Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View [Paperback]

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 Psycheis a work of immense sophistication, deep learning, and lasting importance. 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 ofBetween Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of MeaningRichard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author ofThe Passion of the Western Mind. 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.US