The Archetypal Cosmos

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Floris Books, Jun 9, 2011 - Science - 328 pages
The modern world is passing through a time of critical change on many levels: cultural, political, ecological and spiritual. We are witnessing the decline and dissolution of the old order, the tumult and uncertainty of a new birth. Against this background, there is an urgent need for a coherent framework of meaning to lead us beyond the growing fragmentation of culture, belief and personal identity. Keiron Le Grice argues that the developing insights of a new cosmology could provide this framework, helping us to discover an underlying order shaping our life experiences. In a compelling synthesis of the ideas of seminal thinkers from depth psychology and the new paradigm sciences, Le Grice positions the new discipline of archetypal astrology at the centre of an emerging world view that reunifies psyche and cosmos, spirituality and science, mythology and metaphysi, and enables us to see mythic gods, heroes and themes in a fresh light. He draws especially on the work of C. G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, Richard Tarnas, Fritjof Capra, David Bohm and Brian Swimme. Heralding a 'rediscovery of the gods' and the passage into a new spiritual era, The Archetypal Cosmos presents a new understanding of the role of myth and archetypal principles in our lives, one that could give a cosmic perspective and deeper meaning to our personal experiences.
 

Contents

Title Page
World Views and Mythology
In Search of a New Myth
Archetypal Astrology and the Monomyth
The Underlying Cosmic Pattern
SelfOrganization and the Cosmic Mind
The Archetypal Order
The Dynamic Ground
Archetypal Resonance and the Birth Pattern
Individuation and Evolution
The Return of the Gods
The Opening of a New Spiritual
Endnotes
References and Further Reading
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Keiron Le Grice is founder and co-editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in philosophy and religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he is adjunct faculty in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness postgraduate programme. In 2006, he was awarded the inaugural Joseph Campbell Research Grant by the Joseph Campbell Foundation in association with the Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara for furthering the ideas of C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and James Hillman. Originally from Nottinghamshire, England, he currently divides his time between San Francisco and South Wales. He is married with one child.

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