![]() ![]() ![]() How we approach "the other," and how we approach each other, will shape everything, including out own evolving self and the cosmos in which we participate. Our world view and cosmology, which defines the context for everything else, is profoundly affected by the degree to which all out faculties–intellectual, imaginative, aesthetic, moral, emotional, somatic, spiritual, relational–enter the process of knowing. Perhaps we must go not only high and far but down and deep. For the whole being, body and soul, mind and spirit, is implicated. ![]() But to understand life and the cosmos better, perhaps we are required to transform not only our minds but our hearts. In 1968 he entered Harvard, where he studied Western intellectual and cultural history and depth psychology, graduating with an A.B. Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind.In 2006 he published Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK. He grew up in Michigan, where he studied Greek, Latin, and the classics under the Jesuits. “Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very tall cognitive ladder with graded hierarchical steps that represent successive developmental stages in which we solve increasingly challenging mental riddles, like advanced problems in a graduate exam in biochemistry or logic. Richard Tarnas was born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents. ![]()
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