The Archetypal Cosmos: Rediscovering the Gods in Myth, Science, and Astrology
The modern world is passing through a time of critical change on many levels: cultural, political, ecological, and spiritual. We are witnessing the decline and dissolution of the old order and the tumult and uncertainty of a new birth. Against this background is the urgent need for a coherent framework of meaning to guide and to lead individuals and society beyond the growing fragmentation of culture, belief, and personal identity.
Keiron Le Grice asserts that developing insights of a new cosmology can provide this framework to us discover an underlying order that shapes our life experiences. In a compelling synthesis of ideas from the seminal thinkers of depth psychology and new paradigm sciences, The Archetypal Cosmos positions the new discipline of archetypal astrology at the center of an emerging worldview that reunifies psyche and cosmos, spirituality and science, and mythology and metaphysics to enable us to see mythic gods, heroes, and themes in a new light. The author draws especially on the work of Jung, Joseph Campbell, Richard Tarnas, Fritjof Capra, David Bohm and Brian Swimme.
Heralding a “rediscovery of the gods” and passage into a new spiritual era, The Archetypal Cosmos presents a new understanding of the role of myth and archetypal principles in our lives, one that could give a cosmic perspective and deeper meaning to our personal experiences.
About the Author
Keiron Le Grice is a professor of depth psychology and chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, where he teaches courses on archetypes, alchemy, synchronicity, and the history of depth psychology. He was educated at the University of Leeds (B.A. honors, Philosophy and Psychology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco (M.A., Ph.D., Philosophy and Religion). He is the author of four books––The Archetypal Cosmos, Discovering Eris, The Rebirth of the Hero, and Archetypal Reflections––and the co-editor of Jung on Astrology (Routledge, 2017). The founder and a former editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology, Keiron now serves as senior editorial advisor. In 2016, he co-founded the Institute of Transpersonal and Archetypal Studies (www.itas-psychology.com) with colleagues in the UK and US. He also teaches in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at CIIS and for Grof Transpersonal Training.
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