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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View (Hardcover)

by Richard Tarnas (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 592 pages
  • Publisher: Viking Books (19 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0670032921
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670032921
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 516,985 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars brilliant hypothesis - case unproven, 10 Jun 2006
It never ocurred to me to take astrology seriously. Then some people I respect (Stan Grof and others)persuaded me otherwise. If meaning is integral to the structure of the universe and everything is connected then it is not too far fetched that the synchronicity of the planetary positions and the archetypes they represent become expressed in our lives through our natal charts and transits. This book mainly concerns the transits to our planet and illustrates the activity of the archetypal influences represented by the transits by historical events and movements. Tarnas does this well. He is as learned as you would expect from an author of a history of western philosophy. He loves his subject, he is prone to hyperbole. he's an enthusiast. My concern is that he may have just pulled examples from history to illustrate his theories. His hypothesis is brilliant and could be tested. A panel of historians blind to the astrology could rate eras and events according to criteria corresponding to the archetypal flavours proposed by Tarnas. If there was agreement between the historians and Tarnas then the case would be proven and this book would go down as a seminal text. At present it is just an interesting idea. A good read if you can forgive the rhetoric.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing failure to include insights from Eastern Thought, particularly the Buddhist tradition, 16 Jul 2009
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As a fan of his previous book, The Passion of the Western Mind, this book was a big disappointment. How can anyone in the 21st century write a book about cosmos and psyche and take almost no account of the vast knowledge systems of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, yogas and meditation practices, especially working in the Centre for Integral Studies? Although Depth Psychology drew on theosophy, theosophy is based on a very simplistic and distorted understanding of the full depths of Buddhist and Hindu philosophical insights into the relationship with psyche and cosmos. Western modes of thinking and practice can no longer claim for themselves universalist truths. Just as Buddhist mindscience is having to encounter and take account of modern science, so western ways of understanding the meta narratives of human culture must now address the deep and profound insights encoded in Eastern thought. For example, any contemporary writer in this area of intellectual exploration must surely take account of the Buddhist tradition where the understanding of the inseparable union of 'emptiness' and 'inner luminosity' and the relationships between the inner and outer cosmos enacted in Buddhist tantra profoundly challenge western scientific materialism and attempts at the post modern transcendence of its limitations.
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