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Date: 23 May 2007 17:12:26
From: TMA
Subject: Tarnas and science
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/193/story_19389_2.html
"Historically, astrology actually has a long, noble tradition that was
central to Western civilization from the ancient Greeks onwards. As recently
as the Renaissance it was highly regarded by most of the intellectual and
cultural elite. The shift really happened in the later 17th century, when
many factors came together-the growing conviction that the modern mind was
superior to all ancient traditions and perspectives, the new sense that the
cosmos was disenchanted or soulless, a belief that to be free, the human
being could not live in an astrological universe, and a gradual intellectual
decline within astrology itself that made it increasingly vulnerable to
criticism. Underlying all of these, a deep change of consciousness was
occurring in the modern self that eclipsed the astrological vision so that
something else could emerge. Astrology stopped being taught at Harvard and
Oxford by the end of the 17th century; interestingly, though, astrology
courses are again entering higher education, this time in a form that has
integrated modern and postmodern developments. "
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Date: 23 May 2007 13:28:45
From: Greg Neill
Subject: Re: Tarnas and science
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"TMA" <TMA@nospan.com > wrote in message
news:_B_4i.43612$g63.10144@edtnps82...
> http://www.beliefnet.com/story/193/story_19389_2.html
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> " Astrology stopped being taught at Harvard and
> Oxford by the end of the 17th century; interestingly, though, astrology
> courses are again entering higher education, this time in a form that has
> integrated modern and postmodern developments. "
Really? I note that the story makes this assertion but does not
provide any details as to what form this might be. Perhaps as
material in an anthropology course?
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Date: 23 May 2007 19:12:55
From: Paul Schlyter
Subject: Re: Tarnas and science
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In article <4654791e$0$20281$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com >,
Greg Neill <gneillREM@OVEsympatico.ca > wrote:
>"TMA" <TMA@nospan.com> wrote in message
>news:_B_4i.43612$g63.10144@edtnps82...
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>> http://www.beliefnet.com/story/193/story_19389_2.html
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>> " Astrology stopped being taught at Harvard and
>> Oxford by the end of the 17th century; interestingly, though, astrology
>> courses are again entering higher education, this time in a form that has
>> integrated modern and postmodern developments. "
>
>Really? I note that the story makes this assertion but does not
>provide any details as to what form this might be. Perhaps as
>material in an anthropology course?
Unfortunately, it's worse than that: http://www.kepler.edu/
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