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Star Beings?
The well-known author Leslie Marmon Silko has a very interesting idea – that star beings come to Earth, crossing over occasionally when the membranes of parallel worlds are more permeable than usual. She painted some star beings and they spoke to her without words…. Some were not friendly; most of hers lacked compassion and didn’t care much for human beings.
This made me think about astrology, a very popular cultural belief system that has ancient origins involving divination and was once correlated with the stars in our galaxy and the patterns they created (the stories they might have been telling and others we told about them) but has since split away into a very fixed system that makes little sense to me.
However, since the 60’s popular astrology has become a kind of religion for some. Perhaps astrology is taking the place of religions of various kinds that are in a state of collapse. It seems to me that humans need stories… the stories may change but the need to create them does not. We also apparently need access to divination to untangle the mystery. Dreams and visions are some of the ways divination operates.
As a naturalist, I was never able to make the jump from the awe I experienced gazing up into the stars at night to a rigid system of charts that told me a story of my life that had nothing to do with these beings – the whole thing was predicated on a few planets in our
solar system…
After all, we live in an evolutionary universe – everything is a process, changing all the time.
With that much said, I also believe that everything in the cosmos is connected and that we are influenced not just by what happens on Earth, but to some degree also by what happens in the cosmos, beginning with the planets in our own solar system and the sun star.
To complicate matters, we also live in an evolutionary universe that appears to be patterned – judging from the stars we see overhead and the patterns that operate in the lives of all living beings. If so, an evolving universe that contains patterns suggests that there might be a relationship between the two and that divination might be the ability to access what I would call ‘the space in-between’. A kind of bridge.
‘As above, so below?’
Out of curiosity, I would like to see what would happen if we re-united astrology with astronomy- the actual scientific study of the stars…
Do star beings cross over from one dimension of reality to another? And who or what are star beings? Are they waves that manifest as discrete particles from time to time? (Quantum mechanics)
And what do we mean about dimensions?
Like modern astrology that has no basis in science, the same could be said of parallel universes… There is not a shred of evidence to prove such a theory.
I don’t know the answers, but I have had so many relationships with non–human species here on earth (both positive and negative) and am witnessing so many destructive patterns of change that are associated with a
climate in crisis, that my mind remains quite open to the possibility that star beings may exist and even visit us from time to time.
We could use their help right now.
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