Talk with Prof. (em.) Dr. Richard Tarnas am 11. August 2026 – The Enigma Astrology – a deep Mystery – CIIS – Passion of the Western Mind  – Cosmos and Psyche – a challenging Anomaly for the modern Mind – Astrology in the Approach to Life.

März 1976 – The Calling of Astrology in Esalen – = 50 Years in 2026

2006 – Cosmos and Psyche = 20 Years – https://cosmosandpsyche.com/

Kosmos Institute – https://www.kosmosinstitute.org

facebook – https://www.facebook.com/rick.tarnas

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The Enigma of Astrology – a deep mystery – a challenging anomaly for the modern mind – Astrology in the approach to life – a lighthearted conversation between Academia and practice in Astrology

A Brief History of Western Thought – Filmliste – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx8qA3u_BLFthsP4uYvM_GsETahlPHAH https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/Mind1.mp4 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/Mind2.mp4 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/Mind3.mov.mp4 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/Mind4.mp4 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/Mind5.mp4

SAE Filmliste Prof. Dr. Richard Tarnas – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx8qA3u_BLGpt6eso0qtjrwpp1-jaGqQ – Spezial Richard Tarnas – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx8qA3u_BLHBOrkqcj-EkVvQ5kLKzi2v – Richard Tarnas on Cosmos and Psyche – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTdwE_qVTE0&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLGpt6eso0qtjrwpp1-jaGqQ&index=3 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/13.mp4

https://astrology.vonabisw.de/prof-dr-richard-tarnas-ciis-free-will-in-astrology

12a – Prof.em. Richard Tarnas – Free Will in Astrology – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEPZX0WkmM0 – Talk – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Wille/Richard1.mp4

12b – Prof.em. Richard Tarnas – Free Will in Astrology – Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDe9r71l60 – Talk – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Wille/Richard2.mp4

Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View 

Homepage – https://cosmosandpsyche.com/about/

Astrowiki – https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/de/Richard_Tarnas

Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCKPz4q3EX-uU6q39iI6UJQKYoqPF_8IQ

Archai – Homepage – http://www.archai.org

CIIS – http://www.ciis.edu/academics/pcc.html

Passion of the Western Mind – Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

Prometheus the Awakener –

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ASTRO-LEGEND RICHARD TARNAS – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brUkSVrUFGM&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLG3ZKLMQw9GK9aQYi8B5kXF&index=3 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/1.mp4

Richard Tarnas on Cosmos and Psyche – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTdwE_qVTE0&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLGpt6eso0qtjrwpp1-jaGqQ&index=3&t=21s – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/2.mp4

Richard Tarnas „The Second Axial Age“ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlukDizZ-Ac – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/3.mp4

LEGENDARY ASTROLOGER REVEALS: Humanity Is Entering a Threshold of Transformation | Richard Tarnas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6Pp1Ccjv8 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/4.mp4

Rick Tarnas: Exploring the Soul’s Journey through Time | Cosmic Codex Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BpeG6iHoA0 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/5.mp4

Archetypes, Ancient Wisdom & Putting the Soul Back Into Psyche | Richard Tarnas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV0KYN6n6ng – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/6.mp4

Re-Enchanting the Western World View with Richard Tarnas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjdBcQGTgn0 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/7.mp4

Interview with Richard Tarnas: Navigating this Time of Crisis with Faith and Spiritual Awareness – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQk1_goRWkE – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/8.mp4

James Hillman’s Manifesto of Soul (RVP50) | Rick Tarnas | HITW 208 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwnjHEYi8Q – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/9.mp4

The truth behind astrology and the human mind — Richard Tarnas — Neon Galactic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HUWOx54z0s – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/10.mp4

Richard Tarnas on the Planets in 2024: An Archetypal Astrology Overview I CIIS Public Programs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXUXRxH2V6A – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/11.mp4

Richard Tarnas – On Depth Psychology, Spirituality, and the Human Journey. February 6th, 2025 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upW6FTCR1z8 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Tarnas/12.mp4

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  1. You have described astrology as an unresolved anomaly for the modern worldview. What, in your view, prevents contemporary academia from engaging with it as a legitimate philosophical question rather than dismissing it as a settled issue?
  2. Your work challenges the Cartesian separation between mind and cosmos. What kind of epistemology would be required for astrology to become intellectually conceivable within contemporary scholarship?
  3. Do you see astrology as evidence for an enchanted cosmos, or rather as an invitation to rethink the assumptions underlying modern scientific materialism?
  4. You have written extensively about archetypal cosmology. In what sense are archetypes ontologically real, and how does astrology illuminate their relationship to lived experience?
  5. How do you distinguish meaningful synchronicity from confirmation bias without reducing either to purely subjective interpretation?
  6. Could astrology be understood as a participatory mode of knowing rather than a predictive system? What would such a shift imply for philosophy of science?
  7. Do you believe the central challenge for astrology today is empirical validation, or is it primarily a crisis of interpretation and worldview?
  8. If astrology is fundamentally symbolic rather than causal, what standards of intellectual rigor should govern its interpretation?
  9. How can astrology avoid becoming merely a projection of psychological narratives while still honoring the symbolic richness of archetypal experience?
  10. Your intellectual journey bridges philosophy, psychology, history, and astrology. Which discipline, in your view, currently offers the greatest opportunity for a serious dialogue with astrology—and why?
  11. How should we understand the remarkable historical correspondences between planetary cycles and cultural transformations without falling into deterministic thinking?
  12. To what extent does astrology challenge the prevailing distinction between objective knowledge and subjective meaning?
  13. Would you argue that astrology reveals something about the structure of reality itself, or primarily about the structure of human consciousness?
  14. How has your engagement with archetypal astrology changed your understanding of freedom, agency, and moral responsibility?
  15. Many critics argue that astrology lacks falsifiability. Do you think falsifiability is an appropriate criterion for evaluating symbolic systems of knowledge?
  16. Is the current scientific paradigm capable of accommodating astrology, or would its serious consideration require a Kuhnian paradigm shift of comparable magnitude to the Copernican revolution?
  17. If astrology has survived for millennia across vastly different civilizations, what does that historical persistence itself tell us about human cognition and our relationship to the cosmos?
  18. How do you envision a productive collaboration between practicing astrologers and academic researchers without reducing one perspective to the assumptions of the other?
  19. What unanswered philosophical question about astrology do you consider the most important for the next generation of scholars?
  20. If you were designing a university curriculum for the study of astrology today, what intellectual traditions and methodological approaches would be essential?
  21. Looking back over your life’s work, what aspect of astrology do you believe remains most profoundly misunderstood—not only by skeptics, but also by astrologers themselves?