An Evening with Richard Tarnas

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Join CIIS Professor Emeritus and cultural historian Richard Tarnas for an illuminating discussion of the nature of the human journey. This talk draws on the implicit framework and underlying context of Richard’s popular annual state of the world weather reports presented over the last four years with CIIS Public Programs.

Richard explores one of C. G. Jung’s most crucial contributions to psychology, the recognition that the unfolding of a human life is at a deep level a spiritual journey. Jung also recognized that our individual psychological unfolding is embedded within larger, ever-evolving historical developments that shape our personal journeys, and that reflect a kind of collective spiritual evolution. Finally, Jung saw that informing both the individual psyche and the collective evolution are powerful archetypal principles and forces that deeply influence human experience and behavior. This archetypal dimension appears to be expressive not only of the human psyche, but of the cosmos itself.

Richard invites you to explore how we might understand the complex interplay of these important levels of meaning and influence, so we might gain a more profound perspective on the deeper character of human life and experience, especially in our own dramatic, challenging era.

 

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Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program in which he taught for 30 years. His courses explored the history of ideas, depth psychology, archetypal cosmology, cultural history, and the evolution of consciousness. Formerly the director of programs and education at Esalen Institute, he is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that is widely used in universities. His second book, Cosmos and Psyche, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network. He is also the co-editor with Sean Kelly of Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof. Richard Tarnas is a past president of the International Transpersonal Association and served on the Board of Governors for the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
 

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