Janet Saunders - Playing with the cosmos - The journey of the soul from Plato to Ficino.
Our ideas about the cosmos can have profound implications for the way we behave towards ourselves and our world. Iain McGilchrist in The Master and His Emissary has argued that we, in our society, tend to rely too much on left-brain reasoning and that our relationship with our world has slipped out of balance. It was not always so. We have lost touch with an older cosmology that was the norm for 2,000 years and from India to France. Could there be lessons we can learn from our own deep cultural history that might help us live more balanced lives here and now?
Janet Saunders is a student at Canterbury Christ Church University studying an MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred. She draws her ideas for this talk from her MA creative project and from her studies of the works of Ibn 'Arabi and practice of astrology.
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