Cosmos and Psyche, Richard Tarnas
Cosmos and Psyche, Richard Tarnas
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Cosmos and Psyche
Intimations of a New World View

Author: Richard Tarnas

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 25 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/08/2020

Synopsis

From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Richard Tarnas explores the planetary correlations of epochal events like the French Revolution, the two world wars, and September 11. 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.

About Richard Tarnas

Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind. 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. He is the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness graduate studies program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and also teaches on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on February 13, 2017

Disappointing. All of the "evidence" for astrology was "retro-dictive" rather than predictive. In other words, the "research" looked at history and explained the events based on the astrology. The idea was that the events were explainable by what an astrologer could have predicted. And that somehow......more

Goodreads review by Owen on April 08, 2011

This book has permanently altered my worldview. In short, the author, a respected scholar/scientist, presents a busload of data strongly suggesting that the movements and alignments of the outer planets of our solar system are strongly correlated (i.e., synchronistic) with certain kinds of events th......more

Goodreads review by Gregory on July 15, 2014

Wow. Quote me on this, that this book is an early sign of an entirely new potential re-structuring of the way we relate to the world. Most beautifully written, brought me to the point of tears as well as shakes when reading, even only 100 pages in. I hope to study with Tarnas at CIIS for graduate sc......more

Goodreads review by Abner on November 29, 2014

I was deceived. There is nothing in the book's title, or on the description on the back cover, or in the first 60 pages(!), that mentions the book is about astrology. If I had known this book was about astrology, I never would have bought it. I want my money back. Disappointment aside, Tarnas is an......more

Goodreads review by Giovanni on November 18, 2023

This book has radically changed my worldview. It brought me to tears several times. Tears of joy. Tears of meaning, of cosmic purpose. This book is a first handbook of the music of the spheres, let it work on you, keep an open mind and an open heart and it will deliver. It spans millennia and gives......more

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