The Planets Within

by Thomas Moore

Book Overview

The Planets Within asks us to return to antiquity with new eyes. It centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age--Renaissance Italy, where a group of "inner Columbuses" charted territories that still give us today a much- needed sense of who we are and where we have come from, and the right routes to take toward fertile and unexplored places.

Chief among these masters of the interior life was Marsilio...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940262282
• ISBN13: 9780940262287
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino

An excellent book! Glad I finally found it. My background in theology, philosophy, Neoplatonism and astrology prepared me to appreciate this book, in which these ancient traditions coalesce. I have read other books by Thomas Moore, but never came across this one before. The time was right!

Ficino Revived!

As the first Depth Psychologist, Ficino really did it up. Read this book and learn about it. Then with this wisdom in your back pocket you can go to cocktail parties and no one will want to hear about it. But you will know that it doesn't matter anyway because one day you will meet someone who does and you will be able to both look each other in the eyes and say... "We're crazy." And it will be great.

Marvelous

It is nothing short of miraculous to "discover" that the last frontier is not outer space after all, but Inner Space ("the things which are seen are but a mirror of the things not seen")...if you are questing for this reality, you might find it helpful to read St. Teresa's book THE INTERIOR CASTLE.