“The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive. There are no perspective-independent facts. Every act of perception and cognition is contingent, mediated, situated, contextual, theory-soaked. Human language cannot establish its ground in an independent reality. Meaning is rendered by the mind and cannot be assumed to inhere in the object, in the world beyond… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“The world is in some essential sense a construct. Human knowledge is radically interpretive. There are no perspective-independent facts. Every act of perception and cognition is contingent, mediated, situated, contextual, theory-soaked. Human language cannot establish its ground in an independent reality. Meaning is rendered by the mind and cannot be assumed to inhere in the object, in the world beyond… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
