Rick Tarnas: Exploring the Soul's Journey through Time | Cosmic Codex Podcast

Join me for a profound conversation with Richard Tarnas on The Cosmic Codex podcast, where we explore the mysteries of time, the cosmos, astrology, and the evolution of consciousness. In this episode, Rick, author of Cosmos and Psyche and The Passion of the Western Mind, dives into the concepts of Kairos and Kronos, archetypal astrology, the crisis of modernity, and the transformative power of beauty and soul-making. Along the way, we engage with the ideas of Jung, Hillman, Keats, Charles Taylor, and others whose work continues to shape our understanding of psyche and cosmos.

🔗 Explore the works mentioned in this episode
Richard Tarnas: Cosmos and Psyche, The Passion of the Western Mind
C. G. Jung: The Undiscovered Self, Answer to Job
Charles Taylor: A Secular Age
James Hillman: The Soul’s Code
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Marie-Louise von Franz: Number and Time
John Keats: The Vale of Soul-Making
Plato, Nietzsche, Terence McKenna, and more

⏰ Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Meeting Richard Tarnas
01:11 The Meaning of Kairos vs Kronos (Jung’s The Undiscovered Self)
03:10 Archetypal Thresholds & The Role of the Arts
05:20 Time, Transformation, and the Modern Crisis (Taylor’s A Secular Age)
09:58 Higher Times, Myth, and the Sacred
12:00 The Divine Child, Synthesis, and Rebirth (Jung, Hillman, Blake)
16:00 Jung’s Answer to Job and the Feminine
19:00 Vertical & Horizontal Time, Archetypes, and the Axial Age
22:00 The Vale of Soul-Making (Keats) & The Crucible of Experience
25:00 Destiny, Archetypal Astrology, and the Acorn Theory (Hillman)
28:00 Collective Crisis, The Age of Aquarius, and Signs of Kairos
32:00 Initiation, Suffering, and the Rite of Passage
35:00 The Aesthetic Dimension: Beauty, Truth, and the Good
39:00 Closing Reflections & Further Resources

✨ If you enjoyed this episode, I encourage you to explore Rick Tarnas’s books and the other works mentioned above. For more on consciousness, astrology, and the evolution of meaning, visit www.arabellathais.com.

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