridged [e=energy].
Working largely from the Aristotelian position of man’s outer life, thoughtful individuals and learned orders and groups seeking to unfold and advance basic human culture, are recognizing the mysterious background which lies behind the obvious conduct of the individuals. We are now therefore developing a very common psychological problem, namely wonder about mystery. And whereas not long ago we were certain of everything, now that mystery comes into the picture, we are uncertain of almost everything.
In this uncertainty, our psychological schools have divided and further divided until we can no longer find any common terminology which reached with reasonable precision defining their various attitudes. This probing into the source of things makes it convenient also to reexamine ancient forms of knowledge.
And whereas 50 years ago, mythologies, fable, legend belonged only to certain art or culture groups, we are now examining it to discover if we can, other keys to the internal life of the individual. Along the same line, we are beginning to be aware of the workings of ancient sciences. We are still inclined to assume that most of these sciences were psychological, particularly in the fields of therapy.
We are still not convinced that all ancient remedies were as effective as they seemed to be. Perhaps a great faith, a strong and ardent dedication to beliefs, helped these remedies. And we are thinking now in terms of the importance of this ardent belief in helping us in the various fields of our problems.
We have noted that the ancient man seemed to be able to believe more easily than we do because he lived in a world of mysteries and wonders. Modern man has a hard time becoming a devout believer in anything because he lives in a world of so many critical opinions — so many cynical attitudes and so much the passes for sound and solid knowledge.
He is finding, however, that the lack of the ability to believe is weakening him — making him less able to carry the daily burden of life. As he de-glamorizes every part of his culture he finds himself dying for lack of a little glamour. Now we have a reaction here. But we have now transferred our instinct toward glamour, toward hero worship, toward objects that are not really satisfactory. We are discovering that movie stars, prizefighters and orchestra leaders as subjects for glamour are not quite so efficient or successful as the ancient gods or the muses or the prophets of old.
All our glamour has become so materialized that it carries with it very little internal contribution to our strength. Digging back into all these old beliefs and ideas, we come to one of the earliest of them all. And that is a word which up to ten years ago was anathema in the field of science. That word is astrology.
It was held to be one of the most ancient of man vulgar superstitions. Held to have no foundation or validity of any kind. And a great many second rate astronomers have made careers out of belittling it and attacking it. Actually, however, as we have noted before, the subject has never been subjected to actual scientific analysis, even by our so-called scientific method.
There is no field of belief in which there has been so much prejudice and so few facts.
Taking the attitude in general that the concept was in conflict with our daily thinking and with the latest discoveries of science, it has been empirically rejected. Actually, we are not sure that this conflict exists. But we would like rather to assume that it does than to add the slow and laborious procedure of investigating carefully and thoroughly.
Again, however, the development of television and the perfection of radio devices, perfection of device, not program, we’re sorry to note, has caused us to realize that there are great many intangible forces operating in our lives.
Radio and television perhaps more than wireless Telegraph, which preceded these has opened to our consciousness the reality of things unseen. We are now willing to accept that this atmosphere in which we live maybe a tremendous area of energy transmissions. We are willing to assume that through this room and through our own bodies, waves of energy are constantly moving, invisible to us. But we are not quite sure that they’re invisibility means that they have no effect upon us. If this effect has to be in terms of body impact, we can deny it. But if behind this body is an energy field, not so different from these very energies moving in space. are we certain that these universal energies have no effect upon our internal energies? Are we able to say with certainty that we are living in a universe, a vital force, and yet we are immune to so many aspects and phases of this force, even though the force itself we must accept as the very source of our life. Looking a little further in this particular field, we are now confronted with radiation, and, to a degree with fallout.
Radiation is much more subtle. We can imagine that fallout consists of minute material substances which can variously poison or contaminate us. But in terms of radiation, we are again in the presence of an invisible energy. And yet we are now convinced that this energy can kill. That it does affect us. And studies of the universal spectrums of various parts of cosmos and space now indicate that radiation is pouring in upon us in many, many ways.
Not long ago, a scientist pointed out that we are continuously in a field of radiation that is actually more dangerous than the atomic bomb. This field of radiation coming to us from the sun and from other parts of space, would have destroyed us utterly had we not gradually, over millions of years, adapted ourselves to this kind of energy. So that we are living in a field of death. Living because we have adapted ourselves to death. And have come to survive its immediate consequences.
With this type of thinking, therefore, the possibility that man lives in a world of energies. It’s not nearly as mysterious as it used to be, or as difficult to accept. Nearly always — and this is true of all sciences — we have to breakthrough old superstitions and unfounded interpretations in order to come to the substance of a thing.
But let us not imagine for a moment that the stargazers of old were unique in their ability to befuldde their own subject. Today, in practically every branch of learning, the greatest menace is the expert.
This individual is so set in his own ideas and so certain of his own methods that for every fact we discover, we add at least three or four new superstitions for our memory to struggle with. Today we are encrusting nearly all of our modern branches of learning with interpretations and explanations that will be obsolete in 10 years. Is therefore the subject of astrology has been exposed to human interpretation and misinterpretation. As Doctor Budget, the British Museum points out for nearly 35,000 years. It is quite conceivable that it would have accumulated a number of elements and factors which may have to be sloughed off in the search for facts.
Yet over this same period of time, all of those working with the subject have used the same identical basic machinery. And as is also pointed out by Doctor Budge, the interpretations used today are identical in principle with those found on the cuneiform Chaldean tablets that go very far back into the reign of Hammurabi among the Babylonian peoples. The same essential procedures, the same structures. With a possible exception of mathematics, upon which the whole subject depends, there is no other branch of learning that has survived so long without being completely reconstructed.
It might therefore seem possible that there was certain validity that is unchanging, moving under the surface of the various national systems of divination which we have now come to regard as pseudosciences. And to consider as hardly worried scientific thought.
We’re not nearly so sure anymore that these are worthy so little attention. Another interesting and significant factor is the wide distribution of these beliefs. It has been said, and perhaps not untruly, that no culture system has ever attained maturity without the belief in the influence of the heavens upon the earth and man.
13:33 India, China, Persia, Greece, Egypt. Practically every great culture that we have known has held this belief and up to the last 500 years it has been for the most part held with esteem.
And it was certainly regarded most affectionately by the great astronomers of Europe, to whom we are indebted for our new emancipated astronomical theories. I refer to men like Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Bracchi. These men, who were themselves the great patron saints of modern astronomical knowledge, they were all astrologers, including Kepler.
This concept means that a thoughtful mind can also accept this idea. Perhaps it was lost to us with the rise of the great 19th century materialistic system. It could not then be fitted in. Because man could not under the dictum of science, believe what he could not see. Or accept what could not be demonstrated in a laboratory.
Unfortunately, however, he made no consistent effort to demonstrate. and therefore found it easy to reject something that he was not even interested in considering. Again, perhaps, the tremendous competition in the mind of man between antiquity and the modern world. The reluctance that we have to assume that other peoples or other ages have had knowledge that was important. We more or less hate to admit this. We like to feel that we are unique in every field of discovery.
And once some Eastindian, scholar and scientist, in this case Nobel Prize winner, tells us that the that the Hindus were using electricity and making batteries 7000 years ago, we are more than astonished. We are humiliated. We are offended. It is a personal grievance. And the first thing we must do is to prove that it is not true. It is to us more important to disprove these things than to investigate them.
A small opening has been made in this wall of attitude on the level of medicine. Here we observe more and more expeditions going out into the field to study primitive medicine. Among aboriginal savage peoples and from some groups and tribes that are still or up to recently have been headhunters, we have made important medical discoveries. We have learned the herbs and symbols of various materials used to combat specific ailments. And out of the primitive lore of the medicine man, the voodoo doctor and the juju magician, we are gaining information that will help Americans to live longer. 16:15
At first, this was also so humiliating. No one dared to think about it. Today, however, we have a slightly improved attitude because we are all uncomfortable and are seeking remedies. And it has dawned upon us that it is better to have the remedy than keep the prejudice. Took a long time to get this far. This may be termed a major step in culture, a step towards better times for all of us. The development of psychology has brought with it considerable interest in the intangible sources of human energy supply. It has caused us to become aware of this dream life behind the individual. And the classification as we have advanced it on the various forms of phenomenon. Emerging from man or moving through man? Has increased our respect for the mysterious plus X. In the root of man. At one time we were concerned, We were certain that this self would in man was nothing more or less than the byproduct of irritation in the cerebral processes. That the individual becoming mad enough became a person.
We are not quite certain of this anymore either. We are beginning to think more and more in terms of the person living in the body. And we have suddenly come to the realization that an unseen, invisible, immeasurable quantity, which we call self in man is responsible not only for his actions, but for this vast and wonderful conglomeration of attainments which we call modern way of life.
We are suddenly realizing that the skyscraper, that the atomic projectile, the aeroplane, all of these things emerge from something scientifically beyond access. That from man as an invisible core. Something not to be weighed or analyzed chemically there is flowing constantly streams of inspiration, intuition, knowledge, thought, reason, and ingenuity which pay off in terms of immense discoveries, tremendous conveniences, and innumerable inconveniences.
Whatever this is in man is not an unmixed blessing. It is capable not only of making it tremendous contribution, but of gradually transforming man into the problem child of history.
With this gradually increasing respect for invisibles, science must ultimately turn its attention to new levels of demonstration. It must discover new sciences of itself, or restore them out of the past, by means of which it can approach reasonably rationally and so far as is possible, scientifically the mystery of the invisible at the root of all visible things in nature.
Until it achieves this, it can never move from the sphere of effects to the world of causes.
And all effects are suspended from adequate causes in nature.
We like to think, of course, that visible effects are practical and invisible effects are invisible causes are impractical.
Yet how shall we say that that is impractical, which, though unseen, becomes the power behind all practical works and laborers?
It is like some mysterious moral force, like man’s urge to love. We cannot define it. We cannot explain it. But whatever good we have in our world has come from it.
And in failure of this [to love] is the most dismal failure that can occur within the structure of human life.
So we have these intangibles. And we must approach them scientifically. We must have something more than a grand admiration. We must be able to learn useful ways, useful applications, and also a proper framework upon which to build a common science of human understanding. [The Life Wheel!!!!]
Going back, therefore, to this rejected field of what we might almost call astrophysics, we are astonished to find a carefully organized field of symbols of emblems and figures, of processes and formulas that have come down from the past.
It would be astonishing indeed if so many thoughtful persons over so many thousands of years should have been completely addicted to a shamira. It is almost incredible that we could have so scientifically organized imagination.
And at the same time, all things have to be tested by their utilities.
and it is hard also to imagine that something which had no foundation in fact, and was merely a flight of imagination, could possibly have sustained itself so long in common admiration.
Nor could it have vindicated itself as frequently as it has done by the accuracy of its methods and pronouncements.
Thus we are in the presence of something. And in the study of ourselves, we discover that these ancient peoples evolved a very comprehensive idea. We do not have to accept it, but I think it is time for us to examine it. And try to discover if possible, whether we are in the presence of a valuable key.
Certainly these people taught, these old stargazers, taught thousands of years of ago that what we call the empty air around us is actually a kind of channel through which energy is continuously moving.
They taught us this while for the most part we have the dimmest concept of the meaning of energy.
They believed and in practice still apply the belief that man is in the midst of an immense complex of forces. And that in some mysterious way, these forces converge upon his internal life.
And that from this convergence there are modifications in his nature and temperament, by means of which is outer, life is also conditioned.
Perhaps one of the simplest ways of trying to understand this is by the recognition of certain common observable phenomena. Most persons are aware of the old family Almanac which was of the greatest meaning and significance to our farmer ancestors. The farmer secured his annual Almanac with religious devotion and dedication.
Back in the beginning of our national life, Benjamin Franklin printed the Almanac and George Washington bought it in order to use it in the maintenance of his plantation. Men like Washington and Jefferson and Hamilton would not for a moment a thought that it was possible to maintain a farm without an Almanac.
Now this Almanac contained a quantity of astronomically and astrologically calculated information relating to planting. Relating to the harvesting and of course, also to the general climatic condition of the year.
Some of you probably have known farming people. Perhaps were raised on farms yourselves. And it would be quite obvious that a shrewd and canny farmer — and farmers are not foolish. Would not had for years depended upon these almanacs for the regulation of his planting and protection against sudden inclemency of weather, unless he had justified to himself that it worked. These people were shrewd. They were not even waste $0.05 on Almanac unless it meant something. And they certainly would not follow it long if the result was the loss of their crops.
But that these things actually did have bearing upon planting, has later been proved under scientific conditions in Arizona, where planting various vegetables at different phases of the moon shows distinct effect. That these influences do have some bearing.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, the great Catholic philosopher of the Middle Ages pointed out that it would be incredible to assume that the moon which it has the power to draw the waters of the Earth and to establish the tidal rhythm of the Seas, that such a powerful influence has no effect on anything except water.
Assuming also that it had no effect upon anything except water, let us remember that the human body is over 85% water. If it can move the tides, this lunar influence has it any effect upon the liquids and humours of the human body?
Studying tree rings, we observed distinctly the cycles of sunspot maxima in the tree. And it is possible to find out from the study of tree rings the dating on cycles of sunspot maxima. Of course we have easier ways of dating, but it could be done by that means.
Is it conceivable, therefore, that at force which will leave a continuous and almost indestructible record of itself within the heavy woody fiber of a tree, that this has no effect on anything else?
We know also the effect of these motions of energy in space upon the great cycles of financial adversity and promotion in the affairs of men. It’s been noted for years that the Stock Exchange, both the one in England and the one in the United States, the principal stock exchanges — all can be graphed according to planetary and luminary cycles.
Now, even if we wish to assume that the planets have no effect upon man and only on the Stock Exchange, can you imagine anyone who is not affected directly or indirectly?
Whenever we come to this recognition, we must come also into the realization of the interdependence of living things. And we must realize that anything or any force which can change the fur on rabbits, or can results in the development of these tree ring circles must influence profoundly the interior energies of something.
It is difficult to assume that all this influence is merely from the outside. We are not able at any moment to check this influence. But after a period of years, we perceive it. And we are suddenly aware of a very subtle form of energy modifying the conditions under which we exist.
The Greeks held to this concept also. And Plato’s great cyclic year, and his various periods of alternating fertility and sterility, by means of which the cultures of humanity are so profoundly affected. These observations remain true. The various phenomena which Plato described actually occur.
But how shall we understand it? Not having a better explanation, is it conceivable that he could have been rightm as he was in so many things? Could a man whose knowledge of politics, government, of human philosophy and religion be as profound as it was, and have survived so long to our admiration, been completely naive and something else of equal importance?
It is hard to imagine that he could have been. And certainly we have no right to take it for granted.
We must therefore at least make honest investigation. This brings us perhaps to one of our important psychological points. Namely, that, as we know from the seasons, that the energy availability differs at different parts of the year due to the inclination of the Earth’s axis. We know that this is true because we can watch the coming of winter. And we can watch its disappearance again after the vernal equinox.
We see the larger part of the earth affected by this. We measure it in terms of human adjustment and non-adjustment. And to date, parts of our eastern seaboard are blanketed in snow. We are not so blanketed here. Other parts of the world are now preparing for the glories of summer, such as our neighbors in Australia. These differences, we know, are due to astronomical phenomena.
And we know that these differences affect the birth rate. We know that they affect the death rate. And we recognize that untimely situations arising in the world’s climate affect us economically, in the destruction of crops, affect us in the terms of health. Any physician will point out to you the seasonal epidemics. Also we know the vulnerability of the sick. And we recognize that millions of people today are leaving extreme climates and gathering in our own delightful Southern California’s smog-infested atmosphere because they are tired of facing pneumonia every winter.
This situation is obviously the result of a chemistry of universal factors. If the Sun were not where it is, if the planets were not where they are, and if the Earth was not in its present position among them, this entire group of circumstances would be totally changed.
And man himself could do nothing about it. For in the presence of these elements, man as a person is hopeless and helpless.
That these things therefore pound upon his outer life we know. So we are presented at this two for two possible psychological schools of thought. One is that the effect of universal energy modifications upon man are due first to the effect upon his environment. There is no doubt that religions are the results of longitude and latitude.
If the Fins had not lived where they lived, they would not have given us that beautiful classical religious mythological poem, the Kalevala. If the Hindus had not been exactly where they were, they would not have given us the peculiar interpretation of Hinduism that we have today. If the Japanese had lived somewhere else, or under different conditions, they would not have the peculiar flowerly arts with which we associate them .
Thus the distribution of climates may definitely, and does certainly affect body structure, social adjustment, degree of activity. It has a strong effect upon ambition, motivations, and upon the contemplative interior life of the person.
Thus, if man is the result of which town in which he lives, the books he reads, the friends he meets and the relatives he has accumulated, so he is also subject to the season, the weather, the climate, the terrain in which he exists. Mountain people are different from valley people. And it is quite conceivable that this vast intangible which is actually modifying our way of life may also be moving in upon us as a psychological factor in our temperament and disposition.
Thus, merely the fact that the sun and the moon and the stars are in the sky has affected us. It is affected our religions, and in turn, these have moved our living. The contemplation of the sunset affects man. Whether it is the sunset itself or the contemplation of it.
. . . Consequently, they used to say this university for advancement by his wife is we are only statement of the of the power of universals upon the lives of individuals.
We know that man’s actual existence, along with the existence of everything else that does, is due to participation in a life principle.
That through man constantly something like elect electric, magnetic, some strange life fluid essence pours and flows continuously. In this essence man has his existence — in the light, and the air and space around him. For every part of himself that is tied to the earth, there are countless parts tied to space.
We have become so accustomed to watch our feet and think of the solid of the earth beneath as a symbol of all reality, that we have forgotten that were we and are we separated from the space energy by which life is maintained, we would simply and do simply made, we would simply pitch forward upon the Earth dead.
Thus our lives come to us out of life itself. How shall we observe or assume that life reaches us? Are we to follow with the ancients that believe that the life of man really originates in the living spiritual being that ensouls the planet?
Or are we willing or more inclined to assume that it arises from the tremendous energy fields in which this planet floats? Suspended itself by one of the greatest mysteries of energy and motion.
We have no choice but to assume that our energies, by which we can lift a hand, read a book, take a step .. . that these are invisible but absolutely real. And without these energies, we have no achievement, no existence possible.
We have the telephone. We have the instrument on the wall, or on our desk. We know that it is tied to the massive network of stations and substations, to phones all over the world. Yet if the current that moves within these wires and carries to the message ceases, the phone ceases to be important. Although its physical structure remains undisturbed, it ceases to live. It is dead.
Therefore, the energy which we cannot see really is a kind of divine power. The instrument made for that energy is our acceptance of the reality of that power and our desire to build a house for it, whereby it can live with us and serve us.
But the instrument is the servant of the energy. Without the energy, the instrument is meaningless. In the same way, the human body about which we boast so much and so continuously is and instrument. And without the energy that ensouls it, it is meaningless. It is unable to achieve any of the purposes for which it is intended.
Now we not yet reached a point in point in popular thinking where it has occurred to us that this energy, upon which we live, may come to us in a conditioned form. We are fully aware that there are many energies in space. That there are planetary rays, solar rays, cosmic rays. We are now recognizing that we have a universe, universe like a very intricately woven fabric, the very substances being composed of energy subject to innumerable laws of its own kind.
And that there is also various adjustments and conflict between laws of energy and the laws of matter. These facts are dimly coming to our attention. But now comes the gravest question that we know. This energy stream that sustains us. Is it a pure unconditioned stream? Is there nothing between this life principal and the body? If there is anything between, what is? Is there some reason, some archetypal pattern governing the distributing of this energy according to laws, according to principles, according to values?
If such government exists, in what is it posited? What is the universal machinery by means of which the specializations, diversifications of energy are possible?
We know that the progression of seams means is that this energy is to mutation. It is subject to being more or less available. We cannot say that the energy is more or less. But we do know that we know that at a given time, in a given area, the energy alotment may ber easonably determined. That this allotment is not continuously identical with itself
Consequently, we have evidence, physical evidence to prove. That the flowing of this energy into form is subject to law. That it is not just simply a great sea in which we all swim, but that it is a kind of ocean in which there are innumerable currents. And therefore that because of the infinite diversity of the sea itself, in this case, it is able to sustain an infinite diversity of life. Studying this, the only answer that anyone has ever been able to advance, and Kepler probably did as well with it as anyone has. The only explanation to account for the Control Regulation systematic distribution of energy. Is the relationship between universal bodies. That just as surely as they comparatively insignificant inclination of the earth axis results in the vast phenomena of seasons. That actually energy is specialized by relationship. And that it is not that the individual is nearer to it or Purina from it, but assumes various aspects in relation to it. That constitute these modifications that the continual motion of the heavens. With it innumerable universes and galaxies, extending into the uttermost conceivable and inconceivable fastnesses of duration. The this immense machine. Actually is responsible for continuous modification in the flow volume relationship of energies. Some of these energies moving from remote areas are of such long duration that they are like Plato’s platonic ear, which lasts over 25,000 human years. Others of these relationships are so immediate that they are changing every few seconds. There are tremendous interrelationships of long and short time cycles, some extending into such infinities that we can scarcely calculate them. But every one of these cycles is supporting some organized movement in creation. And when these cycles end, these movements end. Well, these cycles are exhilarated or reached critical areas. Critical situations arise. Not only affecting man, but affecting the whole solar system and the universe. Thus we live within this tremendous field of energy which is being continuously modified. This modification undoubtedly is responsible for the gradual changes in human psychology. It makes available or less available mental energy, emotional energy. It results in world fatigues and the dying out of racism species. It also results in immediate and momentary fatigue, tension stresses. And the various problems with which we are familiar. Is, therefore we are seeking a formula. Perhaps one of the simplest understanding formulas that we can have is that man has a moral, mental and emotional creature. Is constantly interpreting the available conditioned energy upon which he exists. If this energy supply is lessened before it reaches him, we have one kind of phenomenon. If man drew his own development, structural or psychological, becomes resistant or inconsistent with energy which has reached him, therefore does not permit it to move through him. It is proper causes and channels. We have another kind of modification. So man is aspected between a moving universe and all motion results in qualitative modification. Everything that moves changes. And because the universe is infinite motion. Infinitely extended. So every moment of the universe is different. Man living with his this constant difference. Experiences one of the first dilemmas, namely that he cannot understand such motion. Therefore, through his ignorance and failure to respond, he does not keep. Pace with the motion of energy. As the interval between his own motion and that of energy increases, he comes into conflict with the very life principles upon which he depends for existence. Such conflict may well lie beneath the entire problem of human adjustment, physical and metaphysical. Assuming then the possibility and the reasonable probability. That man is an interpreter of universal energy. That he is a kind of small universe in which all these parts of the greater world have their miniature reflections and models. We then come to the conception. That man’s existence lies largely. Upon the foundation of his available energy. Energy is the source of function, and function for man is the reason for existence. Unless he is able to function in these patterns, he has lost the significance of these patterns to himself. If, then we must seek for a basic explanation. Let us remember that the very primary elements of ancient astrological thinking had to do with energy allotment. We divide people today into two basic types. Those who are truly active and those who are tired. And today the majority of human beings is tired. This tremendous sense of fatigue. Which we all commonly experience. And which makes life increasingly difficult for us. The ancients recognized it. And declared that it was due to certain negative cycles. Are cycles of negativity moving in the great tidal system of space? That as the tides of the sea have been flow, so the tides of energy and man ebb and flow. Now, ebbing and flowing psychologically is a very important thing, inasmuch as we have to recognize that energy is never actually absent. It is merely not available in its accustomed form and demands a new or different kind of adjustment. This adjustment we have in psychological thinking in two types of persons called the extroverts and the introvert. The extrovert is the individual who seemingly possesses more abundant immediate energies. The introvert is the individual in whose life these objective energies are not as obvious or abundant. Nature is only telling us, however, that in the character of man, as in the universe, or in the growth of the oak tree, there are alternations of objectivity and subjectivity required in nature. In an effort to standardize living, we have totally ignored this. We have assumed that every individual at all times must be upon an equal energy footing. It is possible that he is upon an equal footing, but he is not able to exhibit or manifest identical equal energy at all times. We know that sleep is intended to help us to catch up on some of our energy problems, but it does not go as far as our providing needs at the moment. Fleet may take care of part of our physical and psychological life. But there is something else that has to be considered. Namely, that nature has set this grand pattern that is caused to operate by an innumerable Galaxy of Suns. And that man, regardless of his egoism, is still nearly a tiny creature within this incredible machinery. Man’s happy adjustment depends upon his gradual understanding of the kind of world he lives in and his willingness to live according to what he understands when he does learn. This combination is essential to his life. Introversion and extroversion are natural motions. They are the result of the fact that nature recognizes that man has two needs. He has need for an external life and he has need for an internal life. Experience shows that unbalance. The overdevelopment of his external life has impoverished his internal life. By his failure to enrich it with the conscious contributions of his own mental and emotional energies. As a result of his own failure. Man, therefore, has come to the point where extroversion or self-expression outwardly becomes comparatively easy for it, and he is inclined to overdo it. Whereas introversion or the return of the individual inward, the turning of his tides towards his internal life. Has resulted in in coming face to face with a situation so deplorable that under generally general conditions, introversion has become practically synonymous with neurosis. Thus, instead of living a balanced life of internal and external polarizations, the individual is so depleted, impoverished, or neglected inwardly, that he is like too many persons in our nation. Who drive a fine car and give all the sense of prosperity, but whose homes are neglected and chaotic? The individual turning into himself finds a condition which leads to suffering rather than adjustment. This is nature pointing out a defect, for man should be able to move inwardly and outwardly without tension or stress, finding an excellent, important and useful life in both of these polarizations. Even energies were available to him, such would be possible. The other factors also contribute to man’s life. And there can be no doubt whatever. That time and place. Do influence the end the entrance of the human being into material life. The time and condition in which a person is born. His value? The independent thing has been neglecting ignored psychologically, although it is accepted historically. Can we deny that an individual born at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars? Was under a different type of environmental heritage than the person that was born, we will say, in the golden age of Greece. Not the old man had their wars in their troubles, but it is not possible to say that the time and place of birth are meaningless. The time the individual is born and the place where he is born. These circumstances bring him into a particular relationship with the patterns and history. And also with the with the relations and customs and attitudes of tribes and nations, racial groups, social structures. Man being born today is born into a social pattern that did not exist 100 years ago. We know that in living, the average person cannot psychologically outlive his generation. If he is forced into conflict with his own upbringing and the years of experience through which he has passed, he becomes discouraged and confused. So I Cology makes a great deal of heredity. Astrology simply states that man’s universal heredity is derived from his relationship to universal energy fields. Also that the peculiar circumstance of his birth. Is a relationship between energy in the field of space and the energy of the individual himself. Therefore, there is a time to be born and a time to die. And these things are within chemical fields of relationships which are exact and inevitable in nature. By means of such laws and principles, not only is universal machinery maintained, but also universal ethics. The rightness of things is made possible because of the immutability of the universal pattern in which we exist. Also, in studying their nativities of persons in ancient times, the old stargazers studied first of all. The individuals personality. The personality is that part of us which we exhibit to others. This personality is the container, the vessel into which energies will be poured. It also reveals the immediate use that we shall make of the energy available to us, use which will be in some way you unique or different. From the used made by another person. Consequently, personality becomes the final distributor of man’s personal energy. It tells us about his enthusiasms, his interests and his attitudes. It gives us something of the degree. Of specialization in which his life will be patterned. Then this is compared with another very great factor and that is his energy allotment. And basically there’s allotment was anciently based upon the position of the sun. In the relationship of the Great year. That is truly we have distribution of available energy in the seasons. Persons born in these seasons have certain energy peculiarities, and not long ago there was a published list of accidents on the Bay Bridges in San Francisco. And it was pointed out that the accident rate is entirely erratic. And breaks all laws of accidental probabilities. Instead of these accidents occurring according to a patternless sequence, these accidents are highly patterned. And by the study of them, it becomes immediately obvious that the accident is not an accident. That it is based upon certain energy problems. That the individual at the wheel is much more likely to go to sleep and have an accident. Or it is much more likely to have slow reflexes and have an accident. All these things are determined, apparently, by energy allotments. Thus the Son to the Ancient was the symbol of man’s energy, Allah its relationship to him. It’s effect upon him and the bridge between the sun and the heaven and the source of life, light in man. This bridge was always regarded as the Nativity, the symbol the horoscope. The sign by means of which certain actual calculations of the availability of energy resources could be made. Now better calculations may be made in the future. But we view as considerable interest the audacity of the ancient. Long before the dawn of science actually did fashion the bridge. By means of which he sought to measure. The light power in man, and the peculiar action of this life power in various men, not merely an inner empiric situation. From energy allotment, then we come to the conclusion. That two kinds of persons do exist. Those who by nature are essentially positive. And those, by nature, are essentially negative. Now by negative and positive we do not mean good and bad, nor do we mean strong and weak. Nor do we mean helpful and helpless. These are not the applications, because, as the Chinese and in East Indians pointed out long ago, the greatest mystery of all is the mystery of negative energy, not positive energy. Now let’s go to the present moment. We have considered negative energy merely that thought of energy which we do not understand. Negative energy may also be that part to which we do not immediately respond. It may also be that part of energy not yet explored, and if that is what is meant, then indeed the negative energy is the greater part, because we know hardly a fraction of what must ultimately be known about these subjects. But negative energy? Is in some way what we might term a spiritual energy. It is negative as we now view all spiritual things because they are not immediately visible to us. It is negative because it does not help us to get rich. That is not obviously. And anything that does not help pay bills is not only negative, it is a luxury in these times. It is doom negative also because it forces man into one of the most disagreeable relationships he can endure and that is into his own company. Ah. Negative energy is energy which has by its tendency. Emotion inward or away from objectivity. Negative energies therefore to us. Maybe a little more than a vacuum. But it is this vacuum that it conceals the mystery of Deity. All things moving up on the levels of positive energy. Are very obvious in their functions. The individual gets up, rolls up his sleeves and does things, but what does he do? What is the final result of what he does? Usually his own destruction. By positive energy as lead is LED from 1 excessive action to another. Also, of course, he has led to a certain degree of material accomplishment. It is not that we should discount so-called objective energy. It is that we should recognize that, like nearly everything else that makes up our modern pattern, it is of secondary importance, elevated to 1st place. That this so-called positive energy. Is leading us into a quantitative victory over the unknown, whereas what is termed negative energy is the secret of our qualitative victory and on this we have very little knowledge or thought at the present time. Nearly all solutions to all problems arise from the individual who is able to become adjusted receptively to truth. Receptive adjustment. Therefore makes use of a kind of energy which is different from that which is used in material objective adjustment. Actually, receptivity appears to use less energy. Actually, it uses more of a very refined kind of energy. Because receptivity is not negativity as we know it. What we call negative energy. Is simply an energy with a purpose which does not lie within the field of our ordinary experience. Yet upon this energy we must build an. We live because of it. Because our internal life is sustained by this energy in the same way that our external life is. It’s sustained by material energy. Out of there for and therefore out of the study. Of the effects of the universe upon man. We must ultimately come to the recognition. That man has an internal life which we may term a psychological life. And that this is subjected to laws other than the laws of matter. Our attitude today is that all influence that models are molds. The internal life of man comes from the outside. And is made aware, and we are made aware of it, or it is visible to us because of the light of the sun shining upon it. That is also declared emphatically. That the interior life of man is also subject to energies and laws which are not obvious materially. And that the individuals inner life. Is subject to its own environment, the forces of it, and the energy sustaining it. If our outside life is in a quantitative environment, our inner life is in a qualitative environment. Consequently, our inner life has an existence of its own. And this existence also has a nativity. As an endurance in space. And is subject to a kind of energy pattern. What we call psychologically archetypes are more or less proofs of this. For archetypes are fogs set up in a formless state. They are kinds of entities which are not materially available to us, yet they become the actual motivating symbolic energy powers by which conduct can be and is modified. Thus, in astrology, the ancients were firmly convinced. That man possessed an internal being. And that this internal being was subject to laws that must be discovered, and that these laws are not just the laws of material existence, but our laws relating to the controlled direction of electrical and magnetic phenomena. That the spiritual life of man operates in a field of energy just exactly as the material life of man operates in a field of phenomena. That we must understand this energy and must most of all adjust to it. The inner life of man as a normal or an abnormal adjustment with its own energy fields, when the inner life of man is completely the result of the pressure from the order or outer life of man. Then there’s your life, imprisoned, locked within a situation for which it was not intended. There was never a time in nature. Nature intended the lesser of the greater. There was never a time in the Constitution of man, when it was a soul that that the outer life of man could satisfactorily regulate his inner life. In every instance, the inner life must regulate the outer. Authority must be best for you superior. When, therefore, the outer life of men? Affecting the internal life makes it difficult or impossible for the psychic field to operate normally in manifestation. In this world we have a symphonic. We have a situation whenever we try to force that which is less upon that which is intrinsically more. Also in this situation we have the continual fact of the need for the psychic life of man to keep the laws of the psychic life of the universe. Man who breaks the material laws of nature is punished physically. When man’s entity or cell phone comes out of adjustment with universal energy, he is punished inwardly or metaphysically. He is punishing is a series of installments, elements that are as dangerous to him as physical arguments are to the body. Paracelsus pointed out that every ailment known to the body has its equivalent in the psychic field of men. And that it is just as easy for the individual to be sick psychically as it is physically. But he did not affirm, and neither did the other eight ancients, that all psychic sickness arises from the personality. He assumed that psychic sickness arises from psychic disobedience in the same way that physical sickness results from physical disobedience. And cyclic disobedience is in harmony, the end in the energy field of man, and the great universal field which must nourish it. In harmony of this kind, man man does arise from several possible causes. The most common cause would be paralleling that of physical ailments. Namely, that the individual psychic field is unable to form a natural proper adjustment with its own source of nutrition. That wherever this occurs, so have psychics. And wherever this occurs, anything else, something else that causes it, and the thing that causes it, would be the equivalent of egoism or egotism, the end of the individual who stands against the law. The individual who believes all things have to obey. The individual individual who takes an attitude of aggressive egoism, enforcing his own concepts upon nature. It was punishment for his hair, exactly what exactly what occurred was of the Tower of People or People. As most ancient positions and some schools modern medicine point out, the greatest single cause of sickness is obstruction. That by means of which natural function is impaired, bodily obstruction, due detention, will will impair body function and reduce health. Psychic tension Psychic psychic stress deals with the distribution of energy on the psychic plane and makes possible the development of psychic ailments. If then, the problem of the great cyclic year is taken into consideration, man must not only keep the laws of nature to exist, but he must also keep the laws of soul if he is going to exist. The laws of nature. These these are simply. I’m naming energy energies. Laws are actually at least manifested through great orderly energy patterns. Wherever there is disobedience, it means that we have broken relationship with energy. Where we have gone our own way, race, hardness of right and wrong, we have broken our monies, relations with energies that were necessary to sustain us. And the ill result of our poor conduct is due to the amount of energy that is cut off. In the same manner, our psychic life is due to the energies which by various attitudes, complexes, fixations, etcetera. By which we Christophers, or obstruct the motion of the cyclic life of man. It is as though a fish in the sea tried to stand firm and prevent the time. A very very small. This particular type of disobedience is ridiculous and is only possible and does not understand, not understand the facts. He would not be foolish. Actually. However, judgment with nature care for much more of an impact, more of an implication is generally assumed. Let us imagine that man’s psychically, formally formed an adjustment, great energy energy fields by which by which he lives, his adjustment must be almost equal. Pick one. And Brad, this is one of the reasons why Wilson will someday be of the greatest insight inside cology. Man adjusting to universal energies psychically, particularly where you have a musical world, total world of value. He is a he is adjusting to motion. He is not adjusting to something that’s fixed. He is not adjusting to a point where once adjusted it will always be so. He is a He is adjusting to something that is never twice. He is adjusting to something that is itself most pure motion. Quickly, his adjustment cannot be a mental one because the mind thoughts cannot move that rapidly. And cannot be an emotional one because climate cannot change so quickly. His adjustment must be of total acceptance of motion. Ohh everything which is more motion? Must seize in his own sight. Unless it does, you will continuously be subject to future. Now such an adjustment is not. It is the most difficult of all possible attainments. Because it means that the individual must be integrated. In constant motion. He cannot merely lie back and float. He must function in motion. He must recognize that that out of a cooler with himself and himself, because they are. Annually adjusting to the energy, to the energy, the energy space he is unfolding, he is growing, he is going, he is moving as well as well as as well as quantitative motion to achieve this, this, this is a very high end. And learning and knowledge cannot change, can achieve it. He must recognize it speed of it. He must recognize, therefore, that the universe is constantly impelling him. To subjective adjustment is penalizing him for having a certain crystallization within his psychic life, by means of which his physical life is damaged and the other format of his life is frustrated. To modernize these energies able to able to use them. Required greater knowledge of them and their attributes, their qualities and their keyword. The ancient, the ancient fashion, the simple little design on a piece of paper which he called a horoscope, and in which he set before men from elementary and rudimentary true. A man of most immediate adjustment. Vince is convinced in his own spin, his old, that this ballot, that is the only, was the only, the only, the only form of learning not in which in which his personal relationship with the universe was revealed. That it was number longer a relationship. But in an intimate in which the universe universe, and through and through man and man move universe and through the universe. These two these two full procedures be. Class classifieds and with scenes of pains and paper and effort, the entire sub would be broken open, broken open, made available to the individual. On this line of thinking, then, they believe there is more work to be done, more work that should be done as soon as. In order that we can finally get at the subjective, not merely as that is reflected through body. But as he exists in his own and Melvin and Mel begin to end, they are working directly erectly, apparently, upon the divine philosophy and religion, and religion and religion and religion upon reflex. Action, next action, next action, next action from the external life. Working in a clumsy manner Mumsy we are we are trying we are 50 years ago but we still but we still have a long level go go to the secretary and essentially and essentially inferentially interesting interested all they encourage this research and not fall into the. Pattern, pattern or improve or improbable? Improbable. We live in a world where possible, and the great and the great, and the great and the great thing that must be made is that is achieved. There will be no to the common disasters. It is our own final adjustment, with this great face, with its countless intermingling values, that gives us our hope of ultimate security peace. well not long ago we had a number of game to
Conclusion
The progression of Chapter One is to start with an overview and then focus one step at a time, from largest and grandest to the smallest and most immediate. Which is me. Now.
To do so, I first have to back track to tell you about the important role the German psychologist Carl Jung has played in my life over the years, up to the current day.
It started after I dropped out of graduate school. I’d told an English advisor he could keep the NDEA IIII Fellowship that would have paid for a Ph.D. in trivia. According to department rules, a thesis on Shakespeare was disallowed. That field was overdone. I’d have to pick a subject less known, and not written upon. Not interested.
So the following year, I continued reading on my own, on the subjects that mattered to me. Significantly, I trudged through volume 13 of Jung’s collected work, Alchemical Studies. What stayed with me was a picture drawn by one of his patients. A bird stands on the ground in front of a large, thick tree. There’s a door to the tree. But it’s locked. The bird weeps because he’s stuck outside.
That bird’s soul sadness resonated. I identified.
(Getting ahead of myself, in retrospect, that’s what the shift to the Quantum Paradigm will change for those soul-stuck on the outside of the Tree of Life, the result of programming and cultural conditioning.)
Two years later, as a violin student living in Düsseldorf, Germany, I burrowed deep into Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams and Reflections. The memorable take away was his account of the fastest cure he remembered. A neurotic young Jewish woman, raised by atheist parents, was instantly healed by reconnecting with her grandfather’s devout piety. She remembered who she was.
That story touched a psychic nerve.
My landlord at the time was an elderly portrait painter. He insisted I was not American, and asked about my family roots. I had no idea. His questions sparked letters to grandparents on both sides, asking about their ancestors.
It turns out that I owe coloring and bone structure to my father’s father’s Native American lineage. My fathers’ mother, whose maiden name was Brooks, went directly back to the Mayflower (my father was named after one of its passengers, William Kirby). Further back, the line traced to Lady Jane Gray, who, had she been born male, would have been King of England (rather than being executed in the Tower of London immediately after her tragically ambitious husband).
My mother’s mother’s was of Viennese descent, almost as if there were a karmic connection to my violin, made in Vienna in 1776 by Mathias Thir.
And my mother’s father’s father was of Russian Jewish stock. Though a tailor by profession, according to Grandpa Dave, he was a biblical scholar and saintly man. Bingo!
During that same time, I immersed myself in the Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the venerable Chinese I Ching. Jung wrote its introduction. He admitted he was reluctant to do so, worried that it might put his reputation at risk. However, he felt a responsibility to sponsor it as a valuable method for making the unconscious conscious. To solve his dilemma, he removed himself by asking the I Ching itself what it wanted readers to know about this translation.
Five years later, I followed his example, asking in the introduction to my small, jargon-free version what it had to offer its readers. (N.B. Dynamics of the Quantum Paradigm are inherent in the I Ching, as it slowly taught me through persistent, careful attention.)
Now, in doing the research for this chapter, I recently came across yet another of Jung’s contributions. Again, he expressed grave reluctance to be associated with a fringe topic. But again, he felt a responsibility to take on a subject he regarded as having immense psychological importance to worldwide observers of this phenomenon.
Surprisingly, in the very first pages of Flying Saucers (meaning UFOs), Jung mentions the astrological precession of ages of which the ancients knew, taking them for granted as fact. He was keenly aware that humanity is approaching a massive shift, and that somehow, the surfacing awareness of ET presence is critically important to successfully navigating that shift!
Getting a bit ahead of the story, which we’ll circle back to in Chapter 5, Jung concluded that humanity has something akin to a cellular memory (which he could only identify as an unconscious resonance) of ET influence. Why? At the time, in 1958, he could not say.
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Rethinking Survival 