"I of my own knowledge…"

From this morning’s Schwartzreport.

Stephan Schwartz comments: “What struck me about this was not the New Age ha ha implicit in this piece but the fact that a company whose entire business is based on accurate statistics says it has such statistics supporting this claim, and is willing to act on them.”

We Only Employ Workers Born Under Specific Star Signs, Says Insurance Company

Mail (U.K.)

SALZBERG, Austria — A row has broken out in Austria after a company tried to recruit workers born under certain star signs.

The Salzburg insurance company posted an advert in major newspapers seeking employees for sales and management that were born under certain constellations, claiming statistics indicated that they were the best workers.

‘We are looking for people over 20 for part-time jobs in sales and management with the following star signs: Capricorn, Taurus, Aquarius, Aries and Leo,’ read the ad that appeared over the weekend.

It was followed by a wave of protests from equality groups and led to an investigation by the country’s anti-discrimination authorities.

The company is, however, sticking to its guns and a spokesman explained that the move was based on statistical research rather than superstition.

‘A statistical study indicated that almost all of our best employees across Austria have one of the five star signs.

‘We only decided to continue with that system and hire the best workers,’ the spokesman said.

An investigation by Austrian authorities showed that there was nothing illegal in choosing the employees according to their star signs, as there was no discrimination according to existing laws about gender, age, racial and other equality.

A spokeswoman for the employee’s association of Salzburg told local TV: ‘When an employer considers star signs and says: “I want to only hire Pisces, for an example, it must be assumed that within this group of people born under the sign of Pisces there are old and young people, women and women etc.

‘It does appear like a certain limitation, but it is not discrimination.’

My English friend Robert Clarke, author of The Four Gold Keys and An Order Outside Time, tells here, in a few words, how he came to the quest that saved and transformed his life.

My Cure Could Help Others

By Robert Clarke

Many years ago I had fallen into a very deep and prolonged state of depression.
I had lost all belief in religion, in there being any deeper spiritual meaning to reality. What loomed threateningly large to me was nature, with its savagery and its largely unconscious cruelty, the devouring of life by other life etc. I knew that nature has its beautiful and delightful side, but the stark brutality and immense suffering that forms so large a part of it had become devastating to me. (As Jung says, dig up a square foot of earth and it will contain thousands of minute creatures devouring one another.)
What also affected me was the fact that nothing is permanent; the people we love and have loved, the things we love and have loved, all eventually die or fade away, including, of course, ourselves. The Earth we walk upon, and even the Sun that gives light and warmth to the Earth, will in time no longer exist. Given enough time, the very universe itself will no longer be, or will be entirely different.
All of this affected me so deeply that getting up in the morning became a problem. Who wants to be part of such an ultimately meaningless and often ugly reality? I eventually suffered a nervous breakdown, because life cannot continue in so negative a vein; something has to give. In time, doctors patched me up to a degree, but I was never what you would call well. However, though I had no inkling whatsoever of it, things were about to change completely and dramatically.

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I have been writing a column for the online monthly magazine The Meta Arts for a couple of years now. On the morning of the first, to my surprise I found that my column was featured on the home page, rather than only in its usual spot. That’s a first, and I’m very pleased. I hope you will be interested. Mr. Lincoln, speaking to us about our lives.

http://www.themetaarts.com/