What:Workshop
Who: Richard Tarnus
When: Saturday
Fees: $50.00, members; $75.00, nonmembers; $40.00 full-time students and seniors over 65
Jung's concept of synchronicity represents one of the most fruitful efforts of the twentieth century to construct a bridge across the chasm between mind and matter, self and world, psyche and cosmos. In popular culture, the concept has been surprisingly widely embraced. The term and the phenomenon it describes play no small role in the way many individuals make sense of their lives. In the face of the disenchanted modern world view, the search for a deeper ground of purpose and meaning that trans- cends human subjectivity has become an urgent spiritual priority. For many today, synchronicities are directly relevant to this search, and are frequently experienced as provocative, if elusive, signs that such deeper structures of meaning and purpose do perhaps exist. The concept has also had a unique impact in the intellectual world, having been cited by physicists as posing a major challenge to the philosophical foundaof modern science, and by religious scholars as holding deep implicafor the modern psychology of religion. In tonight's lecture Professor Tarnas will summarize the origin and history of the concept in Jung's work, discriminate among his several conflicting formulations, discuss the experiential and transformational dimension of synchronistic events, analyze the new understanding of causality these presuppose, and address their larger metaphysical and perhaps evolutionary implications.
We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.
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. 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. 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 England
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