Tia - religion for you deals with the spaces and questions that are not testable.

For me, instead of religion, read gestalt therapy and astrology (the thread subject). However, with the latter, there's nothing to pray to and they have a certain grounding in the facts of the experiences of real individuals.

I'm still intrigued that astrology is forbidden to go anywhere that is not testable/reproducible, and religion is so allowed.

LH - you have described your conception of "God". which I think I share. That is not a universal idea of God, though.

I say again that a fundamental difficulty that astrology and psychotherapy present to reason is the sheer depth/complexity/unknowability(?) of the human being.

It's interesting to note the widespread use of astrology by sportspeople, politicians, medics, and most intriguingly of all businessmen, few/none of whom are willing to broadcast the fact for fear of ridicule.


   Ivor