[baudrunner]

The ultimate aim of reality extrapolators like yourself is to predict. Unfortunately that holy grail will never be encountered, because even as the Universe's greatest psychic is one hundred percent accurate in predicting the six numbers of a weekly lottery draw at the time he predicts them, within minutes the timeline equation has so changed that by the time of the draw he will find himself as much subject to chance as if he had allowed the computer to pick his numbers for him at random. We simply can't win that struggle.

But there's something to the time and place that you are born. Where I grew up we used to keep cats as mousers and to keep them active as predators we didn't spay them. They each usually had two litters a year. We learned from experience that spring kittens are much more desirable to keep than the fall litter.

The human psyche is very mutable, that is, it is easy to convince anyone of almost anything. If we apply this reasoning to the prediction of a person's character and probable future life trends by astrological divination it is possible to develop an entire culture around which every one's lives are predetermined by their beliefs. The Rosicrucian method warns against letting the stars rule your fate. It advises that the information should be used to get positive results. For example, if the prognostic indicators of a person's natal chart indicates a high probability of liver problems in maturity, then one should watch one's diet and stay away from excessive alcohol consumption. Before you laugh, you'd be surprised just how uncannily close to the truth some of these natal charts are about a person's character, personality, and physiology. We're talking thousands of years of human conditioning, remember. A competent professional astrologer can sit down with a perfect stranger and determine from five minutes of conversation what their sign is and to within days the time of year that they were born.

It is the very depth of the awesome concept of consciousness that determines its presence in the first place. Consciousness has dependencies in nature just as much as corporeality has dependencies in nature. Of course it includes photons and other particles because it is energy, if only by virtue of it existing in the first place. All things that exist have particular dependencies, otherwise they woudn't exist. The mind is linked to the spirit, which proof of its existence I can confirm without a doubt. I have said elsewhere in the forums that the spirit is no more miraculous than the corporeality that allows us to define our personal identity and this identity exists in our minds which is linked to the spirit. The contextual nature wherein each exists is also subject to evolution, they are a part of creation. Evolution just acellerates onward. We just happen to be here now. Who knows what lies beyond the spiritual realm?