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This book explores ideas, beliefs, and practices that meet at the boundaries between psychology and cosmology, the universe and human imagination. The many contributors address this special relationship from a variety of challenging and inspiring approaches. Dr Nicholas Campion is Principal Lecturer in History and Director of the Sophia Centre at Bath Spa University, and course director of the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He also lectures on the history of astrology for Kepler College, Seattle. His other books include The Great Year and What do Astrologers Believe? Dr Patrick Curry is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent. His most recent books are Ecological Ethics: An Introduction and Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity. He lives in London. Dr Patrick Curry is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent. His most recent books are Ecological Ethics: An Introduction and Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity. He lives in London. Introduction: Sky and Psyche: Heaven and Soul by Nicholas Campion Part I: The Alchemical Sky 1. Love and the Alchemical Saturn by Liz Greene 2. The Azure Vault: The Caelum as Experience by James Hillman Part II: Sky and Psyche 3. Chartres Cathedral and the Role of the Sun in the Cathedral’s Christian Platonist Theology by Bernadette Brady 4. Life Across the Cosmos by Neville Brown 5. Imagining Eternity: Weaving ‘The Heavens’ Embroidered Cloths’ by Jules Cashford 6. The Soul of the Sky by Noel Cobb 7. The Russian Spirit of Place by Cherry Gilchrist 8. A Dimensional Model for the Relationship of Consciousness and Cosmos: Mathematical Abstraction versus Conscious Experience by Robert Hand 9. Sun Gods and Moon Deities in Africa by Jarita C. Holbrook 10. Where the Heavens Meet the Earth: Inspirations from the Lives of Carl Jung, Jalal-u-din Rumi and Mahatma Ghandi by Nicholas Pearson 11. Understanding the Modern Disenchantment of the Cosmos by Richard Tarnas 12. The Secret Life of Statues by Angela Voss
