Formerly president of the International Transpersonal Association, he is on the Board of Governors of the C.

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. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought from the ancient Greek to the postmodern which became a bestseller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world. from Saybrook Institute in 1976 with a dissertation on LSD psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and spiritual transformation.

For ten years he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Stanislav Grof, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, and James Hillman, later serving as Esalen's director of programs and education. In 1968 he entered Harvard, where he studied Western intellectual and cultural history and depth psychology, graduating with an A.B.

Born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents, he grew up in Michigan, where he received a classical Jesuit education. The evidence contained here represents the most significant challenge I have seen to the materialistic paradigm of modern science.Stanislav Grof, author of Psychology of the Future Informationen zum Autor Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches. It combines impeccably meticulous scholarship and extraordinary clarity of thinking and writing with deep creative vision. This will be a book for the ages.William Van Dusen Wishard, author of Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of Meaning This is the closest my head has been to exploding while reading a book.Mary Hynes, CBC Tapestry What more important message could there be for our time? If you want to understand more deeply the currents which have shaped and are shaping our world, then this passionate, brilliant, and luminous book is essential reading.David Lorimer, Scientific and Medical Network Review Cosmos and Psyche is an epoch-making work. Zusatztext Praise for Cosmos and Psyche Breathtaking in the scope and scale of its vision, this extraordinary book shatters our cosmological assumptions.Spellbinding, eloquent, compelling.Christopher Bache, professor of philosophy and religious studies, Youngstown State University Majestic, sweeping, and profound.

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