Health Editor Slams Astrology’s Critics
By Mike Adams (the Health Ranger)
Says study unintentionally provides scientific support for the fundamental principle of astrology
Editor’s Note: Several months before the ANS news magazine went online seven years ago, Mike Adams, a.k.a. the Health Ranger, published his thoughts on astrology and astrology’s critics on his Natural News.com website. In the current moment his caustic and timeless insights on the subject are worth revisiting…
Mention the word astrology and skeptics go into an epileptic fit. The idea that someone’s personality could be imprinted at birth according to the position of the Sun, Moon and planets has long been derided as “quackery” by the so-called scientific community, which resists any notion based on holistic connections between individuals and the cosmos.
According to the conventional view, your genes and your parenting determine your personality, and the position of planet Earth at the time of your birth has nothing to do with it.
Then again, conventional scientists don’t believe the position of the Moon has anything to do with life on Earth, either. They dismiss the wisdom that farmers have known for ages – that panting seeds or transplanting living plants in harmony with Moon cycles results in higher crop yields. Even the seeds inside humans are strongly influenced by the moon, as menstruation cycles and Moon cycles are closely synchronized (28 days, roughly).
Researchers Demonstrate Scientific Principle of Astrology
Skeptics must be further bewildered by the new research published in Nature Neuroscience and conducted by Vanderbilt University, which unintentionally provides scientific support for the fundamental principle of astrology – namely, that the position of the planets at your time of birth influences your personality.
In this study, not only did the birth month impact personality, it also resulted in measurable functional changes in the brain.
This study, conducted on mice, showed that mice born in the winter showed a “consistent slowing” of their daytime activity. They were also more susceptible to symptoms we might call “Seasonal Affective Disorder.”
The study was carried out by Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio, post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two additional graduate students, none of whom believe in astrology, apparently. They do, of course, believe in science, which is why all their study findings have been draped in the language of science even though the findings are essentially supporting the principles of astrology.
“What is particularly striking about our results is the fact that the imprinting affects both the animal’s behavior and the cycling of the neurons in the master biological clock in their brains,” said Ciarleglio. This is one of the core principals of astrology: That the position of planets at the time of your birth (which might be called the season of your birth) can actually result in changes in your brain physiology, which impact lifelong behavior.
Once again, such an idea sounds preposterous to the scientifically trained, unless of course they discover it for themselves, at which time it’s all suddenly very scientific. Instead of calling it astrology they’re now referring to it as seasonal biology.
How to Discredit Real Science
It all reminds me of the discovery of cold fusion in 1989 by Fleishmann and Pons, who were widely ridiculed by the arrogant hot fusion researchers who tried to destroy the credibility (and careers) of cold fusion researchers. After the very idea of cold fusion was attacked and demolished by these arrogant scientists, it soon returned under a new name: Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).
LENR has now been verified as true by none other than the U.S. Navy – along with hundreds of other researchers around the world. And yet, even today, the conventional scientific community still insists cold fusion doesn’t exist and cold fusion researchers are frauds.
Just as there is a solid scientific basis for LENR, there is a scientific basis for astrology, too. The relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun naturally alter light exposure, temperature, gravitational pull and other conditions that may be sensed by living organisms. To believe astrology all that’s really required is to grasp the basic concepts of the interrelationships between all living things. Does the position of the Sun or Moon influence life on Earth? Of course it does: Life as we know it wouldn’t even exist without the Moon tugging on Earth and preventing its rotational axis from shifting around to the point where radical changes in seasonal temperatures would make life far more challenging.
The Moon, in other words, is one of the key stabilizers of life on planet Earth because it tends to stabilize the seasons and keep the Earth on a steady rotational plane.
None of this, of course, means that the position of Saturn today is going to make you win the lottery or find a new love. That’s the tabloid version of astrology, not real astrology.
Don’t Confuse Tabloid Astrology with Real Astrology
Even astronomy has its tabloid versions, too, which are entirely non-scientific. For example, every model of our solar system that I’ve seen is a wildly inaccurate tabloid version of reality, with planet sizes ridiculously exaggerated and planet distances not depicted to scale. These silly, non-scientific solar system models imprint a kind of solar system mythology into the minds of school children and even school teachers. Virtually no one outside the communities of astrophysics and astronomy has any real grasp of the enormity of not merely our solar system, but our galaxy and the space between neighboring galaxies.
To show a giant Sun the size of a basketball, with a depiction of the Earth as a marble-size planet three inches away is the astronomical equivalent of a gimmicky horoscope claiming you’re going to win the lottery today because you were born under the sign of Pisces. Both are fictions. And both are an insult to real science.
In fact, even the whole idea that an electron is a piece of physical matter, made up of other particles is an insult to real science. The sobering truth of the matter is that particle physics doesn’t have much to do with actual particles at all. It’s all about energies that might, on occasion, vibrate in just the right way so that they momentarily appear to take on the illusion of a particle as measured by our observers – observers who inevitably alter the outcome of the entire experiment, by the way, once again proving the interrelated nature of things in our universe, including observer and experiment.
The horoscope predictions in the Sunday paper – as well as much of the hilarious mythology found in the modern description of an atom – are both simplified, comic-book variations of a larger truth. The larger truth is we live in a holistic universe where every bit of physical matter, every bit of energy and every conscious mind impacts the rest of the universe in subtle ways. There is no such thing as an individual who is isolated from the cosmos, because we are of the cosmos and we exist as the physical manifestations of energies that, for our lifetimes, are momentarily organized as beings.
We are made of star stuff, says (the late) Carl Sagan. He’s right: We are not only made of star stuff, we are influenced by that stuff, too. And, finally, modern science is beginning to catch up to this greater truth that astrologers have known since the dawn of human existence on our tiny planet.
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