Title: Ancient Peoples and Astrology – The Lost Connection with the Cosmos
Ancient peoples possessed not only advanced culture and technology that remains a great mystery to us today, but also a profound sense of wholeness with nature. This partly stemmed from the physical feeling that nature was a superior force, and partly because such a view was deeply embedded in the very foundations of their understanding of the world they lived in. It may seem normal and self-evident. Yet no matter how hard modern people try to recapture that feeling, we are nowhere near what ancient peoples felt toward nature and the world they inhabited. At the foundations of Western civilization are two very dangerous ideas: First – that man is the master of nature and that nature exists to be exploited by man. Second – that man is the pinnacle of evolution and the most intelligent being on Earth. On such foundations there is no room for respect toward nature and the world we live in, nor does a person from such a civilization feel that they are part of nature and that it is the supe...