According to the Encyclopedia Britannica systems theory in social science is the study of society as a complex arrangement of elements, including individuals and their beliefs, as they relate to a whole (e.g. a country). It has a long history.
A system is defined as an entity that’s made up of interrelated/independent parts and a complex system is a whole system that’s made up of individual smaller systems; and systems theory seeks to explain systems as they relate to one another within a larger, more complex system.
Its key concept is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; and that the whole system has properties that can produce characteristics not displayed by its individual parts.
According to MantraCare.com (which boasts more than 10,000 5-star reviews) systems theories psychology, which started back in the 1950s when scientists began to think about human beings as brains, is the study of how different parts of your thought and feeling world work together to create a thought system.
MantraCare.com claims that you can use systems theories psychology to understand yourself better. It’s a tool for learning about your thoughts and feelings: How they affect your mental health, how they can be changed and by inference how you can take control of your life. And that ‘when you understand how the different parts of your brain work together you can change the way you think and behave!’ and that ‘this can help you live a happier and healthier life!’
Hermetic astrology leaves the brain and how it works to neuroscience and introduces you to your soul and this poses a problem. What is your soul? What is its defining substance? What is its function and purpose and if it exists how doesit make its presence felt? And Hermetic astrology provides easy to understand explanations to all these questions.
It teaches that your soul is a complex, self-organizing intelligence – the astral replica of your physical self – and it’s built of thoughts and feelings aka states of consciousness that, as responses to evolutionary experience, currently define your character and acquired intelligence.
Soul identifies the complex system of thought-structures that comprise your astral form.
Complexity implies that there are lots of parts that are connected; and because it’s a complicated system you can have difficulty understanding what all the parts do.
The application of systems thinking which is organized, orderly and methodical makes it easy to understand the individual parts of your thought system, how they’re interconnected and influence each other, and their function and performance. It avoids being overwhelmed by data.
It allows you to see the system wholistically and what emerges when all the parts of the system are put together.
So, let’s apply systems thinking to your soul – not your brain – to gain a better understanding of the thought system you identify as your mind.
Like all systems its development is based upon a top-down command process where the most powerful thoughts have command over the system. So, your soul’s most powerful thoughts influence your behavior and the events you attract.
And when you understand the function of each thought and its development process you can change the way you think and behave and live a happier and healthier life.
Your thought system aka energy rich soul didn’t spontaneously spring into existence when you were born. It has a backstory that was produced by evolutionary experience, directed by the planets and scripted by the stars.
Evolutionary experience
Starting out with no consciousness your soul on its evolution acquired chemical consciousness, vegetative consciousness, simple consciousness and now as a human soul self-consciousness. States of consciousness are the bricks and mortar of its structure.
Your intelligence and ability are being developed and honed on the anvil of experience.
Experience is your teacher. It produces thoughts and feelings that are permanently saved in memory. With increasingly more complex experience simple states of consciousness gradually develop a higher level of intelligence and ability.
Every new event is a learning opportunity. They can be pleasant or painful and their accompanying responses are added to your soul’s total consciousness.
Your whole existence – your entire evolution – has been a non-stop sequence of pleasant and unpleasant experiences which caused states of consciousness to emerge from your soul.
Your learning which was proper or misguided determines your soul’s level of expertise when performing a task and your life here and now is just your soul intelligence doing its thing.
Previous experience taught it how to manage and control the complex biochemical activity of your physical body; and thought-cell defects within its organization express biochemical and genetic faults and defects.
Your soul is the hard drive where your life story is permanently backed-up and saved in memory and your birth chart – constructed for your time, date and place of birth – provides an accurate account of your soul’s backstory.
Your energy-rich soul
Your soul is an energy rich thought system. It’s an organization of thought-cells and thought-compounds within your astral body and its innate desires drive you to survive, attain, achieve and accomplish.
All your feelings have been permanently built into your astral body as desire tensions so it’s a bottomless ocean of desire. It’s built up of and nourished by states of consciousness aka thoughts and feelings.
It interpenetrates your physical body and thought disorders in your astral form reproduce themselves as biochemical and other disorders in your physical body.
Your soul’s personal curriculum in the school of life aka evolutionary journey ensures its intelligence and ability development is sustained though gradually more complex experience.
Your thoughts, feelings and behavior were conditioned by environment.
The conditioning process involved feelings of pleasure and pain and your life today is just your soul’s thoughts expressing their mode of conditioning.
You developed habits and your daily life is a complex habit system. Previous experience and learning determine what you do.
Your soul is a thought system and your birth chart allows you to gain knowledge of your soul and the natural laws that govern its development and destiny.
Your birth chart allows you to learn about your soul
You soul is connected to the universe – the Sun, Moon and planets – and at the time of your human birth your birth chart pictures an astrological energy pattern that depicts its entire thought and feeling world.
The planets in your chart depict dynamic urges built into your soul by experience; their sign locations map their associated attitude-motivations; their house positions map their environmental cues; and their aspects reveal the affect that each dynamic urge is having on another.
You’re on a quest to acquire and develop intelligence and ability through evolutionary experience and your birth chart captures your life story up to the time of your human birth.
It reveals how your character has been formatted by previous experience and the application of Hermetic astrology aka the science of the soul and stars and systems thinking allows you to enhance your understanding of your soul’s complex thought system and its predispositions, unique life journey and cosmic potential.
Your soul is a thought built entity and each planet in your birth chart maps the strength and functional status of its corresponding thought family aka dynamic desire-urge.
The Sun maps your power thought family; the Moon your domestic thought family; Mercury your intellectual thought family; Venus your social thought family; Mars your aggressive thought family; Jupiter your religious thought family; Saturn your safety thought family; Uranus your individualistic thought family; Neptune your utopian thought family; and Pluto your universal welfare thought family.
The strength and functional status of each thought family is measured by its marker’s astrodyne power and harmony or discord score.
Each planet’s sign location associates its thought family with an attitude and motivation and you have 4 keynote signs: Your Sun sign, Moon sign, ascendant sign and Mercury sign.
Keynote sign decanates provide data about your role in universal life.
Each thought family is associated with other thought families and has properties indicated by the aspects formed by its birth chart marker. They have harmony or discord and express constructive or destructive thoughts that work to attract fortunate or unfortunate.
Each thought family is associated with life-matters, activities and people as indicated by the house position of its birth chart marker.
Some thoughts are positive and active and some are is negative and reactive.
Some are harmonious and some are discordant and when you understand how your soul’s thought system works you can focus on harmonizing discord and living a happier, healthier life. You can view chart harmony as good thought energy.
One high-discord thought-family within the system can disrupt the functional status of the whole system.
Your thoughts are influenced by two control systems: Your inner-world astrological environment and your outer-world physical environment with the chief focus on your not-conscious thought families. They use psychokinesis to create the environmental circumstances which facilitate the events they desire.
Objective consciousness
Your brain facilitates self-consciousness and objective awareness aka the thoughts and feelings of which you are aware.
Objective consciousness is the most recent addition to your soul’s constantly expanding consciousness.
Through electromagnetic energy generated by your body’s nervous system not-conscious thoughts and feelings come to your attention. They have a pronounced influence on body’s health and wellbeing.
The thoughts and feelings that cascade through your objective awareness are only a minute portion of the thought and feeling activity that’s taking place within your soul.
You don’t have access to the vast amount of intelligence stored within your soul. You only have access to thoughts and feelings that access the electromagnetic energy generated by your brain cells and gain objective recognition.
Apply systems thinking to understand your soul
Your soul is mission control. It’s a thought system that’s made up of individual smaller systems and because it’s a complicated system you can have difficulty understanding the function and purpose of its individual parts.
It’s composed of thoughts and you go where its thought families take you.
The application of systems thinking makes it easy to understand its individual parts; how they’re interconnected and influence each other; and how they function. It avoids being overwhelmed by birth chart data.
It allows you to see the system wholistically and what emerges when all the parts of the system are put together.
And when you understand each thought family and keep alert to detect destructive thoughts and feelings that are predisposed to cause mishap, failure and loss you can change or modify your misguided thinking and live a happier, healthier life.
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