The Western mind must be willing to open itself to a reality the nature of Which could shatter its most established beliefs about itself. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. 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. All about The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas. 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. The Passion of the Western Mind - Understanding the Ideas that Shape Our World ViewRichard Tarnas This book presents a concise narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern. “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.
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