![]() The book attempts to provide an archetypal cosmology to accompany Tarnas's proposed participatory epistemology, "in which human beings are regarded as an essential vehicle for the creative selfunfolding of reality". ![]() The book's objective is to challenge the materialistic and dysteleological assumptions of the modern world view, and to set forth evidence for a correspondence between planetary alignments and patterns of human history. Tarnas acknowledges that astrology's status in contemporary thought is, as he puts it, "the gold standard for superstition". ![]() Tarnas's first book, The Passion of the Western Mind serves as an introduction to Cosmos and Psyche. Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View is a 2006 book by cultural historian Richard Tarnas, in which the author proposes the existence of relationships between planetary transits and events in the lives of major historical figures, as well as cultural events. ![]()
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