The Romantic Origins of Transpersonal Psychology Daniel Joseph PolikoffFrom Archai Issue 7, 2020 Literary Backdrop However one names, dates, or defines it, Romanticism transformed human consciousness. It is no accident that Wordsworth’s Prelude, perhaps the signature work of English Romanticism, revolves around the poet’s first-hand engagement with the French Revolution. Wildly enthusiastic at first yet bitterly disillusioned […]
Laura MichettiFrom Archai Issue 7, 2020 I am often struck by the inherent complexity of a field like the history of astrology. What does it mean to look back in time at astrology—a subject notoriously concerned with the future? Furthermore, extracting the history of astrology from the history of religion, philosophy, science, mythology, literature, astronomy, or esotericism, […]
Jessica Garfield-KabbaraFrom Archai Issue 5, 2016 Prelude Astrology is a soul-making practice. The astrologer participates in this sacred act by correlating experiences in the world with the movement of the planetary bodies. With its many incarnations, the soul passes through countless charts, each time living, growing, and creating from that chart’s unique archetypal structure. Astrology is a process of remembrance […]
An Evolving Perspective Delia ShargelFrom Archai Issue 5, 2016 For Jung, the call to individuate arises from the deepest sources of life and is supported inwardly and outwardly by the compensatory activities of nature. It is a call, therefore, that is not to be taken lightly. Both inwardly and outwardly nature strives unceasingly to bring about the realization, in the […]
Jung, Whitehead, and the Return of Formal Causation Grant MaxwellFrom Archai Issue 3, 2011 At first glance, C. G. Jung and Alfred North Whitehead might seem to have little in common. On the one hand, Jung spent the formative years of his early career working as a psychiatrist in a mental institution, during which time he began his […]
Keiron Le Grice From Archai Issue 3, 2011 Disenchantment is a term employed by Max Weber to describe the world view of modern secular society in which, as he puts it, “no mysterious incalculable forces come into play”—a world view in which recourse to mysticism, supernatural powers, gods and goddesses, spirits, and magical explanations is considered both unnecessary […]
An Archetypal Analysis of Rafael Nadal’s Personal Transit of Uranus to Jupiter Keiron Le GriceFrom Archai Issue 2, 2010 Even in a career defined by a precocious level of achievement, for Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal the fifteen-month period between January 2008 and April 2009 was extraordinarily successful. The likeable, courteous, and modest twenty-four-year-old from Mallorca embarked on an incredible winning […]
Saturn-Neptune Richard TarnasFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 Through an exploration of the individual biographies, personalities, and the creative work of major figures in both popular and high culture, Richard Tarnas’s essay on the Saturn-Neptune archetypal complex gives a powerful demonstration of the multidimensional nature of the archetypes and their myriad forms of expression in the particulars of human experience. In […]
An Archetypal Analysis of Bruce Springsteen’s Song Lyrics Keiron Le GriceFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 Focusing on the expression of the planetary archetypes in the creative work of a single artist, this article explores the searing intensity and transformative power of the archetypal Pluto, in aspect to Venus and Mars, as expressed in the song lyrics […]
An Archetypal History of New England Puritanism Rod O’NealFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 This essay is the first in a three-part series that together present a detailed archetypal history of a single historical movement, the Puritan movement, especially as it developed in New England. Despite the many critical assessments of its influence on American and British […]
