Metaphysical Stuff #9
Osho here:
Astrology: The Science of Cosmic Oneness
Astrology is perhaps the most ancient subject and also in a way the most
ignored. It is the most ancient because astrology has been in existence as
far back as we have been able to investigate the history of mankind.
Astrological inscriptions have been found on bone remnants from the Sumerian
civilization, which existed twenty-five thousand years before Jesus. Bone
remnants have been discovered with astrological inscriptions and with an
outline of the moon’s orbit in the sky.
But in India this science is even older. In the Rigveda reference is made to
a certain constellation of the stars, which could only have occurred
ninety-five thousand years ago. Because of this, Lokmanya Tilak concluded
that the Vedas must certainly be even more ancient: the constellation of the
stars as the Vedas describe it could only have occurred at a certain moment
ninety-five thousand years ago; so that particular vedic reference must be
at least ninety-five thousand years old.
That particular vedic reference could not have been added at a later period.
Other, younger generations would not have been able to work out a
constellation that existed many years before. But now we have scientific
methods, which we can use to discover where the stars were at a particular
moment in the distant past. The deepest laws of astrology were first
discovered in India. In fact it was only because of astrology that
mathematics was born. To make astrological calculations, first mathematics
was needed.
The digits used in arithmetic were invented in India - the numbers one to
ten, which exist in all the world’s languages, are basically Indian in
origin. And throughout the world the decimal system has been accepted: the
decimal system was born in India, and it slowly spread throughout the entire
world. When you say nine in English, it is simply a modification of the
Sanskrit word nav. When you say eight in English, it is simply a
modification of the Sanskrit word aht. The numerals one to nine, prevalent
in all the world’s languages, came into existence only because of the
influence of Indian astrology.
The first knowledge about the existence of astrology reached the Sumerian
civilization from India.
Six thousand years before Jesus, the Sumerians were the first to open the
doors of astrology to the Western world. The Sumerians laid the foundation
for the scientific study of the constellation. They constructed a gigantic
tower, seven hundred feet tall, and from that tower Sumerian priests used to
observe the sky twenty-four hours a day. Sumerian metaphysicians soon
learned that whatever happens to mankind is somehow ultimately connected
with the stars ñ they are the source.
Six thousand years before Jesus, it was the view in Sumeria that whenever
illness occurs, whenever epidemics are born, the stars are somehow
connected. These days there is a scientific basis for this view. And those
who understand the science of astrology today say it was the Sumerians who
began the history of mankind.
In 1920, a Russian scientist, Chijevsky, investigated this matter deeply and
discovered that every eleven years enormous explosions take place on the
sun. Every eleven years a nuclear explosion occurs on the sun. Chijevsky
discovered that whenever such nuclear explosions occur on the sun, wars and
revolutions begin on Earth. According to him, during the past seven hundred
years, whenever such phenomena have occurred on the sun, there have been
disasters on Earth.
Chijevsky’s analysis was undeniable and, because it went against the Marxist
viewpoint, in 1920 Stalin had him arrested and thrown into prison. Only
after Stalin’s death could Chijevsky be released. For Stalin, Chijevsky’s
conclusions must have seemed very strange. According to Marxist and
communist thinking, whatever revolutions occur on the Earth are
fundamentally caused by economic differences between men. But Chijevsky
declared that the cause of revolutions is the explosions happening on the sun.
How can explosions on the sun possibly be related to the existence of
poverty or wealth in the lives of men?
If Chijevsky’s thesis is correct, then Marx’s entire system disintegrates
into dust. Then you cannot explain revolutions any longer in reference to
economics and class struggle; then only astrology can explain revolution.
Chijevsky could not be proved wrong. His calculation covering seven hundred
years was so scientific, the connection he established between explosions on
the sun and phenomena on the Earth was so close, that to prove him wrong was
difficult. But to send him to Siberia was a simple matter.
After Stalin’s death Khrushchev released Chijevsky from Siberia. Nearly
fifty valuable years of this man’s life were lost in Siberia. After his
release he only lived another four to six months, but in those few months he
gathered together even more evidence for his thesis. He also linked the
spread of epidemics on the Earth to solar influence.
The sun is not a static ball of fire as we ordinarily think, but rather an
infinitely alive and dynamic, fiery organism. The sun changes its mood every
moment. And when the sun changes its mood even a little, life on Earth is
affected. Nothing happens on the Earth without something happening on the
sun. When there is a solar eclipse, the birds in the forest stop singing
twenty-four hours before. During the entire time of the eclipse the whole
Earth becomes silent. The birds stop their singing and all of the animals in
the forest become oppressed and frightened, full of apprehension. The
monkeys abandon their trees and come down below. They form themselves into
groups, apparently as a means of protection. And it is a surprising thing
that these monkeys, who are always gossiping and making a hue and cry,
become so quiet at the time of the eclipse that even meditators cannot
compare with them.
Chijevsky explained this entire matter, but such thinking first originated
in Sumeria. Afterwards, a Swiss physician named Paracelsus discovered more
information. He made an unparalleled discovery - and this discovery will
transform all of medical science, if not today then tomorrow. Up until now
this discovery could not be considered valid because astrology is such an
ignored subject - the most ancient, the most ignored, and the most respected
at the same time.
Last year in France, it was calculated that forty-seven percent of the
population believes that astrology is a science.
In America, five thousand leading astrologers are currently at work night
and day.
They have so many clients that they can never finish their work properly -
Americans pay millions of dollars yearly to astrologers. It is estimated
that throughout the world, seventy-eight percent of people believe in
astrology. The seventy-eight percent who believe in astrology belong to the
general public. Thinkers and intellectuals are on red alert at the very
mention of astrology.
C. G. Jung said that university doors have been closed to astrology for
three hundred years, but that in the coming thirty years these doors will
again open and astrology will enter the university. It will happen because
claims that astrology has made, which have up to now been unproved, can now
be proved.
Paracelsus gave birth to one discovery - that man becomes ill only when the
harmonious relationship between himself and the constellation of stars at
his birth somehow breaks down. For this, a little explanation is necessary.
Many years before Paracelsus, some six hundred years BC, Pythagoras gave
birth to the very valuable principle of planetary harmony. When Pythagoras
proclaimed this principle in Greece he had just returned from a journey to
Egypt and India. At the time when he came, India was intensely absorbed in
the ideas of Buddha and Mahavir. After his return to Greece, he included in
his reports a specific reference to Buddhist and Jaina monks. He gave the
Jaina monks the name Jainosophists, and also reported that they walk about
naked.
Pythagoras believed that every star, every planet and every satellite gives
out a unique vibration through its movement as it travels in space.
Every movement of the stars gives out a vibration, and every star has its
own individual movement. All the vibrations of the stars together make a
musical harmony, which he called the harmony of the universe.
When you are born, the melody that is created by the tuning of the stars at
that time is inscribed on your mind in its freshest, most unsophisticated,
and most sensitive state ñ that of birth. Throughout your life this will
cause good health or ill health. When you live in tune with the original
musical harmony that existed at the time of your birth, then you are
healthy. And whenever your tuning with this fundamental musical harmony
breaks down, you become ill.
In this connection Paracelsus has done very significant work. He would not
prescribe medicine to any patient until he had seen his kundali, his
astrological birth chart. And it is a surprising thing that after having
examined a patient’s birth chart, Paracelsus would cure patients who had
confused other physicians - patients who could not be cured by any other
physician. He used to say, “Until I know the position of the stars at the
time of this man’s birth, it is not possible to know the notes of his inner
harmony. And unless I know the arrangement of his inner harmony, how can I
make this man healthy?”
But what is meant by health? This we must try to understand. Ordinarily, if
we ask a physician what the definition of health is, he will only say that
health is the absence of sickness. But this is a negative definition. It is
unfortunate that we must define health in terms of illness. Health is a
positive thing, a positive state; illness is negative. Health is our nature;
illness is an attack on nature. So it is very strange that we must define
health in terms of illness. To define the host in terms of the guest is very
strange.
Health coexists with us; illness comes occasionally.
Health accompanies us at birth; illness is a superficial phenomenon. But if
we ask a physician to define health, he can only say that health is present
when illness is absent.
Paracelsus used to say that this interpretation is wrong - the concept of
health needs to be positively defined. But how can we reach a positive
definition, an interpretation of the concept of health that will be creative?
Paracelsus used to say, “Until the state of your inner harmony is known, you
can at best only be released from your illness ñ because your inner harmony
is the source of your health. But when you are released from one illness you
will immediately get another, because nothing has been done about your inner
harmony. Your inner harmony has to be supported.”
Five hundred years have passed since Paracelsus, and his discoveries
disappeared into oblivion. But now, during the past twenty years, astrology
has re-emerged. During this time a new science has been born. I will
describe this new science a bit, and then you will be able to understand the
ancient science of astrology more easily.
In 1950, a new science was born called cosmic chemistry. The originator of
this science is Georgi Giardi, one of the most significant men of the
century. After endless experiments in the laboratory, this man proved
scientifically that the whole universe is an organic unity ñ that the whole
universe is one body. If my finger is hurt, then my whole body is affected.
The body means that no limb is separate, all are joined together. If my eye
is in pain, then my big toe also experiences that pain. If my foot is hurt,
the message reaches the heart. If my mind is ill, my entire body will be
disturbed. If my whole body is destroyed, then it will be difficult for my
mind to find anywhere to be. The body is an organic unity: touch a single
part and the whole body vibrates; all parts are affected.
Cosmic chemistry says that the entire cosmos is a body.
Nothing in it stands alone, all things are joined together. So no matter how
distant a star may be from us, when it changes, our heartbeats also change.
And no matter how far away the sun may be, when it becomes very disturbed
our blood circulation is also disturbed. Every eleven years an atomic storm
occurs on the sun. The last time such a great atomic storm and fiery
explosions were going on, a Japanese doctor named Tamatto made an amazing
discovery. This doctor had been doing work on women’s blood for twenty
years. There is one property unique to female blood which is absent in the
blood of males. At the time of menstruation the blood of women becomes thin,
but men’s blood always remains the same. Women’s blood at the time of
menstruation grows thin; at the time of pregnancy also their blood grows
thin. According to Tamatto, this is the one basic difference between the
blood of men and women. But when atomic energy storms were occurring on the
sun with great intensity, the blood of men also grew thin. This was a very
novel phenomenon. Before this it had never been recorded that men’s blood
was affected by disturbances on the sun. And if blood can be so affected,
then anything can be affected.
There is an American thinker, Frank Brown, who has been working on the
safety and facility aspects of space travelers. For half his life, he has
made it his task to ensure that the men who travel into space will face no
difficulty. The most serious problem is how they will be affected as they
leave the Earth. No one knows how much atomic radiation they may encounter
or how it may affect them.
For two thousand years after Aristotle, in the West it was thought that
space is empty, that nothing is there: two hundred miles away from Earth the
atmosphere ceases and there is empty space. But the investigations of space
travelers have proved this notion to be wrong. Space is not empty, it is
very full. It is neither empty nor dead - it is extremely alive.
The truth is that the two-hundred mile wide layer of the Earth’s atmosphere
prevents many harmful influences from reaching us. But in space all kinds of
strange currents are flowing, the effects of which man may not be able to
withstand.
You will be surprised to learn this, and you will laugh, but before he would
let a man be sent into space, Frank Brown sent a potato into space. It was
Brown’s contention that there is very little essential difference between a
man and a potato. If the potato rots, then man cannot survive; if the potato
survives, then man may also survive. The potato is a very hardy organism,
and man is very sensitive. If even a potato cannot survive in space, then
there is no hope of survival for man. If a potato returns alive, and if it
sprouts after being sown in the ground, then man can be sent into space.
However, there would still be concern about man’s ability to survive.
From his experiment Brown proved one more thing - that a potato seed lying
in the ground, or any seed lying in the ground, grows only in relation to
the sun. The sun alone arouses it and encourages it to emerge. The sun alone
summons the embryo plant and induces its growth.
Brown also did research in another field. This other subject has even now
not been given a suitable name, but at present it is called planetary
heredity. There is another word in English, horoscope, which comes from the
Greek horoscopos. The meaning of the word horoscopos is: I observe the
emerging planets.
At the moment a child is born, many stars are emerging all around the
Earth’s horizon.
Just as the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening, so stars rise
and set in space twenty-four hours a day. If a child is being born at six
o’clock in the morning, at that time the sun too is rising. At that time
some stars are also rising, and other stars are setting. Some constellations
are ascending, some constellations are on the decline. This child is being
born into a certain arrangement of stars in space.
Up until now we have doubted - and even now many people not deeply familiar
with the subject still doubt - that the moon and stars can have anything to
do with man. Wherever the stars may be, what difference will it make to some
child being born in a village? And then too, on the same date, under the
same constellation, not just one child but thousands of children are
born.... Among these one may become the president of some country, but the
remainder will not. Among these one may die after one hundred years, and
another after two days. Among these one will be a genius and one will be an
idiot. So from a superficial viewpoint, one might ask how a child can be
related to a horoscope just by being born under a certain constellation and
planetary pattern.
The logic of such a question seems clear and direct: Why would the stars be
concerned with the birth of a single child? And then also, not just one
child is born; under the very same stars many are born who are not all
alike. From such logic it seems that the birth of a human being has no
connection with the stars.
But from the investigations of Brown, Picardi, Tamatto and others, we can
draw a great conclusion. All these scientists say that while we cannot yet
claim that a child as an individual is influenced by the stars still we can
now say for certain that life as a whole is affected. Whether a child is
influenced as an individual we cannot now say or know, but life as a whole
is. And if life as a whole is, then as we investigate the facts of the
matter more deeply, we will discover that the individual too, is affected by
the stars.
One thing more must be considered. It has been thought that astrology is a
science which, because it originated in an earlier time, could not develop.
But in my view the situation is just the opposite. Astrology was an
infinitely developed science in some extremely advanced civilization, but
that civilization has been lost and only incomplete fragments of its
astrology have remained in our hands.
Astrology is not a new science which needs to be developed, but a science
which was at one time very advanced.
Then the civilization which developed it was lost. Civilizations come and go
every day; the fundamentals, the basic sayings and the basic principles of
those things which have been developed by them, become lost. Today, science
is approaching the point where it will accept the thesis that life as a
whole is affected by the movements of the stars.
At the time of birth, the condition of a child’s mind is exactly like a very
sensitive photo plate. Two or three things need to be thought about if we
want to understand how life is affected. And only if life is affected can
there be the possibility of astrology - not otherwise.
We should try to understand the phenomenon of twins. Two types of twins
exist: One is identical twins - those who are born from one egg; the other
type is of those who, although they are twins, are born from separate eggs -
in the mother’s womb two eggs become fertilized, and two children are born.
The first type is more rare - two children from one egg. They are very
significant subjects to study because they are born at the same time. Out of
necessity we call the children born from separate eggs twins, but the moment
of their birth is not exactly the same.
It must be understood that birth is an ambiguous phenomenon. The first
aspect of birth is conception - the actual birth takes place on the day when
the foetus is conceived in the mother’s womb. This is the actual birth. What
you call birth is really birth number two - when the child comes out of the
mother’s womb.
If we were to carry out a complete astrological investigation - as the
Hindus alone have done, and done very thoroughly - then our actual concern
would not begin when the child is born. Our actual concern begins when the
child starts its journey in the mother’s womb, when the conception takes
place - because that is the actual birth. So Hindus have also come to feel
that if a particular type of child is to be born, it will be born if
intercourse and pregnancy occur under an arrangement of planets and
constellation most suitable for that type. Now I will explain to you a
little of the background of this, because much work has been done in this
area and many things have become clear.
Ordinarily, when a child was born at six o’clock in the morning, we thought
that the constellation which existed at that time influences the child. But
those who know astrology deeply say that the stars do not cast their
influence over a child just because it is born at six o’clock in the
morning. No, rather, the child chooses to be born under those stars which
will influence him as he wishes to be influenced. This is a radically
different thing.
When the child is taking birth, it chooses the planets and stars, and the
moment at which it will take birth.
And if we go still more deeply, then the child also chooses the time of its
conception.
Every soul chooses its own time of conception - when it will accept a womb,
at which moment. The moment of conception is not insignificant. It is
significant in that it is a question of how the entire universe exists at
that moment, and to what sort of possibilities the universe opens the door
at that moment.
When two children are conceived together from one egg, then the moment of
their conception is the same and the moment of their birth is the same. It
is interesting that the lives of the two children who have taken birth from
one egg are so alike, that it is difficult to say that the moment of birth
has no influence. The IQ of twins born from one egg is just about equal. And
those who know, say that the fractional difference which arises is because
of our faulty measuring devices. Even today we have not been able to develop
adequate criteria by which we can quantitatively measure intelligence.
If twins born from the same egg are brought up far apart from each other,
their IQs still do not differ. Even if one child is raised in India and
another in China, and neither is aware of the existence of the other, this
will still be true. Cases have occurred where such twins have been raised
far apart from each other until they have attained maturity, but their IQs
did not differ. It is surprising that the IQ can be associated with the
child’s potential at birth.
When the twin who lives in China suffers from a cold, at that time its twin
in India also suffers from a cold. Generally, twins born from one egg die in
the same year. At the most, three years elapse between their deaths, and at
the least, three days - but never more than three years. If one twin has
died, then we can assume that after three days or within three years the
other will die. Their attitudes, their behavior, their feelings are
parallel, and it seems that the two live in almost exactly the same way.
Their similarity is seen in many other things also - each acts like a copy
of the other.
Everyone’s skin is individual. If my hand is damaged and new skin needs to
be grafted, then your skin cannot be grafted onto my hand; it will be
necessary to use a piece of my own skin. On the entire Earth, there will be
no one whose skin can be grafted onto my hand. My body will give signs of
rejection; it will not accept another’s skin. However, the skin of twins
born out of one egg can be transplanted. This is the only exception. If the
skin of one is grafted onto the skin of the other, the other’s body will not
reject it. Why is that? What is the cause? We cannot say that it is because
they have the same parents, because even though two brothers may have the
same parents, their skins are not interchangeable. The only exception is
found in those children who were conceived at the same moment. Even between
them no other common factor exists.
Their brothers also came from the same mother and father, but their skins
cannot be interchanged ñ the skin of one brother cannot be grafted onto
another brother’s body. Only the moment of their births differ; the mother
and father are the same, everything else is the same. They differ greatly in
only one thing, and that is the moment of their conception.
Is the moment of birth so influential that the life span is of about the
same length, that their IQs are almost equal, that their bodily behavior is
the same, that when the two fall ill it is from the same illness, and that
when the two become well again, it is from the same medicine? Can the moment
of birth be so influential?
Astrology has been saying that the moment of birth is even more important
than this.
Up until now science has not agreed with astrology, but it is now beginning
to do so. In coming to this increasing agreement, some new experiments have
been helpful.
For example, when we launched man-made satellites into space, we discovered
that a wide range of radioactive rays from space, and the constellations are
continuously bombarding the Earth. Nothing on the Earth is unaffected by
this phenomenon. We know that the ocean is influenced by the moon, but we
have not taken into consideration the fact that the same proportion of water
and salt that occurs in the ocean also occurs in the human body ñ the same
proportion. Seventy percent of the human body consists of water, and the
proportion of salt contained in that water is the same as is contained in
the Arabian Sea. If the water in the ocean is affected by the moon, then how
could the water inside the human body remain unaffected?
Now in this connection, two or three facts emerging from recent
investigations must be kept in mind. For example, as the day of the full
moon approaches, the amount of insanity in the world increases, whereas on
the last day of the darker fourteen days, the least number of people go
insane. As the moon grows brighter the level of insanity also begins to
increase. On the day of the full moon, the greatest number of people enter
madhouses; and on the last day of the moon’s waning period, the greatest
number of people are discharged from madhouses. Statistics are now
available....
In English there is the word lunatic; in Hindi we have the word chaandmara.
Chaand refers to the moon, just as lunar does in English. Chaandmara is a
very ancient term, and the word lunatic also is some three thousand years
old. Some three thousand years ago, people realized that the moon affects
the insane. But if it affects the insane, then how can it avoid affecting
the sane?
In the final analysis, the construction of the brain and the internal
composition of the body are the same for all.
Yes, it may be that the moon affects the insane to a greater extent, and the
sane to a lesser extent, but this is simply a quantitative difference. It is
impossible that the sane remain completely unaffected by the moon. If that
was true, then nobody would go mad ñ because everyone who goes mad was once
sane. The moon must first affect those who are sane.
Professor Brown made an interesting study. He was a man completely without
faith in astrology. He was a skeptic, and in his earlier writings he had
very much ridiculed astrology. Yet despite his skepticism he began some
investigation. He gathered together the birth charts of many famous
generals, doctors, and other professionals. But then he found himself in
great difficulty because he discovered that members of particular
professions were born under a specific planet, under the same constellation.
For instance, among all famous generals the influence of Mars upon their
lives is very strong, whereas in the lives of academics the influence of
Mars is completely absent.
The study which Brown carried out on some fifty thousand men who were army
officers reveals that the influence of Mars is very strong in the lives of
these men. Generally, when such personalities take birth, the planet Mars is
ascending. The moment of their birth is the moment that Mars begins to rise.
Exactly opposite to this, no matter how many pacifists were studied, they
were never born at the time when the planet Mars was ascending. If it
happened only occasionally, you could think it a coincidence, but there
cannot be thousands of cases of coincidence. Mathematicians are born under a
specific constellation; poets are never born under this same constellation.
In an occasional case there may be a coincidence, but when it happens so
often it cannot be a coincidence.
In fact, there is a great difference in behavior among people of different
professions and occupations - for example, between poets, mathematicians,
warmongers, generals and pacifists. On the one hand, there may be a man like
Bertrand Russell who says that there should be peace in the world, and on
the other hand, a man like Nietzsche who says that the day war ceases the
world will cease to be meaningful. Is it only an intellectual dispute
between them, or also a dispute of the stars? Is there only an intellectual
dispute between them, or does the moment of their births also separate them?
The more research is done, the more it is being realized that the special
talents of a person are revealed by the time of his birth.
Those who know about astrology even superficially would say that this
happens because he is born under a specific constellation. But I want to say
to you that man chooses the constellation under which he is to be born. He
will be born under the appropriate constellation according to what he wants
to be ñ whatever his innate possibilities, whatever the shape of his last
life taken in its entirety, whatever his motivating consciousness. Every
child, every new life, insists on a specific moment for birth. It wants to
be born at a specific moment; it wants to be conceived at a specific moment
ñ both are interdependent.
As I have told you, the water of the ocean is subject to certain influences.
But all life is created out of water; without water, no life is possible. In
ancient Greece, philosophers used to say that only from water is life born,
that water is life. Ancient Indian, Chinese and other mythologies also say
this. Today scientists who believe in evolution also say that life was born
in the water, that perhaps the first life on the planet lived in the water
as algae. This was the first form of life, and then out of this, man
eventually evolved.
Water is the most mysterious element of all. Whatever influences reach man
from the stars, from the universe, from outer space, reach him through the
medium of water. Only after affecting the water in a man’s body, can any
radiation gain access to him. Much work is being done with water, and many
mysteries concerning water are coming to man’s attention.
The biggest mystery about water, which has come to the attention of
scientists in the last ten years, is that water possesses a lot of
sensitivity. Whatever influences are active, from whatever direction in
life, they first move through the medium of water. The water in us is the
first thing to be affected. Once the water in us is influenced, then it is
very difficult for us to avoid being influenced.
You will be surprised to learn that when the child floats in the mother’s
womb, he floats just as if he were in the ocean. The water in which the
child floats in the mother’s womb possesses the same proportion of salt as
is present in the ocean. Influences from the mother’s body do not reach the
child directly; there is no direct connection between the mother and the
child growing in her womb. The medium is water; whatever influences reach
the child from the mother, do so through the medium of water - there is no
direct relationship. Then throughout our lives the water in our bodies
behaves just like the water in the sea.
Fish in the ocean have been much studied. There are fish which come onto the
seashore and lay their eggs at low tide when the ocean is receding. Riding
with the waves the fish come onto the sand, lay their eggs, and return with
the ocean waves. At a fixed time the tide returns, and by then the eggs will
have hatched, and the spawn will have come out. Then the incoming tide will
take the spawn back out to sea.
Scientists who studied these fish were very surprised, because the fish
always come to lay their eggs at low tide.
If they were to lay their eggs at high tide, the eggs would be washed away
in the flood. They lay their eggs when the tide is going down, and withdraw
for a little time in the recesses of the waves. And the tide does not wash
over the place where they lay their eggs a second time, otherwise the tide
would wash the eggs away.
Scientists are very puzzled as to how these fish know when it is going to be
low tide. If there were even the slightest mistake in timing, the eggs would
be washed away. But in hundreds of thousands of years they have never made a
mistake. If they had made a mistake they would have disappeared as a
species. But they have never made a mistake. What equipment do these fish
possess by which they can know about the tides? What sense organ do they
possess that tells them when the tide will ebb? A hundred thousand fish will
be gathered together at one time over the entire seashore.... These fish
must possess some kind of signaling system, some kind of transmitter. A
hundred thousand fish will come from thousands of miles away to lay their
eggs on the ocean beach - and all at the same time.
Those who have studied the phenomenon say that there can be no source of
information other than the moon. The moon is the source of the fish’s
intuition, nothing else - the fish know intuitively when the tide is ebbing
and when it is rising. The impact of the moon is the only way they have of
knowing the tides.
There was another possibility. It has been conjectured that these fish might
somehow be influenced by the waves of the ocean. So scientists put them in a
place where there are no ocean waves: in water, in an unlit room. But the
results turned out to be really surprising. The fish were enveloped in
darkness, the moon was not in view ñ there was no light visible at all ñ but
when the moon reached the exact point at which the fish in the ocean would
go and lay their eggs on the shore, at exactly the same moment the fish in
the laboratory laid their eggs. What does this fact show...? That it is not
a question of the ocean waves.
Someone may suggest that the race only begins when the fish receive signals
from each other, but this hypothesis does not hold water. Scientists have
witnessed the fish when they were isolated from each other. They have tried
to disturb the brains of these fish in every way. They have placed the fish
in darkness for twenty-four hours, so that the fish do not know when it is
morning and when it is night. They have observed these fish after placing
them under a bright light for twenty-four hours so that the fish would not
know when it is day. They have observed them after setting up an artificial
moon, and daily either decreasing or increasing its brilliance - but these
fish could not be fooled. When the real moon came to the right point, only
at that moment the fish laid their eggs; wherever they were, they would lay
their eggs at that moment.
Every year hundreds of thousands of birds fly thousands and thousands of
miles.
Winter is on its way and soon snow will fall, so the birds begin to migrate
from the areas where snow will fall. They will fly to a place thousands of
miles away to reach this winter home. So these birds migrate exactly one
month before the coming of the snow. At the time they are migrating the snow
has not yet begun to fall, but exactly a month later it will fall. How do
these birds calculate the date on which snow will fall? Our weathermen, who
have the most elaborate observatories, cannot come up with such exact
information.
I have heard that some weathermen first ask astrologers sitting on the
roadside, “What do you think ñ will it rain today or not?”
The arrangements which man has made seem childish. Birds know a month and a
half, even two months before the first snow falls. After thousands of
experiments it has been observed that the day on which birds migrate is
fixed for every type of bird. And every year the date changes, because there
is no fixed date for snow to fall. But it is certain that every bird will
migrate one month before the snow falls. If snow is to fall ten days later
than in the previous year, they will migrate ten days later than they did in
that year. If the snow falls ten days earlier, they will have migrated ten
days earlier. If the date of the first snowfall is uncertain, then how are
these birds informed?
In Japan there is a bird which will evacuate a town twenty-four hours before
an earthquake occurs. It is just an ordinary town bird - there are many of
them in every town - but twenty-four hours before an earthquake these birds
will evacuate the town. At present, scientists are unable to accurately
predict whether an earthquake is coming even two hours beforehand; two hours
before they are still uncertain, they are still unsure. There is only a
probability, a possibility, that an earthquake may happen. But in Japan
people know twenty-four hours in advance that an earthquake is coming. When
this bird flies away, the people of the town know that now there is only
twenty-four hours’ time. The bird has left - not a single one of this
species remains in the town. How does this bird come to know?
For ten years now, scientists have been saying something new: that every
living organism possesses an internal sensor, which feels the cosmic
influences. Perhaps man too possesses it, but has lost awareness of it
through depending on his intellect.
Man is the only living being in the world who has, through his so-called
intelligence, lost many things which he once had.
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