Far more than is usual for a book with a single author, this book has been a collaborative work, especially in the final three years when I was helped by more than thirty trusted colleagues. Their close reading of the manuscript as I completed each stage and their detailed responses to each chapter were essential in shaping and refining the final text. I gratefully acknowledge the following who read the manuscript in its entirety, in many instances more than once, and who provided me with invaluable critical comments, recommendations, and support: Christopher Bache, Anne Baring, Jorge Ferrer, James Fournier, Gerry Goddard, Ray Grasse, Stanislav Grof, Suzi Harvey, Kris Hulsebus, Will Keepin, Sean Kelly, Keiron Le Grice, Norma Lewis, Robert McDermott, Rod O’Neal, Jordi Pigem, Sheri Ritchlin, Jacob Sherman, Jonathan Stedall, David Steindl-Rast, Matthew Stelzner, and Van Wishard. For expert readings of specific chapters I am indebted to Bruno Barnhart, Robert Bellah, Stuart Brown, Lionel Corbett, Owen Gingerich, Christopher Hunt, Deane Juhan, Thomas Kirsch, Joseph Prabhu, and Brian Swimme. The manuscript also benefited in its final stage from the perceptive readings and comments of Callie Cardamon, Roberta De-Doming, Jennifer Freed, Christina Hardy, Chad Harris, June Katzen, Kevin Kohley, Philip Levine, Frank Poletti, Bill Streett, and Barbara Winkler. For her heartfelt support and many shared insights, I am deeply grateful to Terra Wise.
It was an immeasurable benefit to have so many gifted men and women devote themselves with such generosity and care to bringing the book to birth. In some sense they all made this project their own, transforming my personal task into a collective effort that enriched the book in small ways and large. Yet their contribution went far beyond scholarly and editorial counsel. No author can take on a task like this and sustain it without another kind of support, of the heart and the spirit, and I will always be grateful to those who provided it over such a long period.
In particular, I owe more than I can say to Stanislav Grof, with whom I have researched, discussed, and taught the material contained in this book for thirty years, beginning with our work together in the 1970s at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His friendship and intellectual fellowship have been a continuing, deeply appreciated gift in my life. James Hillman has been a crucial contributor to this book from the beginning, not only as the encouraging and guiding editor and publisher of its early incarnations as Prometheus the Awakener, but also through the influence of his many brilliant lectures and writings. I wish to gratefully acknowledge Charles Harvey, who as president of the British Astrological Association was both the earliest and, for over twenty years until his death in 2000, the most patient and steadfast supporter of my work within the international astrological community. For guidance in the initial stages of my research, I am indebted to Hans Hofmann, Craig Enright, Georgia Kelly, Arne Trettevik, Giles Healey, and Robert Hand. I also want to thank the many remarkable students who participated in the graduate courses and seminars I have taught over the past twelve years at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. As was once wisely said, the teacher is the person in the classroom who is learning the most.
This book would not have found its way into print had it not been for the faith in its value, sustained for many more years than could reasonably be expected, shown by my literary agent, Frederick Hill, and my publisher, Clare Ferraro. I am deeply grateful to both. I am also indebted to Bokara Legendre, Robert Wyatt, and Peter Guzzardi for their important early roles in initiating the publication of this book. I wish to thank Carole DeSanti and Beena Kamlani for their very helpful editorial suggestions and many hours of heroic work on a large and complicated manuscript. My thanks go also to Tara Sanders for her skill and patience in translating my various instructions into elegant diagrams and helping with the cover illustration.
For financial support that sustained my work at key stages over the years I am deeply grateful to Norma and David Lewis, Robert Tarnas and Barbara Raskin, Joan Reddish, Deborah Wittwer-Kopp, Alexandra Marston, Michael Marcus, George Zimmer, and Arthur Young. I also gratefully acknowledge the generosity and vision of the late Laurance S. Rockefeller, whose decade-long support of my teaching at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness graduate program that I cofounded there, played an important role in the formation of this book. In this regard I owe a special debt to Robert McDermott, who as president of that school invited me to join the faculty and create a program while continuing research and writing, and who has been unflaggingly generous in his support and friendship.
Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to the extraordinary land and sea here in coastal California where I have lived, learned, and received inspiration throughout the years of my journey with this book—a journey that began at Esalen in Big Sur with the luminous night sky of stars and planets that I watched in wonder, night after night, season after season, from the high cliffs overlooking the Pacific.
Index
Abbey, Edward
Abraham, Karl
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Addams, Jane
Addey, John
Adler, Alfred
The Advancement of Learning (Bacon)
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound and
African-Americans
On Aggression (Lorenz)
Agrippa of Nettesheim
De Occulta Philosophia and
AIDS epidemic
Albee, Edward
Alberti, Leon Battista
Albertus Magnus
Allen, Woody
Allman Brothers
Alpert, Richard
Altman, Robert
The Ambassadors (James)
American Revolution
Amis de la Vérité (feminist organization)
Anabaptists
Anaximander
Anderson, Lindsay
Animal Liberation (Singer)
Anima mundi
Anthony, Susan B.
Anthropocentrism
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Apocalyptic scenarios
Aquinas, Thomas
Summa Theologica and
Arabian Nights (Burton)
Archetype(s)
archetypal principles
see also planetary archetypes
Ardrey, Robert
The Territorial Imperative and
Aristarchus
Aristotelian geocentric universe
Aristotle
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Neil
Arroyo, Stephen
Art and Revolution (Bakunin)
Assayer (Galileo)
Astrology
archetypal dynamics in
determinism and
the Gauquelins and
Greek astronomy and
Jung and
natal charts
planetary alignments and correlations in
psychological states and
quantum physics and
religion and
Astrology (cont.)
skepticism and resistance to
Western cosmology and
Astronomia Nova (Kepler)
Auden, W. H.
Augustine
City of God
Confessions
Aurobindo
Austen, Jane
The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Axial Age
Babe Ruth
Babeuf, François-Noël
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Brandenburg Concertos of
Bacon, Francis
The Advancement of Learning and
Temporis partus masculus and
Bakunin, Michael
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de
Baldwin, James
The Band (rock group)
Barber, Samuel
Barfield, Owen
Saving the Appearances and
Barrow, John
Barzun, Jacques
Bateson, Gr
egory
Bateson, William
Baudelaire, Charles
Les fleurs du mal and
The Beast in the Jungle (James)
The Beatles
Beat movement
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beckett, Samuel
Beck, Jeff
Beck, Julian
Becquerel, Henri
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Eroica and
Be Here Now (Ram Dass)
Bellah, Robert
Bellini, Vincenzo
Bellow, Saul
Bergman, Ingmar
The Seventh Seal and
Bergson, Henri
Berlioz, Hector
Bernard of Clairvaux
Berry, Chuck
Berry, Thomas
The Great Work and
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von
General System Theory and
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Big Brother and the Holding Company (rock group)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
Blake, William
Marriage of Heaven and Hell and
Blind Faith (rock group)
Blood Sweat and Tears (rock group)
Bloomer, Amelia
Bloom, Harold
Bloomsbury group
Bly, Robert
Bode, Johann Elert
Bodin, Jean
Boehme, Jakob
Boff, Leonardo
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bohm, David
Bohr, Niels
The Book of the Courtier (Castiglione)
Borges, Jorge Luis
Born, Max
Botticelli, Sandro
Boyle, Robert
Brahe, Tycho de
Branch Davidians
Brando, Marlon
Brand, Stewart
Braque, Georges
Bresson, Robert
Breuer, Josef
Studies in Hysteria and
Bridgman, P. W.
Broglie, Louis de
Brontë sisters
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Brown, John
Brown, Norman O.
Bruno, Giordano
Bryan, William Jennings
Buber, Martin
Bucke, Richard
Buñuel, Luis
Burroughs, Nannie Helen
Burroughs, William
Burton, Richard
Arabian Nights and
Bush, George W.
policies of
Byron, Lord
Cabot, John
Cabral, Pedro
Caldicott, Helen
Calvin, John
Commentary on Genesis and
Institutes of the Christian Religion and
Campbell, Joseph
The Masks of God and
Camus, Albert
The Stranger and
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Carmichael, Stokeley
Carroll, Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking Glass
Cars (rock group)
Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring and
Carter, Charles E. O.
Casanova
Cassady, Neal
Castañeda, Carlos
The Teachings of Don Juan and
Castiglione, Baldassare
The Book of the Courtier and
Castro, Fidel
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Cézanne, Paul
Chabrol, Claude
Champollion, Jean-François
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaplin-Hitler archetypal comparison and
Charcot, Jean Martin
Divine Milieu and
The Human Phenomenon and
Charles, Ray
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales and
Chaudhuri, Haridas
Che Guevara
Cheney, Richard
Chinese Cultural Revolution
Chopin, Frederic
Christian, Charlie
The Christian Faith (Schleiermacher)
Churchill, Winston
Citizen Kane (Welles)
City of God (Augustine)
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)
Civil Rights movements
see also African-Americans; Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clapton, Eric
Clarke, Kenny
Clarkson, Thomas
Clash (rock group)
The Clash of Civilizations (Huntington)
Claudine novels (Colette)
Clausius, Rudolf
Cleaver, Eldridge
Cohen, Leonard
Cold War
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Colette
Claudine novels and
Collective unconscious
Coltrane, John
Columbus, Christopher
Commentariolus (Copernicus)
Commentary on Genesis (Calvin)
Communism
The Communist Manifesto (Marx, Engels)
Condorcet, Marquis de
Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain and
The Conduct of Life (Emerson)
Confessions (Augustine)
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness and
Cook, James
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Commentariolus and
Copernican revolution
De Revolutionibus and
heliocentric theory of
post-Copernican cosmos and
Corbin, Henry
Correns, Carl
Cosimo de Medici
Cosmos
anthropocentric view of
astrology and
Copernican revolution and
disenchanted
Enlightenment and
in post-Copernican context
Western view of
Count Basie
The Courage to Be (Tillich)
Cousins, Ewert
Cream (rock group)
Creedence Clearwater (rock group)
Crick, Francis
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Criminal underworld, as drama genre
Crimson, King
Croce, Benedetto
Crosby Stills and Nash (rock group)
The Crucible (Miller)
Crusades
Curie, Marie
Daguerre, Louis
Dalai Lama
Daly, Mary
Dante Alighieri
and Beatrice
Il Paradiso and
Inferno and
La Divina Commedia and
Danton, Georges Jacques
Darby, Abraham
Darwin, Charles
The Descent of Man and
Lincoln-Darwin archetypal comparison and
The Origin of Species and
Darwin, Erasmus
Das Kapital (Marx)
The Da Vinci Code (novel)
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Davis, Angela
Davis, Miles
The Day After (1983)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Daybreak (Nietzsche)
Day, Dorothy
Deacon, Terrence
Dean, James
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
The Death of Ivan Illich (Tolstoy)
Debs, Eugene
The Decline of the West (Spengler)
Dee, John
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Vesalius)
De Magnete (Gilbert)
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Demosthenes
De Occulta Philosophia (Agrippa)
De Profundis (Wilde)
Depth psychology
see also Freud; Habermas; Jung
De Revolutionibus (Copernicus)
Descartes, René
birth of
Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm
>
Discourse on Method and
Geometry and
Principia Philosophie and
The Descent of Man (Darwin)
De Sica, Vittorio
De Staël, Madame
Determinism
in astrology, (see also indeterminacy)
De Vries, Hugo
De Waal, Frans
Diaghilev, Sergei
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo)
Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences (Galileo)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hume)
The Dial (journal)
Diamond, Jared
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Diddley, Bo
Diderot, Denis
Encyclopédie and
Digges, Thomas
DiMaggio, Joe
Dionysian impulses
and Nietzsche
during the Sixties
Dionysus
Dirac, Paul
Discorsi (Machiavelli)
Discourse on Method (Descartes)
The Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (Rousseau)
Discourse on Women (Mott)
Disenchantment
objective knowledge and
Divine Milieu (Chardin)
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (Milton)
Dominican order
Donatello
Doomsday scenarios
The Doors of Perception (Huxley)
The Doors (rock group)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov and
Crime and Punishment and
The Idiot and
Douglass, Frederick
The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass and
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Dreiser, Theodore
Du Bois, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black Folk and
Duchamp, Marcel
Duino Elegies (Rilke)
Duncan, Isadora
and Wagner
Dürer, Albrecht
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
Dylan, Bob
Dynamics of Faith (Tillich)
Dyson, Frank
Eastman, Max
Ebertin, Reinhold
Eddington, Arthur
Edinger, Edward
Edison, Thomas
Edwards, Jonathan
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God
The Ego and the Id (Freud)
Egyptian Sun-god
Einstein, Albert
relativity theory and
Eldredge, Niles
Elements of Chemistry (Lavoisier)
Eliade, Mircea
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