The Night Sky – Soul and Cosmos

The first edition of this epic study dates back to 1982, well before I met the author in the late 1990s. It undertakes the daunting task of reviewing the history of Western astronomy, the nature of planets and moons, then and expansive section on mythologies and legends, even covering flying saucers, crop circles and extra-terrestrial life. The key to the book is its scope and history of external and internal stargazing, which necessarily involves consciousness - also the proposition that every cosmology is essentially a mythology. The irony of the scientistic, anthropocentric point of view (p. 344) is that it devalues 'the very thing that All That Is has spent trillions of light-years incubating - individually witnessed experience.' Astrology is discussed as a millennial, archetypal or traditionary science, like alchemy, which is a science in the etymological sense of a system of knowledge - and of course incompatible with what we call modern science, which accounts for many of the hostile reviews of earlier editions. These people should also remember that without mind, there is literally no universe (p. 730), and our job is to bring inner and outer together, at least on our own journey.