
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

James believed that a mystical stratum existed in human nature, that it was the source of all religions, and that at the core of personal religious experience were mystical states of consciousness.
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Uranus and Neptune were again in alignment from 617 to 630, the exact period of the founding of Islam by Muhammad. Uranus
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
the Uranus-Neptune cycle appears to be correlated with the collective activation of a more spiritual Prometheus. The image of Jesus Christ that emerges from this period bears many of the distinctive Promethean motifs, though in an emphatically spiritual context and mode of manifestation—the divine rebel against the old order, the eternal liberator
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It is considered to govern the transcendent dimensions of life, imaginative and spiritual vision, and the realm of the ideal. It rules the invisible and intangible ground of experience, shaping awareness beyond the usual causal mechanisms. Its characteristic influence is one of dissolving boundaries and structures, merging that which was separate.
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Neptune
When Jupiter and a second planet enter into cyclical alignment, the coinciding events suggest Jupiter’s archetypal influence to be one of magnifying and supporting the second planetary archetype with an expansive, elevating quality—“crowning” it, as it were—granting
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
In general, it seems to impel a movement towards encompassing greater wholes and enlarging one’s world, embracing higher principles of order, higher orders of magnitude, broader horizons of experience.
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Jupiter
Jupiter has been associated with the principle of expansion and magnitude, providence and plenitude, liberality, elevation and ascendancy, and with the tendency to experience growth and progress, success, honor, good fortune, abundance, aggrandizement, prodigality, excess and inflation.
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
such a perspective can open up a new potential for critical reflection and self-awareness—a new possibility of transcending one’s unconscious immersion in the moment,
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Take your well-disciplined strengths and stretch them between two opposing poles. Because inside human beings is where God learns.
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