Anne Baring

The Dream of the Cosmos, twenty years in the making, is one of the publishing events of the year: brilliant, profound and magisterial in its scope. In it she addresses the real cultural roots of our multifaceted crisis spiritual, psychological, ecological, social, political and economic. Much attention since 2008 has been directed to the economic symptoms that are now translating into a widespread social malaise, but few commentators have plumbed the depths as this book does and called for a radically new outlook. For too long the soul and the feminine principle have been marginalised and suppressed, but Anne Barings life experience and passionate engagement have enabled her to understand and articulate the imbalance in our Western culture and show how it can be overcome. The book is a symbol of hope and renaissance - essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the patterns of Western cultural history and the potentials of its future development.Anne Baring is a lyrical writer. Why? Because she is able not only to amass a vast body of scholarship, and then to order it and produce lucid clarity; but then comes her real genius. Her real genius is to see the light that wants to come through through the volumes, through the centuries, through the history, the myths and the legends. And her ability to make sense of human experience, and to express it as lyrically as she does, throws essential light on our present condition. This is contemporary politics as it should be applied by leaders. This is history as it should be taught in schools, to liberate the imaginative souls of children. This is insight and inspiration to open the minds and the hearts of twenty-first century adults. This book will change your perspective on what it is to be human, and enable you to see the opportunity that we humans now have, to evolve. Just read the Introduction and youll see. This book is a goldmine.Anne Baring has devoted her life to humanitys recovery of the anima mundi the soul of the world, and indeed its own soul. The Dream of the Cosmos is the climax of that quest, the fruit of a lifetime of thought and feeling, learning and vision. It is the story of a dramatic personal journey, but also an attempt to confront the greatest issues facing our time. Every page breathes her moral passion, her love of beauty, her spiritual aspiration, her deep care for the Earth. Above all, Anne Baring calls for a fundamental transformation in the way human beings live on this Earth and with each other. It would not be too much to say that this book is a cri de coeur from a place deep in the collective psyche that carries not only our past but our future. The Dream of the Cosmos pulses with the fierce tenderness and grave urgency of love for an infinitely precious new being struggling to be born.

One winter afternoon in New York, February 1943, at the height of the Second World War, my mother, her sister, her sister-in-law, and a close friend, met to talk about the life-and-death struggle that was tearing Europe apart. (My father was serving under General Montgomery, in North Africa). Suddenly, although the windows of the apartment were closed because of the cold, they heard a roar like thunder and the glass door onto the terrace was blown inwards by a powerful blast of air. Lightning flickered all around them although there was no storm. They cried out in terror, and went to shut the door, but suddenly felt a tremendous presence in the room and, falling on their knees, were overcome with awe. Then they heard a voice which told them to write down what they heard. I have brought together these Messages in memory and in love for my mother and love for the Higher Assembly of Beings who watch over the life of this planet. They have been the foundation and the inspiration of all my own work. May they reach those who can assimilate their teaching and take it further. Their words are witness to the fact that we do not live in a dead, insentient universe that is without consciousness, purpose or meaning. On the contrary, we live in a universe that is alive, sentient, full of wonders, peopled with countless beings in higher dimensions, as well as in other galaxies and on other planets all directed by an evolutionary intention.What they transmitted to my mother and her friend in 1943, is more relevant today than it was eighty years ago since the dangers we face are far greater now. AI technology is racing ahead, urged on by the same malecompetitive ethos that is driving the further development of nuclear weapons, the dangerous work of gain-of-function laboratories and other technologies which harm the miraculous organism of the human body and interfere with the delicate balance of the planets life all involving the participation of people who do not hold the best interests of the planet at heart. Our survival demands that we relinquish the ongoing rivalry and struggle for power between nations which could destroy the Earth and ourselves with it, and choose the alternative path of love and service of the planet and all the precious orders of life it embraces. This is a key moment in our evolutionary journey. The choices we make now will determine our future and whether there is a future. The Messages say that if we are to experience the Blessing of the Millennium, we need to end all war and killing now. Women are one half of humanity and, therefore, hold the balance at this crucial time of choice. The power of millions of women, coming together to protect this Sacred Planet, could not only eliminate war but allow us to write a New Story.

Il Sogno del Cosmo una Ricerca dellAnima e la storia di una ricerca a piu livelli per comprendere le cause della sofferenza umana e per riconnettersi con una realta piu profonda di quella che abitiamo in questa dimensione fisica dellesperienza. Cerca di rispondere alle domande: "Chi siamo?" e "Perche siamo qui, su questo pianeta?" Viene offerto a coloro che sono alla ricerca di qualcosa al di la dei valori superficiali della nostra cultura, che possono essere disillusi dai sistemi di credenze religiose e secolari attualmente presentati e che mettono in discussione i valori politici che sono profondamente impantanati nella ricerca del potere. È scritto con due voci: una la voce di una ricerca personale e laltra che esplora le cause storiche e psicologiche che hanno portato in essere la nostra visione attuale della realta.Il magnum opus di Anne Baring, in lavorazione da ventanni, e uno degli eventi editoriali dellanno: brillante, profondo e magistrale nella sua portata. In esso affronta le vere radici culturali della nostra multiforme crisi: spirituale, psicologica, ecologica, sociale, politica ed economica. Molta attenzione dal 2008 e stata rivolta ai sintomi economici che ora si stanno traducendo in un diffuso malessere sociale, ma pochi commentatori hanno scandagliato le profondita come fa questo libro e hanno chiesto una prospettiva radicalmente nuova. Per troppo tempo lanima e il principio femminile sono stati emarginati e soppressi, ma lesperienza di vita e il coinvolgimento appassionato di Anne Baring le hanno permesso di comprendere e articolare lo squilibrio nella nostra cultura occidentale e mostrare come puo essere superato. Il libro e un simbolo di speranza e rinascita, una lettura essenziale per chiunque desideri comprendere i modelli della storia culturale occidentale e le potenzialita del suo sviluppo futuro.

Éste es un libro único. Cuenta, por primera vez, la historia completa de lo femenino a través de las distintas ideas religiosas donde ha ido evolucionando la imagen mítica de este principio: desde las diosas paleoliticas, o Istar en Mesopotamia, Isis en Egipto o las diosas del mundo clasico, hasta Israel, donde lo femenino se oculta, para finalizar con la vuelta de la diosa madre en las figuras de Maria en el cristianismo y de Sofia en los gnosticos. Este libro, y sus mas de 400 ilustraciones, explica como el mito originario de la diosa se perdio y como la divinidad masculina fue desplazando su papel por la necesidad de situarlo en el nuevo contexto de la evolucion de la conciencia humana. Ahora, cuando los modelos de lo masculino y lo femenino estan mas confusos, cuando hemos desacralizado la naturaleza y somos incapaces de contemplar la vida como una unidad viviente, quiza se haga necesario conocer a fondo cual es la naturaleza de la antigua diosa madre, para comprender mejor las implicaciones psicologicas que ha supuesto su perdida para el ser humano. Anne Baring, psicoanalista junguiana, fue miembro de la International Association for Analytical Psychology hasta 2001 y ha coescrito con A. Harvey The Mystic Vision y The Divine Feminine. Jules Cashford estudio filosofia y literatura. Gran experta en mitologia, simbolismo y folklore, ha publicado The Moon: Myth and Image y traducido los himnos homericos.

Le Rêve du Cosmos est lhistoire dune quête à plusieurs niveaux pour comprendre les causes de la souffrance humaine et renouer avec une réalité plus profonde que celle que nous habitons dans cette dim

A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.

This book is a celebration of Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit, the forgotten feminine face of God. In this interlude between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius, the long-lost image of the Divine Feminine is returning. She, the Corner Stone that the builders rejected during the Age of Pisces, is initiating a crucial new phase in our evolution, urging us to discover a new ethic of responsibility towards the planet, bringing us a new vision of the sacredness and unity of life. Wisdom, justice, beauty, harmony, love and compassion and the impulse to help and to heal are the qualities that have traditionally been identified with the Divine Feminine, yet she is also the irresistible power that destroys old forms and brings new ones into being, the inspiration of the love-in-action that is needed to transform a culture that is radically out of touch with its soul. What happened to the Mother? Why is there no feminine aspect of the god-head - no God-the-Mother? Why, in the three patriarchal religions, do we have a Father God but no Mother God? I have chosen to write about the neglected feminine aspect of God because it is an essential aspect of our understanding of life and of ourselves, essential to the completion of our nature and our decadent, unbalanced and addicted civilization. It is also essential for both women and men to know there is a Divine Feminine Presence in the god-head or Ground of Being - a Mother. The Grail of the Feminine is urging us to open our heart to a new vision of reality, the revelation of all cosmic life as a divine unity. For those awakened to this vision, to be born a human being is not to be born into a fallen, flawed world of sin and illusion, cut off from the divine; it is to be born into a world lit by an invisible radiance, ensouled by Divine Presence, graced and sustained by incandescent Light and Love.

«Una obra larga, pero no le sobra ni una página. Es una obra de una importancia crucial.»Sir Laurens van der PostÉste es un libro único. Cuenta, por primera vez, la historia completa de lo femenino a