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

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

Post by Bastard » Thu May 08, 2008 1:53 pm

A cumbersome book by an eminent scholar and acclaimed cultural historian which sets out to show that there is a direct correlation between planetary alignments and patterns in human history.
Tarnas asks us to consider that the ancients, who looked to the night skies to find their way and make sense of their lives, were onto something — and that perhaps it is we, with our high-powered computers, big bang theories, and relativist notions, who are lost in space. Without discounting the implications of the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, and the revolution in post-modern thought — and in spite of our successful efforts over the past 300 years to deconstruct meaning in the cosmos and dismantle our false gods in science, religion, and philosophy — Tarnas makes a compelling case for the idea that we are not an isolated oddity of consciousness floating in a meaningless, indifferent universe. And more: that we are participating in one that is conscious and exquisitely ordered, albeit mysteriously.

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