3. Camus, The Stranger, Part 2
The Stranger captures the philosophical conflict between reason and experience. It raises the question of the meaning and worth of rationality and reflection. It also raises basic questions about self-consciousness, good and evil, innocence and guilt.
Philosophical Questions:
role of reason
human experience
nature of human consciousness
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There is lived experience
There is reflection.
Part I is about lived experience.
Part II is about reflection
These are two parts of everyone’s life.
Reflection (contemplation) can be an interference to the lived experience.
Astrology is a good tool for reflection/contemplation.
The philosophical meaning of life is reflection or the lived experience?
What is Rationality?
1. Requires reflection
2. Is the ability to anticipate consequences.
3. Is adherence to standards (requiring reflection).
Meursault’s life has been taken away from him, in prison–he is left with reflection.
When you examine yourself …
Astrology helps one examine one’s self.
The self can be dependent on others (Hegel). So Camus, in the trial, Part 2, supplies for Meurasult others to look at him.
(So many people have no one to look at them in the Tinder culture of quickly swiping a rejection, and, yes, that is the dehumanizing potential of that app.)
We come to selfhood only through the recognition of others. (Hegel, and then Camus in this book)
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So Camus, in the trial, Part 2, supplies for Meurasult others to look at him.
(So many people have no one to look at them in the Tinder culture of quickly swiping a rejection, and, yes, that is the dehumanizing potential of that app.)
Astrologers look at people and give them recognition.
We come to selfhood only through the recognition of others. (Hegel, and then Camus in this book)
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Meurasult’s life did not have meaning.
Meurasult’s death did not have meaning.
He died happy.
End of Lecture 3
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I am not impressed.
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Lecture 4: Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus
Here is Camus’s vision of “the absurd.” The absurd is born, Camus says, out of our increasingly impersonal, abstract, scientific view of the world. Only truly personal experience, he insists, can be ultimately meaningful.
Steefen
The absurd is born out of our increasingly impersonal, abstract, scientific view of the world. Only truly personal experience can be ultimately meaningful.
Robert said
Thanks Steefen. Very interesting. Is it your implication that something less scientific, for example, astrology, could provide us with a life that is ultimately more meaningful?
The Great Courses professor said Camus said:
The absurd is born out of our increasingly impersonal, abstract, scientific view of the world. Only truly personal experience can be ultimately meaningful.
That is the description of Lecture 4. I have not listened to Lecture 4 yet. Have you?
Maybe I will come back to your question after I have listened to Lecture 4.
For now, a life that is ultimately more meaningful is one with truly personal experience. The description of “truly personal experience” would be the key, according to Camus.
Astrology is known for its geocentric perspective, but a heliocentric natal chart also can be used. The Heliocentric Chart shows the infrastructure of a person’s character and life seen more objectively than from the subjective, geocentric viewpoint
Instead of you and the Heavens, the Heliocentric Chart is the Heavens talking about you not in second person but in third person.
“It is one of the most amazing discoveries in the realm of mathematics that not only does the simple equation Zn+1 = Zn2 + C create the infinitely complex Mandelbrot Set, but we can also find the same iconic shape in the patterns created by many other equations.”
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In Astrology, there is the concept, Harmonics, Vibration (Vibrational Astrology).
When a person comes across Harmonics and particularly, the Dwad, one knows that Astrology exhibits Holography and Natural Fractal Geometry.
One can ask, Which of the 12 zodiac signs is the sign of your Sun?
When an astrologer is preparing a character analysis, this question may arise: Which of the 12 zodiac signs is my client’s sub-Sign? Vibrating at a higher level, what is that Sun sign? The astrologer looks at a certain formulation of the 12th Harmonic of the natal chart. Is the client an Aries – Aries, an Aries – Libra, an Aries – Pisces, etc?
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This 12-sign vibration is Holographic or Fractal? In one incarnation, we have the octave: Sun Sign to Sun Sign within the Sun Sign, but over re-incarnated lives, we get the fractal-geometric-like mathematical expression of human life. And instead of looking at just one person, look at many family trees.
Stephen said
In Vibrational Astrology what exactly is it that is vibrating? And through what medium?
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The Dwad is a harmonic of the chart. Dwad is an abbreviation of Dwadashamsha, the term for a 12th harmonic chart in Vedic astrology. The oriental Vedic system has understood and embraced the harmonics of the birth chart for far longer than the western tradition. Modern western astrology has been indebted to John Addey and David Hamblin for opening our collective eyes to the significance of harmonic charts; and it was the American astrologer Mark Pottenger whose love of technical detail pointed me toward the Dwad in particular. You see, the Dwad is not just a simple 12th harmonic chart, but a very special version. In the straight 12th harmonic, effectively every one of the twelve signs in the celestial wheel becomes a mini-zodiac, running as normal from Aries through to Pisces; it is a 12-fold higher vibration of the wheel. But the Dwad is different; it is the wheel at the same vibrational level, but phase-shifted so that it maps perfectly onto the western decanates. The Dwad series of mini-signs within each sign begins with the ‘parent’ sign, and finishes with the sign before it. – Pam Crane, Astrologer and Author
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We’ve discovered the math.
We are still discovering the physics.
(Think the state of String Theory, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy, circa 1999.)
Harmonics have been a part of Astrology for a while. Vibrational Astrology is an astrological approach being developed by an astrological software developer/programmer, David Cochrane.
Astrology is a programming of human life. Mundane Astrology is a programming of societies, cultures, civilizations. The vibrational levels of the programming explain the depths of human existence at the individual, societal, cultural, and civilizational or epochal levels.
This is why I connect existentialism to Astrology. You want me to answer what is the mechanism of existence. What I can say now is that the incarnate world is a low vibration. Consciousness is a higher vibration. Consciousness increases by experience. Experience comes from incarnation not only at low vibrations but from high vibrations of life as well. The world of living human beings is one level of reality. The world of discarnate human beings (Collective Unconscious, imprints from past lives (General Patton’s psychic impressions on the battlefield, for example, the iChing) is another level of reality.
The ascension of the soul, either through meditation which can raise brainwave activity or through brainwave entrainment closely answers your question. The ascension of the soul in its life after death is another type of ascension, transcending the existentialism of the incarnate life. Even in brain studies, we are aware of the lower brain and the higher brain. We have the lower level of existence bound by materialism. We also have the high level of existence of non-locality that Quantum Physics teaches. So, what is vibrating? Is it the brainwaves of the mind in high chakras of the human aura? There seems to be something higher than the brainwaves of a high chakra in the human being. What that is, is the human being’s connection to the Solar System and beyond to stars (Visual Astrology – Fixed Stars, Parans with objects of the Solar System, and Collected Myths of the Constellations).
You want me to answer what is the mechanism of existence.
Not particularly. What concerns me is that you’re using terms like “vibration” and “harmonic”, words that have very technical and specific meanings in the context of the sciences, in ways that seem nebulous and hard to pin down. (Defining too much is just bad as defining too little.) Also you seem to be making value judgements based on those nebulous definitions. For example, I take it that a “high vibration” is privileged over a “low vibration”?
Stephen said
You want me to answer what is the mechanism of existence.you seem to be making value judgements based on those nebulous definitions. For example, I take it that a “high vibration” is privileged over a “low vibration”?
Well, I’m not making value judgements such that high vibration is privileged over low vibration. For example, in playing a masterpiece piano concerto, one should not dismiss the low notes and just keep the high notes.
Steefen said
Well, I’m not making value judgements such that high vibration is privileged over low vibration. For example, in playing a masterpiece piano concerto, one should not dismiss the low notes and just keep the high notes.
Yes but in music the terms “vibration” and “harmonic” have specified meanings. In astrology you’re using these terms in unspecified ways. You say “consciousness is a high vibration”. What does that mean?
Stephen said
Yes but in music the terms “vibration” and “harmonic” have specified meanings. In astrology you’re using these terms in unspecified ways. You say “consciousness is a high vibration”. What does that mean?
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