At the Threshold of a New World View

An evening talk by Prof. Richard Tarnas, California Institute of Integral Studies Friday 12 June, 7.30-9.30pm Universal Hall, The Park, Findhorn, Moray Entry by donation to cover venue cost

We are living at the end of an era.  The old structures of the world are cracking apart, the moment of creative chaos is upon us, and the drama of our time has become a great question: What new principles, what new structures—social, political, economic, intellectual, psychological, spiritual—will emerge to shape our future?  Everything is at stake, from the deep ecology of our planetary biosphere to the deep ecology of the human spirit. 

This drama is taking place within an invisible but powerful context that has been fundamentally shaped by our cosmology, understood in the broadest sense.  For a culture’s cosmology is the encompassing framework, the metastructure of meaning, by which everything else is defined.  The limits of our cosmological imagination define the limits of our existence.  Will we live in a disenchanted, mechanistic, purposeless universe as a randomly produced oddity of isolated consciousness, or will we discover our embeddedness and creative participation in a living cosmos of profound unfolding meaning and purpose?

Worldviews create worlds: Our response to these questions will have enduring consequences. 
 
Join Richard Tarnas this evening as we seek insights that might illuminate this challenging moment in our history, and provide a larger context for both understanding and action.

Contact Information:
Findhorn College, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ
Tel: 01309 690806, E-mail: college@findhorncollege.org

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 teaches archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.  A graduate of Harvard and formerly the director of programs at Esalen Institute, 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.  He frequently lectures at Eranos in Switzerland as well as at various Jung institutes and societies throughout the U.S., and is on the Board of Governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.  His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in the UK.