Cosmos and Psyche – I owe a great deal to Richard Tarnas’ Cosmos and Psyche (2006). Tarnas combines a Jesuit education, depth psychology at Harvard, ten years at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Stanislav Grof, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, and James Hillman, lecturing at PacificaGraduate Institute and director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has a deep grounding in Western thought (his Passion of the Western Mind has been hailed as a classic, even by scholars disappointed by his “foray” into astrology. I have not had the privilege of working with him, despite studying at CIIS while he was teaching there. I deeply regret never having tried to audit a class and now he is retired. Tarnas’ website hasn’t been updated recently–I highly recommend the book.
