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A review by onceandfuturereads
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.0
This was recommended to me years ago by a wonderful tarot reader.
I found roughly the first and last chapters fascinating and visionary. The middle made me grumpy. While I can appreciate the amount of effort and research it took to write a book of this magnitude, I do think more charts and less echoed words were necessary for proving the thesis (and I LIKE the thesis, so imagine how the skeptics feel...)
And while I understand that ideas are formed within the culture they are conceived in, and that Tarnas admittedly chose to include subjects which he knew best, it made me sad how masculine everything was. Tarnas managed to take something as magical, shape-shifting, and feminine as the orbit of our planets and make it boring, hierarchical, and masculine. One can imagine that there are so much more than white men that fit his archetypal ideals, and yet hardly any were included. At best, he chose to include what was easiest and most convenient for him.
I did learn a lot about random bits of history, and I really like Tarnas as a person, but I won't be revisiting this book.
I found roughly the first and last chapters fascinating and visionary. The middle made me grumpy. While I can appreciate the amount of effort and research it took to write a book of this magnitude, I do think more charts and less echoed words were necessary for proving the thesis (and I LIKE the thesis, so imagine how the skeptics feel...)
And while I understand that ideas are formed within the culture they are conceived in, and that Tarnas admittedly chose to include subjects which he knew best, it made me sad how masculine everything was. Tarnas managed to take something as magical, shape-shifting, and feminine as the orbit of our planets and make it boring, hierarchical, and masculine. One can imagine that there are so much more than white men that fit his archetypal ideals, and yet hardly any were included. At best, he chose to include what was easiest and most convenient for him.
I did learn a lot about random bits of history, and I really like Tarnas as a person, but I won't be revisiting this book.