The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

Dorset, England: Archive Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Very fine. CD in rear pocket still sealed. Nearly as new.. Quarto in purple pictorial wraps; 608 pages: illustrations (black and white); 25 cm + audio CD in pocket attached to inside back cover. Contents: Prologue: Civilization / William Anderson -- Introduction: A mythic time of choice -- pt. 1. My quest begins. The awakening dream; The Tree of Life -- pt. 2. The lunar era: original participation. The Great Mother: participation in cosmic soul; The shamanic vision: kinship with all creation -- pt. 3. The dissociated psyche and the pathology of separation and loss. The solar era: the separation from nature and the battle between good and evil; The myth of the fall and the doctrine of original sin; Misogyny: the origin and effects of the oppression of women; A one-eyed vision -- Interlude 1. The sleeping beauty: a fairy-tale for our time Pt. 4. Recovering the connection to the soul. The resurgence of the feminine: the awakening of the soul; Jung and the rediscovery of the soul; The shadow, the dragon and the primordial soul; War as a rape of the soul -- pt. 5. A new vision of reality. A metaphysical revolution: science and a conscious universe; The soul of the cosmos; Instinct and the body as a manifestation of the soul; New wine in new bottles: a new image of god -- Interlude 2. The way of the Tao Pt. 6. Transformation: final participation. The great work of alchemy: the process of the soul's transmutation; Seeing beyond the veil: the survival of the soul and life beyond death; 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: a story in his own words. Soul. Consciousness. Cosmogony. Âme. Conscience. Cosmogonie. Consciousness. Cosmogony. Soul.