Description
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.
About the Author
Anne Baring (b. 1931) MA Oxon. Ph.D (hons) is a Jungian Analyst - author and co-author of seven books including, as Anne Gage (1961), The One Work: A Journey Towards the Self; with Jules Cashford (1992), The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image; (1993 and 2002), The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time; with Andrew Harvey (1995), The Mystic Vision: Daily Encounters with the Divine and (1996), The Divine Feminine; with Scilla Elworthy (2009), Soul Power: an Agenda for a Conscious Humanity; and (2013, 2017 and 2020), The Dream of the Cosmos:A Quest for the Soul. ; Her work is devoted to the recognition that we live in an ensouled world and to the restoration of the lost sense of communion between us and the invisible dimension of the Cosmos that is the source or ground of all that we call 'life'. ; Her website is devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice.
Reviews
Anne Baring has devoted her life to humanity's recovery of the anima mundi - the soul of the world, and indeed its own soul. The Dream of the Cosmos is the climax of that quest, the fruit of a lifetime of thought and feeling, learning and vision. It is the story of a dramatic personal journey, but also an attempt to confront the greatest issues facing our time. Every page breathes her moral passion, her love of beauty, her spiritual aspiration, her deep care for the Earth. Above all, Anne Baring calls for a fundamental transformation in the way human beings live on this Earth and with each other. It would not be too much to say that this book is a cri de coeur from a place deep in the collective psyche that carries not only our past but our future. The Dream of the Cosmos pulses with the fierce tenderness and grave urgency of love for an infinitely precious new being struggling to be born. ; Richard Tarnas, ; author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche. ; As Anne Baring writes in her opening, this book is a vocation. It is the opus magnum for which one might say, without exaggeration, that Anne has incarnated in this lifetime to produce for the benefit of many. The Dream of the Cosmos is at once both a visionary autobiography including many of Anne's own dreams, and a comprehensive archetypal history of the constellation, separation from, and resurgence of the feminine. Included in this deep scholarship are profound insights into the origins of misogyny as well as the soulful claims of instinct and its dangerous shadows expressed in violence and oppression. Anne leads us on a remarkable journey to understand the roots of our current suffering and the way forward to embrace a new and necessary sacred vision of reality - one supported by the new sciences - that includes the whole of nature and the cosmos. If you read only one book in the next decade, this encyclopaedic volume is the one you should read. ; Veronica Goodchild, ; author of Songlines of the Soul: Pathways to A New Vision for a New Century. ; Anne Baring is one of the great pioneers on the Divine Feminine of our time. Her work is a marvellous marriage of profound learning, deep and mature mystical experience and a vivid immediate gift of communication. Her latest book, The Dream of the Cosmos, is the consummation of her life's work, twenty years in the making. It is a masterpiece that will last a long time and deserves to be read by all seekers and anyone interested in the birth of a new civilization out of the chaos of our time. ; Andrew Harvey, ; author of Return of the Mother and Radical Passion. ; Anne Baring's magnum opus, twenty years in the making, is one of the publishing events of the year: brilliant, profound and magisterial in its scope. In it she addresses the real cultural roots of our multifaceted crisis - spiritual, psychological, ecological, social, political and economic. The book is a symbol of hope and renaissance - essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the patterns of Western cultural history and the potentials of its future development. ; David Lorimer, ; The Scientific and Medical Network
Book Information
ISBN 9781906289485
Author Anne Baring
Format Paperback
Page Count 618
Imprint Archive Publishing
Publisher Archive Publishing
Weight(grams) 971g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 32mm
About the Author
Anne Baring (b. 1931) MA Oxon. Ph.D (hons) is a Jungian Analyst - author and co-author of seven books including, as Anne Gage (1961), The One Work: A Journey Towards the Self; with Jules Cashford (1992), The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image; (1993 and 2002), The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time; with Andrew Harvey (1995), The Mystic Vision: Daily Encounters with the Divine and (1996), The Divine Feminine; with Scilla Elworthy (2009), Soul Power: an Agenda for a Conscious Humanity; and (2013, 2017 and 2020), The Dream of the Cosmos:A Quest for the Soul. ; Her work is devoted to the recognition that we live in an ensouled world and to the restoration of the lost sense of communion between us and the invisible dimension of the Cosmos that is the source or ground of all that we call 'life'. ; Her website is devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice.
Reviews
Anne Baring has devoted her life to humanity's recovery of the anima mundi - the soul of the world, and indeed its own soul. The Dream of the Cosmos is the climax of that quest, the fruit of a lifetime of thought and feeling, learning and vision. It is the story of a dramatic personal journey, but also an attempt to confront the greatest issues facing our time. Every page breathes her moral passion, her love of beauty, her spiritual aspiration, her deep care for the Earth. Above all, Anne Baring calls for a fundamental transformation in the way human beings live on this Earth and with each other. It would not be too much to say that this book is a cri de coeur from a place deep in the collective psyche that carries not only our past but our future. The Dream of the Cosmos pulses with the fierce tenderness and grave urgency of love for an infinitely precious new being struggling to be born. ; Richard Tarnas, ; author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche. ; As Anne Baring writes in her opening, this book is a vocation. It is the opus magnum for which one might say, without exaggeration, that Anne has incarnated in this lifetime to produce for the benefit of many. The Dream of the Cosmos is at once both a visionary autobiography including many of Anne's own dreams, and a comprehensive archetypal history of the constellation, separation from, and resurgence of the feminine. Included in this deep scholarship are profound insights into the origins of misogyny as well as the soulful claims of instinct and its dangerous shadows expressed in violence and oppression. Anne leads us on a remarkable journey to understand the roots of our current suffering and the way forward to embrace a new and necessary sacred vision of reality - one supported by the new sciences - that includes the whole of nature and the cosmos. If you read only one book in the next decade, this encyclopaedic volume is the one you should read. ; Veronica Goodchild, ; author of Songlines of the Soul: Pathways to A New Vision for a New Century. ; Anne Baring is one of the great pioneers on the Divine Feminine of our time. Her work is a marvellous marriage of profound learning, deep and mature mystical experience and a vivid immediate gift of communication. Her latest book, The Dream of the Cosmos, is the consummation of her life's work, twenty years in the making. It is a masterpiece that will last a long time and deserves to be read by all seekers and anyone interested in the birth of a new civilization out of the chaos of our time. ; Andrew Harvey, ; author of Return of the Mother and Radical Passion. ; Anne Baring's magnum opus, twenty years in the making, is one of the publishing events of the year: brilliant, profound and magisterial in its scope. In it she addresses the real cultural roots of our multifaceted crisis - spiritual, psychological, ecological, social, political and economic. The book is a symbol of hope and renaissance - essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the patterns of Western cultural history and the potentials of its future development. ; David Lorimer, ; The Scientific and Medical Network
Book Information
ISBN 9781906289485
Author Anne Baring
Format Paperback
Page Count 618
Imprint Archive Publishing
Publisher Archive Publishing
Weight(grams) 971g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 32mm
