关于星星的一段英文

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Quantum Understanding of Astrology
An excerpt from Deepak Chopra's How to Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries
“Prediction of the future literally means examining what light has to say. The quantum world is a place of blurry edges and uncertain outcomes. As we have seen, the things that seem so well defined in the material world turn into shadowy phantoms the deeper we go into the unmanifest domain. Time is no exception, and at a certain level of reality it hardly exists. Those of us who accept a simpler world, in which the future has only one location—later—are showing a personal preference; we are not obeying an iron law. The usefulness of is that it keeps all the seeds of future events from sprouting all at once. Time dictates that first one thing happens and then the next, without overlap. An ability to transcend isn't mystical; every culture has specific beliefs about this. In India, prophecy has been organized into a detailed system of astrology called Jyotish (the name is rooted in the Sanskrit word jyoti which means "light".
"Prediction of the future literally means examining what light has to say. We can begin to understand how this works only by our knowledge of quantum reality, for there all light is born. Time and space are interchangeable at the quantum level. Where a particle will be and when it will be there are all bound up together. In this way energy is not separate from space-time. They form one tapestry. The astrologer goes one step further. He breaks the entire cosmos down into specific kinds of energy as they apply to human existence.
"As these energies interact, enormously complex patterns emerge. And since each degree of change in the heavenly bodies creates a new frequency of energy, the astrologer must memorize several thousand individual patterns between any two or three planets—these arrangements are called yogas, literally the "yoking" of the stars.
"To the proponents Jyotish is a quantum science, because what is seen on the material level—the rotation of planets in their orbits—disguises a deeper scheme. In the deeper scheme, every atom and molecule is connected. By exchanging energy, each point in the universe is whispering to every other point. In this case, however, energy contains information. Imagine in a line of people passing a secret by whispering it from one person to person down the line. If each person whispered gibberish, there would be no information being passed along, only raw energy. But if there is a secret spoken, the same energy becomes meaningful. It binds the group together through shared knowledge, and this invisible bond, even when unspoken, can be powerful. Jyotish considers the universe to be secretly bound in just this way; every exchange of energy contains some clue to future events.
"The concept of information embedded in energy isn't totally alien outside astrology. To a physicist information is pervasive throughout nature. The specific frequencies that make up infrared light different from ultraviolet, or gamma rays different from radio waves, all form a kind of cosmic code. Human beings tune into this code and use it for our own purposes—it is the information embedded in energy that allows us to build electrical generators, infrared lamps, radio beacons, and so forth. Without that coded information, the universe would be a random vibration, a quantum soup of alphabet letters but no words."

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Astrology nowadays, at the close of the 20th century and the second millenium since Christ, has largely lost its soul. Entertainment and fast and easy answers are the prevailing themes. It is understandable in our s, which emphasize outer activity, materialism and scientific explanations, that astrology has largely followed the same trend. It is mainly predictive, concerned with outer events, concrete and literal situations rather than inner imaginative activity, and seeks to prove itself as worthy of respect by using computers and statistics. But why should astrology try to prove itself by the measure of values that are being proven to be a failure every day (by the technological destruction of the earth)?

Astrology should not be chasing after the 20th century intellect to prove it is a statistically valid predictive tool. The more it does this, the more it is losing its way, and its heart and soul. Instead, astrology is the sacred vessel that still holds the potential of reuniting us with our surrounding and containing Universe. By consciously observing the meaningful interplay between the planetary cycles in the heavens and our lived experiences, we rebuild the once common sense that we are living participants in the intelligent though mysterious processes of the Universe, not exiled and abandoned in a random and meaningless wasteland.

It is also understandable that people in crisis turn to astrology for answers. And the prevailing astrology seeks to respond. But what is lost in the process, and what is crucial, is what people are really starving for: to embrace, honor, and learn to trust the Mystery of our existence as we live it each day. This Mystery is found within. Astrology is a gift from our earliest origins, able to direct our seeking to our inner resources. But astrology must resist the temptation to supply answers and only answers.

If only astrologers could begin their responses with "It really is a mystery, isn't it?". By succumbing to the pressure of the seeker for answers ("my problems must be explained, because I cannot bear to face the emptiness of not knowing") and the need of astrology to impress the world with its skills, astrologers fail the seeker's real need, fail even to recognize it. And this too is so understandable, in a world where explanations are an addiction and mysteries are to be feared.

Astrology can still guide us to the emptiness, the unknowing, the open space in us where we might eventually hear our own answers. How? By evoking wonder. By asking the right questions instead of being so quick to give answers.

To embrace and honor the mystery of astrology means to admit and even to celebrate that none of us has any idea of how astrology works. Theories are theories, not answers. They are "as if". We do not have to give in to the pressure of a world addicted to explanations. There is nothing dishonorable about honoring a mystery.

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Panther

To embrace and honor the mystery of astrology means to admit and even to celebrate that none of us has any idea of how astrology works. Theories are theories, not answers. They are "as if". We do not have to give in to the pressure of a world addicted to explanations. There is nothing dishonorable about honoring a mystery.
太长。
来翻下最后的结论：
追求并推崇星星术的神秘即意味着承认和庆祝以下这点：没有人能了解星星术是怎么回事。理论只是理论，没有答案。它们只是“好像/如同“。我们没有必要屈服于一个沉溺于追寻解释的世界带给我们的压力。
推崇星星术本身并无任何不光彩。

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But astrology must resist the temptation to supply answers and only answers.