While the tools of mathematics replete with increasingly powerful modeling capabilities afford us opportunities for mastery of an ever larger number of endeavors whether the mere actuarials of cost, patterns of weather, demographic trends, or the simulation of actual experience in war and the pursuits of peace via educational training, such tools cannot prove or disprove any theories of personality. It is apparent that the study of personality is outside the domain of material science even if the former would do well to incorporate insights from the latter, but it is to such an informed mind sensitive to the immeasurable value of 'personhood' who nonetheless sets out to more meaningfully understand the wondrous nature of personality that is to be commended if not explicitly encouraged.
Toward this end, it is incumbent upon anyone undertaking the exploration of knowledge let alone the pursuit of wisdom, to recognize with gratitude the efforts of our fellows who preceded us in this same capacity. It is always from their terminus that we take up our point of departure. The history of science surely would be far from adequate if we were to overlook the discipline required to study stellar signatures and planetary motion sufficient to gain an understanding appreciation of the patterns of the night sky by those mortals first intrigued by the very possibility of their meaning. And while we would all be ill advised to rely upon the methods of our more 'primitive' forbears for gauging successful space probes, their related fascination with personality continues to this day albeit along different lines of inquiry. Indeed, the ancient typologies of personality first developed by these early star students are no less valuable to our long term appreciation of the evolutionary composition of knowledge than their cosmologies which when compared with our own today, show how inexorable is the imperative for us as a species to paint a mask of the universe made meaningful to our own milieu by virtue of the tools we use to render this picture, tools which by necessity must be contemporaneous with our culture.
I would venture that contemporary interest in astrology is less a lingering superstition than an indication of the limitations of existing 'national science foundation' priorities which show a disproportionate interest in military, industrial, and economic power more than insight into the meaning and value of personality relationships। This would account for the fact that the studies of the Greeks which led to the Enneagram and the modern studies of Carl Jung from which developed such tools as Myers-Briggs Assessment Scales are but a few of the limited vocabularies which augment an otherwise more ancient picture that is the mask of personality afforded by Astrology. Perhaps if our civilization would allow itself the liberty to take up the study of spirit with the same zeal with which it now probes the mystery of matter, we might develop more adequate vocabularies to describe and understand personality, even one which would do justice to a society not simply enamored with an indexed aggregation of factual information sponsored by 'corporate citizens', but alive with the personal pursuit of knowledge which freely embraces the wisdom of divine love.
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Toward this end, it is incumbent upon anyone undertaking the exploration of knowledge let alone the pursuit of wisdom, to recognize with gratitude the efforts of our fellows who preceded us in this same capacity. It is always from their terminus that we take up our point of departure. The history of science surely would be far from adequate if we were to overlook the discipline required to study stellar signatures and planetary motion sufficient to gain an understanding appreciation of the patterns of the night sky by those mortals first intrigued by the very possibility of their meaning. And while we would all be ill advised to rely upon the methods of our more 'primitive' forbears for gauging successful space probes, their related fascination with personality continues to this day albeit along different lines of inquiry. Indeed, the ancient typologies of personality first developed by these early star students are no less valuable to our long term appreciation of the evolutionary composition of knowledge than their cosmologies which when compared with our own today, show how inexorable is the imperative for us as a species to paint a mask of the universe made meaningful to our own milieu by virtue of the tools we use to render this picture, tools which by necessity must be contemporaneous with our culture.
I would venture that contemporary interest in astrology is less a lingering superstition than an indication of the limitations of existing 'national science foundation' priorities which show a disproportionate interest in military, industrial, and economic power more than insight into the meaning and value of personality relationships। This would account for the fact that the studies of the Greeks which led to the Enneagram and the modern studies of Carl Jung from which developed such tools as Myers-Briggs Assessment Scales are but a few of the limited vocabularies which augment an otherwise more ancient picture that is the mask of personality afforded by Astrology. Perhaps if our civilization would allow itself the liberty to take up the study of spirit with the same zeal with which it now probes the mystery of matter, we might develop more adequate vocabularies to describe and understand personality, even one which would do justice to a society not simply enamored with an indexed aggregation of factual information sponsored by 'corporate citizens', but alive with the personal pursuit of knowledge which freely embraces the wisdom of divine love.
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Now playing: Edward Elgar; Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending, Romance for Violin and Orchestra
via FoxyTunes
