Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

by Richard Tarnas
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

by Richard Tarnas

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Overview

A groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods.

In these pages, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Cosmos and Psyche explores the planetary correlations of epochal events like the French Revolution, the two world wars, and September 11.

This brilliant book points to a radical change in our understanding of the cosmos, shining new light on the drama of history and on our own critical age. It opens up a new cosmic horizon that reunites science and religion, intellect and soul, modern reason and ancient wisdom. Whether read as astrology updated for the quantum age or as a contemporary classic of spirituality, Cosmos and Psyche is a work of immense sophistication, deep learning, and lasting importance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780452288591
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/24/2007
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 592
Sales rank: 217,666
Product dimensions: 6.11(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.28(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches. Born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents, he grew up in Michigan, where he received a classical Jesuit education. In 1968 he entered Harvard, where he studied Western intellectual and cultural history and depth psychology, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. For ten years he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Stanislav Grof, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, and James Hillman, later serving as Esalen’s director of programs and education. He received his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute in 1976 with a dissertation on LSD psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and spiritual transformation. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought from the ancient Greek to the postmodern which became a bestseller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world.  In 2006, he published Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK. Formerly president of the International Transpersonal Association, he is on the Board of Governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.  In addition to his teaching at CIIS, he has been a frequent lecturer at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and gives many public lectures and seminars in the U.S. and abroad.

Table of Contents


Preface     xiii
The Transformation of the Cosmos     1
The Birth of the Modern Self     3
The Dawn of a New Universe     5
Two Paradigms of History     11
Forging the Self, Disenchanting the World     16
The Cosmological Situation Today     26
In Search of a Deeper Order     37
Two Suitors: A Parable     39
The Interior Quest     43
Synchronicity and Its Implications     50
The Archetypal Cosmos     61
Through the Archetypal Telescope     71
The Evolving Tradition     73
Archetypal Principles     80
The Planets     88
Forms of Correspondence     102
Personal Transit Cycles     109
Archetypal Coherence and Concrete Diversity     126
Assessing Patterns of Correlation     135
Epochs of Revolution     139
From the French Revolution to the 1960s     141
Synchronic and Diachronic Patterns in History     149
Scientific and Technological Revolutions     159
Awakenings of the Dionysian     166
The Liberation of Nature     172
Religious Rebellion and Erotic Emancipation     183
Filling in the Cyclical Sequence     188
The Individual and the Collective     194
A Larger View of the Sixties     202
Cycles of Crisis and Contraction     207
World Wars, Cold War, and September 11     209
Historical Contrasts and Tensions     219
Conservative Empowerment     226
Splitting, Evil, and Terror     234
Moby Dick and Nature's Depths     239
Historical Determinism, Realpolitik, and Apocalypse     242
Moral Courage, Facing the Shadow, and the Tension of Opposites     257
Paradigmatic Works of Art     268
Forging Deep Structures     285
Cycles of Creativity and Expansion     289
Opening New Horizons     291
Convergences of Scientific Breakthroughs     296
Social and Political Rebellions and Awakenings     300
Quantum Leaps and Peak Experiences     307
From Copernicus to Darwin     312
Music and Literature     317
Iconic Moments and Cultural Milestones     326
Great Heights and Shadows     335
Hidden Births     349
Awakenings of Spirit and Soul     353
Epochal Shifts of Cultural Vision      355
Spiritual Epiphanies and the Emergence of New Religions     366
Utopian Social Visions     375
Romanticism, Imaginative Genius, and Cosmic Epiphany     380
Revelations of the Numinous     401
The Great Awakening of the Axial Age     409
The Late Twentieth Century and the Turn of the Millennium     419
Towards a New Heaven and a New Earth     453
Understanding the Past, Creating the Future     455
Observations on Future Planetary Alignments     465
Opening to the Cosmos     484
Sources of the World Order     488
Epilogue     491
Notes     494
Sources     535
Acknowledgments     545
Index     549

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author of Between Two Ages: The 21st Century a William Van Dusen Wishard

Majestic, sweeping, and profound... This will be a book for the ages. (William Van Dusen Wishard, author of Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning)

professor of philosophy and religious studies Youngstown State Un Christopher Bache

Breathtaking in the scope and scale of its vision, this extraordinary book shatters our cosmological assumptions ... Spellbinding, eloquent, compelling. (Christopher Bache, professor of philosophy and religious studies, Youngstown State University)

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Breathtaking in the scope and scale of its vision, this extraordinary book shatters our cosmological assumptions . . . Spellbinding, eloquent, compelling. (Christopher Bache, professor of philosophy and religious studies, Youngstown State University)

Majestic, sweeping, and profoundà This will be a book for the ages. (William Van Dusen Wishard, author of Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning)

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