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Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe.

Richard Tarnas
Moments, Imagine, Universe
Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.65, Penguin

I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe.

Richard Tarnas
Believe, Reality, Dynamics

Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self's own will to power.

Richard Tarnas
Self, Mind, Overcoming
Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.68, Penguin

Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not yet constellated. Yet we are not without signs of what the new might look like

Richard Tarnas
Creative, Vision, Age
Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.48, Penguin

I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.

Richard Tarnas
Believe, Fall, Loss

Astrology is the Via Regia to the enchanted cosmos.

Richard Tarnas
Astrology, Cosmos, Enchanted

Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.

Richard Tarnas
Imagination, Perception, Reason
Richard Tarnas (2010). “The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View”, p.405, Random House

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

Richard Tarnas
Self, Shadow, Hubris

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

Richard Tarnas
Spiritual, Discovery, Unconscious

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

Richard Tarnas
Men, Self, Views

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