This grave and astonishing moment, it calls out to many of us for getting a deeper understanding, a larger context, a frame of reference that can help us navigate our way.

In some ways, something like what we're doing tonight, we're taking a very serious look at what's happening in the Heavens to help provide us with a larger context for understanding what we're going through now. The kind of material that we're setting forth tonight is one of those ways. I taught at CIIS for 25 years and have been very grateful for the home that it's offered to our Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program (PCC), but also for being at that kind of cutting-edge that is of the Paradigm evolution in our time in so many ways. Hosting the event both for our community and also for the larger number of people around the world who have tuned in tonight.

Richard: All right, so I'm Richard Tarnas, as you now know, and I want to thank Alex for the introduction and CIIS for hosting this event. To find out more about CIIS and public programs like this one, visit our website ciis dot edu and connect with us on social media Music Concludes] For event details and registration, visit our online winter season brochure at ciis public events dot com. Richard will be joining us live online again this year on February 5th for a sequel talk on the current state of our world and the planets in 2021. In this episode, CIIS professor and renowned scholar Richard Tarnas shares astrological insights into the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, which he describes as “a time in which there are volcanically intense evolutionary pressures for the radical reconfiguration of all life’s structures.” This week, we are revisiting an episode originally recorded early in the COVID-19 pandemic during one of our first live streaming online events on April 23rd, 2020. This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land. If it is an option for you, we strongly encourage you to listen to the podcast audio, which includes additional emotion and emphasis not conveyed through transcription. We do our best to achieve accuracy, but they may contain errors. Our transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human editors.

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