Someone's Initial post:
That map is from Maharishi. I have experimented, and I believe it works. I have sense on occasion been able to isolate areas of my brain somewhat consciously. I get sick and tired of this science being left to books, sutras, the past...the Light is Alive Now. They teach Swara to play with the present moment, not to sit back and write books and chase after old books, regardless of how Alive that writer was! The point is to DO IT OURSELVES DIRECTLY. Otherwise we are just 'back seat drivers'..
Response:
[name removed], I appreciate modern research and progress. The key to being professionals and not a pseudo-science is just clear sourcing and referencing of our information. If someone says that "Vedic astrology says".... then it should be in the traditional shastra, or have quotable verses/chapters that imply the statement. This is the nature of the "Vedic" tradition for the last 3,000 or so years.
If you said that Vedic astrology or the Vedic tradition correlates the planets and brain anatomy, then it is false, and out of integrity. If someone says that Prof. Tony Nader found through his research that the Vedic significations of the planets directly correlate to specific neuro-anatomy, then awesome- we have all been educated and can share in the modern living progression of our profession.
When Vedic astrology first came into the western world it came in small bits and fragments. It was looked on as a pseudo-science by the western scientific community. Many of the first western practitioners also acted like it was a pseudo-science and did not use any western or Vedic standard of practice or teaching. In either system, an educated practitioner is expected to provide proper referencing. Its fine to not know the source and humbly state, "i heard this or I use this and can't remember where from...", but it is not in uplifting to this profession to state one's opinion as truth with either no classical reference or modern research reference to back up one's opinion.
Progress is unstoppable. My teacher always taught me to balance practice and theory, balance logic and intuition, balance the Sun and the Moon. I call Parashara's yaksha yoga (karakamsha adhyaya) as a Wiccan yoga- and I explain my reasoning based on textual reference and case studies. There is no wicca in Parashara- but it works like gold in prediction and has textual derivation which makes it Vedic. In the above post, Chris asked for a reference, and he deserves a reference of either the classical source or the modern research, or the person who is making up the opinion. If someone was saying Parashara gives a combination that indicates someone that practices wicca, and they properly reference, he can look me up and either find my writing on it or write me directly if I am still alive. If someone told me the information in Christopher Wallace's article, I would need to research most of the statements, but since I know Chris's work and integrity, I am confident to trust it (unless I needed to write an authoritative statement that I was going to stand behind- in which case I would double check his sources like a proper scholar).
So, instead of having and issue with people looking for references, lets celebrate the growing integrity and quality of our profession, share the knowledge so we aren't creating a faith based religion, and then all go practice so we are balancing our consciously chosen theory and our personal practice.
If you said that Vedic astrology or the Vedic tradition correlates the planets and brain anatomy, then it is false, and out of integrity. If someone says that Prof. Tony Nader found through his research that the Vedic significations of the planets directly correlate to specific neuro-anatomy, then awesome- we have all been educated and can share in the modern living progression of our profession.
When Vedic astrology first came into the western world it came in small bits and fragments. It was looked on as a pseudo-science by the western scientific community. Many of the first western practitioners also acted like it was a pseudo-science and did not use any western or Vedic standard of practice or teaching. In either system, an educated practitioner is expected to provide proper referencing. Its fine to not know the source and humbly state, "i heard this or I use this and can't remember where from...", but it is not in uplifting to this profession to state one's opinion as truth with either no classical reference or modern research reference to back up one's opinion.
Progress is unstoppable. My teacher always taught me to balance practice and theory, balance logic and intuition, balance the Sun and the Moon. I call Parashara's yaksha yoga (karakamsha adhyaya) as a Wiccan yoga- and I explain my reasoning based on textual reference and case studies. There is no wicca in Parashara- but it works like gold in prediction and has textual derivation which makes it Vedic. In the above post, Chris asked for a reference, and he deserves a reference of either the classical source or the modern research, or the person who is making up the opinion. If someone was saying Parashara gives a combination that indicates someone that practices wicca, and they properly reference, he can look me up and either find my writing on it or write me directly if I am still alive. If someone told me the information in Christopher Wallace's article, I would need to research most of the statements, but since I know Chris's work and integrity, I am confident to trust it (unless I needed to write an authoritative statement that I was going to stand behind- in which case I would double check his sources like a proper scholar).
So, instead of having and issue with people looking for references, lets celebrate the growing integrity and quality of our profession, share the knowledge so we aren't creating a faith based religion, and then all go practice so we are balancing our consciously chosen theory and our personal practice.
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