With the future of the human spirit and the future of the planet hanging in the balance, he says that we have no choice but to embrace courage, imagination, and our deepest inner resources. On the other, the promises of a more integral worldview, a cosmology of tomorrow one based on a deeper relationship with nature and with the larger cosmos require a leap of faith few of us are as yet willing to take. On the one hand, the spiritual and intellectual certainties of the past no longer command our allegiance. He also reflects on our curious postmodern predicament at the end of the millennium.Īs Tarnas sees it, we find ourselves today wandering disconsolately between two worlds one dying and the other struggling to be born. In his bestselling intellectual history The Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas surveys the evolution of Western thought from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, from the scientific revolution to the dawn of the 21st century, illuminating the pivotal ideas in philosophy, religion, and science that have forged our unique cultural outlook.
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