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Cosmos and Psyche: Archetypal Astrology and a Depth Understanding of History

Saturdays, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Pacific time)
January 9 – March 13, 2027

A nine-week online immersion in Richard Tarnas’s Cosmos and Psyche, exploring the relationship between planetary cycles, archetypal patterns, depth psychology, and history. Beginning with the modern disenchanted world view and its consequences for the psyche, the course examines archetypal astrology as a rigorous lens for understanding psychological transformation, cultural history, and the deeper structures of collective experience.

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The Passion of the Western Mind: A Brief History of Western Thought

On Demand Course at Kosmos Institute

Now available on demand, this nine-week course presents an introductory survey of the evolution of the Western world view, beginning with its roots in ancient Greece and Israel against the background of the great archaic Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations. After tracing its development through the classical era and High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution, we will explore the gradual transformation of the modern world view, established during the European Enlightenment and counterbalanced by Romanticism, into the radically pluralistic postmodern sensibility that influences the increasingly global civilization of the present age. Lectures will address key dimensions of world views such as the nature of the cosmos, the divine, the human, and the mythic metanarrative with which each age seeks to contextualize itself.

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The Passion of the Western Mind

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“The most lucid and concise presentation I have read, of the grand lines of what every student should know about the history of Western thought. The writing is elegant and carries the reader with the momentum of a novel… It is really a noble performance.”
—Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“The best intellectual history of the West in one volume I have ever seen.”
—Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions

“It is a superb, enthralling book—a masterpiece: as gripping as a detective story; as moving as a poem. Tarnas writes lucidly, brilliantly, passionately, unfolding the great drama of the evolution of the Western mind act by act, scene by scene in precise and scholarly detail.”
—Anne Baring, Resurgence

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Cosmos and Psyche

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“It is hard to think of many books written in the past century that will still be read two hundred years from now. Cosmos and Psyche will top that short list. It is majestic, sweeping, and profound. This will be a book for the ages. It will stand over time with the seminal expressions of the human spirit.”
—William Van Dusen Wishard, author of Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and The Crisis of Meaning

“Cosmos and Psyche is an epoch-making work. It combines impeccably meticulous scholarship and extraordinary clarity of thinking and writing with deep creative vision. The evidence contained here represents the most significant challenge I have seen to the materialistic paradigm of modern science.”
—Stanislav Grof, author of Psychology of the Future

“This is the closest my head has been to exploding while reading a book.”
—Mary Hynes, CBC Tapestry

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