It's always struck me as incredibly weird and distorted how people constantly judge everything according to their own yardstick, yet are completely blind to this process.
It’s like if you saw a triangle judging a square for not being "triangle enough". I am not implying that every worldview is equally valid - for there are massive gaps in consciousness and living in accordance with reality rather than ego - but that it's astounding the extent to which mere differences are treated as bugs.
For instance, judging something as not being "rational" or "scientific" is perfectly acceptable, yet the yardstick of "science" is never examined itself. The fact that “science” is a term that essentially means nothing these days 2 shows that it is closer to a signifier of conformity than any underlying value. Moreover, there is also the aspect that many systems or practices aren't even intended to be scientific or rational, yet are judged on that ground alone.
Saying that astrology or the chakra system are pseudoscience is simply not true, because 1) those systems do not work within the same metaphysics as materialistic science and 2) do not have the same goals of modeling the world as science does.
My understanding of those systems is that they are maps to help us make conscious decisions, but their purpose isn't to remove the latter. The fact that astrology, and more broadly speaking divination, requires human interpretation is not a bug but a key feature. It is not meant to be some type of mechanical oracle that you can blindly listen to and predict the future, but rather a tool that can hone and broaden your perception of reality, thereby affecting how you live your life.
But the dogma of our time cannot allow that kind of differences, since 1) consciousness is an inherent threat to any dominant organization and 2) anything meaningfully different to the system, i.e. outside of the triviality of consumerism and obedience, must be homogenized as a defect to correct, since the compliance to a set of protocols is the basis of the power of the collectives that dominate us.
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2024-04-13