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In reply to the discussion: Ghosts, UFOs, ESP, Astrology, Free Energy, Clairvoyant........ [View all]Remember Me
(1,532 posts)Sorry.
I took a look at your "science" out of curiosity -- I can't get past the first real paragraph, which has this in it:
Some of the claims they make are inherently contradictory (some say the moment of birth is important, others say it's the month, etc.)...
Wrong. They are both important. The day too. The place as well. You can pull that apart and call it "contradictory" or you can learn enough about it -- which this author clearly hasn't -- to understand how it works before trying to criticize it.
Not a very good start for a so-called SCIENTIST.
but they all operate under a very broad working assumption: there is some sort of force from the heavens that influences us here on Earth.
Uh, not really. It could be synchronicity. Astrologers don't spend a lot of time trying to figure that out ("that" being why astrology works). They prefer to spend their time with the what -- what the various symbols reveal.
Carl Jung, one of the first psychiatrists and the famous founder of analytical psychology, studied astrology himself and talked about synchronicity -- "acausal connection of two or more psycho-physic phenomena." (You should read the client case that prompted this: http://www.carl-jung.net/synchronicity.html )
Or. here's this more accessible explanation from Wikipedia:
Jung coined the word to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously described synchronicity as an "acausal connecting principle", "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism". Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s but only gave a full statement of it in 1951 in an Eranos lecture[3] and in 1952, published a paper, Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge (Synchronicity — An Acausal Connecting Principle)[4], in a volume with a related study by the physicist (and Nobel laureate) Wolfgang Pauli.[5]
It was a principle that Jung felt gave conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious,[6] in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history—social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Concurrent events that first appear to be coincidental but later turn out to be causally related are termed incoincident.
Jung believed that many experiences that are coincidences due to chance in terms of causality suggested the manifestation of parallel events or circumstances in terms of meaning, reflecting this governing dynamic.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
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