Join Us Saturday February 28, 10am - 1pm PT for
Richard Tarnas, PhD: "Is Modern Humanity Undergoing a Rite of Passage?"
WHEN: Saturday Feb 28, 2015, 10 am-1 pm
WHERE: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, Art 108
“We have not understood yet that the discovery of the unconscious means an enormous spiritual task, which must be accomplished if we wish to preserve our civilization.” C. G. Jung
Our time is pervaded by a great paradox. On the one hand, we see signs of an unprecedented level of engaged global awareness, moral sensitivity to the human and non-human community, psychological self-awareness, and spiritually informed philosophical pluralism.
On the other hand, we confront the most critical, and in some respects catastrophic, state of the Earth in human history. Both these conditions have emerged directly from the modern age, whose light and shadow consequences now affect every part of the planet.
We are facing a threshold of fundamental collective transformation that bears a striking resemblance to what takes place on the individual level in initiatory rites of passage, in near-death experiences, in spiritual crises, and in critical stages of what Jung called the individuation process.
Can we find a place of equilibrium, an eye in the storm, from which we can engage this time of intense polarization and rapid change more consciously and thus more skillfully? And in such an era of transition, what is the role of "heroic" communities which carry principles and perspectives that run counter to the mainstream modern world view?
Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology 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.
He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that became both a best seller and a required text in many 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 in the UK. Professor Tarnas frequently lectures at various Jung institutes and societies in the U.S. as well as at Eranos in Switzerland, and served for six years on the Board of Governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
Doors open at 9:30 a.m., Donations accepted
$30 fee for 3 hours CE for therapists (BBSE); CE registration at the door the morning of the event
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