About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Hannes Bok, Richard Tarnas, Philip Berg, Max Heindel, Eric Francis, Tommaso Palamidessi, David Frawley, Jeane Dixon, Rob Brezsny, Shelley Ackerman, Stephanie Adams, A. T. Mann, Cheiro, Robert Couteau, Gerina Dunwich, Sanjay Rath, Michael Erlewine, Jackie Stallone, Liz Greene, Linda Goodman, Zane B. Stein, Marc Edmund Jones, Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena, Sydney Omarr, Gayatri Devi Vasudev, Lois Rodden, Joan Quigley, Robert Hand, Howard Beckman, Evangeline Adams, Sreenadh OG, Stephen Arroyo, Madalyn Aslan, Carroll Righter, Grant Lewi, Joyce Jillson, Marcia Moore, Vilma Jamnicka, Jim Lewis, Noel Jan Tyl, C. C. Zain, Athena Starwoman, Shelley von Strunckel, Cyril Fagan. Excerpt: Richard Theodore Tarnas, Jr. (born February 21, 1950) is a philosopher and cultural historian known for his 1991 book The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, published in 2006. Tarnas is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is the founding director of its graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. Tarnas was born on February 21, 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents. His father, also Richard Tarnas, was a government contract attorney, former president of the Michigan Federal Bar Association, and professor of law. His mother, Mary Louise, was a teacher and homemaker. The eldest of eight children, he grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where he studied Greek, Latin, and the Classics at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. In 1968 Tarnas entered Harvard, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. He received his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute in 1976. His thesis was on psychedelic therapy. For ten years he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in...
