Thank you, Km1! I appreciate the feedback and I am glad you found it helpful.

Thank you, Jennifer!

Thank you, J. Jehanna! Yes, I think the good will prevail as well. And it can use as much help as we can give it too :-) Thanks for your comment! Stay safe, Chad

In agential realism, the concept of "phenomena as agential" challenges traditional notions of passive, pre-existing objects waiting to be observed. Instead, phenomena are understood to emerge through agential intra-actions, where the entangled relations between various entities contribute to their constitution and expression. Here are some key points to elaborate on the idea of phenomena as agential: Co-constitution: Agential realism rejects the idea of a clear ontological divide between subject and object. Instead, it posits that the observer and the observed are mutually implicated in the process of knowing and being. When an observer interacts with a phenomenon, both the observer and the phenomenon are active participants in the event. The phenomenon does not exist independently of the observation but is constituted through the intra-action between the observer and the observed. Intra-activity and entanglement: Agential realism emphasizes that entities, including human observers and non-human objects, are not separate from each other but are entangled in their existence. This entanglement is called "intra-activity." Observers and phenomena are entangled in their agential capacities, which means that the observer's actions and the phenomenon's responses are inseparable from each other. Relationality: Phenomena are not fixed and isolated entities but are constituted through their relationships with other entities. These relationships are not merely external influences but integral to the constitution of the phenomenon itself. In other words, what a phenomenon is and how it appears are dependent on its interactions with other entities. Context dependence: Agential realists argue that phenomena are context-dependent and relational. The conditions and apparatus of observation play a crucial role in the emergence of a particular phenomenon. The same entity may manifest differently under different conditions or when observed using different instruments. Performativity: Agential realists draw on the idea of performativity from speech act theory to describe how language and discourse can bring phenomena into being. Language does not merely represent pre-existing realities; it actively participates in their constitution. The descriptions and theories used by observers become part of the phenomena they describe. Overall, phenomena as agential in agential realism highlights the active and performative nature of observation and the inseparability of observers and the observed. It challenges the idea of a fixed, objective reality and emphasizes the role of entangled relations in shaping the world we experience and understand. This perspective has profound implications for various fields, including science, philosophy, and social theory, by encouraging a more nuanced and contextually sensitive approach to understanding the complexity of reality.

Hi Mulie Friend, thank you for your kind comment. My name is Chad Harris. I have been offline for a while, but plan to be making new videos soon. Thanks for your support! Be well, Chad

Hi Janet, Thanks so much for the kind comments and referral! I am glad you found the information helpful. Apologies for the delayed reply. The evolutionary importance of the events here in the States colonized my attention for the past couple of weeks. You raise very important questions. I am not a psychotherapist, but from my understanding some “psychopaths” are considered incapable of empathy. I do not know if there are any medical interventions which can alleviate that particular relational inability. I am not saying Trump is a psychopath. From my lay interpretation he is a sociopath. He may be a psychopath, but I can't quite get to that diagnosis. I believe there are professional psychotherapist who do think he is a psychopath, but I believe the broader consensus is narcissistic anti-social personality disorder, or narcissistic sociopathy. I just started listing to Brian Muraresku’s “The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with Know Name”, where he describes the age old dictum from many mystery religion, “To die before you die.” “To die before you die. Or rather, to psychologically maim the ego-even for a brief instant-in order to be initiated into an understanding of what lies beneath all the thoughts, feelings, and memories that have gone into the lifetime construction of our false, or at the very least incomplete, sense of self. The little ego (Latin for “I”) that seems so firmly in control is just an elaborate illusion.” --Muraresku, Brian C.. The Immortality Key (p. 7). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.- I imagine some type of radically transformative death-rebirth experience, as occurred for thousands of years in rite-of-passage rituals held in the ancient mystery religions, or a genuinely powerful near-death experience (which catching Covid clearly was not), ---could possibly break loose the stranglehold of Trump’s shadow on his ego and superego. The hole in his psyche which craves the love never received from his parents (reflected in his compensatory narcissism), ---in my opinion can never be satisfied by personal love or adoration. The wound is on a transpersonal dimension and likewise may only be healed through an encounter with a transcendent source of love, ---which can break through the shadow possession state and allow the wholeness of his Self to recognize the self-centered pathological nature of the relationship of his ego to the world. I believe every human being is capable of redemption. I can’t quite close the door on the possibility for him in this lifetime either. I believe it is highly unlikely. But you actually never know. I don’t believe the future is predetermined. There is an indeterminate core where human free will and the creativity of the cosmos participate in co-creating our future. As for human participation with the planetary archetypes. No archetypal complex or planetary configuration manifests as necessarily positive or negative. They all have life enhancing and less life enhancing or destructive potentials. There is a mysterious relationship between fate and free-will. I do not believe there are any particular fated dimensions to any archetypal complex or planetary configuration. My hunch is the more conscious awareness we can apply to our relationship with the archetypes, or to life experience generally, the more free-will becomes available to our agency. As for active imagination being an example of third-order thinking. It would depend on the level of awareness brought to the experience. Robert Bellah points to Yehuda Elkana as the origin of the term “second-order thinking”, and Shmuel Eisenstadt as using it frequently as a synonym for his term “reflexivity”. It is, in essence thinking about thinking. The conceptual capacity is recognized to have emerged in the axial era and corresponds to formal logic. Thesis-antithesis-synthesis. It is the beginning of the widespread phenomenon of questioning the myths, which governed our cosmologies prior to the emergence of the axial era religions. I am not particularly familiar with the practice of active imagination. I am guessing much of it would consist of a kind of first-order thinking, where the participant is immersed in a sort of spontaneous participatory imaginative process, attempting to withhold the disengaged reflexive awareness or ---second-order thinking--- from the content emerging from the unconscious. Then return to analyze the content with reflexive awareness after the content is recorded in some fashion. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the practice. In my lay understanding of Jung’s Red Book descent phase, out of which I believe active imagination emerged, Jung was at least in part, able to maintain a level of differentiated awareness in relationship to the material emerging from the unconscious, which led him to identify and recognize the autonomous nature of the archetypes. I believe this type of experience would qualify as third-order thinking. But in Jung’s descent, the material was emerging from the unconscious in a spontaneously uncontrollable manner. I am guessing certain practices can produce spontaneous emergence of material form the unconscious, but one’s subjective discernment would have to be refined enough to differentiate genuine unconscious material vs. phenomena which may be consciously generated. As of now my perspective on third-order thinking, in part, is as follows: Any process in which second-order thinking is applied to transpersonal or transcendent material/data/phenomena, resulting in a new level of awareness provided by some level of synthesis between the individuated awareness and the transpersonal phenomena transcending both and uniting them in a new level of perspective or conscious awareness. On e of the particular gifts of astrological third-order thinking is that it is grounded in time and space, (the empirically verifiable position of the planets), and provides a calendric or temporal system, oriented on every individual person, providing the opportunity to develop a personal relationship with the archetypes. Engaging our critical self-reflective capacities with the archetypes informing our thoughts provides a new level of self-awareness and potential co-creative agency. The relationship is recursive. The more we develop the communication the more liberating and life enhancing the relationship will become. Does that help? Do you have any further thoughts? Thanks for your comment and questions, Janet! Warmly, Chad

He’s obviously basing all of this off of main stream left leaning media only.

Hi D JRG, I take in as many news sources as possible. I read WSJ, The Hill, take in as much Fox as I can, NPR, Democracy Now. But I don't need any news source in particular. I grew up in the 80's and watched him attack the Central Park Five and the abusive way he treated Ivana during their divorce. Insight into his psychology is far beyond any news source. I took a lot of the dates from Wikipedia. Does that count as MSM? The racist birther lie is the same on all media sources. I read Mary Trump's account which matched many of my intuitions and provided a lot of insight into the early childhood dynamics. I have friends who after watching his abusive actions during the 1st debate had PTSD surrounding previous abusive relationships they had suffered. Did it matter what news channel they watched it on? He continues to blame China for our inability to control the virus. Is China to blame for Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and Canada's success as well? Denial is easy to see if we're paying attention. I compare the astrological data with the events and psychological phenomena I see. I do my best to check my bias before making any declarative statement. The principle behind a diffractive methodology supports the idea of many people making assessments then comparing and contrasting the analyses to arrive at a more refined understanding of the phenomena than can be gleaned by one person. So, I invite everyone else for their analysis so we have more perspectives from which to gain insight. But I also stated at the beginning of my analysis of Trump that I was removing some of the non-biased approach because I felt a responsibility to call out Trump's gaslighting. I feel comfortable in saying the failed response to the pandemic is clear evidence the danger I and so many others feared he posed, was unfortunately tragically correct. Thanks for your question, D JRG! Chad

@@Dr_DMT He said at the beginning that he based some of it from Mary Trump's book...

It’s all documented, he doesn’t hide his insanity.

He's using Trump's own words and actions, as well as Mary Trump's book to try to figure out his psychopathy. All you need to do is listen to Trump and his distortion of reality, his lies, and his narcissistic behavior to tell he's very damaged and unaware of his own shadow. He's a great example of why we need better mental health services.

Hi Dran Fren, I agree there is a lot of projection on the pandemic. The combination of the Saturn-Pluto pandemic pressures and the forthcoming election, ---reflect Stan Grof's 2nd and 3rd perinatal matrices and the struggle to break free of the constricting birth canal and breathe freely. A lot of repressed anxieties rooted in the birth trauma are being triggered and projected onto the threatening existential reality. The rapid rise of the Qanon conspiracy along with the pressures of the pandemic are one example. Apocalyptic visions often accompany the final stages of the birth process. I checked out the Oxford website, but I nothing leaped out to me reflecting the concerns you raise. Are there any particular data you can point towards? I totally agree there is a great deal of uncertainty. Is there anything particular I said you can point to which seemed to indicate I am too certain about it? I personally only know about 7 people who have contracted the virus, and one of them is a long-hauler. Definitely a lot of uncertainty. Thanks for your comment! Chad

​@@ArchetypalView among other things last time I checked what is still (to at least some highly significant extent) unclear is the infection fatality risk, the transmission dynamics and related to this the question which measures do (or don't) work how well (and how much unwanted side effects they produce). Unfortunately I can't point you to a good english summary of all the critical points - at the moment I am working more with awareness practices (which I think is in the long run more important than the question which opinion one has regarding the pandemic - I mean how aware is one of underlying projection in the way one's -including my own of course - opinion is formed...). The best summary I know at the moment is from the German Network for evidence based medicine - it's being discussed controversially, but there are at least some solid points www.ebm-netzwerk.de/de/veroeffentlichungen/covid-19 - it's unfortunately in German, but there are some english links also. If I run into an good English summary I will let you know...

@@ArchetypalView oh and thx for your reply - I forgot that.... cheers D.

Hi Ishijah1, Yes, it is certainly remarkable he can continue to overcome legitimate opposition and self inflicted wounds, it's part of the Jupiter trine Sun support and the power of positive thinking combined with a herculean level of denial (SA-PL-MA midpoint), and Pluto semisquare the Sun reflects the ambition/obsessive/relentless nature. But he can't lie his way around the coronavirus. We are not rounding the corner. Cases are rising in swing states. His Republican minions and Fox News cannot spin their way out of a pandemic. There are a lot of un-admirable accomplished people in history though. Right? Thanks for your comment, Chad

@@ArchetypalView Chad Your so patient! Your responses are straight foward and speak for themself. I hope this piece gets widely viewed. Ishijah It sounds like your imagining a Trump victory? Hmmm Im not! and Im not the only one and the astrology as I read it lines up with Chads reading. I guess this is gonna be a diffraction moment. We will all learn a lot!

Trump has a strong horoscope and so did lot of demagogues in history. While some of his policies may be considered good (debatable), he is a highly corrupt, divisive person with dictatorial tendency. He is not good for America. Cult-leaders are never good for anything, because people give up thinking for themselves.

It's strange that someone would respect a rapist and racist among other things, but I guess this may say more about you than him...

So?

This guy obviously has personal issues/opinions about trump, and is backwards rationalizing his bias with astrology. This dude will continue to be wrong about astrology & trump

Trump lost the elections and "this guy" is on point with the analysis of Trump.

He did lose, and he will again! At least according to his Solar Return chart for 2024.