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Take an in-person class at Wisdom University!

Wisdom University is a graduate school dedicated to catalyzing personal and professional renewal within the context of granting academic degrees. All of our courses are also open to wisdom seekers interested in deepening their learning journey in a global community setting. Wisdom University offers full spectrum transformational programs designed to engage the multi-sensory student. These combine the best of e-learning and social networking capacities with in-person gatherings and pilgrimages. The University's uniqueness lies in the unusual way it blends intellectual discernment, artistic expression, body movement, and psychological integration, all combined to catalyze the pursuit of wisdom as a way of life.

Some Upcoming In-Person Intensives:

The State of the World: Seeking the Pattern That Connects

Dates: March 18–22, 2013

Location: Nyenrode Business University (tbc), the Netherlands

Overview

This course will reflect upon the major changes taking place in the world today and the fundamental questions they compel-changes that compel us to confront paradox, and questions that lead us to deeper questions. Read more about this course here.

Archetypal Cosmology and Unfolding World Events

Dates: March 11–15, 2013

Location: Anubhuti Retreat Center, CA

In this course, Richard Tarnas, author of Passion of the Western Mindand Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, will explore the archetypal character of astrology, and bring to light some of the extraordinary planetary correlations that can be made with current world events. He writes:

In the end, I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe—a cosmos that is deeply coherent with our deepest spiritual and moral aspirations. Recognition of these correlations can help us be more consciously co-creative participants in a cosmic unfolding. All of this points to yet another level of archetypal understanding: what Plato would call the Idea of the Good informing the cosmos, what Hegelwould call the World Spirit realizing itself through history, and what Jung would call the Self archetype operating within the collective evolution of humankind itself. I believe astrology can serve as a powerful catalyst and vessel of this evolution of consciousness, as it reframes the larger Copernican revolution as part of a long, birth-panged initiation of humanity and the Earth into the larger galactic and cosmic community of being. In this sense, astrology would itself seem to have an archetypal character, as a form of Promethean fire that could help liberate humankind from the collapsing modern containment it has clearly outgrown.

Find out more: wisdomuniversity.org/CourseCalendar2012.htm

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