The Other Side of the Paradigm

Man’s Personal equation

Georgia Stathis

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The Other Side of the ParadigmMan’s Personal equation

An exploration of conceptual possibilities reprint from 1978.

Chapter 1

IntroductionThe purpose of this project was to test whether there is any statistical

significance between certain astrological characteristics and their relationship to certain professions or to a person’s choice of profession. It was decided that if a relationship was found, then perhaps reasonable guidelines for career choices could be established.

Many stories about “pseudosciences” are recorded in history. In the present day there is a great deal of emphasis on them. One of the most ancient is that of alchemy. Alchemy has its origins before the time of Christ in the schools of Alexandria as well as in ancient China. Alchemy is the art of transmuting lead into gold: “In many esoteric traditions this transmutation could be accomplished only when the individual had transformed his own consciousness into a state in which he could psychokinetically transform all matter.”1

This transmutation involved possession of the philosopher’s stone and required thorough exploration of the unconscious powers of the mind through dreams and visions. In China it involved strenuous forms of yoga and mental concentration enabling one to control the physiological processes of the body.

Several examples of alchemy have been recorded through history. One of the most famous examples was Nicholas Flamel who lived in Paris during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This transmutation was not recorded by witnesses. However, it may seem plausible since his wealth experienced a very sudden increase.

Phrenology or the study of the head was another “mystic” art. Franz Joseph Gall, a German doctor born in 1758, had observed among his fellow medical students a correlation between good memories and prominent eyes.

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He decided that the part of the brain that concerned itself with memory was located behind the eyeballs.

Extending his studies, he divided the functioning of the brain into 37 distinct places, each distinguished as a separate organ in a different part of the cranium. “The size and contour of the head was thus very much affected by the relative development of these different faculties . . . and . . . it ought to be possible to judge a person’s character by making measurements of his or her cranium . . . “� In any event, Gall left many books concerning his studies. He was a pioneer in the study of physiology of the brain.

Astrology too is considered a pseudoscience by a certain percentage of the population. Perhaps, if one studies it, there is actually some bearing upon its study. The word astrology is derived from two Greek words, “astra,” a star, and “logos,” logic or reason. Astrology implies the doctrine and law as shown by the stars or planets. It defines the action of celestial bodies upon animate and inanimate objects, and their reaction to such influences.

Originally, all who studied the stars were termed astrologers. Astrology’s age is recorded in the very earliest records of human learning. Astrology, in the past, was generally divided into five branches. Medical Astrology is devoted to diagnosis, healing, and prevention of physical and mental ailments by knowledge gained from the horoscope. “Hippocrates, who has been justly named the Father of Medicine, declared, ‘A physician cannot safely administer medicine if he be unacquainted with astrology . . . “�

Astro-Meteorology is the art of predicting the weather from planetary aspects. Judicial [also known as Mundane] Astrology is the forecasting of the principal events which will come to pass in a country and conditions which are to prevail in the land. Horary Astrology is used for answering questions that pertain to a matter taking pace at a certain time. Genethlialogy, or Natal Astrology, is directly concerned with the birth of a person into physical reality. It is this particular branch with which this report concerns itself.

Note for 2009: With the advent of personal computers made available to individuals starting in the late 1970’s, the last three decades have brought forth more new branches of astrology and their exploration. Some of these are: Business Astrology, the assessment and delineation of incorporation charts and company planning; Financial Astrology, the assessment of various financial cycles from a planetary perspective as well as the trading histories of countries and companies. In addition, there has been discovery and a renaissance of these lost parts of astrology. The holes that existed prior to this time regarding the ‘missing’ pieces of this ancient art form have come forth with expanded studies that include Hellenistic, Vedic, Medieval, and Classical astrology. Kepler College, a Bachelor and Master program, in an answer to these vast discoveries emerged offering these comprehensive histories and techniques to students internationally.

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Two RealitiesThere is an existence in man of two major modes of consciousness: one is

analytic while the other is holistic. There exist in the universe many things that are not necessarily what they seem to be. One perception of the universe can be very different than that of one’s neighbor. More than one way of knowing is possible!

“Ordinary consciousness is an exquisitely designed and evolved personal construction that exists for the primary purpose of individual biological survival.”� If ordinary consciousness is a personal construction, then other constructions and other consciousnesses are potentially available as well.

The universe is filled with many different perceptions, observations, and magical understanding. Some of this theory is unexplained—it simply is. One of the reasons the magical cosmology is so elusive is that most people in the Western world have, from childhood, been conditioned to a rational, materialistic way of perceiving and interpreting information. “To open to another way of perceiving reality requires considerable motivation and conscious efforts---a process of systematic deconditioning.”5 Generally speaking, people are totally driven from television breath freshener commercials to new reports on the environment, to new scientific or computer language. Most of the time, however, people do not understand what a scientist is talking about. It is as if he/she belonged to a secret brotherhood. It is reminiscent of what conversations, perhaps, took place in ancient Egypt among the high priests. The question of what kind of popular interpretations of their knowledge has survived, has filtered down to people today.

A small number of previously pioneering attempts have already been made to determine how well astrology reflects the facts of nature. This is a challenge in that astrology is by nature a combination of detailed assessment and an art form – becoming more precise as the interpreter keenly assesses and synthesizes the information before them. The attempt here, however, is to validate astrology’s right to be considered scientific.

A French scientist, Michael Gauquelin, reviewed those attempts and concluded that earlier experimental efforts suffered from a number of fundamental errors and were not successful. He shattered the reality paradigm with the results of his studies. Many significant studies are the result of many years of experimentation by Gauquelin. His findings, as do most professional astrologers’, do not support the astrology that relates to sun signs normally found in magazines and newspapers. Gauquelin was able to discover a relationship between the position of the planets relative to the horizon and the resulting success in certain professions. “While, with a few notable exceptions, Gauquelin did not predict the results in advance, his findings are consistent with the astrological interpretations of Ptolemy and Kepler.”6

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In his initial studies, Gauquelin examined the births of 25,000 famous people. He found in the beginning of his studies that there was no correlation between either the temperament or the profession of these people. His original conclusions were that chance, not the “stars,” related the forces tested. All his findings are documented. They all show a lack of correlation between actual fact and predictions. In his initial studies, he is not hesitant in stating that while astrology is a belief held by many sincere people, these people are misguided. One can imagine Gauquelin’s surprise at the result of his subsequent testing. He conducted this testing himself and it showed that there was a “definite correlation existing between the position of certain planets at birth and the future occupation of people.”7

As an example, of 3647 famous doctors and scientists he studied, 724 were born with Mars (aggressive and risk oriented energy) at a very prominent place in the chart. This effect has a probability of only 1 in 500,000 of having occurred by chance. In the same group of individuals, an unusually high number, statistically speaking, were born with Saturn (discipline) in a very prominent place in the chart.

In a group of 3438 famous soldiers, Jupiter (expansiveness) or Mars (aggressive and risk oriented energy) was frequently found in the sectors that exemplified the physical body. In a group of 2088 sports champions, Mars dominated, being recorded 452 times instead of the expected 358. The probability that this could have happened by chance was only one in five million.8 In one of Gauquelin’s continuing investigations which involved 576 medical academicians in France, he found an unusually high correlation between the moment of birth and positions of certain “planets.” He checked yet another group of 508 ordinary doctors and found the same correlation. He then examined a total of 25,000 births in such countries as Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Holland—just to make sure the findings were not peculiar to France. He found the results to be the same. He also found other correlations between different professions. This finding was ironic since the man who had so tried to disprove astrological claims was contradicting himself. Still, there was nothing more involved here than the statistical analysis of data—hard facts.

The Research ProblemIn this modern day world can Gauquelin’s findings apply? Is there some

value in this type of astrological evaluation? Based on this premise, the question examined in this paper is as follows: Are there astrological correlations to successful job placement and to vocational choices? Is there another reality other than an everyday existence?

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Summary If there are astrological correlates, the perhaps a qualified interpreter

can aid in vocational planning and job placement. The general concern of this paper was with an exploration in an attempt to find whether there was a significant difference between an individual’s assessment of his personality characteristics (using a scale from 1 to 10) and an interpreter’s evaluation with respect to certain personality characteristics which are listed later in this paper.

Chapter 2 addressed the question of the validity of astrological theories and assumptions. It also examined the relationship to modern day psychology and biology. What is real and what appears to be real were covered in the sections concerning the paradigm--inside and out.

Chapter 3 described the methodology used in this study. Population and sample size, research instruments, tests, and statistical tools were described.

Chapter 4 contained the findings; and Chapter 5indicated whether there seems to be a relationship between Gauquelin’s findings and the researcher’s findings. It also explored some of the areas that might be explored, using the results of the study.

This project was undertaken for several reasons:

1) if certain astrological characteristics were found that correlate with professions, then it stands to reason that a more efficient guideline for a person’s choice of profession might be possible through the use of natal charts (birth charts);

2) modern business techniques develop daily. Perhaps this technique, like graphology, visualization, mind mapping and possibility thinking can be incorporated into business structure; and

3) more and more people are working for a more satisfaction than pay. The need to self actualize in the job demands a work or play environment which might be prompted by applying this method.

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Chapter 2

Review of LiteratureInterest in human consciousness is spread throughout today’s society.

Some of this interest in reflected in the research and simply general interest in such varied areas as meditation, biofeedback, hypnosis, psychokinesis, altered states of awareness, and other realms that include extrasensory perception, Eastern religions and “esoteric” psychologies. In fields as diverse as physics, religion, philosophy, and clinical medicine, ideas once thought to be foreign and unacceptable are now being studied seriously by various groups, ranging from small religious sects to awareness training organizations such as transactional analysis (TA).

Note 2008: Since this writing in 1978, almost thirty years ago, in recent years, many major HMOs have included as part of their services Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage therapy, and chiropractic to name a few of the disciplines, which at one time, were considered out of the ordinary and non-valid.

These groups have been organized in an effort to understand and bring into better perspective the reality and mysticism of Eastern philosophies and the rational, objective view of reality of the West.

Inside the ParadigmWhat is reality? Lawrence LeShan, a psychologist, differentiated between

different types of realities: “Common sense” reality (the individual reality used in everyday life in Western society), “scientific” reality (the individual reality of modern physics), and “mystical” reality. He also defined an “individual” reality as one in which an individual perceives, responds, and interacts.9

There are different types of realities. Using the fabled example of the elephant and the blind men, perhaps the idea can be expanded:

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Several blind men attempt to investigate an elephant.

One who has the leg says ‘It is massive, cylindrical, and hard.’

Another, touching the skin, ‘It is rough and scaly.’

All are misinformed.

All generalize from partial knowledge. 10

All these men interpreted the elephant as different things, different experiences on the basis of their exposure to a part of the whole. However, to them, that was the true reality.

The major import of this example is that a person cannot describe a whole if he knows only part. Each person can make his or her limited, analytic assessment of a situation, but not necessarily be correct in their evaluation.

LeShan discusses a physicist’s view and a mystic’s view of reality and notes: “Both mystic and physicist are trying to build better (more accurate) pictures of how the cosmos works.”11 One rejects his sense as a path to this understanding and the other rejects the evidence of the senses. Although these two views differ radically in their approaches, they agree in their attempts to understand reality.

Carlos Castaneda in his fictional journeys with the Mexican Indian sorcerer don Juan, found that his perceptions of reality were often only his perceptions and that to experience don Juan’s world of “nonordinary reality, he was forced to suspend his rational judgment and his cultural attitudes.”1� He had to participate in don Juan’s world—the world of the unconscious, or a parallel reality that is always present.

Previously it was mentioned that there is an existence in man of two major modes of consciousness - one being analytic and the other holistic:

The first mode of consciousness is analogous to the process of viewing the individual parts of the elephant . . . the second views the whole animal. They are complementary; both have their functions. Another way to convey the dichotomy is to point out the difference between the “rational” and “intuitive” sides of man. In our intellectual history, we have separated these modes of knowing into separate areas . . . into Science and Religion . . . Those who use one approach have rarely commerced with the other. With the breakup of organized religion as a major cultural force, science has become the dominant influence in our culture. It is natural, then, that the textbook ideal of scientific knowledge has become a dominant mode of knowledge within our culture. The mode is largely analytic, verbal, linear and rational.13

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The daily consciousness is very different from person to person. William James, at the turn of the century, spoke of the daily waking consciousness existing, “whilst” all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”1�

The universe and individuals somehow are inseparable and each exists because of the other. Perhaps through acts of consciously choosing and posing various questions about the universe and one’s being, a person can bring about in some measure, what he sees taking place in front of him.

“We are going to come to appreciate that the universe itself in some strange way depends on our being here for its properties. “Depends” perhaps is not the right word, because it implies that “the universe is dependent upon us, when there is a mutuality of relationship that needs to be stated.”15

Carl Jung, a pioneer of psychiatry, said he refused “to commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.” He also stated that there “are no coincidences.”

In accordance with his beliefs, in 1909, Jung went to see Freud, who was his senior and the known authority of psychiatry. The two were talking about this “something” that a person cannot see, cannot hear, and that, in a more material sense, has no weight, taste, or color. They were discussing this thing called the Unconscious.

Jung felt a curious sensation in his diaphragm. ‘At that moment there was such a loud report in the bookcase, which stood right next to us, that we both started up, in alarm, fearing the thing was going to topple over us. I said to Freud: ‘There, that is an example of a so-called catalytic exteriorization phenomenon.’16

Freud disagreed with Jung’s statement. He highly contradicted it. Jung told Freud that he was highly mistaken and that the noise would happen again in a few minutes. It did.

Law of Cause and EffectIn Mysterium Coniunctionis, Carl Jung gives his extended viewpoint on

this “mutuality”—the law of cause and effect. The title of the book means, “. . . the uniting of separated qualities or an equalizing principle.” Jung states that in the universe, as in the human psyche, there are positives and negatives necessary to achieving a balance in existence. As he states, “The therapist confronts the opposites with one another and aims at uniting them permanently.” “The ego-personality occupies an intermediate position, like the soul placed between good and evil.” He says, “Often the polarity is arranged as a quaternio (quaternity), with the two opposites crossing one another, as

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for instance the four elements of the four qualities (moist, dry, cold, warm), or the four directions and seasons, thus producing the cross as an emblem of the four elements . . . “ “This fourfold Physis (cross) also appears in the (alchemical) signs for earth, Venus , Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter.”17 These symbols are the same used in astrology.

[The four directions, or the four or five elements/qualities are also used in Eastern practices of healing as well as in Native American rituals and traditions illustrating the universality of this quaternity.]

Jung’s philosophy of the universe is summed up beautifully when he states that everything psychic is pregnant with the future. History shows that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of transition. Proved science was now on the forefront. The transition was from a world founded on metaphysics to an era of explanatory principles. What was then incubating in the unconscious came to life in the tremendous development of the natural sciences, whose youngest sister was empirical psychology.

He stated that that which always had been presumed to be a divine knowledge, which human beings can never really know with certainty, and which seemed to be lost forever during the decline of the Middle Ages, rose up again with the discovery of the psyche. “This premonition of future discoveries in the psychic sphere pressed itself in the phantasmagoric speculations of philosophers who, until then, had appeared to be the arch-peddlers of sterile verbiage.”18

Jung goes on to distinguish the difference between the Yin and Yang, or the oppositions of male and female. This is a very basic part of his thesis on cause and effect. “The alchemist’s endeavours to unite the opposite culminates in the ‘chymical marriage,’ the supreme act of union in which the work reaches its consummation. There seems the possibility of a final union between what is male and what is female.”

After the hostility of the four elements has been overcome, there still remains the last and most formidable opposition which the alchemist expressed very aptly as the relationship between male and female. We are inclined to think of this primarily as the power of love, of passion, which drives the two opposites together, forgetting that such a vehement attraction is needed only when an equally strong resistance keeps them apart.19

The male and female counterparts are the conscious and the most unconscious mind, respectively. The conscious mind is the intellectual and logical part of our being. The unconscious is the more emotional and instinctual part. Jung’s symbols for conscious and unconscious are Sol and Luna (Sun and Moon). The same interpretation is found in astrology.

Man is both the conscious and the unconscious. Man comes to the “consummation of the union of opposites and reconciliation of the divided ...”20

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In the metamorphic description of the alchemist, Luna is primarily a reflection of man’s unconscious femininity, but she is also the principle of the feminine psyche, in the sense that Sol is the principle of man’s. This is particularly obvious in the astrological interpretation of sun and moon, not to mention the age-old assumptions of mythology. Alchemy is inconceivable without the influence of her elder sister astrology, and the statement of these three disciplines must be taken into account in any psychological evaluation of the luminaries.21

Both men and women possess this conscious and unconscious light. It is the salute of the light within or the Namaste in Adam Smith’s, Power of Mind.

The Perennial Philosophy The central characteristics of this particular view of life, which was formulated

in the Vedic era of India, about 1500 B.C.E., include the following:

1. Those living this philosophy have always insisted that it is not a philosophy or a metaphysic, not an ideology or a religious belief, although it is an experience that is attested to. This experience resolves the polarities of time and space.

2. The basic nature of the universe is consciousness, and the individual participates in this “cosmic” consciousness.

3. Although the human can experience or participate in this “cosmic” consciousness, he usually chooses not to, going through life in a kind of hypnotic daze.

4. Human potentiality is limitless. All knowledge, power and awarenesses are accessible to a man’s consciousness.

5. As man becomes aware of this basic nature of reality, he is motivated toward development, creativity, and movement towards that “higher self,” and what is called “inspiration” or “creativity” is essentially breaking through to ordinary awareness.

6. Evolution occurs, physically and mentally, and is directed by unseen consciousness and creates purpose.��

Again, one perceives the natural law of the universe . . . the cause and effect Jung is speaking about. Jung proposed an answer. “The future might be divined, he suggested, not through any causal relation but by a synchronism of nonrational coincidences whose meanings are glimpsed by the unconscious mind of the seer.”��

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By identifying a number of underlying issues and dimensions along with the various images that have dominated human history that have differed, one cannot only better portray the dominant image of humanity in today’s society, but can contrast that image with the images of other cultures. This may be of vital importance in the upcoming “spaceship era,” because not only will varying cultures have to coexist more interactively, but there is an increased possibility for a creative merger of differences.

Concerning Free Will

Does a human being have free will, or are his or her actions (including choices) determined by various internal or external forces? Many of the ancient images saw man as moved by magical, divine, or naturalistic forces. This idea has returned through behavioral and biological science. Witness the influx of self-improvement books (particularly through the 1980’s and 1990’s). Most modern views of man see him as free and unrestrained. The only thing that really does “restrain” is the “natural law of the universe and those arbitrary laws he has constructed for his own convenience.”��

People react to the energies around them, but they still exhibit free will. A simple illustration follows: One morning a person wakes up and decides the time is right to begin to look for a new job. This “decision” is the result of a series of happenings, or, coincidences, as Jung would say. The series of occurrences is as follows:

1) acquiring all necessary skills at the current job that will enhance future work;

2) the need for more money due to a series of unexpected circumstances; and

3) having spoken to a number of people who encouraged the decision. The free will is still there; the decision is the result of a series of causes; and Jung still states, “There are no coincidences!”

A person’s conceptions of what is possible limit awareness and actions. This limitation is contained in the paradigm. Most rational thinking, most Western reasoning, exists within the paradigm. The “paradigm is the shared conceptions of what is possible, the boundaries of acceptable inquiry, the limiting cases.”25

What if a person steps out of this paradigm? Is this possible? What lies the far side or outside of this paradigm? What other “consciousnesses” are there?

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The Outside of the ParadigmThe human brain—a fact—a reality—holds other realities. The brain is

divided into a left and a right hemisphere. The left side governs the logical mind and this happens while the right remains the emotional, intuitive side.

In 1864, the neurologist Hughlings Jackson considered the left hemisphere of the brain to be the seat of the “faculty of expressions,” and noted of a patient with a tumor in the right hemisphere, “She did not know objects, persons or places.”�6

Since Hughlings Jackson many neurologists and psychiatrists have confirmed that there are definitely two modes of consciousness to be found in the cerebral hemispheres of man. Damage to the left hemisphere very often interferes with language ability. Some patients with right hemisphere damage cannot dress themselves, even though their speech and reasoning ability goes unimpaired.

Categorizing Oriental religions as Eastern psychologies, right-brained and left-brained, gives a new perspective. It seems strange to Western culture, which is verbal and rational: it does not make sense. Eastern cultures are more right-brain oriented. Their thinking moves towards the arational or the instinctual. Western culture is just now beginning to study the mind and its possibilities.

The I Ching

The I Ching, or the Book of Changes, is a Chinese document which expresses the left-right complementarity by dividing the world into light and dark, creative and receptive. The I Ching is a “right brained” document!

It is exclusively preoccupied with the chance aspect of events. “What we call coincidence seems to be the chief concern of this peculiar mind, and what we worship as causality passes almost unnoticed.”27

Meditation

Meditation is a good example of trend. Meditation provides the state of “no mind,” or “mysterious darkness.” People meditate to change consciousness, to bring about what is often called a “mystic” experience.28 Meditation in this country is the result of a need that has been felt by many; that perhaps they are too one sided. The “new” consciousness in this country has created a different type of awareness in today’s culture that was not so evident some fifteen years ago (now some forty-five years ago!).

For example, the artist is in an eternal pursuit of expression. Throughout history people have read of the famous artists who would forsake all material

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possessions for the sake of their creative expression. Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin are examples of such artists. At the opposite end of the spectrum, is the realist, the attorney, for example, the pragmatist for whom logic is the only way. Each of these people has a more highly developed right or left hemisphere that responds to his or her universe and acts accordingly.

Psychokinesis

Another reality is that outside the paradigm is that of psychokinesis, PK, which is the ability of a mind to control the motion of a physical object by a paranormal means. “Since it requires the transmission of a considerable force rather than a mere idea or visions, it would seem to be even further removed from normal reality than the telepathic or clairvoyant forms of ESP.”�9

Extrasensory Perception

Extrasensory perception, ESP, is the ability to perceive or sense by means other than the known physical reality. Perhaps better words to use are ‘presumed ability’. “The known senses usually listed as he five traditional senses of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste, actually include a number of other obscure senses; for example, the sense of balance.”30

These are all outside of the paradigm. They cannot be explained scientifically, but yet they still exist. Perhaps all three involve bodies of energy that react with the universe. Taking these outer realities a step further, an examination can be made of the human aura.

The Aura

In a small soundproof chamber, illuminated only by the glow of a small red lamp, a bearded inventor named Kendall L. Johnson attached an electrode to my hand. He assured me that the shocks that were about to come “wouldn’t hurt a bit.”

Some photos were to be taken, but neither a light nor camera were needed. For each photo, I had to press a fingertip directly onto an unexposed piece of 4” x 5” photographic paper as a one-second pulse of electricity surged through my hand, then through the paper, and finally through a wired metal plate on which the paper rested . . . All were taken using Johnson’s equipment.31

The photography in this case is Kirlian photography. Kirlian photography measures the energy field called The Aura, which is depicted in many religious paintings often as a halo. Put simply, Kirlian photography is based on directing a high-frequency electrical field, oscillating 75,000 to 200,000 times a second,

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through an object to be photographed and a piece of unexposed photographic paper.

As the scientist Sheila Ostrander ad Lynn Schroeder describe it, “The electrical field apparently causes the object to radiate some sort of bioluminescence onto the photo paper.”��

Soviet studies of the energy fields around living things date from the 1939 discovery by an electrician, Semyon Kirlian, that the energy flowing between an electrotherapy device he had repaired and the skin of a patient could be photographed by putting a photographic plate between the two. The Kirlians sensed that the patterns of their photography were the result of life-related energy. “Pictures of a freshly picked plant leaf were found to be aglow with lights and colors, but as a leaf died, its lights faded.”��

Chemical ingredients that make up the human body have been precisely calculated. The more esoteric question is how do they combine to make a self-sustaining living being? “Somewhere between death and life something unknown is blended in, something the poet Dylan Thomas called “the forced that through the green fuse drives the flower.”��

What this force is, no one really knows. A Swedish physician, Nils-Olof Jacobson found that “it” weighed twenty-one grams or about three-quarters of an ounce! In his book Life after Death, Jacobson described how he placed the deathbeds of terminal patients on extremely sensitive scales and recorded at the moment of death an average drop of twenty-one grams.

Human beings are continually changing energy systems. The universe is viewed in this fashion in Oriental thought. Taoist philosophy, which is based on Zen Buddhism and influences most Chinese thought, always has taught the need for a balancing of positive and negative energies, ass does Jung’s or Ornstein’s theories.

Perhaps the reaction to one another in a relationship is simply a balancing of energies. Thelma Moss, at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, along with Kendall Johnson discovered the kissing effect. This name refers to energy field interaction between two persons’ fingertips.

Preliminary study suggests that two people can enhance or dim one another’s aura and that in everyday interaction . . . for example, a mother apparently has some ability to “heal” her children by transfusing aura energy to them; and lovers likewise seem to transfer some aura energy in a “healing” fashion, by the “laying on” of parts of the body. You can give something of yourself, literally, when you touch a loved one, and the feeling truly can be an electric tingle.35

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“These theories,” Johnson states, “show that we extend beyond our skins that we have another body—another kind of energy that interacts with our environment. The more I witness this, the more I feel a oneness in the universe, and the more I feel awe.”�6

The Orgone Box

The last major American scientist to promote ideas about “energy bodies” (at this initial writing in 1978) died in prison because he could not prove his theories to the satisfaction of his peers, yet refused to surrender his beliefs. His name was Wilhelm Reich, and he had been among “Freud’s earliest disciples in psychotherapy. After breaking with Freud, he went searching for the essence of life. This vital energy is referred to as Prana by the Hindus. Reich eventually called it Orgone. He invented the Orgone Box in 1940 and the idea behind it was to act as an “accumulator” of energy. The chamber had walls, a ceiling and a floor consisting of several alternating layers of organic and metallic materials. The idea of the Orgone Box was that by remaining for a time inside this chamber, a person could be revitalized by the concentration of the life energy or bio-energy it pulled from the earth’s energy field.

In Galaxies of Life, Stanley Krippner, the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn, hailed Reich: “Personally, I feel that there is a connection between the findings of Kirlian photography and the orgone theories of Wilhelm Reich and the bioenergetic therapists.”37

The Electro-Dynamic Theory of Life

Harold S. Burr (E.K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy, Yale university) and F.S.C. Northrop (Sterling Professor of Philosophy and Law, Yale), developed the idea of The Electro-Dynamic Theory of Life. They decided that since particle physics in non-living matter had to be supplemented by field physics, the same must be true in organic matter. “Thus living organisms, composed of atoms and molecules in which complex chemical interchanges were constantly taking place, required a force capable of directing and holding together these particles.”38 In 1935 Burr and some associated perfected an ultra-sensitive microvoltmeter which could measure currents as small as a millionth of a volt between two points on or within a living organism. The findings were that all living things had electrical fields of varying intensity. This finding launched an extensive research project which involved many types of life and hundreds of human subjects.

One of the findings was that force fields in organisms change in strength and polarity in response to internal (biological) and external (cosmological) events. “These cycles of biorhythms, called field profiles, were first observed in trees. Then, after plotting more than 30,000 force field profiles from 430

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human subjects at Yale, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine, as well as at the Roanoke and Downey V.A. Hospitals, similar rhythmic variations were discovered. These studies opened the door to long-and short-range predictions in time.

Leonard J. Ravitz, a neuro-psychiatrist with the Section of Neuro-Anatomy at Yale, took daily readings of eleven students for more than a year. His report (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1951) claimed that voltage-change cycles were directly correlated with the lunar phases. Peaks appeared when the moon was full and when it was new. Other studied cycles “brought daily voltages to a peak in December and a low stable value in mid-summer.”�9 This could be correlated with the sun, “. . . closest to earth in mid-December (near Winter Solstice) and furthest in June (near Summer Solstice) and both in Northern Hemisphere. The cycles were confirmed . . . in later tests.”40

Frank A. Brown, Jr. of Northwestern University, took some oysters from a sound near New Haven, Connecticut, and placed them in a tank of salt water at Evanston, Illinois. All factors were regulated. The temperature remained constant, the water stayed on an even level, and the room was lit with a dim, steady light. For two weeks, the oysters opened and closed their shells in time with the tides back in New Haven. This action indicated to Brown that the rhythm was inherited. However, after fourteen days the rhythm ceased. Many hours passed and then a new rhythm began. It was found that the oysters opened their shells when the full moon stood at its zenith over Evanston, when there would have been high tide in Evanston had the city been a coastal city. It was the moon’s position that influenced the oysters. The rhythm seemed to be influenced by the moon’s position. Charts in the Yale report revealed that patterns of voltage-changes in trees were similar to those of the human subjects. Occasionally, it was found, one chart would appear to be a mirror of the other.

These studies offer strong evidence that the ancient belief in a relationship between the new and full moon and abnormal or strained mental conditions, such as insanity, is based on truth. Psychiatric patients, at such periods, exhibit increasing unrest. This is shown on the voltmeter readings. “In addition to this seasonal/lunar rhythm, there are other cycles, diurnal and semi-monthly, and fluctuations seemingly connected with changes in the earth’s magnetic field.”�1

Biorhythms

From birth to death, each person has his or her own individual cycles. The three cycles are physical, emotional, and intellectual. The physical cycle takes 23 days to complete and it influences such factors as resistance to disease, stamina, speed and accuracy, and coordination. The emotional cycle takes 28 days to complete and it influences such factors as creativity, mood, sensitivity,

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and perceptions of others and one’s self. The intellectual cycle, which lasts 33 days and is the longest, regulates memory, receptivity, alertness, and logical functions.

The three cycles, which originate at one base line at birth, must go up (positive) or down (negative), crossing the mid line each time. When the cycles cross this line, they are said to be critical days.��

An article in the Wall Street Journal described these cycles and how modern businesses applied them to their work days.�� The profession most amenable to biorhythms, at the time of the article was that of professional sports. It gave an example of the Wimbleton Tennis Championship and demonstrated how the winners were on high (positive) cycles during the championships.

Exxon Chemical Company as well as a plastic surgeon from Chicago named Annette Lotter, used biorhythms. Both used biorhythms for the same purpose, to increase safety among workers and patients and to decrease any elements of danger.

Years ago, when Eastern Airlines operated, W.W. Johnson, a captain for Eastern Airlines, numerous examples of air crashes involving pilots whose cycles were at critical points when flying were cited. Johnson continued on as one of he pioneers in the airlines industry who tried to persuade the industry to use biorhythms for its flight staffs. For years, Japanese Airlines (JAL) had used biorhythms in determining good days for their pilots to fly.

Japan was further ahead in applying this practice to business than was the United States. Seibu Transport Company had used biorhythms for ten years to caution truck drivers on critical days. Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company distributed biorhythm charts to potential contractors, customers, and driver-training schools to promote safety-consciousness in people.��

Part of the Outer Paradigm – AstrologyThe principal causes of astrology—the science that uses the movement

of the planets as its basis—being discredited are the “dogmatism of modern religions and the rapid development during the last centuries of materialism, which has brought man to accept only that which he can observe with his three-dimensional senses.”45

Historical Notes

Plato, Socrates’ pupil, studied the influence of the sun and moon on the formation of both sexes. Thomas Aquinas says, “The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in this sub-lunar world. They influence the human actions directly, but not every action caused by them is inevitable.” Kepler, the

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famous astronomer, was an astrologer as well. He predicted to Alerecht Von Wallenstein, a famous General, his future glories and tragedies and the exact date of his death.”�6

The purpose here is not to credit astrology. It is to expand on Gauquelin’s findings; and in order to do this, one must at least credit the existence of this science—whether or not the reader believes it is relevant.

The book, Astrogenetics, stated that:

Educators have found a correlation between season of birth and the IQ of their students; doctors have detected a pattern in the occurrence of congenital heart disorders; psychiatrists have noticed an uneven distribution in the birth data of schizophrenics. In every case, the investigators have veered away from their data—as if further research might sully their professions. At the very least, it might give aid and comfort to the purveyors of astrological nostrums. 47

Edmund Van Deusen, author of the book and a former Associate Science Editor for Fortune magazine, based the premise of his book on the fact that every human being, including and most important, every mother, displays an annual biorhythm or cycle of chemical change. He claims that there is an annual cycle of personality based on season of birth.

Every profession has its stereotypical personality. There might be a range of personality types within each profession, but most people would agree that a “doctor has a personality different from that of a professional athlete, or even more, the artist.”48

In his study, Van Deusen took a birth date surveys that personality of 5,000 birth dates (using astrological sun signs only) and 37 professions and came up with some interesting percentages. It seemed that certain months or seasons had greater percentages of certain people in certain professions. Advertising related people, which are the subject of this research were more prominent during May, June, and July. The book states that characteristics determine choice of professions. There are symbols that astrology uses that denote these various characteristics. Jung used symbols in his studies in psychology that were the same as the ones we are speaking of here. Van Deusen’s book combines genetics with astrology. He states that genes set people apart from others—and yet link them together.

Most people accept the shape they have- size and facial features as inherited through their parents. It is also well known that the final expression of these genes—one’s adulthood—may have been significantly influenced by a person’s mother’s health, care received as infants, and other factors. It is now being found that the mother’s state of mind at the time of her pregnancy

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greatly influences the psychological make-up of the children.

One of the most difficult problems for the survival of the species was the fact that for at least half of the year, “infant mortality must have increased to near the 100 percent mark.”�9 At the time the species could not afford to lose half of each new generation if it bred only during certain times of the year. In conjunction with this concept, certain times of the year produced different types of physical and mental makeups. A different type of offspring could survive “being born in the snow, as compared to the warmth (and being well-fed by the mother) that would accompany birth in the summer.” This particular cycle could help account for the early start of astrology, which appears to have been part of the culture from prehistoric times. “Both the astrogenetic cycle and cyclic movement of the stars have a common source: the annual journey of the earth around the sun.” Taking the above series of happenings, it is perhaps inevitable that early man assumed a cause-and-effect relationship between personality and the stars. “The result was to merge the study of man—psychology—and the study of the heavens—astronomy—into a single discipline.”5051 This combination has remained here for the better part of history. In the seventeenth century, when the telescope was discovered, astronomy separated itself and became a “rational” science!

This separation left astrology with only its psychological content, which was based on thousands of years of observation of human psyche. However, the new rational psychologists of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in looking for definite realities, refused to explore this source. Carl Jung was one of the few who allowed for this possibility of this particular reality. “A truly rational scientist will take his data where he finds it; a part-truth can be just as valid as a truth, if it is examined without prejudice.”52 Perhaps psychologists can take advantage of some of these findings.

SummaryThus a serious evaluation of the possibilities that exist using this theory is

constantly underway. Using Gauquelin’s initial findings about vocational choices and the findings of Van Deusen, this study was developed. Disagreement may exist about the credibility of astrology. However, this should be suspended and for one moment, the possibility of the existence of this science in the outer paradigms that continue to emerge need be allowed. If certain astrological characteristics are found to correlate with certain professions, then perhaps it may be that a more efficient guideline for vocational planning and job placement may be established and assist those who find themselves in the cross hairs of vocational change as they mature and develop.

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This article was part of a thesis written by Georgia Stathis in 1978. It was the jumping off point for her exploration into the possibility of how astrology correlates with the continually evolving business and career cycles. It presents the idea of how there are other probable paradigms that afford perspective when deciding the business aspects of our lives. Ms. Stathis can be reached at www.starcycles.com or at georgia@starcycles.com. She is available for business consultations by phone or for training programs at your organization or company. (925) 689-7827. (925) 686-3196 Fax.

Endnotes1 Jeffrey Mishlove, The Roots of Consciousness (New York: Random House, Inc., 1975, p.

34.)

2 Albert Shadowitz and Peter Walsh, The Dark Side of Knowledge (Philippines: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1976), p. 124.

3 Llewellyn George, A to Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator (St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1976), p. 15.

4 Robert E. Ornstein, The Psychology of Consciousness (New York: Penguin Books, 1975), p. 61.

5 Nicholas and June Regush, Mind-Search (New York: Berkley Publishing, 1977), p.256.

6 Mishlove, p. 254.

7 Shadowitz and Walsh, p. 257.

8 This portion draws heavily from Mishlove, p. 255.

9 Philip R. Lee and Robert E. Ornstein, Symposium on Consciousness (New York: Penguin Books, 1977), p. 4.

10 Ornstein, p. 25.

11 Lee, et al., p.4.

12 Lee, p. 5.

13 Ornstein, p. 26.

14 Lee, p. 5.

15 Ibid., p. 5.

16 Adam Smith, Powers of Mind (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), p. 335.

17 Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, 2d Edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977), p.

xv; p. 6; pp. 3-4.

18 Jung, p. 58.

19 Jung, p.89.

20 Jung, p. 170.

21 Jung, p. 179.

22 This section draws heavily from information in the Stanford Research Inst. Policy Report �, “Changing Images of Man” (May, 1974), pp. 38-41.

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23 Albert Shadowitz and Peter Walsh, The Dark Side of Knowledge (Philippines: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1976, p 135.

�� Changing Images of Man, p. 46.

25 Ornstein, p. 19.

26 Ornstein, p. 120.

27 The I Ching or Book of Changes, Translated by Cary F. Baynes (Princeton University Press, 1967), p. xxii.

28 Ornstein, p. 120.

29 Shadowitz and Walsh, p. 49.

30 Ibid., p. 48.

31 Lowell Ponte, “The Body Electric” . . . (New York: Penthouse) (March, 1974), p. 44.

32 Ponte, p. 45.

33 Ponte, p. 45.

34 Ibid., p. 42.

35 Ponte., p. 58.

36 Ponte., p 44.

37 Ponte, p. 58.

38 Nicholas Regush, The Human Aura, 2d Edition (New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1977), p. 202.

39 Regush, p. 202.

40 Ibid., p. 202.

41 Regush, p. 203.

42 This materials draws heavily from Bernard Gittelson, Biorhythm (New York: Arco Publishing Co., Inc., 1976), pp. 14-17.

43 Gail Bronson, “Don’t Go Out Today: Your Emotions are in the Down Phase,” Wall Street Journal (August 2, 2977), p. 1.

44 Bronson, p. 29.

45 C. Aq. Libra, Astrology: Its Techniques and Ethics (Van Nuys, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1976), p. 2.

46 Ibid., p. 8.

47 Edmund Van Deusen, Astrogenetics, 1st ed., (New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1976), p. 10.

48 Ibid., p. 15.

49 Van Deusen, pp. 121-124.

50 Van Deusen, pp. 121-124.

51 Ibid., p. 124.

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GeorGia StathiS is an internationally known San Francisco-based business consultant and trends specialist, speaker, and teacher. Since 1977 she has worked with individuals as well as businesses assisting them in planning and determining their direction and strategies. Her ability to relate the universals of old and new world mythologies and historical cycles find their expression in her skills as a teacher and consultant. Working with a varied group of clients, sole proprietors, meeting planners, investors and people who study economic cycles, she

arms them with tools based on a synthesis of art, culture and statistics.

Ms. Stathis received her Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and her Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. She has worked in sales, marketing, real estate and public relations prior to becoming a full time consultant. She is involved in land sales and development and is currently becoming more involved in the Green Building Movement and is a California licensed realtor associate. She has appeared on such television programs as CNN, KSFO-San Francisco, and interviewed by such publications as The London Economist, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Shape Magazine and Diablo Valley Magazine. In addition, she has written books, articles and produces a teaching series regarding business and timing.

An international speaker and former member of National Speakers’ Association and Toastmasters’ International, Ms. Stathis gained recognition in Area Evaluation. Her international clientele hailing from such places as China, Japan, England, France, Denmark, and Australia benefit from this specific skill. She continues to speak for several international venues such as Astro-Economics, Business Women’s Network, Women’s Real Estate Network, Association Executives, UAC, NCGR, and currently teaches part-time for Kepler College in Seattle, Washington. USA.

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