Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate programme in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he currently teaches. His two books – The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View – are the result of decades of deep thinking, thorough research and original connections across religion, history, philosophy and cosmology.
Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
Works mentioned:
Realms of the Human Unconscious, Stanislav Grof
The Hero with a Thousands Faces, Joseph Campbell
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson
The World’s Religions, Huston Smith
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Khun
Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman
Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor
From a Broken Web, Catherine Keller
