We are very happy to host next Tuesday (via the internet) at our “Babel Astro-Scholar evenings” the world-wide renowned Astrologer Richard Tarnas!
Richard Tarnas is a professor of philosophy and cultural history 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. A graduate of Harvard University and Saybrook Institute, he is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche: An Intimation of a New World View. His “World Transits 2000-2020: An Overview,” focused especially on the years 2008-12, can be read at http://www.Archaijournal.org.
In order to get more acquainted with Richard Tarnas’ astrological
worldview we are quoting here an excerpt from an article he wrote for
the prestigious “Mountain Astrologer” magazine!
“”I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of
the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is
one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a
meaning-laden and purposeful universe — a cosmos that is coherent with
our deepest spiritual and moral aspirations. Recognition of these
correlations can help us to become more consciously co-creative
participants in a cosmic unfolding. All of this points to yet another
level of archetypal understanding: what Plato would call the Idea of the
Good informing the cosmos, what Hegel would call the World Spirit
realizing itself through history, and what Jung might describe as the
Self archetype operating within the collective evolution of humankind
itself.
Much like a life-changing spiritual awakening produced by a powerful
synchronicity, it is possible that a collective encounter with the
growing body of rigorously researched and skillfully presented
astrological correlations could help to awaken the modern mind from its
disenchanted cosmological condition. Astrology could then serve as a
great catalyst of humanity’s evolution of consciousness at this pivotal
moment in our history, reframing the larger Copernican revolution as
part of a long, birth-panged initiation of humanity and the Earth into
the larger cosmic community of being. In this sense, astrology itself
might be seen mythically as a form of Promethean fire bestowed from the
heavens, helping to liberate humankind from the collapsing modern matrix
it has clearly outgrown.””
So, if you are by chance in Athens or around come over and honor (and be
honored by) Richard Tarnas, on Tuesday October 9th, 9 pm (Athens time)
at the “BABEL” artspace (87, Vas. Sofias str., Marousi).
Moderator: Thomas Gazis. Free entrance.
