~~ ONCE I WAS IN A CITY ~~
And just opposite me lived a very famous astrologer who was deciding people's marriages by reading their birth-charts. As we were living opposite each other, it did not take long to get introduced to him.I told him, "Do you really believe that what you are doing is sane?"
He said, "What do you mean? I am the best astrologer around this area. People come to me from hundreds of miles away."
I said, "That I can see myself. But I also see that your wife beats you. Did you look at your birth-charts when you got married to this woman? And if you could not decide even for yourself, don't you feel ashamed that what you are doing is simply stupid -- and not only stupid, inhuman?"
He was at a loss. I said, "Remember, I am a strange man. I will spread this news to everybody, and I will sit in the front of my garden to prevent people coming to you. I will tell them what is happening in your life."
At that very moment his wife came in from the kitchen and she said, "You are right. I will support you. This man is simply an idiot. He knows nothing; he has destroyed my life, he has destroyed his life, and he is destroying thousands of other people's lives!"
But this goes on.
There are people who will consult the I-Ching, who will consult the Tarot cards.... But the real thing is somewhere else. And it is known, but religious prejudices are preventing humanity from using it.