The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

by Anne Baring
The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

by Anne Baring

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Overview

The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality than the one we inhabit in this physical dimension of experience. It seeks to answer the questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here, on this planet?" It is offered to those who are looking for something beyond the superficial values of our culture, who may be disillusioned with religious and secular belief systems as currently presented and who question political values which are deeply mired in the pursuit of power. It is written with two voices: one the voice of a personal quest and the other which explores the historical and psychological causes that have brought into being our present view of reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781906289249
Publisher: Archive Publishing
Publication date: 09/09/2019
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 618
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue: Civilization –William Anderson

Introduction: a Mythic Time of Choice

Preface

Part One: My Quest Begins

1. My Quest Begins

2. The Awakening Dream

3. The Tree of Life

Part Two: The Lunar Era: Original Participation

4. The Great Mother: Participation in Cosmic Soul

5. The Shamanic Vision: Kinship with all Creation

Part Three: The Dissociated Psyche and the Pathology of Separation and Loss

6. The Solar Era: The Separation from Nature and the Battle between Good and Evil

7. The Myth of the Fall and the Doctrine of Original Sin

8. Misogyny: the Origin and Effects of the Oppression of Women

9. A One-eyed Vision

Interlude One: The Sleeping Beauty: a Fairy-Tale for Our Time

Part Four: Recovering the Connection to the Soul

10. The Resurgence of the Feminine: the Awakening of the Soul

11. Jung and the Rediscovery of the Soul

12. The Shadow, the Dragon and the Primordial Soul

13. War as a Rape of the Soul

Part Five: A New Vision of Reality

14. A Metaphysical Revolution: Science and a Conscious Universe 325

15. The Soul of the Cosmos

16. Instinct and the Body as a Manifestation of the Soul

17. New Wine in New Bottles: A New Image of God

Interlude Two: The Way of the Tao

Part Six: Transformation: Final Participation

18. The Great Work of Alchemy: The Process of the Soul’s Transmutation

19. Seeing Beyond the Veil: The Survival of the Soul and Life beyond Death

20. Light and Love as the Pulse of the Cosmos

Appendix 1: Lament for the Tragedy of War – a poem by Anne Baring

Appendix 2: Mellen-Thomas Benedict – his story in his own words

Bibliography

Index

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