![]() 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. Tonight’s lecture will try to glimpse a larger context and frame of reference to help us access those deeper moral and spiritual sources through which we can better engage our perilous time and perhaps find new resilience in our lives. ![]() Equally important, they recognized that our individual unfolding is embedded within larger, ever-evolving historical developments that shape our personal journeys, and that reflect a kind of collective spiritual and moral evolution. Jung and Stanislav Grof as well as certain philosophers like Hegel and Charles Taylor have helped restore to the secular modern mind the recognition that the unfolding of human life is at a deep level a spiritual and moral journey. Can we find a place of equilibrium, an eye in the storm, from which we can engage our time of intense polarization and radical change? What is the role of hope in such an era? For each of us to navigate our way in life during this dramatic, challenging age of human history and Earth evolution requires sources of insight that go beyond simple strategies for just getting ahead or coping with life. ![]()
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