Vedic astrology quotes

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

—Adlai Stevenson

An Astronomer who denies Astrology, is like a butcher who recognizes the brain but is unaware of its transmission of waves.

—AHMED HULUSI

Did Einstein Say that?*

Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.

—Albert Einstein

*There is no proof of Einstein having said that.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfill it according to the law of light.

—Aleister Crowley

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

—Alexander Pope

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrolog

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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information 9781583949313, 9781583949306, 1583949313

Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Foreword by Eugene Thacker
Note to the Reader
Introduction (1998): Crossed Wires
I. Imagining Technologies
II. The Alchemical Fire
III. The Gnostic Infonaut
IV. Techgnosis, American-Style
V. The Spiritual Cyborg
VI. A Most Enchanting Machine
VII. Cyberspace: The Virtual Craft
VIII. The Alien Call
IX. Datapocalypse
X. Third Mind from the Sun
XI. The Path Is a Network
Afterword (2004)
Afterword 2.0 (2015)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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The Inner Story of The Further Shores of Knowing

Randolph Dible

1. PROEMIUM: "WE'LL PEEL AWAY THE DARK AND LIGHT/ TO FIND THE INNER STORY"

Beneath the fantastical embellishments of myth and ction and imagination there is an essential symbolic meaning, an indication of a higher and deeper reality. Like the cosmogonic myth of Plato's Timaeus, this fantasy is an εἰκὼς μῦθος (eikos mythos), a "likely story," a story entertained as a heuristic device for expressing the fantastic aspects of a deeper reality that ordinary language cannot adequately capture. What this play offers up to speculation is the possibility of a spiritual renewal that our culture desperately desires, if only more or less consciously. is desire is a powerful undercurrent to our present-day way of life.

ere is an "inner story" that cries out in all seriousness amidst the playfulness of fantasy, and it is echoed in the theme of this work: Our pole star has gone out! e playwrights, Michael Urheber and Jack Engstrom, are on to something big and something very real, even if it