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The BRAIN Initiative





Obama Launches BRAIN Initiative to Map the Human Brain, Apr 3, 2013
On Tuesday the president unveiled his BRAIN initiative, aimed at unlocking the mysteries of the human brain. Eliza Shapiro reports on the project’s potential ethical implications. We may not be colonizing Mars or putting another man on the moon, but the Obama administration took its first step toward Big Science innovation on Tuesday when it unveiled the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, along with a $100 million kick-start. The BRAIN initiative’s goal is just as lofty as space travel: understanding and mapping the human brain.



The cardinal ingress charts are a standard tool for mundane astrologers. Shown above is the Aries Ingress chart progressed to April 2, when the President announced the BRAIN initiative. Notice the Sun-Mars-Uranus [0ar, 6ar, 8ar] conjunction forms the apex of a T-square with Pluto (11cp27)-Moon (8cn24)  on the meridian axis.

In the sector 6 to 9 Ar, we have IV Cephei,  above King’s Crown (6ar21),  34 Piscium, (6ar56), above cord of West Fish,13 Cephei, in King’s Crown (8ar38), 12 Andromedae near the chained right hand, (9ar13); Algenib,  gamma Pegasi, the wing of the flying horse, (9ar20) [1]

Andromeda’s chains and the Fishes’ cords generate a sense of limitation and bondage while high flying Pegasus offers rescue with potent powers of visualization, the ability to think big, to plan and bring to fruition huge projects and enterprises with intense focus and determination so that Andomeda rescued from the sea-monster and freed from her chains may ride high flying Pegasus to joyous liberty and light. The flying horse, the Phoenicians’ symbol of navigation, combined with the stars on the Crown of Cepheus, the King to produce 15th century Prince Henry, the Navigator of Portugal, sponsor of voyages of discovery and “Father of Russian Navy”, Czar Peter  the Great both of whom have planets here. If we recognize these to be examples of Kings (those in authority) sponsoring voyages into the unknown (Cetus’ domain) with a little of stretch of imagination we can see that these voyages can also be into the depths of the human psyche. In fact we have here  psychologists B F Skinner, Erich Fromm, Hans Eysenck  and Victor Frankl, author of “Man’s search for Meaning” as also mythologist Joseph Campbell [1]. In his book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,”  Joseph Campbell describes the  archetypal journey taken by Heroes of all cultures  far away from the solid ‘shores’ of their traditions and into the Unknown.

Perhaps  the difference  here appears to be that  Obama’s  approach to  Brain Mapping  is  connected entirely to  the “hardware”.  We may need to wait and see if  there are breakthroughs in  the “software” too – i.e. the psychological understanding  of the brain.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; (v.1, p.63-68)


Note:
The Sabian symbol for Pluto [11cp27] is revealing:
PHASE 282 (CAPRICORN 12°): AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON NATURAL SCIENCE REVEALS LITTLE-KNOWN ASPECTS OF LIFE.

The ability to explore unfamiliar realms and discover the laws underlying the complex processes of nature. It is man's essential function to become fully conscious of all life forms and processes on this earth. Mankind is the conscious mind of the planet.

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