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Although the field of psychiatry
has taken great steps forward since it's emergence, such
as Carl Jung's more spiritual
approach, which has been merged with astrology by many
'Astrological-Psychologists', and
R.D.Laing's revolutionary 'Uranian' methods, where
acute mental and emotional
turmoil was allowed to continue along it's course, rather
than
being checked by sedation, there
are still some "basics" which remain. For instance,
psychologists, such as Freud,
divided the human mind into three compartments: ego, id,
and superego. Astrologers do the
same thing, except that our model of the mind differs
from Freud's in two fundamental
ways. First, it's a lot more elaborate. Instead of three
compartments, we have ten: Sun,
Moon, and the eight planets we see from Earth. As we
know, each planet represents more
than a "circuit" in your psyche. It also serves as a kind
of "Teacher," guiding us into
certain consciousness-triggering kinds of experience.
'Consciousness' is an elusive
concept to define. For a scientist, it could be merely
locating
and charting the firing of
neurones in the brain, but this lacks insight into the
spiritual
component of the term. "Mind"
awareness is much more than charting electrical brain
activity, for me, it is a
spiritual level of 'self-realisation' integrating the mental,
physical,
and spiritual aspects of self. I
think we need to reach outside ourselves in a sense, and
go
beyond the material world in
order to reach our higher, spiritual self, so that we can
attain
increasing levels of
self-realisation in a search for "wholeness". Individual
wholeness
must come before we can have
wholeness in our world: inner peace must be achieved for
the 'individual', before we can
have world peace: but our 'civilisation' seems to thrive
on
disturbing individual inner
peace: The media probes the contentment, often with lies,
by
telling us how we should look,
how we should eat, how unhealthy we must be, how fat
we are, what drugs we should and
shouldn't addle our minds with. All this implanting of
negative seed which many people
have little or no resource to alleviate. The result? lack
of inner peace and a sense of
loss of self-realisation, emptiness and fragmentation
rather
than 'wholeness'. The whole thing
is driven by a massive multi-billion
pound/dollar/yen/franc, etc.
business and industry matrix. It is known, for instance,
that
the "dieting" industry is one of
the biggest and continually thriving multi-million pound
industries on the globe! even
though the success rate of it's clients is one of the lowest
.
Of course, the reason it thrives
as a business is the lack of client success, which creates
a
self-regenerating source of
outlets for it's products.
And to think that people talk of
"World Peace" !
So, I must work on attaining my
"individual self-realisation" and quality of inner peace,
through the search for
"consciousness". My ally in part is "Astrology".
"LIFESCAN ANALYSIS"
Astrology and consciousness share
an identical goal - to help people fulfil their potential,
it helps to integrate the inner
self with the outer reality, and to thus approach the goal
of
consciousness.
"Let it begin with me
"
Now! this all began with the
comparisons drawn between astrology and psychology! I
think I went slightly off the
mark for a bit! Anyway,....... the second difference
between
astrology and psychology is that
astrology's mind-map, unlike Freud's, is rooted in nature
itself, just as we are.The
primary celestial teacher is the Sun. What does it teach?
Selfhood. Vitality. How to keep
the life-force strong in yourself. If the Sun grew dimmer,
so would all the planets -- they
shine by reflecting solar light. Similarly, if you fail to
stoke the furnaces of your own
inner Sun, then you'll simply be "out of fuel." All your
other planetary functions will
suffer too.
(c)P McBrearty dms.astrol mapa.
adastra@itl.net
adastra@itl.net
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goto 'Stonehenge' -- goto 'Artworx' -- goto 'Introduction
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