{"id":19976,"date":"2009-12-05T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19976"},"modified":"2009-12-05T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:38:02","slug":"19976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/19976\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey. I looked up the word paradigm. Strictly, it addresses scientific frames of reference, though its use has been expanded.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original concept suggests that a paradigm shift is something irrevocable; you leave one behind and you don’t go back. One of the examples is, a scientifically trained psychologist does [not] exorcise spirits to cure a psychotic person. That was a few paradigms ago. The thing with astrology is that it’s at once part of an earlier paradigm that has since been transcended; and part of a new one that we have not fully entered. So it exists in two frames of reference; three, really, if you count its widespread (unjustified) use in the present (such as, nearly every newspaper has a horoscope column).<\/p>\n

When someone is playing paradigm wars and claims scientific credentials or a reverence for science, they are in one sense defending the current paradigm against a past one. It would seem to most people indefensible to consider astrology something of the future; right away, most people who have historical context think that it’s medieval or older; and most believe that it was dispensed with in the early Enlightenment (which is not true because we know Kepler and Ben Franklin did astrology; though some would cynically say they were lying about believing in it and doing it for money, which they both did).<\/p>\n

The inclusion of astrology in a post-scientific-era reality frame is unusual because it is in part reverting to a prior system, though with new understanding. We need to account for this. It’s a little like saying to an economist that bartering is more advanced than their voodoo; which is probably true. I think that part of the paradigm exploration needs to account for the discovery of astrology in the past, its use in the past, why it was abandoned, and why it is coming back. And as Geoff Cornelius says, astrology needs to look at its failings, and I would say, its abuses of trust; this, for integrity, credulity and credibility.<\/p>\n

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Hey. I looked up the word paradigm. Strictly, it addresses scientific frames of reference, though its use has been expanded. The original concept suggests that a paradigm shift is something irrevocable; you leave one behind and you don’t go back. One of the examples is, a scientifically trained psychologist does [not] exorcise spirits to cure … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}