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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores the work of Luce Irigaray, who is perhaps the most important contemporary feminist philosopher. It focuses on Irigaray's fruitful explications, in both analytical and poetic terms, of the myriad ramifications and creativepossibilities of acknowledging sexuate difference, as well as her insights into the fertile dynamics that are lost to a culture when it denies sexual difference by insisting on the assumption that the male is the norm. Instead, Irigaray advocates developing a culture of intersubjectivity (between the sexes) as well as a culture of female subjectivity (among women). The coursework is organized in the following areas: philosophy, linguistics, spirituality, art, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
In the wake of quantum physics and complexity studies, Western philosophy is ripe for a rethinking inspired by the biological, ecological, and cosmological awakening. This course analyzes both the problem (the West's long "dogmatic slumber" in a trance of disembodied, disembeddedmechanistic assumptions) and the emergent corrections and creative possibilities. Students will study pioneering philosophers of an embodied, embedded orientation; discuss relevant findings derived from recent holistic discoveries in science; discuss new options; and contribute via their paper to the emergence of post-mechanistic, embodied, embedded ecosocial philosophy by reframing and reconsidering a key issue or area in Western philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
During the modern age, the fundamental context for meaning was the nation-state. This is now understood to be too restrictive to serve the needs of our multicultural, planetary world. The new context is Earth, the matrix for every culture and nation. This course covers the evolutionary journey of Earth from molten matter to our present time. Topics explored include the dynamics of Earth in the shaping of the continents, the birth of life, and the appearance and functioning of the human groups. The course includes speculations on the emerging role of humanity as a partner with the other fundamental components of Earth.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Nature and Eros takes the form of an intensive retreat and employs an integral educational process, including the conceptual, the emotional, the experiential, and the intuitive, in order to embrace Nature as the multidimensional matrix, not only of our bodies, minds, and souls, but of our civilization as well. In each course, participants live together for five days in a distinct natural setting: forest, ocean, wetlands, mountain, or desert. Participants turn to Nature herself because she has the power to awaken us to our true authenticity.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course considers the related movements of Romanticism and Idealism, especially as they flourished in Germany and England around the turn of the 19th century, as the birth of what would later come to be known as the New Paradigm. Through a reading of representative texts- including selections from Goethe, Blake, Schelling, Hegel, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Fechner, along with such later interpreters as Owen Barfield, Arthur Lovejoy, M. H. Abrams, and W. Hanegraaff-the course focuses on the variously inflected romantic and idealist alternative to the still-dominant mechanistic and disenchanted worldview of late modernity.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the spiritual-scientific research of Rudolf Steiner, the 20th-century esoteric-spiritual clairvoyant and initiate, and to anthroposophy, the esoteric discipline intended, in Steiner's words, "to lead the spiritual in the individual to the spiritual in the Universe.?eadings in this course include an exposition of Steiner's life, thought, and practical advice; Steiner's writings anthologized i n The EssentialSteiner; a reading and discussion of Steiner's foundational text for spiritual practice, How to Know Higher Worlds; and books on the implications and applications of Steiner's insights and method for the attainment of higher knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores mythic patterns at the heart of Western religions. The course examines the earliest Mesopotamian roots of the symbolic systems of the West; the core myths of the ancient Israelites; the merging of ancient Near Eastern ritual and myth, Israelite apocalyptic speculation, and Greek mysticism and cosmology that created the symbolic matrix from which the Christian movement emerged; the process by which multiple layers of archetypal imagery gradually became woven around the historical figure of Jesus; and the fully developed Christ-myth in sources ranging from the visionary mythmaker Paul to various Gnostic traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Two key figures in the 20th century's engagement with the intersection of philosophy, cosmology, and consciousness were Alfred North Whitehead and C. G. Jung. This course offers an overview of their work, grounded in entirely different disciplines but approaching the same mystery. The final part of the course is devoted to exploring and discussing the remarkable contributions to the anthology Archetypal Process, based on a provocative and fruitful 1983 conference with James Hillman, David Ray Griffin, Catherine Keller, and others, perhaps the fullest academic anticipation of the concerns and themes that later came to inspire the transdisciplinary focus of the PCC program.
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3.00 Credits
Thesis/Dissertation Proposal Completion
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the emerging understanding of the relationship between the human psyche and the cosmos, based on observed correlations between various psychological conditions and transformations and specific planetary positions. Topics include the extended cartography of the human psyche suggested by modern consciousness research and experiential therapies, analysis of birth charts and planetary transits, archetypal and perinatal patterns in art and culture, and the relevance of this evidence to both the larger tradition of depth psychology and the cultural emergence of a radically integrated worldview.
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