On April 8-9, 2006, soon after the publication of his groundbreaking book Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a World View, professor Richard Tarnas conducted a weekend workshop at the Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara, California. Drawing on the insights of Jung and others, he explored the evolution of the modern world view and the forgoing of the modern self, which have affected everything from contemporary religions and psychotherapy to U.S. foreign policy and the global ecological crisis. He addressed three overlapping topics: the nature of archetypes as that concept has evolved from Plato to Jung and beyond; Jung’s concept of synchronicity, which challenged the disenchanted world view and became a major focus of his own psychospiritual practice; and the categories of “masculine” and “feminine,” taking into account the more complex nature of those terms than the simple classical polarity suggested.
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