between the long-dominant but now alienated masculine and the long-suppressed but now ascending feminine. "As Jung prophesied, an epochal shift is taking place in the contemporary psyche, a reconciliation between the two great polarities, a union of opposites. This is the book's very final chapter, when Tarnas finally comes around to discuss these issues and to say. A look at the index, in fact, reveals that the term "Goddess worship" appears once, and not until page 443. I recall little, if any, discussion, for example, of the religions that Christianity supplanted as is spread through Europe, or of the repression of those religions practiced at the time, so often including the repression (to put it mildly) of women. This is a discussion of relatively mainstream ideas, however. The writing is clear, meant for "laypersons" rather than academics, although things do get kind of dense, in a way that seemed mostly unavoidable to me, when the concepts become particularly complex. Tarnas also does a good job of taking us through our various changes as science, on the one hand, and spirituality (outside of organized religion), on the other, become sort of dually transcendent in modern humanity. Tarnas takes us through the several stages of Greek thought, through the rise of Christianity and and the evolution of Westerners' view of themselves and their place in the universe over the centuries. This is a relatively comprehensive survey of Western thought from the early Greeks through modern times.
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