О да,
Мадам, Вы правы. Мне не хотелось бы хвастаться здесь своими "официальными" и вполне традиционными университетскими образованиями, российским и местным, но поверьте они у меня есть, а моя основная работа - на стыке проблем интеллекта и информационных технологий. С любимыми соотечественниками я общаюсь в основном на Привете.
Наверное, Вы будете удивлены, узнав, что вполне неплохие психиатры пишут вполне неплохие книги по медицинской астрологии. Вот, например -
Signs of Mental Illness: An Astrological and Psychiatric Breakthrough
А вполне признанные ученые иногда даже говорят следующее:
"Are there any serious students of behavior?
They''re stuck with a loose set of theories of learning and behavior that completely ignore a vast area of human understanding that begins with the premise that all men are definitely not created equal. They are divided into a complex array of different types that can be at least sorted out, if not partially understood, by looking at the positions of the planets in the sky at the site and time of their birth. Preposterous, but it is true, and it is scientifically accessible. Furthermore, these various types of people are affected differentially by the continued movement and rearrangements of those same planets for the rest of their lives. They come in and out of cyclical bursts of creativity, periods of deep depression, warm fulfilling experiences, horrible losses, and on and on.
How can somebody call himself a student of human behavior and hang out a shingle offering to help humans solve their problems without at least studying astrology? How could an institution of higher learning grant someone a Ph.D. in psychology without requiring at least a few courses in astrology? If psychologists were doing okay, that is, if they had a good track record for freeing their patients from the pain that they pay good money to sort out and be relieved of, then I could see why the good head doctors could thumb their noses at the folklore of astrology, but nobody would be so demented as to imagine for a moment that when you go to a shrink you get anything resembling good mental health. If you are lucky in your choice of psychologist, maybe you won''t do yourself in this year, but no one expects a human in chronic emotional pain to get a miracle cure. In other words, psychology is practiced by a bunch of well-paid incompetents. They can't fix a broken heart.
They ought to be looking around for some new theories. Freud, Jung, Maslow - they were cool, fun to read maybe - but we''re still neurotic, and some of us still jump off bridges. Astrology by itself is not the answer to all our problems any more than herbs from the Amazon witch doctor, but it''s a shame to waste such a vast and ancient resource because of the simple fact that our modern witch doctors are too frozen in their attitudes to take a look around.
I don''t go to shrinks. Would you take your car to a mechanic who refused to acknowledge the existence of separate makes and models? Astrology also contains a deep mystery or two that should whet the appetite of any curious student of "what''s going on in the universe." How the hell does my brain have any way of knowing about the relative position of the planets before I learned how to use the Nautical Almanac? It must somehow be in touch with these things either directly or indirectly since it seems to be affected by them. And the "how" of that should be as interesting to a physiologist as to a sociologist, or a psychiatrist, even a physicist. The fact that it is correlated with these things can be easily established by observing the nonrandom distribution of birthdays among various professions.
A recent scientific study of the distribution of medical students in birth months discovered that a lot of medical students were born in late June. They postulated that it was because the sun was up earlier and so there was more light for them right away and they could be outside and therefore would get interested in biology. Well, that was bullshit. It''s the same in Australia, and the sun is not up early in June down in the antipodes. Successful applicants to medical school do not come equally from each month. They cluster around Gemini-Cancer in both hemispheres. More biochemists are born in Sagittarius. Lawyers have their own distribution, and some people claim reasonably that lawyers hatch from eggs and eat their own young - not enough obviously - so they have their own separate problems. Sociology has so far turned a blind eye to these things. It could be that''s one of the reasons sociology is so boring and such a worthless science. It''s pedantic and uninformed."
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary B. Mullis
Всё это не с целью поспорить или обидеть, а просто для информации.
Правда я ни к своему уму, ни к внешности серьезно не отношусь- всегда есть кто-то кто умнее и красивее.
