SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning welcomes Richard Tarnas, Ph.D. to discuss Humanity’s Rite of Passage
SANTA BARBARA — SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning (the CLL) welcomes depth psychologist Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., to present the next CLL Mind & Supermind lecture, “Humanity’s Rite of Passage.” Dr. Tarnas will draw on philosophy, religion and cultural history to seek a larger context for both understanding and action. The Mind & Supermind lecture will be held Monday, May 8th at 7:30 p.m. at the SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning Schott Campus, with registration available online at www.theCLL.org.
Tarnas’ best-selling book “The Passion of the Western Mind” was acclaimed by Joseph Campbell as “The most lucid and concise presentation I have read, of the grand lines of what every student should know about the history of Western thought.”
This compelling lecture will explore how our civilization, indeed the Earth community itself, seems to be on the threshold of a fundamental transformation. This impending transmutation bears a striking resemblance to what takes place on the individual level in initiatory rites of passage, near-death experiences, spiritual crises, and critical stages of what C. G. Jung called the individuation process. Can we find a place of equilibrium, an eye in the storm, from which we can engage this time of intense polarization and radical change? What is the role of those “heroic” communities which carry principles and perspectives that transcend the mainstream modern world view?
“Dr. Tarnas has an incredible body of work, and we can’t wait for the community to see what he has in store for this lecture,” said Andy Harper, SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning Executive Director. “The CLL Mind & Supermind series has been exploring fascinating areas of human psychology and consciousness for more than 35 years, and this lecture is a great time to jump in and join us.”
Dr. Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches. He is a graduate of Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute. He is on the Board of Governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He has been a frequent lecturer at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and gives many public lectures and seminars in the U.S. and abroad.
He is the author of the widely read books “The Passion of the Western Mind” and “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View,” having received the Scientific and Medical Network’s Book of the Year Prize for the latter.
- WHAT: SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning Mind and Supermind lecture: Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., “Humanity’s Rite of Passage.”
- WHEN: Monday, May 8, 7:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.
- WHERE: Schott Campus, Tannahill Auditorium, 310 W. Padre Street, Santa Barbara
- ADMISSION: $20
- EVENT INFO: info@theCLL.org, (805) 687-0812
- MEDIA CONTACT: Angel Pacheco/Juliana Minsky, (805) 687-3322
Please register here.
Course number: 20365
About SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning (The CLL): The SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning mission is to be responsive to the diverse lifelong learning needs of adult members of the Santa Barbara Community. CLL aims to be the educational, cultural and social hub for the Santa Barbara community, continuing a nearly 60-year tradition of excellence. CLL is online at www.theCLL.org, and on Facebook (sbccCLL), Twitter (@sbccCLL) and YouTube.