It sounds magical because there is no other method of grasping at it to ground it into what you are seeking which is purely rational explanation. It is not a ‘rational’ (by 21st cen def of rational) system. There are things in life that are bigger than our minds and it takes..
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humility to explore the truths contained therein. If you choose not to embrace that realm of thought, by all means. But reducing it to a condescending stream of what you deem nonsense because there are not methods in place to prove it to your system of thought is unnecessary and
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Frankly, small minded. Just because we cannot pinpoint the mechanics in our current technological/scientific/cultural understanding does not automatically deny the existence of those very mechanics at work. Some are just more attuned to interpreting and interacting with those
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and I'm not saying we need to pinpoint the mechanics - I just want any plausible theory at all that we can then pursue testing. I don't mean I need to know how it works, I mean I need to know a path towards testing it and discovering more about how it works.
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I think that will only come when scientific culture has developed enough courage to step into that space of the seemingly unknowable. Quantum physics will surely be a gateway, it will just take a while
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I don't need scientific culture - it's just me, with my own curiosity. Just give me literally any theory that isn't immediately disprovable or extremely unlikely, like literally any one. Otherwise there's no way to differentiate what you're saying from complete bullshit
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I’m not steeped in the techniques of it enough to give you a testable theory. I function more in that blank space, archetypal kind of knowing. I wouldn’t doubt there are some out there though, hold on let me go quickly skim that book and see if I can find something for you
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Not a theory for you to test but here he conveys what I was saying in greater depth
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this all sounds like anybody could have made it up - could I then pick literally anything and then derive personality correlations from it, like the arrangement of rocks, as indicative of cosmic state at the time?
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No, but, the thing that is important to note is again the difference in the age when astrology was developed. Those people they operated in a different state of relation with the world than we do now. I don’t think it was ‘making it up’ so much as receiving a deeper intelligence
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