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2013Nov12, updated 2014Feb18.
PREFACE
BY AUTHOR These
are issues that need to be considered especially in
relation to astrological ethics standards, cronyism, and
certification objectivity. Astrology risks increasing
corruption and degeneration if such issues are
not resolved. I intended to write this summary
several years go, but was discouraged by colleagues
because they thought it could cause problems. My view
now is that the problems will grow if I do Not addess
these issues publicly, and I wish I had done this earlier.
It is not intended to critique any current or past
organizational president... the NCGR chart, via uranian
methods, shows a clear corruption problem from the
foundation date of the organization. terminally ingrained
in the organizational chart... a secretive and perhaps
cult-like element that controls the organization from the
sidelines or background, regardless of whom is put on
stage as the chief, and who may not necessarily be astrologers
themselves. In other words, the public sees the
actors while the directors hide behind the curtains, and
control intensively and surreptitiously. An analysis of
some relevant components of the NCGR chart, with geodetic
indicators that may indicate possible sources of
organizational dysfunction, follows at the end of this report. SUMMARY
OF INCIDENTS
Around
1999 or 2000, after several calls from Astrolabe
affiliates asking about my progress on translating newer
Uranian astrology materials from Germany, I probably made
the mistake of calling a newly-appointed Education
Director at NCGR to congratulate him on his position and
talent.
During the conversation, I was again asked (as had earlier
other Astrolabe affiliates in the NCGR) about the
progress of the Uranian astrology text translations, and I
perhaps mistakenly mentioned that the new materials could cause a major change in American Uranian Astrology
because they could make obsolete older
translated materials inherited by a key NCGR/Astrolabe
Uranian Astrologer claiming a leading role in the field.
The tone of the call quickly changed after mentioning
this, and I knew I
shouldn't have called. Years later I realized that the
individual I spoke to was a close friend of the
high-profile NCGR-Astrolabe Uranian Astrologer holding the
old materials, and that
the comment I made was relayed to him. A series of
high-impact temporarily crippling and sneaky, almost
cultish, measures to squelch my efforts ensued over the
years -- and a list of them follows: In
the early 2000s I was active in the ISAR Newsletter and
addressed the problem of people sending drafts of articles
to the NCGR for publication, only to see no response but a
paraphrasing of the articles for presentation with other
people's names on them in the nationwide NCGR Journal or Newsletter,
which at that time had a rather predictable NY-to-Boston set of nominal
authors repeatedly appearing in NCGR publications. Other
ISAR members sent me emails indicating that the same thing
had happened to them -- once again, a plagiarism problem. I
had also mentioned how projects were stolen and presented
by other people as their own work at NCGR conferences.
Such projects could often be readily identified by the
fact that papers would be read, but supposed authors
(plagiarists) could not explain what they had read off in
their 'lectures', where they were essentially reading
someone else's writings without acknowledging it. A
similar problem of impostors/plagiarists not being able to
explain the logic behind principles in papers they had
read, combined
with filler words and pleasing flattery, while those
explanations were later found to be inaccurate or even
totally contrary to fact. In
the ISAR newsletter, I addressed the severe problem with cronyism in the NCGR,
and set about to initiate research projects on via the ISAR
newsletter and website, mentioning that I would be working with French
software developers who worked directly with Françoise Gauquelin and would use their French-language software in
English translation in the projects. Rather quickly, I was
sent an email from ISAR to hold off and wait -- the email
had been sent using the editor's email address, while the
editor of that time, an honest individual whom I knew via regular
communications, said she had not sent such an email. What ensued
was that the President of Astrolabe was then quickly
installed as the ISAR research director, and individuals who
previously intended to work with me on the project
abruptly withdrew. Around this time, I had also been in contact with Lois
Rodden about tabulating her research data for computerized
research using the same software program designed in
collaboration with Françoise Gauquelin, but Ms Rodden died shortly thereafter. I publicized
the problem of my projects being stalled while the Astrolabe
president was put in charge of research projects, and so the president of a third software
development company became ISAR President. New software
developments began to duplicate the methods and techniques
contained in the French software I was planning to help
make available in English. Crippling
and destructive hacking attacks began on my computer that included copying
of files followed by their scrambling or erasure on my
hard drive. My comments in the ISAR Newsletter were
increasingly sharply critiqued (often without factual
justification, i.e. simply as 'hazing' with intent to
discredit), and I discovered
after study that the majority of the barbed criticisms came from friends of
employees of Astrolabe Software, who also contacted my
partners in France as disinterested agents to monitor and keep tabs on
what we were doing. After
that, my internet communications with Ruth Brummund, with
whom I was working on Uranian Astrology translation
projects, were being
routinely spied on with a spybot that was sending copies
of my communications with Ms Brummund to a third party, and periodic
hackings on my computer continued, targeting
astrological files often specifically and exclusively, and
several times destroying my hard drive so that I had to
buy a new one and restore files from backups. This continued for a few years,
apparently for the purpose of hackers gaining the latest
updates. In initial occurrences, hacking sources pointed to
a commercial bank server in Taipei, Taiwan, with either
direct or mercenary involvement; and as time passed, there were
more and more pointers to involvement of people
identifying themselves as Wiccans. My Uranian Astrology
website was periodically hacked and data on webpages were
altered, and which I was able to correct only after
discovering what the errors were. This problem appeared to
subside after changed to a server in Canada, where I would
have greater protection against hackers. I
contacted Doris Chase Doane, American pioneer in timezone
and time change data collocation, with whom I had corresponded
earlier about time-change data, and told her that I
planned to make a brand new global time zone database to
include data gathered via correspondence with interstate
agencies and resources accessible via San Francisco Bay
Area university and public libraries, and fuse it with
data gathered by Françoise Gauquelin and retained at
Aureas Software. Ms Doane had explained to me that her
data had some specific gaps, and wrote me that, "I'm
sure you'll get it right". I probably made a
big mistake in announcing the new time-zone project in my
astrology egroups before it was complete, for reasons
explained as follows. Around
this time, I relocated to a different house in densely
populated San Francisco, where share-rental is quite
common out of necessity, and where new co-habitants affiliated with the
Wicca sect were conspicuously persistent about connecting
a cable to network with my computer, which I repeatedly refused since
I had no reason to do so. Their persistence was eerily
odd, and almost cultish. What ensued then was that
some new Wicca-affiliates moved into a basement below
me -- with direct access to my internet phone-lines,
which I later discovered they had physically tapped into -- and
repeated hackings occurred, stealing and scrambling many
years of translation work, original writings on uranian
interpretation, a new techniques book in the making, and
the new Time-Zone database as it stood at this time. I had
to have the police remove the violators from the property,
after overhearing them discussing that they had possession of a gun illegal in
this state and planned to draw one of my
housemates not involved in the astrology issue down to be
shot, leaving only me in the house for whatever might happen
after that. I also
overheard the plans of the one who owned the gun to join
an 'elite' affiliated pagan cult that the other of them
warned was dangerous. Their general behavior was unusually
cold, lifeless, stiff and unnatural, not unlike what one
would expect of brainwashed cult members. This
occurred in the Spring-Summer of 2005, when there was,
during the same general period, also
a major internal schism at the NCGR 'headquarters' that involved changes
of personnel and legal clashes that entailed challenges of
NCGR's status as a non-profit organization due to
overlapping business interests, and a reported
witnessed assault over statements of intent to report the
corruption, legal proceedings that some observers
claimed were "not to be discussed under court
order", and reported cult-like behavior similar to
what I had seen directly. After that, NCGR whistleblowers
either left or were eased out, offices shifted, with
controversy over a business
overlap that was discovered between Astrodatabank, which had
earlier taken over the tabulation of Lois Rodden's research data,
and Astrolabe, and NCGR as a non-profit organization.
Subsequently, Astrodatabank was shifted for dispensation
via Astrodienst in Switzerland, and after some NCGR people
were ejected or moved around, it was back to business as usual at the
NCGR-Astrolabe complex, which was replicating all projects I
had intended to work on with Aureas. A central whistleblower
on the
NCGR corruption was slandered and blacklisted and set off to the
side, and then apparently given incentives to no longer
discuss what happened. Some spoke up, nonetheless, with disgust at the
degree of deceit involved. Astrolabe shortly thereafter announced
substantial new updates
to the ACS Atlas time-zone databases from "newly-acquired
data". I had not before seen such brazen aggression,
and did not expect it to occur under the auspices of a
national astrological organization. I
went though yet another relocation, due largely to the actions of
the cultish individuals previously mentioned, and serious hackings continued
on my computer throughout 2005 and into 2006, while I was
restoring and re-editing
hacked data and compiling additional data. The hacking
attacks included
two viruses that destroyed my hard-drives after a period of
lockup and data copying (lights flashing rapidly while a
spy program sucked out the data), and then the drive was
wiped clean, on both occasions. This required buying two
more computers to resume. In one case, a virus was
planted on a backup disk in the drive while the
lockup-piracy was occurring, so that the backup disk was
also wiped blank. The disks contained years and endless
hours of tedious astrological translation work and
original writings,
including minute details gruelingly edited and
reconstructed after the last piracy. My loss of the data
allowed ACS to maintain their (at that time) relative monopoly on the
time zone/change database used in most astrological
programs and elsewhere (including
private-contracted government services). This
was followed by some sort of functional Astrolabe-ACS
merger, and a well-publicized attempt by Astrolabe to shut
down access to a US government public service agency database
because it was quoting bits of data from the ACS Atlas Astrolabe
had acquired. What was not mentioned is that much of
the ACS Atlas data was from the earlier data collated by
Doris Chase Doane accumulated during her participation in
Church of Light research -- and it it appears that the
acquiring and litigious Astrolabe agents didn't know that, since, as
normal for them,
they had somehow taken ownership of something someone else
created or built through long and intensive labor. Around
that general time period, I announced on the Uranian Institute website
that Uranian astrology was taking a new direction on the
Pacific coast, like other astrological paradigms did, and
the NCGR-Astrolabe central cult quickly pushed their head
honcho to give presentations in California to make it look
like they were part of, or dominant in, the new Uranian
Astrology trend on the Pacific. This was done with the assistance of people
working for a non-astrological organization I had long
been a member of, and which included German nationals
involved in psychological research projects, and apparently the NCGR giant octopus
took precedence over what I was doing, and had the clout to
push in front. Next came the publication of
a 'Uranian
Issue' of the 'Mountain Astrologer' which contained
articles written mostly by Astrolabe business affiliates,
and a text-centerfold featuring an interview of the President
of Astrolabe by one of Astrolabe's chief advertising
agents. The magazine was full of inaccuracies and
misconceptions about uranian astrology and uranian
astrologers, some quite conspicuous (and which I plan to
disambiguate in another article). Key
highly-experienced uranian astrologers not affiliated with
Astrolabe were conspicuously absent in the issue. I am not
disputing that Mountain Astrologer, as a private commercial
publication, has the right to choose whatever it prints, or allow
paid advertising determine who and what is published -- but much
of the information was incorrect, probably due to lack of
understanding and inadequate experience, stuffing the pages with
articles by Astrolabe
business affiliates -- just so the 'Uranian Issue' could
promote Astrolabe's interests predominantly. Reviews of computer
programs were by written by someone who had even been an Astrolabe
computer programmer at one point. In short, the 'Uranian Issue' of
the Mountain Astrology functioned primarily as an ad for
Astrolabe, filled with numerous misconceptions about
Uranian astrology. And since the Mountain Astrologer is
published in a Pacific coast state by transplants from the
Astrolabe hub zone, this further put an
attempted Astrolabe stamp on this region of the United
States, probably in attempt to eclipse, with possible
intent ot absorb, my work. Meanwhile,
as 'competition' for Astrolabe, cheered along by its NCGR cronies, my
egroups were being continually infiltrated and
sabotaged by representatives of Astrolabe, very aggressive
in its public relations and "information
gathering" campaigns; there
were several instances of active Astrolabe affiliates
attempting to co-opt translation and research projects I was working
on and promote them with their software instead;
Astrolabe agents were quoting phrases from my egroups to
promote the sale of their computer programs while I
frequently discussed development, and later presentation,
of a Uranian astrology specialist
program with the Gauquelin affiliates in France (who were
also publishing one of the most professionally-produced quantitative astrological research
journals on the planet),
and so I ejected known Astrolabe affiliates from my
egroups for having used my work to
competitively promote their program. Afterward they
circulated
rumors that I had an 'exclusive group' that they were not
allowed to participate in, and brazenly that I was (rather
than their company) the one
trying to create a monopoly ( ! ) by not 'sharing' it with
their mammoth NCGR-dues-propped software empire. And got
the information anyway via friends of friends. Aureas,
the French company I was working with, had servers in the
USA where files were being hacked and altered, producing
errors in upgrades to their computer programs, in turn
making the programs not work properly for a couple of
years, while critiques of the program were circulated. I suggested
they use servers only in France, after which such problems
were solved. I was also experiencing periodic
hacking and alteration of webpages on my website, which
subsided after I moved my server to Canada, which had and
may still have more stringent server security regulations.
During the time that the inclusion of the new timezone
database was delayed by the hacking, critiques of the
computer program database were circulated. There was an
all-out campaign to sabotage my Uranian Astrology
research, e-group, and software projects while Astrolabe
aggressively used NCGR resources to "strut its
stuff" along with weird rhetoric about
"humility" and "spiritual/guru"
themes. The
hacking and sabotage games were beyond cheesy and obnoxious, and almost predatory. Overall,
someone or ones highly skilled at hacking was/were
carrying out a series of measures that all ended up
primarily to the benefit of Astrolabe's intent to remain
dominant and controlling in American Uranian Astrology. Wicca cult
puppets and manipulees appeared
scattered all along the way, and I then learned from an
x-Wiccan that members were often brainwashed/programmed using
NLP-hypnosis methods to carry out
organizational objectives and serve top cult members like
functional hypno-slaves. How pervasive this is within Wicca as a
whole, I
do not know, but it exists to a noteworthy degree within
the sect in California, and was described to me as being
common in Minnesota, per what was described to me by observers. In a
coffee house I frequented at that time, Wiccans listened
to my conversations with others relating to my astrology projects,
and one of them, after a long period of silent listening,
said to some other Wiccans,
"Shall we send out the flying monkeys?" (as in
the Wizard of Oz paradigm). If
you haven't been around many Wiccans (lucky you!), this sounds
outrageous, but of if you have, you probably understand.
And the frequency of practice of sado-masochism among
Wiccans fits with the NLP-mesmer-hypnosis history and
origins of sado-masochism, which was developed as a
political mind-control and reprogramming device during the French
Revolution, and today often extends to business,
corporate, and political
objectives. It's the stuff of which WW2
fascist cults were later made, and on which NLP was
developed. Astrology
has enough credibility problems already, without willingly
allowing
such machinations and skullduggery to dominate the field, and
yet not talking
about it or shoving it under the rug has clearly already
led to the festering of corruption and practices that
continue to trash astrology. In addition,
some of the guilty parties were then reported to have been
allowed to play key roles in "astrological
ethics" programs, which of course risks making astrological
ethics an utter mockery and joke. The problems I
encountered over a near 15 year period appear to be linked
to a much larger problem in American astrology... one of
corruption and abuses and cronyism at top levels of
control that trickle down into moving the field in a
direction toward circus-time entertainment astrology where
scientific goals are eschewed, where quantity of practicing
astrologers is stressed far over quality, where chichi-fufu wing-it
circus footsie astrology prevails, and a ridiculous little cabal of
astrological fixtures play every dirty trick in the book
of underworld opportunism to control the national astrological organizations and
monopolize American astrology all under one cliquish and
passive-aggressively bullying organization, and
essentially make sure that Astrolabe or its covert offshoots are the Dominant
Brand promoted by the Dominant National Organization to
which all must yield. Wall Street connections provide
money to bribe, silence, or otherwise manipulate those who
might otherwise oppose the steamroller. ISAR has gradually
been fusing more and
more with the NCGR so that the boundaries between them are
often minimal
except in terms of superficial appearances. Astrology
organizations in other countries need to be aware of what
they are contending with when they encounter the
apparently insatiable monopolistic ambitions of the
Astrolabe-NCGR cabal, which is something FBI agent and astrologer Al
Morrison warned me about years ago. What is also
perpetuating is pop astrology for the
circus and media shows cluttering and sometimes
overshadowing the advancement of real,
scientifically-oriented astrology. Those
of you who have followed the Uranian Beacon/Institute egroups
over time are familiar with the many outages and setbacks
I have dealt with in terms of implementing astrological
program and research objectives since 1999, and now
NCGR-Astrolabe affiliates who have benefited by my
setbacks are trumpeting the glories of fulfilling their
long-time dream to develop a Uranian Astrology specialist
program after I have been systematically knocked out and
delayed in completing by their crafty public relations, bribery
machinations, and apparent political connections while brazenly using NCGR resources as their
vehicle. There
is certainly a much Higher Universal Power somewhere who
will eventually bring justice to the situation, and
pretended religion will not prevent it. Meanwhile,
what appears to prevail in some high-profile astrology
circles is Crack-pot Circus-clown Wing-It stageplay astrology; a situation apparently maintained by the gloating
master-controllers of the NCGR and other misguided
organizations that just want astrology to
become popular, regardless of how its done, or maybe
simply aligned with the interests of the big money in the
organization.
This probably explains why some of the most talented and skilled
American astrologers in the field avoid enmeshment in such
organizations, and are driven to instead work with other astrology organizations, so that they
can proceed unimpeded by the rampant dysfunction
and almost gangster-like back-door machinations, bribery, and
badgering of the NCGR head honcho clique and its vested
interests. Using Uranian
methods, the chart of the NCGR clearly shows its innate
dysfunction-prone nature, secretiveness, intense passive
aggression, and cliquishness -- the chart of the
organization, plus its correlate manifestions, indicate that the NCGR is Not Suitable as a
leading or guiding organization among others, despite
their aggressive and sophisticated campaigns to control
and manipulate other US national organizations, and some
overseas organizations. There
must be some other way to promote quality and credible
astrology among the public, besides the bloated sideshow carnivals
hypocritically calling
themselves 'non-profit educational foundations'. Astrology
and its public image, and quality, will probably continue to trundle
downhill if such machinations persist. Based on my
years of dealing with them, I would advise astrologers
around the world to
Not let the NCGR become any more a dominant force in
astrology than it is already, and not let Any single
astrology organization dictate over the rest. There are other US
astrological organizations more capable of maintaining some sort of
ethical standards and legitimate certification that is not
corrupted by the endless underhanded games, cronyism, and
corruption that the NCGR has
promoted and maintained over the years -- and astrologers
should remain attentive to NCGR overlaps and manipulations
within those organizations. I
have communicated with other long-time astrologers, some
highly esteemed for their research and/or publications, who
have similar views, and have had similar experiences with
whatever it is that runs the NCGR and keeps it subservient
to the interests of Astrolabe or something larger that
controls it. Cleverly,
and typical of their style, Astrolabe then accused me of
monopolizing those things I refused to turn over to their
centralized control, sort of like a Gang whining about
being the victim of some individual they want to fleece... and,
like underworld gangsters (which the NCGR chart, per
uranian methods, shows it may
have been born into), skilled in passive-aggressive
bullying, and use of puppets on the frontlines, they deny they did anything to me or my
projects while piously projecting images of
"humility" and "spiritual guru-ship". I
call on American astrologers to investigate what happened
at NCGR in 2004-2005, to make sure it doesn't continue, as
it appears to have done, and formulate a nationwide
organization led by proven ethical professional people in
social service professions who are also astrologers, and
purge American astrology of the contaminated NCGR
birthchart, rampant with dysfunction, cronyism, and
opportunism -- and warn astrological organizations in
other countries about the risks of submitting to the NCGR
controlling clique's crude and primitive slime games. Or
establish regional organizations free of the endemic NCGR
dysfunction. Lastly,
one clear explanation for many problems encountered in
Uranian Astrology the fact that it was developed in
Germany and confiscated by German intelligence services,
who have sought to manage and control its content and
distribution ever since. You have to understand
German culture and history and politics (militant and
normally repressive and tightly controlled, so that what
appears on the surface is rarely what is underneath) to
understand how and why that matters as much as it does.
Nearly every major German relay of Uranian Astrology to
the USA, for example, has involved German intelligence
agents or military personnel or close affiliates and their
covert decisions and control.... from German Naval officer
Hans Niggemann to German intelligence officer Udo Rudolph
to undercover German intelligence operatives who have
continually manipulated my work with Ruth Brummund (a
situation which still provides no apparent logical
explanation for the theft of my files and sabotage of
Uranian Institute projects being almost consistently to
the primary ultimate benefit of Astrolabe, unless
Astrolabe is affiliated with German intelligence). It is not
insignificant to note that in the 1930s, Axis fascist/nazi
parties and organizations were functional cults where
'members' were routinely debriefed and brainwashed to
serve the objectives of the organization unquestioningly
and obediently, laying aside their own personal views and
feelings. German agents were apparently even involved in
orchestrating Astrolabe's push to eclipse my work. I ask if this is in any way relevant to the
series of events I have seen, including behavior that
should not be allowed to preponderate in astrological
organizations. Because if it continues to preponderate, American
astrology risks becoming ridiculous Trash. For
nearly 15 years, I have wondered who was behind the
underhanded hacking and manipulations, and recently it
became clear that Astrolabe has been become the central benefactor,
regardless of who was involved along the way, with ACS
(and now Astrolabe) benefiting as well along the way from
theft of my work. Their simultaneous machinations to keep their
established enterprises, beneficiaries of such corruption
and subterfuge, On Top and in control of
organizations that determine astrological certification
and endorsement needs to be considered by astrologers
everywhere, as corruption (which astrology does not need) trickles down just a
readily as do competence, reason, sobriety, and authentic
(not hyped nominal) professionalism directly relevant to the
functions astrology is most often used to serve (which
astrology does need more of). N.C.G.R
NATAL CHART AND GEODETIC INDICATORS A
uranian astrology chart for the NCGR shows a highly potentially
potent problematic configuration... i.e. a
close HA=ZE=VU=AS cluster, or in more conventional terms a
16th harmonic (22.5 degree angle) configuration that would
logically explain some of its innate organizational problems. Overall,
it refers to a highly secretive controlling force in the
organization that dominates probably largely by often passive-aggressive
means, including possible strategic background manipulation which could
in most extreme cases include
hypnotic cult-control methods. The political power lies with Vulkanus, and
that power geodetically points to US locations of
ultra-right-wing poliitical organizations, around Grand Rapids MI, Indianapolis IN, Louisville KY,
and Montgomery AL. These have long been bases of
radical-right political cults including the old Silver
Shirts cult (which was interested in astrology and was
fostered by Nazi Germany), the John
Birch cult (with known post-WW2 Nazi and East Asian
Fascist affiliations, also with major offices in or near Boston,
where the NCGR was founded). Among the indicated
metropolitan regions are current sham 'Tea Party' power bases, and other even more controversial
ultra-radical-right organizations like the KKK -- which died
but was revived with help of German intelligence prior to WW2 as a
subversion/disruption tool and fused with Nazi (and
derivative Neonazi) organizations. And these organizations
were never at any
time typical
of the the values of most Americans, I would add for
readers in other countries -- they are fringe elements
shunned by most Americans). This powerful, secretive,
controlling cluster has been in the NCGR chart from its
inception (before there was a sham 'Libertarian Tea Party'
functional revival of the the German Nazi
covert-ops-backed Liberty League of the 1930s) and
will remain there for as long as the NCGR exists. It
functions in a way as a sort of inborn cancer or curse
that honest NCGR members probably only tolerate out of necessity,
and are yet largely controlled or knocked about by
nonetheless... and for as long as Indianapolis, Grand Rapids,
Louisville, and Montgomery (current sham 'Tea Party' and
'Austrian School' hubs) remain organized hubs of
radical-right and even sometimes literally fascist political force -- which is
further expanded in that those radical
right politics show alignments with the Mormon colony
(gold & silver mining) region in Mexico, the Hague
(Nassau Royal Dutch Shell), Brussels (old Saxe-Coburg
imperial money controlling Congo mining interests from
their inception, as well as the mysteriously arbitrary
E.U. administrative capital), Qinghai oil
money in China (now largely privatized, and per the
geodetics a possible main support for the Japan-led East
Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere in WW2),
Azerbaijan-Iraq-Kuwait-Northeast Saudi oil
money, and some possibly secretive network along the
relatively remote AZ/NM, UT/CO, and AB/SK borders in North
America and areas of west Wyoming and central Montana
between them. These corrupt power bases may well explain
otherwise mysterious problems in the NCGR, from birth to death, part
and parcel of its fiber. Is that what astrologers
want in ultimate top control of astrological certification
and 'ethics standards'? The NCGR chart shows their
root integration into the organization and its lack of
capacity to do much more than submit to their directives,
and its ultimate power may well even lie more outside the USA
than inside, operating through domestic puppet
organizations. Thus, to spread NCGR control to other astrological
organizations is a Grave Error. Many NCGR officers may
have no control over what may amount functionally to a
transnational political cult inside the organization since
inception, and which could even interface with covertly armed
chapters due to the intense HA.ZE.VU cluster.
Similar problems have plagued the Hamburg School of
Astrology over the years, and why many Uranian Astrologers
eventually distance themselves from the weird
organizational politics. There are other
astrological organizations that need similar scrutiny for
primarily non-astrological cult infusions/invasions,
including 'Magi Astrology', whose 'Shaolin temple' themes
are routine fronts for Chinese mafia underworld sometimes
interfused with covert intelligence operations.
Astrology and astrologers deserve to Not be dominated or
manipulated by such cults, which can remain on the fringes,
but which may not be only fringe factors if they are not
brought under control (and I can speak from grueling
personal experience on having to ward them off). I was in
fact warned when beginning Uranian Astrology translation
projects of the possibility of encountering post-war Nazi
networks, while not understanding the scope of their
continued existence. Not to
overlook that churches and religious have similarly been
inflitrated and used as fronts for devious covert political or
corporate operations. I am concerned that abandonment of
scientific models for astrology could lead to more such
problems, and the regression of astrology into cheap,
mindless showtime entertainment, could lead to further
wasting of astrology's potential for advancement and
greater credibility. Which is a hard enough struggle
already, against so much anti-astrology bias, retention of
antiquated nonsense in astrology texts, antiquated and
misguided religious biases, and astrologers wanting to
keep oversimplified astrology primarily as a parlor game
that fills auditoriums and hotel rooms and sells drinks,
or retaining faulty and unreliable historical concepts
because the are presumably some sort of inalterable or "sacred"
tradition. Too much business/entertainment, and not enough scholarship, competence,
or depth of understanding make a society, organization, or
profession fall apart and wither into superficiality, decay, and failure. ---
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