TARNAS: Joseph influenced me in at least two major ways. Once that was done, I became a professor of philosophy and cultural history, which has been wonderful, though it did prolong the process of completing Cosmos and Psyche.ĬJSSF: Joseph Campbell lauded your work and was a mentor of yours at Esalen. But books can have a mind of their own and it seems a full history of Western thought from a depth psychology perspective wanted to be written, and that became Passion. What ultimately became Passion I had intended to be just the first few chapters of Cosmos. My original intention was to describe how the concept of archetypes had evolved from Plato to Jung, and also how our view of the cosmos had evolved from the ancients through the Copernican revolution to our own age, so that my readers would be in a position to appreciate the cosmological and psychological implications of the planetary correlations. TARNAS: I actually wrote The Passion of the Western Mind as a preparatory foundation for Cosmos and Psyche. What made you ready to present the perspective of archetypal astrology?ĭR. You revisited that history in your 2006 Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. CJSSF: Your acclaimed cultural history The Passion of the Western Mind was a bestseller and a textbook.
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