About The Cosmos & Psyche, the philosophy that man is a part of the universe

In response to Richard Tarnas, who also wrote of The Passion of the Western Mind, history is on the verge of a significant shift, corresponding to the one wrought by Copernicus and Galileo, however a seemingly antiscientific one: an astrological flip that may only be understood thorough chronicling planetary alignments as they correlate to the rise of the trendy thoughts over the last 500 years. Understanding planetary alignments, for Tarnas, is essential to the world's future and requires a real dialogue with the cosmos, by opening ourselves more fully to the opposite, to historic and indigenous epistemologies, even to other types of life, other modes of the universe's self-disclosure.

The e-book is stuffed with philosophical, religious, literary and scientific pondering starting from Luther and Kepler by means of Hemingway and even Hitchcock and Dylan. Reading it will require a powerful background within the historical past of modern thought, an advanced information of astrology, a willingness to withhold skepticism concerning the position of planetary alignments of the previous in understanding life right this moment and the avoidance of imminent world catastrophe. Tarnas's name to redefine what we contemplate as legitimate information will resonate in some sectors, but it will be a tough promote with the extra scientifically hardheaded.

When it comes to planetary cycles, our present condition in history is most akin to the interval 5 hundred years in the past-that era of extraordinary turbulence and creativity, the High Renaissance. Not since Copernicus conceived the heliocentric theory has the human neighborhood faced such a profound realignment of the way in which we think.

Maybe it’s time for us to move back to the philosophy that man is part of the universe, not placed right here to overcome it. Simply as we’re discovering some older medical procedures, resembling using leeches, to have worth at present, perhaps we must always open our minds to the distinct risk that astrological forces generally is a highly effective influence on our lives.