These three forms of human experience – meaningful coincidences, romantic love, and astrology – have several things in common: 1) They all can open us to profound dimensions of life; 2) they are all especially susceptible to unconscious projections; and 3) they all can be negated by skepticism. How do we make our way between the mirages of projection on the one hand and the desert of skeptical negation on the other? This is the difficult path we must walk to reach the treasure of authentic contact with the numinous – in life, in another human being, in the cosmos.
Richard Tarnas is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also lectures on archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and is on the Board of Governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view widely used as a text in universities, and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network. He has taught graduate courses and seminars on archetypal astrology in conjunction with psychology, philosophy, and cultural history to many hundreds of students at accredited graduate schools during the past twenty years.
Doors open at 7:00 pm. The lecture begins at 7:30 pm.
If you would like to pre-register and pay for the lecture online, you can do so here.
Lectures are held at the Puget Sound Yacht Club at 2321 North Northlake Way in Seattle. Directions are available on the website here.
Richard will also be giving a workshop on Saturday, March 10, entitled Understanding Our Moment in History: An Archetypal Perspective. Information can be found here.
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