the star script: how astrology helps finding out who you are

THE STAR SCRIPT

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THE STAR SCRIPT

THE STAR SCRIPT

HOW ASTROLOGY HELPS FINDING

OUT WHO YOU ARE

by Peter Fritz Walter

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About the Author

Parallel to an international law career in Germany, Switzer-land and the United States, Dr. Peter Fritz Walter (Pierre) fo-cused upon fine art, cookery, astrology, musical perform-ance, social sciences and humanities.

He started writing essays as an adolescent and received a high school award for creative writing and editorial work for the school magazine.

After finalizing his law diplomas, he graduated with an LL.M. in European Integration at Saarland University, Germany, and with a Doctor of Law title from University of Geneva, Switzer-land, in 1987.

He then took courses in psychology at the University of Ge-neva and interviewed a number of psychotherapists in Lau-sanne and Geneva, Switzerland. His interest was intensified through a hypnotherapy with an Ericksonian American hyp-notherapist in Lausanne. This led him to the recovery and healing of his inner child.

After a second career as a corporate trainer and personal coach, Pierre retired as a full-time writer, philosopher, and photographer.

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Contents

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Rediscovering Perennial Science 9

The Star Script 17

Developing SElf-Power 27

The Drama of Growing Up 39

Using Astrological Knowledge 53

Glossary 71

Terms 71

Astrology 71Brain and Mind Research 72Cartesian Science and Worldview 75Emotional Intelligence 76I Ching 76Minoan Civilization 78Mythology 80Inner Selves 85Intuition 90Narcissism and Boomeritis 90Numerology 100Perennial Science 101Runes 102

Self 103Soul Power 104Tarot 105

Personalities 106

Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama 106Descartes, René 107Einstein, Albert 108Freud, Sigmund 108Jung, Carl Gustav 110Krishnamurti, J. (K) 111

BIBLIOGRAPHY 115

Personal Notes 135

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Rediscovering Perennial

Science

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I suppose that many find it unusual and

daring to use astrology for creative reorienta-

tion and finding out about their life’s mission.

The reason for this disregard of one of the

oldest sciences of the world has to do with

rampant misinformation and the vulgarization

of knowledge that once was hermetic and re-

served for an intellectual elite.

The popular image of astrology distilled

original precious perennial science into a shal-

low pastime hobby for esoteric-minded freaks,

rose buddies and purple-spirited scam artists

of all kinds. As with all things true, modern so-

ciety was once again able to majestically per-

vert, debase and tear into the gutter of the

mass mind what was once a jewel for the se-

lect few of the leading elite.

Let me specify here right at the start of this

article that I won’t speak about predictive as-

trology, as I generally do not practice it.

Predictive astrology is the one that makes

predictions for people’s future, for what is go-

ing to happen. And as a matter of general

stupidity, this is the kind of astrology most

people take for the only one that merits the

name astrology.

And here they are mistaken, if not misled.

This is not the astrology that has the highest

merit and that serves true spiritual guidance.

Astrology as a fortune-telling device can

readily be attacked and criticized, because it

indeed bears certain dangers.

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We all build our future ad hoc, from the

present moment forward, projecting con-

scious and unconscious content of our con-

sciousness in time and space, thereby creating

our future.

No and nothing can predict the future as

we are the creative agents to build it on a

timeline of zillions of tiny points of decision

moments imprinted on the memory surface of

the universe, thus triggering creative effects in

space and time.

That is not all. There are karmic patterns

that partly or wholly escape our awareness

that have their own self-projecting energy,

thus making for a part of non-programmed,

non-warranted and non-willed events to come

upon us.

Astrology can assess all those patterns, but

it cannot replace the decision maker. You can

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change your future by changing your now.

And when you project enough of creative en-

ergy and strong willpower, and if you work

with your unconscious so as to influence,

bend, change or erase your repetitive and

karmic patterns, you can change your future

virtually instantly. The latter, you can namely

do by what I came to call Creative Prayer, a

technique developed by Ernest Holmes in the

1920s and commercialized by Dr. Joseph

Murphy and Catherine Ponder in the 1960s.

You may also use self-hypnosis or auto-

suggestion for this purpose.

—See Peter Fritz Walter, Creative Prayer: The

Miracle Road (Scholarly Articles, Vol. 5), 2015.

What I am going to talk about in this article

is not predictive astrology, but the old art of

potential astrology as it was part of perennial

science and philosophy in all ancient wisdom

traditions.

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Astrology was in the ancient world consid-

ered as the Queen of all Sciences, a royal tool

for establishing connections between the hu-

man and the divine, so as to find out about

the right way of living at a certain time, within

a certain context and at a certain place.

Today we have arrived at some point of

culmination of centuries of division and analy-

sis and there is a general striving for synthesis

in all walks of life, in all sciences, in all arts,

much as in the Renaissance.

This is the reason that so many new meth-

ods and approaches come up. In fact, most of

them are not new at all, but replicas of old

concepts that we have forgotten. And there-

fore, honestly, I can reveal that my idea about

using astrology for finding one’s path in life is

not new but replicates exactly what was writ-

ten on Delphi's Apollo Temple: Know Thyself.


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Astrology is a fantastic tool for gaining self-

knowledge, for finding out who you are.

Since many years I am assisting people in

getting connected to their highly personal

and individual creativity potential, their inner

power of creation, using, inter alia, potential

astrology! I do it for one single reason: it has

helped me to find my own way to my true self,

and thus it has stood trial, more than twenty

years ago.

I found that freedom is first of all the free-

dom to know yourself, and it’s the most revo-

lutionary of all freedoms. It sounds so harm-

less but it’s considered as very dangerous in

all totalitarian systems. In order to be success-

ful in a system that preaches mediocrity, you

have no choice but to put water in your wine.

You need freedom for exploring who you

are, and astrology, history has shown, grows

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and prospers only in free cultures, not in tyr-

annies.

Astrology provides knowledge you are

looking for, within a range of freedom you are

looking for.

Astrology draws a diagram of our soul in-

cluding our karma. It clearly indicates the

traits of our unconscious and our conscious

personalities, not only the one that we show

like a mask to the outside world, which is our

persona, but also the personalities that we

bear inside of us and most of which are still

virgin or in a state of potentiality.

But it’s those inner personalities that carry

most of the creative energy I would like to

trigger in my clients. Astrology therefore is a

diagnostic tool for my work. At the same time

it is a mirror for my clients to clearly under-

stand, perhaps for the first time in their life,


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what their hidden potential is, where their tal-

ents are and how they can possibly realize

them, provided they are willing to invest the

vital energy needed to achieve their mission-

related goals.

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The Star Script

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Working since years with voice dialogue, I

know how important it is to work on our inner

shadow, the hidden or repressed parts of our

self, the energies that are lost to our con-

sciousness because they are not admitted, like

haunting shades of smoke in front of our inner

eye.

These energies drive us much more than

the ones we admit and acknowledge, but

since we put them under the magic spell of

taboo, we project their shadows onto others

with the result that we see the bad man al-

ways in others or in peoples, in groups or

even, very generally, the bad world as op-

posed to the good heaven.

You can give up your search for truth right

away if you refuse to acknowledge your

shadow, and all your so-called spiritual efforts

are but the expressions of your blind spots,

your disguised weaknesses.

This whole disgusting hero cult, this hypo-

crite striving for outer perfection as it is so

much in today, especially in the United States,

is but a gigantic lie about human nature and

human potential. If you negate the negative,

you won’t be able to affirm and build the posi-

tive, because negative and positive depend

on each other.

Astrology offers us maps to explore our in-

ner landscape. And they are accurate.

Other map-providers are psychoanalysis or

transactional analysis in its form of the inner

dialogue. There are also more esoteric map

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providers such as the Tarot de Marseille or the

I Ching.

All divinations are projection systems to

mirror the content of our consciousness in a

way that is intelligible for our rational mind.

There is nothing supernatural about them,

and all the fuss about those forms of knowl-

edge being silly or charlatanism are the pure

results of ignorance.

The past millennium was perhaps the cul-

mination point of ignorance in the whole run

of human history. The Church’s absolute

power quest was based upon the ignorance of

the common believer, and therefore knowl-

edge became a form of subversion, especially

knowledge about the roots and functions of

life, and knowledge about the human nature

and its biological sexual function. In the Mid-

dle Ages the alchemists risked their life for

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carrying out what we call today scientific work.

And Wilhelm Reich ended in prison, in 1950s

America and all his books were burned pub-

licly!

However, we can see that astrology went all

the way through to us, from ancient times until

today, and astrologers were among the wisest

people in the world. Kepler was a very pro-

found astrologer, Newton is said to have had

solid knowledge about it. And Nostradamus

was one of the most powerful psychics and vi-

sionaries of all times. He was the personal

consultant of kings and queens and the basis

of all his psychic power was astrology.

Now we may want to go deeper into this

subject and also beyond historical and psy-

chological limitations. Many of us today are

open to see the truth, some of them desper-

ately longing for a source of wisdom that is

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independent of gurus and sects. Astrology is

the number one source of knowledge to be-

gin with. To repeat it: I do not talk about divi-

natory astrology here, but merely about the

analysis of the birth chart or what may be

called characterological astrology. Character-

ological astrology is one possible map to ap-

proach our inner landscape.

But at this point, some of you will question

why we need maps at all to explore our inner

world. Let me therefore begin with this.

Of course, there are sages who do not

need a map to explore inside. They sit down,

fall in deep trance and are among the gods

and devils of their inner world. But how many

people have this capacity and how much does

it need to acquire it? Since quite a few years

many people from around the world travel to

India and Tibet in order to acquire self-

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knowledge; it means they go far in order to

see what is very close. Isn’t that strange?

The truth is that they search for a map.

They know the landscape is there but they

think they could not explore it without a map

which means in most cases: a guru. Their

quest is a personal handicap, obviously. The

one who has gone the way can show you the

way. But the way he is able to show you is his

way—not yours.

So you still need to do the work, just as if

you never had met that guru. Because his way

and your way are different ways, he cannot be

of much help. He can comfort you of course,

he can encourage you. That may be valuable

support. But spiritually, developmentally, he

cannot help you. He can show you only his

way, not yours.

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We are all different in temperament, char-

acter, inner setup and orientation. In addition,

there is a danger involved in being guided:

one is easily misguided.

I mean our inner guide knows the way

we’ve to go, and another person if she is not

very much ‘plugged’ into our energy in the

beginning so as to make an accurate diagno-

sis of our quest, may lead us onto a way we do

neither need nor want. And most of us would

go that way in this case because we think the

guru must know. Yes, the guru knows. But he

knows first of all about himself and his own

way.

There are two other possibilities. Either you

do it like the sage without a map, or you

change maps. Doing without a map may be

possible after years of serious energy work,

yoga, Chi Gung or else; however the influence

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of our unnatural environment and culture is

not to underestimate. Often sages who reach

the highest level of consciousness have lived

through a childhood full of magic and also

poverty which made that their basic nutrition

was vegetarian. They may have suffered from

abuses as the example Krishnamurti shows,

but were strong enough to survive them with

a still innocent heart.

Considering what two of the most re-

nowned and respected sages say, for example

Jiddu Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi, I

can summarize it as follows:

—you are able to explore your inner land-

scape without a guru;

—you do not need to reject maps as long

as you keep your vision;

—you should be focused upon the way, not

the destination;

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—you need to develop total passive

awareness.

These sages thus affirm that we are able to

go the way on our own, that we can take sup-

porting maps as long as we keep our vision

intact and do not take the finger for the

moon. They stress very much the need to de-

velop attentiveness, passive awareness of our

inner and outer processes, of life as a whole.

To say this is easy, to do it however is ex-

tremely difficult for modern citizens. Never-

theless, it is better to begin cooking your own

soup than tasting the soups of gurus around

the world.

There is only one truth but different ways to

get there. And there is only one truth that is

yours, but there are different ways to get

there. There are ways which are more effective

than the others.

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Once you see that, you are less dogmatic

in your choice of maps. You know that you

have enough autonomy to not confuse the

landscape and the map, and take as a support

what serves you best in your pilgrimage to

self.

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Developing SElf-Power

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With self-power it’s the same as with heal-

ing. Nobody can heal you because we all heal

ourselves. A healer or therapist my catalyze

the healing process in you, but it doesn’t work

when you refuse to cooperate in the healing

process. The universal force in you which does

the healing can use another person as a cata-

lyst but it’s your own inner force that heals,

and not a power transmission from the healer.

The healer may transmit vital energy if you

are lacking out on it but it’s still your own heal-

ing force which would request it and attract

the healer for this purpose.

Self-power really is emanating from your

own higher self and is not a product of expo-

sure to a powerful healer. This is a reassuring

insight since it makes you rely upon yourself,

and only upon yourself!

There is really no power without self-

knowledge. As long as you ignore who you

are you will be dominated by standards and

examples that others set.

Self-knowledge is the point of departure

for autonomy and self-reliance. It’s not the

magic separation from the mother that West-

ern psychoanalysis stresses so much.

Everyone who lived, like me, for long years

in Asia, will confirm that in the East a liquida-

tion of the Oedipus Complex never takes

place. Why then, applying the Freudian sys-

tem, have those cultures not more problems

with codependence and emotional abuse

than we have, but in the contrary live more in

harmony with their families, their large fami-

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lies, and are more flexible to change? It’s be-

cause Asian culture positively encourages self-

knowledge, and this from early childhood.

This fact may be the reason why Asians be-

little Western style power training, or smile

about it. They think they don’t need it be-

cause they practice techniques that favor

awareness.

If you want the moon, you don’t get the

sun. The same applies for power. If you want

to be a powerful artist, you will be a powerful

artist. You won’t be powerful as a business

man, for example.

Following skill-oriented approaches is not

wise, in my opinion. It means to work on the

surface of the personality and not at its root

level. The amount of work may be the same

but the result will be incomparably minor

compared to working on general empower-

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ment. To give an example: if someone suffers

from a phobia for car driving, you can tackle

that phobia so that later the person will be a

good and happy car driver again. Or you can

work on the person’s general fear of life that is

at the root of the phobia.

Once this person can accept life as a

whole, without fear, he or she won’t suffer

from phobias anymore. If, on the other hand,

you follow a partial approach and treat suc-

cessfully the car driving phobia, the general

fear level of the person may substitute this

phobia with another—so that you’ve driven

the Devil out with Beelzebub ...

After these preliminaries we can focus on

our main topic: the importance of astrology in

self-development and the question what kind

of astrology this would be.

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First, let me make clear that my approach

to empowerment is person-centered, not

principle-centered.

Today, especially in the United States, the

principle-centered approach by far dominates

the scene. The most prominent avatar of this

approach is Dr. Stephen Covey who enjoys

worldwide renown because of his bestselling

book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective

People.

The person-centered approach is not

principle-driven, but person-driven.

When we want to understand humans, it is

not very practical to study values. While estab-

lishing a diagnosis of a specific life story, val-

ues are as much in the way as are beliefs and

other mind-processing devices. Only pure

analysis can help us getting the necessary in-

formation in the first place. This information is


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an astrological one. Why? Astrology repre-

sents a first class tool for the assessment of

karmic bonds, the resulting hangups in the

present life story of the person, and the gen-

eral power potential of the native. More than

that, it delivers specific information as to the

potential fields of interest and the talents of

the person.

Of course, the stress here is on potential.

The stars only incline but they don’t deter-

mine. The individual is free to either fully real-

ize this potential or to waste it either by total

unconsciousness or by halfway realization

without satisfying results.

Astrology is not a belief system but a sci-

ence, perhaps one of the purest and certainly

one of the oldest that mankind has devel-

oped. Since the Cartesian or scientific age has

ravaged our naturally synthetic thinking, the

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vulgarization of the old hermetic knowledge

that went along with it has probably done

more damage to it than any persecution or

prohibition under former ecclesiastic rules.

The great masses, even in our days, have a

more or less distorted if not aberrant view of

the old sciences among which astrology is

only one—numerology and geomancy would

be others. What they believe to know about it

is in most cases a collection of mere opinions

that are based on either fake knowledge or

false knowledge. This situation once more

teaches us that no knowledge is indeed better

than half-knowledge or distorted knowledge.

Presently it seems that we have arrived at a

transition point where we are going to rethink

Cartesian attitudes and the mechanistic

worldview as a whole. At this stage of devel-

opment we can’t deny to consider astrology


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as a serious alternative to existing forms of

power training, at least in form of an add-on.

If we take a humanistic, person-centered

approach serious, astrology would ideally fit

to support us in really understanding our hu-

man nature and our individual vision and goal-

setting, for a lifetime and beyond.

If I see the show, the entertainment that

many of the fashionable life coaches and

power trainers do for their clients nowadays, I

wonder what kind of paradigm they apply? Is

it the quick rich fix or the quick health fix or

still another variety of a mechanical ‘moving

trouble out of the way’ or ‘shifting power into

the way?’

Many people take big words, showy ges-

tures and witty demonstrations for the trans-

mission of energy.

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When I talk with top managers, some of

them naively tell me that they would not at-

tend any power seminar if the coach did not

really fire them up. Even in healing, the old

magic world view is still prevailing to a point

that most people believe a healer really

transmitted energy, ignorant about the fact

that the healer activates the inherent healing

powers of his patient/client.

What, then, can astrology do in self-

development? It can serve the following pur-

poses:

—Assessment of the client’s karmic bonds

and self-imposed tasks;

—Assessment of how personal power was

lived in former life-cycles;

—Assessment of how effectively the person

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—Assessment of the person’s need to exert

power;

—Assessment of the fields or areas the

person is powerful;

—Assessment of the means clients use to

achieve their power goals;

—Assessment of blockages to exhibit the

natural strive for power;

—Assessment of the areas those blockages

are most likely to occur;

—Assessment of future possibilities to real-

ize personal power;

—Assessment of ways to build personal

power consistently, long-term.

These are only some of the possible ways

astrology can serve to assess problems with

self-power. Thus astrology represents first of

all a diagnostic tool. As a next step, for the

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choice of the appropriate method for per-

sonal change astrology may equally be of

help.


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The Drama of Growing Up

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Astrology can be an invaluable guide in

developing identity, individuality and auton-

omy, and more generally speaking, with the

often dramatic process of growing up.

While we are formed psychologically at

age six, many of us in modern culture stay fix-

ated to their parents far beyond adolescence;

in fact because of the prolongation of educa-

tional cycles, the natural growing away from

parents and toward erotic love relations has

been profoundly messed up by modern soci-

ety’s child protection paradigm.

But the very idea of child protection, while

it sounds so common today in Western indus-

trialized cultures, could not have been devel-

oped to that point if not our educational sys-

tem would have provided the basis for it. If a

child is exceptionally not entangled with their

parents, they are anyway with school.

If you want to develop your own self, you

will mistrust the educational machine with its

protective stance, and you will understand

that all protection bears an element of slavery.

And you will see that all educational sys-

tems are systems, and thus follow their own

intrinsic dynamics.

Systems are self-preserving, and they tend

to render anonymous all those who are en-

tangled in their machine wheels.

As an anonymous in a system, you will be

fed with standard food so as to become a

standard being that follows the standard rules

given for all. You want to become an individ-

ual, a non-divided, non-fragmented being—

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then you have to get out of any kind of system

as soon as possible!

The star script of your astrological birth

chart tells you exactly the contrary of what the

educational system told you for years and

years: it tells you that you are unique.

There are not two identical birth charts;

some statistic freak once calculated that two

approximately identical birth charts could oc-

cur within every two million years or so. And

here we still speak about an approximate simi-

larity, not about a total clone, which is non-

existent in the universe. As there are not two

identical birth charts, there are not two identi-

cal humans.

Hence, all leveling educational systems are

against the human nature; while astrology

does not know any levels. All humans are

equal not only in front of the law but also in

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front of astrology. Every human is unique,

every birth chart is a jewel in the universe.

I was lucky enough that I encountered as-

trology as early as in high school, as it con-

firmed my intuition that the educational sys-

tem I was subjected to was gradually alienat-

ing me from myself, from my higher self.

And so I could steer counter to that alienat-

ing influence; I could remain critically aware; I

could revolt when at times it got the over-

hand. And without neglecting my duties as a

good student, without openly vandalizing and

subverting the system, I could keep my inner

light instead of succumbing to endless dark-

ness, as so many of my colleagues.

The system, I reasoned, has no power over

me if I do not give it that power. And I under-

stood that I could develop something like an

intellectual autonomy, while I was emotionally

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still entangled with my mother and while my

emotional autonomy was realized only about

thirty years later. But without my pen being a

guide for my soul, to paraphrase Ralph Waldo

Emerson, I would probably not have devel-

oped the latter either.

Astrology could of course not solve the

codependence with my mother; it could not

heal the emotional abuse I was suffering from

as a child and adolescent. But it could show

me the causes of it, in this life and also in for-

mer lives. It could show me a larger depend-

ency pattern I was carrying over from many al-

ienating lifetimes where I had been entangled

with others, family and partners. And it could

show me ways of self-development that in the

long run would work counter to dependency

and help me mature on a soul level, and thus

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I do not deny that a body-oriented therapy

may help faster than astrology in that process

of liberation. Astrology, while the knowledge

you gain is truly holistic, is what it is: a system

of knowledge.

You gain knowledge, self-knowledge, but

knowledge is not per se liberation while it may

lead to liberation. Knowledge can be used for

liberation, but it can also be used for the con-

trary. All depends on what you do with the

knowledge you have gained through the di-

agnostic tool of astrology. What I am saying is

that astrology is one tool of many for healing

and growing, and ideally one should use as-

trology and one or the other form of therapy

simultaneously.

One of the reasons astrology is a powerful

aid for growing up is that it uses mythology,

which is the language of our collective uncon-

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scious. Astrology can be used as a pure

mathematical system, as some astrologers

have developed it nowadays, but that is a re-

ductionist approach. Real astrology, as every

great astrologer works it out and develops it,

is bound with mythology and permeated with

myths that serve as teaching tales.

Mythology, without the framework that as-

trology gives to it, is a sheer endless en-

deavor, and many people will shy away from

even starting with it because of its immense

scope. With other words, astrology or your in-

dividual birth chart gives you a select choice

of mythological themes that are valid and im-

portant for your own spiritual growth, and you

can assuredly focus on this window into the

mythological world so that your efforts to

study old myths and teaching tales will stay

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By focusing on yourself, you focus on the

essential. That’s one of the secrets of astrol-

ogy. By centering within your own self, you

help bringing the world into balance, and this

is an endeavor that has merit in these days

more than ever before in human history—be-

cause it’s balance that is lacking in all our na-

tional and international litigations and trials.

It’s balance that could bring our world to

peace, and nothing but balance.

In fact, one of the greatest handicaps of

the fragmented mind is that it easily falls into

extremes as it is deeply ignorant about bal-

ance, what balance is, that balance exists, that

it even permeates the universe, and that bal-

ance brings vitality and natural growth, while

all extremes sooner or later bring decay and

destruction. This is so both in personal mat-

ters, in love, in work-related issues, and in in-

ternational relations. Extremes are fake solu-

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tions, while they often make grandiose prom-

ises. Astrology teaches balance, and cautions

against extremes.

Let me give an example. I have in my own

birth chart two planetary dominants, Moon

and Neptune. Would I rely only on these very

powerful influences, I would perhaps be a

filmmaker, but I would also be a very unstable

person, a dreamer, a visionary, and all would

be fluid in my life, intangible and transitory.

But I also have Saturn in a strong position.

And it was this Saturn that gave the main di-

rection to my life, as it implies my law career

and my learning to foster a rational and scien-

tific mind to bring a balance to my sometimes

chaotic emotions.

With Moon and Neptune dominant in the

birth chart, Moon conjunct with ASC and Nep-

tune conjunct M.C., you can only have chaotic


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emotions, and this would be valid, cum grano

salis, for all and everybody.

I know two people who had one of these

planets dominant in their chart and both were

involved with film and acting and who both

were considered to have been very emotional.

The first is Charlie Chaplin who had Moon

dominant and conjunct with ASC, exactly like

in my chart, the other is Clark Gable who had

Neptune conjunct with M.C., like in my chart.

But I have both these constellations. So I

have, so to speak, the gift of acting and film-

making twice, and yet never realized this gift

professionally. Instead, driven by Saturnian

fate, represented in this case by my mother

who put up an ultimatum in the form of ‘either

you study law or I cut your financial support,’ I

chose the law career, thus following my retro-

grade Saturn in the 10th house.

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That choice promised any possible success

rather late in life. But I doubt if the other

choice would have brought me early laurels

as my Neptune was retrograde as well.

Today, at age sixty, I can say that I feel the

rewards of my Saturn in a well-balanced dia-

logue of my emotional understanding of peo-

ple provided by Moon and Neptune, and my

intellectual maturity and ability for a certain

objective assessment through my Saturn.

This positive collation of rather alien influ-

ences led me to become involved in human

fate, personal growth and career develop-

ment some fifteen years ago, and this interest

strengthens over time.

As I am financially independent today, I

could easily launch myself in an art career, but

I would not find the balance that I have built in

my life through the positive interaction of my


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emotional and rational capacities working in

sync. I have met many artists in my life, and

there was not one among them who was not

entangled in a sort of personal drama that was

inflating the self narcissistically, thereby stress-

ing to its limits the ego-bound nature, thereby

in turn creating strife and painful friction in re-

lationships. There was not one of them who

was balanced in a way I can say I am grateful

to have been already as a child; I found them

all trapped in endless power games with oth-

ers, often fascinated by the spectacle of their

litigating emotions, and proud of dramatizing

virtually every little daily thing to gigantic di-

mensions. They were painters, sculptors, ac-

tors, writers and musicians but they all shared

this characteristic to be fundamentally imbal-

anced in their personal lives, while they them-

selves emphasized that their extremes were

conducive to their art.

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This may well have been true. Yet I do not

believe in genius that serves art or any other

ideal when it brings havoc to personal rela-

tions and projects the person into an abyss of

conflict and strife. It remains then a basically

destructive style of life, while I admit that this

destructive pattern is to be found in the lives

of many geniuses.

I have early understood in my life that my

deepest quest is wisdom, not art, not career,

not spectacular success, not proud genius, not

the treachery flair of ‘grand world’—which is

the most fluid of all illusions. And I feel that I

have received a special gift here and that this

gift is the result of my Saturn positively im-

pacting upon my Neptune and my Moon.

Interestingly enough, Saturn is in my chart

placed approximately halfway between them,

and this may indicate that it serves a balanc-


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ing and controlling function regarding emo-

tional life and imagination.

Today I know that my law studies have

helped me understand myself and the world

in rational terms, without making out of this

understanding an absolute quest for rational-

ity.

I can see today that rationality serves a

purpose in the same functional way as emo-

tions serve another purpose, and that both ra-

tio and emotions are at the service of cogni-

tion.

I feel rewarded today to have learnt to

cognize in both rational and emotional terms,

thereby using both forms of cognition crea-

tively in order to eventually mold a unique fu-

sion of rational and emotional insights in my

literary, scientific and artistic works.

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Using Astrological

Knowledge

❊

After these preliminaries, I would like to

expand about how to gain and use the knowl-

edge astrology will bring you.

The first question often in the mind of be-

ginners is if it’s better to have a chart rendered

by a professional astrologer or do your own

chart and find it all out by yourself?

It’s a good question because there are in-

deed plus and minus arguments for each of

these approaches.

You may have little emotional relationship

to a chart established by somebody else, may

the person be a famous astrologer. It may be

the best chart of the world, the best advice

ever given to you, but does it penetrate into

your deepest mind so as to really trigger a

change? This is the crucial question.

There are thousands of astrologers today

virtually in every bigger town, but what service

can they give you if you yourself do not ab-

sorb the knowledge you get?

Don’t be led astray by the headlines they

make. It is in our society still an esoteric quest

to ask for guidance using astrology and not,

say, psychiatry or psychoanalysis to get on

your right track. Which means that it’s not self-

evident that you are going to take that seri-

ous, if at all you are willing to get a serious as-

trological chart from a professional astrologer.

So what you do with this knowledge is about

as important as the knowledge itself. And

here, in my experience, most people lose

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ground because they have not done their

home work and still are in the schizoid split

that is, believe it or not, the fate of the com-

moner in a deeply schizoid society.

This means once they get this chart, they

read through it, and put it away safely in a

drawer, so safely in fact that it stays there, bur-

ied forever: to tell their friends how much they

have drawn from it, how deeply shattering and

surprising the information was —that they

have forgotten within two days.

I have begun by myself, in little steps, gain-

ing the knowledge in tidbits, and using it with

a practical purpose. I did my own chart first.

Then, after years and years of struggling

with the contradictions in my chart, and in the

hope a professional astrologer could solve

them, I asked three more or less famous and

surely competent astrologers for a chart. And

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they did not solve the contradictions but

ended up with very similar results than I had

found them myself.

One of them, Michèle Karen, a well-known

intuitive astrologer and nutrition consultant

from Geneva, openly admitted she could not

solve the antithesis put up in my chart be-

tween a humanitarian orientation and profes-

sion expressed by my M.C. conjunct Neptune,

on one hand, and my strong art interests sym-

bolized by my Venus in the 5th house and in

Taurus, on the other. For her, Neptune in this

position was the humanitarian orientation; she

did not see that many actors, painters and

filmmakers have this position as well, includ-

ing Vincent van Gogh, and also many psy-

chics, as for example Alice Bailey.

Seen from this perspective, my Neptune

could be seen not as an alternative to my art

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interests and gifts, but as enhancement and

prolongation of them, or as a spiritual octave

to my art endeavors.

But her limited focus, that was by the way

vehemently contradicted by her husband, who

is equally an astrologer, and who did not share

her vision, has limited me for many years. And

this is why I would today not per se opt for the

alternative to have right away a chart drafted

by an astrologer without entering the quest of

drafting, and crafting, your chart by yourself.

And my argument is more general as well.

You should not put all your trust in one path,

you should not absolutize astrology, but first

of all listen to your own intuition, your inner

voice, your guide. Astrology may speak for

this guide, it may express this guidance in a

certain comprehensive vocabulary, but if you

meet the wrong astrologer, it may also lead


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you astray from your own Way. All knowledge

has to be handled with care, and responsibil-

ity, and with astrology it’s no exception. And

this astrologer did not warn me about the real

pitfalls of Neptune, which is a victim complex

that was very real in my life until recently.

In fact, I have been betrayed so often in my

life that only a total numb would not have

seen a pattern here working behind the stage.

At two periods in my life I lost amounts

around one hundred thousand dollars, at

other periods it was smaller amounts or valu-

ables, at other periods it was relationships

that I upheld over years with people who con-

stantly abused of me, and I even then did not

see the picture and took it for granted that I

had to pay more, time and again, what other

people, around the world, get for less. The

wake up call in this case, and I speak the rude

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truth here, did not come from astrology—be-

cause I was really numb to look through the

veil and did not meet the right astrologers to

tell me about this pattern—but it came from

dreams, my therapy and the I Ching.

So I am with two feet on the floor when I

say that you may not believe what you hear

and not follow the best advice simply because

you are not emotionally mature to receive and

digest it. I cannot blame astrology, I cannot

even blame this particular astrologer as she

was already during the meeting with me con-

tradicted by her own husband. So why did I

give her the power to influence me wrongly

with her advice?

This is what a pattern is: you are so entan-

gled with it that you can’t really look through

the veil, or you can look through it a few dec-

ades later only. After having fallen in the same


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trap over and over again. In hindsight, I can

only say this: don’t be discouraged that this is

so. We are humans, and we all have our par-

ticular weaknesses. And some of our weak-

nesses are weaknesses only because we live in

a certain space and time, in a certain culture.

My naiveté would be interpreted as some-

thing not only wonderful and pure, but even

divine, was I living in an enlightened culture,

and not in a barbarous, ignorant and deeply

alienated materialistic society where most

people simply are corrupted morally and per-

verted in the whole of their relationship to self

and others. In this society, naiveté and open-

mindedness, credulity and faith are all re-

ceived as misplaced elements of the dreamer

personality taken as a quintessential weakness

of character. And that is one of the reasons

why I am saying that Neptune can never be

evaluated in its higher truth in this current so-

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ciety and culture. It can only be seen and

evaluated in its debasing aspects, because its

energy becomes debasing through its denial.

Neptunians are given their way in the arts

and in the realms of esoterism and psychic re-

search but they are more or less despised in

official science, the law, the mainstream media

and the dominating culture.

So when applying astrological knowledge,

you have to see both your own limitations of

understanding and the limitations of a whole

culture to absorb and integrate such knowl-

edge.

And only after you see that, you are ready

to responsibly deal with this knowledge, and

to really use it constructively.

Gaining the knowledge itself is easy, as

most of the information today is freely avail-

able on the Internet. I have published online


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my entire astrological database for those who

would like to enter the astrology quest.

Now, the problem is that no astrologer can

help you open your perception interface to

the new or not-so-new knowledge you are go-

ing to acquire. I mean that in most cases you

have got glimpses of it already, through your

gut feelings, your intuition, but you remained

blind and numb to this information, or you

consciously decided to discard this knowl-

edge out of your life—because you were

afraid to lose the ground under your feet.

Most people, when they get an astrological

reading, nod. Why do they nod? Because they

find they know all that already since long. And

why then, if they know all that since long, have

they not applied this knowledge and profited

from it? This is the crucial question and here

we are in the very center of human nature.

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Knowledge alone does not serve people

for their evolution.

All knowledge must be accepted and em-

braced before it can have any evolutionary

impact upon the destiny of people.

What does that mean? It means that its va-

lidity must not be questioned or wiped under

the carpet by pseudo-rational arguments or

by nihilism.

When you know for sure that tomorrow

morning it shall be raining, you are going to

take your umbrella when you leave your

house. You will not argue that perhaps,

maybe, it shall not be raining or that, while it

may rain, you are not going to get wet. You

will accept all that.

However, when it comes to intuitive knowl-

edge in a schizoid society, people tend to ar-

gue that while that may be some form of


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knowledge, it may not be serious, or it could

not be taken serious by a mature person, or

that it may be a form of paranoia …, and so

on and so forth.

Because the knowledge is not the usual

junk they are used to when they turn on their

television set, they think it’s just another kind

of junk.

As long as you can’t see what is really junk,

and what is not, you will not comprehend

what is true! And then you will tend to flush

down the truth together with the junk, just like

the baby with the bathwater, so to speak.

So we are at the very beginning again. As if

I had written nothing but air. You have to do

your consciousness leap before you ever start

out to use astrology. This is the crux, and this

is why I wrote this article in the first place, as

the astrological knowledge itself, you can get

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it everywhere today. I have given the exam-

ples from my own chart and my life only to

demonstrate the necessity to be warned be-

fore you start to trust anybody to tell you any-

thing about yourself.

The moment you allow another person to

tell you something about yourself, you are po-

tentially giving away a part of your decision-

making power; this means you are in that

moment limiting the infinite potential of your

chart to the limited vision of the person who

looks at you, and at your chart. And this is

really a danger because you may be condi-

tioned by what that person is saying, espe-

cially when that person is a famous astrologer

who has published many books.

All destiny is within the quantum field. As

such it is pure potential, not something finite,

and concrete. Destiny is potential, not the re-


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alization of that potential. This is the subtle

but important difference. And this difference

is easily veiled when the astrologer or diviner

tells you something about yourself. From that

moment you begin to think on the lines of

that expert while he himself only judges you

as best he can, that is, on the lines of his own

experience and first of all his own inner setup.

Astrological knowledge is truly useful but

only when it is in accordance with your own

gut, your own better knowledge, your own

higher wisdom. And this is your task here: you

have to double-check every single information

you get from the diviner with your intuition,

thus either confirming it or rejecting it.

—Yes, I feel this is true … you may hear

yourself saying.

Or you thunder along in your mind, or even

in self-talk:

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—Oh no, this is not true. I am not like that

or to a minor degree. My real issue is not that,

but ...

This is how you can avoid to be trapped.

My intuition, to be true, was opposing what

Michèle Karen said, and violently so. I was al-

ready scandalized about her opening words,

when we started our session. She stoned me,

saying that I had the chart of a terrorist!

Her husband, who was sitting next to her

on the table, vehemently contradicted and

criticized his wife for being judgmental.

Upon which she calmed down a little and

said she had seen certain aspects in my chart

formerly in the charts of famous terrorists. But

you see how it goes: from this focus built by

some similarities with other charts of other

people, this woman judged me more or less

being a terrorist. A judgment on appearances,


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as I would qualify it as a lawyer. You should

take this example serious as it tells you what

risk you run when you allow others, however

qualified, famous or renowned, to tell you

things about yourself.

And what you can learn also with this ex-

ample is that somebody who is renowned for

being an expert, an author, or a coach is not

necessarily a wise person, and in many cases

not even a respectful person. So be selective,

and think your decision over again in the mo-

ment you meet your astrologer, and listen to

your gut feelings in that very moment.

Now, the last point I wish to address in this

article is the problem that this new knowledge

you are going to receive about yourself will

not serve you until you allow it to serve you.

And to give this allowance to it, you have to

understand what holistic wisdom is, and you

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have to understand why our culture has gone

totally astray and is on the verge of destruc-

tion by having denied, shunned and perse-

cuted that wisdom already long ago.

And then you will also understand why you

can’t really separate your little life from the

greater life of the group, and the meta-group,

and even the planet. Fact is that you can’t live

without this planet continuing to live. And

thus your quest for your individual little suc-

cess depends on the survival of this planet.

Our individual destinies are imbedded in, and

entangled with, the destiny of planet Earth.

Hence, your individual quest for evolution

will necessarily contribute to our collective

quest for saving planet Earth from destruction.

And this will be so even without you or me be-

ing conscious of it. To say, the fact that you

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before receiving it, the fact that you start out

in this process of new learning, the fact that

you henceforth desire non-fragmented

growth, gets not only you, but also humanity

on a new track of transpersonal growth, which

is an octave higher than personal growth.

Then you will have a positive affirmation of

this wonderful entanglement of your destiny

with the destiny of the globe, and you will

sense and see to what extent your life is in-

terwoven with the lives of others and the life

of the planet, and even the lives of our galaxy

and the whole of the cosmos.

And this feeling of true interconnected-

ness, really, is the creative soil for happiness,

fostering a lifestyle that is centered, wistful,

caring, serene and balanced.

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Glossary

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Terms

Astrology

Astrology is a perennial science that was developed in the oldest civilizations of hu-manity and that prospered especially in Babylon, Persia and old Egypt, and later in the Renaissance also in Europe. In the 20th century astrology was eventually recognized as a true science and not just a particular mythology and it is today taught at leading universities around the world.

Astrology is an ancient method for self-exploration, the assessment of relationships and our place within the world. It is a pri-mary work tool for gaining self-knowledge. Astrology can give us insight into personal and political situations, from the most inti-mate to the most mundane. Astrology does not interfere in human destiny and it does by no means follow the wrong doctrine of predestination; it only shows probabilities,

potential, energetic relationships, tenden-cies and automatisms, much of it for most people remaining unconscious. A special branch of non-forecasting astrology is so-called karmic or potential astrology.

—Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Karma & Trans-

formation (1992), Donna Cunningham, Healing

Pluto Problems (1986), Liz Greene, Saturn

(1976), The Astrological Neptune and the Quest

for Redemption (1996), The Astrology of Fate

(1984), Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas, The

Luminaries (1992), Derek & Julia Parker, Parker’s

Astrology (1991), Dane Rudyar, Astrology of

Personality (1990), An Astrological Triptych

(1991), Astrological Mandala (1994), Jan Spiller,

Astrology for the Soul (1997)

For me personally, astrology has been the decisive door opener in my life, the single best tool for getting to know myself, and to get connected, back in my thirties, to my soul level and my unique gifts and talents. It helped me tremendously for accepting my-self.

Brain and Mind Research

Latest consciousness research strongly sug-gests that mind and brain are not the same,

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but that the brain is something like an inter-face for the mind, and that, therefore, mind is the larger notion, and bears an essential connectedness with the whole of the uni-verse and creation.

This holistic view of the brain-mind replaces the former view that saw mind and brain as separated and that gave an undue impor-tance and exclusiveness to the human brain in explaining cognition. Typically, this scien-tific residue paradigm was unable to ex-plain extrasensorial perception (ESP) and generally, psychic phenomena.

Besides, this general agreement, systems research has shed a particularly important light upon the relationship between mind and brain. Fritjof Capra explains in his book The Web of Life (1997) that still back in 1994 the editors of an anthology titled Con-sciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience stated frankly in their intro-duction: ‘Even though everybody agrees that mind has something to do with the brain, there is still no general agreement on the exact nature of this relationship.’

He then explains that science was held by Descartes’ assumption that mind is a thing, the ‘thinking thing’ (res cogitans).

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However, systems research has brought to daylight that mind is not a thing but a process—the process of cognition, which is identified with the process of life itself. Ca-pra then explains that the brain simply is the structure through which this process of cognition operations. The relationship be-tween mind and brain, therefore is one be-tween process and structure.

Capra finally adds that the entire structure of the organism participates in the process of cognition whether or not the organism has a brain and a higher nervous system. (Id., 175-176).

—David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate

Order (2002) and Thought as a System (1994),

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

(2000), Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point (1982/

1987), The Web of Life (1996/1997), The Hidden

Connections (2002), Stanislav Grof, Beyond the

Brain (1985) and The Holotropic Mind (1993),

Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

(1992), Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe

(1995), Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe

(1997), Lynne McTaggart, The Field (2002),

Hameroff et. al, Consciousness: 20 Scientists

Interviewed, DVD (2003).

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Cartesian Science and Worldview

A Cartesian or Newtonian worldview is a life philosophy marked by a dominance of de-ductive and logical thinking to the detri-ment of the qualities of the right brain such as associative and imaginative thinking, and generally fantasy. It’s also a worldview that tends to disregard or deny dreams and dreaming, extrasensorial, multisensorial perception and ESP faculties, as well as genuine spirituality.

The term Cartesian has been coined from the name of French philosopher René Des-cartes. While nature is coded in energy pat-terns, Cartesian scientists deny the cosmic energy field as a ‘vitalistic theory’; they have split mind and matter into opposite poles.

Historically, and philosophically, it was not René Descartes who has been at the origin of this schizoid worldview, but the so-called Eleatic School, a philosophical movement in ancient Greece that opposed the holistic and organic worldview represented by the philosophy of Heraclites; but it was through the affirmation and pseudo-scientific cor-roboration of the ancient Eleatic dualism that in the history of Western science, the reductionist approach to reality, which is ac-tually a fallacy of perception, became the

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dominant science paradigm between ap-proximately the 17th and the 20th centuries.

We are right now at a point in time where this limited worldview is gradually being overcome and replaced by the novel in-sights of quantum physics, systems theory, and a new holistic science paradigm that connects us back to the oldest of wisdom traditions.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is one of the four types of intelligence, which are logical-rational intelligence, emotional intelligence, graphical-spacial intelligence and tactile intelligence. Emotional intelligence is espe-cially active when it goes to understand re-lationships, human affairs, and the psycho-logical implications within them.

—Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

(1995).

I Ching

The I Ching or Book of Changes is the old-est of the Chinese classic texts. A symbol system designed to identify order in what appear to be chance events, it describes an

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ancient system of cosmology and philoso-phy that is at the heart of Chinese cultural beliefs. It is based on the alternation of complementary energies called Yin and Yang, which are developmental poles that by their alternation trigger inevitable change. It is also based on the old integra-tive philosophy of the five elements that is part of many other esoteric science tradi-tions. The philosophy centers on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and ac-ceptance of the inevitability of change.

The I Ching consists of 64 hexagrams. Each hexagram or kua is an energy pattern that is a unique mix of the two base energies, yin and yang, represented symbolically by lines. Yang is represented by a solid line, yin by a dotted line. Each hexagram is com-posed of six lines, and two trigrams consist-ing of three lines each. The lower trigram deals with matters that are in their begin-ning stage, from the start of a project until about half of its realization. The upper tri-gram deals with the culmination and the end of processes or projects, positively or negatively.

The I Ching has been a book for divination and relief, and for spiritual learning for many great and famous people such as

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Confucius, Hermann Hesse, John Lennon, Carl Gustav Jung, and many others. I per-sonally consult the I Ching on a regular ba-sis since 1990, as well as astrology and the Tarot since the 1980s.

—Richard Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of

Changes (1967), Helmut Wilhelm, The Wilhelm

Lectures on the Book of Changes (1995), Hua-

Ching Ni, I Ching: The Book of Changes and

the Unchanging Truth (1999), Alfred Huang, The

Complete I Ching (1998), Richard Wilhelm &

Charles Baynes, The I Ching or Book of

Changes (1967), John Blofeld, The Book of

Changes (1965), Thomas Cleary, The Taoist I

Ching (1986), R.L. Wing, The I Ching Workbook

(1984).

Minoan Civilization

The ancient Minoan Civilization from Crete was one of the first highly developed hu-man cultures with a natural focus on sensu-ality, beauty, the arts, free sexuality and a matriarchal worldview. Minoan culture can be said to have respected what Emerson called spiritual laws, and they had fully inte-grated the female in a partnership para-digm of living and shared responsibility. No slavery was practiced and no physical pun-

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ishment was administered to children in schools as an educational measure. The crime rate in that culture was very low. Their religion did not worship a male god but a series of goddesses and spirits of nature.

The low degree of violence in that culture was exemplary in history, yet this civilization was virtually annihilated by the cruel, slavery-practicing invader tribes. Riane Eis-ler, in her concise exposé of Minoan mores, culture and lifestyle as part of her book The Chalice and the Blade (1995), speaks of Crete as The Essential Difference and re-minds that already Plato described the Mi-noans as ‘exceptionally peace-loving peo-ple.’ Among all the positive aspects Eisler mentions about Minoan culture, referencing many other scholars, the most striking is that this ancient culture had a well-built model of what today we call democracy. Still today, the health of the Cretan popula-tion and their wistful lifestyle is famed. A recent demographic survey has shown that in Europe, the Cretan population is by far the healthiest one, and that cancer and heart disease rates are among the lowest in the world.

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tion and this culture’s example status for modern peace research.

—Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade

(1995), Sacred Pleasure (1996) and Terence

McKenna, Food of the Gods (1992)

Mythology

Mythology is something like a story collec-tion. The stories are not just fairy tales, and they are not just real-life events either. They are epic tales that count, in their integrality, the story of human evolution, and especially of human psychic and spiritual evolution. In psychotherapy, it has been found that myths and mythopoetic content in general are highly conducive for soul healing and for healing the psyche from early fragmen-tation, that may have occurred through trauma, abuse, confusion, emotional en-tanglement, accidents, and karmic events.

CASTOR AND POLLUX

In Greek mythology the Dioskouroi, Kastor and Polydeuces, in Roman mythology the Gemini (Latin for twins) Castor and Pollux are the twin sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. Accord-ing to Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon, kastor is Greek for beaver, and poludeukeis means

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very sweet. Castor and Polydeuces are sometimes both mortal, sometimes both divine. One consistent point is that if only one of them is immortal, it is Polydeuces. In Homer’s Iliad, Helen looks down from the walls of Troy and wonders why she does not see her brothers among the Achaeans. The narrator remarks that they are both already dead and buried back in their homeland of Lacedaemon, thus suggesting that at least in some early traditions, both were mortal. Their death and shared immortality offered by Zeus was material of the lost Cypria in the Epic cycle.

DAEDALUS

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a most skillful artificer, or craftsman, first men-tioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne. He create the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was kept.

DEMETER

Demeter is the Greek goddess of grain and agriculture, the pure nourisher of youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is invoked as the ‘bringer of seasons’ in the Homeric hymn, a subtle sign that she was worshiped long be-fore the Olympians arrived. She and her

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daughter Persephone were the central fig-ures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon. Perse-phone, daughter of the earth goddess De-meter became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by Hades.

EUROPA

Europa was a Phoenician woman in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The story was a Cretan story. The name Europa occurs in the list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys, and the daughter of the earth-giant Tityas and mother of Euphemus by Poseidon, was also named Europa. The etymology of her name suggests that Europa represented a lunar cow, at least at some symbolic level.

HADES

Hades refers both to the ancient Greek un-derworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the dead himself. In Greek mythol-ogy, Hades and his brothers Zeus and Po-seidon defeated the Titans and claimed rulership over the universe ruling the un-derworld, sky, and sea, respectively. Be-cause of his association with the under-world, Hades is often interpreted as a grim figure. Hades was also called Pluto. In

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Christian theology, the term hades refers to the abode of the dead, sheol or hell where the dead await Judgment Day either at peace or in torment.

KING AGENOR

In history and Greek mythology, Agenor was a king of Tyre. His wife was Telephassa. Some sources state that Agenor was the son of Poseidon and Libya; these accounts refer to a brother named Belus. According to other sources, he was the son of Belus and Anchinoe. Sources differ also as to Agenor's children; he is sometimes said to have been the father of Cadmus, Europa, Cilix, Phoenix, and Thasus.

KING MINOS AND THE MINOTAUR

In Greek mythology, Minos was a legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Hades. The Minoan Civilization has been named after him. In Greek mythology, Daedalus and Icarus were sons of King Mi-nos of Crete. Minos was challenged as king and prayed to Poseidon for help. Poseidon sent a giant white bull out of the sea. Minos planned on sacrificing the bull to Poseidon, but then decided not to. He substituted a different bull. In rage, Poseidon cursed Pa-siphaë, Minos’ wife, with zoophilia. Daeda-

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lus built her a wooden cow, in which she hid. The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, the Mino-taur. Daedalus then built a complicated maze called the Labyrinth and Minos put the Minotaur in it. To make sure no one would ever know the secret of the Laby-rinth, Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son, Icarus, in a tower. Daedalus and Icarus flew away on wings Daedalus invented, but Icarus’ wings melted because he flew too close to the sun. Icarus fell in the sea and drowned.

PASIPHAË

In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë was the daughter of Helios, the Sun. Like her dou-blet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Ariadne, and other children. In other as-pects, Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea, was a mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination.

ZEUS

Zeus is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder, in Greek mythology. His symbols

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are the thunderbolt, bull, eagle and the oak. The son of Cronus and Rhea, he was the youngest of his siblings. He was married to Hera in most traditions, although at the oracle of Dodona his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. Accordingly, he is known for his erotic escapades, including one pederastic relationship, with Gany-mede. His trysts resulted in many famous offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Ar-temis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses; by Hera he is usually said to have sired Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

LITERATURE

Richard Buxton, The Complete World of Greek Mythology (2004).

Inner Selves

GENERALITIES

Inner Selves are energies in our psyche that form part of our total and integral whole-ness. In the ideal case, they should be bal-anced and in harmony with each other. This means that all inner selves ideally should work in sync, as a sort of inner team, in which all members are fully awake and communicate with each other. In most peo-

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ple’s psyche, however, the inner child is somnolent or asleep, and either the inner parent or the inner adult dominate the psy-che. While the truth about our inner selves goes back to Antiquity, the insight in mod-ern times has been made fruitful for psy-chiatry through Eric Berne in 1950, the founder of Transactional Analysis (TA).

He recognized three essential inner selves: Inner Child, Inner Parent and Inner Adult. In my own research and work with the inner dialogue, I encountered the presence of additional entities such as the Inner Con-troller or Inner Critic as the instance in the psyche that represents the societal, cultural and moral values that we have internalized through education and early conditioning. If the Inner Critic hijacks the psyche, we are unable to realize our love wishes, nor can we be creative. In addition to these inner selves, I encountered an entity of superior wisdom that I called Lux and a shadow en-tity I called Sad King and which embodied repressed emotions that had turned into sadistic drives.

INNER CHILD

Inner Child is a psychic entity, part-personality, or psychic energy, created be-tween our 7th and 14th year of life, and that

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is part of our inner triangle. Positively, the inner child energy is primarily emotional and wistful, predominantly creative. It is the motor of every human being’s creativity. It can be said to be the creative motor, the very source energy in humans that makes that we can be spontaneous, creative and sometimes a little mad, to go beyond the limiting framework of the rational and re-petitive mind. Negatively, the inner child is either mute or cataleptic so that its energy cannot manifest, or else its energy is domi-nant in the psyche or turned upside-down which makes an inner child that is rebel-lious, capricious, willful or overbearing, producing the ‘clochard’ personality, the ‘hippie’, the ‘anarchist’, the ‘eternal student’ and abuser of the social system.

INNER ADULT

Inner Adult is a psychic entity, part-personality or psychic energy that repre-sents our logical thinking, our reason, our maturity. Positively, it makes for our bal-anced decisions, our down-to-earth attitude and our sense for daily responsibilities. Negatively, the inner adult manifests as the intellectual nerd or through emotional fri-gidity, cynicism or an obsession to measure human relations on a scale of reasonable-ness or straightness without considering the

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emotional dimension. The dominant inner adult energy plays a major role in modern education where it results in devastating damage on the next generations’ emo-tional integrity. The dominant inner adult also produces the ‘professional skeptic’, the obnoxious ‘total rationalist’ who considers ten percent of the human nature as pre-dominantly important, flushing the other ninety percent down the toilet!

INNER PARENT

Inner Parent is a psychic entity, part-personality or psychic energy that repre-sents our inner value standards, our moral attitudes, our caring for self and others, but negatively also our judging others, our I-know-better attitude or blunt interference into the lives of others without regard for their privacy. The dominant inner parent energy plays a recurring role in tyrannical and persecutory societal, religious and po-litical systems.

INNER TRIANGLE/INNER TEAM

The term inner triangle or inner team is an expression that denotes two things. First, it is a summary of the main inner energies, the inner child, inner adult and inner parent who can be seen to be in a triangular rela-tionship. Second, the expression also sug-

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gests that there should be balance or har-mony between these inner entities so that neither of them dominates the psyche and that they react flexibly, not in a stiff manner, to any events that arise, or in communica-tions with the outside world.

INNER DIALOGUE

The inner dialogue is a technique to get in touch with our inner selves through relaxa-tion or self-hypnosis and subsequent dia-logues with one or several of our inner selves, in a state of light trance. The state of light trance can be self-induced, with no facilitator needed, and outside of a psycho-therapy. The inner dialogue should ideally be fixed on paper, at least in the beginning, because the voices that come up are very soft and writing down the dialogues helps to keep focus. The technique is also called Voice Dialogue, for example by Stone & Stone, in their book Embracing Our Selves (1982). However, the expression could mis-lead novice users as the ‘voices’ are not really voices of course, as they are not to be heard with our ears, but something like flashes of intuition, or sudden precisely formulated thoughts that seem to come ‘from nowhere.’

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Intuition

Intuition is inner knowledge that typically manifests spontaneously and that is all-wise and non-judgmental, broad in scope and wistful; typically, intuition is transpersonal in intent, not ego-based, thus manifesting something like cosmic intention. In the old wisdom traditions, intuition was more highly valued than in modern consumer culture; it was typically called ‘the knowledge of the heart.’

Narcissism and Boomeritis

NOT FANCIFUL ‘SELFLOVE’

Most people have heard about the ancient myth of Narcissus that is at the origin of the term narcissism. Narcissism is a pathology where the person, through a deep hurt suf-fered early in life, is unable to love himself or herself, and thus lacks even a basic level of selflove. And what is worse with this af-fliction is that the true self of the person, their self identity, their feeling self, their I-Am force, and also their body image, have been buried deep down in the uncon-scious. The result is that narcissistic people do not know who they are or, as it is ex-pressed in psychiatry, they deny their true

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self. Native peoples tend to characterize narcissists as ‘soulless’ beings.

This denial of their own intrinsic being, their character, their values and oddities, their depth and dignity is what lets them appear as shadow dancers on the stage of life. They are generally fluent talkers and take up new ideas quickly, but they don’t inte-grate novelty, because there is nothing they could integrate it into, as they are out of touch with their true identity, the fertile soil of their human nature, their grounding. I use to call them for this reason narcissistic comedians, as they actually behave as if be-ing on stage, as if life was a huge stage where everybody performs a role—but where nobody plays the role of himself or herself, but always another. A plays B, B plays C, C plays A. While sanity means that A plays A, B plays B and C plays C.

The understanding of narcissism has been confused and messed up by popular psy-chology that loves to use strange terms and abhors to express simple things in a simple way. For example, it’s much more difficult to explain what neurosis is or psychosis than to say what narcissism means and what makes persons afflicted with narcissism suf-fer so much in life. They really suffer!

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Narcissism is not a party affliction, or a modern fancy. It is not an outflow of vanity, while it is often belittled as such. Narcissism is an affliction serious enough to be put on priority by most of today’s psychiatric serv-ices. For when you’re out of touch with yourself and your deepest emotions, you live a life that is not yours, you live as if you were an empty shell. This inner vacuum, this emptiness when it’s constant is something that can trigger other serious afflictions such as substance abuse, chain smoking, depression, chronic fatigue, alcoholism, anxiety, phobias, and sexual obsessions and perversions. It also can trigger somatiza-tions, which means that the body gets ill for reasons that are not physiological, but psy-chological.

DENIAL OF EMOTIONAL REALITY

People who suffer from narcissism tend to appear aloof, they appear to float, as if their feet never touched the ground beneath. There is often also something Peter-Pan like about them, something fragile and strangely youthful, often accompanied by a sunshine smile that seems to suggest that they know no sadness. While in truth, they are the saddest people on earth, only that they can’t even feel their sadness, cut off as they are from their feelings. In exchanges

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with narcissists I also found that they tend to deny the reality of emotions, trying to grasp all of reality with their pure intel-lect—that usually works brilliantly. But that makes that they are alienated from being human because they more or less con-sciously discard the irrational out of the world. For them, all must be rational, clear and straight, and they tend to condemn ir-rationality in people, out of touch as they are with their own irrationality.

We humans are at times rational and at times irrational. We are as good as never only rational or only irrational; we are a mix of many qualities and oddities, and it’s our vivid emotions that bring the necessary ka-leidoscopic change in our lives so that we are not for too long rational and not for too long irrational. But for the narcissist there has to be only rationality, and all the rest is solemnly condemned as ‘human weakness’.

HOW TO IDENTIFY NARCISSISM?

You can identify rather quickly if you suffer from a narcissistic fixation or not. Simply check if you play yourself in your life, or if you play a role that fakes it is you. Then, when you ask this question and it rings like ‘But who is myself?’, you are getting on the right track. When that question feels odd

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and strange because somehow you have never asked who you are, and if in the game of life you as good as never play the Me-card, then you know you have a prob-lem with narcissism.

Another reality check would be to wonder if you belong to those who are always ‘altruis-tic’ and ‘always good’ to others, to a point of self-forgetfulness. Rings true? Why should you forget about yourself? Do you not have the same right to validate yourself as you validate others? Why should you al-ways come second, why are you obsessed with the thought you might be ‘selfish’? You feel it’s a moral duty to be always con-cerned about others and put yourself be-hind? No, it’s not. But you probably have a hangup with narcissism, as you are con-stantly denying your own self, replacing the vacuum at need with person A, friend B or relative C that you have to help out, save from bad luck, heal, comfort, look after, console, protect, and so on.

Narcissism has a price tag, as the compul-sive idea to be ‘of help’ to all and every-body is one of the main triggers of psycho-somatic illness, including cancer.

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NARCISSISM AND CHILD ABUSE

The main etiology of narcissism is to be seen in the lacking or insufficient primary symbiosis between mother and infant dur-ing the first eighteen months after birth.

Narcissistic mothers are inadequate par-ents. Regularly, with mothers who them-selves suffer from narcissism, clinical re-search found a reduction or total absence of eye contact between mother and child, absence of breastfeeding or when the breast is given, the mother feels revulsion, disgust or aggression toward the child; in addition, such mothers tend to be hostile to the child’s first steps into autonomy, thereby creating in the child a pathological clinging behavior that has very nasty consequences later on in the development of the child and young adult. Often what happens in such relationships is that the mother ma-nipulates the child into a real codepend-ence where she projects her longings for love, that remain unfulfilled in the partner relation, upon the child. This then in many cases leads to emotional abuse.

NARCISSISM AND ENTANGLEMENT

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the gravity of the affliction of narcissism. What this results in is that the person un-consciously later tries to heal the lacking primary fusion by repeated pseudo-symbiotic relationships, which are relation-ships where love is replaced by depend-ency or confused with dependency. How-ever, since those persons that are invested with that role of ersatz mothers and fathers can never give the lacking primary fusion, disappointment and depression will in-variably ensue in those relations.

NARCISSISM AND PATRIARCHY

Narcissism is an inevitable by-product of patriarchy, and its etiology is wrong relating. Wrong relating to self. Wrong relating to others. It is built on what Joseph Campbell called the solar worldview which ignores, as a group fantasy, the many shadows of the soul—and thereby ignores its own shadow.

Narcissists, therefore, are tragic figures. They are tragic in the sense that they run into the abyss without the slightest idea of what they are doing because they are not grounded and have their feet in the air, like the Fool of the Tarot. They are lunatics, be-cause they have not integrated their own Luna, their Moon energy. They are the eter-nal Peter Pan hero of sunshine movies, and

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present themselves to the public smiling, broadly smiling, most of the time, but in haphazard moments you see their true face—while they themselves ignore it.

BOOMERITIS

Boomeritis is a form of narcissism that mani-fests in a particular way, which is why a dif-ferent term was created for that kind of be-havior. The term boomeritis was to my knowledge created by the American phi-losopher Ken Wilber, and it describes mostly young people, college students, and even older people who have a defaulted sense of self in that they never integrate what they learn into their deeper being. The knowledge they acquire stays at the surface, at the periphery of their person, without a deeper connection with inner wisdom or life experience.

That is a strange thing to observe, really, as these people talk about things in a way that comes over as robotic, cold and rhetorical to the extreme, without giving their dis-course a warmth and empathy that is natu-ral with those who have real knowledge. Ken Wilber and Thomas Moore have in my view great merit to have bothered writing about this major affliction in our time. Boomeritis is a terrible distortion of the

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human potential, a real social disease. I have had extensive experience with young men, all from the United States of America, who are suffering from this affliction. They all broke our email conversations by stop-ping to write one day, typically so, without giving any previous note, without apologiz-ing and without any explanation. Their be-havior is standardized, stereotype, to a point they are almost using the same syn-tax, make the same orthographic mistakes, and have virtually the same opinions, as if there was a silent conspiracy between all of these individuals. Why they stopped writing from one day to the other was quite obvi-ously my identifying their problem and try-ing to help them get beyond their shallow-ness, and their puerile ideas.

The reaction of the narcissist generally is one of denial, and this denial is universal; they deny religion, they deny emotions, they deny mythology and symbols, they deny all that is not rational, they deny the female energy, putting the yang power of reasoning on a pedestal, and they are de-fensive to the extreme. They cannot stand criticism and react chaotically, usually by deserting the relationship, when somebody criticizes their behavior. This is logically so because they cannot really learn; all knowl-

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edge they gather, they really accumulate it, piling it up without integrating it, and that is why, at the end of the day, they have zero knowledge, and when they fall in their re-current depressions, they talk like children, and you see that they are helpless and im-mature, and lack knowledge about the most basic truths of life.

All this would not be so tragic if they were not totally closed to receiving help from others, brushing off any warmth and friendly gesture as a cunning attempt to corrupt their lizard transparence and wizard invisi-bility. They live in a magic world full of mira-cles, and ordinary humans are not allowed to touch them. Or they give you a hand of ice, which means they fly off again in their ethereal realms of existence that lack grounding, and the realism that only a bal-anced and integrated emotional life can give.

As already mentioned, in older civilizations the problem of narcissism was well recog-nized but it was talked about differently than today. Thomas Moore reveals in his book Care of the Soul (1994) that the older expression ‘soullessness’ for narcissism hits the point, for narcissists really deny their soul, and the soul in others, and the world at large. Moore points out that the soul

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loves the intricate relation between light and darkness, between good and bad, be-tween standard behavior and perverse be-havior, in that it feels whole and integrated when the integrity behind those opposites are seen. The narcissist has lost his soul in the sense that he or she denies the nega-tive parts of those pairs of opposites, and even the fact that dualism is really a cosmic principle, to be found in all living. Oppo-sites attract each other and in a way they are an example for checks and balances. When for example ‘bad’ is rigidly denied, a person cannot be really good, for they will project their own blind spots upon others and become persecutors.

Numerology

Numerology is but a corollary of astrology. All in the universe is based upon patterns of relationships, and numbers are codes for relations in their contextual frame. There is a relationship between numbers and all that is in the universe. Numerology and numero-logical divination were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras. All things can be expressed in numerical terms because they are ultimately reducible to numbers. Using a method analogous to that of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets (in

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which each letter also represented a num-ber), modern numerology attaches a series of digits to an inquirer’s name and uses these, along with the date of birth, to reveal the person’s true nature and prospects.

—Carol Adrienne, The Numerology Kit (1988)

and Matthew O. Goodwin, The Complete Nu-

merology Guide (1988), Gerie Bauer Numerol-

ogy for Beginners, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn

Publications, 2009.

Perennial Science

There are basically twelve, and probably more, ingredients and characteristics of ho-listic science that are presently more and more embraced, as we mature into new sci-ence which is of course just a newer vintage of very old and perennial science. These twelve emanations or branches of the tree of knowledge remain still forbidden to most humans today because they follow the oversoul of the mass media, instead of fol-lowing their own lucid inner voice. Ancient traditional cultures and their scientific tradi-tions, and what we today call perennial phi-losophy were holistic; they embraced flow principles, and they were truly scientific, not scientific in a sense of being reductionist.

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They looked at life as a Gestalt, and derived conclusions from the observation of the liv-ing and moving, not from the dead. Here are the twelve branches of the ancient tree of knowledge:

• Science and Divination

• Science and Energy

• Science and Flow

• Science and Gestalt

• Science and Intent

• Science and Intuition

• Science and Knowledge

• Science and Pattern

• Science and Perception

• Science and Philosophy

• Science and Truth

• Science and Vibration

Runes

Runes are an ancient alphabet found in in-scriptions on stone in Scandinavian coun-tries. The runic alphabet belongs to the Germanic group of languages, but is re-lated to Greek and Latin alphabets. Runes were inscribed on stone monuments to

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commemorate events and individuals; they also served magical purposes. A Norwegian monument indicates that runes were be-lieved to give spiritual protection. The use of runic inscriptions has been revived in both the modern magical and new age ideas and activities, and crated a vast con-temporary literature.

—Ralph H. Blum, Susan Loughan, The Healing

Runes (1995), Silver RavenWolf and Nigel Jack-

son, Rune Mysteries (2000), Edred Thorsson,

Futhark (1984), Leon D. Wild, The Runes Work-

book (2004)

Runes are used for divination. Like astrol-ogy, the I Ching or the Tarot, the Runes can be used for the gathering of information about our subconscious knowledge, intui-tive knowledge or foreknowledge about events. There are now also Rune Cards in use, which is a sort of Tarot with a Rune on each card.

Self

It is important to clarify the notion of Self, which is ambiguous, used in different ways by different people, and by different relig-ions. To begin with, the Self needs to be

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distinguished from the ego. While it is gen-erally true that the ego isolates and suffo-cates human creativity in an ego-bound shell, this is not true for the Self as the greater notion. In this sense the Self con-tains the ego, but not vice versa. The Hindu notion of atman as the higher self that is considered as an outflow of the universal spirit or oversoul, brahman, may be a good conceptual aid. It is in this sense that the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi uses the no-tion of self and this comes very close to my own idea of selfhood. However, my idea has been influenced also strongly by the psy-chology of Carl Gustav Jung. In Jungian psychology, the self is the archetype sym-bolizing the totality of the personality. It represents the striving for unity, wholeness, and integration. As such, it embraces not only the conscious but also the uncon-scious.

Soul Power

Soul Power, which I synonymously call Pri-mary Power or Self-Power is a concept I have created to connote our original power, and which is distinct from the harmful sec-ondary powers or worldly powers that pro-foundly mark our current society, and which are clearly violence-inducing, and in the

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long run damaging the human potential and natural human spirituality.

Tarot

The Tarot de Marseille is one of the stan-dard patterns for the design of tarot cards. It is a pattern from which many subsequent tarot decks derive. Research showed that the Tarot deck was invented in northern It-aly in the fifteenth century. The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined in the 1930s by the French cartomancer Paul Marteau, who gave this collective name to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseille in the south of France, a city that was a centre of playing card manufacture. The Tarot de Marseille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived. Like other Tarot decks, the Tarot de Marseille contains fifty-six cards in the four standard suits.

Divining with the Tarot can be done in simi-lar ways as consulting the I Ching, using serendipity (or the help of our unconscious mind) to determine a set of correlated cards that give an answer for a particular outcome or question. However, unlike other divina-

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tions, the Tarot is psychological in the sense that cards, at least the great arcana, are ar-chetypal images and need interpretation. This is not always an easy task and can be subject to error and misinterpretation.

Personalities

Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama

Siddhartha Gautama (563 BC–483 BC) was a spiritual teacher from Ancient India who became the founder of Buddhism. He is generally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. Gautama, also known as Shakyamuni, the sage of the Shakyas, is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monas-tic rules are believed to have been summa-rized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to Gautama were passed down by oral tradition, and first committed to writing about four hundred years later. The Zen tradition, while today often seen as de-tached from Buddhism, was originally founded as a specific branch of Buddhism in China, called Chan Buddhism. When this tradition came to Japan, it was called Zen, and this name has survived until today.

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Descartes, René

René Descartes (1596–1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the ‘Father of Modern Philosophy’, and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a re-sponse to his writings, which continue to be studied closely to this day. In particular, his Meditations continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes’ influence in mathematics is also apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations being named for him. Descartes was also one of the key fig-ures in the Scientific Revolution. As the in-ventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, Descartes founded analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, crucial to the invention of calculus and analysis. His most famous statement is: Co-gito ergo sum.

The Cartesian system of thought, philoso-phy and science is today generally ques-tioned. One of the most prolific science authors who is now world-famous, offering in his books a comprehensive critique of Cartesian thought and its limitations, is the physicist and author Fritjof Capra.

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Einstein, Albert

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist widely considered one of the greatest physicists of all times. He formulated the special and general theories of relativity. In addition, he made significant advancements to quantum the-ory and statistical mechanics. While best known for the Theory of Relativity, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his 1905 explanation of the photoelec-tric effect and ‘for his services to Theoretical Physics’. In popular culture, the name Ein-stein has become synonymous with great intelligence and genius.

—Joyce Goldenstein, Physicist and Genius

(1995), Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

(1993), Out of My Later Years (1993), Ideas and

Opinions (1988), Albert Einstein Notebook

(1989).

Freud, Sigmund

I was first reading Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), in its German original edition, back in 1975, upon entering law school. Freud’s theory that children’s psychosexual devel-opment was a process of libidinal (erotic) identifications with first the same-sex parent

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(homosexual identification), and then with the other-sex parent (heterosexual identifi-cation), passing through the oral and anal stages for finally arriving at the genital stage—is an attractive surrogate for the real knowledge!

Freud was the avatar for what later became, and today still is, the mainstream paradigm in child psychology and education. One of the pitfalls of this paradigm is the denial or exclusion of parameters that serve to build identity through self-knowledge, intuitive or inner knowledge, paranormal knowledge, pre-life knowledge and relational experi-ence. The identity that is said to be the only possible one according to mainstream psy-chiatry is a derived, not a genuine, identity. It is derived from the parents’ identities. For a boy, the process will be identification with the father, as a primary homosexual identi-fication, during the anal phase and identifi-cation with the mother, as a secondary het-erosexual identification during the genital phase.

According to Freud, the so-called Oedipus Complex comes in at that moment in the child’s psychosexual development. True identity is built, according to this theory, when the boy has successfully liquidated the Oedipus Complex by having developed

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enough aggressiveness toward the father and enough castration of his incestuous de-sire toward the mother at the same time.

Jung, Carl Gustav

Carl Jung’s approach to psychoanalysis had a strong impact on my understanding of psychoanalysis. The first text I was reading by Jung was a rather esoteric essay, Relig-ious and Psychological Problems of Al-chemy, and it showed me the depth of Jung’s research into even highly esoteric topics.

Soon I became aware that Jung was going to cover that area that I found was missing out in the other authors’ view upon the hu-man psyche, that is, the spiritual dimension. After having read Archetypes of the Collec-tive Unconscious, The Myth of the Divine Child and On the Nature of the Psyche, I realized that for the first time, I had encoun-tered something like holistic psychology.

Jung’s writings were also fruitful for my bio-energy studies and my subsequent attempt of a scientific vocabulary regarding the cosmic energy field, which is ultimately something like a systems approach to hu-man emotions.

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Krishnamurti, J. (K)

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was born in a small village in south India. Soon after moving to Madras with his family in 1909, Krishnamurti was adopted by Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society. She was convinced that he was to become a great spiritual teacher, and Reverend Char-les Webster Leadbeater became his per-sonal tutor. Three years later she took him to England to be educated in preparation for his future role. An organization called The Order of the Star was set up to pro-mote Krishnamurti’s anticipated role as a World Teacher and Maitreya. In 1929, how-ever, after many years of questioning the destiny imposed upon him, Krishnamurti disbanded this organization, turning away all followers saying that: ‘Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any or-ganization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular spiritual path.’ From that time until his death in February 1986 at the age of ninety, he traveled around the world speaking as a private per-son, teaching and giving talks and having

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discussions. His aim was to set people psy-chologically free so that they might be in harmony with themselves, with nature and with others. K taught that humanity has cre-ated the environment in which we live and that nothing can ever put a stop to the vio-lence and suffering that has been going on for thousands of years except a transforma-tion in the human psyche. If only a dozen people are transformed, it would change the world. He used to call this transforma-tion ‘psychological revolution.’

Krishnamurti maintained that there is no path to this transformation, no method for achieving it, no gurus or spiritual authorities who can help. He pointed to the need for an ever-deepening and acute awareness in which the limitations of the mind could drop away. K was a universal and cosmo-politan mind. Although born of Indian par-entage, he stated repeatedly that he had no nationality and belonged to no particu-lar culture of group. What he hoped his audience would learn, he himself was the living example for it, which is, in my view, the only way a guru can legitimize himself as a true leader. Only what is brought over as incarnated can be shared, not what is merely preached or lectured as true as it may be.

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Education has always been one of Krishna-murti’s concerns. If a young person could learn to see his or her conditioning of race, nationality, religion, dogma, tradition, opin-ion etc., which inevitably leads to conflict, then they might become fully intelligent human beings for whom right action would be a natural way of life. K reasoned that a prejudiced or dogmatic mind can never be free.

During his life time K established several schools in different parts of the world where young people and adults could come to-gether and explore this possibility further in actual daily living. Krishnamurti said of the schools that they were places where stu-dents and teachers can flower inwardly. Be-cause, schools are meant for that, not just merely to turn out human beings as me-chanical, technological instru-ments—though jobs and careers are neces-sary—but also to flower as human beings, without fear, without confusion, with great integrity. He was concerned to bring about a good human being, not in the respect-able sense, but in the sense of whole, un-fragmented. He wanted the schools to be real centers of understanding, of real com-prehension of life.

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