Thank you Ethan! What a thought-provoking article!

I love science! When I was a child, I wanted to be an astronaut. I was a Nataional Merit Scholar, had a couple of MAs in social sciences by the time I was 24, graduated with honors, member of Mensa and all that.

We actually speak the same language on one level.

But the challege with the way science is practiced in the modern world, is that there is so room for Soul or for value even. Science is much better at quantifying things to measure them, than it is about discussing the ineffible qualities of experience.

I agree, the world we’ve created is largely because of Science. Both the incredible progress, life saving technologies AND the environmental catastrophe looming. That’s what happens when knowledge becomes divorced from Soul. People who treat the world as if it’s a dead thing have far less respect for it than those who feel a kinship with a living essence in all things.

Being a professional astrologer is my personal protest vote. I am well grounded in the spirituality of indigenous cultures, as well as the indigenous “Western” culture of the presocratics, the neoplatonists, and its Renaissance re-emergence. Modern science is the gift and consquence of all these earlier streams of thought, but it’s also thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

Returning to the history of science, and why we believe what we believe what we believe, is abolutely essential right now. We must create a new vision of Science reunited with Soul, or we’ll have no way to convince a planet full of people to get off the path toward ecocide. We may even need to forge a new language to have the conversation, but it must be had.