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Fritjof Capra (Uranus Rising; Uranus in square aspect to the Sun)
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Probably no other writer and scientist has been affiliated with the new paradigm as much as Fritjof Capra. With The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, Capra was one of the first scientists of the post-1960's era to integrate cutting-edge physics research with Eastern mysticism,
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to merge contemporary findings of science with the timeless, perennial wisdom of religion. Although there are currently several volumes released every month integrating science and spirituality, Capra was the pioneer and trendsetter in this arena. Capra drew the ire of traditional scientists who saw him as a woolly-minded mystic parading around as a theoretical physicist. However, from those who had stood under the oppressive, monotheistic doctrine of scientism for too long, Capra's popularization of science research was (and still is) a breath of liberating, fresh air.
Through his work in theoretical physics, systems sciences, and ecology, Capra has essentially revised the entire mechanistic, reductionistic paradigm. Studying to be a scientist in the rush and madness that was the late 1960's, Capra was introduced to new ideas, creativity, and possibilities that often clashed with the more traditional modes of his formal education. As Sun-Uranus individuals are often brilliant synthesizers, Capra merged his dabbling in countercultural modes of experience and Eastern religion with his academic training to create a stunning (and for some, shocking and unorthodox) new vision.
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Rupert Sheldrake (Sun=Uranus/Mars midpoint)
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Sheldrake is to biology what Capra has been to physics and systems theory. Sheldrake's theory of formative causation and morphic resonance has arguably been the greatest and boldest challenge to Darwin's monolithic theory of biological evolution. Sheldrake has turned the most foundational
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assumptions of classical science on their head. Whereas most biologists adhere to the idea of natural selection, Sheldrake suggests that a more comprehensive vision of evolution calls for information fields that shape the course of the development of species. These morphogenetic fields, suggests Sheldrake, account for many biological traits that cannot be explained by DNA alone.
Sheldrake is the archetypal Sun-Uranus scientist. To the establishment, Sheldrake is a crackpot that has unhinged himself from the discourse and mode of normal science. However, Sheldrake would rather transcend this herd mentality if it means harnessing the creative fire of a new theory of life. As Sheldrake suggests, "What upsets me most about science is the closed-minded dogmatism that is all too common, which makes a lot of scientists timid and afraid to go beyond convention." (1)
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