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**POSTPONED Archetypal State of the World: A Weekend with Richard Tarnas


  • Blakemore United Methodist Church 3601 West End Avenue Nashville, TN, 37205 United States (map)

**As we monitor the situation around COVID-19, the Nashville Jung Circle has decided to POSTPONE the following event out of concern for the health and safety of our members and community.


Friday Night: "Humanity's Rite of Passage" with introduction by Rodney Crowell. 7pm-9pm

Philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas will speak about our age of transformation and discuss the challenges and possibilities of this dramatic time for which Jung used the term kairos, the pivotal moment for a fundamental spiritual and cultural change in human experience. Please join us at 6:15 for registration and reception. Lecture starts at 7pm. 

Saturday Workshop: "Gimmer Shelter: Weathering the Storm in an Archetypal Cosmos" 10am-1pm

Richard Tarnas will present his "state of the world report" on archetypal astrology of our national and global moment. There will be a private advance screening of Episode 1 of Changing of the Gods, a documentary series based on his book Cosmos and Psyche. Please join us at 9:15 for registration and light breakfast reception. Workshop starts at 10am. 

Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He frequently lectures on archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and was formerly the director of programs and education 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 widely used in universities. His second book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network, and is the basis for the upcoming documentary film Changing of the Gods. He is a past president of the International Transpersonal Association and served for many years on the Board of Governors for the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

*Tickets are available for each event or you may purchase the weekend package for a reduced entry fee.