PORT TOWNSEND — Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will host “An Evening With Richard Tarnas” on Sunday.
The author will speak from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the church at 2333 San Juan Ave.
Admission is by a suggested donation of $10.
Tarnas is a cultural historian and author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View.
‘Cosmos, Psyche’
During his lecture, “Cosmos and Psyche,” he will discuss the notion of kairos — a Greek word meaning a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action, or simply the opportune and decisive moment, according to www.Merriam-Webster.com.
“Civilization, and indeed the Earth community itself, seems to be facing a threshold of fundamental transformation that 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 [the late Carl] Jung called the individuation process,” the church says on its website at www.quuf.org.
Tarnas will draw on depth psychology and archetypal astrology to offer ideas on how people might find a context for understanding and action.
After the lecture, Tarnas will participate in an informal dialogue with the audience.
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, according to the release.
Upcoming film
His book is the basis for an upcoming documentary film, “Changing of the Gods,” narrated by John Cleese, produced by Kenny Ausube and directed by Louie Schwartzberg.
For more information, call 360-821-1732.
