Astrology in the Year Zero
Garry Phillipson
Based on over 30 interviews with scientific researchers and leading astrologers, this landmark book examines the lives and work of contemporary astrologers and considers many of the issues facing this ancient art. It has won acclaim from both skeptics and astrologers for the thorough and unbiassed way in which evidence is sifted and facts are presented.
Contributors include: Bernadette Brady, Nicholas Campion, Geoffrey Cornelius, Pamela Crane, Martin Davis, Geoffrey Dean, Adrian Duncan, Dennis Elwell, Suitbert Ertel, John Frawley, Adam Fronteras, David Hamblin, Robert Hand, Mike Harding, Pat Harris, Robin Heath, Maggie Hyde, Ivan W. Kelly, Warren Kenton (aka Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi), Lee Lehman, Arthur Mather, Maurice McCann, Christine Skinner, Rudolf Smit, Komilla Sutton, Graeme Tobyn, Noel Tyl, Shelly von Strunckel, Robert Zoller.
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Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Two Kinds of Amazement
This Book’s Method and Structure
Better Questions
Chapter 2: Getting Interested in Astrology
Beginning with a Mystery
I’m Going to Earn a Million Bucks
A Natural Talent
A Will to Power
Science Meets Astrology
A Miscellany of Introductions
Chapter 3: Sun-Sign Astrology
A Route into Sun-Sign Astrology
What Do People Get from Sun-Sign Columns
Criticisms of Sun-Sign Work
In the Marketplace
Chapter 4: Turning Stars into Money
Business Astrology
A Case of Fraud
A Business Woman’s Experience of Astrology
In the Film and Music Industries
A Route into Business Astrology
Don’t Buy that Ship
Millions of Pounds from Astrology
Sports Astrology (1)
Sports Astrology (2)
Sports Astrology (3)
A Gambler’s Chart
Chapter 5: Personal Work
A Typical Chart Reading
Astrology and Therapy
From the Case-books of Astrologers
Diagnosis and Remedy
Free Will and Other Short Stories
How Astrologers Prepare
What is Astrology Capable of?
Chapter 6: Astrology and Health
Understanding Migrane
A Practice in Medical Astrology
Can Astrology Be Tested?
The Designer Health Industry
The Six Non-Natural Things
Chapter 7: The Varieties of Astrological Experience
Psychology and Psychotherapy
Putting Astrology on the Map – Astrolocality
The Astrology of Megaliths
The Astrology of Disaster
The Problems of Prediction (1)
The Problems of Prediction (2)
Chapter 8: Doubt in Astrology
Religion and Astrology
Murder, They Said
Predicting Death
Natural and Judicial Astrology
The Astrologer as Magician
Chapter 9: Research into Astrology (Part 1)
Introduction
Why the Interest in Astrology?
Basic Issues in Research
Subjective and Objective Astrology
Research Methods
Reasoning Errors
Intuition and ESP
Chapter 10: Research into Astrology (Part 2)
The Picture Emerging from Research
Open-mindedness
The Relevance of Belief; a White Crow
Credibility Problems
Education and Critical Thinking
Modern Science and Astrology
Complexity and Mind
Summary
Chapter 11: Astrologers on the Status of Astrology
Natural and Judicial Astrology Revisited
In Praise of Astrological Research
On the Limitations of Science
Open-mindedness
Problems with Research into Astrology
Neo-Astrology or Neo-Science?
Explanations of How Astrology Works
Criticism of Science’s Assumptions
Chapter 12: What is Astrology – Science or Magic?
Astrology as Science
Astrology as Magic
As Below, So Above
Rituals and Reductionism
The Astrologer’s Mind
Mechanistic World, Organismic World
What Is Real?
Back to Zero
Afterword
Appendix 1 – Glossary; The Astrological Chart
Appendix 2 – Time Twin Research
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
The Sophia Centre
Reviews
“This is a wonderful book. Open it anywhere & the exchange is intelligent, the editing perfect. The format of the book is not a series of straight interviews, but a skillful mixture of comments on the topic at hand from a variety of participants, interspersed with the editor’s comments. Compulsively readable, impossible to put down.” -David Roell